skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are all just speculations - we can take a stance we prefer and expand it ad infinitum. Kind of pointless.

Ie I am pro legalization, and I can't imagine if society had proper education and precise dosing people would go and overdose frequently. Do you often see people who decide to drink 2 litres of vodka in one setting? We all know how bad idea it is without the need to walk that path. Also alcohol is one of few (if not the only) drug that actively increases aggressiveness in consumers.

Its proven numerous times all over the world that legal marihuana pushes away worse addictions, lowers the crime. Even ignoring the tiny details of bringing benefits to consumers (select of various strengths and non-harmful methods of application), bringing benefits to the state (taxation, control over what folks consume) and overall society - taking away massive source of income for organized crime.

At this point it just doesn't make any sense for a rational society to have weed illegal. Shooting in its own foot, ignoring reality of humans and all that.

Psychedelics is another group where at least active research in treatment of various psychiatric disorders should be actively encouraged by state. Potential is massive, by far the best area for improvement in otherwise pretty stale domain of medical drugs development (unless you consider drugging into oblivion anybody with issues with valium et co, which basically no expert does).
> but I have a natural aversion to blaming the messenger.

The messengers in question decide which messages you see and tailor their deliveries to the one which will increase your outrage because that’s what keeps you asking for more. All so they can keep slipping in a few more adverts others pay for.

These messengers aren’t neutral, thus not exempt from blame.
Dungeon magazine (and Dragon Magazine) were nerd nirvana in the age of the satanic panic.

Geek stuff was NOT mainstream, it wasn't cool, and it wasn't a big component of everyday life.

Lord of the Rings, Star Trek (and Star Wars, but less so), D&D... these were practically underground interests, especially in more conservative areas of America.

So the first time I went to a Waldenbooks in the shopping mall and saw a magazine with a freaking' dragon on the cover, well, it blew my mind. I had stacks and stacks of them. Still have many. The short stories, the comic strips, the short adventures, even the advertisement for miniatures and dice - it was amazing to me SO MANY people shared my interest.
You test a population to see how prevalent covid-19 is, how it's spreading, whether your containment efforts are working, what variants are spreading.

You test an individual to help you decide on appropriate healthcare.

It's really important that people who test negative still behave as if they might have covid and might spread covid.
I think it depends what part of "tech" you work in. I worked for a small electrical engineering firm building software to configure our devices. We were pretty apolitical overall, but I guess you could say we had a slight interest in legalized marijuana because our product was being used in the grow industry. Even then, no politics ever arised except for the occasional quip during a meeting.

The place I currently work does software in a trade industry (think electricians, plumbers, etc) and there is pretty much no politics either.

Outside of "big tech", I think the political portion decreases dramatically, at least for the employees. I'm sure owners have to focus on tax laws and such, but as an employee writing code, not so much.
We use Raku for various things. For example, generating job workflows. It has an amazing type and object system.
...then it badly misfired, cost dearly in blood and treasure and seriously damaged the US's international reputation.

Even if you assume Bush's motives were purely malevolent (or realpolitik if you prefer) then he was still terrible at it.
It's not so much it stops them but saving their life if they have one. If you see someone overdosing from heroin and intervene the person can live. Whereas, if they're sat alone in some house they'll die. Saferooms are about watching them and making sure they get medical treatment if needed. But then there is also the purity issue someone else mentioned.
Analytically Differentiable Dynamics for Systems with Frictional [video]
The man did not spend this sum. Rather, the £210 million are opportunity cost, which the man paid.
Obligatory mention of org-mode: There is also org-roam.
https://www.orgroam.com/
> The screenshot is an example of traffic to Apple unsolicited by the user.

Do you expect a dialog box every time it resolves a hostname? Users want features like Messages which depend on the push notifications service shown, not the details of how it’s implemented.

This is also Exhibit A for where the idea for things like firewall allow lists come from: there are always people who will block something they don’t recognize and then complain about “bugs” after the system does exactly what they requested.
“Eet”/“Xu”
Or even much of the past year in Portland, or even the violent BLM riots in Washington DC.
Very cool. I'm a big fan of the standard ebooks project and it really seems to have picked up steam (i.e attracting contributers like yourself)
This is one of the great things about the dark web marketplaces - you can order from a supplier who already has a track record of positive reviews, and every incentive to keep it that way.
There are quite a few things we're biologically hardwired to do that are not appropriate in the workplace that you presumably manage to rise above.
Facebook, allegedly, has an "army" of moderators. Parler, on the other hand, relied on voluntary "flagging", and they admitted (quoted in some other article from today), that they had a backlog of some 26,000 posts to review. So, while this stuff looks arbitrary on the surface, I guess we will just have to see what comes out in discovery in these lawsuits and what happens with judge and jury.
I've been thinking hard about decentralized content moderation, especially around chatrooms, for years. More specifically because I'm building a large, chatroom-like service for TV.

