skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is very hard to pull off, IME. Even when you have a group of friend who all have children (as opposed to 'we all have children who are friends, so now we are de factor friends') it takes a lot of coordination to keep something like that up. And then someone gets sick and days have to be switched and everyone gets grumpy, or someone's mother moves to the area and now doesn't want to be part of the 'informal daycare' group any more (leading to resentment, because the others are left hanging), etc.

So the problem is a bit of a prisoners dilemma: you need to be able to rely on this group (having to scramble to find another solution is OK a few times a year, but not 3 times a month), but you also don't want to be 'tied down'.

So the alternative is to have lots of rules and required 'volunteering'. Which basically turns into the same as 'real' daycare, except that you have to take the day off to do your 'volunteering' (in the case of 2 working parents). So it's just scrambling to solve all the problems that money is supposed to solve (be a fungible store of value), but while at all costs keeping 'money' out of it.

Having been involved with attempts at systems like this, and having observed the problems in a few others, I no longer think it's feasible, at least not for dual income career oriented people. The places where I've seen it (more or less - it wouldn't work as a lifestyle for me) work are of the type of the mommy group of stay-at-home-parents, but those are hardly comparable to real daycare.
Mozilla adopted this and runs a Docker build command in their own CI, which errors out if someone tries to modify the generated code instead of fixing the F* source file

Ok, so all the talk about generating idiomatic C went for nothing in the end?
Firefox maker fears DarkMatter 'misuse' of browser for hacking
> Outcomes are the only holistic way to measure opportunity.

Additionally, this is also affected by Simpson's paradox. Without conditioning on the correct causal effects, you may end up at exactly the opposite conclusion to the truth.
Is there any other authentication method like google authenticator for 2fa to use facebook?
That’s the surprising part: These software packages are used for both, proportional modeling of dragons and animated characters to architecture and industrial design visualization. The latter, requires absolute dimensions.
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I would also like to know where the data comes from!
We see this even in software development. Keeping a code base relatively bug free vs fixing a critical bug in production. If you do the first, many people will assume the work was trivial but you will receive accolades for fixing that production bug.
I’m actually fairly excited to learn about this. I painstakingly scrapped HN to build:

https://hnprofile.com/

I’m excited about this alternative
> I should manually log in to their website and delete my account. I don't have time to deal with this...

In the time it took to write that comment you could have deleted your account. At least they do have a "delete account" button, a lot of services do not.

BTW, you can sign up with a fake non-existent email to check it out, you don't need to confirm your account to start using the app.
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I'm a Master's student working on a theoretical ml project and we're running some toy experiments, but it mainly consists of me storing folders with results, there has to be a better way. I'm getting very confused haha
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You driven like that once, some people drive like that daily. Usually it’s not them causing accidents. Whatever, anyone can be fast in a straight line.
I'm sorry, I can't comment on the specifics of the deal. I'm only trying to point out that the exact total amount of surplus is not necessarily equal to the amount of tax abatement Google is requesting (it could be more or less).
Somewhat random thought: is Challenge-Response sufficient or should it be 'Challenge-Challenge-Response' so that the client only answers a challenge it requested? Otherwise, what's to stop an XSS attack on page A from effectively MITM page B by overriding the event listener for the login on page A, asking to sign for page B, then exfiltrating the response?

EDIT: looks like the dialog attempts to give you some information, but it doesn't say WHICH profile on the domain and people could certainly not pay attention to the domain in that prompt (I had to check if it existed because I hadn't noticed).
I really like the idea of doing a day of support a month. When I did it every day of the week it drove me crazy and made me really cynical though.
I haven't personally ran into it either with mine, but supposedly it has to do with limited write cycles on the (cheap) memory module that they've used:

https://www.grapevinehamradio.com/2014/01/wouxun-memory-loss...

However, most reports are from a few years ago. So I was curious if Wouxun changed the module in newer modules.
>So, invest 1 million in politicians

i think you seriously overestimate how much it costs to purchase a state senator.
A counterpoint: Google believed they could attract better engineers (which can be explained either as genuinely more skilled people, who have more ability to choose where they work, or simply more passionate people) with the "Don't be evil" policy. Oracle existed all along. Google wanted to not be Oracle.

