skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right. He has no other avenues of communication available...

Even TV stations have to cut away from his nonsense, should that be illegal?
I wouldn’t worry about it. If you know JavaScript and/or *script (any of the more strongly-typed derivatives), going from React to Angular and back is pretty easy. If you’re willing to be more flexible with people coming from other languages, the db/web/ui/app stack has been a thing for a long time and the basic premise of how it works is the same
A Smartwatch from a world that could've never been
On the one hand, I guess you expect something more sophisticated when someone mentions a "cyber-attack" but on the other hand, knowing the context (the article is in the general media, and sophisticated/intelligent/motivated actors don't really have a vested interest in attacking one-off activist groups), you really come to suspect it's nothing more than a DDOS attack.
>For society to function, people need to be willing to work with others whose politics they find distasteful.

Why?

I am not on some high horse here, I am not sure what I would be willing to put up with if I had no other options but I certainly prefer working with companies that have values that are aligned with my own.
Ask HN: What YouTube channels about programming do you follow?
I just did the math and you are right: burning enough natural gas to release 1kg of CO2 releases about 20 MJ of energy (but we can't capture all of it because second principle of thermodynamics). Capturing 1kg of CO2 from the atmosphere with this method requires 1.3 MJ, so it's feasible.

But then, what do you do with the captured CO2? We put about 35 gigatons of CO2 in the air every year. Let's say we want to remove 15 of them, to get to the emissions level of 1980. 15 GT is staggering. For comparison, the world dumps about 2 GT of waste per year [1].

[1] https://www.theworldcounts.com/challenges/planet-earth/state...
> obviously staying is not a stance either

This is not obvious to me.
Not just “working for”, but being a very public face of the company for people they are trying to recruit. It rings hollow.
> I just don't agree that severing professional ties over political disputes is admirable.

Never? If you worked for an employer that seated black people in the back in the 1960s, it wouldn't be admirable to quit?
Do you have a specific planner that you prefer?
How would they do that? I think it's safe to assume right away that the companies aren't going to act responsibly, because, well, they haven't for years. So that leaves the state, and what should they do?

Not like they can push a button and invent more caretakers, fix internal routines, etc, across an entire country.

I'd love it if they could, but in general, there is going to be inertia when trying to affect change in a system that has been degrading for years, with actors actively working against those changes (in this case, companies putting profit over welfare).

It's so very, very easy to say "the state should have done something, fast", but it gets very difficult when you're trying to specify which parts of the state should have done what, to which actors and on which level.
By the way, anyone knows a competitor to Revolut that respect privacy (online banking, able to send/receive other currencies easily).
I would love to switch but it is hard to find anyone actually better from a privacy point of view.
I think you don't understand the phrase.

Optimists believe that the future will be better, that people will be wiser.

They believe that those future enlightened people will look back at some people and actions, and believe that they were on the wrong side of history.

It's not a popularity contest. It's a belief that we get better over time by making moral actions.

"It is precisely when your values are on the 'wrong side of History' that you should be defending them the most strongly."

No one believes their own values are on the wrong side of History.

"Justify your actions because they are right, not because they will be popular."

Everyone thinks their own values are right.

And if you are an optimist, you believe the future will be better. And so therefore, you are advocating doing things that would make the future worse. It's a very odd way to think.

Unless, you're a pessimist? And you think the future will be worse, and so you're trying to prevent the backslide? And you're saying "screw you" to those idiots in the future?
Personally, I find windows to be much more intrusive than macOS out of the box.

sudo spctl --master-disable is usually enough for macOS to keep quiet.
> Small talk is the worst and I'm on a mission to eradicate it.

Small talk is like two computers establishing a connection across a noisy network. Before you send real data, you need to establish some things like:

* Whether the other person speaks your language

* What their name is

* Whether they are feeling ok

* Whether they are interested in a conversation

* Whether they are someone you want to invest time and effort in talking to

* What (if any) common interests you share

... And so on.

When you use a platform like Virus Cafe to establish a connection with another person, you can bypass all of that. But in normal life, small talk is important.
You should be slow with other people's code. I bet that if you work on something solo you'd be much faster and that is because you're intimate with the code, you know what could go wrong, where, etc..

Second, the slowness comes from the fact it takes a lot more time to read and understand code that to write it, let alone trust that it is doing what is doing correctly. If you don't introduce bugs and are very careful you won't have nightmarish surprises. Keep up.
"“If you keep in mind that he is what I refer to as a corrupt idealist, then you can be assured that he will move mountains for you.”
The green-eyed man laughed. “Okay, that’s a new Americanism on me. What the hell do you mean by a corrupt idealist?”
Claude folded his hands. “That’s a person who will do everything he can to make something happen when he is convinced that he is working for the good of the many, while managing to ignore the fact that he is being paid handsomely for his work while his countrymen suffer in poverty.”
“In other words, your typical non-governmental organization type,” Park Dong Woo said.
Claude winced. “I suppose so. I expect that Ritesh would fit right in working for one of those NGOs, except they don’t pay enough.”
“Fortunately, we can, if he is up to the task.”"