I think it's evident from Facebook, Twitter, et al that human moderation of very dynamic situations is incredibly hard, maybe even impossible.

I've been brewing up strategies of letting the community itself moderate because a machine really cannot "see" what content is good or bad, re: context.

While I think that community moderation will inevitably lead to bubbles, it's a better and more organic tradeoff than letting a centralized service dictate what is and isn't "good".
A database of 1000 incidents where AI has caused harm in the real world
> people don't seem to care that it's their real name associated with terrible radical, violent and angry comment

The hypothesis of real name policies was that people would be civil online if their real-world identities grounded them. In reality, the tail wagged the dog.
So, the chickens are coming home to roost...

Big Tech had hoped that by appeasing the Democrats & the pro-woke anti-Trump mainstream media, they'll escape scrutiny and avoid anti-cartel regulation. Well, looks like it's not working out as planned, at least not for Facebook, with both NYTimes and WSJ accusing them of basically being the same as Parler.

One possible future is that this just blows over, and/or gets swept under the rug for a few months/years until another faux pas happens and Big Tech is again in the crosshairs (this time, Democrats' crosshairs - who are generally more anti-business). Another option is that FB&co fight back, and accuse the media/Democrats of tolerating/promoting violence over the summer.

Who could have predicted this? :D
I read that they chose to fail open when Okta dropped them in order to stay online for awhile longer.
How would up/down votes work on a decentralized platform? Wouldn't it be easy to game by standing up your own server and wishing up a legion of sockpuppets?

There's a whole Moonshot of spam resistance that's going to need to happen in Mastodon/Matrix/Whatever.
> We are not required to do this by business, however there is now state legislature that requires that any job posting must include explicit naming of genders male/female/diverse. That is männlich/weiblich/divers in German (m/w/d abbreviated, you will find it on every job posting or you face serious fines).

I don't get, why would job postings (as in, the ad for the job, not the candidate's application for the job) require gender? Are the job postings like "we want a programmer and we expect him to be male"?
I think the difference is that Pirate Bay was bootstrapped whereas Parler had significant financial backing. With all that money "why not" throw it on AWS. There is also the point that Parler wasn't doing anything illegal so they didn't expect to be shut down even though they should have.
Which just harms consumers, who will anyway use the same method to get them. Nobody wins, state police just has some extra semi-meaningless jobs and prisons are a bit more full
I don't understand this. Do you think that e.g. the average engineer is value destroying because if the business hires a more expensive and experienced one they will do a better job?

In either case it is only 'value-destroying' if the business has unlimited resources.
I think it's just a lot more reflective. It certainly looks a lot brighter than the GBA screen which was pretty difficult to see.
Yes, that's the point. When Bob goes for treatment and everyone assumes he's cis-male but he's actually trans-male they may offer needless screening. Bob needs to feel safe to be able to say "I've never had a prostate".
If you read the threads about last week we are left wing extremists and hackernews and we should be destroyed. So I guess we are a left extremist site.
It is not universally bad for all companies. It does however show their incompetence when they try to build an alt-right platform by hosting it on AWS and distributing it on Google's and Apple's app stores.

Either way, I think it's for the best that they are technically inept.
Which fits with what I wrote. Either a US citizen or crosses US borders. If not, then the IRS has no jurisdiction.
Sounds oddly like Russ Hanneman from TV show Silicon Valley. Wonder if they got the story from this.

Guy throws away stick with hundred million on it and goes to the tip to find it.

"That's not a thumb drive, that's a thumb! Put it back!"
This is fine, but here's a possible potentially technical (not political) issue that I see.

Looking at it from the practical point of view, I now have to address that person by their pronoun in the contents of the E-mail I write. So, what happens if there are several people included and some or many of them each have their own preferred pronoun. I have to thread very carefully in every part of my Email not to step on someone's toes. I mean I'm looking at this table [0] here and I imagine I have to make a look up table for everyone that uses a pronoun should I write stuff to several parties.

Is this really practical? Are there any better solutions?

0 - https://uwm.edu/lgbtrc/support/gender-pronouns
The real bummer about optional typing is that it doesn’t speed up the program. I used it all over thinking that I was “optimizing” or helping the compiler. Really I was creating more work for it.
Frequent communication with coworkers is part of doing the job,
and just like you wouldn't refer to a male boss with "Mrs." some
people would prefer being called differently than what most
would assume by default. I don't see how that is wrong.

And usually it's not about being "whatever you want", people are
what they are.
I agree that American healthcare needs reform (and I want single prayer in particular), but I’ve never heard of an insurance company refusing to cover a necessary drug, at least not any health insurance plan that an upper middle class family might have.
Because people, not Hacker news people, but real people like Facebook. That's the reason.
Emotional content elicits a larger response, says the article with the provocative headline. There is nothing new here.

