skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He probably did more than that in which he was doing a lot more to show his displeasure, not that I’m disagreeing but you don’t just raise your hand and they fire you
> This is what I'm talking about, is there anyone who is actually feeling isolated and uncomfortable, or are there just a load of white people who have focused on literally the most unimportant aspect of being a black person in the tech community?

I'm a POC in the tech community and couldn't care less about "master" being problematic. The tweets you quoted likely came from a white person who thinks a little to highly of themselves and want to go after low-hanging fruit.

Want to make a difference for POCs and Black people? Vote the racists and profit-driven politicians out of office this November and replace them with people who are more qualified to lead and actually care about the public.
Politics at the workplace should be kept personal. Politics between colleagues should not be done at all.
But that’s specifically for Secure Enclave work (disk encryption, biometric data). I don’t think they’d want to risk someone running arbitrary code there and breaking the sandbox. (The SEP is also separate from the A-series chip in the iPhone for a similar reason, IIRC).
That's true in my experience. It happened maybe twice, but I got pretty much immediate refunds for purchases from previous day that I wasn't happy with. There wasn't anything wrong with the app itself, it just wasn't what I expected I'm getting.
> Wang is charged with visa fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1546(a). If convicted, he faces a maximum statutory penalty of ten years in prison and a fine of $250,000.

So lying on a visa application is worse than immigrating illegally? Doesn't illegal immigration just get you deported?
They've had their case review team on leave for 3 months. Paypal knows that some percentage of all cases under review are legit. Yet they chose to close the department. My friend is foetunate to he some savings but what if he didn't? And what about others? What about opportunity cost of missed investments and interest?

They shut the fucking door knowing this.
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Connecting facial recognition software and racism seems to be earning you downvotes here.

While racism is the hot button topic right now, widespread governmental and corporate (or indeed, private) use of facial recognition software is problematic for many reasons. Erosion of privacy, sexual and non-sexual harassment and stalking, racial profiling, gender profiling, profiling for membership of any other kind of group, cute Facebook apps tied to shadowy political organizations, even crazy dystopian inventions like the Chinese social credit scheme. This tech needs to be very strongly regulated, and soon.

Anyone working in this field, and creating this type of software for companies with a historically weak moral compass, _should_ think deeply about their involvement.
The entire OS has ads for their services :/
Wow, talk about being a dick.
"Intentionally not making a statement is already political." I am really curious, are these types of persons not able to see their own hypocrisy?
>Allow us to charge a nominal fee to for major upgrades to our apps.

Can't this be done with a non-consumable in app purchase? Is that against the TOS?
Steam also has an approval process that is becoming more and more controlled.
Yikes:

> ...Langer claimed that when elderly men were temporarily placed in a setting that recreated their past, their health improved, and they even looked younger. However, this study was never published in a peer-reviewed journal. The only publication of this finding is in a chapter of a book edited by Langer.

> ... Langer described the week-long paid adult counterclockwise retreats she was creating in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, aimed towards replicating the effects found in her New Hampshire study. ... "Langer makes no apologies for the paid retreats, nor for what will be their steep price." Langer was defiant when pressed on the ethics of her study: "To my question of whether such a nakedly commercial venture will undermine her academic credibility, Langer rolled her eyes a bit. 'Look, I’m not 40 years old. I’ve paid my dues, and there’s nothing wrong with making this more widely available to people, since I deeply believe it.'"

I'm bummed Nautilus is publishing this. They ought to know better.
> The UDPR also says that it is your right to be arrested in order to be educated

Not sure what the UDPR is, but the UDHR, which I referenced, certainly does not.
I consider it bad capitalism to give Apple money.

