skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Should the US lock down and save hundreds of thousands of lives, or would you rather keep restaurants open?

How about restaurants stay open and there is little to no additional loss of life?

> It's easy to muse about hypothetical questions about how many people should die before the government should act

This isn't hypothetical. We're seeing it play out and the difficulty you're having is that people disagree with you about that number and you appear to be unable to understand why.

> Restaurants can be compensated.

Oh geez why didn't I or LA or the US think of that? Alright then, pack it in problem solved, let's just make sure everyone's compensated.

Of course were it that simple few would have a problem with the sacrifice, and a much more convincing argument could be made that it would be better for society as a whole to lock down.

> There's nothing authoritarian about it.

Nothing? There's nothing authoritarian about the government imposing a lockdown? Are you somehow of the notion that "democratically elected" governments cannot be authoritarian in any way? I'm struggling to understand your perspective here.

> It's just as "authoritarian" as mandating seatbelts or childhood vaccinations.

Absolutely (well, for the sake of argument, I wouldn't argue mandating seatbelts is on the same level as shutting down restaurants but for our purposes here let's say we're on the same page). We always make tradeoffs of this kind all the time to be sure. Few want anarchy (the opposite of authoritarianism). It's again why the "hypothetical" question is important to understanding why people disagree with you. Where do we draw the line?

> And that goes for authoritarian New Zealand and Australia too, I suppose?

Moreso than the US? Most definitely. Less than China? Of course. Australia and NZ benefit from largely homogenous cultures and low population density that allow them to better handle such things. Singapore would likely have been a better counter-example.

> Populations in highly democratic countries will actually support strong lockdown measures if they believe they will be effective and if the government compensates people financially.

Sure, except none of your conditionals there actually get bourn out. Many people question the effectiveness (again not just of reducing cases, but on providing a net positive impact to society) and in the US stimulus measures haven't been nearly precise enough to find themselves to the right hands.

> But if it truly is impossible to gain public support for lockdowns in the US, then something is deeply wrong with American society

Rephrased: "If American society cannot widely support the action I think is correct, there is something deeply wrong with American society." There is something deeply wrong with American society, but it is thinking like that.
tl;dr You assume both side argue in good faith. When one side doesn’t argue in good faith they can hack our classic understanding of freedom of speech.

We need a word for flooding a space of discourse with so much noise that the truth is obscured and hidden.

It’s not censorship in that it’s removing speech, but it’s as effective in undermining free speech.

It’s obviously what is happening now.

I think the error in what you say is you assume both side are arguing in good faith.

But when one party doesn’t argue in good faith, it means they are saying things they don’t truly believe, or that they don’t respect or care about having a fair discourse.

Like how during the debates Donald Trump continuously attempted to talk over Biden, and essentially control the discourse via bullying.

Just making shit up in order to shut someone else down isn’t okay, and we need to figure out how to protect our traditional values of free speech while also combating when people attempt to destroy our freedom of speech by using this technique at a mass scale in our modern media environment.
As a data scientist without a PhD, I have a very similar feeling. You can kind of make without one for now but I have no idea how long that's going to last. Hopefully by the time it happens my experience outweighs that lack of credentials.
Contrary to the main theme of the article, Google Analytics does in fact offer event based analytics in addition to page view analytics.
Cool! I built something similar, albeit worse in every regard, also using nodemailer.

I might have to start using this instead. Mine basically just powers contact forms (send only).
Historical precedence isn't exactly kind: https://nypost.com/2016/01/03/how-chinas-pregnancy-police-br...

And no, forced sterilization, as in the surgical procedure to permanently end the ability to conceive, is a thing.

More relevant, historical precedence in India:

> As the fertility rate began to decrease (but not quickly enough), more incentives were offered, such as land and fertilizer. In 1976, compulsory sterilization policies were put in place and some disincentive programs were created to encourage more people to become sterilized. However, these disincentive policies, along with “sterilization camps” (where large amounts of sterilizations were performed quickly and often unsafely), were not received well by the population and gave people less incentive to participate in sterilization. The compulsory laws were removed. Further problems arose and by 1981, there was a noticeable problem in the preference for sons. Since families were encouraged to keep the number of children to a minimum, son preference meant that female fetuses or young girls were killed at a rapid rate.[25]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterilization_(medicine)#Natio...
The point of listing traits is to give the reader an idea of what characteristics are frequently found in someone who is innovative.

Listing these traits can be useful without including a companion list of traits that innovators don't possess. I guess the quality of being innovative doesn't necessarily imply weakness in other areas. Maybe you should put together a companion post, titled "Things That Innovators Suck At Doing"?

