skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s pretty ridiculous in the US as well. An SSN is never enough. Usually they will need some copy of a state ID and proof of access to a mailing address on your credit history.
You’re not sexist if you give honest feedback to both genders. But you are at risk of being falsely labeled sexist if you do. It’s a bad situation I agree, but we won’t fix it by giving into the fear of being labeled.
Let me guess by the title, Mespilus germanica?
> I’m not going to suggest a solution to the problem of men clamming up. This is more of a public service announcement than anything else.

Is there a solution, though? How do we work around this?

I think most of us would like to reach a point where none of this is a concern, and we can just get on with working—yet the prospect of a future without sexism almost seems hopelessly optimistic.

Is this just one of those problems that cannot be solved in a single lifetime? Humanity seems perfectly capable of acknowledging its faults, yet it seems entirely incapable of fixing them. Our status page is always set to “Under Maintenance.”

When we encounter technical barriers, we’re good at overcoming them. Recent events have shown that we’re able to overcome medical hurdles in a manner that our ancestors would have deemed impossible. When will we be able to do the same for social issues?
no release, no meant to work (at least for you which seem limited by an error or more)... :)

release is the exciting moment "it's when it should work for you" :)
This looks like an interesting site. I've checked out All Sides and Ground News and a lot of what used to be considered center is now labelled as "left." I think that's because of the particularly skewed Overton window in the U.S.

It would be nice to have a spectrum that could be set based on your country.

I've been surfing around on your site. The article selection is very good. I'm unlikely to use it because I refuse to sign up for almost anything these days, and it's a requirement on the site, but it looks well done.
Why telco can't make any good thing. From protocols to specifications everything is worst. And the worst part is they are milking people money freely and government is doing nothing against them :(
I’m sorry but that just means you have not have learnt how to use debug tools.
> Long story short have been looking into standard web components for my next side project and FicusJS seems to check all the boxes.

Could you please list the boxes that you were ticking?

For example, how many boxes would the following tick:

- Preact with htm (tiny, looks very similar to ficus) [0]
- LitElement (tiny, very close to native web components) [1]
- Svelte (the darling of many since recently) [2]

[0] - https://github.com/developit/htm

[1] - https://lit-element.polymer-project.org/

[2] - https://svelte.dev/
I think the default GitHub README.txt template should end with this quote:

"Any suggestions are welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement them :-)" -- Linus Benedict Torvalds 25 Aug 1991
> “Thank you, this is exactly what I needed” would be a heartwarming thing to read, but you will never see such a comment ever.

FWIW, when I find a tool that I really like, or that solves a problem I'm having, I try to send the maintainer a (very) short email. Something like:

> Hi $person, just wanted to say thanks for writing and maintaining $tool. I just used it for $purpose, and it worked really well!

Sometimes I get a reply, but I don't expect one. I don't want to add clutter or be a burden to someone who probably gets a lot of email, but hopefully this can be a nice gesture to counter the endless onslaught of bug reports and complaints.
Clickbait title, but still I do hate them for all the reasons you do state - something that should be somewhat transparent and frankly nice is instead a huge boring PITA.

For any project where I could choose not to use them, I choose not to use them.
>I can't help but feel like some stories like this are caused entirely by pressure that the project maintainer is putting on themselves.

Most people dislike getting tons of negative unconstructive feedback on something they put effort and love into. Detachment can easily turn into indifference about the project itself. That's not even getting into the more aggressive feedback that some people will casually throw at you if you tell them no.
I do pay for news - The Economist, The WSJ, and various podcasts. But I pay because it’s valuable.
I will just defer to Rich Hickey in this case:

"The only people entitled to say how open source 'ought' to work are people who run projects, and the scope of their entitlement extends only to their own projects.

Just because someone open sources something does not imply they owe the world a change in their status, focus and effort (...)

As a user of something open source you are not thereby entitled to anything at all. You are not entitled to contribute. You are not entitled to features. You are not entitled to the attention of others. You are not entitled to having value attached to your complaints. You are not entitled to this explanation.

If you have expectations (of others) that aren't being met, those expectations are your own responsibility. You are responsible for your own needs. If you want things, make them."

Emphasis mine:

** If you want things, make them **

From "Open source is not about you"
https://gist.github.com/richhickey/1563cddea1002958f96e7ba95...
Is there a decent alternative for open source projects?
deleting, post lacks prior context
Maybe whenever you navigate to the repo of an open-source project, GitHub should have a fancy animation of a gift box opening. "Ta-da! This project is open-source and FREE for you to use AS-IS, without any guarantees!" Then they can play it three more times whenever you try to open an issue.
You can accuse people of anything. I think maybe what you’re saying is that a man accusing another man of being sexist against men would be far less believable.

