skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't mean to be inflammatory but you are subjectively biasing the subject of "political discussions at work" out of concern for marginalized groups. In my experience this bias often has the opposite of intended result by providing what might be a marginalized group into a specialized class deserving extra-special care instead of equality, which eventually results in entitlement and possibly resentment.

If you want to protect marginalized groups write and enforce policies that focus on inclusion, equality, and anti-discrimination regardless of politics or preference. In other words: when nobody is special everybody is equally special.
$43,430 split 8 ways is $5428.75/person/year, before taxes.
We're talking about Illinois Nazis, not 1945 Nazis. The bums who won their court case - it doesn't seem like the law is stopping them.
Is YouTube Super Chat Enabling Money Laundering?
Hello everyone,

I am part of a Latin American anti-corruption organization and we're noticing that specific political channels are receiving an exorbitant amount of money through donations.

We've been tracking it and it all points to the possibility that they might be using fake accounts to disperse a sum of money that could later be received in a tax heaven.

Is this something any of you have already faced or heard of? I'm the only technical guy and not very familiar with Youtube's API, but would that be technically feasible?

Thanks in advance.
Yep, it pops up in news every few years.

Like the Loch Ness monster, but ore likely to be real.

(Which is not saying much!)
Corporations have become hotbeds for oppression and self-censorship. They will devolve towards mediocrity.

At least it should become easier for startups to compete against them.
If I was making that much when I was in the DFW area, I would still be there.

I would not, however, be in the suburban Soccer Mom hellscape of Frisco, though.
Why Are U.S. Nuclear Bombs Still in Turkey?
I believe your post is an ad hominem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
What "Nazis" and "far right" figures are you talking about? Can you give examples of both? Thanks.
I think the more interesting question is, how many San Franciscans earn $500,000/year?
For personal use, Beancount[1] looks like a good double-entry bookkeeping tool.

[1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RaondTJCS_IUPBHFNdT8oqFK...
That's how you get to charge an arm and a leg. Release a product that's twice as fast as anybody else's, and support it for three times as long. I'm a loyal customer since iPhone 1, and as much as it hurts forking over reams of cash for my own and my wife's iPhones every couple of years, there's just no serious alternative. I also have a Pixel3 issued by one of my customers. It feels like a cheaply made toy next to my iPhone 11 Pro: oversaturated screen, camera sucks, app store is full of garbage, scrolling stutters sometimes (albeit less than it did 5-7 years ago) etc. And Pixel 3 is a phone that's one of the best in the Android ecosystem wrt at least camera and screen. Most other phones are worse.
That's why some people suggest rebating the carbon tax as basic income.
We like stealing their children for one thing:

https://www.npr.org/2011/10/25/141672992/native-foster-care-...

https://theintercept.com/2019/06/17/indian-child-welfare-act...
Thats probably true.

But it's also probably true that a lot of crooks won't hand over their guns. They aren't afraid to hold drugs, stolen merchandise, etc. They won't worry about hanging onto a gun, especially when it gives them such an advantage in robbery.

I'm pretty sure a good portion of otherwise law-abiding citizens would hang onto their guns, too.
If they still existed we would find evidence in the form of carcasses, bones, poo or kills.
I would love it if they did still exist though.
There is no such thing as “read-only” in physics. If we can observe the other galaxy, that means it is affecting the particles in this galaxy. Even if it’s just a single molecule in a telescope responding to a photon that hit it from the other universe.
It's a waste of money but it is not at all "100%" out of the question. If you're willing to pay for the extravagance of air travel, you can make it happen. There are many many people and organizations capable of paying it.
SafariSafeBrowsing.framework
Within the last few years, the IBM i systems use exactly the same CPUs as the AIX systems. In fact, I believe they sell the same models of servers to support both OSes.
Housing markets can dip, but they won't dip like the stock market dips. Housing is a lot more stable.

