skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you oppose lockdowns you still need to express your views lawfully just like anyone else.

I'm sure people said much the same about Rosa Parks.
Another one would be paying Wall Street bankers not to create innovative banking products, like synthetic CDO's
Can we ban Facebook under the same social harm policy? I think there is little doubt that social media in general is harmful to society. I wonder if it will be one of those mistakes we look back on as a society and wonder how we allowed it.
I've had this before and it can be "peering", which is much more obvious when you have a couple of different connections with different ISPs to test... i.e where one ISP will be much slower on the VPN, and only when using servers with a certain ISP on the other end due to peering arrangements between the two ISPs.

Mullvad tend to have a couple of options of ISPs across the servers in one location, and the couple of times I've come across peering I've always managed to find a combo that fully utilises my connection so far.
Yes I strongly dislike the advertising industry. UX designers I don't have a problem with - they often use informed consent ("check out our new design!"), and as far as I know they don't usually run intentionally harmful experiments. I'm not sure how they could, Facebook is in a somewhat unique position there as it's so embedded in some people's lives.

I'm not sure there's really a policy solution, I think any law that made what Facebook does illegal would also make a million other legitimate activities illegal. It's good that Facebook was shamed into apologizing and creating some kind of internal review board, society at large did a great job making that happen, and we should keep that up. Maybe journals can institute better policies about not publishing unethical studies so they don't legitimize and encourage this behavior.

Note that it's not a choice between "Facebook does everything in secret" or "Facebook publishes all its research". Even if there had been no consequences for the emotional contagion study, Facebook would still keep most research internal, just like the tobacco industry buried cancer studies or the oil industry buried climate change research.
Easyopt: Zero-Code Hyperparameter Optimization
You've got to be kidding. Have you ever done any farming? Ever even lived in a rural area?
I am always surprised by this irrational need to build "generators" or alternatives for SQL.

SQL, to me, seems like a very straightforward solution to the relational querying problem. If performance is a concern, optimize under the hood (SQL is just a language after all).
> The general population is not equipped with enough information or enough time to meaningfully distinguish between bullshit and non-bullshit.

How certain are you that you're not part of that particular subset of the 'general population'?
The year of the Linux desktop is already here, it's just not evenly distributed.
It's not, because people won't easily benefit from taking unlimited condiments, while they would easily benefit from real unlimited holidays.

Holidays should come with some limits, eg. no more than X weeks per year, like it was in the past.

I get it, the government made a stupid rule (forcing PTO accrual in the contract between employer and employee) and companies were creative enough to find a solution to bypass that rule and made it sound attractive on a job ad.
In an ideal world we would just have an explicit upfront amount and no government interference.
#3, democracy on the web works, still rings super true to me. but we've failed to stay web enough. our different sites have totalizing control, we havent teied to build a eobustly internetworked webful experience. the web has been steadily applicationized, colonized at scale, by old fashioned top down systems. i still think more web is the best cure for what ails the web now: disinformation, uncaring far off insensitive moderation, dogpiling, popularity contests. the web is a big enough place for mamy voices, and cersatile enough to help us all begin to weave maps of understanding, trust, & reason to co-surf with.
Great article, thanks for sharing! We completely share your point of view that authorization is (at least) as interesting as moving to k8s :)

Disclaimer: I'm a co-founder of Aserto, a developer API for authorization.

I particularly like the section about the architectural options, and the evolution from a monolith into the various combinatorics of { service architecture, decision logic, data }. Many people gloss over those details, but they are critical.

Most developers we talk to want to have the best of both worlds - an authorization system with latency and availability characteristics akin to a library, but a managed experience around the artifacts that are involved in an authorization decision - the policy, the user attributes, and the data.

As you've described, there are many ways to approach authorization, and the challenge is to tune the system to be opinionated in some areas while being general-purpose enough to fit many use-cases. We've chosen to be less opinionated about the data model and more opinionated about the architecture. Our philosophy is described here [0].

You mentioned OPA as a general-purpose decision engine, and since we use it as our decision engine, we have some experience to share. You noted that one can compile policies to WASM and execute them on the client/browser, bringing tighter coupling between the server and the client. But there's a different/better way to do this - namely to define different decisions for allowing an operation at the policy enforcement point and for making a UI element visible or enabled. You can package (and evaluate) all of these decisions in a single policy file, which helps you keep all your authorization logic in a single place, rather than have to update it in many places. We describe this in more detail here [1].

[0] https://www.aserto.com/blog/five-principles-of-authorization

[1] https://www.aserto.com/blog/addressing-challenges-with-githu...
> I wonder how many of those ZX Spectrums, C64 etc were given to kids, who on finding that they had to actually do some work to make them do anything useful relegated them to a shoebox under the TV.

