skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very few intelligent Americans believe in our absolute exceptionalism. You're saying that the gun-toting hicks are representative of the whole country? Generalization.

Also your strongman framing explanation is overly simplified. "Never" is an absolute. Do you think Saddam was a good guy? Do you think North Korea is a good place?

I'm not nearly in support of everything the US Gov has done. But you're saying since their record is not 100% perfect, then it is a bad actor. Tough threshold you have there. It's obvious you're just anti-US and probably a troll.
For fun and/or exercise
PG&E has a map of potentially affected areas. Seems like many of the areas affected are less densely populated.

https://www.pge.com/en_US/safety/emergency-preparedness/natu...
Rocketdyne yes, Simi Valley no.
In my view responding immediately with clear clarification of the degree of the code openness, right under the title of the website, places this into this as something which isn't remotely disingenuous. In my view seeing this as disingenuous is, quit frankly, odd.

It is also goes against the site comment's guideline (as well as general sane rule) of: Assume good faith.
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Until there is some legally required amount of time to provide security updates for connected devices, I would expect the "buy a new one if you want to be protected" response to continue indefinitely.
At FANG-style companies the decidedly non-transparent process is already well known and is gamed on a regular basis.
I completely agree with all of this, when I started I absolutely hated being petty about things like payment delays or changes in scope; and I didn't agree at all on charging for phone calls or for proposals.

And this would all be fine if my clients (generally well funded startups, post series-A) didn't push back on budgets, but they almost always do, at least for me. So then it becomes about how mercenary I want to be, when I know the company is not willing to pay full price.

To be honest, I probably won't be doing this for too much longer.
Only numbskulls really believe that National Socialism was in any way socialist. I should have capitalized the initial comment correctly, but I was on my phone.

The fact remains that China has effectively implemented and perfected National Socialism. Call it fascism if you prefer. But it is difficult to look at a state that has entwined single-party authoritarian rule around capitalist economic principles and not see the comparison.

That they are brazenly suppressing and exterminating ethnic and religious minorities is icing on the cake.
I wonder how far away the person with the laser pointer is from that lady in the second video - that pointer seems pretty powerful. With a 5mW class 3R laser you can damage someone's retina at 30-20m still with an accidental exposure, for typical collimation ~1mrad. If the spot is around 4cm in diameter and the laser is typically collimated (at 1mrad), they're about 40m away.
Well, we saw with the USSR that decades of Cold War couldn't be defused politically but Levis and Coca Cola went a long way towards bridging the divide.

Now we have China which is basketball-mad but the problem is we can't use the carrot of the NBA to entice them towards us as long as the NBA is willing to trade their product under China's terms for a big enough paycheque. The NBA's attempt to paint themselves as a non-participant is totally unacceptable. You either stand for something or you stand for nothing; you don't get to quietly profit from the situation while declaring you have no position. That's the "good people on both sides" argument we rightly called out as total BS.
This podcast is very hard to listen to. The way that both people talk, the naiveness of the host....it sounds like Im listening to an infomercial for tech jobs.

I realize that English isn't the native language of either speaker.
It would be good if it were though.

If employers were unable to do anything about an employee's political speech, then China would face the choice between isolating itself economically, or tolerating criticism.
There are key founding principles for any liberal democracy.

China and what it stands for is the antithesis of those principles.

Our unwillingness to act on what our ancestors viewed as infringements on basic human rights will be the end of the free world.
No. After the decades of sustained bad behavior, they do not get a pass so easily. Not for several more decades at least.

Also, please quit it with the $ instead of S trope, it's really immature.
It's something that's far easier to take away than it is to stand for and defend. That's why it being enshrined in constitutions and a strong legal culture of defending it is so important.

Short-term thinking and people missing the forest for the trees after some emotional event is far too common for it to be trusted in the hands of the average politician.
The Unpublished Autobiographical Essay of Stephen (Steve) J. Lukasik on ARPA
Non-shortened link: https://supportannouncement.us.dlink.com/announcement/public...
Not that I agree with the original, but that's a bit like asking why would anybody play music or make art (activities that rarely involve money)? Because they enjoy it.
> I hereby grant anybody the right to do consulting/support without prior permission as long as it is less than 30.000 USD per year.

technical note: USD uses commas to denote thousands. So, in USD 30.000 == $30 which isn't worth the time spent to do the research to pick up the first phone call.

Social note: in many US cities $30k isn't enough to survive. In the US it's certainly not enough to live _well_. So, you're basically saying "Hey, I give you permission to make an important contribution to the success and community of this project as long as you're willing to take an absolutely CRAP salary for it."

that's.... not really cool.

