skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, we shouldn't jump to conclusions. Although, I'm not jumping to conclusions about Ajit Pai. I am simply pointing out a fact: that a former Verizon employee is in a major position in the US government. You decided to make this about how much influence they have over him. I don't really care. As I said, I don't think it's farfetched. I have not come to any conclusions about it.

But you shouldn't be so sure that it has had zero influence, either.
The only part of that that has to do with racism seems as likely to be existing racism adopting references to current events than any acceleration of it. The avoiding of shops in a Chinatown may be an overreaction, but there's no necessarily racist motivation, and in any case the idea that factual news about matters of current interest ought to be suppressed because some people might overreact in that way is ludicrous.
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Exactly. It seems that we have unfortunately fixated on over-protecting winners, those that can take their rewards and reinvest them in something that is increasingly reducing to a financial scheme, debt in fact; over-protected, “low risk” and ethically enshrined.

Which is metaphorically like rewarding couch-potatoes.

Rather that letting the winners enjoy their success, while wiping it out in the long term if it’s not funneled towards material investments that can benefit also the “non winners”, with jobs and quality of life improvement.

Seems like the narcissistic Randians are at the steering wheel, and no stepping down in sight
I think in general it would help since it would indicate a respect for authority and a willingness to do difficult things. It does depend on the specifics of your resume. Is the Army Reserve experience written in a way that might make it seem like you were more focused or interested in the military than your software career or is it presented as a nice compliment to a strong developer resume.

And sure an individual hiring manager might have some bias against military experience for wherever reason, but my general advice is not to hide who you are and that you'll find a company that wants to hire you for all the great experiences you bring to the table.
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In my country bank to bank transfers are free and instant.

It's extremely convenient to be able to pay anyone any amount at any time with nothing more than your phone.
Guess I’m finally going to have to cancel my Dropbox account. No one who would work on Facebook’s board can have any kind of scruples.
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Wouldn't it be just as good to verify and test the ciphertext/hashes/signatures against other crypto libs in testing? It seems weird to include a dependency for some platforms just to "test the implementations".

Other crypto frontends don't include different backends just because "testing", if they do they do because they have platform specific reasons.
Oh, great. Even HN apparently isn't immune to Trumpian Butwhataboutism.

DACA was enacted by executive order. What does this have to do with the DOJ? I could even add that DACA in various form was passed by the House and Senate at different times and only didn't become enacted legislation because of a Republican filibuster in the Senate (and, later, being not brought up for a vote in the House).
Still, whole-market investing should not be regarded as riskless. It takes ten to thirty years before it goes from "usually a good idea" to "virtually always a good idea."
> making the infrastructure more robust

Can't make human behaviour inside that infrastructure more robust though. So we'd need to completely split human and autonomous traffic. That'll be about as big a challenge as creating the autonomous cars in the first place.

My guess is at least 15 years before we'll see any large scale adoption of autonomous vehicles. And that's for countries like the Netherlands which are already pretty well organised. Countries with chaotic driving styles and roads like Italy will take longer and the third world might take decades longer because of the lack of rules in many of those countries.
If you don't have competent enough first-line managers to decide who they can effectively work with, your whole org will become a micromanagement hell. Which breaks down if you try to do it remotely.

Of course the implementation of hire/fire does not mean that the first line manager does the interview alone, without any help, supervision, oversight and support from middle management and HR. But if you have no say in who you manage, who you work with, it'll be very hard to get work done.

And in my experience this usually already happens informally anyway.
Do you mean e2e tests? Because those are the only ones that test features. Integration tests are the biggest offenders of "code lockdown". They don't really test features, yet they have to observe too many implementation details.

Unit tests can't really lock down code, or then we shouldn't call those "unit" anymore.
So I named 4 well known tech companies, and you admitted 3 of them do regularly layoff workers during performance review cycles, and yet continue to argue that it isn't true that companies lay off employees on a regular basis...?

