skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Truly I find the mechanistic view of nature so grim and pointless.

Would you find it ridiculous if I said that it serves an ideological purpose so deeply entrenched in our civilization at this point that we hardly notice its contingent nature?
Do political campaigns randomly illustrate their ads with random large shapes as a matter of course?
Turning an internal email tool into a and$8k/mo SaaS
They are obviously speaking colloquially, not geometrically.
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Ha I’ll give it a shot. I’d love more exposure, not just because it’s a bit self serving but also because time management is a topic I care a ton about.

Re: phrasing... I purposely chose a more techie (and I suppose accurate) term here. But we didn’t for our default messaging because “regular” people wouldn’t really grok a “policy engine”. Or perhaps you’re saying you think they would? :)
I see how that could be the case but once we start delving into numerology we start to sound like conspiracy theorists.
I personally don't think it's that hard to run `parcel` on the command-line. Front-end tooling is as complicated as any other tooling: as much as you need it to be.
I'm flattered! In that case do fix my typo: "I don't want the tools".
By it I mean that only total 6 people have died from both sides, of which only 2 can be attributed to direct actions of Russian armed forces (well, if you trust Ukrainian version of events, which should be taken with a lot of salt, same as with the Russian one). Now compare it with number of deaths in Kiev, Odessa or Donbas. (note that majority of deaths in the latter case are Ukrainian citizens killed directly by Ukrainian army, so much for "war with Russia")

>For the "actively supported", where are you getting that information?

Directly from Crimeans. I have visited Crimea last year as a tourist and talked with them personally (in Massandra and Alushta, btw the wine is really great, recommend trying it). Try watching 2014 videos, for example this one is before Russian forces have became active:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atm0W5wA2y4

If you don't trust my anecdotal experience, then how about "The Crimea conundrum: legitimacy and public opinion after annexation" published in the Eurasian Geography and Economics journal? Or how about "To Russia With Love" article published in Foreign Affairs? They both confirm strong local support in favor of the transfer.

>My impression (from friends in Kiev) is that it's universally condemned.

I hope you understand that your friend quite probably is really biased regarding this issue, right? Always try looking outside of the media narrative (one may call it soft propaganda), usually world issues are far more complex than the version painted by media.
My question wasn't sarcastic, I really wonder how many did so. I'm not saying the majority of people did, but even based on the replies to the comment, the answer is more than 0, it'd be interesting/amusing to know how many did (even though that's impossible)

> The GP comment probably wouldn't have been downvoted if it had been more substantive.

My 700 word reply with the same sentiment was at -1 within seconds. It only just got back to 1.

Now, I didn't write that to be popular, it's an intentionally uncomfortable comment if you're someone who agrees with the top level comment and I wanted it to be. The fact is, the audience here has shown time and time again they'd rather bury talk about uncomfortable conflict involving race.

Imagine this comment was downvoted, but multiple comment chains saying black people should just accept racism is a thing and "move on" are being propped up above it...

This isn't the first time I've seen this here, and it won't be the last. At the end of the day, HN's demographic reflects the demographics of the industries it intersects, and diversity is not high at all within them.

That allows people to bury their heads in the sand so to speak, these are uncomfortable conversations and they'd rather not have them
> the software wasn't developed in Russia, etc.

But it was developed in Russia. Durov was lying to the world that developers were abroad out of reach of russian authorities, when in practice they were in Saint Petersburg just a floor below VK.com developers (a previous company by Durov, now controlled by russian government via proxy pocket oligarchs)
Has this ever actually happened? Particularly, has a software publisher ever lost such a case?
The red triangle was used by the Nazis to identify political prisoners (eg communists), not Jews or blacks or anything "hateful" like that. It's completely normal for countries at war to have political prisoners and even in peacetime too. America still has it's own political prisoners in prison right now for crimes like spying and leaking classified information. Other western countries are even worse, having people locked up for expressing banned political ideas. Ironically, that includes Nazis themselves in Europe, but it's also illegal to display the ISIS flag in the UK, for instance. People obviously love having political prisoners.
14/88 is hardly a conspiracy theory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Words
I don't really agree that's relevant to be honest. The affect on pricing can be quite wide. For example, the EU will not have an issue finding developers who will say they priced their product 30% higher on all platforms than they otherwise might have because they knew the had to pay the Apple surcharge and Apple do not permit you to charge extra to cover their cut (except then they sometimes arbitrarily do! But that's not what the terms say).
I can definitely format code better than Black does. But that's probably not true for the average programmer. I do appreciate it formatting big dicts for me.

If you find formatting discussions with your teammates painful, Maybe some fraction of your team are stubborn jerks?

I've worked where formatting discussions were always friendly and constructive. It can be done.
Why would you think that?

