skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So users are okay with being deceived and ultimately don’t care? Let me know if I’ve misunderstood your argument.

Users that expect moderation expect a certain level of housekeeping and don't care if they are exposed to it all, and I would guess a great many don't want to be bothered with it.

The important distinction here is that being shadowbanned is being excluded from the community, and is done to even more effectively keep these people away from and out of the community than just regular banning would accomplish. The community expects to see content from the rest of the community, these people aren't part of that group, regardless of whether they still have an account and can log it, so the amount of deception to the community is little to none.

The alternative to shadowbanning is not letting they people post, it's banning. The effective desired outcome in both cases is that this person no longer is allowed to be part of the community. The effective actual outcome is that regular banning often just results in people making a new account and continuing with the same behavior. The only deception of shadowbanning to the community is that you're not explicitly saying "hey, these posts we tried to stop from being made? We're letting them be made but just hiding them from view, since we don't want them here in the first place."

If I'm going to get mad about that I might as well get mad at the police or a business owner for taking down some banner that was hung illegally across other businesses that I would see on my commute if they didn't act fast enough. Would I feel deceived that people had his some random message someone decided to put up that was unwanted was removed without me being able to see it? No.

> I disagree that it’s a morally acceptable way to moderate a community or forum, though.

If every forum was like that I might agree. But groups of people have the right to choose how to police themselves and there are plenty of other communities out there that do it differently.

> People lose trust when they find they’ve been shadowbanned

Those people are being kicked out. The community, or the mods, want them to lose trust and leave in most cases. I don't worry that someone I think deserves to be in jail is disillusioned because they don't think they deserve to be in jail. Or, if I worry about it, it's not in a way that makes me think they don't deserve the punishment.

> or discover that the practice is used.

I think that's very few people.

> They rightfully understand that the discourse is being manipulated in an underhanded, opaque way.

All moderation is this, whether done by the few with extra powers or outsourced to the crowd. Moderation is censorship. Censorship isn't always bad (like most things in like, it's a matter of extremes being the problem. Too little or too much both have issues, so we generally fluctuate as a society around a sort of middle area).

You can call it underhanded and opaque all you want, but it's only that to those that have already been excised from the community. To everyone else, it's really no different than if that person was banned, except they're less likely to come back for a while.
Even your freedom to travel for business - bodily autonomy is probably the most important individual freedom there is.
I'm so sorry. Thank you for sharing your story.
Eh there is plenty room for all gray areas of tui. You are talking about CLI and not TUI, completely different world. TUI is great if you work remote and can present a lot of information quickly in such situations. Plus some people prefer them and that's all it really requires for there to be some awesome TUI programs. All you really have to do is ignore them if you don't like them.
And the code or techniques for doing so will get scrubbed from the internet. Individuals may independently figure it out, but they'll be a drop in the bucket.
It's security theater, but in response to public health instead of terrorism concerns.
this fellow has a git for a PE loader, there is supplemental knowledge articles linked in my other comment in this thread.

https://github.com/JeremyWildsmith/PELoader#readme
Is this...are you being serious?
Yeah but those 10 gallons of water in Wisconsin could be put to more efficient use than cattle
That is a risk, definitely. And I think that kind of thing is probably in part why Google and others who followed them ended up where they did— wanting a system that was completely impersonal, quantifiable, and which could be said to be 100% meritocratic.

Which is noble, I suppose. But clearly lots of people still felt that it was unfair and alienating; closer in spirit to a hazing than a good-faith evaluation.
Gotta have that incredible journey.
Good luck enforcing this...
ITT: HN turns into FB.
Was in Vieques recently, absolutely amazing! If possible, try to plan to go when it isn't a full moon, or the sky is cloudy. Harder to see the illumination when the moon is shining bright. And you're correct they don't allow you to swim in it any longer, but they say its because it's harmful to the microorganisms, didn't mention the shark nursery.
It's pretty clear why it was cancelled, and it wasn't because it was unreliable and unpleasant like the Concordski. Newer designs learn from older ones, and you can't tell something like unreliable and unpleasant from an airplane that never flew, and didn't even have a completed design.
Top tier engineers are essentially lubricant. They ideally bring experience and talent to bear on the current site of friction in a business. Even better if they circulate like lubricant.
page loads slowly ... it is the database query man ... make sure to join the fields properly :-)
It's not so much that null is used but that every reference type is nullable in practice for languages that have it. Languages "without null" specifically mark certain variables as optional (same as nullable), so you're able to know that a given value is either always non-null or nullable (requires null check).

