skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet, the top 10 posts on Facebook yesterday:

1. Franklin Graham
2. Dan Bongino
3. Fox News
4. Ben Shapiro
5. Dan Bongino
6. Ben Shapiro
7. Dan Bongino
8. TWICE
9. The New York Times
10. Ben Shapiro

Source: https://twitter.com/facebookstop10/status/134939331795225395...

If FB was overwhelmingly left leaning, why are almost all of its most popular posts from right wing outlets?

You’re extrapolating a lot here. Silicon Valley employees support Democrats, therefore any censorship Silicon Valley firms do is at the orders of the Democratic Party? Show the evidence of that.

Ignoring what the (largely powerless) ground level employees of the tech giants do, the chief execs of these companies lobby both Democrats and Republicans. No matter who is in power, money talks. I suspect that’s why even though there’s a huge amount of evidence that folks like Ben Shapiro have violated FB rules for gaming the feed there has been no action taken. FB has spent the last four years courting Republicans, now they’ll court Democrats.

That’s the real problem but it’s certainly easier to pretend it’s a party-specific problem that would solved if only the other people were in charge.
The McDonald's idea is brilliant.

When no one wants to make a suggestion, propose the worst possible one you can come up with. People will race to improve it because, while they don't know what they want, they know it's not THAT.

Plus their idea can't be worse than mine. So I've stolen all the embarrassment and disdain for myself.
I don't disagree. And I mean this much more generally, I have worked quite a long time for quite a lot of companies. The amount of PTO that is given up, which I was privy to, was staggering.

The interesting thing is I used to try to force people who worked for me to take more time off and they would complain. I think in many ways it was the example I set, which was bad, of always working. It's a regret I honestly have. I'm also happy now that I am just an individual contributor. I don't have to try to change that culture anymore. I only need to change me.
That's the way it used to be in the US, too.
At the same time similar hardware tends to get cheaper over time and the WRT54GL hasn't really ever experienced a price drop - I'd be a bit more ready to attribute the price difference to "Because they can since the market is so locked up".
Anyone can say whatever they want on the Internet, but if your violence words become violent deeds you’re at risk of being dropped. So - don’t be violent.
A little secret you can do is maximize the a-la carte menu. I will get a cheeseburger, no ketchup no mustard, add shredded lettuce, add mac sauce.

tada! you got a single patty big mac for $1.30ish. but if you're feeling cheap and this deal isn't happening anymore, you can do the same with mcdoubles.
Or on used chips!
Tbf, I don't think Parler ever saw itself as extremist. Obviously it was used by extremists, but as I've seen mentioned in other threads lately: When you create an alternative platform from the mainstream, the people who join it are either idealists, or are the people who were banned from the mainstream platforms. And if you don't have the resources to moderate those extremists (or foolishly choose not to), the extremists take over.
> But "it's getting late" is not an excuse; it's getting later for people who need to read your crappy bug report.

First of all, I applaud your proper use of the semicolon in a sentence. As someone who should probably step away from my computer a lot more though, I've got to disagree that "it's getting late" isn't a valid excuse, because I use it all the time and I mean it when I say it (i.e. it's 4am and I have to wake up for work in 6 hours).
That does sound like a pretty stress-free way to live!

That said, living in Europe doesn't always equal good living conditions and stability - it depends on the particular country you're in as well.

My net salary is just over 1000€ per month as a software dev. My living expenses eat up around half of that. If a quick search turns up that in USA the median salary for a dev is around 100k$ per year ( https://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/software-develope... ), that means that i'd need anywhere from ~8 to ~14 years to save as much as they could in a year (depending on their disposable income, taxes, currency value etc.).

In short, i'd much prefer not to spend a decade to get to the point where i'm as financially stable who's worked for a year, if even that.

People oftentimes mention purchasing power parity, but it breaks down in a global economy: for example, i cannot afford AWS and most SaaS/PaaS tools.

That's just one of the reasons why one could look for a better financial situation. Compound interest and investments in general could be another. Stability and peace of mind, although not guaranteed, could be a third.
Interestingly, at least Google doesn't seem to actually just their Safe Browsing list; not sure why.
An incredible book indeed. I remember reading it initially out of curiosity to know who this historic figure was and after finishing feeling like my eyes were opened to the reality of the world around us. As a person of color who didn't think too much about racial justice previously, it woke me up to injustices that I did not notice before.

