skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's all farcical, but it's pervasive because of the lawyers I guess. Even a supposedly design-first-consumer-friendly company like Apple has walls of tiny text to scroll through.

If only Terms of Services could be upgraded to:

1. A simple, plain English/local language explanation in bullet points of what the software will be doing. Like how you would explain it to your parents.

2. A link to the legalese, so that covers the legal requirements?

If I recall correctly, Stripe is one company whereby the Terms of Service tries to explain things to you clearly. That's certainly a start, but this would be an interesting thing to improve on and solve. Maybe a GPT-2/GPT-3 application? Tell me simply what this block of text means?
> But it is objective, and it's important that it be so

But it's not objective at all. He still subjectively evaluated each individual employee, and fed this into the program as an input, in order to help him find configurations that fulfill certain conditions.

And this is a good thing. I'm not 100% sure what you mean by:

> There is always some sort of objective scoring criteria. For larger redundancies these are agreed with employee reps as part of the consultation period.

...but if I am guessing correctly, then this is fortunately NOT what he did here.

Any objective metric in a field where there's no clear way to measure performance will always be extremely poor, despite employee reps' / unions' love for them. What would this metric be? I can remember one example (not in CS but in another hard-to-measure-output field), where it is just how long you've worked there. So if there are 5 people doing job X and 2 need to be fired, the newest 2 get fired.

I'm entirely confident in a former team lead, now CTO's ability to beat the accuracy of that metric with his subjective evaluation of each individual's abilities (regardless of whether he uses a program to help him optimize based on that information).

The problem people have with this is that they think the person making the subjective decision might have some kind of bias. And some bias definitely exists, pretty much 100% of the time. But in reality, even a biased boss who's worked with those people for a while is likely to evaluate SD employees more accurately than some arbitrary metric. If you don't deserve to be fired, but get fired anyway, it's equally unfair whether it was because the boss really likes a shitty employee who should have been fired instead, or because the shitty employee has more tenure at the company and they're firing the newest people, or because they threw a die to pick whom to fire.
> You imply that a website that does not mention tree planting at all, plants the most trees. Interesting.

They actually don't imply that but the exact opposite, which is "the website that talks the most about tree planting, plants the least". The way you phrase it reverses that logical implication, which is not what they said.
Linux firefox Plugins tab, though I'm not sure if it's used beyond webrtc:

> OpenH264 Video Codec provided by Cisco Systems, Inc.

> This plugin is automatically installed by Mozilla to comply with the WebRTC specification and to enable WebRTC calls with devices that require the H.264 video codec. Visit https://www.openh264.org/ to view the codec source code and learn more about the implementation.
first link is 404 not found
> 1. Absolutely no soft drinks at all...
Same here! For the past 10 years I have only had a Coke maybe 3 times and each time was immediately following a long run (say after a 2.5 hour+ effort).

> 3. DO NOT treat exercise as a priority...
I really like this philosophy. It's more or less how I've come to treat exercise, but phrasing in this way helps to justify and find reason for the habitual act. ("You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.") Cheers to continued health!
Let me try translating this into a different scenario:

You are at home, and want to go shopping.

Your door only lets you out if you correctly answer some questions about the most recent changes in the law of your state.

Are you not a lawyer? Well tough luck, order your groceries trough Amazon then..
There is actually a test for incitement set out in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_v._Ohio - the standard is whether speech is likely to produce imminent lawless action.

Here, the question is whether a rational person in Trump’s position could have known that directing people to the capital and telling them illegal activity was going on inside are likely to promote specific lawless action at that destination, regardless of the specific words used or whether the type of violence is specified.

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2021/01/08/a-civilian-s-g... has a larger primer.
A lot of comments here focus on two things. One is honest students losing time/being confused. Another is tempting to cheat which might turn some semi-honest students into dishonest ones.

I would like to point to a reason I think it's a very good policy to try to catch cheaters and punish then severely and why it's almost always worth the cost. The reason is that it's absolutely soul crushing, motivation killing and unfair for honest people to function in a competitive environment with cheaters. Standards and requirements get higher. Workloads get bigger. Difficulty goes up. You either spend all your time trying to compete or give up. One way or the other the cheaters still win, get all the recognition, status and prizes. It's very easy to lose faith in humanity and just become either cynical about it all or just spiral into mental problems.

