skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> However, nobody is walking around in Canada concerned that they may get fired and then be bankrupted by a heart attack.

Mate when I (in the US) took a month off because I got COVID, my insurance tried to cancel. Fucking insane that we have to deal with this shit.
Makes you wonder what kind of wind they're talking about.
> but typically that involves stateful connections [...] and scaling to a large number of viewers can get extremely costly (and operationally difficult)

This is why we built Pushpin, to make it easier to handle stateful connections at scale. The project is mostly intended for moving application data, but it does work for media streaming too. See our live MP3 demo [1]. The backend runs GStreamer in a loop to produce the audio, and has no awareness of client connections. Pushpin moves the bytes and knows nothing about audio or codecs.

[1] http://audiostream.fanoutapp.com/
PyPy JIT is unsuccessful because CPython makes it hard for PyPy, not because people don't want it. When there's a need and support for it, we have extremely good JITs spring into existence–JavaScript has at least three, for example.
Ignoring entertainment, there’s an argument to be made that anyone who values voting wouldn’t want to be in Georgia.
You're right that it doesn't feel like a Linux desktop port which is its primary selling point: doing a mobile-centric Linux. They do seem to have a vision for where they want to go once they get fully updated to the final Canonical release (they are already starting to diverge from Ubuntu Touch with the current release), but it's definitely not going to be for everyone.

One nice thing now that I actually have my Pinephone is that I can start seriously exploring and answer the question: 'what do I want in a mobile Linux device and experience?' Which I suspect is the real point of the Pinephone: to stop theorizing and figure out where we want Linux to go on (relatively modern) mobile devices.

My biggest complaint right now is the rough state of power management on all the distros. The good news is progress is being made on this front very quickly.
Sticking point is usually man made or not.

Climate always changes. We are coming out of an ice age.

Hot Question is how much is industrial activity contributing.

Even shutting everything down today will not stop climate change. But what would happen to the rate of change?

Solutions can run into trillions, for unclear results.
Also, handling. Landing in a port under sails is extremely difficult, which is why everyone who has a motor uses it for that.
Twitter shadow ban certain IDs in search suggestion isn't news, but @scottadamssays doesn't seem to be one of them.
>And that doesn't address the file drawer effect. I'm 54. I can code a binary tree, hash table or what have you, if I have to, but I am not as practiced as somebody fresh out of school, because that heavy lifting is done by libraries, and I'm busy contributing original mathematical algorithms that no one ever asks about because they don't have the background to understand the explanation.

Ooohhhh this is frustrating. Nothing is more frustrating than telling an interviewer about something cool you've done, and realizing they don't understand, but also don't care.
Lol not even close
L.A. Tech Is More Diverse Than Silicon Valley, but Far from Representative
My anecdote is from Columbus, Ohio, so I'd say a lot of states do considering Columbus' latitude.
Treating the symptom and not the cause. The scam itself is (arguably) less damaging than whatever the hacker(s) can do with the access they've obtained.

Block bitcoin addresses, and they'll move on to different types of messages.
I would be willing to entertain the point that systematic racism exists if universities had roughly equivalent admission rates for all races for identical test scores, however black people tend to have significantly higher rates of admission than white people, and very significantly higher rates than Asian people.

If systemic racism exists in a specific direction as you imply, why do institutions have their fingers on the scale in favor of the oppressed race?

In fact, if students were treated identically without the consideration of race then black admission rates to universities would dramatically fall.
My first through is why is Facebook doing this? Why do they have a division that's developing Robotics?

Promising though. Much of the cost of running cable is having someone mount the cable, drive 30 feet down the road, and mount the cable. Over and Over. If they can slash the cost of last mile, that's big.
this makes a lot of sense. The bitcoin is actually a proof of authenticity -- send a small quantity from that address to prove that your screenshots of the DMs are authentic.
Are you really asking that? Trump announces most of his policies live on twitter, can easily announce something that would have a huge influence on the stock market. Multiple examples of companies, Elon Musk, etc doing major announcements on twitter.
What was that about decentralized systems being immune to censorship again?
Real ID Act of 2005
Seems to me that almost all technology tends to become both more complex and easier to use over time. What's easier to use, a pdp 11 or an iphone? Or a plane from the 1960s vs a modern one that can fly itself? Making things easier to use in these scenarios necessitates additional complexity.
Ammonia sounds very nasty. Wouldn't some artificial alcohol or other carbohydrate be a better choice?
> weird choice of certain operators (~= for not equal)

It's a little unconventional, but then again ~ is a fairly standard (bitwise) negation operator.

