skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personal attacks will get you banned here, and you've unfortunately done this before as well (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21034818). Please edit such swipes out of the comments you post to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Do you not find the fact the JavaScript has no concept of integers and treats everything as floating point, as a valid point to it being a mess with numbers?

Sure, you can make it work. But I think it's a fair criticism when compared to just about any other language.
Happy for you it turned out well, but the whole story is quite weird.

It's obviously impossible and the timing is awful, so it has to be voluntary and there's something behind it.
Did he need a reason to fire you? But that seems like a really bad reason that could backfire in a court.
No direct help...besides banning Huawei user, removal of fake news bots and pro-china propaganda on its platform
And Costa Rica?
There are many sites that I can suggest to you but rather than making a list I will comment here just 1 site - https://codersera.com this is currently the site I am using for hiring developers for my personal project. Till now I am satisfied with the developers I am working with.
Ghost this job immediately. It's a clusterfuck waiting to happen, and your bosses are going to leave you holding the bag when everything turns to shit.

You're a programmer, not a fall guy. You aren't getting paid enough for this.
> i’m not sure about typescript, but in many languages assertion have the natural behavior of being compiled out of release builds and kept only for debug mode.

Not in TS. This code

function something(num : number) {
assertIsInRange(num);

return num + 1;
}

function assertIsInRange(num: number, msg?: string): asserts num {
if (num < 50 || num > 100) {
throw new Error('not in range');
}
}

something(50);

gets compiled to

function something(num) {
assertIsInRange(num);
return num + 1;
}
function assertIsInRange(num, msg) {
if (num < 50 || num > 100) {
throw new Error('not in range');
}
}
something(50);
When I was a conscript in the Swedish army in the early 90:s, this involved some work around masts and telecomms towers (I was in a signals unit) and, under peacetime labour protection rules, that meant wearing an approved hard hat. The army's steel helmet (m/37, i.e, 1937 pattern!) wasn't approved, so we wore standard, bright orange, hard hats, which looked rather funny with our camouflage uniforms. Someone asked whether we could spray paint them dark green, but the answer was a blank no; they must not be modified in any way or the approval would no longer be valid, and our superiors would be in violation of all sorts of laws for allowing us to use them.
I think there is some historic background here as well.

You had brucellosis scares in Portugal with a lot of media coverage, which lead to quite a few human brucellosis cases and several sheep and goats exterminated in containment measures.

I have no evidence that these are related but the corpse collection could be an over the top measure by the regulatory authorities to stop brucellosis disease vectors.
The article says there can be consequences.

> Under Chicago Public Library’s new policy, a checked out item will automatically be renewed 15 times as long as there are no holds on it. Afterwards, the item will be marked lost, and the library will charge the borrower its market value, though charges will be cleared as long as the borrower returns it.
The parties to the contract are presumably Cloudflare and Mozilla, since that page keeps mentioning their "agreement with Firefox" and "agreement with Mozilla". Therefore Mozilla can enforce it. As for costs to breach, that would be determined by a judge or jury based on damages suffered by Mozilla. Depends to some extent on the actual text of the contract, which hasn't been published.

That's the main mechanism for enforcement, but there are a few additional ways it could theoretically be enforced:

- The FTC and state attorneys general can sue companies for violations of their own privacy policies, as "unfair and deceptive acts and practices". For example, they sued Cambridge Analytica recently. [1]

- The California attorney general in particular would also be able to sue under the California Consumer Privacy Act once it goes into force.

- As for ways for individual consumer to sue... well, it's more difficult, but possible. For instance, a class action suit against Facebook on a grab bag of claims, also related to Cambridge Analytica, recently survived a motion to dismiss. Among other things, the judge held that users could sue for breach of contract if Facebook violated its privacy policy. [2]

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/media-resources/protecting-c...

[2] https://www.cand.uscourts.gov/filelibrary/3755/Order-re-Moti...
The Alcubierre drive relies on negative matter, not dark matter.
What exactly is a indie hacker?
Most Chinese use VPN or other tunnel protocols these days. Once GFW finds out you are using a VPN or tunnel, it will block the TCP/UDP connection by dropping packets. And it does can identify any protocol that is widely used, even those claim to have obfuscation ability, like shadowsocks.

Anyway, the TCP/HTTP tricks discussed here may work for some time or not, but we really do not expect much from that.
Everything about this screams that you're being set up to fail, and given the circumstances "failure" might mean jail time.

There are plenty of jobs out there. Go get one, _today_, please!
How can a barista accomodate the variance in taste of a customer when pulling an espresso shot? The barista can dial in the pressure profiling, how long to pull the shot, and the grind size. For a given batch of beans, based on the type, level of roast, and age, there likely exists a sweet spot for those parameters that most baristas would agree upon. My understanding is that this is what baristas do anyway - adjust the machine for the beans available today, and then just crank them out all day long. A super automatic (or future versions) that's dialed in daily could achieve pretty much the same thing.

