skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah yes, the classic "if you're against affirmative action you're a racist" line. Knock it off. I'm the opposite of racist: the thought of arguing with a black woman doesn't bother me in the slightest. I'll happily argue with anyone.

The racism here is in the behaviour of treating some people specially because they are of "wanted" races or genders. I'm criticising racism, not engaging in it. But clearly a lot of people especially in the US are so far gone they'll never recognise it.
and then there are providers/networks who straight up drop outgoing DNS queries, like the university I went to (including dormitory network).
Er, who is claiming "all research at Google is pointless and should stop until reform"? Presumably not the person who was trying to do and publish research at Google?

(Are you confusing this with her email that said that participating in Google's feel-good diversity and inclusion work, specifically, was pointless and should stop, so that people could focus on their real jobs - such as research - instead of wasting time placating unknown managers?)

Anyway, my theory re your question is that Reddit and HN are usually pseudonymous, and so you have no idea whether the person saying something actually knows anything about Google or actually participates in the industry. The norm on Twitter is to use your real identity, and so comments from Googlers and ex-Googlers are boosted there. On Reddit and HN, good-sounding first-principles arguments are boosted. The two models are better at different kinds of discussions.
for life =/= for the consumer's life, even if a reasonable person would think so

for life = for the life of the product, as decided by the maker
I saw some ads on screenwriting and thought that it would apply well to writing code, but I didn't go into them. Thanks for confirming that it does.

Which videos or Masterclass did you mean specifically?
> motivation

We import and distribute natural stone slabs, wholesale. A major part of that is import and logistics. It's a problem we have, so I'm building this to solve our own issues.

I've talked to other distributors and depending on how large they are, they handle this by either a spreadsheet or an EDI server. This seems either underkill or overkill to me.

> transport

Talking ship and train. This data is freely available and these two are currently relevant to us.

open to more questions if you're interested!
Funny to equate ethics and politics...
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Voting with your wallet doesn't help if everyone does the same thing. Not everyone is willing/able to live without technology.

It's also very hard to figure out what exactly they do before making the purchase, and many vendors change their stance with devices already in the field. Look at TP-Link for example: They suddenly stopped allowing local access to their Kasa switches 2 weeks ago. No more integration with Home Assistant. Yes, they have decided to revert it already. That doesn't mean they can't do it again. I had bought 7 of these plugs because they offered local access. Now I'm a lot less sure of this brand. But the money is already sunk into it.

https://home-assistant-guide.com/2020/11/17/tp-link-kasa-sma...
Scott Adams when talking to Sam Harris said there is "two movies on one screen".

I consider myself a "center-right liberatarian", however when doing political compass tests I come out right in the middle of the quad. I frequently try to _steelman_ the opposition.

So lets go through your examples:

> * A stonetoss comic about the relationship between race and IQ. This was the top post on the page. It was posted by a user with the username "NationalSocialism".

The Stonetoss comics I've seen pretty racist and usually contain anti-semetic tropes. So I will give you that one. No argument from me there.

> * A comic caricaturing an asexual person who decries Christmas but celbrates a silly celebration of their own, supposed to show hypocrisy

There is a lot of people even on the left that believe a lot of people have replaced traditional religion with some other form of spirituality. Usually this person proclaims themselves to be an athiest and laments about traditional religion while claiming to be. It is a trope, but there I've certainly seen it and it is somewhat of a hypocrital position.

So I don't see anything particularly wrong with this based on your description.

> * A comic showing a caricature of a fat black woman shouting in a white woman's face, and the white woman pushing her away. The title is "At this point if a White woman looks at a Black wrong she is a "karen""

The person that posted it could be racist. However to give someone the benefit of the doubt from your description this is commenting on the perceived hypocrisy. Karen means "entitled white woman" and I've seen it used as an insult (to deflect from the actual issue) to a white women making a valid complaint about someone behaviour (and that person happened to be black woman).

> * A post from the "Controlavirus" sub-forum, arguing that lockdowns mean life has lost its color. (One of the only non-caricature comic and reasonable posts I could see on the front page)

A lot of people are suffering due to the corona virus lockdown. My grandmother's dementia has gotten worse because visits to her are very restricted due to the lockdown and it been very upsetting to my mother.

So out of the four examples you have given. Only one I would find objectionable based on your description. Whereas you have found 3 that are objectionable.

> Even on a bad day, load up the Reddit front page and it's nothing like this, even if you were to browse for hours, you wouldn't see an endless stream of reductionist memes a 14 year old might find funny.

