skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not just the press, the source was also asked not to talk about it internally

> Based on the information provided by multiple sources, PingWest also discovered that Facebook is actively attempting to block internal discussions of Mr. Chen's death. Employees were discouraged to talk about the incident, verbally and in written form, with other employees
Eh. In Easter Europe passengers beat up inspectors.

Also, it's illegal not to have an ID with you at all times. So people usually carry wallets. I carry cash all the time. Better to get robbed (small chance) than get stuck somewhere without money (i.e. CC doesn't work because the bank is having "software issues" or the POS terminal is broken or whatever...)
Road mobile systems deploy onto a set of prebuilt roads connected to their bases, they don't cross-country the impassable taiga since it's ... impassable. These are ballistic missile launchers, they don't fit under bridges, etc. so they can't just drive them around the Siberian interstate.
How do front end frameworks internally add event handlers to DOM elements?
But probably not a digital machine using today's form of digital technology.
> You are in competition with your peers

I am?

I honestly don't care what they do, how much they make, etc; if they are doing better (financially), great for them.

Myself? I'm what I call "Dave Ramsey Debt-Free" - I have no unsecured debt, I have no car payments, I use my credit cards wisely and pay off the amount owed monthly if not weekly. The only debt I have is my mortgage, and honestly I could pay it off in full tomorrow if I wanted to.

Many of so-called peers who might be making more, aren't anywhere near as lucky. Some of them I know struggle and live paycheck-to-paycheck. I used to be there myself. I can empathize with the situation.

Buying a house changed all of that. My wife and I changed our financial situation completely. It took a few years of ramen and beans, but we did it. Anyone can do it - but the first step is to stop competing with your peers, and stop trying to "keep up with the Jones".

In the end, when you're dead, you're dead. Nobody is going to say "well, s/he had more than their neighbor/peer over there, at least" - and the fact is, even if they do, you'll be dead; you won't care.
Platform to help remote teams connect and collaborate
> I find Turkey and its government are behaving like an authoritarian regime

They are an authoritarian regime. Turkey is similar to Hungary in so far, that there is a cosmopolitan capital and the rest is rural. While the cosmopolits want a liberal democracy, the rural people usually don't want it. So, whatever democracy there is, the majority will vote non-democratic regimes.
Ask HN: Companies and Getting Breached?
Whats the root of the problem here? It see everyday companies are getting breached left and right, is it because they dont want to invest in tools and/or security always takes a back seat to money-generating activities like development for example? OR something else entirely.

Please give me your thoughts and experience.

Thanks
Exploring Multilingual, Neural Machine Translation
Emailed this to you... including here in case anyone else is curious.

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My hardware:

* Gigabyte X570 Aorus Master
(RGB header connected to Thermaltake fan controller)
* Ryzen 5 3600 (waiting for 3950X)
* Corsair CMW64GX4M4C3200C16 Vengeance RGB PRO 64GB
* LIAN LI PC-O11 Dynamic Razer Edition (USB RGB Controller)
* GIGABYTE Radeon RX 5700 XT GAMING OC
* Creative Sound Blaster E1

The USB sound blaster is mainly because of issues I was having with onbuard audio. I had originally installed Pop!_OS and upgraded the kernel via a few versions, through 5.2 for the onboard wifi (intel ax) drivers. It was when I dropped in the 5700 XT that I had more issues. I was originally running an RX 570.

After I borked my setup, I'd decided to give Manjaro Architect a try, since I could choose my kernel... I saw the same issue that I did when I did an Arch proper setup, with the latest iso as of last Sunday 2019-10-06.

It would boot and hang, loading graphical ui... The keyboard was completely unresponsive.

I was since able to install Ubuntu 18.04.03 LTS and the release drivers from AMD... I didn't bother updating the kernel as I'm not using wifi or onboard audio. I think one of the onboard LAN ports also was never setup, I think I'd need extra drivers for that too.

