skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t buy it.

He had paid taxes all his life, all he is asking for is to get something out of these taxes back.

Is he a bad person? Does he not deserve his share? I don’t know. If he does not, then our legal system is broken - he paid for a service he is denied. If he gets his share, then what about the workers he denied their share to? But his denial was enabled by the law, what are we going to do about this?

And if his pledge is denied, I am going to see this as a petty retaliation against a sick old guy.

If you want to fix something, fix the system that enabled him to fight the regulations in first place. Don’t fight his cruelty with your own just because you think he deserves it and he cannot punch back anymore.

(throwaway because I am afraid of expressing my views due to socialist culture prevailing. Call it self-censorship if you like)
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[[define]] semantics for class fields causes problems again. Sigh.
Manslaughter can absolutely be intentional; hence "voluntary manslaughter". It generally needs to be unpremeditated and without active malicious intent, but can be self-defence, "in the heat of passion", etc that cause what would otherwise be a murder charge to be reduced to manslaughter.
I wonder how hard it would be to make the Tonic [1] Rust GRPC implementation target Workers. Maybe it's too tied to the Tokio runtime.

[1]: https://github.com/hyperium/tonic
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Anybody remember when McDonald’s did a promotion with a flexible record in the sunday newspaper for their menu song?

https://news.avclub.com/in-1988-mcdonald-s-released-a-madden...
It's worth noting that everything you felt worthy of noting was noted in TFA:

> The United States’ lawsuit did not seek to stop or restrict the publication or distribution of Permanent Record.

> On Tuesday, the court entered judgment in the government’s favor in an amount exceeding $5.2 million and imposed a constructive trust for the benefit of the United States over those sums and any further monies, royalties, or other financial advantages derived by Snowden from Permanent Record and 56 specific speeches.

> This lawsuit is separate from the criminal charges brought against Snowden for his alleged disclosures of classified information. This lawsuit is a civil action, and based solely on Snowden’s failure to comply with the clear pre-publication review obligations included in his signed non-disclosure agreements.

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If no one's going to both to RTFA anymore, why do we even bother linking to them?

HN could instead just be a listing of article titles and headlines.
That is why I was clear that it wasn't a source I would trust.
It's also worth mentioning that the hardware is not the only thing that should change. Cognition seems hard to automate just using instructional directives for producing the states of such a machine. Encoding the gradient right into the hardware would be cool, but the optimization procedure should also move to being something intrinsic to the machine.
I doubt the skill problem. Building a deb or rpm is trivial with fpm. Anecdotal but from past experience at a tiny startup delivering dev-tools we found our pipeline to get people to use our tool was significantly better when we just had them curl|bash a script.

Getting people to use your junk is more important than doing it "The Right Way".
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In my experience with MobX, reactions that mutate observables (which triggers other reactions) can quickly get out of hand and become hard to debug if you're not careful.

But doing this is also a huge code smell, and expressly stated as such in the docs, and even though it's necessary every once in a while, it's very possible to keep it under control to where it doesn't become a problem even in quite large projects.
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Does advertising on the Google homepage count as a business way?
I believe you're right, mostly because TFA says exactly that:

> In September 2019, the United States filed a lawsuit against Snowden, who published a book entitled Permanent Record in violation of the non-disclosure agreements he signed with both CIA and NSA. The lawsuit alleged that Snowden published his book without submitting it to the agencies for pre-publication review, in violation of his express obligations under the agreements he signed. Additionally, the lawsuit alleges that Snowden has given public speeches on intelligence-related matters, also in violation of his non-disclosure agreements.
How is the number of employees relevant? The point is the massive hypocrisy and inconsistent enforcement. Personally I think the $10k SAR threshold is stupid, it hasn't been adjusted up for inflation since it was put in place in 1970 when an oz of gold was $35.
> Those protections still don't prevent platforms from doing half the things conservatives complain about.

I never made any comment about what the law is. Instead I only made comments about what should be.

Those protection will prevent many more things if those protections are changed.

Literally the purpose of these senate subpoenas is to re-evaluate these laws.

> Section 230 doesn't actually require platforms

They will require more things if they get changed to do so, which is the entire point of all this discussion, lol.

Thats the point of all of this. To re-evaluate what these protections should be, and to engage in legislative action.
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At the slow "clock speed" the brain runs at, it produces a lot of heat. A quick search turns up 10-20 watts as a rough estimate. It's still petty competitive given what it's capable of.
If you're building adders with O(n) carry times you're doing it wrong - normal carry lookahead logic is ~O(log N)
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Somebody read The Goal.

But this is the summary of a large part of that book: Systems have bottlenecks, address the bottleneck. Spending time on improvements elsewhere will not help the bottleneck, you're just wasting time/money. Data/material is going into it too fast to process (work is building up). Improving before the bottleneck just makes its queue fill faster. Improving after the bottleneck just creates a segment of the system that's starved for work. So focus on the problem at hand, once it's addressed, focus on the next bottleneck.
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We put a facade on top of mobx that requires every autorun, reaction and runInAction to be named.
Of course, updates outside of transactions are forbidden. This makes even complex applications debuggable!
It's called a Golden Parachute.
I feel like even a child knows that a dinosaur is a reconstruction. How could it be anything else? They don't exist today.

