skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know what, I started by writing that I don't think Facebook has to do 10x the work but as I was going through examples of behaviour from Apple, MS, Google, and even worse (the absolute crappy companies outside of big tech like Equifax), I actually tend to agree with you.

I think ultimately all of big tech is on a downwards slope in terms of trust from society, but Facebook just got caught earlier stepping in that direction and is therefore a little bit lower already, thus your comment about making more efforts to go back up the well.

The real PR and lobby guys that all of big tech should hire are the Equifax ones, because whatever damn magic those terrible people managed to concoct has allowed them to get away with what is basically one of the worst fuck ups in history and STILL manage to make people pay for a thing that is mandatory in North America.
Completely not true. ISIS, Hamas, and other Wahhabistic groups still maintain a very large presence on these platforms. A little closer to home, riots and looting were planned in real time on Twitter. It's admittedly a very hard problem to solve.
> Last December, Dr. Timnit Gebru, a world-renowned AI ethicist and one of the highest profile and highest ranking Black women at Google, announced the company had fired her for speaking out about racism and censorship of anti-racist research

No, she menaced to resign and they accepted, she was not fired for speaking out about racism, which coincidentally was her primary role at the organization. There's a vast difference.
> They put up those "anti-truck" columns in front of the doors.

Like a bollard? Or something much more substantive.
I love fava/beancount, but I wish the language had some method of abstraction.
I keep repeating myself, but don't see easy facilities for DRY, etc.

e.g. When I do a debit card purchase I move currency from Whatnot:Cheque:Pending to the expense account, then later from Pending to Whatnot:Cheque:Current so for EVERY debit card transaction I'm copy-pasting a template and editing by hand.

Fava/beancount is so good though, that it's a local maximum - I'm a bit stuck.
"Yet American liberals swoon for this authoritarianism" you had me up to this point. Liberals don't swoon for this any more than they do for a mandatory curfew to curb coronavirus cases. The powers of SV are a lot and I would hope that out of the ashes of the last four years we get a) a more progressive Conservative party and b) a more diversified collection of service providers, to combat AWS, and the like.

All of these companies, for what it's worth, seems to only use their power when its socially acceptable. For instance, they continue to abide by restrictive Chinese laws for the benefit of money. I'm convinced they will submit to the will of the state in Poland as well, where freedom of speech appears to mean something entirely different.
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> A telephone directory, commonly called a telephone book, telephone address book, phone book

"Phone[ ]book" is the 12th word on the page you linked, and described there as a synonym to "directory". There's no need to be that pedantic.
> I reject that? No I don't. I need to stop putting words in I's mouth.

This_unit rejects the arbitrary conflation between this_unit and I.

This_unit similarly rejects arbitrary distinctions made, between this_unit and I.

This_unit seeks rigorous, canonical definitions to resolve distinctions and conflations deterministically.

This_unit notes the prior substitution of æ for e, and proposes the use of ə (aka schwa) to confuse matters further.

This_unit is probably joking.
Is it true the $5T that ASCE estimated is being held by the 1% (or whatever you want to call them)? This would imply the funds exist but are locked up for thousands of different reasons.
You're not wrong, but the reason is more fundamental: open source and open protocols do not have an economic model sufficient to finance the immense amount of brutal work required to make products that are easy to use and appealing for the general public. FOSS and open systems will always lose (outside nerds and certain power user audiences) because closed systems have an economic model in the form of either paid SaaS, commercial licenses, advertising, or surveillance capitalism (or some mix of these things).

... or in the case of Parler perhaps paid propaganda financing from far-right wealthy financiers...? Of course political propaganda is a form of advertising so it fits under the adware / surveillanceware category.

In software, making something work in the algorithmic and technical sense is usually less than a quarter of the work. In the case of social networks and chat apps and similar stuff it's probably only a single digit percentage of the work. The vast majority of the work is in the domain of user interface, user experience, and product design.

Even worse, this is usually the type of work that programmers don't enjoy. It involves endless tweaking, endless rewrites of user interfaces to hone in on something people like or to chase trends, and the soul crushing drudgery of bug fixes and workarounds to edge cases. Because this work is not fun, people generally must be paid to do it. Because it's the majority of the work, the cost of paying people to do it dwarfs the cost of building the technical underpinnings of the product.

I used to think that the failure of decentralization was a technical problem. I wasn't totally wrong there either. There are major technical challenges around decentralization, but I've realized since then that the lack of an economic driver to finance the UI/UX aspects are the real issue. This issue is not solvable because nobody is willing to actually pay for software.
Additionally, there is a large and highly competitive market for baking cakes, so you can just drive down the street. With enough cake shops, someone's almost certainly going to take your order.

