skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is nice to see that walked-back.

Meetup is a resource for me. My guess that this change would complete end every single meetup I know of except for a few tech meetups - and these probably have alternatives and so wouldn't want it either.

It seems like this also illustrates a complete misunderstanding by the meetup company of how the meetup app is used by their users/customers. Among other things, it's standard for people to find group, sign-up maybe once and then not sign-up further but continue to attend regularly - the group I run and the group I've previously run were like that. Meetup was/is about discovery. Expecting potential attendees to pay is absurd, regular attendees wouldn't feel obligated to register and so wouldn't pay. The confusion is complete.
We criminalize possession and distribution of child pornography on the basis that doing so constitutes further abuse of the child in question.

If we allow the FBI to distribute child pornography, under this rubric we are basically allowing them to commit child abuse. We allow law enforcement to commit some acts -- like buying or attempting to sell illegal drugs -- which would normally be crimes. But we would find acts of actual harm to innocents by law enforcement abhorrent. For example, if an FBI agent posed as a hitman online and then actually committed the contracted murders, that would be abhorrent and not a legitimate law-enforcement use.

Either distributing CP is child abuse or it isn't. If it is, the FBI shouldn't be doing it irrespective of how many criminals they may catch by doing so, because they are further victimizing innocents. If it isn't, that calls into question the basis on which distribution of CP is exempted from First Amendment protection.

Oh wait, I forgot. Different rules apply to those in power.
So if you were paying an invoice, is there no way to add the invoice number/reference to the transaction? Do people pay everything with cheques?
They are not prohibited (I pay for them on my business account). They just need to price domestic transactions the same as EU-internal ones – which often results in free transfers.
>Don't get their bananas, though, they go from green to brown, completely bypassing yellow.

The same goes for their avocados. I'm not sure what the problem is, but they're pretty lousy in my experience. Trader Joe's seems to have the best deal on these that I've found, and they seem to last a long time too.
But why should reference counting code be the "default" over a tracing GC in the first place? If the "problem" is embedding tracing GC inside of reference counted worlds, but tracing GC itself has little to no problem embedding reference counted worlds, why not invert the stack?

Lisp machines in the 60s were doing tracing GC in hardware. It's not like we don't have the technology to move tracing GCs further down the stack. Sure, reference counting is "simpler", but it's also easier to do wrong. It's harder to get tracing GC wrong. (Sure, we can debate for days if its harder to get tracing GC performant, but it can and has been done, including as mentioned directly in hardware.)
$16 to pay someone? How do you do something like transfer your friend some money? Or pay someone who did some work for you?

Here in New Zealand you'd tend to get their bank account number and send them a (free) direct deposit through your bank's Internet banking service. Until very recently that was also the main payment method for our eBay auction site equivalent TradeMe (they've now started a sort of PayPal clone called Ping so that they can skim a little extra from each auction).

But I've heard people can potentially withdraw money from your account if they have your account number in the US?
The downside of saving a lot before you buy is that you still have to pay the rent while trying to save that money. Putting 20% down has advantages when making the loan (better rates mostly) so it makes sense, but saving beyond that is making your life more difficult.

I think Student Loan debt is a huge factor in buying houses later. It's really hard to save if you're paying down debt as well as paying rent. It could easily delay their entry into the housing market for a decade.
In 10 years, we'll read HN comments of how someone started to code after outsmarting Screen Time on their device. These are the type of experiences that give you that thrill of what else could be possible by understanding how technology works.
That is true, but my wife and I were also separated for half of our first three years of marriage. As I deployed and shortly after I returned she deployed. We were also stationed in Turkey where at 4 months pregnant we learned the military would not allow her to give birth there anymore. She had to fly to the US with our older daughter at 7 months pregnant by herself and stay there until she gave birth. There are many pros to the military which have benefited us, but also many stresses those outside the military never deal with.
Can you imagine treating classics like this? Distributing only "localized" versions of Faust, Moby Dick, the Odyssey, or Lord of the Rings?
It's been a random mix for me. The non-tech meetups (hiking, board games, etc.) that I've attended were often better experiences on average than tech-related ones, which were often a bit too focused on business interests.
Lithobreaking is always an option.
First, that's really unfair, and I sympathize. But, that's not what you're looking for, so on to the advice.

Second, if you can get past HR, you have a better shot. That is, if the person who will be your eventual supervisor has met you, they will often tell HR to go ahead and send you in for an interview. The HR (or recruiter) doesn't have the authority (or knowledge) to do that, but they will if the person they're headhunting for says to (typically).

