skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Presumably the argument is that you are "deceiving" the computer into thinking that you are the person whose head you clubbed, or who walked away from the counter.
Scaling Laws for Language Transfer Learning
There's summary in the article:
"For this initiative, the Commission builds on the existing cross-border legal framework for trusted digital identities, the European electronic identification and trust services initiative (eIDAS Regulation). Adopted in 2014, it provides the basis for cross-border electronic identification, authentication and website certification within the EU. Already about 60% of Europeans can benefit from the current system.

However, there is no requirement for Member States to develop a national digital ID and to make it interoperable with the ones of other Member States, which leads to high discrepancies between countries. The current proposal will address these shortcomings by improving the effectiveness of the framework and extending its benefits to the private sector and to mobile use."
It's not difficult to write imperative code in Clojure; [1] is an example. Immutability-by-default makes you work to mutate things, for sure, but that in itself doesn't make the language inherently functional.

[1] https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/let#example-542692c7c02...
I tried to sign up using my real name, real work email, and a strong password suggested by Edge, and I got red error text simply saying "Unauthorized". What does this mean?
> We go a whole year working remote with almost no issues or lost productivity

I've heard a lot about this claim "no lost productivity". However that is for the employer to be evaluated, not for the employees. The complaining employees lose credibility when they make claims like that in complex fields, because productivity is very complex metric to be measured in many jobs.
This was between 2x-3x the price of other Toyota dealerships, not in the area.
It is wise to consider enforceability when passing laws. The law you have proposed is not enforceable.
The additional system is the trusted authority that is required to certify that the issuer is who they say they are and that they own the thing.
The 4Runner is a pretty old design at this point. I don't need its "real" 4WD features but I do like the sight lines and other more traditional SUV design. Not in a big hurry but would be interested to see what a real redesign looks like.
Unfortunately that's not the case, when you look at the effect of so-called "diversity quotas."
I recently test drove a Tesla just to see how the autopilot system works. The way they handle traffic lights is pretty entertaining. It seems them, particularly yellow lights, in a lot of situations that are truly perplexing. It also had a tendency to turn trees into traffic cones and to be truly impressive at detecting garbage cans. On some level it's hard to understand exactly what they're trying to do there.

I also remember being at an intersection where I was turning left and was waiting behind another car. The display repeatedly showed cars the cars crossing in front of us crashing into the car in front of me. Not sure why.
Yes. For example, Intel Management Engine.
Why is it a big leap? Consumers also choose to buy Apple and the assumption is we're too stupid to know we can buy something else and do more with it. It's just as big an insult. If I can't get your app on iOS then I just won't use your app. I don't care if it's on Android because I didn't buy an iPhone to use your specific app.

If you want to legislate for consumer choice do so but can we stop pretending this is some battle for choice when it's literally about two behemoth corporations arguing over how they split our money.
> Yes, and this is where statically typed languages shine (in my opinion).

Indeed. This feels like a just-before-the-moment-of-realization situation.

The endless cycle between "more dynamic" and "more static" continues it seems.

I wonder if there is any correlation between experience in the field and static vs. dynamic vs. "fail fast dynamic".

(I'd say Erlang falls in the latter category and it has a pretty good track record for reliability, but so does Python. It's an imperfect axis for sure.)
Guidance for masks and COVID shutdowns under a government led by people publicly denouncing masks and shutdowns was politically influenced?

Guidance for opening up and removing mask mandates under a government led by people publicly for masks and for extra caution for opening back up is politically influenced?

Sounds like some terribly ineffective political influence.
Their current business model incentivizes Apple to make high quality products that last a long time. The larger Apple's installed base is, the more money they make from the App Store. You can tell from the used market prices for iPhones that they've been doing a great job of this.

This also happens to be more environmentally sustainable, so it's not in society's broader interest for Apple to change their business model.

A world in which Apple only earns profits from hardware sales removes those incentives. Not only would they try to get you to upgrade more often, they'd also invest less R&D in the hardware as well. Instead of doing the iPhone X redesign, with its higher component costs, they'd try to milk the iPhone 6 design for as long as possible.
^ this. I was excited to try it out, but there is no wayI create an account just to take a quick look. I am 99% sure this will not work for me and my team, but I wanted to just check, maybe show it to my team. This needs no registration demo.
It's really hard to prove that you were not hired based on your race.
Yep, I think this was a small win for the opponents of CFAA but this is a total show of force of the supreme court. This law is famously broad and to interpret it in its literal sense would mean the mass majority of the nation would be federal criminals (they point out some of the scenarios in the article).

Instead of law makers fixing the problem, the supreme court is effectively reading between the lines. Luckily IMHO they are doing the right thing here and will put this particular employer based scenario to rest.

