skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think life can be distilled down to such a simple rule, especially when emotions run high. That’s why protection against mob rule is a thing. The “audience” that burned the women at Salem were likely entirely in the wrong.

The author’s remarks regarding cultural appropriation and blackface is an example. “The students felt that it was never, ever appropriate for any white person to adopt anything from another culture — not clothes, not music, not anything. I counter-argued that all cultures grow by adopting from others.”

Emotions were already running high because he stupidly used the n-word (even if was used as a reference and not against somebody), and then he tried to cite some obscure fact that some black Africans also practiced blackface that they learned from some roadshow, but that only pissed off the students even more. I suspect a more academic audience would have been more receptive to that fact, but for everyone else, that’s kind of a “rest of the owl” moment. And now they’re saying he supports blackface.
By the grace of their benefactor (Google)?
21st century is: we're turning everything into a market, far fewer easy but well-paid jobs, if older people had to actually face the brunt of it they would lose their homes.

People who can't handle technology don't have a chance nowadays.
> As I've said above: backwards compatibility is an admirable goal but it doesn't override everything.

You'll never get a job at either Microsoft, or in any system jobs where backward compatibility is paramount (say, the Linux kernel) for millions, if not billions. Just going the Apple "fuck you" way is arrogant at best, disillusioned at worst, especially when you're an irrelevant language.
Chiming in from a country that had some classic show trials in the 50s (Czech Republic): the ultimate goal of the show trial was to get the indicted to self-confess and ask for a punishment themselves, in front of the public.

Cancel culture does not have the (physical) death penalty, only a possibly social one, but the impulse seems similar. Once you are put on the show trial, you are expected to grovel, beg, repudiate yourself etc. before being finally dispatched.
if you genuinely haven't done something wrong, chances are she's upset about something else you did.
There's another catch:

What if you keep jump starting another car with leads directly attached until the LA battery is depleted? That is a very common scenario and Tesla should size the electronics correctly or make it resilient for that use.
> [Having and using dependent types] let[s] you be lazy about design.

Now I’ve heard it all.
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> Let's not pretend that you are allowed to teach at Harvard, at least in certain departments, without a very specific political leaning. And certain other political leanings are not allowed in any department.

That's complete nonsense. Harvard's law department is run by Mary Ann Glendon, notorious catholic dominionist and staple of anti-abortion activism in the US.

The "liberal college professor" meme is a right-wing canard, which only holds true as far as people who believe in evidence driven investigation and deep thought, such as those who serve in science departments, are unlikely to form a religious conservative reactionary worldview.
Drama (controversy) may be more like replies per parent.

Flame wars, depth per parent.

Engagement, top level comments per upvote.
These are article about how something he said was taken out of context. He is talking about "himself" because that's the topic!

This is not an article in the Times. This is a post in his blog explaining how he lost his job!

Why would you say that?
"Then I have an extension chord to my gas furnace to power the blower and furnace computer."

is anyone else wondering how his home furnace has a regular plug? aren't these things usually hard-wired with a dedicated circuit? you usually need a transfer-panel installed to do this.
I don’t think they are lazy.

Many have emotional problems.

Most people complain about their jobs, or multiple jobs, but know it provides so much more than money. Half the people I know would have 0 friends, O social life, if not for those lousy jobs.

It’s ironic you say the government doesn’t have infinite money to spend.

We are about to throw close to two trillion out of a helicopter. There is not a person, well one, on my block in Marin County that has not benefited financially from the virus, but will be getting $1400 to blow.

I am worried about inflation.
From a purely pragmatic point of view: If you're European...?

Consider that your country is likely either already a five eyes member, or a "five eyes plus" member with a historical record going back 45+ years of intelligence/law enforcement data sharing between the various NATO governments' intelligence agencies.

And take a risk calculation, based on what you're doing in your life, if all your metadata and traffic was in the hands of the NSA, what's the most likely end result that might affect you adversely?

Are you actually at risk of being persecuted for anything you're doing socially, religiously, politically? For instance, if you're a German, is all of your data being in the hands of the BND going to result in anything bad happening to you?
A unicellular walker embodies a finite state machine
Why try to assign a nationality to the thieves if that is not known? Domain theft is not very clever (there's a record at every step) and very much reversible. Being the buyer of a stolen domain is a bad spot: you will lose the domain and your money, too.
A farm is an income generating asset. Farmland is a commodity that does nothing on its own.

