skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok if you think eBay should ban more books then go tell them that!

Incidentally this isn’t true:

> Books advocating for segregation.

Or, rather, if such books are available it is against eBay’s policy and they should be reported. eBay has a specific policy against items that glorify racism or endorse racist stereotypes: https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/prohibited-restricted-ite...

It does not have a policy against everything morally icky, but it’s quite clear about racism. Mulberry Street and If I Ran The Zoo are both racist and against eBay’s policy.
Not much more of a security nightmare than loading Javascript from a random ad server, really.

I think the main point is just to make it harder to block using pi-hole like solutions.
Someone is making good money off these programs.
CoL is often mentioned, but what's not is the saving rate.

Saving the same percentage in a higher CoL place gives you the option of moving out or retiring anywhere, including a high CoL location. You don't have these options if you make a lower wage at a lower CoL place.
This is my question - unless this ties in with a model to rely on trusted computing, a system receiving a FLoC shouldn't be able to validate it. That means a browser plugin could simply return "0000".

Unless this ends up as some closed source DRM style blob (in which case we might as well kiss goodbye to the open web that can be accessed by standards compliant browsers), I can't see how anyone can stop this.

On the other hand, given the widespread use of ad blockers and tracking block lists, perhaps this simply isn't a design goal - just accept that 20% of techies will block it anyway and return 0 or simply not run a browser that supports it, and focus on the majority who think Chrome is synonymous with "the internet" and run it without add-ons.
Text of the bill: https://le.utah.gov/~2021/bills/static/HB0072.html
It's doublethink, there's no other way to really summarize the effect from things like this.
I am not a female, but I'm a dad who quit the industry a year ago so when my wife was pregnant with our first child.

I think what you're missing is the fact raising a child is something that all human beings are biologically engineered to find overwhelmingly fulfilling, yet office environments are not designed with employee fulfillment (or even basic wellbeing) in mind.

Once you become a parent, over time your viewpoint shifts from seeing the baby as an obstacle that gets in the way of other things, to everything else getting in the way of your time with bubs.

I suspect the reason that many of your friends aren't going back to the office is that raising a child is simply more satisfying.
i'm embaresed that this really obvious and straightforward means of evading third-party-cookie-blocking never occurred to me before.
Pure semantics. History has proven the slippery slope is real.
I post videos about Vue.js on YouTube [0]

[0] https://youtube.com/c/LachlanMiller
> Even for 'software developer' it can be tricky.

That's not been my experience when hiring. Serious candidates from serious schools don't seem to have any issues getting it.
> I get to choose the tasks I want to work on, obviously in the limit of the sprint backlog

This part always interests me because I've never worked on a team where it actually worked that way, or even made sense to work that way. You get a few people together, a cryptography expert, somebody who knows eMMC really well, everybody kinda knows USB, and one person with much stronger EE skills. And I do go fix a simple bug in the eMMC stack, but for new features its like, well this will take me 10x longer because I'll have to read some long spec. I have no relationship with the hardware folks who I might need to collaborate with. And during this time I guess the EE is having fun, but out of their element implementing Elliptic curve cryptography while the crypto person sits on their hands because they're only still on the team on the assurance that they'd never have to touch their hated SATA driver again?

It's not that I don't believe it works, I just wonder how it would work for me.
You are considering becoming a monk. You can take a first step towards this by visiting an Eastern Orthodox Church.

(Please folks, I have a great respect for therapists, as well as other secular forms of help. There are many wonderful aspects to people and organizations even if they are completely opposed to the church. This comment is not to the contrary of any form of help. Nor is it prescribing any beliefs or ethics upon anyone.)

OP - the Eastern Orthodox Church is a mystical religious organization who claims to have preserved the true teachings of Christ. Do not throw the first stone. Do not judge lest you be judged. Love your neighbour. Many people of all faiths aspire to live this way. I would say the Eastern Orthodox Church is a reliable place to find people who take the teachings seriously.

There is a great love for monasticism in orthodoxy. One famous monastery in Arizona St Anthony's. There is an idea "Every home is a monastery". We celebrate monks regularly during services and many people visit monasteries regularly.

I recently joined this church not having been raised in any church. After many attempts of trying to identify what's missing in my life - relationship, school, work, drugs - I reached a point of total desperation, and then after reading lots of spiritual books I found the orthodox church.

I'm very sorry to hear of your struggles. I hope you can find some help or meaning in this horrible time. I normally would not share this info because in 99% cases it makes things worse. You are asking for radical options and mentioned becoming a monk, so this time I'll bite.

