skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Carlos Maza’s twitter and ig handle is “gaywonk”. He also speaks with a lisp. He also makes it a point to always point out that he’s “queer” and “latino”.
Calling him those things is not an insult. This is what his whole identity and claim to fame is.
> an order was accidentally delivered to for privacy reasons

Privacy reasons? Those guys aren't your customers... let me get my chicken nuggets, man!
Did you try contacting customer service? I'd bet dollars to donuts that you get a full refund, no need to even return it. The Google-esque experience you described only occurs if there's no customer service to even contact, Amazon's customer service is very easy to contact.
I think that the point is that being able to do what you did requires intelligence to accomplish.
>despite Crowder’s consistent use of racist and homophobic slurs.

Articles keep saying this. Calling someone a Mexican isn't "racist". The homophobic "slurs" are used by Carlos himself, though the mockery was a little strong. However, that mockery is nothing compared to the mockery performed by left-wing commentators. Let's not forget that Louder with Crowder is a comedy show. My god, can you imagine if George Carlin was alive? He'd be burried with hate from the media.

Also, Carlos Maza has called for violence against people. He deserved getting doxxed any everything else, IMO.

Disclaimer: I'm neither left nor right.

Edit: LOL, little Googlers are going to downvote me to hell. Sorry for speaking the truth. Just hide my comment instead of engaging it.
>When I think of the word terrorism, and I'm sure many others think like me, I think of 9/11. Or the Las Vegas shooting.

Did the Las Vegas shooter have any ideological motivation? I thought he was just a nasty guy with a lot of guns.
There's no dev team here, its a single guy building something for free, if you want this to be supported on the older version of firefox, build it!
>So how can any new social media platforms or startups ever be able to support all that additional staff/infrastructure?

Why does it matter if they can? Do we allow unregulated oil drilling startups in the name of competition? There's no particular reason to assume that the platforms that govern our social interactions don't fall into a category of institutions who need to prove that they can keep a grip on their activity.

The quality and civility of public discourse is of principal importance to the health of liberal societies. Social media platforms are not irrelevant places of entertainment, it is becoming increasingly clear that they are the primary space where public consensus is formed. As such, they should be held accountable accordingly and not be treated like some random market provider of cat videos.
He calls himself "gaywonk" I don't think calling him that is homophobic. I don't really know where that talking point comes from either.
This will no longer be usable on Catalina unless someone else takes up the charge. The problem afaik is similar to what Chrome has done.
I agree, libraries like tailwind.css are such a breeze to work with (pun intended).

Initially they're frustrating, but after awhile you recognise the ease and predictability of styling reusable components.
I have this small script to hide distracting elements on Medium.

https://gist.github.com/kartikynwa/ef9d48fad6a912cd5688083cd...

I don't know why I wrote this because I don't even like the content that gets posted on Medium.
Did you vet your question and its phrasing with your co-workers? What did they say?
PsyToolkit: Create and run cognitive psychological experiments in the browser
Are people who failed code tests better?
Well, I “can” perform these so called “work sample tests” that a lot of companies want to give out (sometimes even before getting to speak with anyone at the company). Here’s my issue with them:

* Either they’re strictly timed, introducing an artificial sort of pressure that’s rarely present on the job, or one ends up competing against people who spend 3 or 4 times the suggested amount of time. I don’t know about you, but I can do a way better job on most of these sorts of tasks if I spend a large multiple of the expected time on it, too.

* The tasks are often poorly specified, sometimes with the justification that it tests the ability to clarify requirements. I don’t think that argument holds water, because all “clarifying requirements” does when one doesn’t have ready access to folks who can answer those kinds of questions is introduce insane amounts of latency and frustration into the process.

* Even when the tasks are reasonably well specified, the grading rubric is often kept from the candidate. At work, if I don’t know if I or my team is building the right thing or doing it in the right way, I can go ask people (PM, tech lead, EM, another team member, etc.)