It's like buying BP after the oil spill, but Apple has been destroying the tech environment for 20+ years.
Agreed. It's just white people trying to feel good about themselves. I know many POCs and black people who have bigger concerns -- not getting killed by police, equal pay, etc. -- than the name of a damn git branch.
Yeah, there's a lot of motels from the 70s in my city that start with the letter A, but the Aalton Motel presumably won that arms race.
great choice for those looking to waste time
I wonder if anyone has any studies handy about "natural sugars" versus "processed sugars"?

That is my biggest pet peeve in terms of dietary discussions. Many people seem to believe that there is a magical property of "natural sugar" (such as honey or the sugar in fruit) that means it doesn't affect your calorie intake or something and so is okay to add to things, whereas table sugar is processed and therefore somehow totally different.

I believe this myth derives from the fact that high-fructose corn syrup does in fact concentrate sugar. But that doesn't mean it isn't metabolized the same way as other types of sugar, it just means you get the same amount of sweetness in less volume. So that is measured on labels and in the sweetness.

The common thing I hear is something like people saying they had a really delicious mango smoothie but it was totally healthy because they did not add any sugar. Or they switched from putting sugar in their tea to using honey and so now they think they don't get calories from the sweetener in their tea.
Started Twitter, leverage that to promote square.
That depends on if you are a platform or a publisher.
It stops when almost every word is offensive to someone in one way, shape, or form, and we are all forced to communicate in binary... excuse me, ones and zeros.
We didn’t need to know it to read it as inherently racist. If you can’t interpret that, it’s a problem with reading comprehension.
I don't think this is as true for Nintendo anymore. The switch store is full of tons of stuff. Maybe they're not letting everything through, and they certainly aren't letting everyone make physical games, but the digital store seems like it must not have a big filter.
To clarify some of the other responses, there is confusion between someone on the Board of Directors (often called a Director of the Company) vs. an Engineering Director. In most medium-to-large software orgs, the manager tract goes something like Manager->Senior Manager->Director->Senior Director->VP->Senior VP->CTO. Obviously some of levels may not exist depending on the size of the organization, but in general a Director and above manages few ICs and instead manages managers.
I agree.

I use vscode, but I miss the speed of sublime for large projects & the terminal emulator will crash/freeze for me occasionally (which also seems to happen in IntelliJ based editors as well)
Wow, that's grown up and filled in quite a bit since last I saw the map. They seem ready for a longer haul. Now that they have our attention, I wish them the best in making their voices heard. So this is what democracy looks like.
I think this misses the way inclinations change over one's lifespan. When you say women aren't interested in looks, well, not as much when they're 30 or 35. But when they're 16, 20, 24, they're a lot more open to a fun weekend, especially when they're so close at hand. And they're perhaps somewhat inclined to believe that someone who will spend a weekend with them might spend a lifetime. Later, the ice weasels come, and they realize it's not so.

This describes several of my ex's, and indeed, they did end up in therapy (or should have). I'm sure self-esteem has a role, and I tried hard to instill that in my step-daughters, to help them do better with this (and, as Chris Rock said, to keep them off the pole).

Men also change over time, of course. But a lot of what you're missing is simply that men like me never had a clue as to what to do when we were young. Not stubborn at all--just clueless. Two hundred years ago, it didn't really matter--sheer want would make things work.

Today, we're all so well off that few women really need to pair off. And those who plan on it tend to think more that they can do it a lot later. Unfortunately, by then, a lot of men have already rotted on the dock.
I thought a nintendo dev kit was about $100 bucks.
> In general it is a bad idea to store secrets in the database itself

Perhaps my ignorance is showing but do hashed passwords count as secrets? Because those are usually stored in databases.
No surprise here. Apple and Nintendo are cut from the same cloth.

Big marketing budget, medium quality product, high price.

I do my part in capitalism by purchasing products that are quality.
Genuinely interested how you think their WebKit (which they started from KHTML back in the day) implementation has “poor support for modern browser features”
I agree with browser lock in though.
But I feel that iOS is so successful that they don’t treat the web as a second class citizen. It’s just WebKit...
I understand why they saw fit, if you don’t look at their media tab, a lot of influential content creators on Twitter are also Disney fans.