An electronics manufacturer that uses gold is an income generating asset. Gold is a commodity that does nothing on its own.
Why is it "throw under the bus" or help them?
If they print money, they devalue the money people already have, so in the end again it is the people, not "government", who pay.
These aren't quite flowcharts.[1] Still looks like a useful tool. I like the syntax.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowchart
That has been the status quo for /centuries/ with boycotting along with sponsors getting pissed off over minute things. It has usually failed against big companies because their supporters vastly outweigh their complaints and even egregious sins are forgiven for being the cheapest or ubiquitous.
Younger generations don't use the web browser as their main source of entertainment. Their attention and energy has been siloed to the largest media platforms. They enjoy being serfs on the FAANG plantation.
The author raises an important issue here: many people are lead to believe that using C is inherently unsafe. That's not true, and many of the most secure systems in the world were written in C. The other direction also doesn't work: software written in languages like Java can be effectively unsafe.
Here's an article reviewing a few cancel culture incidents in YA fiction, including an Asian-American author pulling her book prior to publication due to an outraged mob who latched onto the marketing blurb indicated the story was about a fantasy society where people were enslaved on attributes other than skin color. [0]

There was also a notable incident from last year regarding a science fiction short story in Clarkesworld called "I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter". The title was a repurposing of the meme, the work wasn't in any way transphobic, and the author was trans themself. It received very positive critical reviews, but again, due to an outraged Twitter mob, the author pulled their story, as well as yet-to-be published submissions. [1]

Being unaware of something doesn't automatically make it clickbait.

[0] https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/in-ya-where-is-...

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/in-ya-where-is-...
> People don't want poor people living in sub-optimal housing, so instead they force them to sleep outside or live with abusive people.

No, mostly people don't want poor people or sub-optimal housing in their neighborhoods, for a variety of financial, perceived safety, and emotional comfort related reasons.

If it was just not wanting poor people to live in suboptimal housing, there'd be a lot greater effort to provide non-sub-optimal housing to poor people. There are definitely people with this concern, but it's not the driver of housing and zoning policy.
> Null-terminated strings

There is nothing inherently wrong about a null-terminated string convention.
> Xiaomi is awesome phone for it's price tag you just needs to flash custom ROM like LineageOS.

There is likely tonnes of binaries that run outside of Android, so OEM you choose matters too.
I have had 3 Xiaomi phones over the years. Their proprietary bootloader-unlocker tool has always taken a good day or two of work to get the phone unlocked when I don't have adb tools /drivers installed from the get-go. Their utility gives me failures/errors/denials/"your social credit is too low" (i don't live in/near China) dozens and dozens of times before it finally decides to unlock my phone for me. I'm pretty sure my next phone won't be a Xiaomi, though it's hard to find sanely priced non-Chinese phones with good ROM coverage these days.
Awesome app.
Simple. Minimal. Effective.
Yes, I think everyone got the memo about American companies. Thanks though..
It's a comical comparison, but do any companies actually measure progress like this without even looking at the end result? Presumably if velocity stays high but everything is broken, somebody will say something (and hopefully not just continue with the broken process that produced the problem).
Don't you think that's just a little bit hysterical, comparing a minority of people complaining on twitter to a government show trial?
It's pretty clear that they ONLY denied the warranty to the 12V battery. Which is reasonable and is clearly stated on the manual.

Lexus/Toyota won't even let you jump start another vehicle if you have a Hybrid. Not only will they not warranty the 12v battery, but also other electronics that you end up damaging.

"Exclusive jump starting terminal precaution The exclusive jump starting terminal is to be used when charging the 12-volt battery
from another vehicle in an emergency. It cannot be used to jump start another vehicle."

https://www.rav4world.com/threads/12v-battery-dead-on-2017-x...

https://priuschat.com/threads/jump-starting-the-prius-c.1207...
If he didn't care much, he wouldn't be the richest man on earth.
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I was responding to this:

| This is truly the dark age of the information era.

and this:

| popular platforms are pressured to not do business with you

Both implies greater forces at play than a small, small minority of voices on twitter making authors feel bad.

Social media gave everyone a voice, what I don't understand is why anyone is surprised that there are vocal micro-minorities like this.

Years ago, they wrote a letter to the editor or the television station. Now they write it on Twitter.

That's not a dark age, and the opportunity to publish is much, much better now than it has ever been in the modern era.

| She did, likely after she was told what would happen otherwise.

Do you have any evidence of this or are you just saying it?
My point was absolutely not (c). The US has a vast and complex array of sociopolitical, economic disparity, racism, police brutality issues, some of which have been highlighted throughout 2020. But I definitely consider it to be the lesser of two evils.
I disagree. The simplicity here is a cool and rare feature.

This tool is amazing, and its coolness comes from the fact it's really simple. If you add "auto-adjusting" features that rewrite the code for you while writing, you're on the road to lose the simplicity and KISS aspect.