* Finally, most of these “take home assignments” I’ve seen that are supposed to be in the 2-4 hour range to finish don’t get me as a candidate out of 2-4 hours of giving impromptu algorithms lectures at the whiteboard. If the prize for putting in 2-6x as much time as I would to get to an onsite interview with another company is just to come onsite with your company and spend all day doing the exact same thing, then, no thank you.

I realize that few or none of these things apply to the process at Matasano, but there is another one that does: I can already get a job that pays reasonably well, doing things I already mostly know how to do, without spending hours studying a field I know little about.

That is arguably a feature and not a bug, so, I don’t mention it as a criticism, but rather as a reason why I probably wouldn’t do Matasano’s work sample test. For the type of people they’re looking for, that’s probably fine. It’s just that I’m not one of those people.
If you are going to go down that path then you have to ask what is the Bible. I mean, you could say that the "original Bible" is the Code of Hammurabi from 1754 BC and say that the "original Bible" doesn't mention Homosexuality.

But as you say, the Hebrew bible has pretty much remained untouched for 2000 years. We can go back about 400 years earlier if we include the Dead Sea scrolls. While there are some differences, so much is the same that there is no reason to assume that Homosexuality was added in at that point.

I find it hard to believe that זכר meant anything other than male back when the Bible was written. זכר is use when referring to how people were made (Man and Woman were created), זכר is used when telling Noah what animals to bring on the ark (two by two came to Noah, to the ark, male and female), and when talking about what animals to sacrifice.
Legalizing Marijuana is being interpreted by the general youth population as an endorsement of it as a recreational drug.

Marijuana advocates should prepare themselves to take moral responsibility for the many significant negative consequences of increasing use, including increased schizophrenia rates, traffic fatalities, industrial accidents along with overall lower worker productivity.

The “but compared to alcohol” is a shallow argument used by these biased advocates selfishly looking for approval for their own recreational vice.
States rights [to own slaves]
simple answer: we don't have alternatives. comparing with being meddling by USA or any foreign power, I'd rather pick CCP.

No matter how well intentioned you guys are/were, I'll say it in your face: I don't trust you. here is the problem: if you were pissed off by my remark, then how could you overcome the trust issue? if you were not, how stupid I'm going to be to trust you?

honestly, I think we deserve whatever we have right now, and so do you. how about we just do business and leave the urge to 'help' other people in the world in sci-fi books?
I suggest you take a look at Gerbil Scheme, based on Gambit-C.

https://cons.io
Thanks for this, it is very informative and not something I had considered before.

I'm curious about the statement about renewables though because it seems that with wind or solar the production is very irregular even in normal operation. Doesn't that mean there has to be some technology to balance individual generator differences which would make re-starting those installations easier?

Re: Nuclear, how much energy is required to start up a nuke plant? If decaying toxins are a risk shouldn't those be prioritized? I might misunderstand what you mean by toxins, does that reduce production for some time?
Is your family inside or outside of china?
You can't google anything, and people expect you to explain your thought process while solving an emergency issue with a 30 minute deadline?

Again I don't want to work at this company.
This is absolutely not true. There are multiple factors which have been proven to affect an individual's IQ over time-

* Schooling,
* How stimulating their environment is,
* Nutrition,
* Disease (although this is generally towards the negative).

All of these can be influenced by behavior- people's eating habits affect their nutrition, and people who seek out intellectual stimulation are more likely to find it than those who don't.
No, not really. Pilot and homemaker.
They’d want to keep things anonymous even if they know the identities of the streamers, which they can probably guess from emails and IP logs. If they name names the narrative changes to “website owned by worlds biggest company trying to put 15 year olds in jail for having fun”.
It isn't, and anyone with a brain will see that.
You're going to get massively downvoted because you're going against the Leftist agenda in a round-about sort of way. You either support the leftist zeitgeist or you should not say anything at all.
Yes. Many have been wrongly sentenced in spite of all those decorations.
Like anything, the lack of competition and criticism makes the Chinese political culture susceptible to attacks and its propaganda weak and useless.

