skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What information in these children's books is undermining dictatorial governments? The government isn't censoring e.g. Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States or Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago - these are literally just picture books with racist caricatures in them. You have no right to shout "fire" in a crowded theater, and you have no right to denigrate your fellow man.
There are two things I can't quite comprehend as someone who's not from the US.

* Why exactly the n-word is exclusive to black people. In my mind, either no one uses the word if it's offensive, or everyone can use it in a neutral way. I don't know of any other single word which is gatekept.
I mean, I never want to use it, so it's not about that. I guess it has to do with pride and being able to use a word which was once used to insult you. Maybe it gives power, don't know. But it can't be that clear, seeing as how the whole world seems to be confused about the reasoning and usage of this word.
Essentially, I don't really mind that I can't say it, but I just don't understand it.

* Cultural appropriation - I see people get cancelled for wearing, eating or celebrating things which aren't "from their culture". This is so shocking to me and sounds like something fashists would say. "Keep to your cultures and races", wtf? It also seems to be very one-sided. I understand it if we talk about sacred things, native american headwear as an example. But things like food, hair styles and certain clothing? Just seems to divide people more.
Isn't it a better sign if I as a white dude like other cultures food, clothing etc.? That should signal to these cultures that I appreciate, accept and like them, right?

Again, I'm white and from europe and I know that these are very sensitive and hot topics.
I'm building something that could help in this regard: https://github.com/mariusor/go-littr

It's a distillation of the early reddit into a discussion platform that speaks activitypub. This means that the goal is not to have "one site" to rule them all, but that communities can each create their own and then interact with others if they chose to.

An demo instance is at https://littr.me
> You mean the almost exclusively US interpretation is the most relevant.

As far as I'm considered, the worst part about this is that because of American propaganda in the mass media and popculture, people from outside the States are projecting American history and problems onto themselves, because that's a hip and cool thing to do now.
The average driver got to that level after years of practice. With this system in place, the new-average-driver will have the skills of someone who's just barely gotten their drivers license years ago and have never used it since. And that person will be expected to pilot the vehicle only in times of such dire conditions that the computer cannot do it.

Perhaps the use of this system should be licensed separately from a standard drivers license, akin to an IFR rating. And to keep the rating, manual driving must be performed periodically and logged as well.
That, plus the synchronization effects of the two operations on the same address. It’s important to note that another thread which doesn’t access the same atomic with the appropriate ordering can observe an inconsistent state, even if it puts a full fence between each non-atomic operation (on architectures with weak memory models).
Out of curioisity, do you allow your son to watch Disney movies?
> there is no power structure wielding a “cancel button” here

This is hardly an isolated occurrance, as you well know.

So we have all of Big Tech acting in concert to ban what they deem wrongthink -- but, oh no, that's definitely not a power structure! Nothing to see here, folks!
Does anyone have a link to the (supposedly) racist imagery, I want to decide for myself if this really is a problem or not...
Does anybody know what was the content that was the reason for the ban? The article only quotes: “Dr. Seuss Enterprises has stopped publication of this book due to its negative portrayal of some ethnicities,” - but I am curious what was it exactly.
It lets you watch a movie in "traffic jam mode" so when the vehicle is stopped or moving slowly because of heavy traffic. As soon as it's moving faster you are not allowed to watch a movie b.c. you need to watch the road.

Edit: it's a joke. LVL3 no way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hBwmFbpNCA
1. Store your documentation in github wikis, not in Confluence (Confluence is slow to load. It's WYSIWYG editor is somehow as good as a simple markdown editor. It's hard to find things. It becomes a big dumping ground. Write-only documentation. By using github wikis, the documentation lives where the code lives.)

2. Don't put documentation in git. Just don't. No one will contribute to it. It'll require code review to check in a typo fix.

3. Let anyone contribute.

4. Encourage junior developers to fix bad documentation. Senior devs won't do it, they think it's beneath them. Junior devs might think it's above them. Empower them to do it.
Beyond unversities, it's also a term sometimes used by Y Combinator, which also contributes to its spread.

(That's how I learned it can mean something else than "when the workplace is open". English is not my first language.)
A team of researchers have read an unopened letter from Renaissance Europe
> Revenue go up? You pay your bills. You make more stuff people want. Everyone is better off. Good outcome.
>
> Revenue go down? You can't pay your bills. You make less stuff even though people want what you are making. Everyone is worse off. Bad outcome.

