skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What is the threshold one needs to cross before they try an idea?

That’s missing the point. The concerns aren’t about his personal business. The concerns are about the students he’s trying to influence and take equity from.

Once you start putting yourself in a position to take equity in the labor and businesses of University students, the bar is higher.

> I don't think his incubator is going to be very successful so it's no big loss to anyone

You’re still missing the point. If his incubator isn’t very successful, then presumably any of the students who become involved with his incubator won’t be successful either. It’s not fair to the University students to be drawn into an incubator program that we can all apparently agree is not on a track for success. I just hope Universities are smart enough to not endorse this idea.
If you anonymize the details it sounds a bit like a motivational speaker.

It doesn't cost me much for him to try, so I'm content to sit here and watch, and make sure I have some microwave popcorn bags in reserve should things get interesting, for any definition of 'interesting'.
So why wasn't Mr Bezos merely compensated for his labor?
The US tried gunboat diplomacy in 1971 to deter India from stopping Pakistani genocide in Bangladesh. Just because our memories are short does not mean theirs are.
Let’s stop Covid-19 from undoing diversity gains
A weakened version of the EARN IT Act advances out of committee
At this level of scrutiny, replacing algorithms is appropriate and if the algorithms are built into the language then replacing the language may be one* way to clear the issue, but you have to do your homework to get there.

*sync.Pool, arena allocation strategies
I did something vaguely similar to this recently, and I still maintain it was a good choice.

I volunteered to write a medical visit recording app for an NGO in a developing country (a friend works with the NGO and asked me if I would help), and they have almost no budget, no guarantees of internet connectivity when their folks are in the field, and the likelihood that they may be using this software for years.

So I wrote a C# app that uses Winforms, and stores all data as JSON files, the 'table' structure is basically directories in the file system.

It lets them share visit file by import/exporting a zip file of the JSON via sneakernet USB drives [super naive last record written wins], does not rely on an internet connection anywhere at all ever, and all files are stored in plain JSON so that they can conceivably in the future do some data analysis on it. Their alternate plan was to continue using paper, or some terrible regular reconciliation of excel spreadsheets.

Having said all that and defending my decision on this single use-basically-I-wanted-to-have-independent-JSON-instead-of-SQLite-so-in-the-future-maybe-have-a-web-function-to-sync solution,

This feels like a different use case.
Just because an application is signed with a developer ID is little guarantee that it’s trustworthy

I think this is only true if you define "little" as "not a 100% gold-plated, certified FDIC-insured guarantee."

In most contexts, saying something is "little guarantee" means it's worthless. And, as frequently documented on HN and elsewhere, that's simply not true.
I am not affiliated, only a happy user of maradns-deadwood recursive caching nameserver on a LAN (recursive means it queries root DNS directly). It is faster than google or local dnsmasq that was there before! I posted this because I think this is how DNS is done right.
I am neither a FB user, employee or stockholder. FB has taken a lot of steps which I would not support personally; but how likely would it be for FB's bad policies to get more fanned by the old media(newspapers, news TV channels, influential blogs) because they have an axe to grind here. FB essentially disrupted the whole business model of old media and commoditizes old media entities. FB acts as a middleman, eats up revenue share and weakens the brand-user relationship, something no old media company will like.
I write in Kotlin regularly, and occasionally in Swift, but I use Go for anything server-related, if I can help it. I find the stdlib to be an incredible simplifying force for these programs, not least because deployment is trivial. I guess you could say I belong to the 'b' community. My issues with programming circa 2010 were in part related to tooling, but also just bloated, over-engineered code bases that obscure all basic computing behind layers of nigh impenetrable (but still leaky) abstractions.

I can see how if you became fluent in a nicer language like Swift, it would be frustrating to move to Go and find your typical methods for expressing certain patterns are unavailable. They have been sacrificed for keeping the language overhead small, which in turn creates various warts and edge cases that give more ammunition for being frustrated with the language. I accept these tradeoffs when working in Go because I am typically thinking about concurrency and memory overhead in those projects, and Go makes measuring and reasoning about these properties of your program straightforward.
Facebook is a minority shareholder in Jio. Perhaps they object to DuckDuckGo's privacy-friendly stance. Scumbags.
The problem is that people who want drugs (either because of addiction or desire to try them) will always find a way; this war has been lost already. However making these drugs legal will still remove the negative impact of the illegal drug trade such as cartels and their inherent violence (which also enables other crimes as cartels might be willing to supply their weapons - which they source already because they need them - to other criminals who are willing to pay good money for them).
The Lost History of One of the World’s Strangest Science Experiments (2019)
A doctor’s response to Covid-19 conspiracies
India’s richest man takes on Zoom
I'll grant you that our situation now is not unprecedented, but I would still say that if there were an objective measure of divisiveness that 2020 would come in well above the average of the last 100 years.

