skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Facebook is a private platform and when you sign-up and use them you abide by their rules. This is not censorship.

It is until it isn't. The big question here is: Is it a common carrier in which people use it, or is it responsible for content on there?

When they start sticking their hand in it to determine what is and isn't acceptible content on there, imo they violate the claim that they're a common platform/being a common carrier.
If this product is on offer, then their word-of-mouth marketing isn't getting it done.

The 70 Series Land Cruiser was mentioned above.
I would argue that durability isn't just a function of number of shots in a controlled environment - think about the environment a soldier will use their weapon in. Water, mud, dropping it, things falling on it, and so on. A weapon cast and milled from steel, aluminum, or carbon fiber impregnated polymer, with tight tolerances, is going to be more durable to that kind of thing vs. a firearm having structural parts made with FDM printing like the subject of the article.

I agree that barrels are available in the US but that isn't generally true worldwide. I admit that I don't know much about homemade barrels but my understanding is that for a long rifle barrel (needed for >200 yard shooting) is going to require some pretty specialized and expensive equipment, and I would be very surprised if they could approach the accuracy of even a cheap, non-accurized factory chamber/barrel, but I'll look into it more to satisfy my curiosity.
Honestly, if they're a close friend, buy an air mattress or let them crash on the couch. I've done it plenty of times when visiting someone who didn't have a guest bedroom or there were a bunch of us.

I agree on the car if you're really only using it for a trip or two a year. (Indeed, I wouldn't even consider owning a car in that case. I probably would if I were going away a couple weekends a month though.)
I do agree with you, but for Thailand (and many other countries) 'Digital nomad' isn't a thing. You are there either as a tourist, or you are there for business. If it is for business you will need to have a registered business, freelancing doesn't qualify.

I tried to fly there on a business visa but I wasn't able to get one because Thailand doesn't recognise a 'self employed' person as a business.
"This baby can go zero to sixty in three seconds flat."
Europe banning speech doesn't make it ok. The truth has nothing to hide.
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AFAIK they rebranded as https://picsum.photos/
1. you're advocating providing people with milspec weaponry but without milspec training. there's a saying - with great power comes great responsibility - which seems to be forgotten about in some police departments.

2. you don't want to engage in an arms race with criminals.

3. law enforcement shouldn't be confused with urban warfare.
I find it curious that "the power of python" is so heavily credited here. Seems most of those tricks are easily done on the jvm, as well. I'd imagine any interpreter based environment could do similar. No?
> your desire to buy a “simple” car impacts my ability to breathe

This kind of hyperbole is exactly why we have the president we do.
True. Great grand parent was pretty strong in their claim “has not once yielded positive results in the history of the world.” I only need to provide one counter example to disprove this, while they need something far more significant, like several examples and a sufficiently good description of some mechanism for why this is the case in general.

ashtonkem mentioned Alex Jones (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24754897) that is a pretty good counter example, and is sufficient to refute the original claim.
> This heavy-handedness isn't an encroachment on free speech but a necessary impediment to keep the spirit of free speech and free society intact, one where the tolerant voices aren't drained out by the relentlessness and irrationality of the intolerant.

That's hilarious. The intolerant are justifying their acts by labeling the others as intolerant. It's the basis of all tyrannies.
I think that is a fascinating idea.
First, some models do. I don't know about that particular one, because (shockingly) I don't own a Ferrari.

But second, that doesn't matter. Most places do not have laws that prohibit children in the front seat of cars, only that they use appropriate child seats. Further, child seats are typically required for _children_, not just infants. IIRC, for example, in Texas, child seats are required for any child under the age of 8, unless they are taller than 4'9". It is totally reasonable for a 7 year old to want to go for a ride in their parents "fancy" car. It's actually very responsible of this person to get a child seat properly installed in order to support that.
From the article:

"Practicing Christians are more than twice as likely to adopt than the general population, according to a 2013 study by the Barna Group. The study also found most adoptive parents are White, while the children they adopt are overwhelmingly non-White."

Goddamn those white christians and their... commitment to giving unwanted children a better life?
I think, with a bit of practice and computer help you would be able to measure things. I however don't think most people would want/have time to learn.
Yes - and the Holocaust is a perfect example of history being written by the victors.
> If they are facing an opponent like that then call in the FBI, who generally have much better training, or ATF (no idea about their training).

Except those agencies aren't responsible for everday law enforcement, and some police departments are essentially fighting a war. For example, when I was a kid growing up in LA in the 90s, the gangs there were basically like warlords. Even recently, you can find examples of execution style gang murders in Los Angeles, and shootouts on the streets.
Buy a cheaper used minivan

The guest bedroom makes for a decent storage space

A yard has aesthetic value and you might be living in an area like greater NY metro area where land is worth more than the house built on it, so it's going to make financial sense down the line.