If you do look at their media tab, the story changes completely, but if you don’t, the statistics solo should look beautiful.
> knowing that you'll have significant difficulties developing for the majority of current market share?

I think this is a very small issue.

The reason why it's hard to develop for ARM today is that reasonably powerful (read: non-phone) ARM processors are not very common. The barrier for developing on ARM is that you have to explicitly purchase another ~$500 laptop in order to test on ARM. Also, libraries generally support x86 but not necessarily ARM. With small desktop market share, the expense is often not worth it.

On the other hand, x86 processors are ubiquitous, and if you're a developer, you can almost certainly find a old laptop or desktop with an x86 processor laying around to test your software on (especially if you're in the demographic to buy relatively expensive MacBooks). Also, since most people use x86, it makes sense to invest in that market.

TL;DR: ARM -> x86 barrier to entry is much lower because x86 processors are so common, x86 opportunity is much more lucrative, and most libraries already support x86.
Shhhh. Don't let the hardcore evangelic developers hear you.
This massive propaganda effort is detailed in a chapter of Alex Carey's Taking the Risk out of Democracy. The scale of it was incredible.
Even still, there are appropriate channels and using a public platform to personally attack someone is a nuclear option that you should expect consequences on.

e.g. government employees initially raise concerns on policy privately, then resign and speak out when the discussions fail.
Ah, I get it. I don't know anything about how YC works so I assumed you meant candidates are picked a year in advance.
The way it works at my workplace is that in meetings with more than one person, we just say "times are tough and thanks for coping with the hard times and still getting the work done. We also recognize that times may be especially hard for some people." But in 1-on-1 convos some of my colleagues and I trust each other enough to say, for example, that we attended a protest.
Type providers were the biggest innovation I learned from F#. Type providers are a way to have static typing determined from an external source, like a CSV file or SQL database.

I ended-up using a similar trick (with different syntax) in my own language, Empirical. I needed a way to infer a Dataframe from a file while in a REPL. It wasn't until I read the MSR paper that I realized I could do it entirely in the compiler without creating separate logic for the interactive users.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2908080.2908115
i read articles bottom-up for this reason – you'll find whatever shred of facts to be found there.
> First, wouldn't everything you said about men also apply to women? How is it different?

This thread has been discussing the implications of the observation quoted in the article: "Sexual activity was largely unchanged among unmarried women, along with no notable decline among gay men, researchers reported."

So it's unclear what point you're trying to make in relation to that.
Okay, but when looking at societal outcomes, pointing the finger of blame isn't particularly useful.
>make him explain what really happened

According to the court documents, what really happened was that he was trying to steal intellectual property for China. These long sentences exist because state actors would otherwise just keep sending people until one succeeded with no downside.
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This ad/keywork thing on iOS drove me nuts for the few months I actually was using a iphone (before switching back to android). If I search for "RDP", I don't want to see a bunch of proprietary desktop sharing applications, VNC applications, etc as the top 10-20 hits. I want to see applications that support the RDP protocol.
But your computer does understand the distinction between a string numerically encoded as consecutive bytes in memory, versus a string encoded as a arbitrary-precision integer equal to ( 2^(first ASCII value) * 3^(second ASCII value) * 5^(third '') * 7^(fourth '') * ... ).
Has to be a really strongly held opinion to write a book about it. He's probably not racist though, just like Rabois wasn't a homophobe when he was shouting anti gay slurs [1]. I interpret it as a typical conservative distraction, same thing that Tucker Carlson pulls every night on fox news: "protecting western values", "defending freedom of speech", "woke liberals", "antifa", "seattle taken over by radical leftist terrorists", etc.

He's a brilliant entrepreneur, an opportunist funding divisive politics to build and protect his wealth.

