skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If someone whom I regarded as a friend, or generally had a good opinion of, expressed that position, I would like them to explain to me what they regard as the significant differences between the two positions.
> When a single person represents 50% (+/- a few % depending on EC or popular vote) of a nation of over 300 million I think we have deep systemic issues that neither the electoral college can stem nor can the popular vote fix.

Are you trying to say you wish you saw less political division in America (left vs right)?
Sure, but I'm not gonna upgrade my LAN unless I have something to put on it. If I have an attractive application, setting up a 10gig switch, router, and pulling some cat7 is the easy part. :-)
It's also worth noting how many people get most of their local news (for better or worse) from Facebook these days, like social accounts of the decimated small town papers and some superficial TV news stations, and community groups. If you live in a tech-savvy larger market, it's easy to take for granted how smaller communities use the platform.
Thanks for saying the Chromecast aspect is great. I worked on the streaming receiver component for Chromecast. :-) I've been wondering how well it's been working for people -- my home internet won't work for Stadia, and I'm working on other things now.
There are many other services that will pay me more to look at ads. If I don't use those, I certainly don't want to look at Brave's ads. The only people who have the possibility of getting any meaningful amount of money out of those systems are the people who get paid for the ads that all users view, like Brave Software Inc.
that's literally herding behavior, which is the loss of independence among market participants, so that risks start to align, rather than cancel each other out.

it's disgusting that we haven't learned anything from 2008.
So people aren't getting fired for 'one off remarks'. It's hard to really evaluate your claim that seemingly normal changes in cultural and social norms are some dreadful modern scourge if you can't really produce evidence it actually exists and is harming anyone. "I don't like some stuff I see on Twitter" is a problem more or less everyone experiences, it's probably not some important social ill.
It's easier to copyright words you make up, is what I imagine the explanation is. Apparently they use face to face connections instead of vias with that which limits them to two layers but that's all that's needed here.
True! But when was last time the US was forced into a war? I believe that was World War 2. Ever since then we have been voluntarily policing the world, and losing many of those "wars".
What? Are you really using the OS you are developing in a VM? And we should think you are serious.
Disagree. Working with four (shitty) monitors now and I just want more. I'll spin around in my chair if I have to.
You could give Whereby [1] a try. I really liked it when it was named "appear.in" (that's now a completely different company), and used it for a bit, until my work switched to Teams.

Whereby is, as far as I can tell, completely owned by a Norwegian registered company.

1: https://whereby.com
As a conservative, I have to say, this is extremely reasonable advice coming from the left-of-center Brookings Institution.

As someone in his sixties, however, I would like to add that as much as we would like to believe in nurture over nature, it does seem that the biggest difference between those who thrive and those who don't is that some seem to lack the drive, the initiative to make things happen in their lives. If it is in your personality to be ambitious and optimistic, probably nothing can hold you back. For people with naturally passive personalities, you had better have been born with lots of external support.

Life isn't fair, but as a conservative I am not in favor of enforcing equal outcomes for everyone. But just about everybody who "made it" in their chosen life's work can think of several people who reached out to give them a chance. Be that person if you can.
I've had a whole bunch of projects that have needed 2 to 40 instructions of assembly-- often preferable for the the assembly to be inlined to improve performance and surrounded by closely-related C code on both sides.

Examples: An abort call on an embedded system that needs to disable interrupts to prevent task switching after the abort. One instruction.

An implementation of _start for embedded that can do everything in C except setting a couple processor flags. Two instructions.

Running (with a lock) event callbacks in an embedded system on their own stack, so that not all tasks need to have their stack big enough to handle the stuff the callbacks might do; 5 instructions that are far better inlined than having another call and indirection. (In addition to keeping doc/code together).
Yes, it merely establishes their long-running problems and history of disregarding user privacy and security.
> That this seemed necessary

It is not necessary. Please don't exaggerate.
I look at it this way: PHP apps are so easy to deploy, it's a commodity. I run my own dev servers then move them to VPSes, billed to the client, for deployment.
well, we'll quickly see if this was an accident. So far it doesn't look that way.
It must be luxurious to actually be in charge of your workflow instead of having it dictated to you by tools.
the US government isn't locking up and "reeducating" hundreds of thousands of its own citizens.