A p-value of 1.4e-8 is significant enough when there is a prior hypothesis. And the odds-ratio looks normal too.
I fail to understand this position.

Apple Music is in the same position as say Spotify on Google's platform as a third party media service. Is the implication that they should operate differently or be held to a different standard than Spotify?

I don't believe Apple has argued that collecting alternate payments in-app would be an undesirable for third party developers on the App Store - just that they don't wish to support it (for multiple reasons).

This also comes from Apple and Google having different starting points in their mobile platform - Apple already had a huge account and micropayment billing base for the iPhone by basing the App Store on the iTunes Store.
Author discusses their nice daily walks on that street, and questions the need for improvements like sidewalks and ADA compliance.

Author should be thankful to not need the ADA compliance.
I am genuinely curious, what hobby of yours makes you track volcanic eruptions regularly ?
But what happens if you add more energy? Do we know that past some point, new particles will stop appearing?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Kaplan

https://www.linkedin.com/in/harbath/

https://twitter.com/kevinroose/status/1272920601477255170
It seems an almost unprecedented level of immature trolling.

I wonder if society will get bored of this at some point.

The shock value of using taboo ideology does wear off.
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There is another degree of freedom here: project cost. Why on earth does 0.32 miles of residential road cost $1.5M? Having just managed a construction project much larger than this stretch of road myself, I am certain that a lot of the blame here lies with the contracting process as well as outrageous fees (and just sheer inefficiency) from the engineers and contractors. There is no valid reason this should be so expensive. In the rest of the world, I guarantee you they are not paying over a million dollars for something like this and their standards are just as high if not higher.

I’m not sure there is an opportunity to fix this - I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about this now and modeling it out - by building a better construction company: most of the problem is, instead, essentially political.
Come on Mozilla, hurry up! I want to give you money for goods and services (I also donate monthly [1]), but I'm not that interested in a VPN (I can and do also pay Mullvad).

Give me that real internet stuff - email, calendar, file sync, chat(?) - give me Firefox Premium. Bundle in the Lockwise password manager. I'd pay good money to see a company fill the void of paid, privacy first essential internet services and I think Mozilla is one of the foremost existing players to pull it off. They've started talking about Firefox Premium a while ago now [2] and it's obviously not easy to build all of this in a lean way, but I'll happily pitch in. If only to help make Firefox development less dependant on Google or Yahoo.

[1]: https://donate.mozilla.org/

[2]: https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/10/18660344/firefox-subscrip...
Not true in large companies. Managers are often just empire building, but new hires still get top of band. Real morale killer, makes tenured employees want to look for a new job.
You are ignoring the context of the situation. The context matters. When a group of people who espouse hate against minorities on a daily basis use identical symbols as other groups in history who also espoused hate on a daily basis towards the same minority groups, it is not a coincidence.

Analyzing every move by Trump or his administration or campaign individually, without context of the surrounding mood of the nation or recent history, will lead you to the wrong conclusions.

There is a lot more subtle hate in the world than most people were expecting to exist. But it's there, and when you see time after time the same sneaky tricks used to spread hate, they no longer look like coincidences at all. The 'simplicity' of the symbol is irrelevant. It is simple by design, to give the racists who use it a 'cover' for their racism ("see it's just a triangle you're crazy for seeing things"). The pattern fits, it's racism and hate directed at minorities.

This is a pattern, and pretending each action in the pattern is unrelated to each other or likely all coincidences, is effectively disinformation.

These racist and hateful remarks and statements are not all just accidents.
Though worldwide it's difficult to keep records intact for a thousand years, the Mayans had writing systems for nearly two thousand years. The Spanish priests burned any writing they found during the Mayan conquest,
everything you said happens and should also be a focus which I'll reply to in another comment, the only lack of awareness here is using singular noun for plural form

when plural you want to use color descriptors as adjectives. black people, not "blacks", white people, not "whites".

nobody can say why, but they are not synonyms to be used interchangeably between sentences, and will undermine your positive intent.
Java and Javascript are head to head on that one, if you look at any data on the web. (and Java is nice to work with, mature environment, quite opposite of Javscript).

With Python or C++ being next.

But they don't count Excel :)
Back then, people had to downvote by bleaching only a portion of the illuminated manuscript. Unfortunately the original karma logs were lost when the Knights Templar were disbanded.
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Yep, on their way to taking over HN in my opinion.
It's hard to walk the line of not showing Nazi imagery while also needing to talk about it. For example: the people who made The Man in the High Castle destroyed all the Nazi imagery they made out of concern actual Nazis would get their hands on their high quality Nazi imagery. No one wants to be responsible for helping a movement that should have ended at the Nuremberg trials.
I'm antifa, and I've never seen this symbol used by antifascists, in the US anyway.

