skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to be a downer, but you might want to look into getting a post nuptial agreement and parking a good chunk of that money in trusts for your kids that you'll have access to for the next 10 or so years. This kind of money can change people, depending a lot on their background and upbringing.
So, fascism for everyone, then? What is the difference between a totalitarian government and one where the executive can create any laws he wants?
It's official, Mark Zuckerberg is the new Bill Gates. As in "we don't care about ethics"
From: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/cmselect/cmli...:

"If a Select Committee wishes to require the attendance of a witness, an informal request is issued. If the witness is unwilling, a period of negotiation usually follows. If it is clear that the witness is not willing to attend, and the Committee wishes to insist, an order for attendance is made by the Committee, signed by the Chair, and then served upon the witness by the Serjeant at Arms or the Serjeant’s representative."
I'm curious, what is not "proper" about Java's erased generics?

Reified types also bring other advantages, e.g. runtime reflection can be useful and can enable meta-programming and allows check binary compatibility of dynamic linking.

So gives that you want a language with reified types, losing that reification with generics creates awkward cases in the languages and prevents possibility for optimization.
Yes. Which is bad!
I'd be pretty concerned if Visa introduced a Visa Mobile Payments platform and withdrew functionality from the fastest growing payment apps because the mobile payments sector broadly competes with the credit card sector. I think that's a closer analogy than either of your examples
It is astonishing the lengths some people will go to not earn a honest salary.
How about testing in production? I'm heading in the direction of doing most of my testing there since all to often qa/test/dev environments don't actually represent the production system very well and it feels like we're doing it for the sake of it.

Deploy your new service alongside and mirror traffic. Treat your production system as a living organism that you're running tests inside of. Assess the impact/risk of your changes and decide your test strategy. Make large changes in small increments. And most importantly monitor all your changes with metrics, do canary releases when you're rolling out the real deal.

Spend more time testing and validating in production and less time building extensive and usually flaky e2e suites and focus on well pointed smoketests that you run in production.

Reduce the time it takes from writing code to seeing it in production to close to zero and painfully waiting for thousands of unit, integration and e2e tests and getting signoff in n different and yet never quite like production environments suddenly seems like an ancient practice. "How do you know it works?" "The metrics, logs and traces tell me it works"

Of course, it's a living organism, you don't want to screw it up, but there are plenty of ways to isolate your services under test. It definitely isn't something you can just start doing overnight because you'll need tooling and infrastructure to make it happen.
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My area used to do controlled burns but due to budget cuts hasn't in years, it's a tinder box in some of the forests.
No, it is not reasonable for the car to stop suddenly without the key. Even if it stops by going into an emergency limp mode, this could seriously endanger the occupants by leaving them in a dangerous traffic situation, a dangerous location, or with other issues.

This is why every car company has examined it and chosen to not do it.

This feature actually saved huge inconvenience for us once. While visiting the other coast for wife's mom in the hospital, we used one of her parent's cars to drive to the airport with her brother to drive it back. We get out at the airport, get luggage, hugs, bye, head into terminal -- with the key still in her purse. Car running, doesn't notify him until too late to chase. If it stopped after 2min, he'd be stuck somewhere outside an airport 100mi away from anyone he knew. Instead, he just drove it home, got & used the other key for a few days, and we mailed back the first key when we arrived.

Things that seem reasonable at first....
You're basically just using Emacs then, right?

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/eww.html
> if everyone good leaves organizations because they're "bad," well, those organizations will just be filled with the worst of us soon enough.

Is this not potentially an optimal outcome?

If companies who have a track record of doing unethical things suffer for it by being depleted of all employees who are not either unethical, incompetent, or both, this should dramatically compromise the effectiveness of the company. If this happens repeatably, it provides a disincentive for unethical corporate behavior.
I think it's worth considering just how much influence Facebook has that many of the other entities you mentioned do not. I also think it's worth considering possible solutions to problems that Facebook may or may not be the direct cause of before jumping directly to "Welp! Slippery slope, cant do anything about it i guess!".
Are we just going to pretend that christian morality (in the general sense) doesn't exist and lots of people don't follow that morality? I don't see how that's a stretch unless you pretend that the morality of whole swathes of people are not valid because you have another set of morals. It's not a huge stretch at all.
Donate it. Regain your peace.
I know. Like when Mark Twain visited Germany in 1878 and then used his report ("A Tramp Abroad") to talk about his own feelings rather than objectively describing the fascinating arts and crafts of Prussia.
How is it science? We literally have direct empirical evidence that suggests the contrary, but physicists do complicated mental gymnastics to come up with other explanations that fit their preconceived notions better.
Proper sleep is very low on the totem pole of things to manage when someone is in the hospital.

