skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they know to be a journalist or legal observer

When the standard is "know", it actually becomes quite hard to prove a violation. It isn't enough just to demonstrate that the fact is true, you also have to prove that the person who committed the violation subjectively knew it was true.

The text of the order says "reasonably should know". That means even if an individual federal agent didn't know, they can still violate the order if they reasonably should have known. But, what an individual agent reasonably should have known is itself a quite difficult question that can produce a lot of legal argument.

What if a federal agent is told by their superiors that "violent protestors are falsely pretending to be journalists/legal observers to take advantage of this order"? Even if the statement is false, so long as the agent trusts their superiors and genuinely believes it is true, they would fail to meet the "know" standard. (Knowledge is justified true belief, and if you don't believe it, you can't know it.)

Of course, maybe in such a case they "reasonably should have known" that what their superiors said is false. But how are they supposed to know that, and is it reasonable to expect them to know that?

Putting that aside, I think the US government is going to want to appeal. And if it makes it to the Supreme Court, whose side is the conservative majority going to favour?
The physics community is suffering from a skepticism deficit enforced by physics cops (referees) who promote groupthinkers. Minorities are naturally more skeptical due to their history of betrayal by the majority and they are needed to help re-ground a community that has lost its head in the clouds.
Yes, they do because they can get away with everything that the other non-"social" companies cannot.
In the words of Morrissey: Stop reading the news.
My one principle for logging is that if you think your code needs a comment to explain it, you probably actually need to be putting whatever you're writing in a debug logging statement.

It's easy to remove that line later. It's a lot harder for ops to figure out what the hell is going on if it's not working.
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I think the point would be that expertise in those fictional scenarios doesn't correlate with expertise in real scenarios, and many experts only have been trained in fictional scenarios.
About 3 years ago we tried to roll our own version of this.

I would be a buyer for a 25 person team, but 25$/month is too steep. Maybe 3-5$?
If I'd be in your position (lacking social contacts outside of the work environment), I'd take the time to reflect my life and would try to determine what makes me happy.

For example:
Do you miss interactions with others? Join local clubs that fit your hobbies and meet new people. This is how life works IMO.

Personally speaking, joining different local orchestras/bands in the city im currently living in (since ~1 year) helped me a lot.
I decided to let my work be only work and search "purpose/fulfilling" in other aspects of life.
1) Users don't want to be asked where they are
2) GeoIP has plenty of uses that go beyond spyware
TL;DR: you need a hook

This is something all writers should know

Why it took 4 pages to explain this, I don't know

Reading it about return on investment - you have to convince me early that it will be worth my time investment to read what you wrote

That's what the hook is for

Further references:

- https://bid4papers.com/blog/hook-for-essay
- https://writing.stackexchange.com/a/33505/1317
I've always seen it as referring to a certain kind of insufferable, entitled customer that demands to see the manager. Usually presumed to be a middle-aged white woman, yes, but the weight was on insufferable behavior, not demographics, at least originally. Suddenly people have started complaining about it as being heavily about race/sex and being bigoted, when the original was just codeword for asshole.
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Not at all, but the good news is that your company will save lots on not having to pay for your office space. This money can be used for that executive level bonus your boss has been dreaming about.
Be prepared to train people. This goes for any job really, some jobs you'll be lucky that you're fishing in a big pool (say, Java developers), but a lot of jobs are more specialized. Have a good onboarding plan. Hire on interest and eagerness, not on current CV / skills.
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Sounds like you don't have enough information to make a decision when developing the function so thw logging behaviour should be configurable by the user.
>Q

I have zero interest in Q other than that it is yet another collective entity which is self-serving opinions to an in-group, who as individuals, collectively form a consensus - whether its 'correct' or not - and strive to either grow that group or attack anyone who would act to counter its narrative. This is an intrinsic feature of human discourse, whether its with the "everyone knows those guys are crazy" group, or "everyone knows what everyone knows" group ..

The point is, collective agreement is not truth. Its just what the masses think is true - and this is highly specious, anyway. For example, it was once collectively 'true' that disease was spread by miasma, and anyone who suggested hand-washing was degraded into oblivion. This factor happens intrinsically in all human relations - and online social media is not immune to it, but rather acts as a force magnifier for collectively-derived reality.

What is todays "hand washing decreases mortality rate" issue, is tomorrows "this is an amazing discovery we should have paid more attention to at the time, but didn't, because 'everyone knew' it was 'wrong'" ..
how do u find sources? rss?
Depends on the situation. Python 3 for anything simple, but the way I go about coding is, I first define the data structures and types for a given module - its inputs and outputs, first of all - and only fill in the code afterwards.