But more importantly, what do you think? Should we be suppressing unpopular views on social media?
Ironically, the quoted part is Martin Fowler quoting Ralph Johnson...
I hadn't read these before and, wow. From Mississippi's:

Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization
Haha. It is 100% obvious if you are a Python implementer that Starlark IS NOT Python, but it is ALSO 100% obvious if you are a Python user that Starlark IS Python. Strange, isn't it? Such is life.
This is pretty explicitly the type of speech that doesn't need protection by 1A. The absolutism of it is really an ideal that practically achieved would lead to some ugliness.

But I'm wondering how this extends to banning conservatives, conspiracy theory pages, or even jokes? When is it going too far over the line, which is drawn at different points for different people/groups?

Because my fear is the government doesn't crackdown like 1984, but the public is convinced there is a much broader definition of wrongthink that people call each other on, leading to less creative expression even if it's offensive (with context) and essentially the same as CCP limitations of speech. For instance I think we're mostly over the days of racial one-liners that are just dumb and play on stereotypes, but how do we convince people still thinking those jokes are appropriate to cease using them? Education and compassion may help in some cases but not all.
That's a great way to put it. Makes my brain hurt.
You pretty much described that last job. They outsourced a lot in the past decade, but now the issue is that to do what they want to do, they can't because of outdated tools and infrastructure. They don't have the expertise in-house. They keep talking about "leading" and "pioneering" work, but by definition, if you're buying off the shelf products that solves a problem, it's not pioneering.

The problems they want to solve require an engineering culture. There are no ways around that.

Like many hospitals, they've been hit hard by COVID-19. They recently announced golden handshakes for people close to retiring. It's painful for people now, but hopefully someone will see it as an opportunity to change the culture.
Cattle-feed crops account for 23 percent of water consumption in the U.S.
He also works on Google's Knowledge Graph

https://research.google/people/vrandecic/

https://storage.googleapis.com/pub-tools-public-publication-...
https://vlang.io/
Why is this so hard to understand?

https://xkcd.com/1357/
> Excluding a final state when all temperature values are identical, at no point is the temperature value equal to the average of the surrounding values. You aren't describing and evolution if its inaccurate for all points except a final state.

The average of the surrounding points is the attractor temperature for the system. It is an asymptote which the temperature of the point is moving towards. It's like saying an oscillator (such as a spring) wants to be at neutral, even though it never comes to rest at neutral.

I'm not engaging with your larger point, I'm just quibbling with you saying page 7 is wrong. I think that "takes" in the english description says that the temperature approaches the value over time, whereas you interpreted "takes" as referring to the temperature at every point in time.
no sub, so can't read, but do I need to? the reason is quite obvious.

1. the entire reason there can be a boycott at all is that FB is a primary ad platform. if FB were some insignificant flea of an ad network, a boycott wouldn't matter at all and wouldn't be organizeable, and not newsworthy.

2. having that kind of reach is powerful. every dollar spent there pays back. i know that many producers can't even spend enough on FB ads for lack of capital. There are entire finance companies built on giving you capital specifically so you can increase your FB spend. One of them has been highlighted here before, I can't recall the name though.

So there you have it. don't buy ads, watch your revenue drop. Advertisers are only boycotting (for the most part) because it's convenient. They want to reduce their spend, anyway. Once they are ready to increase their spend, they'll be back and be silent on it as well.

It's just so reminiscent of CSR. I'd actually collect the list of boycott companies, and once they return, boycott them. But it isn't worth the effort. I am not using their boycott as a virtue signal. It's just deceptive advertising, as usual.
Facebook has a long tail of 8 million advertisers (according to their earnings report).Some of the big ones leaving would mean that the relatively smaller ones would get better returns on spend (due to fewer bidders and lower top bid) and in turn spend more.

This does help the brands get a bit of free PR at Facebook's expense, given that many of them would have been planning to reduce the spend anyway due to Covid.
I work in marketing. Advertising markets are pretty damned efficient. If a bunch of advertisers pull out, rates come down, new advertisers come in.

There may be some affect, especially if big companies were spending inefficiently to build "awareness". But at the end of the day, the market rate for a click is the market rate. Someone will pay for it.
>And in which a SIP-compatible role was open and available, which is probably 5 businesses when unemployment went from 4% to 20%.

Pretty much every businesses was offering some kind of SIP compatible role (delivery, remote communication, and socially distanced adaptations). New positions are created and destroyed every day in response to demand. That's how economies work. You can't possibly justify a claim of five businesses.