Censorship has worked a little too well, and it's become a nasty habit to break out of. That's why the biggest traitor in modern times is Fang Binxing, the father of the GFW, though he probably believed himself to be a patriot.
It is not "heading towards the sorites paradox" to suggest that there is a difference between a one off insult and repeated, targeted harassment.
aka, "hub content"
Same. It's absolutely garbage that it requires a Mac App -- while there's workarounds for now, how much longer until they don't work either. It's a shame because I quite like Safari as a browser. Oh well, more incentive to switch back to Firefox!
I don't know either. You might be right. (Does Crowder cross that line between harassing an individual and targeting groups?) Doesn't change that Canada should be applying its laws to these platforms.
Not saying your experience isn’t valid but I’ve had several Canadian friends tell stories the other direction. They were amazed at the level of care they got in the Bay Area as opposed to Canada saying that yes care is available to everybody but you often have to wait a long time and it’s generally mediocre. Grass is greener?
Airline lounges and expensive "dinner clubs" have largely replaced this and serve a similar purpose. Once you break the upper crust you start getting invited to fancy dinners corporate and charity auctions too
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I would like to see evidence of that. Crowder's output towards that guy doesn't even seem comparable relative to the amount of other stuff he produces.
Perhaps, some of the time. I doubt it's the whole answer, though. I suspect that some of the answer is stress, and some is fakers, and some is people who have been in embedded and never had to do that. (I haven't for 10 years... but I'm sure I can still do it.)
> Second, it's clear that YouTube, much like Google, et al. are still attempting to keep their classification as a murky "grey area" where they aren't really platforms, but they aren't really publishers, so they can make tons of money, but not seriously answer to the public either

This distinction you and others are trying to draw between "publishers" and "platforms" is a red herring.

The Communications Decency Act is very explicit about why this is a red herring:

> No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.

It does not matter how much curation, promotion, or removal of content Google, Facebook et al. engage in. They will never be held liable for the content their users upload, beyond existing criminal and civil liabilities such as those imposed by the DMCA. By virtue of being a provider of an interactive computer service, they will never be treated as publishers.
You can do Lua on HAProxy.
It's not the problem for those that can't work--the truly disabled--but I think it is for those who can. They're not inherently incapable of being productive.
Went through all the recordings you've posted and this has to be the worst -
https://soundcloud.com/freework/0d20190604110203pnull?in=fre...

Yes, the burden IS on you to prove that you are worth hiring. I understand that job hunting can be daunting and almost 95% of the effort you put into it leads to nothing, however if you aren't willing to put that effort in, then no one is going to give you a chance.
Bridging the Internet's Digital Language Divide
> The industrialised and capitalistic North, which rejected slavery

How do you think Boston became so wealthy? Slave mortgages and financing slave trips to Africa. Whaling didn’t take off until the latter declined, but the slave mortgages continued through the war.
I think it is interesting how people use porn streaming sites for general non-porn related streaming now since these other platforms keep shooting themselves in the foot, playing a war of attrition to keep their own investors and advertisers placated.

But now the porn platforms also have their own pornographic advertisers, and lower overhead costs on moderation.
You have Lua in haproxy if you want to do complex things. If you just want a programmable routing table, the maps in haproxy do exactly this and can be updated on the fly (including from the traffic itself if needed).

Or you can write the controlling program in the language of your choice and run it outside as an SPOA agent. Have a look at spoa_server which provides examples for Python and Lua.
This is all well said. I wonder if you have thoughts on what employers might do about the "competition with completists taking 2 days on a 2 hour challenge" versus "pressure from timing people". We've taken the tack of telling people what our timing expectations are, but also not timing or tracking time (you could ostensibly have picked up the problem on a Monday, noodled for 15 minutes, decided you'd do a better job on Wednesday, picked it back up for 45 minutes, had a sudden business call, and then had to wait until Saturday to finish it; right now, we'd like that to just seamlessly work, but it obviously creates the effect you're talking about).
No. Gerrymandering is something a political majority does to hurt the minority.