I should read it again as well.
U.S. Bans Xinjiang Cotton Products, Tomatoes over Forced Labor
You might not need jQuery (2014)
Dissecting something without a single graph or illustration or image. For shame....
In that case it makes sense yeah
Perhaps what you want is a range of boards with many combinations of features. Some with 4xethernet, some with 2xethernet, some with PCIE and 1xethernet, some with M.2 and PCIE, some with M.2 and 2xethernet, etc. to fill out that big matrix of combinations. But is the market big enough for such a huge range to be economical?

Some of them have PCIE which you could connect a network card to. That seems like a more practical way to allow flexibility than having a lot of special purpose boards.
Wouldn't exactly call it free.
Purely from a product perspective I think Evernote still has one big advantage over competitors - it's web clipper and related browser plug-in works almost flawlessly.

I know there are other applications to save websites offline, but there aren't many that have the functionality built into your notes editor.

The ones that do offer one such Bear and Notion have a vast amount of stability, performance and content / layout preservation problems making their web clippers all but useless for anything other than a plain text site.

If anyone does have a recommendation of an Evernote alternative (preferably a native app for macOS and iOS) with an excellent web clipper - I'd be very interested to check it out.
> Wich all protests are you referring to? IIRC most Trump rallies were overwhelmingly peaceful until now...

Rallies != protests. IN cases where the president has asked his supporters to confront other groups, be it the media, other politicians, etc. there is reliably violence.
You're right that the single peer is a concern. Maybe they have others that are hidden for now, like you said?

I don't think they need more than a few IP addresses since most of their hardware could sit on a private network with only a single load balancer visible from the Internet. Also, a small ASN doesn't really need IPv6 compatibility to function, and won't for many years to come.

Since they're still using Cloudflare, it looks like multiple layers of defense. When Cloudflare eventually bans them, people will realize that it was only pointing to their own ASN and no one knows which datacenter it's in. The single peer with HE doesn't actually mean they're in an HE datacenter.
Something I find intriguing about Foam is that it's mainly a recommendation for how to stitch together existing tools into a nice integrated workflow, rather than a new piece of software built from scratch.

I wrote a blog post about this idea of "Software as Curation", and how we might imagine more software being built in this way:

https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2020/07/19/tools-over-apps-for-...
I'm not sure I like the world where conservatives are making bed-fellows with pedophiles and ISIS.

Over this last week, I've talked to people who have un-ironically argued that companies should not be allowed to moderate content... even if that content is illegal!

It's like a whole section of the population is just learning for the first time that the internet is real life and it's not the wild-west it was in the 90s.
> A larger fraction of Americans have a tertiary degree than almost all European countries.

Not if you only count STEM degrees, then USA is far behind.

https://www.businessinsider.com/most-technological-countries...

I'm not sure why American's don't study STEM, you'd think they wanted to study something that pays off. But maybe it is the other way around, with government funded education they only offer STEM degrees since that is what the government thinks will pay off hence more people study STEM?
Another, somewhat more underhanded trick: add a string that is required to not be there, e.g. "Please remove this line entirely.", halfway through the template, and mention it nowhere else.
I think basically don’t use your platform to plan an insurrection and you should be fine. As soon as you start being used as the platform where violence is being organized all bets are off.
I use this tool everyday and with some customization it has been very helpful for me. It helps that I also use VS Code for my job so its nothing to have an extra window open. I don't have to worry about folder and file structure and just write. The VS Code search is robust and fast.

The customizations I use are just for auto creating daily notes and including timestamps and other metadata.

Foam is also easily incorporated into static sites, although I have not yet used that feature.
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I mean it's a weird thing to say either which way you look at it. Although the only reason I have a preference for social stigma and private companies dictating "correct thought" is that you don't face heavy fines or go to jail because a private company say's you broke their rules.
Right. It's just not clear to me that transfering someone back to the home office (or another international office) would be a violation of German laws against termination without cause, as GP suggested. Cause... it doesn't seem like termination? But maybe? It doesn't seem obvious. I'm just not sure we're all talking about the same thing.
If he actually said anything directly calling for violence CNN and MSNBC would have had that clip on repeat for the last week.
I appreciate businesses like Cloudflare that stay neutral and just provide their service.

I don't want to have to think about the political beliefs of a CEO before deciding to use a service.
How often do big companies like Apple and Intel succeed in righting a sinking ship though? You can’t keep pointing to the one guy that succeeded.
The Vessel in New York City closed after third suicide at tourist attraction
I'd bet Microsoft loses out in the long run due to having to dogfood OneDrive and Teams.
Back in 2008-9 or so I had a 3g altel phone during the Verizon merger. If I forced my phone to 3g I could connect to Verizon towers. It was such a great feeling tethering my phone to my laptop to play WoW at 70 MPH.