I don't think it should matter how much a support person can make supporting your project. The only way a support person will be crazy successful financially is if your tool is ALSO crazy successful. It's a mutually beneficial situation. Don't limit them. Their success is your success.
> Would they know how? They wouldn't normally be accustomed to using those tools, right? A sighted person with laryngitis doesn't need to bother with learning text-to-speech for the 2 weeks they don't have their voice because they can just use the website. If blind users have to learn the tools, that's adding an extra burden on them. (And yes blind users have to learn how to use screenreaders, which sighted users don't, but that's a permanent requirement associated with their disability)

That's all true, but I feel like there's a missing "Therefore..." at the end.

> > because not being able to speak English isn't considered a disability under that law.

> That's not what I said. I've added parentheses to my statement so it's easier to parse as a boolean "(blind and (speech impaired or unable to speak the local language))".

I know that's not what you said. It's what I said. I don't see what your second sentence has to do with it.

> But Domino's provides access to their website in multiple languages. So a blind non-English-speaker isn't enjoying the "equal and full enjoyment" of Domino's services that a sighted non-English-speaker would.

Yeah, they got sued because blind people allegedly can't use their website. Language has nothing to do with it.
A wild monkbent appears!
You almost got me convinced by your alleging RMS asked organizers "to turn the house lights back up so he could see if there was anyone in the crowd he might want to have sex with". I thought, whoa, that sounds not good, bad joke, nothing criminal, but it definitely isn't a good look.

However the moment I found the video with the actual quote and the extent of your mischaracterization of the situation I reverted back to my former opinion on the whole issue (which is very close to "this is witchhunt").

Nevertheless I feel grateful to you for reinforcing me in the belief one should never ever trust any accusation without a concrete proof. I'm deeply indebted to you for this important lesson.
Ah yes, the Soviet way. :P
Restoring felon voting rights a 'mess' in battleground Florida
We really cannot allow China to remove freedoms of speech
I especially liked the image of the guy roasting marshmallows on his burning computer.

Error might be opportunity but it's best to triage and fix the immediate impacts of the error, document the root causes, then explore any potential opportunities later.

Similarly, you should put out a burning computer with an extinguisher. It might be neat to know that computers can start fires but I recommend matches or lighters if you want to roast marshmallows.

So, I agree, and I think these articles are actually harmful. The biggest skill is knowing what the most important thing to do is, how much of it to do, and why you're doing it. Doing something because you read it's a best practice done by experts is almost the direct opposite of that because it does nothing to help you prioritize, scale or understand.

Don't be marshmallow guy.
This was the example I thought of:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html
What I hear you saying is that in a hypothetical world where one can change race like changing a shirt, when confronted by on overbearing cop you'd choose "Black Man, size M" as soon as you'd choose "White Man, size L". And whilst telling the fine officer to piss off, you stand equal chance of living long enough to even need a lawyer no matter which race you chose that day. If I'm hearing correctly, I strongly disagree, but such are different perspectives.
I like it, especially that you have that as the trial salary for all positions (seems like a good shared experience).

If someone is optimizing to maximize a few weeks of trial pay, probably not the best fit.

Also, keep in mind that $25/hour is almost double the median wage of the USA. The software world is a bubble right now. By all means, I advocate to take advantage of that and save up, but don't get angry when a company's wages aren't 10x that of a non-software role. Sure, you can make a lot more money going to a company that earns a lot of money (generally via exploitation of unfair intellectual monopoly laws) while creating little surplus value for the world, or you can join a company like Wordpress that creates far more value for the world than they capture.
I have to ask - why? I understand if you're dealing with an external resource that you can't change, but I'd still like to ask them the same question. JSON's strength, it seems to me, is that it's great for human consumption. It's a very readable data structure when serialized! But who is ever going to read 90GB of JSON?
I’m not sure about the source of the number, but I assume that that’s WordPress sites hosted by Automattic itself.
An enemy (eastern imperialism) of your enemy (western imperialism) is your friend. China was a victim in the Opium wars and then again to Japan in the 1930s and 1940s. This is all important context that needs to be considered.

To be clear I don't support China or Eastern imperialism in (significantly) Africa, the ME, or the US. But if you want to fight it you have to be informed, history repeats itself.
Apparently I was wrong about how podcast chapters are embedded: It's not in the RSS feed itself but encoded as ID3v2 tags in the MP3 file.

Apple Podcasts added support in iOS 12, here's a Google Sheet of the rest: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1c2L14UVH1xtN4iDG4awh...
It sounds like a great business model. Get developers for $25 per hour to prove themselves sell those services and those who produce at a greater rate keep on and pay them slightly more. Training and selecting is self serve.