I find most of the content of the front page on reddit trite. It is full on worn out pop culture references, consumer culture nonsense, cute animals, strawmanning right wing politics and ideas and other crap that I am not interested in.

As for "reductionist memes a 14 year old might find funny", most of the people that spend a lot of time online on these sites are younger. I've noticed as someone that is almost forty is that a lot of this is younger guys blowing off steam online because they are frustrated by their circumstances.
Of course he didn’t do it alone. But the people who got in early with Gates or Musk made out like bandits.

And the bigger question is - would Microsoft or Tesla happened at all with Gates or Musk? I mean, at least in Musk’s case everybody thought he was guaranteed to fail. I don’t begrudge his $1B of wealth in the least - he put his money where his mouth was when everyone else said it was dumb - but he was right.

It’s not like they Gate and Musk kept all the wealth for themselves. Didn’t Microsoft create several hundred millionaires? But if Gates and Musk were the key drivers for the very existence of the companies I don’t see any issue with them getting the lions shares of the returns.
What alternative do they have?

If we don't provide adequate public loos, or addiction treatment, or injection rooms, or mental health care, we should expect to experience the problems that are caused.
Whether it is or not, it's a reference to a classic industry phrase: "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM." .. and the author is drawing some parallels with the motivation behind that phrase also.
That sweet spot for cost has already moved from 40nm to 28nm for most of the market. The new SAM9X60 I mentioned is still on 40nm, but it's a tiny chip and all new Cortex-A7 SoCs and things like the Ingenic X2000 are on 28nm because of overall cost for that design point.

The sweet spot for power efficiency has apparently moved from 28nm to 22nm, which uses less energy than either 28nm HKMG or 14nm FinFET and is also closing in on 28nm on cost.

There no mainstream 32-bit cores on 22nm or below (yet), so there is a good chance that the coming generation of low-cost 64-bit SoCs on 22nm will beat all 32-bit chips on performance, power consumption and cost.
Oh finally. Hope it gets passed and then picked up by Doctrine real quick, I'm quite sick of writing boilerplate to manually deal with enums.
Which state is this?
I bet there are certain people that are prone to maniacal obsession when presented with a coding problem. It is entirely plausible that if a child who's brain is still developing falls into a obsession/reward pattern, they could become hard wired to this and become more likely abuse substances later in life.

Of course the same could be said for any other behavior if overdone (Such as video gaming), but the fact that "coding" is such a brain centric task it may have a greater effect on a developing mind.
Maintaining a 32bit Linux fork which includes just security patches and (critical) bugfixes would actually be a lot less work than keep maintaining 32bit support for all new feature development. Maintaining a "32bit LTS" fork of Linux like this would probably be pretty viable.
More so than the headlines we're getting right now?

(Also, what were they thinking would happen when they originally hired AI ethics researchers, then? Nobody made them do that.)
sarcasm

I heard buying Twitter bots is cheap.
Well, two out of three is pretty good. My advice: Build your skills and knowledge. And let yourself sleep.
A word you seem to have no reservations about using against your opponents just from a quick search of your comment history. Why such outrage when it's turned back on your own sacred cows?
> Just be aware DNS over HTTPS is a thing now, and while the devices I’m responsible for aren’t going to try and evade your redirects, the companies that are trying to make sure ads get delivered will absolutely switch to DoH which will be much more difficult to work around.

I wonder who's the first sponsor for that thing, dns-over-https...
Spot on with Clipper. I used it to write software for a mom and pop shop and it worked fantastic until I started running out of memory. We transitioned from DOS/Clipper to OS/2 with VX-REXX at that point. VX-REXX was also equally impressive.
So what percentage of rich people do you figure are such "crooks with suits and big smiles"?

Of course crooks exist. Most people are not crooks, though. And especially the professionals you mention may have problems to persist. Like the shoddy dentist will be busy with lawsuits presumably.

I still prefer those "private crooks" to people feeding on government money (not meaning people on social security, but people in useless jobs paid for with taxpayer money).
Another inference
He is currently threatening to veto the military funding bill if it doesn’t include a rider for repealing Section 230.

