skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then why donate $500k? Why'd Chef choose to drop ICE? Why all this damage control if they aren't scared of losing money?
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so that's why Ikea are being so blue-and-yellow all the time. Rather interesting origin story considering their very swedish branding. All the other Nazi-complicit companies at least bothered to hide this aspect. No german imaging from Hugo Boss (named after the founder, a Nazi). Ikea hid in plain sight by going all in on the nationalism.
I believe this is what is being referred to https://medium.com/@selamjie/remove-richard-stallman-fec6ec2...
Frightgeist 2019 – Most Popular Halloween Costumes from Google Trends Data
Kudos to Github, it is so refreshing to hear a reasoned, nuanced response for once.
Open letter to all developers with blogs
Please add timestamps to your posts!

Thanks,
thisguyrob
That's correct but it's also worth noting that he did not resign, he was resigned.
"consensus opinions" authorized by Chinese government - likes, "trending" and timelines are all artificially constructed to make you feel like it's the consensus of Chinese people.
what’s even cooler, he removed the chess punctuation!
> innocent until proven guilty is still the fairest justice system

Justice system administered by a state where the repercussions include imprisonment and death - absolutely. But HR is not a judicial system and should not be viewed as one. I think I take your point to be just a descriptive observation of "our social discussion reflects a habit based on our exposure to judicial systems" and not a normative statement. Even if it's the former, I think it's naive and ignores a very real culture of doubt and victim-blaming exclusive to sexual violence.
Woah, first Japanese site I've seen that doesn't look like a casino. To be frank, I don't visit many Japanese sites, I thought all looked the same.
Like a Trade Scuffle?
Honestly, find a reputable attorney in the region you want to incorporate and file through them. It may cost a few bucks more, but it's worth it.
> I didn't realise it was pegged. So agreed without deep pockets it will be difficult.

I did a bit of research just to make sure I wasn't mis-remembering

> Libra would operate as a stablecoin. That means its value would be pegged to a basket of specific currencies and backed by assets denominated in those currencies. [1]

I'm sure FB has good employees, but so did the Bank of England. [2] I just don't understand decisions like this.
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1. https://www.barrons.com/articles/facebook-libra-currency-wil...

2. https://www.thebalance.com/black-wednesday-george-soros-bet-...
Path of least resistance. The Outrage Machine has already moved on from Chef. This will blow over in a week or two as well.

Anyone stop using or working at Uber, Slack, or WeWork [1] because of Saudi (and the human rights atrocities that go along with it [2]) money flowing into it via Softbank Vision? Not enough to matter if so. Everyone works at a company where one of their customers or investors is an evil monster, and if that customer is worth enough revenue or that investor worth enough investment, they're going to get a pass. No amount of Twitter, Facebook, or Reddit shaming is going to change that.

If you don't want kids locked up in cages in ICE facilities (and I think it's pretty clear none of us want people of any sort treated inhumanely), show up and protest at facilities. Vote for decent politicians. Run for office. Donate to candidates who align with your beliefs. But don't pat yourself on the back with the assumption virtue theater like preventing a few hundred thousand in government spend matters. It's a whole lot of effort on everyone's part for not a lot of progress. In the same time everyone has been discussing this in thread, that's a lot of calls to congresspeople that could've been made.

TLDR I strongly encourage citizens to get involved in actions that matter. These actions do nothing.

[1] https://visionfund.com/portfolio

[2] https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2019/country-chapters/saudi...
I hate Trump for a lot of reasons, but I support his way of dealing with China.
Hard to read, but we definitely need to make sure the GNU project stays in the right hands.
No US bank will ever ask for a password/PIN so i'm not sure why this is any more credible than any other attempt. It is just a little longer getting to the point.

Scammers have been triggering password resets and 2factor to seem legit for long as it has existed.
Apple’s rainy day fund will come in real handy.
Yup we watched the episode last night. I hadn't watched South Park since college. It was a great episode.

It's free to watch here: https://southpark.cc.com/full-episodes/s23e02-band-in-china
Article buries the lede: do usability testing.

It links to RITE. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RITE_Method Sure, sounds reasonable.

TLDR: There is no obvious UI. There is only validated UI.

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Bad management is bigger challenge than good design.

Too many times I've had drive-by management (pointy haired bosses) offhandedly override finely crafted user interfaces, tested and refined over months with real end users, forged by trained, experienced professionals.

Designing user interfaces is even more fun and rewarding than architecture. Which is why I gave up.
The Behind-the-Scenes Quest to Find Mister Rogers’s Signature Cardigans
I believe the parent is saying Stallman was resigned from the role of president of the FSF over the controversy about his private emails (when they were made public).

