skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The wording ‘divisive’ in all these laws is interesting. Why is this the operative word here? Banning ‘concepts’ on the grounds that they are ‘divisive’ is some of the one of the most Orwellian language I’ve ever read.

It just seems like laws with the title ‘propagation of divisive concepts prohibited’ will evolve to an even expanding list of thought crime.

This isn’t a comment on how race should be treated and discussed in a classroom.
> It is 100% possible to download software to your home directory and run it from there, just like in Windows.

Only if it has been compiled and/or packaged for such a use by someone, which is rare. The problem isn't technical, it is cultural. I don't know why I keep having to repeat this point.
As someone that lives in Texas, this is one of the few issues that's dire enough for me to post once more on HN. So I'll say my piece and return back to lurking:

This issue (specifically the issue of the law that Texas passed) has zero place in our society. None, whatsoever. No matter if you're for or against abortion. It is a flagrant violation of our constitutional rights (including our rights to freedom of speech) because it criminalizes anything relating to 'aiding and abetting' abortions. Section 171.208 of the bill HB1515 implies that you could be drawn into a civil lawsuit for simply suggesting or posting about abortions. This site was created explicitly for that purpose: to gather information about people whom violated that section of the law so that they can be sued in court.

I shouldn't need to mention the extreme chilling effect this has not only on abortions but on speech relating to abortions as well. This site (and by extension this law) I repeat can not and should not be tolerated in any way, shape or form.
Probably a line break for screen readers, or HN readers.
I don’t know why, but I hate that question (at least in this context). It seems like it is shifting the question of ethics into some sort of meta-ethics. I wonder if you professor was used to formulate an ethical argument, but I personally find it very hard. This might be a good advice in competitive debate, but when you are facing a real argument in the real world where somebody is claiming to be a moral superior I don’t know if this is a helpful advice. E.g. I have no idea how to explain to a nihilist that murdering humans is worse then killing animals for meat. Is that even possible?
I suspect you will sing a different tune the day "big tech" takes a moral position you disagree with.
> which arguably bakers of cakes are not

Sure but at what point is it inconvenient enough that the bakers are infrastructure? Like if there is a single baker in a town and the next one is idk 20 miles away?

“Bake a cake at home”

“Buy a computer and host the website yourself”
As stated above, if you want to show up in the CHURN. Many “voters” are needed (as in millions), a few guys mad at Apple, stopping from buying a product, are not even a blip. You need to spread awareness, convince others, to join in your crusade.
They can say whatever they want. But there is a difference between self critique and self hate.

Anyway, I don’t think we’re going to come to an understanding so I’m gonna end it here. I hope you have a nice day.
Did you read the article? GoDaddy is kicking out the site because it violates their terms of service concerning collection of private data.

The TOS is a contract which the Texan group had signed with GoDaddy. They can sue if they believe they’re not actually in violation.

This is nothing like the case of not selling a wedding cake to someone in a protected category.
Vacation is still important even with a sustainable pace. Personally, when i’ve managed teams i’ve always included vacation as part of our 1:1 career talks. Especially with new engineers. If people aren’t taking vacations it’s a dealbreaker to me — taking a real, long, no calls while out vacation is to me as core to professional engineering as fixing bugs and shipping features.
Ideas like merit lottery are very interesting and worthy of consideration on rational, liberal, universalist grounds, some of which you've hinted at here.

Sadly, when they are promoted on the grounds of obtuse academic wokeness or identity politics, people instinctively infer that the real goal of such policies is to hand out undeserved benefits to minorities at the expense of a legitimate meritocracy.
The assembly can be done in ~three days with two people.

on your own its about double that time. The hardest part is putting the windows in, as they are really heavy ~50-80kgs. The process is really simple, its pretty much lego.

I used rockwool 100mm bats, that are held in place with osb boards. The Tuin wiki have tips on Attaching things to the walls in a way that allows shrinking and growing.

