skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup.

Reminds me of the Scott Warren case[1] from last month.

[1] https://www.deseretnews.com/article/900075129/how-giving-wat...
Helping other people in the world is all we're here to do.
Yes, pretty much. E.g. DigitalOcean's online SSH terminal. Programmable routing of websockets code to backend VM.
Hehe I still have the unbreakable 1.3 running on some home machines. It doesn't want to die so I'm not forcing it :-)
I think a lot of that isn't really knockoffs per say it's just a million fly-by-night drop shipping companies rebranding the same stuff.
Here's the thing for me. I try to be in the situation of trying to find the next job while I still have the old job. That means I'm not desperate. That also means I'm still working a full-time job while I'm in the job-hunting process. For an interview, I'm probably going to have to take a vacation day. For an out-of-town interview, I might have to take two days. That's bad enough, especially since I might go through several different companies in the process of finding a job.

Now you want me to do a 2-4 hour work-sample test? And maybe 5 other companies do, too? No. Just no. I have a job, I have a life outside my job, and you're not going to abuse it with making me jump through this hoop. If I lose your job, so be it. I don't need to work for people who will abuse me in the hiring process, no matter how valid they think their reasons are.

Your intent isn't to abuse me. Your intent is to weed out candidates who were making it past your interviews, but still couldn't code. But the effect on me is still abusive, no matter what your intent is.
EconTalk is one of the few podcasts that really explore a wide variety of topics. His latest about climate change was phenomenal..

Talk to you on Monday!
Isn't Microsoft selling ads too? I believe they do (that's why bing was created). If so, I don't trust their ad blocking initiative any more then google's. Maybe in short term, as they want to steal users from Chrome, but in longterm, they'll in same position as google is now.
"Suspended" is a word to save face. Article 23 passage is also "suspended". For all practical purposes the bill's dead.
Parchman and Angola.

Jim Crow laws were used as the model for the Nuremberg Laws and Mein Kampf calls out the achievements of white supremacy in the USA.
Sure, but you only need to because the C function requires you to. I think the person was saying that while coding pure Python, there isn't really anything you would gain by having pointers.
Traefik is a very good programmable proxy.
While I agree I think transparency is a hard problem. Just looking at the cat and mouse game that Google has been involved in with its search algorithms and SEO. And that has maybe 20% of the implications towards freedom of speech, politics, conspiracy, and controversy.

Credit scores have a similar rock, paper, scissors game between objectivity, transparency, and oversight.

I think some amount of opacity in the algorithm is going to be required but maybe a published report of actions taken at a 6-12 month lag? That might give opportunity for critical press and course correction in a broader sense without nitpicking every call.

I find it hard to hold Google and Facebook so accountable for addressing these problems personally when we struggle to hold our elected officials accountable for addressing them.
Sometimes there's no time to google, and you want to be talking to someone while you're doing it, as a sanity check. https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/08/02/knight-capital-says-...
$10M/minute is an extreme case, but these things happen on a smaller scale all the time.
I'm not saying this is the justification for coding interviews, just saying that it happens, and the ability to code something up quickly that also works correctly without having time to test it sometimes saves the day.
I do think coding interviews that people are complaining about are good, and getting in shape to do well in them is good for you. You can tell it's good for you just by the amount of complaining people are doing :)
Do you really think you're being fair when you're framing one as a "one-off insult" and the other as "targetted harassment"? Not to mention that I watch John Oliver ever week and just about every episode (without fault) he makes fun of Trump or someone in his cohort. Is that also "repeated, targeted harassment"?
Power grid hacking exercise?
Part of the logic is that many extensions are very dangerous to users: the Grammarly extension, for example, vacuums up everything you type and sends your history to their servers. Most normal people don’t realize the trouble they can get into when installing extensions. Extensions can be as privacy destructive as anything on the web.
The federal government paid “reparations” to those former slave owners and they were wealthier by the 1880s than they had been before the war.
Your comment doesn’t need make me trust amazon more, but it definitely makes me trust HN more.
I have actually had a lot of financial and career damage due to these specific incidents, and in certain instances he even acknowledged on paper his behavior was negatively affecting my career and well being and chose to actively continue his hateful behavior.

My mother was physically, verbally, and emotionally abusive, but recently passed away.

While I believe people can change, and am having some level of difficulty with it, unfortunately he does need to be held responsible for the thousands of dollars of damage to my career, at the very least. My psychiatrist and I are working through it, but at this point unfortunately it looks like it will have to be the course of action. :(
That is such an odd comparison to draw. Oil drilling is inherently destructive to the environment. Social media posts are not, although you do try to make that argument. The solution to oil drilling destroying the environment is less drilling. The solution to misinformation is _more_ information.

You seem to think that these platforms govern our interactions. When I am specifically saying that they should do as little governance as possible. They are merely the channels by which we communicate.