Discuss.
For those, like me, unfamiliar, Wikipedia says: Library Genesis (Libgen) is a file-sharing website for scholarly journal articles, academic and general-interest books, images, comics, and magazines.
I think you should spell it out rather than hinting. I have no idea what you're talking about.
And explicit knowledge (that you can explain to others) is more important than tacit knowledge, if you're trying to coach or teach someone

Isiah Thomas was one of the best of all time, but was a disaster as a coach https://www.sbnation.com/2015/5/5/8553115/isiah-thomas-new-y...
That's not the correct context. What does that $29.7 billion represent in counterparty or systematic risk?
It says this:

> We already know that a significant majority of the loans in CLOs have weak covenants that offer investors only minimal legal protection; in industry parlance, they are “cov lite.” The holders of leveraged loans will thus be fortunate to get pennies on the dollar as companies default—nothing close to the 70 cents that has been standard in the past.
Imagine technical debt, but on a societal scale. Haven't you had to fix some code; or organizational process/workflow if you're not an engineer; where the root cause was layers below the symptom?
Top Stack Overflow Tags Over Time (2008-2020) [video]
This looks super cool! Prof. Finn has been doing a lot of interesting research in RL and meta-learning for several years, it's great to get a chance to learn this material directly from her.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_re-education_camps

> As of 2018, it was estimated that the Chinese authorities may have detained hundreds of thousands, perhaps a million, Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz and other ethnic Turkic Muslims, Christians as well as some foreign citizens such as Kazakhstanis, who are being held in these secretive internment camps which are located throughout the region. In May 2018, Randall Schriver of the United States Department of Defense repeated claims that "at least a million but likely closer to three million citizens" were imprisoned in detention centers in a strong condemnation of the "concentration camps"
Can be reframed as: do we hate ourselves enough to violently prevent the resourceful from winning at everything?
I recently went back to the world of two screens, laptop and external display, after being a 4 screen freak. It's my way of forcing myself to stop lying about being a multitasker and allow myself to focus on one thing, get it done or at least to a state where I can safely walk away from it, and move to the next without excess cognitive load.

Found that the more screens I accumulated the more work I tried doing concurrently, and, well:

Fuck that noise.

MUCH more productive, and feel much less jittery about workload by allowing myself to focus on the cadence of work instead of the volume of work. Boss is happy with it too ;)
The current US federal debt is roughly 110% of GDP. In a few weeks, I'm going to borrow about 350% of my yearly income in the form of a home loan. I'm currently paying about 30% of my pre-tax income on rent, and this future mortgage will be about 22% of my pre-tax income, so on that basis alone it makes a lot of sense.

Less than 10% of the total federal budget goes into debt payments.

The absolute numbers don't really matter, but the percentages do. Trends also matter, as long as they're considered carefully.
How is that outrageous? US companies cow tow to CCP all the time, e.g. the NBA. If you're trying not to get blacklisted by the world's second largest market then it makes plenty of sense.
I'm aware, and coming in with "this is shit" - yeah, that ain't cool, and I'd never expect that to 'work'. Coming in with questions people consider "too basic" is another problem.
Amazon, GCP, etc. transit are completely disconnected from reality. Those sub-$0.5/Mbps you can probably get in most big metros across the US and Europe if the connection point is on-net for the ISP in question.

And if you are a residential ISP you can probably handle 80% of your traffic by peering at a few internet exchanges (google,youtube, netflix, etc.)..
Is's called Vanced.
I'm trying to understand the justifications for this is the activist is US-based. If CCP has an issue with someone within their own country, that is one thing but this is something totally different.
Wall St might dink them in the near term. But hopefully users get to benefit an overall better experience with the reduced amplification effects.
> C'mon, it's not like police are shooting rubber bullets at random citizens. This discussion is in the context of police in a stand-off against protesters that are pushing the line between peaceful and rioting.

If this is your takeaway from the last two weeks, we won't be able to agree. My position is that the police are shooting rubber bullets at random citizens, and that protestors "pushing the line between peaceful and rioting" is a mostly–manufactured narrative to give them post–hoc justification for doing so.
I think base assumptions and understandings are different for different people. However, we are now fully polarized on the topics.

Lockdowns: you fully support lockdowns or you want a hair cut or to murder my grandma. No room for any other interpretation or asking of questions.

Protests: you are literally a racist if you are not actively anti-racist. No room for other interpretations or asking of questions. Do not try to distract from the core message by talking about looting or rioting.

Politics: either you want to remove Trump from office or you are a racist or otherwise a terrible person. No room for other interpretation.

De-funding the police: you are a racist or a fascist and support police brutality or you want police removed from normal public interaction. Again, no room for a different interpretation or dialog.

I feel the problem is polarized politics and lack of room for dialog. Also, as a white male, my thoughts are not wanted nor valid. To the point that I feel I have to post with a throwaway since I've already have folks I thought were friends and have known me for years question if I am a racist because I don't support looting/rioting.
I believe the os can turn off features in the big cores, disabling the corresponding bits in cpuid so that the two set of cores will advertise the same capabilities.
You're not considering the real and terrifying strengths that dictatorship has over democracy. In true democracies the politicians never undertake a plan that lasts longer than one election term because they have no incentive to do so. In China they feel free to undertake 20 year plans with large upfront investments because the party does not care about winning an election every 2-4 years.
Why do you automatically assume that elections provide a reality check? Would you say that the Democrats and Republicans in the USA are tightly coupled to reality given their frequent elections? On the contrary I believe that elections merely tie legislative actions towards what voters perceive as electable. It doesn't matter what the PATRIOT act does as long as a political ad can sell the idea of "safety" to you. Politics in democracies have devolved to little more than entertainment.

