skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> supposedly litigious society

I am starting to think a certain, broad class of Americans is less litigious than, perhaps, the other.
As someone who keeps saying "maybe I'll attend JuliaCon next year", I'm happy I'll be able to attend the virtual event this year, but I also really hope I get to attend a physical event in the future.
I wonder if we'll hear the "they're a private company, they can do what they want, it is only censorship if the government does it" routine.

I remember about a decade ago when certain parties were so concerned with voices being silenced and "erasure." The same people are now cheering when Facebook, Twitter, and the like shut down certain kinds of speech, with great discretion as to how the "rules" are implemented. These parties have been quiet, so much so, over China.

Down we slide along the slippery slope!
But, in a way, that's not news. It's not like anyone suspected MS of being trustworthy.
I feel like I've missed a meme. What exactly is a homelab?
This is what everyone was afraid of with zoom. That like many other companies out of communist countries they aren't independent and will actively subvert democracy.
I don't think it's really an option for your average software developer to create a car marque as a way of monetizing their software development.
> If you knew you could hurt others when you intentionally messed up

Not many people are locked up for a few years for a traffic violation
That would be pretty disappointing if they can't handle normal processes too. It's easy to end up with a bunch of processes that are using small amounts of CPU but aren't dedicated background tasks.

Even just looking at a browser, I might have half a dozen generic tab processes open, each using a small amount of CPU. But then I navigate one to a game, and I want that particular tab to get near-exclusive access to the big core while the others use only the little cores.
Very nice onterface, tnx!
> Are there any pros for languages that don't have static analysis other than the fact that it allows "rapid development/prototyping"?

Nim is similar to Python in syntax and speed of development and yet it supports static analysis.

The difference is that is newer than Python, Ruby & co.
How to Deliver Instant Self-Service Analytics with Tableau on Big Data
What's the fundamental difference between a lobbyist for a cause you like "save the whales" and a cause you don't like "make noncompetes enforceable"? There will always be those acting to corrupt and change the system -- the important part is to have a system that is designed to resist corruption (with things like fundamental rights like the Bill of Rights and courts to analyze and rule on the validity of laws) and attempting to elect politicians that don't introduce legislation that goes against those laws in the first place.
It has more to do with economic conditions I believe. Here in India it's the same, most people get into software engineering because of easy availability of jobs and don't really care about Computer Science itself. So the concept of Open source feels alien to most engineers here, especially "working for free" when you have to struggle so much just to get a very basic salary.
> Even in the technical manager cases I've seen

You say this as if technical managers are better managers? In my experience the opposite is almost always true.
I've long read about the following still being a problem (post-2009):

- CDOs (although a new generation of them have a new name/initialism)

- Frank/Dodd was partially rolled back

- The definition of bank size-classes was changed to reduce the regulatory burden over most regional banks that were previously more regulated

- No significant adverse event happened after Standard & Poors was identified as having significantly inaccurate ratings on CDO / mortgage bond

- moral hazard all over the financial sector, multiplied by large QE rounds

- shadow inventory of housing (not sure if this was sold off or if banks still hold lots of houses off the market)

- lots of private unicorns have opted not to try to go IPO, despite Wall Street records over the past few years

(edit: I converted the indented list to individual paragraphs)

But given these assumptions, are the US financial markets really that healthy? It still feels like we have a few asset bubbles, especially in the assets which QE propped up.
Yep, I updated my GitHub comment with respect to what @josephofiowa said. I made an assumptions when seeing the same PR images/language being used.
What about blocking ads but also donating directly to the YouTubers you follow?
You just said that self-defense must show justification for the use of force. Are you going back on that now?

> that the civilian on which force was used did something to justify it

When was that proven like you demanded?

> I never said anything about self–defense.

If it isn't self-defense, then they just illegally assaulted one or more officers and deserve to be punished.
From an outsider living a long way from USA, for many years now I haven't understood how the financial instruments of USA work. It constantly looks like the country is merely printing more money to stay afloat.
On the flip side, the website hosting only costs $2.3 million annually [0] and the content creators work for free. Even if the Wikimedia Foundation could not survive like that, a lean Wikipedia operation clearly could.

[0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/3/31/Wikim...
This is why I left my last employer, and they acted absolutely shocked when I referenced it in my exit interview.

My manager was absolutely obsessed with KPIs and would every month review our team's numbers. My numbers were always exceptional, and in terms of overall team rankings I was almost always number 1. Regardless, she would find the one metric in which I fell below average (usually only one KPI was below average while the remaining 15 or so KPIs were above average) and tell me that I had to get my act together "if I wanted to keep my job".

