skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, no it's not. When society doesn't just ban, but abhor Nazis, then Nazi groups are small. There's people who are into rejection, but it's not a lot.

When Society sees Nazi things as forbidden fruit and makes them widely available, then you get the bully types dabbling in it, and it's more widespread.

And when society permits it to be mainstream politics, you're one solid resistance movement away from genocide.
As long as every local connection is encrypted/password protected you should be fine.

Unfortunately, outside of rural areas that may not be under your control.
Are backticks (``) slower than other strings in JavaScript?
I'm in San Jose and have gigabit symmetric service from AT&T. If internet is a serious issue for you, there are various areas that have good service.
To me as a Swiss citizen, born in Switzerland, living in Switzerland, it's an impertinence that every time I open a bank account with a Swiss bank I have to fill out at least 1 form with information about my relation to the US, about my travels in the US and whether I might have to pay taxes there.

As a side note, the only other country besides the US that collects taxes based on citizenship and not based on residence is Eritrea. The tax policy of Eritrea is described as extortion by a lot of western governments and media.
Since 2 days yes, but not for Buster.
That was in 2011. Since that time Putin has been cracking down on Russian nationalists - some got jailed for real crimes they committed, the number of participants in so called "Russian Marches" went down from 10000 to less than 500, number of hate crimes has been similarly reduced.

The Ukraine is moving in the opposite direction.
Haven't used them in ~5 years now, so things may have changed. It was just user/pass at the time.
For what it's worth, I have not found Reddit's status page to be accurate. They seem to have a lot of localized issues that make the site unusable for a small subset of users, but don't get reported as global downtime.
I personally don't want to work for a company who turns down somebody because of not having a degree. If they are not smart enough with their hiring process, it's a good sign that will be other, bigger problems too.
> When can I buy a TV without smart features?

There is a limited selection of 'dumb' TVs in the world. The 50-inch Sceptre E505BV-FMQK has no "smart" capabilities and lacks WiFi or Ethernet.

The usual advice is to simply not connect the internal "smart" capabilities to anything; disable WiFi and don't connect a Ethernet cable. The built-in host and all the nefarious crap it wants to run can't reach anything unless you somehow connect it. Just use the TV tuner and HDMI inputs. If you need a network connection for streaming from some local source then block the TV at your Internet router.

Like the adware you get with many laptops and other mobile devices there are 'financial incentives' to manufacturers to build this stuff in, so don't expect the practice to abate anytime soon.
Sorry but I think that's a silly argument.

Use the right cleanliness tool for the job. For a sidewalk, powerwash it. For a cast-iron pan, you wipe it out and maybe use oil and salt.

That's not to say that a bidet isn't the right tool - but the justification needs to show why it is the right tool, not just point at other body parts and say "the right tool for my hands is soap and water, therefore the right tool everywhere is soap and water."
True, I suppose. My comment was supposed to be commentary on the article in the vein of the original opposition to a fiat currency.

On one hand I recognize that the conspiracy to manipulate the money supply is supposed to be in the best interest of all participants in the economy, but is does not seem to achieve this in practice.
The Showdown at the Window Seat
I suspect those earlier attempts at learning to program were actually more instructive than that tweet suggests.

Also, "iOS development" is not a programming language and I'd be very skeptical of anyone who opines that Obj-c is easier to learn than PHP or js. (I also assume they're talking about Swift but I don't know much about it).
They could also say "We are scientists doing cool stuff, discovering things, and having fun. Maybe it will be useful someday but we aren't really focusing on that."

Why are you attributing some kind of cynical motive?
Quitting Blockchain Space
People on HN tend to be skeptical to a fault. In this case, even the usual skeptics just say "we can't rush to conclusions."[0]

When the Navy released this footage and the story with a number of highly credible witnesses and recorded sensor video, I decided to be more open minded when there was such unexplainable evidence of things that I couldn't possibly dream up a terrestrial explanation for. My guess is that it was a machine operated by something from a different system, far more advanced than us, observing us from a distance similar to how we might observe the Sentinelese. I suspect some percentage of UFO reports that don't have such solid evidence are also valid and related.

