skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Decision makers spending five and six figures per month on infrastructure don’t generally make decision based on “hatred” of a company.

Decision makers more often than not make choices based on some variant of “No one ever got fired for buying $x” and $x rarely equals “anything made by Google.”
GDPR is not enforceable in the US, so this is applicable only to the EU. In the US AFIAK Google can collect anything that you consent to.
More accurately: EPA says that the main ingredient in Roundup is not a carcinogen. At least the recent court case in Britain against Roundup was not relying on glyphosate being a carcinogen. There are multiple ingredients. For example POEA (polyethoxylated tallow amine) that works as surfactant.

Even if there was an effect, it can't be very high, so I'm not very worried.
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If we are measuring effects, shouldn't they start banning anti-vaxxers?
Only available in Toronto at the moment
oo, very interesting! will take a deeper look, thanks! :)
I don't really see the point of this comparison. If there is a need to give up quality of life why not stop consuming during times when carbon neutral energy is not available?

Low renewable energy production is only a problem for maybe 20 days in a year and those days are not consecutive, they are randomly distributed over the year so gas or battery storage beyond 7 days isn't even needed. It wont be the end of the world as long as we can stop emitting CO2.
Except they don't believe it was a mistake; they go as far as calling it "hacking". That the accused claims it was a mistake means little.
Here's a recent exposé about homelessness in Seattle:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpAi70WWBlw

My takeaway: drug addiction and mental illness are the real problems. Homelessness is just a symptom of the disease. Why does that distinction matter? Building affordable housing without infrastructure and services to address addiction and mental health will not work.
Content marketing is the general term.
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Imagine a new scenario:

Every company in YC Winter 2019 issues half its ownership to a pool. Every company receives, in return, shares of the YCW19 fund. Employee stock options are 100% issued from the YCW19 fund.

Is this better or worse for non-founding employees? More or less attractive than receiving stock options that only apply to the member company that they actually work for?
Indigogo and GoFundMe already do.
"Despite its connections, the Council is by charter independent of the U.S. government and NATO, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization."[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Council

I guess what I'm saying is, Facebook is a private company by any reasonable legal interpretation.
Curious which of Dorsey's practices you consider pseudo-science?

Both meditation and fasting have been practiced for thousands of years and have plenty of scientific studies backing up their benefits.
There is the legal idea of free speech, which constrains Congress, but also the moral idea of free speech which says you should let people with different opinions talk to each other and work out their disagreements verbally.

Facebook is, of course, not violating the legal principle of free speech. They are absolutely violating the moral principle. In the same way, if someone came over to your house and made some political argument you didn't like you would be perfectly within your rights to ask them to leave - but you'd be wrong if you claimed that you were open to hearing all kinds of opinions in your house, or that you were completely open minded.

Your comment is also needlessly hostile. Play by Facebook's rules or get out? Imagine applying this sentiment to any other objectionable thing Facebook has done. Facebook's users are just users, not automatons, and until Facebook takes over HackerNews and starts banning people for criticising them, then people should feel no hesitation about voicing fair criticism of Facebook here.
From what I can tell, it's the invocation model and deployment that is unique here?

You invoke faast from your local machine (or build server, or cron job, whatever), and in turn it deploys some functions to a serverless platform and runs them, then tears them all down when complete. Eg, from the site, this code runs locally:

import { faast } from "faastjs";
import * as funcs from "./functions";

(async () => {
const m = await faast("aws", funcs);
try {
// m.functions.hello: string => Promise<string>
const result = await m.functions.hello("world");
console.log(result);
} finally {
await m.cleanup();
}
})();

You wouldn't want to run this code on serverless, as you'd be paying for compute time of just waiting for all the other tasks to complete.

It would be useful to see a discussion about how and where to host this entry code, may even a topic on "Running in production".

It's definitely a neat idea because if you control the event that kicks everything off anyway (eg: "create monthly invoices" or "build daily reports") you can deploy the latest version of everything, run it and clean it up in essentially a single step.

(Please correct me if I've misunderstood any of the details here!)
That's fair.

But perhaps you'd agree with me that there's a line between a company making products like cameras - which can certainly be used to cruel ends, but typically easily replaced by any of your competitor's products, and not pivotal to such efforts - and a company building a product that has no real replacement, is central to anti-human practices, and routinely ignores the criticisms and suggestions of human rights groups around the world.
Trans people are not marginally more likely to suffer violence. They're significantly more likely to suffer violence, on the rate of several times more than the general population.
Yeah I just realized that. The binary caches might experience higher load but it the worst case you would have to build the binary yourself.