The MIT CSAIL and the FSF (according to the parent) were both deceived by a "hit piece." It's not 100% clear what the parent is calling a "hit piece," but this might be it: https://medium.com/@selamjie/remove-richard-stallman-fec6ec2...

Richard Stallman's email announcing he is resigning his position at MIT CSAIL: https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#16_September...

FSF announcement of Richard Stallman resigning: https://www.fsf.org/news/richard-m-stallman-resigns
If you've existed for a million centuries you've existed for centuries.
Perhaps, but not because of air pollution. We didn't stupidly jump on the diesel bandwagon.
Windows update lets you answer Android calls on a PC
This is a measured and well-thought out response. I'm not really sure where the detractors of Github here think the "cancelling" should stop. Should everybody start building additional backdoors in their software that shuts it down if it detects some sort of "bad" thing is being created, or possibly hook it up to a Twitter feed and shut down if people are saying bad things about the software operator?

Github emphasized that they don't know what is being done with the on-premises, firewalled software they sold to ICE. What about the guy delivering pizza to ICE headquarters -- is he cancelled too? He doesn't know if the "must separate the children at the border" team or the "let's arrest the leaders of this slave trafficking ring" is eating the pizza.

At least to me, some of the other protests in regards to ICE have been even more obviously incoherent, like the demand for Wayfair to stop selling clean beds for detained people to sleep in.
So every venture-backed company in SF/SV?

I agree I hate it, but there are some companies that do it more jokingly than others.
It's how the courts work, but not society in general. An individual can use whatever standard they wish to form an opinion. Would you insist that we all treat O.J. Simpson as innocent?
No, because the government generally puts on a big show to satisfy the outrage machines if the machines red line on a given subject for too long. Nothing and no one is safe. The outrage machines demand blood, then just like in the US, those in power will give the outrage machines blood. They will jail, and have even been known to execute, any political or business leader if an "outrage machine" revs about the guy for too long.

In this case, the volume of messages I was reading made clear mainlander disdain for the NBA's perceived position on Hong Kong. (The great irony being that the NBA actually has no position on HK, but just like in the US, that fact does little to stop the outrage machines.) In cases like this, the government tends to sit back, do nothing, and let American entities be embarrassed.
According to [1], GNU isn't a legal entity.

[1] http://wingolog.org/archives/2019/10/08/thoughts-on-rms-and-...
I've run stuff there for years and never had an issue. I have been transitioning stuff to Digital Ocean, but really only because I like that they have an actual firewall that I can control. Also been moving more stuff to AWS. But, back to Linode, never had any major issues.
:-). I agree. Sure constructive proofs are sometimes longer, but it's the computer doing most of the work.

But you also end up with proofs that are much, much shorter.

I guess it's all about the degree of uncertainty. Constructive mathematics reduces the degree of uncertainty, which grows exponentially as you get in the higher level proofs.
Guess it depends on how spread out or concentrated they are geographically. If concentrated it would have greater impact on a region.
Yeah that is some NSA shit.
> Technologists’ desire to make a parallel to evolution is flawed at its very foundation. Evolution is driven by random mutation — mistakes, not plans

But this is not what the evolution metaphor is alluding to. Nobody in their right mind would argue that technological progress is driven by random mutations. But it is driven by market pressure. If something can be invented and sold, it will be invented and sold, be it invasive surveillance tools for your kids or Bluetooth enabled condoms. And market pressure is in some sense akin to evolutionary pressure where if there is a biological niche, some form of life will evolve to take advantage of it.

That said, the argument about regulation is somewhat sound. Just because the current market for technological innovations is pretty much unregulated (at least as far as things like privacy are concerned), doesn't mean it has to stay that way. Back in the day pharmaceutical companies sold heroin laced cough drops and radioactive face creams, but then FDA was established and took control of drug safety. There is no theoretical reason why something similar cannot happen in the technology market.

The problem, the way I see it, is that regulation is driven by perceived risk. It is easy to argue that pharmaceutical industry has to be regulated, since the danger of bad and/or inefficient drugs is fairly obvious to everyone. Arguing that technology has to be regulated is a lot harder, because the perceived risk of erosion of privacy is a lot lower and hard to quantify.
The economy unites everyone that's what the West discovered. So if you focus on the economy and tempt people with their desires you can get them to work long hours, cooperate with each other, and create things that everyone in the world wants. How do you make war in the economic power structure? You make things that other people want that they are willing to pay a lot of money for... So they essentially enslave themselves working maybe a month to pay for your things.

