skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That issue thread was extremely interesting. Thank you. One of those issues where there is a long chain of things leading up to the bug and it's not certain where to fix it best.
My toddler and baby are less bothersome than my in office colleagues. I'm more productive than ever.

I feel you on your other points though,
Change in Wealth by Age since 1989
The first amendment only protects from limits placed by the government, not if it’s a public or private setting.
This. You will get a 20-100% raise in a new job, and peanuts for staying with a company.

RSU refreshers might change the equation.
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Trump signs executive order targeting social media
>In Russia?

Yandex seems to provide every service a Russian needs, from email, finding apartments, to taxis. Yandex Music seems to be the preferred streaming app.
I'm on the emulator team; we've considered this route before, but the hard part about maintaining a simulator is that the contact surface with the host OS is much larger, making it so that we would essentially have to port the current year's version of Android, with all java/C userspace APIs, to all wanted host OSes. This would require much greater resources dedicated to this porting than we're able to handle, and/or we'd need to make the hard choice of only maintaining certain Android versions and skipping certain ones completely. It would also be very difficult to maintain fidelity.

With full virtualization, the contact surface is restricted to a few low level bits in the kernel along with a few HALs/drivers that need to talk to the host for meaningful/fast I/O, like input/network/graphics, and everything else can be kept stock with no modification. This allows us to ship largely the same binaries that would go on a dedicated Android device and have it be able to run on windows/macos/linux easily, and it's how we've been able to keep up with the pace of yearly Android releases.

Edit: Oh and note that we are totally aware of and bummed out by emulator's increasing resource usage as android version bumps up, to the point we're afraid that the next one will finally be the one that really needs all resources of a modern PC; as such, we're looking into ways to minimize the cpu/ram/disk footprint of the system images, keeping only the bits that are actually needed for testing apps (with Google Play Services, and being better at maintaining/promoting more stock AOSP images in the case where GMS isn't needed)
I’m sad to see this downvoted. I’m not entirely sure I agree with your point, as I think the gulf between “profit-seeking corporation” and “democratically-elected government” is a lot wider than the one we jumped between Federal and state government for the 14th. That said, I like that this line of thinking made me question some assumptions I didn’t know I was even making before.
If you are talking pre-1970, they looked pretty much the same!
You need to be fact-checked:

Here is a Historical rankings of presidents of the United States:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_preside...

“In political studies, surveys have been conducted in order to construct historical rankings of the success of individuals who have served as the president of the United States. Ranking systems are usually based on surveys of academic historians and political scientists or popular opinion”.

No expert on Earth ranks Obama in the way that you do.
I used to be proud of our flag and would display it. Now (past 3 years) it has morphed into a symbol of hate and oppression. When I see armed 'protestors' terrorizing a state legislature and waving the flag, then the flag is no longer a symbol of freedom but of intimidation.
Not at all. The person asking for attention will communicate what topic they want to discuss. I can then evaluate if that topic is more important than whatever I am working or focused on. If I tell the person that they need to wait, they could tell me why I am not doing my priority evaluation correctly and then I’ll reassess. There is no conflict or lack of politeness. The system works well for our team.
It's sad because we would expect/hope that the diversity of human cultures would be lead to very different songs being popular in different parts of the world.

It's also sad because the three most common word of the song in question ( Dababy - Rockstar ) are: "Yeah" (21 occurences), "Woo" (15 occurences) and "nigga" (13 occurences). The next one in line are "cop", "pull" and "glock" (6 each). This is probably not the culture the US hopes to export.
When the social media executives got before Congress and lied their asses off they must have suspected that something like this might happen in the future.
My first, automatic reaction to this was a whole-head eyeroll. Great. Now Github wants to be a social network.

My second thought was "Hey if I used this I could delete my stupid Linkedin account."
This definitely gave me a firmer reason to continue exploring and learning more things.
What I am doing differently from what you've said is that I am not paying adequate attention to what I am doing.

Thank you for your perspective.
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I wish Google would stop farting out new languages every few months and focus on Kotlin. If they don't want to commit to any of them, they should throw in the towel, adopt Swift, and be done with it. The continual flailing is goddamned annoying.
Wow, thanks for this list of things to check out. This is exactly the sort of thing I was hoping we'd be talking about and share.

I downloaded and am playing with fraidyc.at and am so far really liking the idea -- the whole idea made more sense after watching your video and then actually testing it. Thanks for making it.
Fantastic, despite looking, I hadn't found a decision along those lines. Can you give me a case to read? Just the name, I'm happy to do the research myself. Thanks in advance!