In my experience, that tended to happen more with the kids who got the C64s. Those were the ones with color TVs and Betamax at home, too.
It’s pretty much got to be regulatory changes. The regulations we have currently are what makes it legal to exclude competitors.
#4, democracy on the web works, still rings super true to me. but we've failed to stay web enough. our different sites have totalizing control, we havent teied to build a eobustly internetworked webful experience. the web has been steadily applicationized, colonized at scale, by old fashioned top down systems. i still think more web is the best cure for what ails the web now: disinformation, uncaring far off insensitive moderation, dogpiling, popularity contests. the web is a big enough place for mamy voices, and cersatile enough to help us all begin to weave maps of understanding, trust, & reason to co-surf with.
Hypothesis is going strong. They have smart people working on it, it's fully open source with open APIs and data available over anonymous RSS, the culture is nothing like rap/bro culture, and the founder is independently wealthy from winning the startup lottery in a past life and seems to be running the thing as a passion project no matter how much it makes. (Their main commercial play right now is selling higher ed. on the idea of using Hypothes.is for scholarly criticism.)

See "Notes for an Annotation SDK" from a couple weeks ago <https://blog.jonudell.net/2021/09/03/notes-for-an-annotation...>
I hear this, but when I was a consultant, I found it difficult to take any time off. When I took time off, I wasn't billing, and when I wasn't billing I was leaving money on the table.
It's interesting how inconsistent and asymmetric these intuitive limits seem to be. Pushing employees to work extra hours, easily $X000 in time? Perfectly acceptable. Abusive JIRA-powered micromanagement? That's just how it is. But $60 worth of pizza!? How could a reasonable person possible justify that?
I'm ok with that. I'm still on an old data plan that throttles me after I got the limit for high speed data. But they don't hide that limit or my usage, and it's really cheap.

I don't want to pay for unlimited data, and I don't want to lose data after hitting a cap.
This is like claiming people get in car accidents during every single driving trip, because accident reports fail to ever mention drivers reaching their destination safely and without incident.
Absolutely, I can be a completely different person one week to the next depending on my work

I’ve found it helpful to explain the difficulties of programmer brain to others as being like trying to talk to me while I’m on the phone to someone. I can do it, but it’s not comfortable and I might not make you feel as connected as I’d want you to
> t’s not in societies interest to have “Joe’s homemade injectable health serum. You can trust ol’ NASA Joe” available at every roadside stand.

Luckily we're already protected from misleading and dangerous medicine with existing law. You're falsely pretending he's doing something worse than he really is. If you're so confident in your belief, why not just use truth instead of exaggeration?
You might want to contact the people who went through this in Princeton, Massachusetts:

https://madned.substack.com/p/thin-pipe-part-i

https://madned.substack.com/p/thin-pipe-part-ii

They probably have lots of contacts.
Probably some agressive solvents (MIBK comes to mind).
>The slippery slope fallacy is exactly that: a fallacy.

The slippery slope fallacy is only a fallacy when there is no prior evidence of said thing happening in the past.

People who parrot "slippery slope is a fallacy", like in this case, are merely participating in the fallacy of cherry-picking. They're ignoring when slippery slope is not a fallacy and acting like any slippery-slope argument is fallacious when it isn't.
Complaining about Windows is one of the few things people have left to agree about. Now why would you want to go and mess that up with your comment?
Why shoehorn millenials into this. Just say you are old and go
I think that as long as in general folk do the right thing, if a few folk “unfairly” do the wrong thing because of extenuating circumstances like having cancer (or a family member having that or something else serious)… well, that’s ok.

Calling for universal absolute behaviour from everyone is unkind, and, statistically not necessary for the outcomes you want.

Basically; it’s easy to say “call them out!” when it’s not you and youre not taking any risks.

Pretty nice and comfortable to sit in your armchair and say that…

I think there are a lot of people here to want someone else to do it, but aren’t willing to do it themselves.
They've had 4 years to settle on a GUI for .NET Core and completely failed.

At this stage, the 3rd party gui libraries are looking better and better i.e. Electron.NET
https://smackeyacky.blogspot.com/2021/08/electronnet-cross-p...
It's kind of disingenuous to present SushiSwap as an example of proper community building when it was led by manipulators through and through.

Firstly an account of the creation of SushiSwap that doesn't say a word about how the founding team was from Band protocol, an established project with deep ties to the shitcoin-roulette Binance and friends, is deeply incomplete. It's those connections that gave it traction, to list the token on centralized exchanges early and pump the price, making early holders rich. Only way, way after that, a community formed and started actually building some cool stuff.

Secondly, without the cartels to make Nomi return the funds, the project would have ended after that episode. I'm not sure advising people to associate themselves with money laundering groups is a good idea.