Or you can hate people because they are not your tribe or religion... and then the West moves in an exploits that tribalism... And everyone is miserable and murdering in killing each other. The Ottomans were making wars on everyone around them for the longest time. There was no tolerance for anyone other than Orthodox versions of faiths like Islam.

Point being economic power structure is a lot more productive and stable than one based on tribalism or religion... As long as you play by its rules... Otherwise your own tribalism is exploited and you are soon turned into a fool.
Any past transgressions or wrongthink will be weaponized against you or your legacy, and that past will never be forgotten or forgiven.

Welcome to the new era of outrage based cultural purges.
If only having a trade conflict with China were literally the only problem in the world we cared about.
If only we had a president that was interested in uniting the entire Western World to actually make something happen... Instead, we're fighting it by ourselves, and fighting all of our allies at the same time (for no reason). Our Western allies are too busy fighting a trade war with us to try to force China to start meaningfully liberalizing its economy.

A broken clock is right twice a day.
Why would we expect that any technology we have the ability to develop would be developed? Just because there are literally no counter examples? Why do we expect the sun to come up every morning?

The choice is to let society absorb and adjust to technological innovations, or pretend you can stop them from happening and tilt at windmills while society adapts and absorbs those changes.

The other option is to leave society and refuse to accept new technologies (while society adapts and absorbs them) like the Amish or Ted Kaczynski.
OP (a big bank in Finland) is not offering a hardware dongle and I'm considering changing banks because of it.
Free market yo. Gitlab has free private repos I think, can't remember. But I do remember enjoying using it while I did
Thank You Yubico
Agreed. I had a bunch of friends who visited ~5 years ago and were claiming US was so far behind in building that China was going to take over the world. Several went back recently and said "so many ghost towns, what happened?"
Our app is used by quite a few non-technical people. And we are in the process of figuring out something to make the hamburger menu more obvious. Lots of people still don't know that it's a menu.
I'm going to give it another week before drawing any conclusions. Chances are people will just move on to the next outrage of the moment.
Personally, I agree.

I love working with other people, but NOT under those circumstances!
Thanks for this -- I was trying to put into words the concept of tianxia and how that affected China's attitudes towards Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Stage0's binary seed is a monitor, a program that lets you twiddle data in hex into memory addresses (in hex).

Code injected into the monitor can do the next best thing, a similar program that loads text files with hex into binaries and skips ends of lines after a comment marker starts.

As such, the initial stuff in the stage0 project is further programs that are still in my view blobs, but instead of binary blobs they're plain text hex blobs with comments documenting the assembler equivalent and what's going on.

From there there are iterations of having hex files (hex 1 and hex2) with increasing complexity of symbol tables so references can be made to addresses and relative jumps by symbols.

From there stage0 project makes the leap to "stage1" and there are things like basic editors, file concatenation tools, macro based assembler and so . It all ends with a C-subset (M2-planet) compiler written in assembler.

Work is in progress to rewrite the scheme interpreter mes in M2-planet instead of normal C. The c compiler mescc (written in scheme) can build tcc and onward to gcc.

There's bootstraps along these lines for a fantasy machine called knight and there's x86 versions and maybe some other archs in the works.

My stalled side project is interpreting the knight stuff in python:
https://github.com/markjenkins/knightpies

I'm excited by the idea that I could use really old GNU/Linux distro CDs that I trust with python2.3+ as a bootstrap path and eventually with some other work even use old power macs with MacOS X that included python2.3+ as another cool place to bootstrap the free world.
Yes, creepy sexists need our protection and it's exactly the same thing as playing farmville on the bathroom.
His book (fiction), The Wind Up Bird Chronicles, is about many things, but trying to find a missing cat, and an old soldiers memories of war, take up a good bit of the book.

I was told some of his books would be considered "I-Novels" or "watakushi shōsetsu". Which are meant to be books that are based on events in the authors life, yet still entirely fiction. I wonder if this article is speaking about the events that correspond to that particular book.
The OS X GUI was (and still is) a big step down from OS 9.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intellig...

> Over the entire 33-year period, the FISA court granted 33,942 warrants, with only 12 denials – a rejection rate of 0.03 percent of the total requests.

I really tend to doubt the agencies are that good at threading the needle.

(It's also a unique court, in that there's no opposing side. Just the government asking. I'd be much more comfortable with a setup where a group like the ACLU is permitted to object, while still being subject to security clearance and non-disclosure requirements.)
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...:

”The treatments were black-and-white painted stripes, black painted stripes, and no stripes (all-black body surface)”

Weird that they didn’t have a fourth group with white painted stripes. Now, the group with black-and-white painted stripes is the only one that has white paint applied, so it could as well be that the white paint causes the difference.
Murakami is a great author. One of his most famous pieces is A Slow Boat to China, which is definitely worth a read. It's not too long, and touches on very interesting social themes resulting from Japan's rapid post-war industrialization and the failure of the 1960's anti-ANPO student protests / riots.

