skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the wealth was accumulated legally and fairly, as a result of creating such vast value for society that society willingly parted with their money for the goods/services from the company/ies that the wealthy person invested in and retained an ownership stake in, I don't find it obvious that society should have a further claim on the proceeds from the result of those transactions just because the owner "has too much money".

That person/family has shown some evidence that they're capable of investing money to generate an outsized return on that investment. I would tend to think they might be able to repeat that effect with the way they choose to reinvest the money, be it for societal value or charitable endeavors. I don't see evidence in balance sheets that governments have that same track record.
Yes, it bit me once
Paper grocery bags give off gas when they rot, whereas the (smaller) amount of energy in a plastic grocery bag is carbon locked in a controlled landfill. I think there’s a strong argument for plastic bags being more environmentally friendly.
There might be legal reasons (taxes, employment laws) that are too much of a hurdle for them to allow remote work from another country. I've heard estimates of 10s to 100s of thousands of dollars to set up the necessary structure, not to mention the months that the process will take.
I am worried that US senators confuse 230’s protection from legal action which some mystical barrier that protects you from all consequences.

It’s like the people who claim that moderation infringes on free speech. “Not running ads” is not the same as legal action.
Well, they definitely could have bumped the fear component up more, but perhaps Scientific American feels their subscriber base is more likely to respond to reasoning than to fear.

“This was a mistake because they weren’t fear-mongery enough” is definitely an interesting take, though.
I'm also new, and picked ESP32 devices on recommendation of a colleague. I've had great fun, learning a ton to get going.

Available libraries have certainly made the process much easier.
AFAIK, most new construction houses for the past decade or so have some amount of air intake, because houses are built too 'tight' now, but this might be somewhat location dependent.
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I have no problem using both self hosted pihole and wireguard
The first 50 years of that peace was Europe being split between two nuclear superpowers. So the “peace” (more like a standoff) isn’t entirely our (European) fault.
Depends on the nature of your SAAS. If you are not dealing with very sensitive data, you could try to negotiate that with them and instead, prepare a "Self Assessed Security Questionnaire" and send to their IT/CIO team.

We do this for our SAAS business whenever we are asked by larger prospects but we don't deal with very sensitive data.
Ask HN: How do you maintain your sanity while being unemployed?
I got laid off a month ago (for the first time in my career) and have been slowly sinking into a deep depression. I treat the job hunt is a full-time job. I wake up at 8:00, answer recruiter emails/take interviews/apply to jobs/patch my resume/grind leetcode between 9:30-5:30. Then I'll go outside for a run if the air quality isn't too bad or lift weights in the garage. Then I'll cook and eat dinner, read a book, watch a bit of Netflix, and apply to a few more jobs before I fall asleep at around midnight. I feel like I'm doing everything "right", you know? I exercise, eat super healthy, and spend 40+ hours a week working towards finding a new job, but I still feel like absolute shit for some reason. Even my workouts don't improve my mood at all.

Fortunately I live with my parents so I don't have to worry about paying rent, and I get to see my friends on weekends, but it doesn't seem like there's a light at the end of the tunnel. I sometimes wake up in the middle of the night and have panic attacks thinking, "holy fucking shit I can't do this anymore...spending another day scrolling through job portals, getting one recruiter to respond for like every 50 applications I send out, banging my head against the wall solving these dumb fucking leetcode questions, getting destroyed during the technical interview by some 10x rockstar ninjas...what if I stay unemployed for another month? 3 months? 6 months? A year? What if I never get hired as a software engineer ever again? Should I give up and find another career? What do I do?"

California is burning. COVID is everywhere. Everything is shut down. Getting a job is brutally difficult right now. I just don't see a way of staying positive.
It might mean that they are not a qualified lead because an SOC2 (whatever that is) is not part of your ordinary service. That means the prospect is not in your existing market segment, and pursuing the company as a client means entering a new market segment.

Sometimes that makes sense. Other times it doesn't. If you're a one person shop and the new market segment is generally served by multi-employee firms, then it is probable that your business structure is unsuitable for the new market segment. If for no other reason, than preparing an SOC2 is an additional marketing expense for you and not baked into previous cost structure.

On the other hand, maybe it is a market segment that you want to enter. However, odds are that the market is relatively efficient and there is a reasonable alignment between market size and the number of people providing services to meet its unique requirements. It is also probable that the customers in that market have existing business relationships with existing providers.

Or to put it another way, entering an established market segment is typically a long term process and requires a meaningful commitment of resources before profits are likely. Often, small shops are used for price comparison and beating down the company that was always going to get the contract. It's worth being cautious when a prospect educates you about your own business because it means the prospect might not have a high opinion of your KSA's in regard to their needs. Good luck.
Ask HN: How does your company determine headcount?
How does your company determine headcount for engineering and product teams? Is it centrally controlled (say by the CTO), or distributed (say to engineering managers), or something in between? How is PM, designer, and UX researcher headcount determined? How are teams — and what they focus on — determined? What are the pros/cons of your approach?