Please don't add new features, it's like gold as it is, @tone_row. The beauty and magic resides in the minimalism.
Google’s New ‘Autopilot’ for Kubernetes
There have been people getting cancelled in very large number for thousands of years.

Crucially, nowadays, you can still communicate when cancelled. Perhaps to a smaller audience, but this is a necessity because of how human social interactions work.
Mesa/Cedar, early Smalltalk, and Oberon are/were all primarily interpreted languages. And this was before JIT was common. So, significant overhead. Some of them had special hardware assists, like Mesa and the Xerox Alto with a processor designed around the language. Still not a speed demon, despite that. I believe they were more concerned with code density than speed. Cramming a networked multitasking operating system into about 128 KB of RAM is not trivial.

Such languages would be pretty painful on another architecture implemented as interpreters. I don't have exact numbers. But roughly an order of magnitude slower. Think Perl and Python vs. Pascal and C.

Things have changed a bit since then. Oberon is usually compiled to native code now and Squeak uses a JIT compiler. And Mesa/Cedar are extinct.
Because it does so itself. It is even worse to have lost settings than having windows rot. At least in Windows rot is the problem, not the fix.
CEO of Clockwise here, so I'm biased! This game was built by our designers on a Hack Day. So, so fun and such a cool demonstration of how difficult internal scheduling can be.
> are excluded from warranties.

If you are curious about my situation, essentially my fiancee went and got the battery replaced at the dealer (we brought in the car for a different issue, and the dealer wanted to replace the battery).

About 6 months later, the new battery failed, and this battery also had a very clear sticker saying "3 year warrenty" right on the battery (it was certainly not an OEM part).

An auto parts store which helped me confirm that the battery was dead (they were actually very helpful, they offered to charge the battery and diagnosed the issue free of charge).

After working with the auto parts store, I called the dealer asking about this. They wanted us to bring the car to them, charge us a $100 diagnostic fee (essentially, doing the same thing the auto parts store did for free), then they would decide if it needed replacing, and not commenting on whether they would honor a free replacement. The battery at the auto parts store was $100! I just decided to buy the battery and install it myself. That battery does have a five year warrenty.

I strongly suspect that the original battery was never replaced, based on how they treated my fiancee in both interactions.
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We're currently hiring for multiple roles:

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Luck is opportunity + skills.
It is not some arcane skill that you're born with or not.
How do you trust the hardware? Granted, how do you trust the hardware in any phone. But the risk may be higher if the entire production chain is in the one country with privacy/surveillance abuses.
On paper many states in the US actually have pretty strong protections for tenants for their security deposits. It's not uncommon for states to have fairly strict standards as to the valid reasons a landlord can take money out of a security deposit. If a landlord withholds money for frivolous reasons the tenant can be entitled to double or treble damages. (So if they withhold $1000 for no reason, you can get back that $1000 and an additional $2000 or $3000.)

The main issue is enforcement. If your landlord withholds the deposit, often your only recourse is to sue them (usually in small claims court). This is going to require paying some court fees, maybe on the order of $100 (which you may get back if you win, but you still need to pay them up front). Plus you're going to have to show up in court, which likely means missing work. And obviously you're not going to have a lawyer for this, whereas most landlords will.

When I moved out of my last apartment my landlord withheld $100 because he claimed there was dust on the blinds. (There was not, we specifically dusted the blinds before moving out.) But the only way I could get that money back was to sue them, and it just wasn't worth it for me.
As a C programmer, i can say that most of the json libraries fail on simple fuzzing test, or do some other idiotic stuff like trying to handle numbers (and doing it wrong of course). We have awesome parser generators such as ragel, yet people still handroll parsing code that is both buggy and slow.
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Founded in 2018, Peregrine provides public safety agencies with technology to make data-driven decisions, power real-time operations, and strengthen community relationships. We do this through openness, accountability, careful policy enforcement, and respect for people’s personal freedoms. Our platform fuses disconnected government data silos across secure networks and empowers users with highly intuitive interfaces to search, analyze, and collaborate. Customers tell us we help them solve cases that they thought were unsolvable, and allow them to communicate in ways they have never seen before. We are particularly proud to help government agencies solve more crimes while averting wrongful arrests. We are looking for strong developers to join our small but growing team. As one of the earliest engineering hires, you’ll take on a lead role with vast ownership across one of our stacks. You’ll be able to work directly with end users to deliver a world-class, high performance SaaS platform

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Our stack:

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Our CEO is Ryan Brodie, who co-founded muzmatch (YC S17) and has 3 successful exits.

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