skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Support for your claim?
This would hit harder if you mentioned where you work -- i.e., on whose behalf you're deciding not to hire devs with FB on their resumes.
I can name them, but perhaps not out of blue during a phone call. It's stored deep in the back, along with the position of stars and the lyrics of Disney songs.
> I disagree.

I disagree.

I think the idea of "keep ISRs small" is that it is easier to spend time polishing your ISRs to be as small as possible than deal with long ISRs. As soon as you have long running (long is a relative thing) it is extremely difficult to guarantee any behavior of the system.
It is actually F.
> Many of the wealthiest billionaires dropped out of school

It's of course a very nice story that they "dropped out of school", but the truth is more nuanced than that. For example Bill Gates and Elon Musk had school as a backup plan in case their business would fail.

So it's not that they dropped out of school to pursue their business, they suspended their school for their business, and still had it as a backup plan. Very different! If their business wouldn't have worked, they would continue their school (which at that point was already an investment, 3 years for Bill Gates if I remember correctly).
>Certain subs will automatically ban you if you ever participate in another sub mods of the former sub do not like.

That happened to me a lot. I posted semi-regularly in r/fatpeoplehate about personal health. I posted quite regularly in /r/the_donald, because I like to correct common misconceptions about how Europe works (like Denmark NOT being socialst, no matter what Sanders says).

Finally, I got temp banned for using the word "faggot" in the wrong sub. Despite not being directed at anyone, and being obvious satire. That was the day I was done with Reddit. They do not want people where who go against the politically correct group think.

So except for HN, I don't know where to go to pointlessly argue with people on the internet. Voat started out okay I think, but it has become too "endlösung" for me.
I don't think adding a small banner is censorship.
Does anyone know where other books from this series can be found?
Or have congress roll back Section 230. If online publishers were held to the same libel standards as print publishers this problem would be instantly fixed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communica...
JS devs like to reinvent the wheel.
I'm not FAANG just a concerned contributor who gets to work with them daily and was watching this unfold while getting tear gassed standing in drum circles this weekend.

Unless this is about G attacking FBers, yeah, that has been fun to watch. As usual the FB'ers are pretty silent about everything. Couple of "hi i work for fb and want to leave what should i do" posts but that was all I really saw.
> would still be a great success if sodium-ion is cheaper to manufacture

Either if would be slightly more expensive, the environmental and logistic consequences (not depending on a few places in a few countries to mine it, not needing to import the raw materials from another continent) would be also a noticeable factor.
Volunteer - non-profits mostly are not getting their usual donations during the pandemic, and are trying to keep their doors open just like for-profit businesses. If you can do anything for them, without expecting compensation, you help them stay alive.
Thank you! I'd much prefer to not have to use macros, but I tried to make the with/withif mimic what I wish was a real C statement.
No spying technologies built into the CPU, at least as far as we know. That one is a big deal.
I had the same reaction, and then I remembered that series of books "The Complete Idiot's Guide To..." that was popular at the time. It's probably a reference to that, and intended as a joke given the background needed to understand the presentation.

https://apnews.com/dd0d4d10c6ce8f698cb325a72ee82b97
If you must pry, I'll say that CNN (a highly partisan outlet) has every incentive to have their reporter arrested. I'll also say that arresting a journalist is out of line and that the police could have let it ride. However no one is perfect, certainly not myself. Therefore I have little room to pass judgement upon police officers who are clearly under more than a little bit of stress. Similarly, I can't condemn the reporter even if he is indeed (which I can't know with certainty) advancing his career in a very cynical way.

For me I'm comfortable just leaving it as an unknown instead of attempting to take sides or claiming an authoritative understanding of the event. Moral grandstanding for either claim would be a further leap too far for me personally. However you are welcome to argue your opinion with someone else. I just can't do that in good faith. Thanks for understanding.
Really? I've found it enormously helpful when communicating alphanumeric strings (like, say, license keys) over the phone with support people in countries where English is not the primary language.
I wonder if it has to do with changes in weather - seems possible that rising vitamin D levels would stave things off.
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All decentralization would do is force people even harder into their bubbles. Facebook et al do a pretty good job of that already, but at least with everyone on one platform there's a chance to see another view. Decentralized platforms just means cliques will develop and dissenting views will be banned. Just look at Reddit and its subreddit system for where this ends up.
I am building a web analytics platform that in theory could be a decent substitute for GA. I'd like to share some notes with you.

In addition to all you have mentioned, GA has a problem now called adblockers.
It's actually not a problem for them as much as it is for website owners. Depending on the country, independent agencies say adblockers are present in more than 30% of browsers. I can't imagine what kind of business intelligence tool provides that amount of error and is still considered ok.
But if they resign they would lose the six figure income and also any influence with future censorship battles at Facebook. Better to stay in, wipe your tears with dollar bills and keep the pressure alive. Zuckerberg will give up at some point.

