skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hated that too, but I assumed it was incompetence rather than malice. If you want an uncloseable video, it's a lot easier to just not put a close button on it.
Definitely - and regenerative braking should cut into the brake residue which contributes to conditions like asthma, although it won't change tire dust much.
I think what is important to recognize is that a company saying that some discussions are off limits is not commenting on the value of the discussions. It is saying that they do not want to be a battle ground in the cultural war.

In the Middle Ages, there was the concept of the Truce of God. That meant on certain feast days or on Sundays, you were not allowed to fight. It didn't mean that your fight wasn't legitimate. Maybe Lord Ronald over there killed your family and stole your castle and you had a legitimate reason to fight him. But, it did mean that when you were in Mass on Christmas, you did not pull out your sword and start fighting Lord Ronald, even though you both might be in the same cathedral.

In the same way, we are in the midst of a cultural war. And there are very legitimate issues and deep hurts. However, that does not mean that warfare has to take place in every venue. There should be some venues where cultural warfare is banned. Kind of like the equivalent of the old Medieval Truce of God.
It is also popular for the right reasons too. Sometimes you want to aggregate large datasets incredibly fast.

Sometimes you want user defined queries which are easy to restrict to parts of a dataset by rules.

If you don't have a use case for something, it doesn't mean no one else does.
> IMO people (even the people in charge of companies) can (and should) have political opinions! _Companies_ shouldn't.

I'm not sure how this meshes with this post? Basecamps founder has been politically active in a role representing the company, by talking to congress about big techs market power (i.e. Hey's fight with Apple). That part is not what they are banning here.
"has taken the lead"

Has taken the lead on the "premium sedan" category market, where less and less people are buying "premium sedans".

What scare quotes?
That would be System V (or even System III), not Plan 9.
N=1 but I already stopped a cold that seemed to be developing this past weekend. Fairly harmless to try at the onset of feeling something starting.
The job market is great, if people aren't happy with their comp they can find someone who wants to pay them more.
Back in a day I kept receipts for all bulbs and pestered Home Depot with refunds for failed bulbs.

Can't affect fraudulent cartels but can apply pressure on merchants not to carry flawed merchandise
Can’t work because ‘garbage in garbage out’.

We see media photographers gathered around the one burning trash can to sell a narrative.

When most of the media is owned by billionaires, how could it possibly be any other way?
>According to the linked document, this was not a typo. This line contradicts reality: "this extension of credit is a qualified educational loan and is subject to the limitations on dischargeability in bankruptcy contained in Section 523(a)(8) of the United States Bankruptcy Code."

This in no way answered my question.

>In addition, the document points out, "Certain Lambda School marketing has included representations implying its program is “free.”" It is not free.

Interesting and not related to the contract, we're talking about marketing. I find your comments extremely disingenuous, you're switching contexts of "misleading" in the very separate domains of marketing and legal contracts which should be too obvious.

The order is non-specific, so what do you want to get into? "Free until you get a job" comes to mind, is that misleading? I'll argue it's true, given that you don't pay them money when you don't have a job.

>The parent post made it sound like they were out of the woods, when they clearly aren't. If I were the subject of this press release, I would not be "excited."

It's certainly a step forward in my opinion, and you seem to take issue with the fact that it wasn't a flawless approval. Fair enough, your opinion is noted.

>Approval is very different than endorsement.

This seems like doubling down on a total misrepresentation.

Austen clearly said approval, then elaborated to claim it was an endorsement of their relatively unique education model. You don't need to be that generous to imagine that 'approval' by a body (which only approves or does not) of a new/innovative model is something of an endorsement of this new model.

You picked out endorsement, and responded as if he had said "BPPE endorsed our program". It's clearly not what he said.

Austen even appears to have removed the egregious line, which I imagine makes sense from a PR standpoint as people will try to misrepresent it as you have.
Japan had this problem 30 years ago and had banks giving out multi-generational loans: https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990...
You could accomplish this by just never applying for credit of any kind, couldn't you? In this way, these agencies might have a file about somebody with your name, but it won't really be relevant to you in any way.
Microsoft Defender now blocks cryptojacking malware using Intel TDT
It seems the pandemic has flattened that out. Construction material prices here in the midwest are up 100-150%.
> If they want a say in how it is run they can leave

No, they couldn't. Feudal peasants (i.e. serfs) were tied to the land and were NOT free to leave. In general, their lords controlled every aspect of their lives, including who they were permitted to marry.

Being a serf wasn't quite as bad as being a slave (for instance, serfs generally couldn't be sold away from their families, as they were attached to the land), but it was pretty damned bad nonetheless.

At any rate, drawing a comparison between a feudal serf, owned from birth and tied to the land, and a software engineer who could likely have a new job by the end of the day (particularly coming from a high-profile shop like Basecamp) seems rather disingenuous.
I think this article won't tell him though, and that is a problem.

