jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
what about an even simpler mechanism - a website offers cookies to the browser, and the browser can choose to either store or not store that cookie. if the browser chooses not to store the cookie, it's up to the website to inform the user that their browser has rejected the cookie and explain what functionality won't be provided.
I was with you up until a couple of months ago. But IMO the latest versions have caught up with Chrome. They've sorted the performance (scroll performance and UI) issues with the new "fenix" version. The tab switching works great now. And the latest (stable) version even supports pull-to-refresh. Add extension support to that (notably ublock) and I've made it my default browser (and that's on merit, not for ideological reasons).
I'm seconding everything said here.

I recently finished a project whereby it took over a year, from kickoff to handoff to deploy two blade servers.

Government IT is often extraordinarily hamstrung in the types of solutions it can deploy due to mandatory requirements to use certain security software, or employ specific policies. [1] While those policies come with a framework for adapting them to the needs of an environment, most don't understand them, and so you're often stuck with a computing environment that any DevOps engineer would find to be practically broken. There's an enormous amount of manual steps and needless shuffling between systems to accomplish the most rudimentary of tasks.

This enormous inefficiency is accepted as being inevitable. Because simple tasks take so long, and making them more efficient would require enormous effort (such getting exceptions to policies approved), the issue is often solved by adding more people. Contractors make their money through staffing, so if you can show that you can get more done with more people, then it can be a good sell. Costs, however, go up. This is where your overruns come from.

(Regarding ATOs, that sounds like the "Type" vs. "Site" accreditations I'm familiar with.)
If the average tenure is 20 years and person A takes 1 month to become effective and person B takes 6 months, then person B has to be 2.1% more productive to be greater ROI. If the average tenure is 1 year then person B has to be 83% more productive for greater ROI.

Increased job liquidity means employers seek increasingly specific fit above all other considerations.
Except one day you'll connect it just for a firmware or security update, and get a bricked TV, or accepting the ToS will no longer matter. And rolling back will be impossible.
I thought it was very "bold" of the author to casually compare writer's block to rape and domestic abuse, in the year of 2021.

People have gotten cancelled for a LOT less recently. (such as, saying they prefer "pers" to "they", for example).
This guy has a video on India. And as an Indian, it gave me fresh perspective on my own country.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPne-q4ynts

Spoiler alert: not at all positive.
Windows NT, but the POSIX subsystem was only as checkbox for goverment contracts.
I have it set to a triple-click of the lock button on mine.
I think parent was referring to the session cookie. The linked article mentions putting the generated token into the server side user session and then to validate it on the next request. You might need a session cookie for that.
You don't even need anything quite so radical. For starters, punish prosecutors who have evidence that would be beneficial to defense, and deliberately conceal it (yes, this happens all the time!).
The autonomous thing should help increase VMT significantly

Possibly drastically and fatally

But not unexpectedly

We need a carbon tax stat
> I don't get it. Is that yet another CORBA clone?

Happy to explain what you don't get. Definitely not a CORBA clone.
The practice at Amazon was like Microsoft in function. %20 were "underperforming" no matter how well they did. It was rolled up from team, to group, level, etc.

Politics was a huge factor. If a team worked really hard during the quarter and got a lot done, but hadn't shipped their feature yet, they risked all bering in the "underperforming" category, simply to allow a peer team to have more "over performers" to reward them-- for actually delivering or for sufficiently sucking off the appropriate boss (or not getting knives in your back.)

There were a lot of (metaphorical) blowjobs and knives in the back in that organization.

Which is what you have to have when ALL of the management is non-technical.

You can't have a meritocracy when the people assigning ratings are incapable of judging merit.
The OP commented: "because more people will accept it as legal tender." the word "more" implying that at least one or more people already accept it as "legal tender" as per whatever definition he uses of "legal tender".
Agreed completely that land is hugely advantageous in agrarian society, yes.

Here's the thing though- landowners don't just own land. They receive disproportionate profits and dividends from charging others for the use of that land. They (broadly speaking) collect rent, which they can then use to build schools, pay teachers, build banks, collect interest, so on and so forth.

The descendants of landowners have the most resources, which allow them to get the best education, the best skills, the best referrals, the best jobs, best networks. In land-scarce Singapore, for instance, about 50% of top students in primary school come from families who own landed property- the elites, who make up about 16% of the population.

It's wonderful that commoners can now also compete- a man like Barack Obama could become President- but there's still a long way to go.

