skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not saying it was harassment, I'm using an extreme example to make the point that "the supposedly aggrieved party says it was fine" shouldn't by itself be considered sufficient evidence that the CoC wasn't broken and that action shouldn't be taken.
How to map a domain to Hashnode through Cloudflare?
I don't think it's quite that simple. There are all sorts of small things people can miss during document forging: leaking of metadata (not stripping a PDF), leaking of IPs, bad forging (a notable example is the "Killian documents", purportedly from 1973 but which were probably made with Microsoft Word[0]).

Distribution/guiding matters too, especially on the internet: what's the best way to place it so it will spread? What techniques will be caught? Should you run a botnet? How difficult is it to evade detection? Light touch or heavy handed? Do you need a base of fake accounts years in advance, or can you create them at the time?

Red team/blue team exercises are valuable for defense. If you "practice" only by examining real-world propaganda, you can't debrief the opposition at the end. And if you can't debrief the attacker, you can't find out what you missed and what would have been effective.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_documents_controversy
Another supports Code of Conduct's, but actually had to deal with the repercussions article.

When you are on the side of evil, bad things happen.

I just wish the reverse wasn't true, this is what we need to work on.

A society that separates these bad people off and lets them destruct themselves. So good people are not getting hurt. Work on the rest later.
Thumbs up for the use of the appropriate word “disturbing” instead of more shriek-y terminology.

Thumbs down for the term “massive” for the ethical concerns. “Massive” violations of ethics occurred during the Nazi regime.

Thumbs down for the term “colossal”. “Colossal” stupidity was shown by governments during the 1940s Bengali famine and the 1960s Chinese famine. Nothing here reaches “colossal”.

Never underestimate the folly of large organizations of any stripe. They are all comprised of individuals who are just as silly as you are. There are just more of them and sometimes they have greater firepower.

Don’t know what you mean by “such operations” in the final sentence. Do you mean no “psyops”? Talk-talk is almost always better than bang-bang. If you were targeted with both, I think you would agree as well...
Not everyone has a powerful machine to do so with; many folks are still using computers that shipped with WinXP, or even Vista or 98/Me. It's a huge world outside of California.

Personally, my primary home/non-work machines are an RPi4 and a Pinebook Pro.
If US citizens die due to this, I am 100% down with bringing the full might of our military down on the state/group that did this. No mercy.
> Aside from that, "cancel culture" feels quite a vague topic

A good, frustrating point. A large proportion of complaints of cancel culture are coupled with implications of frustration that they feel they can't say unpleasant things that they would have gotten away with previously. Or people complaining about direct efforts to change social norms that they don't agree with, claiming that due to a status quo bias, change is cancellation and therefore baseless.

As with most ideologies, discussing the definition is a fairly pointless task because its subjective and ill-defined, especially by those who feel passionately about it. The term is pointless. What happened in this case sounds bad, at a glance. Let's not generalize it to other things. It'll get nowhere. Whether or not one believes something is a part of cancel culture has no bearing on whether a particular idea to squash something is good or not.
Thank you for sharing this. I read the article and I started feeling depressed (I'm turning 53 soon).

Your parents show it doesn't have to be that way! Hats off to them. They're an inspiration.
There were only 3 reports of CoC enforcements I found and read. One was over an inappropriate joke, but between friends, one is this and one was a real violation with sexual harassment which they COULD NOT ENFORCE...
This again :) my five minute solution is to just have a “master learning log” which is just a glorified single google doc outline..
That sounds incredibly complicated just to avoid using react
Particularly when Google are requiring you to port to a completely different stack to the one basically all games are written.
What about management? What about the sysadmins/developers that left a security hole somewhere? Are they held responsible in some way?

It's unacceptable that this keeps happening. If you own a safe and it gets broken into every week, do you blame the safe cracker or who built the safe?
Floodgates...

