skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The simple expression of an idea w/o the intent to cause harm to another party, and the sole intention of discourse should be protected no matter what.

The point is Holocaust denial is often used as a foot in the door to spread racial animosity, which has caused harm. It can be hard to determine what's legitimate research and debate versus racist dog whistling. But people recognize it's having a real effect in the world, and the marketplace of ideas hasn't quashed it over the past 70 years.

I'm all for Facebook removing anything like Holocaust denial or debate over it's existence. That's a good trade-off: prevent a gradual acceptance of racism at the cost of not being a good venue for Holocaust history researchers.

But I'm not for the government taking action. Just my anti-establishment American streak.
Shouldn't we simply be optimizing for cases in hospitals?
What goes wrong with a woman that is the expected size?
Yeah that's the goal, and you do need a tight lockdown to reach it, but only for a short time (4-8 weeks) if everyone commits to it. That's really not too big a sacrifice to ask to kill an epidemic.

It's also clearly direly needed practice for the next, worst epidemic. We got lucky with COVID-19, it's on the mild side of the scale.

In a worse case scenario, say Ebola mutates to an airborne strain, the countries and cities that essentially used COVID-19 as a practice run to develop the procedures and social knowledge to quickly shut down an epidemic, will be looking smart.

We've known for decades that pandemics are coming, as the world becomes more physically connected. We've written tons of books and made tons of movies about it. Every zombie movie of the past 20yrs is about a viral outbreak.

So it's insane that so many Western countries are behaving like idiot children in the face of this entirely predictable and predicted problem.
What I meant is that the copyright owner is not bound by the terms of a GPL license he grants to others. Similarly, a licensee who receives software from the copyright owner under a GPL license cannot compel the copyright owner to do anything.
The Silver State Classic is an example of (normally) fairly deserted desert where a Ferrari would be right at home. https://sscc.us/
> “...closing ‘non-essential’ business and limiting gatherings, is a logical progression...”

you’re advocating lockdown. we only need to curtail (not completely shut down) socializing-oriented businesses like bars/clubs, not ‘non-essential’ businesses. we should advocate for, rather than try to coerce, limiting large private indoor gatherings and being responsible when gathering.

> “Then we have masks, social distancing, and frequent hygiene...”

only social distancing is needed, but you can’t mandate these things in any case. only social pressure works on the level of groups and communities. masks and over-cleaning are effective only on the (in some cases very slim) margins. don’t breath into each other’s faces and we’ve done the majority of what is effective, rather than ritualized compliance signals.
Are you suggesting that a VPN provider couldn't do the same? Many VPN providers have been caught selling their customer data too.
Stage fright does not lead a senior level engineer to build a priority queue using XML.

Assume good faith: let’s presume he knows some candidates get stage fright and has ways to help mitigate it. Or that despite stage fright, such tests are still a good signal (e.g. the signal is so strong the false negatives are a worthwhile cost, or stage fright might be highly correlated with poor performance, or stage performance could be highly correlated with talent!)
Why not? Nearly every interpretation of Sodom and Gomorrah is anti gay (I personally interpret the story as about not raping, but that's off topic).

Why wouldn't it be OK to ban a belief system that specifically discriminates against an innate feature?
> DNS Error Assist

> Sometimes we enter a wrong search word, or a wrong web address, or maybe the website we want is no longer in service. If this happens, the DNS Error Assist service automatically searches for similar or related terms and presents you some results that may be useful for you. Otherwise, you’ll get a “No results found” error message.

Ok, I'll try to turn it off.

https://i.judge.sh/early/Rose/qNw1RZCHQB.gif

Nope, it's broken.
It's not a perfect correlation, but even if you just look in Europe, the countries with more freedom of speech have more civil liberties.

It's also worth noting that only half of the EU member states have legal gay marriage -- something that all Americans have access to.
> Wouldn't forcing Facebook

Feel free to argue that Facebook should be allowed to censor others. But it is still censorship.