That said, "America is further from that ideal than almost any other place in the world" strikes me as rather... naive? There are more than 6.5 billion people outside America, and there are still people with no access to schooling whatsoever, no basic literacy, etc.
Huh, number of sprites per frame has little to do with the speed of C# in Unity. If anything it shows that Unity's default sprite renderer is inefficient.
Given their limited shelf-life, I’d have thought this would be less of an issue for games than for other software? Many games rely on Lua, for example, which is maintained by a team of just 3 people, and it seems only one of them writes most of the code.

https://github.com/lua/lua/graphs/contributors
Joining a startup that's involved should work
I just wonder why he hasn't updated or amended his website,

https://www.google.com/search?q=pedophile+site%3Astallman.or...
It seems like the users of this site would rather downvote this than actually take the time to think of a response.
Let’s first remove the misconception that it is anywhere near a Ponzi scheme. If it was, the news and Settlement will be mentioning that P work again. No mentions, no conclusive evidence of wrongdoing in the Settlement.

Contrary to FTC statement and CNBC reports, the timeline is the following, and Beam had the paper trail to show that this is factual —

1) October 1, 2020 - Beam's ACH service provider's API service stopped working. Funds locked in banking service provider.

2) Early October - Beam began proactively working with its ACH service provider, banking service provider to unlock the funds help at bank. Service providers initially refused to unlock funds unless Beam indemnifies them. Months long disputes with ACH vendor who locked up the fund.

3) November 16 - All of $2.6 million except around 80 customers who Beam was not able to reach had been refunded in full by Beam and Beam's service providers. The remaining amount of these around 80 customers accounted for <$90K in aggregate dollar amount.

4) November 18 or about - FTC, knowing that Beam had returned vast majority of the $2.6 million, still filed a lawsuit against Beam. CNBC article came out around the same time misstating that Beam had not yet returned the funds and it was FTC who “made” the fund return happen or to be happened.

5) By January - Beam had since then contacted all remaining 80 customers and the return of funds had been complete for all where customers can be reached.

FTC admitted explicitly to Beam on an internal call that they have not reviewed all the evidence —and that they WILL NOT review the full evidence proving Beam's innocence—which is against the principle of due diligence and fair justice.
Beam offered full review of the facts and full disclosure of all facts and evidence, but FTC refused to examine the facts to rectify false allegations by FTC. This is clear evidence that this case was NEVER about truth-seeking, but a PR chess piece for FTC.

About Settlement

1 - There is zero conclusive evidence of finding of wrongdoing. Nil. Only false allegations.

2 - There is $0 penalty. When was the last time you saw FTC taking on an scrappy SME for months, only to come to a $0 settlement? Shows there’s more to the story.

‪To be clear, Beam as a company is not shutting down. Stop the misleading headlines just like when people call Beam a Ponzi scheme. False “entertaining” frivolous news comes and goes, but the damage on good people and startups is a permanent injustice.

If the “System” can take down any small, defenseless SME with explicit refusal to review the FACTs, simply sensationalizing a false make-believe story to paint a picture of the “System” being glorious, fired up by fake news, is this the world we want to leave to our children?
As a child and adult, I am impulsive AND a long term planner.

When the mood strikes me, I make GRAND long term plans. Then, when I'm gripped by impulsively, I try and keep it honed into the plans I made.
Unbelievable. This site adds insult to injury by defending pedophelia and links it to trans issues. Are they saying that if the latter is ok, the former is also ok? Sounds like it to me. RMS deserves all the rejection he is getting for this sentiment alone, never mind the other charges.

> But he did publish a highly controversial comment[2] in 2006 about the intention of pedophiles in The Netherlands to form a political party. Stallman wrote, "I am skeptical of the claim that voluntary pedophilia harms children." People today don't think that a prepubertal human being—a child—is capable of understanding all the implications of sexual activity, and in some cases this is so even after puberty. So, in widespread social opinion, “voluntary” does not apply. However, when we make an unprejudiced analysis of this thought, we can see a connection to skepticism which is typical of scientific thinking and inquisitive minds. Skepticism has a role to play in challenging social norms as in “I'm skeptical that human binary genders constitute an immutable truth.”

https://stallmansupport.org/debunking-false-accusations-agai...
cancel culture is not sustainable. without a unifying hate symbol it will dissolve.
Anyway, my 2 cents - get all the necessary background information first before labelling and assassinating the character of a person.

I think this is covered in Jared Diamond's Collapse. During the Salem Witch Trials, there was a point where a good chunk of the accusations were motivated by getting someone out of the way, so they could get their land, or otherwise by land disputes.

Also covered there: Much of the Rwandan genocide seems to have been exploited by land and resource disputes.

Power corrupts. If you give people unchecked power, then that power will be abused. This is just human nature. One group of people who frequently get unchecked power are activists. The press is supposed to the one of their checks and balances, but they are frequently giving only softballs and a free pass. Often fellow journalists even prevent further investigations. This also worked against the aims of the #MeToo movement in the past. This kind of press manipulation needs to be called out. It shouldn't happen.

Many accusations at this point are likely to be exploited for ulterior motives. There's just too much unchecked power in such accusations now to expect otherwise.