Excerpt From: J. Lee Porter. “Crypto Citizens.”
It's like WeWork. These "fintech" companies are primarily in the business of taking money from giant investors who have too much cash (Softbank, Saudi Arabian sovereign wealth fund etc.)

These investors love to make oversized bets in WeWork-style startups which are actually just tech-colored lipstick on an old unprofitable industry, because it ticks the boxes on their "disruption" checklists.
So the solution is to record teens’ private video chats?

What could possibly go wrong?
My bet is most people would not realize this was available and would continue to see whatever the default options were. And so you get back to square one, what should the defaults be?
It's not about users being outraged about what they can read.

"Those other people are idiots and will kill us all without some rules" is a basic human conceit. These people calling for censorship on Facebook don't want to see that stuff, sure, but way more importantly they want FB to censor so that other people CAN'T read that stuff.

They think that if they shout loud enough, they will get to decide what other, more gullible/radicalized/violent/whatever people are allowed to read.

It's really condescending nonsense to claim that you know better than another adult what they should be allowed to read.

Lots of really famous/successful people are thinking along these lines lately. It's quite popular amongst the "thought leadership" set to think that Facebook has some moral obligation to play publishing cop and shut down private groups where people say things they don't like, because people other than the ones calling for censorship are so gullible and malleable and childlike that they'll turn into a terrorist if they read enough about 5G or vaccines or antifa or whatever in private FB groups or something.

A handy example is John Gruber's recent post on the matter:

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/06/02/schnitt-faceboo...

The correct answer to people being wrong is education, never censorship.

I defer, as always, to Heinlein:

> “Thing that got me was not her list of things she hated, since she was obviously crazy as a Cyborg, but fact that always somebody agreed with her prohibitions. Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws — always for other fellow. A murky part of us, something we had before we came down out of trees, and failed to shuck when we stood up. Because not one of those people said: "Please pass this so that I won't be able to do something I know I should stop." Nyet, tovarishchee, was always something they hated to see neighbors doing. Stop them "for their own good" — not because speaker claimed to be harmed by it.”
Google Domains blocking all Gitbook URLS: post-mortem
It's not that simple or easy. Many of these guys are giving up tends of thousands of dollars in benefits (stock options/ bonuses). Also, the assumption that everyone with a good paying job at Facebook is going to be able to quickly pick up a comparable job in a short amount of time is a huge stretch.

Ultimately developers leaving and people refusing to work for Facebook, drive up Facebook's costs and speaks to their management in the only language Facebook management seems to understand: Profitability.
That is what I said, that I can't use Elixir. And I have used Elixir before, often learning via your tutorials. This comes just from my personal experience, not to be taken as a dismissal of the language as a whole. Of course, many people use Elixir and Erlang, and Whatsapp even built a 50 billion dollar business out of it before acquisition.
I respect the privileged for speaking out. They are the ones that often can affect change and have their voices heard. A packaging employee at an Amazon warehouse quitting over principles isn't a blip on the radar. When the VP does it and explicitly makes the argument on why he's leaving, Bezos hears and takes notice. He might not change anything, but he hears.
That's false. There's an entire field dedicated to reversing blur. Even Photoshop uses techniques like this.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deblurring
Having previously been involved in organizations with racist/sexist leadership, I've found it generally to be the case that the nail that sticks up gets hammered down. I have observed that leaving those organizations and then drawing public attention to their problems tends to be a significantly more effective tactic.
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People complaining about voter fraud shouldn't be taken seriously. If you cared about the integrity of US elections, voter fraud isn't where you'd start. It's a fraction of a percent compared to the election rigging that happens in the open.

Campaign finance makes a mockery of the campaign process. Voter id laws disenfranchise more people than fraudulently vote. Gerrymandering creates unfair advantages with malicious boundaries. Regular closing of the polls disenfranchises more people than vote fraudulently.

Voter fraud might be a problem, but it's minuscule compared to fraud of the elections themselves.
We praise people for changing in a positive direction. If we wait for perfection, we couldn't praise anything.
Can you _send_ messages this way though? I wonder why Smartwatches don't make use of it. I can't send iMessages from my Pebble, only read them.
> I have zero interest in the man's childhood or what he or his desk looks like; just tell me about the science.

I find this trend has been true of most journalism. Every story has an elaborate narrative built around it to provide "context", most of which has little bearing on the facts.

Someone should create some article writing software that lets you distinguish narrative parts of an article from the factual parts, so readers can selectively show/hide each one.
I wonder if this is related to JWZ's call yesterday for Facebook employees to quit.

