skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So white pride is celebrating prominent white actors, educators, inventors, business leaders, and culture--things that have historically been denied or discounted.
While a practicing Roman Catholic, Yiannopolous also claims to be Jewish (citing his maternal grandmother to support this; I think this is a claim to ethnic not religious connection.)
"MS was basically making money no matter what given the highly lucrative office + windows franchise that Bill Gates left behind. I wouldn't credit Balmer with that too much he just basically kept on milking that. The problem by the time he left was that there was increasingly less to squeeze."

No, this is not fair.

Ballmer reconfigured sales channels, created an array of Enterprise offers including cloud - that's what enabled him to grow MS substantially during those years.

"Office is now liberated from Windows and making a lot of money for MS again. " - it always was.

The 'windows everything' strategy makes sense in the 2000's. iOS is pretty similar to MacOS - it worked for Apple. It even made sense early on in cloud.

Satya is the right choice for the right time, and it was right in hindsight to go cloud-linux and other things ...

But there's too much 'narrative' around this Satya thing.
Remote as a cost-cutting measure is the same as offshore, with the same poor results. There is no emphasis on quality; you've traded that dimension for some balance of cost & functionality.

As soon as you move beyond trivial software projects the true effort is in the domain which depends on visibility and communication. You can do this with remote but I think it actually costs more outside of all but the highest tier labour markets.

We really need to work to define remote as a supply sourcing solution and kill the notion of a cost control solution, otherwise we'll never be able to build fully integrated delivery teams out of globally-distributed people.
The word “dessert” renders as “stressed” in Chrome (bidirectional Unicode)
Presumably in this hypothetical situation where you can "cure" autism, you can also "uncure" autism.

My point is that austistic people who choose to deliberately stay autistic without experiencing what it is like to be non-autistic are making a biased choice (likely rooted in fear of the unknown).

The objective course of action is to experience being non-autistic for a few years before deciding whether you actually like being autistic...
Differences:

1) Guix respects user freedom by not allowing them to install non-free software. If that sounds ironic, you're reading it wrong

2) Guix is written in a superior language called LISP. It's superior because I said so. And people before me. No reasoning needed. Everything is a ____ (fill blank with what you like and the sentence becomes a reason)
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Upvote for username.
3) is pretty drastically different in a remote environment
I am familiar with those lawsuits. Alex Jones did not promote harassment. He did not even factually conclude that Sandy Hook was a hoax, just floated the possibility.

He reported on anomalies, on the conspiracy, on using Sandy Hook as a pretext to take away guns, on Adam Lanza probably using big pharma drugs. He stated that he understands why people would see Sandy Hook as a hoax, because history shows other events have been staged to further a political agenda.

Alex Jones was himself a victim of the media, who put weeks long pressure on SV tech companies and made it look like Alex Jones was sending his followers to harass the victims, long after Alex concluded it was not a hoax, and that Adam Lanza was the killer. They purposely took his statements and unhinged rants out of context and painted him as a transphobic, violence instigator, and maker of death threats.

The trick to attack free speech that is opposed to yours, is to make it seem like violence instigation or racism, so then it does not deserve the protection of free speech. The other is to put pressure on advertisers and commercial platforms and make them guilty by association. We've seen both of those tricks and they are dangerous and spell trouble for the future.
> I finally told my brother in law to print the extension form and mail it to the IRS.

What was wrong with this to begin with?
The talking point i usually hear against this is "germany exports the huge fluctuation in production caused by green energy to the eu grid, straining the entire system". I haven't come across a good argument against this. Import/Export does indeed seem to vary widely based on time of day [0]. But this doesn't mean there are negative effects. Net frequency might be a better indicator, but I haven't found good graphs, yet.

> coal is mostly only around for the same reasons as in the US: To not piss off the miners/lose those jobs.

Totally agree, especially lignite heavy regions don't have a lot of other industry.

[0] select "import, export" at https://energy-charts.de/power.htm?source=all-sources&year=2...
Jewish ethnically. You personally haven't seen his husband, and you personally haven't seen a public record of his marriage.

OK, so he's a white supremacist who pretends to be Jewish and pretends to have a black husband. Totally makes sense.

Seriously, there is no evidence that he has white supremacist beliefs. He hates political correctness and radical leftist ideas. The SJW's/leftists are offended by his criticism and call him a Nazi. Everyone who disagrees with leftists is called a Nazi.
>He has pushed very hard for black people to be proud of their blackness and to create narratives in which blackness is not looked down upon. This is good, needed work.

(disclaimer : i'm about as anti FB and anti-censorship as one can be.)