But a high definition video is what we've naturally been used to "believing in" as being real.

Of course the next generation of people will grow up with deep fakes, so they will not trust anything they watch unless it's digitally signed or something.u

I feel that is the difference.
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Good question, and I'll have to check out that link. I'll probably be targeting teenagers but I'll shoot for the lowest denominator without being patronizing.
Firefox/Mozilla.

Please stick to making a better browser, like you did back when the add-on ecosystem didn't suck and was vibrant and alive.

All these semi-political initiatives just look childish virtue signalling, bankrolled by Google search money and don't do your history any justice.
It's fascinating that none of the comments mention neural network applications.

Seems like these people came a bit too early to the party.
A little dated, but here is a good citation.
https://inequality.org/research/america-failing-schools/

Where is yours for that $90k BS. Sounds like a serious argument for just giving poor people cash.
It's both easier and harder. Easier in that raw storage bandwidth has increased faster than single core performance. Harder in that to access that bandwidth you have to optimize that latency for that bandwidth has not decreased, in fact in cloud it's increased. I.e. cloud storage can be extremely fast, but only if it's multi stream storage. Similarly cloud compute can be fast, but only if it's multi thread CPU.

But the main point of (2008) is that a lot of the links are broken and tools mentioned outdated. The general concept "you can probably optimize your storage access" is still true though but usually any such concept is, it's the details around current caveats that are interesting.
It's basically Ryanair but 2-3 times more expensive for comparable distances and terrible reliability.

I have only flown them once (well twice, round trip to Vegas for a show and back). It cost $400 to go from Houston to Las Vegas round trip, which was only 30% cheaper than the next option... which i should have paid for.

I got on the plane about 10 minutes after take off was supposed to happen, the pilot and co-pilot were huddled talking very fast and low, which piqued my suspission. After 30 minutes of not moving back, the pilot let us know that we had to get off and go to another gate to another aircraft, and that this one had a light that was concerning them.

So then, after everyone had finally boarded the new plane, we took off about 2 hours late. As we got to Vegas, and the flaps were down and we were coming in on final, the flaps went back up, the pilot sped up and we circled the airport for around 45 minutes, and apparently the landing gear was stuck.

I guess they eventually got it unstuck, because we landed. But 2 planes in a row that were screwed up was too much for me. Even after an uneventful flight back home that same night, I swore them off forever.
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But you didn't demonstrate anything because your assertion is false. In C++ destructor are guaranteed deterministic as to when they run. In Cpython they are not guaranteed, by chance it happens that way, but it should be considered chance.

It seems to me that there must be some other language that would have the c++ guarantee, but I don't know of it. (it isn't hard to implement, and c++ is well known enough that other languages designers can consider the pros and cons and surely someone else has decided it is worth it)
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Trump happens to be a victim of FISA abuse so I wouldn't be surprised.

Downvoters: Here is the Inspector General's report on the FBI's abuse of FISA against the Trump campaign: https://www.justice.gov/storage/120919-examination.pdf

The FBI "persistently deceived a secret court to authorize surveilling a 2016 Trump presidential campaign official".
Points are different in a few ways.

(1) They work because the bank and airline partners are able to offer you something of high perceived value (a vacation, even in business or first class) for very low marginal cost.

(2) This means that (in my most recent redemption) the bank pays the airline $462 in rewards, that cost the airline $400 to deliver, and provides to you with $2500 in value.

(3) Points are great because people don't consider them "cash" but instead something they don't mind parting with. More of a rebate.

So the economics of it are that the bank collects $0.018 in interchange for every dollar spent on a card, converts that to a point that costs them $0.007 to deliver, which the airline services for $0.006 by disposing of inventory that would otherwise go unsold.

The airline wins again because they've created a secondary market for unsold inventory that they can sell to leisure travelers without undercutting the amount they can sell the same inventory for to business travelers.

It's a very nuanced and successful way of motivating people who have a choice to make the choice you want them to make.

On the other hand, $0.01 in cash back costs the bank $0.01, and then if you redeem for travel the airline gets paid $0.01, and you get $0.01 in value.
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The solution to that is pretty simple.. end drug prohibition.
> Aside from that, I don't want scripts shitting files all over my file system

Word. One of the things I love about Linux is that the prevalence of package management as a defining feature of a distribution is that it's almost always the case that application files are pretty well organized according to a standard (my home directories are a mess, but stuff outside is mostly pristine). Even things that aren't quite up to par you can at least clean up by just uninstalling the package--not perfect, but it generally does work.

The various companies that couldn't be arsed to fit their shit inside an RPM or DEB (not universal, but most other systems will have a functional enough means of converting a DEB or RPM until something gets popular enough that the community repackages it), or nowadays Flatpack, or even Docker (Docker has its own set of issues, but it's a decent enough isolation mechanism, certainly for filesystem stuff) are slowly re-creating Windows' mess of infinity different install/uninstall systems, all broken in their own unique small ways, and are happy to just yeet everything they need over the root directory (ah, the joys of driver installers designed by electrical engineers), are a plague on the modern Linux ecosystem.

