skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> there's a lot to be said for keeping your developer's entertained so they stick around

Really? At the expense of everyone else who has to deal with this monstrosity for the foreseeable future, or worse yet replace it with an actual tool that can be reliably used.

This JSON-inside-sqlite-inside-JSON-inside-a-JSON-string beast should never have seen the light of day.

You're not paid to be entertained, sorry. You're paid to be productive. As productive as you can, and to put the needs of the client and the long-term success of the company hopefully first but certainly before any resemblance of entertainment if you're getting paid

Did I mention you're getting paid to work?
Bloomberg covered Aquila at the time (a couple times) citing Facebook claims, using Facebook b-roll and Zuckerberg interviews.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-30/facebook-...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-27/after-goo...

They, like every other outlet, covered the news with the resources immediately available, then followed up later when information became available that led them to question the completeness of Facebook's account and details of the project.
One reason is that people might feel closer to something that they think superficially resembles themselves. This is part of the reason why diversity is important, according to so many people right now. Not just because groups have more perspectives, but because the people in the minority feel more comfortable when the minority is not so small.

I remember some years ago about a situation regarding a movie. I forget the exact details, but it was something like a Filipino movie about an American disaster, like 9/11. The movie was based on a historically inaccurate story of a Filipino man or family involved in the circumstances, when in reality there had been none. I don't know whether or not the Filipino person was a replacement for a white person's real story.

But as someone much closer to the original circumstances, my perspective is not that I or my community's history has been replaced or been removed due to "racism." It is rather very touching that this foreign community felt close enough and impacted enough by the story to envision themselves inside it, taking part in it. To me, it was an expression of closeness and understanding, not appropriation or racism.

Plus it seems strange to me that in a story where people walk on water and talk to burning bushes and kill gays, that the most offensive or historically inaccurate thing is that some people have envisioned the main character as being similar to them.
And didn't standard pascal also store the runtime length inline as a single byte, limiting strings to 255 bytes?
Facebook says the good outweighs the bad. How many likes make up for the hate?
I thought this would be a post of what the web has become (big corp bubbles) and what's to come in the next years, but was pleased to find a shout out to 90s web, specially since some 12 hours ago I was showing a friend how the web looked like when she was just 2 years old.

And then I found some things I forgot to mention, like Guestbooks (wow) and Sitemaps. Gonna tour her right now!
I wouldn't give the benefit of the doubt to Microsoft...
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Imperial Japan was extremely cruel to the people in the places it invaded - which was a lot. Human experimentation, massacring civilians, torture, comfort women. They were basically the Nazis of Asia. They also didn't apologize for it, still glorify their brutal heroes and teach disinformation about it to their schoolkids. Chinese people still have a strong anti-Japanese feeling.
What's the problem? You can enjoy the movie and talk about the connections to Bronte and the little clues the movie showed.

The problem seems to be less that literature is derivative, and more that the viewer is looking for reasons to dismiss things instead of reasons to enjoy them.
Thank you for sharing. I didn't know this term even existed.

for others like me:

> In political and social theory, accelerationism is the idea that capitalism, or particular processes that historically characterised capitalism, should be accelerated instead of overcome in order to generate radical social change. "Accelerationism" may also refer more broadly, and usually pejoratively, to support for the intensification of capitalism in the belief that this will hasten its self-destructive tendencies and ultimately lead to its collapse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism
> they really are just integers, even more than in C# or C++, even though there is no implicit conversion.

What do you mean by this?

C#: https://repl.it/repls/ExhaustedDisgustingRam

C++: https://repl.it/repls/BackGroundedRobot

C# and C++ offer exactly the same thing that Go offers... enums that are really just integers.

You can assign arbitrary values to those C# and C++ enums, even though you're not supposed to, just like in Go.

Rust offers something truly better, where the enum abstraction doesn't leak at all.
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> The only thing Go truly nailed in my eyes is green threads. Those will always be better in Go than Rust (though futures are getting way better). Go nailed green threads.

If you think Go's green threads are great, you should see erlang's. In erlang if you need to construct a mutual failure domain (have two green threads mutually destruct if one fails) you can use the link() function. Done. You can also trivially choose to have one of them be notified on the failure of the other instead of being destroyed.
I totally agree.

Pixels are getting better, and Samsung flagships are getting their OS updates for 2-3 years and an additional 2 for security patches. That is.. barely good enough in my eyes.
Note the mobile skin is separate from the mobile site. If you set in your preferences the skin Minerva Neue, you will get it on desktop (just the skin, there are non skin differences with the mobile site you wont get).

