skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. IMO that's the root of the issue. If there was an incentive to invest in what the OP advocates for, it would have received a military level of funding and attention decades ago.

Problem is, most people are under the illusion that software is like a woodwork or metalwork gadget: you make it once and it can work happily for 10 years without changes. Which is an extra funny thing to believe in because it doesn't apply to those physical gadgets either.

It seems people just want things to be created once and used infinite amount of times and even if I can relate to that desire, it's simply not the universe we are living in.

And in spite of countless evidence to the contrary, it's still an extremely persistent illusion that creates untold amounts of friction between shareholders and programmers every day.
> the story does not give that background

well i have no insider knowledge of any kind, i just looked left and right beyond the blog post instead of making assumptions.
I just hope this means more snow in Southeast Michigan. Something like a few days of 2" per day, then a decent dusting every night, would be excellent. With many of us looking for nice outdoor activities during COVID times, thus far it's been an awful winter.

We got a bit of snow, then some rain, and all the packed snow on trails and paths where people walk, hike, run, and bike have become sheets of ice. Snow is great for outdoor winter stuff, but ice is really hard to deal with.
Which subreddit are you referring to? Based on your description, it surely can't be /r/fatpeoplehate.
Searching for help on the internet is also a valuable real world skill. Does that not mean then that the cheaters should receive extra credit instead of a zero?
A few years ago the comparison wouldn't had stood :

If both Visa and Mastercard happened to have banned you, them being pretty much the only two players in the market, you would be pretty much fucked.

Meanwhile there were tons of ways to be hosted, including self-hosting.

Nowadays I'm not so sure, both Visa/Mastercard duopoly doesn't seem to be as uncontested as before, and AWS kept growing ?
HyperTag: File Organization Made for Humans
> But, You can always break down big chain of operations, into smaller chain using good variable naming in-between.

I don't think so. Very frequently the intermediate values represent nothing in particular and naming them simply results in visual noise.

I think this is comparable to SQL or LINQ statements. Consider what those would look like if you had to name every intermediate values instead of being able to filter and group on-the-fly.

Of course you can make a mess out of those too, by building huge unreadable expressions, but that's also an extreme, similar to naming every intermediate step.
Yes, but most of the hundreds of millions of westerners (US, Western Europe, Australasia) are unlikely to experience real consequences for everyday life from climate change in a wild ride this decade.

That’s for all sorts of reasons, principally economic and geographic.
> I'm just going to come out and say something that I've had a hard self reflective time coming to the conclusion of. I don't believe in free speech without limits.

It’s a perfectly reasonable position, and IMO the correct one.

But speech has always been limited: incitement to violence, criminal conspiracy, libel, blasphemy (in many places), “public exposure of private facts” (damaging other people’s legitimately private life), revealing classified material ... and so on.

I think what people fail to distinguish is the free exchange of ideas - what totalitarian countries suppress - and the right to say whatever you like even it it’s to do deliberate harm for selfish ends.

The paradox of tolerance shows us that to have freedom we can actually use there must be limits on what we are free to do.

Organising and inciting an insurrection to overturn an election - what effect does that have on the speech and political rights of those who spoke for months to win the votes of the newly elected President? To respect the freedom of those people shouldn’t we restrict the speech of the former, when it is shown to have become dangerous?
This is why they’re non enforceable in a real court. If I put the rights to your inheritance in a tos no judge is actually going to enforce that, because no one would reasonably sign that away for access to a website.

In reality only things which you would reasonably expect to be in a tos or privacy policy could be enforced, given 99% of users don’t read them, or understand them.
> It doesn't look like an insurmountable effort from one person to support the XEPs required to create a competent chat application, unlike my impression of Matrix.

Could you explain how you got this particular impression?
Your professor made all students who looked up from their sheet go outside in the middle of the exam?
Cryptography Dispatches: The Most Backdoor-Looking Bug I’ve Ever Seen
Stendhal took a very cool view of Scott.
when we want, we can track everyone right
And yet a Russian spy ring inside the US was broken up around 10 years ago, the NRA was infiltrated by Ms. Butina, etc.

>There isn't a path for how Russia is going to take advantage of the US

Maybe the plan is to sow discord among NATO allies, cause division among US citizens, make democratic processes such as voting appear unreliable, etc.
Fat lot of good that did when fighting uneducated and untrained rice farmers and goat herders. Morale, knowledge of territory, civilian support and a conviction that you are fighting to defend your land and people will keep the fight going longer than even the most highly trained and funded military can.
Twitter deletes China embassy's Xinjiang 'emancipation' tweet
Hopefully it means more snow in Utah. It's been very dry this year, which means summer will be very dry and hot since there won't be much mountain melt run-off.
The only missing piece is a browser plugin or a dedicated browser that verifies that each piece of content you are served corresponds to the hash you are requesting. This is on the global roadmap, as well as automatic portal switching. The philosophy of the project is absolutely in line with your thinking.
You say it was discontinued because it was unprofitable. I say it was discontinued because it was unpopular. Neither of us has shown any actual proof one way or the other
Just a side note, both fish and oil are relatively high-tech sectors in Norway. Oil due to harsh weather and rough offshore geography, and fish through factory ships and clever farming. But they’re both closer to pure resource exports than you’d expect from a first-world country.
You're making a different point.