AFAIK, the barista will try to pull the best espresso out of the beans that they have. I'm not sure variance in customer tastes can be accomadated at this level, beyond a ristretto or an americano.
From the article it sounds like the author's analysis identified people who would end up in default with high probability, but were still profitable to loan to because revenue from payments + collections exceeded the loan.

And if the author had had more clout / underlings she could have done a more thorough analysis of spending patterns to identify who would buy ephemerals like entertainment vs necessities like food or shelter.

And if there was buy-in from the government then they could add government assistance to the program, like negative interest rates for essential purchases or something.

But C1 and every other business is focused on making a profit next quarter, while the government is focused on getting re-elected, so there's nobody around to do any development like that.
Samsung has lost the Chinese market. It's all Apple, Huawei, and the other Chinese brands.

This what this piece of news highlights, really.
Here we go again. Because nobody learned from 2008.
Your first point is simply a further contrivance. Allowing workplaces to regulate behaviour is not an encroachment on free speech. Allowing them to regulate thoughts and opinions arguably is. There was nothing wrong with Damore’s behaviour, nobody accused him of bullying anybody. His point of view was the issue. Child sexual abuse is also one of the only crimes committed for the purposes of taking and distributing photos. There’s nothing inherently harmful about selling ivory, yet it’s illegal because it’s trade is the primary reason poaching elephants and rhinos happens.

Regarding regulations, my point is simply that your assertion that correcting large companies ability to control online speech would violate their own rights to free speech, is simply false. The only reason they have that ability in the first place is because of a regulation that is without precedent, and allows them to have their cake and eat it too. You don’t have to compel them to do anything. Simply remove the immunity they have from be held liable for their decisions.

However everything you and I have just said is irrelevant, because people who raise those point almost never have a genuine concern about the rights of large companies, nor the absurd idea that somehow this line of reasoning would lead to the legalisation of child pornography. The reason these points are raised is that the heart of the issue is that as a society we should value free expression, it has nothing to do with laws. Taking a direct stance against free expression is actually quite hard to get people to agree with, which is why these nonsense points must instead be raised to deflect to conversation onto something completely different.
My reason is different from most. I am working on difficult problems, more technically difficult than I ever have before. Maybe I will succeed, but I may fail because I'm way in over my head.

But if I am in over my head, I hope I get fired. Because at least I was challenged enough where I hit my limit for the first time, from a technical standpoint. And then I will be free to move on and do something else with my life.

If I succeed, then I will be happy continuing to succeed in this role, working on difficult problems. So it is a win win.
My first reaction was sticker-shock Vice spent that much money on Refinery29 given both companies are struggling with profitability.

Then, as I read it's mostly an all-stock deal and zoomed out to the investors it added a lot more perspective.

Vice and Refinery29 are both more like media pawns than media pillars. Vice's major equity owners include Disney, TPG (a private equity company from Texas that owns McAfee), and A&E (owned by Disney) - so Disney and TPG. Refinery29's major equity owners include WarnerMedia (owned by AT&T), the Discovery Channel, and a random private equity company.

At a high level, this acquisition is like a few financier and mega-corporation kids in the same sandbox playing a game of toy soldiers.

This doesn't really mean anything about Vice's or Refinery29's editorials or whatever, it's just a total mindfuck to look at these "behind the scenes" ownership structures and think about how that relates/juxtaposes with the companies that are owned.
I guess now you have 3 problems
Those would be the psychopaths and sociopaths, but I don't think you're among them. These folks basically lack the relevant social emotions altogether, so they end up being quite materialistic and self-centered. They can and do figure out that other emotions somehow exist and that they're socially expected to show them, but they have no "hardwired" intuition for their affective implications, so they'll have a whole lot of trouble negotiating constructively with others. They're deeply prone to thinking that everyone else is just like themselves, self-centered and quite willing to screw others in pursuit of their own goals.

I.e. their affective impairments do have significant implications on the theory-of-mind/'cognitive' side of things, but those implications are very different from the troubles of someone on the autistic spectrum. In a way, they're the very opposite!

(In fact, if you're somewhat on the spectrum and basically aware of what makes psychopaths tick, you can even have a lot of fun spotting them and interacting with them. Their attempts at superficial charm will most likely fall flat, while their lack of deep integrity and engagement will be blatantly obvious to you - but they'll probably be assuming the very opposite! So it's quite easy to figure out what they're going for and anticipate their moves.)
Where I am from it's normal to get a 1 year contract when starting. Then if you did well you either get another temp contract or a contract of indefinite duration.

I feel if you quit after a year other companies will assume you didn't make it past the first period. So I'll try to stick around some while before making moves.