Why does the responsibility never lie with the people who say these things, only where they say it? It reminds of of the Columbine shootings, where many articles where written about the violent video games that must of inspired the shooters to do it. Those arguments sucked then and they still suck now.
Let me just say something.. President Donald Trump has never said or done anything to harm or throw shade at the LGBTQ+ community, yet, all the news media outlets are saying he has. He's never done anything to harm or throw shade at black people, yet you people call him a racist. I'm black and I support Trump 100%!! Yes, I'm aware this has nothing to do with the censorship but good Lord people! Call me a racist for saying something that needed to be said, go ahead. This country is the laughing stock of other countries. And it's going to stay that way unless we start to do something about it! Listen I'm all for the women's rights and BLM but this is way bigger than any of that BS. I am a black women and I have gone to every Trump rally that I can and he has never, not ONCE looked at me any different than the other white folks there. BECAUSE HE ISN'T RACIST! So pull your heads out of Ya'lls asses and pay attention to what's really going on here instead of what the media wants you to see.
Follow up question, given that women have been in the workplace for 50+ years, why wasn't it an issue back then, and only presented itself now?
Likes and upvotes. I was off the social media for a couple of years and now I can say for sure that it's screwing with peoples heads. For some reason it makes you care about some meaningless numbers and that incentivizes people on the social media to go along with the status quo.
Well, with #BlackLivesMatter and #KillAllMen, I kind-of doubt the former assertion...
>>Someone put together an animated heatmap of Parler photo locations along the Mall throughout the day of 1/6

Showing that people posted videos from the rally at the Monument and then went to the front of the Capitol buildings. Note that many on site participants reported there was no cell or data service at the Capital, so they were not coordinating with Parler, just reporting.

The heat map might generate hypothesis but conclusions that Parler users or demonstrators as a whole did anything other than asserting rights under the 1st amendment do not necessarily follow from the data[1].

[1]https://gist.github.com/kylemcdonald/8fdabd6526924012c1f5afe...
I think the solution is very straightforward: Turn off the platforms. So what if a few folks in SV lose jobs? They'll find new ones. The rest of the world will move on.
Short answer: no, Perl is a very rare choice for starting a "serious new application", and Raku's even further off.

In Perl's case, it's not that the production-ready libraries and frameworks aren't there -- they are, and they are fast and stable and in some cases very sophisticated -- but simply that the community of developers likely to start a "serious new application" has passed Perl by for more modern (e.g., Rust, Elixir, Kotlin, Go even if its ideas are old) or ubiquitious (e.g. JS, Python) choices.

In Raku's case, there is not a deep bench of libraries and tools suitable for production.

In both cases, hiring for previous knowledge is not practical.
> I've witnessed many people change their political beliefs to match whichever group they belong to.

Social animals conform to the social norms of their pack.
Didn't they freeze Trump only after the entire backlash? and last I checked, Trump was not on Parler was he? Infact, that was the big issue - Trump not moving to Parler or Gab while calling out Twitter.

It's funny because if he did do the move earlier, he'd have hurt twitter where it counts - their stock price. But I guess the attention on Twitter was just too much to ignore.
My apologies. It's just so frustrating to see a post like his that does nothing to add to the conversation. I will try to be better in the future about constructing my argument in a better form.
> of whatever the majority happens to objects to right now

I don't see that Martin Kleppmann is using 'democracy' to mean 'majoritarianism' here. He makes considered points about how to form and implement policies against harmful content, and appears to talk about agreement by consensus.

Democracy and majoritarianism are (in general) quite different things. This might be more apparent in European democracies.
Flatpak apps are also faster to start (at least in my experience, Snaps always take multiple seconds while Flatpaks usually start instantly)
this is very true, when you indicate a pronoun preference that doesn't sync up with your presentation of gender, people seem to take it as something you're happy to argue about or explain. there's this idea that you are now responsible to them for an explanation and justification. it's crazy.

i use they/them and have had to respond to "you don't look any different", and have to inform the person that i don't feel the need to "perform" my gender to their expectations. it's mine and it is how i want it to be, not how they envision it to be.
The first interpretation is mistaken. The SAT very explicitly does not test knowledge of high school curriculum. Importantly, the United States does not have any standardized national curriculum, so there is no way to write a national test of material all students are expected to know.

Originally, SAT was short for "Scholastic Aptitude Test" and it was designed to measure "aptitude", not mastery of specific material. Many lawsuits later and SAT is now a meaningless initialism that stands for nothing.

> your intellectually gifted slacker can walk into a SAT exam, and easily outdo their less gifted, but hardworking peers.