If you don't agree with a course of action then by all means do make your point in a constructive way.

But once the decision is made then you cannot shun your responsibility and refuse to implement it. Either "disagree and commit" to the best of you ability or quit.
We tried that for Privacy Policies with P3P (https://www.w3.org/P3P/) and we failed.
This argument is becoming increasingly disingenuous based on actions of just the last few days.
Didn’t Parler go ahead and do exactly what you recommended?

Parler only went halfway there. They created a app/website. But, that's not an entire platform (as we see today). An entire platform in this context includes servers, fiber optic networks, routers, etc. If Parler wants to speak on the scale they envision, they can build their own infrastructure to do so. Yes, that's expensive, but it's also no different than the pre-internet era, where similar speech would be relegated to self-published fliers, because no newspaper or TV would carry the message.
Isn't the friendship angle precisely addressed by "team dynamics", "personalities", and "personal situation" ?
Just out of curiosity, what happened if you declined to sign? You flunk out of the course? Reading the TOS is pointless anyways, when declining them is very problematic for you.
Reading from a busted file system is a problem to be dealt with (or not), yes, and I certainly wouldn’t recommend mmaping a file shared over nfs if you can help it. I’m not sure what the use case is where that would seem like a good idea.

C, pointers, and mmap are dangerous, sharp instruments but I have to wonder who some of these dramatic warnings are for.
A centralised service that tracks all your tos agreements and changes would also be great. It would make things easier for developers as wel
I remember reading my bank's ToS at the time I was just out of the school. I read the whole piece, printed in font size 4 and the conclusion was like this: no matter what happens, it's my fault.

It doesn't matter what the TOCs are if they are presented at a gun point: a lot of services don't have alternatives and as much as I wouldn't cry for losing access to Reddit or YouTube,for some that would be the case.
Is your complaint that instead of looking to see "who are my mid-levels who can create a plan", he just assumes by their level that they cannot create a plan? Without detailed knowledge, I think most places hire senior/mid/junior based on exactly the criteria he describes.

Every team is fungible in the long run. If you have someone who is specialized labor, either they handoff to someone who is non-specialized now, or they do it later when they leave the company.

Edit: I think your response to dmak covers this, thanks.
DEFLATE at level 6 is really doing 10 MB/s, doesn't matter if you're using gzip or zlib or another library.

slz is closer to level 20 (if there was a level 20). It's fast but the compression ratio is meh. You're better of using lz4 or zstd.
And as one of the readers of that page, thank you.
Sidenote: This is how you properly deal with massive load on your site: https://imgur.com/a/zKMh5zg

The "checkout our twitter" thing is especially cool.
A Bill to Protect Women Against Gender-Based Violence Is Moving Forward in Iran
Harry and Meghan reported to have quit social media
I don’t those two thing are contradictory, it’s just that you are assuming you don’t get uniqueness inside a monopolistic platform, which is only partially true. The platform is fixed, but you get uniqueness inside the platform, with the content and contacts you follow. Facebook, reddit, etc. are not the same experience for all users. Comparing a network, where each vantage point is unique with Starbucks, which has maybe 50 products, is not an apt analogy.
The problem is more that every single piece of software and website and such did this and required you actually read it you would get nothing done all day but read agreements. I think the issue is the very need for all these agreements to begin with, we all know almost no one reads them.

I did for a while in the beginning but now its just too much.
Element – All-in-one secure chat app for teams, friends and organisations
It’s sarcasm. The poster is trying to point out that what’s being proposed is forced ideology. Re-education camps as it were.
Sure, but that is not unlike the XMPP/XEP situation. That's pretty much unavoidable and comes down to the responsibility of the client. It's natural that there will only be a few full-featured clients since those require a lot of effort with either Matrix or XMPP.
I am with you on this. Personally, I would rather continue using Toolz (https://github.com/pytoolz/toolz), and contribute additional helper/utility methods to that library.

The whole point of some things being functions versus methods is that they are generic rather than specialized. The generic iterator protocol is probably the best feature about the Python language, and it's both a damn shame and bad design to not use it.