I just had to reinstall guix since `guix pull && guix package -u` didn't seem to upgrade guix itself but I think I will play around with it, at least for non critical stuff in my OS.
Obviously interviewing isn't 100% accurate. Almost nothing is. You definitely can't tell in 60 minutes whether someone will be a success at your company.

But you often can tell, with very very nearly 100% confidence if someone will not be a success. And that is the purpose of the interview. To filter out the "definitely not"s — the programmers who can't write fizzbuzz. And yes, I have seen plenty of these.

And interview is not the be-all and end-all of recruiting: of course it isn't. But I'm seeing a pendulum swinging a long way in the other direction now, and a lot of people talking as though interviews are worthless. They're really not.
There are a lot of factors & regulations that make South America uniquely difficult. For example, regulations state that in Brazil the payment processors (like Stripe) cannot pay out funds until 30 days after they are earned.

This obviously isn't the best user experience. It will just take longer to build something truly great that can span the globe.
We've done a few "mobbing" sessions with three remote people and it worked out very well. We got a lot done and we all felt a high level of energy for days afterward.
> `List(Vec<RispExp>)`

The big question when implementing a runtime for a Lisp-like language in Rust is how the interpreter will interact with the GC. It looks like this project has avoided most of the complexity by not implementing actual lists, and allowing multiple references to the same value to exist only in restricted circumstances, hewing close to Rust's ownership model rather than a typical Lisp's. I wonder, is the plan to stay on this side of the space, as a lightweight language with potentially smooth FFI interoperation with other low-level/Rust code? Or to rewrite almost everything to support the high-level semantics of list-processing languages, with their emphasis on shared structure?
I find humor in the choice of “risp” given the obvious alternative.
You can download blob from official site, but it wouldn't work in a lot of cases after installation process while giving you no options for some choices there are (like GLX provider or vendor-neutral OpenGL libs), that's the difference of Debian's metapackage.
Don't be needlessly incendiary. Whether or not it's an eating disorder is contextual. It's not just about not eating food for a while; it's about things like the presence or absence of an addictive pattern, and the benefits or detriments to a person's physical and spiritual well-being. I would say in the context of the article, it probably leans towards eating disorder.
It is not just engineers—recall Steve Jobs’ Fruititarian approach to health.
> They have no obligation to allow all speech.

Their legal obligation is one thing, their moral/ethical obligations are another. So are you technically right? Yes. But are you completely overlooking the real problem here? Also yes.

Allowing these platforms to silence anyone at any time for any (non-discriminatory) reason is giving them an absurd amount of power. The least we could do is force them to be transparent - give us a list of who they've banned and exactly why they were banned so we can make informed decisions about supporting those platforms.

As it stands, we have no way of knowing if these bans were arbitrary or justified. And since we depend on private companies for so many fundamental aspects of our lives, it only makes sense that the obligation to protect fundamental rights should also extend to those companies.
Well, they probably didn't become billionaires by spending extra money when they didn't have to. Even Bill Gates has a budget.
It's better to let good/great people slip away then to get a bad apple onto the team. Or worse, a mediocre one who never does anything wrong but also isn't contributing positively either.
Maybe, but that is only because synthetic caffeine is currently not very competitive with the free caffeine produced as a by-product of decaf manufacture. The price of existing naturally-derived caffeine (and possibly the coffee from which it is derived) could rise, which is not a pleasant thought.
I thought the primary advantage tesla cars have over others is the charging network—these cars are already easily differentiated.

I’m also sure people are enthused about quality and self driving but that doesn’t do much for me.
I doubt it's like this every where but it's certainly like this for many across the country.
Microsoft is actually making their software easier to use at the cost of "performing" security operations. This is an interesting pivot.
That is true for content publishers. However, if those systems are claimed to be public squares, then there is a right to free speech for citizens of the USA there.

The tech companies cannot have it both ways. They want to be publishers, then take the responsibilities and liabilities of publishers.

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/09/05/jack-dorsey-says-t...
Does Antlr support an annotated parse tree that would allow for round-tripping? I didn't see anything in the documentation, at a quick glance. Even then, formulating a grammar (especially one that also catches whitespace and comments) seems like a pretty daunting task.
Well yeah obviously. The question is whether an individual should go to jail because of negligence.

Obviously, there is a real "It depends". Hit and kill an individual with your car because you were distracted? That could mean jail. Accidentally pushed code to the wrong repo? Should that mean jail time?
I've been ending my showers with cold, basically washing off a lot of the excess heat from the previously hot shower. It honestly feels pretty good & def makes me happier about stepping out of the shower.
Cannot comment in too much detail as not sure how much information is public but tape backups are also in scope for wipeout and user data is removed from them.
Correct. I work at Stripe.

By the way, this goes almost all-the-way-up.

