skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly this. The program is infantilizing and not based in fact. There are great reasons why you may not want to do a number of drugs: opiates (high addiction potential, incapacitating); meth (wrecks you); cocaine (less problematic but you can't trust the cutting agents, it can exacerbate cardiac conditions, it can give you transient ED if you're a guy); molly (one poor formulation can kill you or leave you mentally incapacitated for life). I don't recall this ever being reviewed at a D.A.R.E event. All I remember hearing is "drugs are categorically bad and dangerous" which as you say falls down under scrutiny when you think about alcohol, weed, or even cocaine to some degree.
> The fact of the matter is that a war on driving is a war on the working class.

It's not a war on driving - it's favoring public transit over driving. There's a contradiction in your statement because public transit is often opposed by wealthy communities for fear of attracting "undesirable elements" (read: the poor). How can public transit both be used by working class people but also be bad for them?

To add on to that, how is it better financially for working class people to put thousands of dollars (a significant fraction of their net worth) into an otherwise unproductive asset that sits idle 80-90% of the time? Not to mention that $1000 used car is far more likely to break down and require expensive repairs (due to more use) when used by a poor person who has to drive an hour each way every day (because housing within decent commute range is too expensive). Operating a car can cost quite a bit too. Insurance can easily be another $1000/year and gasoline is maybe another $1500 more. Compared to that an unlimited VTA pass is $70/month. And the cost of sitting in traffic vs sitting in a train/bus and possibly getting some sleep or work done.
But what would it do in visual mode?
This is the opposite of my experience. I picked up Go 5 years ago because it was the only (reasonably mature) programming language I could find that didn't require a turing complete programming language (Python, CMake, Gradle, etc) or a sufficiently complex configuration format that it may as well be a programming language (ANT, MSBuild, etc).

GOPATH took me a few hours to figure out at the time, but that was because the documentation was incredibly sparse at the time (this was before Go hit 1.0). Now it's just:

mkdir -p ~/go/src/hello
echo "package main" >> ~/go/src/hello/main.go"
echo "func main() { println("Hello world") }" >> ~/go/src/hello/main.go"
go build hello
./hello
I feel no sense of guilt or karma because I was not individually responsible for those actions nor would I have supported them. We have a representative government and don't have direct control over what happens all the time. I wouldn't wish this on any other country. Two wrongs don't make a right.
Both the legal and linguistic standards for harassment do not require repeated events. You are incorrect.
Really, the "exact same feature"? None of the processors in that report even support OoOE.
Abilities follow from preferences at the level being discussed (potential hiring pool at Google).

I am not good at being a nurse because I chose to become a software developer. I chose to become a software developer because I prefer working with computers over people. My preference in adolescence resulted in my being more capable as a software developer for a company like Google.

That this one statement keeps getting taken out of context and misinterpreted shows how flimsy the claims against the memo are.
Except he said women also lacked the abilities to be in tech and higher level management positions. This isn't just about children picking toys.

>I’m simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why we don’t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership.
I don't understand why this is in HN.
The fact that modern processors speculatively load memory has been known for a long time (and it's not like the fact that permission checking only occurs during retirement is documented...the reason no one considered it a problem was that it was thought of as an implementation detail and literally something you wouldn't document because in the future you might arbitrarily change it). This isn't exactly novel information...and putting two and two together only seemed obvious after the fact.
Recently, I've experienced working on a remote server. It was a real pain. You need a crazy fast connection to be productive. Otherwise, you're stuck waiting for changes to save, for pages to load, etc. Of course, you can only hope the network doesn't break down or the cloud IDE company makes a buggy deploy.

As a remote developer, I like working in different places. These places don't always have nice internet. Working with a local environment and 4g connection is fine, because 4g is more than enough to look up docs. But working with a distant environment and 4g connection is very slow and unreliable.

Nowadays, a lot of people praise the "cloud" or everything. Use APIs for everything, Use public CDNs to load up bootstrap and jquery. Use an online IDE. Make a hosted Git service an essential part of your workflow. The thing is, not only do these services occassionally break, but some might get compromised (https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/12/browsealoud-coinhive-moner...) and some even ask you to install closed source binaries to your system without any idea of what's in it (keylogger, ransomware, anything is possible).

Given all that, when I read that using a local environment is "anachronistic", I can't help but cringe.
Will everyone on HN just stop complaining when a random free service doesn’t give you exactly what you want?

You are not Twitter’s customer. You are Twitter’s product.

