skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And the bail system where poor people can be held for not having money to post bail is akin to decentralized concentration camps around the country.

Cash bail should be abolished, but there is absolutely nothing in common between the Chinese government's treatment of the Uighur minority and the practice. There's literally a clause directly targeting this in the 8th Amendment, which has been enforced by the courts at various times to reduce bail. No such recourse is available to inmates of Chinese concentration camps. And the 4th Amendment, which the courts actually enforce, guarantees that you can't be thrown in jail without probable cause to begin with.
If HIPAA is a concern host your own server.

If you can't trust your employees to adhere to HIPAA or other mandatory regulations, you need better employees.

If your source code contains personal information, usernames, passwords, etc that should not be exposed to the public, you need to address that immediately regardless of any irrational stances on version control.
The entire US Industrial Revolution was kicked off by Francis Cabot Lowell stealing the designs of British power looms. Alexander Hamilton, as treasury secretary, adopted an actual policy of stealing technology and sent spies to Britain as well.

This is how it works. Countries without technology steal it from those that do. It's basically a market force- if you don't make it available at something approaching a reasonable cost then it will be duplicated through research or just directly stolen.
The larger larger problem is that those giants are owned lock stock and two smoking barrels by advertisers. You can say anything you want on the internet so long as it doesn't lose Proctor & Gamble or Mars or Pepsi Co any money.

Oh the land of the freeeeee.....
He was more "canceled" than "deplatformed". They call it "cancel culture" now.
This gets my vote for worst technical situation.
This is a consequence of the postmodernist post-truth fragmentation of the political discourse in which words and speech are exceedingly used like weapons.

So I’d argue that there is a dialectic relationship between the speech sensitivity on the left and the post-truth-I-know-it-is-false-but-I-will-say-it-anyways-tactics of the right.

And that isn’t the case because speech is a thing the left wants to take away from the rest of us ― no, speech itself has become the battlefield on which the decisions about the future are carried out. Both the left and the right have understood this. So I said the left and the right are in a dialectic relationship when it comes to speech. Here is what this means: As the discourse is getting more and more unhinged and boundaries we traditionally had are completely gone: things that were unspeakable a decade ago are now said in the news.

So the left is in their own weird way trying to keep control about what should and shouldn’t be said. The right on the other hand tries to expand what can be said, because it gives them an advantage. They literally don’t care about the fallout their language has on society as long as it brings them political power. The raw discourse certainly helps to divide the public into binary camps and the hope on the right is that the speech-aware left can be beaten by a right that is not bound to any ethical consideration when it comes to their choice of words. In fact the reason why the language on the right is so unhinged is because they belive it gives them a tactical advantage and not because any of them believes in free speech per se.

So the left tries to change speech in such a way, that the speaker should become aware of the many realities (race, class, gender, culture, ...) encoded in speech and avoid saying things that negatively impact others. The right literally tries to speak things into existence in a way that acts as a tribal identity in times where tribes cannot exist without friction. So where the left has accepted this post-tribal state of affairs and wants to respect as many realities as possible (and sometimes more) the right does the polar opposite and needs to keep as many realities as possible (and sometimes more) out of their speech in order to maintain the group.

That beeing said they are both phenomena that are rooted in the structural changes our societies are going through as a consequence of the internet and the fall of the soviet union (which meant for the first time capitalism didn’t had a socialist counterpart and there was no need to look social anymore).
Maybe you could try giving arguments. Their tracker reactivity system is much like what react hooks now is. They had zero config build tool, much like what parcel now tries to be. They had a package system that because of it's SAT solver is way better for frontend code, something that took NPM years (and still isn't great). It's still the most convenient way to have a type of reactive queries I knoe about... And all of they basically already had in 2011 and all changes thry introduced since then were mostly backwards compatible.
What an absolute joke. I suppose that just meant the new manager wanted you gone. Glad you got out of there and into a better place.
1. It's possible to make an argument for free speech absolutism, but such a vanishingly small number of people actually believe in it that it's not interesting. If I go around insulting and cursing at all my coworkers, I'm going to be fired — and somehow, I doubt the people who are upset about James Damore's dismissal will be clamoring to defend me. Child pornography is the only law I'm aware of that prohibits taking a picture of a crime. Is it illegal to photograph someone shoplifting? Is it illegal to send someone shoplifting photos I find, even if I had nothing to do with the crime in the first place? Don't kid yourself: it's a limit on free speech that basically everyone is okay with because child pornography is universally reviled.

2. It doesn't matter when certain laws were introduced. The government making legislation forcing private citizens to disseminate speech against their will curtails their freedom of speech, full stop. I'm fine with arguments about what regulations are appropriate, just not in the guise of "platforms must do X to support free speech".
Sorry to hear you went through that and glad to hear you made it through. Wish you all the best.
Honestly the amount of time I've saved just by throwing stuff into a text editor with multi-cursor support is kinda unbelievable.
At last a university bureaucrat comes clean!