[edit: Removed link. JWZ: Not cool. Archive.org link in reply below]
The good bit I get out of this is to provide value but in a way that isn't making you into a commodity. A way I do that is have some area of the business that I know very well that someone cannot just know with skills alone and then have some set of ownership of code that I created around this. Then repeat that in other areas to increase that value etc. You can also think of it as entrenchment...meaning if you don't know the point of what you are doing and don't have ideas on the roadmap and improvements etc., you probably are less important and can be replaced without much issue.
Fulltext for people who blocked facebook:

I'm resigning from my job at Facebook.

For years, President Trump has enjoyed an exception to Facebook’s Community Standards; over and over he posts abhorrent, targeted messages that would get any other Facebook user suspended from the platform. He’s permitted to break the rules, since his political speech is “newsworthy.”

“when the looting starts, the shooting starts.”

Mark always told us that he would draw the line at speech that calls for violence. He showed us on Friday that this was a lie. Facebook will keep moving the goalposts every time Trump escalates, finding excuse after excuse not to act on increasingly dangerous rhetoric. Since Friday, I’ve spent a lot of time trying to understand and process the decision not to remove the racist, violent post Trump made Thursday night, but Facebook, complicit in the propagation of weaponized hatred, is on the wrong side of history.

I cannot keep excusing Facebook’s behavior. Facebook is providing a platform that enables politicians to radicalize individuals and glorify violence, and we are watching the United States succumb to the same kind of social media-fueled division that has gotten people killed in the Philippines, Myanmar, and Sri Lanka. I’m scared for my country and I’m done trying to justify this.

My last day will be June 12th. If you have contacts in the San Francisco Bay Area looking to recruit a software engineer, please DM me.

#blacklivesmatter
Trump was virtue signaling when he gassed protesters and held up a bible.
this dude is just being an attention grabber now. yesterday he posted to linkedin and now today facebook. what's next? a frontpage ad in the nyt or a billboard in times square? great... you quit your job on your beliefs, who really gives a sh*t.
I did for a while, especially to keep in touch with overseas friends, but I've been Facebook-free for a few years now and that meant deleting WhatsApp as well.
I think it's still a respectable sacrifice. a) There's often an emotional toll to looking for a new position, b) even if the job search only takes a month, that's 250/12 = $20k of a financial hit, which is not a trivial loss.
I agree. But this would reduce engagement and therefore profits. Do you see FB opting in to reducing profits?
Good for you man. Especially if you think Facebook, or rest of Silicon Valley (except Jack Dorsey) cares.

Does anyone know if we can already apply for his "soon to be empty" position? :)
How Do I Prepare My Phone for a Protest?
Yes in a fascist society sure but the use of deadly force by the police is usually only when a life is in danger and not any property.

Usually non lethal means are employed when the police are following SOP i.e teargas/water or a baton charge.
I graded for a class that took a similar approach to this - the students had a small amount of tests available to them that allowed them to iterate over the requirements for the assignment, but we had more exhaustive tests that we ran automatically. In addition to checking test completeness, we also looked at the source code itself and graded for quality of that. The automated runner handled a lot of the hard work for us, but it definitely wasn't a situation where we saw some failed unit tests and then proceeded to fail them or anything.

The system used to pull this all off is pretty interesting, I think. It's all open source: https://github.com/redkyn
Or they'll just ask him to leave. If you quit on bad terms they likely won't want you anywhere near the building- you aren't fired you just aren't allowed in the office anymore.
If one of the five wanted to kick FB butt in the future, they happily will.
I think you have to measure these things (if at all) by the person's own context, not by external comparisons.

It reminds me of the old joke about the skinflint who accidentally put a pound in the collection plate instead of a shilling. "Oh well", he says, "I'll get credit for the pound." The priest hears him and replies, "No, you'll get credit for the shilling."
My next tattoo is representing "the devil is in the details".

I've had so many discussions with people over the years where someone will say "why doesn't X company/government just do Y". Well, because it's very rarely that easy. Just use black magic, that'll solve all our problems right?
Im on the opposite side. I worked at a restaurant for 12 years and it was the worst time of my life. I would constantly get called into work at 3 am due to random people not showing up. Inventory, dealing with 20+ people who don't care about the job. Terrible customers, and horrible people really left my bitter. To top it all off I was stresseed out of my mind and broke. Im a dev now and its deff stressful but doesn't compare to my days in a restaurant,plus I have some money now.Guess the grass is always greener
When you turn on the WHO guidelines filter are you just filtering or are you curating? Ultimately you have to form an opinion about whether the piece fits into that classification. With that particular class it may be clear, but with others it may be more grey. Right or wrong, thats what facebook is trying to avoid, attaching an opinion to the content, because then they subject to the same scrutiny twitter is facing with 230.
LOL what a loser
N26 could be interesting
I mean, obviously Cambridge analytica, election manipulation, ad creep, privacy issues, psychological experiment on masses, and so many dark things just happened without anyone working on them and of course people changed it from inside.
How do you know this? I'm not saying this is not the case. But how do you know this? I suspect that there are a lot of good police men, just like there are a lot of good protesters. How do you come to the conclusion that there are more of one than the other?
Perhaps relevant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ2Eo6wl5r0
> Anonymous/4chan

Anonymous has had nothing to do with 4chan for like 8years. Anonymous a leftwing organization through and through.