If I may attempt to be encouraging for you in this difficult time. It's a sign of strength to be exploring radical options. To me it means you won't settle for a common trope that you know won't help. Not bending to common sense can get you in trouble sometimes, but I believe it's also the only way to the real truth.
> You're arguing for nuclear on the basis of its build speed? That doesn't seem to be born out in reality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France#/media...
Is your PDF reader open sourced? It's a feature I'd like to implement at some point in my own personal project (https://github.com/appaquet/exomind)
Starlink factory to speed up production of Dishy McFlatface
It listed "folx" and "people" as alternate descriptors.
I personally find the ritual boring but it's not without its value. Below are a few points I've found useful to me personally.

1. I get to see the progress of the project as a whole on a daily basis. Without the stand ups, I probably would have no idea how and what we are doing as a team and I'll just be doing my own thing.

2. There were times I mentioned an issue I ran into and others chipped in with helpful ideas (sometimes even the solution) saving me time. If it weren't for the stand up, I would have just solved it on my own anyway but could have taken more time. In a way, this opens up a helpline.

3. If you are a team lead, this can help make things more predictable. There's an understanding what everyone is expected to do in a regular meeting than scheduling meetings when you think is needed but others may not have the same motivation for a meeting and can end up same few people talking every time.

I hate meetings in general, but I hate surprises even more. So, seeing meetings pop up suddenly on my calendar is something I really dislike. Agile and the stand ups at least make things predictable like short 20 minute meetings every day. After I get through that, I know I'm not gonna be bothered again for the day :)
"Is programming affected more than other subjects like math, English/grammar, science, etc?"

Probably a bit more, as it is common to learn other subjects by a book, but learning programming without a computer ... sounds hard.
I've wondered how well it would work to just have everyone on the team anonymously estimate what percentage of the project (or sprint, etc) is complete.

But I think that would get thrown out at the first sign of trouble. In many companies if the anonymous survey showed we were behind schedule the fix would be to stop doing the anonymous surveys.
It isn't obvious to me because I've never lived in the US. I was genuinely asking, not trying to shame people who can't afford a computer.

Maybe I didn't use the right words to formulate my question.
The march of wokeism is an all-pervasive new oppression
> X-Powered-By: <framework> - used to advertise the framework or technology that the server is using (usually a bad idea).

I was always a fan of setting this to either be silly ( X-Powered-By: magical elves ) or outright lie (Tell em it's some ruby thing when it's ASPNET)
> And, of course, printing money isn't an option for them

They can always borrow, and make up for it in higher property taxes.
>They also didn't say anything about data caps

I doubt they have any.
True. We could tell them a strategy to discover their personal values and strengths which would suggest an ideal purpose, however.
That's scary and possibly illegal.
> Sadly without this tracking, the engines of the ad economy come to a stop

Two for the price of one? No tracking, no ads? Sign me up.
They can write private data sharing restriction legislation.
Because someone needs to incorporate it into the price. People are dumb and inefficiencies in the markets abound.
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> eBay only allows critically-annotated copies of Mein Kampf which are designed for scholars. I am sure that a copy of “If I Ran The Zoo” with a sociologist critically annotating the abhorrent racism would be permitted on eBay.

This seems worse than an outright ban on all copies.
Agreed entirely that a perfect voice communication network would be amazing.

I have however been unfortunate enough to deal with so many voice assistants to realise it's a pipe dream. For now, at least.
its not a cultural revolution, its a cultural intimidation, where groups have come to realize the real power of social media is to name, shame, and blame.

there is no middle ground here, you cannot debate anything, as they consider no moral higher than what they profess.

this is some serious Soviet Union type stuff being done to rewrite the world, no limits on how back one can go for an accusation, and then erasing people from the public for a transgression.

Fake news isn't the main threat of social media, intimidation, degradation, and even threats, is.
If I think as a leader who has seen an org policy change or ten, I predict that they’ll make that change slightly too late, such that it will be obvious to everyone why it’s practically mandatory to do so.

If it’s done from a position of strength and obvious need (“we’re growing so fast that we need to bring on a commissioned sales team!” or “we now have thousands of customers who need support but aren’t willing to pay their share of then-$200K to get basic support questions answered” or “we’re expanding into a new office compound where we have to have a security team patrolling to keep the campus safe and we’ve decided to make them employees and give them equity so that they can share in the upside of our company!”), then it will be totally fine.

If it’s done from weakness and spiraling downwards, well, it’s just one more bummer speedbump along that road, but it’s the road that sucks not that particular speedbump.
I went through a very similar gauntlet in my first undergrad computers class. I didn’t know anything about programming or linux, but it was fine.

I think the filter is more effective for finding those who can quickly adapt, learn, and grok a methodical mindset. Not necessary characteristics to be a programmer, but necessary characteristics to excel at programming.
Yup. The adults in the room should have nipped this crap in the bud but instead they entertained it. Now it’s a much bigger problem to solve.

