skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most concerning part to me is that this speech now prioritizes the interests of individuals (he calls "consumers") below that of large corporations and governments.

A country is made of people. In some ways we of course act as "consumers" but that is not the beginning and end of what it means to be human. The government's needs are not endogenous; the government's justification for doing certain things is ultimately because people will be better off for it (otherwise it's simply "might makes right)". In addition, corporations, at the end of the day, get certain protections (and additional requirements as well) as they are they are machines to help people achieve various ends (e.g. providing goods, providing jobs, providing an opportunity to create wealth); they are not primary actors in themselves.

BTW my observation is not a comment on the specific politics of the past few years; past AsG and FBI heads have given similar talks and inherently will desire to achieve their job's objectives with the minimum of barriers. This scary formulation just shows how the terms of discussion have shifted.
Because you didn't seem to get it -

I think its a travesty that McDonald and Taco Bell are allowed to do what they do to hamburger and are still allowed to sell it at all. Full Stop.

The "Veggie" in "Veggie Burger" is a highly processed industrial food paste that has nothing to do with chopping up some chickpeas and garlic and eating it on flatbread.

Look at the ingredient lists and read up on all the steps the make to fool you into thinking it has the mouth feel, tast etc of meat.

None of those steps are about making the base ingredients healthier for you. They leech nutrients/phytonutrients/fiber at every manipulation.

Grinding peanuts and making peanut butter? Hey that's ok with me.

This is making terrible food paste and using virtue signalling to market it.
How to publish an open source project?
I have been working on an open source project for a while now, licensed under Apache v2 License. The project is a C library that provides useful modules such unit testing, file system, collections, strings and other such modules. From my personal experience, the library is really useful. However, I have no idea how to market the library. With a community behind the library, it can become really powerful. Are there any platforms I can find users for the library?
Hello! The Thiel Fellowship was a wonderful period for me, and gave me a lot of freedom to work on different topics. I'm very grateful for it.

Unfortunately, the Fellowship only lasts for two years. Towards the end, it was actually super stressful. How could I support myself while continuing to work on what I thought was important? And if I wanted to live in the Bay Area, how could I event get immigration status to work and live there?

Getting to work at Google Brain at this point let me continue to do what I was doing before -- many of my blog posts, including the one being discussed here, were written while I was at Brain.
German IT companies just felt too conservative to me.

I work only remote.
> makes it look to a lay person like he invented arbitrary precision arithmetic

I think that's pretty uncharitable. If what you claimed were true, particularly of his intentions, I'd expect him to have written something like "Arbitrary precision in the Wolfram Language got it right.".

But then I can't imagine a layperson having any idea what almost any of the sentence you quoted means anyways so your point seems pretty moot.

For anyone that already understands or is at least familiar with 'machine precision', 'floating point numbers', or 'arbitrary precision' (computer arithmetic), I'd think his claim that "Wolfram Language gets it right" would seem to be a pretty innocuous plug. Yes, the man regularly promotes the products of the company that bears his name on his own blog. I think it's fine.
I think North America really needs to re-evaluate this concept of tips. The rules of what to tip and when are intentionally vague because it's a sensitive subject.

We should move to "fair pay", that includes slightly increased prices, and do away with tips for most services.

It's so common that tips don't mean what the consumer thinks it means. Restaurants and bars that pool tips and share them with all staff.[1] Restaurant owners that try to keep some tips and only pay out a percentage to the staff.[2] Casinos pool tips too so the dealer doesn't get to keep the money you gave him directly.[3]

I get asked for tips at Starbucks. I get asked for tips when I do takeout food from the local restaurant. I get asked for tips at the buffet restaurant. The pizza driver gets a delivery charge AND a tip!

Let's clean it up and make it fair for the servers and the consumers.

[1] https://www.restaurantscanada.org/industry-news/aware-ontari...
[2] https://www.restaurantbusinessonline.com/advice-guy/can-rest...
[3] https://www.businessinsider.com/wynn-tip-sharing-2011-6
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They knowingly and with intent implemented spying functionality, and knowingly and with intent made a button that claims to turn it off. The only part they might not have done knowingly and with intent is the part where that button does nothing.

Now they're free to argue that was a bug, but they should do so in court - just how much benefit of the doubt do you think they should get before a prosecution is launched? If there's a murder, do you just assume it was in self-defense, without any evidence offered to that effect?
> unbreakable locks

Replace that with "locks that have yet to be broken", and I agree.
Bpython is much nicer experience than the native repl, but I still really only use it to call help(), __slots__(), etc and test minor things like forgotten syntaxes; the lack of automatic reloading just makes it to irritating to work on the script itself that way
I can't believe that was legal. They basically tricked consumers into giving them millions of dollars.