TGD
It doesn't communicate what you consider to be dickhead behavior, so it invites fear, uncertainty and doubt both in whether my behavior is okay, and in what behavior of other participants I can expect to be "protected" from.
It's looks like it's based on Distill's template (distill.pub), which is available here: https://github.com/distillpub/template
Thanks for the feedback. My application is low volume, probably would order in runs of ~100 depending on pricing. But it is revenue generating so I’m not swayed with these dollar amounts. I’m already at ~$300 before the actuators and my impression is that I could get that down a bit by improving the design. I’m also concerned with serviceability and I’m not great at soldering. I’ve come this far on breadboards.

Seems like I might hire a design service then utilize JLCPCB for production. I can’t tell if this sparkfun service is essentially combining those two actions. Although I think the DIY requirement is still a bit high based on my interpretation of the service description. I’m in a spot where I want to show someone what I’ve built and let them be a professional/specialist to turn it into a real device/controller
Takes a goofy definition of terrorism to get Bay of Pigs to fit.

A military attempt to overthrow a violent leader of another country doesn’t really land in the same category of shutting down hospitals and killing sick people with no political power.
Says who? Not Snowden's leaks. Not the NSA. Not Ron Wyden.
Agree. I wonder what would the reaction be if Joel Grus was a woman.
Still useful for ML.
> This is why universities used to be small places with only highly interested intellectuals trained to handle that diversity.

Which time period, and where? Universities used to be more exclusive, but I somehow doubt that exclusivity was for "intellectuals trained to handle that diversity" and not just "well-connected people".
I wasn't readily familiar with the acronym ADT. It's "Algebraic Data Types" for anyone else in the same boat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_data_type
Straw man. I made no assertion about the the prevalence of cargo cult science in Medicine or any other field. I, too, have read Ioannidis. And Smolin. And Goldacre. And Kuhn. And Popper(well, some Popper. His writing is pretty dense.) Hell, I've even read Robert Whitaker. My point continues to be that mere use of correlation as evidence of cum hoc ergo pro is neither necessary nor sufficient for a charge of bad (or cargo cult) science because cum hoc ergo pro is a logical fallacy.

Your reference to Metascience is a red herring. Ionnides didn't conclude that basic logic errors were the problem: his focus was on reproducibility and statistical errors as well as problems in experimental design (probably publication of negative results as well, I can't remember). Further, 'Why Most Published Research Findings Are False' was published fifteen years ago. It's mainstream science now, and researchers are entirely aware of it. Feel free to charge (with evidence) that it's being ignored in experimental design, but it's certainly neither controversial nor obscure. It shows up in High School science curricula. Hell, I've used it in freshman college maths.

Feynman and Ionnides focus on experimental design, evidence selection, researcher bias or incompetence in selecting results, and publication of results. They don't say that you can't use correlation as evidence: the problem is not that there's too much evidence being accepted, but that there's too little.

Had you opened with
- "they're ignoring evidence they're wrong" or
- "this paper has twice failed in replication attempts" or
- "the study has too few subjects / no control group / too much noise to accurately measure these weak results" or even went all Smolin with
- "the entire research program is based on inadequate and uncritical investigations into a poorly defined and contradictorily applied hypothesis",

I'd be merrily mashing the up arrow. But you opened with "The amyloid beta hypothesis is the result of a failure to understand that correlation does not imply causation." You're asserting that hundreds of thousands of qualified medical researchers don't understand a fundamental principle of the scientific method.

Somewhat amusingly, the published results that prompted this particular discussion is good evidence against the plaque hypothesis (well, it will be after replication and a supporting metastudy). From a well-regarded researcher. I guess they're not all participating in the genocide.

I'm not "hostile" to the idea that AD research might have been misguided or even criminally wasteful of resources. I'm hostile to the assertion that the very close correlation between plaques and AD should not be guiding research and that it is clearly not only wrong but can be easily so demonstrated.
Techempower is neat, but there are plenty of companies making tens of millions with less than 100 rps...
This is what we do, but we warn rather than just swallow it. I find it the best of both.
Its Peaking?
> Using CoC's to backstab people is not going to end well.

