skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's worth remembering that Facebook did share data in violation of their own terms of use with the Clinton came - in fact, that policy came about because Obama "abused" Facebook to collect contact information for friends of people who liked or followed his campaign. Despite this policy change, Facebook allowed Clinton to do the same. They claimed it was by mistake, but even after the mistake was revealed, they didn't change it or cut off Clinton. Clinton's campaign manager speculated it was because "they agreed with us", but also thought that the Trump campaign had similar access (so far, no evidence has emerged to that).

Facebook is not a good actor, anyway you look at it. They are selling data to first or second parties, who are using it to damage our country.
I'm sure FB has their share of James Damores.
When I was a teen my favourite joke was, "people with foot fetishes are lucky. To them, every beach is a nude beach."

Really does apply here. It's increasingly absurd to define what's sexually explicit as our society becomes increasingly liberal about our sexuality.

It was easier back when there was a very narrow definition of heterosexuality, leaving everything else to be homosexuality and/or some form of "perversion". We're basically dealing with the propagation of those attitudes forwards through time.
Obviously both are important. The biggest absolute polluters must cut back. But the highest per capita emitters have the biggest room for easy improvement.

It's like the debate over water in the West. 80% of water goes to agriculture, so they make the biggest splash and there's no way to cut water usage in half without improving agriculture. But of the 7-20% that goes to residential, half is used on lawns, which is a luxury good. And speaking of lawns, we generate quite a lot of emissions taking care of them.
What would have been even better is investment in a BART line that runs to Alameda. Getting on and off the island is horrible due to there being only 3-4 bridges/tunnels (IIRC). Of course, that would have been a larger up-front investment but one that they're now looking at.

http://www.oaklandmagazine.com/May-2018/BART-in-Alameda/
Can somebody explain to me on what authority the US can request the arrest of a Chinese national on Canadian soil for any action they took while conducting operations of a Chinese organization headquartered in China?
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Honestly it's a nightmare in every language. And I found in comparison to most other languages I've worked with (Java, Ruby, PHP, Golang) I actually feel it's done quite well.

It's a super complex topic, it needs leadership support so that you can get a reasonable percentage of the community to drill down on one solution instead of having 4-5 competing ones, but it also needs a lot of in-depth insights, which is kind of opposite to leadership which requires a top-down view.
On a related note - are there any small nas devices that take m.2 size drives? Seems like a good product which I haven't seen.
I like how main() can still be found in mars.d[1].

1. https://github.com/dlang/dmd/blob/master/src/dmd/mars.d#L909
The criteria for candidate communication ability in the "example rubric" _sounds_ right, but is any of this backed by actual data?
Poetry is one of the few things that gives me hope about the mess of python packaging.

It is also great to see the author is very responsive.

My only concern is the lack of integrated "toolchain" management (what versxon of python to use, something like rustup) that is cross platform.
Isn't NeXT still a trademark name?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT
They don't have any. They asked Canada to arrest her and they agreed to do it.
Many liberal sentiments can be weaponized against marginalized people. Just Google "Speaker's Corner anti-feminism", or for a more recent example, "Eli Erlick Ariana Grande"
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You can fit more terabytes in a rack, and (likely; I haven’t checked) use less power and cooling per terabyte of storage, at the cost (again: likely; I haven’t checked) of performance.

Including the cost of racks and power, this may even be cheaper.
Ok, I've unflagged that comment.
But also significantly lower carbon emissions!
Where is all the text?? This doesn't work in either Firefox or Chrome, only the background images show up. You may want to take a close look at that. FYI. My Firefox has tracking protection and Chrome is free from any AdBlocking extension.
Bridge has been in development for while. I'm guessing that's the tool you're referring to. I've asked them about a few more complex scenarios with regard to sharing of mailboxes and group send-as features. My questions were well defined and not answered in their existing FAQ. The problem I experienced was that they gave me non-answers to my questions. Sure, I did receive a response (days later) but the response didn't address my questions. Since your issue seems to have been well defined I'm not all that surprised you had a more positive experience.
I assume it's basically the same authority that China would use if they wanted to arrest somebody who happened to be in Laos -- "what's Laos/Canada going to do, say no?"
`pip freeze > requirements.txt`
They can ask Canada to do so, usually through legal cooperation/assistance agreements. But it remains Canada's decision to help or not.
Pretty scary that it seems to have happened this fast!
WinForms also has layout panels (they showed up in 2.0+) - FlowLayoutPanel etc.