Thanks for your time... I'm thinking of adding a couple SSDs to test other OSes on, and put Windows on one as a fallback over the weekend.
She happens to be in the US at the moment and doesn't fly due to environmental concerns. Besides, her physical presence is irrelevant in these times of global communication networks..
they're also the kind of project that never gets followed-through to completion because a new administration has its own ideas for how to direct NASA.
Here's a reason I heard once. I've never heard anyone else mention it, so it's probably BS, maybe a lawyer or accountant can confirm or deny.

Developing new features is classed as "productive" or "R&D" or such, which means companies can claim some kind of tech subsidy or tax rebate on employees' wages for time spent doing it.

Maintenance tasks like fixing bugs and upgrading servers don't come under this classification, so they can't.

The incentives are thus set up for upper management to push against and actively neglect maintenance efforts.
I would argue that this kneejerk skepticism and incredulousness are actually two sides of the same coin. Neither demonstrates actual curiosity or desire to learn.
No, but Elixir/Erlang OTP is worth learning in and of itself.
How American CEOs got so rich
> Saying "no" to everything is no different than saying "yes" to everything from a logical perspective.

This is incorrect. The base rate of true findings when talking about causal models is extremely low. If you say "no" to every published finding, you will be right much more often than you're wrong.

Now, that doesn't mean you should say no to every published finding. But the idea that "yes" and "no" should be equally weighted in your priors across the board is an inaccurate representation of the state of research, and the underlying facts of the universe.
Additionally, this article has a lot more background on the scandal:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-01/thiam-and...
Agree, but I can't recall ever seeing a package in the wild that labels itself as "concurrency-safe" and yet requires the caller to explicitly call Lock!

HashMap is probably a good example

https://github.com/cornelk/hashmap
Yep, if under some level (ie everyone under a VP with 50-300 engineers) basically every division needs to hit 5/30/30/30/5 then you do indeed have a stack ranking, just under a different name.

The main difference is that being in that bottom 30 is usually not “bad” under that system, ie it will have maybe a 0.8-0.9x expected bonus multiplier. Whereas under most stack ranking systems that call themselves as such, a D grade might mean that if you get another D you’ll be in hot water
The downside of LA is that everybody is rather spread out, separated from each other by long commutes in traffic through the sprawl. It's a tough city to make new friends.
Anxiety can definitely be triggered at a subconscious level. I get the dizzy, lightheaded thing as well and and I usually am not initially aware of why. But often, if I can take a step back and mentally assess the situation I can become aware of what the trigger was.
The spontaneity will be the initial jokes and pranks for a week, then it'll be spooking people into uncanny valley.

Video chat and real life are a chasm that isn't going to be bridged by some dinky segway with a tablet on it.
How can Facebook be claiming to protect the family's privacy when it is in fact preventing employees from speaking to the press about bad working conditions?
Excel is programming, it just doesn’t call itself that so people won’t get scared off.
Turkey is stealing a 30km wide coridor from a different country. If they want a safe zone, they could implement it on their side of the border.
A thought experiment:

If the entire team is remote then does it make sense for the company to rent a room, say 1 per team, and fill it with such robots, 1 per person for social interaction?

I'm assuming the answer is no.

What about a team where everyone except 1 person is remote, does it make sense to have this for everyone and put it in the room with the non-remote person?

I believe the answer is still no.

Continuing...

Now, how about if half the team is remote?
I'm assuming the answer is still no.

Continuing....

Then, how about the entire team is on-site, except 1 person. Do we need a robot for 1 person who is remote?

If the answer is still no, then there is no need for such a product.
I think the term for this is "thought terminating cliche." There may be some of that in this thread, but reading those questions/concerns charitably I think most people are curious, but perhaps a bit too busy/lazy to read the article in full before raising their concerns. The trope that being wrong on the internet is the best way to get somebody serve you the truth on a silver platter may also be in play, though I'd expect to a lesser degree. ("I wonder if they controlled for X" -> "I'll accuse them of not controlling for X, so that somebody will tell me whether they did.")