I see two reasonable solutions. Either make schools not so competitive, there is very little reason for putting so much weight on tests scores or grades. Maybe it's time to re-think it all. Until we can do that I am all for catching cheaters and throwing the book at them. If you try to get ahead by cheating you're hurting all the honest people you left behind. It's not only about you getting an A instead of a B. It's about poisoning the whole environment you operate in.
There is a well known dynamic with EU law being translated to national law : If it is perceived as good, the national lawmaker will take credit. If perceived as bad, the national lawmaker will point to these nasty EU bureaucrats. After years of this, the local population will perceive any EU law as bad.

A second fun one is unpopular politicians being dumped in EU seats. They vote pro something unpopular, let their local equivalent implement the national law, then blame them for it. Hence extremist politicians make EU law as nasty as possible, just to get some ammonution at home.
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The context of the speech, the person speaking the words and the people listening to them all matter.
> The average Portuguese has a much lower income than the average black American.

Doubt this. Especially if you consider PPP and their monthly expenses/how much they can save by month.
Isn’t there an audio clip that comes with the kernel that says ‘Hi, my name is Linus Torvalds and I pronounce Linux as Linux’?
"Nordic countries" is a very well defined group: Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, and Iceland.

Germany and Netherlands may be in Western or Central Europe depending on definition, but I've never heard of them being grouped to "Nordic".
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I think a real issue we developers face is the management and client attitude that software does not require maintenance. Time and time again, the fact that our completed projects require maintenance or they simply fail with newer systems is greeted with shock, debate and accusation of deceit.
Previous discussions:

– https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15031020 (2017)

– https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9678357 (2015)

– https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8394144 (2014)

– https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5888393 (2013)

– https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4350907 (2012)
> If we can't fix this, we're all going to die.

He should have told this to Elohim a million years ago, when the human source code was being written. By now that ship has sailed.
> suggest that it highlights how malleable downtrodden people are, and how dangerous allowing it might be.

This is a good point. When Trump came to power populism was in full effect. There was Bernie on one side and Trump on the other of the same populism coin. Globalism, progress, etc... have left large swaths of the population behind.

I think many of these people know that QAnon spouts nonsense, but they are desperate in their personal situations. Healthcare is bankrupting people, they can't afford to send their kids to college if they can even afford kids, and housing has become out of reach for many. Until the downtrodden are addressed, QAnon isn't going anywhere.
I just use noon and midnight to reduce ambiguity

11:59pm, midnight, 12:01am

11:59am, noon, 12:01pm
Then stop using the word global warming, poor marketing, when it gets cools(which it will) instead of warm it starts to look and sound a con. The more enlightened skeptics are more so "human caused" climate change skeptics than anything else, with the sun as their main point of origin.
See insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Now assume half the military itself is sympathetic to the “rebels” and the government would have a difficult time containing any real insurgency.

The US government has made a lot of enemies over the decades, many of whom would be more than willing to provide modern weapons and explosives to the insurgents.

Though the US overwhelmed the Iraqi military quickly and decisively, it was a decade of constant roadside bombs, made with materials easily smuggled into the country and implemented with minimal training, that eventually wore down US morale and willingness to fight.

Finally, the US military is such a big business here, a good percentage of the population has had professional military training and combat experience.
> Look at Ted Kaczynski, a terrorist with some very strange ideas. Although he had freedom of speech, he had no means to get his ideas out in front of more people. He had to resort to extreme measures

So like, Ted Kaczynski was basically victim and world owned him millions of views? And when Ted Kaczynski cant get those millions of views, he "has to resort" to killing people?

And if Ted Kaczynski had youtube channel and the channel would be ignored, would he still be entitled to kill people to get more views?
Nobody said it was the only ingredient. Culture helps, as the wealth.
A coup means taking over the country. Decapitating part of the government is assassination. /pedantry
Surely being a javascript monkey isn't enough excuse for ignorance regarding Tim Berners-Lee? You have to be buried in a deep pit of nationalistic delusion to feign that level of ineptitude.
There's https://github.com/dickmao/nntwitter.

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As someone from the US, my experience is different from what this article portrays. When it's come up, everyone I've heard from acknowledges the role that their parents, schools, community and even luck play.

A lot of the political dialog is also about how more people can have access to quality education. In my own state, we spend around $20k per student per year in the poorest school districts, so I don't think the story that the US just ignores poor communities and tells them to work harder is quite so simple.
> There are broadly 3 experience levels:

> Senior: creates the plan.
> Mid-level: follows the plan.
> Junior: needs to be taught to follow the plan.

This person is a horrible leader and failure if they think this way.

This tells you all you need to know about the rest of the article.

And indeed:

> “The ideal team would be one that has all disciplines covered at a senior level with multidisciplinary people working in just one team, and with enough overlap to avoid a bus factor of one. Additional people will bring additional capacity.”

