skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> By that logic you would need to call like half of all useful phenomena that most people's lives consist of and depend on, as "man-made delusion". We still need to interact with our lives, and many of the abstractions help us do that.

And they are, and they might help you, but trying to ask scientific or metaphysical quæstions about it, is an exercise in futility.

> BTW if you just replace the word "delusion" with "abstraction" you'll probably see how it makes a lot of sense. Every abstraction is a delusion by definition, is it not? Because the abstracted thing doesn't really exist in the same way as source observation?

The difference is of course that some abstractions have rigorous definitions rather than purely based on human intuition, and then attempting to reason about them rigorously, quickly leading to reductions to the absurd such as here.

The quæstion raised in The Ship of Theseus assumes that there even be a meaningful, rigorous distinction between “same identity” an “different identity” — I reject that and attempting to reason about this with actual logic and empiricism is ridiculous.

It is as foolish as trying to have a scientific investigation about who is beautiful and who isn't.
Dev tools set for 2021 – whats yours?
That's the same thing isn't it? Filtering per country.

We'd need to see the actual drafting, which may not even exist yet, to discuss what they actually have in mind, at the moment many people make conjectures based on one line in an article.

(An I'm sure that Poland has laws against harassment and spam... if only because spam is covered by EU Directives).
I think most of them would get the vaccine they just don't want to announce in class in front of their friends

I would give them the information and background in how people have abused vaccine trust(Andrew Wakefield), and trust them.
There's good censorship and bad censorship: eg not having inappropriate content broadcast on shows kids are likely to watch (good censorship) vs the government dictating how current affairs are reported in the news (bad censorship).

Ironically Twitter moderating their own platform is good censorship because it means they're able to operate independently from the government. The alternative is the government intervening and dictating what social platforms can and cannot publish...and that sounds a whole lot more shady than the complaint you're making.
It's not just conservatives. This is this how the internet works now, and it applies to liberal bubbles too. Maybe it's my rose-tinted glasses, but I don't remember the internet being this bad before social media. You could chat on a forum (that was neither hard left not hard right) and play the devil's advocate if you wished. People forget that the first person they should debate honestly is themselves. Online discussion was a great way to have conversations as the devil's advocate. It was a great way to explore a subject. As long as you argued in good faith, used logic and conceded points when they were fairly won, you could have a long (and possibly fruitless) discussion without getting blocked, banned, threatened or called a Nazi.

Nowadays, liberal isn't "how you act" or "what your values are", is an identity. People identify as liberal: kind, right and "definitely not nazis". If you disagree with them, then you must be evil, right?

I've given up trying to explore contentious issues online. It's impossible to take a different view on a hot topic without getting blocked and reported. You don't even have to take a polar opposite view or get snarky. Sometimes you only have to ask a valid question (now known as a dog-whistle). It doesn't matter if you've got science or logic to back it up.

Someone said it on HN yesterday - the old words are failing us. I no longer recognise this thing that they call "liberal" today. I see it as "woke" - a cult, with dogma, heresies and grand inquisitors.
> Living costs don't necessarily correlate with talent levels.

As someone who lives in a low cost country: rubbish. There's a reason we're a lower cost.

1. We have a lower standard of education

2. We have a higher cost of technology (relative to average income)

3. We have a lower need for the luxury market where most technology resides

You can also look at the proportion of field leaders. Are more from the developed nations or the developing ones?

The developed nations had a headstart on technology, do you think the developing ones have overcome that, despite most of us going backwards in terms of access to education and the wealth gap?

Don't take it personally, I'm not trying to tell you that you're a bad developer. What I'm saying is we have to work harder to uplift our country's fields and not fall into the trap of "well I'm the biggest fish in this tiny pond so therefore I'm an equally big fish in the ocean". It does not work that way.
I'm interviewing for my first employee, and I just used voice calls.

We've been in lockdown for a month. We're all a month or more from our last haircut. We live in the homes we had when it all started. We don't have control over that and it shouldn't affect my perception of candidates.

Besides, it's a remote job. You don't need to look nice for it. You can work naked for all I care.

It made me realise how superfluous pictures on resumes (Germany), LinkedIn profile photos and video calls are in a neutral hiring process. Even without them, the WhatsApp or Skype profile photo betrayed their looks.
How the Gulf’s expat exodus is hitting tech (WIRED)
If you have enough cash + leverage to buy the underlying on the puts you won't get margin called, you'll get assigned.
why wasn't it divided equally ?
If an exclusive group claims diversity, people might not believe you.

Just a heads up: The article linked in the tweet has auto-playing video.
Parler, AWS, and the ACLU
Vitess is just one example, there are others. And it depends, some teams might be able to do some work to get along with MySQL, like chess.com. As in most cases, there is no silver bullet here.
This was considered and known by the framers of the Constitution.

