skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only good infrastructure makes use of existing rail right of way or paths near rivers. If they provide a way to get to various destinations around town or a fast way to travel between towns, then they'll be used and prove useful.

Protected bicycle lanes is a misnomer. Protected, in traffic engineering terms, refers to something like a protected traffic light phase where one stream of traffic has exclusive access to the intersection (e.g., a protected left turn arrow).

The barrier separated lanes reduce the visibility of cyclists from the motorists' point of view and vice versa. When both get to an intersecton and the motorist needs to turn right, it's not possible for them to see the cyclist well enough in advance to actually yield to them. The same thing happens to cyclists because they can't easily see approaching traffic due to visual obstructions.

The safest solution is to have cyclists follow the same rules of the road that all other vehicle operators follow and allow cyclists full use of the lane they're in. That is, get rid of laws that require cyclists to ride as far right as practicable regardless of the presence of marked lanes or use a bike lane (e.g., https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/VAT/1234).
At least publishing schematics, providing parts to third parties and allowing third party repair by not using DRM or other locks should not influence how the device is build.

An example would be that if I won 2 identical broken devices/cars I should be allowed to swap parts from one to the other and fix one of them as it was possible before DRM was invented.

Also there should be a "tax" for products with no way to change the battery or one time use electronics.
I'm kind of sad they write such an article without mentioning the demoscene.

http://demoscene-the-art-of-coding.net/the-demoscene/
(source for everything following: I recently hired entry-level data engineers)

The experience required differs dramatically between [semi]structured transactional data moving into data warehouses versus highly unstructured data that the data engineer has to do a lot of munging on.

If you're working in an environment where the data is mostly structured, you will be primarily working in SQL. A LOT of SQL. You'll also need to know a lot about a particular database stack and how to squeeze it. In this scenario, you're probably going to be thinking a lot about job-scheduling workflows, query optimization, data quality. It is a very operations-heavy workflow. There are a lot of tools available to help make this process easier.

If you're working in a highly unstructured data environment, you're going to be munging a lot of this data yourself. The "operations" focus is still useful, but at the entry level data engineer, you're going to be spending a lot more time thinking about writing parsers and basic jobs. If you're focusing your practice time on writing scripts that move data in Structure A in Place X to Structure B in Place Y, you're setting yourself up for success.

I agree with a few other commentators here that Hadoop/Spark isn't being used a lot in their production environments - but - there are a lot of useful concepts in Hadoop/Spark that are helpful for data engineers to be familiar with. While you might not be using those tools on a day-to-day basis, chances are your hiring manager used them when she was in your position and it will give you an opportunity you know a few tools at a deeper level.
These folks had their private messages exposed. In no way is that "close to lynching".

Depending on what the user posted, they might be embarrassed, lose their jobs, or end up in court.

We can have a reasonable discussion about the ethics of hacking a site like parler, but not if the starting point is "this is the equivalent of violent mobs literally murdering innocent people".
This was not a balanced perspective at all. It gets various verifiable facts entirely wrong. For example, it claims "senators [] would break laws governing U.S. elections", presumably referring to objecting to results. But not only are there no laws against this, moreover there have been objections for every single presidential election this century!

Snopes also claims that this vote is "ceremonial", yet it was used in the aftermath of the civil war to disenfranchise every southern state which sent electors; that doesn't sound very "ceremonial" to me.

Arguably both of these issues are immaterial to the rating, but then why include them at all? And why trust a fact checker who is demonstrably spreading misinformation themselves, however immaterial it may be?
> Fix it.

Where? I’d wanted to repair the most popular electric kick scooter in one of the Northern European countries for couple of years and I couldn’t find any place to do it (I asked all the sellers, sent lots of emails to different web shops, etc.). The economy in prosperous countries appears to be such that repair (especially of less fancy products) is so costly that it makes no sense often or is not possible as in the case described above.
It's all about coreography and rhythm I would say. Similar to super meat boy, you play the level multiple times until you learn the pacing and refine the movements so you can execute it perfectly. It's like performative art.
Good point. What is a good estimate for e-waste costs? I don’t think it’s more than 10% of a phone’s unsubsidized costs.
I have a feeling most of the professors in the Humanities departments would be not at all sympathetic to Parler or all the deplatforming happening around Donald Trump and his supporters. If anything they'd be broadcasting the Karl Popper "Paradox of Tolerance" as justification for everything that's been happening this week.
You're referring to 2024 when twitter will ban the NY Times for posting materials derived from the orange clown's taxes and the NY Post for posting materials derived from the President-elect's son's laptop?