This person thinks they are glorified caches, but they miss what they are good at, REALLY fast aggregation across many servers, that isn't a glorified cache, that is something else.
Seems new-ish, my girlfriend found the same thing. Also worked out how to get Google Maps to work with CarPlay too!
> This Saturday, the UMN research team apologized to the Linux community via an open letter posted to the Linux Kernel Mailing List. The nearly 800-word open letter comes across as more "wait, you don't understand" than apology:

Wow, it really is a non-apology. They spend far more time defending themselves and don’t really seem remorseful at all. At no point did they say they seem to have punished the people involved or changed the process that allowed this research to be conducted in the first place.
They have cash balances, that’s quite a good hedge against Bitcoin going in either direction.
Not sure whether you have factored in lost days of revenue into your back of envelope TCO.

When a cheaper less reliable car is in the garage being repaired it's not just about the cost of repair but also the opportunity cost of lost revenue.
> some people’s entire existence political, full stop

> you uninvited certain people entirely

Can you elaborate on this? I What makes a person unable to work without bringing those political issues up?
You can do that: https://github.com/plan9foundation/plan9/commits?since=1992-...

Just no UI
Supreme Court to Hear Case on Carrying Guns in Public
I think it’s because it’s really just putting your fingers in your ears, ignoring the fact you simply redefined the problem instead of solving it. The next step is, who gets to decide what is and is not “political”? The answer tends to be the last people you want.
I was the slowest runner in first grade--even the fat kid outran me in the 50 yard dash. Was I weird!

Today? I'm 70, and I run. Yesterday I ran about 8 miles on trails. Because while I can't run fast, I can run far. Didn't find that out until like 8th grade--all the runs until then were short distances.

So I can run distances, but I'd probably still come in last at the 50 yard dash. Maybe I'm still weird, but I like it.
That article probably should have mentioned the existing code built into wasm-bindgen that allows cross-language async/await between Rust and JS.
Oops, sorry. Here is the correct link.

https://casetext.com/case/bl-v-mahanoy-area-sch-dist-2

In Part II B. iii Section B: "B.L. Did Not Waive Her Free Speech Rights", the court discusses the defense of waiver for voluntary activities with a separate code of conduct.

"The School District next argues that by agreeing to certain school and team rules, B.L. waived her First Amendment right to post the “fuck cheer” snap. We disagree."
So are famines, but that didn't stop the market from starving millions of people, either.
This seems like something you would want to bring up with your boss / HR / higher-ups, instead of starting an open discussion/debate with the whole company, right?
They are pretty much unacceptable according to 2017 NIST standards, and pretty much impossible to use correctly in the banks' use case.
It seems she could still be in cheer, just not on the higher status squad.
Basecamp is known to have one of the most generous pay/benefits packages in the industry. Generous to the point where I would have no idea what a union would even bargain for. I would highly doubt that this was in response to any effort to unionize.
I have complained multiple times, their seemed to be listening, but it does not seem like the “urgency” reached the boiling point.

Furthermore, adding more regulations and more requirement fixes issue short term, but does not address it long term. Even if regulations you suggested are enacted, I am afraid that it won’t take long until they are misused, abused and misinterpret again.

Rather than adding more requirements or stipulating more penalties and burdening regulators with defining right security protocols and mechanisms, it should be reworked into something that allows more competition and more control and forces bad actors fail fast and be replaced. Also it should be actionable at the consumer level.

My ideas are:
1. CRA must explicitly get
permission from a person to keep their financial history.
2. Consumer has a right to “be forgotten by an agency” and the agency must abide within, lets say, 30-60 days.
Also a said agency is required to send the customer or another agency of consumer choosing an authenticated copy of existing credit history. Similar to phone number porting.
3. Collateral. CRA must maintain a collateral fund to be used to pay penalties to consumer in case their information gets stolen. The size of the fund is a function of number of consumers the agency is keeping history for.

It does make it harder for new players to enter the market, but on the other hand:
- they have something to risk
- security evolves, and consumer pressures would make CRA evolve their system as well. If a CRA uses md5 to hash password, get hacked, first, they will loose money in their collateral fund, second, consumers will leave them and they essentially be out of business.
This is possibly the worst implementation of a terrible idea.
The credit freeze stops the agencies from sharing your credit report until you remove the freeze. We think this is a lot more control than you have without a freeze! This, and having a local copy of your data are both important steps we can all take now on the path to bigger changes.
This looks like a good read, thanks. I'm curious what your background is. How does one go about getting into that specialty at an org like Google? I've understood that Borg and GKE containers at Google generally always run in a VM. Is this where your work is(platform) or are you more research oriented?
Async communication = email overload?