As for why not default- i imagine partially because the mobile site tends to be unpopular with power users (of course opinions vary)
I've actually done work on synthetic data development --

https://medium.com/capital-one-tech/why-you-dont-necessarily...

Generally, we use it to avoid utilizing 'real' data. Accuracy usually is the same using either synthetic or real data. There are edge cases where one fails due to particular issues about how synthetic data suppresses outliers, etc.
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It isn't, see my comment on history below.
Direct mail is to FB ads what chariots are to a Ferrari. You can pay facebook to target any of 1.7 Billion people with 0 research on your end. You can automate a campaign for reach/effectiveness. Your budget can be whatever you want it to be. You can get instant feedback and adjust accordingly.

FB adds are expensive because people click on them. They click on them because they are useful. They are also minimally intrusive: just scroll past, no click to close, no have to watch, no site ruining banners.

I for one, actually like FB ads: they show things I may want or need, often with a discount or some other benefit.
Work on http://www.hyperfiddle.net/, a declarative DSL for CRUD apps that abstracts over IO. Requires deep FP experience, we need help with identifying and building out key fundamental abstractions. Clojure/Script. Remote, international OK with overlap to US Eastern Time. dustin@hyperfiddle.net
This is much more used, it's based on FAIRSeq Transformer: https://github.com/modernmt/modernmt.
Plus, it's a publicly funded project
The commenter you replied to may have been describing the discrimination faced by people such as the Ainu, Ryukyuans, and others who are not considered part of the majority ethnic Japanese group.

https://www.refworld.org/docid/55a4fa5115.html
Slightly dated, but Guy Kawasaki wrote a guide to self-publishing:

http://apethebook.com/
I wrote a paper about this in college but South Park does both. There are times where they are just poking turds at things and people they find funny, and there are times they try and be more poignant.
We get cheap food thanks to tractors, combine harvesters, selective breeding, insecticides, herbicides and fertiliser.

Low wages are a problem but they aren't really related to how cheap our food is. The cheapest supermarket near me is Aldi but their pay is quite generous compared to their competitors.
But, it's just a picture. If you want to put a swastika on your car, the punishment should be that you made yourself look stupid, not that you get banned from the game!
So the statues belong in museums and history textbooks, not the public square:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/06/19/destroying...

It feels tired to still be repeating this when so many others have said it, but Germany is capable of learning about Hitler and Nazism without the monuments glorifying it; Americans can learn about Robert E. Lee without the whitewashed monuments everywhere. And anyway, there was none of this clutching of pearls about history-erasure when the Saddam Hussein statue was toppled in Baghdad in 2003.
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"This is enough permanent information to successfully identify the vast majority of people even if they never permanently log your IP"

How? I don't think this is true. You also reworded and omitted stuff from the disclaimer.
People are really good at compartmentalizing.
Maybe the ask was just too big. If someone bashed me relentlessly over media, I too would be trying to mollify the mob.. but not at any price.
> If you push that rope you will discover that your capacity to publish anything you want is restricted by the policy of whoever hosts your servers

Fair enough.

My original parent comment asked where you can speak freely online, which for the purposes of my argument I'm equating to US law regarding free speech. (This may not be the angle you're coming from.)

Most hosts will allow you to publish things that fit that description. To take the examples given in this thread: if you want to publish an image of the Confederate flag, or publish something and not have Twitter or Facebook placing ropes around your content, publishing your own website is going to solve that problem for you.

Now, you're not wrong, there are limits to that, but I'm struggling to find out how those limits apply to this conversation in any realistic way.
My happiness comes from making others happy, and surrounding myself with similarly minded people, and removing malignant people, places and situations from my life.

There isn't enough time to waste it on shitty people or environments, and making active choices towards that end has improved my quality of life even when going through difficult times emotionally, physically and financially.
Not sure about arrays (I am not involved in the project, I just thought it was cool). It’s still in a very preliminary stage, though, so there certainly are rough edges.
Sure, there is value in having your enums have specific values, but even in C they at least get a bit of namespacing.

And yes, Java enums are very verbose if you want to use them for low-level operations, but that is almost entirely the fault of the rest of Java and not enums themselves specifcally.
Apple has all of the APIs needed. You can compile and run chromium on iOS today (or at least it used to be possible - I work for an enterprise that did it for internal apps) - it'll just never make it through AppStore review.
Take up some volunteer work, change your peers, iq, social prestige and money are not the key to happiness. You can always leetcode and try to improve but not at the cost of your mental health.
>To move forward as a country you need to care about and build public infrastructure

What are you a dirty commie??