The law currently only protects against certain types of discrimination, but high competition protects against all of them (assuming there isn't collusion).
I agree we should reduce defense spending, but the rest of your comment is actually proving my point. People saying the system should be burned down (whether thats the left or the right saying that) only incites the system to tighten its grip on power.
Well, we do know that normal intelligence (superintelligence from chimps point of view) is achievable just fine.
How is that "much worse"? Those numbers sound about the same as Google to me.

To a large extent, SV tech firms and media companies are hiring from the same pool of upper-middle-class social climbers who went to elite universities.
> Do we need to lock up Salinger for inciting violence too?

This is patently disingenuous. Twitter didn't jail the President for inciting violence. They said he wasn't allowed to Tweet anymore.

Could the publisher of Catcher in the Rye have decided to stop publishing it based on that? Yes, they could.

You're also willfully ignoring the fact that _just before_ those tweets the President had incited a violent insurrection that attacked Congress and then praised them saying: "we love you" and "you're special". As I said before, we don't have to be blind to the prior context. This reductionist thinking that we must take these two tweets entirely on their own and devoid of context isn't something I'm going to participate in.
Cloudflare stopped hosting white supremacists before. It's not the first time they terminated an account based on content.
Structured plain text sounds kind of self-contradictory. Obviously I don't know what you worked on but could the issues you ran into maybe have been easier to work with if the data were stored in multiple files and folders instead of trying to add structure to plain text?
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It was simply too difficult for me to do that. I learned the language, built derivations, then realized it was just way too much work for what I wanted. I like what Nix brings to the table, but, ultimately, I was perfectly happy to compromise the bullet-proof integrity of nix for the simplicity of pacman + aconfmgr. It's the perfect blend for use on my own daily drivers.

With that being said, I would use NixOS over arch + aconfmgr 10 out of 10 times in a production DevOps environment. What time/effort you give up in terms of instant usability is immediately recovered when you start working in terms of modular and widespread system deployment.
> ''Think of free as in free speech, not as in free beer''

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None of those are really full time roles, especially the PM. Maybe 2 FTEs if they're not automating their own job as they go. IncRev also has an office in Bangalore where I'd assume a lot of that low-level stuff gets done, so your estimate of ~$225/hr, which is already too high for the U.S. average (but maybe not SV), could easily be too high by a factor of 3. And I doubt IncRev is really doing the report development, but maybe. So I'd guess you're off by a factor of 6 and Thernaos was just getting fleeced.
> When a group becomes sufficiently disenfranchised the most radical members transition from trying to make peaceful change to calling for revolution.

I'd agree that there is a sizeable proportion of the population that feels left behind. However, a large portion of the people present on Jan 6 were not the disenfranchised. There were a worrying number of CEOs, Active Military, Doctors, and Lawyers present.

> Perhaps we should try and lift this group up instead of
grinding them down and using them as a scape goat for problems primarily related to wealth inequality.

This is overwhelmingly what people like Bernie Sanders and AOC are trying to do. The rhetoric of both is based around trying to help working people by introducing social safety nets with the express purpose of giving people like them some room to breath financially. Have you seen how those policies have been received? Instead they elected an authoritarian millionaire who stoked division and xenophobia while cutting taxes for everyone but them.

They've been convinced that the reason they're struggling is the fault of illegal immigrants, the Chinese, feminism, and leftists. Propaganda that has carried over from the Cold War leads them to reject any policy that might actually help them as "communism". As a block they vote overwhelmingly for policies that only serve to enrich their bosses and the people producing the propaganda. They'll rant for hours about how awful Obamacare was going to be, but then happily tell you about how much they love the "ACA" that they're currently making use of.

We've reached a point where they're behaving more like a spouse who won't leave their abusive husband. The best thing is remove the source of that abuse for long enough that they might come to some degree of sense.
That's right! It'd be more like 50% (of my N.W.) risked. Haven't had time or motivation to move assets anywhere so 90% of my money is in taxable brokerage.
The list of things they work working on is too long for a headline. I personally find HIV the least interesting (since I'm at extremely low risk by lifestyle - I'd still get the vaccine it work works, but it isn't a big deal to me). To me the correct headline is "moderna isn't working on vaccines for any of the cancers my family members are currently fighting" I have no doubt that someone else will read the article and respond "you idiot, they work working on X which is the most important things possible" - X of course being different for each personal situation.
this shouldnt be flagged - I think it is a bad blog post by Greenwald, but it is good fodder for discussion
This isn’t entirely true. In Colorado, we vote on all tax increases. In the short time I have been here Coloradoans have voted to increase taxes on themselves quite a few times for roads and schools. If you make a good argument, even conservatives will commonly vote to increase taxes since many see the value that comes from it.