In terms of checks for null vs checks against an option type for data, there's some ergonomic improvements for languages with good option support, but it's mostly the same. The real benefit is that not everything is null, and if it is nullable then its explicitly called out.
To be honest it is little more than symbolic. The traffic is so bad in Paris (traffic jam engineered by the same mayor) that the average speed must be well below that.
Masks and vaccines do far less than you've been led to believe. But either way, it's the politicians who are taking away your ability to travel outside the country, not some fictional boogeyman that the propaganda tells you to hate.
Me neither, and every other page is blank... maybe they were ads?
I'd argue that benefits from games - at least from games in the 90s - scale in a weird but, to a degree, superlinear way. That is, if you do it only a little, you may as well not do it at all.

Come to think of it, quite a lot of things in life scale like this. Software development being among the well-known ones for this audience - e.g. if you'd be given only a 30 minute window for writing code during a day (or even a couple such windows spread out), you'd likely not even open the editor, as there's no point in even engaging with the task in such short window.

I'd go as far as saying that, in order to realize the most non-enjoyment value of a game, you not only need long enough sessions to fully engage with a game - you need long enough sessions to get bored with the game. But, that may be impossible with modern gambling-for-chindren-but-legal style of games.

You can imagine this as an "S-curve" model of value, where with games, the point most people consider "too much" for a kid is barely on the ramp-up part of the curve.
> cattle production still takes 10x the water

Yes, but in many parts of the USA, water is practically unlimited and free. Most of it flows into the Mississippi or the the Atlantic. In fact, in many areas, there's too much water, you have to put in drainage or it might flood during heavy rains and kill your crops in the spring.

> very destructive to the environment the cattle graze in.

This is only true for feed-lot cattle raised in arid, marginal land. Pretty much anywhere east of the great plains, cattle have almost no impact on the land.

Almonds in the USA are pretty much only grown in arid and desert environments. Almonds grown in CA are destructive to waterways and natural aquifers.

So, it's a question of renewable vs non renewable. In most of California, water usage is non renewable. It is being used at a rate far faster than nature can replenish it.
The CCP is the one making the mistake, not the people. No one said it was the people.
Physically abusing your child by chaining them to the radiator is not a parenting decision.

Providing lunch at something the child is required to be at by law is not a parenting decision.

Requiring annual physicals is not a parenting decision, nor a health care decision. However, requiring a specific treatment is both.

Alcohol consumption is a grey area, and a cultural choice the country has made. Why not make the driving age 14? 18? It's a question of maturity. But this is a poor comparison. While alcohol has an objective measure of physical harm (ie: LD50, a measurable and detrimental effect on developing minds), video games do not.

Listing these as examples is not a justification for the government deciding for a parent how much time their child can spend on video games.

And for disclosure, I think a time limit is a much needed societal thing. But the government must not be the one to make that decision.
> exclusive audio content
Not sure which buckets I fit into. Maybe a pessimist bucket that isn't listed. Maybe a matrix of longterm near linear decline with localized event driven rapid declines. Probably a degrowth variant since I do believe there's a minimum level of consumption tied to each person and that incremental cost has a ceiling when talking about sustainable population levels. Probably a combination of apocalyptic and cottage for aesthetics, but the possibilities are probably extremely variable based on many demographic and resource qualities of a given locality as well as what type of collapse.

So, what was the purpose of these categories?

Edit: why downvote?
I assume they meant XULRunner[0], which was Mozilla's spiritual predecessor to Electron.

Some abandoned modern alternatives included Chromeless[1], Positron[2][3] and qbrt[4][5].

While technically possible using Firefox's XULRunner functionality (`firefox --app app.ini` — mostly undocumented, potentially unsupported in the future), as far as I can tell, Mozilla has abandoned the Electron approach for XUL/Gecko bundling, which is a shame since Firefox itself is basically just an implementation on top of the Gecko XUL runtime.

> "[Firefox] is distributed as the combination of a Gecko XUL runtime — libxul, other shared libraries, and non-browser-specific resources like those in toolkit/ — plus a Firefox XUL application — mostly just the files in Contents/Resources/browser/, plus the 'firefox' stub executable that loads Gecko and points it at a XUL application" [6]

On Android, there is also Geckoview[7][8] for embedding gecko.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XULRunner

[1]: https://github.com/mozilla/chromeless

[2]: https://github.com/mozilla/positron

[3]: http://web.archive.org/web/20210227132731/https://mykzilla.o...

[4]: https://github.com/mozilla/qbrt

[5]: http://web.archive.org/web/20210601133844/https://mykzilla.o...

[6]: http://web.archive.org/web/20210227132731/https://mykzilla.o...

[7]: https://github.com/mozilla/geckoview

[8]: https://mozilla.github.io/geckoview/
This isn’t any more authoritarian than the US banning alcohol and cannabis for people under 21. At least China is allowing kids to do a little bit of gaming. Meanwhile in the US young adults and children are outright forbidden from intoxicating substances (as opposed to many European countries where teens can buy low-alcohol beverages.)
if people misuse of a specific term in a casual context made the term meaningless, we wouldn't be able to speak of politics, science or any other specific field. Alt-right has a very specific meaning in politics and political analysis, regardless of how it's used in a casual context
Classical music is one of the hardest genres to surface through existing music apps.