/s
More people need to read The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck

https://www.amazon.com/Subtle-Art-Not-Giving-Counterintuitiv...
I don't know the history of that so I can't argue it. If you could link to some education on it, I'd like to read about it.

I would imagine that it's possible in some circumstances for this to be true for some, mostly confederate figures. I'm really skeptical that that's true for figures like Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln.
Our 1968 flag closely follows the 1916 and 1934 design, with the eagle in the same position and using (almost) the same symbolic elements. Even the 1821 flag is similar.
The list is probably longer now, but here's one from late June: https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/1276681468119572481
Yeah the security patches are still worth thinking about. There was a Media Framework bug that needed nothing but a PNG on your phone to get RCE and there was a bug with the bluetooth stack this year which also could achieve RCE when your bluetooth was turned on and an attacker knew the BSSID

PNGs are easy to send and in times of Contact Tracing via Bluetooth... well there are certain risks to running unpatched
You might want to clarify you never retained any PII, unless you can 100% confirm that that favicon request didn't include any embedded user- or installation-id in cookies, headers or the like?
So the article basically says how much less socialist the US is, when it never made such claims. Hooray!
Part of the reason you can't show a _why_ at this level is that each of these graphs have too many confounding factors. The lower level of life expectancy for example is owed partly to how the demographics of the US are different because of the more open immigration policies relative to some OECD countries (like Japan and Korea, e.g.) The greater expenditure on healthcare is owed partly to higher levels of obesity, which is a complex outcome from levels of wealth, hours worked, access to food, availability of childcare etc.

One simple way of saying this is that the US is a much bigger, more diverse, country than at least some of the countries it gets compared to. So the comparisons are not entirely "fair."

I'd be interested to see a comparison of the individual (US) states interspersed with the OECD countries - at least some states might break out and compete with the higher echelon of OECD countries on some of these metrics.

What is "fairer" is to compare the US to itself, across generations. The work that Robert Gordon did in this regard is extremely powerful, showing how, post-1970, the US has not been able to maintain various economic equity indicators. As someone else commented, this could be attributed to a shift in buying power from the "consumer class" to the "investor class," a shift that, contrary to the myth of "trickle down economics" does not lead to more accumulation of capital. Instead, it tends to flow to financial assets and international investment which don't raise domestic demand as much as if you had put that money into individual paychecks.

Then there's the gradual decline in new firm formation as well, which adds to this mess - again, this is a comparison within the US, and is "fairer" in assessing what's going wrong.
> This slope doesn’t seem particularly slippy

Then maybe you are not looking hard enough and are unaware of the realities in Europe? Some examples:

1. UK libel regime failing abuse victims: https://www.ibanet.org/Article/NewDetail.aspx?ArticleUid=075...

2. Search for "Notes from the Field: EU Defamation Laws and Journalism", where the International Press Institute (IPI) "takes a closer look at the application of defamation law in EU countries, seeking to illustrate the practical consequences of these laws upon both individual journalists and the free flow of information necessary for democratic governance."
If Windows is your primary target, you probably want something sourced by Microsoft.

I would, however, suggest either Java Swing or Java FX (depending on how fancy your application is going to be and/or whether it will have modern multimedia.

In my experience, one can develop and ship high quality enterprise grade desktop applications - not only ship, but also maintain them for a period of over two decades.
Could, but with Schengen, they’d upset all of their neighbours if people use PIGS as a backdoor.

Dunno if they’d go that far. Spain was even asking French visitors to quarantine until recently.

Greece might be tempted though: easy to control any Americans entering other EU territories, there is no border free by land from Greece.

At least in France, they do extra checks on incoming flights from Greece as it is for refugees.
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I like this idea as long as it’s transparent that’s what’s happening, because it creates less of a wedge and is humorous to most. Booting people off a platform would lead polarizing resentment imho.
UN report: electronic waste levels surge 20 percent in the past 5 years
Honestly, I think it is fascinating that Samsung is selling a laptop where you choose between an 8-core heterogenous ARM chip and a 5-core heterogeneous x86 chip, both running Windows. With the built-in LTE, it seems like the ultimate niche computer.
'real' heatpipe manufacturing seems out of reach for most people, the inside surface is processed (etching or diced) to carry heat it's actually fancy
> When a recession happen the first to go is marketing.

As a marketer, I have found the opposite to be true for some industries. For example, during 2007/2008 my digital marketing agency saw a big surge in business from companies who saw marketing as a way to grow lagging demand.
Well, even if they were built by paid labor force comprised from free persons, they still glorify dead slaveowners, don't they?
That depends, you can symmetrically encrypt and decrypt in postgres using functions.