I once decided respond to and challenge this threat, and she just lectured me about working in an at-will state, and even had the nerve to wink at me before asking me to leave her office. The quote I took away from her reply that day was "you have nothing to worry about as long as you do your job well".

It was after this meeting that I began aggressively putting out my resume and applying for jobs. I found a better job with higher pay and better benefits in less than a month.

A week after putting in my 2-week notice I had an exit interview in which they asked me why I started looking for new jobs, and why I had never talked to them about my lack of satisfaction working there. They told me it was "very odd" for someone to leave without warning, and said that they regretted that there was never a conversation in which they could have "retained my talent".

I told them that being threatened by my manager with termination every month and never once being praised for my high performance had motivated me to find a job that offered better job satisfaction and security. You would have thought I kicked a puppy from the reaction I got from the leaders. My manager immediately started with a "I NEVER threatened to fire you!". The CEO just shook his head. He didn't say much, but I do remember being told "this is a risk you take in the working world" like I was upset about the possibility of being fired rather than the regular verbal threats of it.

I countered by explaining that "if you want to keep your job" includes an implicit threat of termination, and that hearing this threat when your numbers are above average is demoralizing and makes it feel impossible to do a satisfactory job in the eyes of management. My manager responded with "I say those things hoping that it will motivate you and the rest of your team into doing a better job! I've always been on your side!".

My response was simple: "You did motivate me... To GET a better job. I was already doing a great job, this place just didn't recognize it". That was the end of the exit interview.

Two days later, they were begging me to stay for another MONTH because "nobody knows how to do your job". I suppose they should have thought about that before they made my employment a bargaining chip...
Hidden advertising for Go. Nothing better than good old C++.
ITT "You could bypass YouTube ads by adding a dot after the domain "
That may or may not be the case, but note that there are many (most?) domains where the positive payoff is bounded, but the negative payoff is not. This method seems particularly useful for those scenarios -- if you have "adequate" performers to copy from.
A woman died in Ohio this week after exposure to teargas; her respiratory system stopped functioning despite not having asthma before.

Officially the use of rubber batons (bullets in common parlance) in Northern Ireland killed 17 people; although one would be wise in doubting the veracity of English reports on English behavior in Northern Ireland.

These tools are quite dangerous.
Ericsson lands O2 contract to help push 5G in UK
> Such networks are security threats and should be repeatedly broken until they give up.

Why the hostility towards entities that have determined their best course of action to protect THEIR networks is by focusing on the network egress pipe? Simple and efficient to focus on one chokepoint vs patching a myriad of devices + client software + client versions + OS versions + future versions etc.

> It will become increasingly expensive to even try.

Go ahead, but you're increasingly unlikely to win that battle. There's bound to be some software or version that the enterprise cannot control (e.g. prevent data exfiltration) at which point, enterprises will have no solution but turn to SSL MITM again.

Remember, it's the enterprises' network and data - not yours.
It's interesting that you don't mention the absolutely unusable browser that the project is continuing to develop, instead of using a modern mature browser like Chromium.
OP here. I found the article via a link elsewhere but checked on Brookings' reputation before submitting. From my (granted non-American) perspective and based on various links and citations on their Wikipedia page, they seemed about as centrist as you might be for a think tank.

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

My own political outlook is largely libertarian but with a predilection for voting for whatever local politician brings the Tour de France within spitting distance of my apartment. ;)
I feel I should be careful believing this until I see a source reference of some kind.
I remember the good old days when we all thought that tech would help export democracy and free speech...
Why would Xi care?
I think stupid ideas need to be shot down, but such phrasing just invites complaints from those seeking to weaponise them for their own benefit.

As the saying goes,
"If your mind is too open, your brain will fall out."
In response to this specific event, or as a general bonus? I would love to hear any more details you can share.
I think there can be debate on what is "minimum information". I'd also say "easy" for one developer may be challenging for another developer if the domain of the model is foreign to them.

A lot of frameworks require up-front knowledge to work with. To some, that's not "easy", but it allows the client to do so much because what the framework is providing is not simple.

In other places, the API can be dead easy because what it's providing is so simple.
If I'm reading that correctly, the license change happened in 2013... Well after Wordpress was already highly established as the dominant player.
how many US employees? any way of knowing?
You absolutely can, by design they are open to all.

