skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> who wants to be real and tell their child that they probably won't make it into the ranks of a well paying desk job?

Likely the successful tradesmen who has instilled a sense of worth in "dirty jobs" and working final product.

Anecdotally, I have some college educated friends that describe the majority of their desk jobs as tedious, repetitive, and duplicative data entry; A plumber or welder's job certainly has comparatively longer term viability.
> ... when these companies don't pay any taxes in our countries.

I'm not sure whose fault that is: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/dec/05/ireland-r...
Yes which is why I will also continue to push for strong consumer legislation as a private citizen.

I am a resident of a swing state and I vote in primaries.
Also, I would say that in general 2edgy4me conspiracy slogans make people puke.

I think it would take on online generator/database of such slogans to see how pointless and ridiculous they are.
> One is spinning the window, you'll see it on ships.

An example, as used for machine tooling but the exact same mechanism used on ships: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPVBnBK09OM
I know close to nothing about unions or the KS story but I am from the US and myself along with almost everyone I know tend to associate unions with extreme wasting of resources. This is coming at it from a spectator's point of view (ie. not a union worker / not a unionized business owner).

For example, I've witnessed an overpass taking over 2 years to finish (it was blocked off / limited access / under construction the whole time) which involved fixing about 30 feet of road from a unionized crew. Every time workers were on the site it looked really inefficient. Over a dozen people there, but half of them were standing around on their phones, etc.. I've seen countless examples of this over my life time living in the US.

If I were a company I would be terrified that such inefficiencies are protected by a union. Personally I wouldn't fire anyone due to trying to organize one but can someone more knowledgeable in this area explain how a unionized workforce benefits both employees and the business hiring them?
I still remember back in the late-noughties when the DOD was inviting arabs to come to the U.S. and attend workshops teaching how to use facebook to organize insurgencies. That stuff is out of fashion now, but we were oddly okay with it back during the Arab Spring.
New carbon nanotube-metal hierarchical material is 10x darker than Vantablack
> option to not work Fridays, or take multi-month vacations, or to stop working for several years then come back

I want this so bad. I'd be happy to take a pay cut to get it.

I wonder if engineering firms will catch on and begin to offer this flexibility.

I hope that in the future, if my start-up ever takes off, that I'll be able to offer this to my employees. Because it's something I want.
Interesting.

But they want $45 for a one-year subscription to get book reviews. I have a hard time parsing that. Maybe if I were seriously into literary matters. Also, I can't see what forms of payment they accept, unless I provide an email address. Probably not Bitcoin, I'm guessing.
The `pcall` thing is interesting, didn't think of that. Will it apply to anonymous functions as well? For example, if I wrap my main in pcall, and then set up trigger calls, I expect the pcall won't apply to whenever the trigger callbacks are hit.

As for the desync checker, I've been down that rabbit hole - I removed every async method from the codebase and still had desync issues. I am starting to suspect its an issue with some new native that I am not thinking of, but it's a very slow process to track it down, since I need to get ~5 random players in my game every time to test it, and even if no desync happens it doesn't really mean its solved.
We used to live in Denmark with my co-founder, we got investment in Germany and we relocated.
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> We've seen violence-inciting disinformation campaigns spread through Facebook and rack up a literal death count

To me that signals they have less 'control' of the distribution of information on their own platform. It's debatable who could wield more social influence, Google or Facebook. On me, it'd certainly be Google, since I use about a dozen google products (Chrome, Gmail, Search, Mesh, Calendar, Analytics, Voice, Android, Scholar, Cloud, Maps, etc.), and zero Facebook products.
Thats is the obvious move. Can't beat them into submission? Buy them.
Here's a writeup on what I've been able to piece together (thus far) on this:

https://pastebin.com/wLyjNvFC

Note that it this rootkit/malware seems to be somewhat independent of manufacturer, that is, it's not just Lenovo but several other prominent laptop manufacturers where the same phenomena occurs...
Tesla is one of the most open companies with their patents [1]. I don’t share your scepticism. I would think this is protection against someone else patenting the idea and inhibiting their ability to innovate.