But that's their only usecase, isn't it?

CoCs are just a convenient document aimed at helping out Cardinal Richelieus finding ways to hang you under the guise of breaking acceptable conduct.

I mean, CoCs aren't aimed at changing people and make everyone nice. CoCs are aimed at providing a basis to persecute those who arguably don't comply with a given notion of acceptable conduct, punish them for their sins, and turn them into examples to enforce a chilling effect on the community.

This example shows a CoC working exactly as it was intended to work.

People have turned a blind eye to the oppressive and abusive nature of the CoC concept because they tend to believe that it can only ever oppress those we deem undesirable. But unless you're the one doing the oppression, nothing ensures that the rules only apply to those you don't like.
stuxnet...
I'm not sure that's such a huge problem. HTTP routing provides a wonderful architectural seam so that we can use different solutions for different domains like `/profile` and `/document-editor`. We can create rich client-side experiences without creating a monolithic SPA. And as long as we make sure we have those architectural seams we have the flexibility to decide.
Big tech’s meeting with Congress over Section 230 was largely political theater
So you were wrong that you said the person was "wrong"? That person made you wrong by making your opinion contradict the code of conduct??? He's the bad guy. Punished. 50 pushups!
Can't help but feel these codes of conduct are unnecessary. I get the problem they're supposed to solve, setting ground rules for a community expected to broach various cultural boundaries, but I don't actually think they functionally achieve this. Few people bother reading them so they're more a mechanism for discipline than anything constructive.
That is not the NSA, which (as your article says) cannot access any of that data that comes from Americans without a warrant.
Finally, Deformation Simulation in Real Time
what if the state actor who did this has nuclear weapons?
I'm sorry, I would not have been able to not go off on them for fucking him over. I get being professional, but this is rediculous. In regards for their actions, I would have retained an attorney as this affects his livelihood.
>>>"In 1982, Donkey Kong was one of the biggest things in the arcade, sucking down quarters at a record pace."

Just to put some context on this very true statement, the factory coinbox in these games held around 3200 quarters or 800 dollars. When this game came out operators were cutting the bottoms out of the coin boxes because they were overflowing and jamming the coin mechs faster than they could be emptied.
Loki 2.0 released: Transform logs as you query them, & set up alerts within Loki
I wound up buying the Thinkpad X1 Carbon - it's just amazing. @dilippkumar thanks so much for the recommendation (and thanks to everyone else for helping too), made a huge difference in my purchase decision. I also bought a usb-c hub with 3 hdmi ports and 3 new hdmi monitors for the office, i'll use the laptop at home as a standalone, will post a follow up when i have the monitors setup. I am writing on my homemade treadmill desk, a bonus of the X1 carbon is that it has a great hinge and on my treadmill lets me tilt the angle perfectly. Thanks again.
A surplus of curiosity kept me in college for a lot longer than I needed to be there. That curiosity never left me. I'm very sure that's true of many if not most people, in both the arts and sciences.

Maybe it's a personal thing, but I suspect strong curiosity inborn in most of us. We all had to learn a very complex language after all. Necessity may keep many from feeding it --cultural factors may also discourage it -- a crappy educational environment may foster cynicism - then maybe it goes away if it isn't nurtured. A lot of (well-known human) educational researchers came to similar conclusions.

If a study of brain circuits in rodents finds otherwise, well, rodents aren't human.
Save $X00? I'm an occasional gamer, so it's a bit hard to justify a console, but for the 1-2 games per year I want to play Stadia is great.

