skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The right to speak is inseparable from the right to not speak. One doesn't have to explain their decision.
They worked together but this was just a public discussion about a change to an open source projects' docs site. The response was private so he shared publicly because it's relevant info for the community. Everyone is screaming harassment, I don't see any evidence of that.

Everyone's in the comments talking about professionalism, this isn't the time for professionalism.

BLACK LIVES MATTER! Scream it from the rooftops. "black Americans are arrested at 2.6 times the per-capita rate of all other Americans" - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_crime_in_the_United...

Slavery is alive and well in America.
Rust is getting that, gradually.

Uh oh. I'd hoped the language would settle down.

The Go crowd knows when to stop. Go is mediocre, but stable.
> “The malignant dictatorship of social media rage in the US is becoming insufferable. It's probably going to require government regulation to stop it.”

you know you can just not tune in, right? it’s not coercive in any way, unlike said dictatorship or government regulation. amplification of voice is not a civil right.
Thanks for sharing that, this is the first time I've seen this quote.

I think most adults feel the same way about social media activism, but they probably don't think it's worth their time to call it out even if it annoys them. You would just be begging the social media mob to turn on you next.
A very generous and thoughtfully worded reply. Very grateful to your kind consideration of this subject.

It's incredibly complex and a lot of the evidence is circumstantial and layers of cultural cruft have certainly confused things but I'll say this --

People in the past didn't do things because they were stupid simpletons relegated to history books, they did a lot of things for real reasons and if we were born in those days we'd probably see the truth in spending a third of our income on clothing befitting our rank.

We ought to know by now the difference between an intractable argument and one we just can't understand yet, we seem to believe just because we can't understand something it can't be understood.

In my view people back then were very much worse off and struggling much more between the throes of life and death with sincere passion.

Having good clothes actually somehow conferred an advantage to the wearer that went way beyond societal perception or even shallow cultural biases to the core of their ability to live day to day.

You'd think we would've invented fast fashion earlier, but we've been wearing all sorts of costumes for millennia.

In the modern age our vehicles and electronic devices have taken over the cultural status symbolism perhaps but we've let our clothing sense lapse dreadfully into what I consider neo-renaissance pomp mixed with dark ages peasantry.

Anyway tl;dr - people in the past were struggling to survive yet still found some reason to invest a lot of their income in clothing.. Maybe there is something we've missed?
The second quote which gives various numbers across multiple different years, including 1994 lobbing showing relatively small amounts in most years. Though one very big one in 2004 at 1 million, but just $75,000 in 2000. So, very rare big spends on election years vs constant multimillion dollar annual donations.

You further misunderstood the first link the bar chart below lists 4.3 million in 2019 and 2.8 million in 2016. But, that’s a subset of total spending which very focused on their bottom line.

PS: California is both very large and unusual in it’s use of propositions for major policies which confuses the issue. Nationwide union spending has a vastly lower average.
"I can't wait for ~2 weeks when everyone's going to go back to their lives like nothing happened"

Unfortunately, there is no going back here - it's partly the issues, but mostly a totally new culture of a) Twitter wars b) a new generation of people feeling that it's their 'duty' to (act out which I often believe lacks context) c) a press and pop culture climate considerably more clicky-baity and divided (just google cnn headlines from the 2000's, way more tame) d) corporate pressure to 'buy into' movements which is only going to really exacerbate the system.

I've said this before to strong disagreement but marketers jobs are to sell you aspiration - when that aspiration moves off the court and into the streets and politics, and you're gadget/shoes/apparel/cars are being sold with politics, it's not only deeply hypocritical, but it's going to come back and bite us.

I don't really see the underlying fundamentals moving in a positive direction.

People might argue that if 'the system were fairer' we wouldn't see this reaction, my response would be that there will always be something to argue about. The NYT was literally calling for 'Paw Patrol' to be cancelled due to indoctrination of children by 'coppaganda'. While this is an interesting idea, I feel there will always be threads to pull upon for people to be angry.
That only makes sense if you believe that land area is the appropriate unit to attempt to equalize political influence over, rather than people. If you think the people are who should have political influence in a democracy, rather than units of land, then it should be desirable that politicians campaign to as many people as they reasonably can.
how do you get to not divorce? :)
Has an American company ever been sued by their shareholders for refusing to cooperate with the CCP?
> Twilio phone numbers will be treated as VoIP numbers and can often not be used for verification systems.