This is hard, but going to programmer meetups and such can sometimes help, as does emailing the tech lead or supervisor directly whenever you can find that out.
So, I used to be on-board with these type of things, but now I dont understand what the true purpose of an uncensorable website? It just seem like a place for hate groups to unite and bad things to happen... I would love a different perspective on this :)
I would suspect that anti slavery laws could be used and yes there is such a thing, in the UK it's normally gang masters keeping agricultural workers.
If it's deceitful, I think it's fair to call it dark pattern, even if the deceit is done with good intentions.
That sounds kind of dangerous for DDG to be relying on Verizon owned Yahoo to serve them results from Bing.
I haven't seen the reluctance to use the runtime in interop scenarios. Is this just a personal interest or do you have a particular use case? I'm genuinely interested.
send them the name of a file in your very old version of DOS?
I have seen and appreciate your quote, but I will not be the one speaking for pedophiles.

If you think that running a sting operation to catch pedophiles is going to lead to a Third Reich-esque roundup and extermination of minorities I really don't even know what to say.
>It's a grander version of the old trope of an FBI agent posing as a 14 year old girl in a chat room to nab a predator.

If it was I wouldn't have a problem with it. The reality is, by running the sites, they are actively enabling what they consider harmful.

Consider other examples of police stings. When doing drugs, they often use actual drugs because the mere presence of drugs at a sting is not an issue. But when dealing with more dangerous material, they use fakes to ensure that people don't get hurt, and the times when they haven't used fakes it has been considered extremely bad and had people push for policies to change it.

In this particular case, the sites are not like drugs which are inherently harmless just by being present, but are far more dangerous material which results in significant harm to those the police allow to continue to be victimized.

Imagine if police ran a human trafficking front and actually kidnapped people, justifying it by saying they were working to get the guys running the whole thing. Would that be acceptable?

I think not.
> Being managed by someone with shallow technical skills and bunch of book knowledge about how to manage doesn't like a good time.

Tell this to anyone in C-suite please.
You seem to be under the mistaken assumption that the entire border between the US and Canada has fencing or other barriers. Sometimes there's just a road with an easily-missed sign or plaque. For example: https://www.quora.com/Are-there-really-parts-of-the-US–Canad...
Our home was $348k - 4 bedrooms, 2 baths in Louisiana.
I thought I'm just doing what I love, but turned out I'm literally hitler.
When you have an Oracle database, you probably have a lot of PLSQL. That, in itself, is not so serious (PgPLSQL is quite similar).

But you'll probably have Forms, Reports, and Apex too. These are all designed to make building an app a piece of cake but make it impossible to migrate except if you rewrite the whole thing.
So because "some guy on reddit" was right once, that means "some guy on reddit" is trustworthy, and the media is not?

Boy, talk about diminishing standards of critical reasoning skills.
You can do a picture search on Facebook?
Harness launches Continuous Insights to measure software team performance
One of the core points of Redux is that all the state update logic gets combined into a single reducer function. How you choose to split the reducer logic into multiple files is up to you, so it may be separated in _that_ sense, but it's ultimately all getting pulled into one spot. So no, you don't have random "functions modifying global state and affecting different areas".

And no, it's not "untraceable code". Redux is explicitly meant to make it much easier to trace when, where, why, and how your state has been updated. All state changes happen via reducer functions (not random pieces of code somewhere in your UI logic), and the state updates themselves can be viewed using the Redux DevTools (which can now even give a stack trace for every individual dispatched action).
100% not true in my experience, but can't speak for any org other than the one I work in (which has been by far the best job, team, and management I've ever worked with).
Great for the customer? Not so much these days. I would happily trade my 2-day shipping for a no-counterfeit/safety guarantee.
That's your issue then. They have rules to stop the App Store being flooded with website wrappers. For it to be in the app store, there needs to be something it offers to make it worthwhile for users. If it's just a website, they can just use a web browser and pin it to the home screen if it's something they use frequently.
This discussion has now been flagged as well. I'm curious if anybody who's flagged this would be interested in explaining why they did so.
>Would have loved to have read some technical details on how 40 Tbyte was transferred in an hour, even migrated.

Perhaps I'm missing something but that doesn't seem hard considering:

1) It's only like 3x high end consumer level 16TB HDDs

2) This is Amazon...they have AWS - really fat pipes and endless horsepower on demand
> Amazon's predatory instincts are pointed inwards and downwards, towards employees and vendors... the crying software engineers and all other things I hear about them are about running an internally facing extraction economy... The squeeze is being put on those who draw a paycheck (or at least, a profit) from Amazon

I know 10+ software engineers at Amazon, including people in their early 30s making close to half-a-million in yearly income, and people working 10-6 M-F. Most of them are very happy with their careers, and I don't know a single person who describes their work-life the way you just did.

