skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
* In fact, Zoom's 2020 tax bill will likely be less than zero. That's because Zoom, according to its financial statements, booked a $300 million tax credit last year to use against future earnings.*

So basically tax credit for prior year losses.

Not sure this is an issue?
Nope, didn't; someone added it there, I just accepted the info into the readme.
Are you interested in helping with the LibreLingo project? https://github.com/kantord/LibreLingo

Although the concept is a little bit different and the book content cannot be so directly adapted, I think it could still be used a nice starting point
Show this to Kanjiklub.
I don't think there is such thing as "backward" and "forward" here. They probably contribute to social peace, but put limits to the freedom of speech, which do not exist in the U.S.
I feel the distinction is critical in this case - GP implies it's a matter of a quality that you have ("you are the enemy of communism"), while in reality any qualities you had were irrelevant - it only mattered what someone else decided about you, arbitrarily, and with a good incentive for being biased about it.
You must be living in s pretty air tight bubble.
> Are we really at a point where a pronoun is persecuting people...?

If you're intentionally going out of your way to use a pronoun that someone doesn't feel represents them, then yes - that is persecuting them.

If someone asks you to stop, and you keep doing it - that's persecuting them.
Knowing very little about this issue, this seems like a minefield. I have met many people whose native language doesn't have gendered pronouns, who make mistakes constantly when trying to use them in English and eventually learn to use "they" consistently to avoid getting it wrong. According to this standard, they would be being disrespectful whenever they meet someone with a strong preference about their pronoun, even if they had no knowledge of the preference.
A look at Self's object system
Not sure why this is greyed. This sort of stuff is childish, especially coming from adults. Well I guess they’re more “adults” at this point if this is how they treat people who disagree with them.
> But it simply doesn't work.

My work involves writing software for big routers and switches used by ISPs, data centers, campuses, etc. and I can guarantee you that a router will 100% switch/route your exotic packets with an unknown L4 protocol number. It literally does not care about anything past the IP header.

There are a few things I can think of that may have led to your experience, one of them is NAT. Well, NAT just sucks. It is the reason why I want IPv4 to die. Just getting rid of NAT will be worth the pain of switching to IPv6.

PS - IPv6 NAT is just downright stupid.
I feel it misses a reliable take-down of the systems people. Recipe: (1) ask the person if they have evaluated some framework which would take months to evaluate; (2) suggest that their hard work reinvents the wheel; (3) step back and enjoy a smug victory.

On the odd occasion that they have evaluated the framework you named, you can simply try again a few minutes later with a different framework. If you are challenged, use condescension to imply that the victim did not try hard enough.

This tactic works even for situations where the victim has used a first-principles approach to completely demolish a problem to the satisfaction of all stakeholders. 'Reinventing the wheel' is a type of sin. The mere suggestion of it will stick like shit to a blanket.
Also interesting. Why this?

>This was true whether I said "yes" or "no." Simply being asked for a date, regardless of how that went personally, made it vastly less likely I would ever get into the IT department.

Speaking from outside the tech bubble, that sounds nuts - I mean the situation, not your interpretation of it. How can being asked on a date mean you can't work in the asker's department?
For most contributors we know GitHub identities, as PHP was using pull requests etc already from GitHub.
This is great fun, but did anyone else think the suggested insults for experimentalists were very weak? The Xerox Parc one is good but most experimentalists would love a question about bottlenecks! And who cares about testing on Intel's latest chip? I suggest a proper insult would suggest an easily avoided bottleneck or unnecessary point of failure.
This was one of the very rare cases where even wikileaks took down one article in the global intelligence files, after the state dpmt complained. A very high profile case. In that specific country everybody knew, what the diplomate of the other very specific country did.
Did they really write “likely to a handful of top executives”. Stock compensation is pretty typical for tech companies.

But as long as they put “likely” in front of that statement they felt it was appropriate?

I mean, they could look at 10-Ks. To see how the executive are compensated.
This is called pirating, now. I think Stallman contributed a lot to keep the sharing economy legal.
1. 'Sexism' should be limited to acts of discrimination that undermine another sex.

2. Advice (which is essentially a gift of knowledge/experience) is not something you are entitled to by virtue of your sex.

3. A man cannot be said to be 'sexist' when he chooses not to give advice that could potentially incriminate him, especially falsely. If a person (whether a man or a woman) chooses to keep silent, and especially where no fraudulent aspect is involved, that is part and parcel of doing business. You are not entitled to call a person 'sexist' just because they do not want to give advice to you.

4. There are virtually no consequences to the woman who accuses. Yet in comparison, the long-lasting consequences of an investor being falsely accused in public far outweigh any advantages to the contrary. This is enough to make any man clam up, and is a legitimate cause to withhold advice.