You wouldn't get the best or keep the best but the game is getting more people on the training track so you can call them when new work is available.
Perhaps differentiate between the CCP and the average Chinese citizen?
It's not much of a dilemma though, is it? Already-rich folks kowtowing to fascists for a quick buck is beyond pathetic.

US companies should stop targeting China for growth. If they don't steal your IP completely, they'll eventually freeze you out like they just did the NBA. It's happened to many companies and will eventually happen to you too. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
> Sadly, your admission that you didn't intend to address the lede of the story indicates that this might be exactly what's happened.

Here, and throughout, I think you're confusing two different things. One is choosing a specific, objectionable point to discuss. The other is being unable to engage with the story as a whole. You are assuming, as far as I can understand what you've written, that because I disagreed and focused on a specific thing you said, I was unable to engage with, understand, or appreciate the story as a whole. I don't think that assumption is well-founded.

Dystopian fiction often serves as a critique of the real world. In this case, it's pretty obvious what's being critiqued, and there is certainly some merit to questioning aspects of cancel culture, furious debates over ever more marginal aspects of identity politics, etc. On the other hand, critique invites response. It's totally in bounds to respond negatively to aspects of a given critique. That's part of what comment sections are for. As far as I can tell, you accused someone of incuriousity essentially for responding to a critique with further critique.

As for how you meant that first sentence, I can only tell you how it came across to me. (As an unnecessary, insulting interjection.) That's all I have to say about it.
"Individuals can complain all they want, as long as it is in their own homes, with no more than two individuals present, and they must be blood-related."
Never understand? I mostly use Git CLI, and it's a big pain. Weird terminology, needing to memorize branch names for easy use, differences between staged and pushed commits. And when you mess your incantation you ripped from SO up you get errors with strange terminology. I understand it's benefits and use it, but older simpler versioning systems like SVN had their own benefits.
> crime in Taiwan and fled to Hong Kong

There's a lot more to that story. Taiwan explicitly ruled out accepting the proposed extradition law, despite IIRC a HKer murdering their HK partner whilst on holiday in Taiwan.

> chief among them universal suffrage, or the direct election of the HK Chief Executive

You mean the promised universal suffrage of the Chief Executive that was written in the Sino-British agreement, and decades later has still not materialised.

I can see why that might be a sore point to the citizens of Hong Kong.
Flawless execution does not necessarily mean everything goes perfect. Expecting everyone to go down without a fight (or even realizing they're in one in the first place) like the West seems like fairly wishful thinking.

I reckon Hong Kong is a speed bump. China could likely roll tanks in and slaughter thousands and the West would do little more than hold some important looking meetings and press conferences with Very Serious looks on their faces, before issuing some "demands" on China's behavior, that would be promptly forgotten. Western culture has become weak, we are ruled by false ideology, propaganda, and the almighty dollar. If you ask me, we deserve whatever it is we get.
Please expand on what this "Rule of Law" proper noun you're referring to is. I am quite curious how it is a thing that democratic societies can have while tyrannies must lack it and I reeeeally suspect that your distinction will fall under a No True Scotsman fallacy.
How does some countries “Holocaust denial laws, bans on swastikas” (not EU-wide), or “the ECHR deciding that saying Mohamed was a paedophile” (court refusing to overrule a local restriction on speech doesn't somehow make the standing blasphemy ruling any less specific to Austria...) indicate other European countries having "very weak" commitments to free speech?
> those are entirely insufficient for inserting pauses

Pretend I said "indicator of separation" instead of "pause" then.

> Sure, there might be other ways. But they're not applied, making the comment harder to follow for some people than it would be had it been subdivided into paragraphs, and mrep was merely helpfully pointing that out in case mltony wanted to keep those people in mind in the future.

By talking about "other ways" to mark a logical separation, I think you're on a completely different argument than mrep. mrep is saying that it's physically hard to track the lines when reading, which is entirely a function of line length and spacing. mrep's problems would be solved if I started adding newlines in the middle of sentences, even though that would make things worse in terms of subdividing into coherent paragraphs.
> ...making those mistakes but never landing most of them into production. It will boost your progress immensely if you have somebody available to critique and guide...

I mostly agree.

But the consequences of what "landing a mistake in production" actually means depends on a lot on the environment and the project. Does it mean the deliverable has a hiccup and skids past the deadline a few days? Does it mean there's <gasp> a bug? Does it mean a hard-to-maintain big ball of mud that makes people miserable for years? Or does it mean a rocket blows up? All those things happen, of course, but to assign blame on any significant number of these to uppity juniors reading articles that are too advanced for them is a bit of a stretch. There are so many ways projects can fail.