Edit: Actually I'm saying they should be allowed to do as little governance as possible. I think they should still have to option to filter however they like if that's their intention.
The Problem with HAProxy is largely configuration. I've written ansible templates that generate the complicated and repetitive parts of that config for me.

Other than not logging to stdout (which 2.0 seems to fix), that's the only thing that bugs me about HAproxy.

HAProxy is probably the best proxy server I had to deal with ever. It's performance is exceptional, it does not interfere with L7 data unless you tell it to and it's extremely straightforward to configure reading the manual.

I use HAProxy as a frontend proxy to distribute requests into my intranet, it handles about 3-50 requests per second on a very dinky little VM (1 CPU core, 512/1024 CPU time allocation, 512MB ram) with a lot of CPU still left over.
Cool. Is there a non-WebExtensions XUL version for us Pale Moon users?
Well, to be fair if they were only surviving because of Google’s SERP listings... it sort of seems like a live by the sword: die by the sword situation.

If Google delisting your site destroys your business, there’s an argument to be made that they also created your business in the first place.
I never saw this classification. Since 1.9 haproxy passes 100% of the h2spec tests.
I personally doubt that we will see increased schizophrenia rates from legal weed. We may not see any of the other harms you list, either.

Sorry, the science just isn't that good on this subject.

> selfishly looking for approval for their own recreational vice

I'd say destroying the black market and keeping convictions off people's records is a total win, even in the eyes of the rest of us that don't smoke weed.
If you're relying on Twitter, you've already lost.
Be willing to work for a company whose product is not software.
The key here is that as soon as you can afford a real attorney the prosecution often won't go forward. If you take public counsel, poor people in the system call them 'public pretenders' because the vast majority of the time they are buddies with the DA and will just press you to take the plea deal. Ive read about a few exceptions where they actually represent the clients but the vast majority of the time they just pressure you to take the deal and threaten you with the full penalty under law if you don't deal.
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Seems like a reasonable question to ask.

I suspect the downvotes are because this appears to be either a useless question (because it violates dogma of the most common Christian sect in the US) or because it's seen as a "cheap shot" at those beliefs, but it still seems like an important question we need to continually struggle with. It's not like we have proven the null hypothesis.
It really depends. If someone just walked up to the street here in Toronto where I live, and, for instance, with no provocation, called me a faggot for holding hands with my girlfriend, that, in my opinion, is hate speech, and that individual certainly could face consequences.

If you, say, make a joke about someone being an 'edgefag', 4-chan style, I think that's fine, in context, and somethimg I did myself, years ago.

In Law, there's the 'Word' of the law and the 'Spirit', or Intention, of the Law, and ultimately, in a court of law, it's the intention, specifically with hate speech, that really determines if it's criminal in nature or not.

Full disclosure: I'm lesbian, polyamourous, and I am extremely happy that my partners and I can feel safe walking around downtown holding hands without people acting this way.
They probably do, but Microsoft isn’t an ad company like Google, so that danger is probably fairly existential to them.
Genius Used Morse Code to Track Its Lyrics
5000W seems like a very low power draw for heating on the spot. Heating water requires about 4000W per degree Celsius for a flow rate of 1 liter/sec; a typical shower flow rate is maybe a third of that, so call it 1000W per degree Celsius of heating. So 5000W would only give about 5 degrees Celsius of heating, which doesn't seem like much.
And do they agree with you. Google actually dropped the motto sometimes in Q3 2018.

https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct/
Chromium Edge allows multiple profiles just like Chrome.
ah yes! this is where i read about string interning. I totally had forgotten the source. Thanks!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffeine_dependence
Ad blockers (including uBO, unofficial build) have been working on Edge Dev from day 1
I am saying they should be allowed to exercise _zero_ editorial control. Unless they specifically want to, like a newspaper. If you want to create liberal-Facebook or conservative-Facebook then go right ahead. At the moment Facebook is intended to be a neutral platform exercising as little editorial control as possible (though whether that is the reality is up for debate).

And btw, I couldn't care less for Facebook or Twitter, I don't use either personally.
I don’t know very much about the intricacies of this but wouldn’t it be possible to get a judge to decide this is worth a warrant which could then be used to deanonymize?
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What is capitalism? Is capitalism any system that uses money? Doesn't that make most "socialist" countries capitalist?

To me, capitalism is about guaranteeing people's property rights. Some forms of indentured servitude might be considered a type of capitalism, but certainly not 19th-century American slavery, in which slaves had almost no rights (and the situation got worse as time progressed). In the very early days, slaves could even work for pay and eventually buy their freedom, but as the years went on, they were banned from this and later from owning property altogether.