I have come to realize that just jumping on the outrage train is not a good strategy and in fact can be dangerous. One must take the time to understand all the facts and only then come to a conclusion.

This is how we get away from the pathologies of the mob -- We as a society need to regain our respect for due process, "innocent until proven guilty," and evidence!
Great advice. Thanks. Somehow I think it proves my point, though - that SPA frameworks lead to endless complexity making the whole front-end industry the province of senior developers.
Here's my math:

15 weeks / semester * 2 semesters = 30 weeks.
$5000 / 30 weeks = $166 / week. At $8 an hour, that's 20 hours a week; at $10 an hour it's 16 hours. (Ignoring taxes, which are low but still push the hours needed higher.)

This is not accounting for summer jobs, but my original point was that having the student contribution at that level will make some students take a paying but dead-end summer job over an unpaid internship or other opportunity that would benefit them more in the long run. (Another reason unpaid internships are questionable ethically...)
People who can afford to do so usually avoid public transportation. Instead of posting a new edition of the same self-righteous HN thread bewailing other peoples' choices practically every single day of the week, it might be interesting to examine the apparent dissonance between the way amateur urban planners think things should work, and the way they actually do.
I don't think the debate is whether over or under was the intention of the inventors. The debate is whether over or under is "better", and what the patent says is pretty irrelevant.
Do you have any information you can share about this? A few years ago, I could reliably use OpenVPN over UDP, as long as I switched ports out frequently. Some time ago (I don't remember when), this ceased to be the case, and I switched to PPTP and, more recently, Shadowsocks.

What has been your experience with UDP over GFW?
Having diagnostics on the switch can be a big plus. I wired a long run, partly underground, myself, and it was erratic. I had two parallel cat5e lines, and I could only use one.

After I got the better switch, it was able to tell me approximately how far along the cable the fault was, which was enough to narrow down the problem. I checked bend radius and re-terminated, and problem solved.

So nice to work with good equipment. It turns voodoo into engineering.
Sad news. We still watch Doctor Who and Sarah is one of our favorite Dr Who companions.

RIP Elisabeth Sladen
No, you read it correctly. This article and analysis is extremely flawed. My biggest complaint is that he ignores both taxes and benefits, which ties right into your concept of the "price of life". Sure, the middle class in Sweden might only make half of what they do in the US, but they're not going to be completely economically destroyed by the cost of health insurance or the lack of health insurance.

I'd happily take a 50% cut in pay if I could have the level of social services and guarantees that Europe seems to provide.
Any performance complaints?
His prices are probably correct for an auction site though: since 15ks are pointless, I'd expect their resell price to be much lower than on SSDs.
Do you remember who this was? Sounds like someone I'd want to look up.
If your phone doesn't ring and you're not feeling warmth when the microwave runs, you're fine.

Microwaves don't do much more than excite water molecules. Those excited molecules would manifest as a simple perception of increased heat if there's somewhere your microwave is leaking. If you're not feeling that, you're safe.
Familiarity breeds contempt. Everyone hates what they wrote a few years ago, as it represents the person and place they were, and they've done so much improving in the interim.

Keep it on your resumé - for all the reasons everyone else has posted.
I said in the post that I'm not a PHP fanboy. I'm not a "true believer" of PHP either. I just don't agree with you.

I disagreed with your comment because I didn't (and still don't) think it's valid to compare the speed of running precompiled binaries vs. something being interpreted.

Why is that not valid?

1. Java (your example) compiles to bytecode and drops the output into .class files. It only runs this compiled form.
2. PHP natively compiles to bytecode every single run. It does not save the bytecode (or cache it) by default. APC does this.

My point on my blog was that if you're going to benchmark PHP vs. C++ and call one slow in the end, you should at least try and put them on the same playing field.

Think about it this way: Could you make a real decision of which language to use for a website based on those benchmarks? No, and you (@compay) concurred that there are other factors to take into account (like opcode caching). This is why the benchmarks are irrelevant in the context of my post.
I appreciate what you are saying but I know that if I pay my bills and I handle my own redundancy I am only responsible for myself. The level of dependency you are referring to would get you stuck in a recursive loop of never trusting anyone!

What I am saying is, if this company had stored the pics on their own server then they could still retrieve the pictures. You would then push the pictures to Facebook, Diaspora, Twitter etc. The company were using the data storing capabilities in Facebook to store the pictures, hence the high dependency on Facebook.

If in the instance I mentioned, Facebook cancel the app, you would still have the pics on your server and the user could see them and post them elsewhere
AppEngine has made some great leaps in the last year. We built http://gri.pe on it earlier this year and have been impressed by the platform.

The last two months have seen the platform mature a lot as well. The latest 1.4 release has some amazing features: async datastore queries, app keep-alive, longer timeouts for background tasks, etc.
I wonder why the birthday dropdown in the personal information section goes earlier than 1990, since they're only looking for under 20's
Which is one of the most tested, most utilized, most known pieces of code used among modern software.