I don't really think it's productive to pathologise people as "denialists". People probably don't think of themselves using that term, so using it allows people to disassociate the critique from their own personal behavior. I think it's more useful to recognize that some tendency towards low-brow responses exists in all of us to some degree (particularly on sites with tempting point/karma/ranking systems), and we should all strive to do better.
I think there may be a misrepresentation here. Apple is not a court of law for Hong Kong, so they did not gather evidence and make a call.

IMHO it is far more likely that a representative from the mentioned Hong Kong government agency reached out to ask the app to be removed for the reasons given, and Apple complied with their request. If I'm correct, Apple is taking the supplied information at face value and also as a formal (legal) request.

In that light, the reason for the (internal) statement here is due to the press this app already received and because many employees of Apple have a humanitarian interest in Hong Kong - or even have friends and family who live there.
I think the idea that US tax payers funding a military effort that isn’t involved in actually protecting the US should be considered here too, especially since we’ve probably endured more actual American deaths because of such activity.

Spending money not protecting the people who are funding it is bad enough but putting the people funding it in more danger than they were before is really bad, that’s the opposite of what the military is for.
Apple has failed? Have you seen their maps app recently? The amount of detail they put into areas is much more than Google.
Be nice if they said the year of this invention, but it seems to have been in the 70s. I tried finding earlier references, two candidates:

- IBM JCL has DD statements for SYSERR, SYSIN, and SYSOUT, but I can't find the date that SYSERR was introduced.

- Any old Fortran IV programmers know that I/O unit 0 is STDERR, unit 5 is STDIN, and unit 6 is STDOUT. And Fortran IV is from 1966 (aka "Fortran 66").

However, I found a 1970 manual for Fortran IV, and at that time, unit 0 was illegal (see table 123-3 on page 13-4), so unit 0 must have been added later, adding token support for the claim made in this article.

http://www.bitsavers.org/www.computer.museum.uq.edu.au/pdf/D...
It wouldn't be a formal fallacy in itself although certainly impolite. Perhaps like Slippery Slope.

It is related to arguement from ignorance and Dunning-Kreuger effect in that it often assumes their comprehended issues are the end of all problems and that the objections may already be implicitly handled. Listing everything explicitly in exhaustive detail technically addresses it but would be both inefficient and bad communication from how overloaded it would get.

That said assuming uncovered issues are implicitly covered is itself a fallacious inference. It may be dickish pedantry that is wrong based upon incomplete information but not illogical given what is known and communicated.
Jason Cohen – Designing the Ideal Bootstrapped Business – Summary
Or forwarding, or clicking "archive" instead of "delete", or screenshots...
Isn't that more of implementation detail? I've seen a few browser based game demos that work well on the iPhone and caching can also be done on mobile. While an app may be better for low end Android phones from an optimization standpoint, there are no "low end" iPhones that have been introduced since 2013 that wouldn't have a decent enough processor to handle a web based, optimized app.

I don't believe that more people -- especially on HN -- are focusing less on the web as a means to get around the "wall garden" than focusing on sideloading.
California’s Power Outages Are About Wildfires–But Also Money
> 2. It's a military invasion. The precedent of Operation Olive Branch indicates that calling this an "effort to stabilize" is an abuse of semantics.

Then what was America doing there?
I bought an Apple Watch 4 back in February and by May had stopped using it entirely. I wanted to use it as a complete replacement for my cell phone, and I think the main thing that kept me from doing that was 2fa codes.

You have to charge most smartwatches fairly often, and most people charge them at night, so sleep tracking is difficult. Plus I've read that some of them don't do sleep tracking very well, and I can confirm that with my experience with the Apple Watch 4. It would indicate I was asleep when I knew I was awake (like to use the restroom in the middle of the night), and would indicate I was awake when I'm pretty sure I was asleep.

I bought a cheap-o Mi Band or whatever it's called, and was using that for sleep tracking. It was like $25. I would suggest you start with that. Their Mi Smart Band 4 advertises that it tracks sleep, so maybe it does a good-enough job?
Enterprises think they need and exert more control than they need. I think companies perform better with less rigid “do it this way because.”

