skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't hate Javascript, I actually like it for quick scripting and data-mangling. But I DO hate the never ending bits of syntax sugar added on top that I rarely actually care about. Also tired of people constantly inventing reasons to compile things INTO JavaScript (e.g. Babel, TypeScript, CoffeeScript).
There are consequences to every decision people make. This type of policing is the wrong path to take.

Diet, transportation, having a pet, having children, flying, the list is endless.
Yes, those are exactly the words that will be used when leftists will be censored as well.
Also check out https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS
Facebook suspends former U.S. President Trump's account for two years
The world would be a better place with Aaron Swartz still in it. Unfortunately I don't think we've lived up to the mantle he placed on us with his passing.
> Minecraft Classic - official game from Mojang (I'm as surprised as you are)

lol. Microsoft should just release all the source for this since Minecraft isn't exactly state of the art these days. The brand is nearly all of the value.
HOLY SHIT!

Wait until these are integrated into wearbles - gloves, shoes, a back-pad etc..

Also - overhead delivery pathways. Can you get more load capacity with one large disc or many small discs?

If the bot can follow a magnetic tape along a path this could be a delivery mecanism in facilities of the future.

Whate would be interesting is if there were a low-voltage track that it ran a connection to for power - or an inverter coil on the top side of the delivery track to provide constant wireless power to the 'suctioned' devices crawling along its path.

This thing could revolutionize a lot of deliver mechanisms -

Put them along hospital corridors within a tube/enclosure such that delivery bots can peddle about the hospital unheeded and without impeding existing traffic....

I WANT one - how make?
Anyone thinking about using Confluent as some kind of alternative to a database should read this blog post outlining the myriad correctness problems with ksqlDB: https://scattered-thoughts.net/writing/internal-consistency-...
I've lived and worked near Evanston and Berkeley actually. If you're within spitting distance there are better places to live, to be honest.

My interpretation of this post was that it was trying to draw people away from major urban areas. Some of those examples you give are either in or on the edges of major cities.
Oh, you mean the Oversight Board that was handpicked to tell Facebook that they are running things exactly the way they want to be running things?
The "political left" has been targeted for censorship and disruption by the FBI and other government agencies for decades. Forgive me if I interpret this as concern trolling, I think there are bigger social issues to tackle than the nebulous and catastrophic fear that Facebook being allowed to ban people will lead to ??? dystopia.
This kind of thinking is why grocery chains have struggled despite having the deck stacked totally in their favour.

Online retail, much like offline retail, is about physical infrastructure. You still need warehouses with all the product, you still need fulfilment, all online changes is the balance of those factors. The core assets don't change.

I can see how they are losing on branding but losing to Instacart tells you that management lost touch with customers and sat on their laurels.

That being said, I have no doubt that they will vanquish Instacart. And they will likely pressure aspects of Amazon's business too. It isn't actually possible to compete with WMT because they such a dense network already (outside the US, AMZN is going to struggle even more, they weren't aggressive enough in building fulfilment centres and they tried to build fewer, larger centres, Amazon will begin exiting some of these markets in the next five years and sell out to local operators with exiting fulfilment networks, an alternative would be they cede control over fulfilment to local operators and just operate the front-end website...either way, their position outside the US is likely unsustainable).
The extent to which people and organisations should be permitted private property 'rights' always needs to be weighed up against the public good, and this is no exception.
Ha, yes, the dictionary: the ultimate authority for explaining power dynamics in society.

I understand the draw of believing in “reverse racism.” When I was in junior high, and was targeted for being a white boy, it made sense to me. And it felt unfair. But then I gained more perspective through a better understanding of sociology and history.
Not to mention, the "origin of COVID" fails my test of relevance.

If it came from a lab, does anything change? No, not really. It's still a virus that we need to protect against.

The only thing that would change any sort of response is if COVID was deliberately released. And that doesn't even change the medical side of the response, just the political side.

> HN has really gone downhill.

Yes, it has, but mentioning the reason for that will bring the brigade of the very same element that has made it go downhill.
You don't need to get into legal proceedings, if the facts are clear.

If you can prove it's your invention, and they're distributing it without your permission, they won't want to waste money defending a suit.

You may be a little guy, without enough dosh to launch a suit; but you could sell your interest to $COPYRIGHT_TROLL, then they'd be in trouble. So just ask them nicely to propose a settlement.

