skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use JetBrain's remote python interpreter functionality[0] with great success and convenience. For anyone whose development environment is appropriate for its use, I honestly cannot recommend it highly enough. I generally can only use it when I'm running the full "Professional" license version, however.

This uses SSH and SCP to automatically deploy the code to the remote environment and run it with the interpreter on that machine, rather than your own local laptop/desktop. One advantage is that it does not require any special software to be installed on the remote server. VS Code's solution requires a pretty hefty installation consisting of basically an entire copy of VSCode onto the remote server.

The downside of JetBrain's approach... I believe that it requires a local copy of the files in order to perform the "LSP"-like syntax error highlighting / suggestion functionality that JetBrains software is so lauded for. This could be difficult/inconvenient if your codebase is particularly enormous, or if you aren't allowed to mirror it locally.

However, given the amount of support that JetBrains has for this kind of setup, I wouldn't be shocked to see an additional future option for something more in the style of "VS Code Remote Development"

0: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/pycharm/configuring-remote-in...
Of course it is. It’s not like these are fringe views that people are acting on. Look at his inner circle who abandoned him before “Big Tech” did. There’s a huge (and growing) chunk of society that is sick of what he says and does. Forget his ideals, I’m talking about his behavior.
California allows you to opt-out of binding arbitration at the time of signing or for a period after signing.
Essential personnel not wanting the vaccine isn't the problem.

The problem is that everyone who wants it can't get it until essential personnel has been given several chances. Nearly 30+ million doses are sitting on a shelf because they're only offering it to healthcare and first responders, and the demand isn't meeting supply. But demand from older adults (60years +) is very high, but can't get it for another month or two.
Friends and I used gather.town for a virtual New Year's Eve party since we were all in lockdown. It went really well.
>>But political affiliation is not a protected class.

Pretty sure it is in California.
I would rather say they are hoping, as am I. Would be quite fun.
I note here, that JetBrains does have a somewhat analogous feature in their Professional license of PyCharm[0].

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25722765
the world seems to have changed, none could have imagined a situation like this some ten years ago; what is happening now would be equivalent to myspace stopping facebook by forcing isp's to cut them off the line. If looks as if the big companies forgot where they came from.
The obvious reason could be something happening, impacting all these decisions in an major way. An attempted self-coup is a pretty good reason to act. Now the obvious question is, why did it take a few days?

A) It didn't (twitter and other social media platforms reacted pretty fast)

B) Companies that don't have a lot of experience with people inciting violence and riots (i.e. not huge social media companies) probably didn't have a process ready

C) Since other companies took actions, the ones left may "read the room"

In fact, the spread-around (in time) and ad-hoc actions speak more to an "oh shit, this is very bad for our image and our own employees are very unhappy with this" reaction
I can speak for Windows and say absolutely, yes. With each major version Microsoft try a new method of abstracting away the file system from the user in File Explorer and it just makes it less intuitive. One example being: the new "add recent places" feature just fills the navigation pane with garbage from system/program files areas.

There are still some keyboard navigation issues with File Explorer which can sometimes make it act in unreliable ways, there is a strange bug with system tray context menus still to this day and don't even get me started on the dumpster fire that is Windows 10's entire Start Menu design and implementation.
The volume is the point.
Advertising is evil episode 3457

I know I say this a lot but ad-supported business models are corrupting. Spam is the original sin of the open internet and the unwillingness to get to grips with this is a big part of why we can't have nice things.

Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Canter_and_Martha_Sie...

On Usenet, which ran on NNTP, every user could maintain their own killfile, which would allow people to hide spam. But it wasn't easy to share killfiles, and while the more technically capable people would easily filter it out they were also blinding themselves to a problem that eventually choked the life out of the community. Similar observations could be made about advertising on the web, from standardized banners leading towards today's web horrible mess.

The basic problem is that the costs of spamming and lying are generally a lot lower than the potential profits, so the more opent he system the more spam it tends to attract. Try looking at used car adverts on Craigslist for example, dealers in busy areas tend to run a hundred ads a day with 500 keywords. Some people flag them, of course, but most don't bother and the profit in selling a single car is worth the minor downsides.
So you accept that I can control your private property?

I’m easy to contact on the internet. I’ll be expecting all your social media credentials emailed to me by the end of of the day. Failure to do so, will be censoring me.
> The assumption that a government model would cause a loss of innovation seems dismissive of what the government model has brought us in the past

Government program != utility designation. DARPA, NASA and the Manhattan Project were not utilities. PG&E is a utility. It requires political consent to make significant changes.