Put another way: if Stadia has the games you want (big if now, but improving over time) why shell out for a console?
Toyota recalls 5.84MM cars over fuel pump issue
That would be "Canadians who went off the rails." It's silly to get this pedantic as long as the statement isn't misleading. The meaning is fairly clear here; even the "prey vs. pray" issue is unimportant. We all know what the author meant.
It’s remarkably efficient and simple: https://stackexchange.com/performance

For those who are discouraged by the massive complexity of Kubernetes/Terraform and various daunting system design examples of big sites, remember you can scale to a ridiculous levels (barring video or heavy processing apps) with just vertical scaling.

Before you need fancy Instagram scale frameworks, you’ll have other things to worry about like appearing in front of congress for a testimony :-)
Yea, I get 60fps @1440p on an 8 year old AMD GPU, no issues. I haven't checked the actual frame rate, but I've not noticed any dropped frames.
It might be reasonable to have that norm, but the context here is a response to Joel Grus's "I don't like Jupyter Notebooks" which was both well-received and quite critical. Not of any particular person, but of technology, but personally I don't see how Jeremy Howard's talk was very different.
I support codes of conduct but this is EXACTLY the thing that opponents point to when they oppose them.

Why don't you come to to the dark side and oppose codes of conduct then?

I consider the purported goals of codes of conduct to be laudable. But this kind of thing becomes inevitable when SJWs aka political correctness police get power through trying to enforce codes of conduct.

It isn't that sometimes proponents of CoCs are their own worst enemies. It is that there are people seeking power through CoCs who are honestly bad actors. And we shouldn't be putting people we can't trust into a position to control the speech of others.
After reading the entire post, I feel really bad for him, and I hope he gets the time off and the support necessary to recover from this incident. I also feel quite angry with how he has been treated. So please let me vent it out here as politely as I’m able to.

I can imagine something like this or worse happening on social media groups, but an ostentatious “committee” that listens only to one side and never gives the other side the chance to get details on how things were perceived or why it’s a violation? And the chuckling in the call when someone has already said they’re not in a proper emotional state is just bullying.

I personally don’t think CoC or any other set of laws can be written to be precise and comprehensive. There will always be edge cases that need many hearings and re-hearings, with some discretion based on past precedence, nuances, etc., in the interpretation of written words in the code in an effort to make the code clearer for the future (this is how we improve laws, don’t we?).

This committee has, IMNSHO, been the opposite of kind and doesn’t deserve to hold the responsibility of handling CoC enforcement or violations. I’m sure this committee is not even capable of explaining clearly to a potential speaker what the CoC really means as per the written words and what’s expected.

This CoC needs to be torn apart and rebuilt, and the people in this particular committee must be sent to other areas where their expertise can be best used. Their proper place is certainly not in a CoC committee, for sure.
Codifying all expected social norms among an arbitrarily diverse group of people in a concise but fully understandable form is impossible. Attempts to do so just leave loopholes, edge cases and personal interpretations the size of jumbo jets which will be abused. This doesn't try to do so and leaves it up to you to observe the social norms of the group. Like has been done by humans since the dawn of our species.

edit: A false sense of security if not actually security as the author of this article found out.
With the copy-cat adoption of CoC’s, knowing full well how petty tech communities can be, which of us didn’t see this coming?

Why take a functioning OSS project and turn it into a failing commune?
I'm still unclear on why a code of conduct beyond "Don't be an asshole just to be an asshole" is even needed.
Interview with Glenn Greenwald [video]
Anyone can claim offense at no cost. Hence the accusation being a joke. That complaint was perfectly legitimate.
Or we can take the author at his word and understand that he is part of the problem. He's still in favor of CoCs after all this, and the only example we have of a CoC he isn't in favor of is one which got applied to him... in the same way CoCs are always applied.
I'm not familiar with the people involved, what's the hierarchy in this incident?
> health insurance is already a low margin business

I’d like to know much, much more about this statement.
Tari is an evolution grin’s mimblewimble chain combined with being merge-mined with monero for increased security. The testnet has been operational for a while, although I don’t follow it closely and haven’t heard anything since they were stress testing it a couple months ago.