Now to clarify on the countless other holes in the CFAA...
> Once you discover that you are in possession of cryptocurrency, you can simply send it directly to a government-controlled blackhole address

Previously you said I had to destroy the key. When is key destruction necessary and when is transfer to government necessary?

What if the transaction to my address is timelocked to 5 years in the future? Does that create any custody responsibilities on my end between now and 5 years from now when it becomes spendable and I can surrender it to the government?

What if I'm sent $50,000 worth of "dust" outputs that are only spendable by paying a $49,500 miner fee? Do I really need to pay miners to incur $49,500 worth of carbon emissions in order to cleanse my secp256k1 private key of $500 worth of bitcoin-ness so that I may continue using it in peace?

> Child pornography is the classic example. Any arbitrary sequence of bits could in principle be child porn expressed in some highly unusual binary format, and yet somehow the legal system has successfully avoided criminalizing the possession of arbitrary random numbers

This is true only because the "child pornography-ness" of the data is a property of the data itself, even if it's in an obscure format. Any arbitrary cryptographic key can be imbued with "cryptocurrency-ness" by anyone else, which means that revealing your non-cryptocurrency public keys now exposes you to risk, as long as some cryptocurrency out there uses the same type of public key.

If we're dead-set on banning it, why ban "possession" instead of use? If it's illegal to send cryptocurrency, but still legal to "possess" it, a lot of these problems go away. Making it illegal to sign a bitcoin transaction is a lot simpler than creating a new class of illegal number, and seems like it would be just as effective at ending the behavior it's trying to end. Maybe even better at it, since it would not incentivize additional "surrendering coins to government" transactions.
As others have mentioned, you may not choose where you're born, but you can influence where you end up. And the trillions of dollars that are sloshing around the bay area certainly do a lot to attract talent to that area.
Yes for 30+ years.

But not the average consumer.
Maybe I'm missing something, but my read of golang/protobuf#364[1] was that part of the motivation for the re-organization in protobuf-go v2 was to allow for optimizations like gogoprotobuf to be developed without requiring a complete fork. I totally understand that the authors of gogoprotobuf do not have the time to re-architect their library to use these hooks, but best I can figure this generator does not use these hooks either. Instead it defines additional member functions, and wrappers that look for those specialized functions and fallback to the generic ones if not found.

For example, it looks like pooled decoders could be implemented by setting a custom unmarshaller through the ProtoMethods[2] API.

I wonder why not? Did the authors of the vtprotobuf extension not want to bite off that much work? Is the new API not sufficient to do what they want (thus failing some of the goals expressed in golang/protobuf#364?

[1]: https://github.com/golang/protobuf/issues/364

[2]: https://pkg.go.dev/google.golang.org/protobuf@v1.26.0/reflec...
Well in the case presented, since when she got to the dealership oil was still in the engine, there is no way the oil pan was stripped before the service, as oil would immediately leave the engine without the drain bolt.

It doesn't really matter if someone else worked on it or not. It would be highly unlikely the engine would still be running without oil, and the dealer would immediately tell her she came with no oil in the engine, not that her oil pan is stripped.
What a bizarre thing to take issue with.

They're not calling the CEO a Snowflake. This is how news organisations commonly refer to CEOs of companies. Here are a few examples.

- Facebook CEO reveals three new features WhatsApp is working (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/gadgets-news/facebook-ce...)

- GM CEO Barra’s pay rose to $23.7 million in 2020 (https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/gm-ceo...)

- Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson explains why ... (https://www.businessinsider.com/starbucks-ceo-kevin-johnson-...)
immutability as a library is available in basically all mainstream languages now and mainstream frameworks leverage it (react, any UI framework, spark, any data framework or database); JS vms are competitive with the JVM and the JVM might even be losing ground in the cloud; typescript is a monster and is letting people explore haskell concepts in industry applications; scala is way better in 2021 than it was in 2011; every new PL can compile to JS and supports immutability. Clojure's sweet spot is currently developing sub-languages embedded in Clojure like RPL is doing (we are doing exactly the same thing at hyperfiddle). That is still too hard to do in typescript imo. Maybe it is possible in scala 3 but it took them 10 years of pure autism to figure out how to do monadic IO in scala due to how complex scala is, so i'd expect it to take another 10 years to figure out how to do metaprogramming in a commercially viable way, I'd be happy to be proven wrong.
I'm not mistaking those - surely the human aspect helps avoid most (if not all) system-altering malware, while 'malware' in general (which includes apps that trick users into subscriptions and such) is severely cut down with some apps avoiding it by hiding from Cupertino and such[0].