> arrays start at 1

Lua doesn't do arrays, it does tables. Though they have similar syntax in certain cases, and are occasionally used for the same things, they are fundamentally different things.
The term is in fact, commonly, but not always used in a pejorative manner. From Wikipedia:

"In the 21st century, WASP is often applied as a derogatory label to those with social privilege who are perceived to be snobbish and exclusive, such as being members of restrictive private social clubs.[63] A number of popular jokes ridicule those thought to fit the stereotype.[84]"
That’s great that you can read their minds so easily.
Thats not what I meant, sorry. How do you implement such a system? So theres a team to manage the datastores, but that changes nothing that on some level someone somewhere has root passwords and/or filesystem access and/or ability to modify the fleet.

We all know access controls and multiple operators are good, yeah. But at the heart of it is still a bunch of linux machines that have to be managed and deployed to. Which as far as I know has no mechanism for check with operator x before running command from operator 0.
Stephen Coonts was the most severe. His last Jake Grafton novel was absolutely cringeworthy - I say that as a (former) fan.
Analyzing Apple's transition from Intel chips to Apple silicon on Macs
The benefits occur in addition to any benefits from physical activity iirc.
https://mrbartonmaths.com/resourcesnew/8.%20Research/Explici... There you go... the source from which Malcolm Gladwell and thousands of his imitators have pulled.

Here’s another for those writing the “get things done” derivative.

https://interruptions.net/literature/Wicklund-BASP81.pdf

Ad nauseum
>There's a lot of suggestions of what one might accomplish with this exploit, but I'm not sure they would be obviously more lucrative than this.

People have made far more from things Elon has tweeted. Now billions is ridiculous, but you could have made millions via market manipulation. Not to mention the amount of damage had he done a targeted exploit - there would be a ton of speculation as to whether Elon/Trump/Gates was "really" hacked or if it was just a cover.
remember, players opt out of the combine. and a good portion do, if they have a dope highlight reel. though they will conduct interviews with the gm for personality what we call in the tech field: "cultural fit"
I appreciate the correction and I'm glad to know this is fixed in python 3!

I've run into similar issues where the variable was used in a for loop declaration rather than a list comprehension, but these are a bit easier to spot. Also, maybe people who don't use lua constantly won't be in the habit of thinking they can safely shadow locals with their looping variables.
Reputation matters.

There are differing views on how much to showcase authors (or reporters) names, and some organs (The Economist, Hacker News) intentionally hide or de-emphasize these.

Almost all questions of identity actally revolve around trust in one of its various guises: trust, credit, accountability, entitlement, and making or receiving of payment. In creation or relating (mediating) information, the persistence of authorship attribution provides a bundling handle for trust. An author might file numerous stories per year, month, week, day, etc. Assessing and assigning trust to each story is expensive. Bylines, editors, and publications accrue positive or negative associations with time. No, trust is not fully consistent or transative, but as an efficiency heuristic, rolling up and bundling reputation offers powerful gains, and numerous checks.

Even a pseudonymous source (you're reading one now) can accrue a certain reputation.
> for (int i = n - 1; i >= 0; i--) { // half open

Well, there's your problem right there[0]; it should be:

for(size_t i = n; i-- > 0 ;) {

> This is all said without even going into the awkwardness of having [k] being the {k+1}th element

You mean the awkwardness of humans using "kth" to refer to element number k-1?

0: /sarcasm
Citizenship and the rights and duties of citizens are all over the constitution. It would be quite the surprise to find out the Federal Government can't keep a list of who is a citizen. I mean we already have social security numbers for a small, universal pension. We have the selective service which gets half the people. We have passports for citizens and visas for non-citizens. We have the REAL ID Act.

The country really needs a government that has the balls to enforce the laws as they are written or change them to what they want to enforce. The idea that the effective law is predicated upon the whims of prosecutorial discretion is bullshit.
The first night I had it, running UBports OTA-4 (the latest at the time), I charged it up to 100% and roughly 12 hours later it was <30% with the modem disabled. Battery life is not anywhere near what you're used to on Android or iOS because in addition to SoC suspend functionality, the wireless/cellular drivers also need work re: sleep.
Beancounter – A friendly user interface for beancount in Rails
> To mark a node at the third position, containing one character, we say {3,3}.
> But what if there's a node at the third position, that contains no character? Well, thats {3,2}

Why not shift over indexing by one consistently? So you'd use {3, 4} and {3, 3} for each, so the length property is preserved.
> If systemic racism exists in a specific direction as you imply, why do institutions have their fingers on the scale in favor of the oppressed race?

You are literally asking “if systemic racism exists, why are specific institutions taking specific steps to correct systemic racism”. Suggesting that you think that if anyone notices and attempts to address systemic racism, then it must not exist.
Opposition to a national ID is one of the rare subjects on which the left and right tend to agree, but for different reasons. Here's the ACLU's thoughts on the matter:

https://www.aclu.org/other/5-problems-national-id-cards

The NRA links to a few articles in opposition:

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20020515/we-don-t-need-no-st...