Everyone on HN says "of course we're not alone in this vast universe!" but when confronted with possible evidence of them being here, monitoring us, it's a bit too much for their reality. Perhaps it's the feeling of loss of free will and self determinism that it implies.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Nimitz_UFO_incident#Skepti...
So that would be HPV causing cancer. Not cunnilingus. If you are insinuating that the transmission of HPV is through cunnilingus then fine. But stating a direct causation is careless.
There are people who would put Das Kapital the same category of unacceptable speech as others would Mein Kampf.

You have no right to quarantine information like you would a virus, because there is no way to agree on which information is "bad". Further, even overall hateful or dangerous content can have meritful parts - not everything Hitler said or did, for example, was unreasonable or evil.

Another example, what about the Unabomber Manifesto? Yeah, he was a terrorist and he wrote some arguably hateful things about liberalism/leftism, but there was also a wealth of thoughtful observations regarding the human condition in his work.

All information should be free for study by anyone.
One of the first images to appear on my Samsung TV, after purchasing and plugging it in to the power outlet, was a prompt asking to connect to my WiFi.

They almost got me, but thankfully there was an option to skip that step. But I'm sure they'd hook my parents and friends for sure.
So... people are stupid and easily manipulated. Democracy is just a skinner box run by all the god like people who know better than all the stupid sheep, right?
Without implying it must be conspiratorial, do not rule out the possibility it is simply disinformation.
Even Softbank wasn't okay, they did one round, but they then reduced their most recent round from 14b to 2b

source: https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/07/for-softbank-no-majority-s...
*AgileFail
In other words, jobs for devs who are willing to work cheap.

None of my dev jobs ever required a degree. None of them advertised the fact.
Jai Compiler Demo: Macros and Iteration
They also cost a fortune. I tried to get one for work and IT department quoted $2k for a 65 inch display.
Show HN: A service for accepting tips on web pages
Because it's easier and more effect for one to just go outside.
I am not suggesting that.
I used Napster when it first came out, I was already 26. But as soon as the iTunes music store came out for Windows, I stopped using Napster and Kazaa. They were no longer worth the hassle. I didn’t buy an iPod until around 2005. I just made CDs.

It’s the same with video now. If I plan ahead, I will still pick up movies that fall off the back of a truck and put them on my Plex server, but often, we don’t even bother. We just rent from Amazon Prime or iTunes.

That’s even considering that I can just go to http://remote.vuze.com from anywhere on my phone and start a download on my home server.
Wouldn't a logical next step to extend this to all countries that USA + EU trades with? Banking moves slowly, so it will take many years, but I don't think Panama will be able to hide stuff in 50 years from now.

If they can strongarm the Swiss, why shouldn't they be able to do it to a lot of other countries who want to trade with USA+EU ?
Lisa Su needs to buy lisa.su
Average earnings per employee at the big tech firms is around $400K iirc. Most tech companies barely need to hire employees to scale. WhatsApp is another extreme example of ~50 employees servicing 500 million customers.
I've followed Dynamicland for a bit. I'm completely enamored with the project, and yet I agree with you, the implementation is...not right. The goal is admirable but the approach feels like a step away from it, not towards it. Still, that's likely a side effect of simply trying to break the mold of computing we've all grown familiar with (even as it morphs away from the PC and into mobile and IoT).