Even people who were former VPs at Google often have the title "Engineering Manager". Sure, they mostly manage other EMs, but it's hard to precisely tell who is super senior and who isn't.

This actually plays out nicely, as it encourages everyone to default to each other as equals. Later on you'll hear things like "did you know that person built the entire first version of Atlas by themselves?" only to realize they are, in fact, very experienced. :]
For some reason I felt the need to google hunt for this book based solely on your description.

Is it The Uploaded? ... perhaps not since you said short story

"In the near future, the elderly have moved online and now live within the computer network. But that doesn’t stop them interfering in the lives of the living, whose sole real purpose now is to maintain the vast servers which support digital Heaven. For one orphan that just isn't enough – he wants more for himself and his sister than a life slaving away for the dead. It turns out that he's not the only one who wants to reset the world..."

https://www.amazon.com/Uploaded-Ferrett-Steinmetz/dp/0857667...
One of his YouTube contemporaries pointed out that his "supplements" he sold contained nothing but soy derivatives, and instead of acknowledging it, decided to dress in drag and scream at a camera for several minutes.

I wish I were making that up.
Why don't you provide a rebuttal to the critique rather than go comment hunting? If the argument is good then it doesn't matter whether the comment was made by an astroturfing shill.
What a horrible idea. Clinical trials with no oversight or regulation of patients that may or may not even know the consequences.
I'm sorry, I didn't realize that there was that much more to it than I thought. If I could, I would edit the parent to say "IPD can be tweaked to a certain, limited degree, in software, per [link]", but I'm way outside of the edit window.

I have pretty great (30/20) vision (no stigmatisms / etc., either), but my eyes are a little further apart than average- and every VR headset I've tried has been fine (including Cardboard), so I guess I was blind to the issues that can happen here.

I suppose the best option that doesn't require manufacturing a bajillion SKU's would be some flavor of mechanical assembly with servo's in it / etc. so that the adjustments can be per-user (like some fancy drivers' seats) instead of manual, which can be irritating to find the perfect setup with- getting projectors perfectly square comes to mind.
This is untrue.

I am the Queen of England.

That's also untrue. But I'm confident I didn't just commit wire fraud.

Wire fraud requires an intentional material deception that deprives someone of money or property. While both of your examples have the intent element they're lacking materiality and injury.

All fraud requires a lie but not all lies rise to the level of fraud. The vast majority don't.
Oh ok, my bad then. Just would have never thought to call Tesla for something like that but glad it turned out ok in the end.
Absolutely. I think a lot of people are throwing the baby out with the bathwater here.

The infrared bulbs may be gimmicky but the rest of his routine seems pretty standard stuff that if more people adopted would lead to an increase in their quality of life.
Yes, I was agreeing with that and pointing out that the defense of "at least they have the gain in home value" wouldn't apply to the high LVT case. Whether it's good for pricing to work like that is a separate question.
They had a different experience with throwing money at the problem in London. There it actually worked for their test group.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/free-money-might-be-...
I can't tell if this comment, which seems to make the argument that Facebook tried to market a mobile phone so that they could defeat the end-to-end encryption they planned to offer in their applications, is facetious or not.
It's also a conscious decision in the way they build their products. If they wanted to, they could also continue being a hardware company and add data-mining/ads on top of that -- but they choose not to.
I blame American suburbs, where you "need" the most tank-like hideous box on wheels of an SUV or "cross-over" that you can find.
Most the responses here revolve around Facebook's autonomy as a private platform. Meanwhile, Facebook's autonomy is called into question when it comes to fake news on the site that influences politics, or their ability to use the data on their platform as they see fit.
Stripe has remotes across the world, but we're just formalizing this new "Hub" concept in North America.
Evidentally, it is for non-average folks.
> You responded to his first point about people electing to not work at all if the wage is too low. That's the contradiction to your point.

It only works as a contradiction in this case if Ford employees quit and stopped working altogether. If they tended to seek employment elsewhere, which I believe to be the case, then that makes my point.

Factory work was repetitive and monotonous. The Ford workers preferred to take work elsewhere, until Ford doubled wages. Had those other companies doubled wages as well, then why would they come back to Ford?

> If everyone getting minimum wage had their wage increased it would decrease the number of people who left the workforce entirely. The same effect would happen in for a case if all his competitors increased their wage too

This doesn't make sense to me. If employers didn't have enough staff, they would increase bottom wages in order to fill those positions rather than forgo potential profit and business health. If there is unemployment and bottom wages are low, then that says something about the labor market, not minimum wage. It means there is low demand for staff. Increasing minimum wage doesn't magically increase the number of open positions in the labor market.
That's not what the above poster said, and you know it. You say "marginally", "anyone", "mocking". But the people in question aren't anyone, and they aren't just mocking.

