skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, the Hunter Biden story was "wiped from everywhere" because it was part illegal (the authentic parts, if they were indeed authentic, would likely have violated revenge porn laws in addition to Facebook's ToS on nudity), part misinformation and part (and this is probably the least important) character assassination. It also wasn't a very successful "wipe" if the story got coverage in various mainstream media. It wasn't a very successful smear campaign because as it turns out, saying "your son may have done an illegal sex thing while on drugs" isn't a very effective smear against someone running against an incumbent who has had credible scandals ticking every one of those boxes himself.

You also need to get out of the headspace where you think Biden is "left wing" just because Trump or Modi is so extremely right wing. If you want to see "left wing" criticism on Facebook it's not about Hunter Biden, it's about things like the ("alleged") Uyghur genocide or the portrayal of socialist governments.

Biden isn't a socialist, he's a centrist moderate leaning towards fiscal conservatism with some moderately progressive social policies. Even relative to the US population he's barely "left wing". His appeal was literally that he plans to "reach across the isle" and "unite" with Republicans (who, for the record, have shown no such interest themselves).

Neither is Facebook, by the way. While Facebook has cracked down on right-wing disinfo campaigns after they gained massive traction after 2016, they've also cracked down hard on socialist accounts and groups, often with no recourse and no clear explanation of which parts of the ToS they allegedly violated. Meanwhile they cozied up to Republican politicians during the Trump era and there have been leaked conversations and memos indicating Zuckerberg & co intentionally pushing for a more right-wing slant to offset the employees' supposed liberal bias.

I'm not in support of Facebook wiping "the Hunter Biden story", I'm in support of Facebook enforcing its ToS. But they need to do so transparently and objectively. They aren't doing that, though, and that's a problem. But it doesn't only impact "the right". The right is just more likely to see their own being banned over bannable offenses like explicitly racist remarks and calls to violence and portray it as "censoring conservatives".
I watched the double feature movies (2006) and really enjoyed it, so I started on the anime, and I really feel like there are so many pointless filler story lines and episodes.
same thought really, can't tell if it's trolling or not, which is weird that we actually consider someone could be serious saying this
Back in the day, Java came from Sun, who were generally pretty cool about it.

Oracle bought Sun in 2010, things looked okay for a year or two, then it started to get scary.

The situation now is not scary: there is a community process to manage the language and library definitions, the JDK is open source, with Oracle contributing, there are other significant contributors (notably RedHat and IBM ... so now just IBM), and there are multiple freely-available high quality binary releases of the same source.

It could potentially get scary again. If Oracle stop contributing to the open source JDK, and instead work on a closed-source version of their own, then it's not clear that there is enough developer power among the remaining contributors to keep things moving at a healthy speed. But then, if that happened, maybe users would abandon Java rather than pay Oracle, so it would be a suicidal move for Oracle. Or, if that happened, other contributors could step up contributions to hoover up customers from Oracle. But it's not entirely reassuring to be depending on game theory like this.
The age of the proposal for carbon tax mirrors the age of sophisticated "reasons" why it should not happen or why it's supposedly not a good idea "if you think about it".

Nonsense. It's lobbyism. In more drastic terms, corruption. Plain and simple.

We can have this "discussion" once significant industrial nations have implemented a carbon tax. Until then, it's all just excuses. Similar to all the bunch of nonsense people come up with why they can't start working out today or save money today or go to bed right now instead of after watching the next episode of whatnot-series.
One reason I assume is that a degree is taking tens of thousands of dollars from you whereas the entry level job will be giving that to you.
Using the phrase "Washington Consensus" just indicates you're out of touch and it makes it hard to take any argument you make seriously.

The Washington Consensus was on life support by the year 2002 -- that's two decades ago -- and was completely dead by 2008 -- well over a decade ago.

Making strawman arguments against things 15 years out of date doesn't make your argument look stronger.
- Ruby: "yes, you can do that 5 different ways in 1 line"
re Python: "...All actual work is done by C libraries though, you could just as easily use BASIC instead"
I would consider "a page where jargon is defined, like a lexicon" to be a perfect example of reference material.
Another article about cryptocurrencies, another comments thread where I shake my head at the Cryptozealots spouting "It's the solution to everything! Resistance is futile! You will be assimilated!".

I read something interesting about this behavior a while ago, if you've put money into crypto, of course you're going to be cheerleading it, nobody puts money in something expecting to lose it (oh wait... I can see the /r/wsb crowd raising their hands). And the more people you recruit into your ponzi scheme, the more profit you stand to gain, so consciously or not, you'll be trying to convince everyone to get in on this whole scheme.

On the flipside, the skeptics are convinced it's a bubble that can implode any time and that the argumets "it will replace fiat and central banks!" are just silly delusions. And yes this is how I think. To be honest, I like money too, and I wished I had put some money in BTC. Someone's going to reply "Sour grapes!" under here, but still, I'm in the opinion, the rise of BTC is irrational.