It is perfectly possible for someone to both think that Facebooks actions should be allowed, and are also censorship at the same time.
10 years ago I purchased a Maronda homes in a yet to be developed housing addition. I was able to watch a lot of homes be built using there construction method of pre-built walls/floors/roof lifted via crane. It does seem like a great idea, speeding up onsite building, and preventing the wood from being left in the elements. These benefits appear to come at a cost.

a) The largest benefit seems to come when building a similar building each time, any changes make it hard for the crew to assemble.

b) The site has to be cleared of trees and rather open to allow access of the crane.

I have since moved to a hot housing market in New England, and see many lots leveled and replaced with new homes. All of them are stick built on site, and this doesn't appear to be an issue. The number of days for an experienced crew to stick build a house is short, and many of these homes are very custom. The site/house is normally optimized to get the largest sale value, not the easiest built. The other interesting this is it is generally impossible, or not cost effective to use a crane to lift parts on many of these lots. Even if having pre-built sections is a cost savings, it would be such a small difference it wouldn't be worth it with the possible risk of quality of the pre-built items and/or timing of construction. Home building is a complicated process and many companies seem to be providing solutions without looking at a total solution.
I don't think stage fright explains an XML document as a solution to a priority queue.

I'm betting it was something like this though: https://www.chegg.com/homework-help/questions-and-answers/pr...
You could be right. It was ProgrammingHumor specifically in this case.
Does the mask need to present a physical barrier to the virus particles? Is there any electrostatic force, for instance, which would trap viruses as they passed close to the mask material?
https://archive.is/SHvTr
Sorry, but your logic is not complete. There were reductions of cases in places without lockdowns, as much as that existed.

You can’t just say I used anti-shark spray after I was bit; since I didn’t get bit again it must have worked.
Thanks for this!

As an aside, they have a terrible UI/UX for this - it's probably on purpose. They could have easily put all of those permissions on a single page.
While we are on the subject of ineffective masks, please consider reaching out to anyone you know who works at Esty and pressure them to ban "mesh face masks."

Esty is unfortunately being abused to peddle what is effectively a 5 year olds "I'm not touching you" response to mask requirements.
Kafka famously left several novels unfinished... like the log, man... Just keeps going
I can almost guarantee that the person who implemented it as part of their job brushed up on priority queues before they built it.

I remember how to build one from a binary heap, but I wouldn't launch right into the code without reading a bit first.
It works for me here?
Can anyone find the direct opt-out URLs for those?
I've tried on two laptops and five browsers, but I cannot use Verizon's website, the auth loop spins back and forth forever. I honestly think it is purposefully half broken or half fixed so I cant cancel my account ever.
I don't even live in California, but I enjoyed reading this anyways, especially the National Races and State and Local Races sections as the candidates are described so colorfully.
How did Ericsson format the internal version numbers?
A big part of what makes a deep freeze efficient is that the opening is at the top.

There are refrigerated coolers out there, which have essentially the same structure in miniature.

You still have cheapo compressors, insufficient or bad foam (some foams embrittle when exposed to sealed car temperatures, I don't know if that affects the R value but I wouldn't be surprised), but at least you can fix the seal, and have a form factor people are still familiar with.
Without lockdown, we'd be counting US deaths in millions.
> Assume good faith

That's an interesting defense of an interview process that specifically does not assume good faith of the candidates.

> has ways to help mitigate it

I'm not sure this understands the nature of true stage fright. There aren't any good ways to mitigate it.
You probably want to tell me that adding a few megabytes extra is not going to cost more from the hoster. In most instances this is true. What you forget is that everything has to be configured and maintained.

Just ensuring the lib gets deployed to the right place, in the right version, and with the right caching-headers, has cost me hours of my life in some instances. When I let a CDN do it, it was minutes.