>Moral hazard exists everywhere, especially for people who have known the word longer than 6 months.

And if it were so obvious, we wouldn't have people being ridiculed for pointing it out early on, or being surprised today at the result of the incentive structure.
Never thought this way, great perspective.
But.... why?
> many JITs don't do this for security reasons

would be nice, but historically it's more been:

- all JITs do this

- OpenBSD creates W^X

- open source JITs and other OS's start to incorporate W^X

- things are now either W^X compatible or haven't been ported to a W^X OS yet.
Ancient Aboriginal archaeological site preserved on the seabed
Go's error type is something declared as being returned from a function, there's no try-catch with an exception being handed up a call stack. That's like saying ASM has exceptions because you can leave an error code in one of the registers.

The VM bit doesn't make sense to me at all. By that logic any language which implements a GC or has a native support for threads constitutes a VM?

There's no difference between a runtime and a VM? As an embedded developer I would argue that there's quite a difference between the two.

edit: Clarification on error type being "always" returned from a function.
GPT3 (allegedly) writing code from comments
I mean, why would you even continue risking it after $1m? $10m? $100m??
Here are some of my favorite Epictetus quotes:

Chapter 8
Don’t hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whatever way they happen: this is the path to peace.

Chapter 9
Sickness is a problem for the body, not the mind -- unless the mind decides that it is a problem. Lameness, too, is the body’s problem, not the mind’s. Say this to yourself whatever the circumstance and you will find without fail that the problem pertains to something else, not to you.

Chapter 10
For every challenge, remember the resources you have within you to cope with it. Provoked by the sight of a handsome man or a beautiful woman, you will discover within you the contrary power of self-restraint. Faced with pain, you will discover the power of endurance. If you are insulted, you will discover patience. In time, you will grow to be confident that there is not a single impression that you will not have the moral means to tolerate.

Chapter 14
You are a fool to want your children, wife or friends to be immortal; it calls for powers beyond you, and gifts not yours to either own or give. You can, however, avoid meeting with disappointment in your desires; focus on this, then, since it is the scope of your capacities. We are at the mercy of whoever wields authority over the things we desire or detest. If you would be free, then, do not wish to have, or avoid things that other people control, because then you must serve as their slave.
Facebook is taking a firm stance NOW. But I imagine they will end up singing a different tune if enough companies join the boycott to drop their ad revenues by 20%.

Cuts in ad buys directly hurt their profits, because ad sellers (and data collection firms) are their primary customers. Users are just a commodity that enables Facebook to sell ads and harvest data.
That is one particular instance at a university. It does not mean "Palestinian flags have been nixed"...

For forza: as a private company they can ban whatever the hell they want. Vote with your wallet.
Incarceration rates, lower life expectancy, poorer wages etc. are mostly explained by the USA having 15% of its population as African American, whilst the other countries are homogenous European or East Asian.
I host my own BitWarden server and had to explicitly deny using BitWarden's favicon lookup feature.
Fujitsu offering a HPC A64FX Dual socket 2U for $39000
This is really sad. I love both 747 and A380. To me it’s still more comfortable to be in the large plane for a long flight. 4 engines are better than 2.
I think that, oddly enough, the point of that project is to use the JSON format as the DB storage format, not as an export option. Just from the look of it (I don't know either projects), LokiJS will very likely be always faster.
If Facebook was a bar, would you go there? Would you hang out there? I wouldnt.
BitTorrent implementation libtorrent now has WebTorrent support
I think a consistent multilingual Wikipedia is a fantastic goal.

But I'm not sure this is the right way to do it.

Given that most of the information on Wikipedia is "narrative", and doesn't consist of facts contained in Wikidata (e.g. a history article recounting a battle, or a movie article explaining the plot), this scope for this will be extremely limited. The creators are attempting to address this by actually containing every single aspect of a movie's plot as a fact, and that sentences are functions that express those facts... but this seems entirely unwieldy and just too much work.

What I've wished for instead, for years, is actually an underlying "metalanguage" that expresses the vocabulary and grammatical concepts in all languages. Very loosely, think of an "intermediate" linguistic representation layer in Google Translate.

Obviously nobody can write in that directly in a user-friendly way. But what you could do is take English (or any language) text, do an automated translation into that intermediate representation, then ask the author or volunteers to identify all ambiguous language cases" -- e.g. it would ask if "he signed" means made his signature, or communicated in sign language. It would also ask for things that would need clarification perhaps not in your own language but in other languages -- e.g. what noun does "it" refer to, so another language will know to use the masculine or feminine version. All of this can be done within your own language to produce an accurate language-agnostic "text".

Then, out of this intermediate canonical interpretation, every article on Wikipedia would be generated back out of it, in all languages, and perfectly accurately, because the output program isn't even ML, it's just a straight-up rule engine.

