skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or we could ve underestimating how much influence these social media apps exert especially on the younger crowd(where Tiktok currently reigns) and our IC is looking to limit this soft power from others. It's easier to control the 'world narrative' when you own the channels.
> It makes sense that it's easier to give <100 PRs attention than 25k+.

ydl has 700 open PRs, not 25k+. ydl hasn't had 25k+ PRs in its lifetime either, it's had 4k: GH issues and PRs are the same object, so the sequence is shared.
It is not a matter of a political who:whom, but of an impersonal, objective 'what' i.e. the process of rationality.

Arguments should be able to stand on their own merit irrespective of whether their origin is 'outsiders', or the credentials of the originator. Again, it is very damaging to the institution of knowledge to say: "I accept your thesis on the basis of your credentials alone, and will investigate no further, either to increase my understanding, or to test its veracity."
I don't care about "us" going back to the office but I definitely want to go back to the office and I am far from alone in this.
I guess if the Chinese gov sold their stakes in Chinese tech companies to politically connected businessmen then the censorship would be ok because free speech doesn’t apply to “private” companies with ties to US intelligence like Cisco and Microsoft?

The US is the one going out of its way to attack countries that don't bend the knee like Iraq and Venezuela. China pays its partners in Africa for their resources. US overthrows governments to steal them and “spread democracy”. Why does US spread democracy to Iraq but not Saudi Arabia, a literal monarchy? (Because US only care about power) The projection of US sins onto China is unreal and lays bare US meddling and hypocrisy.
Are the ads that good for you to be tracked by these companies everywhere you go and sacrifice your privacy?
It comes nowhere close, if you are used to programming in languages with static types, the devx is just not on the same level. That being said, pattern matching is very powerful, and gives you a lot of what static types gives you in terms of safety. I’m just to spoiled by the level of productivity I get from editors when using a languages with static types at this point and using elixir full time would feel like taking a step backwards.
Performance Benchmark Analysis of Egress Filtering on Linux
Also Instagram has lots of other ways to get info on you. eg if you follow or like photos in CityX then they can assume you are interested in that city and show you ads about it. And so on, about any subject.
Perhaps. Maybe if the same cohort of people who practice said laws weren’t incentivized to challenge existing laws and to make more laws there would be more resources to help judge.
So in your scenario, kicking out a spy and confiscating their US based property is a form of warfare?
I feel more distracted at home and miss the social interactions with coworkers. Video conferences are tiresome.
Can you discuss why you want to go back to the office?
I think that biggest issue for me is when some small startup acts like "premier institution". If you need to sling out cookie cutter code to deliver stuff to your customers don't pretend you are going to change the world.

I just rejected one company because they had 4 pages of NDA and were small company.
Because dismantling other countries surveillance apparatus operating in your own soil is not aggression. It's just like breaking up spy rings, and destroying bugs.

It's certainly an aggressive posture, but it's not really aggression.
I'm not banging any drums but I was excited to get back to an office. I think it's similar to the saying "Dress for Success", in that, when I'm in the office, I focus on work and get more done. Everything around me is work related and focused, there are no distractions, and I really get stuff done.

My situation may be a bit unique, in that I work in an office alone (we are a remote work team, but I still keep an office), and my commute is very short. Still, I've always found it hard working at home and being as productive as at an office.
If you want to host a Phoenix app on AWS I would use a Docker release and then point the DB at RDS. You can run Docker under ECS/Fargate or Elastic Beanstalk.

Here is a nice intro to Phoenix Docker releases:

https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/releases.html#containers
>> I don't think TikTok, a collection of six-second clips of teens messing around represents a real, material, meaningful threat to freedom and democracy

I guess this is where we agree to disagree. I do think a foreign power with direct and absolute editorial control over the #1 content delivery network of an entire generation of our population is cause for concern.

I'm not discounting your skepticism that there is grandstanding involved, but from your comment I see a dramatic difference between a wanna-be totalitarian in a free democracy and an unequivocal one in a single party state. Let's not let perfect be the enemy of better; while domestic surveillance is unacceptable it is most definitely better than the current situation.
welcome to the world of grown ups. there is effin and jeffin everywhere
Commercial real estate prices.
And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. - Romans 8:28

In this verse I have grown in confidence that by desiring to become a good person, God is going to help me in all aspects of my life, ALL of them. Not just finances, or my career, or health, EVERYTHING. It is very powerful [essential] to have this belief; it carries me through life and will until the end.
Please stop with this false equivalence nonsense. In 2020, the USA (for all its many faults) is not running concentration camps to imprison and "re-educate" millions of citizens for having the wrong religion or ethnicity. It's not trying to carry out a slow-motion genocide.