The primary indication I see that the project is at least somewhat flawed is this: I don't think you could build Dynamicland's systems in Dynamicland (the same way you might write a new C compiler in C). I don't think that's their target, but I don't believe you can accomplish their mission without that characteristic.
They were playing with fire.
> I once blew up when multiple people said that they were in [the scrum] meetings the day before; this is an example of saying things to account for your time

Have you considered the possibility that your temperament or personality might be the reason that multiple people on your team feel they have to pre-emptively justify themselves to avoid angry criticism? A meeting where people have to stand in front of their peers and potentially admit their failings can be quite anxiety-inducing if team members can't be trusted to respond in a professional manner.
Reddit’s redesign - not a strict DDoS but it has the same effect. (And not everyone knows to go to old.reddit for the traditional SSR pages)
I can't, but I didn't make the claim, you did.
It looks like a sweatshop.
>If we want a future where everyone can program as easily as drawing a map on a napkin, where the full power of computing is available to more than just professional programmers, we may need to reimagine programming itself.

Seems like they're trying to achieve two incredibly difficult, dubious and complex goals at the same time, which doesn't usually work out in the end
Did you disable WiFi in the menu, or physically remove the WiFi card/chip?
This is the same reason there are so few in Tokyo:
https://www.citylab.com/life/2019/05/trash-cans-japan-garbag...
By "defunding" you must mean a lower increase in year-over-year spending.

https://fullfact.org/health/spending-english-nhs/
Did this happen to go down in Florida?
Easy: The MPAA and every other organization that views copyright infringement as an evil that must be quashed and would seek to shut it down.

To be clear, I'm willing to pay for content, and have a small library of shows and movies sprawled across Google, Amazon, and Apple's offerings that I "own", it's just far more convenient to have all my media in one place: Plex.
The investors are not stupid. (Except SoftBank maybe.) Most of them will make money once they figure out how to pay Goldman enough to dump this trash into America’s 401ks.
> Beautiful.

Is it? I skimmed over it, and I don't find the typesetting / listings / tables / highlighting particularly appealing.
Next time, make a VLAN with its own Wifi, then connect the TV to that VLAN and then what you want to do is block any incoming or outgoing network traffic to the smart TV. If you do this then no one else can attempt to hijack or connect to your TV and the TV wont ask you to connect it to a network, because its already connected to a network. This worked great on my LG smart TV.
What do you think about the tiananmen massacre? Do you think it is a western fabrication?? If you're not authorized to talk about it we understand...
They flew towards it, it was static, and then it rapidly shifted to the left as they overtook it close from the right.
Are they all? I've always assumed they were plastic, surprised this hasn't been raised to my notice before, eg in advertising "our cigarettes are entirely compostable" or something.
As a European I find it difficult to follow this thread.

> about a mob is sure to place me among the pitchfork bearers

Who is the we and the them?

Since it was the “alt-right” Cernovich who took down Epstein and the “alt-right” who has been making noise about him for the better part of a decade I’m guessing you are “alt-right”? But what faction does that make doubleunplussed?

In my center-left country (by European standards - so “far-left” by American standards) a normal worker couldn’t be fired for making the comments Stallman made but a spokesman of the organisation probably could be?

> between the hegemony and the margins, and it's a war we'll win

Which side do you support? From an outsiders perspective it seems like Richard Stallman is in the margin of the margins?
I’m in a major city in France and I use a gigabyte fiber for my 4 employees and it’s 19,90€ per month. And at home I have ADSL and the 3G is faster (12€ for 100Go per month, 8Go in Europe). For the first time, France has one thing working correctly ;)
Does it also continue to archive while the 'do not archive' flag is on?
> It's surprising to me that you can't find a single medium or high-ish end TV without smart features

for a while you couldn't find a tv with decent features that wasn't 3d. happy to see that trend be over.

unfortunately, it seems that industrial tv panels seem to be going away as well.
> You'd think that all the states' rights people out there would be up in arms about this...

Not only has this train left the station, the station has been obliterated from the air.

You'd think that all the free-market people would be up in arms about tariffs and an escalating trade war.

You'd think that all the pro-gun people to be up in arms about the first President in history to implement a gun ban by executive order. (Or perhaps even about the candidate who said "take all the guns now, worry about due process later" well before the election.)