Link: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4384180, also works in sci-hub if you don't have access.
You mean gitters? Or even go-gitters?
> After all, you can only send something in there. To withdraw, you need login credentials.

Unfortunately, that's no longer true; with the SEPA Direct Debit system, money can be taken from an account with just the person's name, address, IBAN and BIC (the info required to fill a "SDD mandate"). I think there are some verifications you need to pass to be able to create direct debits, but it still seems like a move in the wrong direction, in my opinion.
1) You could mix the two around. E.g. using a state hook and the imperative handle hook. By using the imperative handle, we could update the state from the outside by exposing the setState function.

2)There are several points, but I think the most important one is simply just to save time instead of using useMemo as passing callback to child components is pretty common. And yes, it is the same. The official docs literally said that. useCallback(fn, deps) is equivalent to useMemo(() => fn, deps). [0]

3)You can call it a hack I guess. If you don't want to wait for rerender, you can keep a value inside a ref! While class component can just create a property, function component doesn't have that. That's where the useRef came in, and that's just one use of useRef.
I'm not really sure about the articles you mentioned. I never faced a use case where you would use a state and also keeping it inside a ref, can you share an example link maybe?

For the .current part, since refs is originally used to access the DOM. And the DOM node could change for whatever reason. To access the node, we use .current.

4) It depends, but I don't think keeping two things in sync using useEffect hook is a good idea.
I'm not really clear about the issue, so I can't say much.

After using React for a while with class and lifecycle, I think all the available hooks is really nice. Feels like we got a fresh wind while developing with React. Using hooks and not have enough contrast to make me feel I can no longer code React without hooks.
They let you reuse and share the same logic for different components or projects easily. Less code to read, and for me, functional component with hooks is way easier to read compared to a class component.

Refs:
[0] https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-reference.html#usecallback
It is also easier for Python devs to pick up Go and become productive than with C. I suspect SF had more people that could move quickly from Python to Go than those who could add features to the C lib.

This is from personal experience where Go is used when performance is needed, and the end result is a single program, vs a C lib and a Python wrapper, gaining some level of simplicity along with the needed performance.

We don't get quite the performance of C, but we also don't need to include memory management. Sort of a happy medium between Python and C.
A proper policy would’ve been to not have any human look at a user’s password and just email them a warning about their weak password. A password should be considered a PPI (personal, private information) and off limits to others, no matter how creepy (exception being a legal warrant). These days you might gotten in trouble!
How I overcame impostor syndrome after leaving academia
I can tell you've never had to work with forms.
Mostly Google News, NY Times, I never read Huffington (progressive propaganda) and I read Breitbart to see what the people voting for Trump are rambling about.
Autonomous vehicles won't save cities without sharing
It'll be interesting to see what happens at the next Laker home game. Someone raised like $40k on GoFundMe to hand out pro-HK shirts
So, Twitter et al. have been training corporations to pay attention to various levels of public outrage, and the public outrage has been training corporations on how to mitigate that outrage without impacting the bottom line too dramatically, and now we're surprised these pliable flexible money gumbys' are bending to the whim of someone with (potentially) more money?

As a bonus, "we" (The West) have recently demonstrated hundreds upon hundreds of examples of free speech being relegated to a distant second to certain "special" feelings our society holds, and now "we" are trying to tell China that their certain special feelings aren't worthy of this level of protection?

If our values mean nothing to us, then there is no reason to be surprised that those values mean just as little to others.
I am sure some companies stops at some point.

At least I want to believe I am working for one
For context, I think it's an answer to this open letter from GNU developers: https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/joint-statement-on-the-gnu-pr...
Describes my situation exactly :-)
Probably because it's only legal to use the horn if it's to avoid an accident, but it's almost always legal to use the brakes.
Lot of people don’t understand is that it’s not Chinese government vs Hong Kong public but Chinese mainland public vs Hong Kong public. The easiest solution for Chinese mainland public would be also create fan art for Mei to claim Hong Kong will always be part of China and fighting against all the rioters in Hong Kong. Billizard wouldn’t need to do anything at this point and Mei will become a hero image in mainland China as well.
Why would you expect a magic “beat the S&P” button to exist at all? That would be a gross violation of the EMH. If it has indeed beat an index fund by 1% in a risk adjusted manner that would be a miracle in itself.
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