The only thing I think I would have done differently is putting the roof insulation on the outside, under the EDPM layer, rather than on the inside in the rafters.

I've had it for a good 4ish year, I have replaced the double glazing for coated panels. They are about 3x more insulating
Has Agile Become Addiction to Instant Gratification?
As far as I can tell, GoDaddy did not add the section to the ToS that prohibits services from “violat[ing] the privacy or publicity rights of another User or any other person or entity [...]” in response to this site, so unless you either think that this site did not do that, or that GoDaddy does not have the right to have and enforce a ToS, I don't see what the problem is.

The idea that GoDaddy should need to make an exception to their ToS when a case is politically charged is scarier, IMHO.
My University had public, non-firewalled IP addresses in the dorms... all one had to do was scan the IP ranges for the default port for Back Orifice to have some fun. (The good old days)
I haven’t dug into others. GPT3 does have some kind of filter (it warns you in the UI if it detects sensitive content) but I don’t know anything about the implementation.

Also worth noting that this kind of analysis only really works if the list is checked client-side. If it’s checked on the server then you can’t guess nearly as fast.
Protected class is purely social construct.
> constructive language

> sane side of the aisle

That's not how constructive language is done. You don't improve "hyper-polarized politics" by saying one pole represents sanity and the other the opposite.
One of them is booting a site off for being evil, and the other is evil people trying to refuse service because of bigotry.

It's really easy if you don't try and make perfect abstract rules, and remember that context is important.
I want to start a family in the traditional sense like my parents and grandparents have done before me, so I would be disappointed to find out I was dating a transwoman. Similarly I'd be disappointed to find out if a woman didn't want children or wanted to live a lifestyle incompatible with my own. It isn't going to work out and I'd have to ultimately call it off.

It's not about 'who's at fault' really. It will sooner or later come up and it is better sooner than later for both parties. If I'm dating a woman and she doesn't mention that she already has children, which is a big deal for me, then we're both just wasting our times because that's something I can't compromise on.

I don't know why this even needs to be stated, but violence is not an option in either of these cases.
ok zoomer
That’s what documentaries are about, a point of view of the people who made it. Yes, they all have a bias.

This is true of all media. The people who create it always inject some bias into how it is created and published.
> Some are happy-go-lucky's, some are neurotic, most are somewhere in between.

That is your opinion. One person’s neurotic is another person’s normal. It’s very hard, maybe impossible, to force-change someone’s perception of risk. Both sides will remain at loggerheads until they accept this.
What are the objections to this sort of teaching?
Yes humans need rest. Which has nothing to do with situation in which estimates turn out too low and thus estimated work is done faster.

I don't see how it should imply that employee don't have to do anything rest of the week. Likewise, if estimation is too small at the beginning I don't pull 80 hours long week nor I consider it effective.

Had the complain was about overall lack of rest or overwork, that would be understandable. But it is not about that.

It is about expectation that original estimate is measure of how much you should do and if the task turned out faster, you can watch movies rest of the week.
>Hunter gatherer society actually included A LOT of downtime

Why is downtime relevant here? We're talking about whether it's voluntary or not. Also, does that mean prison labor isn't prison labor if they're sufficient "downtime"?

>People are being worked to death, and it's reflected in the deteriorating mental health that's prevalent.

Okay, the working conditions are bad, I never denied that. But you know what's worse? Being a prehistoric hunter-gatherer. I'm going to go on a limb and say that hunting woolly mammoths is orders of magnitude more dangerous. If that's the metric we're using then their "extension of prison labor"-ness is off the charts compared to amazon.

>I'll have to ask the guy next time I see him if he feels like "it's voluntary", because someone on the internet said "well, actually, they choose this!"

I'll reiterate my question from the prior comment: are hunter-gatherers' hunting activities "voluntary"? If not, does that mean what they're doing is an "extension of prison labor"?

>Are you seriously going to tell me you don't understand what's wrong here?