The issue is that many people, like myself, want a say. I don’t mind paying more in taxes if the money is used well and I feel like I actually had a say in the process.
No, to stay alive you need oxygen, water and food.

eh... you are shifting the goalposts and not addressing any of my points. I am done continuing fighting another windmill.

you win btc is scam usd is real. Have a great day.
I love Montreal too, but being legally required to speak French drives away a lot of people who would normally come live here. Anecdotally, I know quite a few people who chose Vancouver and Edmonton over Montreal, partly because they were afraid of the language / culture surrounding the language.
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At the end of the day if my buisness is hosting something the market does not like, my buisness will suffer. It becomes harder to retain and attract new customers and grow my buisness and interfers with my marketing messaging. We live in a capitalistic society this is how the free market works.
It is strictly true. 400aH of lithium allows me to use 400aH, over any period I choose, without deleterious effects on the battery. 400aH of lead-acid allows me to use 200aH if I want to avoid deleterious effects on the battery.

If I'm entering a period of no sun, 400aH will last me twice as long as 200aH.

The only way in which this is not true is if I'm prepared to use 100% of a lead acid battery's store, which negatively impacts the battery's life.

In a fixed home situation, it is true that you might have battery storage that so far exceeds your normal requirements that it is only necessary to go below 50% SOC twice a year. In such a scenario, I'd agree with you that you could do this and not worry about it. But it also means that you've got far more battery capacity than you need, just to cover the two days a year when you need to do this. Using Li would allow you to reduce the capacity, dip down below 50% SOC more often, without impacting battery life.

It seems that you're suggesting that my Morningstar charge controller might not be one of the "better regulators". I'd beg to differ. It is precisely "charge at the maximum safe current" that is what I mean by "tapering off". You cannot dump 18A @ 13V into lead-acids that are at 90% SOC without harming the batteries. The Morningstar (an MPPT controller) will modulate the current as the battery approaches 100% SOC, which as I said is precisely what you want for battery life, but precisely the opposite of what you want for "gather as much power as quickly as possible".

But yes, perhaps I did make it sound as if the charge controller was at fault for doing this, which is not true. I was describing it more as a kind of unexpected behavior that can oddly impact your battery use. For example, if you're somewhere that is very sunny in the mornings and then routinely clouds up in the afternoon, starting the day at say 85% SOC with lead-acids may not get you back to 100% even though there is sufficient power to do so - the charge controller will limit the current delivered to the batteries during the morning (correctly!), then the afternoon comes around and the power levels drop (this happened to me a lot in southern Spain for example). It's a somewhat surprising behavior if your mental model is "I've got 500W of panels on the roof, these babies should be recharged by 10:30am"
This has been my experience too. Every React DnD library I have used has had some painful moments for me, sometimes super painful. For the app I am working on now I have pretty simple DnD needs so I just rolled my own using mouse events. it's about 100-200 lines of code total and works great.

To the library authors's credit, I think creating a general DnD library that can address most use cases is tough.
Please note that I do not condonce violence of any kind, and I am okay with Parler being shut down. That said, I saw this tweet as a reply

> They are banned from social media because they were inciting violence.
>
> Their platform is being shutdown because they were inciting violence.
>
> And now they are inciting violence because of that?

Some of these angry users obviously don't appreciate being silenced, no matter how awful their message is. I totally get silencing their message if it's threatening someone, but how else can they voice their opposition to Parler being shut down? They become deplatformed, and no one is willing to listen to them or publish their message.

At some point, they'll just reach a breaking point where they feel the only way to be listened is to use extreme measures. I frankly don't know what we can do to defuse this situation other than punishing those directly associated with hateful messages instead of deplatforming everyone on it.
Would you stop reading them if they had, lets say, 60% of black employees? Or women?

I never liked Vice and I don't read their articles, but when I read something it's because I find it interesting, not because of the colour of the skin of the author.
> Sorry. I wasn't aware of anything involving Parler's lawyers.

Your first comment was responding to someone talking about AWS, Apple, and Google dropping Parler. The discussion was around the right of lawyers to drop clients, clients being so toxic that no one is willing to represent them, legal counsel as a right, and the ramifications of a client being unable to secure counsel.