Check out SFUSD renaming racists schools like “Lincoln High”. Eventually parents had start a recall effort to end it.
LA is reported to have spent $500,000/homeless person over 3 years for their new homeless condo building. It's built on the beach no less. That's $14,000/month per person, though if the building is still standing after 3 years, there could be some value leftover (unless it's burned or flooded.)

Cities have abjectly failed, so at this point it will take some kind of federal czar to sort out SF and LA. (A judge could render a consent decree, as with police oversight or prison overcrowding in troubled cities.)

You could argue that the failure of Democratic mayors to prevent the burning of their cities, an existential threat, is an indicator that they will never address the homeless problem.
There are parts of Go that are similarly odd. Arrays and slices, and the hoops you have to jump through to do something as simple as adding a new item to a list, are very unlike anything else, for example.

In Python, the weird stuff is generally easy to avoid/ignore until it's actually needed.
I personally wouldn't work at a place that didn't do it. Scrum ceremonies are there to get alignment. If you don't do them, you end up working on the wrong things. If these meetings take up more than 1-2 hours a week, then you're doing it wrong.
I wouldn't if I had any. They're going to become collectibles eventually and could fetch you a decent amount. My totally true conspiracy-theory is, the dr-seus-industrial-complex is at it again, manipulating the collectible editions market to make bank.
Lots of other websites have similar headers :)

https://beta.shodan.io/search?query=http+bite+my+shiny

https://beta.shodan.io/search?query=GNU+Terry+Pratchett
Why yes, yes it does! I did know (but seem to have forgotten) that it's only the first level of array-ness that decays to a pointer.

It's unfortunate that the resulting VLA-enhanced function is no longer compatible with the original:

/* original function */
void foo(size_t len, const char *str);
/* compatible signature but str[] decays to sizeless pointer */
void foo(size_t len, const char str[len]);
/* allowed but signature is no longer compatible with original */
void foo_improved(size_t len, const char (*str)[len]);
/* (this is how the non-VLA caller would see the signature) */
void foo_improved(size_t len, const char **str);

So what your example does show is that existing compilers already support this concept (no need for fancy dependent types) but the C99 standard explicitly prohibits compilers from acting on the VLA information contained within the const char str[len] declaration.
We're not talking about Dr. Seuss Enterprises though. We're talking about eBay (and soon booksellers and libraries) banning books. Also a few schools outright disavowing Dr. Seuss all together. eBay is currently selling hundreds of other items with more shocking imagery than this, so there is also some weird signaling going on here. Oh I get it, this time around the book bans are probably justified. But you don't need to be an alarmist or conspiracy theorist to want to be just a little more cautious with this kind of stuff. You can also support removing racist images and still worry about setting a dangerous precedent.
More effective than a Nazi book burning party!
Ebay's existing "offensive materials policy":

https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/prohibited-restricted-ite...

They already banned nazi memorabilia, confederate flags, "minstrel" type memorabilia, etc.

[edit: You will note this comment contains no editorializing or opinion whatsoever, it is supplying some context with a link. It doesn't say if I think it's a good idea or not to have that policy, just the fact that ebay already had a policy on offensie materials, under which already things like nazi memorabilia were banned, which to me seems relevant. That this comment is getting downvoted shows... something?]
So why Mexican Siblings Don't Fight?
Even if I loved the company, this would probably be a tipping point of some kind. Hypothetically, if I didn't quit in a comparable situation, I'd gradually resent the company to the point where I'd become sufficiently unproductive enough to be fired. How are you thinking about it?
There are some JS problems that TypeScript doesn't solve, like Array.prototype.sort and .map, but it's still quite nice.
Well, as a clarification: one doesn't join Oxide, but rather gets hired by Oxide -- and we have a deliberate hiring process that is designed to assess candidates with respect to their fit for our mission and values. This leads to a deeply intrinsically motivated team, which addresses some of your concerns.

As for potential upside: yes, everyone has an equity component; if we succeed together, there is more than enough upside for everyone.

Edit: grammar.
No data caps. No subsidy either. Or who knows, maybe sometimes in some remote villages (?)

Main reasons for such a good network and low prices: low income and piracy, which fueled a giant "duct-taped" Lan infrastructure some 20 years ago, with ISP's at every corner, which were then bought because the infrastructure was already there.

See the link in my other comment here for
a better explanation.
The Seuss books being removed aren't Green Eggs & Ham: they're the older racist books that Seuss apologized for later.
For those that don't already consider the Slippery Slope Fallacy a fallacy.
>which benefit from economies of scale

The economy of scale isn't as big as one might like. Child care staff ratios for infants and toddlers are something like 1:3 to 1:4. Between that and the cost of compliance, licensing, insurance, and the inevitable scandals when deployed at scale, (If you have 1 million caregivers, you absolutely will have some number of murders or molestations. Unfortunate when a parent does it to their own child, but A Public Scandal when a government employee does it) you have got to start wondering if it's worth the hassle.

