skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point that other cultures have different standards on disturbing and traumatic content is interesting in light of the fact that social network moderation is frequently outsourced[1] to poorly-paid workers in other countries.

I wonder if a moderator applied their own local cultural bias for a Western video.

[1] https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2019-08-...
No wonder I can hardly understand my wife… and vice-versa.
Yes. Because free samples are not that costly, so the company doesn't have to be careful. Interviews are, so the company should be careful.
Yeah, it doesn't look to me like the holes are something being removed to conceal it; I don't think the holes' positioning is strategic. The way it looks to me, is that the holes are just to render the negative unusable.

That is, I think it's vandalism. Even if the focus is a bit dodgy, I don't see the point in mutilating negatives like that.
He was working off of negatives, so he marked the negatives he didn't want to publish. The negatives come as a long strip, so you can't just remove the bad ones.

Presumably if there was an entire strip of bad ones, it would be tossed, but most of the time it was a mix, and it was a way to mark them.

Not a great way, since someone else might like the photo, but I guess he saw zero value in the poor photos (basically the same as pressing delete on a digital camera - do you keep every photo you take, even bad ones?)

Don't forget - he wasn't working off of "historical" photos, to him, these were present day photos, and easily replaceable.

To us these are irreplaceable parts of history, but it wasn't like that to him.

> It's still sad that the censor

Editor, not censor - he was preparing interesting photos for publication.
What if I'm hiring and I want to test out interview questions. Is that a service you offer?
How do you know what people are looking for?
I could see "identity verified" being a valuable thing from a UI perspective.

You want to avoid an experience where people are being told "send the money to trustmereallytheaccountspayabledeptnojoke@company.com", or worse yet, a context-free account number. It's too easy to typo or have tampered malicious data on there.

Some form of "identity verification" service solves that problem. Your commercial recipients can register their accounts, and when you put their contact info or account number in the "send to" field, the client can pull up and display the associated data. The customer can feel much more confident he is sending to the right firm.

If you limit it to being opt-in, solely for registered legal entities with a documented paper trail, you can preserve consumer anonymity to a degree, and the exclusivity helps to make it part of the normal customer flow: all your major bills are going to go to validated recipients, so anything asking to be paid to an unvalidated account, or where the name doesn't match the expected one, calls for extra scrutiny.

Yes, it can be manipulated, but I suspect gaming a federal payments system is the sort of thing that 1) leaves a hell of a paper trail and 2) would get prosecuted aggressively.
Seems like all you men don’t know enough about fabric and garments. This may be leading you to purchase poor quality garments. If I may recommend a solid introduction: How to Assess the Quality of Garments by Anushka Rees.

https://anuschkarees.com/blog/2014/05/01/how-to-assess-the-q...
I will inconvenience others for my own gain fairly regularly. I know to give a very apologetic answer here and repeatedly be willing to admit I was wrong.

Your problem is that you too clearly telegraph the answer you want.

It is too obvious that this is a “no jerks” test question.

You want a question like this, that I nearly screwed up recently for a team I am on now.

“How do you feel about members of the team who you believe is not pulling their weight and how would you address that as their co-worker? How do you ensure that team member doesn’t drag the team down?”

Plenty of people answer this question by immediately jumping to termination, complaining to the manager, or some version of “reading the riot act.” You will find little introspection in their answers or interrogation of why that person is underperforming.

It seems like a behavioural question on an underperforming colleague. But how they answer says a lot about themselves.

Do they trust their immediate judgement that their colleague is underperforming? Do they take the initiative to get them fired? Is there compassion? Do they try to collect evidence and specific details before taking action?

My winning answer to this question was a story about how the best engineer I ever knew was fired unfairly because he spent his time helping others and thus was not truly underperforming.
the Russians don't deserve to be dragged into this hypothetical, because most of them are not-superstitious or believe in some sort of evil eye folklore, courtesy of an reasonably decent scientific education system compared to much else that's wrong with the country these days.

That's actually true for most cultures that end up being used as flagbearers for these bizarre relativistic arguments.
Feminism is never about equity or equality between sexes. The most straight forward and correct definition of feminism is women wanting to be equal to or surpass rich and powerful men. Women never wanted to be equal to average men. Average men are disposable. Women had it better than men almost everywhere since the beginning.