Also just having had a kid makes me feel I don't want to burden myself too much. A new job might be better, might be worse. For now at least I know what I've got.
I'm amazed at the ai based tagging but it's sooooooo far from actually useful for me. i know it's hard work and I have no clue how to make it better but I need to be able to make much more specific searches like "offices with posters of sailor moon" or "German shepards" or "white tennis shoes". I have 120k photos and a much as I'm amazed at the categorization it almost never actually helps me find the picture I'm looking for.
http://letmegooglethat.com/?q=What+exactly+is+a+indie+hacker...
Unfortunately, Alcubierre doesn't use dark matter. It uses negative mass (or even imaginary mass) matter. Dark Matter is believed to have regular positive mass (if it were negative mass, we'd be wondering why galaxies seemed to have less matter than they should).

The existence of negative mass exotic matter remains an open question.
How about "platforms must be platforms in order to be legally protected as platforms"? Is that a guise, or is it cold honest look at the grip at which FAANG and their lawyers have sunk their teeth into our congress and our public discourse?
Benjamin has announced he will continue to work for Apollo and not be joining the Tiny team [1].
[1] https://forums.meteor.com/t/some-exciting-meteor-news/50313/...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21141149
You can have a git repo on a server that developers use ssh to access just with git. The bells and whistles aren't part of the core job. It's just my general griping about software these days.
This is quite fascinating at first glance, but if this does become a viable method for law enforcement to use, the worry is that a 82% or 83% or 89% confidence score still gives in to a huge doubt. Actions taken on this basis could be uncalled for. If the justice system gets accustomed to it and relies on such confidence levels without looking for additional corroborating evidence, it would be disastrous.
It is whataboutism I agree, whenever something about China comes up the very first comment is usually a "what about... "
It's kind of interesting that this is the exact comment I expected to see.

Obviously, the mockery of "free speech" as "freeze peach" is because the meaning behind that, for a lot of people complaining about it, is that they would like to say something hateful. It's so frequent that it's become a meme.

It's unfortunate, and places that put an emphasis on free speech are shitholes like gab and voat. They would like whatever hate they're selling to have a bigger audience, and it's not really on corporations to provide that.

I would say the term has been co-opted by the right in online spaces, which makes it hard to talk about. It's no longer classical "free speech," almost always you have ask, "what were you trying to say with that free speech?"

Are they being banned for being anti-government? Anti-bank? Anti-military? Anti-religion? The pro- versions of those? Or is it maybe something else. Your vision of a "leftist" crack down, could be interpreted as the "right" getting more extreme and being banned.
Quick recommendation: change your DNS servers since this type of thing (and others) could be caused by your ISP.

[1] https://erichelgeson.github.io/blog/2013/12/31/i-fought-my-i...
[2] https://www.pcmag.com/review/364418/how-and-why-to-change-yo...
Same boat, similar level of responsibility and I’ve been programming 20 odd years.

I accepted an offer yesterday, 35% pay bump, 5 extra holiday days, twice the bonus cap and all of that pales against knowing I’ll never have to touch that fucking codebase under unrealistic constraints again in a short time.

In stead I get to run a team, in a much bigger company with proper modern development practices.

When they rang to tell me it was mine if wanted it I was literally shaking, it felt like an elephant had stepped of my chest.

Until that point it really hadn’t occurred to me how unhappy the last two years at work have been, fighting the worst undocumented codebase I’ve seen two decades was a long slog, doing it alone for people who don’t understand the issues just made it worse.

Will be putting my notice in next week.

As someone 20 years older than you, get out and get out soon.

You are damaging your future career chances by stagnating in a job that won’t teach you how to do things better for your future.
Nah, company only manufacture in cheap countries.
So...fields, then? Except with a leaky scope and no encapsulation?

This can be useful when you want to keep an association to an object but you want to ownership of that list of associations in a different object but I certainly would not make these global.
Yeah I'm being idealistic, but money can solve it, smaller companies do have teams around the world to do 24/7 on call.

Partially, i think its this way because it is accepted, no one seems to question it or push back on it. No one values their free time out side of work?

Also, Every time Ive been oncall I have been oncall for code I didn't write, I haven't even always have a job coding (ops/devops/sre roles) and have been on call for services. Or there's that thing that been neglected and unowned but someone needs to be oncall for it.
I'm curious, how far does your belief in freedom of association extend? Should a business be allowed to refuse service to someone because they are black, for example? Does your answer change depending of whether that business has many competitors (e.g. a cake shop) or is a near-total monopoly (e.g. google)?
I know Britain exploited the hell out of India as a colony, but what IP did they steal?

Or did you just mean stolen resources?
Swarm of tiny satellites could relay messages by year’s end
> my girlfriend is a teacher and I see her working about 40 hours a week, for a 24h job...

