skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some thoughts on the bigger picture-

1: Really? Do you have to write "r-word" instead of "retard" when you're writing about someone saying something? What if Marc literally said "r-word" and I'm vastly underestimating how woke this reporter is? Wait, I have a solution. Use the actual word that a person said when quoting them. Just write the exact sentence where you think Marc said the word retard. Nobody should prosecute you for quoting someone without endorsing their opinion. Obfuscating your reporting to avoid a word is bad writing style.

1.5: Otherwise, the above seems to limit us to 26 taboo slurs in the English language. A-word, b-word, c-word, ... There are other rude words, but there can only be a single r-word so bad that I mustn't spell it. To prevent confusion, I have to completely spell/say the rest of the r-words. What I'm getting at is whole thing of not saying a word is silly. Everyone knows that the c-word means cunt (at least in the USA). If this wasn't common knowledge then you couldn't say c-word and have everyone know what you meant. (Who decided that cunt was a worse word than chink anyway? That's marginalizing Chinese people and totally not-woke. /s)

2. There are people that exaggerate and sensationalize something to get more views. Some people are even fine trying to ruin someone's reputation. But we are getting wise to these sorts of things. If it's an isolated event these things kind of go away. Even if Marc is on record once saying "retard" he's probably not a bad guy. Just from growing up in the 90's I've easily said it a thousand times. If I start to hear several other instances accusing Marc of using a slur and saying it in a hurtful manner then I'll revisit the issue.
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Shouldn't that be just:

"Court documents show FBI has tool to break into Locked iPhones"
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There's a lot of people, myself included, who do approach the issue in the way you're describing. But there's also a vocal set of people who... well, it's hard to come up with a charitable view of what their position is. If Taylor Lorenz is legitimately concerned about the dangers of online witchhunts, what in the world is she doing posting names and photos of everyone who was in the room at the time of this incident?
Hey, Braden, one of the founders, very soon. This one is definitely low hanging fruit, and I actually want it as well for a side project I'm helping a friend with :)
It's not clear to me what you mean. Celebrating seems like a subset of advocating in most cases, including this one.

Advocating: X occurrence is good.

Celebrating: X occurrence happened, and that's good.
It's about the friends we made along the way?
I'd like to talk to the manager >:(

I don't think it ever lets you in, haha.
It could be considered a lateral move if she retained her pay, but she responded to my comment saying she didn't, which is unfortunate.
Imagine writing 3000 words - while simultaneously decrying that you're censored - because you're mad at someone's tweet.
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Don't the rules of this content disqualify something like this?
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Apparently the USA alone has 7 million unbanked households?
Impossible was a poor word choice. I meant like no one could honestly make the promises, because no one can predict how people and situations will change over a life time.

Maybe if the oaths contained an "unless you become an asshole" clause, they'd be more valuable.
Completely agree. Paddy Fermor wrote beautifully, and with a vocabulary informed by his polyglot abilities (he knew, at least, Greek, Latin, several dialects of German, and French, with smatterings of a few more).

Because he took Greek at school (high school), he was sent to a Greek isle during WW2 where he wound up kidnapping a German general and spiriting him across the mountains to Allied control. He is perhaps best known for this exploit.
Retarded can definitely be used as a slur. And, in general, you don’t need to be offended for a word to be offensive to others.
Imagine if this app had opened the Chrome browser tabs to a specially crafted webpage that exploited a vulnerability in Chrome like the recent zero days in the V8 scripting engine.
Attack the message if you desire, not the source. I have never heard of this website either, but the linked article contains a bevy of references - which, unlike outfits such as the Washington Post (for example), are external and often primary sources, rather than other articles written by the same opinion contributor.
Might this have something to do with people using Cloudflare to share child pornography a couple of years ago? They've been talking about it again recently.
> A good slogan should have an inverse that is also a plausible slogan.

Citation needed. This seems like an arbitrary criterion to me.

"Do not be evil" was a good slogan.
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Yes. Lisp is easy to read.
> The last entry into the website was Tuesday, February 9 2021 2:46AM

Dear Random HN person please get off the site. It's been 10 mins now.
Why would an even proportion of positive to negative be considered chance? If half the entrants won the powerball and half did not, I would not consider that chance.
sure - but, as I originally asked, what is the alternative? I'm not attempting snark; I genuinely want to know what a better approach is.
There's nothing wrong about stripping EXIF data, but you need to be upfront about this.
At 30 fps a 200ms lag would be over 6 frames of delay between input and the action happening on screen. Can you point to any examples of AAA games that actually have this much input lag?
> Google uses non-human automation to make some decisions, including banning accounts. As others have mentioned, this is not unreasonable as long as there is a reasonable (in terms of time and effort) path to disputing a ban - i.e., speaking to a human about the issue.