If you don’t like that situation, tune out.
Is there a way to become a beta tester of future versions?
This looks pretty nice.
Here's one way to mitigate that: use a less popular keyboard. I suggest evaluating https://shop.keyboard.io/ for starters.
The Advice Memo clearly implies skepticism at Damore's intent and the sources own which he relied. It sets the precedent for successful EEO claims against any venue where the content contravenes similar social justice based codes of conduct and employment agreements.

Damore's top line argument was that these diversity programs are causing reverse discrimination, workplace hostility, and monoculture. The rest of what he wrote was descriptive and prescriptive. And bear in mind, EEOC also has a mandate to protect employees who file their concerns over discrimination. I believe the active class action discrimination lawsuit against Google could be a stepping stone to break up this kind of EEOC precedent.
This article conflates the IC Cloud with GovCloud. The former is run by feds, the latter is most assuredly not.
Yeah. If you want truly bad CSS injection go back to the IE6 days and Microsoft's expression() value.
Brave Launches Million Dollar Referral Program Supporting Publishers
I agree completely --- being one of the "older programmers" --- and think it could be phrased thus: a new generation of "coders" is being forced to learn how to write instructions for the machine, when they are barely computer-literate.

Having taught some introductory CS courses a few years ago, the amount of struggling with basic things like file naming, directory hierarchies, and even simple hardware use was a constant distraction.

On one memorable occasion, I had to help a student by turning on the monitor: he would sit down at a workstation, move the mouse and tap the keyboard, and seeing nothing show up on the monitor after a moment, go to another unoccupied one. I watched, without intervention, him try this with all the unoccupied workstations in the lab until he finally came to me and said, in an exasperated tone, "all the computers left are broken!" I lead him over to one, and upon pressing the power button on the monitor, the expression he made was quite unforgettable...
How can that be the case? Even with a range of detail, the points on a map have to represent one of a fairly limited selection of types. Even if you keep it high level like "buildings", "roads", etc. it's still a massive improvement over having no layers whatsoever.
Wrench-set, an early version set of tools in order to build front-end web apps
An apt name ! There is a bollywood movie by the name “Kismet Konnection”
—just not one that’s particularly free of side-effects.

Especially for the target audience of chronically morbidly obese people with diabetes!
Exactly. The chance of this affecting your kid is tiny, compared to choking, being hit by car, etc. bought it does serve to terrorize the kids.
Do you know how many CPUs Apple makes? It's certainly an order of magnitude larger than all the unaffected vendors combined...
Some personal thoughts: the key for me at least, is a bit like the hammer-nail mentality. An software engineer for example has a (small) mathematical toolkit (a hammer), sometimes forcing your problem at hand into the shape of nail is sufficient to solve it.

A dump example, consider the problem of detect if two date ranges overlap (for a calendar app perhaps). By recognizing a date range, DateRange(a, b) as an interval on the real line: [a, b] or a set {x | a <= x <= b}, the problem becomes find if two sets' intersection is empty. Set {x | a <= x <=b } and {x | c <= x <= d}'s intersection is {x | (x >= a and x >= c) and (x <= b and x<=d)} which simplifies to {x | max(a, c) <= x <= min(b, d) }. Therefore, the set is empty iff max(a, c) > min(b, d).

Translating the problem into mathematical structures here (intervals), and manipulate them with math tools (inequalities) would count as applied math I guess. By having a repository of math knowledge and an eager attitude to look for opportunities to apply them, one can find success in solving practical problems. In this context, rigor and formal proofs are less important and math intuition is paramount.

An real world example I like to motivate myself with is Richard Feynman and connection machine[1], a story about Feynman using partial differential equations to model on boolean circuits. I do believe even with a limited set of mathematical tools, by trying them on every problem you encounter, you can still get good results. Something like, if one squint hard enough, you can find a monad anywhere :)

[1] http://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machine...
You're not exactly wrong, but are we not still comparing to "turn computer on, get BASIC prompt" (C64), or "turn computer on, type 'qbasic', hit enter"?
I feel like the progressive left THRUST Damore and anyone who might have similar thoughts/questions into the welcoming arms of the alt-right. I'm disappointed with the "Goolag" t-shirts, but he did lose his livelihood, had his professional reputation destroyed, and only a limited time to cash out. So this socially awkward nerd did what any sensible person would do, rode the wave that was sent his way the best he could. Consider his professional options compared to a standard "former Googler." They destroyed him, it was terrible.
It would only be a problem if you took insulin and then did not eat. Given that type two diabetics cell’s are stuffed full of sugar from insulin resitance, not eating or eating less can only help.
that protection doesn't apply if what you're organizing about pertains to an area where the NLRB gives deference to employers.