The thing is, many people in 40-hour-week jobs are doing upwards of 60 hours per week. I'd offer that the better paid the job and the more responsibility the job has, the more hours per week are required. Nearly everybody is doing their equivalent of grading papers and doing lesson plans.
Wireguard is not designed for bypass firewalls. The protocol has significant patterns, and already been blocked by the GFW. (you will find it if you use it often)
Agreed, I would argue that web app implies function above a website.
If it can't be questioned, it's not science. All the labcoats and vials in the world can't make you a scientist if you don't believe in inquiry.
You're making an assumption that Starlink will fight a nudge by the US government instead of quietly complying.
JavaScript can’t represent 64-bit integers without using a string.

Calling it just a mess is being polite.
> called in for an emergency off-work hours

Yes this should be the only time your ever called in off hours, there better be a threat of people dieing. hah

The reality of oncall is the server is filled up because no one can bother to rotate a log file, so you get paged at 4am to delete a file.
Linux Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer (Kcsan)
LKML announcement [1]

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/9/20/394
The Java Specialists slack channel
> but nobody came.

)-,;
The broadband competition in most of Europe seems much, much healthier than in basically all of the US.

Speed is higher, prices are significantly cheaper and in a lot of countries fiber to home is widely available.

Those traditional carriers (which I note are all French and you forgot to mention Free, which pretty much kicked their collective asses) don't seem to do much to thottle that. Do they?
Disclaimer: I've never built a startup.

My perception is that startups require herculean effort with enormous risk. That "bet" may be worthwhile if it will make the world a proportionally better place - which reasonably includes compensation for that effort. Part of the effort of a startup is to estimate the potential market, the value of what you bring, the costs of producing it, and communicating that value to those who would gain from it.
Plug those numbers into a spreadsheet (numbers which will express your biases and values) and make a decision. In a different framing: evaluate your business plan.

Folks on HN will not be able to advise you without access to those kinds of details. Some will have experience and insight that may allow you to adjust those numbers; be grateful for the advice they provide.
You forgot to mention medical tourism for organ transplants taken from young, healthy people that happen to follow the wrong ideology.
I really don't know. I'd like the iOS version to be lighter, but I'm at the whim of Unity. I've tried a couple of ideas to make the iOS bundle smaller, but no luck.
Remove 'contracted' and it applies to any work, or any day job in general.

Including software. It is also one of those reasons why the 40 hour work week is mostly a myth.
I had a problem
I wrote a compiler
Now I have 2 problems at line 33 and 67.
While purchasing an ERP software for a trading
Conversely, do you find that this criticism applies to Lua?
to disallow poor people literally selling themselves to a corporation

This isn't a right we grant other people, so, no, it is not the logical conclusion.

The antidote to a Payday loan habit is more earned income or other access to resources that aren't borrowed. So if you want to solve this, give cash gifts to poor people you know, help vulnerable people access earned income or other resources, work on solving the housing supply issue in the US and/or work on addressing the healthcare issue in the US.

I do what I can to provide useful information to homeless and at-risk Americans as my contribution, for example:

https://sandiegohomelesssurvivalguide.blogspot.com/

http://whathelpsthehomeless.blogspot.com/

https://genevievefiles.blogspot.com/

http://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/

https://www.pocketputer.com/

https://writepay.blogspot.com/

Simply cutting people off from the shitty resources they currently have access to without giving them something better only makes their problems worse. It's easier to cut people off than provide additional (superior) support and most people arguing vociferously for cutting them off are not actually actively working on better solutions, so it ends up being a big fat "fuck you" to the poor with a self-righteous justification to make it sound better.
> I can't name any deplatformed views that aren't hate speech. If you can, I'd like to hear about them to broaden my views.

This is the initial comment we are discussing. It’s a pretty specific choice of words, so it’s not unreasonable to continue the discussion based on a reasonable interpretation of those actual words.

That claim is the specific issue being discussed, so I don’t think it’s a distraction. If you’re interested in some other issue, then by all means openly discuss that.

If the challenge was just to name any event that has occurred that didn’t involve hate speech, then sure, we can list many such events.
Should Joe Biden cease saying his Administration was scandal-free?
That was the first thing I tried, but since the only relevant hit is the indiehackers side leads me to believe its s made up term and not actually a thing, and I wanted to confirm that. But thank you for your informative reply nonetheless, obvious you put a lot of effort in it!
Start with, "Fuck you, pay me." If you try to be diplomatic with people who are trying to take advantage of you, they will eat you alive.
It's probably a bit buggy, but there's an Easter egg if you tap 3 times on the middle right planet during the loading screen.
But you are only comparing what is outwardly done and neglecting the motivations, the human factor. Our founding fathers were good people, their hearts were in the right place. The Chinese are bad people, we can all agree with that. Identical actions can still be morally different because they proceed from different motives.
How to Be a Successful Twitch Streamer?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21088046
That's the highest horse I've seen so far on this site.