I didn't intend to label him a racist but to point out that one of their most prominent board members is a big player in right wing politics and has clearly used the platform to help elect the president, which might be the reason why Facebook has not banned political advertising and is allowing the president to violate their terms of service. (I personally don't believe that they should censor him)

[1] https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2013/01/rabois...
Except it's simply not true. Instead candidates focus on a set of fairly high-population swing states, Michigan, Wisconsin, Florida, Virginia, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania.
Why is that not okay? Do you think that is sensitive private information? Or do you believe that no content of any private conversation should ever be publicized?
Not necessarily insufficiently supportive, but insufficiently supportive in public mediums.
There was also an interesting New Yorker article on Wodehouse recently about his experience as a Nazi captive:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/06/01/wartime-for-wo...

I never picked Wodehouse for a prisoner of war. But I guess he handled it with characteristic aplomb.

That article inspired me to search for the Fry and Laurie series. It's not being streamed on any of the popular platforms but I did find some decent quality uploads on Youtube. My wife and I have enjoyed it immensely. I think I discovered why it hasn't been picked up by any of the online platforms when we got to the blackface episode in season 2.

A different era, in two respects I suppose, and all that. Unfortunate nevertheless. Anyone know where I could find the BBC radio episodes online?
The most interesting thread in this whole post is down here at the bottom discussing where and how you can avoid falling into that 1/3! The bookstore in particular might be fair game, not sure. However, I have heard from women that I am friends or acquainted with how annoying it is to be hit on while in public places. The sidewalk, public transit, in line at the grocery store, at the coffee shop, etc. I've heard all of those described as places where a woman is just trying to do her thing and doesn't go there to be accosted by romantic advances.

I don't know if it's true across the board, or just applies to _some_ men, or what, but I know that I personally haven't never felt like I have the go-ahead to approach a woman at the park or something like that.
Properly hashed/salted passwords are considered safe to store in a database. You still wouldn’t want them to be stolen, but they are not in plaintext. There are other times when you do need to store secrets that you need to be able to decrypt so you can use them.
Fortunately, mainstream bikes have been decoupled from the UCI rules, probably since the introduction of the mountain bike. Most bikes sold today are things like cruisers, hybrids, city bikes, and low tech mountain bikes, that have no corresponding category in competitive cycling.

Designs are changing, but gradually. Most kids bikes now have non trapezoidal frame designs. But metal tubing is still a pretty compelling material to make a mainstream bike from.
>I can't wait for ~2 weeks when everyone's going to go back to their lives like nothing happened

I hope we never go back to our lives like nothing happened and I feel a responsibility to make sure I never do.
? Not following. They just caught a guy doing it with harsh sentences. China already has no downsides. Having this person work with us OUT of prison would hurt China much more.
I've asked elsewhere in this thread, but what in his tweets do you consider to be public shaming? I don't see anything even remotely close to what I would call public shaming. There is also nothing remotely resembling a solicitation for others to attack.
The question of why the Seattle police abandoned a precinct isn't really a question of who the police are accountable to. Clearly someone who feels that the police are a malign force ordered them to leave. Who had the power and did it?

My guess is the mayor and/or the forces that pull her strings.
That misses the largest and fastest-growing market for VR: self-contained systems like Oculus Quest, which has had no real competition for about a year now.

They ask that you pitch them with marketing materials and get permission before you start working on anything, so they can "compassionately" tell you not to even start:

* https://developer.oculus.com/blog/submitting-your-app-to-the...

* https://developer.oculus.com/quest-pitch-form/

> If we feel that your app is not a fit for Quest, we'd like to let you know that early in the development process, before you've made significant production investments, rather than at the end.
Those are one and the same. The ADTs are how the shape and validity of the data is described to the compiler in a lot of cases. Rust wouldn't be able to be memory safe without it.

C++'s ADTs are easy to subvert even accidently; Rust's can't be without explicitly calling it out as unsafe.

