skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've characterized the Queen's powers as "reserve powers" inasmuch as, if everything goes wrong and Parliament dies from a meteor strike, the government still legally operate provided there is a monarch (even if you have to reach deep into the line of succession to find that person).

Ignoring that the Queen and much of her staff would likely be dead, where exactly do you think Governments come from? Parliament would just reform and be recognized de facto until the laws were either reconstructed or replaced. Sometimes words have no meaning, and the queen has no practical power to do any of this, so it's basically irrelevant in my view.
Stadia controller connects directly to the google datacenter though
Colin Kaepernick Targets a Socially-Driven Billion-Dollar Company with New SPAC
Well, yeah exactly. This whole business is set up so you don't pay for support if you don't want to. And AWS is set up the same way, they just also let you pay for support.
you mean morale
> someone who lives off of the public welfare

It isn't welfare if the person works in an official capacity.
NASA is looking at domestic commercial launchers powerful enough to reach lunar orbit for non-crewed elements of Gateway. As far as we know now of what will be available at the intended launch time in 2024, that will be SpaceX Falcon Heavy, ULA Vulcan, or Blue Origin New Glenn.

Falcon Heavy has the advantage that it's already in service. The other two are currently expected to make their maiden flights late this year.

It's possible that SpaceX could get Starship ready for launch by 2024 too, at their aggressive rate of development, which would be super cool, though it's early to order for launch services.
Royal Mail was privatised years ago.
It is when it is not applicable to the topic being discussed.
Generally, the kinds of cops that become whistleblowers, or are fired for insufficient brutality, are veterans.

The archetypical "warrior cop" is a non-veteran who likes military imagery but has no experience with military discipline or subordination.
lol @ all of the angsty responses on here.

i'm on a product team. morale is fine. what you should really be asking yourself is if you're comfortable with the WLB. most people work 50-70hrs/wk. TC is good though so you get what you pay for.

in general you're better off asking this question on blind because it's unlikely you'll get a lot of honest/revealing answers here.
Camden didn't "abolish" their police force. It was rolled up into the police force of the surrounding county, along with some other changes in how the department was run and organized

Clearly it was an effective structural reform. But it does not constitute "police abolition" in a way that would be meaningful to police abolitionists.

And Newark didn't even do that. They just started actually investigating police abuses and imposing actual consequences for abuse.

If anything, it goes to show that you don't need police abolition to make an improvement. But you do need to make changes that amount to more than lip service.
The process discussed in the article (the Queen's consent, as opposed to the similarly named royal assent) applies only to legislation affecting "the hereditary revenues, the Duchy of Lancaster or the Duchy of Cornwall, and personal or property interests of the crown" - arguably Internal Market Bill and Brexit would be out of this scope.
> relatively little investment compared to migrating to an OS on another kernel

One of the more beautiful aspects of Windows is you actually rarely interact with the kernel at all. That portion of the OS could (and in practice often is) switched out and replaced without the user-facing portions being aware.

If you look at the list of NT system calls [0] you can see how frequently they've changed. The only programs that can safely talk to the kernel are core OS components, which in turn provide a user-facing stable ABI through the use of DLLs.

The fact Wine is running on a separate kernel is essentially 100% transparent to all but a handful of programs that intentionally poke the kernel, either for undocumented functionality or to e.g. detect tampering.

This is why IMO for running application software, Wine will always be superior. Linux is a really good kernel for almost everything, and with io_uring the last big deficit (async i/o) may be fixed.

ReactOS's remaining advantages are driver support for Win2k, and the whole explorer shell and start menu environment. If someone really wanted to, I bet you could run ReactOS's shell on top of Wine, fullscreened on Linux...

[0] https://j00ru.vexillium.org/syscalls/nt/32/

EDIT:

A thought I had after finishing this. Another benefit of ReactOS's architecture vs Wine is you could, in principle, directly copy at least some system-level DLLs/software from Windows (2000/XP) and get something akin to Windows 2003/XP running on a modern and up-to-date kernel, possibility with much newer hardware support.

I doubt the ReactOS devs themselves would want to get that close to even just binary blobs from Microsoft, but if it gets far enough along, I could see users scrapping together systems like this, maybe for retro games or something.
Imagine yourself, far in the future, lying on your deathbed, thinking back on this decision.
closing the door after the horse has bolted?

the UK left the EU in Jan 2020
Database API Surface Area
Isn't that a Trumpism? "People said". I noticed nobody answered the simple question of which patent is blocking progress.
Someone who works there will hopefully answer your question directly. I can only give my view

Facebook is easy to criticize because it is top of mind all the time. But unless you see out an org whose mission is focused on making an impact you agree with, all companies are basically equally evil if you dig deep enough. But outside of some regulated industries, they also provide things people want or they wouldn't be in business.

