skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is one electric company that serves my apartment. If I get cut off, I don’t get electricity.

On the other hand, there are a thousand different cloud providers; surely at least one would have taken Parler on as a customer. And even failing that, it’s much easier for Parler to run their own servers than it is for me to run my own power plant.
This is the crux of censorship. If anything, it hinges on hubris: the censor assumes to know which content deserves to exist at all.

The need for censoring content still exists because certain kinds of content are deemed illegal, and failure to remove that may end up in serving jail time.

On the other hand, moderation is named very aptly.

That said, I fully support the right of private companies to censor content on their premises as they see fit. If they do a poor job, I can just avoid using their services.
Jack Dorsey stands by Trump ban, but doesn't “celebrate or feel pride in” it
I really don't know about this. There are certainly fringe groups active on Facebook but at least in my immediate circle it's mostly a tool to connect families, friends and communities. I really don't see it as a forum for ideas or activism, unlike Twitter or reddit. but maybe that's just the bubble I'm in.
> people don't seem to care that it's their real name associated with terrible radical, violent and angry comment

They don't realize their comment is terrible or radical. To them it seems perfectly rational to be this angry or to respond to "attacks" with violence of their own.

They think they are voices of reason in a world that's losing its mind.

If you're a brave hero in an unjust world, why not use your real name?
wow, this is super interesting, but i can't say i'm surprised by this move.

the landscape has really evolved over the last few years for companies trying to build a business around open source.

at grafana labs we are closely following these developments, and are constantly wrestling with decisions around what is best for our own licensing strategy.

all of our peers (eg. mongodb, elastic, redis, confluent, cockroach, timescale, etc etc) have recently made moves to prevent being disintermediated by the cloud vendors.

it's become the new normal.

interesting times.
Profit-per-employee is not really meaningful for comparison since very few European companies are pure software, and therefore have cost structures involving much more than salaries. Relatively few employees are software engineers in Volkswagen, Daimler or Siemens, for example. Still huge employers.
Do you consider voice assistants, DLSS and protein folding predictors to be non-monetizable art projects?
I'm not sure absolutist free speech is an ideal. Would it be ok to post private pictures taken without consent of an individual? I don't ever see that being ideal. Also 'speech' can cover a lot of things. If I make a 'speech' where I suggest that someone could perform a violent act and get financially rewarded for it - I'm clearly doing something wrong that needs to be stopped.
> Didn't they freeze Trump only after the entire backlash?

Yes. To be fair, Parler didn’t do much including after the backlash. But I’m not going to argue this is another advantage Facebook accrues due to its size.
For me, it's the exteriors. The Model S is my favorite looking Tesla that's currently in production, and that's because the proportions are right, and the front bumper isn't one giant expanse of plastic, but is instead broken up by a faux grille. The Model Y and X look like unattractive blobs with poor proportions (in fairness, all crossovers look like this), and the 3, X, and Y all have the front bumper that is just an ugly expanse of plastic that has no visual breakup.
At least with machine learning there is some actual substance underneath the hype.
Sorry that's totally wrong mainland Europe in particular is a bit tone deaf in this area even compared to the UK.

Its very telling that refugees risk death trying to cross the channel to the UK rather than settle in mainland Europe.
Social media like Facebook/Twitter is basically a vibrator for narcissistic supply. We should all just step back, put these toys down, recognize it's a vice, and that there is a real world out there to be lived in.
Thank you. Spot on.
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Exactly. What you need is not a “tainted” type and assume everything that’s not it is safe. That’s not the case. Html-escaping a string does not make it safe for SQL or whatever.

What you need is a safe type for each use case, and ways to convert values to that (or mark them as that depending on your TS).
That's what Oregon just did in November. Well, decriminalized small amounts for personal use. They were the first to do that with cannabis nationally in 1973 as well which eventually led to medical use then recreational legalization, then everyone else followed suite and still are. It was interesting that during the most recent campaign the only thing people and campaigns were talking about was decriminalizing hallucinogens and neglected mentioning things like fentanyl. https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2020-12-10/...
Johns Hopkins security researchers ‘shocked’ at Android and iOS vulnerabilities
Python 3 `system` example

next(sub for c in "".__class__.__mro__ for sub in c.__subclasses__() if '__init__' in dir(sub) and '__globals__' in dir(sub.__init__) and 'system' in sub.__init__.__globals__).__init__.__globals__['system']('cat /etc/passwd')
This all seems very plausible (even necessary) and I find myself inspired similarly to how I have been with SpaceX. It's super cool. Just one nitpick.

> There are also abundant opportunities to see how plants and livestock fare in low gravity, which will also be needed to ensure food security in space.