For user input like this, you could pass it in as in array that you unnest in a sub-query, and you can then join to that for your pepper for each user ID/password combination which can be passed into the decrypt function.
One time here in the US I had to work late hours and weekends to hit an ambitious deadline for a French customer who wanted to review our work before they all went on their vacations.
I can imagine that if I were a black parent I might well want to live in a neighborhood where my children would face less pressure to get involved with gangs and that I might conclude that a majority-black neighborhood was suboptimal in that respect. That is why I hesitated to categorically call it racism.
There's a certain duality to the review where it alleges some terrible things happened, maybe, but then is more concerned about that in relation to saying the movie sucks.

It's like it is convenient to mention because they didn't think the movie was good.

The review seems as callous to the plight of the actors as it claims the director was....
> into voyeuristic spectacle, literally profiting off the pain of others (some may believe those people deserve that pain, but that's a separate issue),

The entire news media is like that in a large sense. What purpose does interviewing a family whose home got destroyed in a tornado serve? Of course they feel bad. Of course they will cry. “If it bleeds it leads”. Just like a car accident on the side of the road, people are drawn to watch. The news media profits off of that voyeuristic impulse to watch the misery of others.
Often on Google I see ads right above a organic link to the same site. I wonder if marketing teams count the ad click as a "win" when in fact I was looking for the company because I learned of it via word of mouth.
You can happily browse the noJS version at wp.palone.blog
This is a good way of thinking kudos
Embedding one page in another is something that can not be done in a secure way in the general case.

There are special cases where it is possible, but it's not possible in general.
I think the material conditions of one’s existence are relevant to happiness. A lot of articles like this, minimalism, tiny houses and living with nothing strike me as boomer media controlled justifications for austerity. Gas lighting a whole generation of people to settle for less because “things” don’t matter, money doesn’t matter and what really matters is living in a tire shed telling yourself that everything is OK.

Also:

> Actually the regions have comparable life satisfaction, but people say California because they think of the weather and fail to take account of other things, such as the fact that California is full of tedious hippies.

I can’t eyeroll this enough
Next step ordained church of the subgenius minister!
To me happiness always comes out from hard challenges. Pushing myself to achieve something that I thought was previously impossible
It's not really all that hard to know what awfulness to expect.

edit: That probably sounds more dickish than I meant it. I don't know a better place than HN for identifying clusters and following trends in the thought of "temporarily embarrassed millionaires".

It's not only that, which is why I still come here. But that's the strongest theme by far.
I feel like your two paragraphs are connected...
> Also, let's not forget that even C has enums

Not in any useful sense of the word. A C enum is a typedef and a few named constant, it's absolute shit, and if the choice was restricted to "C enum or nothing" then "nothing" was absolutely the right call.

Go's typedecl + iota is actually a step up from C's enums, because (aside from "untyped constants") you need an explicit conversion from "any random integer" to your typedecl. It's not any more reliable or any safer at point of use, but it will prevent some misuses, or at least force the developer to consider what they're doing.
I will definitely agree that payment processing is subject to limitations I don't agree with. Many adult-oriented websites have found it difficult to find payment processors, even when their businesses comply with the relevant laws.

But if we're answering my original parent comment of "where can I speak freely online," we're probably not discussing payment processing.
If you're looking for anti-trust conversations, "let's all collaborate to stop doing business with Facebook" looks a lot more like an illegal combination in restraint of trade.
Well that is a bit impatient :) But you can get close to this by picking one day a week to make a bunch of meals ahead of time. Since there's not much to do while waiting for lentils to cook, you can prep and cook other things in parallel. Should take about an hour once you get the hang of it. Stash the meals in the fridge and then you just have to warm them up when you want to eat.
'Go doesn't have immutables'? So it has mutability then. How does that affect how 'boring' a language is? Surely immutability is simpler.
> If the hosting company takes you down, host it yourself. If ICANN takes it down, host it on Tor.

That's a bit like "if the police beats you up in public, you're still free to speak your mind in your basement" though.
I think there's a deeper underlying issue here, and that is that some people don't actually want a place online where people can speak freely without restrictions. They will claim that the internet is already "free enough", and will cite "workarounds" similar to yours, but when pushed, will admit that having a place online, very accessible to the average person, with effectively very few restrictions on speech, is a bad idea. Are you someone who believes this?
I live in NYC. The number one reason people I know leave is affordability vs the suburbs or next tier cities. I know a handful of people who aren't/weren't cut out for life in the Big Apple. The vast majority would stay if they thought they could. If you think we are in a world of permanent pandemic then yeah things could really change. If you think 12 months out things mainly normalize then lower prices will definitely draw people back in and re-establish equilibrium.