skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Email has been slowly balkanising itself for years now. By way of example, I know personally several people who run mail relays and not only refuse to relay messages from and to Google email servers but even refuse to _receive_ emails addressed to their users from GMail addresses. All of this on what is essentially a political objection.

In the fullness of time, email will fail as a communication medium because of these situations. I don't think that Google will mind terribly when it does.
The philosophy is handy if you already believe that the rich are meant to be rich and the poor meant to be poor.

Wow. That's pretty succinct way to say you don't understand Stoicism at all.
Bug Bounties and Black Swans
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Good news is the FBI doesn't write the law. My recollection is the general consensus was the FBI was severely overreaching and was going to lose their court case.
I think it is in the nature of risk that you get punished if you end up on the losing side of it, no?
Any chance this is enforcing a content licensing restriction?
Why was Charter Communications excluded?

Edit: Both CenturyLink and Cox were also exluded.
Dragonfly was this outrageous: (from memory) Google's managers sold the Chinese government on this: "we will require and verify a phone number for every user of Google in China. We will provide a state-run police department of your choice with an unredacted list of every single Google query performed by every single phone number. No restrictions. No warrants. Do whatever you want with it."

Whatever China wants includes concentration camps on the same order of magnitude as the Holocaust (they're not death camps, just imprison over 1 million people based on ethnicity alone.) It includes a social score that is similar to America's no fly list, except extending to rail and not restricted to a few thousand people. Simply mentioning the anniversary date of tiananman square over any chat network (such as whatsapp, or wechat) would get your Internet cut off immediately. Free speech is such that you cannot publish a childish caricature (of their president as a teddy bear). And Google says here is every query by every user, by phone number. Go wild.

On the outrage-o-meter Google's dragonfly is like a surprise thermonuclear strike against an unsuspecting populated city during peacetime. Apple not showing news is like a guy grimacing at you, shaking his head in disgust, and turning on his heels and walking away.
A lot of the music I love from my younger years, I can still listen to either actively for enjoyment or passively for concentration. It's entirely up to me.
Not an explanation or saying its right or wrong, just a comment - anything under 100mb (on my personal computer or smartphone) to me is small enough as to be statistically insignificant in my mental model. I saw 43mb and thought it was kind of slim.

Born in '88 for context, the smallest primary storage device I can remember using was a 20mb HDD on a hand-me-down 486 I got one birthday.
The point being made was that there are plenty of ISPs not named by this order. You're off on a tangent.
> I enjoy getting my work done, so then I can work on my other projects or look for new jobs. When my required work is done, then I don't feel bad about doing other things...

Do you work remote, or does your employer allow to go earlier/work on your own stuff in your office?
Liquidation pref for investors with preferred shares.
Some people have tonwork outsides? Sun light also helps to wake up. So it's a trade off either way.
It's usually a property chain, not a method chain - I don't think get...() is meaningfully a method in most cases, even if implemented as such.
The problem for streamers is not the legal part, it's the filtering part.
I wouldn't be so quick to jump to that conclusion. Was there a better, more defined way to catch that error type globally? if there is not, that is not the site creators fault, that is on mozilla
This has been done: https://github.com/yudai/gotty
Unifying Physics and Deep Learning with TossingBot
Likewise, there's nothing preventing you from taking an offer at a startup, continuing to interview and taking a job at a big company whenever, even if it's only 2 or 3 months later.

I mean, try not to make a habit of it, and give the first place a chance to fully match the salary/RSU's.

But I've seen it happen before, and while the first startup won't be happy with you, it's not going to have any long-term consequences. Just don't bother even putting them on your resume.

I've also seen companies do the same -- hire someone in the spring of their senior year to start in the fall, and then rescind the offer late summer because some internal financial projection didn't pan out. (And even have the guts to ask for a signing bonus back. "Sorry, already spent it.")
I don’t understand how someone ends up on the list. But I’m fairly certain I understand it more than you do.

You can be put on the list for all sorts of things...

“examples of infractions include bad driving, smoking in non-smoking zones, buying too many video games and posting fake news online.”
Actually there is little thinking about "Amazon" or other competitor: internal mobility is easy. So replace "Amazon" by "this other team is doing a cool new project", and you can get transferred in a matter of weeks, most of the time without going through a heavy interview process.