What other options do you have? Can you honestly say that whatever else you are looking at is more ethical than Facebook? It's a shitty fact of life that most money has blood on it.

Just don't go into the insurance industry :)
If you have to ask, probably is a bad idea. There are teams that do good work at Facebook, namely privacy and integrity.

You won’t change the course of the ship but if you pick your team carefully you will have a good impact in the world.

PSC is very frustrating however. Be prepared for a lot of stress and spinning wheels to prove impact as you try to work on meaningful things.

You will receive a lot of hate on the internet for it, some people won’t hear any words coming out of your mouth once you say “Facebook”. That said the internet is a more hateful place then it used to be.
How much do you value truth and justice?

Yes, it’s a bad idea. Their product is shit, their engineers are shit, the leadership is shit.
> The inconsistent positions enumerated in the McWhorter piece should not be taken as disparate positions of different people.

In the case where both views presented exist at all, I see no evidence (and McWhorter certainly presents none) that, outside of two where there is no internal conflict in the first place, they exist in any significnace other than as as disparate positions of different people.

Given that, why would I take them as anything else?
Sadly I've found this to be the case both with perfectly configured personal email servers and when using privacy-preserving email providers like Tutanota. Do you think there's anything that can be done to counter this centralizing force?
Disclaimer: I not a security expert by any means. Also I am NOT from a country "where such concerns are very common".

So I feel like I am missing something here.

I don't want to minimise empathy towards living under such a society but if The Adversary can obtain your friends unlocked phone, what do you want to have happen?

A sham-password for Signal that sends out a "I've been caught." message to all contacts? So you can "fat finger" the password in front of your captor?
Nothing says they can't get a piece of work made and licensed, and have an exclusive license to share

The license to share tends not to be transitive.

They might be doing this improperly for now, but it's not hard to fix.

The exclusive license could be found unconstitutional though?
I've really enjoyed the community at slack.openstreetmap.us
great for finding projects or people to work with. There are local channels!
What’s wrong with them?
The wiki states that this data type is being proposed: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Surfac...
AskHistorians really is a great subreddit. IMO it's great because the moderators are so diligent with keeping it free from garbage (ie. memes, puns, unsubstantiated opinions, etc.).
Some fat old police officers are no match for the (not disbanded) actual soldiers who are somehow often subject to more scrutiny than their civilian "counterparts".
> all companies are basically equally evil if you dig deep enough

You can't be serious about this opinion.
I would never want to go up against Apple’s legal team but looking at the resolution it’s disappointing. I can’t help but see an emotional difference in the presentation of the new logo.
I am glad to know I am not the only one who cannot remember what the families and letters mean! There appears to be no slow down in sight either. I created https://cloudhw.info/ out of a desire to track these values.
Book Review: Why We're Polarized
pretty much all of them

under the UK constitution Parliament is short for Queen-in-Parliament and all executive and legislative powers come from the sovereign
I have been considering looking at OSM as "yet another data source" for my maps, but overall I run into the highly abstract issue of comparison: how do I know that two segments (one from say OSM, one from perhaps the county) reference the same stretch of street for comparison?

Even the slightest nudge of a single coordinate point on the line would mean that they were not geometrically identical, so I would not know to compare their attributes. Names are almost laughably bad for this purpose, for having multiple forms ("N SECOND ST" vs "NORTH 2ND STREET") and for being terrifying vague (so many, many Main Streets). Worse yet, a given segment might be split at a point not an intersection (speed change occurs here, municipality change, directionality change, road type change, etc) so I cannot even rely on those. And it is entirely possible for different maps to include a driveway, splitting a street at that point, while another does not, leaving it continuous.

Large-scale automated comparison of this kind of thing is challenging.
The problem with not killing potential monarchs is that their continued existence can be perceived as a latent threat to reassert their divine right to rule at any time in the future.

In my book, assuming the risk of an occasional beheading is part of the job of being a monarch.
Look up John Williams composer. He did starwars, Indiana Jones.
You can write your own reusable functions with the Excel formula language
I don't like this, everything is moving to GitHub which has already done some questionable things. I don't care for Microsoft and I don't believe them when they claim they "heart" Linux.
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And none of this can surprise when you know the past of most police offices lies in slave patrols and union busting Pinkertons.