It’s fascinating how enterprise staff follow processes they don’t understand to get an outcome and don’t know why. I can frequently get better service than my IT staff from free tier consumer stuff.

I hear “security” blah blah blah but the security on gmail is better than any local outlook install. I think there’s a myth of security.

Whats breaking this is just people ignoring enterprise IT, I think, until someone notices they are spending lots on stuff that people don’t care about.
Free Pascal gets WebAssembly back end
How? Easy. They lie. All the time.
> While peers might now "Amy" is the real hero, non-technical people don't grasp that very well

This could be also a failing to communicate effectively. Us developers sometimes have a hard time translating:

"the join duplicates records because X table has duplicate values in Y field. We need to add a unique key constraint to it and catch the exception in module Z"

into

"your report has duplicated products because someone captured the serial number twice. I'm going to add the missing validation so this doesn't happen again".
how does this relate to tools like TLA+? coq?
If SCP/SFTP is not an option and you've got netcat installed on the target you can definitely perform some magic. now of course this does require you to log in on the destination though

~~ Receiving system
`# nc -l -p $arbitraryPort > /path/to/file `

~~ Sending system
`# cat /path/to/file | nc $receivingSystemIP -p $arbitraryPort `

eg:
`# nc -l -p 9669 > /home/user/staging/httpd.conf `
`# cat /etc/httpd/httpd.conf | nc 10.50.50.1 -p 9669 `

This method is a useful feather to have in one's cap when used in combination with tar and Pipeviewer `pv`.

I've used this several times doing a backup of a large database and when I don't have enough space locally to hold the copy.
This action is intensely physical and disturbing

Can you expand on that?
Regardless of wether you are wrong or right I believe you shouldn't be downvoted since your comment serves as a different point of view.
The President can't realistically order a first-strike and then cause it to actually happen. No matter who the President might be, no one in the armed forces, is going to go along.

For similar reasons, the President could not fail to launch a retaliatory strike if another nation launches a first-strike on the U.S.: the armed forces would force him/her to do so in that case. The best he/she could do is hold back until the first-strike is confirmed to the point where they can no longer hold back.

And whatever else you might think about the current President, he's been trying to extricate the U.S. from current wars, and he's declined opportunities to start a war against Iran or NK, so why would you be more afraid of him launching a first-strike than any other President? Ah, but you're not necessarily worried about Trump, but about a future President "as egotistical, narcissistic and unstable as Trump". Still, see above.
I was actually just blessed yesterday with a windows spotlight image of this tower. I then looked up how to get there from London the next time I'm there (My wife and I visit UK multiple times per year), but no easy public transit options unfortunately.
it also has "occupying" part of your brain with something simple it is used to so it allows you to think of things that would be hard otherwise.

If you simply sat in a chair and starred at a wall, you don't have the same effect as being in the shower, toilet, car, on a walk, etc.

Also for many, simply sitting in a room listening to music can do this as well. It's like your brain needs to distract itself from... itself.
To be fair (not blaming you here), but this seems incredibly dodgy.

This is essentially the monopolisation of the market on multiple fronts without any of the consequences to you as a business.

For example, you are taking away business from renters who could be making money on rent but also spending that money keeping the buildings safe.

Not as sure this should be legal, let’s say.
There's a good breakdown of the decision here [https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=892453].

The short version is that the value to devs was offset by the cost borne by every user (those components were in the binary even if they were never used, and they pulled in libraries that weren't used by anything else) and the increased attack surface of having that tool in place.
And I'm sure the problem is now that a lot of places installed it but never used it.

One of the things I like about SaaS software is that a subscription revenue stream is more closely aligned with actually delivering value than a long-term sales model is. It's still not perfect, but I'll take what I can get.
When I see services like this or W3W, I cannot understand what is the goal? What's wrong with coordinates themselves?
That is a good definition.
That number is so misleading. I wish the media/prof Galloway would stop referencing it.