The stuff with anchors being relative to other controls, though, sounds like it should be roughly equivalent to Java GroupLayout in expressive power. Which is neat!
Sorry, I got confused with another tool.
Note that this arrest was due to the lesser sin of export control busting, rather than Huawei's biggest sin: facilitating surveillance and IP theft.

Remarkable that they (she?) went through all the effort to set up a HK front company, but then left the Huawei logo on their powerpoint decks
Still a small subset of the language and features

They've also got to manually implement the Python -> autograph translation for a whole variety of language features (so any language features that get added or changed will break autograph until it's updated.

Flux gets this essentially for free, for the entire Julia language, without the need to manually build that language -> tensorflow translation layer. With the added benefit of Julia's non-trivial performance benefits.
they cannot misuse their legal powers, as parliament is Sovereign in the UK.

Wow. So anything they do can’t be a misuse of power as long as it’s technically legal? And if it’s not legal, can they just change the laws and then do it?

My issue is not with retaliation, but if Facebook did something wrong, why not investigate and prosecute? Instead they’re going to just try and embarrass them. Which indicates that they don’t actually have any legal case.
Just watch them come up with something.
It's unclear how the insurance company would verify you're using the faraday cage. Presumably you're not willing to accept responsibility for the loss.
The original title overran the limit, and this one is very close to the boundary.
What pipenv needs more than anything is a proper back tracking dependency resolver. With that it would instantly become my package installer of choice for python.
She allegedly broke US law and was in the territory of a country that shares an extradition treaty with the US.
By "dev machines" do you mean workstations or CI servers? There's no way you could have been burning out top of the line enterprise SSDs in 2-3 years with developer workstation usage patterns.

(I could maybe believe that you ran into trouble if you used low-end enterprise SSDs that also force themselves to go read-only as soon as the warrantied write endurance is exhausted, rather than continuing until the flash itself is actually starting to fail.)
At one point you could embed webkit in emacs. https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/4srze9/watching_yout...
Again, the seizure isn’t the problem, the public disclosure is.
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One idea would be standardized questionnaires. Rather than job sites being collections of buzzwords and tools, if they presented questionnaires that matched a variety of similar job titles, employers could simply fill out the questionnaire and be matched with candidates who answer similarly.
Possibly, but much more likely to be near somebody at all.
Opening documents is still dangerous, even if there is no option to ask for installations.
Alert on exe is not nearly enough. Almost any file type is dangerous on Windows, and there is a long list for unixes. Making it possible for users to open a document without knowing what they are doing first is a huge vulnerability.

That said, starting the download and immediately getting it out of the user's face, requiring interaction to open them is a very good solution. It leads to some problems on Windows, but then, what doesn't?
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> Can you tell me what you mean by flood-fill?

OK, imagine a load of servers. Each is connected to some (not all) of the others, and they all peer messages to each other.

A -- B -- C -- D
| |
E -- F -- H
|
G -- I

A message M is sent to one (say A). B asks A "have you got any new messages?" (or it might be A pushes them onto B) and A replies with M.

From B, M is sent to C and E. From E it is sent to F and G. Eventually it gets to all the servers on the network.

I envisage that each message would have a unique ID consisting of a cryptographic hash of its contents and timestamp.
Terms become unenforceable when it's recognized by the courts that one party has so much negotiating power that true negotiations are impossible. A software engineer in the middle of SV might be able to demand $100k to sign a noncompete, but who else?
As other people on the thread have mentioned, you can look at Microsoft to see what will happen. This same exact situation played out there: long-term contractors demanded employee rights, went to court, and got them. So Microsoft immediately changed its policy to a) pretty much ban individual contractors who weren’t working through agencies (that skim way more off the top than they’re worth), and b) set a hard limit of 18 months, after which the contractor has to leave and can’t work for Microsoft again for a “cool-down period”. Which sucks for everyone: the contractors aren’t any better off than they were, and the FTEs now have to waste time training a new person every year and a half just when the outgoing one had become an expert who needed little supervision.
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Selling US devices (HP computers) in contravention of US sanctions (ITAR, probably) for payment that probably touched US banks
I can't speak to elixir but Ruby seems reasonable, JavaScript is a total clusterfuck. Python is dead simple.
I game a bit, but play mostly indie games that are a few GB or less.
Did you read the article? US is alleging Huawei was shipping "U.S.-origin" products to Iran - probably U.S. made components for Huawei devices/technology.