And all of this isn't only motivated by "not doing boring tasks", but also because this is what drives promotions / career advancement. So "launch a feature/project, get rewarded, and switch team" seems like a trend, and it does not encourage to think about long term maintenance / etc.
(It isn't a generality either, but it is a bit of a trend)
This. What's more troubling is how they now put up a paywall for what is usually clickbaity, "want-to-get-this-viral" content.
Whereas Fastmail think it is a bad idea (unclear if they'll support it in future): https://fastmail.blog/2018/02/14/email-is-your-electronic-me...
I've been told I'm pretty close to top of market in Austin at ~225
Ask HN: Employer is trying to add forced arbitration to my contract. What to do?
When I joined my current company, I signed a relatively reasonable employment agreement compared to the rest of the industry — no forced arbitration, reasonable bounds on assignment of inventions.

Now my company has “updated” the employee agreement to include forced arbitration (excluding cases of sexual harassment and assault) and giving current employees the ability to explicitly opt out of the new clause.

What should I do? Is there any advantage to signing this? Can they do anything to me if I opt out?
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>Calling the political discourse that opposes these articles "fearmongering" is disingenuous.

I don't have an issue with political discourse that opposes these articles, given that I criticize them in almost every post I've written in this thread.

I've criticized fearmongering, because it has immediate unwarranted deleterious effects on the European tech scene. Fearmongering is also very lucrative and sensational press material, so there's a need to speak out against it: it comprises the overwhelming majority of reporting on the issue.
It's not an interpretation of stoicism, it's an observation about the convenience of stoicism to a certain kind of self-interest--much like Reddit's supposed commitment to freedom of speech also happens to be a much cheaper option than thorough and effective site-wide moderation.
> In my experience, the deadline-driven culture crushes any scope for creativity and experimentation.

This is very well compressed criticism of our modern breed of capitalism.

Creativity is very rarely given a true chance.
I feel like power is an issue often solved by education or something. The more you understand about what is going on in the world, what has gone on in the world, humanity, how people work, etc. the more you realize the guy in front of you isn’t shit (and neither are you). Of course reasonable prudence means monitoring your behavior so you don’t end up broke or homeless. But this may include long-term life approaches as much as (more than) what your boss thinks of you (in my opinion)
https://software.intel.com/sites/landingpage/IntrinsicsGuide... is kept in my browser history. It gives pretty good documentation of most of the details of intrinsics (including timing information on some processors for some instructions), although it is missing the enum definitions.
Markets as Computer Programs in a Theory of Markets
You might have 30 people who live together; but even just to avoid inbreeding, their social milieu would likely include a handful of other bands with nearby territory. Thus any given persons social ties could very reasonably number in the low 3 figures.
i think an overlay for the first image would do. will implement.
it's actually beacuse storing nuclear waste doesn't create ''radioactive wasteland''
And in 9-12 months, HTML fallback will become optional for senders who want to "optimize" their content. And to prevent "inconsistent user experiences, which are causing user confusion."
In this case "left to fend for themselves" manifests as "users end up with a non-working (on some sites) browser, switch browsers". So it's not really an option, unless the browser involved is a monopoly and the site involved has a tiny audience.
There are several alternate implementations for the bitwarden server. Unless my plans change, eventually I plan on deploying this one:
https://github.com/dani-garcia/bitwarden_rs
Sky and Telescope to Be Auctioned Off
1 core year = 12 core months
23 core years = 276 core months

So, 276 cores running for one month? Is this right?
I've seen a horrifying adaptation of this pattern in C++, where a piece of code was using catch(...) to detect dereferencing an invalid (not even necessarily null, just an object that's gone!) pointer.
See most recent comments in the bug. The short answer is probably "there is no future here".
Effectively, you're saying you'll take a 50% paycut (including RSUs) to avoid working at a FAANG? Most people wouldn't do that.
Because Flipkart is one of the biggest sites in India. Firefox devs didn't want to ruin the day-to-day web browsing experience of so many people, so they reverted the change. They preserved the user experience at the expense of the developer experience, and I think that was the right call. Doesn't matter that it was Flipkart's fault.
I'd argue that DNA is not the important thing here (and this work has nothing to do with biology): it is just a very convenient model for what chemistry can do with large varieties of interactions, as it is easy and inexpensive to synthesize and can be comparatively easily designed to have large sets of orthogonal interactions. Tile systems like this one could be built with other molecules, but it would be much harder to design.

The question in tile assembly systems is how computation can be done by the crystallization process: you could compare them, not to protein function, but to protein folding. The DNA is not being used just as instructions to a machine: there is nothing in this paper but DNA, and the computational work is done entirely through strands of DNA binding to combinations of complementary sequences on the growing crystals: the "instructions" to the computer here are actually the computer itself.
Most common users aren't even aware this is a thing, let alone how a CA or Certificate works. So there the setup stops, because certificates are foreign and scary to some users. Discord? Just a e-mail / username / password login like any other online service.

It's a huge tripping point in Mumble, and for sure holds it back from use.
> In the immediate instance, no, WeWork does not recognize anything. But in its first month, rental income should exceed the month's depreciation for the same real estate.