Those days are over. I don't load static libs any more, so the question doesn't even come up. Except maybe for fonts.
I'm kinda surprised none of the model-checking people have tried verifying glibc's NPTL implementation; I guess it might be hard to formalize futex's behavior?
How's it going to unlock the car if it's not talking to the important parts?

Sure someone could make a dedicated secure unlock wire or something, but they don't.
What OS doesn't make mouse motion almost instantaneous? Ok I know Linux sometimes has issues, but Windows and Mac handle this fine.
Get more memory.
I had a similar issue with a clj-kondo, a Clojure linter.

https://github.com/borkdude/clj-kondo/issues/1036

The reason of the memory leak was: I used a memoized function on some argument that should be GC-ed after one run, but as memoized functions store their arguments for future comparison, it was kept in memory forever.
And I don't mean to throw the baby out with the bath water. There are many wonderful things to learn from the scaffolding of religion and parable. To apply it to our legal system, tax system and to cherry pick bits from it for our military conflicts seem less than fruitful and more than a little hypocritical in a modern age (no accusation on you). As an American, I would much rather we go towards a scientific, historical, philosophic and arts educational model and leave religion at home, with tax loop holes removed. Charity tax breaks should be more than enough for those churches that stick to their mission statement.

But I digress. It doesn't matter until the likes of Facebook are turned into public spaces and regarded as havens for free speech or they are not. That's really the question that has to be answered.
Show HN: I build a Linux tool that SIGKILLs procrastination sources
I predict none of those doomsday predictions will come to pass, and everything will be back to pre-covid levels soon enough (maybe 2-5 after the pandemic recedes). In the meantime, the sector is in for a rough ride, yes.

I don't have much more compelling arguments than you have, so time will tell!
I believe he's talking about topic at hand, not the stock price.
I have heard of the Fear setting one. The others are new to me.

Tim Urban's site and newsletter are great. There are some real gems there.
I've also run Linux for a long time, and have used Wine since before 1.0 to run some games, with very mixed results. Overall, the same experience for years - most games would have some issues, and many simply wouldn't run, so I kept Windows for gaming.

Proton was a dramatic change for me. A few clicks to enable Proton for a particular game, and then it just seamlessly runs and works. Granted, not all games do (check ProtonDB) but all the games I've wanted to play for the last couple of years have worked. I'd say Proton is the most significant thing to ever happen for Linux gaming support, and it did more for me overnight than many years of trying with Wine.

Modern multiplayer games with anti-cheat are mostly broken, some popular ones like Rainbow Six Siege are impossible to play. But if you mostly play other games, give Proton a try.
The author believes that we should screen for IQ directly and that long technical interviews are second-rate proxy for that. The piece is meant to get the reader to buy into a set of "natural" or "obvious" priorities and then show how absurd most interviews are in light of those priorities.

I suspect the author is looking for a reaction like: "Wait, if I agree this is absurd, then why _don't_ we just administer IQ tests and be done with it?"

Some of the author's tweets about identifying talent, IQ, and temperament:

· https://share.getcloudapp.com/YEuyyKbE

· https://share.getcloudapp.com/z8uYY5gZ

· https://share.getcloudapp.com/7Ku882yG

· https://share.getcloudapp.com/E0urr8B5
I know it is in to make fun of "toothpick and card board" construction, but modern engineering has found them very strong when used correctly. What you intuitively think is better often isn't.
Okay. An epidemic modeler here. Have to say something about this declaration.

First of all, its principal authors are legitimate medical specialists, who happen to hold a contrarian opinion. This is fine. Science doesn't work without discussions and clashes of contradicting point of view.

However, the declaration is written in very political, not scientific language. The mention of "herd immunity" doesn't give it any good points, too. Regardless of what anybody might think, most epidemiologists are quite aware that full lockdown is a nuclear option, that will be tried only after all other means have failed. We hate lockdowns just like everybody else. As the nuclear option, it works, but all of us are currently busy trying to figure out anything, really anything, that could bring the reproduction rate below 1 without resorting to a full lockdown. We work long days and weekends for that. So it is quite unfair to blame researchers and politicians for this. Nobody wants it.