Where an app may have an "artist" field, classical music will have "composer" and then for the performers it will have "orchestra", "conductor", "principal soloists". For an opera all of those are primary fields that could be considered "artist".

The variations of the data is huge, only last week I had to correct Tchaikovsky in my own data and looking at the variations I see online:

P. I. Tchaïkovski
Peter Ilyitch Tchaikofsky
Peter Tchaikovsky
Petr Ilitch Tchaïkovski
Piotr Ilic Tchaikovskij
Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovski
Piotr Tchaikovski
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (this one is arguably most correct)

This is something everyone gets wrong, and yet whomever gets it right is going to help make it easier for people to find and celebrate classical music, and to expose more people to classical music.

Even if today you know that you love Beethoven's Symphony No 3... finding the best performance and recording is almost impossible, and if you do happen to stumble upon it on a streaming service getting back to it later (if it wasn't the only one in your recents) is difficult.

I'm really glad someone is investing in this, and it needs to be a different app / interface to handle this difference in metadata and in weighting of the fields. Capturing the intent of "oh, this person really just wants to search Gould as a principal soloist and weight the search that way" is far easier when you have an app that can provide a classical music perspective and filter over an existing library.

PS: Plex does this really badly too... whatever you do, don't let the Plex Music Agents decide the metadata, Verdi disappeared and had the metadata for Veridia which I believe is a rock band.
I had an interview with Gitlab like that years ago. Here, write some chef with only the vaguest spec - even after quizzing the interviewer to ascertain requirements.
Do you guys have direct flights to US? I was thinking about Croatia for the same reason, but all flights from there to US seem to require layover in London or Paris, which makes them useless (even few hours at EU or UK airport is enough to "taint" the whole trip).
Why take down a service when the replacement is not ready yet? Won't it allow the competitors to attract more users?
I read josephcsible 's comment as asking for support for the claim that the read reason is not the stated one.
The dairy cows that produced the milk you bought at the grocery store, in the USA anyway, were highly unlikely to be eating only grass growing on "infertile land" watered only by the rain. They are eating corn and grain grown on fertile land, probably with irrigation.

Is there even enough "infertile land" in the USA to produce grass to feed enough dairy cows for USA consumption? I doubt it.

So that argument still leads to drastic reduction in dairy consumption required, and in the USA anyway probably much higher dairy prices.
It certainly qualifies. TUI stands for text UI not terminal UI
> If a tenth of the effort that has gone into implementing Haskell had instead gone into implementing a Haskell-equivalent embedded in CL, that effort would plausibly be competitive with actual Haskell if not superior.

It's such a wildly ridiculous claim though. It implies either

1. that the syntax of Haskell is the majority of the work, such that using a dsl would remove 90% of the effort.

2. Somehow a dsl for Haskell embedded in a lisp would be more efficient to work in, so much so that development would be an order of magnitude faster.

1 is absolute nonsense. 2 might be true in a sense. I doubt it, but even if it were, such a language would no longer be Haskell, so you'd lose out on the value you gain from it's syntax. The same is true for rust.

S-expressions are nice, but they aren't always the best way of structuring things, and if you're going to forego them to better embed another language, why constrain yourself to the lisp runtime?

The more I look at this, the less sense it makes.
> If a game is providing reading material and motivation to read, it will improve reading skills.

Eh. No, that's not quite how that works. If you look at north american elementary school level reading, you may notice that books are often categorized by levels. Some of this has to do with complexity of sentence construction, some has to do with vocabulary, and some has to do with subject matter. The gist of the educational philosophy around reading is that one doesn't get better at reading by plowing through reading material at high volumes, but instead one needs to gradually level up by going through materials of appropriate complexity. One specific problem that teachers look for - especially in kids that advance quickly - is "skimming without understanding", for example (i.e. reading words/sentences phonetically, but without understanding their meaning/context).

Game text is usually not structured with any didactic value in mind (other than maybe appropriate usage of furigana in Japanese in consideration of target audiences). A lot of game categories don't even require any reading beyond recognizing words (which is somewhere between kinder and 1st grade level reading skill)

Also, even in games where text actually matters, you're typically spending a large amount of time doing other things (killing monster or whatever). In addition, the notion of games-as-reading-material ignores a fairly common phenomenon: a lot of people simply spam `A` to skip over dialogues - and even get stuck on one-off gimmicks that rely on reading the text carefully for instructions or clues.