Do we really need to involve 'livestock'? I can't think of anything essential they would provide that couldn't be sourced with far less cost and nastiness in a different way.
But what has that to do with making an art of speech? Nothing to indicate literacy has made speech "unartful".
Mainly the cleanup problem. Determining if something is a live resource is tedious. Numeric IDs are inferior to paths IME, especially from a kernel ABI filtering perspective.
Pointless nitpick: replace

rm `find lisp -name '*.elc'`

with

find lisp -name '*.elc' -exec rm {} \;
Whenever one group accumulates too much power, that power is inevitably abused. The point of the policy is to limit the extent to which companies can control information.
Citrine Solleveld Windows 32/64 has been released
I've already found out. If you haven't, I guess you'll need to do more. Seems there's more opinions on RV than arithmetic.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/19/barack-obama-libya...
> That is a very bizarre description of ML engineers

No no no, that's a description of regular programmers.

There's so much more arcana in the field of programming and computer science as a whole, especially with the piss-poor job we've done deprecating bad old interfaces etc. (the monster that is modern Unix grows without bound). And of course there are the various langauge and other fads. All that is a nightmare for a traditional business person, whether they know it or not, and the regular programmers probably feel like an extortion racket of sorts.
Parler, unlike Facebook, only existed to foment the kinds of rhetoric and ideologies that lead to the 6th.
Philip Morris didn’t intentionally develop a system to spread lung cancer, and yet they did.
Totally agree. Why should someone else I've never met decide what I can and can't see? Leave that decision up to the individual user, and they can tailor their own experience as they desire. Allow them to filter out particular words, phrases, other users and so on.
Most important job in tech has just been filled but not in the way we expected
you don't use race or religion when referring to someone in polite conversation. i've never heard someone say "well that's not what black islamic he thinks" because it's unnatural. a pronoun serves as a shorthand or generalization to inform the listener about whom you're speaking of, in a way that is general but specific enough to choose an actor out of the context.
Neither do I but frankly it doesn't matter. People don't have what it takes to listen, to speak up, or to just stop bein idiots. They only see part of the painting, they don't see the big picture.
Basically companies do not recognize the value engineers bring. They are seen as costs which need to be minimised, when in reality it's their core business. Little is invested in helping engineers to get better. Agile practices are implemented poorly. People do not start tech companies. The average software company is a body shop that rents out to insurers, banks and the government, which aren't really tech. This model is only popular because it helps business dissociate itself from tech and gets around all employee protections. More lucrative models like Freelancing are sometimes legally restricted because of the same employee protections, so is not popular. Engineers wait for the hours to pass so they can go home. Code reviews are a tool for office politics. Software engineering is kind of a blue collar ish job which employers think anyone can do. There's just no cachet to being a programmer in my slice of Europe. Simply put, there are so many things wrong with software engineering here that I would not know where to even start to address the issues even if I had the power to do it. And it's not just about money too. It's about something being completely and utterly broken.
> it may have made a couple of devs lives easier,

how do you propose to have software depending on, say, Qt 5.15 for hidpi bugfixes and ffmpeg 4.3 for codec support, available for users stuck on ubuntu 16.04 or debian jessie ?
BMW, at least the 2021 3 series.

And probably other cars that are commonly used in cold climates where people wear gloves.
I haven't really seriously looked into Matrix before. I've briefly skimmed what I could find about it, but didn't see any simple way to get something running where I could easily onboard friends/family. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this seems like the single biggest issue with Matrix.
I'm an American living in Germany and I'm always thrilled when Germans think I'm Dutch after hearing my German ;)

As for the accents, I had a similar experience when moving around from Berlin to Munich to Mainz with regard to the "clicking". It's like my brain suddenly recalibrated to understand the vowel and consonant changes in the accent (and particularly in certain areas the parts of the words that simply were dropped off the beginning/end of the word).

People often tell me "Wow, I wish I was good at languages like you" and I honestly want them to understand how I feel: I didn't learn German, I simply spent enough time in the language for my brain to catch up and learn it for me.
Somewhat, but I remember many stories of Bill de Blasio trying to beg Cuomo for this or thew new billionaires tax, and Cuomo just laughing him out of the room.
I am an experienced ML manager in a large ecommerce company, and I mostly agree with you, and I can’t wait for this to happen - and I think people just entering college or grad school for ML should not fear it. It’s a good thing.

Right now, there is so much misunderstanding about what ML is, what resources it needs, and how it works that the corporate environment is very stressful.

ML jobs are well paid, but they are NOT fun. No one understands ML devops & the infra needs to enable tight experimentation loops. Existing observability and telemetry systems are wildly bad for model training, reproducibility or any form of online or semi-online learning. As an ML engineer you’ll have to take on huge workloads of devops, infra, tooling, data munging. I’ve seen more than a few brilliant ML engineers burnout and quit because of this.