Regardless, we’re talking about social judgements. In a legal setting the burden of proof would be on the accuser.
Does it require a real piano? I'm looking forward to buying a midi keyboard so I could practice with headphones, without neighbors hearing. I still have no idea what actual software to use for this though.
Facts can't win if emotions are involved. Facts only work when everyone is rational, but, to quote former FBI hostage negotiator, Chris Voss, from his excellent book on negotiation (Never Split the Difference): humans are inherently irrational. A large chunk of his book is how you rarely succeed in arguments or negotiations based on facts, because humans are irrational emotional creatures. I highly highly recommend reading the book (because its great, not because it says this particular thing).
Why would you say something to defend the asshole? In your example, you interpreted the same - the guy was an asshole. Why give them a pass?

In most cases I hear of people that claim they’re afraid of giving “candid feedback” to a minority, it’s almost always the case that the person is an asshole when giving feedback IN GENERAL as well. Maybe evaluating your general behavior first, before going all scared of this or that minority group, would be much more productive? The net result is almost always positive.

Edit: I interpreted this as you having been witnessed situations where you felt someone was an asshole, and someone else did too but ascribed it to sexist or targeted. Apologies for the non-fluency.
Oh good. Another one.
I don't really have an answer but I am 40 and I feel the same. I am just senior dev in major tech giant, but work is boring and and unmotivating. I really enjoy programming and learning but I realized 10 years ago that working for someone else is not my thing. Here are few things I have tried but mostly failed at them or got bored:

1. Portrait Photography - lots of fun, you meet great people. Cons are that as an introvert, selling myself and then helping client pose during photoshoot was very draining. Then it was selling time for dollars, maybe one day you can charge $5000 per shoot but most likely you will not create decent wealth for your kids.

2. Real Estate Agent - again lots of fun exploring new places, and meeting great people. But unlikely photoshoots, buying home is very stressful, you will absorb client's stress, and of course so much paperwork and deadlines. I never got started properly. But helped a few friends and it was very stressful experience. Again introvert issues with selling myself to strangers.

Then I have had some ideas and tried/half-assed these:

1. Writing fiction - seems like a great idea but it is really hard to write.

2. Fitness blog/spam - I started with a blog sharing fitness tips and workout and motivational videos. Eventually, there was very little original content, it was just embedded YouTube/Instagram videos. It was generating lunch money with affiliate links and ads, but I felt sleazy, especially, when most of the content on the blog was girls in bikinis or yoga pants. (Men's videos were not that popular). As I got old, I didn't want to do this.

3. Tutoring for devs - Still working on this, started informally where I help my friends with the dev problems they are stuck at work. Working on getting paid clients. It is kind of hard because some people just want you to do their work and I don't want to do that. Then there is issue of security. I don't want to get in any trouble but looking at private code of some company.

4. Related to tutoring, I try to blog about every topic I help someone with. Not getting any traffic. Not sure how to compete with SO.

I am not really sure what my next steps should be, I have tried so many things, people don't really take me seriously anymore. I am really looking for something that I can do online without selling to friends and family. Makes me feel like the bad guy from the Founder.
Yeah, I've actually flown over the active volcano with them!

Not sure if we went directly over the crater, but either way, that's an eruption that has gone on for decades, and behaves in known ways.

The Iceland eruption is a few days fresh.
App provide better UI and UX for mobile devices. It's faster, easier to navigate (bottom navigation) and some features work in it which don't on the mobile site (I can't remember which views force desktop view).
> I think I want to stay away from build tools until I can’t

No typescript then, eh?
When you can barely even pay each month’s rent, just moving to a new apartment locally can require a year or two of savings. And thats assuming you don’t have children or any other unexpected (car broke down, medical bills).
In general, on a high latency call, if you find yourself interrupting someone, you can just "pass the mike" back to them once you're done.

A simple "Sorry <name>, I cut you off, you were saying?" does wonders and makes it clear to everyone that the next person who should be speaking was the one who got interrupted.
it's a weird bouncing effect that open-source was a way to unlease more collaboration by sharing the source but it turned into a MMO-feature-request tsunami.
Has anyone been convicted on a pollygraph alone? If so, that's a scandal.
Argument 2 states that the times can’t be liable as a matter of law, regardless of the facts. Argument 1 requires a more detailed inquiry into the facts.

If argument 2 works for purposes of a quick motion to dismiss, and argument 1 requires discovery and possibly a trial, you’ll make argument 2 first, and if that fails, mount the much more expensive side defense based on argument 1.
Exactly this.

Ultimately, the tools I try out are the ones that don't make me involve other people in it, whether to inform or to get approval. This is extremely important at the beginning - particularly when I don't know the tool beforehand, so testing it is a bet.