Hi Mat, obviously you aren't responsible for Programmable Wireless but I expect you probably work with the same folks. It would be really nice be able to identify a given number as wireless. I've been using Twilio as my everyday wireless provider for a couple years now (not that it's the typical use case or that I'm your typical customer) and this is one of the few issues I have with it and the only one that really impacts personal use. In general, you guys have created an incredibly powerful and flexible platform, thanks for all your hard work.
Whether or not paper vs digital communication is a matter of bravery of cowardice (I'm a bit confused by the supposed connection between these concepts..) seems irrelevant.
I would have fired the guy as well.
He was harassing colleagues.
A union security agreement is a negotiated contract, not something to be universally required or prohibited by law. Its purpose is to prevent free riding of both the company and potentially non-union workers. When such a contract is made with a company, employee contracts with unions become part of the cost of working there in exchange for the exceptionally better working conditions created by the union. To describe prohibition of such contracts conferring such concrete benefits to workers as "anti-worker" is disingenuous at best, especially considering "right to work" is a euphemism for union busting which is precisely why such battles are waged in the abstract rather than tied to to the material conditions of workers.
I was curious about your comment on sugar vs flour. I think it's much easier to make wheat compared to sugar at home. https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=5WbYu9XHQPw.

In the end, I think it's good to know how much raw stuff go into making any ingredients. It takes a lot of sugarcane to get a soda's worth of sugar.
I'd say Minneapolis voted pretty hard the past couple weeks and are getting tangible results from it.
Right but you are the product of a previous mating and kids to resemble their parents so the odds of that are low.

If you are a single guy looking for women the best places to live are NYC, Vancouver and parts of the Midwest with major hospitals. In those places there are more women than men. Yes you can work in SV but there’s way more guys then gals there.
We don't have any minimums on accounts but there are normally a minimum number of SIM's come in an order depending on which item you're looking to get.

The 2 flavors of Programmable Wireless SIMs, the normal one and the NB-IoT one, can be bought in "Starter Packs" that come with 3 SIMs that can be registered to any Twilio accounts. They don't have to be used with the same account so you can share them if you know anyone else interested in checking it out. As you scale up your solution you can get SIMs in orders as few as 10 that come preregistered to your account so you don't have to type in the registration codes for each one.

If you need hardware to get started with you can buy the Developer Kit for the T-Mobile USA NB-IoT network from Console that comes with some hardware and 1 NB-IoT SIM that you can register to your Twilio account.

For Super SIM, because we're in Beta, you can buy as few as 1 from our Console. That will come pre-registered to your account. Super SIM doesn't support Narrowband IoT but it does support an array of networks that do have LTE-M such as AT&T if you're interested in a similar but more widely adopted low power technology.
I’m curious you could still ride it by leaning…
Old person here (+7 decades). Not much you can do about physical deterioration. The only thing I've found you can easily carry into old age is (assuming no senility or debilitating disease) coordination. One can be weak and frail yet still somewhat graceful. As for the mind, it depends on when it freezes in time. If you find yourself comparing everything current to the "good old days", then you are probably lost. But as long as you have an appetite for the new and unfamiliar (maybe something like ycombinator) then there is possibly still hope...
I don't think they released the App Store because people asked for it. It just wasn't ready on launch day (or would've had any apps in it)
Thanks, I got the part about the spec being ambiguous, am more interested in the "why" aspect, since the current behaviour seems intuitive to the name "repeatable read". But on closer inspection, I see PostgreSQL's repeatable read blocks phantom reads even though the ANSI spec permits that! I don't get why phantom reads would be acceptable under "repeatable read"... I probably should give those papers a read some time. But in the meantime, given the choice of phantom reads or G2-item, I think I'd pick blocking phantom reads. (It might be nice to have the option to choose though!)

In PostgreSQL's case, if they somehow made repeatable read to prevent G2-item without sacrificing the phantom reads, would that mean repeatable read is then "serializable" according to the ANSI definition?
I, too, can correctly draw a bike. I think anyone who's spent any time fixing bikes will be able to do this; if you know that it's called a "diamond framed bike", and you know why it's called that, it'd be pretty hard to not know how to draw it.
"I disagree with what this platform I'm working on allows," is a valid statement an employee can bring up and unavoidably political when in reference to political speech or something that is being used to some political end. A section of some arbitrary law from the 90's doesn't define what an employee can be concerned about.
Nice job!!!
I agree with all of this, but isn't it possible to charge for updates via an in app purchase?
Hey man, all the support to your family. I know the bait works and I respect the hustle.

I won't criticize you for doing something that works and I like your goal, I've been wanting to be 100% passive income open source for a long time.
Is the tweet not a good enough paper trail?
Trump Administration Erases Transgender Civil Rights Protections in Health Care
Gaming the system or otherwise exploiting it is more malicious than circumventing it. It’s the old school version of laws like CFAA, which make explicitly super-illegal things which are already implicitly or explicitly illegal, with sometimes unforeseen consequences.
Yes, some preferences vary widely, while others are more narrow, such as height, income, seniority/authority, and facial structure. In aggregate there is a clear spectrum from desirable to less desirable along those dimensions. It's definitely true that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, or attraction more generally, but it's hard to believe that being 1.60 m tall won't make you (in general) less attractive as a man.
Or:

MAXIM 2: A sergeant in motion outranks a lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on.

