skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The parents of Sandy Hook victims receive harassment and death threats to this day because of Alex Jones promoting the narrative that they're "crisis actors".

He does ongoing, tangible harm.
Some background on the filmmakers:

https://rettacs.org/space-music-paul-novros-accompanies-the-...
All the big clouds regularly have outages.
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Even if they don't retain the images, it's a veritable treasure trove for security agencies, who will almost certainly be hoovering them up, either with or without the company's knowledge.
That IE story was specifically about YouTubers during the transition to Google. A story about how they used a legacy YouTube permissions role to circumvent process and oversight.
To really get an MIT education, you should team up with one or two other folks and work through the labs and problem sets together. There’s no substitute for the learning you get by explaining your understanding of a problem and hashing out how to approach it with someone else — and by building things!
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Super Micro will move chip production out of China to avoid spying claims
Pywren (http://pywren.io/) seems to be basically this project, but in Python
Dietary composition _is_ the key. No hunter-gatherer group has ever exceeded 50% of total caloric intake coming from plants, especially not from simple sugars.
I am both a recruiter and a highly experienced developer and software designer.

I once sent one of the very best programmers I know for a job interview.

I have met a small handful of outstanding programmers in my > 30 years in IT and this guy was in the top five, near the top.

I had personally worked directly with him for 5 years and he was unquestionably one of the most talented programmers there is, and a nice guy, easy to get along with and great to work with. Incredibly productive, and capable of the most incredible feats of software development.

The client interviewed him and said ....... no thanks.

There you go - I have just explained everything you need to know about technical recruiting. Give it some thought - the more you think about it, the more it reveals the deepest truth about YOU and your software hiring processes.

NO-ONE - no-one ever thinks they make the wrong call when they reject a candidate - including you.

If you want to know what happened after that - I called the CEO who I knew quite well and essentially said to him "What the fuck are you doing? I sent you one of the best programmers there is - and I know this from first hand personal experience over five years - and your interviewers rejected him?". They employed him because of that and he became their chief technical architect pretty quickly.
> isn't the big issue here that a private company has been able to successfully lobby to get laws changed to make it illegal for tax filing to be free?

Yes, it's this exactly.

Also, in my opinion, this is a great example of how a lot of the corruption of government by corporations is done, and is easy for pretty much anybody to understand.
> The H&R Block spokeswoman said the company’s Free File offering grew 8.3% this year..

I wonder what was the growth of the paid products. Gut feeling tells me that it was far more than 8.3%.

I have said before (and it didn't do good to my karma but this is more important). I feel that USA Democracy (not the political party) has been corrupted and injured by Lobbying. "Corporate America" rules and the people are there just to get their blood sucked. Healthcare is ran by insurance companies with insane pricing. Talking to the state should be free. Submitting your taxes should be free. I am using (in the UK) a software, but it is my choice to use it. I could be using Excel files and have my accountant submitting printed papers. My choice. It is called freedom. Those companies are playing the people for fools. They will keep pushing so that the vast majority of the people will need to pay to pay taxes. It doesn't make sense :)
Privacy concerns aside, I can't wait to read the "Facial Recognition let me on the wrong flight when I got in the wrong line by accident" articles that are going to come out of this. Unless these systems have some fantastic (1e-6) P_{false alarm} rate or better, people are going to be mistaken for other people and let on the wrong flight sooner or later.
In _all_ regions? No.
If they federate with mastodon they will effectively get all the lost users back.
I think that, in addition to mobile devices, the browser is the new desktop and MS has conceded that to Google with Edge to be built on Chromium, so the chance of a MS Linux seem slim. Bill Gates always talked about beating competitors by commoditizing their offering; I think you're seeing MS do that to themselves with containerization built on linux or at the most nanoserver. It may take twenty years to kill off the last version in corporate IT, but windows desktop is dead.
If you want 1D, project that vector onto social functioning axis.
Looks cool, but after the 5th refresh, and whitelisting even more botnet domains, I had to give up testing it.
Ask HN: Auditing a Class as a Non-Student?
I'm a college graduate who'd love to take a couple college classes (math, maybe econ and computer science) in my spare time.

I don't care about getting credit in any form, though ideally I'd like to sit for the exams (accountability is good for me).

Has anyone done this? If so, how did you go about it? Did you reach out to professors directly? Universities don't seems advertise this, for understandable reasons; presumably it's not profitable in the same way credit-earning courses would be--though actually I'd be happy to pay some (smaller) amount.