I acknowledge the unfavorable working conditions that they're under, but I disagree with the characterization that it's an "extension of prison labor". Comparing it to that might provide shock value for how bad their working conditions are, but it's a disservice to the actual prison labor population because it trivializes their issues.
Sounds like you'd have the same problem if you were a cowboy coder at a non-startup.
oh I remember this one. opening CD tray remotely
Yesterday while driving my wife to the nearest large town for shopping (one hour each way) I was explaining my thought process on getting an Android phone with an alternative software stack. The most painful part of this proposed transition is that our 2021 Honda Pilot basically becomes whichever of our iPhones is currently synched, and let me tell you, this is damned convenient (pun intended).

Currently I am using the full range of ProtonMail products, and have my Google, Apple, and device settings as strong-privacy as I can. Google is a good example: I use a range of paid for Google services but except for YouTube Premium, I have data collection turned off. I let Google store YouTube data for 30 days, and still get a good user experience.

As others here have said, stay away from any smart home devices.

EDIT: reading this article (and her book Privacy is Power) yesterday is what kicked off our conversation. People who protect their privacy have advantages over people who don’t.
> What are the two words not here?

Unknown as of the posting of the Twitter thread.
The Invisible Rulebooks
Hopefully it doesn’t! Would you like to point out how I imply that trans people are deceptive?

Sure, but my preference for being solely with brunettes is not as strong as my preference for being solely with straight people, so the deception is not equal in its merited response. Perhaps this is bigoted, but I’m sincerely interested in your conviction.
You've got cancer and then died of pneumonia. These are both deadly.
Same. Nowadays kids get expelled for this!
Yeah agree, it’s a need to feel like they are making a change and a desire for moral superiority.

It’s sort of interesting it happened so hard with this generation, there must have been some tipping point.
This is great! I noticed US and Imperial UK units, but will other units become available?
>And followed it by arguing they could just raise wages

>In other words, they've made a choice.

Did you skip the rest of the comment about how millennials can pay more, but choose not to?
I think it’s more about preventing it from ever going on a rant, to prevent any obvious “outrage”.

Especially given the number of reactions to Copilot centered around poisoning OSS repos.
iOS blocks access to the wifi info needed as I remember, it's why you don't really see any wifi scanner apps on it.
I agree with your broad outline, but have a very minor quibble with one word: "hippies". I think that, even in the 60s, there was a bit of a distinction to be made between the "hippies" and the "radicals" -- not that there wasn't overlap. My impression is that the "hippies" were less militantly political, borrowed more (superficially) from Eastern religion, were more relaxed, and came in back-to-the-land varieties. They would have scored high on "agreeableness". Their music would have featured strumming guitars.

Whereas the radicals were more academic, more willing to engage in violence, with a variety of aesthetics that, overall, leaned more towards Black Panther berets (the real Panthers, not the superhero), than toward faux-Hindu paraphernalia. They would very much not have scored high on agreeableness. Their music then would have been funk, in the 90s would have been rap, and now is pop which features, not the relaxed strumming of a guitar, but a marching 4/4 (maybe even a snare).

And, in my imagination, the typical "person on the Right" had a tendency to conflate the two.

If you were watching Scooby-Doo, you'd suspect that Scooby and Shaggy were hippies, Velma was a radical, Fred was a little "Right", and Daphne was just a normcore moderate.

Anyway, the split is still with us today. "Mindfulness" and pop-yoga come from the hippies. Ski-/granola-bro is descended from the hippies. #vanlife borrows a ton from them too, including the VW vans (when they can get them). Permaculture comes from the back-to-the-land branches, and, though mostly "liberal", has even now grown its own somewhat "conservative" branches. And you sense a lot of residual "hippyness" throughout California.

Whereas "woke" stuff -- well, we've been talking about it nonstop for the past five years, so I probably don't need to describe it more. Point is, it's not like the hippy-descended stuff of the last paragraph. It's less Stuart Brand, more Focault and Fanon.