Thus, extrapolating from my experience, I'd consider the main problem with paid tooling is that it usually requires getting other people in the loop. Even if it's sold in a way where you could use your personal paid license at work, that fact is very often unclear from the license text - unclear enough that you probably don't want the risk of procurement/legal disagreeing with your assessment.

(If we're talking SaaS/anything with on-line components, there's no way I'm touching this on my own - I have enough headache with exports control around remote work, I'm not going to risk anything I do be considered technology transfer.)

I feel I'm not atypical with this - I suspect developers in general have an opposite relationship with software licensing to that of their employer. For a company, OSS is random, unpredictable - while commercial licensing is safe, because there's a contract and a way to sue someone. For a developer, OSS is easy to understood, zero risk, no need to involve other people - while commercial is completely arbitrary, every piece of software has a different license, and thus it's very strongly preferred to involve management/procurement/legal in this, because you don't want the liability on your shoulders.
>post-truth age

This sad term makes me feel like there are adults out there still grappling with the fact that lies and uncertainty exist
> The author then mention the Idiran War, implicitly in support of his thesis that The Culture will go to war against civs that don't share their values

The empire in the Player of Games might be a better example; the whole thing is a setup for the Culture to Do Something about the empire.
Our system is indeed designed not to leak detections in real-time. By contrast, with reCAPTCHA you can simply sign up and get a bot score, which makes it trivial to break.

This limits options for the free version they tested, as by design it will not completely prevent all detected automation from passing.

Instead, one of the tools it relies on is frequently changing the classes and types of challenges. However, it also has “anti-drain” protections to avoid leaking these.

Thus, our response to them after looking through the paper was that in fact the anti-drain protections were working as designed, based on the other details reported.

disclosure: work there.
I'm not an expert in bioscience, I simply spent a while studying it.

There is biosecurity and biowarfare literature on pretty much every single virus you can imagine - generally it's about how it might be modified to be used as a bioweapon. And really, coronaviruses are quite good platforms for making debilitating airborne weapons.

SARS-CoV itself as a bioweapon is simply not infectious enough, it was sucessfully contained dozens of times. It's also not that lethal to military-age men, for 20-29 year olds CFR is around 1% and for 30-39 year olds it's around 3% (taking data from infections in the PRC and in HK as there is the least low-detection bias). But it definitely has a lot of potential if you engineer it. For reference, the average age of a soldier in WW2 was 26.

SARS-CoV-2 is complete trash as a bioweapon, an entire carrier was infected and no one died. Debilitation was minimal. It's infectious enough, but it's very bad at actually killing military aged people.

But certainly, they could be engineered to be suitable. That's not the claim I was replying to - the claim I was replying to was that in it's natural form it was a bioweapon.

>The rest of your posts seems to gather support for other hypothesis, not as much attacking the lab leak theory as highly unlikely.

Likelihoods are relative. Everyone agrees that likelihood for a lab escape is fairly low - those are relatively rare. The argument is that the normal process for viruses to reach humans - which was the case for literally every single other pandemic ever - is unlikely thus making lab escape more likely relatively.

I did, however, add a few points that go against the likelihood of an undetected lab escape - which is that the existence of the sample would almost certaintly be known.
It would be healthier if there were competing right-leaning networks. A lot of the problems with Fox stem from the fact that they have close to 100% of the conservative audience. The various left-leaning networks have other left-leaning networks to keep each other in check. There is no similar pushback for Fox.
I am conflicted because I agree with you, but also think that if someone said it was always an angry black man they would (rightly) have been fired without half the controversy.
That's more disinformation (saying something known to be false to destroy the ability to have a conversation) than misinformation (a lie or a simple mistake).
Terminal escape sequences in Git commit email field
There actually is a bunch of evidence supporting the theory that it emerged from an animal at the market. Here's a recent article from Bloomberg:

https://www.bloombergquint.com/onweb/contentious-hunt-for-co...

Scientists tracing the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic believe they’ve identified a possible transmission source: China’s thriving wildlife trade... The most plausible theory, say experts involved in the mission, concerns China’s wildlife trade for food, furs and traditional medicine, a business worth about 520 billion yuan ($80 billion) in 2016. Live animals susceptible to coronavirus infection were present at the Huanan food market in downtown Wuhan, the city where the first major Covid-19 outbreak was detected. It’s possible they acted as conduits for the virus, carrying it from bats -- likely the primary source, says a zoologist who was part of the joint research effort... "The main conclusion from this stage of the work -- and it’s not over yet of course -- is that the exact same pathway by which SARS emerged was alive and well for the emergence of Covid...."