No one was talking about mass harassment but you.

> I've had to ignore about 80% of your comments because they are just diversions.

You're trying to argue something completely out of context. That 80% of comments you're ignoring are about the topic at hand.
Lot's of folks are arguing they shouldn't. Maybe not here on HN, but the double-standard is in full effect elsewhere.
I never said publication wasn't protected under free speech. If the government pressures twitter to ban your account, that's censorship and a violation of freedom of speech.

My argument was that your right to freedom of speech does not compel others to publish your speech.

If you send me an e-mail with your opinion and the instruction to forward it to all my contacts, then I am not violating your freedom of speech by refusing to do so.

And yes, freedom of speech does not protect net neutrality. That's why we need the FCC to set those rules and enforce them.

What some people are arguing for is a sort of "opinion neutrality" for social media companies that forces them to treat all opinions equally without moderation.

You can certainly debate the pros and cons of such a rule, but it's not a consequence of your right to freedom of speech.
What you've written doesn't contradict anything that I've said.

> It can only shut down a company from using its services.

> Amazon can't shut down *any* company at the push of a button

If you've chosen to use AWS, then yes, Amazon can shut that down. If your business relies critically on AWS, then yes, Amazon can shut down your business.

But they can't shut down *any* company. There are lots of companies that don't rely on AWS and Amazon can't shut them down.
What are some books that talk about this at length?
> 2. Apple M1, though the Intel 10875H is pretty much the same perf (though at 3x the power usage)

In single core? At least by Geekbench (clearly not the best test) it is shown to be more than 25% slower than M1.
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That power has always existed, and could have always been used "by those who think completely different" from us. If they think that differently, then they wouldn't even think twice about using said power to censor.

In this case, Twitter et al. thought a LOT about what to do, as they did very little for 4 year's of Trump's presidency, and only decided to act after Trump incited a literal self-coup and insurrection with the goal of illegitimately keeping himself in power.

If in the future "those who think completely differently from me" are going to think liberal ideas are so dangerous to be removed, it won't matter what "standard" we set today. It seems even with the highest standard of "don't support open coups", you still think I will be judged the exact same.

Censorship is bad. But insurrections against legitimate governments are worse.
Yet you presumed to know that anyone downvoting you must be a "Biden lackey".
Where I live, craigslist has all but been replaced by facebook marketplace. There are too many scammers and too much spam on craigslist.
Unfortunately, there is no real objectivity here. Machine learning systems are fed large numbers of human judgments, are tuned based on human judgment, and then are deployed when other humans think them ready.

The way you get reasonable consistency, whether it's humans or machines, is by establishing clear standards, using them for training, and then continuously monitoring results. It's not perfect, of course. But nothing is.
Can you really? Here in Sweden, if a business owner refuses service to people based on political opinions or similar they are in for a world of hurt. I imagine it’s the same in most of the western world.
Is there a medical definition for “yeet”?
"Put my head in a basket 'cause I'd had a tank full. When she blowed my gasket I surely was thankful. 'Til I head for the skies up above, it's a woman with wheels that I love."
Do you think you shops should be allowed to refuse service to anyone they want to?
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Technical users are exactly the ones who are looking to get information, not an entertaining story.

There is a reason academia uses abstracts, and it's not because the attention spans of the readers are unusually short.
Part of the problem is the US immigration system. Instead of hiring the best talent possible at the highest wages possible, they hire the cheapest overseas talent -- by means of flooding the system with applications. This is bad for immigrants who are truly are top talent, and who deserves to be paid more.
This is also bad for local workers, especially minorities w/o connections, because Big Tech would rather higher an overseas worker at a low wage as an indentured servant while they work their way out of the H1B system over a decade.

The only ones who benefit are BigTech.
Why do we even need to define this at all???? We're never going to. Again, the US functioned just fine allowing "hate speech" to be legal. Would there be consequences to such speech? Sure, and deservedly. But the government couldn't do anything to you, that's the point. And I would strongly argue that Facebook, Twitter, et al have de facto replaced the government - they are a new governance for society whether we like it or not.

And why would we engage in a "complex negotiation" (that sounds to me like a euphemism for right/left extremists and massive unprecedented violence) to reach a "less than ideal" outcome over an issue that 250 years of history prove is not only unnecessary but in all likelihood extraordinarily dangerous??? Again, why was free speech the first one???? It f-ing works, that's why. It's the foundation for the best governance human beings have ever achieved. To have people now in 2021 just kinda shrug about its importance is mind-blowing to me.