Please provide a source for this. No need to rewrite history. I believe most historians agree that American policing was based off of the London policing system:

“The first police department in the United States was established in New York City in 1844 (it was officially organized in 1845). Other cities soon followed suit: New Orleans and Cincinnati (Ohio) in 1852; Boston and Philadelphia in 1854; Chicago and Milwaukee (Wis.) in 1855; and Baltimore (Md.) and Newark (N.J.) in 1857. Those early departments all used the London Metropolitan Police as a model.”

If anything poor neighborhoods that have high crime need more police not less, there’s a reason Chicago and Detroit have problems and it’s not because of overpolicing.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/police/Early-police-in-the-...
He's a white guy from Santa Monica. The only clear difference in our life experience is that he's built a business out of posting videos about the police.

His YouTube channel is full of interesting examples of manufactured content. For example, he has videos of feeding expired meters after "meter maids" have already seen the meter, then arguing with them; filing multiple complaints at police stations; and refusing to take DUI tests at checkpoints.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzSRcnANzs5BourVavBoe9A

He also sells daily lists of DUI checkpoints.

https://mrcheckpoint.com/alerts/checkpoints/

I'm absolutely in favor of holding bad cops accountable, but he doesn't seem to be targeting bad cops, just whatever cop is unlucky enough to be assigned to the area where he's working that day.
Probably.. unless you are an ex-Google multi-millionaire tech lead.
Solitaire works for me.
Unattended Debian Installation
Good points. I was solely thinking of recovery emails, not the other things you mentioned. Thanks!
Exactly. You have new solutions like GitLab, Gitea and Docker which can automate this stuff for you and it is yours and you own everything. Didn't stop RedoxOS, wireguard and GNOME from self-hosting.
You already suspect the answer and are hoping to be persuaded otherwise. You will be disposable to Facebook while you are doing the work of optimizing dark patterns and empowering display algorithms which are proven to polarize and reinforce beliefs.

On the flip side, Facebook could be a big payday which could be life changing for your family. I'm not intending to judge you, though society might. By that point you're probably part of the 1% so you wouldn't really care.
I'd say if you are looking to join a FAANG company based on moral criteria that Facebook is absolutely the worst offender. The list of its criticisms has its own dedicated Wikipedia page with 439 citations [1]. But allow me to give you a rundown of the worst ones in my opinion:

- Allowing the proliferation and organization of a genocide against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar

- Same type of thing in Sri Lanka related to spreading violence

- Allowing the mass distribution of disinformation & the corruption of public opinion in the 2016 US presidential election

- The absolutely massive level of surveillance/data gathering

- The release of this data to a political firm (Cambridge Analytica)

- Running emotion/political influence experiments on its users

If you are looking at companies from a moral/mission standpoint, stay far away from Facebook. They are a Pandora's box of ethical problems and have broken every guideline you can name.

P.S. I don't know about morale issues at Facebook related to this but I've read that the younger generation of CS graduates is less willing to work at Facebook and asking recruiters tough questions [2]. For further information on the temperature there it might be useful to check Glassdoor [3].

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

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/15/technology/jobs-facebook-...

[3] https://www.glassdoor.com/facebook
> but in a way the NSA thought only they knew about?

I doubt the NSA was involved. GSM was developed in Europe. But it was development by committee and strong cryptography background was underrepresented at least. So bad flaws went even into the supposedly strong encryption.
There’s a perfect alternative to E Ink for laptops called Liquid Crystal Display(LCD)
If you're not actually using your backup plan it will likely rot. And if you have a usable alternative, why wouldn't you just use it?
> civilisation advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them

Interesting take. My first thought was that this relates to societal trust, a cornerstone of civilization. I can buy food from someone I've never met, and keep myself fed, 'without thinking'.

Related:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liars_and_Outliers

* https://www.schneier.com/books/liars-and-outliers/
Chicago man freezes pants to reserve parking spots
NuviaLab Generak
Hahaha between this, data classes, and the new optional type checkers Python and Ruby are slowly realizing they should have been ML all along.

I'm quite pleased and also laughing my ass off. Vindication!
I’m working on a video game right now and I’m having this problem with the story and dialogue. In the past my game design was in the realm of tabletop rpgs, so you come up with the idea, add some details, and then you run it right away. You see the player responses in person, face to face, learn whether you did well or not, and then move on to do even better the next time. It works great. In a video game, there can be months between conception and a player experiencing it, and you won’t be there to see most of them react, so you can second guess every single detail hundreds of times until it’s hard to judge things clearly. I’ve never been into heavy up front design before, but it might actually be helpful for this specific problem - ie, to just write it and then trust it later on
> I feel like Google is a case study in an engineering only company. Everything is reduced to a technical problem.