Even if they do, it's likely as a way to subvert the symbol used by the Nazis. To use it to attack antifa is to use it like the Nazis did. It's like how black people can use the n-word, but not white people.
As I commented elsewhere, all that it would take to fix this is a precedent or law saying that, "Any consumer contract with a Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level of over 8 shall be unenforceable because the average consumer cannot be expected to have understood what they were agreeing to."
If I know one thing about Dan, I know for a fact that he does actively look into stuff like this. I've had my disagreements with his moderation, but him being lazy (or incompetent, as your comment implies) isn't among the criticisms.

This is yet another mistaken comment about moderation with no evidence to back it up.
Exactly... g-code is a toolpath format, and something needs to generate that. It can be a piece of standalone software, a printer driver, or whatever, but it requires more information than is typical (or advisable to put) in your image format. That said, I have seen some attempts at generating g-code directly in application plugins or something...it's possible, but not with great results typically, and it's not something built-in off the shelf.
With infinite scroll, there is no bottom line. /s
Wow, that's insane
And this is exactly how this tactic works. The campaign can send dog whistles that neo-Nazis the world over will immediately recognize and appreciate, and useful idiots can come along and argue that all these blatantly obvious things are just coincidences.
Google image search for triangle and check the most common orientation for a triangle.
My experience with black is that it’s good enough for Python that it’s a waste of time to not use it. Sure, on many teams formatting discussions are friendly. But why even spend the time?

It also really democratizes the language, because even folks brand new to Python or who are inexperienced with programming in general end up with code that is well-formatted and consistent with everything else.
Facebook is in a difficult spot right now. They’re in a damned if you do damned if you don’t situation.

Granted, Zuckerberg and his team in many ways got themselves into this situation, but at this point it’s hard to see how Facebook moves forward without regulators, either on the left or the right, calling for antitrust or privacy laws to be enforced against them.

I’m not sure if you could break up Facebook in the same way that Standard Oil was, but there is certainly appetite for regulatory action against FB on the left and the right.
Thank you for your anecdote, but I've posted two examples, one active FB group.

It seems to be mainly a European usage, but it exists.

I don't see how pointing out a symbol a group uses is attacking them.

I also don't think equating yourself and antifa to the struggle of the holocaust and slavery is going to win any minds over.
Perhaps I am failing to follow a twitter thread properly, but I saw a downward red triangle with "antifa" written over it. I also saw a similar symbol that looked like an emoji.

My question is in earnest to understand the context.
society6, Redbubble & cafepress are not really primary sources of information here (and the "an" in "ancap" is short for anarchist, not antifascist).

The other link don't even feature an "upside down triangle" design, and is from Utrecht, which has a red triangle in its own flag. There's not really a connection.
The painfully slow interface I’m speaking of is Matomo’s app, the part you as the site administrator look at; not piwik.js or whatever they call it now.

But since you’ve raised the script part, 50KB of JS loaded from a new host is perhaps surprisingly much work, especially on slower devices. I find the difference between running no JavaScript at all and running Matomo’s client script, even asynchronously, to be easily visible.
Because nobody knows how to quantify the benefit that an engineer brings to a company. It is, in most cases, impossible (or at least excruciatingly difficult) to put even a rough dollar amount on the worth of a knowledge worker. Because of this, companies tend to use very vague strategies for coming up with offers, like "the lowest they'll accept", or "X% below the maximum we can afford". In those cases, the numbers will vary wildly depending on the company's budget, the subjective "value" that they put on knowledge work, and the negotiation skill of the candidate.

The reason most companies don't pay FAANG salaries is largely some combination of: 1) they don't have the money; 2) they objectively get less value from those skills; 3) they subjectively don't put as much weight on the skill set (think "sticker shock"); 4) they low-balled their first few engineers and nobody asked for more. I'd bet that last one is more common than you'd expect, especially with junior devs who don't know how much they could be making elsewhere.
> It's fine to use WhatsApp to praise Obama, Merkel or anything else that is widely accepted in your society etc, but it's a terrible choice if you're on the shit list of the government.

That's actually not always true. Racism is widely accepted in many areas of American society, but, online platforms are beginning to make more of an effort to restrict outright hate (Twitter, for example).

LOL also I would like to point out the current President of the United States is the archetypal Obama-hater, so ... I dont know if it makes sense to talk about the government coming down on people who don't praise Obama. I would imagine President Trump also talks a lot of trash about Merkel, so, again, the current chief executive of this one particular government very publicy espouses the beliefs you claim that same government would crack down on.

I mean, there's also Fox news. Not praising Obama or Merkel. Very much active.

My point is, even if your point may be true, the examples you chose, when compared against some real-world data-points, undermine your own position.
> It seems to me that what went wrong was a large number of UK residents were overseas in February/March (sspecially on ski breaks) to Italy, France and other mainland Europe destinations.