It's almost like they could, I don't know, have some AI ethics researcher who could explain to them the pitfalls of letting a bunch of programmers act like their algos are infallible and suggest how to avoid those pitfalls.

Nah, just kidding. You sack her for being an uppity black lady who won't just churn out reports saying Google are perfect, because it hurts the feelings of the programmers and their managers.
Besides better battery technology. A bigger battery means the discharge rate is lower. The amount of damage discharging does decreases as the discharge rate drops. I think there is a knee around C4-5. And of course the same amount loss in absolute terms is lower as a percentage with a bigger battery. Meaning losing 5kwh on a 30kwh battery is 0.83% vs 5 kwh on a 60kwh battery is only 92%.

Proper way to think of battery life is depreciation per mile. If a battery costs $8000 and lasts 200,000 miles, that's 4 cents a mile. If it only last 150,000 miles that's still only 5.3 cents/mile.
Lysine is an amino acid so you can just get protein from varied sources and you’ll likely get enough. Taking a lysine supplement is like taking a bcaa supplement. Entirely unnecessary if your dietary protein intake is high enough and from varied sources
Reminds me of the BBS days, where for the good sites it was necessary to keep re-dialing until you got through!

I never did make it into L0pht.
tenebrisalietum asks >" Is making young people go 50k+ in debt to enter the workforce, while creating conditions that cause rent and housing prices to skyrocket the way to do it?"<

If there is an abundance of people foolish enough to incur such debt then I see no way to prevent capitalism from doing so.

Despite our social advances the situation today remains the same as that which Charles Dickens' characterizes in "A Christmas Carol" where the main obstructions to progress are "Ignorance" and "Want"(poverty). In particular, Ignorance is difficult to extinguish w/o doing something abhorrent (at least for most of us). Although far from a Christian, more and more I find appropriate the phrase:

"The poor you will always have with you..."

- Matthew 26:11
You are spot on. I had the same experience. I wrote about it here: https://gavinhoward.com/2019/12/performance-matters-jekyll-v...
The NYT reorganization that transformed it into an UltraWoke 5000 reporting machine is starting to bear fruit.
That’s a hard question to answer. The Drake equation breaks the problem down by expressing it as the product of other probabilities that might be easier to quantify, but even pinning down some of those is still really hard.
I was expecting transparent aluminum Star Trek jokes in this thread. Disappointed!
>While I agree, I think it's possible for those entities to become so massive that they become de facto public entities and ought to be regulated as such.

FWIW I said "fully private" specifically with organization "quasi-government power" in mind since there is none of that involved here and I didn't think it worth getting into there. That said, I disagree with you that mere size at all makes a company quasi-governmental, and in particular disagree with your chosen example of social media. That's actually a really weird one to choose compared to classic natural monopolies like physical utilities, particularly when they are in fact directly leaning on government power (like wireless telecoms that have a government force backed monopoly on sections of the limited useful electromagnetic spectrum).

>such a tiny handful of companies are responsible for such an enormous portion of our collective speech

"Responsible"? Every single method of speech we had in 1791, 1891, or 1991 is still with us, far easier and cheaper than ever, along with a host more. I don't agree that expanding the venues of speech in a positive-sum way somehow turns a place into a public square at all. The TOS limits are very, very loose, but even if they weren't why should that be a matter for government to step in? Why should people not have to put a few bucks where their mouths are if they want to break other people's rules on other people's property?

I do think that quasi-government power is a thing, and agree with some of the older SCOTUS cases vs their more recent pruning back. But my concern would be more at the level of physical fiber connections or access to payment systems. With skill, effort and money people should be able to get put up their message without threat of violence, but I'm not at all convinced that needs to be in any specific private venue (disclaimer, I don't actually have a twitter, facebook, or any other such service account at all, never did, which may bias my view on how necessary they are).
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Wow, that is dramatic.
Also, is this permitted under the GDPR?
Postgres can automatically optimize those things.
Any software used to convict people, especially on a such a serious crime, should be audited like the fed is. Twice yearly, once by a public firm and another by the government itself. It should have to pass both of these audits to be used.
I'm glad that people are becoming increasingly aware of this.

I found that I don't mind managing, but it's such a different type of work. As an IC I went home (before COVID anyway) mentally exhausted. As a manager I went home emotionally exhausted. Different people are better at recovering from either state of exhaustion.
What's the story around extensibility? I feel like it starts to get murky when the boundaries of data ownership are unclear. What if I have some bespoke user-level data that doesn't make sense for your system to store, but is massively important to my business (this feels to be the case for most products I build).