And you know -- I said that "red-state" people couldn't distinguish them. But probably low-tier "blue-state" people can't either. Which might explain some of what's going on.
I wouldn't say they're opposite. But I would say they're ok in abandoning liberal ideals in order achieve their goals. I.E Mob justice, "positive" discrimination, silence is violence, ostracization of people who dare think differently, etc etc

But if you don't take liberal ideas seriously, suddenly you validate authoritarian tactics. The only difference then is that it's ok to use authoritarian tactics just as long as they push my ideas, and not yours. If you don't like authoritarian tactics that right wing people use, you can't use authoritarian tactics to promote left ideas without being a massive hypocrite. Either using authoritarian tactics is ok or it isn't.

Most atrocities in the world come from the authoritarian parts of politics regardless of where you are on the left/right spectrum. My ideas are the right way, and I'm going enforce it using law, mob justice and violence. As opposed to liberalism where diversity of thought is welcomed.
Tom's Hardware theorizes that if Apple were to adopt the open-source instruction set of RISC-V, it may save the company money because it wouldn't need to pay Arm a license fee for its instruction set.

The money Apple pays ARM is insignificant.

More likely in my opinion, they are exploring RISC-V as a base from which to build their own proprietary chips. There is nothing "open" about Apple.
They do have the same effects on the central nervous system as far as Harmala alkaloids are concerned, including deleterious effects. Some of the aforementioned alkaloids are neurotoxic, are deposited in brain fatty tissues, and can proceed the development of neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease.

The public is largely noninformed about the constituents of coffee and tobacco smoke. Only nicotine and caffeine are ever mentioned, and even scientific articles routinely confuse the effects of pure nicotine and tobacco smoke, and those of pure caffeine and coffee. It is a collective illusion.

I never claimed that coffee contains nicotine: rather, what coffee and tobacco have in common are these Harmala alkaloids, the most abundant of which act as so-called monoamine oxidase inhibitors in humans.

However, some rather unexpected things do contain nicotine: tomatoes, potatoes, eggplants and green peppers.
Always better than boring outrage press.
It’s likely something environmental. Wild animals and even lab animals on strict diets are fatter now than they were in the 70s. A recent article discussed on HN proposed plastics and lithium contamination as two possible culprits.
Without more information about the specific case, it's impossible to determine which side was actually supporting meritocracy and which was simply promoting their political cause disguised as meritocracy.

What was the minimum GPA? Who can apply? Are admissions limited to a geographical area or not? Who determines the GPA? If the answer is "teachers", how easily can that be gamed? Why not a similar but much more objective and harder to game system, e.g. admissions exam followed by a random selection above a, say, 80% cutoff point (e.g. first narrow the pool with an exam, then halve it again randomly)?

> but that thing is largely disconnected from actual work and instead just becomes an obstacle course.

This assertion is AFAIK quite nebulous. SATs and similar tests are correlated with IQ and with probability someone finishes university and with later life outcomes. Some say that high school GPA are better predictors, which might be true, but the real question is, how easy are they to game? A metric is only really useful if it doesn't change substantially when it becomes a goal. You might disagree regarding SATs (there's quite some disagreement and proper research into this topic is both hard and very politicised) but whatever other solutions you're proposing, should first be assessed based on how subjective (easy to manipulate/game) they are.

Same thing as Leetcode interviews, really. Everyone knows they suck, noone has come up with anything better yet.
>...how is this different than a baker not making a cake for some particular customer?

Yes, the argument can be made in these cases that there are two sides, so someone's rights are being violated either way.

But, there does seem to be a consistent quality here that the particular "infringed" right of one side is the "right" to deny others' rights.

Might that be the difference?
Society is purely a social construct. The fact that some things exist solely because we collectively agree they do doesn't make them less real. I still can pay my rent using money. I need a passport to enter another country. You will have issue with the authorities if you discriminate a protected group.
Incredible to learn in this article that these two rulers never met, likely for political reasons forced upon them, and yet had such a profound effect on each other's lives.
Paper exists in the physical world. It makes sense to apply old copyright laws to them. They're physical things, naturally scarce.