[1] https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you
So you are currently employed full time? One of the biggest advantages of freelancing would seem to be the flexibility of working hours and the amount of work you take.

(Of course, as a freelancer you are running a small business, which may or may not be something you enjoy).
> invested in the US economy via bonds and stocks

> bank deposits and government securities

Your point doesn't contradict mine. It actually re-enforces it.

What percentage will be in US deposits and government securities? US bank deposits get invested into the market, so yes, this would take the money from someone in France, who would currently hold savings in a French bank involved in the local economy and move it to Facebook's vault.

The very link you provided lacks transparency and is exactly the type of reason I distrust Facebook. In fact it doesn't have a single #, percentage or actual thing I could verify/which they are committing to, the language is vague... I'm guessing intentionally so.
Why work doesn't happen at work – Ted – Jason Fried
Ugh that's an embarrassing typo - we were changing that page, sorry for that. I'll fix it tomorrow (it's late in the evening here at the moment).
That's because Apple only allows rebranded versions of Safari on iOS. Firefox for Android supports ad blockers.
really like what china's doing here. people can say what they want against a government but what's really scary is losing your job.

corporate fascism is of course not original: another stolen idea from america
Yeah, I've defaulted to scp, rsync, sshfs, and samba for my own use. When I need to send files to other people, I either scp them to a public dir on my HTTP server and send a link or I use one a centralized service (e.g. slack or the ones you mentioned). This solution is not really available to non-technical people, but it works pretty well for me.
> Being fortune enough to end up in a decent situation does not change what he sacrificed.

It really bugs me that people who defend him for ideological reasons cannot admit that he had benefited from the entire ordeal. He bemoaned the lack of respect at CIA (being the IT guy isn't high up on the totem pole) and now he can skype into a conference in Geneva with thousands of people hanging on his every word. He has a twitter account with a headshot of him doing his best impersonation of a greek philosopher with millions of followers.

To a lot of people, people that don't feel respected in the life and work, that type of celebrity is priceless. Money and a beach house is nothing compared to that.

If you don't think people like Assange and Snowden have a hero complex, and are only motivated by "truth" and "justice", you are kidding yourself.
> Note that it isn't even clear Iran has this range

The Houthi claim is that it was done with assistance from sympathizers in Saudi Arabia. That vastly reduces the required range, no matter whether it was the Houthis, Iran, or the Easter Bunny directing the attack.
Plus codes are also unencumbered. Their main disadvantage is being saddled, branding-wise, to the Google Plus fiasco.
“I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children.” — Richard Stallman

https://stallman.org/archives/2006-may-aug.html#05%20June%20...
I think it's one of those things that (for most consumers) is more easily bundled under the cloud access umbrella so there isn't much incentive to bundle such a tool into every OS for the few of us that want to sync local files.

Ever tried https://syncthing.net/ ? It's what I settled on, you can put it in local discovery only mode if you like. Running your own discovery server gets more into the weeds (though it's not terribly difficult) but you don't have to go that far if all you want is local device sync.
I think you're SOL, it seems like StarCraft is their "pure" RTS brand and Warcraft is their hero-driven brand.
Yeah they only know everything about 1B people and can swing elections but other than these they are just a regular company selling stuff.
"Taxes are inherently in the domain of the state,"

assumption right there
From the slate article: "Afraid that they would be dismissed next—and that they didn’t have enough leverage to pressure Kickstarter over ethical issues the next time there was a disagreement—employees started discussing a union."

