skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A company and a sovereign state are completely different things.

Both have politics since they are structures made of humans.

But they are completely different.

A company is a legal entity functioning within the framework of the legislation of a state, to start with.
> The argument for censorship against stupidity assumes exactly that, that the majority of people are stupid which they are not.

It's not censorship against stupidity. It's censorship against bullshitters who spread medical misinformation that may put people in danger; factually untenable opinions, expressed in an assertive manner, in a context which seems authoritative to the layperson.

Nobody says the majority is stupid, nor it is relevant. Protecting a minority is as good an excuse as it is protecting the majority, don't you think?
Most services offer password reset and would likely help you recover your account. This is not something you have to worry about too much especially if the service you are using isn't that important to you.
The authentication service should ideally be under the control of the user. At least, the user should be able to choose one that they trust. I doubt it's an accident that current authentication systems lack that choice.
Oldies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z2FmAzArl4 (Baldorba / Benito Lertxundi)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IthTQD6XonM (Eperrak / Anje Duhalde)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRXmWm-sCzA (Xorieri mintzo zen / Erramun martikorena)

Modern:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8bc3kQF040 (Lau Teilatu / Itoiz)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwgPX3XUnsc (Ilargia / Ken zazpi)
Dow dropped 90% in great depression, so even trading the dow with 10% leverage would've wiped you out.

Dow also dropped >50% in GFC, so 2x leverage would've ended you.

Taking ultra risky bets when you are young is sensible because it isn't actually risky. This is because for a 30yo with good career prospects, your future career is probably worth an amortized $5 million dollars. If you have $200k in savings, that is only 4% of your true net worth. If you lose it, you still really have $5 million dollars. Therefore playing loose with it is pretty reasonable.

If you're 63 and will retire in 2 years, your amortized future career earnings are probably $200k and your assets $5million, and then you should be conservative.
> but forcing people to replace certain words in their communication only differs from Orwell's dystopia in the size of the dictionary.

It's dystopian that people can't hurl the N-word at each other?
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To me that would still tell nothing. Did you just implement 30 queries that are “get item by key” from a database someone else designed so that your job was extremely easy ?
It'll be nice if there are openly accessible example link boards without having to sign up and log in.
Considering that they photosynthesize, photosensitivity doesn't seem like that much of a leap.
HN loves to be gruff and contrarian about these topics. So I'm going to say this for any readers that are or will be looking for jobs:

Yes, the article is mostly right. Yes, you should quantify your achievements as much as possible. And yes, the popular pattern "Accomplished X, as measured by Y, by doing Z" is effective.

The example in the article is not the best because there's too much of a leap between "moving to React" and "increasing user engagement by 27%". As a reader I'm left wondering why moving to React had such an impact. In this situation it's worth spending some of your precious word count to explain things better.
16KB page size is what arm64 macOS and iOS on Apple A9 onwards use.
Only works if there's a subscription to recipes for the food inserted, improved potato recognition etc.

Bonus if, after 18 months, you need to buy a replacement microwave because a security certificate has expired.
Your example has no overlap with what I was talking about.

What you are saying is about iteration in the language and does not have anything to do with concurrency or architecture.

There is also nothing difficult about avoiding infinite loops in C++. There is a for loop to iterate through a data structure, or you just can just make a macro to iterate a number of times. This is not something that would cause anyone to feel like a big problem has been solved. Recursion for iteration only has advantages when compared to loose while loops. Once more structured iteration came about, using recursion for iteration is just an awkward and overcomplicated hack that obscures something simple.
I love my empress tree! Once the roots were established the thing grows beautifully.

It blew over this year (3 years worth of growth). Several of the shoots also blew over. Finally one shoot survived the harsh winds we get occasionally and it’s already ~7-8 feet tall.

and the leaves. They look like something from Jurassic park. They’re HUGE!
Yeah Discord is not going to go away anytime soon. If they ever start to actually struggle for money they'll just be bought up by some tech giant.
I really wouldn't consider most programming to be intellectually challenging. Certainly, most FAANG devs don't feel challenged in the least bit.
That's obvious but doesn't explain why some organizations are vulnerable to it while others aren't.
I use element - though hate using it, bugs me with annoying permissions every-time and it's yet another chat app from user point of view. User's already have to juggle Slack, FB Messenger, WhatsApp, Discord so I'm very sympathetic to users who are resisting/not using it. The world doesn't need 100 chat apps, we need to consolidate all this into one single app, if there something that solves that problem, sign me up :)
Now you mention it, the official position on the correct response to coronavirus flip flopping and changing from location to location is a good recent example too.
Chorded keyboard required to improve interface!
Sewage is still 'America's dirty secret'
As far as I'm aware, the cultivation of capsicum peppers is generally believed to have began in Mexico, however these peppers grew in the wild in Central and South America as well, and were cultivated there as well. There are five domesticated species of capsicum pepper. Of those, C. baccatum is from the South American Andes, as is C. pubescens. The origins of C. chinese are a bit unclear, but this species is known to be very diverse in the Amazon. C. frutescens I'm not sure about, but C. Annuums came from southern North America or northern South America. There are also another 20 or so wild species, which are found throughout this region.