Those precedents exist to prevent employees from organizing active resistance to the NLRB's goals. If you read Damore's memo at face value, he's proposing modifying the way in which Google pursues those goals, taking differences in preferences into account. Strangely enough, Google and YouTube executives have spoken in public and have basically taken James Damore's memo's position and advocated the same kind of action he proposes in the memo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrOp8ewzJDc

Given the broad power possessed by the NLRB, how can this situation not result in a moral hazard?
Well buckle your seatbelt, because 32 plaintiffs and counting will be using discovery and god knows what else to prove just that. Intel had better be utterly innocent, or have excellent coverup skills.
> It could easily and even possibly be fairly argued that there's a massive difference between updating 3rd party apps and updating the operating system itself.

Updates to the OS come as OTA notifications that I can choose how and when to apply (download+install separately, for example). I don't monitor my Play Services version, but I assume that it's silently updating in the background, unlike either my apps or the OS itself.
64 would seem like the logical next step!
I don't know enough about this to comment authoritatively, but I would expect KYC/AML rules to apply here. If I send money via any means to a bank account, I think the bank should be able to produce information about the identity of the account holder in response to a subpoena. If they can't, regulators might be rightfully annoyed.

Also, shouldn't Regulation E apply to Zelle?
That question should be irrelevant. The issue here is whether the restrictive covenants in the property deeds are enforceable.

Background: Racial covenants aren't unconstitutional, per se. In Shelley v. Kraemer (1948)[1] SCOTUS simply declared them unenforceable, reasoning that the courts, as organs of the state, couldn't use their powers to achieve the same ends that other state entities were prohibited from doing. In other words, people are free to have contracts and deeds with whatever conditions they want; you just don't get the benefit of a court enforcing the terms.

The exact same logic should apply to covenants regarding religion--specifically, covenants discriminating among religious denominations. (A covenant that limited land to being used by a religious organization of any kind is probably fine.) The only reason I can see for why the status of the township matters is because it's probably the township who would have, historically, asked a court to enforce the covenant. But based on the logic of precedent it wouldn't matter whether the township can legally seek an injunction if the court itself would be prohibited from issuing such an injunction.

Probably the defendant (township?) has spun some ridiculous theory for why Shelley doesn't apply, and to cover their bases the plaintiffs are forced to argue that even if Shelley doesn't apply, then for [reasons] the township would be barred from enforcing the covenant. But such covenants are usually enforceable by neighbors, as well, so if Shelley doesn't apply and courts are permitted to enforce such religious covenants then the plaintiffs will have effectively lost, regardless of whether the township can legally seek enforcement

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelley_v._Kraemer
There is no such “legal right” to discuss things in the workplace. Where do you get that from? Maybe there should be one, but there isn’t.
> How do you pick this person? Based on the strength of their belief?

Apparently the qualification that they care about is "Willing to take $10 million in payments while laying off 1800 to save $40 million". Competence at the CEO level doesn't always have to look like malevolence.
Their quick pay is literally called "Quick Pay with Zelle". Seems to be the same thing.
The issue is that referring to these scientific results is "harassment" because they are unpleasant.
Because of జ్ఞా ?
I don't mind Go's type system. It's a pain for some things, but I haven't found a better one. The languages that have sum types and generics are too restrictive to be practical in virtually all of the software I write (Rust, Haskell) or they lack a decent ecosystem (ReasonML, OCaml, typed-racket). I would welcome a language with a better, practical type system. Bonus points if it shares Go's runtime.
Private healthcare incentivizes insurance companies to protect people's health and to influence policies that do so.
I'm not sure if this is really plausible, but I would love to see a legislative rule instituted which stated that programs, regulations, and spending measures cannot be passed without doing the following:

* Clearly laying out the goals that bill sponsors are trying to achieve with the proposed change as well as the reasoning driving the change

* Clearly articulating a set of metrics by which we can judge the efficacy of the program or change

* Defining a period in which studies or review will be conducted to evaluate efficacy and who will be funded to do them

If the change is later reviewed and it is found to be ineffective, it should either be forced to be modified or immediately rolled back. This would protect against a whole host of legislative silliness such as pork belly / vote buying projects, bill scope creep, the immortality of improperly validated programs as mentioned in the article, and knee jerk reaction regulations after tragedies or in the face of anecdata and moralizing.
> Thing is, we have about half a century of consistent clinical findings saying, without exception, no diet-based approach shows long term weight reduction.