Can customers extend your UI components? Do they store that data with you? One of the nice parts about authentication only is that it's relatively well-defined and not a place where customers frequently have variable needs (outside of just data sources to auth against).

Cool idea either way though, and I like seeing more innovation in the space.
I've noticed what you say about younger people. I'm in my early 40s and my sister is her early 20s.

My Dad is an aerospace engineer and we were discussing the work that Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is doing with their rockets. When my sister buts in and goes on a 20 minute rant about how it is unethical for billionaires to exist. It really pissed me off as I don't get to talk to my Dad much[1], especially about things he is excited about. That's not the only time she has done it, it happens all the time.

Or maybe I'm just an apathetic Gen Xer.

[1] I live 500 miles away and my Dad doesn't like to talk on the phone.
Not sure it's possible to answer this question accurately with a sample size of 1. :)
My Midwestern upbringing was certainly peppered with people using ‘retard’ as a slur, so... mileage may vary?
Waiting music reminds me of the hotel lobby in Leisure Suit Larry 6.
I'd like to add it's not a hobby, one of the greatest concerns in buying a firearm is self defense from people who don't care about the laws and can indeed access weapons of different types. It also seems like the government isn't following #3 in what you would consider productive ways. I don't see how 10-round magazines, armbraces instead of stocks, and pistol grips are going to offer other than a minor inconvenience.

For me it's a hobby since I am not allowed to defend my home. My rights are already gone. As far as the EU is concerned, if you are afraid of getting hurt, get life insurance. If you are afraid of getting robbed, get house insurance. It would be sad for America to fall like that mostly due to corrupt and/or lazy politicians.
Are you referring to John Carmack’s speech at UKMC?
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Well, there were two world wars in the meantime?
This is like a playbook for hollowing out an organization's talent via the Peter Principle.
This is this persons life we’re talking about. No amount of time is too much and it isn’t hurting anyone to let him do a code review.
The title should be "attempted" to make water unsafe. [0] Does not change the gravity of the situation.

[0] https://www.tampabay.com/news/pinellas/2021/02/08/someone-tr...
People matter. Relationships matter, even if you're an introvert. Get better at interacting with people.
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that's exactly what I would expect someone in on the art project to say
A hacker tried to poison the Florida water supply via its water treatment system
You could do this but I'm pretty sure that real AD just deals all the common primitives directly. The derivative of sin(x) is cos(x), etc. AD just postpones the chain rule calculations that would be involved in something sin(x + x^2)^2, so the chain-rule happens at run time instead of a symbol expansion at compile time.
This is very interesting, I've been following the discussion around Architecture.md [0], one of the issues mentioned was updating the doc. Going for a standardised way of organising the project might be helpful.

I've recently been working on simulations again and C++ has sparked my interest (also again, after not having touched it since CS106B), but I've had a hard time understanding some of the projects I've seen due to a lack of documentation. Irrespective of language, I do like this approach to have some predetermined and thought through way of structuring projects, both for other users and for the future self, without the overhead of adding much documentation.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26048784
This must be an American thing, if someone wrote that on a CV in the UK, this sort of text would probably put people off.
i think it is really interesting to see the changes in different languages and platforms over time and also very useful to the community to see the optimisations folks come up with. thanks for the continued work brian and team!
Like with most things attributed to genetics, it's more likely that we should be looking at epigenetics.
Agree. And at the higher end of the temperature spectrum, I've commuted on my bike all through the summer in Austin, Texas, when the temps are routinely 40-43C. Not for everyone, as I had a place to shower and change when I got sweaty, but more <6 mile trips could be made by bike.
I work with multiple variants of John. We use different variants exclusively for different people (Jon, John, Johnathan, and some non-English names that share etymology).

We also have multiple Alex-es. They go by their last names in any overlapping contexts.
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I do appreciate the correction by the way.
Theoretically keeping something at the same temperature is at most going to double the energy requirements, though there's likely to be some additional practical issues with maintaining such a low temperature.
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True, email addresses ideally should be more like phone numbers where they are not tied to a specific corporate-owned domain (i.e. "gmail.com"). We would need some sort of standardized lookup though to support such a system.
I forget what this effect is called. Every once in a while a new service comes along that tries to compete with Amazon and there is a huge cost of entrusting the new entrant.
The current system is secure and already scaled. Decentralization doesn't really bring anything to the table other than mental stimulation for nerds
Look, they don't let just anybody into the website. It's exclusive.
Quite funny in a way, but for balance, according to Wikipedia, the cause of death may well have been from complications from an old physical injury, or from an infection that's often lethal without medicine that was unavailable in his day.