My situation:

I work for a well-funded, high-growth company with roughly 200 employees, 20 engineers, 5 product managers, and 1 designer. Headcount decisions are all centrally planned by the CTO and CPO, with a degree of input from engineering managers and PMs about roadmaps and swags for “how long things will take.” The CTO and CPO take these inputs and map them onto “bi/annual objectives” — such as “grow monthly active users by X%.” If they feel the swags fall way short of the objectives’ appetite, they will increase headcount — after a song-and-dance with Finance.

Pros:
- There is a rational framework for engineering managers and PMs to influence headcount

Cons:
- Engineering managers and product managers do not have the power to acquire new talent into their teams to complement or supplement the skillset and competencies of the team to deliver better quality products; only velocity seems to count
- Teams that are focused on business as usual tend to be penalized with understaffing or overwork because the objective-driven rubric has mostly prioritized new strategies and products
- Finance is always the “bad cop;” there’s no budget that anyone is aware of (is this a real con?)
> How it is a problem for anyone except project owners?

Because an infected machine can and often will participate in infecting other machines.

Not to mention that if an attacker managed to extract credentials that happened to be shared between that server's accounts and, say, contributors' GitHub accounts...

More relevantly for regular users of the playground, though, it ain't clear whether or not the playground server was separate from the web server. If not, then the playground having root access immediately exposes ordinary users to high risk of browser-based attacks (drive-by downloads, outright replacing the V downloads with compromised versions, etc.). And even if they were indeed separate servers, if the credentials to access those servers were shared between them, then compromising one exposes the other.

I agree with you that maybe the author of that article should've waited more than a day, but that's really a drop in the bucket compared to the possibilities of running arbitrary user-supplied server-side code without sufficient sandboxing.

> call the project "vaporware"

I mean, for quite a while it did seem to have a lot of hype without much to show for it (as did Volt, its "killer app", so to speak), and it had a pretty rough release. It's a bit of a harsh characterization, but at the time it wasn't all that inaccurate. Hopefully things have improved since then.
I don't know if it is math but formal scientific writing can make even simple concepts hard to grasp for me, a developer.

During my studies, I had to assist to a conference by a mathematician explaining some image processing algorithm. It took me half an hour to realize that all that was a good old "make each pixel the weighted average of its surroundings" blur, also known as a convolution filter. And I spent the other half hour completely lost trying to understand what was special about his blur. I think no one actually understood anything, in fact, I probably did better than most because I was familiar with convolution filters from personal experience.

Had he explained it in terms of pixels and loops instead of what was probably (for us) a Greek letter soup, I am sure we would have understood.
Muslims also have a similar tier system of giving charity, but because Islam mandates charity from its followers at a fixed rate (a flat income tax for charity), it places the "communal funds" very low in the totem pole.

Actually the Prophet Muhammad said a similar thing to what Feeney has said here about wanting to give charity while alive rather than after his death:

> A man came to the Prophet and asked, "O Allah's Apostle! Which charity is the most superior in reward?" He replied, "The charity which you practice while you are healthy, niggardly and afraid of poverty and wish to become wealthy. Do not delay it to the time of approaching death and then say, 'Give so much to such and such, and so much to such and such.' And it has already belonged to such and such (as it is too late)."

https://muflihun.com/bukhari/24/500
I explicitly asked Apple about this years ago and they said I needed to keep iTunes Match. Was my CSR mistaken? I assumed it was for my tracks that are not available on Apple Music.
This article doesn't cover any of the most interesting part. His brokeness. Is he now homeless? Is his plan to now kill himself? Does he get to experience the day to day struggle of broke elderly now? What's the deal?
[I work at Google, unrelated to Ads, I'm not a lawyer, views are my own, caveat emptor, etc.]

This pushes the limits of my section 230 knowledge, but I think you've got this backwards. A company that wants to comply here needs Section 230 to exist, a company that is okay with ignoring Google doesn't care about Section 230.

Section 230 immunity isn't necessary for things that are completely unmoderated. If the comment sections are literally entirely unmoderated, they fall under the pre-existing statute (Cubby, Inc. v. CompuServe, Inc).

However, if the site wishes to moderate comments for some reason, they could be held liable for comments that stay up but are problematic (libelous etc.). So without section 230, a site would be in a catch-22. Section 230 continuing to exist avoids this problem.
cyberpunk that isn't edgy, daring or truly political doesn't deserve the moniker. It needs to be taking some kind risk. Going through the motions of tepid imitation (read:unoffensive to the largest target market, follows precedents from similar open world games) isn't true to the genre.

