skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't agree that growing a language necessarily makes it harder to learn. Quite the opposite, I think it makes it easier to learn.

Look at how asynchronous code was handled in C# in the past versus today. In the past, you first had to define a delegate type for the signature of the procedure you wanted to run. Then you'd assign something to that delegate, probably a method sitting in a class somewhere. You can now call BeginInvoke on that reference, passing in a callback function. That callback function has to be another method sitting in a class somewhere. You also get this IAsyncResult object returned, with no immediate guidance as to what it's supposed to do. Is it different than the IAsyncResult that gets passed to the callback? No? There's this "AsyncState" object you're supposed to pass, with no clue what it's meant for. If you don't need it, you pass null, which is pretty much every case. Need to return a value? Call EndInvoke with the IAsyncResult object you received in the callback. But wait, where's my delegate instance on which I need to call EndInvoke? Guess I need to hoist it to be a field in my class now. I suppose you could pass it as that AsyncState parameter, but now you're having to do in your head the type-checking job that the compiler should be doing for you.

None of this is guessable from just reading the code. You have to read the documentation in multiple places to figure out what is going on. For added fun, now try composing multiple async operations in sequence.

Contrast to today, we do "Task.Run(<some lambda expression>)". You tell me what is easier to learn?

You see "fewer keywords, fewer features" and see "simplicity". I see those things and I see "more boilerplate for implementing code" > "complexity".
If it truly was worse at being a map, people would still use physical maps, at least in some scenarios. I have never met a person who still uses a physical map for anything more than a wall decoration.
On the other hand, if this is done for political purposes with demands, then Facebook's problem will go away when they capitulate. That will mean that they can continue doing what they were doing. If they're actually guilty then they should be punished.
Somehow use most of his filthy amount of wealth, much of it acquired in filthy ways, to things that are not him?

I'm perpetually baffled at how one person having this much wealth is somehow considered okay. Sure, we can argue about where it goes instead, but jesus christ is this an unfathomable amount of wealth that really shouldn't be in one person's control.
It was started under the last administration. After going for four years, it's a bit late to "quietly disappear". https://money.cnn.com/2016/07/29/technology/facebook-irs-pen...
1500 bytes is the MTU of IP, in most cases. It often excludes the Ethernet header, which is 14 bytes excluding the FCS, preamble, IFG, and any VLANs.

If have a 1500 byte MTU for IP, then we need at least a 1514 byte MTU for IP + Ethernet. We often call the > 1514B MTU the "interface MTU". It's unnecessarily confusing.
The claim made to the student is not that they have some long minded financial alignment with the student cohort in aggregate - it's that specifically, the school does not make any money off the student (individually) until the student has an outcome.
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Time they do something about those offshore profits...Of course this is probably just a political move, but again everything on that level is political...
> Except Facebook makes most of its money from US users not from international users.

Source? 96.75% of the world population is outside the US, of Facebook users it will be a smaller percentage, but it seems highly unlikely that most of the revenue will come from such a narrow base.
Rainforests not jungles. Gotta talk the talk.
You are raising a very interesting point, so. I assume you sourced your tallow locally, right?

So the question is what's more sustainable. Palm oil from another continent or locally sourced tallow from farmers supplying meat locally as well. And I have no idea what the answer is, only that it is an incredibly hard question.
Pity that HN is so ideologically biased. Would've been nice to have thoughtful discussion, but I suppose this isn't actually the platform for that, atleast on subjects like this.
i disagree on pretty much every underlying supposition here: the tax evasion whataboutism, “why facebook when everybody evades taxes?” US allowing these other companies to offshore profits, as if the IRS has the ability to, at any point, ask for that money back; The government having any use for the facebook; facebook being capable of coercion/ memes and advertising having any effect on the way people vote.

We know people read what they want into political media. the content may affect your experience on facebook but Facebook has not been proven to have any effect on the ballots.

Facebook was probably caught in the act. IRS probably found some legal loophole to actually sue facebook and has not yet found one for google, etc. whats more important to the irs? Getting facebook to change its content policies which would have zero effect on this upcoming election given everyone already knows how theyre going to vote, or 9 billion dollars?
Good comment, and good way of looking at things.

However, currently it's not possible to obtain a lot of facts about the inner workings of this administration, since it is effectively above the law in terms of things like subpoenas.
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> In March 2019, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) alerted Citrix they had reason to believe cybercriminals had gained access to the company’s internal network. The FBI told Citrix the hackers likely got in using a technique called “password spraying,” a relatively crude but remarkably effective attack that attempts to access a large number of employee accounts (usernames/email addresses) using just a handful of common passwords.

