skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One day I was getting out of my car to carry groceries into my house. Our nice neighbor was passing on the sidewalk at that moment, saw the EFF hat I was wearing, and asked me about it. "Do you work for the EFF?" "No, but I throw some money at them when I can because I like them." "Oh. I like them, too. They helped me out a lot once." "Oh yeah? For what?" He laughed. "I'm Mark Klein. Go Google me when you're finished with your groceries." I knew his story from following it in the news, but didn't recognize his name. I about spit my teeth out when I found out who I was living next to.

Super nice guy. Has the only two golden retrievers I've ever been frightened of, and if I were him, I'd probably have some assertive watchdogs, too.
What does flagging posts on social media have to do with net neutrality? Nothing.
Sometimes one implementation or the other just plain sucks -- typically it's bad dark mode implementations that obviously were just afterthoughts.
Another way to say this is that VCs could just have donated money without spending 8 years spinning the wheels. Those employees would have been paid and the opportunity cost of spinning wheels would have not occurred, instead these people would be doing something more productive and adding value to the GDP.

So, I agree with you. It is a waste. It is a waste of human hours that was spent with nothing to show in return.
I don’t see Kap mentioning shooting anyone in that tweet? Either you linked the wrong one or you’re trying to paint a false equivalence.
I'm glad it brought a smile to your Friday :D
The author might like an illustrated summary of a talk given by Sir Ken Robinson about "Changing education paradigms"[0], which includes some of the essence of this article (particularly referring to studies about how many uses one person can think of for a paperclip)

[0] RSA Animate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U

[1] Full talk (55 mins): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCbdS4hSa0s
What if a person said it as opinion: Looting has the potential to initiate shootings. Are we looking at an opinion, an observation, or glorying violence.
OTOH cold starts are calculated with a concurrency of only 10.

The point of using serverless is handling massive traffic spikes efficiently and cheaply but 10 concurrent connections doesn't seem very massive.

Cloudflare Workers are doing much better than the rest in this respect (see the max value, the graph is misleading) but these have serious limitations (eg: max 50ms of CPU time). This makes them a bad fit for most situations.

In my current project which requires lowest possible latency I'm having more success with Fly.io. Instead of having cloud functions you create docker images which are distributed on their regions and scale up/down based on demand on that region.

https://fly.io/
You can open it on Incognito mode.
Are they true independent contractors or are they working under contracting companies that handle the payroll for Google? I don't know the proper term for these companies.
Yup. Once it becomes formalized people accept it. The holocaust is a good example but China's treatment of Uighur's right now is another example, the average Chinese supports what the government is doing because "they're in a cult" or "why hold radical beliefs". It's official and authorities support it. There is evil and there is evil caused and enforced by an authority the people approve of,the society at large is responsible.
That flag shouldn't be documented: it's completly unsupported and meant to be used only by the compiler. Please don't rely on it :)
What is your prepared statement regarding pay?
Twitter. It is a private company. If he doesn't like Twitter, rather than complain about Twitter on Twitter he could move to Gab where most of his followers are.
Short answer would be: leetcode interviews. I've tried and failed 3 of the FAANGs so far (though did come close at one), and 1 of the top tier unicorns.

Slightly longer answer would also include the fact that many tech companies don't seem to want to look at someone like me for junior/mid roles. So I'm forced to compete with other seniors. And let's face it, a senior SWE at a bank or many other non-tech companies is not the equivalent of a senior SWE at a FAANG or other tech company.
Out of curiosity, what is do the democratically passed laws in major economies actually say about the use of violence to stop looting ?
The fact that the police chief was racist doesn't make him wrong. He can be both racist and correct that looting generally leads to shooting.
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Pedantry time.

“Stand your ground” isn’t about defending property with lethal force. Stand your ground is about whether or not you have a duty to attempt to flee (if possible) before applying lethal force. Castle doctrine is a similar rule, but more narrowly scoped to your own home. Without stand-your-ground, you have to demonstrate that you tried to, or were incapable of retreating before applying lethal force.

That being said, there are very few states of the union where applying lethal force to protect property is legal. Texas is the only one I know of. In Texas you could shoot someone to protect property even if you feel that your life and limb are not at risk, but that’s not the norm in other states.

All states allow some level of force to stop a fleeing felon, the well named “Fleeing Felon” rule, but Tennessee vs. Garner limited this to non-lethal force. So you could tackle a fleeing robber legally, but shooting one would be illegal outside of Texas.