Sounds like Microsoft Windows to me :)

I think that SQLite is a really nice database. But just because SQLite would work in the browser, doesn't mean W3C shouldn't try to do something better.
Edge is chrome now.
> . It's one reason competitive shooters were more popular on the 360 than the Ps3 with its Bluetooth gamepad.

I played a LOT of Call of Duty and PS3. I never noticed input latency issues.

I think shooters where more popular on XBox because Halo took over a ton of the initial market share.
Thank you. I read both reviews. Halvar's was more convincing that I should not spend time reading this book.

It is too bad. The title/blurb was catchy. I spend a lot of my life educating people on these topics. I am always hopeful that a mainstream publication will get the story right. How sad should I be about the inaccuracies in this one?
No one needs a TV at all so that argument is pointless.
Well, nowadays you won't get as many fake bills, and you don't have to pay the banks as much for armed guards that drive cash from place to place in an armed truck.
Bones are basically glands you can strengthen directly.
The key for me was to find interesting people to follow on Spotify. There are a lot of folks who seem to do music discovery as a full-time gig. Find/follow enough of those people and your hunger will be satiated.

Though, I wish there were better ways to discover people to follow, it's fairly manual now and much of it goes on outside of Spotify.
I do most of my work in ruby and am a fan of it (less of some decisions it's community makes, but I'm still okay with it)... and I shy away from rubinius because I don't think it has enough to offer to justify the non-boring risk/tax. I don't want to be discovering that some gem I use (perhaps only a couple versions after i start using it) isn't compatible with rubinius. Even if it's a small risk (and I honestly am not sure how much of a risk it is), for what? Slight performance edge? I don't need it. Multi-core parallelism? I usually don't need it, and if I do, I'm going to choose JRuby (reluctantly).
We could revoke their certificates, that would prevent any HTTPS request from accessing them. It wouldn't solve the issue completely, but it would be a start.
William Blake - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
They are considered "public information", so no droit d'auteur. All government data considered as public information were published starting 2011 with an open data licence, the Etalab licence similar to the UK one.
I made an account to give my perspective. I call my self a generalist because I don’t know the correct term. You can put me on any team and I can learn, adapt, and improve any system you put me on. I’m not the best at coming up with new ideas, but I can take any idea, implementation, etc and combine them all to fit whatever need. I tend to build systems, make them stable, teach people the how and why, and then move on to another project. I thrive at companies that allow me to choose my projects and allow me to learn and build new things.
It's really hard to price security investment because the primary signal that you've spent too little is often a very costly hack.

Flashloans and other derivatives greatly increase the risk since they now enable extreme leverage on only a small amount of initial capital.
Who decided that Freedom of Speech only applies to government suppression? Does the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment only apply to the government as well?
Two things don't add up for me in this article.

1. He moved to management 10 years ago. But most things he describes were already a thing at that time. Git existed, unit tests were a thing, we already had a CI workflow at my company at that time. Sounds like he is looking 30-40 years back, not 10. Or he worked at a place that kept innovation outside their doorstep and didn't look at what others did either.

2. Moved to management and got that detached from dev life? All sw managers in my company are up to date with dev practices. How else could they make reasonable management decisions? Everybody up to the CTO is regularly committing code. Not as much as they'd like to, but they are familiar with workflows and have contributed key pieces of our codebase. Meritocracy at its best. Not sure what kind of manager he was, but I doubt I'd have liked to work under him.
Afaict it’s just incremental recompilation. The usage of JIT seems like a fundamental misunderstanding
YouTube Live exists. DLive exists.

Sure, these don't have anywhere near the same reach when it comes to live streaming but people have been banned from twitch before and maintained an audience on other sites like these. There's also no "right to livestream".

We'll see how liberally twitch applies this new policy. All sites are literally allowed to do these things already, the only difference is they made it explicit. You can have a "common carrier" argument about regulation of private companies, but there's nothing in this announcement itself that makes twitch any different from others.
I swear every day a new article comes out painting COVID as the new TB, AIDs, or Syphilis. Everyone I know who's had it (and is under 60) is fine and reports no/very limited lingering issues.

TB has killed 1.4 million+ for years now. Malaria has killed .4 million+ per year for years now. Diabetes has killed ~1 million+ for years now.

You start to add up deaths from years and years of these preventable conditions and it puts 2-3M deaths from COVID into perspective. Can't make sensational headlines with things people already know I guess?
Oh, I was assuming the engineering team would lie a pretend like they did not work for Facebook. I assumed they would slowly work to gain the confidence of those in control and little by little they gain the access they required themselves. Maybe they could pretend not to know each other and use that to their advantage. Surely a company with the resources of Facebook could manufacture fake alternate lives for the engineering team to make them look completely legitimate and harmless.