It’s just the tired old foolish mirage of fungible full-stack teams where there’s no such thing as specialization of labor.

This article is basically a farce of bureaucratic management mediocrity.
Yes, this is great. Similar to how app permissions work on iOs.
Not true. Although it's an oversimplification to say that Catholics/Eastern Rite believe in faith and works while Protestants believe in faith alone. https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/faith-and-wo...
I read GP as sarcastic.. “think critically and agree with us or de-platformed for life”
Hetzner has a pretty nice VPS offering nowadays. Love their admin interface.
Would't you want to read the plans in an open platform where anybody on Parler can have access to it?

Now these plans will go underground and will be harder to track.
Looks cool.

bool (__bool__) Returns whether all elements evaluate to True.

I’d be worried that this will trip people up who use the

if l:
print l[0] # or whatever

pattern
That's not a sufficient solution, because you can download Wikipedia and Stack Overflow and put them on a phone for offline use. It would be better to ban all metal objects and check with metal detectors. Medical implants could be permitted with a doctor's note and higher resolution scanning to check that it's really just the implant triggering the detector.
I always thought "We value your privacy" was the biggest lie on the internet.
Spot on. This is surgery and requires precision, not axe work, and definitely not something that you're going to solve by coming up with some clever algorithm.

Intra-team relationships are super important, as are the degrees to which the team members have arrived at the company, how long they have known each other, whether they knew each other prior to their arrival and so on. Before you know it you have a mass walk-out on your hands with those that have options leaving first.

The best way to deal with this is to do it very gradually and taking great care to not inadvertently wreck the core structure of the tech department.
In the end, unless we are talking about natural calamities, everything is a people problem.

Are blocked sewer is a people problem; it’s either poorly designed, poorly constructed, poorly maintained or a combination of causes. But in the end, the problem is caused by people.
I completely agree.

I think it's hard for people living in countries that allow for social mobility like the USA to appreciate how good they have it. In the country I was born, if you start working by yourself you'll have to pay 50-60% in various taxes, making it really hard to become rich. People who care more about career than friends and family just leave.

I also think it's amazing how access to information was democratised by internet.

Your last phrase in the last year can be summed up to "I can just give you a computer, the rest is up to you" which is pretty much what my parents did before I started working online.
Is it one or the other? I don't know anything about dark rooms where captains of industry who profit from fossil fuels orchestrate climate denialism. Sounds plausible. But in any event, such efforts are surely more difficult, if possible at all, with an informed citizenry.
For concentrating on high level business logic, there are various low code / no code systems. But that still means someone needs to take care of all other dependencies, security fixes, scaling, etc. Someone needs to understand and maintain all pieces for it to work properly, and need to know how to optimize bottlenecks.

Automating fixes is only possible if you understand fully where the problem is. Then, it still needs testing does it break something else. For testing, automatic tests most likely do not test for everything. And someone would need to create those tests.

There is also a lot of existing code for existing software. Would it be possible to analyze or convert that amount of code to be somehow updateable?

Software is usually made with some programming language and related dependencies. Those dependencies don't necessarily exist for other programming languages and web frameworks.
Is there a tl;dr how this differs from e.g. Freenet?

I mean aside from the "we use blockchain herp derp".
By 1923 the Kaiser sadly wasn't in Germany anymore. Close by in the Netherlands though.
Have you considered cheap object storage providers like Backblaze B2?
> One of those groups has a moral right to riot.

My rights end where others rights starts or something to that effect.

The policeman in the car had a human right not to be executed.

People have a right not to get their homes burned to the ground.

etc.
Thank you for taking the time to check it out!

Naturally if you're dealing with big arrays/tensors, numpy is the best choice for operating on sequences.

However, ndarrays have downsides for certain use cases - as ndarrays are fixed size, adding elements is very slow, also they don't support functional methods (or rather you have to create a new array every time you apply e.g. a map), and ndarrays of any other type than numbers doesn't really make sense.

Many of the methods are wrappers for built-ins, but I find the syntax of Arrays cleaner than the weirdness of the builtins.

For example, while applying an async "starmap" to an Array is just a method call, with built-in lists you would have go through the whole hassle of importing both ThreadPoolExecutor and starmap, creating an executor, scheduling the function, and finally converting the result back to a list.
> The article talks about whole unsolvable exercise needed for full credit, which is a trap.

You say this like full credit is required to pass. A perfect score is often practically impossible, and at least a big achievement in most of higher education, not something most people can walk in expecting to get.
Mein Kampf is not forbidden in Germany. There is also nearly zero risk that Mein Kampf will radicalize contemporary people. It is not exactly persuasive piece of writing.
> + Free Speech. Not when you have millions deluded, angry, violent and ready to use any means to incite violence, take down gov, threaten governors and are trigger happy to exercise 2nd amendment rights. I’m terrified of these people.