Then again, it can be argued that the current world economy is also running on galactic amounts of irrationality...
Building Chromium expertise could enable Chromium alternatives such as Vivaldi, Edge or Brave to selectively remove or override features that only benefit Google.

I'm wondering whether this is ultimately a more effective strategy if the goal is independence from Google's business model while offering a performant browser that works on all websites.

Mozilla has to put tremendous resources into implementing browser features that are uncontroversial and unrelated to Google's business model. And those resources are paid for by Google.

That said, there are certainly good arguments in favour of having more than one rendering engine. After all, privacy controversies are not the only reason why competition is healthy.
Just a design choice, I added one to Railgrade since I like the look. It gives the opening less clutter and a chance for players to get oriented.

On switch many games use the "Press L + R" pattern to detect which controller is the preferred controller.
Civilization series. I've been playing them since last century mid 90s and still enjoing them. I play mainly Civilization IV but V is also good. Don't like VI though.
I somehow missed that! Thanks for clarifying.
It depends where you want to go and what you want to spend. Peter Thiel circumvented a few of New Zealand’s rules in a very short time frame. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/revealed-how-peter-thiel...
1. WordPress was released in 2003, Netscape Navigator was basically dead by then.

2. It’s fair to judge a language by its dominant platform / use case. Rails (2004) and Django (2005) are barely younger than WordPress. Is it fair to judge Ruby and (one facet of) Python by examining Rails and Django respectively? Yes.
I didn't say that. I thought it was interesting enough to mention. My assumption before reading the link was that it would have been a much more substantial change.

It makes me wonder if the fixed cost of the operation was relatively small, or if there was an outside constraint that meant further lengthening was not possible or profitable.
Since renewables are already cheaper than coal power and mining is inherently flexible load I think bitcoin miners will me building and building way more renewables. Especially when mining hardware stagnates and cost of mining bitcoin will be dominated by price of energy and of ensuring energy supply, as opposed to ensuring posession mining hardwarr.

Although I hope one day I read about Bitcoin miner building nuclear power plant and using it to mine bitcoin with all the spare power but selling energy into the grid when energy usage peaks and price rises above what mining can bring.
"Type guards are my least favorite TypeScript feature. They're essentially duck typing that you have to implement yourself and trust that they're implemented correctly." Amen
As someone who has struggled their entire life with feeling like I don't understand people, I feel your pain.

I don't know what kind of climbing you were doing, but I've found bouldering very social. Bouldering problems are short and very intense so you spend most of your time sitting on the mat resting, which inevitably leads to conversation. If you don't have a group to go with or haven't tried bouldering, but would like to continue climbing, I would recommend taking a group bouldering class or the like once COVID dies down. That's a good way to meet people who like the sport and are the same level as you.

This might be a little presumptuous as I don't know anything about you, but since you're in Texas - church/temple/synagogueetc is also a great option if you want to meet people. People want you to join their church so they will be friendly and make an effort to welcome you. Many churches have coffee or small refreshments after the service just so people can socialize. There may even be programs, planned social activities, bible studies or whatnot for new members. This is my bias but I would go to a non-denominational Christian church, the crowd is likely to be younger, more diverse, more interesting, and the music will sound like it's from this century. If you don't like the people, the particular church, or just simply learn that you don't believe in God, you can always just leave, you have no obligation to stay. I myself don't attend church anymore but I must admit they are astoundingly effective social support structures. If you've ever been curious in any way about religion you might as well try it.
Laravel docs are virtually non existent. The code comments are meh.

Their upgrades are frequent but are not backwards compatible. Many times after an upgrade we spent hours finding something that broke and was not documented in the upgrade guide.

Their code quality leaves much to be desired, and it very significantly will slow down every part of the site.

It is hard to call this a "extremely high quality framework" or even a "acceptable low quality framework". It may be possible to say this is unfortunately the best we've got in PHP.
I think we need to tone down our understanding of "unethical" to something reasonable. There's nothing unethical about Firefox having a Google homepage.

If you start digging too deep, it's unethical we get up from bed in the morning at all.

The problem is it's become a cultural phenomenon to hate big corporations, as a way to offset our guilt for using their products and services. Ask anyone and they'll tell you how much they hate unethical Big Oil and they may even tell you so while using oil-produced electrical power or driving a gas-powered car.

If enough people really cared, they'd change their homepage from Google to something else. They don't. Ergo I guess we're all unethical. Or maybe we need to stop lying to ourselves and realize the world is shades of gray, not black and white.
I agree that Java is low risk from a manager responsibility perspective: nobody has been fired for choosing it for a long time.