It's not like war, or anything; tech-company legal departments are there for just this kind of thing. Unless there are arseholes involved, it can all be friendly and business-like.
Step 1 is bringing awareness. If HN censors this, we’re nipping it in the bud.
As a consultant, I have to say that this is true of our industry as well. Our company has always been full remote due to the "on site" nature of our work. Given that, it has always been a pain point to spend time mentoring and training. many hours of zoom calls for training just doesn't foment the kind of quick Q&A than in person does. For us, the net effect has been that the people who do well tend to be autodidactic to at least some degree.
In case you're wondering why this is news, there are numerous obvious, worldwide, relevant results:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man

https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/25-years-later-tank-man-st... (Note: Microsoft owns this page!)

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/remembering-the-t...
Surely this is some technical error with Chinese content settings leaking to the US search? Pretty big fail, regardless.
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The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.
Canadian markets are also very interesting to us, we've heard Ontario (IESO) utilities are currently underserved in several pilots
One way out is a change in leadership in Australia. Assange is an Australian citizen and there's some pressure in Australia to support him. Murdoch is opposed unfortunately and controls the media but people are starting to wake up.
Identifying the flaws in “reverse racism” is nothing new.
I do not think I would be able to distill it into an easy to describe metric(s).
Is there any real evidence to support the claim that members or views from one "side" are subjected to this treatment more than members of the other side? I'm skeptical, because my impression is that people who identify with both sides seem equally convinced that their side is primarily the victim of this kind of treatment.
I have to wonder here. The videos tab continues to show results, is this just leaking the fact that they have a unified image service globally?
TLDR: Demaneuf soon discovered that there had been four incidents of SARS-related lab breaches since 2004, two occuring at a top laboratory in Beijing. Due to overcrowding there, a live SARS virus that had been improperly deactivated, had been moved to a refrigerator in a corridor. A graduate student then examined it in the electron microscope room and sparked an outbreak.
I got a trial subscription to Adobe Acrobat to do some PDF optimization I needed done. After I did the task just went to manage subscriptions and canceled it. Was very straightforward.
They are infantilized by the colleges they attend though, to the point that they behave like children
have you ever dealt with background checks? they don't care
Upscale urban areas won't let Walmart even try to build something. Target worked really hard pitching their upscale "City Target" sub-brand to get San Francisco to let them in.
Perhaps an extension or plugin of some sort... maybe call them add ons? ;-)
He actually shut down the blog the other day (after less than 30 days of operation).
There are those who consider this an emergency, and those who... don't.
FWIW, I can’t access some US news sites from Europe because they “value my privacy and haven’t implemented GDPR yet.”
Only people stuck in exploitative situations would make $350/mo for full time work in the United States, but I wouldn't be surprised if the number of people living on ~$350/mo (including rent) is in the six or seven figures.

The economic inequality between the poorer parts of the South, Appalachia, urban projects, etc and wealthy cities can be staggering. The latter subsidize national infrastructure so it's hard to find a town with extremely unreliable electricity like one might find in South Africa, but that's it - we've even got similar segregated parallel economies.

For example, Sudhir Venkatesh from UofC did a study (mentioned in the Freakanomics book) on drug dealers and their income: he found that the rank and file made less than half of minimum wage, working out to under $800 a month full time. Now spread that across the family members that the dealer has to support and $350/mo per adult is not unrealistic.
Imagine what would happen if you tried to buy or sell that much...
Indeed it is [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet_fishing
Probably not exactly what you had in mind, but the AR3 from Annin Robotics is open source.

https://www.anninrobotics.com/
Love it! I have seen too many such checklists before position these tasks as all-or-nothing. Good to see something that inherently prioritizes some items over others.
FWIW, Google hires a lot of bright graduates straight from universities, who cannot yet work as senior engineers, even after 2-3 years of being interns before that. Mentoring plays a huge part here.
I think what's really crazy here is that Booking.com would rather lose €65M than not pay executives €28M in bonuses (for a total loss to corporate coffers of... €93M?).

Sure, state aid is "for the employees", but in most of these cases: The company obviously could've paid them anyways, since they had this much spare compensation for their rich executives, and that the company continued to benefit from the labor of employees that the government was paying the salaries for.

The government, and by proxy, the taxpayers, end up doubly screwed over, while the corporation gets to continue to enrich itself, and enrich its executives, who are already wealthy.

Rather than give corporations huge blank checks, governments should've sent that money directly to individuals, and allowed corporations to fail or not as per usual. Most of these companies would still exist anyways, since they have plenty of money.
I'm not on Facebook so I haven't seen what Netanyahu or other official Israeli government accounts post, but if what you posted is a fair summary of their statements, I think the key difference would be that Israel's leadership is (again, in your paraphrasing) justifying their own actions as legal, not calling on others to take illegal actions. Or are official Israeli Facebook accounts actually calling on their citizens to kill Palestinian civilians?