I'm almost always more worried about your vitals, your lab work, your physical assessment, etc. than the amount of sleep you are getting.
Seems pretty reasonable to me? Especially in the context of tossing ideas around.

Note that I don't read this as "let's get devs on board and then yank the rug out from under them later". Rather, it seems like they're trying to find a way to make it win/win, where devs can either pay for the platform directly, or use it for free if they can do so with a business model that helps Facebook make money elsewhere.
Now that you're sort of free from the constraints of a normal 9 to 5, perhaps it's a good time to consider doing jobs that you might have not considered before. A lot of very skilled friends who've retired from industry ended up doing non-profit work and found it very satisfying. From my own experience, as an engineer still working, my time spent as a volunteer are among the things that gives me the most satisfaction. I'm about as satisfied at having run marathons, been part of an IPO, done some good engineering work, and literally put 200+ roofs over people's heads as a roofer for Habitat for Humanity. Mentoring high school students from East Palo Alto and seeing them graduate and becoming the first college students in their family are among the works I've found most worthwhile. Non-profits often need the type of specialized skills people like you can bring but can't afford.
I doubt that. For example, Polish science is poorly funded, and yet it’s 99% bad actors gaming the system with bullshit non-research.
I take a private bus that costs the same as NJT buses so there's no +30. They are very consistent.
The modern aversion to "lesser of two evils" is a thinly-disguised post-hoc rationalization for apathy (or worse, nihilism). It's not even false equivalence, because that would suggest trying to paint both "evils" as equal; no, this is simply saying that, when presented with two choices where one is better than the other, we might as well make the worse choice, because who cares?
GNU IceCat, or presumably most of these things are compile options.
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You cannot agree to a contract requiring you to break the law. A lawful seizure therefore cannot trigger liability.
The exact paragraph you quoted says “a year or more”.
> At this point, I don't even feel obligated to remember it all -- I can trust myself enough. We do that with "evil" people in our lives, too. We don't remember every dirty detail. We remember that there were a bunch of things, and that overall, we had it at some point. I save the conclusion and the checksums and that's enough.

> If you think I'm operating on a premise, instead of having come to a conclusion, how is that not you operating on a premise?

A mental conclusion can be a discussion premise. It doesn't invalidate your conclusion to say it should be a conclusion not a premise, because you're asserting a premise in a discussion which you are not (yet) supporting.

Also consider that you have seen eleven years of data points and experiences from the point of view of a small subset of users; there could perhaps be an equivalent cache of positive datapoints which tend to be significantly less interesting to report on.

Thus, supporting your point with concrete examples is how you contribute to a discussion, because then you and any adversaries can challenge you on the merits of your argument.

That's what the conclusion/premise separation is about.
The JS has a checksum. Now, the printer's internal memory, that's a good point. Is there even a UI for that? Perhaps a factory reset after printing the keys, but what a pain in the ass.
> There's nothing that Facebook did here than any other company, in tech or otherwise, wouldn't have done.

This isn't true. Lots of companies wouldn't steal users' call logs - eg, Mozilla, Signal, and plenty of boring, normal ones who make TODO list apps or whatever.

It also isn't relevant. See how that argument flies in criminal court. "Anybody else would have stolen that car."

What we see here (again) is that FB does nasty things and it's in the public interest to stop them - along with "any other company" who does the same things.
I don't know why you're strawmanning me into being responsible for every act of suppression by a person who claimed to be acting for social justice. I am not deeming anything any which way. I am just saying that there are obvious conceivable negative interpretations of the terms "whitelist" and "blacklist" that don't exist with the terms "allowlist" and "blocklist". And the work required to change the language that you use in this case is very small, so it's worth considering. That's it, that's the entirety of the argument here. Nobody is demanding suppression of anyone's ideas.
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The banning of completely legal and non-controversial content didn't stop with Pao. That was the start. It's only accelerated. And that's what you see in the stats. Reddit is down in popularity since 2015.

They abandoned their userbase and are attempting to bootstrap up into a gentrified facebook clone with new emphasis on personal identity (ie, having people post to their user profile pages instead of subreddits, and the implementation of commercial ad "personal" profiles like u/washingtonpost).

And luckily for them in 2016 a partisan political issue finally provided motivation for people to leave Facebook for other sites. This explains your observations about number of subs.
> critical of the company nowadays

As opposed to when? When you worked there? When was this period that Facebook was a beacon of ethical behaviour?

> to explicitly dehumanize them for the sake of making the world simpler.