Is accurate and true of many of my lazy-but-smart secondary school classmates.
Any articles with more details on your reasoning?
I'd be much happier applying nuance if I didn't feel like I (we?) was being fooled: trump refuses to distance himself from far right, nazi and fascist groups. The fact he hasn't explicitly and publicly embraced them isn't evidence of innocence. It just means he is engaged in dog-whistle politics. He gets Nazis on board by being inspecific about who is a "very fine person", then you and I argue over whether he is just dumb or actively a nazi. That let's non-Nazis support him without having to explicitly be Pro-nazi and keeps the Nazis on board. He's built a big tent, made some racist statements and closed his eyes as the Nazis flooded in.

If you get into bed with a nazi, you're in bed with a nazi, even if you pretend you can't see their flags.

I actually think trump is a "nazi of convenience" rather than a real, ideological nazi. He pushes their ideals and covers for them in exchange for their votes. He doesn't actually care about them more than anyone else. They're a means to an end. The same with coal miners or the religious. He doesn't care about abortion, he wants their votes and their money.

The difference is that to be religious, you need to actually believe, to be a looter you have to actually loot, but to be a nazi, you just need to work with and help nazi, you don't need the tattoo and the party membership card...

"You don't have to be a racist to support trump, but racism has to have not been a deal breaker for you"

Sorry this is so long, I'm not smart enough to make it shorter!
> it seems to me we've just duplicated the problems of competing packaging standards across distros, except now they all take up more resources and disk space than before.

Speaking about AppImage only:

They've solved the problem of requiring third party middlemen to include our package in a repo, using updated versions on older "unmaintained" distros, using old versions on the latest distro, using two different versions at once, and being able to store applications on different media.

> it may have made a couple of devs lives easier, but the average linux desktop now is messier than a Windows XP SP1 desktop. We have apps from official repos, downloaded DEBS and/or RPMs, flatpak apps, appimages that dont' integrate into menus, snaps (if you're locked into Ubuntu), maybe a docker image or two. Nevermind half these apps are probably Electron based regardless of their crappy packaging

Unfortunately this seems to be the best that can be done with the Linux Desktop community's extremely fragmentary and complexity-worshiping nature. There is no agreement on what constitutes the base "Linux Desktop" platform, and very little ABI back and forward compatibility.
Google translate, good enough?

Today, I've received a package from Amazon containing router bits (for wood working not IT). It contains a so called "User Manual" which is obviously so badly translated, I assume automatically, that it will only fool a spell checker, that it is actually written in German.

I often hear and read good things about Google Translate but every time I read something from it, e.g. when a browser or webpage helpfully decides that I would prefer a butchered salad of German words instead of an English web page, I am repulsed.
It hurts me to no end the arrogance of the young engineers on pushing digital displays and completely removing analog displays. Of course when it comes to cars, this is actually a critical issue. But the same story has been playing out with all sorts of tech.

The motive to reinvent something entirely instead of making gradual improvements is something I cannot understand. It is like rewriting the entire healthcare bill and completely disrespecting the work of the previous generation of lawmakers instead of progressively enhancing it.

Maybe this comes out of genuine hate for the previous engineers. And if not hate, then they just didn't respect them much.
I agree. I was responding to the narrower context of the post: affordability for SWEs.
I absolutely love not having to waste 2-3+ hours daily on my commute. Pre-covid, reducing that commute was not an option without paying significantly more on housing. In fact, I don't mind working extra hours if it means I don't waste time on commuting. Personally I think that's a win-win for both myself and my employer, but the company is traditional conservative enough that permanent or even majority WFH is a nonstarter.

The only downside is that we live in a relatively small (900 sq ft) condo that does not have a balcony and does not get much sunlight, so my wife and I get cabin fever. We also take the pandemic serious enough that we do not venture out except for absolute necessities. We've decided our next place to live will be detached housing, or at least an apartment with a large balcony.

In terms of social life, this isn't a problem though since we are both introverts. We only have a handful of close friends, and most of them are also taking the pandemic seriously enough that they are likewise bunkering in at their homes.
I took this class! It was very fun and Jan's a great instructor. Writing an HTTP server in C was probably the most illuminating project I did during my undergrad.
That's even worse of a headline
> We’ve gamified and standardized the process so much that it’s starting to resemble case studies at consulting interviews.

This is precisely true, as someone who has passed both screens for competitive jobs.

Cracking the coding interview <> Case in Point

Live coding <> Do 3-digit multiplication in your head (eg 347 * 469)

Sorting algorithms <> M&A Evaluation Frameworks

I could go on...

You just memorize a bunch of crap that's vaguely (but not really) applicable but is super random, and then you just keep asking "do you want me to keep going" in various tones until they tell you to stop.
What It’s Like to Attend School on a Phone
and writing a huge quantity of new C code.
I agree, and it matters to non power users aswell, in general a new standard of quiet, cool, long lasting computing that is unmatched by anything else on the market.