Now, Google has decided they want contracts like they're Oracle and they want staff like they're not Oracle. They can't have it both ways. It's not so much that Oracle is a more grown-up company because it learned to pursue profits and not good - it's just that it's easier to survive that way. (Hence the appearance that Oracle is a "normal" business; it's an easier way to run a business, is all, so more businesses do that.)

Nobody forced Google to be a public company. Nobody forced Google to grow as big as it did. Nobody forced Google to talk to China. They brought this on themselves, and they should have known that they couldn't do this and still remain Google.
Not sure why you felt the need to be offended.
You are awesome
Yes, i do not mind paying for quality software, but i want to have control over it. This means payment once (...i am ok with buying new major versions as long as the developers aren't releasing a major version every year or whatever to force people repay) and i get an installer .exe (or whatever) that i can keep on my external HDD for as long as i want and there isn't any need for online authentication/DRM (i am ok with key files as used by Total Commander and WinRAR).

Sadly, as time goes on this is becoming increasingly less common.
They were breaking the law by trying to hack my computer with malicious SQL.
Man can be forgiven for not being able to do more to stop its effect on nature. To control the pollution emitted by a 7 billion strong global population is a Herculean task, and it's only been about 70 years that we've known that nature is suffering from industrial civilization, and thus that pollution control and habitat preservation is something we ought to do.
I tried to do this but I can't figure out a fast workflow to achieve this.
I hate having to do the extra steps long-pressing the new tab button every single time and then selecting the container type (same scenario of two gmail accounts so I can't "open in container by default"), I wish there was just an url prefix or something to open in a specific container so I could just create a bookmark for each gmail.
I'm curious what your workflow is like, do you just always keep both tabs open?
Yeah, usually the hardest problem is to define the problem, or even know that there exists a problem that could be solved. Once you have discovered, understood and defined your problem, solving it becomes easy.
True - it has been getting increasingly hard on macOS (I just tried lldb on the command line and it's complaining about System Integrity Protection). It might actually be at the point where malicious software can't get access even with some cleverness?
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Interstate commerce?
>There won't be 2,000 jobs to build a datacenter, that's wildly exaggerated

There could be, they probably didn't pull that number completely out of nowhere. But there certainly won't be 2000 jobs for the duration of the construction. or 2000 new jobs.

I'm guessing it just creative counting, like if a crew of four people comes out to plant a couple trees by the front door, works for 4 hours total, and has no other involvement in the project, that's 4 jobs.
Why is "swapping" shares better than selling for cash (and then investing that in something less risky), which you can already do through secondary markets like Sharespost...
The Bramble Cay melomys is climate change's first mammal extinction victim
nutritionfacts.org is not a credible reference. It's a vegetarian propaganda site.
I’ve worked on ticket touting legislation for my own Parliament for two years now. It’s surprisingly complex and naturally has an unsurprisingly monied lobby funding opposition.

I find the parallels here very interesting and the suggestion from the first comment that a lottery could be deployed for all who purchase within the first X minutes. Maybe that’s the way forward for tickets too.
Please write everything down and be kind to 'Future You'.

I am very anti-spending money on software that isn't directly related to a project but a $10 confluence wiki lifetime license is one of the best purchases I have ever made.
Peering agreements are a thing
But a lot of them aren't anymore. I'd say 70% of my team is offshore. Before it became popular to offshore, they would have all been local. There's been many offices around me in the financial industry that have consolidated IT departments into much smaller local shops, closing offices here.
We use -D_GLIBCXX_DEBUG which automatically checks subscript access to vectors. Raw pointer usages are restricted to local (within a class/function) non-owning cases.
Objective observation: What do you call censorship in other countries? Legal obligations. What is the algorithmic effect of pushing something below the first fold? The same, but global. It is nonsensical to be outraged at one and calm regarding the other. The system powering the other has always been closed, deniable, safely distant from a legal perspective... and wields far more power globally than any government, answering to nobody.

Here in China, Baidu really is terrible ... a censored Google would be useful, but one may argue it sets a poor precedent. Unfortunately, AFAIK national censorship rules are an existing feature of all major search engines...
I think my broader point is really that, as assistive tech continues to increase in reliability and deployment breadth, Speed is something we as a society should consider raising.