Like aliasing people into a point on a social graph and a wallet? Dehumanising behaviour and monetising that is the main ethical problem with Facebook. It's a bit rich to accuse opponents of over simplification.

>It is a poor model

FB market cap seems to disagree. Pidgeon-holing people for profit is an exceptionally lucrative model.

> Projects like charitable causes have raised a lot for charity

And the trains in Italy ran on time!

You worked there for five years and never had a clue. Maybe you're not the right person to provide a judgement on judgement.
The use of the word "trick" here is well-warranted. This is really more of a UI thing (i.e. it's a little too easy for a user to accidentally click "Ok"). Applications have responded to concerns like this by just having the "Ok" button be non-clickable for a full second after appearing.
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Would you say that web development is an easier barrier to entry than most other sub fields?
You're right, the formula isn't groundbreaking. We did this intentionally to focus on the tried and true. We've also found that many sleep aids contain these ingredients, but only in very small quantities (1mg or less).

Is there anything else you would potentially like to see included?
If I were to build an application 100% in the style of the article, my answer to all three questions would be "yes". But I'd probably opt to version at the level of a whole deployment, rather than at the level of each file. There's a case for versioning non-build static assets separately, but I'd rather version all of the output of a build process together.
Suggestion: encourage the usage of SRI hashes when linking to these externally hosted assets.

https://www.srihash.org/

These seem to neatly complement the other aspects of this proposed architectural pattern.
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This is a microcosm of our political environment where when one subjectively determines the weight of harm, they attempt to objectively apply it to others. Sure, FB does immoral things. But why can't we simply recognize that people disagree about whether harm exists, whether value exists, and what weights are applied to each?

This is a really important point. Political movements often attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by a differing value system, but that doesn't rile up your base like proclaiming the other side is evil.

I should remember this myself :)
You can't get away from using state in Python because it lacks TCO.
As an aside, I spent a good 4 hours of my life the other week learning how to use FontForge to strip out all the extraneous glyphs from an Open Version of Garamond and saving into a WOFF format file for a website, resulting in a 64Kb file.

This because a) I'm not happy with Google tracking my users and b) I've been professionally making websites since the mid to late 90s and so started off in a world where an entire site came in at under <100kb, images included.

I'm not one to needlessly and unthinkingly throw up excess pageweight
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ive tested a couple of things to see if they would block the signal by putting the keys in the container and then standing next to the car and trying to open the door

kids Lunch box would not block, small metal garbage can, would not block, cookie tin would not block. All would block if you lined the edge with aluminum foil before putting the top on.

foil lined Potato chip bag would block.

Wrapping in enough aluminum foil will block the signal

Those faraday bags are convenient, but I park in the garage so Im not that worried. Garage door openers now have lock switches which prevent the door from being opened using any opener.
Maybe too much Lovecraft, horror channel, or Slayer, but there's an element of "born of dead womb". Certainly nice for the transplant recipient and partner, but I think I'd feel a bit weird having groen in a transplanted womb, even with downvotes telling me I'm not allowed to have an opinion.
Not really. It's like buying a space on the wall to advertise inside the all you can eat restaurant.

The restaurant isn't telling you who goes into the restaurant. They're just selling you access to those people through that ad.

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The other problem, the Cambridge Analytica problem, is a bit different.

It's like saying that the restaurant requires you to tell them your name and other personal information in order to eat at the restaurant. Maybe it's to send flyers or deals, doesn't matter.

The problem happens when the restaurant also asks for your friends personal information, and you give it to them without asking your friends.

That's basically what Facebook is under fire about. Allowing your friends to very easily give your information out without you knowing.
> So, fascism for everyone, then?

WTF?

> What is the difference between a totalitarian government and one where the executive can create any laws he wants?

None, but there's a pretty big difference between the power to issue directions to subordinates relating the application of powers with which you are vested by the Constitution and laws, and the power to create any laws you want.

Executive Orders rely on (and are limited by) the former; they do not involve the latter.
Why do you need self driving for this?
Having worked at a hedge fund, most "skilled" investors aren't. I would just do what you've suggested and park it in a diversified portfolio of index funds even if I had all that money. I've seen some atrocious usage of investor money at hedge funds. It mostly goes toward stoking the ego of the partners.
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The definitions you brought are tailored to what is our best understanding of the universe. Nobody ever said that these are immutable. Newtonian physics also must have felt rock solid, time and time again explaining new phenomena until it did not and there came about a better explanation.
When you first open a new Nightly install there's literally a banner across the entire browser telling you that it's collecting metrics, along with a button that displays more information and allows you to customize what data gets sent. The whole point of offering a Nightly build is so that they can have feedback on performance regressions and crashes. Characterizing it as "spying" is simply FUD.
inb4 someone blames communism or calls china communist again
That protects the members of parliament, not their sources.
Maybe it doesn't I'm certainly no expert on GDPR but it does highlight how Google/Facebook are crossing the creepy line.