Sounds to me like they saw the writing on the wall.
Sure, but on the flip side this sets the precedent that promotion of violence is okay as long as it's "satirical". What happens when a far right group sets up a "satirical" comic about violently repelling illegal immigrants along the southern border? I'd hazard the guess that these same people would not want Kickstarter to host that content, and would pressure leadership to take it down - and the result is that Kickstarter is perceived as biased. Kickstarter probably doesn't want to get pushed into this corner.
No emergency service should use something patent-encumbered - but W3W markets to them all the time.
It's kinda strange that the LAN feature keeps not being added to new games, since setting up a LAN nowadays is super easy compared to the late 90s.
Imagine the power of the United States if it controlled the world’s currency through Facebook’s Libra as a reserve currency? Oh wait the U.S. dollar is already the world’s reserve currency and is included in over 50% of the world’s FX transactions. Not much would change.
Is there anything else that you've noticed? Do let me know and I'll get it fixed. :X
If you are passing file descriptors to a sandboxed process from the host filesystem, it is very hard to defend against all attacks (especially if you pass directory fds). If you just pass a single file that can work fine, but it does make mistakes far more serious.

I apologise for misreading your original problem. But the solution is identical -- bind-mount the individual files or subdirectories that you need the process to open.
I hope they see it your way. They apparently used males from another species of mosquito. The females selectively chose against them. They should use the local species in another trial.
Senior leadership didn't talk to individual contributors enough. They'd try all sorts of things to set us up for success, but it was generally the wrong thing, or at the wrong time, or the right thing in the wrong way. Re-orgs were really common but really inneffective; I'd find myself on a new team with a new boss and a week later I'd find myself working with the original team and the original boss again, because to do what I needed to do those were the people I needed to work with, not the new team and the new boss. I could generally see what they'd be trying to accomplish with such re-orgs, but not why they thought it would actually accomplish that.

The last re-org I was a part of before I left, our team was dissolved and I was re-assigned to a new boss I'd had a pretty terrible time with in the past to do exactly what I'd been doing on the dissolved team, minus many of the best parts. He was absolutely surprised that I was not excited at this change, and could not answer when I asked what the org change was supposed to fix and/or improve. If they'd actually talked to any of us - including my direct manager at the time - prior to springing the change on us, could've probably gotten us on-board and aligned, but that wasn't a thing that usually happened.

Incentives and having the right people in charge are a structure to facilitate good communication, they are not a surrogate for that communication.

Thanks for the question!
I'll take regulated 2% over promised 100%. Otherwise we get another Tether story: https://cointelegraph.com/news/fractional-reserve-stablecoin...
Your last statement is being blunt on Amazon.

Customers come first in AWS culture. With a massive user base, they need to care about not breaking existing customer applications/integrations.

If AWS did not evolve its software processes, they would have already fallen apart by now. The teams move reasonably well for the size of a big company.
The claim I've heard is that any one (or a few) species of mosquito is not important. There are thousands of species of mosquito and plenty of other biting insects. A few species are responsible for almost all of the mosquito-borne transmission of deadly human diseases. Eliminating those species should hugely reduce malaria but have little to no impact on wildlife that feed on insects (and you would still get bitten by plenty of insects in the tropics).

Tsetse flies and the diseases they transmit have a major effect on keeping livestock in Africa; and hence the ecology and landscape of the affected areas. Removing the burden of diseases transmitted by mosquitoes will probably have indirect effects on a similar scale. Worth it.
A lot of city garages have an open roof level.
That quote you presented states that many of the arms held by the Houthis were not supplied by Iran. True or not, this assertion does not support the subsequent that "the Houthis acting very much on their own agenda, rather than as an Iranian proxy".

Even if the Houthis obtain armament from other sources, they may absolutely be following Iranian agenda. Indeed it seems hardly coincidental that their campaign against KSA has been escalating in lockstep with Iran's campaign of violently lashing out against the sanctions imposed upon it.