German cars are feel AMAZING at high speeds. They're not the only ones, but dollar for dollar its easier to take a German car to 120 than any other nationality. Why? Because they're made to be driven on the Autobahn. They are, all else equal, safer to drive at high speed than American or Japanese cars because Germany has a stronger culture and laws around allowing cars to drive fast.

As we add assistive tech, it becomes safer to take cars this fast. Of course, there's a lot of other things to solve; roads, adoption, etc. And we can't solve the physics of stopping and impact force. But the benefits might outweigh the costs.

But Volvo, if we take them at their word, is saying "we don't care. This is as fast as you can go. Enjoy."

And sure, maybe their speed limit is fast enough. But, really, this move is just posturing. The tangible effect that it will have on vehicle safety likely won't be large; at best, it might stop some dumb kids from taking their dad's car out for a joyride and driving it off a bridge at 130, but its not going to stop them from doing the exact same thing at 100, or even 60 (on some backroads that speed is just as deadly).

When they limit their top speed, what they're also quietly saying "these cars are only engineered to go this fast". That engineering is why German cars are so great to drive in the triple digits. Its not just the platform; Volvo has computerized assistive tech. Is it tested to actually work at triple digits? Probably. Now that they have a corporate-wide mandated speed limit, will they continue to develop and test it at triple digits? I don't know.

And that's the real disappointment. We're now just "alright" with the speed we've always been driving. Cars could become "personal bullet trains". With enough assistive tech, give certified models their own barriered lane and, if the weather conditions permit, let them go 140. But Volvo isn't interested in that future, and that's very sad indeed.
> Usually it’s not them causing accidents.

I hear that all the time, do you have a source?
Is this tax break being extended to all small businesses with 50 or so employees in the city? If not, why? Why is Google special when it needs it the least? Tax incentives create an unfair business environment and hurt local business. In reality, taxes on everyone else will likely rise
> ggez

Off-topic but that’s a darn nice name for a game engine.

Certainly ggez means “good game easy”. At least that’s how I read it.

Clever because “gg” and “ez” is gamer terminology used by people that play video games, with “gg” meaning a match was good (equivalent of “thanks for the match”) and putting them together you get a new meaning which is that it will be easy to create a good game.
It is cool and i see some use cases. But Blender is free, and serious enough to do any kind of work. And 2.8 is user friendly enough to forget any alternative :)
I struggle with people that think driving fast makes them safer drivers. And I've never seen any data supporting that claim.
https://www.google.com/about/appsecurity/reward-program/inde...

Looks like up to $30k per bug.
With static analysis most misuse can also be detected: https://godbolt.org/z/UE-Mb0, which provides more flexibility than Rust even with NLL
In the current climate regarding the speed limit in Germany? Good luck. It’s from experience, you know, seeing it from the perspective of the fast driver. I know it’s another slogan but driving slower makes one more suspectible to distraction.
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> but I don't understand your defeatism.

> I publicly resigned from Google

Because for every one that resigned, there are most likely hundreds that stay.

I do admire your courage and willing to take a stand. In the face of an oppressive government like China I hope I would have the courage to do the same.
What in the spec precludes this from being implemented in software?

[edit] Reading more of the spec it definitely seems like they meant for it to be possible to implement this in software. So while a physical FIDO device might be preferable, it shouldn't be necessary.
What a great find. Thank you!
> so I'd say doing a good job is significantly harder

Maybe, but this highlights another problem in "soft" careers (social, marketing, teaching etc). It's very hard to objectively qualify candidates. In programming, it's easy: you can program, or not. If you can, the question is likely how fast can you learn new things, and how complex programs you can design & write. Good lawyers win cases. Good traders make money. And so on... How do you compare teachers, marketers (except bullshit "increased engagement by 1600%" claims on their CVs), etc?
I'm wondering which part of dragonfly makes you so unhappy. Is it the censorship itself or the censorship without telling user about it?
If Google didn't use a monorepo, it would have been much harder for these employees to keep tabs on Dragonfly-related code.
I truly admire you for taking a stance and fighting for what you believe in. Figuring out what you can and can't stand for morally is a difficult task. I hope others can feel inspired by you to examine whether they can, in good conscience, continue to support Google.