And to be clear, I've read the DOJ position asserting that "Trump's tweets are official government statements" (linked in this thread) but wasn't aware of court rulings.
> I meant for the "being the smartest person in the room" thing.

I find the preoccupation over chasing the vaguely defined, but often bandied definition of "smart" a bit dull.

What matters more in my opinion is being in an intellectually stimulating and also psychologically safe environment. Other "smarter" people than me have made this observation too.

I'm not saying it has to be SF, NYC, or London, but the environment matters immensely, and it can turn a motivated person who might not appear "smart" in another context into a
much more creative person.

> Oh sure, for networking and contacts etc, in person is still the thing.

It's for far more important things than just yukking it up with people and trading business cards.

> if you can't find a community online where people are smarter than you and/or better than you in whatever you do, you're either a super genius or you're not looking.

I personally have yet to see an purely online community that fosters creativity without some fundamental anchoring in creative communities in the real world. The only exception I can think of are online game-building communities and competitions (i.e. Ludum Dare), but that's an unusual case. Is it impossible to find more example that? No. But I'd argue that strictly or even primarily online creative communities are unusual, and the online part is more about networking and cross-pollinating between in-person creative communities.
I don’t think people view going to an office as an answer. They view daycares and schools reopening as an answer.
> The Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment constrains governmental actors and protects private actors.
To draw the line between governmental and private, this
Court applies what is known as the state-action doctrine.
Under that doctrine, as relevant here, a private entity
may be considered a state actor when it exercises a function “traditionally exclusively reserved to the State.”
Jackson v. Metropolitan Edison Co., 419 U. S. 345, 352
(1974). [0]

[0] https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/18pdf/17-1702_h315.pdf
Go wild:

http://braythwayt.com

http://raganwald.com
Sorry, you don't just get to decide what is a larger point in some discussion.

The law is capable of distinguishing between ideas, including whether content is good-faith speech or trolling. Pretending the two are the same and that a law could not possibly allow for a platform to moderate the latter without sacrificing its "neutrality" seems unreasonable.

I think it is a valid question that could be scrutinized in court, but there is no need to be obtuse about the fact that these are different categories of speech that the law could treat differently specifically with regard to how it would categorize ("neutrality" of) a platform on the internet, not whether or not the speech is entirely forbidden period.
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Brazil’s song could be translated as “Get fucked in the ass with a huge slap”. As a Brazilian, I don’t know what I was expecting.
no linux version? good bye!
This is a really nice presentation of these ideas.

However, I think that the Decision Matrix idea is too complicated: specifically the part where he advocates adding a weighting to each factor being considered to arrive at a numerical score.

At Microsoft, some of us use a system that I like to call the "Abolade decision making framework." It's the same idea, but instead of assigning weights to factors, we simply rank them. Additionally, the factors are expressed as positive attributes and an option either has that factor or it doesn't. A factor could be "Has vibrant colors" or it could be "Less than $10" for example. The type of a factor is Boolean :)

The goal is to generate a table with the options presented as columns and the factors presented as rows. You spend a lot of time as a group figuring out what the factors are, and then you spend a lot of time ranking them. Once you have agreement, you start working on the options. The winning option is one where you have the longest continuous line of check marks for each factor starting from the top.

Smart people, of course will try to game this system to choose their preferred outcome ... you need to be vigilant about this :)
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No, publishers can be as biased as they want, unlike the new requirements here.
Interesting, thank you for noting.
There's the legality of freedom and the spirit.

I'd be pretty disturbed if an ISP all of a sudden prevented me from contacting wikipedia, or throttled my access to competitors. The ISP is private, but it's not really in the spirit of freedom to do so.

Similarly, if an airline said they won't sell me a ticket because I'm going to a rally for a particular politician. Or if the post office (or fedex) wouldn't carry my letter to the editor because they disagree with my opinion. Or if I couldn't get basic banking, insurance, or other business services because my legal business is politically unpopular.

There also is some legal murkiness because a federal judge ruled that Trump couldn't block people on Twitter[1].

[1] https://www.governing.com/topics/politics/gov-twitter-facebo...
Another programmer data point: I live in the US, and rarely start after 8am.
Haha wow is this a parody?
I think the Toyota decision was also one of reputation. Do you really want to sell a bunch of cars that might have been exposed to salt water?

Nothing would ruin your brand more than having thousands of new cars breaking down.
Writing the software is the easy part of SaaS.
I have to admit that I originally thought this was about useless ways to apply the small domestic animal.
Here's why I often have command chains that start with cat:

head -n999 $LOG | grep $WANT | cut $BYTESORFIELDS | sed $CHANGES

I build that iteratively, a pipe at a time, until I'm getting the right output. Then I replace "head -n999" with "cat". That saves me a lot of time, as the log file might be hundreds of MB or even GB in size, and working on the whole file when a small representative chunk will do is stupid.