Now, from a project success perspective, I think it's not. I've seen a lot of Java projects fail, over engineered, full of spaghetti code, riddle with inscrutable abstraction, stuck in a glue of badly designed architecture that has been fossilized by the type system.

I'd say from a project risk perspective, it's a pretty average language, it has pros and cons, but they balance each other.
Why? Every time cryptocurrencies get discussed here, the talking points are “crypto is trust-less” (incompatible with centralised), and “government can’t be trusted” (ditto).

I can believe they’ll make a new currency, might even call it a “cryptolira” or whatever as branding, but there is exactly zero value in a government-run money Blockchain. Databases already exist, much lower energy cost, well studied, easy to audit and backup or rollback.
As funny as that site is, it presents a rather off-putting experience for "normal" users who might not even know what "TOS" means and don't know why they should care about privacy in the first place.

It's like sending Stallman into a random office to tell the employees there about Free Software. Good intentions, not very effective.

Aside from the fact that you're basically killing all traffic to your website if you redirect the majority of users to some other site.

I think a cookie banner-like popup at the bottom or top of the page would do the job better. Just be annoying and tell users how they can get rid of it. Of course if only one website does that the effect won't be noticeable either.
> Banning something has proven to never work in history.

By definition there are lots of banned things in every legal system, and I'd argue many of them for very good reasons.

What's usually ineffective is banning something without providing a viable alternative.
mind sharing which bank closed your account?
> For instance, I just picked a random house for sale in Tacoma and tried pricing Internet for new customers from Xfinity (Comcast) and Rainier Connect (former Click). Xfinity offered 1 Gigabit (fine print says 940 Mbps) downloads for $84.99/month on a 1-year contract, increasing to $100 after the contract term. Rainier Connect's fastest offering was only 100 Mbps and cost $104.95/month - pay more to get one-tenth the speed

And it does not mention upload bandwidth anywhere because it will be a tiny amount split between tons of houses and the latency will be terrible compared to domestic fiber. Not to mention Comcast is probably over provisioning by a ton and selling you “1,000” Mbps “burst” speeds for 5 min or something while they slow everyone else in the neighborhood down.

I’ve learned from plenty of experience to never trust non fiber to the home marketing numbers. Coax is obviously a much inferior technology.
Linus Torvalds on Rust support in kernel
If money is opaque then it also cannot be taxed or seized by judicial process. IMO this moves further towards an aristocratic society as possession goes from 90% → 100% to the law.
This seems a bit specious. I've done things along this line, and it was great, but I had some support infrastructure and a tiny bit of money to actually pay for shit. You're going to need to also build the ability to support yourself for realsies (financially) as well when you return or during, otherwise you're just another idiot who flew to Thailand with $0 in the hopes random ppl will fund your vacation. With some savings, and some ability to work jobs that you'd find anywhere, then ya go make what you can of it, but this isn't that case... yet
I routinely buy things with fiat that complete in seconds. There's on order of trillions of completed fiat transactions per day. They don't generally take days. Only a tiny, tiny amount of them of a very limited class take days. It's disingenuous to imply all fiat transactions take that long.
Did Nvidia Bite More Than It Can Chew with Data Centre Chips?
What kind of "automated" test could check one's audio quality? Is there some website or tool that can give a score of how you sound?
Why most non-fiction authors don't make any money
Elon Musk's SpaceX raises $1.16B in equity financing
It sounds like OP's employment history consists entirely of 2-month-ish stints, and so leaving short stints off would mean having no professional experience on the resume.

Now, that might actually be the right answer in this case (your "starting over" suggestion, more or less).
The M1 Mac Mini with 16 GB RAM is $859 in the US and 1029€ in a generic European country (Germany).

In my opinion that's pretty competitive.
How'd you destroy your software career?
Getting back on the ladder is hard if you fell off.

For applications and interviews for the people hiring it is all about perception and reducing risk. When hiring managers/assistants go through the piles of applications they throw away any with red flags, or at best put them in the maybe pile. If a lot of non-red flag applications they discard the maybes as well.

Don't have red flags, or at least camouflage them as best you can on the CV, don't lie though.

In the interviews don't raise red flags either. Some of your original post and comments are potential red flags to me. Practice interviews over and over again, and have ready made answers to all awkward possible questions. No excuses though, make them a good thing for some reason.

I suck at the first interview I do every time I go through the finding-a-new-job/contract process. But by the 2nd, perhaps 3rd, I have remembered the fine art of interviewing, and regurgitate the same practised answers over and over again, and mostly get offered the jobs. Practice.

Don't have gaps on your CV. I have gaps on my CV, but you can't really spot them. E.g. I removed mentioning months to just state the calendar years I was at companies. Sometimes there was a 6 months gaps but you can't tell. I also took a long time off to help when the kids were young. On my CV I just list the smaller projects I was working on at the time instead, even if that was just 10 hours a week. It is all about perception for the person skim-reading your CV.