Ok...
I wonder if US officials will be concerned by the prospect that breaking up these companies may potentially cede market share to tech companies in other countries, such as China. Especially if other countries don't bother breaking up their tech companies if they get too large.
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I think I feel the opposite. To me, Barr (and Durham) represent really good news for legal reform in the FISA courts. The fact that these courts, non-adversarial by design, can spy the way they have is really troubling, let alone on an incoming and present administration. I hope there's strong reform here. Transparency is the only way forward.

When secret FISA courts were first introduced, I'm sure many people wondered how long it would take before they're used illegally, for political purposes...

I guess it's just the sign of the times that two people, probably relatively similar in most regards, can have precisely opposite feelings.
There is some evidence. For instance, Tesla drivers report the car stopping before they can perceive an accident about to take place. An example is the first ten seconds of this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APnN2mClkmk

These vehicles have a superior sensor system to us. Our processing is better but sometimes their superior sensors are better.
YouTube "manual claims" are not DMCA claims. You can follow these instructions here to file one -- the process does not include filing a DMCA request:

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9374251?hl=en&ref_...
Everything is unrealistic until it becomes real. I naturally tend towards cynicism sometimes, but I try to practice dreaming a little. I find I'm happier when I try to imagine the world as it could be and what I can do to push it that direction.

True, general web layout is a hard problem. But there are a lot of knobs to turn. What if we removed CSS layout altogether, and only allowed linear pages, a la reader mode? That's a big tradeoff, but maybe it would work. If that's too much, maybe only allowing flexbox would be enough. As for editing, at that point you're making a web app.
But that’s a sample size of one, so we can’t really draw any meaningful conclusions from that data. (Also the safety driver was watching Netflix on her phone; it could be argued that the vehicle was not production-ready and not expected or intended to be able to handle every situation.)
https://textslashplain.com/2019/05/01/edge-76-vs-edge-18-vs-... documents many of the differences between EdgeHTML v. Edgium v. Chrome, though it's not really that obvious skimming through what the differences between Edgium v. Chrome are (but there's a bunch, though probably things you don't need to worry about?).
As an avid Firefox user, privacy tinfoil hat and all-round Stallman-esque interjector, I wouldn't mind if Microsoft contributed to Gecko, Quantum and SpiderMonkey - provided it didn't interfere in any way with my abilities to do for example ad- and tracker blocking.

As far as I understand it, the Chromium codebase is deeply intertwined with the Google ecosystem in a way that makes it hard to guarantee privacy the way Firefox does.
I’ve actually seen that functionality in the wild. Quite horrible. IIRC it was some weird open source web app.
Sometimes when I turn on cable TV I get lucky and can watch a few minutes without seeing an ad. Youtube plays an ad every time you click a video.
Seems like a really self centered worldview....
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A lot of liberties here, but:

> for someone who's already a multibillionaire

> Dumb people do not win presidential elections

in particular stand out as quite dubious.
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If you're an experienced dev, you use all these every single day.

God save me if I'm asked to implement quicksort though... theory is nice, but for me, academia largely forgot about this practical stuff.
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I wonder if my former Windows using coworkers knew about that! They were quite good though so if there was something to know at the time, they probably did.

Common knowledge in the office was that Windows small file I/O performance is about 1/10th of Linux, probably due to NTFS and ACLs being expensive to evaluate.
2^48 is an absurdly large number.

That's enough that you can generate 1000 messages a second for several millenia.
I don't think the threats of regulatory capture are unique to this administration.
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Many of these products already carry ads or would be a convenient place to put ads, even if they'd have to be bought for each product individually. Also the Pixel stuff is very pricy for hardware that isn't top of the line.
The obvious answer would be caching, if your balance is accessible by (anyone) pressing the back button on your browser it wouldn't be good. Still no excuse for the overall bad design though.
Never, correct. Especially nothing around FB, GOO. Moreover i am moving this year away from all services provided by these companies.
Ha some MIT alum friends and I were just talking about how great it would be if something like this existed, rather than having it be left to one’s first years as a junior engineer in a company. Thanks for doing this, it’s sorely needed.
does postgres really not index nulls in a useful way? mysql does, though it may only work efficiently on a single val-or-null comparison at a time.
I had a look at some news from L'viv:

"Two people who returned from China were hospitalized in Lviv with signs of ARD (acute respiratory disease)" (1)

"Last week, nearly 13,000 people became ill in the Lviv region with influenza and SARS" (2)

Primarily among kids and young adults, in the article they say the weather is especially conducive to the spread of the flu right now; I wouldn't automatically link it to the virus in China...