House of Representatives was designed to allow for direct election and therefore allow for the “stupid” (as you call it) common man to influence government. Most of the other branches (e.g. judicial, executive, and the Senate) were appointed by the supposedly “non-stupid” members of legislatures and judicial boards.

The answer to the last question is no one should decide who is ignorant, as the thought of having someone decide this is well ... ignorant.
Covid: Eyesight risk warning from lockdown screen time
Isn't this true for any advanced technology?
Janet Yellen was one of the most powerful people in the world. If you want Beyonce to play a private concert for your company, you'll need to fork over $1m+ per hour. Why shouldn't an equivalent rockstar in the macro world be allowed to charge similar rates?
There's no reason multiple reports can't be created for different target audiences.
> Another hollywood personality posting an image of her enacting a mock beheading, complete with blood.

Didn’t believe this, searched, found instantly. Not only is this true, it is still on Twitter and has been for years.

https://mobile.twitter.com/kathygriffin/status/1323893513226...
This is also an argument that is worth considering.

Many such distinctions that cannot be made rigorous that stick in various cultures but never existed in others simply exist because a man copies his fellow man, not because they are useful in achieving any goals.

Though, as I said, they exist to simplify reality. I assume he human brain works so it does, simply to conserve energy and admit an inaccurate though usually useful enough solution. The problem is when such fuzzy logic is mixed with actual rigorous logic and attempts are made to analyse the former with the latter — that I find a futile waste of time.

There is a very good reason that no clear answer has been found to the quæstion raised in The Ship of Theseus even after millennia of contemplation — there is none, and the quæstion is bereft of sense.
Don't scare the "Full Stack Developer" children with the reality of hardware manufacturing.
You can use generous equity. By far this is the most powerful tool: you may not be a VC funded unicorn so you may have to grant more.

You can be creative in the kind of perks you offer (4 hour workweek? More PTO than competitors etc). Note that there is some evidence to show that shorter work week may even result in better productivity.
I read Twitter's whole article, and it seems to be exactly what GP thinks. The article is full of weasel words like "can be interpreted as" or "could be taken to mean". It does not point to any single actual example of inciting violence.
In fairness it took Netflix a long time to grow internationally. I waited years for it to come to Israel. Disney+ hasn’t been around nearly as long. International viewing rights agreements are complicated.
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Or you can read this as:

We are behind in the game and we don't have anyone capable in this sphere. Nokia, Erikson, Huawey, and Samsung have all the market now and we need american presence there. We can't create a state company, so we will try to break the leaders either by sanctions or by diminishing the value of their IP through open standards until the moment when the standards are open enough to favorite our proprietary IP using them.
I imagine we do hear about more such cases because there simply are more of them compared to other groups we hear about.

There's been some notable studies by now that concluded the amount of psychopaths is way higher among CEO's than the average population and that it isn't that exceptionally rare among this subgroup as you said.
I doubt Parler will survive long enough.
There is already a precedent from decades ago. The U.S. and pretty much every developed country on Earth have laws against distributing and possessing child pornography, because child pornography creates a market for exploiting children and selling the recordings online. The universal consensus is that this kind of expression needs to be restricted in the strictest possible terms, because it causes material harm to disadvantaged people. Nobody loud enough to be picked up in the media bats an eye at this reasoning for sanitizing the open Internet of such content, and online the words "illegal content" have become more or less synonymous with child pornography. Researchers looking into the subject to study its actual effects have been ostracized themselves because it's so hated. Its illegality has entered the realm of common sense at this point. So maybe there exists some extreme in terms of what you can post online such that if you disagree and insist that a certain class of content needs a platform because of reasons relating to "free speech," you will be almost universally disagreed with and vehemently ostracized. That's why the deplatforming doesn't surprise me much.

But determining what counts as inciting violence is harder to determine. You can't post images of children that were actually exploited and later declare with plausible deniability that the content of those images were not to be taken seriously, because they act as photographic evidence of a crime. But how many people that post online about hanging a politician would really act on those words if the politician was within arm's reach?