Well, he (Farrakhan) mostly just taught blacks to hate whites -- which I guess achieves more 'black pride', but not in any manner that I think is sustainable or responsible. Rather than raising one group up, he just taught that the other group was worse than perceived.

"White people are potential humans – they haven’t evolved yet."

“You are not now, nor have you ever been a citizen of America. You are a slave to white America.”

and my personal favorite, although unrelated to whites in America :

“Qadaffi’s a revolutionary, he’s my friend, he’s my brother. And I would never deny him because you don’t like him… I love him.”
> indie developer could create, but maybe its too complicated and too risky?

The amount of liability you would take on is insane.

For the most part, I don't understand the difficulty. You can pick up a copy of the 1040 and the instructions from most public libraries. Then, you just follow the instructions. It's like reading a program. You literally just follow the instructions.
It would definitely hinder adoption in business.
And fathers who have daughters are more empathetic to equal pay, reproductive rights, etc.

https://scholar.harvard.edu/msen/publications/identifying-ju...
In this case since the company does not store the images GDPR doesn’t apply.
He claims it was a mistake. Checking in private keys is a fairly common mistake and seems analogous here.
https://m.slashdot.org/story/181081
Future earnings are difficult to predict, so they factor in the warm fuzzy things that the CEO talks about, and how much 'confidence' they have in them.

Also - times change. In the 2000's people just thought MS was 'old'. Now they are realizing there's some life in the beast.

Satya deserves a lot of credit, nothing bad to say - but in hindsight it also seems as if MSFT was under priced.
Milo is a known associate and darling of the alt-right.

Facebook by definition is milquetoast and that's part of what makes it great. This is like accusing Disney of being boring by not having an voice from the alt-right.

Your post borders on concern trolling.
If I want a lot of OK sushi I go to a place I trust for that. It's mediocre, but priced accordingly; and thus has good value for the money.
The socialist roots of the PAP live on in institutional form if not policy. Yesterday a May Day Rally was held, for example.

As K. Jeyaratnam says, Singaporeans get the government they deserve. A lack of pressure on the government produces complacency. When they feel threatened we have people of the Tharman and LKY type.

The destruction of these buildings is emblematic of the destruction of the old competent Singapore. LHL’s rule has not seen any significant progress and much backsliding, e.g., in the MRT, management of state enterprises, etc. These buildings will be replaced, but they will be replaced by novelties, not elements of a coherent vision as those built in the twentieth century were. It was fun whilst it lasted.
Exactly... my only real issue with this is that you are restricted from travel by other conventional means (bus), and are also restricted from being able to leave the country without it (of course being up to other countries to let you enter without it).
In a system with virtual memory, you would typically ensure that address 0 (i.e. the lowest page) is unmapped. This causes an error condition if the address is ever read or written, which is useful because 0 is used as a placeholder value (i.e. NULL) in many situations. But this is a conscious decision by the system not to use this page, there's nothing technically stopping you from mapping it and putting some data at virtual address 0.

In a bare-metal environment, there's nothing saying that physical address zero must be unused by the hardware designer.

So I think it's quite the opposite: There's no requirement that address 0 must be unoccupied in any situation, it just so happens that many operating systems choose to leave it unmapped as a debugging aid for developers.
Are you from 1982? I think I saw you open up for a Gallagher show with that joke!
I had written basically this same response fearing I was being overly judgemental before seeing your response but my gut was the same.

The posts read like sales pitches for someone solving a problem of making money for themselves by limiting their portfolio to candidates for whom $company had done the hard work of vetting by having previously hired.

Click-bait is a generous summation, I feel.
Monopolies do not get to just call themselves a private concern, able to do what they want. We only tolerate monopolies with suitable regulation. For example, we do not allow water, electricity, or other things provided by monopolies to be cut by a company when the company disagrees with the customer's political or other views.

In addition, the US federal government only exists to protect the innumerable rights of US citizens. Some of these rights are enumerated in the constitution. It is therefore well within the scope of the federal government to protect citizens against bully companies like Facebook who are infringing on these rights.
One reason is because the HN algorithm automatically penalizes any submission from the youtube.com domain. (This fact is a secret)
#justchangeitback
Because VSCode and Visual Studio Code isn't the same thing.

The actual binary releases of Visual Studio Code

https://code.visualstudio.com/license

And here's the license for VSCode itself

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/master/LICENSE.txt
You're right and evolution is easily misunderstood as deterministic when it is only the result of random mutations in a population over time. Every variation you see does not mean it has a positive evolutionary advantage, only that those it wasn't prohibitive to reproduction
Load-Balanced Kafka: Derivco’s Globally Distributed Gaming Business [audio]
Really well-written, easy to follow piece.
On a more serious note, how would your entire network, worldwide go down? Are there really no independent zones (that are unaware of each other)? That can’t be good.
Perhaps the point of failure is not located inside the mechanics at all. I could imagine that dust is not necessarily always 100% non-conductive and might have an impact on pcb traces if their routing is very close (sporadic shortening).