Thirdly, have a look at who took the project after Nomi sold (SBF), and the multisig key holders that replaced the original team. 1/3 of them are serial parasites that voted for themselves with their own tokens. By then there were already a few more organic community members that could've done a better job stewarding the project.

Be careful when you venture in this world people. It's never a bad idea to stay anon. The established players are extremely, extremely rich, they don't pull any punches, and can bend the public opinion almost at will.
Take a look at https://mullvad.net/en/help/swedish-legislation/
I'm absolutely certain that I am part of the general population and share this characteristic.

[EDIT: because of the work I've done, there are a handful of areas where I think my BS detection abilities would exceed those of an average person. But that's likely true for the average person too. Overall though, we're all a lot less able to detect BS than we think. ]
I think there's a common misconception that numerical codes should be accessible without documentation, and without a background in the subject.

https://github.com/nasa/NASTRAN-95

Take NASTRAN-95, for example. It has good documentation in the form of manuals, books, and papers. If you have the mechanical background, you should be able to understand the docs explaining the implementation approach, and then you should be able to understand the code. It doesn't matter that there are no comments anywhere. Aside from some cosmetic differences, it looks pretty much like what you'd write today with MATLAB. It's perfectly readable and accessible by the target audience.
Compute performance per watt will get a lot more attention in the coming years. AMD making RISC chipsets is a move in that direction.
Sure, but one still has to demonstrate a reason for the symmetry. It is certainly not self evident.
The authors (one being the notable Alan I. Leshner, MS, PhD) clearly states in the report that those numbers are unreliable:

>> The lack of standardization across databases limits their comparability (NRC, 2005). The absence of clearly defined concepts complicates
data collection and interpretation. For example, definitions of “selfdefense” and “deterrence” are ambiguous (NRC, 2005; Weiner et al.,
2007). There is no standardized method for data collection or collation,
which prevents researchers from harnessing the potential power of data
across multiple datasets
100% of the wealthier people I have met are frugal, and thr majority of them live on much less than the majority of the poor people I know.
This is the normal progression. Countries begin to publish in the language of the top country at the time, then later they publish in their own language as they gain in importance.

Up till around 1950, most science papers were in German as the Germans were the most technically advanced country till the late 1940s. I remember my brother trying to learn enough German to read those older German science papers.

Then English took over as the number of US science papers overtook the number of papers written in German.

Now the number of papers written in Chinese is overtaking the number of papers written in English.

In another 50 years or so perhaps we will see Hindi or Swahili taking over from Chinese in the publication of science papers.
I think it's perfectly possible for one person to be on their org's good side and another to walk into every single branch of a hostile bureaucracy. Especially in large companies, which Atlassian certainly is now. I've seen that in action, side by side, even within the same team.

Neither invalidates the other, because a large company is perfectly capable of both at the same time.
The problem being of course, that from the applicant side you don’t know if they mean it or not.

So you’ll be competing with people that implement the whole thing regardless.

Now I’d like to think that interviewers are entirely impervious to that, but realistically, it’ll hurt the chances of those that do it only halfway.
I've made it a personal goal to lead by example on this.

Coworker: I'll be out of office for my friend's wedding next week, but I'll check in sometimes to make sure everything's OK.

Me: Oh no you won't! Go have fun and stay away. We'll be fine for a few days.

Chalk it up to enlightened self interest if you want. When it's my turn to be on vacation, I don't want to feel obligated to check in. Therefore, I don't let the people who report to me do it, either.
Seriously if you're genuine about that it's such a temporary solution. You're saying you can't trust your operating system vendor at all. Start making plans to dump them is really the only sane thing to do at that point.
Los Alamos County owns the electric, gas, water, and wastewater utilities. So they own the poles and have rights of way. I think we are in a better position in that regard than most communities. However, you may be correct that the pay scale is not adequate.
My son is 13. He loves Deno. What I don't get is why a 13-year-old can get Deno, and we don't, and it's not as widely popular as it must be for its merits!
In 40+ years I have never been raped and I don't know anyone who was raped. Rape doesn't exist?
Pretty rich that the same organization that figured out that its own product was hurtful to teen girls (and promptly did nothing)[0] is now shutting down anti-lockdown accounts because of "social harm".

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28523688
When you are an appreciative customer, this title just feels ominous.
It used to be that if you were an American teenager in a rural area, you could even drive to school with your hunting rifle still in your pickup and nobody would care.

My Silent Generation father grew up in a city, which quickly turned rural at its edges, and it was routine to keep your hunting long gun in your locker to save a trip back home for hunting before or after school. Antonin Scalia mentioned carrying his .22 target rifle on the NYC city subways to and from practice.
> Do we need to study war?[...] We basically won every fight.