On the other hand, China has achieved something very close to a technocracy where rules are based on expert opinion. The economy is controlled by economists, health policy is controlled by epidemiologists, and media censorship is controlled by political and social scientists. You are more likely to advance based on competence in Chinese politics than you are in the USA, where elections are just a high school popularity contest. The Chinese government has plenty of terrifyingly competent bureaucrats.
Wow! Thanks for the tip!
I've been using YouTube on Firefox mobile in order to avoid the ads. This looks like it could be a better experience.
> I believe you continue to ignore the obligation of businesses to protect data.

On the contrary. I think it's critical for businesses to protect customer data. Many customer data breaches are "someone left the S3 bucket open" or "someone had the database on an unencrypted laptop in their car" or "someone broke into the production database using a security hole we failed to patch". How many customer data breaches are "one of our employees intentionally leaked the customer database"?

The sign of a good security policy is that your employees are actively trying to help you. The sign of a bad "security" policy is pervasive word-of-mouth knowledge on how to bypass that "security" policy to get work done. Which network is more likely to experience a breach?

(I should also clarify that there's a difference between "policies for the corporate network" and "policies for direct access to the production datacenter network", as one of many examples. Lock that down to the point that you can't easily access it, and nobody can do so without oversight.)

> if you think companies don't have a right or desire to monitor the systems

Companies have a right and a desire to run ads, and yet adblockers exist, and generally speaking the adblockers win for anyone who installs one.
If I was Google's legal team I'd throw this guy to the wolves to demonstrate to every other current Amazon employee what their employer will do to limit their career.
> About 90% to 98% of criminals take the plea.

Shouldn't that be 90 to 98% of charged suspects? The incentive to take the plea deal exists whether the suspect is actually guilty or not.
I have aliased `emacs --daemon` to `emacsd` and `emacsclient -t` to `e` because I use it so much.
Those seem like something someone with wealth might want to do. But for those without wealth... protests are pretty much the top of the short list of options they can take.
I've lost two friends in the past month or so... one very leftist, one very right leaning. I tend to be more libertarian, but pragmatic.

People tend to be tribalist in nature, you tend to lean into a group and that/those groups become your identity instead of striving to take things as an individual and respecting people as individuals.

We are all allowed to have our own opinions and perspective, and even discuss and debate their value vigorously. Where we tend to falter is when we lose respect for the people who are expressing opinions that we disagree with.

It's generally a combination of pedantry, anger, ignorance and disrespect for ourselves and others that leads to action in those baser instincts and reject "the other." In the end, we are worse off for it. It often feels like general discourse has been set back over a century in the past decade alone.

I try to concentrate on admirable personality traits in terms of those I would deem to support vs not about on level with policy opinions. Arrogance, corruption and hypocrisy are the big ones for me, short of that I'm willing to put up with just about everyone.
Alex Berenson on Twitter: “Wow. nature published a paper claiming that lockdown
I went around the office helping colleagues setup Zoom around mid-March before the UK went into "lockdown" and told people to work from home if at all possible, because it was obviously going to happen soon and the company wanted at least a stop-gap solution in place while everyone was still in the building with easy access to our IT team.

In my experience setting up accounts and installing the Windows software for 15+ people in one afternoon, I cannot believe what you're saying. Unless Zoom has gotten way easier to setup and use since March, it is a nightmare.

It's been a while, but I'm fairly sure was basically like this:
1) Enter email into website
2) Click link in email
3) Enter name and password
4) Invite others or skip
5) Click to start a meeting, which actually starts a download
6) Install software, meeting starts automatically
7) End meeting
8) Manually log in to Windows client despite it starting a meeting on your account immediately after installation

That is not easy or accessible to non-technical people at all, especially with how they hid certain buttons as really pale grey during the signup process. It was also a nightmare trying to oversee this process, and repeating it on each machine for those who got lost trying to do it themselves took ages due to waiting for emails, people deleting the email thinking it was spam, downloads not starting due to requests timing out, etc.

Then, a few weeks after we all started working from home, Zoom removed the automatic Company Contacts list and suddenly we could only contact colleagues through existing group chats. No warning, no explanation, not even a reference in the changelog or help pages on their website - rather, the help guides still said the feature was available and explained how to toggle it on or off. Everyone spent that morning adding all their colleagues as personal contacts by manually entering emails one-by-one and then accepting all the invites they received in return.