And just in case — no, you wouldn't want to leave the virus with the reproduction rate > 1 unchecked. With that, sooner or later (but in quite a short time, several months top) medical systems everywhere will be catastrophically overloaded. Then, all the hell breaks loose.
Yes, each have their advantages, e.g. here the speed of sound couldnt have been calculated in these circumstances.

The simulation could've also revealed flaws and disproved the theory w/r to itself.
Freedom is having a choice. Between, say, having fun in overcrowded bar till 3am or staying in your apartment alone, ordering delivery and watching netflix. Quite simple.
They will become unbearable for billions of people in your life time. Maybe not where you live, but literally billions of people. Will you welcome some of them into your home?
I believe Lenin called the USSR "state capitalism".
The exact opposite, actually, it was discovered as a concept when people tried looking for multiple scales.
Ask HN: Should I justify my lack of experience in an interview
I am interviewing for a senior role for which I do not have the standard no of years required. Should I actively try to explain why that won't be a negative to my interviewer?
I posted this since Calla got posted the other day. This is another similar project. :)
My point is that "the lockdown" isn't causing anxiety disorders.

Why can my 81-year old mother walk her dog with only a mask on, while you get a sniffle and wind up in the ER?

You're malfunctioning one way by having an irrational reaction to quarantine, and a second way by attributing that abreaction to the quarantine and not to your personal history.

You need a psychologist not a meal from a restaurant, eh?

I probably sound unsympathetic, and I apologize for that. Panic attacks are a serious problem, and I do sympathize with you. My own anxiety revolves around my mom dying in agony with her lungs filling with fluid...

Please maintain quarantine and treat your personal psychological issues with a beer or a joint or some breathing exercises or meditation or a nice nap or perhaps a bath. You know, something with a low risk of propagating a deadly virus to innocent people that have never done you any harm, eh what?
It doesn't what my monitor does: I disable the output to it in Windows every time. And every time, Windows re-enables it.
Yes to all points.

D doesn't go the C++ route, the way code like this works is via generating new code (in text) at compile time which the compiler then compiles (duh) and replaces the mixin statement within.

Here's an annotated example of these features in use

https://run.dlang.io/is/2b5zgC
Thanks for making this! I agree, there is a lot missing from Unity resources for experienced software engineers from other disciplines.

Some things I would really like to figure out are some of the idiomatic ways monobehaviors are structured, the variability between them, how best to separate game logic from implementation specifics, and best practices for reusability in real life, beyond what most of the tutorials teach.

Subscribed. Looking forward to seeing the next set of articles!
fair, it probably depends on what your goal is. OSX certainly relies on more open source code, components, and tooling than windows - but less than debian.
I think they will hold on as long as they can to release it for Linux.

You are right that they are a commercial software company but they are trying to keep the Windows as "the platform" for enterprise companies otherwise it will be too hard for them to sell everything as a package.

office 365 for web is unfortunately not the same experience.
Judge denies request to force Fortnite back on iOS App Store pending trial
If the asshole says they've changed because they got their brain swapped out with someone else and is now literally a different person, then yes, I'd give them some more leeway. Satya Nadella is not Steve Ballamer. Humans don't get to literally swap out the part of their brain in charge with time.
I feel like most surveys on this topic are not going to be a reflection of reality. People are tired of being at home for a variety of reasons, including child-care difficulties and their inability to do much/any socializing outside the home, plus added COVID-related friction when doing normal chores like grocery trips.

These stress points make people associate these unrelated negative things with "working from home", which, in normal times, need not be quite the negative experience. Sure, there are valid reasons to prefer working in an office: lack of a workspace at home, desire for professional social interaction, desire to separate work life and home life, etc. But I think a lot of people who are so negative about working from home right now would be more positive about it if the COVID-related difficulties were removed.

