skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's an alternative slippery slope:

I run a site that makes it really easy to connect people who want to give money and people who have some reason they think they should have money. I decide that I don't want people who are raising money for anti-vax campaigns on my site, so I ban them.

Then, someone comes in and says "no no, you can't do that, you have to allow them to use your site." Who gets to decide that, and by what criteria? What if I also decide I don't want to allow anti-government militias to use my site to buy firearms? As soon as you force a private entity to do business with people even if they don't want to, you're also on a slippery slope.

...or maybe you're not. Maybe there are plenty of plaes to draw these lines, like, "you can't refuse service to people if you are doing so based on certain categories, like race, sex, religious belief, etc. because we as a nation have decided it's important."

I think we should allow companies like GoFundMe to ban whomever they like, unless they are discriminating based on the protected categories that are already clearly defined.
Yet California has the highest overall taxation in the country (income, property, sales, capital gains, gas). So there is plenty of money being collected by the government. If the homelessness requires money as a solution, then the money is already there. It is an allocation problem.
Job titles don't in any way stop me from understanding the uniqueness of individuals on my team. There are many paths to leveling up, and understanding why people are in the positions they are directly requires that individual context.
These subs are continuously monitored. Articles on the internet say Kursk had a minor leak that was quickly repaired, without coming close to any health concerns.

Remember nuclear pressure vessels are subject to some of the most harsh conditions when in operation. They're built to withstand contact with extremely hot water under pressure. Will salt water eventually corrode through it? Maybe. But remember energy through fossil fuels and organic matter kill 3 and 4 million people per year respectively. Those concerned with nuclear safety often fall into the fallacy of letting perfect be the enemy of good. The best solution is the least-bad solution.
Horror story time:

https://minifree.org/paypal/
Numbers for iOS, or just a spread sheet App. The reason is because you know what you want to track instead of having a specific App tell you
This is not Bitcoin, it's a stablecoin with a guarantor.

The failure modes of DLT are going to be interesting. But the currency risk is far lower than with regular bitcoin since it's not an independent currency but is pegged to the dollar.
I use a repl with a debugger attached in clojure. Best of both worlds :).
I completely agree. That's why I was trying to distance my argument from the perspective of whether GoFundMe made a good or bad decision.

I just wanted to bring up the point from a societal perspective, since it's society as a whole who often calls for actions like this from big companies (making it a "good" decision for them even if just for the PR). Are we going to see a positive change in society from this, is it just irrelevant in the end, or could we even be making the issue harder to fight in the long run?

I don't necessarily have a strong opinion on what the answer to that question is, it's just genuinely a question.
Intel actually does do contract fab work - they just happen to be really bad at it so they don't get much business.

But there is a long tail of chip-making at older nodes to reduce cost, and for analogue integration. Risc-V is getting its start here. I hope we'll see a practical desktop version at some point, but that's not necessary for Risc-V to win.
Yes I totally agree that setting up or rather understanding how the debugging cylcle works with php is not straight forward. It doesn't work out of the box and one has to dig into php internas. However, it pays off, as one can do remote debugging on e.g. a docker development machine or similar...

I am not sure how well such a feature is supported in javascript, ruby, java or what not out of the box...
Many games now even have a "streamer mode" that integrates with Twitch and lets viewers interact with the streamer through the game.
Given the comment section is devoted to definitions, I'll add mine: the single most important characteristic of proper FP is _strictly segregated side effects_.

At a high level, many e.g. Clojure programs are indistinguishable from an OOP program. Functional composition and immutability are just superficial details - another 'skin' containing the same stuff.

Does it really matter if you expressed something as a `for` or as a `reduce`? Is local mutability distinguishable from immutability?

Worth noting, real OOP webapps do very little in-process mutability. They're 'functional': request in, response out. State actually lives in Redis/Postgres so the actual mutability story is the same for FP and OOP langs.

That's not to say this functional-ish style is wrong or wasteful. It's a nice step forward. But we really ought to appreciate "strictly segregated side effects", namely actually pure functions, without exceptions.

There's no such enforcement in a great deal of FP langs, and IMO there really should be (at least in the form of a lightweight linter) if we want FP to be genuinely superior.
When I get started to build RediSLQ I wanted an interprocess, fast, data store that supported SQL manipulation.