I would actually be curious to see other example of a country's leadership explicitly advocating on Facebook for citizens to take extra-legal actions. Perhaps Duterte's calls for killing drug dealers? But I'm not sure if that was actually on Facebook...
The Walmarts around me pay ~$15/hr which isn't much less than Costco.
The problem with PayPal is that you need to sign up for marketplace account and they don’t care about you unless you are generating multi millions.
After some basic things like imports and fat arrow were added, I didn’t really have much to complain about. Shitty programmers write shitty code, no language is going to solve that. If you write clear code, JavaScript is good enough if it pleases you.

Also, async/await made it tolerable for people that are not used to callback/promise chains (which is anyone that didn’t do comprehensive JavaScript before 2015). It’s like skipping the rough years, lucky y’all:
It's very dangerous especially in France due to old ordinance. Google magnet fishing
The problem is the inconsistent application of the TOS. If every prominent person who violated the TOS was also banned there would be far less complaints by Trump and his supporters.
Hmmm, DuckDuckGo image search shows some people standing next to tanks but not the tank man photo.

I guess it makes sense since DDG uses bing for their search tech but it's pretty disappointing that you can get uncensored searches or privacy but not both.
Similar to KYC (Know your customer) [1] in financial services industry. We need Know your Data Broker for customers, where in customers can know which data brokers have used their information. Most of the data brokers run in the dark and very few outside of tech are aware of it.
Data Brokers should allows customers to be opted out and purge information from their systems if needed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_your_customer
KCL was Informatics and it was broadly classed w/ maths/'natural sciences' when I was there 10 years ago - according to a younger colleague they have since rebranded to CS.
If your target market is people who want the lowest price, image issues tend not to matter that much (other than perception of being the lowest price option). You were probably never their first choice.
I can see reasons why a lot of things would go under the tab, like the address bar. FF's biggest UI-sensibility sin I know of (at least on the last design—I've not used the new one yet) is the damn hamburger menu. On desktop! That's a real WTF.
Here's another industry that relies on aggregating your data: Credit reports.

Go ahead. Figure out how to opt out of Experian, Transunion, or Equifax collecting everything they can about you, including pretty much every piece of data needed for identity theft, possibly confusing it with someone with a similar name, and then putting it in a badly-secured database.

No, really, if you can figure it out I'd love to know. Every now and then I am reminded they exist and that they are silently creating these vast troves of data without anyone's consent, and all I can do is hope that if my identity information is included in a data breach, I am both small enough and lucky enough to not be impacted.
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Honestly, I'm kind of sick of how bad a rap advertising gets. Now sure, companies knowing a lot about your personal life is creepy on an intuitive level, but the fact of the matter is that cookie tracking data has NEVER been associated with any leak or data breach that resulted in personal harm. The thing people SHOULD be worried about is stuff like the Experian leak, where credit companies collect your non-anonymized personal data.

Also, fact is that matching consumers with products that they like doesn't just have enormous business value, but is actually socially positive! If you can more easily reach a niche audience, you can build better more targeted products. And the open data exchanges were a great moat against platform centralization like FB. The fight against open data exchanges make the comparative advantage FB has in advertising to you larger. That's actually pretty bad, because FB has some pretty bad incentives wrt to the attention economy and optimizing for engagement. A world where advertising on independent websites is effective is a much better one - it would let websites put out better content, it would decrease the power of social networks, it could fund better journalism (which is being decimated right now), etc.
He was suspended for inciting a coup against a democratically elected government. Are coup attempts part of the public good?
Makes me worry there will be a nasty backlash somewhere in the industry no matter what...it’s possible HN can’t analyze this usefully without rancor, though.

[EDIT] this was flagged fairly quickly, but if the other post with all the comments had been visible at the time, I would not have submitted it, nor received so many upvotes on the submission. I’d say the Reuters article I posted is less germane than the FB announcement[1], but the key reason I posted was Culliford’s observation:

This new timeline denies Trump a major social media megaphone ahead of the November 2022 national midterm elections, when his party will be competing for Congressional seats.

