skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here’s a proposal:

“Technology” means the same thing it always has, but the abbreviation “Tech” is slang for computing, the subject of the current industrial revolution.
SoftBank Will Let People Invest in IPOs with Less Than $10
> Its clear from the videos of protest supporters and media outlet without China's influence like BBC, CNN, The Guardian that there was violence in the protest (not small enough to be ignored). This is just deflecting the reality to create confusion.

That's not a fair characterization at all. The distrust for police goes deeper[1] and even just looking at this year's protest it's not clear cut.

> British kept it the same without granting freedom or democracy

That's again wrong. British did give HK some democracy and definitely more freedom than what's currently given (at least in reality if not on paper)

> China to fulfill the provisions of Basic Law granted autonomy (indeed more autonomy in policy making compared to when it was a British colony), but not outright democracy which is not part of the Basic Law or Handover.

The recent protest started because China is not fulfilling the provisions of Basic Law

[1] https://qz.com/281108/is-hong-kongs-famed-rule-of-law-breaki...
That's a very postmodern take! I personally think that most people will read this as a criticism of religious schisms, particularly considering the obvious implication that it's a parent talking to a child, rather than peers within an ideology. Also interesting it'd supposedly be taken as a criticism of a particular political ideology when all ideologies have schisms.
Can you imagine a person grow in an environment that all input information is designed to control every single individual's mind, not only what you see and hear, but also how you perceive and think.
Simple put: China is the Matrix for real
A used pizza box can almost always only be composted.
Dépends on your area. Around here, scrappers roam around on garbage day and pickup the scrap metal or anything salvageable.
There could be shady things but liquidation preferences aren’t ever 6x. More likely that the founders just kept most of the equity themselves.
Plastic and Glass recycling can be borderline and it depends on the specific local implementation. Either way, the savings are never going to be massive and it is an open question if it is worth the effort. (Glass re-use is different)

Aluminum is completely different. Prices for aluminum recycling per ton is an order of magnitude higher than other recyclables.
AFAIK composting or compost collection is not available everywhere.
I don't think of notice as a requirement anymore as most companies don't do it themselves, or will walk folks out the door regardless. Personally if it works, I'll give notice (and of course I will if I feel they've been good to me), but I don't think of it as a requirement.

As you said you documented everything, that seems very responsible.

If the company is how you say it seems like they might not like it, but you're not required to operate your career to satisfy people you don't trust / don't want to work with.
If you want to compile to wasm and send it over the wire, 6mb would seem like a lot.
A ‘Fact Checker’ Declares War on Satire
to non-drugs?
This is what the big kerfuffle is all about.

All we’ve been doing is paying the Chinese and Malaysians to feed our plastics to the dolphins for us.

Now they won’t take it, and people here get upset if you feed the animals, we’re realise the whole deception for what it is.

Edit to add sources:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/03/whale...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/29/malaysia-to-se...

Self evident that if it were economically & environmentally sound to recycle we wouldn’t be shipping it around the planet to do so.
Generally speaking courts are much more reluctant to look behind special purpose vehicles in contract than they are in tort, especially so when dealing with sophisticated parties.

As polygotdomain wrote landlords know that want We on the lease, ask for it, don't get it, and sign anyway. Short of a smoking gun showing outright fraud courts are unlikely to disregard that bargain.
I don't think that's correct. The March 9/10 attack on Tokyo killed 88,000-100,000 people, but was an anomaly. Japanese civil defense forces adapted, and casualties were much less in later raids. A firebombing attack on Hiroshima in September probably would not have killed more than 10,000.
Worse yet are styrofoam padded pears
I guess they need that property so that they can associate a push to a specific account instead of just an ssh key that can be associated to multiple accounts.
> Let the states that will never get their way in a "fixed" elector college, secede.

Why has every one abandoned the idea of federalism? The whole point was that you could have your way and I could have mine; we only had to agree on the bare minimum tasks which absolutely had to be handled at the federal level.

If California wants socialized medicine and Texas does not, fine. Why can't they do it on the state level? I see no reason. This has the double benefit of allowing experimenting with different solutions before committing on a national scale.

This shouldn't be a "red state/blue state" issue. The only reason why it would be is if you are hellbent on ramming your positions down the throats of those with whom you disagree. What so many forget is that when the other side gets power, it will do the same to you. The Democrats, for instance, spent years centralizing federal authority in President Obama so he could abuse it and are now surprised when President Trump abuses it too. Maybe if we just invested less power in the executive, both sides would be happier.
“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” -Voltaire

Who knew he was talking about C compilers??
The founding fathers did not predict that a few states would become hyper-partisan and stop giving EC votes proportionally. The few states, early on, did this because they were decidedly red/blue and wanted a bigger say in who is president. A bunch of other states wound up following suit to level the playing field.