Feminists are out rightly man hating. They are not allies of men/boys. They start killallmen trend, they started endfatherday, feminists support not jailing women for anything, NOW, the largest feminist org in the us oppose shared parenting, feminists in Canada shut down male dv centers....
The WSJ has churned out at least three op-eds in the past two months on the theme that 1/6 shouldn't be called an "insurrection". It makes you wonder what benefit a pro-business conservative outlet with an upper class readership sees in encouraging populist riots. If they think any of this unrest, or keeping 1/6 alive as an issue, or justifying a mob is good for the GOP, they're nuts.
I used Fi for six years living overseas. I needed a phone with a US number for customers and my family to call. Very handy to have phone and internet service when you step off the plane or train. However Fi is not economical compared to most local carriers. The majority-US usage rules have been around for a while. I never had Google cancel me or do anything. If I stayed anywhere for more than a few days — as expats and digital nomads usually do — I bought a local SIM card. That’s going to cost less than Fi in most places. Usually I could get a SIM with a decent package at the airport. A dual-SIM phone helps.

You can easily find web sites describing cell carriers with coverage maps and costs, for any country. And you can find web sites that tell which carriers work with your phone.

I had a Fi family plan with my son sharing with me, and he was always in the US. That may have tilted my account to majority US usage. I don’t know if Google looks at per-account or per-number usage.
They're just little demons.
How does upstart or systemd get rid of envvars? Seems to me they just added a bunch of new ones with awkward names. Try setting up wayland from scratch...
I've been in this situation and fortunately I came to my senses. The board hired a sociopathic CEO who was running the company into the ground and driving away all the good engineers. I came up with a concrete and inexpensive plan for turning the company around which I thought had about a 50/50 chance of making the company so successful it would own its market, which was brand new at the time. It was largely simple stuff like not making the same dumb mistakes over and over.

I thought about taking the plan to the board, and then I realized:

A. The board members talk to the CEO every day, but I've never even met most of them. Who do I think they're going to listen to?

B. Everybody on the board is rich. If those guys lose $50 million they shrug their shoulders, sail to Bermuda for a month of R&R, and get right back on the investing horse.

C. I owe the board members nothing. NOTHING. I was hired as a staff engineer, not as a turnaround expert for a failing company.

D. The most likely outcome of me talking to the board is me getting fired and nothing else changing. In fact that's the only realistic possible outcome.

So I quit. And immediately got a better job. The company continued declining and eventually fired the sociopath CEO but by that time a better company had come along that now owns that market.

You can't fix stupid. All you can do is leave.
> Yep, that's definitely how we handled smallpox, polio, mumps, measles and more, diseases that use to kill or cripple huge numbers of people, and whose general eradication has come at little to no cost in terms of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Yet the exceptions to the above (non)-"mandates" were and are pretty generous. Even in the dark empire of ex-USSR, if someone didn't very clearly fit into a "safe" statistical bucket due to some sickness, or other conditions - they were put on a reduced vax protocol, or spared injections completely. How do I know this - first-hand experience by me and my family. And nobody ever was threatened to lose their job or right to enter a grocery store, or refused to be seen by doctor due to missing inoculation. Granted, some occupations - meat industry, for example - did require "sanitary passport", but it was an utter lunacy to demand such from teachers, or truckers, or software developers.
Why would it be irresponsible? It's a matter the amount of traffic an airport gets. My guess is Europe's population density means less non towered aerodromes exist.

There are many airports in the US, Canada, and elsewhere that receive a couple of commercial flights a week and it's not really feasible to have a control tower.
There's a law about this. Can't recall the name.
is it possible to force fly.io to use a particular region ? India has these strict data residency laws for financial/healthcare companies (and I know that singapore has them too).

So we need assured guarantees that data is not traversing outside of the region. most cloud vendors have specific data residency compliance for India - https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/india-data-protection/
A lot of these grips are on you, not women or society.

How has onlyfans ruined dating?

Who said lifting weights is dangerous? It's very healthy even in old age!

There is a HUGE amount of things to do besides eating and playing video games. Perhaps you lack the motivation or imagination to do literally anything else.

No school has children sit for 8 hours at a time and any gender at almost any age would have a hard time having the patience to do that. Also implying that men can't go a whole 8 hours being nice?

I'm not sure what you think is fun, but yeah if it's actually legitimately dangerous for others you shouldn't be doing it unless in an environment where everyone consents to it.

