skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All Communism leads to that. Every single instance has led to suppressing, sacrificing individuals for the Collective.

Forcing someone at gunpoint to be "kind" to their neighbor because it is their "duty" is never a good starting point.

The whole premise is messed up. Taking peoples houses, possessions and giving it to others is a sure fire why to demotivate people and slam the brakes on the economy.
Typically boards and executives at top companies are a very insular group. I.E. you have to know someone to be someone. Same as the mob except greedier.
I think the criticism is more about the selectiveness of diversity. Companies in SV are very keen on establish practices to bring about the hiring of more women, African Americans, and Latinos often with the justification that a broader set of viewpoints is crucial I'm creating a good working environment. But no one bats an eye when most employees can't name a single Republican or conservative on their team or department. It's easy to conclude that this whole diversity initiative isn't actually about bringing in people with different viewpoints.

For what it's worth, my current employer has easily the most diverse tech workforce in terms of gender and race but it's also easily the most monocultural company one I've worked at.
'I hate them': Locals reportedly frustrated with Alphabet's self-driving cars
Hi Josh!

Do you buy any transit at all or rely solely on peering?

Who do you peer with, and how easy has it been to find peers, due to the huge asymmetry in traffic?

Do you have any CDN caches deployed (GGC, Netflix, etc.)?
I go, lets say I'm arrested for some reason (wrong place wrong time, being at a protest, being the wrong colour for the neighborhood). Ican't afford bail, now I go to jail.

2 months later the charges are dropped.

I spent two months in jail, I didn't even have a trial, so I wasn't even in jail "until my trial", I was jailed for no reason. That is enough to get me fired - I didn't come to work, and US law doesn't protect me from being fired when a court prevents me from going to work.

The /only/ reasons for jail before trial is if there is a risk to the public or a documented risk of not appearing. The existing bail laws punish you according to what prosecution and police can get away with, and functionally turn "bail law" into jail for the non-rich, fines for the middle class. Maybe that could be reduced if the government were considered liable for any and all losses suffered by someone who is innocent, including loss of employment. That would given prosecutors and police some balance to the incentives to prevent bail or demand large bail amounts.
Jesus. Please fuck off.
A new app just got funding to take on WeChat
Your retirement and your healthcare would probably be better in a union.
A Ubiquiti radio and parabolic dish don't cost all that much.
Is it not relevant that "the system" has already done what you wanted in this case and constitutionally recognized gay marriage? You're asking for something you already have.
The article doesn't make it totally explicit, but it sure sounds like each new hash incorporated the previous one.

(It's also possible that each published hash is just a brand new hash of the aggregate, but this seems somewhat less likely based on the wording.)

ETA: Looks like it's a chain, or rather a Merkle tree. From the horse's mouth: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17865168
I agree, I've spent way too much time on Google Earth VR !

But I still think virtual tourism will stay niche in the future because of the social reasons I stated.
That's naive. Modern building code in the US is pretty/very heavy on energy efficiency. And of course European buildings heat up.
By that token employees who own company stock should have a place on the board.
In my estimation Noam Chomsky has the best take on this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET_at6tPlsE
But more people pay American taxes than just citizens. I've got many friends here on work visas and they all pay American taxes, too. The two terms have huge overlap, but are distinct - neither is a subset of the other. Nor is either strictly correct in this case, as the USPS is a self-funded quasi-governmental agency. It's other customers that are subsidizing this loss.
How much would I have to donate to Mozilla in order to get them to develop a service worker management UI in Firefox?
I'm currently at an exec-level role making $450k and just landed a juicy role which is interesting and pays more than $550k but of course I can't change jobs because of this decision. This is frankly stupid and makes me a highly paid indentured servant. If it weren't for my kid that was born here and has been entrenched here, I'd go back to my country.
By saying "if you are my coworker, I respect you as a colleague and a human being" you are already expressing some personal views.

Some people will take 1 second to decide they don't like you because of stereotypes and there's nothing you can do about it.
Well, here's the deal. The employer gets to decide, since it is their company. Before I retired, there were a lot of things I didn't like about work. I thought management regularly made bad decisions, in a number of different areas. But if you are an employee, you go along with what management wants, or you move along.
Had no idea about these DDG bang features, although admittedly I've barely used DDG. Usually use startpage if I'm not using Google. I imagine to there also might be a chrome extension that does a similar thing to the DDG bang features, or are these just DDG-only search indexes?
"Emotional harm is still harm."

Fine. But I don't care about these people. I genuinely cannot empathize with them. They are allowed to leave!