Now, we have winner-takes-all for almost every state. Now, politicians don't spend time pandering for votes they already have locked.

It created the concept of "battle ground states".
Maybe you could explain how your position improves upon this...
We tested cellphones for radiofrequency radiation. Now the FCC is investigating
The issue is more that everyone should get attention, and removing the electoral college & going straight to popular vote will honestly erode that- as others have noted, politicians will spend more time in the highest population areas and possibly not the highest need areas.
Why the U.S. Army Owns So Many Fossils
probably fake news. phones are super safe and do zero harm :)))
In practice, a lot of complexity in front-end development comes because front-end developers only solve problems by adding layers of abstraction, never removing them.

Like, in vanilla JavaScript, you have a single global tree representing the state (the DOM), and you write event handlers that manipulate that tree. But that isn't a good fit for every use case, so you introduce React, which encapsulates all your functionality into components.

But that turns out not to be a good fit for every use case, so you add a state-management library like Redux on top. With Redux, you have a single global tree representing your state (the Redux store), and you write actions that manipulate it.

Congratulations, you are now back where you started, but you've introduced two third-party library dependencies (probably more, if your libraries need separate adapter libraries to work with one another) and a bunch of overhead and complexity.

See also: client-side navigation. "Pages on my website load slowly because the browser has to run all the JavaScript I wrote. How can I solve this? Oh I know, even more JavaScript!"
the electoral college system has become a scam to give the presidential election to the wealthy. they can, during the election year establish residency in the swing states and in affect have more of a say as to who becomes president. people here claiming that it gives the rural population more of a say, that's a lot of bs. with national popular vote the urban and rural states will have just as much of a say as each vote will count for one vote. none of this crap of increasing the representative count and taking advantage of the numbers being rounded in favor of one party vs the other.
now if a party wants to rig the election, they will have a much harder time.
Saying that mainland Chinese are "brainwashed" is excusing their very real, and very widespread hostility and bigotry. Extreme nationalism and a deep sense of grievance wasn't invented by the CCP, and they won't hesitate to use it to solidify their power (war, greater authoritarian crackdowns, etc.)
It looks like there are at least three dumb fucks on Hacker News. According to Alexander Hamilton's Federalist 68, avoiding mob rule was the first reason for the electoral college. The second was to ensure qualified people chose the president of the U.S. The third was to prevent civil disorder (again, mob rule) by spreading the elector's votes around the nation. The fourth was to prevent corruption. Without the electoral college, small states don't have the numbers to counter states like California, New York, and other heavily populated areas. Mob rule is a problem to some degree with the electoral college; nevertheless, its purpose was to prevent that.
In SuS, YC recommends disclosing to employees both the number of shares they will receive, and the percent of shares. If a company refused to give the denominator, I'd refuse to accept them and ask for a 5k raise instead.

Does anyone take employee equity seriously anymore? Its expected value is so, so low
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The electoral college system isn't working that badly and the only people who want to change it are Democrats because they think they can sway the election if they do. If it was going the other way the would be all "we must retain the sanctity of the electoral college at all costs!"

I don't want big cities deciding anything more than they already do. Big cities are all run by Democrats 100% and have been for decades and they are all failing.
Very few people care if a candidate visits their state. I know I don't and I would be hard-pressed to list a single person that does. All I care about is if they're willing to answer questions directly and if their policies match my general ideas.

In other words: if a candidate really wants to spend their whole campaign in Ohio, I could give a shit. Go for it.

Abolish the electoral college. Now.
What separates a fantastic programmer from an adequate one
Concur, also from inside the industry. The reality is that almost every C-Suite executive I talk to sees security as a cost center, and rolls it (and IT even) into the CFO, or the COO.

We focus on helping an organization make security an enabler. Yet even those customers who get it - really only care when there's a breach, or if someone's bacon has seriously been saved.

Suffice it to say, I find the industry troubling, to say the least.
Reminds me of what little I know of the split between the Salafi Muslims and the Sunni. IIRC, despite Salafi Islam developing from the teachings of Sunni cleric al-Wahhab, they view other Muslims as apostates, practicing shirk and therefore unforgivable sinners.

On the Christian side, some Seventh-Day Adventists apparently see the Catholic church as the "Whore of Babylon" and the pope as the antichrist. [0]

Maybe the closeness between two groups just means they can be really detailed and exact about why they hate each other.