There are specific cases of them calling on their fans to harass private citizens. Anyone with some semblance of awareness of US law knows free speech is not without limits. No one is entitled to online speech, believe it or not.
I’ve been using 7z for many years and https://github.com/mcmilk/7-Zip-zstd/ which is just a patched 7z for a while. And p7zip on unix platforms.

I know PeaZip is based on that, so I wonder what made you choose this over 7z?
Posting to HN via Tor.
>is simply being “racist” sufficient justification for a ban

It can be, if the site decides it is. Other places, it isn't!
Don't know, sorry. It might be worth checking if that limit is enforced on the drone itself or the app. At least for the older drones, things like no fly zones around airports were only in the app. Messing with the firmware of the actual drone seemed nontrivial.
Yeah, libraries that make extensive use of templates are basically dark magic only comprehensible to C++ experts (see also: almost everything in Boost).

The positive side of this is that it enables nice interfaces for the library, and makes a lot of the abstractions basically "free" (since the cost is paid at compile time rather than via pointer indirection at runtime). But it definitely makes those libraries inappropriate for students who want to look at an understandable implementation of the algorithm.
And banning Milo from Facebook is going to somehow improve that situation is it? Milo the loud mouthed cretin’s tame insults are responsible for the incidence of violence against trans women?
> Sometimes something not converting to a ligature can also be a hint (e.g. for a wrong hyphen beeing used etc)

So what languages actually benefit from this? haskell, clojure but maybe not the usual C family ones?
Conservatives always strike me as cheap.

Always complaining about money, tax dollars this tax dollars that.

Like if you went to dinner at their house they'd make six people share a box of craft dinner.

Money is just paper, so why don't we spend it on making each other's lives better and happier?
An extended quote from the book review I cited:

Although [former NRC commissioner] Jaczko's account will become standard reading as an antinuclear book, his reasons have more to do with regulation than nuclear energy per se. Jaczko sees two paths ahead. One has a sustainable future with nuclear reactors that includes widespread recognition that accidents will happen and a greater commitment to safety. The other path is the one he witnessed as NRC chairman, featuring waning public trust in a secretive, uncooperative industry that regards safety regulations as unfair and cumbersome.

The problem that plagued the old Atomic Energy Commission [the predecessor agency to the NRC] — that the promoters and regulators were too cozy with each other — is clearly alive and well. Jaczko describes the relationship as a “corrupt, toxic environment.” It may be a hard warning to hear, but it comes from one who had a fuller view of the nuclear regulatory landscape than most.
Listening is itself a form of communication, and a very powerful one.
This is the key question to any blockchain-for-X proposal: explain why you can't just use a secured database. My personal suspicion is that all commercial activity already requires enough trust that using a secured database is tenable and vastly easier.
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That article is not telling anything. No real use case, not concrete problems that can be solved. From that source I would have expected more.

My thoughts: Supply Chain collaboration is the hardest thing to achieve, not last because internal opposition has to be overcome first. The tricky part? Who benefits from the efficiency gains?

Also, in case a certain company or Supply Chain is able to benefit from a potential Blockchain application (I don't see any yet) it will be so far ahead of anyone else already that Blockchain wouldn't level anything. And those that are not there yet aren't able to benefit from digital solutions. Because their processes and culture aren't their yet. As a result the gap will only become bigger and not smaller.

That being said, as long as Blockchain for SCM is not solving the problem of constantly matching physical and virtual flows without jeopardizing the data and information of every party involved it won't work.
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Except for extreme outliers it is not clear that it's possible to tell with much confidence in either case. Why do you think it's possible to have such high confidence in one case but not the other?
Glad you're interested :) I've opened an issue so we can continue on github: https://github.com/agentofuser/ipfs-deploy/issues/13
> Facebook used to be popular because it was, at one point, fun. If they're going to remove all the voices they think are "dangerous", what they're left with won't be fun or interesting. Just lukewarm, milquetoast, or worse... lopsided.

Honestly, I hope that Facebook becomes more restrictive and more censorship-oriented. That would make alternative platforms more viable and increase diversity in online media. I'm also 100% opposed to the idea that private companies should be permitted to or expected to function as the town square. That, more than censorship, is the real threat to freedom of speech and freedom of thought. Facebook, twitter, and youtube, by the nature of their ranking algorithms and the structure of the service, have a huge influence on what and how ideas spread without explicitly pushing or censoring content.
I don’t subscribe to asceticism in the least, but the perceived benefits and dangers are subjective and unlikely to be shared with health professionals. What you are referencing sounds like a similar situation.

I believe the least painful life is lived on the middle path so I broadly agree, but not all will.