It allows you to describe transformations of state in a formal set theoretical way. You should check out formally verified software like CompCERT and sel4 and their heavy use ADTs internally to achieve that. Rust obvs isn't full formally verified but it's a neat 80/20 in that direction.
This may be a tangent. Can the US govt be charged for typos and mistakes in legal documents or for delays?

I have never seen such attrocious imbalance of power.

No wonder foreigners are wary of coming to the US
There are few if you look around.
https://www.eatabit.io is built on it. We were one of their first beta clients. We used every M2M carrier previously and Twilio is easily superior in cost & reliability. The cellular data space has alot of problems especially with roaming: cell phones transparently switch between networks but data SIMs have a very limited set of networks they can operate on. If Twilio can get VZW access on these SIMs they will have a very strong product. As it stands, coverage is limited.
@dang Hopefully you'll see this but no one else will since the thread is a day old at this point. Can you explain what made you think this account was trolling? Looking at the history there's nothing obvious, so I'm just kind of curious.
The original OCaml is more interesting. It has language flexibility F# lacks, gets new features every year, crossplatform, and compiles into the native code, thus faster. Once Multicore OCaml [1] project is finished the major painpoint of it will go away.

[1] https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/multicore-ocaml-may-2020-update/...
It is not clearly more aggressive. What part of his language do you think are in any way aggressive?
> Here’s the lineup.

> WWDC20 brings together millions of Apple developers around the world. Join us for a fully packed program to gain early access to the future of Apple platforms and engage with Apple engineers.

> June 22-26

> Requirements. Watching session videos and viewing related documentation and sample code is available to anyone. To request a lab appointment or to post questions for Apple engineers about WWDC20 content on the forums, you must be a member of the Apple Developer Program or Apple Developer Enterprise Program as of June 11, 2020 at 9 a.m. PDT, or a Swift Student Challenge winner. Your membership must be current, valid, and in good standing from this date until the end of WWDC20.
Practically everyone in distributed systems knows who Aphyr is, and to get a bug reported by him is like a badge of honor. I am willing to bet that people at PostgrSQL jousted over who got to work with him on this bug, because it would be such an amazing learning opportunity. I know I would want to!
> Antifa is decidedly Anti-Fascist

I have not noticed this. They seem like a hateful mob to me. Or worse. I'll be happy enough if the Feds just roll them up.
Why would anyone be surprised?
I'd be very surprised if my firmware was encrypted without setting any encryption key.
Love Descript and think it’s a great way to both record and get transcripts.
I've been cottoning on to the political aspects of Big Problem resolution (or mitigation or response or ...) and it's not prety.

The work of William Ophuls (Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity and Plato's Revenge especially), and others, possibly Thomas Homer-Dixon most principally.

Basically, polities seem to fall apart badly.
That's correct: researchers have found a lot of similar coronaviruses in southern China.

> “I wondered if [the municipal health authority] got it wrong,” she says. “I had never expected this kind of thing to happen in Wuhan, in central China.” Her studies had shown that the southern, subtropical provinces of Guangdong, Guangxi and Yunnan have the greatest risk of coronaviruses jumping to humans from animals—particularly bats, a known reservoir. If coronaviruses were the culprit, she remembers thinking, “Could they have come from our lab?” [0]

Given that a leading virologist who specifically studies bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology considers this a possibility, I think it's safe to say that it's not some wild conspiracy theory. I obviously don't know what happened, and it seems very plausible that the virus came from standard zoonotic transfer, but it's a bit unfair to characterize this as a conspiracy theory.

[EDIT] The article was actually changed since I read it:

"She is distressed because stories from the Internet and major media have repeated a tenuous suggestion that SARS-CoV-2 accidentally leaked from her lab—despite the fact that its genetic sequence does not match any her lab had previously studied."

So it sounds like she came to the conclusion that it wasn't an accidental release in April.

[0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-chinas-bat-wo...