5. More importantly, in a commercial setting, no one is obliged to give you an advantage just because you're a woman. If you expect such an advantage/benefit because of your gender, then you are being sexist. A woman who wants to do business should not posit that a man is actively being 'sexist' if he chooses not to help her. That makes no sense.
> The originator in the EU was a business man who wanted a mater of public record (some fine I believe) removed.

IIRC it was a private person who wanted to remove an article about his house being foreclosed due to his debts. His request to remove the article was not granted since the article was lawful, but the court agreed that google should stop pointing to that article since it was like 15-20 years old and the man had paid of his dept and his house was no longer foreclosed.

What do you find villainous about that?

> Does raise the q should states publish so much information they collect Swedish tax records, Names and Addresses of accused persons (lots of countries) publishing Mugshots like the US does.

The right to be forgotten has nothing to do with publishing records of something. It is about search engines not pointing to something published in the past that can have an adverse effect on somebody today while the published information is irrelevant to anybody today ...

Publishing Names and Addresses of accused persons and their Mugshots is a great example. Publishing that information is relevant since the person is being accused at the time of publishing. A years later the person is found innocent. It is still true that the individual was accused but after being found innocent the information of them being accused isn't particularly relevant to anybody typing their name in a search engine but can have an adverse affect on the individual if he is looking for a job or whatever.

For that very reason a convicted criminal in my country (in the EU) can get a document saying that they are not a convicted criminal after they paid their dues to the society. The point is that people make mistakes and there is no good reason (in the very wast majority of cases) that those mistakes should follow them their whole lives. The point is rehabilitation not eternal punishment. That is a reason why the right to be forgotten exists.
>You wouldn‘t call a child abusive if it shouts out some words that it doesn‘t understand.

Are you implying that Richard Stallman is so cognitively impaired that he literally cannot comprehend the meaning of the language he uses, or control his behavior? That he has the mind of a child?

If that's the case, he should be assigned a legal guardian, not given a position of leadership and role as spokesman for the FSF.
I fail to understand why they didn't/don't use the tugboats to wash the water away. Even small boats can cause a lot of scour with their bow thrusters along a vertical quay wall (which the Ever Given is in a way). The erosive power of a 16MW engine is really something to not be underestimated.
Thanks for the links!
And I guess the rms-support is getting yet another "russian bot" signature.
Leveraged ETFs Can Return Less Than the Market Index
Somewhat ironically/unironically depending on your stance the author of the website appears to be selling the page as an NFT: https://opensea.io/assets/0x495f947276749ce646f68ac8c2484200...
> By his own account, Christian then said, "Look, if you're going to do what you want, I'm going to do what I want, but you're not going to like it,"

I hadn't heard that detail before. I can see how someone might legitimately interpret that as a threat.

Imagine being in her shoes: you're peacefully walking your dog in the park when a stranger confronts you, says "I'm going to do what I want, but you're not going to like it", and approaches your dog. Haven't we all seen enough videos to be concerned about what might happen next? From what I can tell, he seems like a good guy, and I don't think anything bad would have happened, but she couldn't know that at the time.

Which all reinforces the larger point: when the Internet reacts to a story, important details are buried and overlooked. Politicians and activists ignore the particulars of the case and shape it to fit their own agenda. The media sensationalizes the story for clicks. An outraged mob dismisses nuance as x-ism or y-phobia. Employers acquiesce to the demands of the mob simply to avoid becoming a target.

The right to be forgotten is important, because Internet justice is rarely just.
It does beg the question if this was only the first time they were noticed.
> Why start with an apology

All an apology costs you is pride, which is basically free. If it gets you to a place where you can have a normal conversation, who cares who has done what wrong? The point of talking things out isn't about assigning blame.
What is the risk of rogue waves breaking ships taking the Cape route?
Or maybe other people are divisive and want to destroy or compromise the FSF?
Career science / academia has these problems in general. But probably also industry as well. (Like who takes credit for what, if it's someone else's idea, it must be axed etc., if it comes from the boss' favorite then it must not be questioned etc)
My understanding is Zoom is a chinese company. Federal government under Trump was not ready for pandemic, it did not provide any infrastructure for remote learning or work from home. Instead you relied on free infrastructure provided by China. Federal government should pay to Zoom!!!
Zerodium say they have nothing to do with this: https://twitter.com/cBekrar/status/1376469666084757506
DARPA Is Fighting Hackers by Building the ‘Unhackable’ Computer Chip
Yes, and this is part of the problem. I should not have to join a PEO (or employ 10k+ people) to provide my employees the best possible insurance rates. For that matter, nobody should have to work anywhere to get the best possible rates. The original point is that income inequality is not nearly as big of a deal as some would want to believe because of the chicanery of benefits systems. New York State provides about $140k of services (direct cost to the state government) to a family of 4 making $39,500. Yet this is not considered income to the family. Why?
OnlyOffice has a github organization with open source code for their editors - https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/
I guarantee everyone will forget about it soon. Same as with pandemic, in 10 years, if the new virus strikes, governments around the world we clueless.
On commercial vessels it's simply linked through NMEA 0183. Heading information usually are provided by either a gyro compass, gps compass or fluxgate compass. Depending on size of vessel, legal requirements and so on.
> We almost Linus Torvalds because of the cancel culture