We can pretend that we are here to make everyone's lives perfectly great, risk free, all that stuff, but at what cost? Who enforces this wonderful life? By what criteria do they decide whether or not I, a non-incumbent, am allowed to interact with their precious users? What happens when the will to keep us safe at all cost is weaponized? How do we move forward as a species when we stop allowing great societal mistakes? Are we, as a species, done? Shall we spend the remainder of a existence siting back, masturbating to pornhub, slurping down big gulps, safe from the big bad wolf of capitalism?

No. Make better decisions.
You can be locked out of a paid service just as easily, with just as little support, and with no recourse.
Personally I have a plastic box with an elasticated bag of litter in it, and I change it by hand and move on with my day... But that's not the point of the article, the point seems to be that the author wanted to work out a way to not need to use a proprietary cleaning agent - which I think is fair enough tbh.
IANAL either. But...

> Permission is hereby granted, to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software

I mean, I've seen successful copyleft done before (ex: GPL). Generally speaking, you start by using a copyleft license as a base... unless you have lawyers of your own to do it correctly for you.

An MIT license is incredibly free, basically one step away from public domain. I apparently have the right to modify and sublicense Lerna. So... I could in theory, provide "Dragontamer Lerna" to Microsoft.

Again, IANAL, but these are the reasons why GNU worked very hard on their copyleft license.

> I suspect the idea is, if this restriction is used widely enough, Microsoft themselves will have their legal department be sure to restrict usage of the given packages purely as a CYA move. Similar to how so many companies are allergic to the AGPL.

But AGPL is at least copyleft and "legally viral" in nature. I'm not sure if MIT is a viral license.
my inclination is that all non-violent offenses should be on recognizance (or however that's worded) unless there's historic evidence that you will miss your court dates. If you have previously skipped court dates then we shouldn't necessarily assume that you would make future court dates, so why do we believe bail would mean anything?
It probably means the drive does the encryption, but so do hard drives and SSDs.
I'm not sure he's either liberal or conservative. I've never seen him stand for anything.
True about no operator overloading, but that's just syntactical sugar for functions.

I believe you can get integer parameter types by using something like the `convertible` contract seen here https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/master/design/go2draf... (unless I'm mistaking what you are saying)
Invisible volunteering
> the facts are that 1000 people (0.000003% of the population) are killed by police annually. 24% of those killed are black

Per 2016 US Census [1]:

> Black or African American = 40,241,818 (12.6%)

Now compare with the number of people killed by the police in 2017 by race [2]. The math is left as an exercise for the reader...

If you really believe that under-represented minorities are not at a major disadvantage in our society, facing multiple layers of explicit and implicit discrimination against them, then, in my opinion, you're part of the problem.

> the lack of female representation in tech...

Likewise, if you took the pseudo-science [3] by disgruntled engineers for granted, and believe that the lack of female representation in tech is due to some ridiculous genetic predisposition, ignoring 50+ years of biases and stereotypes, on top of open sexual and moral harassment, then you're part of the reason for the divide. It's exactly this kind of thinking that creates gender stereotyping and legitimizes the systemic sexism in our industry.

If you're interested in understanding more about the true root causes of our gender disparity, a good initial read is "Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley", by the amazing Emily Chang [4]. No pseudo-science required.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Demography_of_the...

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-de...

[3] https://www.recode.net/2017/8/11/16127992/google-engineer-me...

[4] https://www.amazon.com/Brotopia-Breaking-Boys-Silicon-Valley...
Maybe. I'd rather breathe pedal bicycle air than internal combustion exhaust fumes, for sure. And I'd rather pay bike prices than car prices, sure.

But, designing for not-cars feels like a choice of designing for humans or designing for bikes, not both. If things are close enough for walking then most people don't need bikes. If there's dense, regular, clean, affordable public transport, you can't really bring one bike per person onto it and you shouldn't need to. If things are far enough apart that everyone needs a bike, and everywhere you go has a wasteland of a few thousand bike parking spaces to cover everyone who might go there at once, then you've designed for individual vehicles not people, and cars would be more comfortable and faster. In that sense, I would think it just as much of a failure either way.

Like, if you have poisonous plants, and you want edible fruits, but what you get is harmless inedible plants, in one way it's a lot better, but in another way it's no better at all.
Lots of companies use social media as an outreach channel to their readers and users. From Tmobile's offering of tech support over Twitter, to live tweets of news events by journalists in the field.

I can guarantee you, every large corporation has a social media team, possibly a sizeable one, and the people working there are kept very busy.
It easily could be a bug such as the refence to the Api being removed. Posts that reference it could raise an error leading to them being hidden. I’ll wait to hear if Facebook makes a statement.
You're completely ignoring the subtext from the All Lives Matter folks.

Saying "all lives matter" in response to "black lives matter" implies that the BLM folks are saying that only black lives matter, which they are not saying. It also implies that all races in america face similar struggles, which is also not totally true.
How about...How big does text need to be in order for you to be able to comfortably read it?