I think most people would agree that has nothing to do with the military and shouldn’t be in the bill. We can only speculate on the real reasons he’s doing this now, but the timing feels like revenge for the fact-checking applied to his election claims.
Mine quite happily works as a dumb TV without a connection, and I know many others who do the same. Though I hear stories of TVs being annoying to use without a connection (timing out waiting for a server response that can never come, before falling back to an ad free menu, or just constantly nagging, even while content is playing, about the lack of connectivity).
Ehh, they'll have fun living out those decades in hiding from the populace if so
This is becoming an example of frog boiling in action. The usual retort to mentions of frog boiling is that the frogs jump out but in this case, it's just bigger pots of boiling water all the way down.
I'm not sure if its worth posting, but I just installed pihole and its great. You dont actually need a pi, you can run it in docker. its nice that you can see all the dns queries that are happening.
Also manpages are hyperlinked to each other. You can easily say "see some other page (3)" and an html viewer will automatically make that into a hyperlink. Try the man: protocol in Konqueror. They are an extremely useful resource where you can put a lot more information than in the output of "-h".
I've spoken to 1500 people about remote work over the last 9 months
Gatsby and its magic comes no where near Hugo, hugo is basically just select the theme and write markdown Gatsby and its quirks, are just too heavy. I would rather suggest Next.js.
Also I actually think it could be used pretty effectively - not saying it does this today or would ever - but it could let you offer a bounty for 'whoever submits a PR that closes this issue; that the maintainer accepts; that is not reverted within 30 days' in a trusted but decentralised way.
Why? It sounds like ideologically driven circular reasoning. If you train an AI on the largest dataset it's possible to obtain then you have, almost by definition, done the most you can to avoid bias of any sort: the model will learn the most accurate representation of reality it can given the data available.

Gebru is the type of person who defines "bias" as anything that isn't sufficiently positive towards people who look like herself, not the usual definition of a deviation from reality as exists. Having encountered AI "fairness" and "bias" papers (words quoted because the words aren't used with their dictionary definitions), it's not even clear to me they should count as research at all, let alone be worth reading. They take as the starting premise that anything a model learns about the world that is politically incorrect is a bug, and go downhill from there.
Last comment about it since I spent too much time on this story. As a researcher in the field I feel bad people don't give Google more credit (I have no affiliation with Google). They created a research environment where researchers have freedom to work on their own interests and publish papers (they publish more than any other company). You don't find many environments like that outside of academia. I still remember Microsoft Research closing down their research lab in the west coast and sending a huge number of researchers home. I can tell you I always apply when there is an opening. So far without luck. If you're a Google Researcher don't forget how lucky you are.
Exactly. How did that work out for Venezuela and their currency?
I’ve personally submitted papers for this form of review on the same timeline that she did. No problems. So no, I don’t consider the method by which her paper was rejected to be normal practice.
I would love to hear of alternative tech-oriented communities that aren't dominated by the types you describe.
> FDA insiders say the agency and its approximately 17,000 employees were dark for the four-day Thanksgiving holiday, including those working on the vaccine approval.

At 2000 people dying each day, that's a pretty expensive vaca.

> Back in January, The Dispatch reported on the shocking story of how FDA regulators told University of Washington physician Dr. Alex Greninger that he could not test suspected COVID patients in Washington state, requiring him to first apply for an FDA authorization to do so. The complicated application Greninger completed sat at the FDA until he inquired about the delay. He was told that his electronically submitted application was incomplete because he had to also print it out and mail a physical copy along with a CD-ROM or hard drive of the electronic application. You can’t make this stuff up.
There are a lot of research resources - compute, tools, data - you can't access from academia. The action in AI is in industry, as AI needs data and industry has it.
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> It will put a hard "expiration date" on the device's functionality when a link in the PKI chain expires.

If you're certificate pinning an IP address for use with your own software, you can just create a self-signed cert with expiration date set to 2999 or some commonly ridiculous date you don't expect your devices will live to.
If you don't need any "TV" features such as a tuner or speakers, you might consider using a monitor. I use a 32" 4k monitor as my "TV".

In my case, anything with a TV tuner requires an expensive license, so that's another motivating factor, but whenever I use someone else's "smart TV", I'm always relieved that I don't have to deal with glacial UIs and injected ads.
That's a false dichotomy used to justify child and slave labor as well as absolve yourself of responsibility.

Here's a few options:

1. buy second hand

Cheapest and best for the environment

2. buy local

stimulates local economy, doesn't give money to another big corporation ready to exploit another country

3. buy fair trade

4. stop buying so many things

It really isn't that difficult.

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The harsh reality is that we all are to blame for the predicament of those countries and we try to brush it off, just like you just did. We choose to buy cheap without checking where things are from. We choose not to support local industries. We choose politicians that choose not to prosecute companies for crimes in other countries. We choose to give big companies money which they then use to corrupt foreign countries in order to exploit them. We choose to justify our consumerism with "at least I'm giving them a job".