You'd think that all the corrupt-Clintons people would raise an eyebrow as Trump pressures world leaders to meet at his personally owned properties, and accepts bizarre payments[0] from Saudi Arabia while coincidentally also being engaged in an effort to defend their gruesome murder of a US citizen.

You might even think that all the "war on terror" as well as the "US out of Middle East" crowd to be somewhat concerned about a President who announces that the US "is waiting to hear from the Kingdom [of Saudi Arabia] as to how we should proceed."

Whatever is going on here, it's far beyond any kind of simple hypocrisy or political compromises or whatever. People who have spent their entire lives behind slogans like "better dead than red," "pry it from my cold dead hands" and all that stuff have simply done a 180 degree turn on a dime. Now it's suddenly the other side who is unfairly demonizing Russia and the Saudis, and bump stocks are just toys that no one really needs, and whatever else.

Despite my best efforts I am no closer to understanding why it's happening like this. The textbook explanations, like cults of personality, don't seem to apply here. But whatever it is it seems far more dangerous than the normal game of politics in the United States. And it would really behoove us to figure it out soon.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/saudi-funded-lobbyis...
Example uses of assertions in my code
Instagram created 'MonkeyType' to do something similar for type annotations.

A lower barrier way of trying this out could be to run MonkeyType in combination with OP's hypothesis-auto (which uses type annotations to generate the tests).
Small and simple over big and complex. Plus some functional patterns and a lot of YAGNI based thinking.
The device protection seems like it should be separate from the phone plan though? Unless the device protection is voided by canceling your service, it makes sense to not cancel those charges. You might deactivate the device and take it to another provider but still want it fixed if it breaks, right?
I think you just need to read right to left?

"const int * foo"
means that
foo is a pointer to an int that is constant.

Which could also be
"int const * foo"
foo is a pointer to a constant int.

But since the const qualifier for pointers can't be reordered like this, I think the point is that it's a better practice to have the const come after, so that it ALWAYS come after in your codebase regardless of the context?
I don't think it's gullibility, but I doubt that it's liability, either.

Why would the banks give a moment's thought to what Troy thinks about their security?

Even if he went on national TV telling everyone that this is terrible, they would just roll out their normal "While we appreciate the feedback, we are confident that our systems are secure" line.

The vast majority of people don't know who Troy is, they don't have any understanding of IT Security, and having some random computer guy rave about bank security is going to mean nothing to them.
The few that might be marginally concerned over hearing it are almost certainly going to be persuaded by the bank's IT Suit that's rolled out to deliver the line.
> free fiber endpoint box (I don't know what it's really called)

That would be an Optical Network Terminal, or ONT
Ha, drivers almost certainly have a ready receptacle in their car, they still wind down the window and throw the butts out.
Don’t use Kubernetes or Microservices. Solves most problems.

Not even being sarcastic.
Well this is a super elitist point of view. I'm okay with the public understanding and misunderstanding information. There's value in their interpretation. Civilization goes on and history should be preserved as accurately as we can. We should protect children, but adults have the right to know what other adults think and say.
Industry specific certifications can help ease the way into the job market along with a portfolio of (side) projects.
A technically and financially accurate post.

Perhaps not mentioned (that i see thus far) is how density drives the economics of telecom network deployment. Network will be deployed (and upgraded) in direct proportion to the availability of revenue (homes passed)/dollar of capital investment. Those who live in high density cities will have abundant (1Gbs) and relatively cheap bandwidth. Most people living in remote, rural areas will not receive abundant (1Gbs) bandwidth unless someone subsidizes it.

I live inside the perimeter in Atlanta, GA, where ATT provides a 1Gbs fiber connection for $70/month. I just tested it at 878 Mbs down, 650 Mbs up. And that performance has been consistent for over 2 yrs, with no outages except after hurricane or ice storm.

Before that, Comcast couldn't deliver 25 Mbs and went down at least once a month, for hours at a time. Comcast now offers a 1 Gbs service here, but I wouldn't trust its reliability.