Not unexpectedly, this means Rust is one of my favorite languages. Anything with a poor type system makes this approach unbearable, and even Python has better static typing than go.
Agreed, that's the natural way of communicating this kind of taxonomy.
If one maximises nominal GDP instead of attempting to measure health and geopolitical outcomes, both categories do juice the reported figure.
A distraction for sure. Luckily my battery is on 4% so I'll be forced off very soon.
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It is but it could be implemented in a macro,which is what I think the above commenter means.
>I'm not saying what you're doing is bad, but dismissing easy to use cloud systems is just silly

I think what people are really trying to say is that the Connect app should have some sort of "Store my previous n number of Activities locally on my phone for offline viewing" option. These files are typically just a few MB and my Android phone has like 4X as much storage capacity as my Fenix watch. As it stands, I can't even execute a sync between my watch and my phone right now because their cloud is down and that's just ridiculous.
HN is so loved by many people in the field of technology. HN has its own "feel" to enjoy. The best time and place to enjoy HN news is like the place where you are writing this.

Congratulations for those of you who have enjoyed your presence there.

Great!
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I think it's because you like to learn new things.
I don't fully understand what you're trying to argue here.

> Meanwhile, we really need to consider the economics of companies like twitter & facebook. Does FB really need 50k employees and a $70bn budget to provide the world with facebook?

Are you saying that if FB had a smaller headcount or budget, they'd be less influential? A company's headcount and budget are largely a function of the market, and the market highly values FB. If you have a problem with the economics of FB, you have a problem with the market forces that created it. But you end with:

> I hope we're not heading for a regulatory shitshow

If you're not happy that the market created conditions for companies like FB to grow to the size that they are, and you're also not happy that regulation is possibly in the future of these companies, then how would you like to see this scenario play out?
This only work’s if geocoder is accessed directly from browser. It will not if you need to geocode ip addresses received in other ways on the server side.

I guess it’s ok for a basic consumer website, although it’s not exactly equivalent to ip geocoder databases/services - they allow passing ip addresses as part of geocoding request.
Here's a twitter thread by a guy who built a nice model of one:

https://twitter.com/PeterOlsson/status/1280940641472655367
Interesting research. I have wondered if the flaring affects people's circadian rhythms. The light at night can make it seem like daytime in some places. The flaring can be happening a 1/4 mile away and it's like having a porch light shining in your window.
First: my employer allowed an average of one day from home per week (you can schedule them as you see fit). Also, internet in Belgium is reasonable, depends on what you pay ofc.

I think choice is most important. But whatever the choice, it has some consequences. With "work from the office", team meetings are assumed to be in person (everyone in the same room). With "work from home", team meetings are assumed to be online. Both require different infra, and if there is a 50/50 mix, you just need both...

Every meeting starts with 5 to 15 minutes of hassling with the online infra (someone got a new laptop, browser update, local infra was replaced and is not compatible with our stack) - this is how we had it for the past few weeks since we were allowed to work from the office again.

And indeed, it depends on your home situation: while my kids were home schooled too, work from home was just terrible.

However, if I can work from home, how can I justify sending my kids to school...?

So maybe now is the time to f* it all and become a stay-at-home dad
This is a super interesting take. Are there studies / clinical definitions of this or something similar?
In the words of Morrissey: there is a light that never goes out
I don't think this hypothesis holds much water to be honest. The most effective way to get better jobs isn't to have the right mindset (although it helps), it is to know the right people who will think about you when something comes up. This is also where I could imagine race (and similar things play a huge role).
> ...the latest wave of intolerance began in universities. It began in the mid 1980s, and by 2000 seemed to have died down, but it has recently flared up again with the arrival of social media.

> the decline in the spirit of free inquiry within universities..

Are there some examples of what this might refer to?
This is how it works in the countries that I lived. Every order that placed before 14:00 or 17:00 (based on the shop/site) would be shipped the same day, others would be shipped next day.

Whenever you want to set up a shop and sell over internet, you would reach out to a shipping company and arrange a pickup time for your orders. The company truck visits every day at a specified time, then pick up that days orders for shipping.
> They aren't the same type of control at all, implying it is deeply disingenuous

I implied no such thing. I nor the parent post didn't even mention traditional media. And I freely admit, it's not the same type of control. But it is control. They control what type of speech is allowed, what gets amplified, what gets suppressed, and what gets banned.