Pretty bad when the FBI has to step in and alert you that someone has brute forced their way into your servers.
Thanks a lot for taking the time to share your experience. There's probably not many better ways to learn about the realities of a foreign country than by chatting with someone who actually lived there and can tell stories from first-hand experience. It's also somewhat curious that the ties of our professions (programming, development, IT) can serve as the channel by which this information is shared - as always, my appreciation of HN in this regard is immense.

> Good and enlightening Soviet science shows were replaced with gross shows showing nudity and all kinds of fake science (psychics, UFO freaks, etc). Academics running the old shows said that they were closed specifically by request from the very top. Same for education: it was deliberately destroyed by direct guidance of US advisers.

This bit in particular intrigued me. What would be the point of steering science and public academia in this way? To lower the level of public discourse to the advantage of the US? I did not realize such things were so tightly guided by US advisers after the collapse, though I hold no illusions that Boris Yeltsin was lobbied for and supported by the US (it might more accurately be described as 'election meddling' - which made it ironic during the investigation into Russian meddling in US elections that very few news outlets were brave enough to address the actions of the US in other countries' elections and in Russia's in particular).

> Everybody just reinforces the same old meme how "repressive" was Soviet society and how everybody was happy to become free (just conveniently omit the ending: "free from education, free from having work, free from having enough food, free from having self-esteem").

Many here in the US claim that Gorbachev's policies of Glasnost and Perestroika contributed to the momentum of the collapse. I've heard it said before that while many here in the US hail Gorbachev as a kind of unwitting hero (due to this contribution and his affectations and coordination with Reagan), many who lived through his time in power view him more as the one who ruined everything his forebears had worked to build and achieve. Just for my own edification and curiosity, can you speak to how he's commonly viewed by former citizens of the Soviet Union?

Your take on news consumption is cogent and refreshing. Many of us probably pay more attention to it than necessary. As for social media, if you use it responsibly, it can be a net benefit rather than a net detriment. I've personally excised myself from social media because I don't agree with their data privacy practices. I don't know what social media you use, but Facebook has a feature I believe where you can deactivate your account - for 30 days (or so), you can log back in and reactivate your account without losing anything. At the very least, it could be useful for a trial run if you simply want to attempt to get rid of it without the risk of losing everything if you decide you want to keep it two weeks later.
Needs an SSL update, otherwise it won't work in newer chrome versions.
If you're going to do that, you'll also have to figure out a way to "charge" less developed countries for all the technology the developed countries invented.

Like the cell phone: Developing countries never bothered with phone wires, they went straight to cell phones.

Obviously I think both ideas are bad, but if you're going to advocate for your idea, you need to include everything.
Been in both situations and did a lot of research on what was possible negotiating. There is public information out there which they try to suppress (imagine if the public knew that the guy who owed 10 mill, got away paying 5 mill after years of not paying anything even after the IRS marked them).
> The .org owners should not be allowed to rent-seek, but instead continue to provide the same level of service and fees that we have come to expect.

When the centralized monopoly is all for raising prices, it becomes clear that market forces ceased to exist.

In free markets, pricing is controlled by the markets themselves, not by any single actor.

Handshake absolutely makes TLDs a free market.

> The control and governance of TLDs should be handled by a non-corrupt governing body with the powers to ensure that only well-behaved operators may control TLD domains (where "well-behaved" can mean "will not rent-seek").

I agree with this. Again, free markets control this. Consider the difference between the market for gum (market controlled) versus the market for patented drugs (single actor controlled).

> To enforce this in the face of corrupt actors, the governing body for TLDs needs to be able to take back control of a TLD from a corrupted operator.

If the community collectively decides to fork, it can fork.

The people hold the power.

Thanks for pointing out these questions and allowing me to directly address how Handshake solves these problems, and please keep them coming as it helps us to better understand what information isn’t well explained, and explain it!
It's not zero financial interest, but certainly more indirect and less compelling.

If investors in Lambda ISAs are not getting good returns, the value of buying a Lambda ISA will go down. If Lambda can't sell ISAs for a good price, they won't get the operating income they need or will have to shoulder the ISA themselves.

Still, selling the ISA just feels shady relative to the marketing that touts ISAs as aligning incentives.
I did read your whole post. Can you elaborate?
I suggest you read the paper linked by the blog author (“Ethernet: Distributed Packet Switching for Local Computer Networks”), specifically Section 6 (performance and efficiency 6.3). It will answer all your questions.

> Why does a larger MTU make switching more expensive?

Switching requires storage of the entire packet in SRAM.