This is accurate.

> The fact that income has not kept up implies that occupancy is low.

This is inaccurate. (To be clear, occupancy may be low, but WeWork's reported losses don't imply that that's the case.) If WeWork turns around and spends that rental income plus some of its investors' capital on customer acquisition expenses, it will report losses, even if those expenses bring about a net increase in the expected present value of future profits. This is just a result of the timing difference between the recognition of acquisition expenses and the revenue that they produce.
Which in this case nets you >$1M [0] vs the 80k quoted above. This also assumes no retention grants over 6 rounds.

[0]: 0.02*0.8^6*$200,000,000 = $1,048,576
I believe code should be freely shared, and in general (although there must be some upper-limit), the concept of "code plagiarism" is a non-starter for me.

With that said, I would hope that in general people would not copy and paste code. Follow along, write the code, and understand how it works.
Apple Violated Qualcomm Patent, U.S. Trade Judge Rules
> with the majority of journalists still pushing for fake news about Russian bots and government intervention even after official investigations are closed

The official investigation confirmed—and charged specific Russian actors for—the “Russian bots and government intervention”. Even the AG Trump chose during, and for the rather transparent purpose of whitewashing, the investigation has highlighted that in his summary, stating: “The Special Counsel's investigation determined that there were two main Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election. The first involved attempts by a Russian organization, the Internet Research Agency (IRA), to conduct disinformation and social media operations in the United States designed to sow social discord, eventually with the aim of interfering with the election. [...] The second element involved the Russian government's efforts to conduct computer hacking operations designed to gather and disseminate information to influence the election. The Special Counsel found that Russian government actors successfully hacked into computers and obtained emails from persons affiliated with the Clinton campaign and Democratic Party organizations, and publicly disseminated those materials through various intermediaries, including WikiLeaks.” [0]

> with some of them even crying live when the Muller investigation conclusions came out?

Arguably Mueller investigation conclusions have not “come out” in any meaningful sense, only a self-serving summary by a Trump loyalist who has a long history of opposing Presidential accountability to the law (not just for Trump.)

> Or, can you explain why most major news outlets in the States are categorized as biased towards left-wing causes on https://mediabiasfactcheck.com?

Can you provide any basis for believing the site you cite is a reliable neutral arbiter?

[0] https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/24/politics/read-mueller-key-fin...
Well, you should
JohnSully says:

"Deescalation is not emotionally satisfying but it does [sometimes] work."

FTFY

but you may not agree.

JohnSully, you are an optimist. As in

"this is the best of all possible worlds."
-the early Candide in Voltaire's Candide

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_of_all_possible_worlds#Cr...

Like the older Candide I am a pessimist and my personal experience is that:

a)Roughly a third of people are either simply nuts (insane, partially schizophrenic, manic-depressive, etc.), have significant character flaws (greed, dishonesty, vice, short temper, addiction, etc.), hold far-fetched ideas that bar them from thinking clearly or are too dim-witted to do so. In any conflict or decision, they will never agree to most anything.

b) Half of people are amenable to reason but require a significant effort in both time and expense to gain agreement. No decision will ever take less than a week.

c) A final one-sixth of persons will see a presented beneficial resolution for both parties _and_ will act thereupon almost immediately.
Yes, having a way to prevent conditional dispatch on known-likely-to-change values would be good for cases like this. Adding such a language feature to JS specifically is pretty unlikely, of course. :)

Also, you may still want dispatch on "what sort of exception was this?" so then you have to provide an alternate mechanism for that...
I would argue that coddling FlipKart's engineers is NOT the right thing to do. Educate them on why what they did was wrong, help them fix it, but don't punish the rest of the world for one company's mistakes.

Similarly, I would argue that by relying on undefined behavior it was the FlipKart engineers breaking the web.
Sure, but we've ended up in a place where lawyers can't be taught about rape, or sociologists can't be taught about suicide.

https://www.legalcheek.com/2017/12/almost-half-of-law-studen...

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/trouble-teaching-ra...

> One teacher I know was recently asked by a student not to use the word “violate” in class—as in “Does this conduct violate the law?”—because the word was triggering. Some students have even suggested that rape law should not be taught because of its potential to cause distress.

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2015/09/04/dr...

> AQA’s decision to ban references of suicide from textbooks has been met with criticism from the sociology community. Anaïs Duong-Pedica argues it is naïve to assume that young people will never have encountered the idea of suicide prior to their A-levels. Refusing to engage with suicide in the classroom also marginalises students’ own experiences of suicide. Rather, measures should be put in place with and for students to accommodate the teaching and learning of sensitive topics such as suicide.

