skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing is that there are many people out there who think that enforcing borders leads to actual harm to human beings and treat it as human right issue (detention camps etc.). On the other hand there are people who think open borders policy leads to actual harm to human beings as well (criminals getting to the country and hurting citizens etc.).

The line between fairly straightforward political opinion and what some people consider extreme is fairly thin in today climate. This is the case with Stallman's recent posting as well. It's hard to imagine (for me!) that the expressed opinion about the usage of the word assault or questioning sensibility of age of consent laws goes beyond reasonable discourse.

You have a point about pedophilia but that's from very long time ago. He also publicity stated he was wrong and thanked people who helped him understand that. He expressed that views in the distant past as well. He wasn't as prominent by then and he did it from what I understand on his private website.
One way or another having sex with 17 years olds is not pedophilia by any stretch of imagination. I consider his comments which he retracted long time ago irrelevant to current situation unless of course we consider it acceptable to dig out every controversial comment from the past to help with character assassination today.

I do think institutions schould take care to not fire people over outrage especially caused by expressing political/philosophical opinions. It's illegal in some countries and treated as common sense there. It is currently legal in US but it doesn't mean it doesn't have grave consequences for public discourse.
They increase the major version because they don't guarantee backward compatibility. You may think it's foolish to only provide guaranteed API support for 4 or 6 weeks, but it's more than just a marketing gimmick.
`zh-CN` and `zh-TW` are generally just old-school ways to say "simplified Chinese" and "Traditional Chinese" (two similar writing systems). The confusion comes in as the Chinese language family has multiple dialects and variants, and there are multiple writing systems.

The current practice is really a dimension-reduction, where a N×2 matrix [(CN, TW, HK, SG, MY...) × (simplified, traditional)] collapsed into a 2×1 vector (TW, CN).

The language labels should have been `zh-hans` and `zh-hant` if one means to differentiate the writing systems, and not the underlying linguistic variants.

According to Beijing government, Taiwan absolutely exists, it's just that it is not a sovereign state. Hong Kong has been handed over to China for more than twenty years and people in Hong Kong continue to use zh-HK – Beijing government seems to be OK with that.
i’m having trouble understanding how this could possibly be useful.

if you only want to meet 2 hr per day, you’re gonna have a very very hard time coordinating with others that have a different hour set aside.

and you could just block off all me time in your existing calendar anyway.
An excellent book on this topic from about 10 years ago:
Born to Run
I don't get this response. It's not even an American press organization making the point for heaven's sake. Whom else would you logically expect to make this point who hasn't already? Obama? Trump? Me?
yes but it’s hacker “news” not hacker “archives”. :)
The reality is that you must read the release notes for this to be a strategy that can even remotely minimize your risk.

On one side, relatively minor upgrades can have huge impacts for some use cases. Some changes are riskier than others, but SemVer and major/minor distinctions are not reliable signals for anything critical.

More important though, if you're skipping browser updates at all, you need to be tracking the security implications of every patch you skip. Otherwise you're increasing your risk by an order of magnitude more than you'd reduce it by deciding a change might be too buggy based on a numbering scheme.
Schicklgruber Jugend Weiblich will go after Linus next.
Forensic Analysis of Contributions to Wikipedia from Anonymity Seeking Users
That Navy sailor that took pictures inside the sub and got court martialed should get to go free too. And, those FBI memos that Comey took home and then kept after he was fired shouldn't result in his prosecution, either. /s

You steal US Federal Government property, you're going to eventually go down.
Even if everything you're saying is true, the important point is that you and I and Dan Carlin are free to go around saying it. It's my strong impression that this is not true in China; that it's a de facto if not de jure crime for media personalities to say things like "the Communist Party has rigged the system to a fairly large degree" or "Xi Jinping Thought seems kinda dumb and I'd like to read the alternatives".
Looks awesome - almost makes me sad to say I saw a spelling mistake on page 2 - "McDonalnds [sic] Monopoly game".
I tried like hell but I couldn't get it to run on my W7 VM or PlayOnLinux or Winetricks. Gonna try a W7 native machine tomorrow.
If it's illegal, they still need to encounter someone willing to sue them, no?