If the app called it a "Tip" then that should be some kind of fraud because it wasn't a tip in the way that any reasonable person would assume, it was a donation to the company.
Interesting. I see that Amazon does not have an ebook of it yet there appears to be an epub on library Genesis so depending on your scruples...
Useful reference, thanks.
This is in SF and I assure you no other company does this.
Would love to see the API open up/be offered again!

We don’t use Quickbooks, but currently we are hacking the Quickbooks export with a bunch of JSON in the configuration UI, to provide extra context and more detail for team breakdowns, etc.
The correct answer is whatever your lawyer says.
Right now we are working on better search. Future plan is, You can search between tabs and create a workspace for use it later time.
I agree with you that people should be ticketed for reckless driving, but I believe you're missing the point. If adding these cars to the road causes more accidents, regardless of who is at fault, they are making the roads more dangerous.

Just like enforcing drug laws doesn't seem to increase public safety (I welcome data one way or the other, but my understanding is it actually is a significant contributor to decreasing public safety), maybe we should be honest with ourselves about human behavior and write our laws to actually cater to that.

If humans reject self-driving cars, making laws protecting them isn't going to make people accept them. Make the self-driving cars actually acceptable to humans and then you don't even have a problem you try to solve with regulation.
It was not. The HN page contains html. Notice how the comments are in a different font and color from the metadata above each comment? Notice how that improves readability?
Ask HN: Devs, what does “search engine for code” mean to you?
What do you use now? What would you like to be able to do, but can't?
In the last crypto wars in the 90s and competent scientific explanations of the dilemma between trustworthy and backdoored didn't register with people who think in political terms either.

The government side of this is rhetorically, "we can imprison and kill engineers until one of you delivers us a flying pig, whether you still say that's impossible is your call." Some engineer is going to figure out how to meet their requirements. Pigs themselves can't fly per se, but when you get to discussing how far, in what direction, for how long, under what power, and the consequences of doing nothing, even flying pigs become a solvable problem. A technologist will say, "that's horrible, unethical, and wrong, you just ran those pigs off a cliff." Everyone else looks at the politicians and the guys with the guns and says, "See? Flying pigs." They also probably push that technologist over the cliff as well.

This is why they call politics the art of the possible.

What Barr is saying is that he plans to make tech companies accountable for his problems in justice. This kind of irrational posturing is probably a bargaining gambit on other regulatory areas or just an empty signal to rank and file law enforcement that the whitehouse and AG are on their sides.
It will be open-source soon.
I haven't tried the sausages, but I am looking forward to it. I'm neither vegan nor vegetarian, but I do try to reduce my meat consumption for the same reasons you do. That's easy at home, but harder when I eat out, especially when I'm trying to be expeditious about it.

I don't expect to eliminate animals from people's diet, but I have hopes that eventually we'll be able to break the assumption that meat is somehow necessary at every meal. Just breaking that assumption would enable people to consider a wider range of possibilities, and encourage more places to support those who don't want to eat meat.
I stopped using DoorDash a few years ago after reading about this. Despicable.
> I think that for any size k less than the total size of the database, it is not anonymous.

Wouldn't that require that every field of every record in the database be globally unique?

If something as simple as gender is a field in the database, the best k you could get would be the lowest count of records of each existent gender option.
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How long before the self driving and sentient AI cars are complaining to each other about all the stupid human cyclists, their unpredictable behavior, their inefficient mode of transport and poor decision making models?
Right, but it's not weird there when everyone does it. This would be analogous to a "Change the world" company in Finland requiring everyone to walk around in the office in their full snow shoes.
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There's some truth to that, particularly the point about phones, but FWIW most cities have drastically increased the number and quality of bike lanes in the last 10 years.

SF is a completely different experience for bikes than it was 5 years ago, and 10 years before that it was even more different.

Ditto for NYC. You can ride up and down Manhattan in big separate big lanes very quickly.

It's obviously a personal choice, but I think cycling is a safe choice now. When I started 10+ years ago I would sometimes get off the road when conditions/traffic looked dangerous, and you should always keep that option in your back pocket. (i.e. don't insist that 100% of the route has to be bikable.)

But I don't feel the need to do that very much now. The exception is when there's unusual traffic and no bike lane.

It's even safer now that there are more cyclists on the road. Drivers do take some time to get used to cyclists.
Why can you only access from a networked computer or OWA? Is the desktop outlook client more privileged than OWA? (I've never used either extensively)
When you use GKE the containers are CoreOS by default, hence my confusion
Yes. For every company shamed into sorta kinda doing the right thing, there are so many other less sexy and high profile companies doing the exact same thing. Unions are not perfect, but they're better than nothing.
If my house moved to my neighbor's yard after an earthquake...he could have it. I'm outta there.