Thanks!
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Yes? Facebook should ban racism against Turkish people? I'm not sure I see how that's an interesting or difficult call to make.
At Silent Barn, there was a barber shop partly run by a great barber (and musician - seems to be a common combo). Our deal was that I paid him $30/month, and he'd take me in twice a month. I always looked pristine and I got a slight deal that turned into a habit, and he had a steady customer.
Im glad you don't read my stuff then! No matter how many times I proofread a something there's always speling errors and random extra words.
This argument never made sense to me.

How is the amount on a check or bill, if made clearly visible, somehow “not visible”?
>Cue up the posts from people criticizing McGrath for doing this.

Given the heartwarming nature of this story, and the regular good nature of the participants on this website, perhaps you might want to consider whether you might be projecting guilt.

Perhaps you feel bad that you're not doing more yourself?

Whether or not that's the case, I think you're taking an unnecessarily negative view of the userbase here.
“Ze” (like “they”) is a subject pronoun, it has been suggested with various object pronouns (like “them”), possessive determiners (like “their”) and possessive pronouns (like “theirs”), including at least these patterns: ze/hir/hir/hirs, ze/mer/zer/zers, ze/zir/zir/zirs; ze/zem/zes/zes.

So, the “their” could change to any of “hir”, “mer”, “zir”, or “zes”, depending on which “ze” pattern was used.
As someone who was not kind to themselves for a long time, I highly recommend this.
Evolutionary pressures aren't as simple as "if it lowers your chance of reproducing it's bad." You can read "The Selfish Gene" for more info.

Consider a gene that promotes compassion, selflessness and sharing. While it may lower your individual fitness, groups with some individuals with this gene may fare better as a whole.

Same as autism. For example, say autistic people see connections that other people don't. Having a low rate of "different thinkers" is positive for the group as a whole, even if the individuals may be disadvantaged in other ways.
The alternative is certainly the big problem.

The other big problem is not even giving an interview to a great candidate based on things like a resume and possible a cover letter.
The section about overflow put me off. Undefined semantics is one of my least favourite parts of C. It seems from the article that Zig is leaving not only signed overflow but also unsigned overflow as undefined (or runtime crash in "safe" mode, which is equally as bad). In C at least unsigned arithmetic is well-defined so I could get away with some casting back and forth.

This irks me especially badly since the underlying hardware operations are almost always well-defined, but in my "high-level" language I constantly have to worry that I missed something and maybe the compiler will "optimise" my + into something other than addition.

Is there a fully well-defined addition operator in Zig? What about a well-defined shift operator? This might make me, as a professional C programmer, more interested in a new C-like language.
Isn't it a bit different have a photo tied to an ostensibly anonymous internet account which you have control over, and have a photo that is legally tied to your person and leased out by the government?
This about consent and control.
> It's been a reason to prefer instance storage for quite awhile imo.

Yuck. Please tell me you don't do that anymore (unless for specialized workloads where you don't care if an instance loses data due to a shutdown).
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> Many of the narratives that describe worlds where black bodies are "lesser than" white bodies

In a thread about dehumanizing speech, you're referring to human beings as "bodies". Huh.
I strongly agree with point 3. I just wish people would accept that FB isn't for them, and move on. Instead, there is so much signaling going on that it's difficult to discuss real issues.

I actually also agree with point 1, because I think that drug seekers are more rational actors than the average person. It seems indisputable that drug dealers provide value; the argument is that the long term harm outweights the immediate value, not that there is no value.

With Facebook, I think it's much less clear that using FB causes harm, much less harm on the same level as an opiod addiction. (I'm aware of the research out there that correlates depressive symptoms with social media usage.)
> The neighbors who are calling the cops are totally justified in doing so

I mean... if someone was lighting a joint regularly near my home I'd call the cops too. Same for cigarettes, though the smell doesn't carry that far. We have asked people smoking cigarettes and lingering out front to move on. We have two little kids.

I grew up poor. We were homeless at times. The culture is different. You don't fit in, and there's a real culture clash. I go back to the deep south and walk into a gas station and watch the little kids load up on $20 worth of junk food for dinner while the mom chain smokes outside and I feel more comfortable and at ease than I do anywhere else. These are people I can relate with. Still, I don't want my children to grow up in that kind of environment or to think such habits are normal and okay.
True. And i totally agree with your roundup of the main alternatives. I went for a Chinese phone last time and it's probably the best one I've had in terms of quality and features. But Lord knows what stuff I'm sending back to China. I've been meaning to try lineage out.
Yup, I evaluated the tool and got it working with our repo in a trial run, hopefully going to do some git testing in the near future... when I have time to write some scripts.