This baffles me, because these results are trivially disproved. It's not particularly rare for people to lose weight and keep it off long term by changing their diets. Are the studies poorly constructed or are they just being misinterpreted?
And also http://mailcow.email if you want something to quickly spin up in Docker with a bit more configuration available
I've mentioned it on here before, but this is a topic in some Peter F Hamilton novels, notably the Commonwealth saga. There's an interesting take on immortality plus backups, where you can elect to archive certain memories. That way you could e.g. read Lord of the Rings over and over for the first time.
>That this one statement keeps getting taken out of context and misinterpreted

Wrong again. When you look at the full context, Damore specifically says that it's not socially constructed like you're describing. Damore isn't arguing that women lack the ability for tech or leadership because they prefer to be nurses, his argument stems from biological differences:

>> On average, men and women biologically differ in many ways. These differences aren’t just socially constructed because:

>> ● They’re universal across human cultures

>> ● They often have clear biological causes and links to prenatal testosterone

>> ● Biological males that were castrated at birth and raised as females often still identify
and act like males

>> ● The underlying traits are highly heritable

>> ● They’re exactly what we would predict from an evolutionary psychology perspective

>> Note, I’m not saying that all men differ from all women in the following ways or that these differences are “just.” I’m simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why we don’t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership.
Flat assertions of efficacy unadorned by empirical support may not be well received. However, I am sure that the idea is taken seriously by most, and that supporting evidence would be of great interest.
I've never met a good programmer that wasn't (at least initially) self taught. Presumably they exist, but I've never met one.

I do agree though, I find when I'm teaching my juniors I sometimes have to give a little history lesson as part of it (things like why 8.3 filenames).
This really just sounds like issues with whatever web IDE you are using. Remote development does not need to be a huge pain like that.
> What this feature doesn't do, is to track the tabs spawned by launching the application shortcut using that taskbar item/dock icon/etc. Instead, you just get a new window spawned in the Chrome application's window-group.

Works perfectly on windows. Let's say I pin Gmail as an app on the taskbar. When I open Gmail using that button, it remains attached to that taskbar button, which is an icon of Gmail for convenience. In fact it's not obvious to figure out that it's running on Chrome.
Broken Windows Theory is at best, hotly contested. The wikipedia article linked above covers the debate (which has been around since the theory was published in 1982, without much resolution in whether the evidence supports the theory).
He has no agency? He chose to speak up and then he chose to go down the path he did. It is an impressive feat of mental gymnastics to both kinda sorta acknowledge the alt-right might not be a great group of guys but then also claim Damore had no choice but to pull into that port in a storm of his own making. Allow me to pour out a beaker of Soylent for the poor, downtrodden white man.
Actually reading error messages is an apparently very rare skill. Almost always, if you just google what it tells you, you'll hit something... Yet I constantly see people automatically click through popups milliseconds after they appear, only to fume about things not working. It takes a surprising amount of effort to get them to do it over and slow down long enough to figure out what went wrong.
I've been on keto (carb restriction) diet (lifestyle?). Just some thoughts learned from the experience: it is incredibly easy to lose weight on carb restriction since hunger goes away and relationship with food changes.

I still like to eat but it's become more a number game. I eat once a day and structure my meal to hit my macros. Just figure out how many calories and protein / fat ratio and I can usually hit close to it with 1 meal and top up calories with butter coffee.

Also, I can instantly do a 1-day fast. It doesn't bother me at all. Every few days I stretch my intermittent fast to proper "just coffee and water today" fast. It's very refreshing.

Calorie restriction on carbohydrate heavy diet sounds like hell. Food cravings. Starvation.

Fasting on the other hand is a different story. Zen.
> but he did lose his livelihood, had his professional reputation destroyed, and only a limited time to cash out.

Why are you writing this in the passive, as if this is an unfortunate thing that happened to him? He did all of that to himself. That memo created a hostile workplace and Google had no choice but to fire him. The outcome here isn't terrible, it's exactly what should have happened.
This is one of my favorite solutions to the classic question of where food comes from and what's really in it. It came from the peanuts I just put in the grinder, and it consists of... the peanuts I just put in the grinder. Although there is some room on the end of that for salts and additives to be on the nuts.
The commentary on this is off base - maybe twitter is pulling people off this project to put them on fake accounts / nazis? Certainly maintaining a mac app doesn't help there.
This is in the works. In the meantime, there is a 5 day “snooze” feature to make it easy to keep the volume down. The link is in your welcome email.