0: https://youtu.be/tJeEuxn9mug?t=799
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder: Relish the delightful Chicago accent and attitude of Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't, presenting The Filthiest Flower in All the Land, Clitoria:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCyzQMFb60Y&ab_channel=Crime...

All his stuff is just as fascinating, entertaining, and educational -- check out his channel! His videos about carnivorous plants are a trip, too. The money shot and pigmy assed sundew starts at 4:20:

(#182) A Strange Carnivore Called Cephalotus folicularis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBvntuxAL-Q&ab_channel=Crime...

A botanical tour of beautiful West Oakland, California, across the train tracks and under the superhighways:

(#195) The Plant Ecology of Concrete, Garbage and Urine - Botanizing A Toilet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35qF2hEefXg&ab_channel=Crime...

>WARNING : THIS EPISODE SHOWS IMAGES THAT ARE AN UTTER BUMMER. Thin-skinned, easily-upset viewers will want to pass.

>Botanizing a Toilet :

>The bleak barren wasteland of neglected urban infrastructure serves as an example of an ecological phenomenon known as "primary succession", however the cast includes a patchwork of non-native species from all over the globe. What plant species are able to thrive amidst the homeless camps, human bleakness (wealth disparity 101), garbage and concrete? Join CPBBD as we explore the ecology of garbage, concrete and urine.

The Ethnomycology of Ugly Landscaping:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHRgY8fZNv4&ab_channel=Crime...

>Join us as we explore the affinity that a species of psychoactive mushroom seems to have for the mulch beds of ugly landscaping in otherwise bleak metropolitan settings such as luxury condominiums, banks, strip malls, traffic medians, etc.
“I guess I do have a question about the chicken...”

Portlandia: Colin the Chicken

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G__PVLB8Nm4
The reliability stems from not touching the power train design (for 20+ years). It is also the cause of the dreadful effeciency one experiences with a Toyota.

I shopped Toyota for a trucks several times and was appalled by the MPG ratings. When a Tacoma is getting far worse MPG than a F-150 it's time for an update.
The reasons are discussed (well, flame-war'd, and there's a lot of talking past one another) in practically every HN thread in which Apple is mentioned, even when it's not about the store. I haven't looked but can almost guarantee there's a thread here already covering it. Allow me to summarize the last 100 times I've engaged in or witnessed this:

Party 1: Apple's store hurts consumers and contributes to making their devices not even real computers, just consumption devices, not for creation! It's a shame and they should be broken up or made to allow other app stores. It's plainly anti-competitive, and anti-choice.

Party 2: Hi, I'm a consumer, and I like that they force 3rd parties not to be shitty. I don't really care how that hurts 3rd parties, as long as Apple's big enough that the 3rd parties can't afford to turn down that slice of the pie so they keep providing me the apps I want. Also I do work & creation on iOS devices, often. So. (here party 2 may or may not concede that it is anti-competitive and they simply don't care since it happens to be benefiting them, and may or may not argue that it's not anti-choice, since without Apple's model the kinds of app store ecosystem model the consumer can choose would be reduced by one)

Party 1: 3rd party stores wouldn't hurt you, you could just not use the apps that move to those if you don't like what they're able to do on the other stores. (this is usually where insults to Party 2's intelligence are placed, and in fact this post is often mostly that, and probably also push-back on allowing other stores representing a reduction of choice, if Party 2 chose to advance that line in the previous post)

Party 2: But... right now I have all the apps I want, and none of them can do things I don't like because Apple doesn't let them. How's it better to replace this situation with multiple app stores, so I might have to choose between privacy and using the apps I want? That seems strictly worse for me. (if the which-kind-of-choice-matters argument is in play, an argument that the ecosystem of Apple's store will be harmed by adding more stores, so in fact Party 2's preferred choice of the current, non-so-harmed App Store ecosystem will be removed by adding more, may be employed)

From here things mostly just go in circles and hypotheticals and examples from Android's Play store, which probably won't be particularly relevant to the much-more-restricted Apple App Store and any hypothetical changes to its position given 3rd party app stores.
I think there is a lot of undiscovered country left when it comes to website builders.

The incumbents like WordPress and Squarespace probably want you to think that the market is saturated and the problem has been solved, but that couldn't be further from the truth. They just have huge marketing budgets.

Truly simple, easy to use website builders barely exist.

Here on HN most people would consider Squarespace laughably easy to use, but that is simply not the case for true tech novices.

Bringing websites to an audience of real tech illiterates is a real challenge that hasn't been solved yet.

One of the, if not the most difficult part of doing this, however, is convincing the world that easIER website builders are possible, when there are businesses with hundreds of millions of dollars in marketing budgets pretending that their solutions are the easiest ever, making anyone tech illiterate immediately suspicious of those claims. So you have to find other ways of marketing yourself.