Larger MTU = More SRAM chips

If existing MTU is already 95% network efficient (see paper), then larger MTU is simply wasted money.
I can tell when I am around these bulbs. It is the same with fluorescent lights for me. They make me (more) grumpy. The more expensive LED lights have full wave bridge rectifiers and capacitors with no flicker. I've considered just building my own for my next home.
I have always felt very uneasy about Citrix in the workplace, especially around PHI.
> Your sentence starts out like you're stating a fact, but then peters out with "probably."

Fair enough. I'd argue that I put the word probably in the first half of the sentence, so I don't see it as "petering out", but fair enough.

I will agree with the critique that I'm making an assumption about mapping use cases, and don't have hard data. I'm happy to be corrected by any real data on the topic.
I visited the LCM a couple of weeks ago and Spacewar was running then, it may be a permanent exhibit now.
Large corps can afford to figure out ways around the tax law internationally, while countries take a long time to legislate internationally.

Easier for states to retaliate by suing, or otherwise fining,
like google in the EU
https://www.wired.com/story/eu-hits-google-third-billion-dol...

potentially cheaper than paying taxes?
That's my point. There are people who claim "my-current-shiny is the only way". Yes, OOP and FP languages have different solutions to the problem, because it's a real problem. You need to have both OO and Functional features in your language. "OOP vs FP" is a false dichotomy.
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There are other bottlenecks.

RAM bandwidth and speed, network latency, display sound like the most important. If that 133MHz pentium rendered a web page, it did so at 640×400 pixels, right? 16 colours? Or just in text? So it had to process about 4k (if text) or 128k (if graphics). Your current display involves a little more data.

RAM access takes about 10ns now, it took longer back then but not very much longer. Your sixteen cores can do an awful lot as long as they don't need to access RAM, and I doubt that you need sixteen cores to render a web page. The cores are fast, but their speed just removes them further from being a bottleneck, it doesn't really speed up display of text like this page.

And then there's the latency — ping times are a little closer to the speed of light, but haven't shrunk by anything close to a factor of 400.
> The plate can be changed automatically to update the displayed registration data and (theoretically if the State of California approves) display advertisements or other data when the car is stopped.

What?
17 out of 53 is just a hair shy of 33%. That's not "tiny".
Why fixing security vulnerabilities in medical devices, IoT is so hard
It was never “only vain aristocrats.” Life is not a cartoon. Cosmetics, tattoos, and jewelry have been in use for thousands of years.
This seems like it could actually work. If you made this tariff equal to the corporate tax rate then won't you generate the same amount of taxes?
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Security and access aren't separate concerns. They are opposite sides of the spectrum. Security reduces access. That is what it is designed to do. Anything that makes a system more accessible makes it less secure.
I think this isn't true at all. The vast majority of people I know use maps solely find something like an ATM/gas station/coffee shop/etc and then figuring out how to get there or how long it would take to get there.

We don't have data, but the only people that do are Google and they have designed their UX around this use case. And it has become one of the most used tools on Earth. If we are going to play the 'your comment is bad because you don't have data' game, I think the onus is really on you to prove that the company with all the data is getting it wrong.
If you've ever worked for a defense contractor, you have charge codes for everything. They take charging to the correct code correctly very very seriously. (In 6 minute intervals (.1 hr)). Submit your time daily.

We were a Boeing Sub contractor.

Timecard fraud was a fireable offense. The company I worked for was rumored to have fired someone who came into the office on a weekend and badged in his buddy who wasn't actually there. Basically trying to game the door timer system.

My last task at big co, was making a timecard app for ios and blackberry, to make it easy.
Yes, and that is accurate; borrowing against a student's debt is not "making money" from the student. The transaction you describe does not hedge Lambda's risk; in fact it increases Lambda's risk because now if the student defaults they still need to pay interest as well.
Browser extension to auto-de-photoshop?
I've investigated the evidence quite carefully. The article I linked to refers to some very damning evidence for one case.

The Mueller investigation found solid evidence of WL forwarding DNC docs collected by Russian intelligence, and at this point security researcher expert consensus is that Russia was the perp and WL the front.

Wikileaks biases also show in who they target and what they ignore. They've repeatedly downplayed leaks that are damaging to the Kremlin.
one other concern not mentioned by others, vibration. this can come from being too close to a door or being mounted on something with moving parts, ceiling fans and garage door openers.

Also tulip like lamp shades where the base is at the top can concentrate heat and wear the electronics down; canister mounts do the same if no venting.
I would assume there are ways to make palm plantations sustainable. I mean the German word "Nachhaltigkeit" comes from old treaties on forest cultivation, planting and harvesting in a way that keeps the overall forest intact. Seems we all forgot to care about the aspect quite a while ago.
It’s a beautiful system isn’t it?
Sorry this seemed like a terrible article to me. Pure bs.
> 92 to 184 teragrams of carbon dioxide

Usually emissions of CO2 are measured in tons... This is a sneaky measurement change. wtf is a teragram? Okay, turns out it's a million tons, or as we used to call it, a megatonne. WHYYY
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I am willing to bet Facebook did not pay Irish taxes on US income, but failed to pay US tax on non-us income, which is a different thing, as the US have signed treaties with the EU preventing them from taxing revenues that an company have already paid taxes on in Europe, so the IRS suing Facebook from headquartering in Ireland would be an severe treaty violation and is likely not what is happening in the real world despite it being an obvious angle for fox to try and push to their audience.