To go with your analogy, they don't beat their kids, but they do ground them, take away their allowance, or make them go to bed without supper, until they learn to behave. And the owners of social media get to define what 'behave' means.
It was more of an aquahire and Jose Valim the creator of Elixir left Plataformatec to start his own consultancy. All assets related to Elixir were transferred to the community. The rest of the core contributors are not affiliated to Plataformatec therefore the acquisition had no effect on Elixir.
Absolutely. No brain whatsoever.
Well said. This is a point being missed by many here. I feel it too!
I know this is unsolicited and I apologize for that, but check your Console logs immediately after you boot back up if you haven't already, there might be a hardware issue, and you ought to be able to get a good idea of what's going on by seeing what kext is affecting it.

My current and previous laptop have been fine, but I used to have issues all the time on a much older laptop, and the issue back then, I forgot exactly which piece of hardware it was, but there was a bug in one of the drivers that was patched in an update, I think it was 10.4.9 or 10.4.10 that had the issue, a known issue at the Apple Store; but they couldn't do anything about it from behind the Genius Bar. Generally if you're getting kernel panics though, there's either something wrong with a piece of hardware or with the driver for it, although it could be any kind of kext causing the issue if you have any 3rd party kexts installed.
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Well, you can't rewrite anything in TLA+. It's a formal specification language, not verification language. So you usually use it to catch spec- or algorithm-level logic & concurrency bugs then manually write the code to correspond to your TLA+ spec. People get really hung up on this last step, but I can tell you as a professional programmer that implementing code to follow a TLA+ spec is extremely easy - all the intellectual heavy lifting has already been done! - and avoids the extremely costly effort required to fully formally verify computer code. It's a great cost/benefit ratio.
What is oppressive socialism?
My BS in CS is from NC A&T.

My MS in CS in from UNC-CH.

Anybody who thinks the hackers from Duke/UNC consistently outshine the hackers from NC A&T is a damn fool.

I was regularly FLOORED by the skills and raw programming chops from peers at NC A&T. Some of the smartest young men and women in the CS field.

I worked in a small research group at NC A&T. Maybe 10 undergrads. Last time I checked, there were something like 6 MS in CS folks from that group and a couple of PhDs.

When I was an undergrad at NC A&T, we had a weekly colloquium for all CS students. We regularly had alumni from NC A&T and other HBCUs on stage who talked openly about navigating the hiring world, which companies you could expect racism in, and what the working world of programming was like for "people who look like us."

If some shitty recruiter event occurred, we all knew about it.

Want to score some of the best engineers from HBCUs? It's easy. Hire the best ones you can convince to take your mega-FAANG package from. Then send them back every freaking year with a corporate card and tell them to impress people.

I hate these "stupid recruiter" stories. Somebody should get their ass fired.
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Lots of them make it nowhere great (though nowhere great in the US could still be vastly better than the conditions they came from).

In any case, you’re acting like this is a sure path to a good life. It’s not. It’s a cultural trope.
React Hook Form is gaining traction these days.

https://react-hook-form.com/
Like all evolutionary psychology you can argue forever about the 'adaptive value' of any behaviour and characteristic and never know whether what you're saying is true or just completely and utterly wrong. It has a reputation for a reason. I could make a list full of hundreds of reasons why depression might be adaptive - that it's so darn easy should serve as a warning why it's often a bad idea to theorise like this.
This would be an amazing solution to implement and would benefit so many who were hurt during this over reach over government into business and private lives.
I don't see a contradiction in your example. I think such individuals are consistently being aggressively conformist with their group, but for the hyper-political, their group isn't the nation, but the party.

That seems to fit with PG's claim that "The call of the aggressively conventional-minded is 'Crush <outgroup>!'". Naturally that would extend to disobeying the rules of the outgroup, perhaps solely because the outgroup proposed them.
That makes me feel 25 years younger!
One of the things I dislike about celebrity is the idea that because I care what pg thinks about startups, that I should also care what he thinks about almost anything else. His Twitter account is starting to make me think he’s becoming Scott Adams.
I'd like to think it's as simple as that. And similarly to explain why I enjoy a drink most evenings.
Well, SemiAccurate made some claims about some of the cultural problems Intel was having a bit ago.

https://semiaccurate.com/2018/06/29/intels-firing-of-ceo-bri...

With regards to the specific technologies Intel was trying to do a lot of new things with 10nm. Initial rumors said that replacing copper with cobalt in some of the metal layers was causing problems. But later rumors were that Contact Over Active Gate (COAG) used mostly in the GPU section of a chip was the main culprit and why none of the early 10nm parts had working GPUs.
I've never needed to have an editor churn out Go error handling, and I don't find it that hard. It could be better, but not much better.

Exceptions are not less complex. They just move the complexity around. Exceptions as typically implemented also don't play well with event driven or concurrent models.

The thing I actually like about Go errors is that it makes you think about them right when they happen, while an exception encourages dealing with errors "later" which often means "never" or "as an afterthought."