Or you can have mothers take care of their own children. Which has been the default of every human society for tens of thousands of years.
I have bills to pay and dependents to feed.
I find css is a ripe place for developers to potentially waste huge amounts of time building up DRY, cascading beauty that will never pay for itself.
Makes perfect sense, thanks. I don't remember the last time I heard anyone say that so it didn't come to mind.
Just asked if this can be added to the adblocker in OpenWrt.
It’s been steady progression for a while. Welcome to the struggle, lol.

The only bright side is that the people on other side are really incompetent. The gender studies degrees have no meaning when power goes out and sink is backed up.

Most people play along because they think it’s their kids play acting to progressive ideals. They will get rude awakening when the little progs come for their heads.

This will play out like it has in the past and this cycle will repeat again in the future. History doesn’t repeat, but people don’t change and they will make exact same mistakes again.

Look into rise and fall of civilizations throughout history, US is right on schedule.

Start learning Chinese, it will come handy one day, lol.
Not sure about that interpretation - usually "fault tolerance" just means "additional costs"... .
Communist Manifesto doesn't really contain hateful content (despite Marx's racism & misogyny)
I haven’t seen these books since I was a kid. Does anyone know of, or where I can find the specific examples from each book, and what people find offensive? I’m really curious to the specifics here.

On this same topic, I recently rewatched Aladdin, on Disney plus and was surprised that it was prefaced with a ‘social justice’ disclaimer. They said they wouldn’t take it down, but warned it might be offensive.

Ok, so we prepared to ourselves be offended, and yet I wasn’t. The movie holds up, and was really enjoyable! I’m not really sure what the issue was? I guess the depiction of Arab people is the issue, but I couldn’t find anything particularly egregious.
That would be one way to model such a service, but certainly not the only way. Their pricing optimizes for a particular customer profile, and that may not be you.
Happy to post, and to discuss, and foster discussion :)
Yes, it's essential to us that everyone has a stake in Oxide's success. (The blog entry hits on this; apologies if that was unclear.)
> Are you as parents willing to give your kids a better childhood at the price of throwing away 10% of your career, with no (monetary) compensation? I suspect, very few.

Literally every single person that has children does this. That covers almost 90% of the population.
Reading comprehension.

No point in discussing deeper.
Adam Curtis's century of the self is a good (but long) documentary on the advances in psychology and it's merger with advertising/politics. Worth a watch IMO.
The next step will be to proxy the 3rd party site. For example, if you run www.example.com, you set up tracker.example.com pointing to your own web server. You configure your web server to proxy tracker.ad_tech_company.com.

As long as tracker.ad_tech_company.com is smart enough not to give away that it's not part of example.com, there's no way for one's browser to notice this. tracker.example.com is not a cname, and it will almost certainly refer to an IP that is within your corporation's or host's IP space.

This is minimal complexity. It's not a ton of bandwidth if it's mainly cookies.

Similar is to use use the engagement tools inside your own web content management system. The majors (Adobe AEM, Sitecore, etc.) are already offering it.
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This is a wildly incendiary ideological rant and it has no place on HN.
> I don't really get the correlation between household income and programming experience in high school.

> Their parents can't afford a laptop?

Holy crap, the amount of privilege shown off in just two sentences is absolutely astounding.

This may come as a shock to you, but a very significant number of people don't have a couple hundred dollars to buy a low-end used laptop. 40% of Americans would struggle to come up with $400 for an emergency expense [0], let alone save $400 for a laptop.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/20/heres-why-so-many-americans-...
Yeah someone should compile a list of all the cultural elements of western society (books, movies, music, etc.) that include racist symbolism that should be banned in order to appease these people. Then they will actually have to justify the mass book burning as a whole instead of slowly picking off these dangerous offenders like Dr. Seuss one by one.
Scrum was a boon for snake-oil salesmen. You don't have to be very smart, or know anything about software, to become a scrum consultant. Anybody can learn the structure of the process, dress like management, and be dogmatic. The only special ability you need is the ability to make promises without caring if you can keep them, and to keep promising over and over again that the reason nothing is working is that you haven't been given enough power yet.

That said, some of the ideas in it are good, and I think these days people try to intelligently incorporate individual elements of scrum into their own process. In the long run, the influence might be net positive, even though there's a lot of damage to make up for.
Or you could read DTP site instead of axe-grinding
"DTP is an open source project centered around the idea that less-resourced companies can use and build on the common models and codebase developed by the community of contributors. All companies are welcome to participate."

https://datatransferproject.dev/faq

or you could look at the source and see such big tech oligopolists as 'mastodon' and 'rememberthemilk'
https://github.com/google/data-transfer-project/tree/master/...
Eventually those people graduate