Oh nvm, it's a Capital One employee. False alarm.
I'm partial to an even simpler solution: Make it easier to go into bankruptcy, and discharge the loan in bankruptcy.

If your debt load is unsustainable, such that your interest payments are more than XX% of your income, then you effectively already are bankrupt. We can either try to get people back on their feet, or let their debtors grind them into the dirt for a while longer.
>Let's not get the government involved, it never really works out well.

I for one like my fire department and police.

Sure, the government fucks up a lot of times, but at least in a democratic society I get to vote while in a "small government" society the power which would be wielded by government (and thus by the people, at least in theory) will be wielded completely by unelected powerful entities not accountable to the people, aka corporations and a few of the rich.
> nobody has ever engaged in it to the extent that China has

Translation: what about all the countries that aren't as bad as China?

A certain amount of "whataboutism" is unavoidable if you attempt to make any comparative statments, or believe inductive reasoning is possible.
Iraq used to not be a basket case country until it was invaded by the unipolar hegemony.
Are there any human institutions where you _can't_ just say "oh those supposed good people did evil too"?

I'm legitimately curious if evil is struck throughout 'both' sides in any situation ...
Amazon already has a product based off Apollo. But MDG makes money of apollo by selling graphql monitoring and analytic tools for your Apollo apps.
Just out of curiosity, when I block ads, does that decrease your CPM? I'm doing it either way, I'm wondering how they count adblock views.
Thanks for your briljant story, enjoyed every sentence (it's very well written).
I wasn't aware human rights had to be earned.
The only possible downside that I can think of is that I'd have to deal with a little extra hassle if I wanted a cashier's check.

Almost everything wrong with consumer banking in america is contained, or stems from the ability to refer to cheque as a neccessary and normal thing in modern day finance.

I tore up my last cheque book ten years ago, I have had to resort to Western Union three times now (once a year) to send money to Her Majesties Customs and Excise for my UK pension topup, its the only thing I still do that way, and if the UK stopped using a closed-loop domestic clearing house and opened up SWIFT I'd do this via the IBAN immediately.

Cheques are cool. They're also horrendously stone age and the "yes but..." are the collected history of insanity that is american banking.

Jimmy Stewart, holding the fort at the friendly credit union on christmas day...
Also not my experience. Accidentally had a timing issue once, and was overdrawn for a week before an ACH more than covered the difference.

On day four they called me to make sure I was aware. I explained that I had already started a transfer several days earlier, and they said "no problem" and thanked me for being a customer.

No overdraft fees, no pulling from my brokerage account, no margin loan. Never heard anything about it ever again.
The shutdown in Kashmir is mostly to stop communications coming in from outside of India, mostly terrorist outfits in countries like Pakistan. There is lot of evidence in last 30 years or so how Kashmir becomes violent and how violent "protests" are organised with funding from state and non state actors from other countries.
Hammers can also be used in awkward to reach places that a nail gun can't get to. Also, structural timber is very rarely straight or true. Knocking things into alignment is a very common part of framing, and hammers can achieve sub-millimetre accuracy with gentle tapping.

Yes, nail guns are awesome, but hammers are very useful tools.
You are not alone. I feel similarly
I'm not from the US (Canada), so it sometimes confuses me when people talk about the cost of college. Doesn't the US have public universities? Are they super expensive too?
First Tech and BECU both do this, pretty sure the smaller credit unions like Verity and People's CU also reimburse ATM fees and offer high yield checking & savings accounts.
> there was also precedent as i believe chinese gov has hooks into iMessage

iMessage is end-to-end encrypted.
One of my goals in life is to never be susceptible to this kind of situation (been there some years ago). So far I manage to have as big a financial buffer as needed to be able to quit instantly in that situation without batting an eye.

Indeed I never hide my ability to do so and I try to make very clear the things "I won't do" at any gig I take. Either before I start or very early in the process. At my current job it is "I won't program in a language without both types and IDE". Because of this I only work on the parts that are in TypeScript and the the JS, Ruby and Python parts are other people's problems.

I may seem like an asshole, but so far it works. Almost a year later I haven't been fired. And they seem happy about my work. And I am definitely not near burnout. Stark contrast with the older days.
I would look at it more like a Meetup competitor that’s making a bet on segmenting in a totally different way (age instead of interest).

All startups start by focusing on a small segment of the addressable market. That’s not a weakness.
True, maybe someone will make these things, but that doesn’t mean one has to approve of it, nor be the one that builds it.