What "authority" do you need to ask for a favor from a friendly ally? Canada also has active economic sanctions against Iran.
But even in the relatively narrow scenario you describe, there is an immediate benefit for those living and working in the city, which is that there is significantly less car traffic, which means less noise and pollution and greater safety (also access for emergency vehicles etc). And, over the longer term, fewer cars within the city means that roads can be narrowed and sidewalks widened. And this is all without even considering where the increased taxes would actually be spent.
Possibly, but not entirely. I can't even spin around in a chair moderately fast for one full rotation without regretting it. Eyes open or closed don't seem to help.

In cars it's largely about how much I can see outside, if I'm facing the direction of movement, etc. Usually in common vehicles I do not suffer unless I read/phone/etc. However in a bus-limo thing on a work retreat we all sat sideways.. on windy roads.. I could still see out the big windows, and tried to face my body forward but it was a rough, rough ride regardless.

I've never investigated it much, as it's such an awful feeling I have a hard time debugging it.
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I'm envisaging something like mastodon, not something that is mastodon.
Sadly the world isn't comprised of only HN smart people :)
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Apologies, you are correct, jumped the gun a bit there.

It's repulsive at short distances, attractive at longer distances. And oddly, the longer the distance, the stronger the force, it doesn't follow the inverse square law!
99.9% of scientists agree about climate change. The other 0.01% are funded by oil megacorps and conservative think tanks.

The politicians and the capitalists that preach against climate science are building seawalls to protect their properties and buying doomsday shelters. The US military is studying and preparing for combat in a destabilized climate-changed world.

Use the pragmatic part of your thinking and just look at what people are doing, not saying. Do not listen to the emotional part of your mind that craves the feeling of smugness and contrarianism.
Boz's 'the ugly' that got leaked is probably the best well known documentation of this cult. My whole time there it creeped me out.
The article doesn't have anything I didn't know about or new but yet another reminder of how postgres is, IMO, the best piece of sw ever created is nice.
Wow this seems like a huge deal.

If the whole company is suspected of breaking the embargo, why is just the CFO arrested? Was she just the one they could get?

Also, it seems weird that Huawei can sell their own products to Iran but not American products they own.
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But is the legal ramification for ignoring the invitation anything they can think of? If a British citizen did the same, could they claim that they were investigating them, barge into their home unannounced and seize all devices, and then later publish any nude photos found under the justification of “hey, you should have come when we invited you?”

Why not just prosecute for whatever law was broken?
Pipenv tries to upgrade all the versions of everything in your lockfile whenever you add a new package (not just dependencies of the package), and there's no way to disable this behavior. Right now. That's the tip of the iceberg.
> Can somebody explain to me on what authority the US can arrest a Chinese national on Canadian soil

Canada arrested him, not the US.

If you mean, what is the authority for the US to ask Canada to do that, well, asking doesn't require any special authority; OTOH, the US does have an extradition treaty with Canada [0], and while trade sanctions violations don't appear to be an enumerated offense covered by the extradition treaty, sanctions violations tend to also involve false declarations and certain kinds of frauds, which are covered.

[0] https://www.oas.org/juridico/mla/en/traites/en_traites-ext-c...
Link to the actual paper: http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1119...
This reminded me of Jill Bolte Taylor talk and experience of her stroke.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyyjU8fzEYU
There's only going to be one blog left, and it's going to be called "Bring back the porn".
It's not easy to ramp up production.
I immediately though of HN-style sites too. What we need is some sort of gumbo made from spanning all of these specialized , human-curated sites, stripping out the Alexa top 100, 1000, top-whatever sites and then re-ordering the results by some new measure that encapsulates "neatness", "quirky" or "weirdness", or what ever we can call it.

This sounds really hard, and for me I don't know where I'd start, but I also didn't create google or pagerank which at it's dawn also seemed like magic, so I have faith this could be done.

It's the sort of mission to which I could dedicate my life, until I too was corrupted by the success and lure of endless wealth, at which point today-me sincerely hopes some other smart oblivious kids would come along and displace me.