The study of war is not only about the tactics, how to win fights. It's also about what causes war, why conflicts arise, what the potential sources of instability are, what the alternatives to war are, etc.

Occupation is certainly part of the study of war. America was very good at that after WW2. Both the occupation of Germany and of Japan were extraordinarily successful. They could not have been so successful just by random chance.
If we'd had this in the '80s, the gay movement would have been crushed like a bug.
Forbid people from leaving their homes. Disrupt their ability to coordinate online. Nothing sinister at all about this.
> I winced when you started the comparison with Brazil and Mexico.

What about Greenland?

> ...anybody who's visited Mexico knows not to go random places alone.

It's the same in the US, and basically every country in the world. Some places are dangerous, others aren't.

> ...if Brazil and Mexico are our points of comparison, we're... not in a situation I'd want to be in, to put it diplomatically.

Put it undiplomatically. What exactly do you mean by that? Draw me a picture with crayons, I want to understand clearly what this means.

An important point in the comment you replied to was that maybe demand for firearms is the result of the crime rate and not the cause. Care to address that?
WSL needs to be manually added to windows by the user before it can be used. Also a distro then has to be installed in the VM.
I didn't get the impression the author alleged YouTube had any obligation to let him broadcast his material.

He even mentioned understanding why YouTube would be wary of his content, and mostly was unhappy that YouTube did not put some of their profits into being able to discriminate between home-made science and the quacks exploiting the vulnerable.

But none of this article made me even think the author believed YouTube had some sort of obligation to host content they did not wish to. He just wasn't happy with the decision they made.
DMCA what? I don’t see anything wrong with emulation.
This is great. The results for my search were like a suggested reading list.
Yes, I'm talking about "only". In retrospect I shouldn't have even noted it though. The misleading aspect is the thing to note.
There's a pandemic, dude. Millions of people have died. Are you for real?
You're saying that I should expect to be assaulted and arrested in response to an exercise of free speech. That's a fail.

If I persist, or defend myself, as people attempt to stop me, are you positive that I wouldn't get shot by some trigger-happy kid like Kyle Rittenhouse?
CA allows employers to put a cap on accrued vacation. See https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/FAQ_Vacation.htm

> Q. My employer's vacation policy provides that once an employee earns 200 hours of vacation, no more vacation may be earned (accrued) until the vacation balance falls below that level. Is this legal?

> A. Yes, [and a bunch of examples]

They're only required to cash out your vacation at the end of your employment, and rolling over vacation isn't really a thing because you accrue it incrementally with each paycheck. See "Q. How is vacation earned?" in that link for more info.
We don't know. Maybe she is maybe she isn't. Regardless Twitter is not an official record of anything and additionally they are selective with regard to what inaccuracies they censor.

That said, apparently swollen testes are reported in the VAERS as a reaction to the vaccine. Not a great amount but also non-zero.
Probably sounded better in the original German.
I had one take home at some point where the interviewers didn’t believe I actually did implement their thing in 6 hours. Everyone else took two days :/
I hope more people get thrown in jail for not caring about privacy, so they and we learn to care more.
I use Gnus, which does this. It automatically turns message ids into links in both the headers and the body of the message.

It has some restrictions that I occasionally want to relax though. It doesn’t keep a complete database of all message ids it has seen in your inbox, just a list of the ones it most recently pulled into a summary. For example, if you pull up a summary that includes the latest 100 messages in your INBOX, then the links will take you to any message within those 100, but clicking on a link to a message older than that just tells you that it can’t find the message id in the summary.
Before you think this is just Facebook making an arbitrary decision:

> Germany’s domestic intelligence agency has put some Querdenker adherents under surveillance as the movement has become increasingly radicalized and its protests have attracted neo-Nazis and other right-wing extremists.

The article does not say anything about the German government making any kind of formal request so this just seems like Facebook is going to be proactive is blocking things countries don't like rather than wait for legislation or a legally binding request.

Pretty harmless in this case but I wonder if Facebook would do the same in countries with speech censorship and human rights violations. Countries may not even need to build a GFW or filter Facebook since they would rather voluntarily comply than be regulated.
Why are people still repeating that private company nonsense? Your same argument was used against civil rights back when private companies were allowed to discriminate based on race. It's an appeal to the existing law and implies you believe the law is correct by default - whatever it might be - and needs no justification.
When did being against lockdowns become harmful? Seriously, they're called "lockdowns," because they are the very opposite of things you want to normalize in a free society.

If there were a single issue worth organizing a popular social movement around, being confined to your home, your business closed, and your freedoms of movement, association, speech and even religion cancelled in the present would be the specific completely legitimate thing you would organize against. I understand some former east germans in government now are nostaglic for their past glories, and american tech platforms represent the opportunity to them to get it right this time, but come on.

Anyway, I'm sure it's only temporary.