Basically, these sort of peppers were native throughout southern North America, Central America, and much of South America. Furthermore consumption of these peppers likely predated their cultivation by thousands of years.
That has been common feedback from quite a few users. Thanks for letting me know, I'll implement it soon :) I think I might make it so that you need to sign up if you want to add a link to the board, but can see others' boards without signing up.
You could print an alternative to the little rolling ring that has a small cam built in. That would actually be useful!
San Marino has only been a democracy since, what, after the Italian revolution? It is a uniquely old microstate, though.

(Another line of counter-argument is that the US wasn't a democracy until the civil rights act...)
This article must have been written before this week's spectacular meltdown in Big Sur, which resulted because Apple emphatically did not handle application trust well.
The way the media has handled this election has completely changed the way I trust ‘news sources’.

I also think we should do away with the two party system and election spending. America is a capitalist nation. We should just run it like a corporation. Pay politicians on the basis of nation’s user experience.

I am stunned that Trump got over 72 million votes. I did not expect that. Even if he loses, we know that at least close to 50% of the country wasn’t embarrassed by Trump. That changes everything. Everything.

That wasn’t the narrative we heard in CA. In California/Silicon Valley, we seem to be living in a bubble without a clue as to how the rest of the country feels.

I think dividing the country into two halves politically is a bad idea. We need multiple parties and coalition govts. That might make more sense.
While inflammations and even frank ulceration are painful, you can live your life with IBD while still enjoying very spicy food, for the same reason that you can enjoy spicy food when you're used to it.

There's a good reason to think that spicy food improves outcomes causally from a neurological point of view as well as, possibly, a gut microbiome point of view. I would say that the alternative you describe is mechanistically possible but not as plausible.
Fairness in Multi-Tenant Systems
This is not an easy issue. It boils down to responsive customer service at the end. Even if you host your email, your hosting provider can suspend your account if, let's say, your credit card rebilling fails. There should be a better and more resilient way to identify people online in 2020!
I’d say this is only one half.

Many malicious effects involve social engineering, fraud, etc, and are not about exfiltration of files.
This is true, I was not counting police guns, which are in fact everywhere. I was not also counting military guns that started showing up after 9/11. I was only referring to civilian guns, which perhaps was not clear.
Fatality rate of major virus outbreaks worldwide in the last 50 years as of 2020
> These functions almost inevitably end up needing something from the top-level application-wide state, so you’ll often see some type signature like this:

> updatePersonalInformation
> : Model
> -> (PersonalInformationModel, Cmd PersonalInformationMsg)
> -> (Model, Cmd Msg)

> This is way too complex already, and this approach doesn’t even actually buy you anything.

Is this accurate? I feel like this may not be what the author intended to write, since the update function isn't given any kind of message.

The author's approach has data for every page of your app stored in the model at once, and available to every other page. Also, any page can edit the data for any other page and send messages to any other page. That makes me nervous.

We went with having a small amount of global state that was visible to every page, and that every page could update (returning (Model, GlobalState, Cmd Msg)). That seems... basically fine? It's still a bunch of boilerplate, but not that much, and I don't think we've had significant problems with it. We need Cmd.map and Html.map but I don't know why the author thinks this is bad.

(The boilerplate is mostly turning `(model, cmd)` into `(model, globalState, cmd)`. On the other hand, we don't need to wrap each of our messages with `ThisPageMsg`. Most pages don't need global state, and we let them use a regular Msg -> Model -> (Model, Cmd Msg) update function.)

(Oh, I think very occasionally we do need to send a message up to the top-level as well. I don't remember exactly how we do that. It might be something like... those pages' update functions take a `PageMsg` and return a type `PageMsg PageMsg | GlobalMsg GlobalMsg`, and the top-level update function interprets `ThisPageMsg (GlobalMsg ...)` and passes through `ThisPageMsg (PageMsg ...)`. Again, boilerplate, but not significantly problematic, and only on pages that need it.)
This part gave me a sense of what it's doing:

> Decentralization is the key, but hard

> Instead of sharing common components and tools for building P2P systems, every P2P project seems to re-invent the wheel. This heightens the effort and increases the potential number of vulnerabilities.