Now Minnesota only has castle doctrine and stand your ground from your own vehicle. If one reasonably feels that life and limb are at risk in Minnesota you can apply lethal force, but if you’re outside of your home and car you have a duty to attempt to retreat first. In my opinion this makes shooting at looters to protect your business a dicey proposition legally, as arguably you should have just fled.

As always, I am not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice.
Needs a (2017). This looks like the publish date:

> 18.08.2017
> There's a solid argument to be made that when you eat, and how often you eat, is more important than what you eat.

Yes, there is good research suggesting that fasting can offset many (most?) of the ill effects of eating poorly.

> By creating long gaps between meals, your body re-establishes what baseline level of insulin should be.

One of the nice things about Keto is that you can get many (if not most) of the benefits of fasting without needing to fast. Some research suggests that some of the benefits of fasting likely come from being in ketosis during the fast.

It's starting to look like ketones do more than deliver fat to your cells. They are also treated sort of like a hormone, which has other beneficial effects on your health.
Thunderbird doesn't either.
Back of napkin calculation: assuming low costs, $100/year is on the order of 1000 users per software engineer if the engineer also does support. Make it $10/year and the engineer has 10k users to support. 10x users mean 10x probabilities of long tail support events. The long tail of support is unbounded in negative consequences while the best support interaction is zero bound.

It’s not worth building a business for unprofitable customers in general. A forms service falls into the general case because a million customers is a highly unlikely. It’s also likely to require an undesirable business model. For example $10/site/year is going to be too dear for people with multiple hobby sites if $100/year is too dear.
I'm not trying to convince you. I'm stating my opinion which you happen to disagree with. There are no liberal politicians that I can find calling for fact checking because, for now, Twitter is working in their favor.
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As was Donald Trump's in 2017 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/11/02...
nah, but truth and reality does.

Sorry your dude is having a sad because mean Jack won't let him tweet about gunning down American citizens.
> Civil Rights Act? States' rights issue.

Every law called "the Civil Rights Act" passed with overwhelming Republican support. All but one passed with more Republican support than Democratic support. The landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 received 80% of the republican vote in the house, but only 61% of the democratic vote.
They can detain you briefly for something as simple as wearing jeans if someone committed a crime while wearing jeans but typically this is only for a handful of minutes. These reporters were fully arrested which is a different standard as you've written already.
Aren't some of those examples of some form of money laundering though?
I would love to find an Epyx/Atari-style joystick that connects via USB. The only joysticks anyone makes anymore are big hulking flightsticks, but so many older games were designed around those smaller joysticks you held in the palm of your hand. They just don't feel the same with a giant flightstick.
> You can argue until you're blue in the face [...] doesn't mean someone who is close to the pain of end users experiencing failure is acting in bad faith by disagreeing with you

Since you didn't actually provide any evidence either way (and nobody did to my knowledge) it stands to reason that indeed your only point is to argue.

There's no reason to assume Apple introduced something like the T2 chip for any other reason than to offer genuinely useful features to users and profit from it. Genuine criticism should be based on more than "maybe I'm right, maybe I'm wrong". Otherwise it's just shilling. ...And losing an argument, whether you found it interesting or not.

Care to see how others read your "brilliant" maybe this, maybe that "argument"? All manufacturers should offer no features to have no point of failure. Any single addition to any product can only be another point that can fail. Thus it should be assumed by default that this must be the intention of every manufacturer. It even begs the conclusion that all of them are the same so singling one out is purely grudge based.
At the moment, lawyers and all the scummy industry around the GDPR (whether it's advice/consulting or "consent management") are indeed the only ones making the money.

There is very little enforcement and flawed solutions from the aforementioned industry are allowed to proliferate despite not actually being compliant (the majority of "consent management" solutions are in breach, so they are making money while not even helping their client become compliant).
I’m not convinced by the arguments from your first link. As stated by the article itself, a difference in the number of left-leaning vs right-leaning bans does not prove the standards for censorship are different depending on what side of the political spectrum you fall on. It could be that conservative content violates rules more frequently than liberal or centrist content.

It goes on to say this can’t be possible because it would mean that conservative content would have to violate rules at 4x the rate of others, and that statistically its highly improbable. Why? It’s a known problem that Twitter has a lot of accounts that are fake accounts from bad actors trying to sow discord in the US political system, and those tend to be right leaning. Didn’t Twitter relatively recently do a purge of a large number of accounts that were deemed fake? That could easily skew the numbers, especially because those accounts tend to engage in the kind of rhetoric that gets you banned.

And then the article points to cases where liberal leaning content doesn’t get banned even though it should. I can also find cases where conservative content violates the rules yet it didn’t face consequences, most prominently the president’s account. It’s not just liberals who get a free pass, so I’m not sure what that proves.