Just kidding. It is an interesting question though. I suppose the legal answer would vary by locality. It seems that any definitions derived by GPS, which normally would seem to be most accurate, would be too inflexible in this circumstance. It would seem hardly fair to get sued because you left your house in their new front yard.
With the slippery language about the "model" and the future disclosure of said model, I think DoorDash will do something like you describe. Because it takes fewer words to say "Going forward all Dasher's will earn the guaranteed rate plus any tips".
I have a Nikon P900, which I bought 4 years ago. I think it would be able to identify a license plate from 1km too. I took a photo of a couple at a restaurant ~3km away, and you could identify the gender and skin color.

The P900 has been succeeded by the P1000, which is the same focal length as this one.
The difference is that God wants you to behave a certain way, but a simulation doesn't.

People don't like to be told what to do, so they'd rather the simulation.

On a "what created the universe" level, they are both identical.
One nice feature of these cars is that they have always-on 360-degree video, which should make it trivial to determine fault in the case of accidents. Even if the self-driving car itself wasn't hit, the video could be provided to shed light on what happened around it.

So if you're reckless, swerve around it because you're frustrated, etc. be prepared to be held at-fault and watch your insurance rates skyrocket.
> I hope they (DoorDash) get sued by their customers for deception, lose in court, and a precedent gets set to end this nonsense.

Unfortunately, this will never happen, because their terms of service includes a binding arbitration clause. (Some of us noticed in time to opt out, but surely not the critical mass needed for a class action.)
> when I do, it's a regrettable experience--can't use up arrow to get previous command, can't use arrow keys to move cursor

Dunno what's wrong with your readline but what you describe is default Python behavior. Try installing ipython, you'll get all that and more (such as syntax highlighting, multi-line editing, and much more).
I'm regularly confused by tipping. I was never confused by tipping until the gig economy. There's a tip on almost all of the gig services I use now, with zero explanation of how the tip affects the gig worker. The tip should be a reflection of the workers contribution to the service. I probably won't ever tip a company.

DoorDash has raised $2Bil from investors. They're using this money, presumably, to attract customers and suppliers through advertising and low pricing. DoorDash is one of many companies using VC money in this way. Now I'm supposed to subsidize the VC's subsidy of the product?
Clojure: read and write Microsoft Office documents
There is a greater impact to society than measurable direct impact to users. Facebook should be liable for their total net externalities, divided by the probability of being caught for such actions. That is the economic premise of the FTC. This should include fines and remedies for anti-trust violations as well, and since this is an opportunity cost, it does scale with the size of the company.

In fact you should probably subtract the direct costs to users, as there is already a mechanism in place for collecting damages, and any government intervention on this axis should go to something reminiscent of a victim's fund.
At least on iOS, Do Not Disturb covers phone calls, too. With the ability to set overrides for calls from Very Important Numbers. Voice mail exists as well.
Postmates opens a tipping modal after a delivery that CANNOT BE CLOSED without inputting a tip and clicking submit. You literally have to type 0.00 and click submit to continue to use the app. I grew up in a strong tipping household (both parents worked service jobs) and usually tip very highly, but everyone should have the right not to tip if they don't want to (with no shaming or prodding) and companies should not subsidize their operational costs by dark patterning customers into tipping.... grr.

At the same time I hypocritically am a power user of many "gig economy" apps like uber, ubereats, postmates, etc. so I am contributing to the problem more than most.
It’s really quite incredible how these subversions of our privacy (even including blatant disregard for the constitution) are rarely questioned when it comes to preventing terrorism, but when it comes to mass shootings that have actually killed far more people in the US, those guns are sacred objects.

But notice how the label of “terrorist” is uniquely applied to the ethnic “other”, and now consider the first real gun control legislation — the Mulford Act:

https://www.history.com/news/black-panthers-gun-control-nra-...
I realize now that the first line should say range(1, R+1)[1:]. We regret the error.
Burger is ground meat not a sandwich?

"Veggie" in "Veggie Burger" is what exactly? Tell us in detail please.
The server is trying to validate that the thing it gets back is the thing it previously sent out, so that's a different model. What concretely are you suggesting we store as if it was a password? The serialized JSON object?
>Having self-driving cars randomly stop short is a quick way to rack up a lot of "not legally at fault", but perhaps morally at-fault, accidents.

And I'm pretty sure, in most jurisdictions, slamming on the breaks unexpectedly and for no good reason, will get you at least a portion of the liability for an accident. The person who rear-ends you will get some too, but its not always true that you can't be at fault when you get rear-ended.

As you imply, no safety system should rely on others doing their job perfectly. That is an inherently unsafe system.
GOT EM!!! WHAT A TWIT
Couronian Colonization of the Americas
This is so badass! I love using pen & paper for mockups.