The problem with Facebook/Google taxation(the EU is even less happy about it) is that is that by moving the money through Ireland(who dont tax corporate transaction, only Irish revenue) the profits end up in limbo somewhere in the Atlantic where nobody gets to claim taxes on them.

It is essentially the reverse of what the EU is suing apple over as apple insists that their profits is taxable in the US despite not paying tax on their IP related profits in California.
The current link [1] is a lot more concise and informative (specifically, what users should do) IMO. The blog post expands a little on BGP hijacking but honestly it could be summarized in one short paragraph.

[1] https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/acme-v1-v2-validating-ch...
I agree. I hate these walk-throughs. I always skip them because they tend to be exceedingly basic and frustratingly slow. E.g. "Click on your avatar to view your personal profile". Like every other site on the internet? Thanks for that curated pro tip.

The knowledge gained by sitting through the demo (and more) could be had in less time by simply using the software. I prefer to learn by doing, not watching.
Agreed. Comparing UI responsiveness to yesteryear can be an interesting case study - examining precisely why things feel slower, to see whether they can be made better - but more often than not the answer is, "because we traded a bit of efficiency for an enormous wealth of usability, and iterability, and compatibility, that people never could have dreamed of back then".

Rants like this post are willfully ignorant of the benefits that a technological shift can have for millions of actual humans, simply because it offends the author's personal sensibilities.
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Selling the ISAs would make it more indirect, but this article is referring to borrowing against the ISAs' future income, which does not make it more indirect.
This question, and similarly for books, podcasts, websites, youtube channels is semi-regular on HN, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21928170
H1-B definitely benefits H1-B recipients.
Facebook uses its ad policies to block apps that compete with its dating service
Does China use facebook? Don't they have their own thing?
It's refreshing to see an article actually pointing biofuels policy being the dominant driver of palm oil related deforestation. If I remember right another problem is that India was expected to become a big palm oil producer where they are historically one of the biggest palm oil importers. This unfortunately didn't happen, somehow the upfront cost and time to production was something that was somehow difficult in India where Malaysia and Indonesia could do this. Something else I'm curious about is what effects we will see from the recent change in policy in Europe, which is busy increasing the local production of canola/rapeseed crops significantly and I suspect that will have some unintended consequences.
I don't see how that less technical, more full of fluff post is better for readers of this website
> that most companies don't pay close to FAANG levels, then why are non-FAANG companies having a hard time to compete?

Hard time to hire engineers according to their bar. Their bar is high (FAANG level) but they don't pay FAANG level so this is interesting => They don't want to lower the bar (rightfully so) and nobody wants to be perceived as "FAANG" reject.

> You insist that few companies are paying close to FAANG levels

Few? I'd say they're "exceptions" (like Uber... for a while before they laid people off) and the rest aren't even close.
They should have a say, but right now they're being leveraged for political gains (like the flyover states!). None of these people voted for gas pump stickers, blue license plates, and education funding cuts. Yet they were leveraged to vote for the party that provided these instead of one that was working to provide lower utility and daycare costs.
that's a fair enough point, and I suppose I could have built the point more clearly in the article that I feel that the actual transgression is a misleading statement made to a student.
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That still happens though, and it's not because it actually took 50ms for your computer to read a filename and 500 ms for it to read 10.

It depends on how fast you allow items to be written (pixels per unit of time) on your display and if you force writing of everything or allow line skips. If you want to experiment I think putty has pretty fine-grain control options.
This seems like some sort of myth that happened to one engineer and now everybody is repeating it. Take homes I’ve done are no more useful to the company than any of the 1hr whiteboard problems. The company is spending time and money (a LOT of money at big companies) to interview you, expect to spend some of your own.
allred copped to straight up actually selling ISAs in the past (despite denials) as well
A transpiler is a compiler. There's nothing that can be compiled but can't be transpiled, because transpiling is just what we call compiling when the target is subjectively deemed a high-level language. So the problem you're describing isn't with transpilation; it sounds like it's with compiling a dynamic language with reflection. That's a tractable problem; you just can't solve it as statically as you would for an AOT-compiler for a more analyzable language. Reflection has to be as late-bound as the rest of the language.
I don't have any palm oil products either.