Houses can also return more than inflation, if the local market is favorable.
>The "silent majority" in these issues are people who say "yeah, sure, it seems fair to allow gay marriage, why not"...

For a very long time this was NOT the majority opinion despite some brave tech companies imposing policies that prevented LGBT discrimination.

Keep in mind too that many states in which tech companies do business still (with the support of the majority) legalize discrimination of LGBT in hiring, housing, lending, everything. Some states even have policies that try to prevent LGBT people from raising families.

This isn't a case of two strident extremes causing a ruckus while the well-mannered majority knows best.
Show HN: Touchable augmented reality on your phone, 3 years in the making
> For one, 50 years ago in America, women were unintentionally at the frontline of computers perhaps because high numbers of women were the "computers" before machine computers were introduced. And when the machine computers were introduced, the departments of women "computers" got exposure to them perhaps because of a high overlap in the departmental "compute" functions.

The correlation between lower gender equality and higher rates of women in STEM is not just a pattern in US history. It also holds across different countries in the modern day [1]. The idea that this is just a coincidence that electronic computing happened to come into existence around the time that women started gaining more rights does not hold up.

> Similarly if you look at high level women in computing from 50 years ago, they often got chances to apply their extraordinary skills because they happened across extraordinary opportunities - in some part because no-one else was above them for unique job, nor was there a formal role to hire for and choose between a woman or man. Another contributing factor might be the nature of war as well as the newness of the tech that created a temporary gender-blind vacuum.

This, too, does not hold up to scrutiny. Women's share of computing jobs did not drop after the war was over. It continued to rise until the late 1970s or early 1980s depending on which estimate is used. Since the share of women in computing continued to increase several decades after WWII, the idea of a temporary gender-bind vacuum is not promising.

1. https://digest.bps.org.uk/2018/03/14/investigating-the-stem-...
Just in the US.
Or, depending how smart it is, and its range, it might detect your head attitude and use that as a proxy for attention. The website claims that it can detect a turn toward, a lean, or a look.
Slime mold is an extremely interesting species that can perform computation, even without a nerve system.

> Ateam of Japanese and Hungarian researchers have shown P. polycephalum can solve the Shortest Path Problem. When grown in a maze with oatmeal at two spots, P. polycephalum retracts from everywhere in the maze, except the shortest route connecting the two food sources.

> When presented with more than two food sources, P. polycephalum apparently solves a more complicated transportation problem. With more than two sources, the amoeba also produces efficient networks. In a 2010 paper, oatflakes were dispersed to represent Tokyo and 36 surrounding towns. P. polycephalum created a network similar to the existing train system, and "with comparable efficiency, fault tolerance, and cost". Similar results have been shown based on road networks in the United Kingdom and the Iberian peninsula (i.e., Spain and Portugal). Some researchers claim that P. polycephalum is even able to solve the NP-hard Steiner Minimum Tree Problem.

> As the slime mould does not have any nervous system that could explain these intelligent behaviours, there has been considerable interdisciplinary interest in understanding the rules that govern its behaviour. Scientists are trying to model the slime mold using a number of simple, distributed rules. For example, P. polycephalum has been modeled as a set of differential equations inspired by electrical networks. This model can be shown to be able to compute shortest paths. A very similar model can be shown to solve the Steiner tree problem. However, currently these models do not make sense biologically, as they for example assume energy conservation inside the slime mould. Living organisms consume food, so energy can not be conserved. To build more realistic models, more data about the slime mould's network construction needs to be gathered.

[...]

> Moreover, it has been reported that plasmodia can be made to form logic gates, enabling the construction of biological computers. In particular, plasmodia placed at entrances to special geometrically shaped mazes would emerge at exits of the maze that were consistent with truth tables for certain primitive logic connectives. However, as these constructions are based on theoretical models of the slime mould, in practice these results do not scale to allow for actual computation. When the primitive logic gates are connected to form more complex functions, the plasmodium ceased to produce results consistent with the expected truth tables.
Jobs alone aren’t enough - look at oil and gas fields in North Dakota and West Texas. You need stable employment, schools, police and fire - you know, Sim City stuff. Also, you need economic opportunity beyond just “jobs” - you need bold entrepreneurial types that tend to get stifled in a pure company town. Kind of like how a company can lose its edge if investors own too much of the company and founders too little. It’s hard to create from scratch.