It's another question as to whether or not child pornography incites child exploitation, instead of just incentivizing it, similar to the argument that pornography incites rape. But it seems to be agreed on that humanity would be better off without it entirely, to the point of very harsh legislation. I'm wondering if this is the direction some people would want to take the spreading of misinformation and alleged incitement. I wonder how many people who distribute child pornography would change their outlook on it in the face of evidence.
I mean, come on.

https://www.google.com/search?q=ron+paul+racism&oq=ron+paul+...
Interesting to see this on the front page of HN - I've been using it happily for years, no complaints. It's illuminating to see just how "chatty" certain apps are (or wish to be!).
This is true. It’s not illegal probably because why would it be? They’re “just taking surveys of aggregate salary data”.
I'm working on a product that requires to keep the same TCP connection open for a long time, and my company found the same:

After a lot of resources invested in debugging, switching out hardware, and interminable log files we suspected the ISP is to blame, so we built an MVP that was connected directly to what the ISP provides, and a client on a different ISP that wasn't closing connections. We saw the connection close at exactly the same time as before.
Does this mean Little Snitch's days are numbered?
What do you mean? What does it explain? It literally says they interpreted those sentences as incitement to violence?
Then your version of mosh is breaking on termcapinfo. I can't really help on your particular version, but that's not screen breaking. It has told mosh it supports scrolling with the mouse. Case of "works over here".
A cynic would say that tech companies are ingratiating themselves with the new power, the Democrats, in order to get clemency on the anti-trust probes everyone was expecting for 2021.
OP, join #lobsters on Freenode and request an invite. Mention my username (same as here) and I'll see if I can extend an invite.
I think your view ignores many arguments, like the giant network effects that these kind of social companies have, the giant infrastructure costs of hosting video at scale that make it really hard for adversaries to rise, or the technical skills required to move your data out of some google services, if it's possible at all.

Even if those barriers were overcome, the exceptionality of such a feat as taking down one of the big guys makes it really likely that the competing services that potentially succeed google, facebook, amazon et all are going to be just as monopolistic, so it's not clear at all that we would end up better off at all.

> I do not want any US administration, or US Congress, or US appointed judge deciding what I should see in my searches. Nothing good will come of that.

That's of course a matter of preference or ideology (and perhaps partly me being a European) but I do prefer government oversight over monopolies rather than unregulated wild west business areas - admitting it's prone to failure, as both systems are. I do have issues with the US part of it, but we don't have supranational regulatory bodies - perhaps something that we should work for, although it is very unlikely to happen successfully considering the ever diverging interests of the US, the EU and China.

> They are currently pushing all the people I watch off YouTube, so wherever they go to I'll follow.

Out of curiosity, who do you regularly watch that has been pushed off the platform?
Which is exactly the reason why Twitter should be allowed to set it's own moderation rules. Who else is going to tell Twitter what they can and cannot moderate? The only other people who can is the government and then you have a situation where the government is now controlling speech.

The ironic thing about this situation is that Twitter exercising their own judgement on what can and cannot be hosted on their platform is actually a good thing for the demonstration of independence of social platforms from government control.
You can say most things against the current discourse on many forums as long as it’s not illegal/viciously bigoted. I feel that amount of “freedom” is enough as any more freedom takes away others freedoms.
Comcast data cap blasted by lawmakers as it expands into 12 more states
I am an Army signal officer with 5 deployments. The military considers cell phones inherently insecure and not a mission asset, regardless of what you may read.
In Spain we had a snow storm and we have now people calling it an hoax and saying that it was not snow but plastic sent by the government.

What I mean by that anecdote is that conspiracy theorist don't need anything special for creating their theories, they cannot be the ones leading the agenda. Work on explaining why and how these vaccines work / create FPs is the way to go.
Do you have a guess as to what percentage of all volume is driven by hedging by options market makers?
Bonus: China just relaxed it's "one-child" laws in the rest of the country, in an attempt to increase the country's birthrate. Does this change your mind about the 2 scenarios above?
The question is: should it remain so?

Most jurisdictions have, for example, protections for renters. As in "the landlord cannot barge in at 2 a.m. and kick you out, even though the place is legally his/her".

This kind of legislation was motivated by an effort to protect weaker parties against capriciousness of stronger parties, even though the housing market is nowhere near to an oligopoly.

Now, a Star Chamber of Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon and Visa banning, e.g. a small business owner overnight will destroy his/her business without recourse and prevent it from getting on their feet again. In my opinion, this is even graver problem than a landlord kicking someone out at will.
Snitches get stitches?
I was not talking about refugees in particular, but more in general about people that lost their home; implying that they had a German residence before, or were born in Germany and still have a German passport (aka Personalausweis).

Those people that lost their home and would theoretically be willing to work still cannot; hence because they don't have a postal address which is required to get a bank account.

Since the new Zahlungskontengesetz was established, all people that have a German citizenship have a right to get a Basiskonto [1] and banks must comply.

Though the legal loophole here is that getting a bank account still requires a postal address.

[1] https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/zkg/__31.html
Little snitch does provide some special features, like choosing which network devices shall have which rules and connection maps which shows where each connection goes on a world-map. It also keeps watch on the amount of data each app uses.
Nice! The API looks pretty good and simple to use. I love that the repo is full of examples. Starred.
I made no claim as to the entirety of “philosophy”.