Ps. in an interview don't say "I did move to Austin when I received a lump sum of money, and hanged with some people". Reword that to something career positive. E.g. took a gap year, worked on startup ideas, taking mentoring lessons, or at best don't mention it. I know when you are young it is a normal thing to do, just it looks or sounds terrible in a hiring process. Again don't have gaps.

Also never again mention that other people say you are smart, know some smart people etc. It is irrelevant, and mostly off putting. Nice for your own self-esteem but not for anyone else. Instead show examples of things you delivered.

Remember you are not the only person applying for that role. Make them want you, as a non-risk option. You also need to seem keen on the company but also make them aware you have other options and are not desperate even if not true...
Agreed, it's just a general overview, I skipped a lot of nuances for the purpose of conveying my main message.
I'm curious which editor/IDE you used while writing typescript? I've recently started writing typescript and I've been finding it more or less a mecca of good editor completions and LSP support, compared to what I was doing previously (Python in an old school editor) (I'm using VS Code for typescript).
Also skipping your manager and going straight to VPs when you're a new employee sounds like a risky move in many places.
Any idea can be exaggerated out of sanity bounds. If you do not see the difference between the incentives and criminalizing/punishment this is your own problem.
Even easier solution. Tax all the coal that enters your country economy, either from earth or from neighbours.
> Just because you'd want it that way doesn't mean you did it. Motive, but where's means and method?

Pinky swear with me that you've seriously never heard of dark money. Koch brothers, Russian oligarchs. You've never ever heard of this? Really?
I don't think the meta version of Permissions-Policy ever got implemented. "http-equiv" isn't a magic "here's a HTTP header I forgot to mention" pixie dust.

Better stick to the actual recommendation of adding the header in the server configuration.
I'm using the definitions of left vs right as being how much power should the lower classes get ("opposing monarchy" kind of already fits, though AFAIK after the revolution farmers quickly lost most of their power to the profit of citizens).

It has been pointed out decades ago that capitalism would try to subvert some of the left by evacuating the class issues to the profit of ethnic issues and then pitting ethnic groups against each other. In fact you could say that this dates at least back to Marx' "On the Irish question."

IMHO this is what is happening currently - it's really sad to see supposedly left parties to ally themselves with people pushing ethnicist and sexist ideologies (but where white or man = "worse" instead of the previously common ethnicist and sexist ideologies where it was "better" - that "all lives matter" ended up being considered an ethnicist slogan is probably making Martin Luther King roll in its grave !)
> You can get coupons for everything, many online stores accept it.

Such as...?
I love this comment :) Messing a bit with drops in the ocean is how we got here in the first place.

Aggressive farming messes with the environment a bit. There is just so much land, we can't possibly deplete all of it.

Did you see how much air we have? Yeah burning dirty stuff pollutes it, but then the wind blows and it's clean again.
Fidor. But I hear this happens with other banks as well, regularly.
> Now you have exponential problems. Scala has less support, slower builds, and features Scala-devs are eager to abuse to make the code unreadable.

Unfortunately, the Scala compiler is quite a bit slower than javac. In practice this doesn't hurt quite so much anymore; incremental builds make working even with large code bases quite snappy. Full-rebuild; get a coffee.

The build tools for Scala have _massively_ improved in the last 5 years. IntelliJ support is superb and VS Code with metals is shaping up very nicely.

I agree that since Scala is a unopinionated language, you need to be strict in what you allow your devs to do. Code reviews and agreements on levels of abstraction and concepts used is mandatory.

I've worked with multiple teams in the last 8 years and this discipline is important when working with Scala. Doing so will give you the opportunity to write clean, maintainable and readable code in a very powerful language.
I was surprised to find out that so many of the "software architecture" books are not about how to architect backend ecosystems comprising multiple communicating services, but instead are about patterns to use to organize large java codebases.
"Using the phrase "Washington Consensus" just indicates you're out of touch and it makes it hard to take any argument you make seriously"

Yet that is still how central banks operate. They are completely out of date, continuing to target inflation using interest rate movements and getting absolutely nowhere. In fact largely getting the opposite response. Everybody knows that they are making no impact, yet nobody dare point it out out of politeness. However this emperor definitely has not clothes at this stage.

The central banks haven't moved on because their operational mode is still stuck in the 1990s. Eventually one will change tack - as New Zealand did before.

Hope that is a Western one, not Erdogan.
Your point on the time to get out of a lease vs house is just one issue. There are significant in-and-out costs in terms of lawyers, realtors, etc that exist only when selling. And unless you hold for a longer period, and your market is strong, your gain may either not exist or not be sufficient to cover these friction costs.
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Feel free to ask any questions...