So I too hope to see something better in my lifetime.
Selling parts. Usually chop shops, then to shady body shops and mechanics. With exotics, many are exported to less principled markets, with minimal vin mitigation needed. Notice how the top stolen cars on every annual list are always ones with popular body styles (accord, etc), it is no accident. The parts are often worth more than the car, and can be sold at full market value, unlike a stolen car.
Rust has other runtime memory safety checking, like RefCell.
California banned them and has only benefitted as a result. Why should other states not do the same?
Pipenv is designed solely for packaging applications, per the maintainers' admission. It's not suited for libraries and is not designed to be. If you want to replace pip, you should have a look at Poetry.
The article suggests she took US-made products and routed them to Iran through Huawei. That's a US crime, and the US can issue a warrant for her arrest, and if she shows up in a country with extradition to the US, she can get arrested. Which is apparently what happened.
*Damn.
If gas reserves are exploited along with coal reserves, your conjecture holds. If gas reserves are exploited in lieu of coal reserves, it does not.

If the cost per Joule of carbon-free energy goes down over time, carbon-free energy will eventually dominate the energy economy. This is generally expected to happen "too late" because of how much carbon will be released before we get there.

If burning oil and gas instead of coal reduces carbon emissions prior to carbon-free sources taking over, overall carbon emissions are reduced and the amount of warming is reduced.
Posting like this will get your account banned.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'd posit that we are going to have a very hard time fighting off climate change if we aren't allowed to do anything to discourage people from driving 40 minutes to a nearby town every time they want to go shopping. The transportation sector is the biggest carbon emitter, and at some point we have to come to terms with the fact that in order to reduce our carbon emissions, we are all going to have to drive a lot less.
This is bad for Australians and bad for anyone doing business in Australia.

I already know of a case where an Australian subsidiary is being shut down and all operations being moved to Europe in response to this draconian measure on the part of the Australian government. The company just doesn't want the liability of operating in such an environment, and has now classified Australia as equivalent to China in terms of risk factor. So, a multi-million dollar budget goes to Europe instead, and Australia loses a tech leader.

This is only going to hurt the Australian people.
Without another Earth-like planet to act as a control, and geologic time-scales in which to perform the experimentation, the science is bunk. Climate science must rely on models -- models which are constantly being tweaked as they continue to fail to accurately predict reality.

But the groupthink here just cannot objectively look at climate science, compare it to the scientific method, and realize there may be something amiss.
You might want to check out https://github.com/pypa/pipenv/pull/3304, which Dan is actively working on to solve that.
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I’m usually the first person to criticize Facebook and I haven’t used it in years, but that isn’t really fair. Facebook has done stellar work on a broad range of applications. While they may be morally bankrupt, their engineering is outstanding.
Excellent, thank you for an actual response that isn’t “haha, screw Facebook, who cares!”

If this is just part of the normal investigative procedure rather than a gross abuse of authority, then so be it.
On the contrary, a series of groundbreaking experiments have demonstrated that Bell's Inequality holds, which is incompatible with any local hidden variable theory (and what you are saying here is a local hidden-variable theory.) Non-local hidden-variable theories are just as counter-intuitive as any of the conventional interpretations of quantum mechanics, which is not surprising, as they also have to satisfy Bell's inequality.

I have no opinion on what this says about free will, though I suspect that whatever it does, it is not much.

See, for example,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAXxSKifgtU
"for eventual integration into PostgreSQL"..
> Do employees at facebook really feel the heat?

Yes. At every social gathering, every online forum, etc. where I mention (or people already know) that I work at Facebook, the most common reaction has gone from "wow cool" to harsh glares. It interferes with all of those relationships. I know a whole lot of people will say "you deserve it you scum I hope you die" but I'm not here to argue deservedness. A question was asked, and I'm answering. Yes, we feel it.
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Could you please stop doing this? It breaks the guidelines.

> Please don't impute astroturfing or shillage. That degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about it, email us and we'll look at the data.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
what' stopping them from publishing the executive summary or abstract as a generic non-optimized, non-gamified SEO'd document? that's what universities and research organizations did for the first 30+ years of the internet...
Isn't this all the point though? People live further out and travel more because it's cheaper. The goal is to change behaviour by making more polluting choices less cheap.

If the problem is the poorest, why not use the fuel duty raised to help them? They're surely not using all the fuel, so this could be a net benefit to them.
Semiconductor lithography is a lot more expensive than plain old manufacturing. Fabs cost tens of billions of dollars to build or expand and have limited capacity, coating a glass disc in rust is cheap.

Also, fabs have investors who want returns on their money, so they're not super keen on crashing the market either. There are not-so-secret cartels between all the major players that conspire to keep DRAM and NAND prices high.

We could certainly have the government dump a half-trillion dollars and bring up a bunch of fabs though. That's exactly what China is doing. Their economy runs on assembling the goods, not lithographing the chips (which is largely done in Taiwan or South Korea or sometimes Malaysia).