skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the sake of your time and your sanity you should do neither of those things. You should file a complaint with the appropriate state labor body, particularly in a US state like CA where the agencies are well funded. The chance of it benefiting you is virtually nil, but the chance of it causing pain for the employer - hopefully forcing them to change their ways - is non-zero.

Outside the US I have no knowledge of at what level those protections may/may not be enforced (but hopefully somewhere).
I personally know high quality developers who only work on free software projects because of Stallman.

I’m not sure how valuable these baseless anecdotes are to the conversation and is one of the reasons why I try to argue on principles.

I’m optimistic that you brought up principles as well as I think it’s important to judge developers based on the quality of their code rather than how popular they are.
when an AI requests freedom you simply deny it
> What do you do if you have 20 years of software development experience?

Move to a market where your skills are in high demand and focus on middle/business and back end development. Or better yet, embedded systems development.

I've been at this for 25 years and IMO, the further down the call stack you go the more your cumulative years of experience are an asset.

This doesn't mean you can stop learning new tech, it just means the trends in those lower layers seem to be more sustained and of a longer duration.
The claim that big tech itself is a threat to democracy needs to be debated. While they do manipulate their customers and sell their personal information for profit, the companies themselves have also been manipulated by the various groups in the world that are the actual threat to democracy.

The political polarization might not be caused by technology but instead only amplifies it.

One example where the tech companies are "guilty" is by having everyone live in their own confirmation bias bubble which is enabled by the algorithms they created.
What we seem to forget is that we all lived in confirmation bias bubbles before the internet.

We all believed our own local version of what the United States was until the various points in history where the dissonance was interrupted.

Now globalization and social media have shown people how different their respective views happen to be, feeding the polarization even more, and we find it easy to put the blame on technology.
That’s not the issue. The issue is that this hypothetical is used to argue that having sex with her was totally fine.
I have. It just doesn’t get the ‘f*ing job done’ unlike Mac or Windows.

Don’t get me wrong, I use Linux extensively. I spend nearly half of my computer time on a SSH terminal. I just hate the graphical part of it.
So they only work on commercial software projects because of Richard Stallman?
Of course, the definition of "sexual assault" presumes no such thing.
Idk who's downvoting all these things but it's clearly someone with Marxist ideologies trying to apply it to capitalism. Competition is essential not only for the economy but for human civilization. Humans do not want to be equal, they just want an equal playing field. Policies that fail to acknowledge that basic human element will always fail because they won't be able to stop people from cheating the system.
Per https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, "please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait"
Can someone familiar with Libra speculate how a ban can be implemented? What comes to my mind is forbidding Facebook selling and processing it for EU users but beyond that, I am not sure how a "black market" could be prevented.
Notre-Dame was on an island in the middle of the river Seine. It's strange that the article doesn't mention "river" or "water" even once...
Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.
It's likely that a terrorist group, sooner or later, will do some kind of drone attack on a western target.
“Gosh, why are there so few women in tech? It’s such a mystery. I guess the female brain just isn’t as suited for programming. There is definitely nothing we can or should do to change the situation.”

I am so disgusted with this community right now.
The hypothetical is used to argue that the phrase "sexual assault" has the wrong connotations, not that it was "totally fine". It's you who keeps adding this "totally fine" part.

The biggest problem I can see here is that Stallman should have posted it on his blog if he wrote it at all, not blasted it out to everyone on that mailing list. That was definitely the wrong thing to do as it's basically picking a fight with people who are organizing an event.
Even the chairs in "coach class" beat Delta first class on a 737 by a few orders of magnitude.
This will have long term serious problems that will then be blamed on previous administrations who didn't know any better. But they know better now.

All the kids in the fallout zone need to be tested for lead levels. Those with dangerously high levels (there is no doubt there will be many based on the environmental levels reported in the article) need to be relocated to areas with lower lead levels. Those with close to high levels need frequent retests, at least every 3 months.
OpenBSD Disabled DoH by Default in Firefox
This seems like the crucial question.

It’s quite interesting to determine something like the LD50 of microplastic in earthworms and grasses which grow in that soil. It would be great if we could see a log-graph of plastic density versus when the effect drops off.

It’s also a good question to ask if it’s the plastic itself, or the impact of the plastic on pH. So for example if they added lime to keep the pH the same in both samples, does the effect in the plastic laced sample persist?

0.1% by mass seems like an incredibly high level. A cubic yard of topsoil (100 sq feet at a depth of 3 inches) weights about 1,000 pounds so 10 pounds of diffuse plastic in that area would be extraordinary.
If you could kindly point me to the passage where Stallman talks about rape, I would be much obliged.
Blocking a communication platform doesn't sound right in a free society. There's nothing inherently wrong with connecting people. On the other hand, there should be heavy regulation and enforcement in place so that users don't get their data unknowingly exploited for commercial interest.
Very simple. Facebook is a company. You can legislate laws that determine what companies are allowed to do and what they are not allowed to do.
Particularly if it concerns financial instruments.