I don't love the NSA, or Trump, or the US military-industrial complex, but parroting this "both sides" garbage just makes you sound like a useful idiot for the CCP.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/China_hidden_cam...

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/meghara/china-new-inter...
It will solve the PET problem for 450 years.

But my point is less to do with how to treat waste, than the fact that the most important first step is to actually collect it. In much of the world, collection is not happening properly, which is why we see so much plastic waste washed into rivers and oceans.

Of course if we create less waste to start with, that also helps, but that will only happen if manufacturers are pressured where it matters, the bottom line.
It’s been a common meme for years.

“Do people still watch TV? I haven’t watched TV in years”

Or more recently.

“Do people still use Facebook? I haven’t used FB in a decade”
Beside what others have mentioned.

CEOs do most of their time: meetings & talking to people. This is their job, they don't do Powerpoint, coding or anything else beside talking and meetings. Both is more draining if you do this 10h a day remotely. To my coachees there is a big push amongst CEOs to get people back in the office, they haven't defined their remote role yet.
Rental cars, company cars, old people cars.
"Just loading one image" is rarely "just" that if it brings your machine to a crawl. I find Inkscape works well for vector graphics.

If you are dealing with big bitmaps (eg. 108 megapixels of s20 ultra at 24 bits per pixel requires at least 324 of MB of memory if it was encoded without any metadata, but I am sure even bitmap processing software like Photoshop will multiply that by a large factor, let alone vector image editors). Full A4 page scan at 600dpi is ~35 megapixels and at 1200dpi 140 megapixels.

Sure, we can easily think of ways to optimize this (eg only load a preview image for the current zoom level, and when changing zoom level, take the online map tile zooming approach and load in the background), but when dev resources are scarce, you focus on your core competence (vector editing with Inkscape).
Yes? It's neither technically impossible nor beyond a totalitarian state to do so. So why would you presume otherwise?
> Google, ... which big company isn't using Rust at this point in production?

I worked with C++ at Google recently. I didn't see any push to switch to rust and I don't know of a single production server running rust binaries.

Edit: The best evidence that Google doesn't use rust in production is that they don't have an official protocol buffer implementation in Rust. Until they have that nobody will use it for servers at Google.

https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/cpptutor...
The Chinese government and the people they control is really putting doublethink to use. Just look at the huge list of websites not accessible in China, and movies, and news, and books...the list goes on. When nations start doing the same to Chinese infiltration, it's suddenly unfair.
No, aggressive filtering is the rational move here. The risks are highly asymmetric. A false positive gets you a frustrated customer that, as in this case, you can work with to modify the product description. Annoying.

A false negative can get you a fi ne of $250,000 and criminal penalties.

This isn't an issue of ( or not just an issue of) "not solving scale". Even if filtering issues if this sort were 99.9999% solved the risk asymmetry would still come down on taking an abundance of caution on nation-state levels of "oh crap" if you miss something.
NO security team?!

So they literally admitted that they don't have anyone actively monitoring transactions? Working to watch for fraud? Theft? Hacking?

Wow, I may stop using them as well.
Mastodon and Pixelfed already exist and are very functional, the issue is that all instances of the above are run with a hobby-grade SLA and mixed moderation policies and users that do not understand federated services. Even domains on emails get defaulted to gmail.com when in doubt now.
What's happening here is more subtle. The interviewers question didn't carry enough information to get the answer they wanted.

They created a puzzle where you needed to ask for more information. Intentionally or not, they were discovering if they could communicate with you. That the communication failed doesn't mean your somehow less then them. It means you just have a different background.

Now to the problem, the problem people don't set good goals. It probably doesn't make sense to hire a carbon copy of yourself.
> That's a popular opinion among people who have only used Javascript. Few who have used both would give it a second thought.

I have extensively used both languages for years and you haven't adequately answered my previous criticism [1].

> Why throw all of that away for an inferior language?

As if Lua (either the language, the implementation or the ecosystem) is not inferior.

> Roblox is immensely popular, has a wide install base and thousands of developers with code in Lua already.

This is probably the only reason to justify Luau, and shows yet another problem with the Lua ecosystem: they don't (or rather, can't) share their creations to each other. JavaScript is not a perfect language but the JS ecosystem has successfully converged into a single widespread set of solutions including TypeScript.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24067362
The real concern is propaganda, surveillance is a safe and easy to understand cover story to sell to the public.

I don't encounter too much political propaganda on TikTok (lots of BLM stuff though), but the potency of the platform is obvious, and the userbase is overwhelmingly young people who may be more impressionable, idealistic, etc.