(Compare using a quarter or other common object a certain distance away from you.)

For example on the rift, text is readable when it's the size of a quarter ~3 feet away from me.
Tyco, Ericsson, Comcast, IBM, GE to name a few. All of these companies are rotting from the inside out and management and contractor heavy.
> I know very little about these companies involvement in "ICE" and there's no references given.

Here's a few sources:

Microsoft employees call on company to cancel contract with ICE: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft/microsoft-em...

Amazon employees demand company cut ties with ICE: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/06/22...

Tech companies quietly work with ICE as border crisis persists: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/tech-companies-quietl...

15 Organizations Doing Business With ICE — and How Much They’re Making: http://time.com/money/5318933/organizations-doing-business-w...

If you were inclined to draw a very unfavorable comparison, many otherwise neutral companies did business with Nazi Germany. IBM was contracted to help with the German census, which then lead directly to roundups of Jews and the Holocaust: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/04/hitlers...
"Modern" desktop computing is perhaps less resource hungry than you think when you cut away so much graft of telemetry.

None or barely few games, of course. But word processing, email, and pure HTML browsing without javascript? Maybe not HTML5's fancy features, but general rich text?

I think it's very achievable.
> You would also fail your driver's test in SF if you don't check for bikers when making a right turn.

Infrastructure shouldn't be designed in a way to cause these types of turning conflicts. The general rule of the road is that vehicles on the right make right turns. Vehicles on the left make left turns, and vehicles in the middle proceed straight through the intersection.

Turning conflicts, like what you're describing, are a significant hazard to cyclists. Cars need to check for traffic[1] on their right, move to the right, and then make their right turn. Cyclists need to pass right turning traffic on the left.

[1] Cyclists are traffic.
Dodie/vim-fibo-indent: Fibonacci Indentation for Vim
You don't see "pub" where a name is used, only where it is declared. Once you've been using Go for a little while the benefits become obvious.
The ones I'm responding to in this thread do, though.
A general comment about Mathematica, not just a response to the comment above:

Trying to use Mathematica like Python/Matlab is setting yourself up for failure. It took me a few months of getting frustrated with Mathematica till I suddenly "got" it [1]. But once I understood that it's programming model revolves around pattern matching and string replacement, things just clicked and it was very easy to write Mathematica code after that.

[1] Coincidentally, I was reading a little bit about functional programming when Mathematica finally started making sense. In particular, IIRC, I was looking at "Learn You a Haskell" for fun, unrelated to Mathematica, which was for work.
> Just do something for endangered species then. The problem with your entire line of thought is, that you're trying to make it seem like we shouldn't allocate more resources to pertinent causes. Save pangolins (and smallpox) if you really care about them.

I agree - this is exactly what "all endagered species matter" is is doing.

> What is it about whale penises that's causing all this jealousy and needless arguments about semantics?

This notion of jealousy of genetalia is something you brought up on your own initiative. Also, how is it relevant?
How does the US electronically check my passport when driving into Canada? I can seen Canada doing it on entry and relaying that to the US but otherwise, how does that check get done?
The MIT license has no restriction on applying additional restrictions, without the permission of the contributors. For example, MIT licensed software can be used in proprietary software.
regarding point 1- im going to speculate that they are recommending hardware they are familiar with and know will work.
the asus you are talking about looks like a smart router and might need to have a workaround to play well with others. ive had the hardest time trying to do anything technical with smart routers without just installing something like WRT and forgetting about the smart router stuff. im not sure about this one but it might pull a linksys and store your configuration data somewhere offsite, that would be an issue for me if thats the case as i value my privacy and local control of my hardware.
if you feel comfortable working your router configuration it wouldnt hurt to try it
Bail long predates the existence of the police as we now know them.

I have a suspicion though that if you eliminated bail, what you'd end up doing would functionally be making all the bail bondsmen (who currently are limited in what they can do) disappear but suddenly create a need for a bunch more police (who have broader powers).

I don't know if that is really a positive tradeoff. I think the bail bondsmen are likely to have more repercussions if they just murder you, your family, and your dog in your house; the police can more or less do that with impunity in some places, de facto if not de jure.
I don't know anything about RISC-V ISA yet, but I am wondering if its ISR is great for learning computer architecture in shcools compared to MIPS, the dominant ISR at colleges for introductory computer architecture classes?

The HDL (Verilog) code looks quite short and simple. If the partial implementation of the ISR implementation is like that it shouldn't be so bad for learning...
What do you think about the idea of classifying social media as a utility? I've heard a lot of people mention that lately...
Brownsville has a reputation, yes. But Brownsville is an engineered pocket of Brooklyn, for sure.