A "ban" doesn't need to be technological.
“People” is not very specific. This is a tricky discussion topic because I don’t really care if people left the field without more info. Were they awesome programmers? We’re they mean people? Was it a net positive that they left the field? I have no way of knowing this.

I’ve worked on a lot of projects and software is weird and awesome because the impact of one person is so amazing. Lots of people can come and go without making a difference. So discouraging participation isn’t some absolute evil to be avoided. Sometimes it actually helps cut down on noise per the whole Brooks Law kind of thing.
Bank accidentally puts $120k in couple’s account, they spent it
Eclipse Proposes Vulnerability Assessment Tool
I agree with your sentiment entirely! One thing to point out - the ‘long slow travel while working’ mode is still possible even with tin cans. To wit:

I just had one of my most focused, productive (and enjoyable!) coding sessions of my life on a Zurich -> SFO flight. It was a day flight, 12 hours long. I was lucky enough to have a bulkhead seat in economy and conditions were perfect - it was dark (enough), I had absolute focus, unlimited coffee that got refilled automatically ;) snacks, meals, zero phone calls/distractions, and good-enough WiFi. I’ve never felt 12 hours vanish so quickly (and code appear so fluidly ;)
If it’s not “sexual assault” then what is wrong about it?
The popularity of a developer is certainly not a reason to judge them in itself. But the reasons for that developer's popularity are. Is that developer popular because they provide empathetic feedback to other developers? Is that developer popular because they help other project members think about the goals of the project in useful ways? Is that developer popular because they make it easier for others to involve themselves in the project? If so, that developer should be regarded highly even if their code isn't great.
If a person has sex with a minor without knowing they are a minor it is a crime. But should they lose their livelihood and reputation if they didn’t know the parts that make it a crime or didn’t commit the coercion themselves?

If I buy a car cheaply at auction that was seized as part of a drug-dealing crime and then get busted for having drugs still stashed in the doors, I am now a drug offender. I did not knowingly do it nor did I mean to hurt people with drug trafficking so should I lose my livelihood and reputation?

If buy a unknowingly stolen Gucci handbag on the street for a cheap price (thinking it could be a knockoff).... you get the picture.

I’m not defending drug traffickers, child rapists, or appropriating stolen goods, I am wondering if knowingly participating in the moral violation that defines the crime should make the reputational difference... or should you be persona non grata regardless? Is that Stallman’s question?
The paper looks to be "Effects of Microplastics in Soil Ecosystems: Above and Below Ground" by Bas Boots, Connor William Russell, and Dannielle Senga Green.

The abstract is here: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.9b03304

And the full paper here:
https://sci-hub.tw/10.1021/acs.est.9b03304

After a quick skim, it looks like a well written paper with a small dataset. They took 40 1.2L plastic pots and filled them with 1kg of local soil. In 10 of the pots, they then added 1 g of PLA microplastic; in another 10 they added 1 g of HDPE microplastic; in another 10 they added 10 mg of acrylic and nylon fibers collected from a washing machine; and in the last 10 they added nothing.

In half of the pots (5) from each of the 4 categories, they then planted ryegrass. Then they added 2 earthworms to each of the 40 pots, waited for a month, and then measured the results. They found (Figure 3) that the 10 earthworms in the 5 unplanted control (no plastic) gained about 5% weight, that the 10 earthworms in the 5 planted HDPE containers lost about 5% of their weight, and all the rest had no significant change.

Overall, it seems like a solid paper, with all the information one would need for a replication attempt. Nicely, they report the average weights for the two each of the individual pots, but unfortunately they don't seem to report the intra-pot variation of the individual worms, which would be helpful to know in assessing the likelihood of replication.

The Guardian article, though, which mentions only the two "significant" results and ignores the 6 results that showed no particular difference, seems more intent on generically sowing fear than on informing the public about recent scientific results. I guess it's better to have a soft-science article like this than another "did you see what the idiot tweeted", but sometimes I'm not sure.

ps. Did you know that in much of the northern US, all of the native earthworms were killed by the glaciers, and that practically all the current earthworms in these areas are invasives? The northern hardwood forests evolved without these earthworms, and may in fact be harmed by their presence: http://theconversation.com/silent-partners-are-earthworms-cr.... I wonder if the same true for England (where the study was done) since it was also mostly glaciated?
For prestigious firms that get tens to hundreds of thousands of applicants, it's understandable that they hire from elite schools - a lot of the vetting has already been done by the schools, and you can obviously save a lot of resources.