This is a very limited view of the of the effect of copyright. The goal is not to make sure any one specific person or organization has the funds to create but to encoourage the total sum of creations by anyone. As such, any analysis of the effectiveness of copyright will have to also consider the detrimental effects copyright has on other people creating things. And these detrimental effects are not at all theoretical. There is lots of imaginarity "property" that people are sitting on and doing nothing with the monopoly they have been granted as an incentive to produce more while still preventing anyone else from building on those works. Licensing something or heck, even figuring out who owns the rights, is prohibitive enough to outright kill many endeavours that would have enriched society. And that is before come to the hyper-inflated copyright lengths we have today where creators are incentivized to keep milking something they have made decades ago instead of being required to make something new if they want more profit.

I agree that DRM sucks, but that is not an argument for stronger copyright enforcement. DRM very much relies on copyright laws that make breaking it illegal in order to remain effective. And even then, it has only ever been effective in preventing the average user from circumventing it. If you could freely distribute DRM-defeating measures then publishers would be incentivized to remove it for everyone.
Nobody if importance is going to stand up. Ask J.K.Rowling
People who have terrible internet care quite a bit, especially if they use it a lot. Many, many people I know living in rural areas of the US get 3-6mbps max. The only hardwired option is DSL, since cable companies often don’t service these areas. Everyone who uses internet a lot for things like streaming is very frustrated by the situation, and that’s often younger generations.
The roads tend to be safest in conditions where drivers are anxious and high-alert: high traffic, narrow roads, etc

Removing other cars from the roadways unfortunately just creates an opportunity for the remaining cars to go faster and drive more recklessly.
The Objects You Know and Love – ~5.5 Min Read – Functional Programming
Before that it was the peanut allergy and the widespread banning of PB&J in schools everywhere.
I have totally opposite experience from what you wrote.

We have fast changing application and we use scrum and sprints to fend off business people. Because one day they want one thing, next day 10 things more.

With sprint I can tell them to go away and make priorities because team is not capable of handling those 10 more tasks. Which in turn makes it predictable for business people because they know my team will be able to put those 10 things in next sprint (if those are soooo important, which later always turns out not really) and have it ready in production in 4-6 weeks.

With product owner and "refinement meetings" I don't have business/sales people coming to me with stupid ideas and trying to force me to implement something. They have to put more work in it so that I get structured stream of work, of course it is not always perfect but better than random sales hitting you with something by your desk.

What is important I have my team "burn down rate" which helps to communicate it clearly and they cannot argue with the number.

Other important part is that estimations are done by dev team and I think important part is that our management is not arguing with the estimations. They show trust in developers and are not trying to push down estimations or improve burn down.

So in my view my team has more power over the process not the managers. What managers/sales get form it is clear information that they can use in their work. Unfortunately I don't think it is the case for much companies.
Dell Latitude 5310
Git scraping, the five minute lightning talk
It is not outright ban, rather banishment to a very inhospitable place, a Siberia of ideas, so to say. (Russia often sent dissenters to live in Siberia.)

If eBay was a tiny company, it would be nothing, but you cannot ignore the effects of scale and market dominance here.

It is similar to the smartphone world: if Google and Apple block you, in practice you are destroyed.
Don't trust anything Bloomberg says. They have zero credibility. For example, they stated many times that all major companies like Google, Amazon and Apple have hardware from SuperMicro Inc., that contains hidden microchips and can spy on the companies by sending data to China... It was proven later that this was fake news.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermicro#Allegations_of_comp...
India has a deep corruption problem. There's a real incentive to make money off scams and the government is giving a blind eye. A guy infiltrated some of the scam companies, who where all in India, using their remote desktop software against them and got feeds of all the webcams and microphones in the building. Multiple reports to police and most companies still runnning to this day.
I really wanna buy that to see what exactly Mister A.H. had in his mind. I just wonder if me ordering it puts me on some sort of blacklist... (half /s)
> In my experience SCRUM delays and systematizes everything and kills creativity. Kind of like the military.

Systematizing everything and killing creativity is an essential part of making software projects less risky for companies. One of the largest risks to many software projects is the "bus factor" risk, where one employee leaving will scupper the entire project because they were the only ones who knew how it worked. If you have large sums of money riding on the success of a project, it makes sense to invest some time in processes that can mitigate the effect of one team member leaving. It's no surprise that these processes mimic the military, armies are entirely built around the idea that anyone can die at any moment without much impact on the mission.
America has really lost the plot...
Or triple, or quadruple. Or even (IIRC) "increase by 50%" (but, I would need to sit down and do the actual math on that). But, doubling a number is cheap and more conservative than quadrupling (the next "cheap" multiplier).
The title is kinda unclear for someone non-English/US, for me office hours only means the actual hours when things are worked on (rather than any kind of availability time).