I can recommend reading In The Plex. Quite literally the founders wanted to invert the usual model and put engineers first. There were some anecdotes from those in roles like marketing and so on that they felt like second class citizens.
I don't think it is "bad" to join facebook or any FAANG company. That also doesn't mean I agree with everything they do/say etc. What I know is that as an engineer at almost any level (unless you've already be at a FAANG company) you will learn a lot about scale and delivering. And my guess is even if you have been at another you will still learn quite a bit. And you won't be paid poorly while doing it so not a bad overall situation.

As for moral judgement, only you can make that call, people can be quite polarized about this subject so you'll get people answering that typically feel strongly one way or the other.
Morale probable relates to how well employees' politics line up with recent events. To get an idea of where the business's are, look at what they promote: https://twitter.com/FacebooksTop10 (Context on the promotion algorithm: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/24/technology/facebook-elect... ; context on execs: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/02/20/faceboo...)
Yes, I linked it above.
NASA has selected Falcon Heavy to launch first two elements of lunar Gateway
Not introducing a new scope with a match is unfortunate, but it's also consistent with how every other language feature interacts with scoping.

> (As well as a method to “pin” variables from the containing scope to use them in matches.)

This is a good idea, I agree -- at least for Python, where you would obviously just call __eq__.

EDIT: It looks like you actually can match against constants with this PEP, as long as you access your constant with a dot (e.g., HttpError.NotFound). This seems like a perfectly reasonable solution to me.
Thanks to dang for adding this to the second-chance pool.
You are infringing if they can hear it.

That cases are not pursed is incidental.

I imagine it's hard to build a case against the guy blasting his car radio without a recording, and the affected people aren't particularly unhappy with it.

If copyright was more like trademarks, and they had to protect it to keep it, you'd see more cases of people playing their music too loud.

We'll see the same happen with streaming services as smart TVs get popular. You'll have to pay per viewer as licenses change
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Less time spent to do laundry shopping.

And who knows, there might still be some soul working at facebook who really believe they are building a better world.
> most people work 50-70hrs/wk

Jesus. Why?
> "Embarrassing things about yourself are only embarrassing if you’re embarrassed about them."

That's how Trump pushed past it. You can't shame someone not capable of shame.

I don't know if that's good advice for people in general, though.
people join FAANGs for 15-24 months stints. the morale stuff is very overblown.

some classes of people are privileged enough to care. others prioritize career experience and making money.

not everything you hear is relevant to you. just like you're an engineer in a career partially because pretending to start a company in a garage to $100mm in VC money is not relevant to you, because that garage is not in the wealthiest suburb in a the country, a stone's throw away from Stanford University.
> but it quickly turned into an excuse to expect everyone to be available on demand, 16 hours per day, 7 days per week.

If that happens, you have bad leadership. At the very least, your manager should be protecting you from this. If I get off hours emails with urgent requests, I usually just reply to my manager (with CCs intact) and say "I'm willing to do this, but I would like to be compensated 2 working hours for every hour that I work on this, because this is supposed to be my weekend and I am going to have to cancel my plans to do this. Do you want to go ahead under that arrangement?"

I like it because it's not confrontational, it just reminds them that you are a person with your own things going on. It also puts the ball in their court. If they want to come back and say "no, you must do this, and you get no compensation", that sends a very clear message, and you can do with that what you want. Whatever you do, you probably don't want to be at that company any longer than you have to at that point.

> I firmly believe that good management can overcome these issues, but it must come from the top. Not only that, but managers who abuse the system must be visibly removed from the company for doing so. Unless there are consequences for abusing the flexibility of your employees to extract more work, some percentage of managers will take advantage of the system to get ahead.

Personally, I don't think that there's a faction to explicitly blame. I think that overdrive comes from basically playing a game of telephone. VP tells director that we're not doing great on metric X. Director looks and decides that it's important for these 3 teams to work on Y features to help with metric X. Director tells managers that we must improve metric X (but won't say that really he wants to look good to his manager). Managers then tell employees that it's life or death these features ship, and the director, managers, and ICs all end up working overtime. Feel free to add more layers of distortion to match your place in the org chart. The VP works overtime too, but that's basically par for the course.

The gist is, each employee wants to do well. Even if it's not strictly to impress their manager, I don't think anyone wants to wake up and say "I'm gonna do a really mediocre job today". So when they communicate that importance to the tier below them, they increment the importance by a little bit. Tall org charts can cause this, as can high-stress environments where everyone multiplies the importance instead of incrementing it.