If you really wanted to make an improvement over built in lists, the thing to do would be to implement some kind of fully lazy "query planning" engine, like what Apache Spark has. Every method call registers a new method to be applied with the query planner, but does not execute it. Execution only occurs when you explicitly request it. That way you can effectively compile in efficient but readable code that takes multiple passes over the data into efficient operations internally that only make one pass, or at least fewer passes. This also naturally lends itself to parallelization/concurrency.
Try Britannica or Encarta for “clique complex of a graph”.
Isn't this a bit like calling Joyce or Proust etc. "19th-Century novelists"? The novels, as far as I know, were all written or at least published in the 19th Century, likewise most of his poetry.
I would be happy to pay $39.63 to remove ads and allow me to browse FB without all my usage history and personal info getting sold to the highest bidder, but they don’t even give that option. So, I hardly ever use it.
Many people will tell you that your fasting glucose should be as "low as possible" and you'd be better off at the low end of the range than the high end of the range, but really if you are under 110 then doctors are not going to get excited.

If you were a lot higher than that it would be a concern in and of itself and a source of tinglingness and other nerve trouble in the long term.
Not for proctored exams that are designed around you studying in the lead up to the exam, not looking stuff up during the exam.

If it was an open-book exam then arguments could be made that looking stuff up online is an extension of looking it up in the official textbooks (unless you are _only_ allowed the official textbooks... but you get my drift).

Every school and uni exam (for the most part) will have past papers you can test yourself with. The exam doesn't deviate a whole lot (in my experience) from the past papers with the changes usually revolving around the made-up scenario, e.g. "a boat with a speed of 34kph..." vs "a plane travelling at a speed of..."

They could have studied the past papers and done well but they wanted the easier route.

So, no, they cheated. They deserved their punishment.
The story was admitted fake by the author, so the details of the story aren't to be used to justifying anything.
I don't see where in the article it is stated that he should fire himself ?
Well damn, you better just go ahead and put me under the ban account list. Because this site gets moderated by users that shouldn't even be moderated. Free speech, shit we commies now. Grimm16 you must not be a patriot you want someone to think for you when you need to wipe your own ass. Just wait till China invades and puts you under their ban, they bitch slap you before you even open your mouth. There's many things that invite violence when they call good evil and evil good. I'm so far negative on this point system it's fucking stupid points to post a free thoughtful conclusion and if someone like the mother fucking owner or moderator don't like what I say gets down voted or greyed out. Incite voilence... When the days come your asses are running for your lives, I dare you to tell the mother fuckers chasing you to stop inciting voilence. And see how far that shit gets you. So go ahead their Ding or Dong ban the hell out of me!
Not you, I meant double standard for the media's portrayal of those protests vs recent. Seem to go out of their way to call those mostly peaceful with a few bad actors, but not the other way around.
Twitter should count all people as equal too.
Loosing account of been more opinionated than average seems to be crime.
Critical thinking seems to be bad in current climate.
Oops, that was unclear. I meant "capitalize the first letter of" and "in written correspondence".

I am not an old Lisper, but I am becoming a young-ish one.
When was that roughly (recently or years ago?) and what was the cause?

In any case one should never forget that RAID is not the same thing as backup (which applies to a lot of not quite RAID solutions as well).
> It appears that somebody has made their own Tor client implementation and it fetches its dir info in a very rude way. If anybody knows details of it, please do let us know.

How is it possible for a "rude client" to cripple TOR in this way?
>Monero has Privacy level / mixin settings,

What are you even talking about?
Among other things, the blockchain/crypto part ensures hosts and portals have a monetary incentive to host data, making their service scalable and sustainable.
I don't really have the impression there's that much less hosting options now than a few years ago?
The criteria seem pretty clear. The reputational (and other) risks to their business passed a certain, admittedly ill-defined, threshold. If enough of the "right" people raise a public stink about other individuals or groups, those will get dropped too.
He's being purposefully disingenuous. It was banned for good reason, alongside racist subs like "CoonTown".
The problem is the entire point is to hide all the nefarious things they can do with your data. Plenty of open source software has really straight forward agreements based on common terms but they can do that because they aren't working out scary ways to utilise your data to make money from you.
It is us, the end consumer, that has the cake and is eating it.

With TV and newsprint, we had no platform at all, unless the media company shared our views or deemed our speech newsworthy. Even for innocuous speech.

With Twitter and Facebook, almost all of us have a platform that reaches potentially millions of eyeballs. That didn't exist 20 years ago - back then, we'd have to self-publish newsletters, or literally speak from a soap box in the town square.

That said, it is a balancing act, and I'm not certain where that balance point is (and it possibly moves over time too). But, the posts that have been shared from Parler were possibly illegal - they were planning armed sedition at best and a coup at worst - both of which are very much illegal and prosecutable. It wasn't just unsavory speech - it was illegal speech, that Parler itself refused to moderate.
Not to mention, many professors set questions of this sort that you need to correctly answer for an A.
The biggest confusion I have with the modern web is why these cookie agreements never remember that Ive agreed to them before.