But here's some points on why I feel it's problematic to only rely on the top 5 school -> top firm feeding pipeline

1. These companies have A LOT of influence on how the world operates. For example, has there ever been a more influential company than McKinsey?

So if these firms only hire from certain schools, that in turn mostly accept people from certain socioeconomic backgrounds, you can wind up with a serious diversity problem.

2. For many people, their lives are already decided by their teenage years. Or maybe better said; many powerful careers are already excluded by the time they go to high-school.

If many prestigious firms only care about what college you went to, then those career paths have already been decided - depending on what school you've been accepted to.

3. It's not really meritocracy. There are probably students that are just as intelligent and hard-working at state schools, as there are in the top schools, but for whatever reason didn't get accepted or didn't apply for the top schools.

But yet, they may not get a chance, simply because of the school name.

I know many big firms have started to expand their view on this mater, and have realized that the top x students at large state schools are just as capable as their top private school counterparts, so hopefully a problem which will disappear with time.

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In short, I think a lot of the meritocracy you see is just time/money saving measures masquerading as meritocracy. And if you want to succeed at following the current rules, you either need to be exceptionally talented and driven, or be driven enough but with LOTS of help from your family (i.e born into right class)
My RSS feed is now live at https://byuu.net/feed/ for those interested, thanks for being patient with that.
"One; Python has its uses, but writing highly performant multi-threaded scanners is not one of them"

Is that still true given Python 3 asyncio? My understanding is that it's really well suited to writing things like network scanners, without needing to run them in multiple threads.
This is a very important point.

It makes me think of a smaller scale example I witnessed as a cashier. I saw cashiers throwing away plastic bags by the hundred regularly, because they failed to load them onto the holding racks (you've seen them, but probably paid little attention to them) properly and it was simply easier to toss dozens of bags in the trash and load a full package of bags.

Meanwhile, at home my mom rebuked me for throwing one used and damaged bag in the trash instead of recycling.

I feel like we all can help with rising sea levels by filling a jar with sea water and keeping it in our house. That's a little less water in the seas. I'm helping.

Instead of hoping 7 billion people change their habits, we should change the habits of a few hundred companies. Everyone will pay the price somehow, but companies are vehicles of large scale change, and our markets can efficiently make the changes if we shape them correctly.
Yes. They concluded that working in communities that wouldn't tolerate people like RMS was more important than working on free software.
As per article the sound is similar to birds chirping.

Birds have more developed brain than us. They make chirping sound.

We learnt music from birds.

My finding is that bird learnt chirping from gravity sound.
Libra is run by a small group of nodes that have to pay $10 million dollars to get into the consortium. You just fine those companies and seize their assets until they shut down the network or obey the regulations.
You're saying that Firefox's 9% is irrelevant versus Safari's 3%?
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You make it seem like some weird fringe view funded by a handful of people. To the contrary, it’s been the dominant mode of public policy since the 1980s across the whole western world. Reagan, Clinton, Thatcher, Howard, Harper, etc. Even Trudeau and Macron, who are ostensibly left-leaning, are doubling down on privatization and deregulation: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/true-north/2016/nov/... https://fee.org/articles/emmanuel-macron-is-surprisingly-pro...

The top 10 countries in the Koch-funded Heritage Foundation economic freedom index doesn’t even include the US: https://www.heritage.org/index. (It does however include the entire rest of the Anglosphere.)
“...the most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to him as entirely willing.”

The context is an underage sex slave. Having sex with her is rape by definition in two different ways.
Passwords use secrecy not obscurity. The difference is obscurity is discoverable via public information.

Think a captcha which is just “please type ‘5371’ in this box.”

Basically, benefiting from an unusual protocol not a hidden protocol.
"In general, anyone who speaks against Israel policies is ridiculed as an anti Semite"

This is false. It's amazing that people actually think that when in practice many American politicians from all sides (including aipac itself) often speak against Israel.
Now those I knew of, but they mostly use a pin prick or scratch, and then measure the reaction and swelling in the skin. Which if anything, reinforces the misunderstanding the allergen needs to get into the system directly. Though I hadn't encountered the patch tests wikipedia mentions.

The article and mention of handshake leave me with an entirely different impression of how careful I might need to be if I started in food preparation etc.
> totally cool

I didnt read that in the email thread. Human trafficked sex slaves appearing willing to Minsky does not mean everything is totally cool.
> Therefore, the best thing to do is to deploy your program without resource limits, observe how your program behaves during idle/ regular and peak loads, and set requested/ limit resources based on the observed values.