These companies are treating privacy legislation as they treat tax legislation. That is, they're using legal loop holes to be as legally creepy as they can without respecting the spirit of the law.
Again, I don't think that's really true historically. Even in pre-state societies or in present day societies with failed or weak states people still have homes that they live in consistently from day to day.

Sure, sometimes the dudes with guns show up and force them out, but that isn't a constant occurrence.
There is no such thing as "laws", at least not in the same sense as any western understanding.

The first rule for any Chinese Judge is not some Right or Values, but absolute loyalty to the party.

>The west would be smart to wait to see how easy it really is to do business in China without giving over IP before giving China credit.

When will the lesson be learned!? When will the lesson be learned!? How many more dictators must be wooed, appeased - good God, given immense privileges - before we learn? You cannot reason with a CHINA when your head is in its mouth.
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If they just steal a car: Responsible

If they steal a car because someone has a gun to they or their spouse's head: Not responsible

Why: Because the causal chain of events that have gotten us to modern humanity have resulted in our cognitive functions valuing human life over physical objects. These are the inputs to the system. These are all causal, products of evolution, etc, and deterministic. The output, the lack of moral responsibility when it's a matter of a human life, is just as causal and deterministic. Free will is not a requirement to come to these conclusions.

If we had evolved in such a way that we kill and eat our spouses after mating like some other species on Earth, but vehicles were a scarce and irreplaceable resource, our morality would be quite different and the thief would likely be morally responsible in both cases. (For what it's worth, I much prefer that we do not live in such a reality ;))
Looks boring. Creatures with no abilities on a generic board for $$$$
I think the implied full question was, "Why does NASA even have press releases next to the actual research they publish, and why those releases occupy higher spots in search results than the research?".
If it's antimatter why isn't it coalesced into antigalaxies that we would be able to see visibly, and is instead diffused as a dark fluid?
The human race is not struggling for children, but many individual women certainly are. This is a technology that could help these women achieve something that they desire, and we shouldn't ignore that just because there are other problems to be solved too.

Surrogacy is fraught with its own problems. Whomever you choose to be the surrogate has to carry the baby to term for 9 months. And they connect with the child while carrying it. If you ask a friend to do it, it puts a strain on the relationship regardless of whether they agree.
Probably foolishly, I updated the firmware of my van (a Pacifica PHEV, same as Waymo is using) while driving a while back. Since the update was for the infotainment system, the vehicle continued operating just fine (other than temporarily losing access to settings such as climate control, automatic wipers, etc.).
> I get that people hate Facebook, but does that justify any level of bad behavior as long as it harms them?

Personally, given the level of harm Facebook has helped to inflict on the world these last 2-3 years, yeah, I reckon I'm perfectly happy with people inflicting harm on the corporation, probably even to the point of ruination.
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I believe you're thinking of FBJS (https://github.com/facebook/fbjs), which is a library as you describe, whereas the comment above is referring to loading the Facebook SDK from Facebook's servers. Among other things, Netflix offers Facebook login, which would need the SDK loaded.
"Garage door openers now have lock switches which prevent the door from being opened using any opener."

More info on this? Mine is older and doesn't have anything like it.
> make viruses in one word of memory

OT, but with PDP-11 you could write 103737 (in octal), which propagated across memory (backwards).

10 means "move", first 37 means "from what R7 is pointing to, autodecrementing R7 before copying", second 37 is "to what R7 is poiting to, autodecrementing R7 before copying". R7 is the program counter, so this operation was copied one word (16 bits) before the executing instruction and then control was passed to that new word.

Of course, with GA144 you can have up to 4 commands in a single 18-bit long instruction, so opportunities are better...
I just encountered Flow type issues after the 85 release. I know the type defs are in flow-typed but it would be nice if you could also provide some guidance. There are just so many parameters for connect that it just blows my mind when I try to find the source error.
How many do we hold? are we comparing or complaining?
Anecdotaly, I have a remote that lights up everytime it's moved (to assist finding it at night as it's a remote for a bed). I've had it for well over a year and haven't changed the batteries yet. Granted, it runs on three AAA batteries. Not entirely sure what tech it uses, but it's not necessarily a full blown accelerometer.

Edit: some / all of the power drain would be offset because the RF transmitter would be off while the sensor is on.