It may be useful to you as well: RediSLQ.com

Or on GitHub: https://github.com/RedBeardLab/rediSQL

Full disclaimer: I am the author
While this is probably an Unpopular Opinion™, I think the heart of the problem is ultimately that streaming services undercharge. There's no objective reason to believe that their current price is correct, and the fact that Spotify loses money while artists think they're being underpaid seems to strongly suggest that the price is too low. But consumers now believe that $10/month -- less than the price that a single CD generally is, even on Amazon -- is the Objectively Correct Price, and everyone is stuck.
Spreading this as far and wide as I can. Coding is as critical as literacy for the next 20 years and there are too many programs and teachers that teach it poorly, alienating large segments of the population. Lambda is among the best. I hope they can scale past 40 students for this in the future.
DNS Is a Mess and Hackers Are Having a Field Day
How about links to CDC leaked documents, released by William Thompson ( CDC scientist and whistle blower ) about scientific fraud at CDC by tampering with the research data of The link between MMR vaccine and Autism?
Most modern frameworks, in all the mainstream languages, already have this feature, and it's usually the default. You still get XSS because you still have to override the filter to do custom HTML, but it helps a lot.
Binary, firmware and hardware level security topics are academically most satisfying and fun to me. But there is a lot of mystery in these topics, given the inherent negativity and legal grey areas people have to deal with. I guess that is one of the reasons..
Using an OpenBSD Router with AT&T U-Verse
FYI, here's the CDC adult vaccination schedule:

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/hcp/imz/adult.html
What happens when more than 20% of population has achieved maximum healthy height?
> I honestly don’t see how any of this is legal

Let me help you, fellow Mexican:

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2017-title29-vol4/xm...

The reason it's legal is because there are laws that explicitly allow this for certain underrepresented or disadvantaged groups.

Espero que esto aclare tus dudas.
Regarding the housing in Japan, I've heard from an expat that a lot of tenants are discriminating against foreigner, often explicitly.
I worked remotely for IBM for somewhere in the neighborhood of 15-20 years. Although I was effective and consistently a top performer, that's mainly because I could do a lot of my work autonomously. IBM's conference call mentality made meetings truly unproductive. Teaming on the phone is very hard.

I'm now with a startup and we use Zoom all the time, around the globe. Almost like being there.

Flying for meetings? fuggedaboutit! Totally unnecessary in my opinion.
I have sadly witnessed a lot of discrimination against white men recently as well. God forbid you happen to be a white man from a third-world country, you'll literally never get a single interview anywhere no matter how good you happen to be.
In my amateur economist models, I explore economic systems with modified electrical engineering diagrams. Money as we define it and subsequently many forms of savings/over-saving are nearly as useless as Instantaneous Voltage (in Joules) or ultimately as abstractly uninteresting as Ground in a working system. It is current flows and movement that are actually interesting/useful, and the not very well defined equivalents for money to its first and second derivative metrics (electricity's Amperes and Coloumbs, for instance).

I have no idea how many proponents of MMT find interest in such similar engineering-oriented views of economics, but general economic theories of inflation/deflation from that point of view seem so primitively useless versus what we know of, say, electric resistance, inductance, capacitance, conductivity, etc.

I cannot tell you if my armchair theories are any better in the long term than the status quo or your preferred models, but only that MMT at least seems to be one of the few areas of economic study currently attempting to address them (albeit indirectly in many cases). That is also not necessarily proof that MMT is correct, just as my models don't ipso facto disprove status quo "wisdom".
This is kinda debatable. There is still state in Haskell, regardless of how it's compartmentalized. The implementation of the IO monad for example must rely on state to function, because IO is inherently stateful. You may not have to deal with it as much, but under the hood there is still state.

And this matters in practice, because sometimes the desired effects of your program are inherently stateful. For example, if you want to have lines of text output to the terminal in a certain order, you have to at least think about state at some level. If Haskell was truly free of any state, this would be impossible to guarantee.

What I will agree with though is that it's mostly possible to ignore state in Haskell, and that individual pure functions are truly pure. My point is that those pure functions can't do anything without invoking state at some point.
It looks strangely anonymous.

Who runs ContextCue?

Where is it located?
It seems rather farcical, after Jamie Dimon openly rubbishing cryptocurrency, we now have another stablecoin competing with Tether.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/jamie-dimon-comments-on-bitco...
Google's Work with China Eroding US Military Advantage, Dunford Says
As a quick reminder to readers of the parent comment, there are A LOT of details related to the Khashoggi murder that may invalidate the reference being made in the above comment. To elaborate more would take this discussion even more off-topic and likely would lead to a rapid gray-down and flagging of this comment.
Hey, I dropped out of high school when I was 16 to move to Silicon Valley. Feel free to email me at zach@hackclub.com if I can be helpful with anything.

More than happy to hop on the phone to talk about my experience and introduce you to others who made similar life decisions that can talk about their experiences.
> 1) I doubt that an average user scrolling through gofundme would see and decide to support such a campaign, I'd imagine most of the funding comes from the links being directly shared

That's probably true, although I really don't know why it's particularly relevant. GoFundMe probably doesn't want people funding anti-vaccine campaigns regardless of how they arrived at the web page.