The perspective of the author doesn't seem to come from the same background and experiences as many of the people reading the article, especially since the comparisons of the decisions they made to the "normal" are based on a very strange normal. That's fine, but it might be nice to get a sense of where they come from and what type of lifestyle their social group is living. Looks like "modo" is a canadian service - maybe canada is wildly different from the US but at least from my brief visits to metro areas in that country a significant portion of the lifestyle for the people I met in the toronto area seemed to be a lot like your typical american urban/suburban lifestyle in the US. I guess I just don't recognize the people "paying for the other 95" since I can't imagine anyone buying housing in an urban area with condos and public transit and parks that also sees property land area as purely recreational space instead of a financial investment, or people with young children that can't afford a 50k car that would think it makes more sense to rent out a minivan everytime they need to take the kids anywhere rather than get a 10 year old odyssey that'll keep running for 10 more. And I certainly can't imagine anyone that would decide to get a smaller house without a guest bedroom for financial reasons and then be so magnanimous that they're willing to pay for their friends hotel's when they visit! If they're not visiting to hang out with me at my place, why am I paying for their vacation? I wouldn't expect them to pay for mine!
The pivotal event was the Nortel-Microsoft deal where a court overruled the IANA hippies and said that IP blocks look like property and quack like property so they must be property.
I don’t agree at all. Just because you could spend 100 years being a better cook and learning how to cook every dish on earth it doesn’t mean you will be a better Italian chef than someone who puts 20 years.

It isn’t rocket science really, learn the fundamental well, keep practicing 40h a week for years and you will master the craft.

The difference between two masters of the craft won’t be the person who sit more hours on the chair in front of the computer.
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My (IMO) middle-ground take:

Facebook runs a walled garden and has full authority to censor all they want within it. They can make rules and enforcement as arbitrary any forum admin or subreddit mod. I think this is as it should.

No company should have authority over personal communication or public debate.

Facebook only has the power users hand over to them. IMO it's clear that no company should be in the position that they are in. The answer isn't solidifying Facebook's role as central arbiter of free speech and regulate their role as moderator over public debate and private communication alike, but to transition to a state where the application, protocol, social graph and mode of communication aren't coupled with moderation by a given entity.

Decentralize and federate.

There's work to be done, but we need to fill the gap.
As an LGBTQ immigrant a lot of those things are quite scary personally.
I feel this is a good thing, it is a clear line and not something open to free speech excuses IMHO in much the same way that what side of the road you can drive on is not open to free choice, however some will feel it will eventually curtail what destinations they can drive too, when it will not.
A baby, that would be weird. But nowadays you have to put a child in a seat until they are like 10...
It could be made safe by making to_string_t a template and forwarding from_string's argument into its storage, if things are not complicated enough already :)

Something like this

template <class String>
struct to_string_t {
const String s;
...
}

template <class String>
auto from_string(String&& s) { return to_string_t<String>{std::forward<String>(s)}; }

Then the temporary's ownership would be passed to to_string_t. Would still have surprising behavior if a the argument is a non-const reference though.
Yep, that is a highly significant feature!

https://andrewkelley.me/post/zig-cc-powerful-drop-in-replace...
Good... hopefully lots of people die..:
Again though, selling the old equipment as surplus or just scrapping it achieves the same goal but also brings in some money.
Censorship still isn't the answer.

If you don't like the way other people are thinking, you have to have a conversation with them and try to change their views the hard way.

Censorship may even protect people with views you find objectionable -- because that person is shielded from having disagreements with others.
I considered trying to apply for this STV (Special Tourist Visa) but was put off by the private plane or a chartered plane. But then someone told me that the chartered plane is arranged by the Thai embassy from the country where you are staying.

It doesn't change much of the situation of course, but they don't expect you to arrange a charter flight yourself.
Airbags are not designed with the bodies of children or infants in rear-facing carseats in mind. They're actually really dangerous for them - potentially lethal.
I've seen that one, and it does the illustrate economics supporting a premise that leveraging "synergies between the goals of reducing CO2 emissions substantially and quickly and tackling income and wealth inequality" could be at least feasible. I'm not sure that it supports the cost ratio you quoted however.
Ballet dancer reskill to cyber security?
It's the generic marketing vacuity in vogue this year. Predecessors:

Smart
Power
Turbo
Next
Dyna
Electric

Sure I'm forgetting some ...
There are plenty of places. Mexico for example where the narcos have capabilities similar to the mexican military and In brazil we have little kids with automatic rifles roaming the favelas.
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> The kind of speech which is often labelled "harassment" by its opponents is often labelled as "free speech" by its proponents.