Which I feel could provoke a backlash against the industry. YMMV.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27395366
sometimes maintaining two systems is more trouble. also, CCPA closes this gap, as it's not only EU customers you have to worry about.
Bing image search for Tank Man
Perhaps at the time they asked for the money, it wasn't clear whether they were going to need it?
Facebook Says Trump’s Ban Will Last at Least 2 Years
china-men are at their best again, tying to manipulate news that doesn't please their communist overlords. And you are wondering how these posts get flagged.
In their little world, this post flagging down makes them a small scale hero. They have very little going on for them under the oppressive regime they are serving.
If the flaggers' IP addresses could be traced through many veils of VPN connections they are using, I am sure one will end up with a IP address registered to the chinese communist party.
The article itself explains this:

Privacy is important because it protects you from the influence of others. The more companies know about you, the more power they have over you. If they know you are desperate for money, they will take advantage of your situation and show you ads for abusive payday loans. If they know your race, they may not show you ads for certain exclusive places or services, and you would never know that you were discriminated against. If they know what tempts you, they will design products to keep you hooked, even if that can damage your health, hurt your work, or take time away from your family or from basic needs like sleep. If they know what your fears are, they will use them to lie to you about politics and manipulate you into voting for their preferred candidate. Foreign countries use data about our personalities to polarize us in an effort to undermine public trust and cooperation. The list goes on and on.

There are quite a few stories that have cropped up over the last decade or two that show this is actually happening.... the most precient one I can recall was where Target outted a pregnant teenager to her parents before she even knew she was pregnant:

https://www.businessinsider.com/the-incredible-story-of-how-...
That returns results via DDG and Google. I am querying from the US. I am suprised to see no results through Bing directly.
They might have been about to use it as a zero interest loan?
This feels like something stockholders should sue over, as it's a deliberate choice for executives to screw the company to pad their personal profits.
For those wondering about the accuracy of these arms, you may find this quite interesting - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strain_wave_gearing

These gearboxes are becoming quite inexpensive for hobby CNC applications - e.g. rotary 4th axis or trunnion 5th axis setups. The precision is quite good for relatively low cost.
This is not a valid comparison. "Youth Unemployment" is calculated differently than "Youth not in employment, education or training". The equivalent statistic for Spain per the OECD is ~17% now, not 38%.
Haha, I'm in this cycle. I can go a long time wondering what the point of 3d-printing is. Then I see that bridge and I'm back at: wow, I want that too!
But that's 1/300 of the amount of aid they received spent on exec bonuses.

In the booking.com case it's almost half the amount of aid spent on exec bonuses
The big issue to me was always the data falling into malicious hands.

Sure it's not a big deal if you buy a red shirt and I buy a blue shirt but it is a big deal if you can piece together the security questions (thankfully falling out of fashion as a recovery method) for my bank account.

It's not a big deal when you don't get an advertisement for your local university but if an authoritarian government roots out gay people because they have access to credit card data for Grindr subscription charges that's probably not great.

I guess my impression is that it's not what's happened so far (although certainly innumerable lives have been sullied for weeks, months or years at a time due to identity theft, credit card fraud, and the rest), it's the potential of what could be.
"The mental fatigue makes a lot of people just admit the crime they committed."

Or just anything, after a certain point.
It's disgusting how Bush managed to have his reputation laundered since then. If there was any real justice in the world, he'd be on trial for war crimes.

But of course, there isn't. The best we can hope for is that Bush (and Blair) is somehow captured and beheaded by Islamists. It would be a fitting end, not to mention a rare case of terrorism hitting a legitimate and deserving target, rather than some unfortunate member of the public.
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I'm all about moving "lobbyocracies" back to democracies, but in this case it does seem to check out.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/21/movies/wargames-and-cyber...
Roses are red,

Violets are blue;

You owe me a fine,

Your book's overdue.
> That Wyoming posting will be for folks who have decided that maybe pulling $2-300k instead of $600k may be an acceptable loss for an ongoing lifestyle.

Which in itself will affect the market and how much those positions pay in general. You can't have a large chunk of a workforce decide that they're willing to take a 20%-50% pay reduction for other benefits and expect it not to affect the entire workforce.

I don't think that means people in and around SF will have to work at the same pay rate as those working remotely necessarily, but I do think it might result in lowering the high-end of the scale, and spreading the distribution quite a bit.
https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/woke-institutions-is-j... :

> … in Griggs v. Duke Power Co. (1971) [1], … the Supreme Court ruled that intelligence tests, because they were not shown to be directly related to job performance, could not be used in hiring since blacks scored lower on them, and it did not matter whether there was any intent to discriminate.

> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co.
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First they'd need to revert all the oddities of the last few years, like the growing url bar, now weird tabs, and hardcoded colors in about.
This thread is turning out to be better than the one from 2007...
I do not think the convention of using multiple Ms makes sense anymore in a world of billions and trillions. No reason to use MMM or MMMM instead of k, M, B, T, and eventually Q.

The usage of G is just regrettable, although I guess there is a population that does not associate k with thousand. But that’s more of an indictment in lack of adequate education that they would not have experience with sufficient science courses.
While I agree with this it should be easier to opt out without disabling JavaScript across the internet.