skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sometimes wonder if the "old" are just so set in their ways that they (unconsciously) don't want to learn anything new. Will has great power.
When I feel progress goes slow, or a task is too hard, I will use test driven development: Just implement the bare minimum in order to make the test pass, basically dividing the task up into many small steps.
Stock is equity in a company. A stock market is where, by and large, publicly listed stock is traded. So why then, all this talk of bonds and governments? Most debt does not trade on a stock market, but via other mechanisms. The author doesn’t have a good definition of “stock” which is worrisome in the extreme.
How are pictures of dead people "hateful"?

Should we ban all pro-abortion subreddits as well because they promote murder of unborn children?
A lot of people who feel powerless use very strong language precisely because they feel like nothing they do matters. They often don't really mean it literally and wouldn't say it if they actually felt like anyone listened to anything they said.

They basically exaggerate their real desire, hoping that if they express their feelings strongly enough, it might lead to some very small action because their experience is that they are mostly not taken seriously and what they say mostly makes no impact. This is probably true of a lot of middle aged women.
I think that's not the point OP is trying to make. There's nothing wrong with tracking time for yourself, or clocking in and out of work. Time however is a really really bad measure of productivity. If somebody constantly stays late at work because they never finish stuff on time, in our current culture they often get promoted for being hard workers. While some might do the same job in 2h that they do in a month.

So what the super productive guy learns after a while is that they just need to "work overtime" and delay presenting results to get ahead. If this attitude starts pervading your team the productivity might start tanking too.
I don't know typical these examples are, but "you should come to my house" would be regarded as quite committal in France because people don't invite people to their house lightly. It suggests intimity between the persons.

If you have a work colleague that you get along very well with and get close to then perhaps after a couple of years you could extend such invitation.
What are the pros and cons of using ERP?
How much work is it? You don't just click "report"? Or send a screenshot of such a forum? (I do not know)

And what kind of reward do you expect?
In my book anyone who would commit a mass murder is "crazy". I did not call the shooter a schizophrenic, or a psychopath, did I? "Crazy" is a colloquial term, not a medical one. That said, anyone who would kill random innocent people qualifies as a sociopath at the very least.
Delivering something fast, accurate and under wildly changing conditions in the human body is far more complicated than most people assume.

I still remember when I had to be hooked up to an infusion pump for many hours at a time. In theory this was all pretty simple - I had a port (a permanent link to my blood system), the machine was hooked to the port, the machine was configured to deliver x ml per hour. Easy, right? Well ... moving my arm had a non-zero chance to trigger the alarm (alarm means "the machine has a problem to deliver the configured amount", please do something), moving in the bed had a higher chance, walking over the hospital corridor I could almost guarantee that at some point in a single walk (i.e. one length of the corridor) it would freak out and again start the alarm. And that's for a far easier system in very easy conditions. An insulin pump has to change what it delivers all the time and it has to work always. Sport, work, driving, running, ...
ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED :(
Rebroadcasting a message, regardless of whether or not the opposite message has equal access, is still tacit support for that message, or at least a lack of desire to get involved.

Cloudflare has decided that, for the most part, they won't get involved, but that there are some things that do actually cross the line (a line they are perfectly free to define for themselves), and they refuse to rebroadcast.

If you don't like that, don't support CF with your business. Otherwise, I'm not sure what horse you have in this race.
> What evidence do you have that they were "crazy"?

They murdered dozens of innocent people. No one’s saying they were psychotic, necessarily.
Not necessary I'd say, depending how good relationship one has with the parents :)
> Noticeboardflare has practically monopolized protection of noticeboards

Your opening premise isn't even true. CF has nothing near a monopoly on CDNs.
It is officially deprecated, even by Microsoft it seems.
According to Cloudflare's logic, ISPs should have stopped peering with Facebook after NZ shooter livestreamed there.
> I get the feeling you don't know the difference between chapter 7 and chapter 11?

Same here.

Chapter 11 doesn't "wipe out debt", that's what Chapter 7 does. Chapter 7 implies liquidation.

Chapter 11 may reduce debt obligations, entail partial liquidation, and so on. It doesn't just wipe out the debt.

> Why?

Because of the moral hazard. If I can just get a loan for an LBO to buy a company and squeeze it out like lemon, that's highly destructive. Unlike when issuing a junk bond, I have no real interest in the companies long-term survival. I guess you can make an argument that debt-financed stock buybacks have similar issues, but that's a topic for another day.