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20041222/do-we-need-a-nation...

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20020711/reviving-a-de-facto...

Here's an opinion piece Fox News ran in opposition:

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/5-reasons-why-america-should...
Market surveillance is much better than most people realize. The accounts making money on a scam like this would be identified, filtered for anomalous activity, and the people at the other end investigated.
At least change it to a real penguin photo. It's the least you could do. With a cartoon, recruiters will know it's fake, but with a photo, there's a chance that an actual penguin will answer the phone.
This is a very astute observation -- thank you for sharing this idea.
You're right, I didn't distinguish between overall compile times and the front-end time taken, which is what you were focusing on. For the Rust toolchain, the (vast IIRC) majority of compilation time is in LLVM's backend. So, to me, front-end optimizations are interesting, but not the highest priority for Rust specifically. LMD seems to be a great thing to compare against, so here's my follow-up question: What's the proportion of front-end to back-end time in LMD?
Mac high CPU and freeze with “watchdog timeout: no checkins from watchdogd”
Liberal billionaires are liberal. How deep
We have this in Canada because health care is provincially funded, and registered, but people have multiple residences across the country. Online registration renewal services recently include geo-ip checks for whether you are renewing your ID/cards from an IP address in the province. (give your parents a heads up if this affects them, they should do their renewals when they are in town.)

There is also the tax question of whether your house is your primary residence, and when you sell it it's a question of whether you pay capital gains on the sale based on whether you in fact live there or not. This is one of those cases where technology meets policy.
I had the cheap FirefoxOS phone, which I thought was going to be a miserable dev phone experience. But it turns out it was actually a very solid phone that did everything I wanted. I'm still upset that that OS was discontinued.
“Categories for the Working Hacker”
Can someone educate me what exactly is the difference between furlough and layoff?
If you look at extreme Japanese toilets, truth is stranger than fiction. There is a lot of space between TP and a full robo-toilet. All I know is that I don't have space for a bidet and a toilet in my house.
Makes me wonder if tobacco in eras of tuberculosis improved chances of individual survival...
I meant to say most SWEs, which you seemed to have inferred anyway.

Why do you think that's wrong? I simply claimed MATLAB is much more commonly used by scientists and non-SW engineers. Most SWE jobs are in B2B, web development, embedded, etc fields. Which one of these sees a lot of MATLAB usage?

Maybe don't resort to insults straight away too.
You're right, thanks for the link.

I was surprised because I searched for users with the name "Scott Adams" and it was promoting users with 0 followers and not showing his verified account at all. This was through Tweetbot iOS.
It was impossible to even find a single dumbbell when lockdown started. Has it changed?
I see it quite commonly, from technical discussions to newspaper article. When people say "the average income in the US" they are almost never talking about the mean.
Political puritanism does seem to be on-the-rise everywhere you look.
Unless COVID magically goes away(tm) by October 1st and travel rebounds to where it was before, which is looking exceedingly unlikely, the furloughs will happen as soon as the payroll subsidies end.
Happened to me in a minor way with ASCII chat characters running down the search engine results page into other results.

I reported that you could use this to basically block out the serp and they said it wasn't a bug then fixed it.. I was hoping for a t shirt at least..

Now I wished I would've abused it and blogged about it for the resume.
It would be a rare case where doomsayers would actually be right.
Generally a star plowing through your solar system is going to throw most orbits into wack, so you may not want to be in the solar system at all.
The fb engineering page has more info [0] and reddit has quite a few comments from people in the industry about its feasibility [1].

[0]: https://engineering.fb.com/connectivity/aerial-fiber-deploym...

[1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/EngineeringPorn/comments/hrb6xv/rob...
Seems like it would be a nice feature for security-minded folks, and would probably be pretty difficult to roll out to regular consumers. Does Mastodon have something like this? Sounds like something their userbase would appreciate.
Yes, Paris Hilton was one. I can't seem to find too much about this ethics fellow, even though I thought there was a DoJ investigation.

Ah, here's a writeup!

https://www.securityfocus.com/news/10271
Before I start, just so you know I'm very much on the left.

We shouldn't be wanting a stronger central government. A national ID system is a stronger central government.

The federal government's job is oversight. That should be the extent of their influence.

So yeah thank you for sharing that link. ACLU has the right idea.
You can always install your own door in your own apartment.
a separate bidet is a European thing.

In japan they are all built into the toilet, and sometimes the sink as well.
>As I write this, Facebook has just lost 25% of its share price on the announcement that it expects weak growth.

Facebook is less than 5% down from its all time high.

Separately, if I'm understanding Mastodon right then it's worse than centralization. In my experience, admins and moderators of smaller communities (subreddits and Discord channels) are substantially worse than centralized rule enforcement.