Chattanooga, TN has three plus private ISP's. The local power company (EPB) fought AT&T and Comcast tooth and nail to obtain its telecom services license from the City of Chattanooga/Hamilton County. EPB offers 1 Gbs for $68/mo, 10Gbs for $300/month - residential service - and according to family members, the service is excellent (TV and phone offerings also available). EPB offers 1Gbs service to 98% of the city. Neither At&T nor Comcast are close in coverage, but both claim to offer 1 Gbs service.

The key to EPB's success - they already owned the rights of way required for fiber infrastructure (electric grid), they had the capital to commit to the long term investment required for telecom payback (7-10 years), they deployed a fiber-based network from the outset, they hired experienced telecom people to run that business, and they were/remain a respected corporate citizen dedicated only to serving their local area.

Those rights of way are a key consideration often overlooked when outsiders evaluate telecom economics. LOTS of legal and regulatory (local, state, federal) hurdles involved in obtaining them if one doesn't already have them.
There's a lovely Sean Carrol podcast interview with Kip Thorne where he discusses the people and the work that led to the discovery.

https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2018/11/26/epis...
Why did you give it access to Wi-Fi in the first place? I have a Samsung smart TV and I just skipped that step. Performing a HW mod seems unnecessary.
Here's a company that was still using them in the last decade: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.chron.com/news/amp/Conroe-c...
I am quite honestly happy to accept that you're not playing word games and that your intent with trying to dive into this language is good.

I do not believe the same is true of stallman, after having watched him redefine terms for decades, offer his own set of meaning for jargon in common use elsewhere, and so on. I think his frequent stance of "we must examine what this means" is more often than not a distraction, because sometimes he takes a technical meaning, sometimes he substitutes his own, and it never seems like his goal is a shared understanding; just that we should accept his.
That's cool. I also saw someone mention PI-hole. I'd pick whichever method is easiest to setup for my parents, and lowest-maintenance so they don't have to call me. ;)
Not sure why but banks seem to be consistently bad at web dev, at least on the front end.

I have never used a good looking modern web app from a bank. Usually it's a slow bloated crap that looks and works like a project from 10-15 years ago.
What is the point of doing this as opposed to just skipping that step? Does it keep nagging you? Or are certain features disabled if you don't connect?
Most of the people I see litter in SF already have zero social credit and don't look like they're trying to earn any.
Ahh yes, of course, the large monolithic monoculture called "the youth" is naturally stupid enough to be "attracted to anything taboo" without thinking or questioning it. That's why they sure are attracted to other taboo things like incest and necrophilia.

No. Banning Nazi content won't suddenly make it appealing to young people. Things are a lot more nuanced than "banning bad, because kids dumb".
Dogmatic structures are by their nature opposed to the qualities of flexibility and adaptability, or in another word, agility.
Show me a good AI fake-detector, and I'll show you half of an automated adversarial training system :P
HackerNews is now the new interim /r/programming
Perhaps the only rationale (not that I necessarily agree with the outcome) is that California imposing such restrictions violates the interstate commerce clause. The test involved does not consider intent, only whether or not out-of-state businesses are disadvantaged because of state law. So if (e.g.) bespoke carmakers have problems selling to CA because of this then it is a discriminatory law.

This is potentially permissible (in contrast to the Hong Kong holding company vs. Australia suit about cigarette packaging) as the functioning of the US is predicated on states that can work together despite their regulations. Note how states must recognize each other's wedding certificates and driver's licenses, for example.
State of the art in Program Synthesis: Sep 19-20, 2019
I did it scheduled past midnight, from "abroad", from known AWS us-east ranges, with headless resolution set to 1000x1000, completely ignoring their browser detection JS, identifying as either curl or "bank bot", not following links and redirects, causing lots of unexpected failures which should be impossible with a normal browser while developing my scripts. (including 503s from bad csrf token passing)

Basically if there was any check, I would fail it. I did that on purpose - better to know immediately than get silent failures later on. I really don't know what else I'd have to do to trigger "this it not a real person" detection.