Less places to change, and all at the very front, is less likely to make a mistake and put a param in the wrong spot. In that case, cat isn't useless, it was the minimal edit to go from test case to production case, and minimizing differences between testing and production is good engineering.
> Is this executive order 66?

This comes pretty close to it:

https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/2020/5/28/21265799/inspecto...
I thought they said you better have a lot of money.
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As a human, I can’t say I’m surprised.
I think trying to say one is more important than the other is a false dichotomy. They are both very important.

It's true that ideas tend to dramatically evolve as a result of execution. Likewise execution affords an opportunity for refinement that simply isn't there prior. I'd argue it's a different kind of refinement though from what you get while you're still in the green field stage.

Thinking and research on their own—over the course of a very long period of time—offer insight that isn't easily gleaned under the high-stress environment of execution. A different kind of insight or refinement, if you will.

It's worth noting that there are entire professions where the majority of what they do is think. Physics and philosophy come to mind. Why thinking is valued so little in tech by contrast, I don't know.
Vue.js was part of the architecture -- no kidding! But hey, thanks for the encouragement.
Archaeologists in Norway are about to dig up a Viking ship
Or the excellent progress¹ which can show progress state for already running commands, great for when a process has been running for longer than you expected. Comes with a bunch of filtering options, and can be applied to all sorts of commands as it just digs about in the file handles.

1. https://github.com/Xfennec/progress
The most desirable feature would have been the possibility to have one very compact and flexible firmware for any expansion card for any host system on any bus system. As it were, the market decided to have it the other way around. I.e. an absolutely common graphics card with an ATI chip for some workstation, or Power Macintosh was a 'speciality'. IIRC Acer or some other vendor beginning with A produced ONE VGA-card for PCs about 20+ years ago. Of course it was a flop, because no real benefit, when plugged into a x86 with BIOS, with no knowledge of that. At least it worked via some shim. Now we have EFI/UEFI/SSBA with all the PC-inspired crap, or U-Boot and similarly insular stuff instead.

(shrug)

edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware
I'm just so thankful we have so many people in the LISP, Rust and Haskell communities ready to step up to the plate and replace over 50 years of C/C++ OS development with their grand, impervious and indestructible vision of what a safe, secure OS should be.

All they'd have to do is provide us a stable, secure foundation and a hypervisor that can run legacy OS's.
Oh, and reimplement/replace the tens of thousands of API's provided by Windows/UNIX/Linux which are in use by millions of programmers everyday.

Also they'd need to be able to support all those other secure languages that have been written in C/C++ over the years. I guess they will be able to rewrite those as well in short order on top of their new "secure" foundation.

I'm sure it will happen any minute now.
Can you cite some examples where UI animations aren't counterproductive, annoying, amateur-hour crap? Swiping screens away to convey a stacked hierarchy is useful, but beyond that I struggle to imagine what I'd do with them.

There's a reason we hated Flash-based Web sites, and animation was a huge part of it.

Now I'm considering which is worse: animated UI, or transparent UI. The asinine transparent-UI fad largely and deservedly died in the '00s, with the exception of Apple suddenly jumping on its discredited and defunct bandwagon years later.

Don't see why we need to bring back animated UI either, but I'm happy to consider suggested uses.

Speaking of stacked hierarchies, the rotatable 3-D display of views in a UI might be pretty useful. I like that idea.
And they were for the most part correct. The 90's and early 2ks were filled with trash music. The only nice thing compared to the pop lists today is that those bands still actually played instruments.

I look back at what I listened to then and maybe a handful of those groups were actually anything good. The rest was appealing to an unrefined 13 year old, which really says a lot about how shitty that music is.

I listen to a lot of stuff from the late 60's and early 70's now, as well as newer stuff full of band names that would never end up in the top 500 lists.

My parents generation of music was undoubtedly more wholesome and serious than my own, and its not even a comparison to now.

If music is supposed to be a reflection of society, it's no wonder as society is such trash now.
Everything except this in your plan is doable:

>4. Cruise at current job

It's such a chaotic shit show... more people are leaving in the next few weeks and it's going to very negatively affect me.

>I find that when you think you have the weight of the world on your shoulders, super straightforward tasks seem insurmountable.

It feels unsurmountable because I have no viable path to success or resolution right now. Whenever a new job lead or something else comes up it is an instant uplift of spirits. If only we could schedule success.

I really appreciate your simplifying of things and reminder of the things unrelated to programming that are essential to success.
You may want to read the history of banana republics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic.