*I wasn't driving. Also horrible ping.
Gotcha, thanks.

I pulled some city-level numbers and it seems like at least in some areas, European SWE are missing out compared to coastal US ones:

London 2018: 0.7 https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/uksectoracco...

SF 2012: 0.523 https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Income-inequality-on-... (probably this has gone up!)

Paris 2015: ~0.492 https://www.institutmontaigne.org/en/blog/data-inequalities-... (they just say "similar to brazil", which is 0.492

Its unfortunately harder to find a bunch of city-level data, I wasn't able to find any German cities on quick googling, so I'm definitely fulfilling stereotypes of "Americans who think of Europe as just a couple famous cities", but those capture at least a couple of major population centers that aren't so appealing if you're a dev compared to the US hotspots: they're still unequal, but suddenly you're not nearly as high on the totem pole.
Since when is "not enough moderation" grounds for terminating hosting? Amazon does a terrible job of moderating their own catalog and reviews. Should their ASNs be blackholed?

You can read the comments on any given CNN article, and see racist statements. Should CNN reporters be barred from attending press conferences?
Parler had about 10 million users. You just painted 5+ million of them, which would be the majority of users you eluded to, with a very wide brush. Do you really believe that?
Someone else mentioned it, but that's really not true about TSMC.
If the Left were to stop playing the game, the Right would destroy the entire idea of games.

Marginalized people don't have a choice. They don't get to quit and go home. The fact that you see "quit while you're ahead" as an option means your privilege is preventing you from seeing how far behind the majority of the people are.

The paradox of tolerance is that tolerating the intolerant will lead to the destruction of tolerance by the intolerant.

So no, let's not let the insurrectionists get off scot free. Let's crush their intolerance and "supremacy" out of existence.

That's my endgame.
This is good. Now will the ban remain into the next generation, that’s the question.
What is just is not universally agreed upon.

Larger government doesn’t necessarily enforce your sense of justice. China is a large government. The axis powers were large governments. USSR was a large government.

And what of the human cost? Millions of lives have been expended in the quest for justice. War is a path to universal law and one-world government. And what has history shown us? The larger the government, the larger the union, the larger their wars.
Or more accurately is they agree on the idea of censorship. That censorship has value to them.
My solid state physics teacher at university used to joke that lasers rely on oscillation rather than amplification so they should be called losers. It didn't stick because no one likes a loser.
Yes, but they are an 'in-process' form of code generation. The distinction is important. Especially when you are extending the system on the fly.

A lot of the pain regarding JS build-systems could be avoided with macros (and reader macros/a customizable reader). Babel is literally macros + a reader.
I spent some time trying to figure out Gavin McInnes the other day. I had a very hard time separating conviction and sarcasm.
> Parler was, at the end of the day, a somewhat amateurish Twitter clone whose essential growth hack was that they decided to serve as a kind of ban evasion mechanism for Twitter.

The growth hack was to be funded by the Mercer family (Cambridge Analytica, Brexit) to the tune of a few million a year to help promote their agenda.
What's embarrassing is the fact that our industry is so obsessed with censoring wrongthink that it's not enough to drive thought criminals off of mainstream platforms - we have to drive alternative platforms off of their infrastructure.
> Is it not integrated into their mobile OSs?

No? Some Android phones ship with it pre-installed, but that's it.
Use Matrix or KeyBase and self host. Im shocked how much people still trust these shady companies.
Thanks for those numbers!

Imagine yourself as an aeronautical engineer around that time. You have a sense of what good safety practices could look like - you’ve been to conferences and talked to your colleagues, and you have some thoughts yourself. But management at your airline doesn’t want to spend the money.

Would you argue for meekly going along with management’s choices, knowing those choices will kill people? I would say, if you did, you would have blood on your hands. We’re people first and employees second.

The stakes are lower and there’s a middle ground here. But you have a voice, and usually more power than you think. The siren song of dumping all responsibility for your actions onto upper management makes you into a victim and a child. It’s bad for society, usually bad for your company in the long term and bad for your psychological health and development. And a disaster for your professional development.

I don’t know if that lands with you, but it’s certainly a lesson I wish I could give to myself over a decade ago.
That's true. Have an upvote.
>The fact that Silicon Valley overwhelmingly supports the Democratic Party - at North Korean Levels

Silicon Valley overwhelmingly supports Democratic politicians. But Silicon Valley is also one of the most welcoming ears for the kinds of reforms that would upend the current party system, to wit proportional representation and non-plurality voting. That's a pretty big asterisk: nobody in North Korea can get away with promoting reforms that would destroy the party system!