I thought whoever put this together created a nice graphic.
Not everyone has a dream of going into management.
I am not sure why a shared messaging infrastructure implies merging accounts is easy/possible. It's fully possible to have messages pass on a common infrastructure between different entities that correspond to messenger/whatsapp accounts.

I'm not saying I necessarily believe facebook here, but I don't understand how they are contradicting themselves here.
If they don't comply within three months, they start getting another copy of this fine every day until they do.

Which is to say, the punitive fines are not enough for them to not play games with the rules... but once they're caught they do have to fall in.

This demonstrates the need for constant enforcement diligence by regulators: These companies can and will continue to flagrantly disregard the law unless regularly checked.
I always wanted to port a BSD userspace to Linux just so I could counter-correct someone who corrects me to GNU/Linux.
Is this in any way to the problem of quadrature of the lune? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lune_of_Hippocrates
My company is LOADED with older devs. Our average dev age is probably close to 50. There is in fact a huge gap, only a handful of us under 30. At 27 I might still be the youngest developer in my 50 developer department.
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In the sense that sqrt(2) can be an exact solution, even though you can't write it down as a decimal.
Posting stories as Twitter threads personally for me make me loose all respect for you as an engineer. I mean what in the hell is the abysmal way of reading? How could any person allow themselves to post something like this?
You want them to be a sponsor of your work to others. At that level of seniority they could really make a difference in your promotion and growth over time if they know who you are and what problems you're solving.

Mentorship should be about someone telling you what they did when they were in your shoes, and coaching is more like performance optimization.
I get that completely and it is scary, what I don't get is the argument that somehow physical retailers are above this. There is nothing new in what Amazon is doing, retailers have been playing by this book for long. Whatever regulation is being asked for Amazon, should have been asked for other retail behemoths as well way before.
You still have to pay for those CDNs. If you think this is a red/blue issue you haven’t been following along, though.

Obama allocated funds specifically for satellites, but reduced the operating budget [1]. Trump actually increased funding for several areas as part of the stopgap funding in 2018, particularly for satellites [2].

There are other examples over the decades of course, but something that seems to be a trend is the specificity. Satellites are flashy and exciting and get funding from politicians. Servers? Meh... why don’t they just get a couple extra machines? My laptop is fast as hell and only cost like $600. Bandwidth? Why don’t they just get whatever internet I have at home? That costs like $100/m and the Por— I mean the CNBC videos start immediately.

1: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/po...
2: https://qz.com/1204034/noaa-trump-signed-a-bill-that-gives-m...
Agreed -- though likely to be a minority opinion on here unfortunately.

Although I do feel for those who began at Google when they still ascribed to the Don't Be Evil mantra -- at some point you have a responsibility to look around you and recognize the work you're doing has become part of the problem.
this indeed.
You are trying to ignore facts.

Fact:

- He never shared his tax returns
- He is a sexual predator
- He supports white supremacy
- He’s incredibly corrupt

Let’s talk about facts.
> I'm honestly incapable of passing these Leetcode/Google style algorithm interviews

Almost everyone is completely incapable of passing a Google interview. That's because they're astronomically hard and they only take the very very best people who are at the top of their fields. I've no hope of passing one either.

But so what?

There's always going to be some place that you aren't going to be able to get a job no matter how good you are. Look somewhere else - there's so many more options.
That's the theory.

In practice, "pushes down the prices" is an overstatement, and what actually happens is that once demand pressure reaches a certain point new luxury supply only opens up higher pricing tiers. It potentially stabilizes older construction, which is not bad, but doesn't seem to provide downward pressure. The only thing that seems to do that is non-marginal demand dropping out of the market.

And if you follow it through that's how the incentives seem to be aligned. Capital examining opportunity in construction will want to chase the highest return it can and if you have capital the marginal cost on luxury construction over non-luxury at the same unit scale is usually less than the return. On top of that, at certain scales of operation vacancy is apparently less of a drag on nominal property values involved in the accounting and financing, which means prices tend to float down when the fall rather than plummet. Though of course, any potential developer doing the math is going to look at vacancy rate and will make their decision about whether/what to build targeting points short of outright surplus.

There are some types markets where I think you can drive down pricing market-wide by coming in from the top (consumer tech sure seems to work that way) and that's my guess why so many seem think the same must apply to housing. Perhaps housing could indeed work the same way if the actual manufacturing techniques and costs were being iterated with the same speed and scale.

But that's why there are specific drives for affordable housing: building at the top slows/stops price increases but only lets people on the verge of being priced out tread water.