If they are doing this, then they are contradicting themselves, but in all of the debates to which I've been a party, the free speech position has always held that coercive behavior (threats and harassment including quid pro quo harassment) are out of bounds of free speech. Once in a while you'll have a few people indulging in a little schadenfreude when a cancel-culture proponent is themselves canceled, and sometimes this stretches so far as to legitimize their canceling--rationalizing the canceling certainly goes too far and conflicts with free-speech ideals and schadenfreude while understandable is probably still not helpful.
kind of a tangent, but I'd argue gaming PCs aren't uneconomic unless you also need a laptop. a decent laptop with a 1TB ssd is already around $1500. with that kind of money you can buy or build a desktop that thoroughly outclasses even the newest generation of consoles.

obviously that doesn't work if you really need a personal laptop, but how many people fit this criteria? I only use my laptop a week or two out of the year when I go on vacation. I'd probably get more out of vacation if I left the thing at home anyway.
Check out hackaday.com, there are lots of great examples of all sorts of hardware projects on there! Some are definitely similar to the level of functionality you are looking at.
> Understanding the Products, Services and offers that you, and other AT&T customers with whom you call and text and interact, might enjoy the most. We do not use the content of your texts, emails or calls for marketing or advertising.

> The keyword here is content. They don't use the content of the messages and calls, just the metadata (numbers that communicated, duration, etc). That information alone could be very revealing though.

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/j9hsjz/att_is_sell...
Agreed, I also really dislike this frequent misuse of the term "bricking". Bricking used to mean getting your device into a permanently unrecoverable state, but these days I see it used so often as just to mean "I can't turn it on right now".
Open-source use goes up while the economy goes down
"Well they probably did something to deserve getting fired" is certainly a take. I'd ask though, would these companies still fire you if there wasn't a mob, social media or otherwise, causing a ruckus?
Yes. This is very true, especially in the US. Many people tend to have this perspective that their constitutional rights have superseding power over any private hold rule or even can give you an avenue to deny rights to others. I consider this primarily a failure of the educational system.
> But it's still like that in rural areas. A kid can explore the wilderness with her dog on a Saturday and not be expected until dinner. Crime is much less of a concern where there are far fewer people. The air is cleaner, the sky is darker, wildlife is all around. If she skins her knee or gets lost, she gets to deal with it herself rather than having an adult on tap. This breeds more independent people with hard earned self confidence. She can watch and help her parents do a bazillion things around the house that they'd dial up a contractor for in the city.

In my experience this is very common in cities too. It's the suburbs that prevent it. I don't have kids yet, but in my (very urban) neighborhood it's extremely common to have kids out and about on their own. It's generally seen as being very safe.

When I talk to coworkers with kids in the suburbs they're much more worried about letting their kids run around without adults. To be fair, it makes some sense: cars are one of the biggest killers of kids, and they're a much bigger risk in the suburbs (where most streets are wide and fast) than the city.
Or that police departments in dangerous areas have to resort to buying more lethal equipment. Thus ending up killing more no-good dangerous criminals.

I'm more inclined to belief the first version, but it's good to keep in mind that this sort of interpretation has it's limits.
What specifically, that they mention Zig or that you learned of Zig or that Zig has a lazy build system or ???

The thing I really find interesting about Zig is the compile time function evaluation [1] and how it can stand-in for macros, code generation, precomputing values, etc. I think of CTFE as a continuation that comes baked into the binary from an earlier point in time, T-days_ago.

As for this release, I am stoked to see Flang making progress. I am excited about Fortran in the browser.

The interesting thing of note is that Zig is in the process of creating their own backend, but I don't see them dropping LLVM any time soon. An alternate backend is a great way to find bugs in codegen.

[1] https://andrewkelley.me/post/zig-programming-language-blurs-...
That's a law about free speech. It doesn't define the concept, it presupposes it. Certainly it doesn't imply that no other form of free speech exists.

(I'm not arguing that Facebook shouldn't remove holocaust denial. I just disagree with this new and extremely narrow interpretation of "free speech" that has popped up like mushrooms everywhere and is being used to curtail free speech in many social and business contexts.)
I do have some Thai friends, and a few pinoys who work in Thailand so I am familiar with the rules and quarantaine process. You are right about those rules, but ordering Grab Food is possible. You can also register 2 'family members' (aren't checked) that are able to bring you stuff. And of course with a bit of monetary courage you are pretty much free to bring them whatever they want.
> Free Speech is only a concern when it's the state, not when it's a private entity

Why?

Even though FB cannot literally muzzle me, it is explicitly trying to be the singular point of online social interaction in an increasingly digital world.

