skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honest question: why don't you ban such users?

I used to be in non-main-stream politics, and we had the same problem - people coming into the group who were toxic and made our lives hell. It took me far too long to realize the following:

Freedom of speech does not mean that individuals and private groups have to tolerate asshats. It's a fallacy that many, many, far too many, progressive groups and movements fall into: this feeling that we "owe" people to hear them out. And that we "owe" people to let them sit at the same table with us.

You are not the government or a hegemonic group/platform. You don't owe toxic people anything. Ban them, without remorse. Have a rule for it - obviously - but for the most toxic behaviors don't even give them a warning. What do you have to lose - a few asshats out of hundreds, thousands or tens of thousands of users?

And no, it's not censorship. Not everything is censorship. Telling idiots and asshats to STFU or GTFO isn't censorship. And a lot, and I do mean A LOT of problems that online communities and even real world politics have is connected to just not telling people the simple word of "NO".
For me the main reason I'm not a Dropbox customer is their rigid pricing structure, £7.99 a month for 1TB is good value for people who use 1TB, but I only need like 10% of that so would be wasting money

I'm guessing they bank on a small % of "whale" consumers using all their allowance and everyone else being way under the limit

I've stuck with Google drive for the 100gb plan at £1.99 which suits my needs, but would move to Dropbox in a heartbeat if they offered a similar tier
Source or references?

This isn't how Gresham's law is typically discusses AFAIA.

(It is how I consider it, hence my interest.)
they develop the feature and then merge back.
> quit paying ARM a percentage

The percentage is very small, though. So this argument only works for very high volume use cases, which is why the RISC-V eval boards are currently far more expensive than comparable ARMs.

Do WD do their own silicon yet, or do they just buy the parts?
They can still protest it, although why you’d protest a free and fair election is beyond me.
I agree. I think, however, it just brought to the fore deeper issues with democracy. We’ve seen this develop since the equal air time rules were removed. I don’t think it scales to 300 million.

With a population of that size there are too many minority needs that go under represented. This leads to people feeling disenfranchised. Eventually something has to fill the void. Normally it’s some form of subgroup. It can be BLM, Antifa, Maga cult. By centralizing power into the federal government, which is too remote to deal with needs at the local level, all these groups can’t improve things. Riots and violence occur.
Or companies will leave C behind.
Insurance for them making their own decision to cancel reservations? Who would insure that scenario? It would be like wagering on a dice roll and then allowing me to choose the number instead of rolling it.
Really? This is inconceivable to me. I think they are essential for sorting good comments from bad.

Here's an experiment -- Try reading your next HN thread from bottom (most downvoted) to top, and see if it's an equal experience.

I find that any service that doesn't do vote-ranking (e.g. newspaper forums) usually turns atrocious almost immediately.
You're mixing up intelligence with morality, or something similar to morality. Just because some interfaces are bad and the company is anti-competitive doesn't mean using it is a dumb choice, you have to weigh up the pros and cons.

Perhaps it's an axiom that the open alternative is better in the long run, but that's too long a run to really care.
I don't think my server has seen so much traffic in so little time. It seems to be holding up pretty well, but there are occasional requests that take a second or 2. I'm keeping an eye on the monitoring ...
At 5 times the price.
Great - feel free to email me if you need any help at ben@vantage.sh

In all honesty it wasn't part of my purview while at AWS and I was happily focused on container services at the time (ECS/Fargate/EKS/etc). I think in order to make necessary changes at AWS on this level you'd really need a full reorganization of how teams are setup. We have a lot of liberties by starting fresh.
I agree with your general thrust, but I disagree with your conclusion.

We need to say when things are wrong. It's vital. And right now what the right in America is doing is wrong. I'm not some absolutist left-winger. I once had a firearms license here in Canada. Though I'm a happy Liberal Party of Canada member, I've voted for Conservatives in the past and I'm open to doing so in the future.

I do not have intolerance of other viewpoints. I actively seek out a broad range of views. What I have intolerance for is violence and calls to violence and lies. If that's the charge against me I happily accept whatever verdict you or anyone else will levy against me. The truth matters. Peace matters. I am unwilling to let these half truths go by without comment or rebuke.
> instead of shutting down Parler directly the approach would be to send a complain to a relevant federal authority (not sure which one that would be, maybe the FBI? please correct me) and let them do their investigation.

It has been suggested by many people that in fact the causality goes the other way. The reason for the near-simultaneous action against Parler from Twilio, Google, Apple and Amazon seems likely to have been a strong suggestion from Federal law enforcement about an imminent threat.