Personally I think there needs to be vacancy taxes proportional to the market segment being operated (probably also correlated to tightness of supply) so that prices clear on the falling side more easily, but who knows how that would change people's construction calculations.
As of 12:31 PM eastern on December 10, the status page does show "Major Outage," but it had been showing that related to a totally separate Messenger issue since the 2nd.
I think as lawsuits keep coming, a possible alternative for Apple is to tie the app store to the free update cycle of iOS, essentially making iOS a SaaS product. Consumers and developers will be free to choose if the cost of iOS evens out with whatever fees they may save.
>Is there a browser that pretends to accepts all cookies but never saves them?

I use the Temporary Containers extension in Firefox, and I think that comes pretty close. Every tab can hive its own cookies, separate from all other tabs, which disappear when the tab is closed.

I've got mine setup to delete cookies for a domain when the last tab for that domain is closed. I also run Ublock Origin, don't accept third party cookies, and have javascript turned off for all domains by default.
I feel like it really depends what you're doing - not necessarily what job title, but philosophically too.

If you can kind of transcend past manager to "architect" then it seems to be much more "cool" to have older staff. If you're doing something highly cyclical (or prone to fads) like designing websites it would have to be an uphill struggle. Experience is hard to measure and value, in some areas more than others.

Obviously the company matters a lot too, e.g. maybe avoid IBM... I suppose you'd have to spot whether the management are likely to believe that youth guarantees innovation (to quote James Bond of all people).
Point of clarification: is the father of the first user actually a GNU/Linux user?
I come from poverty myself, and I couldn't agree more. I never said we are where we need to be. I was simply pointing out a difference in goals.
“There were times when, some weeks ... I haven’t counted exactly, but I would just sort of sleep for a few hours, work, sleep for a few hours, work, seven days a week. Some of those days must have been 120 hours or something nutty.”

Now, Musk said he is “down to 80 or 90” hours of work per week and “it’s pretty manageable.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/05/elon-musk-on-working-120-hou...

That's the quickest I could find. But yeah, I suppose 20-23h constantly long-term would not be doable. Point is though that many people can and do work even long-term the equavalent of 2 "full-time jobs".
I expect China to soon announce their own new vaccine candidate with similar effectiveness as Pfizer+BioNTech.
Ten thousand gallons per month would be a more reasonable limit, enough to cover basic home usage.
Quietly pleased to find I agree with your wrongs, especially “helpfully” adding a closing pair item, but sad I haven’t used something that does them better.
Conviction set aside in 1993 Michigan cold case in dispute over DNA expert
Be aware you need to pass:

lightctl --user --room # command

Per room session otherwise you'll control all the lighting and annoy other users.
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Hmmm, it seems I repeatedly have this discussion with others re: ORMs are inferior. If there is one point I initially wanted the article to make is to use relational databases first, and ORMs second. (i.e: as opposed to NoSQL solutions.) Perhaps I should edit the intro to the article to reflect that.
I was surprised to hear it too tbh. Chime for instance doesn't have one (last I checked). I think what happens is, you don't build it if its not strategic in the early days, and then if you hit escape velocity there's never a good time to build one.
Likely need to tackle from multiple sides:

1. Physical: Sleep more. No screen days. Diet changes. Sport.

2. Emotional: [1] CBT. Get rid of perfectionism and huge romantic /heroic ideas that make you suffer. "burnout is heartbreak". Choose way way smaller projects: You commit, finish and get a good feeling from feedback within a day.

[1] https://www.quirk.fyi/distortions
In FAANG for typical SWEs it is rare for to outright get fired for a mistake. How you handle the mistake matters a lot though.
Usually if things are less than perfect during performance reviews, you just don't get promoted.
There is another option: use anti-trust enforcement or similar regulatory actions to ensure a competitive market, so people can be always get access to information, and no single private provider can become a universal censor.
So is the South, much of the Northeast, California, Alaska, and a good bit of the rest of the country.
Do enlighten us. Is there a point by point debunking summarized somewhere?
Ask HN: Why aren't governments going after Amazon for Anti-Trust?
1 user to bring up the topic of systemd, out of the blue, and complain about the decision to switch to it and ask to reconsider.
> What will Oracle do for Oracle Enterprise Linux?

Push it as a free installation as widely as possible and then go after the people installing it with some reason they should pay? What should one expect Oracle to do?

OEL is free and widely distributed because it's the environment where Oracle Database runs. But if it gets a life on its own, I do fully expect it will get monetized.
No, as close as it gets is privacy.resistFingerprinting. Extensions shouldn’t even try to do this. (I’ve actually never heard of an extension that tries to do this.)
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> Do not recommend this business plan.

There are so many examples pro and con. Theranos is a good example of both, weirdly enough. Although it all ended rather badly, and in a spectacular way, it worked well (for certain interpretations of that word) for a long time before that. If they were able to actually leverage the billions they got into materializing the technology claims they made, they would have survived, and the crooks at the helm would still be extremely famous and well off.