This playbook is depressingly familiar around the world now. Relentless constant pressure to delegitimise institutions at every possible opportunity. Day after day. Week after week. Month after month.

Just a few recent examples. UK with Dominic Cummings, Australia with the fires, India with Hindu hysteria, US with.. well everything.
Fahrenheit

From the study:

> ...their core body temperature falls to as low as −2.9 °C, or 2.3 °C below the equilibrium freezing point of their body fluids. At these body temperatures, arctic ground squirrels avoid freezing by supercooling, which refers to the metastable state that fluids enter when cooled below their crystallization temperature in the absence of catalysts of freezing, or nucleators.
I rather like the comparison of social media platforms to amusement parks.
I'm the opposite. I hate being able to click anywhere on a trackpad for left-click. It results in SO many false clicks, that I revert to using a small travel mouse. I much prefer old trackpads where you had clearly defined 'button' areas[1] at the bottom. I 100% blame Apple for the shift to buttonless trackpads.

--

[1] Or even real buttons!
That’s such a stereotypic and simply wrong picture that’s being drawn about Germany here, it’s quite amusing. Germany orderly? Quite the opposite.
Edit: don't look at this reply, look at the answer with a direct citation from the article.

Almost certainly Fahrenheit. 32F is only the freezing point for pure water; most impurities reduce that. Now 27F is still pretty low, as most seawater freezes around 28F, but could be done no problem with the right chemicals. The key is making sure no areas have pure enough water to crystallize and expand, which is what destroys cells and other small structures.
Because it's pretty clear the point of the comment was the lack of ethics in pursuit of money.

Not everybody wants to work at places like that, or with people like that.

What's the point in them bringing technical expertise to your environment if they poison the culture with their amorality and venality?

Money isn't everything, some of us know that, some of us don't care.

Assuming the premise, natch. :)
Hello everybody, I spent the last month-ish working on Queu, which combines all of your streaming subscriptions into one app.

I’m a die-hard cable cutter, but it feels like every month there’s another new streaming platform on the block, which means another app I have to go flipping through when looking for something to watch. Queu is my answer to my problem, and I hope it can be a solution for others as well.

My immediate goal is to get some of the new “Network” platforms (ABC, NBC, Bravo, etc.) up and running on Queu. I’m also interested in getting a version of Queu running on iOS and Android.

I’d be happy to answer any questions people have.

Thanks,
Jacob
Hey, huge fan here!

It's really incredible to take a master type-definition in TS/JSON Schema and generate language bindings in every language. Especially from a JS/TS Node script as part of a build pipeline.

Or to start new type definitions by using API output/JSON files.
Not on Arch Linux I didn't 8)
Honestly, you might be better off getting involved in non-tech ways. That's often where most of the help is needed. I do manage a website for my party but it's very hands-off WordPress style.
so are the utilities- Yet we still found a way to regulate them (in our capitalist dystopia)
A couple specific quotes that are relevant:

> If you are planning to regularly mirror the source from Google internal repos to public ones (or vice versa) Copybara provides workflows and tools for this.

https://opensource.google/docs/releasing/preparing/#tools

> Google-owned open source projects must be moved to third_party prior to being released under an open source license, even if Google owns 100% of the code, because the projects are expected to receive external contributions.

https://opensource.google/docs/thirdparty/
I am curious: why would I want to use AppGet or WinGet instead of Chocolatey?

And is the assertion that Microsoft took code from AppGet as part of WinGet? The fact that the word "copied" is in quotes makes me wonder what the beef is... and did anyone ask the APT team if they feel ripped off by the existence of Windows package managers?
Yes. Change incentives and behavior will change.
I would argue that free speech as a concept is just as dead in a world where most communication platforms are owned by large companies who enforce their politics on their users.
Billions of users. I would imagine it is the entire spectrum of political and cultural opinions. Pro-live/Pro-choice. Religious/Atheist. Traditional/Multicultural.
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My wife and I BOTH have been programming over 40 years.
I learned programming in Fall 1961 from Forman Acton at Princeton. Programmed IBM 601 in Bell I, IBM 1620 in Fortran II. First job was summer 1962 at Bolt, Beranek, and Newman programming the PDP-1 in assembly. Never stopped working as a programmer. Main language now is Python. I am machine learning architect at Sigma Labs Inc. I am 80 and I played NIM on a computer built to do ballistics in 1947 at Maxon Corporation.
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Two Generals' Problem
Is there a way to protest this?