There's no evidence for that per se, but certainly the threat seems imminent.
It's a LOT from a donate button. Donate buttons generate barely any revenue at all, generally speaking. This game must have either got lucky with the crowd that's playing it, or has literally millions of players already.
> Otherwise people would leave the phone with someone at home to answer for them.

Or they would just do the sensible thing and not break quarantine.
This recent study shows that transmission in primary education institutions is extremely low. https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/pediatrics/ea...
> It feels like they're throwing in the towel on being the leader, giving up on trying to catch up process wise and will look to maximize their existing revenue. RIP

If they were going from a former CTO to a former CFO, I would agree. They are going to a former CTO from a former CFO. How does this make it seem like they are looking to maximize their existing revenue rather than trying to get someone in to "fix" their issues?
Pretty sure the current state is already populist and establishment.
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I don't think it's even true in theory since corporations live in a larger context of the country or countries they are in.

As for countries themselves, we could argue that they also live in a context of all the other countries, but I would say that for the reasonably large ones it is the case their political will is roughly equivalent to the collective sum.
Or perhaps "pro-democracy" and "pro-authoritarian."
I don’t know why WiFi AP manufacturers don’t just give up and just use stock open source firmware on their devices. They are not even trying to get the sw right. The first thing I do when buying one anymore is ditch the built in tinker-toy firmware and install an open source one. Lots of companies that make hardware treat software as just another line item on the BOM like a bolt or a screw, and source the cheapest shit they can find, rather than treating the software as an integral part of the product that needs the same polish as the external box and marketing materials.
Is that what I said?

Is that not what the unsubscribe or block button is for?
That's what I'm trying to wrap my head around. Facebook and Google have value because they have gained monopoly power in markets that they created themselves. The need for unlimited personal data and targeted advertising didn't even exist until they came along. Now they have become so integral to everyday life, that access to them is being framed as an entitlement.

How do you manage a utility that tends towards monopoly, but that is also recognized as an entitlement? The answer is to create a state-run monopoly. What does the Ma Bell for advertising even look like?

Could the Europeans have attracted those monopolies to their shores? What did they do wrong?
update: apologies, but the position is US-only.
Don't blame social media for the actions of the Republican Party.
Apple's federal sales division was one of the strongest sources of revenue during Apple's lowest points, thanks to very good integrated sales & support team that kept islands of Macs in various governmental locations, often doing specialised tasks as graphics/audio workstations and the like.

But to get those contracts there had to be appropriate spending by government, and that's what I meant in my comment.
...and be sued for fraud
> Make sure to contact them on their microsoft365gov account hosted on Azure too

This looks like a failed attempt at whataboutism: What does Microsoft’s product have to do with racial and/or ethnic spotting?
That’s fair, I agree with your definition of social justice generally, but I think the way it’s wielded by the powerful usually defangs the term. And that watered down definition has become the more common colloquial definition imo.
If you need to make people redundant for business reasons then you need to do it.

It's not careless to do something that needs to be done. What should they do instead? Try to conceal the layoffs? I think that's illegal in most jurisdictions.

And they also cannot stop hiring.

All the actions here are rational and as carefully done as they could be.
For science fiction writers, it is interesting to think about this on an epoch time scale as a means for creating different human-alien like hybrids.

Imagine a trillion alternate earths where some percentage of humans try this but some survive and gain superior evolutionary improvements becoming a human-mushroom hybrid creature.
Your doctor is not good at his job or he doesn't like you. Filling out codes so that insurance pays for things is a skill that good doctors develop rapidly. The proper codes can also change rapidly, and often there is no easy way to find out what price a procedure is or how much insurance will pay for a particular code. MDs do usually have a hand up on others in figuring this out because healthcare and insurance companies will return their calls. (They also discuss it among themselves)

If you are not an MD it may take 3-4weeks to find out what a code costs and what coverage will be. They'll call you about the single code and coverage that you requested, when they get around to it. However, if they have mis-billed you (eg 45min for a 15min visit) then you can get them to reverse and rebill the procedure. Personal experience.
I don't think it is Biden's actual political positions that Trump supporters hate. Trump himself is a pretty far left Republican President who pushed hard on big handouts. The issue is that Trump supporters falsely believe that the election was stolen. This makes them think our democracy has already fallen.
Debian Developer here: upstream developer almost never care to prepare fixes for existing releases.
Is there evidence that the way people "learn in the workplace" is better than the way they learn in college?

Is there evidence that the way people "learn in the workkplace" is always the same?
The question IMHO is, if people want to have a discussion, do downvotes without an explanation help to facilitate it?