https://tarilabs.com/
I was a chump and invested in quite an expensive Nest Secure installation. I have actually really liked it so far, however this has shaken my confidence in trusting Google long-term with anything let alone a product they're not selling any longer. Any recommendations on an eventual replacement?
Was this podcast on conservapedia? I ask because the view is incredibly warped here.
Docker annouces download (pull) rate limit
Docker Hub is rate limiting number of pulls per (free/anonymous) user every 6hrs.
I don't know. If I offend someone, I like to know why. Maybe there was a good reason I was blind too. I would have a difficult time refusing to "play along" unless I knew what I was rejecting.
Just wondering but if not JavaScript on the server then what were you using previously?
Agreed. Criticism (of the kind we're discussing here) is attacking ideas. Bullying is attacking people. The former is an essential part of any healthy intellectual environment. The latter is not.
SPAs are like CGI.. you only notice it when it is bad. I can assure you, you use many SPAs that are not slow and clunky, you just don't realize they are SPAs
However trivial it may be, it is illegal for them to do so even under their lawyers' interpretation, and Snowden's leaks did not show that they did so.
Added to my reading list, thanks! I'd wager that the "self esteem" movement, or more accurately, whatever caused it to gain traction in the American psyche, kicked off the downward spiral to where-we-are-now.

In a nutshell, several generations of American children were taught, systematically, to ignore social signals that conflicted with their self-image, and were thus deprived of a very critical part of their childhood: in where they learn to moderate their behavior in order to get along with other people.

Self-esteem education was based on the (correct!) observation that people with high self-esteem are healthier and more successful.

Given my extensive experience with educators, I am not in any way surprised that the conclusion they reached was that high self-esteem must cause health and success, rather than health and success resulting in high self-esteem. Educators seem to have this anti-Newtonian view on the world, in which reactions cause actions. But I digress.

I was subjected to this as a child, and it took something on the order of a decade of living abroad -- mostly in Japan, a country which, lacking any concept of "self", offers no affordance for "self-esteem" -- to fully realize the sheer horror of what I had been steeped in as a child.

As to why this has come to a head since the advent of social media, well, we're at the point where an entire generation which socializes primarily through virtual means has come of age.

When your social interactions are driven by proximity -- e.g., you are limited to people that physically exist near you -- then you are forced to learn some degree of moderation. Because if you can't get along with others, you find yourself rather in deficit of friends.

But now, it doesn't matter how crazy you are. If you worship Mao or Hitler or Stalin or whatever, there is a community for people like you.

No amount of ostracism will remedy this. That worked when your ability to make friendships had real, physical constraints. In the fully-connected schizophrenic hivemind world of 2020, casting people out of your tribe will, at best, only deprive them of a moderating influence.

Still not sure where this goes, but I am fairly certain it's got at least thirty-one flavors of ugly.
Do you actually think that this comment adds to the conversation at hand or are you just using this as an opportunity to wedge in the 'but America does it too!' trope?
H-1B visa: Trump admin proposes to cut lottery in favor of wage-based selections
My observation: dissection conversation.

People write paragraphs, someone takes an issue with a word or a sentence, and writes a divergent post on just that word/sentence. Then that post gets the same treatment by another participant.. again and again, in multiplying ways. Take a submission 3 threads removed from the originating post and see what relation exists among the ideas. I lurk and observe this in online discourse with some bemusement.

It’s not how to speak at work or with friends. There are convergent and divergent modes of discourse, to be sure, but look here at HN, or Twitter, and see how the dialogue cuts on words and sentences. It’s the divergent discourse without any of the convergent discourse.
Yeah, ‘cause you know I’ve got nothing better to do all day than wait for another open letter from my employer’s parent foundation. /s
Learning a new tool when you have limited set of current tools is a good investment. But there is a aspect of marginal returns that comes into play here.

It's not just the increased demands on your time, but the knowledge that it's ticking away... As you get older you get more critical/anxious about wasting time and more reticent about investing in something that has no compelling return on investment.