The reason Brownsville exists in this way, is because other parts of the city have created it the serve thusly. Spend enough time in NYC, and you gain an affinity for the equillibrium that fixtures on its map have acquired, in order to persist for decades and generations.

Brownsville is a landlocked pocket of subway-accessible pavement, about an hour from Manhattan.

Inside the footprint of the city limts, things exist as a matter of human will. The more powerful forces at the top tend to have stronger influnce over the sequence of events, than those at the bottom.

What was going on with the walled city of kowloon? Was it there because people aspired to that, and it was a reflection of their intent?
I like Zed more than a lot of people do, but I can't see how he could have possibly been in the right here. He's basically arguing for a new license to apply retroactively to old code released under a different license, which doesn't sound anything like how I understand licenses to work. But then again I'm not one of those law-talkin' guys, so what do I know.
This is why it's fruitless to argue with Marxists--they subjugate truth to layers of shifting context.

Non-Marxist: Is <objectively true statement> true?
Marxist: No. <objectively true statement> was/is/will be used against my political tribe, therefore it is false.
Non-Marxist: Well, can it just be "technically" true in this narrow case if we ignore the greater context?
Marxist: I don't understand what you're talking about.
Non-Marxist: Can anything be both true and politically inconvenient?
Marxist: What a stupid question. Of course not!

It's a wonder how so many of these people get into tech. How can you study science if your ideology invalidates Newtonian mechanics because it was invented to help England bombard natives?
Yeah him and Torvalds alike, maybe it's an ego thing. Or a graybeard thing?
definitely will cause developer pain. We are already seeing issues being closed in typescript related to monorepo and lerna support. [1]

I think that if other repositories follow suit, imagine Babel doing something similar, it could cause a stir for execs, but until the cost to the company is greater than their business with the U.S. Govt it wont stop, and there will be a lot of crap before we get to that point.

[1] https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/25376#issueco...
Yea, these people have no culture of a political protest. Kids... Take your political concerns to your congressman / senator, leave your political views outside the door of your office. Anyways, they will learn
I'm sure that is the orginal intent but can quickly morph.
This has become my least favorite question to answer, partly because the rabbit hole is too deep for a limited amount of time, and mostly because it has so little to do with the job I'm interviewing for. It also feels so tedious, having answered it so many times before. The hardest part about answering this question is not sounding or looking like I just want it to be over, already.

> Really a great question for exposing how the candidate models a complex system.

The question could do that, if the interviewer is sufficiently interactive and asks the candidate to explore or explain, but I have yet to experience it. Every single time I've answered the question, the interviewer just sits and listens.

Am I really exposing how I model anything when I'm giving what's now a pretty rote answer, colored by years of reading postings about it?
> It's absolutely not going to help if you are bombing along at 40 km/h and get doored, but at that point, nothing really will.

One thing that would help is taking the lane when going at those speeds. People don't normally drive their cars going 40 km/h in the door zone, so the same thing should apply when riding a bicycle.
Can those companies continue to use an older version of the software with the earlier license?
No one will know if it works. "Whether it will lead to higher incarceration rates is unknown because courts don’t track the data that would make such an analysis possible, lawmakers have said."
Okay, but that didn't convince me much personally. I think its absolutely in the company's liberty to cover the costs of the things they want to cover - as is the case with all benefits (other than gov mandated ones). They are just perks after all.
Same here. I would regularly post to twitter and wait for it to appear on Facebook and track the conversation there. The majority of old high school friends and distant relatives _only_ keep up with me through Facebook.

When a post from two weeks ago didn't show up, I should've listened to my gut instinct to grab a recent dump of my FB data.
The same could be said for pedestrians (slipping on ice, getting hit by a car).
How the Star Tracker image of Ryugu was used for optical navigation
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic? Without additional protections, such as a bill of rights, "democracy" is stupid. But most us live in "liberal democracies", which are as good as it gets.
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Yes. Another example is Clinton and welfare reform. Politics is weird that way.
Can't wait for the day VC gets into spines
This actually seems like a fun math calculation... Has anyone done this before?
The only ads that are ever actually relevant to me are the ones that are there because they're relevant to the page/app content.

If I'm looking at x, selling me something that makes x easier or otherwise compliments x makes a lot more sense than selling me something that I looked at 2 months ago and didn't intend to buy.
This is about as effective as ripping an arm off your shirt and throwing it in the vicinity of an ICE agent.

The result of that effort will be a day fielding questions from everyone but ICE about what the heck is wrong with your shirt.
Neither of those makes you alt right.

You'll find absolute free speech advocates on both the left and the right. It's more of a libertarian/authoritarian issue than a left/right issue.

Only extremists on the left would disagree that sex differences are partially/fully biological (depending on how you're defining biological and sex).