Bad things still happen even they’re outlawed, but that doesn’t mean we just throw up our hands and proclaim that there’s nothing anyone can do about anything, and dismantle the entire legal system.
Who knew the ministry of silly walks[1] would be a privacy measure in the future?

In all seriousness, the confidence interval of this is really low - 83% among a tiny pool of individuals. It's really interesting to be sure, but the tiny amount of confidence would make it extremely unlikely to be used in the context of justice/law enforcement (then again, maybe not [2]).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78OKaiYld1E

[2] 10% false positive rate in active use: https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/mobile-cannabis-tests-on...
What will be the future of Olli 2.0- Future of transportation
Choosing sides and facilitating illegal calls to action is exactly what a reasonable company does in this situation. The matter of how best to serve humanity is not the slightest bit unclear here.
Arguably, a spruce in Sweden is 9550 years old.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Tjikko

Depends how you count regrowing from the roots though. Trees can't be too much older because that's around the end of the Ice Age. ;-)

My personal preference is not for a single tall or big tree as much as a sprawling area full of many huge trees. If you're ever in the far-Northern-California area, this hike is amazing:

https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/cathedral-tree...
I've quit a couple of places. If the management is incompetent or just out of their depth; if they company can't make good use of my skills and talents.

I'm an outlier, but I've been homeless and I have no wife nor children to support, so I don't fear just quitting if any BS comes up.

My advice, FWIW, is to always have your "FU" money.

(Money is a technology, here's a good simple manual: "The Richest Man in Babylon"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Richest_Man_in_Babylon_%28... )
My response:

You've never looked at a piece of code that you wanted to see the history of?

You've never needed to revert a single change a few hours/days/weeks later?

You've never needed to track down the person who wrote a piece of code in order to ask them for clarification?

You've never needed to see the original change reason for a line of code that is doing some weird, specific thing that seems out of place?

You've never needed to have two people edit the same file at the same time?
I wonder what this sale means. It's MIT licensed, so they're just buying the brand name? Is a development team (mostly just benjamin newman these days) moving with it? Benjamin has been absolutely fundamental for Meteor and I think the success of this acquisition largely depends on what he will do.
This is an essential force for transfer of tech. Ideally, it should be India given that many MNCs from chip fabrication to military hardware have set up shop and base here.

However, India doesn't seem to have learned to use this model, as is evident from decades of buying foreign weapons without learning to make them ourselves.

China built its military industrial complex by copying Russia. The only thing India has copied so far is an anti-materiel rifle.
So don't use your ISP for DNS and use something encrypted like https://1.1.1.1/ or others.
Or more, depending on what fraction of their production or revenue it made up?
I haven't seen that, but the fact that you posted this interesting link makes me glad I commented! Will check it out
Not OP, but looking at his example, conciseness.

DSLs are feared by many, but actually when you're doing the same thing over and over again and it's hugely verbose, they're great!
> The project wasn't ready for a deadline.

I really like that way of looking at deadlines and project lifecycles. I haven’t ever heard the relationship expressed that way.
If you are interested, here are some background articles about Apple's assembly plant in Zhengzhou, China
https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/2188162/f...
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/apple-iphone-factory-foxc...
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/29/technology/apple-iphone-c...

Why my interest? I taught Maths (in English) in Zhengzhou for a couple of years and constantly wondered where my students could find employment, so I recently searched online and found these articles about the iPhone assembly plant there. Some things I learnt: assembling iPhones is boringly repetitive, basically just install the same one screw all day, so workers only last about a year; the impetus came from Terry Gou, the Taiwanese billionaire founder of Foxconn; and, in the past, to be purchased by the Chinese, such "foreign goods" had to be shipped to Hong Kong, then turned around and imported back into China, whereas Foxconn negotiated virtual export/import at the touch of a button. The iPhone story, by putting my former Zhengzhou students in the "centre" of the US, China, Taiwan and Hong Kong tensions, made those tensions more "engaging" for me.

And yes, I am concerned about the plight of the Uighurs. I think the repression of that group is directly linked to the 2014 knife killings at Kunming railway station, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Kunming_attack. Immediately after that attack, metal detecters were set up at railway stations in Zhengzhou. And I noticed some Muslim businesses disappearing from the streets.
I guess that is why everyone just uses Chrome nowadays. /s
The App Store allows for apps to be forced to sandbox themselves. Very few macOS apps outside the App Store are sandboxed, for example.
Can you suggest any sites for hiring remote developers?
Who exactly outsourced to Japan?
How NLP in machine learning working
>they were buried under poorly understood and debunked science and statements that were easily misunderstood.

I didn't read his essay or follow this case at all, but from Wikipedia it seems he was arguing that biological differences between the sexes are a driving factor for the lack of women programmers at Google. That's a position that's solidly backed by the science.
Me and some co-workers did a mini-language a long time ago too, but it was for a BPM workflow software that was so in vogue ten years ago [1]. It only had a super buggy graphical interface that customers hated. Some of the largest customers had workflows with more than 100 steps/conditions, and we were losing money because we needed to have a full-time coder on-site for each customer just to program the workflows.

The database structure however was quite good, and I noticed that it was being deleted and recreated each time the workflow was edited.

Adding a text mode was just a matter of parsing individual lines and persisting them on the database. No parser, just regex matching. Even an extra blank space was a syntax error. Something like that:

q1 = Question("Submit Request?")
a1 = Answer("Submit")
a2 = Answer("Reject")
Connect(q1, a1)
Connect(a1, a2)
c1 = Cancel("Cancel")
f2 = Finish("Finish")
Connect(a1, f1)
Connect(a2, c1)

It was implemented as an easter egg. Using text mode disabled the graphical part, since we lost the positions of each box. But nobody ever complained about that, of course.

[1] Looked similar to this: https://archibus.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/GWE.png
Hopefully it will stop happening, but if not, we can penalize or ban the site.
I agree with breaking up the monopoly! But again, it's because I dislike concentrated power in general, not because of their power over speech specifically.

My issue here isn't with the idea that we do something about large tech companies. It's the proposal to abridge legal freedom of speech, masquerading as an attempt to protect free speech. OP is presenting this as an objective argument about freedom, when really they just don't like where the lines are drawn.
The fact of the matter is that things like payday loans exist to exploit the poor and homeless in a way that ensures that they live perpetually in debt.

To take your argument to its rational extreme, it would be a bad idea to disallow poor people literally selling themselves to a corporation because that's taking away their basic rights.

And this is literally something that happens when you don't put regulations to stop it [1]. The fact that the poor predominately are people who take payday loans which often end up exploitative of their situation should tell you that payday loans might be a bad thing! The norm is that people are not escaping payday loans. Payday loans need to go and we need an actual safety net in place.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/09/us-payday-lo...
Of course Apple bitched out, what else have they ever done?

Acting like a revolutionary, counter culture company is one thing. Actually sticking it's neck out and doing something important is something completely different.

Part of the reason I can't stand apple. At least Microsoft acts like a lame computer company without sloughing on layers of pretentious BS.
Just the books are expensive in the USA but inexpensive in the rest of the world.

Tuition has gone up even in public schools. Unless the student finds a good paying job after graduation they will struggle with student loan payments.
It's also how the US grew in the 18th century, by stealing IP from the global technological leader, Britain (who stole a great deal from India).
it is not worth your job in a thread entitled "who wants to be fired"?

This entire thread discussion is filled with it's not worth it, but towards the "no one should be forced to work like that" kind of way
height and width are of type GifWord, which is typedefed to uint_fast16_t.
The US.
If the `something` function had `(num: string | number)` I would not be able to call `assertIsInRange(num: number)` because `Argument of type 'string | number' is not assignable to parameter of type 'number'.`

So If I wanted to do that I would have to

if (typeof num === 'number') {
assertIsInRange(num);
}

anyway.

I think I still don't get it.
I'm out the door pretty soon if I'm alone in dealing with a bully or an insecure pr$&k who builds himself up by putting putting you and others down.

Two years ago I reported a female colleague whom I witnessed being harassed. After reporting it I was harassed by different employee ..nothing came from reporting my harassment and so I left. That place was terrible and no longer exists.

Overall There's too many jobs out there in our field to have deal with b.s. and stress.
It's often true that the funds aren't covered until they're in the custody of the partner bank. This is the case for some of the neobank cash accounts. Not sure about Schwab tho.
> In fact the reason why the language on the right is so unhinged is because they belive it gives them a tactical advantage and not because any of them believes in free speech per se.

Mindreading.

> They literally don’t care about the fallout their language has on society as long as it brings them political power.

Mindreading. Possible projection too, but I don't want to engage in mindreading.

> become aware of the many realities encoded in speech and avoid saying things that negatively impact others

Get a time machine, tell that truck to James Madison. Tell it to John Stuart Mill.

There is one proven way of raising consciousness and of expanding the possibilities of consciousness, and that's free speech. Every other mode of conceptualizing the kaleidoscope of realities leads to bad places. Every other mode other than free speech is a blasphemy against the Enlightenment. I will defend your right to blaspheme of course, but reserve my right to sneer at your "dialectic" and at your deeply broken toxic simile about how "words and speech are exceedingly used like weapons".

s/like/in lieu/, and we should be damn grateful for it.
Ask HN: What are weird and/or novel ways to do web UIs?
Do you know any websites that have weird UIs ? Something like a ZUI [1] for example.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooming_user_interface
I think getting caught up in the "but does it fit the definition of deplatforming?" is a pretty obvious distraction from the issue.