I think they do, but I don't think it's an open and shut case. I see downvotes as dual-purpose. They are a behavioral nudge for the commenter, and they are a signal to everyone else that the comment does not contribute to healthy discussion. I'm fine if they fail to be the former in some cases.

I've met a decent number of high functioning people in real life who are emotionally incapable of introspection and will go down the rabbit hole to defend something they've said/done that was clearly an asshole thing to say/do in the moment. Responding just gives them a target (you) for the inevitable defensive reaction. There are few people like that, but I've had enough interactions with the internet equivalent of this over my lifetime that I've long since given up on the idea that anybody who clearly comes across as an asshole on the internet will get reformed by a nicely worded "stop being mean".

The other case where I might downvote and not respond is when it's a tired debate (usually political, often over diversity/equality related topics) and the comment is arguing with common talking points that use incorrect facts or is arguing with common bad faith talking points. I've been in too many of those over the years too. I'm not going to be the magical person who gets the other anonymous internet poster to recognize the error of their ways.

Outside of those cases, I tend to respond after downvoting. Or just not downvote and respond anyway.
Will SWEs be cut? Or is this primarily because their "Virtual First policy means they require fewer [people] to support their in-office environment"?
Commenting on previous videos that were not in violation of terms of service have been disabled “indefinitely”. Same situation with Facebook/Instagram, but I’m not aware if there was a term of service violation there.

Is this censoring Donald Trump, his supporters, bots, or his opposers?

Consider that Jake and Logan Paul’s channels are still up despite repeat offenses including the Japan suicide forest video.
If you don't want to spend two weeks locked into a hotel, you can stay at home instead.
It truly is a strange set of phenomena. Historically, big business was always on the side of the fascists, which really begs the question of who is who. Of course, the answer is that this is not a national conflict but a global one. Big business favors the Democrats simply because the Democrats are better for global trade.
> It _is_ censoring. It's not just different search results. The website is nowhere in the Google results, just the Wiki page and news publications.

Google does that all the time.

At the rate this is going, I think we're soon going to see spammers self-righteously denouncing the censorship of their websites.
So this proposal retains the C++ feature of not allowing you to do anything with the captured context. Semantically, it's as if you created the captured variables as new function-local variables when you initialized the function call, and the wording makes it UB to modify the captured variables via a pointer.

Where the capture context lives in memory and how it is allocated and deallocated is not precisely specified by the specification, but there specification does permit it to be handled via C++-style scoped destruction. That C has no way for you to manually write this code does not preclude implementations from using that logic internally, especially since most C compilers are also C++ compilers and handling C lambdas as identically to C++ lambdas as possible would have some benefits.
Apple to Open Developer Academy, Provide Funding for Minority Entrepreneurs
Nope, as Python continues to be popular it just increases the rise of tools to manage Python (e.g. Poetry), increase the scalability (e.g. Dash), executable distribution (e.g. python-build-standalone), improve speed for hot code (e.g. numba.jit, mypyc, Cython), etc..

The more people use a language the more they want to solve the weak points of that language by using that language.

That's not going to go away for Python until people joining fields that make Python popular (data science, automation, web api/back-ends) have another language that's more approachable.
New study finds people envy other people’s social status more than their wealth
When I was at uni a few years ago, I ended up skipping most of my lectures and watching them online instead, worked better for me in that I could watch them at a time that suited me better, watch at 2x speed, go back and rewatch things I didn't understand. Compared to cramming into a lecture theatre with 200 other students in some cases.

That said tutorials and labs being in person were pretty essential, I wouldn't have liked to do that remotely.

Probably a combination that varies for different people is the best.
I would look for a position as a lateral hire in MBB tech consulting e.g. McKinsey Digital or BCG Platinion.

Speaking from personal experience you'll learn a lot about communication and presentations.
Everything that is relevant for game developers.
C++ std:async with a concurrency limit (via semaphores)
I've always disliked this line of thinking. Why does it matter that a politician would be placed somewhere else on the left/right continuum in a foreign country?
But this actually brings up a good question about the role of unions to begin with. Everything you just said could be equally said about worker's unions, so why do we have worker's unions either instead of just using the government?

I like OP's suggestion of having a consumer's union. In an analogy to a software stack, having the government responsible for this is analogous to building a monolith, while making unions is analogous to a microservices solution. Integrating this role into the government could become bureaucratic and comlicated, maybe ineffective because of it, but a consumer's union might work but with it's own set of particularities.
Blaming social media for hate speech is shooting the messenger. The KKK, Jim Crow, lynchings, the Civil War, none of these needed social media and they grew just fine. The problem is and always has been human nature.