> 2) The above makes me think such campaigns will simply move to a GoFundMe competitor and be equally (un?)successful, effectively nullifying any changes

How does that nullify any changes? There are a finite number of crowdfunding platforms, and this reduces the number by one. And of course, this is a particularly large and prominent one.

> 3) Gives more attention + victim points to anti vaxxers

I don't really buy the "don't give them what they want" argument. If they really do want press about how harmful their practices are and how children are dying because of their campaigns, well okay, I'm fine with giving them this desire. I think that they should be "victims" of de-platforming, even if that's what they want. It's theoretically possible to get the Streisand effect, where their platform is increased, but I highly doubt that's likely when you remove them from huge platforms with massive market share, like YouTube or GoFundMe.

> 4) If their discourse is further pushed out of mainstream platforms, does it actually reduce the spread of their ideas or just limit their exposure to counter-arguments and public condemnation?

There are probably some anti-vaccers who are genuinely mislead, but the prominent voices in the movement almost certainly are aware of the invalidity of their claims. I don't think we have any lack of exposure to pro-vaccine arguments.
You are absolutely correct. They don't have to do anything they don't want to.

But do you really believe this is the only thing they will censor?

This is a canary dying, it's indicative of the problems that are coming, and it's going to be more and more censorship, until finally you object to something for real.

But because you didn't defend other's speech, there will be nothing left to do.
Anti-GMO types also literally kill people. Example: Golden Rice.

I am all for companies taking public health into account, however I also think this in some part makes more people look into anti-vaxxination...because so much of it depends on a belief of conspiracy against the public. It's a hard animal to tackle.
Missing Middle Housing
What do you need to track, and how will you take action from it? It’s valuable to figure that out first.

You may not need user tracking at all. You can track how many signups came
from which domain by setting a cookie with the referrer and incrementing a count for that domain at signup. Here’s an interesting post about it https://doingdone.app/blog/building-a-startup-without-user-t...
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bad-medicine/
Not OP, but my stab: programmers are the ones actually building something. A technical leader can craft a vision for the technical future of a product, but the engineers need to buy into that vision and will, by necessity, quickly form refined opinions on the implementation details as they build things.
That was their point: they were showing how ridiculous your first comment is, saying the same thing you are saying in your second comment. There is no elemental mercury in vaccines (this is probably the most debunked antivax argument).
We'd have to define success. The adoption rate for washer/dryer's is what a VC would want to see and solar panels are nowhere near that.
It would be the equivalent of controlled burns to prevent larger forest fires. That would be very interesting to see applied to earthquakes.
There are over 1 million doctors in the US [1]. Of course you will be able to find one that supports nearly any ludicrous claim.

There has been extensive research on vaccines in the major scientific literature, and the research has overwhelmingly reached the conclusion that there is no link with autism.

[1] https://www.statista.com/topics/1244/physicians/
No. Rust eliminates C/C++ memory corruption vulnerabilities, but so do all the other mainstream high-level languages.

What Rust enables you to do is ship software that formerly would have demanded C/C++ (kernels, drivers, embedded software, browsers, games) without having to use C/C++. That's a security win, but not a game changer for secure software development in general, the vast majority of which is done in non-C/C++ languages already.
How did you leverage your ethnicity to get a competitive advantage in your job search?
In that missing middle housing thing, what's the difference between a bungalow court and a trailer park? I know the latter still is actively built since I regularly pass double-wides in transit on the highway, but I'm curious about the former.
Do you refer to roombas or the classic upright vacuum? Because it's hard to consider the latter anything other than a machine or appliance. It has one button, one function, two states, and is controlled by a human.
Can someone help me understand what's interesting about the VP of InfoSec at InVision? What's InVision?
By not having to debug complicated situations most of the time. Because you lacked the tools that would have allowed you to get in such a bad situation in the first place.
Yeah this stuff is getting pretty absurd. Someday in the future we’ll have grants for ugly people or short people because every little inequality must be erased in the human collective.
Truth is not that simple. For those who want to go through the data. Find the link http://vaxxedthemovie.com/download-the-cdc-autism-mmr-files-...
"basically no gain"

My payload are lists of int64's. I need to do set operations on those lists before sending the result over the wire. If you advise against embedding redis, can I instead embed my logic in redis? As a filter of sorts?
> who gets to draw those lines

Free people. There is a legal line that circumscribes the lines that cannot be drawn. You cannot decide not to do business with someone on the basis of gender or of race, for example.

But if you don't want people jerking off in your restaurant, you're free to kick them out. Same for people spreading bullshit. (Though, importantly, the government can't do anything to the bullshit-spreaders.)
https://youtu.be/1o_1d26JU5s
It seems to me that the benefit of Workers is that they run geographically near the user. If the Worker is calling a database that may or not be close to your user, what is the point? You are going to pay the latency cost either from the user to the Worker or the Worker to the DB.