Ah. Wait. They took one of these actions within an hour of it going up. :P I suppose it'll be no time at all until they take down the account of the person hacking Parler and live tweeting the content being discussed in this article... which they've been doing for that past ... 48 hours.
Those aren't exclusive, hacker doesn't necessarily have a bad connotation (see "white hat").
To be fair, it's probably hard for a network like Parler to attract top talent. I mean, they explicitly advertised themselves as the "free speech social network" (i.e. "all hate speech welcome, we won't censor anyone except maybe Trump parody accounts") - would you want to work for such a company, or have it on your resume in the future?
Startups Launching Nanosatellites
Well, having empathy with growth hackers is reprehensible and worth critiquing. The idea of growing a business for the sake of having a big business is horrifying; it's the desire to explicitly build a large social institution and use it to damage and oppress people.

From that perspective, you're the one lacking in empathy; you would like us to have our sympathies lie with the few who build businesses, rather than the many who are harmed by the business.
Telerik Fiddler is what I typically use.
Or you could define an objective standard by which platforms should moderate their content.
https://medium.com/@shasta_willson/the-birmingham-civil-righ...

> She has supported confessed terrorist Rasmea Odeh, and called for the release of Marwan Barghouti, a leader of the internationally designated terror group al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade. In addition to killing many dozens of Israeli civilians, the Brigade did enormous damage to Israeli support for negotiations with Palestinian groups. They were granted amnesty through a Palestinian Authority deal in which they agree to renounce terrorism. Then when Hamas took control of Gaza, they renounced the agreement and resumed attacks on Israeli civilians as Gazan fighters. Angela Davis considers them “freedom fighters” and called for Barghouti’s release, referring to him as a political prisoner. She maintains Odeh’s innocence, and claims her trial was unfair despite International Red Cross observation of the trial and a subsequent confession.

> She has supported confessed terrorist Rasmea Odeh, and called for the release of Marwan Barghouti, a leader of the internationally designated terror group al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade. In addition to killing many dozens of Israeli civilians, the Brigade did enormous damage to Israeli support for negotiations with Palestinian groups. They were granted amnesty through a Palestinian Authority deal in which they agree to renounce terrorism. Then when Hamas took control of Gaza, they renounced the agreement and resumed attacks on Israeli civilians as Gazan fighters. Angela Davis considers them “freedom fighters” and called for Barghouti’s release, referring to him as a political prisoner. She maintains Odeh’s innocence, and claims her trial was unfair despite International Red Cross observation of the trial and a subsequent confession.
UFOs: The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Collection
There is more to "the real world" than the definition of words, which is the most that you can expect a language model to learn.

Yes it is true that bears are animals.

No it is not true that, as GPT-3 said, "There aren't any on the ground"
What about calling for the eradication of Jews? https://twitter.com/khamenei_ir/status/1003332853525110784

Twitter doesn't seem to have any issue with this content
Probably the ToS has language about when AWS can decide to stop hosting. I would assume the langue is extremely broad, legally speaking, in how much control it gives AWS to their own platform.

If you're going to build something aimed entirely at "taking down/riling up the establishment" you need to make sure you're not entirely dependent on the establishment to keep your something online.
I'd argue that introducing legal uncertainty is part of the goal. When these platforms have to consider that every deleted post could get them sued, they will delete less.
One important difference: you can set the quorum.

If you just take a key (or phrase) and split it between 5 trusted folks, there's no way to say "a quorum of 3 people must be present to get my key back".
I bought $100 worth in 2014 when it was $580. Now I wish I'd bought $1000. But of course I never would have, because it was a crazy risk at the time, and still is today.
It seems like you can substitute Haskell to Rust in almost every point they make.

(Or with many other great options)
Happiness Is the Longing for Repetition
That worked before these platforms were defacto monopolies. Now that they are, there should be different rules. When twitter or Facebook remove someone, it has a huge impact on the individual at no cost to the tech company. With their size, there should be responsibilities to society too, not just shareholders.
I'm not so sure. There is a quarantine-baby effect as well. People planning to have babies eventually have a strong incentive to do it now as they are home and can't get distracted with many other interim plans.

I'd like to see what happens.
Won't IRS have full access to people's financial history anyway? Borrowing is taxable.
This is because the situation is also very different from 9/11 ?
I tend to agree. While technologically its a marvel. But I do have the feeling the Robocallers and NLG customers are hanging out in the same place.
Yeah, this precedent is very troubling to say the least. If or when things swing the other way, this will not go well for everybody.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/section-230-good-actua...
Which side are you talking about in this?
Death of a Biohacker (2018)
FreedomBox[1] is another project like that. The main issue plaguing these things (in my opinion) is the "jack of all trades, master of none" problem.