This is not what happened and I don't know why you would say "it's cancel culture". The issue with Torvalds was not about PR. It was a push by maintainers of the kernel, aka his peers. Torvalds was not criticized because of his opinions, but because of his behavior towards others. As he said in his own email [1] "My flippant attacks in emails have been both unprofessional and uncalled for [...] I know now this was not OK and I am truly sorry". Saying it's "cancel culture" is as if get fired from my company because I'm constantly lashing out at my colleagues and say "they fired me because of my opinions!".

A lot of times people conflate "cancel culture" with "people being responsible for what they say and do". In this case, Stallman replied to a protest that called for a review of MIT donor policies and association with people like Epstein with nitpicking about whether Minsky's actions (who was dead by that time already) were or not "technically sexual assault". That also helped surface a lot of actions and words by Stallman that were, at the very least, inadequate. Maybe that's not the kind of actions that one expects from the president of the FSF.

1: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1809.2/00117.html?...
2: https://www.facebook.com/events/687098025098336/
Ship Ever Given re-floated after blocking Suez Canal for six days
There are Modern Greek words that came into Greek from Turkish, but where the Turkish word comes from an Indo-European root (though it's not always clear if that is Greek or Persian).

Examples include karpouzi (watermelon, from Turkish karpuz, from either Persian xarbuz, "melon", or Greek karpos, "fruit").
It's a pity English speakers are often taught the wrong (English based) pronunciation.

For self study I also suggest reading Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata, it's a book completely written in Latin that gets progressively more complex and guides you through the language in an utilitarian way.
In the diff, could they be hinting that they've had access since 2017? [1] Maybe they just wanted to burn it now for some reason.

[1] https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/c730aa26bd52829a49f2ad...
I have been using lit-html for years now, and lit-element for a couple years all in vanilla js for evergreen browsers with the only build step being bundling for production. Here is one of the projects: https://cisterna.app
I've mixed feeling about this new Boston Dynamics robot. The issue here is that global economical systems are already having lots of capital centralized in the hands of a few (the like of Amazon and their shareholders). Politicians asking those companies to raise salaries and provide jobs, meanwhile, new tech is making it easier to replace the workers.

This kind of progress without proper economical and social intervention is just a race to the bottom for many workers..

I don't think technological progress can be stopped but economist, politicians and sociologist need to really step up and provide a meaningful future vision.
I used to be an academic; so I can appreciate the hard work that goes into writing software to support research is.

A key problem is with this claim:

"The programmers with the WhyLine were 4 times more successful than those without, and worked twice as fast."

That tells me the whole story. We have a researcher who developed a tool, then did some controlled study (involving students?), wrote a paper, and then moved on to the next project. Nothing wrong with that, from a research point of view but you should moderate your expectations. These tools are prototypes and effectively abanware. There is no community of users behind them. There is no community of developers behind them. That was never the intention. It's not even clear if they were ever supposed to do more than help argue some point made in a paper. These were never intended as proper tools but merely as prototypes for tools. Call it an MVP of a tool. There was nobody to take it from MVP to reality so the thing predictably went nowhere.

From an MVP to something that a developer would use is a whole journey. Mik Kersten, who is called out in the article, did exactly that. I remember his name from when I was still an academic, 20 years ago when he was involved with things like AspectJ, which was a research project that made the successful transition to the real world. He was part of a development team associated with a research group that did some awesome work. AOP survives to this day as a key part of e.g. hibernate and Spring. That's no accident. Mik and others worked on these and other projects for years with active support and a community of users. There were a few similar projects out there without this dedicated effort and they've slided into obscurity. E.g. IBM's subject oriented programming comes to mind.

This kind of effort ever happened with the tools in this article. It takes more than releasing some tool and then expecting user adoption. No offense, but academics tend to be not so great developers. It's a reason I left the academic world because I had more than a little impostors syndrome telling others how to develop software (my field was software engineering) when I knew I did not have a lot of bona-fide software engineering credentials because I did not engineer a whole lot of software. I've since fixed that problem.
in the homepage the videos link leads to a 404.
> I get the impression ML profs are a load of shit tbh.

The field has exploded over the recent years and the new people are somewhat filtered for the ability to hype up hiring committees.
You train them. If you let people take advantage of you, they will take advantage of you, of course.