1: https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&...
2: https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&...
is Dropbox too big to be acquired (by Facebook)? Can this mean that they are going to?
Naturally, you should break down tasks until you get max one day chunks. But estimation errors are common, so if you end up spending 2+ days on a "half-day task", then you should be able to explain why. GitHub/GitLab/JIRA/Phabricator/Gerrit/GoogleDocs/whatever comments, emails, commit messages, CI runs, are all manifestations of progress.
What's the significance for using 50% as the break point?
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Apparently you posted under the wrong thread. You should consider posting here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22225312
> Maybe we should have introduced NEX (non-existing) and NAP (non-applicable) as possible values in addition to NULL?

Codd (the inventor of relational algebra) actually suggested this. I think the primary source is a book that may not be on the web. There's some discussion here (mostly saying why they think it didn't happen and wouldn't work out): https://arxiv.org/html/1606.00740v1/
No, I mean I made something that I didn't have to install anything for. PHP wasn't on the machine. But I could do .hta. Boom.
Hey tried editing the roadmap on Chrome and didn't work.
It is. The interesting part of the politics, though, is not how it intersects with the current president. There are much more interesting topics: Should Google be under investigation? For antitrust, I presume (and the article mentions), but anything else? What's the relation between the state AGs and the US DOJ in this?
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If it really is that simple then that's scary. What's to stop someone from writing some basic scraper code in python that would claim peoples videos and hold them hostage for a fee less they get a strike on their account?
Google has too much power and influence over what people see when they search for things.

That, combined with having a massive ad network and the most browser marketshare, Google has the ability to unduly influence the opinions of millions of people, if they so chose.

Too much power for a single corporation...

I trust them far less than I trust the Trump administration. Google is proven themselves to be pretty evil. They're so much worse than Facebook or Microsoft.

So, let them be broken up. I'll feel a little safer.
Sure, and as soon as I can sit facing the other way and not be responsible for the cars fuck ups that's fine. Until then semi autonomy can fuck right off. I'd rather trust myself 100% of the time than a machine 99% of the time.
Ah, but then again, what keeps you from modelling a third-party service in PHP?

We do have config files too - global variables in some config.php was already frowned upon 10 years ago, much more so today.
In times of autowired DI, you have a parsable, user-editable config file just like any other project. Had you used PHP since like 2013 or newer, you'd be aware of at least Symfony, which does this since forever.

I don't know a single reason why you would put multiple classes in a single file, especially in times of PSR-4 autoloading. Nobody does this since years, much rather decades, ago.

I also really don't know which libraries you use, but the composer ecosystem is one of the most mature, best maintained out there. There are countless projects of excellent quality out there, used in production on millions of servers every day.

Speaking of IDEs: you mention PHPStorm but still claim there's practically no good IDE for PHP. That doesn't make any sense: PHPStorm is a top-notch IDE, it has virtually anything you have in VS.

And lastly, why would anyone still bother with setting up an environment on their box if we have Docker? It's 2020, there's really no more reason not to.
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That's a powerful quote up there, thank you for it. It seems to me many are willing to go far, but not the last mile or similarly they lose that laser focus and start drifting and get a bit comfortable.

Either do it 100% with all the consequences, or sit down, lay back and enjoy the life in whatever form you desire. I prefer the second, but I've met far too many people unable to do this on long term basis to recommend it as panacea for happy smiling world.

Good measure for me would be that hypothetical laying on the deathbed, looking back, and seeing what to be proud of, and what to regret. There are few individuals who would be literally fulfilled to go for that 100% even if they achieved nothing more, and they can and usually do get very far in life, professionally and/or monetarily. But I have the feeling most are just chasing other's idealized image of success, which may not be even real.