0. https://www.catholic.com/tract/seventh-day-adventism
I Created a Twitter Bot from Nothing but a Google Sheet
The idea is that the reader - briefly acquainted with Bentham and Mill as part of their undergraduate education - has a smug, knowing chuckle when they recognize these references. (Similar to “clapter,” I’d call this a “snuckle” piece.) The quality of the satire itself is irrelevant. Substantive satire is actually impossible: the author briefly recaps Mill and Bentham’s differences for that “oh yeah, I remember now” feel-good reader moment, but can’t get too far into the details as this would alienate the reader, reminding them just how much of their education they’ve forgotten (if they ever did the assigned readings in the first place).

Cynical attitude aside, I’m not sure why this is on HN. It doesn’t seem particularly insightful, interesting, or funny.
I suppose though it'd be very in character for a religious commentator to see religions as having controls and subtlety that atheism doesn't.
Do it! This is HN after all, no better place to gain free karma and appreciation for your command line prowess
Burning man? /s
Less than 690 is subprime? I would’ve thought closer to 640...
Okay, I'll bite...tell me how the burden of proof is not on those postulating a global conspiracy of sexism?
My niece has now stopped eating meat... because of plastic. She started out avoiding plastic wrapped meats, and went to a butcher instead, only to find (due to food handling laws in my country) that they used one disposable glove per customer! I applaud her resilience in this aspect: we need to do what we can to stop buying stuff that uses plastic - especially when it doesn't need to.
The Amazon rainforest is on fire
It's only ludicrous because the plastics industry wants to pretend that plastics are recyclable when, mostly, they're not (because it's impractical or uneconomic).

The rules for recycling when you exclude all plastics are pretty simple.
The article addresses this.

The reasoning is that, since the pointer has already been dereferenced (and has not been changed), it cannot be NULL. So there is no point in checking it. This logic makes perfect sense except that in the case of the kernel where NULL might actually be a valid pointer. The default selinux module allowed mapping the zero page, converting this bug into a privilege escalation flaw. This was however later corrected by preventing processes running as unconfined_t from being able to map low memory in the kernel.

EDIT: On rereading your comment, I think I realized you might be getting at something a bit different, which is that even if NULL is a valid address, no one in their right mind should be dereferencing it so this code is still illogical from a human perspective (to do a NULL check after derefencing) and there is no good reason to do so. That seems to make sense to me, but I don't have any production C experience.
I'm so glad to hear its not just me. If anyone else is reading this, I highly recommend these reusable mesh bags:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BW1DSMV

Way better than the plastic bags at the store.
Yes, and instead now we have devs forced to build SPAs and architect every single thing as a client-server app with a database attached. I get it, SaaS is great for vendor lock-in. But not every in-house tool needs to be run as a service.
It’s not just an increased mating value (MV) because of relative economic prestige and more height. It’s also because the Hispanic culture is more open to relationships (both friendships and romantic ones), and because they don’t have the sexual hangups US culture has.

I see this in my Facebook feed: My Latina friends are not afraid to tell sexual jokes or have sexually charged images on their timeline (one of the girls I dated, in fact, is a nude photographer); my US friends, on the other hand, never tell dirty jokes, and they only time they talk about sex is in relation to a sexual harassment allegation or a sexual assault story (my Latina friends also do this, but they aren’t afraid to admit they like sex).
> Do you want the majority of the USA geography being controlled by the will of people least knowledgeable about it?

Your question presumes quite a lot. I'll start with "what makes you think people who don't live in Wyoming are incapable of understanding Wyoming?"
Funny, as an Ansible user I love YAML. It works so well for me.
Nobody hires just to give someone a chance. It's tough, but you have to pitch something else - total years of experience, education, debugging experience, product skill or a deep understanding of the product. If all fails, there's connections and charisma.

Asking for less salary might work too, but it can backfire by filtering out companies that try to hire the best.

You might also get lucky and find a company that's desperate to fill a position like I did. Sometimes a core engineer quits and they need someone good enough right now to fill in the role.
It’s a funny system where citizens aren’t trusted but corporations are.
I never specify which one the author is or if they are even either of the two.
> What's wrong with politicians paying more attention to the needs of more people?

It may encourage the discrimination against minorities.
The spartan C standard library was what my comment regarding 'small languages' was referencing. I don't have much experience with many of C's contemporaries, but for an opposing view take for instance the standard library of Ada ( I use the term 'standard' here to connote the library that is mandated as per the standard of these languages ). It is definitely orders of magnitude larger than that of C, and takes a fundamentally different perspective. Ada's standard library, while dated by modern standards, looks more like it was designed to address the specific needs of its domain. Mind you, it could be argued that C's stdlib was also, if you restrict its domain to 'OS development'. My point is that for a language like Rust, that does not have a tiny stdlib like C, its standard library should address the common use cases required by its developers. Node.js is another bad offender here. If you look at the most popular npm modules, you'll see things like 'body-parser' and 'async', which clearly show gaps in the functionality that Node's stdlib is catering for.
y, your company wouldn't think twice about letting you go without notice so if it's a sinking ship jump to your new gig right away.