Is it possible there is a bias in how Twitter sensors content? Sure. But that article makes it sound like they have a data driven, mathematically rigorous proof that it’s true, and I don’t think they meet that mark.
It's something similar to buying up the rights for, and increasing the price of a life-necessarry drug by 2000%. Is that also violence?
This is really interesting. Bookmarked.
> yet Microsoft with Thousands of engineers working over the span of decades never internally developed this idea

Ever heard of NuGet[0]? Been around since 2010.

WinGet isn't a fork of AppGet, the codebases share nothing.

[0] https://www.nuget.org/
We're misusing the term contractor in this thread. There are about 130,000 TVCs at Google (Temps, Vendors, and Contractors) according to the article.

The overwhelming majority of those are vendors, who provide security, staff cafeterias, call centers, etc. A few thousand are temps, who do the same work as an FTE but on a fixed-term basis with a cap at 2 years. Temps are employees of a staffing agency like Adecco which rents them out to Google for a rate about 2-3x the hourly pay of the temp.

The number of actual contractors, who are self-employed and have contracts directly with Google, is just a few hundred. They likely do make more than many FTEs, at least lower-level ones.
Twitter could block him and Trump could continue to sell out America to foreign interests.
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PSA: You can do the same thing with Google Forms + Sheets.

Here's how to post to a Google Form: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18073971/http-post-to-a-...
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Ah! The return of the infamous "goes to" operator (-->)
This has been a constant headache, not the rules or how to apply it, but our customers still act like there isn't such a thing like GDPR, and actively demand, DEMAND that we put in place functionality that is in clear violation of GDPR, and when you try to inform and explain to them who things work they get mad at me and threaten that they will get a more professional shop to do things for them shrugs
American warplanes were the Rocky Balboas of the air: they could take a lot of punishment and keep moving forward.
Mastodon is quite similar. Also, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Medium, Blogger, etc. will all let you post content to a group of follower.
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Doesn't this only hand the useState hook? How would this handle something like the useEffect hook where you may want to rerun code on every render?
No, despite using the word "joke" it appeared that you'd missed it.
FYI also, researchers are suggesting that the Lancet HCQ study everyone (and the WHO) references nowadays is fake: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/29/covid-19-surgi.... The authors could not have had the data they claimed they had. This is just one bit of news you will never find on CNN.
The rules are very clear once you look past the fear-mongering. Don't stalk people, and if you want to stalk them you need to ask them nicely and allow them to decline. Don't be careless with user data so you minimize the likelihood of a breach, and if you do get breached then report it to the regulator and cooperate with them.

In fact, "big tech" has figured out how to get around the rules by exploiting the lack of enforcement. The majority of big tech is knowingly not GDPR-compliant.
Personal attacks will get you banned here. No more of this on HN, please.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.
Honestly, I can't figure out what the tweet means. "Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts." From a plain reading I think he's saying when the feds take control they will shoot looters.
> They're a younger engineer and you are being tested for a Principal Engineering position

Found your problem!
Oh this is exactly the same service that i tried to build. Does this enforces privacy ? They have some pricy model, so seems like they would be definitely keeping some ads out their in free version. But yeah thanks for letting this know, i will check this out.
You've made my afternoon with that. Brilliant read.
A pretty common pattern I've seen in both Ruby and Elixir is to begin building up the state you want to work with in a test and then drop into a repl using pry (either adding a breakpoint in the code or in the test). I think this allows you to "Write said experiments in the same place [your] code already is".

Maybe I'm just misunderstanding what people in Clojure are doing. Please feel to point me in the right direction.
Setting aside GDPR for a moment, the cookie thing just means that if I want to use these websites, I have to enable cookies so that I can dismiss the cookie dialog.
You have to store high-level waste for hundreds or thousands of years before it's safe.

Heavy metal wastes never become safe. A dump site for cadmium or chromium or lead or arsenic waste will be exactly as hostile to life around it in ten thousand years as it is today. The only way for it to "become safe" over time is for it to leak into the environment and distribute the damage over time. In practice, the "solution" for heavy metal industrial waste is to store it where it's produced and ignore it. Usually in huge open pits, which are just great for the environment around them /s.
In what ballpark are you making? I'm at an IB as a mid-level engineer and my all-in compensation is at least half of what I could get a FAANG. In NYC.
> car breakins are not infrequent in the urban US. Ours was probably particularly frequent because it was being targeted by some sort of organized setup, but it is not uncommon.

> Generally sounds like you'll probably want to stay in suburbia.