It does a lot, but does none of them outstandingly well. I'd prefer to see FreedomBox just focus on having a best-in-class Matrix server for example.

Another (more recent) example is Dappnode[2]. They are kinda like Sandstorm but only for node servers that are part of decentralized networks.

[1]: https://www.freedombox.org/

[2]: https://dappnode.io/
Bitcoin has essentially no intrinsic value. If people only used it as a currency, not as a speculative "investment", the price would be orders of magnitude lower.

Stocks are much "safer" because the intrinsic value is often similar to the market price.

Gold and some stocks (Tesla) are somewhere in between. They have intrinsic value but people also buy it speculatively so the price is way higher than the intrinsic value.
You gave a link to Durov's fake account.

Here is the official one.
http://t.me/durov

I recommend reading his last post.
I always find the free market vs government arguments a false dichotomy. Even the free-est markets require a whole host of government services: regulation, standards setting, contracts enforcement, antifraud measures provision and infrastructure to name but a few. People only cry free market when they don't like a particular government activity.

That coal plant relies on infrastructure to get its coal. It needs fair utility prices to deliver its power to customers. It needs reliable (abuse free) markets to sell the power on. It needs voltage and frequency/time standards to access the network. It needs contract enforcement to actually get paid by its customers. It needs insurance and educated workers and a CEO who won't embezzle.

All provided by government, all welcomed by industry. But suddenly government has no place in free markets when it comes to CO2.
Because that would be very expensive for them...
I really like how they used camera batteries. It makes for a really nice replacement strategy. I had a Newton which I wished had used that instead of normal batteries in a holder.
I'll put the learning curve around the same level as C++, with the qualifier that most of what you learn aren't parts of the language, but patterns and formalisms you can use in any language.
When did it bust?
My problem is mainly with looking for specific components.

I want a decent commuter with belt drive and higher end components. Disc brakes.

I can get the cheap versions of this all day but not really the best stuff unless I possibly order it built by Maxx or get a Riese & Müller e-bike. Still looks like waiting until at least April though.
At least in the UK bank deposits up to £85,000 are protected by a government scheme, so you can't lose all your money. I expect the FCA would offer the same "be prepared to lose all your money" advice to anyone who wanted to invest in a single stock too.
I guess that depends if you see Parker as a general purpose social media site, which seems like a stretch. It’s a site dedicated to one cause, Trumpism, which is now a movement that is responsible for terrorism and an insurrection attempt on the US.

Did the people cheering at hitler’s rallies but who never actually murdered anybody themselves have “no part in” the Holocaust?
If I'm actively robbing a truck, I will put on sun glasses. What I'm saying is that it's harder to know a masked man is robbing or just inspecting a truck.
To be clear, ISIS deplatforming was ~6 years ago. This is in the context of ~200,000 republicans being banned from twitter.

So placing context where due. This person is asserting republicans ~= ISIS.

Though I do also realize Biden outright called Senator Cruz and some other senator Geobells. Senator cruz is a nazi propaganda minister. Which obviously makes Trump = Hitler.
I put 2k in at one point and was up to 40k in a month trading alt coins. Then btc started to tumble. I realized it caused a massive amount of subconcious anxiety. I ended up walking away with a very generous ROI. My buddy told me to get in again at 10k. Id could have paid off my house last week if I did.

But thats how investing goes. If you could nail every investment you'd quickly become the wealthiest individual in the world.
> would you want to work for such a company, or have it on your resume in the future

And even if you did want to work for such a company, the impact on your resume in the future along might be enough to deter you.
That's interesting. Would mind sharing what machine is that (p9)?
Can we kill the whole "security researcher" term right now? Hacker is so much easier to type.
Illinois has these "no turn on red when pedestrians present" signs and I have no clue how thats supposed to help anyone because pedestrians usually get hit because they aren't seen by the car.
At least the link for Brave appears below the information box about Firefox.
The Amazon email to Parler says:

> Over the past several weeks, we’ve reported 98 examples to Parler of posts that clearly encourage and incite violence. [...] It also seems that Parler is still trying to determine its position on content moderation. You remove some violent content when contacted by us or others, but not always with urgency. [...] This is further demonstrated by the fact that you still have not taken down much of the content that we’ve sent you.

(quoting from https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/johnpaczkowski/amazon-p..., it's a ways down the page).