I am not advocating defeatism. I am simply trying to be realistic. It is a fact that within the tech community Google has always been given more leniency than their competitors, even when they're all guilty of the same crimes. The tech community assumes the best when it comes to Google and gives them the benefit of the doubt, even when they don't deserve it. Google's executives recognize this and have exploited this goodwill to further maximize their profit margins again and again, knowing that they can always quell any community outrage with empty promises to change and carefully crafted PR statements. Before it was Oracle, but now it's Facebook, Amazon, and Uber--As long as these companies exist, Google just needs to be the "lesser evil" and they'll always be excused.

Real, meaningful change would require a paradigm shift in the tech community that simply isn't going to happen while they're still overwhelmingly viewed as the most desirable company to work at and people still believe the "don't be evil" nonsense. The Google Kool-Aid is real and the tech community is drowning in it.
Google's argument, according to a link posted upthread, is that its investment of hundreds of millions of dollars in the construction of a data center will drastically improve the value of the lot that it's building on, and it wants a 20 year abatement on the increased value it is itself generating on the land.

It's not at all clear to me how or why taxes on everyone else will likely rise.
When you say "typically", how many data points do you have?

In my experience, an order of magnitude just happens when the company is at a very early stage (e.g. post seed). By the time the company is at Series C/D, the 409A valuation is typically between 1/2 and 1/3 of the last preferred round, or higher.
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What risk are taxpayers taking?
"Hi. I'm really amazing and have done a lot of stuff. People love me. Am I hirable?" /flex
I'd like to understand why the 14th Amendments provisions for due process and equality under the law aren't applicable. Seems to me that whatever taxing regime a state designs should be applicable equally to all legal entities (people/corporations/llc/etc). No favorites.
What Is an IIFE?
No, it picks 0 because that's required for the code path where the "if (ret) return ret;" doesn't return, for all the other code paths where it reaches the end of the subroutine ret is undefined so 0 is good for all possible paths to that point
And tons that will be willing to replace them.
> I think you have some kind of archaic idea of what parents supporting their child looks like. My parents let me pursue my dream (tbf conveniently it was in STEM) and funded my undergrad and masters.

Your experience is not necessarily universal.

> I have to ask. What are these things that you felt you couldn't do when you were financially dependent on your parents / living with them.

I'm from East Texas and I know of many families back home that have a "our money, our roof, our rules" mindset. It's not uncommon for these parents to use the threat of "do what we say or we're pulling your support" to control them. For instance "We don't like your girlfriend, break up with her or we're cutting your support", or "We'll only pay for your college if you major in what we want".

I've also seen these families impose curfews on their adult children, prevent them from drinking at home, prevent them from having certain hobbies or socializing with certain people, etc.

Myself and many of my peers moved away from home and became financially independent from our parents to avoid this situation.
The challenge is gathering consensus on how to pronounce it :p
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I have just started using jupyter with jupyter lab for notes. I havent gotten as far as making a full wiki system, but I definitely think it is possible. My killer feature is the ability to drop in code from a lot of different languages. I haven't fully tested it, but I am optimistic in its power

Disclaimer: I have used todoist, emacs org-mode, wunderlist and trialled a dozen other task management programs.
Because your comment adds nothing to the discussion and flattens people based on some dumb trope. It's just cynical junk thinking.
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For that to be "obvious", the 10% estimate should be objective and not just pulled out of thin air by somebody. And if it is statistics-based, it should hold into the future even though conditions change all the time (no idea how you would guarantee that). Even then, it's not that obvious - you can't pay rent with a 10% chance. Surely, if you take such chances regularly, it would pay you rent on average, but if you do it just once, you'd have to think about how much not being evicted from your apartment when 90% chance plays out instead costs to you.
It's funny/depressing that the only bits of C which were written by hand, not converted from another language, had both memory corruption and undefined behavior.
Why? There's no market for this bug. Nobody else will buy it. If you found an equivalent bug in, say, Grubhub, nobody would think it was worth much more than a token bounty. Is it just because Facebook is a big company and can afford to pay more for every bug, or is there a particular reason you think this bug is super valuable?
> Google will move forward with expansion into China. Anyone who doesn't believe that is frankly naive.

I agree. Google's only care is for profit.