So skimming the title it quickly I read it as "Open source projects should run on office hours" since my mind filled that in, kinda implied that someone in another part of the world should adjust their life hours to contribute to OSS.

(Yes after reading the article i realized that it was wrong but this is about the title)
I don’t think the reason for hiding pointers is because they are hard — it’s just that arbitrary pointer arithmetics are especially error prone and can be avoided in most codebases.
You're looking at this from the long angle. Of course you shouldn't wait.

However, many people, without explicit prompting, will in fact never ask these types of questions at all. That is the value of the daily stand-up: it ensures that everyone is prompted to as these things AT LEAST once every day, rather than holding onto them for who knows how long.

I'd also note that, without dailys, it's rather rare to have the entire team together in the same room, especially now with Covid. Ideally you'd ask this type of thing on email or slack, but lots of people just don't bother unless you give them this explicit time for it.
I can't wait till the day people get offended by their own breathing, to be honest.
There's two kinds of freedom: freedom from and freedom to.

These are some children's books that contain illustrations that some people find offensive and the publisher (and sellers) are deciding they no longer want to be associated with and sell to children. There are internet forums where the images are available and people can view them without the police knocking your door down, and I'm sure these are available in 2nd hand bookshops.

The actions of the publisher and ebay enhance the first (freedom from) without inhibiting the second much (freedom to) for those that really want to view the images.

There's a difference between "utterly repugnant" content being available and it being casually given to children, and people and companies being forced to sell it.
But there was no government action here. Dr Seuss's estate made a decision, and EBay reacted to it. A dictatorial government would either prohibit or demand publishing the books. The US government has rightly done nothing.
Principles? Morals? Ethics?

The small things preventing humanity from murdering, raping, enslaving, and torturing one another. It's easy to forget that these exist and that everyone must always be on guard, defending the world against ones own baser instincts and defending oneself against humanity at larges baser instincts. As we collectively forget, or consciously ignore, our duty to one another we mortgage humanities future with collective suffering today. Eventually the bill on these ills come due, one way or another the sociological debt is always repaid.
Together with parent comment, this is exactly how I feel every time I use something that is not C (I do mostly embedded). Like: ok, I can use a slice here, but what is a slice? what thing is it doing that I don't know? where's the catch? how does it look like in memory? is it calling a function when I access it? is it being copied or referenced?. And so on...
Does anyone have an actual free link to the list?

I was surprised not to see it in an article referring to it. Is the article just an advert for Bloomberg’s subscription services?

Also auto-playing video is a bit obnoxious.
Last time I checked, there were similar conclusions: accidents in absolute terms had gone down, obviously, but mortality had gone up.
Any communities with a strong framework. Case in point: Soviet Union. Though arguably a strong collective ideology and a religion aren’t that far off from each other.
I have no expectations of other open-source maintainers that I don’t have of myself.
They really are making it seem like it's level "2.5" self-driving and it was rounded out to 3.
I agree with the report, but this part made me laugh.

> annual report on global political rights and liberties by Freedom House, a US government-funded NGO that studies political freedom around the world

> Beijing’s efforts “featured increased meddling in the domestic political discourse of foreign democracies, transnational extensions of rights abuses common in mainland China, and the demolition of Hong Kong’s liberties and legal autonomy”.

Is this not hypocrisy? Specially after what happened in the USA when Trump lost? How does Freedom House thinks China meddles in foreign democracies? Propaganda from NGOs is an open secret and almost every country uses it these days.
My first eBook launch – results and feedback (10k USD in 27 days)
"No surprise that so many non-white people report problems in tech circles given the moral grandstanding on behalf of some caricatures going on here."

That is a massive non-sequitur. How do you even know what are the skin colors of individual people who defend the books? Are people of certain colors obliged to have the same values?
"Employee engagement" is code for "manipulation"
> You want to stop them from playing through too much of the game's content and burning themselves out on it. So you lock them out with a timer, forcing them to come back later. Then you reward them for coming back every day.

Simultaneously offering a pay-to-play option that enables the user to bypass the timeout with money
Well that seems to align pretty well with Entities/Aggregates and ValueObjects in DDD.
You’re actually wrong about rights in the United States. You have every right to do all of the things you claim you don’t: https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/its-tim...
>The “weapon” here is just basic conscientiousness

No, it's predominantly white-driven top-down (upper 20% income bracket) classism run amok, proping up specialist careers and pretending to be about "caring" and "wokeness".

>there is no power structure wielding a “cancel button” here.