Another interesting test would be heating up those microchips and see if potentially lose pins might be reflowed by this procedure.
one practical approach I actually learned from Stripe is to prioritize remote. This can be pretty superficial, like remote always goes first in our daily stand-up, to more material - they don't always get it, but I always consider them first for project assignment, team representation at inter-departmental meetings, etc. Maybe this "affirmative action" could be viewed as unfair, but it's way too easy to ignore and marginalize remote teammates if you don't continually fight the bias.
Society isn't deciding, Facebook is deciding.

I personally think Facebook can do whatever the please with their website. However, if they remove the users they don't like then that implies they approve of the users that remain.
You also need to take into account the fact that you will need to file a tax return in the state you live in, as well as every state you work in. If you're a consultant on the East Coast and have been to 15 different states, then you'll need to file a federal return plus a return in each of the 15 states that correctly allocates whatever income you earned while working in those states.

You're not doing this in a weekend, year, or decade, by yourself.
> Is it your view that a man's property rights are inversely proportional to the number of people who covet his property?

In so many words - I guess. I don't think property rights are naturally extended to Facebook as a global communication medium even if the communication does happen primarily on their property. I suppose I should have written that in the first place! At the very least, respecting those rights is not the paramount virtue. I also believe that the claim "private property first amendment need not apply" is not, by and large, a principled stance when ostensibly the same mob eg cheers on the lawsuit against a bakery for not making a cake.

Sorry for the snark earlier.
You have mistaken me for someone else.
I don't disagree, but that also doesn't mean coding interviews like we do them now are the best alternative.
> other elements

...some of which, too, are pretty nasty:

Plutonium-239 → Uranium-235 → Thorium-231 → Protactinium-231 → Actinium-227 → Thorium-227 → Radium-233 → Radon-219 → Polonium-215 → Lead-211 → Bismuth-211 → Thallium-207 → Lead-207
Senior software engineers are reluctant to leave their safe FTE jobs to go contract because they don't want to do sales, chase payments, manage a business, etc. We help contractors with that. Once a contractor goes full-time contract through Facet, we try to keep them always busy with as much work as they want. So yeah, it's hard to hire those types of devs on a single contract. It's also hard to find them on sites like Toptal or Upwork because they get priced out of the market.
Giving equal air time to falsehoods and inciteful language is in my opinion dangerous. An anti-vaxxer should not be given the same air time as a scientifically accredited researcher who has decades of research behind them. We don't give holocaust deniers a platform and I don't believe we should give any other racial or religious hate speech anything remotely approaching equal air time.

Facebook is a platform that allows children (13+) and families to share posts and content. I don't see how they can simultaneously provide an environment for religious and racial hate speech and anti-vaxxers to spread their FUD without compromising on one or the other. Either you're family friendly or you're a platform for 'edgy' content.

The right to free speech (in the US at least) is a tremendous and wonderful thing but there's no mention that every fool should be given equal air time in every newspaper, TV programme or now on private content platforms like Facebook. There are sites aimed at providing a haven for edgy or outright false and inciteful speech. Facebook and in my opinion Twitter are not it.
If they signed a deal with the IRS how come they stil control how the product is displayed? Shouldn’t this free filing app be part of the IRS site, or directly linked from the IRS site (click here to file your taxes...)?
AWS has one or two a year from what I've seen... IIRC gcp has had outages too... Unless you're designing with several safeguards in place across multiple regions and cloud providers, there's no getting around it.

Everyone has down time, it's just often coordinated to a lot of people when it does happen. It's still generally less than when you try to self host on a cloud provider, it's just not your mistake that did it.
A Modern Waste of Tax Dollars
They're not comparable. The C version contains no error handling, and off-loads most of its work to another function.
To clarify, the baker had no problem providing a cake. The problem was compelling speech on the part of the baker to write certain things on the cake.
Hello,

I'm the author and would be happy to answer any follow up questions. Also, I encourage replication of these results with additional data science classes and workshops. The generating notebook is included and a sample data set. If you are interested in running this exercise please stay in touch – as I would love to hear about your variations and results!

Thanks!
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> Hence why learning Fortran ?
Doesn't the GDPR also apply to entities that process personal data (as opposed to only those that store it)?

AFAIK it should apply to entities that share personal data with third parties, for instance.
>But imagine a doctor that merely says "Don't get vaccines, they cause autism" but doesn't falsify any data. That doctor is probably going to be erased from the English register.