I realize that there are some advantages. The network between the Worker and a Google datacenter is probably much faster than the network from the user to the Worker. Also, Firestore in particular can be geographically replicated so that the database is closer to your user. But I'm not convinced that these benefits outweigh a more traditional (and more flexible) architecture.
You can thank prohibition and private prisons.
>>Many people will own cars, but not nearly as many as now.

This is a meaningless prediction without context or specificity provided by the author. The author is saying that cars will be owned by .6% of the population (current horse ownership is aprox 2 million) in her lifetime. "Many" but "less than now" could mean that we go 263.6 to 240 and meet your criteria wall falling miles short of what this insane article is positing.

No. As countless responses have pointed out, the amount of infrastructural challenges for non-urban hubs is staggering. We already have buses and cabs, and we even have "smart" buses and cabs with APPS and there still isn't a way that you can expect rural Alabama or Suburban Wisconsin to be able to deal with this non-car type existence.
I'm super distracted by the use of ԛ instead of q in this article, what's that about? Plagiarism detection? Seems bad for accessibility/SEO.
Even taking that to a more 'day to day' degree:

1. I live near the coast. I want to go surfing, but not sure where. Is my rideshare or autonomous car going to drive me around checking out different breaks to see what waves are good?

2. How about when I get out of the water, does it keep my change of clothes with it? Many times I take a couple boards with me cause I'm not sure which board is right for the conditions. And wtf do I do with my phone? Dont tell me its waterproof cause salt water for 2hrs at a time == destroy just about anything other than fiberglass.

3. What autonomous car is taking me camping? Sure I dont touch my car much once I'm done setting up camp, but I sure load it up and grab stuff from time to time out of it.

4. I need some 10' 2x4s from Home Depot, some plywood and also a bunch of bags of soil. Whats my best option here?

5. Going back to the beach thing.. how about taking my kids to the beach? That's a shitshow of a mess.. which autonomous or ride share is going to work best? Cause carseats + sand + water to rinse off + snacks + towels.. omg all the crap we bring and need to take home.

For anyone who enjoys the outdoors, the autonomous/ride share thing just isnt anywhere close. Same for anyone with kids. Same for anyone who does projects with large-ish materials (aka runs to Home Depot).
If you do it, I'll anticipate your HN post 12 years later

"Hey, I dropped out of highschool to work as a developer. I'm really good at [language, framework], but my coworkers all have more formal CS skills. I'm thinking of going back to school, but it feels too late now. Any advice"

...Having said that, some dropouts do go on to do amazing things with their extra time. But think very carefully if you think that would be you.
> their opinions are more important and refined than anyone else's

I inferred that they do respect the programmers - more than anyone else even.
Those Midwestern Floods Are Expected to Get Much, Much Worse
Both examples are about diseases. Your claim was that their argument is of a legitimate form because it makes a claim about medical risk. My rhetorical argument was of the same form.
Yes, that is the point I was making and why I pointed out that they only have to keep 10% on hand. Once the coin is connected to fractional reserve banking the same way deposits are, the path to monetization becomes much more clear.
Even if they just tamper with immobile, non-fragile objects like physical light switches and door openers and if they follow you around as a mobile BT speaker/alexa, such robots would be useful.
Like most things, it’s probably half environmental and half genetic.
>I have yet to meet a senior who is anything less than highly competent.

Where is this mythical land? Are you hiring?
Hey there, I'm Corey one of the developers at ContextCue. Thanks for the feedback! ContextCue is run by me and 3 other developers out of Indianapolis, IN.
I don't quite agree, but they're very nearly bad if not worse because audio specifically is exceptionally power and very easy to manipulate people with. Arguably people in the radio industry might be more skilled at using audio for manipulation since they're forced to rely on it, but I think that's discounting the hypnotic effect of television, which controls your gaze as well.

Either way, avoiding television only to listen to the radio more is absurd. Like an alcoholic who's trying to quite booze so he starts chain smoking to cope.
The more structured the task the sooner robots will be doing it. They've already eaten factory assembly where you do the same repetitive action every time. Now they're making their way into cleaning the floor, mowing the grass, cleaning up spills at stores, and (cough) putting items into boxes for online deliveries. Soon they'll probably be stocking shelves too. But a robot that can pick up your house the way a cleaning service can is probably the last thing we'll see before AGI.
>...but the prominent voices in the movement almost certainly are aware of the invalidity of their claims.

What do you object about these two medical doctors issues with vaccines? I would consider them more prominent than you or I, so their opinion/knowledge should hold more weight than ours.

Yet, but the very limited standards set, they would be called "anti-vaxxers", even though Dr. Halverson provides vaccine services for children and familes.

Dr. Richard Halvorsen (England)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMs1ue8j9CM

Dr. Suzanne Humphries (USA)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFQQOv-Oi6U