As a non American coming back from the holidaysplaying catch up on all this,

When did BLM/Antifa start liking to exercise their 2nd amendment rights by the millions? I know a lot of them were but I don't think it was anywhere more than thousands.
The point is that human life is comparatively long and current technology enables the witch-hunters to destroy people for very old and no longer relevant utterances.

This is something that, IMHO, the society should frown upon and discourage. Destroying people should be as hard as possible, that is why nation states built so many protections into law over centuries.
To lay the ground work for an attempted coup attempt and violent attack on Congress this week.
On the first day of a university course, several hundred students asked to line up and sign a two page agreement in order to access computing resources necessary for the course. When my turn came, I asked where I could read it without holding up the entire line. They were shocked that anyone would ask such a question, though they provided me a space to read over the document.

If blindly signing a contract one of the first things that computer science students encounter, I'm not surprised that they simply put up those ToS without the expectation that they will be read.
>> And I stress how cultural it is: it is often noted that in Japan religion is not treated as such a tribe, culturally, and that Japanese persons often find it curious how residents of other cultures can owe a lifelong fealty to a single religion rather than experiencing elements of multiple religions as it be suitable.

You seem to conveniently ignore the blindingly simple context that for the past 20 years, America has been bombing and invading a single region of the world in the name of evangelical fanatics from the bible belt.

And that's looking past the Gulf Wars and Afghanistan where America created and armed the Taliban. It's not snowflake grievance culture to suggest there is a targetted religion here.
The same level of seriousness as any other violence condoning call. In that its hard to gauge intent and willingness to follow through vs. “just saying it”..? where do you draw the line? Do you let one group call for un mitigated violence against a group of people, but not another group, just because you personally dont believe they are serious, even if it might inspire other to take action..?
I don't "abuse HN" and never did. You are just way out of line with your bullshit and picking on.
I don't know how it would play out, but it's worth noting that to overthrow someone stronger than you you don't always need a bigger gun. You need to be more willing to use your gun than they are.

The US government has nukes, but they still got their asses handed to them in Vietnam and struggled in Afghanistan and Iraq. It's true that if the feds truly want to squash an uprising they have the means to do it. But do they have the will to do it? At what cost? I can imagine a scenario where they'd be willing to use enough force to subdue unarmed citizens by not enough to subdue an armed uprising, which could escalate to civil war.

In short: there exists a scenario in which the second amendment enables the citizens to resist the government to an extent that they wouldn't be able to otherwise. Whether this is a good or bad thing is something you can decide for yourself.
And totally missed on the friendship angle. So, here is my prediction: the people that got fired will find new places to work at where the management is a bit more mature, and will then pull their capable buddies left behind at their old company with them. That's how it usually goes when a new junior manager goes to town with an axe.
Also missing Cortex Command[0] which got open sourced not so long ago[1].

[0]: https://store.steampowered.com/app/209670/Cortex_Command/
[1]: https://github.com/DataRealms/CCOSS
You're describing a very specific form of coup, a military coup.

But they did have some kind of force. Enough to storm the capitol. With a noose, zip ties and cries to hang people in the line of succession.

While the President agitated them and then watched on monitors.
Agreed, "global warming" is poor marketing. It's also a common colloquialism among climate change deniers, no? So, if you need to explain to someone how cold weather doesn't mean "global warming is fake", maybe also steer them toward the notion of climate change. "Anthropogenic forcing" or "it's our fault" is of course another important matter.
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Take into account that it is a teacher. The future of students is at stake here.

He is dealing with kids or young persons and he is purposely creating distress when the goal was to educate.

Even if it is not good for students to cheat, the way he dealt with that will have probably ruined a few students lives. Think about that...

And also take into account that him and the institution have created the conditions leading to these students cheating. If you have empathy you can easily guess that it is possible that some of the caught students were not 'bad persons' but just did it because they had the opportunity and on the other side a lot of pressure (future depending on the success of this exam, family poverty, violent family pressure to not fail).

It would have been better to do this thing as an educational move / warning to show the concerned students that there is a risk cheating.

And also using measures to avoid cheating in the first place: taking phones, not letting students go to toilets in middle (this is common) etc...
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This is one downside of very strict privacy laws. Your reputation should suffer if you are breaking the rules to get ahead. This is the very reason the mechanism of reputation was formed. It defends the group from bad actors. If you know that even if you get caught it will not be known publicly then it will always be profitable to cheat.