Major businesses are basically built on this data. So much so that nasty players like Accuweather want to limit access to public research and shut down weather.gov so that they can more readily monetize it.
So, performance oriented code will pin its performance-critical threads to the fast CPU. Now, the question is: what code won’t try to claim the faster CPU

Do apps have CCX pinning logic for Ryzen? No? Why would they add it for an Intel processor that probably won't even be sold in volume.
>It’s up to me to prove that I was justified in shooting my neighbor

When did the tear gas throwers show they were justified in throwing tear gas at the police?
$0.0005 x 60 minutes = 3 cents per hour of internet. That's surely a better deal than you can get in the civilian world.
I have no good reason to know about "full formal chains," and yet attempting to read the article still managed to grind my programmer ego into the dirt. :) Major respect to people who operate in that world.

Related to Nim in general: I'm excited to use Nim more. Prior to finding Nim, I had this list of languages to explore in more depth: Python, Ruby, Lisp, Pascal (though I still plan to explore those). Oh, and find a good scripting language, in addition to one from the compiled language group. Oh, and avoid anything too "enterprise". So if you know anything about Nim, you know why this feels pretty amazing.
Who has been fired for 'one off remarks'? Older work getting re-evaluated, viewed from a different angle, etc, is more or less how culture works. Murphy or Seinfeld don't seem to be any worse for the wear at all.
> "man, why I have to type this silly whitespace?"

I assume it's a joke, but I often have people in my classroom that have been doing python for some times and that keep typing the whitespaces themselves instead of using an editor that does it for them.

But again, I've seen some coding without any syntax highlighting.

Now I never assume people know even the most obvious things.
So everybody is cool with youtube removing videos and banning channels of RT, Sputnik and pro-Russia accounts; but Zoom doing just the same for the very same reason somehow makes everyone feel bad for Zoom .
> They're not cycling that money back into the economy, they're holding onto it.

I'm no economist, but this seems counter to what we've been told since Reagan.
David Heinemeier Hansson Interview
I'll pry and see what I can get. If it's true, I imagine it will be out shortly.
he obviously hasn't seen WSL yet, or VirtualBox
In the case of rendering special effects, it's akin to a full rewrite and maintaining two independent implementations afterwards.

When I did freelance shader work, I locked in the render pipeline of my customer first, because I know that my price estimate can vary 2x based on which pipeline is needed.
The police already have guns, lots of them.

The problem with less lethal crowd control tools is that police use them in situations where they would never use a real firearm, creating injuries that wouldn’t happen otherwise. This is really problematic when the police are angry at the protestors, as it gives them a way to inflict revenge pain without the PR fallout of opening fire with rifles.

There is evidence that even on a regular basis, tasers have not replaced firearms, but instead have replaced other means of de-escalation and constraint. The result is that more americans might be dead because we’ve handed out tasers to cops without a second thought.
Rings a bell from when the EU decided to slap a fine on GOOG for swaying away consumer traffic in favor of its own shopping platform.[1] But that was for-profit claims and authorities were swift in action whereas this case would be extremely interesting to follow from an online free speech advocacy POV.

1. https://searchengineland.com/response-eu-antitrust-ruling-go...
If all the cores are configured to advertise the lowest common denominator instructions it will work.
This would also remove posts by FOF who tag your friends (e.g., your friend is tagged in a post by his wife, whom you're not friends with).
Only if somehow Google disproportionally captured would-be donors. Otherwise, assuming linear scaling, this changes nothing - and since things on the web tend to grow costs sublinearly, it technically makes Wikipedia ahead in donations/costs.
That's very surprising, disappointing and extremely short-sighted from Intel.

> (I recall a recent news story about how unawareness of this among people writing or documenting compilers has started to cause problems.)

You can't blame them!
Summary of how to write with military precision

> 1. Subjects with keywords

> 2. Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF)

> 3. Be economical

Good article. The examples given are pretty good and demonstrate the points well.
So TLF's exist and get used constantly but people don't write them often in code you look at (they do in the code I look at), you don't have to use classes and lots of pages don't but frameworks tend to stick with them, there are global variables, the syntax looks a lot more like C but class semantics exist, therefore it's exactly like Java. Whatever, if that's how you see it I guess I can't stop you.
I understand that sometimes the topic of a conversation can't be revealed beforehand. However, I wish more managers would give some kind of indication beforehand about how anxious one should be about it because for many people the worst-case scenario is the default presumption.
Just to put some real world perspective on this. Netflix recommends 25Mbps to stream 4k movies.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/2017/12/10/you...
The papers that are cited are said to be state of the art by an unrelated German university.

But I'll give you that overfitting is an issue, especially on Sintel.