Given the wildness of that particular dark corner of our history, I'm looking forward to reading about the history we're living through now. Hopefully after some emotional remove, like in another ten years.
Too bad you can’t have social media for just the good or OK parts of the planet, the bad parts get it too.
It's a lot cheaper to have an open office. They sold it as cool and the younger peeps bought it.
My guess why, also based on no data whatsoever:

1. Older people grew up in an era where news sources were trusted as platforms that reported facts. But now most news sources are optimized for user engagement, which are most effective when delivering divisiveness, outrage, and fear mongering.

2. Older people have more time to watch the news, and thus the effects of prolonged exposure to such negativity has more of a chance to shape their views.

But who knows what the real truth is without more research?
Hm, I'll have to try that out!

Oh, on those. Compared to iOS and ViewControllers, they just isn't a comparison. Starting them? Oh, can I do new Activity()? Nope, use this Intent thing. Rotation? Good luck! Passing data around? I have to use a bundle? Why can't I set a variable inside, like any other object?

Just to start. :)
Off topic, but does anyone have a thought on what is the best unicode font? That is, a font that includes all the characters for the 30+ most use languages (including all the double byte languages)? I know every system had a default unicode font that any character can fall back to (I was surprised when I was working with Turkish and the font didn't 3 of the Turkish characters so it fell back to the system font for those three. That was the first time that I learned that text is rendered character by character and if the indicated font doesn't have that character then it will keep going through the fall backs before reaching the system font and then falling back to some default no font character found symbol), but what is the best non-system font that also covers the vast majority (by percentage of people) of modern languages?
Youtube places checks on videos for covid ... Antivax and more. How is what twitter did any different. Why is the conversation about what twitter did and not about Trump getting mad and using an EO to stop people from fact checking him. Why isnt that the conversation.. I shouldnt be able to turn a radio on and not hear how unprofessional and childish and abuse of power this truly is.

This isnt how the presidency is supposed to be used. He got mad and hes trying to silence his critics. Enough with the twitter is right or wrong.. Publisher vs platform. This is the conversation that needs to be had.

There is no reason an EO of this nature should be slid across the desk. A blind judge could see hes reacting to being checked.
That's insane! I 'm actually working on a lite-daw for web, so this is extremely interesting to me. However I do not plan to go very far. My angle is that this should be a tool to experiment and try out things with minimal friction, then for any serious work, perhaps users can look into professional solutions. Perhaps also take advantage of the web's collaborative nature and have multiple users share a session!

There are decades of research, feedback loops and work put into tools such as FruityLoops, Cubase, ProTools etc, and the thought of reimplementing parts of it for web is such a daunting task.
>factual information

Well... if you really want to get into it. Twitter can’t “fact check” the original statement. Because it was a prediction.

It hasn’t happened yet. It’s unlikely to be mass scale fraud, of course, but it’s a future event.

It’s his opinion / prediction. As wrong as it is, that isn’t something they should “fact check”.

Twitter picked a really bad tweet to make a stand on. Like it or not, they chose to editorialize someone else’s content, that’s a publisher.

They didn’t have to “break a law” to now be liable for other content they “publish”. That’s all the EO is, that Section 230 doesn’t apply to publishers.
to echo sibling comments: build your thing with 90's era frontend tech. A fancy UI is unlikely to be your differentiating feature. As long as it does its job, you can fix it later if it becomes successful -- hire a js expert at that point and re-do the frontend.
Is this surprising? Of course it is
Rockstar is a top song on Tiktok — maybe that's the reason?
That particular example actually says nothing against you, and certainly doesn't mean the Unix tools are hostile, as the neighbor comment says. The ‘grep|wc’ flow is natural in the Unix paradigm, because each command does its own thing there—it's exactly like functional programming. The ‘grep -c’ thing is a shortcut that may be an optimization but doesn't conform to the ideals.

I don't know if it's easier for humans to remember one command with flags or two commands, but it's certainly best to recognize the principles and learn to use them, which is what the ‘grep|wc’ case demonstrates.
Robert Moog had nothing on these Soviet beauties
Notable paragraph which was not present in the leaked draft:

> Twitter now selectively decides to place a warning label on certain tweets in a manner that clearly reflects political bias. As has been reported, Twitter seems never to have placed such a label on another politician’s tweet. As recently as last week, Representative Adam Schiff was continuing to mislead his followers by peddling the long-disproved Russian Collusion Hoax, and Twitter did not flag those tweets. Unsurprisingly, its officer in charge of so-called ‘Site Integrity’ has flaunted his political bias in his own tweets.
I used to work at a sub-cabinet bureau that had much, much higher standards than we’re seeing out of the executive mansion now. I’m disappointed.