Furthermore, history clearly shows that slave codes were continually tightened not because it was believed to be economically viable but because the population of the South was afraid of black people. Already in the eighteenth century it was made illegal for a slaveowner to free his slaves by fiat. It required approval from the government. How is that capitalist?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manumission#United_States

>A 1723 law stated that slaves may not "be set free upon any pretence whatsoever, except for some meritorious services to be adjudged and allowed by the governor and council."

This isn't some perverse overinterpretation of slaveowners' property rights. It's about fear, plain and simple. White people in the antebellum South did not want black people to be part of society. Capitalism can't explain that. There was a brief respite after some slaves fought for the patriots in the war and manumission was reinstated, but then:

>However, as population of free Negroes increased, the state passed laws forbidding them from moving into the state (1778)[34] and requiring newly-freed slaves to leave within one year unless they had special permission (1806).[35]

This was not just about money. Money doesn't explain "freed slaves must leave".
Nasa's 'Green' Fuel Will Make Its Space Debut on SpaceX Falcon Heavy Mission
This focuses on IQ and memory but doesn’t it also impact creativity?

I’d be interested in seeing studies about marijuana’s impact on the brain’s creative abilities to contrast with this.

Because the devil’s advocate in me thinks “We have enough high IQ people in this world and not enough high creativity people.”
The hostels make it easier to meet people. Other places with communal areas, like campgrounds, work too.
If you’re not going to track time in any way, then there’s no way to prevent anyone spending as much time on the problem as they have available. My best suggestion is to just ask people how much time they spent on it. The biggest problem with that is that by telling people the time expectations, you’ll probably get answers within or near that range.

I had one of these tests say they wanted the project delivered as a git repo and would use the timestamps on the commit history to figure out how much time was spent. I just laughed at that and figured the people who knew how to forge the timestamps would do that to make themselves look good.

The only alternative I can think of to explicitly tracking time is to just not give a time expectation and ask how much time they spent. That way, answers aren’t biased by you anchoring a range in their mind. This has other obvious disadvantages, but it would take care of the “candidate spent 2 days on a 2 hour project” problem.
Another commenter said the legal filings allege trademark violations. If this is the case, the suit may be an example of "policing" a trademark, which involves going after all trademark violators in order to maintain the legal right to enforce the trademark.

If you fail to adequately police a mark, you can lose the ability to enforce it.

Disclaimer: although I am a former lawyer, I did not specialize in trademark law.
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>The solution to misinformation is _more_ information.

Sorry, but how is this self-evident? Why is the solution to misinformation not indeed less information, from sources that hold authority and are accountable, well researched, slow enough to be absorbed and reasoned about, and so on?

When exactly was the human brain shaped for a miasma and a stream of low quality information dripping down the Facebook news feed? There is no evidence that this is the case.In fact there is evidence to the contrary, the people most engaged in political news and information are the most easily misled and biased (https://www.vox.com/2015/6/8/8740897/informed-voters-may-not...)

>You seem to think that these platforms govern our interactions.

That's not something that I think. Whoever owns our public discourse and our attention by definition governs our interaction, there is no vacuum of governance that companies like youtube can fall back on, it just means they're playing down their influence and responsibility.
The whole idea is not to make you have to take the vacation day to interview --- or at the very least, not to have to take the day unless you're assured you're technically qualified, and you're not going to get teched out on site.

If the choice is between taking a vacation day to come on site and code on a company laptop with someone staring over your shoulder, or doing almost nothing other than a take-home problem that you can do wherever and whenever you want, tell me how we'd be the company making it impossible for you to fit us into your schedule?
The article is very confusing, but the takeaway is:

> So, in the end, Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle emerges triumphant.
I'll bite: what's different about styling a UI?

UIs are presumably more consistent/less varying than documents, so special cases and cascade overlaps should be less of a thing?
Walmart was an early adopter of handheld on RF networks clear back to the early 1990s. I worked on integrating support for our database/4GL apps with Telxon and Symbol RF network devices (including portables and wearables) then.
They all had a direct answer or something approaching it without even pausing to think about it.

It gives me reinforcing information that the problem isn’t out of line, but you make a good point that one shouldn’t lose a problem that nobody else at the table can’t solve.
Back in 2007 Christopher Hitchens argued that Canada's hate speech laws are not only immoral but self-contradictory. The motion: "Be it resolved: Freedom of speech includes the freedom to hate." Hitchens was fully in favor of that statement.[1]

His argument has three parts.

First, freedom of speech isn't about the rights of the speaker. It's about the rights of people who want to listen to that person's ideas. Every time you silence someone, you are infringing upon the rights of that audience. The audience might not agree. Maybe they want to understand the speaker's ideas so they can refute them. But if you prevent the audience from hearing those views, they can't refute them, and the bad views continue to spread.