Yeah, no "power structure", just the mainstream media, the corporate world, ad agencies, governments, government agencies, web-mobs, FAANG - the biggest tech companies in the world plus Clouldflare and others, payment processors, the "good society" class wise and so on, with an increasing number of BS laws on their side too...
Prices are skyrocketing now for these books. I suspect The Berenstain Bears collection are next, along with whatever else cancel/woke-culture deems unacceptable for society.

https://twitter.com/jeremykauffman/status/136751012770473984...
How US Parole Apps Create Digital Prisoners
Ever try scamming a crack addict with sugar?
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I haven't read that essay since it came out, but I always found that it interesting, because non-identification is a well-known spiritual teaching, indeed a well-known Indian spiritual teaching — but pg seemed to get at it from first principles.
>than acknowledge the reality that nobody is forcing the Seuss estate or even eBay to do anything.

How do you know this?

Maybe efforts in previous years made them do it now?
> "utterly repugnant"

You forgot to add: "to someone, probably a minority, possibly entirely wrong".
I think in this case it’s meant to be ‘hours when I’m guaranteed to be in my office’.

Mostly applicable to academia, because who the hell has their own office right now.
I literally lost my last job because I dislike the scrum methodologies and said I haven't ever seen it working good. The team was a mess, the manager a micro-manager claiming empowering people.. I get the idea but I've never seen it working productively.

Dailies are the most stupid invention ever. Even if its just 15 minutes, its either blocks your "agilitiy" if its on a time-slot that you prefer not to work, or it steals almost an hour because you get out of the tunnel, wait for the meeting, have to get into working mode again.
Absolutely. If illirik was sacked from their job and made destitute, would that be "just basic conscientiousness"?

Maybe illirik should consider that the cancel culture weapon could just as easily be turned on them.
> Targeted advertising works
>> I am sure that there are hard data from studies available on the subject

Those are contradicting, but I suppose there is some A/B testing data somewhere to confirm that advertisement do work
Yes, moderation is censorship, but given the size of HN, it has no effect on broader freedom on the Internet. It is similar to having a drop of water leaking onto your floor.

If a dominant player (Amazon, Apple) blacklists you, it is not a drop of water, it is a devastating tsunami.

It is rational to concentrate on tsunamis and ignore mere drops.
I've occasionally observed parallels between the 4chan-esque mob and the woke mob.

It's the power of peer pressure combined with the apparently human tendancy to encourage others to do things we know are wrong for our own amusement. It's the playground mentality where a bunch of kids stand around goading another kid into doing something terrible chanting "do it, do it". With each success the groups find new levels of perversion to push their members to.
Can you please share where you heard the Keycloak preferred way for MT is multiple tenants per realm? I have never seen this before.
Very strange.. what device do you have? did you have the other app installed/running in the background?
It can contain a to_cstring() function and problem solved.

If it uses a struct with length of string and pointer to a c-style string, even the conversion can be elided (at the price of some inflexibility/unnecessary copying while in use)
Yeah I think in many cases it’s taken for granted by the youngest generation. My youngest nephews have never known a time when you were unable to see live video of the person on the other end of a phone call. My cell phone (on cell net) just clocked 82/7Mbps. I still remember getting my first cable modem at a whopping 1Mbps nominal dl. XD
Language is such a weird reach for a progressive critique of To Kill a Mockingbird. It's a book about a false rape allegation!
It is by no means limited to the Indian political right.
The "extension" here (the _s functions) is standardized; while in the EEE strategy the extensions cannot be standardized: the whole point of the "extension" phase in EEE is to prevent interoperability.
Failing if your measure of success is growth.
Well the first country in Europe on that list was Switzerland with 3rd place.

It is a steep bell curve from there, but Switzerland is an order of magnitude more competitive than the neighboring countries and they already do import talent, more easily from Europe but also the whole world.

I don't know man, its not an ego thing. The structure of Switzerland makes it easy to do business. If you think of it like a tiny-USA except with a tiny-Federal government and even tinier states (cantons), all surrounded by the European Union maybe it makes sense, or maybe everyone would still lack context for what ways that comparison would hold. Switzerland is more like a conglomerate with each component all using the same unquestionable brand with the name "Switzerland", and the board stays out of how the conglomerate's units do anything. So for regulations - or making/finding favorable regulations - you really have something like 26 unquestionable Switzerlands without really ever needing to worry about a federal government's overarching restrictions. These 26 cantons also have very tiny populations, so the regulator could just be there waiting to be noticed and will gladly do something competitive for you. Switzerland has competence combined with a collaborative non-adversarial relationship between the government and people. That combination doesn't really exist elsewhere, you might have competence in Germany or competence in Cayman Islands, but it will be adversarial. You might have a lack of competence in an individual United State or federal agency, and you will have an adversarial relationship where you are mostly trying not to be noticed.