I wouldn't mind being tracked so much if... they could identify that I've agreed to being tracked on the 7 websites I visit 1000 times before.
You can move in a wrong direction without moving backwards. I agree progress is not the correct word here, the correct term is probably "change". Restricting Free Speech inhibits change, whether good or bad (it doesn't completely stop it either, obviously).
ROTFL! I read your grandparent comment and said to myself "this feels just like a George Orwell dystopia"...
It's incredibly unlikely that you wild stumble across a specific random false trivia fact in the whole of the internet, and internalize it without noticing it's wrong.
Doesn’t the polar vortex make it “too cold” for snow?
I don’t think it’s possible to mandatorily restrict editorialising without killing platforms. Any such restrictions would be a spammers, griefers and pornographers manifesto. Restricting editorial rights is a horrible can or worms to open.

But anyway, there are no social media monopolies. We have Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, WhatsApp, iMessage, Discord, Signal, etc, etc, and it goes on and on. They’re also very segmented, Facebook is huge but it’s almost irrelevant to kids and young adults. New services pop up regularly because barriers to entry are incredibly low and segmentation is so high.
You don't seem to realize that having a lot of senior developers on a team can cause problems because there's no hierarchy. That's why junior developers and especially medior developers are very useful. Medior developers have quite a bit of experience too, they just haven't become leaders yet. Especially if your team size is a bit larger you will not want it to consist of only seniors. Also having explicit leadership positions for dev teams is questionable, especially for senior developers, product managers who are used to calling some of those shots.
Victory in such conflicts is won not by the side that can inflict more damage to the enemy, but by the one that can withstand more suffering. That's why US were unable to defeat Vietnam or USSR was unable to defeat Afghanistan.
But isn't the firing function a lot of per neuron state variables ?
Downvoted for educating people on free speech - oh the irony!
It snowed heavily in Madrid a couple of days ago for the first time in decades, causing utter chaos. It's around 5C colder than the usual seasonal average where I am.

My sense - and the sense of many working in climate science and media monitoring - is that there's a climate change denial industry [1] which is working very hard to lie about the catastrophic effects of developing climate change, and also to shift blame away from those responsible for causing them.

[1] https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-15-1259-9_...
> I really dislike this method of trying to catch them

Look at it from the teachers' point of view:

1. They know students are cheating by going to the bathroom and looking up answers (not all of them, but enough)

2. They can't prevent them from going to the bathroom

I suppose they could insist that everyone wears trousers and tops that have no pockets and they all put their phones in their bags (and demonstrate that this has been done) but I could imagine this being a violation of some sort of rights...

The point is that there was a question in the exam that was hard. Impossibly hard by the sound of things. Some students threw their hands up and said "I have no idea" and skipped it. Some went to the bathroom, looked up the (wrong) answer, and cheated... it's black and white for me I'm afraid.
> bool(Array(False, False)) would evaluate to True

Isn't that consistent with the built-in `list`, though, because `bool([False, False])` is True?
Time-pressure tests are completely indefensible except for tests of specific time sensitive skills like landing a plane.
Truly we need a low-pass filter to handle current events.
DDOS theory here - https://darknetdaily.com/?p=1030
Friendships can transcend teams, personalities are not going to be modeled in software and 'personal situation' is a great way to accidentally make a bad situation worse, for instance: by deciding to keep someone who has a family in favor of someone who does not but who is instrumental to the company in non-obvious ways.

So no, I don't see that particular part addressed well or even at all through those three sets of keywords and I've seen companies be utterly destroyed because they fired a guy they thought wasn't contributing enough who just happened to be the glue holding the whole thing together.

This is not a software problem, and it can't be approached with the same toolset that you would use to figure out register optimization, it is first and foremost a people problem. The OP is seriously out of their depth and too full of themselves due to their recent promotion to realize this.

That realization won't be long in the coming though, I predict that within six months there will be another blog post about how he left this toxic company behind to go somewhere else without realizing that he was part of the problem all along.

For reference, I give you his blog post from six months ago:

https://danlebrero.com/2020/06/10/you-dont-believe-in-clean-...
Is It Realistic to Run Any Big Data (Like Database, ETL) Workload on GPU Now?
I'm not. It's just that it happens that something relatively significant regarding politics and technology happened lately, and it's top of mind for my commenting.

I was "deplatformed"--aka fired--from my tech job a couple months ago for political views. This is not a neutral issue.

Thankfully I can retire, but not all people are so lucky. What's sad is that after 24 years of coding day and night, this issue so significant I refuse to continue to work in the tech industry. I love technology, but we're at the point where this industry isn't about technology any longer.