I made a claim as to the dealing in identities and the assumption that they can actually be reasoned about.

They have no definition and it's merely fuzzy human gut feeling what is and isn't a different identity and different men can't always see eye to eye on it either.

One thing I remember well is that I watched a television series as a child that had an magical object that turned everything it touched into gold. It eventually landed on a ship, and the ship turned to gold, and sank.

It defied my intuition, from where I sat only the plank on which it fell should be turned to gold, not the entire ship, for if the entire ship did, apparently it's power could transfer simply to objects pressed close enough to that which it touched, and that was inconsistent with past portrayal.

Clearly however the ship as an entire identity satisfied the intuition of the script writers, but my intuition felt that the plank was a single identity, not the ship.

There are no definitions and rigor here — it is simply every man's individual intuition.
It does not have to be taken daily - https://www.iwantprepnow.co.uk/how-to-take-prep/
Please don’t put a 10MB GIF in a page. Link to it instead, or better still to a video (GIF is an irredeemably bad format that no one should ever use any more).
I've searched for redox in Google and this is the first time I see this layout (https://imgur.com/a/tVoKxBE) in Google search pages. Anyone knows if they planning redesign?
Siri and alexa? You tell it what to do in pretty darned close to human language
That’s not what I was saying.

I’m suggesting the beliefs of the Twitter board of directors may have changed due to non-public discussions, causing them to ban Trump despite the foreseeable negative impact on their bottom line, as that would be a less-bad alternative to the consequences of not doing so.

I don’t see why this is a controversial claim for me to make given that (1) they did, in fact, ban Trump’s account, and (2) people have been pointing at Trump’s violations the TOS for years already, so Twitter probably previously had non-public grounds for not banning him, grounds which are no longer sufficient.

(Point 2 is weaker than point 1, point 1 is basically incontrovertible).
> Most of our workers don't work as hard and they don't have to worry about healthcare costs.

I appreciate that you wrote such an otherwise thoughtful post. But as a founder, I think this may be a blind spot for you.

Most SV tech employees also don't have to worry about healthcare costs in any meaningful way. At every company I've worked at in the Bay Area, I've only done more than the standard 40 hours/week when I was chasing a big promotion. Or doing something I was especially excited about. And I've done OK in my career so far - I'm quite satisfied.

Whereas the salaries at most startup-y tech companies are laughable in Toronto or Vancouver compared to the housing costs (one Vancouver company seriously quoted me CAD 80k for a frontend role slinging React code 2 years ago).

The big companies in the Bay Area pay 3x the average Toronto startup. I promise you they aren't working 120 hour weeks, and I'm sure your employees aren't working 13 hour weeks.
Yes, nothing wrong with the “censored” version of hacker news here. There is clearly a lot of good or 4chan but it’s not worth it.
They are in their rights to delete whatever they want. Making an accusation of illegal conduct and deleting the evidence goes beyond that, though.
Slider switch solves this problem. They're well known for maintaining their state between reboots.
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Please provide a message, communication, quote, or tweet from Trump that explicitly calls for violence. I too have been looking and can't find one.
Gnome 3 is default for most popular distros (Ubuntu, Fedora, RHEL, Debian etc) If anything gnome is getting more popular thanks to Ubuntu switching.

There fewer people contributing because programming in C is no longer fun or hip. It is not Gnome problem but the whole Linux ecosystem. Gnome is slowly adopting rust but the core framework is still C. There is plenty of active forks of Gnome2 people can contribute there.
> so they cannot accept the Arbeitslosengeld (Hartz IV)

That's incorrect. You can collect Arbeitslosengeld II ("Hartz IV") in cash at the local job center, no bank account required.
That last 10% matters. I absolutely need split windows, and being able to switch what is in the sub-panes easily. That's what require nesting.

The fact that it also doesn't have my preferred behavior for multiple clients connecting is just a minor nit-pick at that point. And I did say that the misnamed 'switch-client' would likely work.

Tmux has some very nice features: a nice commmand language, xterm-style mouse support, including both event binding and sending to client (pass through only), well thought out client-server separation, the ability for other programs to fairly easily drive it, visual identification of panes, menu-popups, and the default status-line is nicer.

All of that is merely nice to have, not actually needed though. It fundamentally doesn't have a model that works well for me. I wish it did, or that screen gains such things.
What's known about the biological mechanism that degrades vision when looking at computer screens? It seems that eye strain is often mentioned but how does this cause permanent permanent damage to the eyes?
Complex trials take a long time, and prosecutors often use pretrial detention as a tool to coerce defendants to waive their right to a speedy trial.
Sorry, that's misinformation (pulled right from your search). Nothing there points to Paul being racist

https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.theatlantic.com/pol...

https://www.fox19.com/story/16449477/reality-check-the-story...