Zoom is useful once you get it working, but it is definitely not easy to get it working for non-technical people.
It’s because our system of justice is designed to protect Capital, not people.
Brace for impact. If and when the shit hits the fan, there will be no strategy _at all_ to keep the same economic levels. Everybody will suffer.
I can anticipate the counter-argument to this: "well, discrimination based on race and gender is illegal, so they can't do that".

Which is true, but kinda misses the point: it amounts to a position that discrimination and censorship is ok as long as it doesn't run afoul of local laws. If local laws reflect the totality of ethical and moral positions, that would be fine, but I think we all know that laws tend to fall far short on that metric.

But I'm also sympathetic to the overall thrust of this. Let's say for a minute that hosting/distributing child porn wasn't illegal. Would you then call Zoom out as somehow evil for shutting down accounts that broadcast child porn live? I'll assume that people would be happy with Zoom shutting down something like that, and are also generally fine that there are laws banning child porn.

So then it's impossible to hold a "no censorship at all" position, at least not without being a hypocrite. It's really "I don't like censorship, but it's appropriate in some narrowly-defined cases". Once we agree on that -- which we kinda have to, because that's the reality of the situation -- then it just becomes a matter of agreeing on what those "narrowly-defined cases" are, and of course I'd expect there to be disagreement.

For example, I'm fine with a private company deciding they don't want to be used as a platform to distribute racist hate speech. But I'm not ok with a private company shutting down the account of someone organizing events around the Tiananmen massacre. But as long as people (including myself) are willing to say "well, none of the other videoconferencing solutions are good enough for my needs, so I'll look the other way", they can get away with whatever they want.
> I can only focus on one thing at a time. Managing windows and which screens they are on is an overhead I don’t need to deal with.

I find that having different things live on different monitors (and virtual desktops on those monitors) helps me focus on things more easily. E-mail/calendar/Jira is on my side monitor, whereas my main one is filled only with my editor and terminal. It helps because I can _avoid thinking about_ things that aren't on my main screen, until such time as I need a break and deliberately shift focus.
There's a lot more going on that pseudo glorification of slavery and plantation life. It's pushing the mythos of that life, how the black people behaved like children, there were many hollywood movies of the time that perpetuated those stereotypes. The story of the maid and her reactions and behavior, like she wasn't quite an adult or real person.
It’s never getting paid back, there is so much number fudging to hide the reality of debt and guaranteed payments for future liabilities...we pretend we are $26T in debt (but when you add in the future liabilities We are over $148T in debt).

To your point being rational doesn’t really give insights into these issues, but talk to any government budget officer and the can give you a sobering reality of the situation.
Foreign governments bought about 1/3 of the debt issued by the US government in 2019.
Protocol Control Block for anyone else wondering https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/tcpip-illustrated/02016...
The man who made the NES
Of GDP in the largest economic boom, enabled by past borrowings.
Do you use this commercially?

The problem with texting rates isn't technical, it's that carriers essentially have a cartel and can set prices however they want, and have tools to detect and prevent such "abuse" of their cheap consumer plans for commercial usage.
Me: lets listen to the middle of Africa. Second song - Manic Monday by the Bangles
> Only last week, it was announced by Zoom's CEO that free accounts are unencrypted, to enable law enforcement agencies.

I missed that one, do you have a source?
Tesla launches new car-sharing feature to simplify access – Electrek
We never "righted" the system after 2008 (or 2001). We just kicked the can down the road, making the problem worse for ourselves when we eventually do finally lose control. Our system is 100% entirely dependent upon ARTIFICIALLY low interest rates driven by Central Banks. It's the only still keeping this zombie of an economy moving, and it's the entire world, not just the United States.

Central banks are doing everything in their power to keep interest rates low because if they were to tick up even a little bit, the whole house of cards will come toppling down. They can't do it forever and we're all just playing chicken with hyperinflation.
We pay candidates for our Coding Challenges
i think this is just anecdotal; this person is clearly in the community.

i'm not sure this data is useful, because we'd disagree on "people with the right connections".
Not connected, though if I were to come up with compelling services, or there were questions about my intentions, I know people involved. The Mayor also used to hire the company I ran to provide technical consulting, so that would probably help.
Collaborate Using Armory (YC W17) from Code to Cloud
So basically we can't trust GitHub contribution charts anymore?

I actually look at the commits and I'd expect this to be uncovered and actually harm an applicant. This is fraudulent representation.
I don’t personally see it as a competition about which side is worse. I see the lack of end to end encryption as more like a security hole that needs fixing irrespective of whether you trust one side more than the other.