Go kind of has exceptions, but panics are intended only for very extreme cases like out of memory errors that crash most applications and are often not recoverable. Using panics for non-fatal errors is bad Go code.

One reason I think people don't get Go is that it occupies a language niche that formerly was not occupied by any language. It's like Python meets C, a "low level scripting language." It's designed to be productive and pragmatic but fast and compiled and capable of dealing with pointers or even embedded ASM.
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> ( ) they tried that in France once and it didn't take
"apart from the routine nurturing of the Russian scarecrow" - here is why. Watch for this reply being downvoted as well
I created a Twitter account close to a month ago and it was immediately suspended because it "appears to have exhibited automated behavior that violates the Twitter Rules". Well it did not really do anything yet, even less so anything against their rules. The account is still suspended despite multiple appeals and messages.

At the same time, dozens (hundreds?) of verified accounts get taken over. I think their fraud detection systems are total crap.
"Wir haben es nicht gewusst" is what the Germans used after WW2, but part of me can believe it because the world wasn't as connected as it is today.

Today though? It does not fly. People know about it, and if they are not actively participating in stopping it, they are complicit - "not my problem, I don't care, blue/all lives matter, what about these crime statistics, muh freedom", these are all people that know about it but do not care, or they do care but they're on the wrong side.
They could fix that if they wanted by just adding another decimal.
Unless you are a multi-nation megacorp or a specialty who needs dedicated space, I see no reason for the need to waste funds on it.
Can't help but feel that people here are missing the point and perhaps too hung up on the specific example in the wikipedia article. The broader point is about the misuse and misapplication of technical/"rational" methods in real life i.e. not thinking about whether the model can actually be usefully applied in a certain real world situation. For example, blindly following rote statistical methods/not understanding their assumptions is what got us into the whole psychology replication crisis mess.
HN is a hive of military-industrial-pharmaceutical complex shills who know very well how to get dang to drop the hammer on anyone who is espousing a point of view counter to their desired narrative for the collective. It starts with collective downvoting, continues with a flag or two, and eventually dang gets sick of dealing with the complaints and decides, asymmetrically, whether you will be visible to the broader HN collective, or not.

You can see this with HN article submissions, alone. Even the well-written, well positioned anti-US war crimes articles, which make it in the top of the list within the first few hours - because people are legitimately interested in the subject and want to discuss it, are rapidly removed from the narrative once the shills wake up.

In the "Collective Vs. Collective" Department, there are a group of us here on HN who want HN readers to understand America's illegal wars better, in order to gain more perspective about participating in the MIP-complex, and we work on promoting articles which seek to balance the narrative. We've learned: get these articles posted during USA night-times, otherwise there is no chance whatsoever: because a not-insignificant portion of the HN collective is pro-war and their narrative-setting ability rules.
Was it actually suspended, or did they just need you to verify with phone number?
I tried the mono version but a double forward slash glitches and overlays the next two characters - which kinda makes it unusable for anyone touching the web.
Yeah, this is a seriously under appreciated effect in Silicon Valley founder culture. “Just send it bro,” and “failure is totally cool,” are both much easier beliefs to hold when you’re getting an allowance and, in the absolute worst case scenario, could get your rent, phone bill, and healthcare paid for by mom and dad for even a few months.
Seems reasonably clear.

The naming convention Intel has chosen for the last 10 years (Core iX Generation X) has basically been a long running joke. The average person can’t figure out if a used machine from 2015 has the same CPU as a 2020 machine.

Not that they’ve made the chips noticeably faster for web browsing in that timeline anyway.

Basically, this news is the blackberry storm launch announcement.
Do we need herd immunity? Note, I'm in favor of vaccination, but I don't understand why the press keeps on ignoring other pharmacological interventions that can potentially "downgrade" this disease to something far more manageable.

Instead, the press keeps on talking about the "miracle vaccine" which will come eventually.

No comment on the section on immunity. Sloppy reporting at best.
Excellent post, one nitpick:

>Wikipedia is another example [of the public square]

Quite the opposite; Wikipedia is explicitly based on published reliable sources. They have a specific rule[1] excluding information that was not published in such way.

There are certain advantages to this rule, and its utility has been validated through Wikipedia's long, and ongoing, run. Nonetheless this cathedral mindset cannot be compared to a public square in any way other than being a very opposite.

In particular the published reliable sources rule excludes general blogs and public forums and the likes, thus excluding the majority of discourse & voices on the internet. Even expert sources, if self-published, can only be used in limited way and with caution.

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[1] "If no reliable sources can be found on a topic, Wikipedia should not have an article on it", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources