skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking for entry level technician, must have 5 years of experience with COVID19. -joke
You misspelled Jack Dorsey
> 5. Offer real healthcare and psychiatric care. Facebook employees enjoy various benefits, including private health insurance and visits to psychiatrists. Content moderators, who bear the brunt of the mental health trauma associated with Facebook’s toxic content, are offered 45 minutes a week with a ‘wellness coach’. These ‘coaches’ are generally not psychologists or psychiatrists and are contractually forbidden from diagnosis or treatment. And they generally cannot build a relationship of trust with moderators, since workers know that Facebook management (and Accenture/CPL management) ask ‘coaches’ to reveal confidential details of counselling sessions. Moderators deserve at least as much mental and physical health support as full Facebook staff.

Low pay and no psychiatric help with that kind of content?! This is just outrageous. Mark should moderate this stuff by himself to see how huge burden it is. And, this is not Rotten or Goatse type of shock it’s entirely different level.
Note that I agree with the experts, but the point I'm raising is that we could have space-shuttle grade voting software--the problem isn't technical but rather social, organizational, and political. That said, even space-shuttle grade voting software is probably not more secure than paper ballots.
I suggest reading

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/11/03/ask-...

Most importantly, he argues that Hawking's own popular explanation (often repeated across the media, about the particle-antiparticle pair) is too simple to be correct:

"It's not right, though, in a number of ways. First off, this visualization is not for real particles, but virtual ones. We are trying to describe the quantum vacuum, but these are not actual particles that you can scoop up or collide with. The particle-antiparticle pairs from quantum field theory are calculational tools only, not physically observable entities. Second, the Hawking radiation that leaves a black hole is almost exclusively photons, not matter or antimatter particles. And third, most of the Hawking radiation doesn't come from the edge of the event horizon, but from a very large region surrounding the black hole."

Additionally, the article also writes enough to explain the whole context and gives enough details for those who are interested to learn more.
Worth is relative. It won't be packed full of 2000$ worth of Android or Apple flagship hardware. But it will cost around 2000$ to deliver this specific product in the manner it's being delivered.
The made-in-USA version is $2,000, but the made-in-China version is $800, so it's only $2,000 if you want your phone to be made in the USA.
Tailwind 2.0 palette color might be the sexiest on the interwebs, now featuring 50 shades of gray.
How does me being able to install an application i downloaded from F-Droid, GitHub or whatever other place i might trust or even developed myself on my phone without having to pay or get Apple's permission mean that Apple will sell my data to 3rd parties?
I appreciate the comment. Would you mind expanding on it? The app isn't hosted on Google Cloud.
Social media should be regulated and forced to federate to combat their monopoly, for one. People spend years and years building up followings on these platforms, and since users themselves are the creators of the content that Facebook and Twitter are selling, they should have more legal protections of their rights. Like the 20th century labor movements, there needs to be a 21st century user/consumer movement. Users should have certain rights protected by law, including the right to transfer to a compatible and competing service (just as users have the right to retain their cell phone number when transferring carriers) and the right to consume content from compatible services in their social media feed.

As for filtering content, users should have the power there, too, just as they do their spam filter in their email account. They should have the ability to set their own parameters and leave it at that. Unless its blatantly illegal content, it should be protected, period, or the platforms should be classified as publishers and be subject to all the same legal liabilities that publishers are.
What if you just stay as IC and not managing? I think you'll be happier.

Also pursue hobbies that produce. Not just travels or media binging. Travels are still consumption in a way. True fulfillment comes from creation. Maybe learn to paint, cook, or make music.
Do you see any other solutions in the same domain as Stopify? Another method that might provide a way to keep UI unblocked but still have user executable code?
Exactly. There's nothing "nationalist" about the type of censorship we're seeing on Twitter. If anything it's the opposite.
Really inspiring, I feel like your projects grew in complexity over time, which is all the more consistent with the tiny philosophy.
Political correctness run amok.

It's dumb that people find this offensive.

It's dumber that people are renaming their branches.

It's dumbest that Git itself has been consumed by this madness.
Free version is good too.

The differences are listed here https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/#chooseYourEdition
Fly Spirit exclusively. They have an all-Airbus fleet.
> Takes about 3 hours of reading to any grad from any decent CS program to figure out git. If you understand graphs then you'll grok git pretty fast.

Not all engineers are CS grads. Not all engineers _need_ to be CS grads. Git is a great tool, but it can also be pretty complicated if you have to go off the beaten path.

> Is the market so over-saturated that they have to offer the 4 month trial period?

*week

And IMO, it's not a question of saturation. It's a question of credibility. You, for instance, are (presumably) skeptical of whether or not Lambda grads would be able to pull their weight on a team. Spending 4 weeks working directly with a Lambda grad seems like a pretty good way to either prove or disprove your hypothesis.

> I'm extremely skeptical of bootcamps, especially after learning that some of the TA's at Lambda are hired to help with teaching as little as two months into the program as students.

Skepticism is healthy, however I object to the idea that one needs to be an expert to teach. Even if you're just a _little_ better at something than someone else, there's no reason that you can't teach someone what you know.

Of course, that breaks down if you _pretend_ to be an expert at the thing that you're teaching. It takes some humility, I guess.

> It's no better than some diploma mills but any state school with half a decent curriculum sounds better than this.

AFAIK, very few schools have an applied software engineering program that adequately prepares grads for doing real work on a real team. That's something that really can only come from experience.

Having hired multiple new grads, my biggest problem was that they'd go down the rabbit hole of computing theory rather than focusing on solving the problem at hand in a practical way. IMO, applied software engineering education is pretty lacking across the board and bootcamps are a good place to experiment with new approaches. Even if Lambda and other bootcamps aren't necessarily the perfect solution, they're an attempt at a new solution to a hard problem.
dang I would like to see posts like this effect bans, there’s simply no value here and little chance of redemption for someone who writes something like this
Most people don't have that kind of flexibility in their salary. You get paid a certain amount per month. It doesn't increase if you work more.
> You can't _really_ binge a book like a TV show

What do you call reading a book cover to cover in one sitting? It can take as long as watching a whole season of a TV series.
I thought Epic was migrating to dot net?
Malicious spam linked to this page, what does it do?
Been using all 3 for some years now and I 100% agree with your points.

Also focused on Svelte now.
I have to wondered how we "fix" our current internet situation.

On the one hand, censorship appears to be appealing to stop the tide of misinformation. Anti-vaxx garbage is a prime example of something that should be censored into oblivion. It is actively harmful to the public.

But, on the other hand, who pulls the levers of censorship is equally terrifying. I don't want a world where a dissenting opinion is censored because it doesn't fall in line with whoevers ideology. For example, Chinese censorship of the Tiananmen square incident.

How on earth can we fix this? Social media has created a world of bubbles. Some of which are FILLED TO THE BRIM with misinformation. Penetrating those bubbles is nearly impossible. They've always sort of existed, yet somehow it feels like they are more extreme now-a-days.

Just musing. I really don't have a solution to this but am certainly interest to hear any proposals.

Perhaps the solution is really as simple as better public education?
They look like desktop apps to me.

I am running windowed applications on a desktop, apparently Oxford dictionary needs an update to satisfy your world vision.

I guess all those 8 and 16 bit computers I worked with weren't general purpose either.
I find Angular very pleasant to deal with, but I mainly favour it due to the separation of typescript, html, scss. Each time I try using React, I'm unable to overcome the uneasiness of the html being right there mixed in with the JS. I can appreciate that not everyone is equally bothered by it and that's fine too. But I definitely feel Angular has a place in the conversation.
Comforting to note that this software is F/OSS. Thank you.
That's assuming the numbers shown fully take into account all the tangential cost related to the transition, and not just "cost before vs cost after". If you spent 500M in developer hours doing the migration, that just wiped like 10 years worth of savings. Also it's not clear if in 2 years you really get to see the cost of maintenance and breakages. One big breakage could wipe off that 75M very quickly. Of course Cloud also has its fair share of down time, so you'd have to compare longer term to get a better sense.
As great as free press and democracies are, they also come with huge weaknesses. Those make it easy for foreign propaganda to influence the public and hence run the countries from outside.

Thanks to The Great Firewall and the CCP rule, China is mostly immune to foreign propaganda. At the same time, China is using a lot of effort to affect countries with democracy and free speech, like India and the U.S.

China is obviously not alone in using propaganda to influence the politics of other countries. All big countries and corporations use it in their countries of interest all the time... in fact, they have been doing it for much longer. Everything from bribes to politicians to "human rights organizations", "foreign aid organizations" to social causes in universities... everything is used to undermine national interests and put pawns for outside powers in governments.

Citizens of many democratic nations have been feeling this for a very long time... which explains nationalist sentiments rising in many countries... but that's another story.

China is in a unique position in that it limits or prohibits foreign press, foreign media, foreign internet services, foreign aid organizations, human rights organizations... i.e. anything and everything that it can to stop foreign influence... but it uses a lot of those against its rivals.

The only defense against it is following China's footsteps. India has recently banned several Chinese apps and websites. It has also kicked out Amnesty International. Other countries will have to do the same if they want to protect their national interests.
Yes and no. But even for cases, where the algorithm is not published, the general approach can be indicated and hence "Ask them where on Wikipedia you can read more about the approach they took" might be still valid. For ex. you can say you are using a seq2seq model but you don't have to disclose the precise architecture, preprocessing, optimizations and other training nuances.
I've decided that once the pandemic is over and it'll be safe to fly again, I'll be flying Spirit exclusively because they operate an all-Airbus fleet.

I'm not risking ever getting on a Boeing ever again.
Android is hobbled, as well. The only way to implement automatic upgrading, background installation or batch upgrading/installation of apps is via the Play Store. Not only that, but most people have no idea how to side load apps, and Android doesn't make it easy.

Both Google and Apple have kept a stranglehold on the mobile app distribution market for over a decade now.
this is dumb. everyone arguing about this is dumb. the parent is also dumb. The reality is that there is an economics of utility algorithm programmed into everyone and we innately seek out whatever makes us fit in with others and whatever entertains us with the least effort. It is a projection for the parent to assume their child has creative potential or a great creative enthusiasm when they, devoid of other ways to gratify their desire for novelty and expression, use the materials at their disposal. Now that her daughter has been given a device that satiates, at least for the moment, her desire to be popular, cool, and in-group, as well as provide her exponentially greater conduits for gratification and effortless creation-interaction, she is just like the rest of us.

If this parent is frustrated at all they should, instead of being conceited about vicarious passions, be mournful their child has fallen prey to consumerist joys and will likely never develop a true adult passion for enriching experiences and pastimes.
If my child asked me for something everyone has i would get her the things everyone DOESNT because when she is older she will appreciate the novelty of her personal childhood more than she will remember being just like everyone else. I would get my child a basic feature phone like a light phone or a flipphone, and i would get them an e-ink tablet and, yes, a customized device for watching television and youtube, possibly an android tablet heavily locked down. I would prohibit the use of apps like tiktok, snapchat, and instagram, all of which any in-touch millennial knows are the key platforms driving this soulless era of contact appreciation and gameified approval from others that really makes generation z teenagers look like a bunch of zombies, far more than we or our parents did at the same age.
Which government agency is censoring Twitter?

Conservatives and libertarians LOVE to bleat about property rights, but they can't handle it when private parties won't provide free advertising for right-wing conspiracies.
The gift of doubt article

Albert O. Hirschman
Show HN: An interactive CLI to generate .gitignore files (written in Rust)
Did you mean to post that link? It doesn't give any information on a reporter being banned from reddit.
> We're seeing the teaming up of governments and giant corporations to control the narrative and tell people what's true and what isn't.

That seems like a claim that needs some examples. By itself it's hard to take seriously. Which governments and which corporations are driving which narrative, exactly?
Yes, do you want the free market to decide who should or should not be killed?
Do you think it is some huge infringement that phone companies are required to follow common carrier laws?

Common carrier laws are pretty uncontroversial. Those existing laws could be updated to include communication networks that are more relevant in the modern day.
From the article:
> "Poland blocked human rights sites; India same-sex dating sites"

Clearly that's the wheelhouse of the right-leaning national groups, right? Oh, maybe not.
Or maybe it's the rightwing nationalist governments cracking down on disadvantaged groups?
They shouldn't.... But they shouldn't, because society should shun those companies.... not because government made it illegal.
What I'd like to know is how much non-USains will be paying in customs.

I remember backing it when it cost 700$ or something, looking up the customs for UK and gasping. It was about 150£. Don't know what it's going to be for Australia or the EU.

There was also a thread not long ago about Brazil and India having sky-high customs that nearly doubled the price of imported electronic goods.
Seeing free speech as an impediment to nationalist competition is rich. Nationalist competition appears to corrode every civil liberty and thing that makes life worth living that we have. What if we had international cooperation instead of a death match? I guess certain business people would not make as much money.
Spirit operates an all-Airbus fleet and has extensive domestic coverage.
So is this survivorship bias or something else? I don't understand your point. I have a white wall in front of me. If I take a brush and red paint and paint a big red circle on the wall, are you saying that the big red circle "just happens to be there" with no relationship to the brush, red paint and my actions?
(not the person you're replying to) This is so true, and thanks for introducing me to Adam Wathan's Youtube channel, I had no idea this existed. I work closely with designers who use tools like Sketch, Framer, Figma, etc and I'm always finding little edge cases where their "pixel perfect" designs have mismatched paddings, margins, often half-pixel letter spacing that they've decided is more aesthetic in their design tool. It can be hard to push back sometimes.
> I don't think people who are outside of these underrepresented groups understand just how many small reminders a day we get that the "default" is for us not to be welcome.