Tell me, what kind of statement do you think this game could possibly make that would be memorable? or is it simply a skin on a familiar game mechanic and engine.

Blade Runner had nice visuals, but it wasn't just about the visuals. It also presented a provocative question and politics that all those nice visuals were centered on.
> They invest in companies that provide jobs and the goods and services that the rest of us enjoy. Yes that is virtuous.

They invest in companies and expect a return! If money was directly redistributed, then the people running and working for those companies might able to keep that value that they have created.
I didn't think this would be needed in this post, but since you've asked for advice on the law —

Disclaimer: I am not your lawyer, I have not prepared citations for your review, please seek legal counsel if you’re considering actions based on my opinion, etc etc.
Whew. Finally. I was scrolling looking for a comment like this. How is almost no one saying this?

The speakers they mentioned are the most establishment politicians you can find. What does that say about his actions that those are the people representing him?

How can you give $70M+ to something that is grassroots too?
Not pedantic at all and I would probably benefit from your knowledge. Interesting, I've never read Clausewitz.

So you're from SA eh? Always wanted to visit but no idea where to go.

I love all windows equally
It's also a Muslim way of looking at charity:

https://muflihun.com/bukhari/24/500

But Muslims also have a standard flat rate of charity which is mandatory from every person, so they cover both bases there.
Personally I'd love a glucose monitor. I have no idea if that's even possible but I can hope.
Legally, the playing field is even. The question is whether Google makes money from hateful content posted by users on their platforms. And then the topic indirection comes up.

This article avoids the distinction between law and economy at all costs because it would invalidate its entire thesis. I am not convinced Google is guilty of a double standard here.
Maybe I should have said "one of the things that defined the genre".
> Also Java lambdas can't change outer variables, so one have to resort to old tricks with one-item arrays.

On the rare occasion that I need to do this, I usually find that I'm thinking about the problem the wrong way and there's a much clearer way to write it than messing with mutable variables outside my closures.
The finest example of a human. Definitely a better person than I could ever be. I would definitely flaunt and spend fabulous sums on dumb shit.
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This is fair. I have thought of this as well. As a response, I spent the last year and a half volunteering for multiple progressive challengers to established candidates. After a massive amount of effort: we won some races, lost many, and came close in others. This is a way to overcome some of the negativity caused by external forces influenced by my company.

The thing that that depressed me the most is how little the population cares about improving the country. They are checked out and don't see all the problems that they can fix. So it has led me to also question, why I am wasting my time instead of working on myself and what I can do to better my own self. But I guess that's a separate discussion.
That’s not sad at all. There are plenty of secular reasons for doing a good deed for the sake of the deed itself — not the reward or recognition. I mean, this is basically the entire underpinning of Kantian ethics.
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Ok that's a seriously awesome idea. It's kinda like sonar: You know what's normal and then listen for the differences?

Could you explain in detail or perhaps make a youtube video?
Users of the service were not affected by this vulnerability, it had no personal data or something.

The only people who could be hurt by this vulnerability is the project owner.

Disclosing this vulnerability would only make it worse for the project owner, and would not do good to anyone (except cracker who might want to use the server to send spam or something).

This post did no good to anyone. It's lose-lose. That's why this post is wrong.
Who cares if anyone remembers a person's name in 100 years. How many people from the 1920s can you reference by name? 10? 20?
Wouldn't Chuck just receive donations from the thousands of people he personally knew and helped? I doubt people would let him go broke under any scenario... the man spent time with Bill Gates and Warren Buffet.
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Why the Nazi Party Loved Decaf Coffee
Nice overview, but it misses the important subfield of incremental parsing. Modern IDEs couldn't exist without it.
> Well, people say Y2K wasn't a problem because we buckled down and solved it.

That's why I think it's a good parallel:

1. Something that would be an issue if nothing was done.

2. By the time the public got into a frenzy over it, things were already being done.

3. (Hopefully) will turn out to be a non-issue because things were done.
I have had long running Java programs and their memory usage if done correctly is a nice saw tooth. As long as you are not leaking you can run a well written Java server for long long periods of time (months) without a bounce.

If you are leaking not so much. :)
Bullshitters: Who Are They and What Do We Know about Their Lives? (2019) [pdf]
> So you're saying with bubble barriers in just 10 places (as opposed to all around the world), we can clean up 90% of ocean trash from dumping?

Careful, this is about hating the inhuman Chinese who enjoy putting rubbish everywhere. If you think to hard the whole idea might fall apart. Facts and thinking things through kill ideas like this.
Any of these thoughts are valid only under the assumption that one is concerned if something is written by GPT-3 or a human. But nobody cares. I would gladly read Wikipedia written by GPT-3, if it can rewrite math articles in a less fucked-up unnecessary jargon-filled way than they already are. And if not, I will hate it more, but only to a degree it will do it's job worse than a human did (presumably it's humans who write all this atrocity, I don't know for sure).