I think we all can agree that juniors need the agency to try things out (hopefully with a few guard-rails installed). Sadly having benevolent mentor watch-over juniors is, in many places, a luxury and they're forced to read "articles on the internet" for guidance. It's not optimal but it's OK.
Adding Static Code Analysis to Stack Overflow
I'm so sorry to hear about your wife. I recommend getting multiple opinions. Unfortunately, much of this research is new and largely varies from doctor to doctor. I don't know specifics (since I'm luckily not a patient) but from what I've heard, there are many different metrics to look at. It's not as simple as any one blood marker.

As for treatments, I wish I had good news. Unfortunately, the women I know who are dealing with this are not seeing great results at all. Some have tried IGIF, Methotrexate, and steroids. It's difficult to call any of their treatments a 'success'. I guess if you consider the fact that they're still alive, that's success... But their quality of life is a fraction of what it once was.
You know who else doesn't talk about salary? Companies that try to get the cheapest of everything (salary usually labelled 'competitive'). I think those are more common that yours.
Tagmap is something I've been working on for a bit to try to help solve the problem of how difficult it is for people to meet like-minded individuals near them (or just on the Internet in general sometimes). The general concept is that users tag themselves with their communities and interests, and are then placed onto a map for each tag that they have. Users are also presented with a list of other users that are closest to or most similar to them (based on tags and some other metrics).

For an example of a Tagmap that has a lot more users than the hackernews one (linked above) at the time of writing, check out https://tagmap.io/tag/slatestarcodex, which is for readers of a certain blog that many of you might recognize if you browse HN often.

Love any feedback via any medium including here.
Elegant is one of the more complicated terms in software engineering. Depending on who is using the word, it can mean some combination of: efficiently designed, easily understood (regardless of complexity), surprisingly brilliant, fault tolerant in a clean manner, very insightful on a problem area, etc. Sometimes code is elegant relative to what has been in place, so going from highly complex to slightly complex might be called an elegant solution. Honestly, I've seen elegant used in just about every way imaginable.

While there may be a TON of things alluded to when calling something elegant, generally people mean that it's easy to understand, thoroughly solves the problem, and isn't likely to break. I would imagine that many elegant solutions become legacy code eventually because they don't easily die and don't necessitate placement all on their own.

I'd be interested to hear how other people view/use this word. I haven't given it much thought, but now that I am, it seems to be very important.
It's times like this i'm glad my home router is a x86 mini PC running Arch Linux + iptables + Unifi (Complete with DNS MITM forcing all DNS out of my apartment over TLS)
The parts of fruit preservation were interesting, though I couldn't get the link to work for the section detailing preservation using salt water. I never heard of encasing unripe fruit still on the vine with mud. Burying grapes in sand with a jug overtop reminds me of "Dr. Beals Seed Viability Experiment". This ongoing experiment is over a hundred years old. Never imagined it could be used to preserve food as well.
Well give them a handout as the US soybean farmers got for Chinese cutting imports due to trade war ... this is no different.

You either engage with China and turn a blind eye to their internal repression or totally decouple yourself from them ... can't have your cake and eat it.
yes but I got the feeling the grandparent was confused so I tried to clarify that the only reason for the verbosity is interop - the Clojure code is much more concise than the Java - the interop code is like listening to a speech being translated between English and Spanish
Do uber and wework monitor the conversations of their customers to see if they criticize Islam?

Have uber or wework fired employees for being gay or women?
As far as I know the hours are just a rough guideline, and then also used for billing. When I did my trial it was OK to do more or less, depending on what worked for me.

In the end, the trial’s outcome is more determined by results — what you did and how you did it.
> "Privilege" has lost all meaning in today's world. It's just a word to throw around to slow how "woke" you are.

It gets thrown around a lot, but it absolutely has a meaning.

Ever know anyone who says that "they ignore politics"? In many cases, those people come from a place that they can do that because it doesn't affect them that much, and certainly not as much as other people.

For instance: today the supreme court in the US is deciding whether it's ok to fire people for merely being gay.

To not have to worry about that is 'privilege'.
It's not that it's only a problem when the consequence is brought by the government, but that US policy is so actively hostile to worker interests that the vast majority of employees can be fired at any time for any reason other than when that reason is somewhere explicitly stated to be because the worker is a member of a short list of protected classes.

There's no "right to publicly support things that are not illegal without employer punishment."
The data shows that income is by far the biggest factor, but also that it is not the only factor. Income is the biggest differentiator, and therefore the priority issue to tackle, but "skin color" discrimination does happen and it is a factor to explain these disparities. These are two separate things that are important to remember.
Wow, when a government can ruin someone's professional career of choice simply because he or she has an opinion that goes against the People’s Republic, that’s when companies should decide to no longer do business in China.

Sadly, however, the dollar is more powerful than the the moral high ground.