As ML becomes better understood as a boring technology, and decisions around ML projects, team structure and especially ops support start to get more standardized, I think this will get better.

The pivot you mention means a thinning out of the headcount on the pure ML research side. But it also means opening up more positions in ML engineering, infra & devops.

If people choose their specialization appropriately and remain open to being less on the research side of this, then I think there will continue to be lots of opportunities for high-paying jobs, and people will know their required responsibilities more unambiguously and probably will be happier, rather than dredging through the endless series of bait and switch jobs that exist today, promising a focus on ML research but typically forcing you more into ML devops & data platform management.
Social media is just another media, and media hacve always been manipulated, somewhere more, somewhere less. This might be a news to Americans, as US propaganda efforts used to be more directed outwards, but us who grew up in (failed) socialism grew up knowing that most of political news are filtered lies and that you can't ever trust just one source. And I think that's the only viable solution, educating people to be skeptical of anything, on first ball at least. Check the multiple sources, wait a little for stories to be officially confirmed before reacting. It's not that hard, and Internet actually makes it a lot more viable, just that we still haven't really adapted emotionally to how the world works now. We still jump to conclusions, we still click the clickbait titles and the biggest problem, we're all deeply biased on our own views of the world - and these biases are the glasses that we view the world through, they affect every single aspect of our perception, often on a subconscious level. People often believe in fake news simply because deep inside they already think that's the case, they want it to be true.
https://archive.is/PUIyl
It's easy, just give people a soci^H^H^H^H ... community rating to motivate them to behave better!
>>tag all resources in a consistent way

It amazes me when I get pushback for that, but it's to be expected inside toxic culture corporations. I'm kinda disgusted with AWS now so I'm looking to re-tool. The dangerous defaults and concern about arbitrary or uncaring TOU enforcement should be an impetus to diversification of service provision.
There are many Taboo opinions and thought tracks on HN that guarantee downvoting and as a result anyone not exposed to them in advance might be inclined to think that they must be heresies that should never be considered by the intelligentsia.

Example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25768269

And things that contradict The Great Stallman teachings like TiVoization (even in self-driving cars) or saying that something can be done more efficiently with Windows (or just not Linux/OSS in general) or that plenty of ML is outright useless BS that does more harm that good.

Edit: Thanks to whoever unflagged the HN post! Let's see how long it'll stay unflagged this time!
Me/I/You/Your
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I'm a data engineer for most of my day right now, and a lot of it is done with ruby/python/shell scripts into postgres DBs.

What learning path should I go down? I'm a solo actor at work with a lot of agency to decide my workflows.

I see myself building small to medium size data collections over the next year or two at my job.

Can someone point me to some learning?

I have a CS degree etc. and my title in software engineer etc. etc.

End users of my data usually like their data as a CSV that is then read using R or Python. However there is also a use case where I will build an app to view my data in a simple way.

All of this is completely doable with my current knowledge/workflow but I can't help feel like I do a data engineering job with very different tools than i see "data engineers" speaking about online.
I am more shocked how you messed up basic things like zoning.

Single family house zoning? Really? Who the hell needs that? Heck, I will go one step further and declare that nobody needs exclusive residential zoning. You are building a von Neuman bottleneck (separation of commerce and residential areas) into your society. A lot of social issues stem from this incredibly bad idea.
Agreed. It's silly how much pearl-clutching we've had for 4 years.

All of things Trump has been "guilty" were pioneered by Democrats, whether it be election fraud allegations by Hillary, conspiracy theories re: Russiagate for years, Scalise shooting by a Bernie supporter or violent protests a la BLM.
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I’m not following your point; we might even agree. My point was: despite less legal protection, American SWEs still enjoy a lot of security even during a pandemic (which isn’t a tech crisis but still dramatically impacted many tech companies). Because I make like 80% more than what I would make in Europe, I also am able to save and invest (6 months expenses saved up in a savings account). I also give a good portion to charities and political causes (so hopefully one day America can work well for people who aren’t SWEs).
Well, I think it gets worse before it's gets better. It's a very bitter pill to have to swallow.
All Facebook really did is show blue city liberals how their fellow countrymen actually are. Yes, they have been like this the whole time, you just either didn’t care or were insulated from it your entire life.

If any of this is news to you, you should probably think twice before blaming it on Facebook, alone.
I grew up a huge Sherlock Holmes fan. But as I have gotten older (39 in a couple of months), I much prefer Philip Marlowe and the writing of Raymond Chandler.