And nobody reads marketing brochures anyway. I hope they don't, and I pity them otherwise.

Who I don't pity though are lawyers, and if GPT-3 can make lawyers as miserable, as normal people are when forced to deal with lawyers: good. I mean, I don't really believe anything can eliminate this pesky profession (which depends on laws & litigation process being incomprehensible to ordinary citizens), but I can at least entertain myself with this thought for a while.
Google doesn’t want to dictate what is acceptable content on the internet. The people who buy ads don’t want to be associated with racism.
I worked with Java in the past so glad NodeJS arrived and Golang.. productivity is the key.
What's wrong with them claiming asylum in Mexico? International law requires asylum seekers to request it at the first available country. It doesn't let them "shop around".
If you think people should be 100% selfless, you're asking for too much. Even good-hearted people help for the reward of feeling good about it.
Ahem...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_character
The definition of PMI on what is a project: A project can be defined as a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product or service.

The Devs who are permanent employees and maintain a set codebase/application/etc do not fall into that. They know what to do, they have a defined Change Management/SDLC abd they are challenged into finding the technical solutio. The project management includes tracking the requirements, sequencing events, getting resources/contractors, etc.. A dev should be spending '8h' per day coding, not figuring out budgets and interviewing contractors. Of course different companies have different approaches, but ballpark and from experience I think my above writings are pretty valid.
What a moving tribute. It is a great reminder to cherish the time we have with those we love now. Do great things together and inspire each other.

I'm glad that Mr Gates got the chance to enjoy and develop his relationship with his dad into adulthood.
Hmm. Have these guys seen Ryan North's "Star Trek GPT-NG"?

`S1, E20: The Big Goodbye: The crew of the Enterprise-D sets aside all of its other duties to try and solve a murder mystery. Filmed on location in Miami. A woman dressed in a Starfleet uniform from the ship is murdered, and Riker's going to need a tan to solve this case.`
Hitachi to pull plug on north Wales nuclear power station
Yes. I interned at a local ISP (DSL provider on AT&T lines), but most of their business was essentially just this type of stuff. Building simple static websites, running some software package for a business (doing the admin+hosting work), and fixing/configuring computers and such at the local businesses.

Businesses like this are really flexible, and seek to serve their local customers with whatever IT needs they have.
Is this the most capable open-source core we’ve seen? Not sure how it compares to BOOM. Are there any other out-of-order designs which have been open sourced?
Hol up.

Dumping those plastics in the ocean begins a cycle of creating microplastics. These plastic particles are being incorporated in food chains and the ramifications of this are not understood at this time, and may take some time to figure out.
>The only slippery slope to be considered here is 'what is considered hate speech?'

And who exactly gets to decide what is considered racism? It is an open secret that current definition used by the people in the media, academia and those who decide the policy of social media and other platforms, does not apply equally to all people.

Enter reddit's new content policy, that was as far as I know the only time those unwritten rules got written:

>"While the rule on hate protects such groups, it does not protect all groups or all forms of identity. For example, the rule does not protect groups of people who are in the majority or who promote such attacks of hate."

This bit got okayed by a lot of people before it was published. And after it was, and have received A LOT of backlash, this rule went back to being unwritten. But rest assured that it is still there, and on every other major social media platform too. Because if it wasn't, the hordes of rabid identarians that thrive on reddit and twitter would have to be acknowledged.

EDIT: this comment, like the other two that brought this up, will end up [dead] within minutes.
The Germans did suffer terribly from shortages, particularly of petroleum, during the war. In fact, one could argue fairly well that the shortage of petroleum ensured their defeat.

Their inability to produce high octane gasoline was also instrumental in the defeat of the Luftwaffe, as it meant their aircraft could not perform up to the level of the Allied aircraft.

The Japanese in WW2 also failed to secure a supply of oil, with similar results.
Is anyone ever aware in the English-speaking community that there are other languages in the world other than English, and other literary cultures that are written in languages other than English?
Did the WTO ever rule on China's protectionist practices? The wikipedia page on those reads like a joke [1], and doesn't even mention the forced partnerships, technology transfers, and bureaucratic measures to prevent access to domestic markets [2,3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_and_the_World_Trade_Orga...

[2] https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/china-protectionist-t...

[3] https://intrepidsourcing.com/trade-wiki/protectionism-forms-...
Putting the filter behind the fan ensures you have clean air contacting the fan blades. This prevents contaminants from accumulating on the fan blades over time and reduces cleaning.
Uber backup driver indicted in 2018 self-driving crash that killed woman