Maybe you can report them to some non-profit watchdog, who will follow up? But will they catch a real fine or slap on the wrists?
Make School (YC W12) is hiring a growth marketer to help scale our college
I spent years rebuilding my site several times over, trying to appear as professional and modern as possible.

A while back I got fed up, spent about 15-20 minutes writing some basic html, and came up with a simple page. I haven't looked back since. https://danielvaughn.github.io/info/
It might be rather intangible, but I expect there must be a strong tendency for businesses to benefit overall when their shares are bought or kept rather than sold.
They appear to be employees of Coalfire Labs.

"The State Court Administration hired Coalfire Labs to test the security of the court’s electronic records, said Steven Davis, a spokesman for the state judicial branch."

Mr Demercurio's LinkedIn page appears state that he employed by that organisation.

I understand that hubris is followed by nemesis...
that's usually my thought process as well, and also that high end phones are generally using this year's newest components while the mid range ones are using parts from previous years to dave money. two years from now the high end phone you bought might still be able to hold its own while you will have trouble selling the mid range
I will give some information of what other countries have done in similar situations:

- German Constitution: Article 10 [Privacy of correspondence, posts and telecommunications] https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-en/chancellor/basic-law-...

If you wanted to extend it into modern terminology, it would probably clearly specify communication over wire/radio, digital fingerprints, records, storage, including remote / cloud storage.

- Switzerland: 2016 Swiss Popular Initiative on federal intelligence law, that passed (65.5%): https://www.admin.ch/gov/en/start/documentation/votes/201609..., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZJCCpp--oM (Hit CC for closed captions, and the cog to translate to your language)

Based on this thread, it seems many have a subjective right to privacy they'd expect represented at the constitutional level, like Germany. They'd also like more transparency explaining who/what/where/why/how in regards to the authorizations regarding national security, like Switzerland.

One more thing: while this is generally consumer-related, you may be generally interested in GDPR: https://eugdpr.org/

But these are just part of the nice things. When people mention US constitution and rights, Europeans have vastly more rights and protections, in many respects.

- China, Xinjiang, elsewhere: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ5LnY21Hgc, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH2gMNrUuEY

This is a place where culturally there's less concern about surveillance.
Yeah, calling the X-15 the most badass plane ever is a bit silly. If it counts, then why isn't the Space Shuttle "the most badass plane"? It went faster & higher, after all.

Anyway, I'd assumed it was going to be the SR-71, but yours looks awesome & I enjoyed the article either way!
Life expectancy for Asian Americans is 87 years. That’s about a decade longer than China, and longer than Singapore, Japan, etc.
Rust will absolutely replace JS! You can compile it down to WebASM and people will start doing that soon. No more runtime errors in browsers! Yipee!
I don’t understand how you’re well sourced comment is being downvoted.
The DoD hires tech talent, partners with tech orgs on R&D, and contracts with tech companies for expertise. When trust is broken, those relationships are strained.
I'm not saying "do nothing". I think legislation is a better tool to fix this problem and everyone's time would be best spent on working on that.

> Nobody should listen to Al Gore about global warming because he flies a private jet!

Well, I think we should still listen to him. He could also fly first-class and set a better example. But average Joe passenger won't fly less just because "it's good for the planet". He will fly less if it starts to cost more because of a carbon tax.

> We can't raise taxes on cigarettes because people will just buy them anyway no matter how much they cost!

That's not true in the slightest; cigarette consumption is inversely correlated to taxes. A cigarette tax is the opposite of individual action. I'm strongly in support of a carbon tax.

> Why bother preventing deforestation when nature does what it wants with forest fires anyway!