In the short term, even a bad LBO looks good for both the bank and the PE firm. Meanwhile, the company has a debt burden that paid for nothing but the privilege of having been bought out, likely requiring them to charge higher prices, which is a strong competitive disadvantage. This leads the whole argument of "restructuring companies to be more efficient" ad absurdum.
non mais c'est de la merde leur article
Users on 8chan (and Kiwifarms and similar sites) very specifically rile up hatred, they are frighteningly good at radicalizing frustrated young men.

They regularly praise previous mass murderers and goad others into doing the same.
China Lets Yuan Tumble Past 7 per Dollar as Trade War Escalates
Why would you feel humiliated for not knowing which button to press to build, on the current bullpoop, if you hadn't yet needed to use that particular bullpoop?

It's possible that a junior dev who showed you the button might then joke to other junior devs about you not knowing. But a smarter junior dev, wise beyond their years, will realize it's just bullpoop trivia, one of thousands of bullpoops one has to pick up and later discard in favor of a fresher bullpoop, and be happy to help.

In any case, you, as an experienced person, should know it's just a different flavor of bullpoop, and not the most valuable thing anyone knows.

Your decision to stay in the loop, with the bullpoop that your team is currently enjoying, sounds like it might come in handy. But I wouldn't want anyone to ever feel humiliated over bullpoop.
Optimizing numbers looks productive..
In an about-face, Cloudflare pulls support for 8chan
I'm not a professional email administrator, but I thought this was more than just a function of the client, but you had to configure things on the back end too?

When you set it up in Gmail, it doesn't just let you add an alias and call it good. You still have to go to the source account settings and authorize your primary account to be able to send from alternate(s).
Scheme has to fall somewhere between Smalltalk and Forth for quantity of syntax too. To me, these are the prettiest languages.
I am working on 3 Flutter Applications & 2 of them are currently in production. On average we receive 1 major bottleneck a month, which gets resolved with 3rd Party fixes.

Happy to help if you are stuck on any issue with Flutter. Our background is native application development, so far this is the best Cross-Platform Development toolkit available.

Phonegap, Ionic & others are web wrappers. PLEASE let Flutter grow!
"Do we really need to talk about closing down a site where people encourage each other to kill other people"

Oh, so you are in favor of shutting down all army related sites? Well, many pacifist would probably agree ..
I know everyone says how good Rust's documentation is but I tried learning Rust with The Rust Book and found it frustrating: too long and wordy on the easy bits and without useful insight on the hard bits. I ended up buying Programming Rust by Jim Blandy [0] on a recommendation from HN comments and found it must easier to learn from. I'm already familiar with several other languages, which that book assumes, so your milage may vary.

[0] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Programming-Rust-Jim-Blandy/dp/1491...
I moved from Flutter to native Android development and found it to be much more pleasant..
> The freedom to spread cheap hate, fake news and bigotry against minorities? I'm sorry but moderating such offenses isn't a limitation to free speech. For the same reason why, if you start shouting nig or monkey to black people in a shopping mall, the police is likely to intervene and take you away - and I don't think that any sane person would argue that they're violating your freedom of speech. Popper taught us that we can't be tolerant towards intolerants, if we really want to protect our tolerant rule of law.

Everything you just said is essentially untrue when it comes to government censorship of speech in the US. Hate speech is certainly protected by the first amendment, with only a few narrow exceptions. Personally addressed, face-to-face insults, if deemed likely to start an imminent fight is not constitutionally protected.

(This is sometimes called the "fighting words" exception, and it's much narrower than you might think. The law is quite clear that just because the words might yield a violent reaction, they're still protected. Cantwell v. Connecticut involved anti-Catholic "hate speech", as we'd now term it, expressed in public in a neighbourhood that was 90% Catholic, enraged many listeners, and almost started some violence. Still protected.)

> You can still have freedom of speech while implementing moderation to make sure that hate speech, bigotry and fake news don't spread

Only if done, as here, by private organisations. Regulating bigotry on message boards is the precise thing type of things that the first amendment prevents.

There is no hate speech exception in the constitution. Hate speech is generally an example of what is most protected.
> Super Micro - The big hack

I would be very surprised if that didn't win in the "most over-hyped" category. None of the other nominees even come close to the amount of FUD that Bloomberg story raised.
Conde Nast sold the company back to the founders years ago. Reddit is now once again a VC-backed "startup".
How can these wildly inaccurate posts about medicine, economics and finance keep getting so many upvotes?
Adding to what others said, too little insulin can be dangerous, so if users don't know/notice that it stopped delivering more insulin, they might not manually add the requisite amounts.