People get banned from subreddits without even posting in them. Massive censorship is common as well. For example, during the Pulse nightclub shooting the news was totally absent on reddit's frontpage due to widescale censorship in multiple major subreddits. It was prominent on both Twitter and Facebook though.
If there was no other option I would personally go as far as pulling the power, data loss be damned.

This is in many ways worse than your typical large-scale malware or ransomware crisis (like the one that hit Maersk for example).

Malware or ransomware attacks are typically limited to internal company impact with potential stolen data (which you usually discover after it’s been stolen already).

This current situation however has ongoing external impact for as long as the platform is kept online and could even have geopolitical repercussions if a certain high-profile “real” account ends up affected.

The fact that they left the platform online for so long with an ongoing, uncontained attack is absolutely irresponsible.
I believe the Ohio ruling was based on Ohio's own state constitution.
furlough = leave without pay, often company continues paying for benefits. Sometimes for indefinite period of time.

lay-off = terminating employment relationship.
I'm a big fan of the old NPR show Car Talk, and one of the major lessons I've gleaned from it is don't buy something like a Maserati unless you have a burning desire to put your mechanic's children through college.
Imagine what might happen if someone were, say, to carefully craft an online persona (or several) over the course of a decade or more, complete with substantial recognition on numerous online platforms, news and academic citations, interviews, and public campaigns.

All based on created or assumed identifiers and imagery.

I am of course referring to myself. Though there may be others.
Well, i don't think there are rules that they have to offer their proprietary tech at wholesale. I think it's a problem that Amazon is so massive as to own this tech at all, but once you have it, i would believe it's better to sell it for profit than to keep it locked up
A furlough is a temporary layoff

Main difference is a furlough means your job might come back, and usually you keep benefits like insurance.

Furlough also allows access to unemployment benefits, since you're still not getting paid
What does this question mean?
5 times, the lowest you can go is -4.
A senior engineer (juniors would not have this level of access) risking their job and facing prosecution for an amount that would certainly be far less than their salary? That doesn't seem likely.
Tesla cars haven’t been around long enough in a quantity to be able to even determine long term reliability. Short term reliability is obviously a joke assessment. My bet is as time carries on Tesla cars will rank low. No reason other than they are a new comer and you learn and improve reliability through real world experience like Honda. I would never buy a Tesla.
>...then our servers proxy the images, so all the sender can know is details about our hosts and nothing about you.

Other than the most important bit of information, that you saw the email. They also get to know when you saw it.
At some point I need to write a blog post about how VRChat works. We don't have dedicated servers and work primarily through rebroadcasting. It's tolerable from an airplane, tolerable, and we regularly have users in Russia, Canada, Japan and Thailand playing together. Some of our users regularly connect via satellite phones!

It's not perfect by any means, but the results are pretty good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDZ0ThMma-A
With a good bidet, you'll find the TP is useless afterward. You're really just getting wet paper on your fingers for no reason.
A layoff is permanent, and even if the position is reinstated, you have no claim to get your old job back.

A furlough is meant to be temporary and some benefits may contain to be paid out. If the company starts bringing people back in, those on furlough will be rehired first if still available.

That said, if the company doesn't recover fast enough or goes under entirely, there's no difference in practice.
By putting your finger on the scale, you disadvantage everyone else (including other minorities, by the way).

This throws Asian minorities under the bus to help black minorities. Replacing racism with more racism. Your argument appears to be "systemic racism is okay against certain minorities because other minorities deserve more chances in life". You are encouraging the establishment of systems that systematically discriminate against Asian people by substantial margins.

Sorry, but having different standards for different races is the definition of racism.

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character"

Lowering the bar for black people is not judging them by the content of their character, or treating them as individuals. In fact, it's judging them primarily on the color of their skin.
Humanizing Peer Reviews [pdf]
Scaling a Scam
Amazon Interactive Video Service
I wonder if a bone marrow transplant would have a similar effect. If it doesn't then it would give us a clue on what probably doesn't matter here.

Edit: I should've just searched. I found this: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-019-0298-5#Abs1

>Young bone marrow transplantation preserves learning and memory in old mice
Anecdotally, they're still getting it from the same places–you don't have to do it at school when you can just meet anywhere else.
Reimagine Trucking Insurance: Hiring Junior Data Engineer (NYC/Remote)
Seems like some employees getting furlough can keep some benefits such as health insurance?
There's a lot of resistance to creating an explicit National ID card.

There's also the Real ID act passed by Bush in 2005 (and whatever implementation and changes have been made in the 15 years since) that did create a national ID card (standards for driver's license and identification) that all states but Oregon and Oklahoma are compliant with.

ACLU 5 reasons to not have national ID: https://www.aclu.org/other/5-problems-national-id-cards

Homeland Security Real ID: https://www.dhs.gov/real-id

Short timeline of US National ID (opinionated): https://www.endtime.com/articles-endtime-magazine/why-americ...