Trying to solve a social problem technologically is doomed to fail. We know from history that forcing people to think something they don’t want to causes oppression, resentment, and leads to upheaval. We need to invest more in education so that ordinary people can recognize lies, and we need character in our leaders so that they hold bad actors accountable.
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Reflections for 2020-2021
How?

Sql injection is so basic, that if you can't spot it, you probably can't do fizzbuzz.
One thing to keep in mind is that people who are judicious in their use of upvotes/downvotes are going to have much less impact than those who haphazardly upvote/downvote. Such is the nature of giving people limitless votes (and comments, for that matter). Platforms like this (and Reddit, and a large portion of social media) are structured in such a way that they give an outsized voice if people behave in a way most would find problematic.

Another issue is that places like HN and Reddit only show the total score, and not the upvote/downvote breakdown. I saw a topic here where all the comments on one side were downvoted and grayed out, but when someone put up a poll asking for the opinions that side got about 40%. It's hard to know if a greyed out comment is because the community as a whole feels the comment is bad, or if it's simply in an emotionally charged discussion where the opposition has a slight majority.
Probably because the Biden administration is determined to have a "normal" inauguration and a "normal" presidency after running on a unity/centrist platform.
As someone who enjoys remote work as a profession, I think this is generally a bad idea long term, at least across the board.

Remote learning should absolutely be a thing for children who learn better in that environment - I likely would have benefited from it back in elementary and junior high schools because there wouldn't be the distraction of being surrounded by bullies and demi-criminals.

However, I think it's delusional to think that Zoom and so forth can be a sufficient replacement for the social aspect of being at a physical school. Parents seem to forget that they aren't a surrogate for the teachers, friends, and boy/girl-friends their children would otherwise be interacting with at school. It's hugely valuable, nearly as much as the education itself. I'm saying this as someone who is a kind of recluse; it would have been bad for me to never be challenged socially while growing up.

My conclusion is that things like Khan Academy are already good enough, and the real question should be how such a system could be adapted to a standardized testing structure(or perhaps the other way around). What would be ideal is if schools can use something like Khan Academy so that there can be seamless transitions between home schooling and physical schooling, as well as making the concept of forgetting one's homework obsolete.

The reason that we as a society are struggling with remote learning right now is because the people in control have no idea what they're doing. They're having to play catch up to the rest of the world, at least in a digital sense. It's not that we don't already have tools ready to go. It's a failure to adapt. We had well over a decade to evolve education to the digital frontier and we were slow to the draw.
The double paradox is, despite my lack of faith in her democratic credentials, and that I often disagree with her ... for the most part I actually like her. I think she's actually well suited to the job - her handling of Brexit was right on the line I think.

That may have a lot however to do with the fact that she probably takes a note of notes from Merkel ... which was maybe the point of her appointment in the first place.
HN doesn’t feature an algorithmic feed, mercifully. We all share a single view here.

Social media becomes a body politic snatching parasite when it generates unique, algorithmically (engagement-driven!) views for each individual.
Finding a local makerspace might in part allow you to bypass the need to access facilities at Uni for physical construction?
Our kids aren't in K-12 yet, but we're already seeing how the elementary school relies on tablets and laptops. It's probably going to push one of us to run for school board.
I'll admit the use of 'unilateral' here is probably poor, I don't know the proper one. These companies exert monopoly power in the markets they are in. Decisions made by companies which are monopolies are "unilateral-ist" because once a small number of them make a decision together (perhaps colluding) then it leaves no recourse for the person or group they are deciding against.

Mentioned elsewhere, the process we should all wants is one where if a company wants to nuke an entire speech platform like this due to illegal speech, they can get a judge to affirm the legality of the content and the negligence of those who are hosting it. With that in hand, their actions would be immune from criticism. Without it, we find ourselves here, where we basically have to trust them to make the right decision and not abuse their power. It's not what we should want, for the same reason that we should have wanted anti-trust laws in place to reduce the power of monopolists, despite the fact that monopolists were operating entirely legally and often ethically.
Microsoft Broke Guest Login in Teams on Linux
> Anyone know if/when this is coming?

No date atm. There's a lot of rumors and the prefered one it's Apple make too much money of apps and if they gave the PWAs the possibility to receive notifications this will hurt them. But I don't rly believe that. Pwa are great but not rly ready to replace native apps. We always have clients that want native apps even if a basic web site (not a pwa) do the trick.

> Are there workarounds?

None.

> If this doesn't exist, should it? And would people pay for it?

I've already ear that solution (here I think?). But yeah if this doesn't exist it should be invented. And if ppl don't want to pay for it, you can have a free version with sponsored notifications.
Guest Login in Microsoft Teams on Linux seems to be broken for everybody now and Microsoft is not even working on a fix yet.