4chan is not an organization but an open forum, so if this was organized there, then you should be able to provide evidence.

You are throwing out hypotheses up that sound plausible and go along with the narrative, which is fine, but then everyone is jumping to treating it like established fact.
Hopefully it will inspire more people to be virtuous.
Wouldn't you say that a society that only places high value on taking a stance if that comes at great personal cost will probably not find too many people willing to take a stance?
Makefiles aren't cryptic if all you need is

some-name:
some command
The problem is that battery tech does not scale. To push a bigger, heavier vehicle, you need an even bigger, heavier battery. Its a diminishing returns scenario where to add a little bit more range, you need to add more battery, but the added weight of the battery all but cancels out the range that it adds.

Think of the progression. We have had electric scooters for a while already. We have just started to see electric cars going mainstream. We have seen a lot of interest in large electric vehicles like semi-trucks and commercial vans, but nothing viable yet.

EDIT: Another way of thinking about this problem: Why do Teslas have so much storage space? You could easily fill the frunk with batteries and still have competitive storage space. The reason they don't is because adding more battery really doesn't help.
Don't care when faangs help actual oppressive regimes, but "make a stand" when trump hurts your feelings.

More pathetic virtue signaling
See you have a healthy respect for the idea of free expression, as do I

Unfortunately we are in the minority, the majority wants SOMEONE ELSE to choose what they can see, what is the "good speech" and what is the "bad speech"

They want someone else to tell them what the "good things" are they should be supporting, and what the "bad things" are that they need to oppose

In short, people no longer want to think critically for themselves, they want the magic box to do that for them
The apology is cheap, and there are no repercussions.

It is business as usual. That's Australia.

46,000 year old Aboriginal caves dating back to the last ice ace, where 4,000-year-old braided hair had been found. The timelines of Austraila are almost incomprehensible, and yet there is no duty of care, we blow that shit up.
Jitsi is good but it makes CPUs run hot.
For just the bare facts on the fusion reactor design:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAE_Technologies#Design
I come from a poor country, I was selling shoes since the age of 13 to be able to pay for my school books, now I have a 100k job ... I didn't get here because I was privileged, I worked my ass off. was I lucky? yes but not privileged.
Exactly, this guy is getting enough traction on linkedin and facebook as well. His inbox would be flooding with invites for interviews right now.
I think that the idea that one must suffer to be valid is a way to ensure that no radical transformations of society take place, because in such a culture the most radical people can only be validated by dying.
How to Sell with the Killer 5 Step Sales Formula
Had nothing but good experiences with Monzo, though admittedly I only use it as a day to day spending account.
Zim has its good points, but the biggest problem I have with it is the inability to wrap lines shorter than the full monitor width. On a 13" laptop, it's usable; on a widescreen desktop monitor it just doesn't work. Other wikis like tiddlywiki, pmwiki, and dokuwiki are able to avoid this.
Why? Nobody should hold the nose and bend over, especially people who have an easy choice.
Build systems are generally required for frontend code and that's a bit out of scope for a project like this. Even if it wasn't - frontend landscape is wild and everchanging - arriving at sensible, useful defaults would be very hard.
Thank you for making my point. iMessage is not texting. I'm responding to this.

"Why would you download an app for the basic functionality of a phone? Texting is an integral part of phones and I haven't met a person in the US without unlimited texting in years."
Perhaps they didn't work for the department of depression induction.
Taking years is generally the case with long term strategies.
DDoS attacks need infected computers (and I'm not sure those would be hiding anywhere), so I would imagine that the logs from one DDoS attack would have a lot of the same IP entries as other DDoS attacks.
> What's incredibly bizarre is how many other politicians have started copying

It has always been this way. Professional politicians are just better by nature at hiding unseemly attention grabs. Which is most definitely not something that fits with Trumps personality type.
Related:

Thread on June 2 MZ@FB open call with employees:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1267891378102497281.html

NYT: Zuckerberg Defends Hands-Off Approach to Trump’s Posts

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/technology/zuckerberg-def...
> It is precisely when your values are on the "wrong side of History" that you should be defending them the most strongly.

I don't see a basis for this conclusion in your arguments.