I'd like to see this survey repeated, say, a year after things go back to normal (or as normal as they're going to get).
Not unless asked.
The main thing that will happen to software that's twenty years old in twenty years is for the software to be forty years old. Large legacy systems do not get replaced.
The heavy lifting in Python is usually happening in CFFI, so even if your Python house is completely in order you're still on the hook for having the just-right versions of C libraries like 'libxml2' installed. There's a good chance that upstream development is happening against bleeding-edge libraries that were installed via homebrew, so if you're developing or deploying to anything not-Darwin you can expect a bumpy ride.
IMO, the UI/UX isn't too bad (not great either). The per-line thing makes sense if you have multiple individuals on the account and want to opt in (I've never heard of such people, just saying). The toggles are straightforward although this is a rank lower in UX compared to the standard email "unsubscribe" pages, IMO. The more egregious thing is this is opt-out instead of opt-in ... probably something we need legislation to solve.
Even if it's satire — which I think it should be more clear when you write about such a delicate topic — I think it represents quite well the levels of "assholiness" the software industry is reaching these days.

I think they can get away today with so many silly hoops because the supply of engineers is quite high these days, and I guess, the FAANG industry standard is the "fair" way to identify the best candidates.

Engineers now are putting up with all this because there is not much choice than to spend more time training for this kind of interviews.

No matter how much do they talk about talent, judgment, IQ or whatnot, the fact is the more you train, the better you get at this kind of interviews, independently of how capable in your day to day job you are as an engineer. Proof that training works is the whole emerging cottage industry around interview preparation that is thriving these days.

Perhaps this is a bubble that will burst at some point, but I'm afraid the bar of ridiculousness will keep raising. If any of the FAANG companies started requiring to complete a marathon in less than 5 hours, they will still find great candidates that will train hard to achieve it.

The rationalization after fact would be something like the ability to complete a marathon correlates well with the ability to deliver a project or whatever, but they are just selecting for engineers that will do whatever it takes to get the position, no matter how silly the requirement is.
Performative cynicism + speaking hypothetically about past events = I'd downvote it twice if I could. In reality very very few ISPs are giving one IPv6 address per customer. ISPs are greedy but they're not wantonly cruel.
I'm a huge fan of MikroTik. The RB4011 is fantastic router at the price point and even has a 10G SFP+ port. Great hardware.

The configuration UI isn't the best, but they also have a full scriptable CLI that isn't too bad. Huge future set. I just wish they would move the newest version (7) along quicker in development.
I think the death rate in particular has been the victim of politics. Each side has in interest in presenting it as higher or lower, particularly relative to the flu. The true value is unknowable as it requires perfect test data. And the available data (case fatality rate) is rejected by the "it's just the flu" camp, because they say the true denominator is much higher.

But honestly, who cares about the actual number? The flu death rate is subject to the same problems. Nobody gets tested for asymptomatic flu. We're should be comparing the CFR for flu to the CFR for COVID, and this shouldn't be an argument.... But it is.
Good. Air travel in its current form should be more expensive. It should cost a lot more to fly from coast to coast. Maybe then they could take seats out and make the whole experience for the average person a lot better. Something in between getting stuffed into a tube like cattle, or paying for extremely expensive first class tickets which you may not get anyway even if you can afford them because there's so few available on each flight.
I grew up hanging around early 2000's era pixel art communities, so I not only know file formats, but I had very strong opinions on image formats when I was 13. I wouldn't have done any better at the AP submission than those kids did. If it's the default image format my device puts out, and the input doesn't tell me it's rejected, I assume things have worked out.
Well almost nothing is actually 100% bricked, most phones or motherboards (for bios) can be programmed through some hardware interface. If you brought it to the factory / R&D lab, odds are they would be able to flash most things they designed.

It's just difficult and uneconomical, so isnt offered as a service
Slaps hood