I’m not saying utilities can’t be innovative. Amtrak and the Post Office are utilities, and they experiment. But they have obligations private businesses don’t, and that slows things down.
Doesn't putting it in the Bin until it's pasted fix this?

And you always have undo, just as with text.
Why would Apple ban a mutually beneficial ploy? They are all in it together. We are the suckers.
It's a business decision. What if a boycott starts because other customers don't like Stripe sticking with Parler? They should just eat the losses? It's a business decision and companies are free to make them.
What do you make of this study by professors from Princeton and Northwestern that finds that "economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence"?

Source: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...

What do you make of Jimmy Carter saying in 2014 that "America doesn't have a functioning democracy right now"?

Source: https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/nsa-affaere-jimmy-car...
Translated from German: https://archive.is/Lhlq2

It might be unpleasant to acknowledge, but there is increasingly overwhelming evidence to suggest that the major American political parties are indeed "outside and beyond the reach of 'normal' citizens".

In 2017, the DNC argued in federal court that, as a private corporation, it was entitled to select whichever candidate it preferred for the general election regardless of the preferences of "normal citizens" who voted in the party's primary election. This was in a hearing for a lawsuit filed by Sanders supporters who weren't happy about the DNC working with the Clinton campaign and against the Sanders campaign, as revealed by WikiLeaks.

Source: https://ivn.us/posts/dnc-to-court-we-are-a-private-corporati... and, for convenience, https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/independent-voter-network-ivn...

Growing up in a blue household, social group, and state, I'm less familiar with the history of the anti-democratic machinations of the RNC, but my understanding of the Trump phenomenon was that, at least early on, many Republican voters were attracted to the idea of a political outsider who they hoped wouldn't sell them out like they felt RNC-affiliated Republicans had been doing.

Some contemporary sources seem to back up that interpretation: https://archive.fo/2Vidx (Wall Street Journal) and https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/...
I was on the fence about this, but reading the comments convinced me it was the absolute right decision.

The fact that all these institutions just allowed this horrible hateful speech for four years, in the name of free speech etc, despite all the harassment, harm (mental and otherwise) it caused to so many people in America actually emboldened so many to the extent that now that they crossed this invisible line, they can't even really understand the ramifications of what happened. That what gets me.

To be hyperfocused on the free speech or "big brother" aspect of these bans, not the fact that a small group of rioters were just a few feet away from irreversibly staining American history with the blood of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th in the chain of command of the United states of America, as well as overrunning the seat of power of the most powerful nation in the world, on national TV ... just tells me that things really went too far and should have been shut down much sooner.

I'm sure a lot of the people at the capitol that day have the narrative running in their minds that they are the heroes of America democracy, but the reality is that there is simply no justification for any of this, that can be told. A smarter group of individuals would take all this on the chin, make penance in some way while staying under the radar to regroup and reconfigure their message/approach instead of citing private business overreach as some sort of justification for what happened
IMO it's perfectly valid criticism in its lambasting of the bug itself as well as its vintage. When I want to upload a screenshot, photo or video to an email, an IM, a web page etc., I really do not want to send the wrong one.
Not sure, but I really like the modal of MaidSafe where there's no blockchain to download. Instead, data is shared amount a group of peers.
That seems to be a straw man argument. There’s a difference between saying “SV companies are required to help” and “We could do better if SV companies helped”. Gab appears to be saying the latter and to be clear, it appears to be meeting the standards of the law, so we’re talking about going above and beyond what the law requires.
I’m having the same issue on an iPhone 11 Pro
You might not,but you don't speak for the UK. WhatsApp is ubiquitous here (in England), getting people away from it has been a challenge for years.
Sounds boilerplate.
I spent 2 weeks in a benedictine monastery in Italy, about 2 months ago. I think these were some of the most influential weeks of my life. I really hope I can write something useful for others, but the more I digest the experience, the more I think people need to do that themselves and come to their own conclusions.
this is a pretty good time for a lot of the anti crypto crowd to figure out the necessity of permissionless money. I hope to never hear the statement "crypto has no real usecase" ever again.
probably https://github.com/overleaf/overleaf it used to be called sharelatex
Parler bans people that post poop pics. It just so happens that mainstream services have a higher standard.

But seriously, how is mounting an insurection a slippery slope? At this point I get the feeling that a lot of people posting here are apologists for domestic terrorism and it worries me.

There are violent people and they think like Timothy McVeigh. That should worry you. It should worry you even more if they can find like-minded friends like Terry Nichols on cesspools like Parler.
Did you object when Twitter banned accounts belonging to ISIS or Al Queda?
I remember doing that last year, or even the year before.