I'm not disputing that horror stories exist and that some people are being given bad reviews and are being managed out. However, there is a severe disconnect between the median Amazon employee's experience, and public perception.
Oops... As the first-ish comment, I should have made clear that I was OT, so as not to mislead anyone about the post's topic. Sorry. :/
Tau is easier than Pi (2014)
It's not relevant to the HN guidelines and so most people will flag it: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Is it interesting that some news org is passing stock footage? Is that in any way new? Maybe if they were using "deepfakes" to generate fake news videos it would be interesting, but it's not like the Turkish attack is in any way disputed.

Is reddit a good "detective"? Well,: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-did-it-reddit
Because as tech meetup organizers ourselves we know that this would kill the meetups & by extension the service and our reputation. We plan to have the same model as Stack Overflow, i.e. show relevant job ads to members and put them in touch with a recruiter only once they've applied and given consent.
Android studio is awful. Moving from it to Xcode is like climbing to an open field out of a dank old basement.
It does predict they should be rare but extremes are rare.

What is your theory for how to understand these results?
Tell HN: Skip Scooters (YC W18) Shuts Down in SF
Just received this email from Skip Scooters (YC W18), not much detail:

Dear riders,

Starting today, October 15, Skip scooters will no longer be rentable as part of SFMTA’s Powered Scooter Share Program for 2019-2020.

Over the last year, it’s been a privilege to serve you and invest in our hometown, the city of San Francisco. We hope to see you again soon.

If you any questions or feedback, please reach out to us at support@skipscooters.com.

- Skip Team
> What is a "good enough" return experience? When I've tried to use it, I have to pay money and my own time to organise and ship things back to them. I only get that money back if they decide I was right to return the item. I can only return the item in a very short window after it is purchased.

I feel like you didn't returns something with Amazon, but a third party seller instead.

Amazon will ship you the replacement as soon as you confirm and give you a return shipping label to print and stick on the package, which you can bring to your local post office. The process is quite painless.

> I can only return the item in a very short window after it is purchased.

Their return windows is 30 days for most stuff, which is good enough.
How about this:

1. 4 times Alec was caught talking with republican lawmakers about how to suppress the vote (Montana, Alabama, Phoenix, Omaha : https://www.mediamatters.org/american-legislative-exchange-c...

2. North Carolina suppression tactics https://www.thenation.com/article/north-carolina-wont-stop-s...

3. More on N.C. voter id law to suppress voting: https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-north-carolin...

It's not just some scattered occasional thing of a few bad actors. There are state by state actions and national conferences making this happen.
This makes the assumption that the government has the ability to go after everyone using it to harm people, including tens of thousands of children, but chooses not to. Under such an assumption, one can no longer consider the government the good guy.
By the way, this is why a Harvard education is more valuable than one from Random State University - you get much more valuable contacts there, even if the education is no better.
> but that's less surprising given its NYC

There's almost certainly as much (if not more) money on Sand Hill Rd than Wall St.
p.s. a CS degree, in particular, is certainly unnecessary, so if you have an easy way to get a non-CS degree (e.g. a history or music major that you didn't quite finish), it might be worth doing that. But, definitely, there is a (wrong-headed) class bias about having a degree of some kind. It's not undefeatable, though, if you get past the people who are the usual gatekeepers.
In line with economic cycle. People go to biz school during downturns when there are no good offers
I think the liberty meant here is not estimating anything :)
They would have looked up the name and then found the matching profile pic to narrow it down.
> the ROI is massive

For the individual holding the MBA
If you're a European teenager transfering money to someone you know, it's customary to enter something like "Payment for the drugs and the firearms".
Yes, it's effectively a higher interest rate on the entire loan, but my point was that you don't need a massive amount of cash up front to close the deal.
She's the only medical doctor for miles. Good luck replacing her. (Hypothetically anyway. Its an option, but my Sister is more realistically looking to live closer to friends / family and is probably going to turn down such offers)

Overall, small town doctor is a pretty good position to be in. There's lot of other ways of living rather than FANG-style tech. High-quality doctors and/or nurse practitioners make big money in small-towns.

If you're the only doctor (or one of ~5ish nurse practitioners trained for emergency care) in a 10-mile area, you're going to be a highly-valued member of that town. Period. Its not even to "cure" all diseases, but you need a highly-trained medical professional to know if the ~2-hour journey to the big city hospital 100 miles away is worthwhile.

Ex: You may have to travel 100+ miles to get to the nearest MRI or CAT-scan machine. The local doctor will provide medical advice for whether or not the trip is worthwhile based on the diagnosis of less-sophisticated tools.

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The main problem with becoming "THE Doctor" of a small town is that you have to move away from your social networks. IE: My sister would have to live very far away from the rest of her brothers / sisters / parents, and that's a tough sell from a social standpoint.
I wonder how much money the US government is going to waste on arresting, holding, processing, and then deporting people who would have turned around and left if asked.
So... it really is the end, then.
> cannot be used from C++ or Rust without depending on the entire .NET runtime

You can compile .NET into native code if you want: MS .net native, Unity’s IL2CPP, etc. These aren’t some research projects, every Unity3D game shipped on iOS compiles with IL2CPP, most windows store apps are built with .net native. The GC probably still included in the output binary somewhere, but it does much less work than usually.