Kierkegaard died in Frederiks Hospital after over a month, possibly from complications from a fall from a tree in his youth. It has been suggested by professor Kaare Weismann and literature scientist Jens Staubrand that Kierkegaard died from Pott disease, a form of tuberculosis.
The ZXing app is in fact the one I've had since "the dawn of android". But when I switched phones a couple years ago, I had apparently installed the one by the Space Team[1].

It took me a bit of digging to make the distinction. I have both of them listed in my App Library, and both with the same name. At some point, I believe I went to install ZXing on a new phone and Android warned me that the app may be incompatible, so I went to the space team one. It makes sense that if people aren't looking directly in their app library that they can get these mixed up and leave the bad reviews.

However, since the space team version got infected, I did try the ZXing app - no pop-ups, and it works just fine (despite the age warning).

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.qrcodescan...
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I disagree. "Evil" is a subtle point.

For example, Google got a lot of flack for literally tracking its users' every move whether or not they consent to do so[1].

Is it "respectful"? Is that "the right thing"? You can justify everything by the value that Google provides.

But it's, you know... kind of evil.

Sadly, this not something one could refer to anymore in a meeting discussing this issue.

[1]https://apnews.com/article/828aefab64d4411bac257a07c1af0ecb
Does 4k matter? The way you state it makes it sound like it's a major issue (disclaimer: I've never seen a 4k game)

This is an honest question, since I don't game much (witcher 3, death stranding and a few point and click) , and regular 1080 doesn't bother me, so I'm genuinely curious.
Depends on how big the company is. There are service providers like CDW that do this service, and can even imagine a machine for you and ship it directly to a new hire. But I generally handle it on a case by case basis with each employee when small and then start building processes as you grow. I've used a service provider and also built internal processes. The choice is also partially decided by what type of company you are, how fast you are scaling, how many people you expect to bring on at once etc.

My basic advice is, don't over complicate it by having a vendor in the middle of it until it is worth managing the vendor. If you are dealing with adding 3-4 employees every few months it isn't a big deal, even a couple a month isn't a big deal. If you are doing 7-10+ a month then it is worth paying someone to manage this. Other factors that can affect the decision, if you have no physical office to store equipment, you may need a service provider to handle return of equipment when an employee leaves etc.
I'm waiting for SaaSaaS. SaaS as a service.
Plug for Blot[1] which makes it trivial to have a directory of Markdown source files and supporting assets (images, mostly) for my blog[2].

[1]: https://blot.im/

[2]: https://paul.af/
RDP exposed on municipal water control systems? are you fucking kidding me?
Is it articulate to immediately compare your opponents to the stasi? Not really, its pretty bland and typical for internet name calling - writing more words doesn't make something high art.
You're giving way more than the benefit of the doubt here, if I had to guess I'd say you are doing it willfully. At least you acknowledge your bias so credit where credit is due I guess.

Accusing someone of saying something they didn't say is called "libel" or "slander" depending on the medium with which it is done. To call that out, publish it, and for people to enjoy that published work, that is a far cry away from having a stated mission to go after, expose and deplatform people sharing ideas you do not like. You use the word "cancelling" much more liberally than it's contemporary definition applies, I'd say you're stretching it beyond its elasticity in order to make an argument that doesn't exist to defend an indefensible act.
Her previous tweet "Try and block me now pmarca" makes it much harder to dismiss this as just an unfortunate mistake in attribution. In context it very much appears like as if she was looking for anything she could spin to portray Marc in a negative light.
I like to use .NET Core Identity services with Azure AD B2C. Very easy to setup and generic interfaces are already defined for password reset, etc.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/security/authen...
I think you are wrong and that most prosecutors want to do the right thing, like most working people
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That makes sense to me. No dis on static site generators, it just so happens that those were the lessons I learned while trying them out.
QR code scanning should just be native in every OS.
Based on how these things go, it's almost a certainly that this will be found to be discriminating in some way that is unethical/illegal within the next few years.
Yeah, depending where you are here in Austin, I feel you.

I'm fortunate to live next to a park, which is nice to walk in. I cycle into town rather than walk the 5 miles, though.

This summer I'll try to get out and go for a walk before 8am, because like you I don't want to walk after that.
There's also the question of why employers think that caving to Twitter outrage is good or necessary for business.
The Generic Gotv efforts I'm speaking about are generic. They're on the facebook timeline and Google search page. They exist just as much in rural wisconsin as they do in downtown SF.
You would be disqualified for using more than one account.
>stadia can have perfect tech and the best customer service in the world and it simply will not matter until you effectively create your own nationwide isp as well

To add a layer of situational irony here: Google already tried to solve the last-mile delivery infrastructure problem and unsurprisingly appears to have found it intractable
A concordance rate of 40% actually points to a near-even split between heritable and non-heritable factors.