In what situation - besides war - is violence good? + Insults, what function do those have and how will that help you live up this idea you have in your head of your role in society or get the partner you want?

Perhaps it's the other ways around and it's your perception that's wrong and in fact most women aren't attracted to those behaviors.

Yes it's wrong that men aren't believed and don't report abuse. It's also the exact same for women and other genders.

But, there's a person for everyone, no matter how different or however they view gender roles.

But yeah if you have strict, unchangeable views and behaviors that do not meld with the majority of potential partners you might have to go somewhere where women have less options and will settle for money/more stability.

I for one am happy that people do not have to make those trade offs and get stuck with 'traditional marriage' as defined by the viewpoints above.
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Wordcels and Shape Rotators
At a previous gig, they were moving from on-prem to cloud for accounting purposes.
That seems overkill for just hosting 2 static files (the go binary and the html file). Why not just use github or something to host those 2 files for you for free?
Might be noob question (ahead of time, even), why/when would one prefer authz/acl with Macaroons over Zanzibar? All I could gather from summaries is that, for Cloud, Macaroons are better suited since 'decentralised'; whereas, Zanzibar appears to favour consistency with centralised architecture capable of expressing relationship graphs and permission inheritance.
The effort to use something like SQS is almost nothing.
Isnt the time you need to dedicate to get good at Leetcode way more than just completing a take home assignment?
Note that "B350" here is a Beechcraft King Air 10-seater turboprop, not to be confused with the far larger Airbus A350, which is a 300 to 450 seater commercial twinjet mainly aimed at long-haul flights.
Wordle Words Known Better by Males Than Females, and Vice Versa

https://observablehq.com/@drsr/wordle-words
Yeah, male here, I knew only "damask" from the women's list, nearly all from the men's.
I came across Cross-Cloud Development the first time when I found http://klo.dev ... Haven't tried them yet but the idea is intriguing.
Its certainly possible, but it requires a level of discipline and commitment thats usually missing at larger organisarions.

In some firms they still struggle with basics, like staff with 200k salary get a terrible slow pc/ crap monitors, etc.
my comment was mostly because there was already one thread with people making statements about cause of the failure based on this report :D
If you just want this to avoid layout shift, you're still better off using explicit width and height attributes (on the img tag), because it is per-image in the HTML itself, not in a common CSS declaration. Is that right?
Polling is one thing but the economics on this are extensive and they mostly reject your suggestions here. Female labor force participation is U-shaped with regards to GDP (https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w4707/w4707...), once you reach the middle part of the curve it starts to increase again as GDP increases, probably because employment becomes more lucrative to women than raising children or staying at home.

If there is an effect here it can't be all that significant, if you look at wealthy countries with larger welfare states than the US most have a female labor force participation rate at least as high.
Historically, when businesses adopted open source software they would contribute upstream. Cloud vendors changed that model. It's interesting that attitudes about this behavior have changed.
Nothing is preventing you from meeting colleagues for lunch or grabbing a beer after work.
For context: She's starting off the article with that obviously false malapropism sometimes attributed to George W. Bush as a springboard to talk about entrepreneurship in France, and it's clear that she is using it as a joke.
I'm not at all excited about the privatization and "free market" reign of space.

Who gets to say yes or no to these satellite proposals?

Also, I have seen what seems to be a surge in space startups, almost all revolving around the satellite space. What is driving the need for these and who is paying for them? I've been curious about that.
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I applaud you for at least being introspective and considered when asking this question, even if I didn't necessarily feel the same while looking at them. Some of the folks replying to you would be better served to approaching their responses similarly.
Cute, but nope. With no intent to return the books, that would be theft. The library owns the book and you would be stealing them.

Hard to find the crime or tort in the other thing? I've been flown places for interviews, I don't recall ever contractually agreeing to consider working at the place, and I can't imagine how the heck you'd prove that (unless your interviewee was an absolute idiot and tweeted "Woo free trip!").

I suppose you'd be jerk or something if it were a non-profit, but I don't think anyone ought to lose sleep over this high-risk business decision being abused, given the razor thin line between "I'm going to screw this company" and "Oh, looks like this place isn't for me."
Thanks! We originally built this to solve our own need. Cool to see it being used by others in the industry now.
There is a recurring dream I have that includes swearing off MS for good.
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I like this analogy, and it explains all the issues when online services are launched by game developers (I kid).
I think the trend is in the opposite direction - the more we advance as a society, the less evolutionary filtering is applied to the population. That means genetic regression over time.
> especially when you avoid the biggest cloud players.