"curl | bash" nonsense doesn't even make your installer distro-agnostic anyway--it just means that you'll slowly uncover the incompatibilities over time. Oh, your devs all use OS X, and weren't aware that BSD-lineage and GNU core utils don't all act the same, or are even entirely different, and didn't account for that? You've never encountered differences between FS layouts and your script falls over and dies because it relies on everything looking exactly like the build environment? Cool, you gotta reinvent the wheel now, and will probably do so poorly.

My fav example was a former coworker who loved to spout the adage "____ is a security company, and doing things securely is our top priority" in response to many security-related questions, but was also responsible for a set of instructions that had a "curl -k https://example.com/thing.sh | bash" line. Said engineer justified this with the rationale that the end users they worked with often had borked environments with ancient broken OpenSSL installations (or TLS intercept proxies not properly configured in Linux machines, whatever, some half-assed reason--I assure you that the download server certificates validity was not an issue), and lacked the expertise to fix them, so in the interest of expediency, they took a shortcut and didn't even bother to mark it as a problem to fix later. Our industry never ceases to impress me.
I used to be baffled at the use of "SJW" as a pejorative, but comments like this reveal it's aptness to me. It's not the fighting for justice that's negative, it's the adoption of the warrior mentality. Which, ironically, is a perfect reflection of the problem with American policing - viewing the world as a battlefield and anyone not with you as against you. There are no non-combatants in the streets, just as there are none in the ideological trenches. The struggle for order and/or social justice is a totalizing endeavor that demands complete obedience, to the point where non-compliance/apolitical intransigence is treated more harshly than some forms of law-breaking/ideological deviance.
Plenty of businesses keep many months of runway in cash for emergencies. Airlines spent 96% of their free cash flow, over the span of a decade, buying back their shares.

Since you mentioned Google, they have over $100 billion in cash and could easily survive an interruption of this magnitude. Google could go to $0 in revenue and survive for many years. Having cash for an emergency is what a well managed and responsible business should do.

Airlines don’t have any money because they were poorly run and greedy. Let poorly run and greedy businesses fail.
Tour of duty model is required due to how they hack the GS pay scale to get folks closer to technologist market rate.

They are doing meaningful, impactful work, and even if you’re adverse to the short term model, I’d highly recommend considering a conversation with them (might be possible to do a tour with USDS and then roll into a long term role at 18F @ GSA).
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Once you factor the storage latency to/through the server the IOPS at realistic queue depths fall by an enormous factor. This is usually balanced by putting tons of servers on it at which point 41 NVMe drives isn't really a lot - will usually fit in a single rack mount storage enclosure.
Anyone have an idea of the remaining licenses or restrictions on these? I have a small pixel font package and it would be cool to bundle some if possible.
Isn't VS Code literally written in Electron? It would be the easiest thing to implement.
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I think you're being sarcastic, but my praise is genuine and not exaggerated. I've seen people express similar praise for projects like Clojure; sometimes you just find something that solves your problem so perfectly that you can't help but go on about it.
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It's funny. Conversely, I've seen instances where people purposely post things in B&W to make it feel old.

I'm 49 and my old school has an alumni facebook group where they occasionally post old photos. Sometimes they're from my era (ie high school in the 80's) and they post them in black and white. When I first see them, I think they're from the 40's or 50's. Then I realise they're from the 80's and I feel kind of annoyed!
Create a new applet - multi-step is a nice (and about time) feature add
Offensive Security (OSCP Certification) formed the phrase "Try harder!" which is essentially "try smarter", "try differently" and "try again". They give you an environment where you can learn to hack (among other things) but don't force you a special direction. It gives the student all chances to fail and to grow. This is also the reason their courses are so valuable.
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Why is it nicer than (+ 1 2).

What is gained from an extra layer of indirection?
I'm sad that we don't have any modern equivalent of Bell labs and it looks like we won't have anything for quite a while. I had a chance to work with a scientist who was at Bell in its golden age and he said that you could just walk down the hall to the water cooler from your office and chat with the the leading researchers of the day in like five disparate fields.
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Note that the numbers presented in that review are for single-threaded benchmarks, when the current best practices for a server application that really has a lot of write traffic would be to split the work over multiple threads, and preferably use io_uring for both network and disk IO. Even on those consumer-grade SSDs, that would allow for much higher throughput than what's presented in that review—though most of those consumer-grade SSDs wouldn't be able to sustain such write performance for very long.

Right now, a lot of software that wasn't written specifically with SSDs in mind is effectively bottlenecked on the CPU side with system call overhead, or is limited by the SSD's latency while using only a fraction of its potential throughput because the drive is only given one or a few requests to work on at a time.

If you do write your software with fast storage in mind, and have the fastest SSD money can't quite buy, the results can be very different: https://lore.kernel.org/io-uring/4af91b50-4a9c-8a16-9470-a51...
You mention remote, but the job description says the position is based in SF. Is this position only remote temporarily due to COVID, or is this a full-time remote position?