Now I’m the first to say I find synchronous communication (eg Slack) to cause massive productivity loss for an organization & can also cause employee burnout … but how do companies that have a culture of async communication not fall into a similar bad issue of email overload?
Spoken like a true software engineer.
You rent places in order to live in them. Owning property is always investment (if you're rational, and real estate middlemen will encourage you not to be.) Owning your own place, if not for the massive state subsidy, is basically renting from yourself for the price you would have paid someone else + maintenance.

Austin is a great example of a place where you may have bought a house in a really cool neighborhood, which 20 years later is in the middle of a shit yuppie neighborhood. You can rent that house to the shit yuppie who will be happiest there (and is loaded and willing to pay a premium) and rent in a cool neighborhood, especially if rents are low. You might not have to work at all.
Google tells me that Uber takes a 25% cut for human-driven rides. So a rider's fare is 3:1 driver to Uber.

If (just to make the math easy) you need to pay a robot a third of what you need to pay a human, I wonder whether the negotiation would come out closer to

1. One part Uber, one part driver (so Uber's cut maintains its value) or

2. Still one part Uber, three parts driver, but the values are all lower and the total volumes higher.

I'd think it would need to shake out closer to the latter case than the former to keep Uber in the game, for a few reasons:

- Self-driving car companies are software companies. They can make Uber clones, given enough resources and time.

- There isn't really a two-sided marketplace bootstrapping process. These companies have enough capital to put a lot of cars on the road, and I don't think the economies of scale are actually that big -- there isn't much cross-benefit from scale in disconnected cities, and inside a given city you need 4x as many cars to halve wait times so the scale benefits tail off sharply. And I bet there's little brand-loyalty.

- If there are few self-driving car companies in a market, they'd have relatively large market power, so they could dictate rates more effectively than an atomised driver pool.

Shrugs, it could happen if the rates were low enough, but I suspect it won't. But I'm probably greatly underestimating the benefits of partnership -- dispatching is probably easy, and AV companies will necessarily be savvy with regulators, but customer-interaction and "app surface-area" are likely places where the existing players have a real leg-up. That said, the labour market is pretty porous in the Bay Area...
Look at their statement and realize how Tesla is intentionally misleading their shareholders.

If Tesla is so impressive, why do they need to do that?
TV manufacturers have mostly chosen to create and maintain their own ecosystems.

This is actually a declining trend. LG and Samsung do but Moore's law has gotten it to a point where Android TV and, in fact Roku's platform are becoming much more prevalent on TVs, particularly some of the newer lower end devices. There's a large cost to maintaining your own HTML based platform (which is what most 3rd parties are) and the HTML platforms pretty radically under-perform these days.

Android TV could win but much like the US cable operators the large CE providers aren't too excited about getting so closely tied to Google. Roku's continued independence is cool in a space where there is so much consolidation, and attractive to some CE manufacturers.
> You are comparing a government to a company.

Indeed. Both can be run either a democratic or authoritarian fashion. "Ownership should mean absolute power" is a common belief (everywhere but particularly in the US where labor rights have never been strong), but is only one option, and more democratic forms are possible.

> Peasants don't optionally sign contracts to belong to their nation.

Thinking that employers "belong" to the companies they work for is quite strange language. But more to the point, employees don't "optionally" sign employment contracts - most people are forced to work to pay the bills - in other words, they are coerced into signing the contract. Most people hate their jobs and would rather not do them.
I’m not saying that hyperinflation can’t happen. But if you really believe in that hypothesis, you’d do much better to buy deep OTM call options on TIPs and gold instead of real estate.
You probably shouldn't bring up 3d printing - people might start talking about 3d printing gun parts, and that's of course political, and you _did_ start the conversation. Same problem with travel - as you know, many countries restrict travel because of the pandemic, and the very existence of the pandemic is a political issue among some people.

As you can see, it's a ridiculous policy that can only be enforced arbitrarily.

Also, sidenote: what happened to all the "free speech is bigger than the first amendment! It's an ideological hill worth dying on!" people? One mention of changing "master" to "main" and they're everywhere on hackernews, yet oddly quiet in this comment section.
Redgrep – grep based on regex derivatives, matches in linear time
The "Google union" is a complete joke BTW. It's made up of half a dozen low-level employees that have no bargaining power at all. Half the company hasn't even heard of it (true story).
They have every incentive to release the results - if they showed that the market was undervaluing advertising.
Current Teslas are already fitted with radar, though Tesla wants to remove it from future models.
From what I see, lots of people who object to this policy change raised a (legitimate) concern: where is the evidence supporting the claim? It’s not like corporations have ever had any problem firing people over productivity issues. If people argue over political topics all day at work and that turns out to affect their productivity negatively, it’s much less controversial for the company to act upon it from a performance angle.
Here's some info on Ethereum's apps:

Today, two of the most promising app ecosystems are

- Decentralized Finance (DeFi). Here's a community favorite 3rd party leaderboard for DeFi apps https://defipulse.com/

- Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). NFTs are popularly known as digital collectibles, but may represent any kind of non-fungible property. We can see some of the top digital collectibles here https://dappradar.com/nft . But, there is a lot more to NFTs than just collectibles or art. For example, the Ethereum Name System (ENS) uses NFTs to represent domain name ownership https://ens.domains

Another interesting Ethereum use case is https://www.eco.com/ . Eco is a mobile app that's a cash wallet and payment method. Eco is a competitor of Venmo, Cash App, Visa, and Apple Pay. Eco is not a crypto app, there's no tokens or anything like that. Instead, Eco is like if you took Venmo, added Apple Pay to it, and then completely cut out the banks by using the USDC stablecoin backboned onto ethereum to connect to an industry group of financial services that have also cut out banks, and in return Eco is able to offer their customers 5% APR and 5% cash back, because of the savings from cutting out the banks and other middlemen.

If you are interested to dip your toe into the ethereum pond, here's a great weekly newsletter that's aimed at developers

https://weekinethereumnews.com/
I bought a Ford Mach-e, after comparing the mileage, build quality and pricing with model Y. The Tesla drives better, performance wise they felt the same, but build quality and cabin noise is way better in the Mach-e.

Also, surprisingly actual road mileage is better in the Mach-e too[1].

Tesla felt like a car built around the software and ford felt like a car with the software as an afterthought. But I like driving cars (drive a manual right now), so, don’t really care as much about the software as others.

[1] https://www.edmunds.com/car-news/electric-car-range-and-cons...
When AIs Start Hacking
They've paid out the benefits for "this year". They could have, but did not, raise base compensation by the value of those benefits.
I appreciate that you provided a lot of examples. For each example, I’m wondering if you think it shouldn’t be discussed because the debate itself isn’t important to the company (e.g. “it doesn’t matter whether the US government is a white supremacist government, we are doing this deal with them either way”), or because the company has taken a stance on the debate (e.g. “the US government is not a white supremacist government, and we are doing this deal with them”).

If your reason is the former, I’m curious how far you would take that. Is there any conceivable case where the company should not do business with some organization or government because of political issues? And if your reason is the latter, then shouldn’t the company try to be upfront (at least internally among employees) where it stands on these issues?
In 2021, an unreturned VHS tape can haunt your job and life
I don't necessarily agree with your conclusion, but I will admit you can't put KSUID and Snowflake in a room and declare either of them the winner.

I would argue that doubling your key-space in the case of KSUIDs may have just as much of an impact as coordinating node ids in the case of snowflake (and in fact the snowflake technique only runs into coordination problems when you're at pretty extreme scale).
That’s the case for this podcast. For now.

I too love 99PI but if I ever have to use the Stitcher app I’ll drop it in a hot second. Same goes for any other podcast. Stitcher, Spotify, NPR, Apple, anyone.

If I can’t use the app I like, it’s not a podcast and I won’t go through the effort. There are too many other good podcasts waiting in the wings.
Can we please not refer to the Model 3 as the M3, an already well known car from a competing manufacturer in the same segment?
You are right that self-reproducing automata can be designed and built using silicon and/or many other chemical elements besides those used in living beings.

However we do not know any mechanism that would allow the spontaneous apparition of such living beings by natural processes, like those that exist for H, C, N, O and S as the main bioelements.

After some life forms appear spontaneously using a set of chemical elements very similar to that used on Earth, it might be possible at some point to transition to the use of other chemical elements, because the original constraints to start from substances that can be generated in abiotic conditions no longer apply.

So I agree that silicon-based life can exist, but there is no known process that could make silicon-based life forms appear spontaneously from non-living matter, unlike the case for carbon-based life.

Actually carbon-based life is a misnomer, because there are several other chemical elements that are strictly required for various reasons, so there is a minimum set of about 8 to 12 chemical elements that are needed for life, not only carbon.

While H, C, N, O and S are needed to build the minimal set of organic molecules and several transition metals are needed as catalysts, there are also a few other irreplaceable elements, e.g. potassium is needed to neutralize the excess negative charge of the organic acids over the positive charge of ammonium derivatives. (Other elements cannot replace potassium because they would form insoluble compounds).
Happy Tidal user here. :-)
I think he's saying that being interested in politics is inherently inferior to being interested in other things, and people who like to read about politics are fundamentally lesser than people who don't know much about politics (and therefore we shouldn't care if banning "politics" affects them).
Until someone else applies for credit with your identity.
There are two verses in the Bible that are contradictory like that. "Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you yourself will be just like him" is one, the other is "Answer a fool according to his folly, or he will be wise in his own eyes." The two verses are right next to each other (Proverbs 26:4-5), so the juxtaposition must have been intentional. My guess is that putting them together was intended to imply that some problems have no good answer.