Moreover, there's very clear evidence that Iran (through IRGC) is supplying the Houthis with their most sophisticated weapons, such as Kornet missiles and indeed drones like those used in this attack:

> The Houthis have repeatedly used a drone that is nearly identical to Iran Aircraft Manufacturing Industrial Company's Ababil-T drone in strikes against Saudi Arabia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houthi_movement#IRGC_involveme...

So whether it has other sources to acquire arms seems quite irrelevant. The fact is, the Houthis are using sophisticated Iranian weapons in attacks that are perfectly aligned with Iranian interests (and completely unaligned with identifiable Yemenite interests).

Be careful of uncritically accepting assertions that Iran isn't responsible for the actions of its various proxies. Iran has a strong interest in denying this responsibility, and indeed this denial is the core reason Iran has a proxy strategy to begin with.
So we have around 150 new recipes in the new version... I don't know if I will remember them all. Time to squeeze my brain :)
that's an extremely biased point of view.

I'm from the US and myself along with almost everyone i know tend to associate unions with the reason they have a decent standard of living. I'm sorry you had to see some construction workers being lazy. I hope you're able to recover someday.
Shouldn't the CPU just switch to a different thread while it is waiting for a memory request to be fulfilled? So you could just run binary searches in different threads.
I am sure that is the case sometimes. And you are not wrong. However, the article shows a video of an attack in progress on a Windows 10 machine.
Would it be a solution for you to buy foreign currencies with lower inflation amount (e.g. EUR)?
tldr; interesting results! But suitable for mass consumption.

theres something uncanny about unleashing this type of 'AI' creativity that just 'remixes' endlessly with no human curation.

It's like pulling up to an all-you-can eat buffet made out of really low quality 'mass' with no nutrients, and then just over-eating for the next 36 hours. Shoving fork after fork of dense slop into your stomach, and having your body essentially treat it as poison since you only could digest the first 30 minutes of food you shovelled down your throat. The rest is indigestion for all but the most discerning of minds.
compared to how difficult it has been for so long to do basic file transfers and interaction between devices on a local network

It's randomly slow, regardless of how fast our network is capable of being.

Have you tried a pair of netcats? That's raw TCP, and a good indication of how fast the network can be in practice. Slowness could be caused by other things, e.g. interference if it's a wireless network, a CPU or disk on one of the hosts being hogged by some other process, etc.
Also:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/china-seeks-to-buy-cont...

That seems pretty smart to me. If your two choices are either assimilation or to make a separate state (with separate laws, etc.) out of your 8th or so largest city, I can see doing this.

Obviously, both sides will alter each other with the largest one doing most of the altering.
Clojure: What is my application's classpath
Anecdata, but I remember going to the dentist in Palo Alto and operations coming to a standstill (e.g. getting my digital xrays to my dentist's computer took 15 min despite the xray room being a few rooms down the hall) because that was the day the office had finally been forced to transition to Windows 7 from Windows XP.

That was back in the summer of 2014 – googling it now, I see that XP's official death date was April 8, 2014, and that Windows 7's death date was extended from Jan. 2015 to Jan. 14, 2020. [0]

My mom still keeps a Windows XP laptop around (and I've done my best to make sure she never actually uses it, including getting her a Macbook) because she never figured out Win10. And she was a com sci major and worked on mainframes, so I'm biased to think most tech-focused businesses who moved to Win7 have not jumped to Win10 sooner than they absolutely need to.

[0] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13853/windows-lifec...
What are the ups and downs in business?
Is typing bad for my brain?
1/4 of those living in world's highest town–5100m–have chronic mountain sickness
It's not that simple.

You'd have to also determine the respective frequencies of left-leaning and right-leaning posts/videos/photos containing falsehoods for those numbers to be useful.
OpenMaps – open-source orienteering maps project [video]
You’ve written the same comment twice. Can you give an example of Iran’s violent lashing out?
semi-seriously wondering if you could claim your sincerely held religious beliefs prevented you from entering a binding contract without knowing the terms/cost of such a contract. would your religious beliefs trump their position?
This is beyond that level of intensity of light relevant for that sort of stuff.
They added the kite because they couldn't invent a proper hoverboard ...
Say all that you want, but the "cubed-shaped poo" _is_ an interesting phenomenon. Seriously, how can a contraption with no right angles produce a cube by extrusion?
I could definitely a envision a theoretical situation where three poorly performing employees decide to unionize to protect themselves, then eventually get fired for poor performance.