Interestingly, an English-language original might be output just a little bit different but in ways that don't change the meaning. Almost like a language "linter".

Anyways -- I think it would actually be doable. The key part is a "Google Translate"-type tool that does 99% of the work. It would need manual curation of the intermediate layer with a professional linguist from each language, as well as manually curated output rules (although those could be generated by ML as a first pass).

But something like that could fundamentally change communication. Imagine if any article you wanted to make available perfectly translated to anyone, you could do, just with the extra work of resolving all the ambiguities a translating program finds.
If a waiter said something like this to a client being an asshole, some restaurants may fire them if the client is "important" enough, primarily because waiters are easily replaced.

But nowadays, a lot of restaurants will side with the waiter on such issues and they're damn right to do so.

I'll add that what you're seeing here is but the tip of the iceberg of abuse that Lennart has to deal with every day. I challenge you to put up with 1/100th of what he's putting up with without "raising your voice" or what have you.
Being of low status, avoiding markers of low status is extremely important.

You're not low status, so you can freely display such markers with no fear that anyone would conclude that you're lower class.

It's an amazing privilege you have to be able to do such things in public, and a little empathy towards the little people would be greatly appreciated.
> The system is audited both internally and externally fairly regularly, the latest report being released just December last year

Can you please clarify the 'fairly regularly' part? One of the members of that commission said that this is the first time that this kind of audit has been undertaken: https://digi.geenius.ee/rubriik/uudis/e-valimiste-tooruhma-l... To be fair, there are lots of other reviews having taken place, but none of them are regular with the exception of the OECD ones happening during elections: https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektrooniline_h%C3%A4%C3%A4le...

> There is also frequent news coverage, both supporting and criticizing the system

ERR is government-funded and seems to me quite neutral, not sure how it is relevant here. But it still seems to me that mainstream media is supportive and you have to go to "alternative" news sources to find any true criticism.

> One of the current government parties [3] is an active critic of the system.

Actually 2, if you count both KE and EKRE. And this is one of the major criticisms against those parties and has been so for years.

A good example of the prevailing attitude can be seen in this thread from 2017 about the security hole back then from Hinnavaatlus, probably biggest IT-related forum in Estonia: https://foorum.hinnavaatlus.ee/viewtopic.php?t=715076&postda... The general tonality in the beginning was that this is a tinfoil problem and somehow brought up by KE and EKRE before elections until the reality of the situation sunk in.
UK here. Oxo cubes are still a big thing, for those of us who cook. You can get them in Beef, Chicken, Lamb and Veg flavours. Perhaps others.

If I'm cooking a vegetarian meal that needs stock I use Miso paste.
He should just ban them for a year.
> Engineers are never fired? Not even when the company shuts down?

Engineers never lose assets because their work doesn't produce value, or destroys value. Engineers aren't liable for the success of their work. Engineers don't have to return their salary if they don't produce value.

> Sometimes yes, with their (and mine) taxes.

This is an argument for everyone capturing the value produced by companies, not the employee. If you want to argue for harder taxation of corporations, or fewer business incentives, then sure. But this is unrelated to the relationship between the engineer and the company.
He should just ban them for a year just to see what their reaction is.
Why does that even matter? Are you implying that murdering him was in any way justified?
'We don't live in a communist country ': battle over masks rages in Texas
Nothing wrong with civic pride but Fremont is not even going to be listed on the top 10000 most desirable places to live in California...
The compilers were dead slow.

Ada was ahead of c++ by years, but it was unusably slow in compile debug cycles compared to c++.

http://archive.adaic.com/intro/ada-vs-c/ada-vs-c.html
> ... started one business that had the least possible success, somehow made a lot of assumptions about business success after that, and now is starting a program to mentor others?

maybe it's all an elaborate ruse to become president of the USA?
I did not know about the implicit rules. I do not use Parler yet. However the problem with trolls is a hard one to solve on any platform, especially on the platform that wants to promote free speech.

If they turn out to be a right wing version of Twitter it would be a shame. We need a platform that could accommodate both left and right wing people so that they can exchange thoughts with each other.
Unfortunately the small but passionate R community is taking a hit while DataCamp and RStudio are duking it out. It was hard enough to advocate for R vs. Python and this controversy makes it worse. No one likes to join communities where leading figures are at each other's throats.
even if big Corps stop advertising on FB. they will pay for FB's massive data.
Whilst companies have discussed pulling out of Facebook, for the most part they're neither discussing, nor implementing exits from Instagram.

As Instagram makes up an increasing amount of Facebook's revenue, the reality is that they're rather unconcerned. This is part of the cycle.