The closest example to what you’re saying are the artificial capital cities like Brasilia and Canberra, but then you’re talking about the backing and resources of an entire country’s federal budget.
For the downvoters: maybe you haven't worked somewhere that the work has explicit political context. I have. There are ways of dealing with that fact that don't degenerate into shouting and acrimony. There are ways of professionally, maturely, addressing difficult issues relevant to the work you do.
...which doesn't at all affect their section 230 protections. Again, contrary to popular belief, whether or not a service considers itself a "publisher" or a "platform" has no bearing on its protections under section 230. It's all about whether the content was user generated, or written by the service itself.

Why people are dedicating so much attention to the fact that Facebook calls itself a publisher is a mystery to me.

See https://www.eff.org/issues/bloggers/legal/liability/230 for more details.
Thanks for the heads up and likewise. Built for targetted engagement.
>It's bad because happiness has a logarithmic dependence on income

I think the Buddhists might disagree.
Or you could just ignore things you aren’t willing to pay for, instead of expecting to be able to steal them.
Thanks for the kind comment.

I relate a lot to what you said about not wanting to own another pet to avoid loss. I love rodents but I won't own them anymore for that reason - they don't live that long and I hate losing them. I'm also on the spectrum which I think might make it a little more difficult for me. I know I stereotypically love animals, and I tend to get really attached to people and pets then struggle when I have to say goodbye.

I had my cat for 19 years so I knew it was coming for a while. I was really hoping he might make it to Christmas, but unfortunately not. He was one of the sweetest cats I've ever known and although it will take a bit of time, I know at some point I'll be ready for another cat, and I'm looking forward to that.
I'm sure ageism is at play. Given the choice between a 30-something and a 40-something applicant, the job markets with 1%-level salaried positions tend to prefer hiring younger, because they can pay less, all other things being equal.
This policy has very little negative effects for disabled people. And if it does affect some then yes, that person might consider leaving as one option in response. The world doesn't revolve around you and when things change for the public good, you might have to adapt along with it. Why is this such a radical idea for you?

There is no "right to exist", and nobody can stop you from "existing", whatever that means. This is a nonsequiteur. A vague extremist statement thrown around to make things dramatic but is actually meaningless.

As for context, if you ignore it and just come in with a generic "what about the disabled people" in any possible conversation then there's no productive discussion to be had, which is clear in this case. You seem to be caught in an emotional argument against a position that was never made so I'll end it here.
L4 to L5 is no cakewalk. you have to be rock solid in the core SWE disciplines and have excellent communication, organization skills, and very good leadership skills too. looking at the stats, promoted as a % of total for L4 to L5 just makes it into the double digits and only a little over a quarter of all SWEs are L5.

the SWE ladder requires/expects for an L3 to get to L4 by makes no such requirement to ever get to L5.
The “Commons Clause” License Condition they stuck on top of the Apache license: "Without limiting other conditions in the License, the grant of rights under the License will not include, and the License does not grant to you, the right to Sell the Software."

https://commonsclause.com/

Q: Is this “Open Source”?