IMHO (and I didn't downvote you, btw), I believe you (and other minorities) are choosing to interpret things like complaining about political changes to code and projects as persecution. That is a choice you are making. You could also choose to see it for what it really is - people disagreeing about politics. Interpreting a political stance as a personal insult or persecution is not the right way to go, IMO. Assume good faith; give the benefit of the doubt.

If a project maintainer pushes back and complains when internet mobs try to force him to remove the word "red" from his codebase because it triggers soviet refugees... that doesn't mean the project maintainer is persecuting soviet refugees or that soviet refugees are "unwelcome" to contribute. Soviet refugees may choose to interpret the project maintainer's actions as such, but that doesn't make it so. In reality the project maintainer disagrees with the politics on the issue of removing the word "red" from his code and is pushing back.

The beauty of GitHub, HackerNews, and internet fora in general is that nobody really knows your race or gender or really anything about you (unless you make it known). From my experience, people on the internet are just usernames with personality, judged on the merits of their insights and contributions. I've worked with some great people online in the past on different projects, and to this day I have no idea if they were male or female or non-binary or black or white or asian or blind or deaf.
I don't think you can educate an above average person either. Unless you've done in depth study of the techniques, and most educated people haven't either. In addition, some of the techniques work even if you know them.
Ask HN: Why do Big Tech companies not acquire banks?
With the recent transaction of PNC and BBVA with a cost of 12bn I was wondering if it would be possible that a non financial institution could buy a bank.

According to this [1] Alphabet had 100bn in cash on 2019 so it seems something possible.

Is it just a regulatory matter? Why would regulators care on who owns a bank?

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/04/investing/google-alphabet-cash-dividend/index.html
If part of someone's work responsibilities involves screening for child abuse and other direct violence, and every other depravity a user might try to post, that worker should be given the best possible mental health support, and be paid substantially more than any minimum wage.

Like anyone serving in the military and possibly subject to all the PTSD and injury that combat can entail, these moderators are standing as a thin line against the worst things humanity can do to each other.

They should be given respect and every possible consideration for their sacrifice.

Their demands are merely a simple first step closer to the recognition they actually deserve. I would go much further.
Indeed, in 1848 authoritarianism and nationalism were the two major opponents on the European political stage.
I think what would help us the most is not writing software, but instead explaining the requirements in detail (like a specification). There are many people looking for a nice self-contained FOSS project to work on, but many don't know where to look and joining an existing codebase might be too daunting.
> Interesting article. It doesn't look at corporate/social media censorship, but government and ISP censorship is still dangerous.

Is a company having policies about what users can store on the company owned servers actually censorship?

I find it weird that you used “still dangerous” to describe government/ISP censorship. To me that is the most dangerous form a censorship.
Does being at-or-below the median family income for your location make you "rich by any reasonable measure?"
Does OSM continuously get better faster than it gets worse? A few years ago I started contributing heavily to OSM and found that a lot of the data was out of date or missing. I made some really good maps of my local area but now a few years later a lot of that data is out of date and no one will bother to update it.

Google and Apple maps have the advantage that businesses will go and update their own data because its in their own interest to make sure those maps are up to date.
Seems like your kid just isn’t interested in the same things you are. If the flashy entertainment were stripped away, they probably would’ve never cared about it.

And that’s okay.
> Maybe the information gets encoded in digits of value of mass expressed in some unit.

No, it can't, not all the information. Two objects of the same mass but different internal composition would add the same mass to the hole, but would be described by different information. So the hole can't store in the value of its mass which of the two objects fell in.

More generally, a hole of, say, ten Solar masses could have gotten that mass by an infinite number of possible combinations of things falling in. The mass itself can't distinguish between any of those possibilities; all it can tell you is that ten Solar masses total of stuff fell in.
I am sure forbidding Jack Dorsey to kill one of his minions also drastically limits his free will, but _c'est la vie_.
Finland has specific curriculum in schools teaching kids how to critically evaluate information they find online: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/28/fact-from-fict... They study historical propaganda campaigns, how to lie with statistics, and critical thinking.

I can say that having been through a similar curriculum in high school (implemented on the initiative of a very thoughtful literature teacher) it has been one of my most valuable mental tools I possess throughout my adult life. Being able to understand and identify logical fallacies has helped me critically evaluate the information I consume many times over.

Of course, any program like this has the problem that it needs to be implemented by a trusted source, or it will be attacked as "indoctrination" (whether or not that is the truth). I can see that as a major challenge in the US where 50%+ of the population is convinced that the government is out to get them at any one time.
I’ve been thinking of doing the same for my graph visualization newsletter source/target [0].

I’d love to connect if you’re interested in collaborating! sourcetarget@cjlm.ca

[0] https://sourcetarget.email