MAXIM 3: An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody.
I said calorie is a calorie. Why are you saying I said otherwise?

Is anyone here under ten percent body fat and a muscular physique? I really doubt it.
>... the very idea of using bare threads and callbacks to manage that is annoying.

Yeah, that's an extremely painful way to write threaded code. Much more normal is to simply block your thread while waiting for others to .Join() and return their results, likely behind an abstraction layer like a Future.

The only time you really need to use callbacks is when you need to blend async and threaded code, and you aren't able to block your current thread (e.g. Android main thread + any thread use is an example of this). But there are much much easier ways to deal with that if you need to do it a lot - put your primary logic in a different, blockable thread.
VSCode runs amazingly on my 2.5 year old laptop.

And while I love the word "webshit" in itself -- it's a very pleasing word to say -- I object to it.

The web is not universally shit. It has advantages: primarily almost truly "write once, run anywhere." I run Ubuntu. I almost certainly would not be able to use VSCode on my laptop if it were not an Electron app. I am better off having an Electron version of VSCode than some native version of it existing that doesn't run on Linux.

(Also, isn't Visual Studio a native app, and hot garbage compared to VSCode? I've never used it, but that's what I hear.)
Yep Arduino's or RaspberryPis are solid platforms to get started with. We have a couple quickstarts that you can checkout.

https://www.twilio.com/blog/super-sim-quickstart-adafruit-fo...

https://www.twilio.com/blog/super-sim-quickstart-arduino-mkr...
no, that’s a pedagogical model of a market. real markets are rich in information channels going every which way that also inform price, product, etc. (i.e., marketing). real markets are highly and nonlinearly dynamic.
Well... we don't really know yet. They're likely charging him with visa fraud initially because it's the only thing they can prove right now, and they needed to charge him with something or he would be free to leave the country.
Also some stuff which addresses the worries of the modern world, of course.

> “The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you're someone. You hear them shouting "Heil, Spode!" and you imagine it is the Voice of the People. That is where you make your bloomer. What the Voice of the People is saying is: "Look at that frightful ass Spode swanking about in footer bags! Did you ever in your puff see such a perfect perisher?”

(Roderick Spode is a parody or Oswald Mosley, the head of the then current British Union of Fascists)
Bless George Floyd, the man who singlehandedly defeated Coronavirus and saved us from lockdowns.
There is something to this, but it depends a lot on attitude. It will be true for someone who's entitled or an ingrate, and everyone should run fast and long away from such a person. There are a lot of them.

On the other hand, people who have suffered at length can be quite grateful to find a decent person. Someone like that can make a great wife (or husband).
Having spies go to prison for long periods of time tend to decrease the incentives of other people to become spies.

Unlike most criminals, spies are probably moderately rational about risk/reward, as such this is probably actually an effective deterrent.

/end unsupported opinion.
*app discovery

Thank you for the funny typo "ad discovery"

"We curate the finest ads for your consumer experience.."
Ask HN: What’s one thing you don’t regret buying?
Thanks for explaining. I quite like it. Given a rarely updating but detailed graph this would perform better. But you do lose the interactivity benefits of JS.

A candlestick approach might allow you to reduce the amount of data to send to the client in d3 if you use R to aggregate the data first.

Have fun!
> If x64 wasn't already dominant and had the same market share as ARM, would you choose x64? Why?

I would pick the one which performed the best on my workload.

Assuming everything was equal; performance, performance per watt, software support, market share, price to performance: I would pick ARM because I think the competitive landscape is more diverse. x86 is effectively an AMD-Intel duopoly, especially with the cross-licensing agreements.

It's a lot easier to start working with ARM IP, which means there should be more competitors, which should translate to better future performance improvements. Even today, we see many more companies competing in this space (Ampere, Marvell, Qualcomm, Apple to a degree), not to mention startups looking to develop their own ARM chips.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/29/arm-is-offering-early-stag...
With nearly every criminal law, I assume including this one (but I didn't check), there is an element of "mens rea" or in plain English your only guilty if you intended to commit the crime. A typo would not qualify.
The tricky thing is that it's impossible to distinguish between "accidental release" and "standard zoonotic transfer," unless you're able to track the transmission chain to patient zero. China could possibly do that (though it's not guaranteed), but if they did and it was clearly something that was accidentally released, obviously that's not something they'd ever announce, so it'd look exactly the same as the current "we don't know anything" state.