Second, censoring requires delegating a censor. But if you follow the first argument, you'll see that a censor decides for you what you are allowed to read or hear. I'm an adult and can decide that for myself, thank you very much.

Third, if you are going to censor hate speech, then you must censor every major religious text. The bible and the quran contain passages encouraging hatred of homosexuals, subjugation of women, and taking of slaves. By our standards, they are utter abominations and any impartial application of a hate speech law would see these books banned.

The oration by Hitchens is his best. He starts off by yelling "Fire!" to the audience, and explains just why the analogy of yelling fire in a crowded theater is a terrible one. (Mainly that it was coined in a SCOTUS ruling that jailed socialists in WWI for distributing pamphlets against US involvement in the war.)

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z2uzEM0ugY
That’s not what I’m saying.

I’m saying rational depends on perspective. For a person with mental illness, it might be rational the way they act because their brain for example works differently, they experience things differently, and from their experience, what they do might have purpose, it might serve to meet a goal, it’s rational. But since their experience perhaps is skewed from our reality, from our perspective, from our experiences, the behavior looks irrational.
Conservatives tend to "aversion" as their coping mechanism (at its extreme, this might be labelled "hate") whereas liberals tend towards "connection" as their coping mechanism (at its extreme this might be labelled "greed").
Interestingly in buddhism "greed, hate and delusion" are considered to be the 3 poisons. i.e. clinging to either greed or hate leads to delusion.

Isn't the fact that "hate speech" is a "thing" whereas "greed speech" is not evidence of a liberal bias?
They responded to it. AMD were first to come up with such design and published it for everyone in the form of Mantle. AMD also clearly communicated their idea to make it open and available for all.

Apple used the idea, but instead of eventually joining Vulkan group, pushed their NIH in their typical fashion.
Relatively speaking it was pretty tiny compared to the big EA games at the time. Apparently it only made $1.7M its entire life.
Auschwitz Is Not a Metaphor
That's not a useful comment. Would you rather they just kill the language instead of improving it?
The last line made me curious...

>bombing one code test is typically not definitive

How many times would you say someone has to bomb Triplebyte (and/or similar) to make it “definitive”?

And after said number of failures what is it exactly that is “definitive”? What is the conclusion you would make? What is the conclusion that the candidate should make?
"When developers launched Monsieur Cuisine, they planned for the device to be voice activated and eventually to be connected to Alexa... Risks of hacking exist, but in the same way as for any tablet or device

critics maintain that the lack of security updates for the software [Android 2017] mean it is less protected than other devices

even though the Monsieur Cuisine Connect microphone device itself is dormant, its software could potentially be exploited and used to activate the microphone remotely, thereby giving hackers a recording line into people’s homes"

https://www.connexionfrance.com/French-news/Smart-Monsieur-C...
> U-boot

Off topic, but my mind immediately went to WW2 German submarines when you wrote this. I was wondering how you were screening so many 90+ year old German men for about half a second. :P
>And they don't want to leave HK either. I'm not sure if it's harder to get visas to other countries nowadays, but a lot of people are choosing to stay and fight for their country and their way of life rather than running away.

That's likely true for many people, but there percentage of people that are so dissatisfied that they want to emigrate is very large - 57% of 18-30 year olds indicated they would emigrate if given the chance in a CUHK survey earlier this year:

"Around two-fifths (38.9%) of respondents indicated they would emigrate to other places if they got the chance...younger people (e.g. aged 18-30: 57.0%) had a higher tendency to emigrate.."

"Top pushing factors for emigration among those inclined to move were “dissatisfaction with SAR government / government performance / Chief Executive / high-ranking government officials” (11.0%), “overcrowded living conditions” (10.5%), “too much political dispute / social cleavage” (10.3%), and “slow economic growth or bad economic prospect” (10.3%)."

https://www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk/en/press_detail.php?id=2364&t=su...
This is a strange assertion. This is not envoy, it's haproxy as you've always known it plus all the features people have been asking for recently, without removing what makes it fast, robust, compact and flexible. From what I've seen you can't for example use dynamic weights in envoy, protect from DDoS, perform queuing to protect your servers, use true leastconn or weighted hash/roundrobin, stick on arbitrary information nor synchronize it between members of the cluster, create complex routing rules, set the source address from headers, perform transparent proxing, etc.

These are two different projects. One was initially designed for the hostile edge and excels here. The other one was initially designed to be used as a side car deep into your infrastructure and excels there. There is obviously quite some overlap between the two, sometimes with different terminology (like "circuit breaking" in envoy that haproxy calls "timeouts" and "queue limits"), and users demands make each of them evolve a bit in the area they are less good (i.e. where the other one excels). But they are still quite different beasts.
That lifestyle has a well known name, it's called alcoholism.
It was because it was a startup and he was not getting paid properly, as I understood it. So, he must have gotten burned, maybe worked a lot of hours.