Just one example of propaganda: https://www.tiktok.com/@jperkinsauthor

Of course, this exists on other sites as well, but bundling ideas/memes into 30 second bite-sized morsels with video seems like a fantastic design for quick propogation throughout a network of human minds.
That last claim is not so much s claim as proven fact.
If China required Apple sell itself to Huawei to continue selling iPhones, US government would outright forbid the sale, even if China payed a fair price.
I got into it before Oban was ever released. However, it seems like a solid solution. I've looked at Faktory as another great option as well:

https://github.com/contribsys/faktory/
But can't you still have that same experience? Isn't Apple simply requiring Instagram to ask you if would like to be tracked?
My coworker seems to be fighting for us to go back because he's sick of spending all day at home with his wife.
Not the OP, but in my case it's just down to socialising with the friends I work with, and pair programming.

The latter can be done remotely but definitely isn't anywhere near as smooth or natural I find.
They're saying that goodreads became an alternate front end to amazon for finding books but users used amazon (via affiliate links) to actually buy the book.

Goodreads was better at helping users find new books they wanted than amazon themselves and so it made sense for amazon to buy them.
That's what I expected too but honestly when I was looking I found maybe... 5 positions? And none of them were entry level.
The philosopher Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king. Said Aristippus, "If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils."

Diogenes replied, "Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king".
> How do you "quickly go through" a stack of 100 resumes

Well, by quickly I didn't mean only 60 seconds. :-)

> in a way that is not subject to personal (conscious or unconscious) bias?

In my opinion, a common conceit is that it's possible to design a process that is not subject to bias. It's not possible. There will be bias, no matter what process you choose. It's thought that "quiz show" style interviews are "objective", but if you look at the results, they're clearly not helping. They're not increasing diversity. The poor results speak for themselves. So then some people look at the results of this so-called "fair" process and conclude that minorities are just worse at coding, because that's what the tests say. To me, that approach and attitude is even worse than just acknowledging personal bias.

The only way to try to counteract unconscious bias is to be conscious of it. Admit it, and keep it in mind while you're going through your hiring process. Keep it in mind while you're filtering the résumés. Keep it in mind while you're interviewing. But don't try to pretend like you can eliminate it entirely from the process, because then you're just deluding yourself and everyone else.
> I wouldn't expect to see someone whose dayjob doesn't involve programming work on something like an Emacs package.

Twenty years ago, I maintained some Free Software projects. I wasn't employed in IT at all, in fact at the time I was studying towards a soft humanities field, and all my knowledge of programming was self-taught. So much of the other Linux software I used seemed to come from similar people. After all, the draw of Linux and GNU tools was that you were free to tinker with your computer and teach yourself from books, no expensive commercial software required.

I get the impression that laypeople developing and maintaining packages has become less common as the open-source movement took off and more paid employees at corporations started to do these kind of tasks. Similarly, the premiere "news for nerds" site today is Hacker News, which comes out of the corporate world, while its forebear Slashdot of the early millennium had a more varied mix of professional IT people and hobbyists.
2020 Belarusian Protests
Not sure if any info about Belarusian elections were in your local news lately, so some context to my question:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Belarusian_protests
https://www.euronews.com/2020/08/19/he-can-crawl-to-the-hospital-one-man-s-story-of-police-brutality-in-belarus
https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/11/belarus-tech-industry-rallies-around-arrested-pandadoc-colleagues-in-new-video/
Right now it turned into attrition warfare with “Italian” strikes, economic sabotage, marches, etc.
There were technology initiatives that helped to detect electoral fraud and few other things.
My question is, what do you think can be done on the technology side to help the cause?
While I agree that there is dissonance between value produced and salary paid, but your argument doesn't seem to hold as well.If higher competition drives salaries upwards then the salaries should increase in a remote worker economy as worker pool is not bound to a geographical locality but rather to the whole planet(or at least a larger region if culture or timezone differences are major concerns).
Economics of demand and supply is much more complicated than we could reduce to a liner or so about competition or a few factors. Increased base living costs for the employees combined with the larger availability of capital with the employers probably plays a major role here.
Yeah I’d like to go back but 2 days a week. Any more and it’s over kill really. 3 other days can be used for deep work at home. I’m tech guy working in marketing...these type of people love to appear at your desk every so often in the office. Now with Slack I can just not sign in or set my status as away and reply when I want. It’s asynchronous communication and really good for “me”.

And truth is. Everyone is different. I can respect the person that prefers office environment. What we will see is greater flexibility and just less office space in the future.