And all the ambiguity means any stance on accidental release vs standard zoonotic transfer is going to be driven more by politics ("China is evil!" "No it's not!") than by any empirical evidence.
Facial recognition may not work reliably if there is training data bias, which can be disadvantageous if you want it to work.

And as you note it can also be used for reducing privacy at scale in a way that humans can't normally do on their own, for example personally identifying thousands of people in a crowd at a sporting event or political rally.
Nice! I usually try Crossvalidate SE first. But I'll cross-post to those subreddits as well.
>In reality, when interviewed by officers of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at LAX on June 7, 2020, Wang provided information that he was, in fact, still currently a “Level 9” technician in the PLA, employed by a military university lab.

Are you seriously telling me that the guy who is supposedly sent to "spy" in the US - just tells them at the border , oh hey, no i actually i lied - i work for Chinese military. I dont buy this - there is more to the story. I mean, do they waterboard foreigners at LAX?

Something does not add up here.
As many employers will not hire you now without an extensive, positive social media history, and many people communicate with their friends and family almost exclusively over social media, it's questionable to call social media use optional. It's also extremely dubious to effectively support bullying because "you can just go somewhere else".
I guess so, but I definitely wouldn't tell her that you're not really highly sexually attracted to her.
Excuse me? This is not an accurate summary of the article at all. It's in fact exactly a spy plot: Wang was "instructed by his supervisor, the director of his military university lab in the PRC, to observe the layout of the UCSF lab and bring back information on how to replicate it in China".
I agree. I tried it recently for a couple of weeks and went back to Sublime.
Trump is the president of the States, not the people. Anyways, he won 304 out of 538 votes, which is, in fact, a majority.
Yeah, the Jonathan Blow episode seems to be the one where that criticism comes up. We generally haven't edited them at all (one take, no cuts), and that one was just too long to realistically edit -- but we probably should have edited some of me out. The perils of a three hour conversation!
You're right for GUI applications.

But if you replace "GUI application" with "programming tools", then the opposite becomes true. Linux is better in every respect for software development and deployment.
>The only way to do something useful here is to educate people about how wrong they are in supporting Trump.

The only way? How about reconsidering your own position and offering people something they would like better?
I don't think he's saying that a limit on recursion depth solves this problem. Rather, it's just a similar scenario where a real-world constraint (memory, time, whatever) comes to bear and may make a compilation fail on machine X where the identical code and environment would otherwise succeed on machine Y.
Naw dude let's do this! We need to form a small support circle I'd be very grateful and indebted to our meeting.
Partially because they call their firmware upgrade process "secure Device Firmware Update (DFU) functionality" (lifted from their documentation). Obviously, an engineer needs to go see the source to see what is actually happening under the hood.
There’s never a time when it’s encouraged; that’s the whole game.
It's always been this way.

Politics is intensely personal. It's not so much about conflicting ideas, but rather loudly delineating social groups and whose camp you're in.

Pushing beliefs to simplistic extremes and demanding declarations of beliefs is an efficient way to make clear where yourself and others stand socially. Truth has little to do with it.

Politics seems "stupid" because we're putting the cart before the horse.
This is the strangest apocalypse ever.
I don't think it's reasonable for one contributor to an open source project to make a decision about that project in a private conversation with another contributor and then feel entitled to total silence about that decision in public. That doesn't sound like a good way to conduct decision-making for open source projects.
True, but in the cross-compilation case, you then need to do fun stuff like compile anything invoked at compile time for the host arch as well as the target.
> No spy plot. No popcorn.

>> Wang provided information that he was, in fact, still currently a “Level 9” technician in the PLA, employed by a military university lab. CBP officers also obtained information that this roughly corresponded with the level of Major, and that Wang had received compensation from the PLA and the China Scholarship Council—in addition to compensation from UCSF—while in the United States.

>> Wang also wiped his personal phone of WeChat messaging content earlier the morning he arrived at LAX.

What are you talking about? This sounds more like how they got Capone with tax evasion.

>> Also according to court documents, Wang provided information to CBP that he had been instructed by his supervisor, the director of his military university lab in the PRC, to observe the layout of the UCSF lab and bring back information on how to replicate it in China.
Let's Decode a VST
I think one argument that can be made on the pro-deplatforming side is that it's necessary to protect the mentally ill and vulnerable. I've never seen anything like the Qanon phenomenon, and that's just the beginning. We're going to see Borg-scale folie a deux.
That seems like a fine way to state your political stance on the platform. But as has been brought up in other comments and the article, it is not the manner in which the dismissed employee did it.