The $700M number is a mix of a $300M secondary sale to SoftBank and a $400M loan to purchase stock options.

We don't know enough to say how far ahead (or behind) he is. He likely exercised his stock options at a highly inflated value, which means his AMT bill must be huge. Not only that, he is sitting on stock that is rapidly diminishing in value, and there's a non-zero chance it could be worth 0.

So he has maybe $150M cash after the $300M sale + ??? value of stock from exercising $400M in options.

And his liability is his capital gains bill from the $300M sale + the $400M loan to pay back + AMT bill from the exercise of stock options.
This incident has gone wild on popular overseas Chinese forums criticizing the double standards and mistreatments. It’ll be interesting and eye opening if someone could translate the information shared there.
>Interesting how these three all had a female founder/CEO, given how rare female founders are among big startups.

https://xkcd.com/385/
I think you're looking at it the wrong way, google just validated your idea.
Remember you don't need to be a monopoly, you just need to be able to grow.
Whats your long term goal, own company, acqi-hire, sale?
There is plenty of scope for more than one product in the market no matter what you choose.
We are pretty much building this. We want to optimize the workflows so they actually make sense and recommend best best practices. The main thing we want support is individual's and the team's momentum. If the team has momentum, it's feels good and overall the company will make more progress. Features or anything that get in a way of that should be automated or not added at all.

https://linear.app
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I wonder how this true this sentiment actually is. For instance, my house was built in the twenties. Other than internet and a television (which are hardly bank breaking expenses), living in this home is not meaningfully different than it would have been in the 50s. All of my
major expenses are things that would have been accessible (if cheaper, eg college education) in the 1950s. Cutting all modern luxuries from my life would hardly move the needle on my ability to “work a hell of a lot less”.
> he has maybe $150M cash

$150m is enough to be fine too :)
Reminded of this article in The Economist: https://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly/2013/03/09/yo...

With this hilarious closing paragraph:

> A telepresence robot sheathed in rubbery skin is being sold to researchers by Japan’s Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International. Resembling an androgynous and legless child with short, handless arms, Telenoid, as it is called, is essentially a large humanoid phone. The idea is that lonely grandparents “feel the human presence” of relatives who speak through it while remotely moving its head and other body parts, says the project’s leader, Hiroshi Ishiguro. But this creepy robot is unlikely to catch on outside Japan, says Timo Kaerlein, a German researcher who studied Telenoid on a visit to Kyoto. One observer described it as a nightmarish, fetus-like “demon-spawn”. By comparison, having your disembodied boss drive up to your desk for a quick chat seems reassuringly normal.
Not an expert, but could someone explain why it says: "Panic/recover is not an error handling strategy. A program must panic only when something irrecoverable happens such as a nil dereference." Why is that any more irrecoverable than anything else? (You can check if it's nil before referencing it, right?)
The combinatorics of browser features described by the standards are not unit-testable in the scale of human lifetimes.

That having been said, if they didn't have a test for this situation before, I assume they do now. ;)
Court challenge against Canada’s unfair voting system to be filed today
Popularity is also including the fact that more than just phones run Android
How meaningful is the benchmark for handling idle connections? Handling more is better, of course, but if the server melts down when 0.1% of them have any activity, maybe maximizing idle connections isn't the right place to expend optimization effort?
Hume’s fork
It's critical for politicking with people that don't internet so good. As a remote worker, that's the main thing I can't do. Some people can only form connections in person.
There was a fantastic talk at strangeloop this year on Alloy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvNRlE4E9QQ. The speaker used it to find a serious security bug in their live code and a feature interaction bug in their UI that had meant they had been writing broken code for the past _year_.

(full disclosure I'm referenced towards the end)
It's real convenient to have all my browser preferences follow me when I boot up my browser on another computer.
Objc_msgSend's New Prototype
His worth is assets - liabilities. I'm saying his liabilities look huge, much more than $150M.