It's also worth noting that the reason that Silicon Valley appears to, by their silence, always support the status quo, is because the tech companies know you hate them. Having the motto "Don't be evil" implies an understood risk of being evil. FANGMOAT knows that if they support any dramatic reform, there is a severe risk of a backlash effect that reduces support for that reform.

As such, the idea that tech companies serve as a power projection mechanism for the Democratic Party is in my opinion a coincidence of temporarily aligned motives and not a true ideological alliance. Tech company employees support the Democrats for a variety of reasons, but, in particular, many become pro-immigrant by meeting a few of them and most understand that climate science is not a conspiracy.
He articulates the point that I’ve seen in many HN discussions - we never really had truly “free speech” to begin with, and for good reason. The concept of Omega Events helps to explain how and why these things happen.

I think his explanation of it being a rule built on exceptions, and typically only encompassing exceptions, is apt. Rather than it being able to redefine the very foundation of what we believe in, it’s trying to strengthen our core beliefs by explicitly expanding to cover what might’ve been implicit assumptions
You must not have seen https://godoc.org/?q=tailetc
The good news is that unlike in many other financial service disasters (e.g. with financial services), he isn't actually out the money, nor blocked from something particularly critical (I'm sure there are other carsharing services he can use).

So he can at least ignore them until they actually sue.
I wish pkg.dev had a signin and option to star/watch a package. I do this with GitHub repos I should revisit. Would have been handy for pkg.dev :) yes, I know - nobody wants yet another login
I too lament the comparatively low tech salaries in Europe. But I suspect the comparatively higher quality of living keeps us happy enough that we won't move (back, in my case) to the US for just more income.

That said, this new +remote world is providing new salary competition from US companies who do pay more but don't require moving to SF for example. Even so, the work-life balance here is much better than in the US, and I suspect part of that also has to do with salary. If the salary is not super high, the workers feel more entitled to take their actual vacation days. In the US, not only are there fewer paid vacation days, but many employees don't use them all.

Many years of my life I took no more than one week; when you're gone, stuff happens, landscapes shift, job security weakens, etc. In Europe however, your job is more likely to be as solid when you return from holiday as it was when you left for holiday.

I am debating right now whether to stay with my medium pay happy relatively easy company (with very good job security) for more money and less of the other things. We shall see.

What does bother me a bit is seeing managers who frankly use less of their brains getting paid as much or more. I don't bemoan doctors earning more than me because I recognize they have worked harder, studied more, and have more real daily risk in their work than I do. But likewise, many managerial positions can be trained in a matter of weeks, but the work I do takes years to learn and perfect. But c'est la vie.
It's implicitly stating a lot: that by using these techniques you can grease social situations to your advantage. Which is why "boss" likes this guy, certainly not because of his half-baked ideas.
That is exactly why the Democratic machine will be against him. I don’t expect him to get any endorsements from the establishment.
good for them. civil rights must be defended
> Fox News has been moving left & was the first network to call Arizona for Biden very early as a suppression tactic.

This is nonsensical. How is a call after after voting has ended a "suppression tactic"?

The talking point you're probably looking for is "polls were skewed intentionally as a suppression tactic" but even that's not so compelling given 2012's miss in most of the late polling in favor of Romney.
I'm going to assume you are serious, so there was a really good bestof on Reddit that explained the way Trump communicates very well.

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/kq9rcu/trump_face...
There are many problems with the death penalty, but I’m disturbed by the media’s virtue signaling on the issue. When is a penalty of death appropriate?

“ Montgomery, 52, was convicted in 2007 of a grotesque crime: strangling a Missouri woman who was eight months pregnant, and cutting the baby from her abdomen.”
He seems to be saying he's not comfortable with his company being as powerful as it is, and that he hopes to reduce that power. If he means it, it's an extraordinary position for a tech CEO to take.
> respond with invalid JSON prefixed with "[]".

This is a common security measure against some ancient trick that could be used to get outdated browsers to divulge the content of the JSON contrary to the same origin policy.
What puts me off Gab and Parler is that the vast majority are those alienated or banned from other platforms for the same reason, for the most part they all think the same way and the topic of conversation is almost exclusively political. Gab has some interesting groups which slightly mitigates this.
Competition is always an amazing driver for getting large companies to start doing the right thing. As long as they are not completely shut out, they have a chance of succeeding.

Until still have some amazing technology compared to AMD, they're five processes screwed right now but I think they have a chance to succeed. But given the timeline on new CPUs and fab processes, it'll be 4 years before we see the fruits of anything he does.