FYI, I just shared your project on Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/printable-mockups

I think the design community there will find it really useful!
I'd be interested in an opinion of the dev on what was the hardest part to build.
I could imagine reflection features or the incremental type checking would be hard to do. But I always see these projects (like cling/ROOT from cern) and think that some subproblems are really hard to do if done incrementally with only local knowledge.
Starup industry's break fast motto has become more like break every kind of decency these days.
> Anyway, no, because you need to parse a header to read the JWT, so you inherit all of the problems that stem from that.

Can anyone enlighten me what point is the author trying to make? JWT is pretty damn standard so it's my go-to for signing objects.
There were several references to fish populations and and even "population biology". I wouldn't have thought 'population ecology' was that different but a cursory Google search leads me to believe I was wrong.

That's a neat connection!
This makes no sense. Violating the law should not be a business expense, it needs to hurt. If Facebook was a person the remedy might be jail time, but you can’t imprison a business.
Love the UI. Navigating is so much faster
Even without encryption back-doors, people are under unprecedented levels of surveillance, and it's only getting more pervasive.

So I find it very hard to believe the job of law-enforcement is getting harder, not easier, just because we have some tiny scrap of privacy left.
I would expect contextual search, rather than "everywhere" search if I was filtering...
Tests are perfect for "do outputs match what I expect". If you don't know what you are expecting yet just to `t.Error("")`. When you are done fiddling around and want to solidify what you expect add the `if foo != expectation`.
Yes, it supports multiple dispatch. And so does CLOS (Common Lisp Object System)
> Can we go back to a time where employees aren’t asked to be 100% emotionally attached to their work

When was this? Post-War corporations sported a common uniform. Industrial Era culture was demandingly monotonous and before that we’re talking about guilds and their customs.

Broadly speaking, there are benefits at multiple levels to having a cohesive company culture (including eclectic traditions). We’re just seeing more variety in those traditions.
I love having a work laptop that only has work on it but I've never been able to have a personal laptop that doesn't eventually get all the work stuff onto it at some point.

What do you do if you're lying in bed watching a movie when you remember that you need to schedule a meeting with X for tomorrow at 11am? Do you get out of your warm bed and pull out your work laptop and add the calendar entry and then climb back into bed or do you just pause the movie, log in to your work calendar and make the entry real quick before resuming the movie?

The closest I've ever had to making this a reality was when my work computer was an iMac so I'd just leave it on 24/7 and RDP into it from home (I lived within WiFi distance of the office so all this was done via LAN). Even then, when the work stuff was going to take more than ~5 minutes, I'd still end up doing it natively from my home computer rather than deal with RDP lag.

edit: I also really struggle with what IM programs to keep on my work laptop these days. Medium of communication doesn't map cleanly onto work/personal contacts so I either deal with friends pinging me while at work or missing vital messages from people expecting a business response/having long professional conversations using a phone keyboard.
If it’s anything like GPU shaders, it’s because the bytecode format itself is Turing-complete and not-so-sandboxed, and the actual security/fault-tolerance comes from a static analysis pass done during compilation that ensures the source code being compiled isn’t doing anything crazy.

If you were able to load bytecode directly, you’d skip this verification step.

(I’ve always thought VM runtimes should have signing keys, sign build artifacts—e.g. bytecode—as they create them, and then have the VM’s module loader check the signature. This way, you could still rely on build-time static verification for your security, while also being able to share compiled artifacts among any set of runtimes that trust one-another’s signing keys.)
I was thinking throughout reading this: "Isn't this just call/cc?"
Refusing to decrypt is itself a crime (contempt of court?), so the government can jail you for years that way.

Edit: this doesn’t help in cases like terrorism where the owner of the device has already been killed of course.
The source may be sketchy but is all I found.

Average lawyer: 50k€/year [1]
Average doctor: 75k€/year [2]
Average engineer: 60k€/year [3]

[1]https://www.gehaltsvergleich.com/gehalt/Rechtsanwalt-Rechtsa...
[2]https://www.gehaltsvergleich.com/gehalt/Arzt-Aerztin-Uni
[3]https://www.gehaltsvergleich.com/gehalt/search?jobname=Ingen...
Clever. A modern day "dumb terminal"
No one is going to give you a seed round with you still in your current job. At that point you would be all-in if you raised a seed.
Hmm, if you're using a peg parser that doesn't directly support this you can emulate it by choosing between the rhs of the cut and a production that will always match

so

expr : atom (op <cut> expr)*

Would be replaced with

expr : atom (op (expr / cut))*
cut : "XXX"?

or perhaps simpler

expr : atom (op expr?)*

Either way when you process the expr rule there will be an empty match where the rhs should be, and an appropriate error can be generated
I tried to use Gusto but no where on their site did it say I couldn't use it if I only had contractors. Their support was pretty bad about it too.

Ended up going with Square Payroll which supports my model AND does it all for no monthly fee.
Where do you see that? I still only see the option for SMS 2FA.
Looks similar to https://kanbanmail.app/
Officer characteristic and racial disparitie in fatal officer-involved shootings