What tool did you use? Also how did you migrate who did commits etc, I found and updated branch of the vault2git tool, but it didn’t have an explanation of how to use the xml for mapping branches and such... I’m honesty forgetting it’s been a few months since I looked at it... I’m hopefully though.

Sorry for the rant >.<
Shit like this is why I run macOS on my XPS 13. If Apple aren't willing to get their shit together, why should I wait for them?
He didn't encourage any of his fans to harass Leslie Jones. That is misinformation.

Leslie Jones was making quite a number of remarks about people that were criticising the Ghostbuster movie trailer.

Milo made one comment saying she looked like a dude (which is quite rude). Most of the other comments towards her were made hours before he retweeted her.
Because everything has onboarding now. Sometimes it's unskippable (think mobile games). It's always annoying, very frequently patronizing, and, frankly most people's app/site designs aren't that special because modern UX seems to have no more than a handful of designs for how tech is to be spoonfed to the masses.

Of course none of that matters because it makes another tiny, self-selected group considerably more money.
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I'm no lawyer but it seems hard to imagine it could be illegal as it would be based on supposition rather than fact and only someone in possession of the unredacted report would know for sure if it were right.
So you are saying that Alex Jones is a dangerous criminal, and that I can make the world a better place by taking him out, killing his vile speech, if nothing else?
According to my CS professor it's

create table person(id int)

According to Rails it's

create table people(id int)

Both agree on how to name the primary key. Person_id would be redundant.
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All Google internal traffic is encrypted, and I'd guess they use some sort of forward secrecy. I guess it's going to be basically impossible to use split fibers to sip at that data.
I don't think whether the names are plural or not actually matters. What matters is that a style is chosen and used consistently.
You can use +% to have a fully defined wraparound addition: https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#Wrapping-Operation.... For lshift, there is @shlWithOverflow.
I don't believe those are "altars" in the sense that you're implying, as if people are worshipping him.

They are ofrendas [0] which are part of the Day of the Dead celebrations. My understanding is that they are usually reserved for loved ones but beloved public figures are included as well.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ofrenda
Maybe... Maybe... it’s all bullshit. Maybe none of this is real. Maybe even the Facebook bans are a lie?
It depends—when I was at one of the really visible companies, it wouldn’t have surprised me if as much as a third of the people I screened had lied on their resume. I’d ask folks to write functions to count the number of times the letter ‘a’ appears in a string, stuff like that. Did not need to compile or run.

I had a person break down and confess, and we spent the rest of the interview talking about how their codecademy lessons were going.
> AWS has one or two a year from what I've seen

Worldwide outage? That's really not the case. Over thousands of machines in 3 years I haven't seen a single failure that spanned more than one region. Or even a region going entirely offline. At most you'll see one service affected.
It's been a few years since I traveled international - but CBP already takes pictures at passport control, don't they?
> NO-ONE - no-one ever thinks they make the wrong call when they reject a candidate - including you.

I disagree. Maybe not immediately, but I’ve definitely picked the wrong candidate when I had two other better candidates in hindsight.
> I disagree with the underlying premise that we should clump social media into (only) two categories (platforms and publishers)

If I'm not mistaken, this is a matter of existing case law, so our agreement or disagreement doesn't really matter.
You will probably have to slightly reword your question, but Academia[1] would probably be a better audience for this question than HN.

[1] http://academia.stackexchange.com
AI tech generates entire bodies of people who don't exist
These platforms are so large now and most of the public discourse happens on them. So it is effectively silencing them.
I’m flagging this for the xenophobic/racist stereotype that immigrants are a major source of MMR. Recent data on measles, the disease currently in the news, show that rates in Central America are comparable to or even lower than in the US: https://www.who.int/immunization/monitoring_surveillance/bur...
If I was going to an interview with a company like that, I would want to know - will they reject me if I wear a suit? If so, what is safe to wear?
I had to look up the context for this and as expected it's not quite the way you make it sound.

You use the word "trans students" in the plural, but it was only a single student. The photo shown was a screen grab from an interview that this person themself chose to give to local television, in which their name and university association is displayed. It's not like Milo "outed" anyone here.

The speech in question:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t1ufzttyUM&feature=youtu.be...

If this passes the threshold of "dangerous", that's a very low threshold.
They may be close lipped on it in public but this was widely known to employees when I worked there in late 80's and early 90's. At that time, the company was defending its operations in South Africa despite IBM equipment and services being used to enforce apartheid. It took them many years to drop that business.
Design for Boredom
> derailed from "privacy engineering team" which engineers privacy (whatever that means at Google) does a shitty job to

Actually no, it was you who derailed an otherwise unrelated conversation to that topic.