I find it hard to find a balance between the OVH model of 'purchase a server for a year with discounts for a 12/24 year commitment' and AWS where you can purchase a single hour of bare metal compute for cheap.

I would say DigitalOcean fills this, but it's not like they've committed to bare metal, and I imagine they'll continue to look into expanding their suite of managed offerings like Apps[0] (which I think is heroku-esque auto scaling for containers) since the margins on these have to be way higher than their VPS offerings.

0: https://www.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform
Software overriding manual pilot behavior is how we got into trouble with the 737 MAX
I think it would actually be easier to spot a plane at night due to the lights on the plane. I'm not sure how easy it is to determine how far away the plane is though.
Yeah that’s what happened.
This is the first time I've seen positive comment about systemd. I have not messed with Linux init for a long time now, but is there someone who can concisely explain why systemd is hated by many?
No. No need to swear off Microsoft. That's no longer necessary. And hasn't been for some 15 years or more.

For most people today, Microsoft is irrelevant. Maybe a few software developers might think Microsoft is important, but the rest of the world's population and software developers know that it isn't.
No Starch has a book on it. I flipped through it at the bookstore and it seemed pretty comprehensive, with a neat final project too
This is a bit of a tangent, but the linked presentation brings this up. I cannot wrap my mind around leadership of supposed "tech" companies that has little to no input on the tech of the business.

According to the CEO, Foley, he said he has little to no contribution to the tech and goes months without even talking to the CTO.

The other crazy part is that he was previously the head of e-commerce at Barnes & Noble. Did he also have no contribution to the technology at B&N?

This seems to be a pattern and perhaps the reason so many "legacy" companies are falling behind the tech giants. It seems rather often that I see CIOs or even CTOs and very often CEOs that have no clue about technology. And yet they are trying to preach about how they are doing some huge technology driven makeover to reinvent their company.
I was trying to disengage FSD without feedback. The reverse was accidental.

e) I could definitely have been clearer with my wording but that is how I perceived the situation. “Somehow” I was in reverse.
And? Pants clearly restricts many important functions in human life. Do you feel somehow restricted that you have to take them off to perform them? Does this somehow restrict you that you can't go nearly anywhere without pants? No, because you are used to them, as you are correctly stating.

Yes, masks are new and I completely understand that wearing a mask in public is a nuisance. But that is all. There is no need to have complete mental meltdown because of it like too many people appear to have. It is all in heads. There is no need to stress about it. People in Japan have mask wearing custom for long time and they do just fine and we would also survive this. Eventually it will be over. Very likely soon because the cases are going down almost everywhere by now.
> Crypto doesn't enable that.

Actually, it does, by solving an entire class of coordination problems!

> Blockchain is nothing but a very expensive way to maintain a shared spreadsheet. There is nothing crypto can do that a regular-ass database can't do faster, cheaper, and more reliably

Sure, if you accept the "small" constraints of requiring centralization or mutual trust, which usually requires paperwork and lots of procedures... which was the point of my comment.

You don't like crypto so it must be pointless or a mass delusion, and everyone is wrong but the HN is right?

Sure, just like how the iPod was called lame or how dropbox was nothing that anyone couldn't do with just a little bit of SFTP :)
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The data suggest that over 80% of people in the UK know what 'pelmet' means.

I had to look it up, so the 80% number surprises me. Perhaps it's because I've always bought blinds instead of curtains, or maybe the sample isn't representative? Or maybe I just need to pay more attention...
http://100rsns.blogspot.com/
Random tidbit: Robert Williams, the DARPA PM for (at least some of) this, was also DARPA's PM for NASP.
I’ve met a man who didn’t know what a coffee maker was and a (American) woman who thought there were 26 states. The range of what people don’t know is so much broader than you can possible imagine.

(Also would be shocked if someone didn’t know which common illnesses were viral and which weren’t - seems like basic knowledge along the lines of heliocentrism to me)
Can't or won't? Is it really impossible for them to develop a process to do a firmware update at the dealer? Even if that involves removing the radio... How do they program the radios at the factory?