I think the way to be successful here is to first make a killer app that uses the stack. Then since it's wildly successful and the framework is open can gain adoption for other applications.
I’m not sure how you could come to that conclusion given the first paragraph acknowledges the meltdown.

“ On November 12, 2020 Apple released macOS Big Sur. In the hours after the release went live, somewhere in Apple's infrastructure an Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) responder cried out in pain, dropping to its knees, begging for mercy as load increased beyond what it could handle.”
> had them wrongly disabled within days, despite not doing anything at all with them

That's because that's also a common tactic used by spammers -- to register and then do nothing for days/months, on the hopes that an "older" account will be less suspicious.

Nobody's complaining about that though because it's not a problem. No data is lost. Also, I've had it happen to myself (with Twitter) and it was incredibly easy to re-instate.

To clarify, I was referring to legitimate, in-use (with data to lose) accounts being incorrectly disabled.
Wherever the teams at AMD, NVIDIA, Appme and TMSC work out of.
> it is also shores up my belief that whatever your implicit definition of "duty of a society to protect its citizens against such efforts" is, I can assure you, we neither need nor want it.

I'm not just an antifascist, I'm German. My ancestors proved for the rest of the world where a worldview based on lies and hate (and qanon is nothing more than that) will lead. Their history is proof that a society must defend itself or it will collapse.
What sort of training helps deal with violent and irrational people?
Part of it is just that Apple spent a bunch of time hiring the right people and making the right acquisitions.

Another part of it is just that designing a CPU with good single threaded performance is hard and costs a lot of die area and no one else in the ARM world was incentivized to do this - who needs a smartphone with that kind of performance (I know, I know - all of us, now)? But Apple also makes IPads which are kind of a bridge device - mobile and battery-powered, but also big and something people might want to do real work on.

I’m also going to say that I think Apple is still alone among the phone manufacturers in recognizing that smartphones are software platforms, not simply hardware devices. I think they have a special appreciation for the enabling power of a more capable CPU.
To the people saying that correlation does not imply causation: we're Bayesian machines, not publishing journals. Feel free to weight this by whatever odds you give to causation being the other way, and act on it. For example if you think it's 2:1 as likely to be something else, like a confounding variable, it still a 10% decrease in all-time mortality to start eating chili. I'm very much averse to spiciness, but guess who's going to be considering it from now on?
Countries with lots of minerals in Africa/ South America can tell you stories about the resource curse.
I mean, I'm sure there are many things about Austrian politics which are less than ideal, but I'm not convinced a lawsuit and series of appeals taking three years to decide that a claim that a Green Party member was a fascist and a traitor was defamatory was quite the dystopia Orwell had in mind. (And Orwell lived in a country with strong libel laws, which his publisher was constantly worried about his own writings falling foul of and he was very happy to encourage his publisher to worry about more when the libellous comments were made abut him)
Apple is very differently organised from most big corporations, it has whats known as a functional organisational structure. Marketing, operations, software engineering, hardware engineering, etc.

Most corporations are organised around product groups, but what happens when the mobile products group comes up with a new device and wants to sell it to corporate clients? The enterprise products division might not like that. Imagine if Apple had a Mac division selling laptops, they might not have been happy about the Phone division coming out with the iPad and keyboard cases.
Most likely. It’s also funny to see TorrentFreak write:

> Unlike DuckDuckGo, Bing notes at the bottom of the page that “some results have been removed.”

The reason DuckDuckGo doesn’t display similar notes is likely because they don’t know any sites have been removed (since Bing’s API doesn’t include this info). Copyright holders have no need to contact DDG and other Bing wrappers, they just need to get Microsoft to remove the websites from their API.
> In this country where anyone can have a gun on them, there is no way in hell that I and my partner are approaching an emotionally disturbed person with no way to defend ourselves.

It sounds like this is one of the major issues, if not the most important issue. Nobody is going to attempt to repeal the Second Amendment, and trying to do so would cause way too much upset in a country where gun culture has been ingrained in the populace since its founding.

I personally believe that so long as guns are so widely available, and mentally ill people who are predisposed not to seek or have no treatment available exist (which given human nature pretty much always will), gun violence will continue to occur, and so the police and other responders will assume that they could be killed from guns in risky encounters. All it takes is one mistake in determining that someone does not have a gun to have someone killed and make headlines and potentially be remembered for years.