Forgetting to take medication is dangerous, overdosing medication is dangerous. It is just not that easy to design a system like this.
There is no law against hate speech, and any such law would be unconstitutional. Many attempts at passing such laws have been struck down.

It's an oddly pervasive delusion that hate speech is not protected by the first amendment.
Would you do time tracking for someone writing a script for a movie? Or for a painter? Writing code not only requires skill, it's a creative process. You not only need to think about what you write, but also need to stop and relax. When your mind is tired, you're going to write shitty code. It's better to go home earlier and write good code tomorrow than write bad code that in the best case you'll have to delete and start from scratch tomorrow. Worst case scenario, everyone writes bad code, unnecessarily increasing complexity, making the code prone to failures and requiring more rewrites, more developers and more time to understand it.
Yeah I agree. This makes sense for a managerial role, not for tech roles. From the perspective of a hiring manager such a line looks like hiding behind the accomplishments of the team.
Perhaps only if commenters glorified it? I'm sure you can find people to do that on FB or anywhere else, and it may take time to moderate such commentary. But no one would deplatform FB or Twitter -- they're too big. This approach means we have a powerful dynamic in place to limit the reach of any social media that isn't already "too big to deplatform".
I really wouldn't be surprised if some components don't last that long...

Take a regular ceramic resistor. I'd bet that if you kept it in a temperature controlled sealed box, it would last 2000 years.

I would possibly even reckon it might last 200,000 years.

Ceramics are so so so inert, and as are metals as long as they're away from oxygen.
Should be working now?

I was pushing some changes so maybe it was that.
That contradicts their own statement in their FAQ:

https://www.it-projekt-eg.de/freiberufler/service/haeufige_f...

Reicht zum Schutz gegen Scheinselbständigkeit der einfache Eintritt in die Genossenschaft?

Nein. Unser Modell schützt Sie dann vor Scheinselbständigkeit, wenn die IT-Projektgenossenschaft eG der Auftragnehmer ist und den Auftrag an Sie übergibt. Die Mitgliedschaft alleine reicht nicht aus.

That basically translates to "A membership does not protect you from Scheinselbstständigkeit. It will only protect you if the Genossenschaft is the contractor and transfers the job to you."

This might not be possible for all cases.
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I've no idea. I've never visited the site. Elsewhere in this thread it is said that they clearly jest -- I wouldn't jest about such things, but without seeing the content in question I can't say how questionable it is.
> Python is single threaded

This is inaccurate; especially when considering the thread safety of memory allocation.
Stop Using MTurk for Research
You are right. Its just a simple converter function to use in a pipeline.
You're correct that there's no absolute way to determine what speech is good and bad. We can only muddle through, making value judgments. Some will be right, and some will be wrong, and hopefully we'll learn from the times we screw up.

I'd rather people have the courage to take a moral/ethical stance than to just not care about anything and ignore the negative impacts technology can have on society. If Cloudflare is wrong in this instance, or in any future instance, hopefully there will be enough backlash that they'll learn and walk it back. If they fail at learning, then we have to resort to government regulation, and hope that our governments are up to the task of doing the right thing.

At the end of the day, it's just people making decisions, all the way from the top, down to the bottom. We're all flawed and do the wrong thing sometimes, but my (perhaps naive) hope is that we're slowly converging on more right than wrong.
So.. in summary Flutter is a buggy unfinished and badly designed framework. Nothing new here folks.
> which doesn’t actually help with most questions about performance.

well, from a marketing standpoint it means that you are able to write

OBSERVED MAXIMUM SPEED : 789634 gigabrouzoufs per second on a core i5-xxxx

on your brochure, and you wouldn't be lying, and it would be better that a majority of products which don't even give an observed speed but just a theoretical one.
Thank you for a different PoV. If not this post, is there a post you'd recommend? Like some points we tend to knowingly or unknowingly ignore.
I'd like to see eastdakotas many comments on HN saying "this will never happen again" next to whatever he will be saying to justify this one.
Good riddance. Everybody who willingly or not provides platform for hate speech is an accomplice. I hope to see the day they will be punished same as the guy that pulled the trigger.
Good. "Kill your lawn", as they say.
No, it is not true. It is not true for options either. The zero-sum trading game fallacy is a common misperception.

For any kind of asset, the ability to transfer it has value. When someone needs to buy a new car, they often sell their old car to a dealer at a price that is lower than what they could get if they sold it to another individual. They do it because it is more convenient and/or they can't wait around for the right buyer to come along. A dealer has a better idea of the car's value and is willing to put it into inventory until someone buys it at a higher price. He takes a risk he might have to wait longer than expected to sell it again (which incurs more inventory cost), but he trades a lot of cars, so on average, his relative risk is lower than yours would be. He essentially charges you a fair price for this service. Even though technically you might say you lost on the deal, both sides are winners if the price was reasonable.