Perhaps devs should upload every package with a readme that includes a reminder for developers, something like:

"This package is dedicated to Keivan Beigi. Read more about what Microsoft did to Kevin here: thankyoukevin.com"

Any better ideas?
Agreed. I think these types of systems work better than the standard upvote/downvote one, and I wish more sites would use them. I know Facebook reactions are a bit like this, as is a popular XenForo plugin with similar features.
Yes you can. I did mention GCC's cleanup attribute along with MSVC's try-finally construct. Another user was kind enough to even provide an example in their GitHub issue: https://github.com/taeber/cwith/issues/1.
I'm concerned for someone who has so much wrongly placed anger... dude you're all worked up about Facebook for no reason, get real they aren't the enemy
Hong Kong is collateral damage in Trump's new trade war with China
Some people have a need for a product. Someone provides a solution under some terms.

Assuming the terms and prices are fair and no "bad practices" are going on (no excessive EULA/DRM, no ads, no enforced subscriptions, no online requirement, etc.), how is that immoral?

The world does not owe devs a business model, you are right. The same way, the world does not owe users a solution under whatever terms they want, either.
I've also had similar experiences with Enterprise. The outcome was different. In a few cases I've driven off with cars from their luxury fleet because the car I had reserved, midsize SUV, was unavailable. So for $50/day/weekend I've driven XC90, Escalade, and a F150. But I've never had to wait 12 hours. They'd call in a car from another location before that would happen.

Also, great experiences with Hertz. I've rented through them in many countries and it's always been great service.
I don't regret going to university in the slightest in regards to my job as a software developer. I don't regret the $30k it cost me. Some days I do question if I should've become an electrician instead, but that was never an option for me growing up, it was more or less expected that I went to university.

University was so much more than learning how to program a computer so that I could get a job, I knew how to that that before I started. Almost none of what I learned at university I've ended up using in my career. But it was good to scratch that intellectual itch, I enjoyed learning what I learned, which is why I chose software development as a career, even if it isn't knowledge I use in everyday life. It was also an opportunity for me to move to a new city and become an independent adult and grow as a person, while meeting and socialising with people I would've never met had I stayed in my home town or even moved to a different city to attend a coding bootcamp.
What do FB engineers think? Should FB be editing its content and be designated as a publisher? This would imply a major change with hiring of thousands of employees and journalists to become a proper written medium. It would also mean their own wages would go way down to accomodate these new hires.
The Rise and Fall of Carly Fiorina: An Ethical Case Study (2008) [pdf]
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It sounds like an apology to me. What's missing, just the words "I'm sorry?"
Craig E. Johnson (PhD, University of Denver) is emeritus professor of leadership studies at George Fox University, Newberg, Oregon, where he taught undergraduate and graduate courses in leadership, ethics, management and communication.
If my memory of BASIC from the 80s is still accurate, Line 5 will never get executed, because of the GOTO 1 in line 4, so not even optional.
Honestly, you're the person I wouldn't hire. Judging large swaths of people with no nuance for their individual situations. Now what does that remind me of...

The selective outrage against Facebook for police brutality is something to behold. Facebook didn't exist during the lynchings of the 20th century or any number of race riots. You telling me things are somehow worse now that social media exists. Check your people instead cause I'm almost certain this comment was made by a white person.
Thank you, +1 for reading the study I was too lazy to look at.
I think we all know he is not "facing" anything. People that collect big and stable salaries will not change company employment over this.

Virtue signalling is cheap, endangering your family's livelihood is hard.

"It's very difficult to make somebody understand something, especially if their salary depends on them not understanding it."

Facebook is, in general, an unethical company. And this has been known for a long time. If you didn't leave yet you won't leave over this either.
> People really want Zuckerberg to decide whether posts of the president should be deleted or not?

This is a strange inversion. I would guess that most of the disgruntled FB employees want a transparent review system with rules that are applied consistently, with exactly zero intervention from Mark Zuckerberg.
The post was much shorter when I responded and the technical bit was a more significant part of it. I totally get the other points, but they stand on their own.
People are happy Twitter exercises its right to moderate speech because it moderates it the way they like.

People are unhappy that Facebook moderates speech because it’s moderating it they way they don’t like.

So, they only like free speech if they agree with it, otherwise they don’t.
And the downvoter(s) prove my point.

Read between the lines: I'm saying that there are a lot of people selecting themselves out of the candidate pool for the large SV tech companies based on the perception of SV corporate culture being promulgated through the media and forums like this one, further reinforcing the group think in those organizations.