Unless they have a history of escorting you out and paying you the final two weeks. You could test those waters with a two week notice.
YAML for me, then TOML
Millions of old gadgets 'stockpiled in drawers'
That does sound pretty useful!
> In JS, unless you're doing vanilla JS, you need to select and bolt together a lot of different third party tooling first, or you have to use a boilerplate, of which there are many versions to choose from.

That might have been true once but its not anymore. Assuming you have node installed, its a one liner to get started in React[0] and Angular[1].

I've found that many of the criticisms of the modern JS stack come from outdated views about the ecosystem (no offense intended). I'd encourage you to give it another try (especially TypeScript) It's matured quite a bit.

[0] https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app

[1] https://cli.angular.io/
Well, you shouldn't be, they are all in the propaganda game! The New York Times lied the US into the Spanish American War. They have been at this game for a very long time.

CNN is total garbage. Reuters, same. Economist? Please. There isn't much actual journalism left at all, just ideologues who frame issues and push narratives.
Evidence of paper ballots being tampered with, in my opinion, is a very useful/good thing. It means it’s possible to get caught.

As I’ve mentioned in a previous comment:

This is survivorship bias. Instead:

1. Assume that there are enough high-powered actors to want to rig an election

2. Note that confirmed case of a rigged election happens through paper absentee ballots

3. Note that there are very few known cases of a rigged election happening through electronic voting machines.

4. One probable conclusion is that election rigging is possible and undetectable through electronic voting machines.
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>9.9% the same but it’s the 0.01% difference that gets all the attention

Ah the good old:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism_of_small_difference...

Also:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WboggjN_G-4
I wanted to note that the researcher was not banned at HackerOne, he was only banned from reporting bugs to Valve. This is written in the article about a second vulnerability [1]

[1] https://amonitoring.ru/article/onemore_steam_eop_0day/
> everyone should get attention

I’m not entirely convinced presidential candidates share this belief.
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ElementryOS is heading that way, if you haven't heard of it yet. But the ecosystem is no where near close to MacOS. Sadly, for me, cause I mostly run Linux. :P
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> if all the HK youth got cushy finance jobs like the previous generation, these protests would have never happened

You are assuming HKers would sell their freedom to a tyrprican government in exchange for GDP growth the way mainland Chinese can. That's a big assumption.
> Biased reporting that selectively misrepresents Chinese perspectives and in this case, deliberate omissions

Was there bias in the reporting? sure. Is there bias against China in the MSM? sure.

That isn't a rebuttal.

> >The editor claimed that during their talks, he explained to Zhang how much effort the publication put into fact-checking and confirming references. But none of these went into the final piece.

This is the same editor who the article quotes as admitting to complete fabricating a story? If there is so much good information about "effort the publication put into fact-checking and confirming references", why did none of those details make it into the rebuttal?

> Instead, it made up some lies

What lies? If there were lies, they should be specifically identified.
All those companies compete in those domains using novel technology. What is the novel technology in WW?
The concept of "undefined" is incoherent. At the same time as people insist the compiler can do anything under the circumstances, everyone accepts that there is some limit to what it is reasonable to expect it to do. It's all just quibbling over where exactly the limits are. But as long as there are limits, the definition of undefined was never valid.

It seems to me that the problem is that trying to define undefined behavior is an inherent contradiction.

Setting aside the question of what exactly "undefined behavior" means, why does a language spec have to include it? If there is behavior that cannot be defined, why not just omit it from the standard?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3fAcxcxoZ8
Because someday, if it works out, they won't be on the lease at all. Real estate owners will pay them a fee for their facility to be in the WeWork network. The current leases they hold are there to get the flywheel going on the network effect.
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I think you're overstating the importance of the cap table in the scenario outlined by the parent poster. If you're asserting that no one could know they got screwed in that situation without having seen the cap table, then I think you're wrong. The cap table has nothing to say about the company suddenly issuing a bunch of new shares, let alone with the exclusive purpose of screwing certain shareholders.
>You're howling at the wind.

Perhaps, but then there's all there more reason to do so. And thanks for lending your voice! Perhaps someone reading this will feel a bit better.
A piece of period metafiction set in 2003.
As an example of this imbalance shaping platforms see American policy on Cuba, where conservative policy is enduringly punitive appeal to Florida voters
Thanks. I was wondering if there was a correlation
https://i.imgur.com/wpOIGxq.png

That's a nice number of comments.
Maybe it will have been fixed after the Apple renew MacBooks (not 15´´) to the 32gb
Most people (by pure numbers) by definition live in very large cities. In fact, in the USA, most Americans live in very large coastal cities. So that argument doesn't hold water.