My argument is that they make no sense in the virtual world. Once information makes its way there, it can be copied and distributed worldwide at negligible costs and with zero limitations. Pretending otherwise means living in denial of reality.
With Covid Lingering, a Long-Running D.C. Jazz Jam Struggles Finding Audiences
How to use bookmarks in bash/zsh
Like the Carrington Event but with modern tech?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event
Same here, whenever I use a browser without adblock I'm amazed how every page is flooded with ads.
I'm having a bit of trouble understanding this. What you you mean by 'requires powerlessness'? If I commit a sin against wokeness, how do I demonstrate powerlessness in order to gain forgiveness?
We send multiple billions of emails a year, and text messages, and push messages, and outbound ivr messages, and two way chat messages, and print messages, and in some cases fax messages lol. Our outbound volume is extreme and luckily only a few of our communication streams have trouble with deliverability. But it does take a few different teams to manage it all.
Absolutely not.
Go Tim Apple!
I have nothing to hide. Do you?
Yes and:

> Apple are doing this because they have a child porn problem.

They're also under relentless pressure. From governments, who demand backdoors and full access. From hackers, who are pwning the entire stack.

Like the EFF, I oppose the image scanning.

But I'd like someone, anyone propose what Apple (Google, Facebook, ...) is supposed to do?

My hunch is that Apple is trying to thread the needle. Do the absolute bare minimum, to fend off the inevitable governmental policy overreaches. Find some technical solution to mollify all the would be tyrants.

If Apple's attempts to find a balance don't work, the default position is backdoors, not Matrix-style end-to-end full encryption.

I'm not saying EFF should stfu.

EFF and others should be savvy enough to see the meta game and advocate their own policy (platform) accordingly.

Edit: u/dhx makes similar points https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28412861
There's nothing stopping considering pro lifers or whatever they want to be called to include in that list, hell why not even under religion. Just some judge has to stamp it.
We had mask mandates in prior pandemics.
The BO payload was so large that it was hard to inject or distribute without pretty obviously being suspicious.

A friend developed Fraggle Lite in ASM with separate versions for the network adapter, which became the world's smallest RAT for a while. I never found the Easter egg, but I do remember the original password for our hardcoded users. I wonder if I still have them somewhere...
504 Gateway Timeout

Several times over the course of like an hour. It was a mmesage from Cloudflare, saying that your site took a long time to reply.
"Are you, or have you ever been, a member of the communist party"

Don't forget that even in the US that we dance on the knifes edge of authoritarianism where neighbors narc on neighbors all the time.
Not only. The PDP-11 had 5 (6? 7?) different and incompatible OS options available for the same instruction set and hardware.

Which - of course - varied somewhat different across different models.
Many young people diagnosed with Tourette’s after watching a YouTube channel
One of the most well-written films about abortion that highlights the ordeal is, not surprisingly given your comment, Romanian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4_Months,_3_Weeks_and_2_Days
> It is my opinion that piracy has helped that book much more than it has hurt it. It is very widely pirated in torrents in non-us countries from what I can tell from google searches and a longstanding history of emails to the effect "hey your book is being pirated [here]". I sincerely doubt that the overwhelming majority of people who pirate that work did so instead of purchasing it.

Tim O'Reilly agrees with you:

https://www.oreilly.com/content/piracy-is-progressive-taxati...
If someone attempts 500,000 failed 2FA attempts on an account, I think its safe to lock that account/take extra steps.
Are there open source browser derivatives that bundle such an extension?

Any browser beside Chrome or Firefox seems to only be installed by power users, who also know how to install an adblocker.
The ship on this sailed a long time ago. Hosting providers have refused to host content they consider objectionable for a long time. I think you could probably reasonably make a distinction between serving as a publisher for someone else and providing a service like baking.