Still, I did work with selflow myself and it is one of the best. The only issue is with thin objects, but skydio (us startup) is having exactly the same problem.
> The banks themselves may reveal that their CLO investments are larger than was previously understood. In fact, we’re already seeing this happen. On May 5, Wells Fargo disclosed $7.7 billion worth of CLOs in a different corner of its balance sheet than the $29.7 billion I’d found in its annual report.

There might be more?
I would agree if there were multiple competing private companies with comparable market shares, representing the opinions of different social groups. This way, if certain companies started applying censorship that wouldn't reflect the interests of the users, they would lose the market share and would have to listen more to what people want.

Instead, we have an effective monopoly on online search, monopoly on content monetization and a monopoly on social media. These monopolies are sustained through network effects and lack the feedback loop.

Edit: I would even say, they have a wrong type of feedback loop, since they are directly incentivized to censor the opinions that go against the vocal social groups, since that could result in decreasing profits.

China could technically spin off their censorship functions to a privately owned company that would wholly depend on the state-issued license to operate and would keep doing exactly the same thing. Would it make them more democratic or change anything for the end users?

I think, the distinction between private and government is a technicality. What is more important, is how many independent parties are making the censorship decisions, and whether they report to a single vs. distributed source of power. From that angle, the government-dominated Chinese web is very similar to Silicon Valley-dominated western web.
...when he's gone?

Wishful thinking is a temptation, but it doesn't lead to reasonable analysis. Xi is in fine health at the age of 66. His father lived to the ripe age of 88. His mother is still alive, at 93. We can expect him to receive better medical care than they did, since he is leader of China and they spent several decades getting purged, imprisoned, overworked, and starved by the party. If the Chinese people look for a change in leadership, they had best look somewhere besides the calendar.
Assuming you're not trolling, here's a decent intro: https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/wiki/introduction
Please write your technical documentation
What criteria should someone use to judge 'righted itself'? No event can ever be completely undone, merely compensated for. Many of the people who lost homes should never have bought them leading up to '08 - they only were able to because of unrealistic (and sometimes predatory) underwriting standards and financing that NEVER would have worked out, and blew up shortly thereafter once the people bankrolling it figured out what was going on.

The overall economy recovered, but of course it looked a bit different. It was 4-5 years later.
This line struck me as odd:

> and the system righted itself

I suppose maybe it depends what "the system" refers to, exactly. If it's the same bankers who shape the financial system and the banks who all own part of the Federal Reserve which printed money to put price supports under their worst assets, then sure, "the system" "righted" "itself".

But in the end, there is no right or guarantee that every person will get a job, be able to keep a house, or will not lose wealth. And we should remember that about our future when reading this piece.
I’ve been really happy with the DS1618+ we have at work as as well. I especially like that you can use the full size drive bays with SATA SSDs as cache drives. Some other products (Drobo for example) only let you mount cache drives on connectors for that explicit function or purpose.

Anyone know offhand if this year is getting a refresh to the 1618+? I think that Synology has a tick-tock upgrade cadence with consumer product lines getting upgrades in year x, and enterprise products get upgrades in year x+1.
I didn't realize this was Nature, my bad.

And of course I am the one who decides for myself if anything is worth thinking about more. I was simply trying to elicit the sort of information which would be relevant to this decision such as, "Here's a bit of evidence you might not be aware of that suggest this is more intractable than you may think. Also, considering the existentially pressing X and Y risks on the horizon, which better programmer productivity presumably wouldn't help, you may want to consider that your comparative advantage may be A or B."
Microservices Without Mocks, Part 2: Robust Responses [Livecoding]
That there are tipping points that don't do not preclude tipping points that plausibly do.

> The IPCC's Fifth Report stated that a "runaway greenhouse"-type outcome was virtually impossible.

WHERE? doc URL and page number or searchable extract please.
Blocking ads doesn't prevent page views, it prevents viewing garbage along with the pages.
It isn't, because you are wrong. Do not compare (I assume) the warnings around Trump's lies to be comparable to blocking human rights activists from a platform outright.
Officially? No. Practically? Yes.
What I love about PHP is its learning curve. You can quickly start making things.

I started two decades ago with dirty PHP mixed with HTML pages, then I learned templating. Then I learned OOP, classes, interfaces, abstract classes, traits, managing dependencies and unit tests. All of these with PHP, no framework.

Because PHP is quite easy to use, I learned all these "general" principles thanks to it. I guess nostalgia plays a big part in my appreciation of this language but I will just say one thing: thank you PHP!