That should make you happy.
Are there any resources on how to find non-profits that are looking for tech help?
Sophia Floersch: If I watched the video, I still don't believe it's me flying'
"a good signal" // "once the (firing) mission has begun" // "no longer address each other by name, and instead simply use keywords as the recipient / originator are obvious" (ie it's one person transmitting to a lot of receivers)
This is a lab result that has some promise, nothing more. Only a teeny tiny percentage of promising lab results turn into commercially viable products, there are many obstacles along the way from here to there. One of the biggest is that Li batteries have gone through several order of magnitude scalings. That means that any technology that wants to compete with it can't be as good, it must be much better.
> At high enough frequencies digital design becomes analogue design.

I've heard this stated as "the difference between digital engineers and analog engineers is that the analog engineers KNOW when they're designing an antenna".
What you're failing to understand here, is that whilst for you, you might not have issue with seeing the truth behind something. Others, specifically older generations, cannot. these are people who grew up with the media they could trust to give balanced viewpoints. That's just not something that we can rely on anymore.

So when someone in a position of trust spreads unsubstantiated claims, there needs to be some form of fact checking. Normally this comes from the media/news/etc... but since we're increasingly unable to trust that source, and also that we're using that source less in our daily lives. Who does it fall on?

I'll put it in another way most of us here can understand.

Imagine this is the late 90s, or the early 00's... Twitter is just another forum. You have one member of that forum posting with the intent of upsetting the user base... what should the forum mods do?
Thank you. Well, the Helpdesk can look after itself for a while now I've vanished down a rabbit hole.
Also, there may very well be forks already that are used by many people that allow to do what they want.
License is Apache 2.0 which does not require acknowledgment. I’m always surprised when open source project creators are complaining about a legal move made by a company related to their project: they allowed it in the first place. If they wanted more, like citation or financial advantage, they had the choice to force interested parties to comply by choosing another license. Betting on companies goodwill is risky...
I think a part of the issue is that other users than Trump would probably have had their posts removed when reported by others. Trump didn't.

> Thoughts of people should not be censored.

Also, I was formulating a thought to counter this, but then I realised that this it true in any case I could think of. Censorship gives people an excuse to ignore the situation, in this case: a dense violent idiot is President of the US, rather than really do something. Trump gets away with basically anything constantly and that is the real issue, not whether his comments get deleted at some point in time. If you censor all the idiotic and offensive things he says, then how can people realise things need to change?

You should not get offended by what he says. You should get offended by the fact that a person who says these kinds of things is President of your country.
Calls to violence? Yes they should. Freedom isn't limitless, it demands responsibility. The same way you can't yell fire in a movie theater. Inciting people to violence and threatening that same free speech of others, particularly from someone with the biggest soap box in the world, is unacceptable in our country. I thought we decided that years ago
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ah right, understand now, cheers
This shows a double sided approach to the services like Twitter and Reddit.

The social media companies argue they are not common spaces where free speech is required. This way they can moderate as they choose. It serves them.

But, they also argue that visa applicants sharing their social media details chills first amendment free speech.

The social media companies are inconsistent here and it appears they are looking out for their best financial interests.
Other countries that are not capitalist dystopias also regulate their utilities. So perhaps the problem lies elsewhere?
more communication != free speech
My software interacts with other commercial software in a very loose way. It just calls the other software passing some arguments. The first thing you see appearing when that opens up is who it's licensed to. I've seen the same licensee's name appear numerous times. As I said I work in a niche and these guys have WhatsApp groups and the like and pass stuff around. A group of them formed a brand, just a common website really, and then tried to beat me down on support costs despite the fact that forming this group had zero effect on my workload,same number of shops, same separate workforces. They don't always activate Windows, I doubt if their MS Office is always legal, they skimp on general tech support and try to get me to do that for free cos if their network is down my software doesn't work properly so it's my problem.
One of them who's still my customer did try and pirate my software in a new shop and it was a few months before he had to come clean because it was obvious that support calls were coming from two locations over a hundred miles apart which had the same licence.
If these guys had the source code the first thing they'd do is hire someone in India and see if he could replace me.
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You know, there's a saying that America is always predicted to become fascist, but Europe seems to be the one that always falls in that trap.
Having the first half of every European news program start with the United States is the current evidence that this is again about to be the case.
People should focus on their own countries and their own news. We, Americans, are certainly upset about the racism, police brutality, and the riots. We don't need to hear it from Europeans that are just watching it for the laughs, thinking they're somehow better.
> People really want Zuckerberg to decide whether posts of the president should be deleted or not? Is this for real?

I can't speak for everyone, but I just want the company not to carve out exceptions for their rules against violent speech depending on who said it.

If you believe that Facebook doesn't have the right to remove any violent speech regardless of who says it, obviously that's another story. I think online communities have the same rights to create and enforce rules that offline communities to, because I've seen what happens when they don't.