In a similar way, a stock trade can be a win-win situation. One trader may be willing to do the transaction at a discount because they have a better way to use the money or because they need to reduce their risk. Another trader may know more about the stock and/or have a different risk profile, so he is willing to take the risk of holding the asset until a profitable transaction is possible. This provides a win-win for both sides if the charge for the service is reasonable.

Of course, there are traders who are detrimental to a market and provide no value, just as there are crooked car dealers. That doesn't invalidate the value of good trading just as it doesn't invalidate the value of good car dealing.
I don't follow how that is related to time tracking.

I have used time tracking for personal projects and also professionally and I genuinely think that it can add value to my workflow, in a way that I can analyze how much I spend on certain tasks etc.

I would guess also painters and script writers track quite often track their time. I think some level of time tracking is good for almost any level of work. For example, if your goal is to produce paintings and sell them for living, you probably want to know how long does it take for you to produce something so you can see if you are approaching sustainability. Similarly if you write movie or tv scripts it is probably relevant whether it takes 2 months to write the script or 2 years. Some work is just structurally different so different approaches to time tracking make sense.
Even being 100% sure Google won't lose my email in an accident and 99% sure they'll never duck my account, I still IMAP all my messages out of it. For that 1%, no less.
US Military buy items that “have been known to contain security vulnerabilities”
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Should we flag this post? The "science" presented in this article is so bad it deserves being called fake news.

Like the commenters mentioned:

- the photos are chosen in such a way that it's obvious eyes won't go looking into the buildings

- there is no mention of the sample size regarding participants and photos that were shown. looks like cherrypicking
Deep fakes can easily be caught if you have the original material to compare it to. Finding that automatically shouldn't be that hard if it is available.

In a way I already like deep fakes since they force people not to take anything they see on the net too seriously.
That is why context is important.

The dream of the perfect context free golden rule does not exist. We have to pay attention and make hard decisions. None of this is simple.
This sounds like a great precedent.

A side project of mine, starting in the Junkbuster days, is fighting cross-site tracking/profiling, and almost every Web site does it at least a little. Legal precedents suggesting liability for that seems huge, and maybe end the technological arms race (which I think the privacy&security people will otherwise ultimately lose).
Not only are they dead space, but in many cases I have found them to degrade performance by a lot on websites. I use Privacy Badger to block them all, as I really never have seen the point of them.
Perhaps No Starch Press? https://nostarch.com/mg_databases.htm
Browsers do that for sites, and I don’t see how sites are different than videos in this regard. Both are information with an origin. CA already exists, only video players have to keep up. People who trust anything they see, hear or read cannot benefit from that, but why is this a concern? Politics and cheap press fooled them since forever. The only problem I see here is that the same amount of uneducated people could be fooled like never before, but the same could (and will) be done in the opposite way to overwhelm them and detract from wrong reasoning.

I mean, the entire “problem” arises not because deepfakes, but because that video thing still lives in a century which allowed “hacking” sites and owning bank accounts via plain-text “secret” queries or cvc codes clearly printed on the back of the card with no additional confirmation required to withdraw your money. That window should have been closed regardless of deep fakes.
yeah no. i would not bet the farm on this one especially when it comes to developing for Apple devices. Google just doesn’t have the track record to inspire confidence that anything they do is going to stick around
> Time however is a really really bad measure of productivity.

Situationally. With programming there are loads of different tasks. For some tasks I think time can be quite a good metric. Still, metrics matter and I think having lousy metrics is better than not having metrics at all. Of course you have to realize what purpose the metric has in certain situation.
Mortgages have the advantage that you can't get margin called at an inopportune moment.
> 4chan didn't create it, 4chan was created for speech that wasn't allowed on somethingawful

4chan was created by somethingawful users as an imitation of Japanese imageboards. It was used for speech that wasn't allowed on SA because it was right next door. Then SA decided it didn't like 4chan.

Then SA's culture spread to magazines like Gawker and Buzzfeed, which is part of the reason 4chan is so unpopular now.

If Gawker and Buzzfeed had hired from one side of the Harry Potter fandom, and if a handful of high-profile people like Zoe Quinn had come from it, we'd probably be hearing about how all of America's problems are caused by people who like Snape or whatever.
So what you are saying is that 8chan has the same content as certain Facebook groups. Why not drop Facebook?