Farmed and wild-caught civets, a small, nocturnal mammal consumed in China, were blamed for spreading the SARS virus in a market in the southern province of Guangdong in 2003. Scientists later found the infection originated in horseshoe bats, a natural reservoir of coronaviruses.

The two species likely collided in markets where live animals are caged in crowded conditions, potentially allowing the bat-borne virus to adapt and amplify before it spilled over to humans, initially among workers and those handling the animals. Scientists working on the origin hunt say a similar scenario may have played out with Covid-19. A study of the first 99 patients treated at an infectious diseases hospital in Wuhan found half were linked to the Huanan seafood market, which also reportedly sold live animals, some illegally captured in the wild and slaughtered in front of customers.
Yeah, the more I think about it, the more I can understand that. Something is needed to prioritize and filter the queue of issues without causing too much detachment on the maintainer's part.
$150/year is too much for developers who earn $100k+/year?

I guess you proved the original point of this thread.
Most people in most teams are pissed off, their projects are behind, and their software is a mess. No one in a well-functioning, high-morale team would write something like that. In such scenarios, people pursue greedy-like algorithms for any short term reprieve they can get. Coming from a place like that, maybe making a mild threat seems like a good idea at the time.
I don't know about that. Most people I know have an iPhone. The people who have an android usually have a Samsung. My mom is clueless about tech and she just got a Motorola android phone. That's about as noname as it gets in North America. There isn't (yet) some huge proliferation of noname Chinese phones, even though some of them cost 60% or even 80% less than an iPhone.
> This article is a soft-pad for a criminal. Stop it.

This seems disingenuous. Casting a human right and environmental activist who's devoted himself to the well-being of Amazon tribes as a brazen criminal? On allegations, not a conviction, no less.
Citonhub Use cases-When developers use Citonhub
> “I don’t know” and “I don’t care” would be honest answers. The former is not a valid justification for closing the issue. The latter would backfire.

Nah, you can totally say that you don't care, you just gotta phrase it right. "Sorry, we have no plans to support that use case." Or -- if you don't mind leaving the issue open -- "I don't think fixing this is a priority right now, but feel free to submit a PR yourself!"

Really, it just sounds to me like the person writing this hadn't yet learned how to say no. Going by the end, they've since gotten better at this, so good for them. But the point is, there absolutely are polite ways to convey that you have no interest in solving a particular problem.
It is worth noting that the Minds are not perfect. They have God-like faculties but are still flawed beings.

The Culture can create perfect Minds, but they tend to be born, look around, and instantly sublime away to some other, perhaps more interesting, dimensions.

Without these personality 'defects', the Minds are not really interested in this universe or humans at all.

This opens enough gaps to still present the Minds as interesting characters in several of his novels.
>to see the progress of their efforts

yeah but they're not making much progress, so what's the point? It's like watching paint dry.
> did the guest believe that global warming was real and that human activity has contributed to this global warming?

That's not a good yes or no question, because it not only unites two different points together, but also really depends on your definition of global warming, and also ties a lot of other different issues into it. You could for example believe that humanity affects climate to some extent, but still think that it's not bad enough to support environmentalists from economics point of view. You could also believe that this climate change is real, but is not caused by human activity and is just a part of a natural process.

I just don't think that boxing a complex issue into a boolean is a good idea.
I know you are being funny but this response does not feel like it was done in good faith (I may be misreading). A major part of my point is that there is a spectrum. "Damned if you do, damned if you don't" is often a false equivalence because it suggests that the two options are equally as bad. Intention must play a large role in how we're determining how to respond because someone with good intentions has a higher likelihood of improving/fixing their behavior than someone who does not have good intentions. But intention is substantially harder to determine. My comment is about fighting back against this binary sensationalization, which I believe you are perpetuating even with the joke.

So no, you aren't damned if you do and damned if you don't.
People are the worst... :sigh:
A completely open source OS wouldn't be enough. You'd also have to have a completely open source boot ROM, and you'd have to trust that the device doesn't have hardware backdoors.
Identity theft if very common in Italy for pension fraud, people don’t report deaths of their elderly parents and assume their identities to cash in pensions.
The thing that bothers me the most are the users of your code that are not able to create a reproducible test case and instead post a useless error without the conditions that led to it. Bonus points for the laziest bug reporters with a screen shot of the error with a red circle painted around it - like that "emphasis" would help. Seriously, the programming profession cannot be taken seriously when the vast majority of github users cannot make a proper bug report. They cannot place themselves in your shoes and ask themselves "What would I need to solve this problem if I were running the project?". No amount of issue template creation will help - they won't read it anyway and erase the template.
No, there's no circular logic. What does it mean "but it's somehow still so well known that it would happen?". All one needs is a non-negligible probability that it would, since the payoff from criticising isn't usually stellar.