Sure, Marlowe is the quintessential hard-boiled private detective, but when you read the books you discover that he is largely an intuitive/emotional detective. He applies logic/reasoning and his knowledge of the world he lives in to his intuition/emotions but he's not all-knowing. Marlowe doesn't have the mystery solved on page 23 when the reader still has 174 pages left to go.

While still a fantasy, I tend to think Marlowe is a more realistic detective than Holmes ever was - or at least, one with whom I can identify more readily.

I think there is always a temptation, a danger, for those of us in STEM careers to hold our own feelings and emotions (not to mention those of others) in contempt, as if they are somehow invalid by definition.

We shouldn't do that! Instead, we should accept the emotional and intuitive aspects of ourselves and try to reason through them, understand where those feelings are coming from and make conscious decisions about how to move forward.

Sorry to preach! I just love fictional detectives and the applicability of the lessons they can teach us to the real world. :)
That wasn't your argument, though. There is no doubt that the production of CP is and should be illegal, as it involves child abuse. However, your original argument was about the possession of CP. There is a standard argument against the claim that this is a victimless crime, and that is that the children abused are harmed by the distribution of pictures that show them. I find that argument to some extent convincing, but not yours.
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One could also argue that driving to work is premature if you have two perfectly good legs. All ridiculousness aside a person can invent any absurd excuse to hide from the common practices of their profession.
I'm alright, Jack.
Its state which punishes you, and not paying taxes and
counterfeiting money is punished more than vicious murders or rapes. Cold hard viewpoint with very little human touch.
You can use a polyfill such as https://github.com/developit/unfetch (500 bytes).
I don't know where your "here" is, but here in the USA, you cannot put diesel in a vehicle's gas tank, but you can put gas in a vehicle's diesel tank. Putting gas in a diesel vehicle is very bad.

Reason: The gas nozzles dispensing unleaded gas were made smaller to prevent people from putting leaded gas into a vehicle that required unleaded gas (which would poison the catalytic converter). The diesel nozzles remained unchanged and leaded gas (with the big nozzles) went away.
> The Pirate Bay and other torrent networks were built by people with a passion for building

Also by people who know that what they were doing was straight-up illegal in a lot of countries, and grey-area in a lot of others. So this was a real risk.

Parler on the other hand, at its core was just a social network, and if you look at the founders/owners, they have a very disconnected interpretation of "free speech", so they were clearly thinking nothing bad could happen.
How do you reconcile the whole “if you don’t like Facebook moderation go build your own” bit.
I don't know but I live in Berlin, dont know German and use google translate on all sorts of official and non-official stuff (e.g. for my Anmeldung two weeks ago, reading up on Mietendeckel, news reports, random letters and shopping sites etc.) and it works almost always. Obviously not as perfect as a real translator but good enough > 99% of the time.
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I don't think "correlated" is the word you're looking for here.
See https://ourworldindata.org/alcohol-consumption#historical-pe...

Seems like people in Nordic countries (especially when not considering Denmark) consume less alcohol than their neighbours, although the difference has been decreasing.
Or, if the data is food, we have chefs making incredible plates, but we need wait staff to get it to the people who want to eat it.

I would love to be on that wait staff; as an infradev I feel like the process is very close to me but I am struggling to break into it.
> Isn't everyone in this world is trying to threat US in one way or the other? Poor guy. I don't know whats the insecurity of Americans about.

Don’t be silly. Our adversaries are a short and known list that happens to include some of the larger powers in the Old World.

I’m less concerned about someone threatening the United States directly than I am about them threatening, in no particular order: Israel, Japan, Europe, particularly Eastern Europe where the threat is, Real China (Taiwan), South Korea, etc.

That said, I’m also concerned about the PRC exporting its censorship regime under the leadership of Chairman Winnie the Pooh. They’re not there yet but they’re pushing.
I think Facebook should not have the power they have: to grant or deny speech as _they_ see fit, which may or may not align with the locales they operate in.

They are a supranational entity without any local governance. So their policies are left up to them. That’s not good for democracies. They should not force their world view across the world.

That said, this is sour grapes from the NYT. They want to pile on because this is their direct competitor to setting agenda in the anglosphere.
I am not sure what risk you mean here and I struggle to see how a rational person can infer that I mean hatred when I introduce myself as "proactivesvcs", "Adam" or "Mr Piggott". I think that yes, everyone should feel that they can offer their pronouns, unsolicited, and I believe that we should encourage that this is an acceptable behaviour, since then eventually, it'll be something we don't even have to discuss. But inferring hatred strikes me as a very acute form of assuming bad-faith.

I treat strangers with the assumption that they are respectful until they earn an opinion to the contrary.
man, i would love this if they had it for Magic the Gathering Duelist Magazine. I would pay money for a PDF copy of all of those