I wonder how I would feel about the gun laws in the U.S. if I were born and raised in a country that prohibits firearms. I would prefer to live in such a country but very few people directly affected by the violence have the option of leaving. I also wonder how many people would be accepting of guns today if we didn't have the Second Amendment from the beginning, and people didn't end up receiving the impression that the founders of the country affirmed gun ownership. Trying to cut back on the violence with the gun culture continuing sounds very complicated to me.
When should we create abstractions instead of duplication?
I don't know what dispatch is paid, but EMTs are not dispatchers so this doesn't make much sense to me.
My favorites are the ones where the first couple number buttons (say, 1-6ish) are shortcuts for the corresponding minutes. If I need a non-30s divisible time, or something longer it's more presses ("Time Cook" and then the entire time, then "Start") but for 95% (at least) of what I use it for it's faster.
> let us note that Christensen himself assessed the iphone as non-disruptive.

Which I suppose it is, but I think it's important to ask: if Apple didn't introduce a disruptive technology, why were they able to do what Nokia didn't?

Its hard to deny how the iPhone represented a power shift away from carriers. It's easy to forget but a decade ago you had to pay carriers for the privilege of changing your ringtone. They had their fingers in every pie, in exchange for access to the market the carriers more or less controlled. Hell, you often couldn't even bring your phone if you switched carriers.

Nokia was too busy pleasing their customers: the big cellular providers who ordered most of their phones. And the status quo heavily favored them -- the top selling phone of all time is still a Nokia phone from 2004. They didn't really have any idea how to market direct to consumer and their brand had no particular meaning -- they made as many SKUs as carriers wanted. Since they were in a clearly dominant position, they had no need to arm twist the weakest player to break into the market, and a lot to lose if they played hardball.

Clay's right that it's not a traditional "cheap tech finds a new purpose undermining more expensive status quo" but it definitely rhymes -- all the incentives are the same and adequately explains why Nokia fell apart.
This sounds fine with a few caveats, less ill people dead. But unless there’s long-term supervision available for these folks, it is only a 72-hour band aid.

In our neighborhood they are back on the streets in a few days after getting naked in front of and screaming at girl scouts.
So let's all make sure, for apples sake, that is fixed then.

Not really, PC laptops and hybrids are pretty standardized. A slim case doesn't really make it vertical integration.
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I remap the caps lock key to Ctrl or Command and I use it. It's closer to my fingers and bigger, and more useful at an alternative command or control than a caps lock.
They did, famously, deliberately kill their own iPod market by introducing the iPhone.
It's extra interesting because accident is part of "aviation vocabulary" with specified technical meaning, and officially it was an accident (there are also incidents and serious incidents).

You can see the official category in the tile of the investigation's report: "Report No: 1/1992. Report on the accident to BAC One-Eleven, G-BJRT, over Didcot, Oxfordshire on 10 June 1990"
- How to Start a Startup (YC)

- How to Build a Startup (Steve Blank on Udacity)

- CS183/Zero to One (Peter Thiel)

- CS184: Startup Engineering (Balaji S. Srinivasan)

Best:

Pando Monthly: interviews by Sarah Lacy with founders and VCs. Many go for two or three hours. She goes beyond the PR story and touches on details, doubts, decisions.

This Week in Startups: interviews by Jason Calacanis. You'll learn things that are not in the PR story. Check out the Uber interview with Travis Kalanick for some gore inceptions details..

- Founders at Work (book by Jessica Livingston)

- any book you find by someone who's done it before. VCs, founders, etc. Relevant books can be Jordan Mechner's book about Prince of Persia, Eric Schmidt about Google, Masters of Doom. These contain gems about crucial moments and how people went about doing things, building product, distribution, relations. Peeking behind the curtain.
Work at Home? Pay 5% More in Taxes, Say Deutsche Bank Researchers
That still seems meaningless.

200 queries per second, while pegging 8 CPU cores. Meanwhile my coworker got the short straw implemented a less-used API serving 10 queries, but did it much better than me and used no CPU.
That’s why Netflix had that epic comment along the ways of “Enron had engraved Integrity into the marble of the main lobby its corporate headquarters. True values of a corporation get reflected in who gets rewarded, who gets promoted, and who gets let go.”

People who are political as a prerequisite need to believe there is both a reward and a low fear of retaliation/termination for their actions.
This. The power company can’t cancel you for a tweet for a reason.
Vascular constriction can have latent effects, such as causing a stroke which results in brain damage or brain death. I haven't seen the duration for the two instances of cardiac arrest to know if they were long enough to cause brain death, especially if they were performing compressions, etc.

Did he have any diagnosed conditions? If not, then the part about being neurodivergent wouldn't be applicable (but yes, more training on that would be good). It's possible the random language and topics in his pleas were seen as a sign of intoxication, especially with the officer's comment about strength in the struggle. Also, the incoherence could indicate the beginning of a stroke from that hold.

I also think people should look at the Karen involved in this story. You have no reason to report any crime or threat, but you call the police anyways?