No, but they would likely be censured.

A doctor has to spectacularly screw up to get struck off. It's not done lightly. One obstetrician accidentally decapitated a baby during birth and kept her licence.

Wakefield faked data, concealed two financial conflicts of interest, and ordered painful, invasive procedures (spinal taps and colonoscopies) on severely autistic children that were not clinically indicated and that he did not have the training to interpret. He even paid children at his son's birthday party for blood samples, then laughed about them crying during a later talk.

That is not the sort of man I want practicing medicine.
A very good related article also out from the Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/05/01/magazine/lord...

"The last Cruze remained inside the plant, awaiting a final inspection. By then, it had already come to be much more than a car. It was a token of the most coveted working-class possession: a secure, well-paying job with health insurance and a pension."

I mean, guys, it's not much folks are asking for here.
I've always heard it said that you can identify a True Southerner because they use "y'all" as singular. "All y'all" is the plural form.
That depends on where the person is on the spectrum. People who suffers from mild autism--those who can maintain normal social relations with some efforts--probably would choose to not have the condition. People at the extreme end would choose otherwise, I suspect. Caring about what others think or feel is a burden after all.
MIT student here, there's really no rhyme or reason. Generally, higher numbers mean more advanced courses, but that's about it.
Where are all the stanford/berkley new cs grads wanting to work these days?
Paying thousands for replications and redundancies, multizone etc and bam, all down. Nice.
I think the general idea would be for the IRS to provide you with the completed tax return. This should be sufficient for a vast majority of people who only earn employment income.

You would then review the return and could update/file a return if you have additional deductions or business income that would not otherwise be reported to the IRS.

I believe the UK and some other European countries already have this system.
Sabotage.
My Childhood in a Cult
This should be reversing because the internet grants us easy access to this data, so market signals should be forming, but it isn't reversing, which is suspicious. Getting the data is harder, but we do already have data sets to compare to (and can apply inflation, CoL, other adjustments as time goes on).

The only real reason for zip-code adjustments would be some labor-related, CONUS, or state laws that I'd be unfamiliar with.

If I deliver the same business value as a Silicon Valley engineer, and you're paying me less, I'm getting arbitrage'd.
I've heard of 'ze' as a gender-neutral pronoun, but I've never really seen it used. How would you substitute 'ze' in that sentence: "Pat does not discuss their gender"?
It's also untrue that "no one who has the ability to not be deaf, would choose to be". It happens that communities of deaf people resist cochlear implants. A feeling of belonging to a group seems to have major influence on one's opinions.
I've found that with it disabled, on Android, I can't even click the "Home" or "Work" buttons in maps without a prompt to turn on "Web & App Activity".

Why do I need to turn on "Web & App Activity" to store my home or work address?

Because Google wants to inconvenience us into turning it back on, plain and simple.
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>"They" out and attack trans people

Do they? This is the video you're perhaps referring to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2oV1QKUMdM and the person in question was commented upon because they were already in the news as a trans activist making a scene in that same campus (to be allowed to the women's toilets). What counts as an "outing" at this point?

You might not like the tone or politics, but this is tame stuff, pumped up into some kind of evily evil monstery, because it doesn't follow the "Bien-pensant" etiquette. Which is the whole shtick of such people -- to give some controversial opinions and not the same-old.

Besides, people have been making fun and attacking all kinds of other people they disagree with -- or just wanna take a shot at -- for ages, without being de-platformed. Does it only matter when it's done from people on the right/conservative side (similarly to how, back in the day, it mattered only when it was done from the left/progressive side)?

The fussy way people are these days, they would run Zappa and Carlin off the stage today, never mind someone like Hunter Thompson...
Yes, of course. I wanted to emphasize that the underlying forces are the same even if the results end up different.

That's why Bay Area companies don't usually offer Bay Area salaries for remote workers around the world. And also why Croatian companies don't hire remote workers in San Francisco :)
Dark Web: ‘If You Want to Kill Someone, We Are the Right Guys’
Well, Michael Jackson also had a record of that name, and it one of his tamest and more indifferent, so there's that!
You now have me wondering whether I should try shutting off all of my circuit breakers (except the fridge) for the whole of this weekend.

Now that I've said it, I kinda want to do it.
As a Brit, I know little about the US tax system - does every citizen need to file a tax return?

In the UK, income tax is handled between employers and the government, so the vast majority of people don't need to file one.
This was somewhat explicitly what REAL ID was about. Provide name age, address and photo to the feds along with any related state ID info (which often correlates easily with fed info). I would not be surprised if airport cameras already put "citizen ids" on photos for the right folks...