Most of the time is not on purpose. Thinking how something should work (or using it once done) is way easier than doing it(hundreds or thousand times easier actually), so the only person that really knows how much effort something takes is the person doing it.

Because they don't know how much something takes, they don't value it. Specially if it is given for free.
German union calls four-day strike at Amazon sites ahead of Easter
> I know he's widely regarded as a blunt/offensive speaker,

I find it genuinely odd that people can say this, and recognise that he's in a position that requires skill in communication, and not feel that there's a mismatch between the man and the job.

He has, for years, been poor at one of the core requirements of the position.

And then people say "but people make mistakes, he should be allowed to learn and grow" and I totally agree. But he shows no insight. He almost never accepts what he said was wrong, he almost always pushes that onto what other people understood.
With UTF-8 you need to UTF-8 encode the 9b.

For example this shows red on xfce4-terminal in UTF-8 mode:

printf "\xc2\x9b31mHi\e[0m\n"
Careful, you might get eaten by a rathtar
TBH even as a nonbinary person who goes by singular “they”, even I think that singular-they is ambiguous and I wish that some other non-ambiguous singular-gender-neutral pronoun had taken off instead…

(I’m still going by “they” because a bad standard beats an incompatible hodgepodge of non-standards)
I Think Clubhouse Will Fail
I Read Product Manager Resumes
I know it goes against the grain, and probably doesn't contribute much to the discussion

But I'd make an effort to avoid any software that whines about "SJW's"
The fact that parent created a "risky_opinions" throwaway for sharing their rather moderate take on this controversy should tell all of us that something is going wrong.
With NUL-sepearated output instead of line output people are doing fine. It's unstructured for sure, but how much structure can you put into something as general as grep?
Surely, Amazon is not going to be sending job applications to robots any time soon right?
I'm not a Russian bot and yes, I did sign the support letter.
This is good advice but it cuts both ways.

The other side of the same coin is whenever you receive nasty and undeserved feedback, you don't reply or argue.. You say "thank you for the feedback" and ruminate what good you can take out of that, if any. You don't fight back - not if you actually want to receive feedback in the future.

It's exactly what the article is saying: men are clamming up. If one doesn't know how to deliver excellent feedback/is worried about the packaging, the sane strategy is to just shut up. There's seldom a personal upside for delivering constructive feedback to anybody - and in a situation where bad delivery has unlimited downside, it's smart to just refrain from it.
When my parents met and fell in love, my father was 48 years old, and my mother was 21. I was born four years later.

My father died two years ago, at the age of 86. My mother lovingly cared for him during these last and toughest months of his.

I'm not even sure why I am sharing this here... I guess it just upset me that you, effectively, called him a creep. Maybe try not to judge people who seek (and sometimes even manage to find) love in ways you are not willing to try or to understand.
I actually misread your comment at first as saying you thought of not submliming that way, and agreed.

To me subliming seems like trying something new that also frees you from the restrictions of a normal physical existence, where the Culture seems to feel tied to their bodies and to a kind of existence that is ultimately limited by that physicality.

But the Culture is conservative on average even within the constraints of the Real - while we hear of "outliers", ultimately the Culture has a lot of norms that people seem to rarely stray outside.

A society where people constrain their lifespans out of choice would seem to be one where people feel they run out of things to do, but yet they seem to be only scratching the surface of the possibilities their material abundance creates. In Excession there is musings about the feasibility of a trip to Andromeda, for example, but you'd expect a society full of people voluntarily dying to have more people prepared to set out on ridiculous voyages or doing other ridiculous things just because they can.

That so few do things like the person who had a vast number of penises added to his body suggests that while they are open minded enough to let others do as they please, they are themselves pretty conservative. I mean, I don't expect that specific thing to be for many people, but I'd expect an infinite number of possible variations people might want to try. I was re-reading Transmetropolitan last night, and for all the other things that are now hilariously dated in it, one of the fascinating part of it is gene-traits as fashion. As much as I love the Culture, Banks seems to have stopped short, finding extensive drug-taking and gender changes to be radically crazy enough for at first (it's notable that the penis-man came in The Hydrogen Sonata - the last Culture novel). But then people get enough of living.

Of course, perhaps their relatively conservative approach is in part because the more adventurous ones leave. We do have a hint of that: The Zetetic Elench is a former Culture faction that left to pursue change and knowledge where the Culture wanted to stay as it was. I guess we can assume that the Culture regularly have people leaving for the Ulterior or leaving entirely if they feel too adventurous to fit into "regular" Culture norms.

And I guess that shouldn't be surprising - in a truly free society of a sufficient scale with enough abundance for people to just up and leave on a whim, it might not be surprising if clusters of more conservative civilisations develop around those who have found the most effective ways of maintaining cultural cohesion.