A: No.
Yeah- but the problem of poorly-defined result type isn't present for comparison operators, since a bool is a b... oh, hold on, C. Since an int is an int. Sigh.
I just spent most of this year rebuilding the engine in my SUV and this would've been an incredible feature. I either greased up my phone when I needed to look something up, or had to take off my latex gloves, which are a pain to get back on when your hands were all sweaty.
Politics are the new religion anyway: all rational thought has long been abandoned by both camps, at least in the US. So if it's mauvais ton to discuss religion at work (an it is), politics should follow the same rules. Same with political activism: do it on your own time and dime, if it's not related to e.g. worker rights and such.
Yeah I think with African Americans there's definitely a case to be made for that. What I don't buy into is that narrative being applied to white and Asian women, who are every bit as privileged as white males if not more so.
I disagree, mostly.

char is an arithmetic type, but it rarely makes sense to treat it as one, because its signedness is implementation-defined. If you want a very narrow integer type, both signed char and unsigned char are arithmetic types, and can reasonably be used that way. (Arrays of unsigned char are also used for raw memory.)

And you should understand how char, signed char, and unsigned char behave when you do use them as arithmetic types.

Promotion to int or unsigned int, depending on the range of the type, can be confusing. The same applies to all integer types with lower rank than int, including short, unsigned short, and intN_t and uintN_t for N==8 (and probably for N==16, and maybe for larger N).

Note also that this:

char c = '0';
++c;

is guaranteed to set c to '1'. (This guarantee applies only to decimal digits, not to letters.)
>Saas is making licenses obsolete

Exactly this. I don't see the point of, say, the AGPL because it can't possibly be enforced: Short of a whistleblower or other leak, have no way of knowing if I'm connecting to AGPL software, or merely something that's API-compatible.
Hi, this is Dylan, a co-founder. It's a great question. Having built many applications on Lambda this is something I think about a lot :) .

We've found that for integrations or common automations, building on a cloud platform is too low-level. Frequently you're working with more than just a Lambda. You've got to manage a number of services that aren't core to your use case (e.g. API Gateway, IAM, Cloudwatch Logs, etc.). There's a lot of boilerplate config, and many of these services are tangential to the core logic of your app.

We operate at a higher level and just give you an execution environment to run Node.js code or stitch together pre-built actions, similar to integration platforms like Zapier. We manage the HTTP endpoint, function config, and give you built-in observability. We also provide higher-level services, like built-in app integrations and OAuth / API key-based authorization. Building this yourself on AWS can take time.

This kind of abstraction isn't great for every application, but we think it shines when you're building integrations between services.

I'd love if you had time to sign up and see how this works! It's free to use and we'd love the feedback.

Let me know if that answers your questions, or if you have any more!
They've since changed #2 to the point of walking the whole thing back.
There was a time when Jewish founders of Google strongly defended conspiracy websites coming as top results for the query 'jew'.
I've been writing C for 25 years... and while I technically know "the answer," it's effectively a closed door in my mind because I don't always know where my code will end up.

A sadistic part of me would prefer if it was interpreted as a bitwise and... not because that's good or reasonable or smart... but to punish the behavior. But then that backfires when people use it for underhanded code.
I see no reason Elon Musk cannot sell Tesla stock if he were to be liable for a judgment against him.
> If you look at the tech company equivalent of that, like FB messenger, or Hangouts, or other messaging systems, they behave more similarly to the phone company.

FB Messenger censors pornhub links or at least it did a few years ago.
I thought about saying

(c + 'A') - 'a'

to make this more clear, but I think that's actually UB with signed chars- e.g. for c='a', 'a'+'A' exceeds the range of a signed 8-bit value!

Promotion should save us here, but that's a bit too yikes-y for my comfort.
This audience is software developers. They will not have an appreciation for Widlar's genius.
That relationship is valid for ASCII, and for character sets derived from ASCII, but it's not guaranteed by the language. In particular, in EBCDIC the alphabet is non-contiguous.
Exactly what does "immutable" mean here?
I'd still argue that, despite Heartbleed, openssl was/is still of good quality.
A better analogy would be if you could pay the construction crews to organize all right-leaning but non-trump supporters down new, secret roads that only they see, and then to let you line it with propaganda that, again, only they see. (Replace right leaning and trump with whatever).
I wrote tetris in verilog that can output to VGA 10 years ago for a university project. The code is here: https://github.com/jeremycw/tetris-verilog for anyone interested. Comments are sparse but it might be interesting for anyone looking for some example code that's relatable.
so wait i thought wetlands were super special and important?.. but apparently we got rid of 99% all the ones in the bay area 100 years ago with no ecological catastrophe to attribute to it?
I wouldn't describe this as "no-one knows" the type of char + char.