> we should celebrate them for doing just the minimum amount of work for something that has already been possible, if spread across many UIs

The "minumum amount of work possible" was doing nothing. Let's isolate this: is this change a good thing, or a bad thing, in your opinion? That is, all else equal, would you prefer Google provide this specific privacy control, or not?

If not, why not? What is bad about this feature?

If yes, why are you attacking the very people implementing features that you think are good? Isn't it better to support the people doing work you support?
Nice! That's something I often wish GCC had.
Google's definition of "identity" definitely does not capture the word as I understand it, and as I believe the GP was using it.
CBP already has my photo and name from my passport.
I don't know why everyone recommends 7zip when this app is 100x better.
I actually had considered it at one point. Sometimes the reason you want something small & compact is you don't need to run it for that long.
Maybe try Dragon, Fly! It is quite similar.
I believe that if you study the language of the GDPR, you'll find that "it's OK if the government does it."
Why just not stop collecting it?
I put a lot of thought into what I want out of life, and "contemplation" is a big one. Hannah Arendt drew a distinction I love between "thought" and "contemplation," essentially saying that just because you are thinking doesn't mean you're really spending time coming to know something. Leisure time to think freely and uncoerced is essential to achieving that mode of thought. I find that I even like thinking about work when it's true contemplation; I use some of my own free time to dwell on why the people around me act and think the way they do, what drives my behavior at work, why we face certain problems. It provides real insight and anchoring into the activity that takes up a significant portion of my life and adds considerable value to my work contributions. I think one of the smartest things businesses could do would be to follow Basecamp's "It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work" model, because calm, contemplative employees will come up with hugely profitable insights. As Kent Beck said, "Software is a leverage game." One insightful thought can save millions of dollars. I bet that's true of a lot of industries.

At a higher level, though, it's just an enjoyable mode of being. But you can't get into that state if you don't learn how to stop doing things and just lean back for a minute.
The same “slippery slope” argument that’s used to defend GPL3’s extraordinary licensing reach and “don’t let anyone search your phone” activism applies here as well.

Is it a slippery slope from Milo to White Supremacy? Yes. Does WS endorse violence towards others? Yes. Therefore, is it dangerous to others to give Milo a platform? Yes.

If you don’t believe in slippery slope arguments, that’s your right, but there’s quite a lot of sociology contradicting you, and the various internet platforms are realizing that the sociology (and memeticists) were probably right all along.
> If a company knows how to get choose a USD200k engineer in SF and get a good return for the company off that engineer, then why wouldn't you pay USD200k in all areas?

If you're willing to buy a $2 million property in Palo Alto, would you pay $2 million for the exact same property in West Mississippi?

To a company an employee is a commodity investment only - no matter what the culture manifesto says. There are a lot of factors that determine who gets paid what.
Their W-2.
I think cat199's point was that Farrakhan isn't just 'anti semitic'. There's quite a lot wrong with the NOI besides that.
> There may be good reasons why it didn't show in Science (page space is extremely limited)

Um, exactly? Science is the most visible journal after Nature, so it's the most competitive. "Insufficient page space" is exactly the same as "not impressive enough to be accepted".
>They aren't self-anointed. We anointed them by using their platform

Nahhh, it's way more nuanced than that. They started as user friendly simple services with little to no purposeful mass censorship. Then the user base grew into the billions effectively creating captive audience due to the network effect. Then they became increasingly user hostile (i.e. switching from chronological timeline to a psychologically manipulative news feed) and got into the business of political mass censorship and electioneering; like a bait and switch.
Your personal dev time is as limitless as your desire allows it to be.
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Fair enough. For what its worth I don't have an Amex card either =).
I prefer person and person_id because when joining to to other tables it is easier (in my head) to join person_id to person_id than person_id to id
It could be done, but it requires the IRS to be given far more resources, and for it to change the filing deadlines and reporting requirements for lots of dependent forms.

It also requires all the states' revenue departments to coordinate with the IRS, because if everyone needs to file a correction based on state taxes anyway the system doesn't make much sense.
there's ebay of course https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2334524.m...
RispEsp is a tree using value semantics. How will RispExp evolve to support e.g. circularly linked lists? How will that interact with Rust's ownership requirements?
Man... Azure seems to be an order of magnitude worse than AWS and GCP when it comes to reliability.

Seems like they have tons of global dependencies within their services which cause these cascading failures rather often... Seems like only a few months ago we were reading about a global outage that affected auth?
The level of discussion in this thread is unfortunate.
Absolutely and I am mindful of people not having their personal space or privacy invaded in public. This dynamic changes in a social setting however where the expectation is to socialize or be friendly to others.