So the poster you replied to was correct to say that they can just move to cities where it isn't accepted that cars are frequently broken into. They don't have to stay safe in suburbia after all.
But again, it's an observation, not a statement of fact, nor a declaration. "When a black person is killed is when the looting starts" How is that statement any different that what Trump said? As much as you want to editorialize and censor, you can't twist a statement to fit your narrative.
That's exactly what I was hoping somebody would point me to. Thanks!

It sounds like ML essentially failed to turn their technology into a product. I'd love to see a demo of what the beast could do.
> One is frustrating for a second, it just doesn't work, second is frustrating for a longer period of time. The total frustration is larger with the latter.

One could say that the former is frustrating for infinity because it never works.

> There usually is a better solution than buggy software, at least with consumer stuff. If someone writes a shitty GPU driver, it's probably a better idea to return the GPU than to fiddle it working. At least that's what I think, based on my experience.

Usually, sometimes, maybe. Other times the old software either worked better for your use case or is literally the only option. That's my experience.
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If most people agreed with you, who would be using all these platforms you've said are inferior and bad? If people didn't find the platforms met their needs better than the alternatives, why would they create and consume within them?

I'm not even defending ad-supported anything--I'm defending creators getting paid, and I find it hard to believe you think that's unnecessary. I like the Patreon model wherever possible. But I also think it's ludicrous to pretend that most people would prefer manual curation of limited content, but they just end up using the platforms they do based on... coincidence? conspiracy? they're not as well-informed as you?

Something about this reminds me of how television was seen before "prestige TV" became a thing.
Has Twitter committed to two sidism neutrality, or has it, like reddit, made no statement about their political affiliation?

If it hasn't, does this mean they are free to ban every conservative viewpoint from their platform, like T_D does for liberal ones? If not, why are we letting T_D behave in such a way?
I grew up in Manitoba so have a very healthy hatred of mosquitoes - 50 of them once followed me into a car during the <1s window of me opening & closing the door (I know because I killed them all before driving) - but anyone leaning toward the idea we should exterminate mosquitoes is incredibly reckless. Ecological systems don't shift slowly, they collapse all at once. Their continued existence is predicated on feedback loops of mind-boggling complexity. To put it another way: https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1120044775024013312
It's Qt. GP might have mixed it up with Unigram client[0], which is UWP.

0. https://github.com/UnigramDev/Unigram
The Rumsfield case is literally on point: the government cannot force a private party to present government speech. I don't know how much more on point than they can be.

Twitter is not a legally recognized method of presenting Official Statements, as a matter of law (which sets forth the prescribed methods for making Official Statements). They have no responsibilities to present Official Statements, which means they can "impede" access to those statements on their platform all they like, in whatever manner that takes, from simply deleting such posts to providing fact checks to outright editorializing against the official statements.

As noted, I suspect this is not a 1st Amendment issue as the "speech" is present regardless and you have organizations, not necessarily people.

I don't understand what you're trying to say. This is definitely a First Amendment issue...even the White House acknowledges that this is a First Amendment issue. This order is entirely about trying to violate Twitter's First Amendment rights as a private non-governmental organization.
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When someone is high profile they will be treated differently. That's just the nature of being high profile. Trump has said a lot of things that would have gotten you or I banned if Twitter noticed. Twitter let Trump slide for a long time, and is finally moderating some of the most egregious examples.

And to be clear, anyone calling for violence should also have similar actions taken against them. But, me shouting get out the guillotine to my 10 followers is different than POTUS saying the same thing.
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This is cargo-cult hardening without specifying a threat model. Some of the things in there make no sense in most contexts -- for example, logging in as root on a tty to perform administrative actions because you might have an X11 keylogger protects you from pretty much no real attack vector. Your X11 keylogger still runs as your user, with full access to your data, full access to your browser accounts and passwords, etc.

Similarly, many of the L1TF-style mitigations make very little sense on a single-user computer. They make sense on shared tenancy servers / VM hosts where you want to prevent lateral movement, but there is close to no lateral movement to be had on your random Linux laptop. The mitigations that do help are mostly those at the web browser level, since this is for almost all users the only place where they run sandboxed untrusted code.
You are reducing the number of carries. The article explains it clearly. If you're not convinced by the article, I won't try to convince you. (Edit: the last thing I'll add: you are reducing the number of carries for 64-bit additions. When adding 13 51-bit numbers, that does not count as carries instruction-wise, as it's still add, not adc.)
Also disaster survival.

Couscous, Bisquick and other low-or-no-heat, premixed, just-add-water solutions are a godsend to have when a tornado takes out your gas line or electric grid.
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Anyone else notice the use of Aphex Twin's logo as the tab icon?