To the extent that it is successful, its decisions on what content is and is not acceptable affect us all, far more strongly than any government censor, regardless of how right or wrong are its determinations.
Although it's not as customizable based on fine-grained location, the USGS (not Ray Wells, the geologist who compiled the map, but his colleagues) are working on making what they call geonarratives or story maps (which is an ESRI trademarked product). These are interactive webmaps that also have a lot of narrative content (prose and pictures) that you can read through in a start-to-finish type of way, or browse the map and click on spots, seeing that part of the narrative.

They are focusing right now on making these that describe geologic hazards such as Cascadia subduction zone earthquakes and attendant 'secondary perils' such as tsunamis, landslides, and liquefaction, all of which have different geographic distributions and types of impacts.

The big hold-up with this is not really technological, it's that it takes a lot of time to write the damn content, make the maps and charts, and edit the photos. But on the (information) technical side, there are still a lot of cool things that can be done within webmaps or similar interfaces, showing interactive geologic events and having sliders for different times, or whatever.
From what I understand, that only worked if the processes making NFS requests kept retrying long enough.

But yes, being stateless has the advantage that the server won’t lose connections, open file state, etc. across client or server restarts.

That’s useful, but if you assume you have a file system (which NFS claims to be), and want to use those features, you’re asking for problems. NFS is aan example of “worse is better”.
Well why don't we see a B&W image with coloured lines on it? Rather we see a coloured image with coloured lines on it. It's pretty spooky to me.

It's interesting zooming in, until the point that your brains perceives the grid properly, and a B&W image pops forth.
My ultimate goal as a software developer is to make myself redundant.

Not a great goal financially, but there's always another job out there. Until there isn't, and at that point we'll either be living in a utopia or the robots will have exterminated us.
FYI, from personal experience, at least some of the companies in that "hiring without whiteboards" do, in fact, whiteboard you with leetcode questions. I think it's really a team by team basis even within these companies.

It sucks, but I would highly suggest you study for leetcode interviews. There are many more companies that will leetcode you than not, and the numbers are growing. Many companies that did not leetcode candidates several years ago are now doing so.

It's better to suck it up and play the game to maximize your chances, instead of trying to hunt the elusive white whale that is a great company that won't leetcode you. At least if your intention is to target companies in one of the big US coastal tech hub cities (SFBA, Seattle, NYC, possibly a few others, and at least London if you're in Europe).

Granted, some companies are doing away with leetcode interviews too (especially in the frontend), but they seem to be the exception, not the norm, and still rare.
I think it's more demographics shift in reddit and other social media users than percolation of behavior. As in the video game and sports people started using reddit more instead of the old programmer dominated crowd in reddit.
Those two points aren't contradictory. No company should be in the position Facebook is in.
> Rather more of a life-threatening defect when the reason you can't get a signal is that you're driving through an unpopulated desert where there are no cell towers or other people.

What happens if your car breaks down for run-of-the-mill mechanical reasons when you're driving through an unpopulated desert with no cell towers or people?

How likely is this failure mode, compared to mechanical failures?
Uff Thanks for the great insights!!
I want to offer a score based on the job description.

- Maybe I can replace "ATS" with "software" because more people understand the word software than ATS but still link to the blog article. What do you think?
It's a shorthand in common parlance, and not every group needs to be monophyletic to be useful.
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Meanwhile, I'm thinking about how lazy cars are making us and tinkering with disabling the power-steering pump.

But with drive-by-wire, we could simulate all kinds of scenarios in software and switch between them.
On the kids part, if you need details, bottle feeding multiple times a day, diaper change, shower, meal prep, feeding, reading, coloring, nursery rhymes, you know, the regular child stuff with young kids... Sure, for our last project, I wrote 90% of the e2e integration test because of time crunch, so yeah, I still code if need be. I pretty much stay out of the way since the team understands the details and I pick up the really boring piece. With that said, Im sorry you have had overpaid babysitters that add no value. Go kick rocks because I never said that folks shouldn't have a life outside of coding.
Just barely. The slaughter ban enacted over a decade ago has emptied out horses from the American heartland. Lots of them starved to death. Many of them ended up slaughtered anyway, only in much poorer conditions in Mexico. Large livestock used to have inherent value in this country. Not anymore. We're the India of horses.

When poor rural families are doing fine, spending thirty bucks a month on feeding and caring for a horse is no problem. But poor families know they won't be doing fine forever. They can't afford to spend $800 on a horse they don't know they'll be able to sell at all if they need to do so suddenly. So, lots of kids who would have spent time around horses absent the ban, haven't.

Rich morons and the charities they support don't care about that. There are still markets in place for horses with economic value such as Thoroughbred race horses. Although, since they don't race their entire natural lives, Thoroughbreds have also been harmed by the slaughter ban.