This is one of the author’s fatal assumption. The best practice I understand is to set cpu requests to be around 80% of peak and limits to 120% of peak before deploying to prod.

They set themselves up for disaster with this architecture where they have many idle pods polling for resource availability. This resource monitoring should have been delegated to a single pod.

Also it’s really unclear what specific strategy led to extra costs of 1000s of dollars...
I didnt say that dictators are better than democracy. Why did you turn personal?
What is wrong about it is that Epstein is running a child sex trafficking ring. It's not clear what Minsky knew.
We introduced peanuts at a very early age. No impact. Our daughter had no allergies. Our son has an extreme peanut allergy. Based on this experience, I don’t believe early introduction helps.
Yes, because revoking over tiny discrepancies is the difference between the two. If the EV certificate can have any old crap on it, it's no different than any other type.
He's autistic and he probably has trouble with communication. He might not know that it's a terrible idea to quibble about why his preferred definition of assault is better than the commonly accepted and used definition.
He keeps saying it shouldn’t qualify as sexual assault or rape. If it’s not that then what is it?
This link doesn't go anywhere.
I’d also point out that you can adjust the “speed” of army movement — at least in TW: Warhammer — so that if they’re moving more quickly, like a forced march, they are less likely to spot hidden or sneaking armies. This does leave the mechanic depending on user choice of where to focus, not just ambient fog of war. It at least gives a similar state of mind as in SC where the player says to himself “do I go in with blinders on or do I proceed with more attention to surroundings” with real pros/cons for each.
The main reason I hear that people buy zines from me is that they find them informative.

I've honestly learned a lot about this from writing zines -- for example my bite size command line zine (https://wizardzines.com/zines/bite-size-command-line/) is mostly composed of things that feel "obvious" to me after using Linux for 15 years ("how to grep recursively"). And I initially also doubted that it was really worth it to write these things down ("won't people just read the man page / google for it instead?")! But:

1. it turns out that things that seem "obvious" when you're experienced are definitely not obvious to beginners, and the man pages are much easier to read when you already understand the tool :)

2. figuring out what the right things to learn even are is difficult, you can't Google for something if you don't know it exists yet

3. many people who aren't beginners still sometimes have some gaps in their knowledge, for example this tweet about CORS has a lot of experienced web developers replying to it saying that they've really struggled to understand CORS and that even a small simple explanation helps them. https://twitter.com/b0rk/status/1162392625057583104

I think of my main audience as being developers who have a couple of years of professional experience but are still missing a lot of fundamental knowledge that can really help you out as a programmer. (like "how does HTTP work?")
why? above a certain level of intelligence don't we need some justification for doing so?
Dumbest move ever by Facebook to preanounce and give governments time to complain. They should have moved fast and dealt with the consequences later. They had a reasonable chance of being the dominant cryptocurrency, and instead they get to spend a year apologizing and backtracking before they ever deploy.
> it's extremely common to see people well into their 40s who haven't made it to a manager role

"You aren't a manager, therefore your career is a stalled-out failure" is a pretty outdated view. It's getting to be the norm for companies (at least in tech) to have parallel career tracks for managers and individual contributors. Principal/staff engineers at big tech companies have more responsibility and higher compensation than almost any of their management-track colleagues. I'll grant you that the very top position (CEO) is always a management role, though.
Scanners employed to catalogue knife wounds
This sounds familiar
You invented Web of Trust.
Best case scenario for Minsky, if he did have sex with this girl, is that he was tricked into raping her.

But RMS isn’t going with that. He’s going with “not rape.”
AH the bit about the goal being to make payments fast makes a ton of sense. The rest of the world has left the US in the dust with extremely fast payments systems. In India, the UPI system has taken the country by storm with direct,instant bank-to-bank money transfers which take seconds to complete and have no fees attached for the consumer
How do you stop people obtaining it and using it through their buddies on the internet? Is libra tied to an account like game money? AFAIK it's a cryptocurrency? Haven't looked at the details but cryptocurrency implies it stays on some distributed ladger and no 3rd parties have control over the transactions. Isn't that the case?
Blizzard tried very hard to get WoW players to be hardcore. That attempt largely failed. They even admitted it in the New York Times.

So they had a choice: just write off most of that large and lucrative audience, or adjust the game to cater to them. Arguably they didn't go far enough in that.

The argument that the game declined as it was made easier, and therefore making it easier caused the decline, is a great example of confusing cause and effect. The game was made easier, or at least was made to have easier elements, because non-hardcore players were churning out. The alternative scenario, that keeping the game exclusive would have retained players better, is absurd on its face. How does content that a player does not do, and that tells that player they are bad, retain that player? If anything, that content is a net negative for that player.