The email is lacking in specifics, though.
I'd imagine keeping people in the ecosystem is plenty reason. Sharing sites live and die by their creators, who are a small fraction of the users. Making life marginally more convenient for them should have disproportionate returns.
That’s not what that tweet says. So you admit your argument carries little weight without sensationalizing it?
You are in good company:

"I made my money by selling too soon."
...Bernard Baruch
I would draw a distinction between "Conservatives" and a small subgroup within the right that is actively fomenting a violent insurrection.
Why should you need to sign a TOS in order to use some consumer software? No, what would happen is TOS's would go away for everything but high-level professional software.
>Parler could still go out and build their own servers.

Yes, and as someone on Twitter pointed out, as a customer also denied service, Rosa Parks could have gone out and started her own bus line (likely outside her financial range though).

The argument to "do it yourself" is silly. Europe sees it. The ACLU sees it. Why can't you?

For the record: I think these platforms should be responsible for what they host.
I don't have a android device here to confirm but I suspect if it was just installed and never updated it won't show in that list.
All of these present problems in different contexts

Specific: This assumes that the picture you currently have of what you want is the thing you actually want. Do you want faster horse, a Model T, or swift reliable transportation of a form you've not yet imagined.

Measurable: If you only value that which has a number, you'll lose sight of what truly matters in life because of the Streetlight Effect[1]. Consider the ridiculousness of the question "What NPS score would your children give you?"

Attainable: There is a limit to the degree to which you can "be sure" of anything, especially without 2020 vision.

Relevant: This requires really knowing what your values are so that you can practice the subtle art of not giving a fuck[2] about other things. Determining those can be hard emotionally-painful work, but in any context it is a good problem you want to have solved.

Time Bound: Sometimes deadlines spur action, sometimes they paralyse or cause you to lose sleep. Sometimes, they are so far off in the future that you don't think about them until it is too late because you thought you could do them. If you're looking at a timescale longer than 6 weeks, consider instead that you might want a CGP-Grey style Theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVGuFdX5guE

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetlight_effect

[2] https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/The-Subtle-Art-of-Not-Giving-a-...
Highly recommend this to anyone who spends lots of time thinking about personal goal-setting.
Which 'antifa'? If twitter allows people to organize aggressive violent behavior to violate others rights en mass - then sure ban twitter.

I didn't say twitter or Facebook was better.
HN posting rules require me to say more than just "LOLOK" so we'll go with this:

That standard doesn't exist and isn't objective. No, even that really clever one you're about to come up with. It's not real. It's all subjective. The entire US legal system is a "Common-law" legal system, meaning it's all subjective. Objective is for mathematics, not the law.

*edited for typo
I had multiple manufacturers of kitchen appliances send me schematics so I could fix it myself instead of paying for a service visit. Many vendors have service guides online, including lists of parts. That's not hostile at all. You have to choose what you're buying, but it's not hard to buy from a solid company.
Nice to see MsMadLemmon get a mention!
Trump can still write whatever he wants. He can still publish through the White House press. He can contact press, or communicate as American Presidents have always done. He is not being forcibly gagged as a whole. He has freedom to speak, just not where he pleases.

I feel like people are conflating "Freedom of Speech" with the "Freedom of Platform". This is an important difference. If I send a letter to Bloomberg or The New York Times, no one would find it surprising or wrong when they decided to not publish it (for ANY reason). If I violate their commenter section policies, they remove it and no one blinks. They decide what's on their platform without answer.

I am not against the idea of governments guaranteeing certain freedoms and access to platforms, but they currently do not exist as far as I understand. Saying some right has been newly violated is somewhat silly, especially given that the subject in question is a member of a political party who has fought tooth-and-nail to preserve this exact right for businesses -- to arbitrarily chose who they do business with. That is what we're contending with.

TL;DR: The discussion needs to be recentered.
/r/cyberdeck is calling. I remember coveting a Toshiba Libretto. Would love to have something similar right now, though I'm not sure what I'd use it for.
You can't be serious. There were literally millions of users on the platform.
I would set the line at "following due process".
Because the computer being right 90% of the time when something is ambiguous doesn't preclude the programmer from understanding it (while still providing them a best guess at their intent for those times they don't), but DOES mean that the program doesn't assume the wrong thing that remaining 10%.
Ask Eric Munchel how much a mask ended up helping...
Agreed. I work on the site where it was developed and there are still many treasured hp handhelds in peoples drawers, still running today.
Technical skills every software engineer interviewer should have
It last hit 5k in March. It hit 5k three years before. Wait a bit, it will drop before raising again.
>The find the whole narrative of dehumanising Trump supporters to be sick.

And I find you comparing BLM movement to Trump's supporters "election fraud" bullshit to be absolutely sickening.
> I agree with a few other commentators here that Hadoop/Spark isn't being used a lot in their production environments

I guess I'm the odd-man out because that's all I've used for this kind of work. Spark, Hive, Hadoop, Scala, Kafka, etc.