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> If I for example, decided to drop a video of something gruesome without context I would rightfully be lambasted for doing so.

I completely agree with this use of trigger warnings, if they're given in enough time for students to actually do anything with it.

But even then, a better option would be for the person to get treatment for their PTSD, and not engage in anxiety driven safety behaviours which usually make the problem worse not better, even if they feel comforting in the short term.
>There is literally nothing to see here.

I'm not sure that is the case. There will be something.
I have a well developed curmudgeonly streak I confess, but the first AMP email I receive from any person or organisation will be the last I open from them.
For those looking for a dead man's switch, I've used https://www.deadmansswitch.net/ in the past successfully.
It seems from your comment that you have a lot more knowledge on dragonfly than what is out there in the open. If possible, would you please elaborate a little more on the the google executives promises to China?
Hmm, I don't think they properly translated all of those titles. Director is supposed to be above GM/GPM/GEM at Microsoft. I guess what I meant by director is what levels.fyi labels as "VP"
Or C#'s '?.' operator for null propagation.
it really is terrible
Except for Comcast as xfinity, they are all closely associated with cellular providers or are cellular providers.
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Ask HN: Laptops Security for a 40 Startups – What are you using?
What tools are you using to protect your laptops (Mac/Linux and Windows 10)?

As long as we were a small team, with mainly linux and some Macs, we were "fine".. However, now as we grow, I need to get a unified security platform to protect them all.

Would appreciate if you can share what tools are you using for this purpose.

Edit: Security needs - Identity (keys) as well as malware/virus protection.

Thanks for sharing!
Do you mean the FTC, or FCC?
This seems to clash with the export of the revolution to other countrys during the cold war. Even in the early years , when stalin was still alive. Its also hard to imagine, that any dictator willingly would hold back- after he already coluded with another dictator to share the spoils of war (poland).
In my opinion it's naive to think that internet would 'just route' around censorship, this was an interesting idea in the 90s but as practice shown that the first thing any government would do shut down internet access in order to prevent mass protests.

Not everyone who wants to route around has technical knowledge, so for the vast majority of people this would be the end of it. Then the governments will mandate ISPs to filter encrypted traffic etc, etc..

I don't believe "VPNs are banned" is as much of a big deal for EU to implement as you think.
Apple's marketshare of global smartphone sales is around ~20%.

Would you still argue "monopoly"?

If you want access to Apple's customers (yes they are Apple's customers, not yours) then you have to play by Apple's rules.

This framing one of the arguments against monopoly characterization.
I joined a startup 7.5 years ago and, from a money perspective, it's vastly exceeded expectations. But I wouldn't join another startup for the money; it's just not reliable, and I recognize that I was very lucky to have accidentally picked a winner.

Yes, you can do interesting work at a BigCo. Sometimes you even get to work on greenfield projects, which is often even better than working on a greenfield project at a startup, because usually the BigCo has a lot of infra and resources that you can lean on that allow you to make fewer compromises.

But you're just never going to have an outsized influence on the trajectory or success of the company as a whole. You're never going to have the authority or ownership to make big decisions for more than your (relatively small) area of the BigCo. If you want that, the best way to get that is to join a smaller startup.
Because:

1) It's not just Flipkart. It's a library that was being used on multiple sites. For example, lego.com was broken too, for the same reason.

2) Firefox can't tell Flipkart to go to hell per se. All it can do is tell its users to go to hell and not use Flipkart (or lego.com), or at least not use them in Firefox. Phrased that way, I think it's clearer why Firefox cared enough...
The HTML documentation sitting in my /usr/share/doc does not make it part of the web.

The output from man -H is not part of the web, no matter what its mime type is.

HTML is not the same as the web.
Linus Torvalds' father admits NSA approached his son for backdoor in Linux
The hierarchy can be set up to affect what people hear, and where they can speak. This is invaluable when you need to coordinate dozens or hundreds of players in real time. You can set up overlapping rooms where team leads hear their team member's voice chatter and their superior's voice chatter, and have the option of communicating in either direction. I usually had the two side buttons on my mouse set to push-to-talk, one that for talking up the hierarchy, one for talking downward. The exact setup everyone uses varies, but at minimum you can have a room for higher-level voice chat among team leads, while each lowest-level team is isolated to their own channel and can focus on the tasks given to them by their team lead. Mumble is also flexible enough that you don't need to strictly adhere to a hierarchy, you can have your lower-level players also be able to communicated laterally to groups of specialists who are handling specific support tasks.

This is all a difficult communication problem, but it's doubly difficult because decisions need to propagate up and down your communication hierarchy in seconds. Being able to manage this level of communication without it being a hopeless clusterfuck is a defining feature of effective organizations of players.