That's...a super-weird statement to make in the context of what I said. Preventing deforestation can't be accomplished with individual action e.g. by boycotting Amazon-grown soy or something. You need laws and tariffs.

FWIW I also recycle and try to keep up with the latest and greatest on plastic sorting. But I also know it doesn't do anything in the big picture. Add a $10 fine for badly sorted recycling and the problem will fix itself.
They're fine for finding a numerical output (definite integrals & the like) but at that point the calculus is mostly finished and it's more algebra than anything else.
Can you explain to me how exactly that relates to this story of Musk wasting $50k to dig into the life of a guy that slighted him? And how that absolves Musk of the fact that he spent said money to violate the privacy of someone else?
There are very good public safety reasons to allow lifting domains from their current owners. Like if someone owns Microsift and puts a phishing page on it.

What about botnet C2 servers?
Isn't there a disconnect here?

> "the benefit of open source contributions on github... go towards increasing the bottom line of for-profit companies, not to developers"

Don't those for-profit companies employ people -- including developers?

>"[developers] should... spend their time doing... skill development... to succeed in... current role or a role they'd like... for money"

Are those roles you mention positions in for-profit companies? In "for money", whose money?
If the OP does not respond, she/he was probably a GitHub employee :P

My experience with GitLab is simple awesome. Keep up the great work you guys!
By random luck. But of course, the skills that I have built for many years played a role too.
Mercedes-Benz quietly enters the e-scooter market
A Global Fight: Cantonese Pop Diva Denise Ho Wants the World to Stand Up with HK
Safe to do what is allowed. Make no mistake, I agree this is how all parts of the world should be doing. This is why we need to have laws. The problem in China is that the laws are not being applied equally to everyone. There is no transparency in the judiciary system and you will never know when or what you will be charged one day.
This is such a pathetic move it just has me belly laughing. NDA violation. No kidding? :D

This is up there with Al Capone being taken down for tax evasion instead of racketeering.

Snowden just so totally out manoeuvred the CIA they'll be butt hurt for decades.
namebase is to handshake as coinbase is to bitcoin
You should make a feature request. These guys are on a fast development pace.
> I think that the unfettered capitalistic worldview we have here in the US is the root problem.

It seemed to me like the government subsidizing the market in stark contrast to unfettered capitalistic principles is the root of the issue.

Perdue’s income sharing plan mentioned in the article seemed really interesting off the cuff.

I think it would have been really beneficial had I been required to create a pitch deck to get financing for my education.
Isn't this article presenting a false dichotomy? How is divesting from fossil fuels mutually exclusive to putting your money behind "tech that helps cut emissions instead"? In the short term at least, you'll have more money to do exactly that after divesting.

The only rationale I can see for having this mindset is that 1) it is imperative to make money in order to reinvest in better causes, and 2) investing in fossils fuels is the best way to maximize profit.
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>I’m only looking for a signal in the noise or some common experience for us to discuss.

That is a strange thing to do on first read for someone who reads a lot of resumes.

You can be honest. Nobody here will be surprised. When you are held responsible for who you hire, it’s logical to defer to heuristics like that. I have never met anyone truly passionate about hiring black swans. I don’t think it is your fault, but this trend is just as common as it is harmful to society as a whole.

>When I read a resume, the very first thing I do is scan the name of the companies you've worked at to see if I recognize any of them...
Which gives me an excuse to post a link of Tom Lehrer singing about Wernher von Braun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJ9HrZq7Ro with the famous lines,

"'Once the rockets go up, who cares where they come down?
That's not my department,' says Wernher von Braun."
I truly have empathy for Ms Turkos, but I have trouble diving deeper into both the headline and her steps following the police report.

It's been 2 years since she reported the incident to the police and she's not sharing what they did? How is someone able to continue driving, even continue living outside of prison after a kidnapping?

The alleged customer support is awful, but it's not Lyft's responsibility to imprison, it's the judiciary system's. The fact that she's not including the police's response is fishy. What grounds is she even suing on? My response may seem callous but hopefully, it encourages people to not get baited into the emotions of a tragic event and look deeper into why she is choosing to redact so much information.
Inkscape 1.0 Beta 1
I think they were being coy. The resume is tasteful.
> I hope she really sticks it to Lyft

I agree. This is not just piss poor customer service but IMO (criminal?) negligence to not protect other passengers from this person until the allegations are either proven or disproven. Also it is a shit response to charge the person for the ride.

Seems like the only way these companies will change these days is getting sued and shamed into doing the right thing. It boggles the mind why management at these companies can't put themselves in the shoes of the victim er customer.

Guess its time to #deletelyft
They have a lower unit cost per item to the individual. Sometimes. But typically only if you ignore transportation and storage costs. And often infrastructure costs are effectively billed to society.

Consider, I can literally walk to the grocery to buy beer. I suppose I have to replace my shoes from wear, but no upkeep or gas on my car. No miles of road that need maintenance to subsidize my trip to the store.

Now, yes, there are miles of road to subsidize getting the store supplied. But that is shared for all people supplied by the store. Same is true, of course, for the trips to the store, but again, my side of that equation is zero. Which is all part of what makes me argue it is more efficient.

And again, complicated with general scale making most observations necessarily simplistic.
Golang doesnt have comprehensions like python's
For what one person's opinion is worth, I quite like the look of old-style text-and-hyperlink websites, so long as there's something interesting to read on them.

A canonical example: http://bactra.org/
After articulating your point more, I'll definitely agree with that. Shakespeare was all about the double entendre, but cleverly writing double meaning into a turn of phrase is definitely different from forcing it into anything that would apply. Still haven't looked into the history of the naming of 'finger', but it's 100% possible that it wasn't intended to be sexual.

In a way, it cheapens the phrase 'double entendre', as AFAIK the phrase used to imply a clever, sometimes obscure, double meaning that was intentional vs. anything that could be taken out of context.

Or, as Archer would say, PHRASING!
Just be honest. It's bullshit. That vote and any vote like it means absolutely nothing. You know it, and anyone with any knowledge of this knows it.

We really really need to stop these fake feel good energy sinks. What you said was at best disingenuous, and at worst just lying.

I want to remove fossil fuels as much as anyone, but I will not do it by tricking people. You should try and work on some ethics.

There are two insanely simple things to end global warming if you live in the US. Stop driving to work and stop eating meat. If only a 30% of the population does that, all this is solved immediately. Pretending resolutions matter simply helps people pretend they can't solve the entire problem with two simple actions
To a large degree, they aren't accepting it. This is why around 2014 treasury holdings by rest of world stopped growing on net.

Many governments/central banks are trying to exit the $ and UST's and are buying gold instead of treasuries.

Ultimately, the US has quite a large amount of liabilities, and entitlement spending on retiring boomers coming due in the next few years. Currently, at the peak of the economic cycle, we are running $trillion deficits.

Imagine what happens if there is a recession? Even if there isn't, these fiscal deficits, along with our large trade deficit mean:

The rest of the world gives us real goods, we give them paper IOU's. The debt is not shrinking but is growing, and faster.

So, they are not tolerating it. Problem is, in the petrodollar system, the reason this whole ponzi could occur is dollars were needed to buy oil. Post-71 Nixon shock, the $ was as good as oil. Saudi and others only sold oil for dollars putting a floor on the value of dollar and incentivizing both oil exporters and rest of world to want to hold dollars, thus recycling their surpluses into treasury debt to both fund their export economies and fund our consumption.

This CANNOT continue because by definition it means rest of world works and produces for never ending, and ever growing, US consumption. Holding dollars, amidst a growing realization the Fed would have to monetize this debt and government would never pay it back in "real terms" has led many oil exporters to try to sell oil in other currencies, and countries generally to try to exit the dollar for trade.

Iraq[0], Libya, Iran, Russia, and Venezuela[1]. Do we see a pattern of what happens to nations that try to do this?
They either get regime-changed or become enemy number one for US government. Do you think it is a coincidence that Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world and just happens to be the next country US is involved in pushing regime change (them or Iran)?

To read about this system of petrodollar recycling, and how/when it was created in the early 70's because of collapse of Bretton Woods, check out an this excerpt[3] from excellent book "The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy" by Yanis Varoufakas former Greek minister of finance.

Good thread [3] covering a broad summary of trade, the dollar, and petrodollar warfare [4]

[0] http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Iraq/Iraq_dollar_vs_euro.h...

[1] https://www.mintpressnews.com/petrodollar-warfare-the-common...

[3] https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2011/02/10/surplus-recycling-...

[3] https://twitter.com/TheSuperbubble/status/109944882078459904...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrodollar_warfare
LOL. You don't need to apologize, that's what's wonderful about this forum is almost everyone is open to learning more regardless of the tangenialness.

Besides, my 15 yr knob creek barrel pick empathizes.
Great, now I can get the Medium Experience[1] in my inbox!

[1] The trend of having blog posts where there's a reaction gif after every other paragraph
This is kind of a tangent, but one of Lyft’s explanations [0] is that the victim’s first (and only, from what they claim they know) complaint to them was how the trip took 80 min instead of 15, and how it strayed far away from the requested destination. And that for Lyft apparently wasn’t enough to elevate the issue (though they did reimburse the extra part of the fare).

The victim’s lawyer argues that, among other things, the excessive trip should alone have warned Lyft. But I guess that unexpectedly long trips, without driver error, might happen often enough that Lyft doesn’t automatically flag them? I can think of one time when I asked the driver to go through the In-N-Out drivethru on the way home (adding maybe 20 min to my trip). I’m sure a non-infinitesimal percentage of riders request lengthy detours (to pick up or drop off a friend).

I was surprised that Lyft quickly gave her the reimbursed fee, but without doing any extra follow up with her. At that point, neither she nor Lyft knew that the main issue wasn’t just user error, but an apparent kidnapping and rape. The victim claims Lyft failed to acknowledge her follow-up complaints. I know Lyft might get countless customer messages on any given day, but it’s a surprise to me that a user who reports a large service disparity isn’t (at least temporarily) elevated in the system. Because the unexpected surcharge may likely be a symptom of a bigger problem, as it seems obviously to be the case with he author here.

[0] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vb57w8/lyft-allegedly-kep...
American Becomes First Person to Swim English Channel 4 Times Without Stopping
I'm a non-paying user and for the few times I actually contacted GitHub they were always very helpful and fixed the bugs in less than 72 hours.
Gallery: 'Harryhausen: The Lost Movies'
Oh, I'm very aware (I actually do use those tricks on my personal page. Unfortunately I left out the midi. And of course it's loaded with stolen gifs from gifcities[0])

[0] https://gifcities.org/
There is a official service called "free fillable forms" that you can use to file your taxes digitally. The UX is... a bit rough... but it works and is an alternative to preparing your taxes from scratch on paper.

Alternatively, there a number of other tax software companies that do not actively lobby against tax simplification and consumer interests. TaxAct is one example I've seen mentioned on HN, but there are others.

The problem is that "no-brainer" decisions like yours help keep us stuck in the same quagmire we are in now. I think it is worth a bit of time and/or money to push back against these kinds of shady business practices.
Rust is great but too cognitive-heavy to have any shot at replacing JS.

One should not overestimate the importance of secure/fast over "gets shit done easily with minimal learning curve" on most projects.
Dont have kids, encourage population decrease elsewhere
It is true that stocks are assigned some value based on expected future dividends, but this only one component of the value of a share, and for any company undergoing a divestment campaign, this will shift.

A publicly traded Ponzi scheme can maintain a 10% yield for 10 years with only an IPO.