Anyway, a distro released in 2018 and still supported until 2023 and 2028 for extender support can't be "a bit too old" for something like the file picker. I mean, people were making fun of me when I told them I was using that ubuntu distro that had no mp3 support by default but it was 15 years ago.
I guess we need data to back this up - I’m not buying it without more data. Even the top, top valued sports franchises only have estimated market caps in the range of $5 billion.

In other words, for small cap companies, yes, the ROI of athletes to their franchises is relatively higher than engineers to their companies. But for most of the SP500 this is not true, and there are lots of software-heavy companies with much higher market cap to the extent that even with 10k or 100k employees, I doubt an athlete’s ROI for a small sports franchise is proportional to the ROI of employees in the large company.

For example, virtually any engineer at a FAANG company should be making top pro athlete money (not considering endorsements). There are literally thousands of engineers at Amazon and hundreds at Netflix that have this ROI on the soaring revenues of these megacorps, to a much greater degree than athletes have on their teams.
Freedom of speech has nothing to do with newspapers or news, and never has done.

It only protects you from government, nothing else.

There are legitimate concerns regarding monopolistic behaviour of large digital gatekeepers. But we don’t solve that by deciding to restrict their speech (which is what forced speech would be). You solve it by either making them utilities or breaking them up to create more competition.
It’s not part of the largest network, as no big Mastodon server federates with it, but it is a Mastodon instance
To me, this whole thing stinks of the "bystander effect". That's from twitter/reddit not banning more and earlier, to the FBI and law enforcement failing to investigate, to individual police opening doors or declining to stop criminals literally entering the buildings.

Everyone thought "the next time I'll do something, someone else will catch this in some other office".

I get why, its political and touches on censorship and people rightly hesitate to use power (not the law enforcement side, that's their job). Plus you're making money from ads next to pages of QAnon or Stopthesteal or whatever other BS is there.

But that's just my opinion. As you say, we should have a real investigation with witnesses and experts and actual factz. Congresd is the right place for that to happen imho

I hope something actually comes of this. It would be shameful for it to be buried because its hard and no one wants to be less able to mobalise theirside...
You've just wrapped a very specific definition of "Operational support" into a very vague term.

From another post in this thread: If you want to deploy distributed stream processing like Apache Kafka, but do not want to roll it yourself, you can use a tool like AWS Kinesis or Azure Event Hubs.

You still need "Operational Support" to manage EH/Kinesis, but generally it's closer to the type of "Operational Support" that can be provided by a general backend software engineer, as opposed to a DevOps/Infrastructure-specific dev. By using a Cloud (Managed) service, you're removing the need to manage:

* Uptime management
* Scaling
* Custom-multi-AZ

And probably a lot more. Sure, you've still have to actually handle events appropriately, but you have to do that either way.
> It can cause surprising problems if you don't check the dev board manual's pin table

Nah, you got it all wrong. You need to pull up the devboard's Pinout, User Guide, and Overview documents. Sometimes cross reference those to the devboard's schematic for the trickier pins. Alongside the specific User Guide and Programming manuals for the MCU on the board. Plus the MCU's guides don't typically cover stuff that's common to all MCUs in a particular Cortex family, so you need to pull up the Cortex documentation. And then, finally, the errata documents.

Typically speaking you'll need to cross reference across all of those documents, all at once, and several places _within_ each document ... all at once.

That's assuming you're using one of the more common pins. If you've decided to dabble with any of the more exotic functionalities you'll want to pull up one or several Application documents, as the former pile of documentation is unlikely to accurately describe the necessary "voodoo" to get things working.

(I kinda wish this comment was a joke ... but it's not. The STM line of chips are truly wonderful machines but ... golly are they a pain to develop on. There's a reason most people just use Arduino to plaster over this stuff.)

EDIT: Oh and make sure you don't confuse the labeling of the pins on the board, with the label of the pins on the pinout, with the label of the pins on the schematic, with the label of the pins in the registers, with the label of the pins in the various HAL libraries...

EDIT2: Geez, how could I forgot the most crucial thing: you of course have to modulate all of these by which specific package of the chip you're actually working with. No sense spending half an hour of your life wadding through all of this documentation only to get to the dev board pinout to find that pin is only available on the largest package and the dev board only came with the 2nd to largest package... (and also doesn't include that one peripheral you were planning to use because ... reasons).
But who's correct?