That's probably worth considering when thinking about the people at the helm of a lot of these large companies, especially the ones that lose money quarter after quarter until they eventually don't. That's not a position that seems like it rewards integrity.
Did QuantumScape Just Solve the 40-Yr-Old solid-state li-ion Battery Problem?
I find it helpful to realize when websites are taking measures to track me. If their site is broken by privacy protections, maybe I don't want to be using that site any more.
> After day 3 can you still just track 8.3? Is the issue that centos package repos won’t get updates (particularly security updates) at that point, while RHEL does?

CentOS has never released backported updates to previous minor releases. You've always had to stay on the latest minor release, so it's not like there's any real change here.
Rubio was the chair that headed the committee that drafted the report.

He's speaking directly about the report, and it was linked in the press release above, if you cared to click on it.
I think the key is "Passively consuming content related..." I've been there. That has to stop before output can begin. It's a fact. Just quit the Input for a day or two. The internet is not required to program.
Unfortunately not. It's a weird topic with no reference content when we were working on recon at Cash App, which is why I wrote the essay.

If you find anything on it, let me know.
Epic and most other companies don’t have the kind of money to fund Oculus

I think people don’t appreciate that there is about 5000 engineers working on Oculus at FB. Then add all the supporting functions...it’s easily 7-8k
If you torture the data, it will speak.
Good question and the answer is no one knows how to create rules about who is or isn’t fit to vote (beyond the most basic things like age, and even with that there’s an interesting history) without also giving so much power to whomever is able to set those rules that the result isn’t a democracy at all.
I feel like the tide is shifting.

Original Google said “Don’t be evil”, and the employees stood up for the integrity of the company when needed.

Now, Alphabet as the large company did not bring over that motto, and in fact Google has now removed it.

And if the things we see publicly are accurate, the employee’s faith in Google is shaken.
> And that works independently of the distribution steam is actually installed on

Not entirely, it still relies on some system libraries, and you will see there are times where games do not run on Arch despite using the steam runtime. It is known.
I wonder if you tried to do the same thing today, but with different tools, let's say Flutter, how it would turn out?

If you think how the Uber app looks and works, it should be a major relief doing it in Flutter, I don't see any major breakpoints.
So complain about our national governments failure to support people during the pandemic, not about local governments trying to save people's lives.
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Do it man!
>Sensing a profit-making opportunity, some private Chinese firms have been stockpiling containers which are made available to the highest bidder... Each container can cost 3,000 RMB, which is almost $500...

Sounds like a bargain to me. Very second hand and rusty ones sell for well over £1000 on eBay.
Is there any difference in productivity to a more stereotype younger workforce?

I'm not good with people, so I doubt I'll ever be in a position to do so, but the ideal team composition to me needs a mixture of naive geniuses and people who've been around the block enough to know when to say KISS.
But the GNU stuff sits on top of WSL which implements(ed) Linux system calls.
This depends entirely on org culture. I've worked at places where I had to go thru an absolute gauntlet of "prep" meetings to hone my talking points for talking with someone several skip levels above my manager.

And, I've worked in places where you are free to send a DM to the C-Suite if you feel like it's necessary to get your work done. No pre-approval required.
My only concern with enabling it by default is that it might just advance the arms race. As well intentioned as the DNT header was, enabling it by default ultimately led to it being completely meaningless. I could see the potential for it making a comeback if there were some sort of legislation behind it giving it teeth.
I was not familiar with this project. In looking at the architecture[1] documentation it indicates it uses the Pixie Cloud. Is is possible to use this without the Pixie cloud?

[1] https://docs.pixielabs.ai/about-pixie/how-pixie-works/
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The Google organization is clearly sensitive to the role of online services play in promoting divisiveness, and doing something about it.
Burner phones and banking apps: Meet the Chinese 'brokers' laundering drug money
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Sure. But when I'm trying to have a conversation, it's a total pain to have the other side trying to go Socratic Method on me. State your position, and I'll state mine, and then we'll talk. Trying to talk with someone who won't state their own position, but wants to make you answer questions about yours, is... not much of a "dialog", frankly.
Numbers for age 0-1:

https://www.heritage.org/data-visualizations/public-health/c...
The Oculus part is from the German govt
Actually this is not true, you should familiarize yourself with this particular scenario. Reviewers and game developers have had their devices bricked for creating new accounts to use on them. This was especially bad during the election period as FB was pretty much banning all new accounts then.
Manmade mass now outweighs life on Earth: study
It most likely would (considering all the things that are considered racist nowadays, which includes a set of all things and then some). But that's a descriptive statement, not normative. It really shouldn't be.
I have to agree with GP. You were being obtuse and intentionally so. Now, you're tangentially ranting about agency and free will.

Speak plainly and without airs.