The real winner outs of all this will be local communities and businesses.
I don't understand your comment. Are you referring to the error message? If yes, that is targeted to the developers using the library that controls the device. i.e: us. The library helps us talk to a device by abstracting away low level details.
one possibility here is that you are on CIA's payroll posting such nonsense here.
I didn't say they were equivalent, I'm limiting the scope of my commentary to TikTok alone, and not the broader environment. It is my opinion that TikTok in isolation does not pose a national security threat or a threat to democracy, and therefore, this is likely to be grandstanding.
Yes, of course, I only got one of the things when I got a girlfriend - who is now my wife - in another country. Before that time I was employed as a service developer and -architect at a big telco while at the same time (well, at night mostly) working on a number of free software projects. I did standby duty during the Y2K moment supreme (nothing happened and I could party along at the hostel close to the office). When I needed to be reachable I had a pager on me, otherwise I was either close to something with a network connection or in disconnected bliss out in the woods.

The same works just as well now with the exception of the pager which needs to be replaced with a phone. Wear it when you need to be reachable, otherwise leave it at home. I still do this with my phones in a way in that I don't use data and leave my main device at home when I'm out in the woods. The secondary phones - I have a number of them - are all older Android devices which I use as audio players and cameras which happen to make it possible for people to reach me.

Just get a cheap phone or leave your current one at home for a while to see how it goes.
Not to mention it eliminates anyone who already has a job from the candidate pool. No company I know would be OK with you also working full time at another company simultaneously.
I'm having issues with youtube-dl and udemy (althought the Internet says it's possible. If anyone has some tip, I'll be very grateful). Does this one work with udemy?
If these will be as popular, we'll still be left with mass disinformation campaigns and culture wars though.
GAlculator – Geometric Algebra Pocket Calculator
Another Student Dies by Suicide in Tamil Nadu a Day Before NEET
Unless we end up killing life that already exists there.
Number one reason for me is the separation of work and private life. It's so much easier to keep work from creeping into my private life when it happens in a totally different place.

I also miss the social interactions, discussion with colleagues is much easier in person. Lastly, I hope it will reduce the amount of video conferences that crept up considerably.

edit: Not OP obviously.

edit2: Note: Just to make sure, I know this is personal preference and I am perfectly happy with other people being super happy and productive at home!
What's the Dark Forest metaphor in this context? Liu Cixin?

https://onezero.medium.com/the-dark-forest-theory-of-the-int...
You can replace "cash" with "check" in the parent comment, it still applies :) ("third world nation" would probably be a bit strong)
Artificial Neural Networks – The Neuron
The Neuron
The neuron that forms the basis of all Neural Network is an imitation of what was observed within the human brain.
> It seems strange that this article does not actually embed the tweets mentioned

That's because a tweet can be deleted by the owner of the tweet, and the embed won't show it in the article anymore. Embedding tweets in an article is usually bad practice, and it also slows down the page with unnecessary Javascript.

Frankly I see nothing wrong with just copying and pasting a Tweet, so now you have a verbatim copy of what was said. Then there is the issue of edited tweets which apparently are coming soon, giving another troll tool to users of Twitter.
It seems lately that most accounts arguing in favor of going back into office immediately are throwaways.

I wonder why that is 🧐
From a government/economy perspective, office workers do contribute a lot to local businesses when they pop out for lunch, coffee, etc. While furlough schemes are gradually wrapping up (eg in the UK), reducing redundancies does depend on some level of normalcy in people's day to day spending.
I think ideally it should be up to the employee to return when they feel safe.

That being said, I look forward to going back to the office. It’ll be nice to see people again —- few people bother to turn on their video on zoom anymore for anything other than one-on-ones, myself included, and that is starting to feel alienating to me. I don’t think it’s wise having a policy that you must have video enabled, though, it’s nice being able to sprawl out on the couch and get comfortable for a particularly long, boring meeting.

Edit: to address the actual contents of the article, I think below is a better read that doesn’t reduce people’s concerns about remote working to wanting to save sandwhich shops:

https://marker.medium.com/remote-work-is-killing-the-hidden-...
Totally off topic, but I've never seen an emoji on HN before - maybe the restrictions on Unicode characters have been lifted?

Edit: weirdly it seems to just be that specific emoji, others don't work
Perhaps with those tasty rent checks they can install a newer heating system.
These Boloré Bluecars cars had a shit battery technology that needed to be at least 60°C (140°F) warm, all the time. Even when the car was parked and not used for hours / days.

What a waste of energy.
The state of the Patreon page is what it looks like when someone has an ordinary patron account. In this case, it probably means the account was reverted from a creator account to a patron account.
Seriously? Shutting down foreign spy ware is called national self defense.

If they weren't so big they would have just been shut down.
Exactly! I run a data science department at a corporation. I've had exactly one production level project that was sufficiently complicated to require deep learning. I am currently working on the second. I always start with the simplest approach. That's a message that I push hard for every recent grad and intern who comes here.
I'm pretty sure we weren't seeing Chinese culture via TikTok. Indian Tiktokers made lot of money via TikTok.

But does this work to nudge China?

Is Indian lost revenue big enough for China to change their style just because TikTok is banned?