To be clear though, practicing pre-acquired reading skills can help in the sense that repetition legitimizes, but IMHO that's a bit different than improving beyond a current level, and not necessarily all that different from what you get from reading cereal box/shampoo labels or reading comic books.
Just because an authoritarian government made a decision doesn’t necessarily mean the decision was authoritarian.

In the U.S., it’s somehow become popular opinion that the government shouldn’t do anything. Without the ability to make coordinated decisions, the U.S. has predictably fallen behind on a wide variety of metrics (income equality, health care, education, mass transit, etc.)

You should reflect on why you view a government making a decision for the health of its citizens as a bad thing.
Outside of the browser space there's a lot more opportunity to land work, since there's _far less_ competition for jobs.

Thanks to the billions of dollars spent and hundreds of millions of hours expended, anyone who takes a four week bootcamp can become a passable frontend web developer. The tooling is just that simple and accessible. And so there's a lot of folks taking such bootcamps, and employers have no lack of choice for roles.
They are highly effective at making patients stop begging for antibiotics they don't need. Patient satisfaction with their doctor has nothing to do with medical outcomes.
It's not a bandwagon , you're on the popular side here almost everyone in the us consumes dairy and meat. It's actually the other way around people should be more open to alternative milks and meats instead of looking at incorrect reactionary sources

Like just take a look at their meat won't kill you infographic ,it just shows the total daily calories from various sources. It has nothing to do with the actual title ! The whole website got incredibly high production quality but is intellectually bankrupt.
Extreme inequality and polarization has consequences. The "rainbow nation" never came to be because wealthy South Africans do not see themselves as having the same destiny as their fellow citizens, and the poor have cottoned on.

> It will impoverish them further, and yet it will be someone else's fault.

I've noticed certain parallels between segments of South African and American society: people who feel they have been left behind by a wealthy elite that doesn't care about them, and are willing to burn everything to the ground and start anew. Cue a charismatic politician who radically panders to them (despite being part of the elite), the only differences are that South Africa has objectively worse inequality, and has a longer political cycle.
Just because you have a degree or think you are a software developer, it doesn't mean you are any good at it and should be hired. Companies are substantially better off having fewer developers than having bad ones.

Bad developers take a lot of time to train, manage, QA their work, fix their work, fix their work again, and then finally someone else just does it. They are in fact a net NEGATIVE impact on the team. You are actually better off without them. They actually slow you down instead of improving productivity.

It's akin to hiring a cook who screws up every meal they make. Not only did I pay them to do so, now I have to pay others cleanup their mess.
It’s really a lot of work, but if you select one and right–click on it, then you can choose to open it in a new tab/window/etc.
I have an issue with coffee + soy sometimes where the soy proteins appear to... curdle? cook? It seems to vary by brand of soy and coffee. As a result, I've generally been happier with my wife's recent switch to oat milk.

Have you had similar issues?
Sounds like you didn't have a very good try at presenting your alt. architecture to the enterprise architecture team.

As an architect I don't mind alternative approaches and variances from a stated architecture if they can be justified.
Yes, that would probably work. USA jurisdiction still applies to software sold in the USA, even if it's originally written in France. Things might get more complicated when a French company hires remote workers, though.
My understanding was that it had to be in orbit for a long time to cause the observed pattern, but you could be right.
I'd really do well on these types of interview questions. I've spent a great deal of time troubleshooting the most difficult software issues for the teams I've been on. I'd rather not dox myself here, but troubleshooting is a pretty big thing I've done for the past 10 years.

Just today I discovered the biggest issue we've been encountering on our platform, and I'm not even in a developer role here. The developers didn't track it down since I got them involved, but here I am coming in and figuring it out, and it didn't even require access to the source code or how the platform works.

At the end of the day these types of issues come down to creativity and outside the box thinking than it does knowing how the specific software platform works. Looking at bugs and issues in a way that isn't subject to preconceived ideas and existing knowledge.

Sounds like a fun interview for someone like me lol
Playing games on my ancient TV connects me to the present
Americans have seemingly no interest in taking Delta seriously. Worse, many state governments are actively trying to make it as bad as possibly.
If you are growing the same quantity of cattle then their methane in the atmosphere would be at steady state, not growing and therefore not contributing to change. If you grow more cattle then more methane would be produced.

On the other hand, isn’t cattle production displacing wild ruminants? If we stop producing cattle, will nature fill in with bison, deer, moose, etc?

It's possible that methane from cattle isn't any higher than methane from the wild ruminants they replaced. Had this been studied?
Given the amount of people with CS degrees who fail the most basic interviews, it would be hard to set something good up. I assume universities are trying to solve the same problems as the hypothetical board setting up this test.

That, and the field moving so quickly and being so broad. I interview for ML. I assume interviews for front end are extremely different.
Perhaps you should start a fan club.