We all know (or at least should) how biggest regrets of those dying often look like. Don't be like them. This ain't a mistake you need to actually do to learn to avoid it.
The point the person you are replying to is making is that to Europeans, checks are a thing that only exist in Hollywood movies.

It's difficult to imagine in a modern world, people or institutions writing or printing something on a piece of paper, and saying, "here, this is money".
well, when you lack all trust in the current government to do anything that doesn't directly benefit them, that's how.
That's correct, but those manual claims, as well as automatic content ID claims are not strikes and have no negative effect on the channel.
Maybe they should nationalize tech. By most metrics it is far worse than the pharma industry.

It has higher revenue, higher profits, and higher percent profits.

Pharma has provided tremendous benefit to society, curing disease, subsets of cancer, blindness, improving countless lives.

On the other hand, many argue that much of tech is detrimental to society, encouraging instant gratification at the cost of long term happiness. Apple's 2019 revenue was >260B USD. More than the top 5 pharma companies combined.
There's a great 8-Bit Guy video, of him walking around a massive warehouse of brand new computers from the 70's through the 90's. Owner had a super sad story and was inviting anyone with an interest around the Houston area to take all they could. But how many can you fit in your car?
Isn't that asking for too much? Most humans can't drive safely in blizzards. And unlike self-driving cars, many humans are overconfident in their abilities. If a self-driving car recognizes dangerous conditions (poor visibility, malfunctioning sensors, etc), it can simply stop.

It seems as long as these machines are safer on average than humans, they're worth deploying.
Wirth's languages are beautiful even if C-like languages won the syntax war for the most part.

Nonetheless Pascal-like languages have had some moderate success over some 40+ years from original Pascal to Turbo Pascal to Object Pascal to Delphi (not to mention many other languages from Ada to VHDL.)

Wirth's Oberon ecosystem is also beautiful and uses Pascal-like languages to describe everything from his RISC CPU (specified in Lola) up to entire operating system and user environment (written in Oberon.)

Personally I enjoy reading Pascal/Delphi/Modula-3/Oberon code, and I'm fascinated by the Oberon system as an example of how things can be small yet also clear and capable.
Since that was the only way CS ever worked until then, what else would you expect? It was never marketed as a Rainbow Six.
Oh, I have no idea about that, sorry. Don't use Photoshop myself. I just need to do some cropping, lighting/color/contrast adjustments and noise reduction, then I move on to the next family photo. :D
Yes, that's whataboutism and what I was replying to. Instead of saying why the current administration can be trusted to not have ulterior motives, someone says 'other people also abused their position'. This isn't about comparison, it's about the motives of this move.
1. It's illegal, and YouTube has sued at least one person who's done this (YouTube vs Brady)

2. It's easy to counterclaim, which removes the strike completely after 14 days.
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My last domain expiration outage happened like that.

If it's in production, just buy a 10 year cert. This virtually guarantees an outage after 10 years but virtually guarantees it won't be your fault when it happens...
Exceptions are expensive compared to a simple function call, but I imagine they're cheap compared to operations that read from disk. Certainly one exception per file close is not going to hurt.
Not even close. There are literally thousdand upon thousands of singers you have never heard up that hsvw good careers.
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No, that takes way too much time. If you check using a UV light you’ll notice most simple forgeries but I guess most people just don’t expect small bills to be forged.
Couldn’t this just mean spin is more complicated? Are there other obvious issues like this that the small group of proponents are also ignoring?
There are probably some immigrants working three jobs who would disagree with that claim.

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No amount of hard work beats starting off with all the opportunities and plenty of OPP to work with.
So the larger the board, the more power Zuckerberg has, as it's more and more unlikely that everybody resigns. Especially if he starts adding friends.

Dual-class shares should be banned IMO. I know that the people buying $FB do it aware of the stock's limited power, but I don't understand why this is allowed to perpetuate. You're essentially buying shares without any representation. If I own 10% of a company's net worth, I should have 10% voting rights.

With great power comes great responsibility. Unless you're the CEO of a large tech company.
I would be more worried about giving up market share to overseas competitors and the US losing strategic advantage.