Texas was a reliably blue state until Bill Clinton was elected president in 1992 without winning Texas. Before that it was thought no democrat could win without winning Texas. Democrats stopped spending money in the state and George W. Bush became governor in 1994. Republicans have controlled both houses of congress and every statewide position since the 90s.

There's a chance Trump might change that as he is less popular among republicans in Texas than he is nationwide.
I have a 6 out of 10 on the Adverse Childhood Experiences test due to my mom and I still have a problem with the idea of putting her in jail over it. Especially for the verbal abuse part of it, which I'm sure you agree hurts worse than the rest of it.

Take it from me, things have the possibility of changing given time. Our parents are flawed people often not capable of doing any better than they did. No amount of punishment from the state can make up for that.
How complicated can a new translation be? Harry Potter was officially translated into Ancient Greek and Latin and was unofficially translated into Esperanto.
I know someone who is dying of lung cancer due to years of smoking marijuana. Its not the same instant effect as one night of drinking way way too much but you can die from both.
I know of at least a couple instances where the person failed the code test and then (according to LinkedIn) got a solid job somewhere else.

Triplebyte actually has some hard data on this trend. Many candidates definitely bomb a few initial screens, do well on later screens, and then burn out and even withdraw from later on-sites. I imagine there’s high variance. Any experienced recruiter I’m sure has observed the same pattern... bombing one code test is typically not definitive.
Maybe they are at Google, but hiring managers are not generally savvy enough to have the ulterior motive you're attributing to them; most of them are just doing what they were taught to do at previous jobs.
Shutting down essential services is a risk to the public.

Imagine someone waiting for a life-saving kidney transplant or whatever. Now you have to get an uber to deliver it.
IQ Tests ARE allowed in the US, as clearly stated in the page you linked ... "Broad aptitude tests used in hiring practices that disparately impact ethnic minorities must be reasonably related to the job."

Technical interviews are NOT a loophole about IQ tests ... they are tests that are related to the job.
Penal code 647 j, https://www.shouselaw.com/are-cameras-in-bathrooms-illegal-i...
It is allowed for someone to copyright a performance of a piece of music, separate from the music itself. The text "The Star Spangled Banner (Super Bowl XXV) lyrics © Concord Music Publishing LLC" is saying the lyrics came from a performance of the Star Spangled Banner at Super Bowl XXV, and that Concord Music Publishing LLC owns the copyright of that performance.
I have no pros or cons for Crowder, and this was not "ideological flamewar 11".

This was looking at how the big G has treated everyone from their customers down to their employees, and making a reasonable inference.

Do you know how many people fight an endless battle to keep their copyrighted stuff off of youtube? How many old ladies get tech support scammed by the #1 ad on a google search? How many business get hit up by an "adwords consultant" who sells them a bunch of keywords they already place organically for? How many millions of dollars worth of web-page re-shuffling is done to appease the algorithmic gods?

Why don't you "respond to the strongest plausible interpretation" of what I say for once dang?
The following videos from BTCInstrumentation demonstrate this succinctly.

[1] Synchronizing AC generators -- Part 1 (introduction and sync lamps)

[2] Synchronizing AC generators -- Part 2 (strobe light view)

[3] Synchronizing AC generators -- Part 3 (sync and unsync)

[4] Synchronizing AC generators -- Part 4 (phase deviation)

The first video explains all the concepts and shows a sync, but the later videos bring additional conditions and detail.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGPCIypib5Q
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFohkp2aaU4
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRk_qJxaxh8
[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT1ySBc-Bls
To be fair to squid and nginx, they don't do the same things. Squid is mainly a forward proxy. Nginx is mainly a web server. There's no reason for not using them anymore for these use cases where they excel.
Its still legal in the US for prisoners. Esp. in privately owned and operated prisons (which get govt. contracts requiring a minimum number of cells to remain filled), the slaves are forced to work for American companies and get pennies per hour.
I think your comment is a pretty gross mischaracterization of the relevant Supreme Court ruling. It's definitely not the case that "IQ tests are actually not allowed in the US". From the wiki page you link:

The Supreme Court ruled that under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, if such tests disparately impact ethnic minority groups, businesses must demonstrate that such tests are "reasonably related" to the job for which the test is required.