I know what the type of char + char is. I know that it's either int or unsigned int, depending on the ranges of values supported by types char and int. I know what it is for any given implementation. And I know that it's int, not unsigned int, for every implementation I've ever used or am likely to use.

Implementation-defined features are not some unsolvable mystery. They're just implementation-defined.
No, I mean the method of calculating contrast ratio does not reflect reality. Take a background of #969696, a medium gray. According to the formulas laid out in WCAG 2.0 [1], white text has a contrast ratio of 2.96 and black text has a contrast ratio of 7.1. So clearly black is better, right? Try it for yourself and tell me if the difference is as stark as the numbers suggest.

Of course this means nothing if you're legally mandated or simply told by your boss that you must follow the standard.

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/
Elliot waves and quantum entanglement.
Linux is pretty much hacks all the way down. It's the other Unix philosophy.
Super intriguing. I don't really know much about FPGAs, but the idea of using them to essentially clone old gaming system CPUs is flat out awesome. I assume that theoretically this would be identical to original hardware, unlike emulating it in software?

This Pocket device looks like a well made product. I wish all the best to this endeavor -- if nothing else just for helping preserve gaming history and letting people (more accurately) play older games.
This story is mostly true, but what does it have to do with this group of Amazon sellers?
Rows in the database are never updated or deleted. Only new rows are added.
The Houston Metroplex is nearly 10% the area of the entire country of Italy.

The former essentially didn’t exist before automobiles.
The latter was laid out for pedestrian travel.

So, I don’t get your point... why would you expect to find anything comparable between a city in Italy and Houston?

Are there towns in the US where everything is within biking distance? Of course. Hundreds — maybe thousands — of such towns and villages; indeed, far more in the US than in Italy.
Absolutely- this code only works with ASCII-ish charsets.
as much as I support the aspiration, I do not see this working practically, well, funded, and not being abused for propaganda.
I think the practical solution is to forbid foreign interests from financing attack ads and political campaigns, be they from US or Russia. And to enforce this vigilantly, with tough penalties.
What you say makes a lot of sense but a court ruled that Google's search ranks were self-promoting. I guess a good question here would be whether there were similar algorithms to funnel people towards E-Bay or other competitors' shopping services if they were likely looking for those.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/27/google-fined-e2-42bn-for-e...

But this is really a digression. The point is that search rank does promote. We can come up with many cases where Google perhaps shouldn't display the most relevant results. The question is whether Google should use their near-monopoly to influence the world via search results according to their moral code instead of strict legal responsibility.
> Would you also say we have a very high tolerance for danger when it comes to poisons and heights?

For poisons, absolutely. "Nearly all poisoning deaths in the United States are attributed to drugs" And we handle drug dangers very badly.

For heights, I don't know. Your link says falls which is not the same thing, especially when the elderly are involved. I couldn't find what fraction of those involved heights.
At first I treated them as the same (startup didn’t provide a laptop anyway..) and all was mixed.

When they provided one, I forced myself out of the convenience and set up two accounts, one personal and one for work.

Now i have a personal laptop and a work laptop.

———

The only overlap is 1Password I think.
For people who are curious about FPGAs looking to dip their toes in, I’d highly recommend taking a look at cocotb https://github.com/cocotb/cocotb

It’s kind of similar to verilator, in that it lets you write test benches for your designs in programming languages as opposed to HDL. Whereas verilator lets you write c++, cocotb is python based.

Both of these are probably best to take up after spending some time with an hdl, so you learn to think from a hardware perspective.

Also check out the zipcpu blog