> which is obviously extremely undesirable

Depends on use case. You wouldn’t want to bring the runtime for a small dependency, but for a large and complex one, like PDF writer or embedded web server, it can be OK. The 2.2 runtime binaries are 25-28MB depending on the platform, not a huge deal. These days, people bring 150MB+ Electron dependency just to render a few strings and colored rectangles :-)

> the key theoretical issue is that neither CIL nor arbitrary code written in languages like C#, Java, JavaScript or Python contains enough static information to generate purely reference counted code.

C# and Java and strongly typed, have a lot of static information. I think the main reason why it’s impossible to reliably recompile these languages into non-gc code — circular references.
No one should ever disable telemetry. It should be opt in, the only way is to consciously enable it.
Probably not natively/easily, but you can just do a reverse-image search on google, and it might lead you to a FB page.
Sure. Basically, it all comes down to whether or not you trust the government to be good, always. If you believe this is the case, you're fine. If you don't, you will probably prefer un-censorable technologies. America has (historically) tended to fall pretty far to the "free speech" side of the line, though there is a push to change that.

Even if you trust the American government, people in repressive regimes can still make use of this. This could enable a western news outlet to make itself accessible to those who are brainwashed by state media.

Trying to prevent "hate groups" from congregating or criminals from opening marketplaces doesn't usually work, either. It's the prohibition principle: if you ban the tech, criminals will use it, but an American NGO won't be able to reach those with censored internet.

You may not use it, but I don't see why your "being on board with it" ought to affect what others create.
It was the dems from places like my state in the south, but they all moved to the republican party because of the success of republican party taking on those conservatives. During reconstruction, since lincoln was a republican all the southerners became dems. It wasn't until Nixon and the 1970s that the republicans attracted those conservatives.

Today the jim crow defenders, the people that say slavery wasn't so bad, some people were even better off. Those are republicans.

They switched.
this might actually be a decent idea for an instagram competitor. Sounds dystopian, but I'm sure a good marketing department could make it seem normal.
Just Obamacare will cost you $20k.

Of course, on $40k/year I suppose one would be taking subsidies or medicaid instead of paying full freight. But, then I guess it could be said you can make it in SF on $0/year...
California’s Preemptive Blackout Portends a Dark Future
We had a woman visit a group I belong to from out of town, and I gave her and someone else a ride to a meeting. A couple hours later I found her debit card in my back seat.

I hate having to cancel cards. I'm still dealing with the echos of losing mine back in February[1] (right before moving!) and so I'm calling everyone in the group trying to get her contact info.

Turned out she hadn't even noticed it was gone yet.

[1] AT&T keeps silently cancelling my auto-pay on the new card and nobody can figure out why.
What country doesn't have an authoritarian government?
Just to add you could’ve done TAG (Transfer Admission Guarantee) to both GaTech and UGA from Georgia Perimeter (community college) and saved a bunch on tuition or get in via transferring to a difficult school. I went to KSU to be with my wife (girlfriend at the time) and did Information Systems. Had I known I would love software engineering I might have done CS elsewhere.

Are you still in Atlanta? If so what kind of tech do you work on?
Now do MSSQL.. (Gets pen and notepad)
F# is a nightmare you want to use asp.net core.
I have worked with both databases over a decade. The biggest difference between SQL Server and Postgresql is neither tooling or performance(both are excellent), but the community and culture.

By far, PostgreSQL has more knowledge sharing and documented edge cases. Not to mention that the official PostgreSQL documentation is probably one of the best documented software systems ever. This makes PostgreSQL a lot easier to learn and use and that also affects the amount of money you need to spend.

SQL Server has some annoying edge cases, licensing is a real pain point these days, but so are the technical issues like lack of schema support in the JDBC driver. Other things are that you cannot pipe the backup. I would love to take backup of an Azure SQL service to my local machine with SSH.
We rented while making good money because it's easier to rent. We're now buying a house. I genuinely like fixing and maintaining houses, so it makes sense for us. However, most people don't. For them, it makes a lot more sense to rent. If you're rich and have a stable source of large income, it's almost always better to rent all your stuff. Not only is rented stuff of higher quality (because you can always have new stuff), someone else takes care of it for you. This is good. My wife and I will soon sell one of our cars, and rent a car if we need it, because a rental car is certainly going to be newer than any car we own, and if it breaks, someone else will fix it. Renting is superior from a user experience perspective. If you can afford it, it is the best.

And yes, we're planning on renting out a unit in our home. It will be a very nice unit and the renter there quite lucky (as are all renters) because someone else -- me -- will take on all the risk if anything breaks.