I think it's pretty trivial for any company to argue that technical interviews are relevant to a developer job.
The bright side of Google's anti-ad-blocking efforts is that ad-blocking is clearly no longer just an insignificant blip on their radar. There must be enough users of ad-blockers now to start to significantly affect their bottom line.

There might even be a critical mass of people who are against advertising to attempt to make some legal headway on this issue in Washington. Just as there has been legal action against telemarketers, there might be something on the legal front that can be done against online advertisers, who could be considered just as much or even more of a nuisance than telemarketers ever were. In addition, online advertising has repeatedly been a vector of malware, and perhaps companies which try to circumvent or forbid ad-blockers could have some legal consequences -- and, if not, perhaps laws could be introduced to make such consequences a reality.

IANAL, and this is just a pipe dream of mine at the moment -- but plenty of pro-consumer legislation has been made over the years. Perhaps the dawn of an unsolicited-advertising-free world is upon us.
sorry for late reply, added to profile :)
> If you believe that widespread dissidence could lead to the collapse of your government then preventing that is a necessary evil to ensure your own well being.

Stalin/Pol Pot/Hitler and all of the 20th century's historical tyrants would agree wholeheartedly with this statement.
I don't remember the 'smartest' people turning up to school with cans of energy drink, going to parties, being obese, smoking every day and bragging about it, so that has always been my conclusion. I don't consider myself one of the smart ones, before anyone downvotes, I've had my own issues with addictive/compulsive behaviors which certainly took a toll on my academic & social performance in HS.
Exactly, I want directory listings to remain alphanumerically ordered, not like when you want to download Git and end up believing 2.9 is the latest one :-)
> I really have a soft spot for the Fredkin, it just seems so elegant.

I agree. It’s so simple, yet it easily leads to other seeminly-more-complicated gates, simply by ignoring some of the inputs or outputs.

Plus it has the feature that the # of on inputs always equals the # of on outputs. And the feature that it’s reversible. Really a cool gate all around.
This is a non-starter until hate is unambiguously defined.
Direct link to 1st chapter: https://medium.com/wardleymaps/on-being-lost-2ef5f05eb1ec
it looks like a humblebrag..

"I'm not intelligent, I'm just able to see enough patterns in chess to defeat Carlsen"

"I'm not smart, I'm just able to solve algorithmic problems based on my vast memory and ability to map new questions to old solutions"
The lack of support is in the other direction - Safari doesn't support uBlock Origin anymore. The only way to block ads is with Apple's Content Blocking API, which is fundamentally not how uBlock Origin works.
No. It's a mixed bag still favoring the Republicans.

2018 Texas governor election:

4.65 million (55.8%) votes for the Republican Abbott, to 3.56 million (42.5%) for Valdez.

2018 Texas Senate race:

4.26 million votes for Cruz vs 4.05 million for O'Rourke. That's with the left pouring enermous support and resources behind O'Rourke. Cruz raised $37 million, O'Rourke raised $80 million.

2014 Texas Senate race:

2.86 million (61.6%) votes for the Republican Cornyn vs 1.58 million (34.4%) votes for Alameel.

Republicans are still winning the popular vote.
Oh please. This is beyond naive. There are ~10x more slaves in the world today (30,000,000 [2]) than there were at the height of the Confederacy (3,500,000 [1]).

If this is truly your answer to “Where was God?” I ask you, “Where is God?”

Sources:
[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_of_Americ...
[2]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/10/17...