This is the same basic situation as Germany. Many of our largest outbreaks in March/April were traced back to a single sick barkeeper in an après-ski in Austria.
This is very totally legit that public VPN services are complete trash. Online anonymity is very hard. However, you can still create your own VPN server on cloud providers for at least have some privacy while you are on an untrusted network.

Because of this reason, I created zudvpn.com - It is a free and open-source mobile application that's used to deploy a private VPN server on major Cloud Providers!

Github repo: https://github.com/zudvpn/ZudVPN
The end of porn and typical recreational activities as we know it. Cut out the middle person, jump right to properly applied current to the wetware.
Are people still visiting cities in this time of COVID? I suspect this has nothing to do with AirBNB getting banned and everything to do with people not wanted to get sick.
You're not using that word correctly, since this is not a pattern it's an architecture.

Please don't misuse words, especially in a negative context to mean "something I don't like", it cheapens the word in legitimate cases.

No comment on whether SPAs are worth anything though, I reserve my opinion.
> my product has a combination of Angular, React, Vue and server-rendered pages.

This is intended by Micro Front.

Most Billions Dollars SaaS are based on this Frankenstein type of architecture, the goal is simple :

- Support legacy code with Zero Effort

The result for the end user is absolutely horrendous , it create slow and bloated web pages with Megabytes of JavaScript with UI of various style and behavior similar to Confluence/ Jira etc...

This architecture fits perfectly fit the state of the current market :

- Push lots of stuff out "as fast as possible"

- Turn over in software in +20%, people who build Jira 5 years ago aren't there anymore , they cashed in their stocks and went somewhere else to get a bigger paycheck

- The people who build those apps , most of the time , don't use them...

Leaders of Atlassian use Gmail and GDrive , I'm pretty confident that they don't even use Jira or any of their own software...

Those apps are so slow and bloated it's astonishing...Yet when something is the "norm" in the industry , it's definitely not an issue.
To me, because readability is the most important aspect of programming, and it needs to be done right.
> Truly I find the mechanistic view of nature so grim and pointless.

Ok, but an anthropomorphic view of nature is fanciful and _also_ pointless.

This is not alive by any but the most inclusion-oriented definitions, and yet it follows light: https://www.popsci.com/make-light-following-robot-instructio...

Talking about "intelligence" and "awareness" makes sense _sometimes_ because we don't understand where our consciousness comes from. For mechanisms where we have the capacity to concretely observe how and why they happen, cavalierly throwing in notions like "intelligence" and "awareness" is an emotional deception, a pathetic fallacy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathetic_fallacy#Science), that adds nothing except fantasy.

You see a complex mechanical process and call it grim and pointless unless one introduces metaphysics. I see a complex mechanical process and call it fundamentally beautiful and awesome without needing the metaphysics.
Until reading your comment, I didn't know that was what Antifa was short for. That's probably why they don't use the full name.
A terrible employee at the first startup I joined (see racist, anger issues, etc) caused a lot of us to leave. If you're going to run a team, nay, if you're going to work with people it pays to invest in some people skills.
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> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
Is it incumbent on Apple to act in the best interest of Google? Because that’s what giving Google a 30% cut would do. Google could demand it, but they haven’t.

I don’t go to a car dealership and ask what the maximum price they’re willing to charge me for it.
Could we use this against global warming? Artificially put something in the atmosphere that bounces part of the sunlight back?
I'm saying that you should pick a term, make sure everyone groks your meaning, and stick to it. :-)

I used to work for an organization that was extremely meeting-heavy. My colleague would block his entire calendar on Fridays just so he could have a day free to focus on getting things done.
> They’re in a damned if you do damned if you don’t situation.

No, leaving up Nazi propaganda in place is not that kind of situation. There is only one right answer. Delete the offending content and call out the posters of the content for what they are: posters of racist and hateful content.

Any other action from Facebook is unacceptable. It's not a "damned if you do damned if you don’t". Caving to racists and hate groups to run their awful messages isn't something that you need to seriously consider doing. It's just a ..... No.
In one of the direct replies: https://mobile.twitter.com/4StarPattonII1/status/12736921167...
They don’t but in an event of forceful takeover the PRC propaganda machine could make it look like TW are are willingly joining the larger China.
That looks like an arrow? I must be in a parallel dimension.
> This could instead be enveloped by a "generic" declaration like so

What would instantiation of the function look like?

With the current design it is

maxInt := Max(int)

which has a positional symmetry to the declaration.
Right.

The Tinfoil Chat setup uses optocouplers to enforce one-way data transmission.[0] And one can use inexpensive CD-R and micro SD cards for single-use data transfer. But transferring anything but plain text is dangerous.

0) https://github.com/maqp/tfc