You really think that those countries would be in such disarray without our involvement? Do you think if multi-nationals had less power, the support of their western politicians and populace, that they'd be able to mess around in foreign countries and take away opportunities for the foreign populace?
As early as Spring last year, mortality increase was estimated to be about the same for all age groups.
Don't call it a garden. That's just propaganda from the dictators.
Really wish I could do the switch to any Linux distro but the font rendering is just terrible on my eyes. I find it can frustrate some people like me more than others.
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Beyond the government provided safety net, there is also the factor of social and cultural structures. E.g. in south asian cultures, if you belong to middle class and above, short of calamity, you will not be homeless because it is quite normal for folks to live with parents anyway. Worst case, you can just move back in anytime (bit of that has happened in US as well recently).

Of course, cost of living is a big factor anyway. In asian countries, government provided safety nets are rare but since everything is so cheap, at worst you can still manage to eke out a living and find, say, a single room in not-so-great locality.
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Ask HN: How can I contain an app and force all network traffic through a proxy?
A while ago I started a project i2p-docker-proxy [1] (that didn't get very far) with the goal of containing any app and all its network traffic to force it through I2P[2] (an overlay network like TOR[3] better adapted to P2P). The absolutely minimal docs show what's going on [4]

It's theoretically possible to start apps with HTTP_PROXY outside of docker, but there's no guarantee they will use it, hence the project.
The choice at the time was docker, since it's the only thing I knew (and still know). The project in its current state is able to curl eepsites (equivalent of a hidden onion service in TOR) aka successful containment.
However, that's where it ends: only clients work and servers won't be accessible from within the container.

The solution isn't optimal because it depends on docker meaning 1 container for I2P, another one for the app. Furthermore all traffic has to go through the transparent proxy in the app container.

I have considered writing a TUN/TAP device and creating a cgroup that uses that virtual network device, but I know nothing about those 2 subjects besides their concepts. It's therefore difficult to evaluate feasibility.

Things to take into consideration:

- It should run on linux

- DNS requests will be made by the app and have to be handled (see docs[4] on a functioning yet unoptimised proposal)

- Non-overlay traffic shouldn't escape the container

- client/server applications should be able to work with other services in the overlay network (send/receive)

Any suggestions?

[1]: https://gitlab.com/NamingThingsIsHard/privacy/i2p-docker-proxy

[2]: https://geti2p.net/

[3]: https://torproject.org/

[4]: https://namingthingsishard.gitlab.io/privacy/i2p-docker-proxy/architecture.html
Microsoft has created over 10K millionaires and at least 2 additional (not named Gates) billionaires from stock alone.
> Yes, support is supremely expensive.

I agree. I have support costs too. Which is why every company that sells a product with a hard coded DNS server configured but doesn't advertise said aspect prominently in all advertising, so I can know to avoid their intentionally defective product, should pay me $10000 for the time I wasted buying their product, discovering their product is secretly and intentionally broken, and then return their product.
Honestly there is no scenario where your TV should have Internet access. Setup Kodi and you're done.
It’s a gamble, not a guarantee. What happens when your hard coded DNS is not available?

The more convincing narrative is that setting custom DNS decreases ad revenue and cuts into growth.
Try something like Samsung Signage Displays. Or look for "dumb-tv" category in Amazon and other sites.
There are 2 aspects you would need to consider - the toolset and the product market. I don't think Clipper is sold anymore although there are some alternatives (Harbour). I think the products that still use Clipper would likely either be POS or a niche utility use. I don't know the feasibility of new entries in those markets.
Build quality is a term non engineers use. It's a marketing term.

Seems like you got sucked up into it.

Edit- butterfly keyboard, airpods, bad iphone signals come to mind
I always thought maintaining servers was silly since BitTorrent already proved we can achieve higher bandwidth throughput using lots of clients communicating together.

But p2p is more about the network connectivity than whether the node is an Amazon server or a mobile phone. The normal Web for instance does not build on this network nodes capabilities. We need more apps that build these kind of collaborative and self-sustainable networks
> “Things like 230 are useful for big tech Corp. Not me.”

You’re writing this on a site that’s protected by Section 230.

It’s useful for everyone, from the smallest blog to FB, that lets user-generated content through without premoderation. Repealing this law would mean a web with a lot more moderation, not less.
Google let her go early claiming her actions were "inconsistent with the expectations of a Google manager".

That is the language used when firing someone for their behavior.
> There's a reason why every developed country in the World strictly controls firearms but not knifes.

As a slight tangent, Britain actually does strictly control knives - a short folding non-locking penknife is the only knife that can be carried in public without good reason, and “self defence” is considered never a good reason, and the penknife can still get you arrested if you happen to have it on you in an inappropriate place (bar, nightclub, sports event, etc).