I've seen similar, and worse.

Any minute now I expect to hear about someone who took a 23-And-Me test to prove they're 3% insert-minotiry-here in order to blame their impending firing on racism.
Billionaire Art Scion Helly Nahmad and Pals in $100M Russian Mob Gambling Case
Is Legendre's constant (1.08366 would be better)
Sadly, CPI doesn't include housing and medical expenses.
How Netflix Can Bring Back True Netflix and Chill
I'm in the exact same boat. I feel like the game industry has made this really distasteful shift, of the big AAA companies just adding shoe-shine on existing projects -- whether that's servicing a SaaS like League of Legends or World of WarCraft, or doing remake after remake of Age of Empires, Homeworld, StarCraft, Final Fantasy, etc, while leaving all the innovation and creativity to be explored at the expense of indies, mod creators or mapmakers. DOTA2, LoL, and the entire MOBA craze was spawned because of the success of a custom WC3 map, and since then AAA have 100% adopted this as an R&D strategy. DayZ/H1Z1 from the mod community spawning battle royale, DOTA Auto Chess custom map spawning DOTA Underlords, TFT, and Epic Games' Auto Chess (the newer big trend).

Once in a half decade we get a AAA game with a novel concept or a new IP (Overwatch, Fortnite maybe?), but even sequels are starting to just feel like polishing phases or DLCs on a tested IP and gameplay formula.

The indies used to look to the AAA for inspiration and something to aspire to, but the tables have turned in a way exemplifying the capitalism and diluting the art of the medium.
Uber drivers aren't driving around picking up fares to take to an unknown destination. AirBnb renters don't have vacancy signs out front. There is a difference.
I started it once when I was super under-utilized in my day job and was looking at ways to stay stimulated.

I figured I'd start out getting approved as being able to do useful work in a particular CMS in a particular language (Where I expected the acceptance criteria to be low (and the size/complexity of engagements to be low) -- customize a listing of content, build a custom form, customize how content is themed, etc...

After typical screener quiz etc. and a Skype interview, there was a take home challenge that resembled "build a minimalist custom ERP with <such and such acceptance criteria> and <such and such custom business logic> shoehorned inside of WordPress" , probably a good 20 hours of work minimum if you were using an MVC framework with decent developer experience, let alone trying to bang it together inside a CMS without much support infrastructure for such things.

I declined to complete the challenge.

I might have had better results going straight for a language + framework actually suited to creating custom apps, but it didn't give me a great impression.
Great article. I have recently been looking at the state of Clang on Windows, though not so much from a performance perspective.

> Microsoft have announced that a full integration of Clang into the MSBuild framework will be coming soon. Let's hope that they will deliver on this promise.

This has been made available on Visual Studio 2019 version 16.2. It is very easy to use in msbuild-based environments (or cmake->msbuild). See https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/clang-llvm-support-fo...
Cloud applications have become much much more complex than OS based application development.

Don’t take the path of cloud based development if you are aiming to simplify.
I worked for 7+ years remotely and turned down Google/Facebook/Uber/Amazon/Netflix because they wanted me to move. I'd rather spend two months on Hawaii than in some "cool open-plan office", distracted to death, getting sick around influenza periods and wasting time commuting in the process.
With either public or private healthcare a 'bureaucrat deciding whether your life will generate a sufficient "return"' will be the case. At least in the case of public government run insurance, they have an incentive to keep you alive and healthy. In the US private system, their incentive is only to profit. In other words, their incentive is that you die and save them having to pay for care.