My sample size of 100+ or yours of 1?
They are not "conservative", they are fascist loons. There's a big difference. Reasonable conservatives can get along quite well in society, even today.
I think both could be true. Yesterday it was just aws, and maybe they had a hosting provider lined up. But then today it became every vendor that they work with which is another level of problem, like having to build their own sms system.
The thing is, even if someone recognizes:

>… you'll need to arbiter them to distinguish bad ones from good. This process is corruptible…

By the time this may matter the most, it is already too late… rubicon has already been crossed. Thus, the one who recognizes this must position themselves to expect any of the downsides that will most assuredly come and to expect society to be of no help at all to achieve such ends.
I think a better question is: do you consider your software systems a competitive advantage?
> If you are a developer and you don't agree with direction changes, you don't have to work on them

I would tell the same to Poettering, Clasen, and co.

There is really nobody who obligates them to work on their "innovations" in GNOME with religious zeal if the rest of the project showed no interest, speaking lightly.

If nobody wants to work on their stuff, they can't claim "victimhood" as if that happens as a result of somebody's ill intents.

I have to reference Torvalds vs. SystemD here as an example how Sievers, Poettering, and co. instantly drew up a picture of kernel community being some kind of a bullying ring when the only thing they did to them was to ignore their (bad quality) patches.
I wonder if rhetoric from people like Cuomo saying that they won't trust an fda approved vaccine without their additional review contributes to that.

https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/09/24/cuomo-vaccine-covid/
I am curious for the people against such action by Stripe, what conditions do you think are appropriate before cutting off this kind of service to a customer?

I imagine there must be some conditions that would make one say "we are enabling this individual's actions" to some definiton of "actions" that you disagree with.
And snarky dismissals of Gandalf's resurrection while handing them out like candy in your own story.
I believe the parent is (somewhat inartfully) talking about presently established players (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, etc) growing into large businesses and then greasing the pole behind them by lobbying for legislation that they can relatively easy afford, but which would be a prohibitive expense for upstarts.
Stripe (and every other credit card processors) have long refused to do business with a broad amount and types of businesses. For example, Stripe themselves don't serve most travel sites.

https://stripe.com/blog/why-some-businesses-arent-allowed

It's a super common practice to deny some customers for basically all financial services companies.
Source of this info? In Poland people use mostly Messenger. None of my friends use whatsapp. Telegram or Discord are both more popular.
>even moreso his largely-White and not >particularly race conscious base of support

This is baseless and such a slap in the face to the massive Latino, Middle Eastern, and Asian constituency in the Sanders coalition who worked their butts off to deliver him multiple states. I won't engage with any comments designed to inflame racial conflict and have flagged your post.
Agencies outside the "Government"? Which government? If it's on a need-to-know, how do you know?

Stuff and nonsense.
> it's not any different than living under a fascist government

We should be celebrating Stripe's ability to do this. Do you think a Chinese company could "deplatform" Winnie The Pooh?

It's fantastic that we can still disassociate ourselves and our businesses from someone like Trump!
Not just Greek. Many ancient societies viewed time in this way. It makes sense. You can see the past, so it must be in front of you. You can’t see the future, so it must be behind you.
Stripe is hardly a “backbone” service. There a dozens of different payment processors out there, many of them much larger than Stripe.

There’s absolutely nothing preventing the Trump campaign from using a different payment processor.

It would be a different matter if Visa and MasterCard had blocked them.
AFAIK the killer is (video) encoding latency, which in turn comes from a tradeoff between encoding efficiency (bandwidth use) and number of frames that need to be "buffered" inside the encoder. This is exhibited inside the videoconferencing software and the webcam itself (AFAIK webcams don't send an uncompressed stream to the computer).
Nothing's perfect, my point us that it didn't lead to a totalitarian state.
I think at least some of the discomfort you (and I) are feeling with this is due to the fact that these private companies made exceptions to their terms of use for so long, that now that they suddenly enforce them, it feels capricious. They should have banned Trump for violating their terms years ago, but they gave him a pass and now they’ve revoked that pass. As long as there are unambiguous rules that are evenly enforced regardless of what political position you happen to hold, I have no problem with it.
Chastity refers to abstinence other than within the bounds of marriage, not just before marriage.
Do you really think so? I'd personally feel more reassured if a[-1] caused an assertion to fail.

Python should have used a different notation, imho. Like: a[<0] for the last element.
Monetisation of Outrage
The FANG has monetised homo sapiens' natural addiction to outrage.

How would one go about inoculating the general populace against this ?
The GOP is cool with bakers denying service to gay couples, so I assume they would be ok with that, right?
Cory Doctorow was talking about this on the most recent Exponential View podcast, a great riff on how that really helped the competitive landscape, at least for a while. Worth listening to https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/exponential-view-with-...