I'm trying to do that very thing at the moment and it's as interesting as it is difficult.
this is wonderful - I've been curious about continuations and program state as a language construct. Not sure I understand the redplanet - type system et
What exactly is diversity anyway? For instance, me: 1/2 Mexican. Dad grew up picking cotton. Great aunts sister in law married Caesar Chavez. And yet, grew up with a computer, and access to tech, university, etc.

Am I a diverse hire?
I think they shut down Mailinator emails (tried Mailismagic and mailinator and both times I was "unauthorized")
Why would the first owner want to waste his time when you need warranty work. After I sell my cars I don't want to be bothered.
> a confounding factor is that "merit" has a high degree of subjectivity and bias

I'm not going to downvote you, but I really don't like this semantic maneuvering and I think it's disingenuous. By definition, merit is supposed to be free of bias and be the perfect correlate between qualification and result.

If the argument is that humans are flawed and they sometimes don't reach this ideal because of prejudice or what-have-you, that's another discussion entirely. But no, merit does not have a high degree of subjectivity and bias associated with it.
Right. People are not using the phrase "hire to fire" uniformly.

One way to interpret that is that you are literally hiring someone just to fire them.

Another way, the way I and some others are using it, is that they're hiring people *so that* they *have* people to fire. As in, they're not necessarily firing the people they hire, but that they need to hire so that they have options when they need to fire.

I don't think the latter is any better than the former because they're still going about hiring with the explicit intention of firing people. Maybe it's not the hire specifically, but when they have that intention, it still creates the same kind of toxic environment.
Not the OP, but their comment makes me think about all the apps (primarily saas) built on top of the Xero API, as part of their marketplace.

Build a decent product which covers an edge case (niche) or a feature not provided by the API providers product (Xero) and then sell to the existing customer base.

Some advantages:

- there is already a user base, and their options for solving problems are 1) pay a dev to build x feature, integration. 2) find an add-on product which does xxx or 3) drop Xero and move to xxx competitor who does offer it. 1 & 3 are expensive, time consuming and unlikely the businesses field of expertise (software)

- sales and support at the Saas api provider can become your sales funnel. Not automatically, you have to network / educate them about your solution, and the problem it solves. But once they know, it becomes to ‘unblocker’ for a subset of sales. Which become your customers.

I think many B2B Saas product that offer (and support) an API could represent a similar opportunity.

There are obvious risks, just like with Twitter. The api can change, but I think that less likely in B2B, changes are likely to be improvements or expansions of feature set, even if it’s disruptive to your product / service.

But the major risk, which you must be aware of, and plan for, is the changing strategic priorities of the company you’ve integrated with. At a certain point customer growth isn’t enough, and ppl start searching for revenue opportunities. All these Saas businesses using the API become targets, either for acquisition or for duplication.

Duplication doesn’t mean death, particularly if you have a niche play, and have continued developing your product. But it will significant halt the growth.

All that said, I think it’s a good option for HN / solo / dev first founders who can do the product research, find the gap, and build the solution. Because it seems like the next part (getting paying users) is where most of these adventures run into trouble.

*I was at Xero 5 years ago, but I think this is valid for any B2B. I’d suggest scoping earlier stage products with strong growth, as the runway til their growth slows and they start looking for revenue alternatives is longer. It also allows you to grow with their growth.
Positive discrimination is absolutely discrimination as well. You can't have a job offer that says "only women applicants", but there's nothing illegal about only ever advertising in say, women-targetted media or products, even if the position is open to everyone. That's not defined as descrimination in law(I'm not saying it's right or wrong, just that by law that's not discrimination).
There are Indian universities that specialize in US law and train their students in US law. Law firms that have those lawyers work overnight on items that in the past were given to new grads. Experienced lawyers then review those documents, fix any issues, and put their signature on the document.

You could argue that there still has to be a US lawyer in the loop, but that's still true of software projects as well, that there is one Sr. software person overseeing the outsourced team.
Ah yes, the old canard that hiring a more diverse workforce requires a lowering of standards, as opposed to the likelihood that targeting a more diverse candidate pool will bring in a greater proportion of highly qualified candidates (owing to their being under-recruited) and actually lead to a raising of hiring standards.

But yes, let's just keep on doing things the way we've always done them. I'm sure it's working great.
And someone at $250k is paying a far lower effective payroll tax rate than someone earning $50k.
Sorry! Somehow I managed to paste completely the wrong link, and now it is too late for me to edit my previous comment. I realise now that scrolling down on that website automatically loads new articles and updates the address bar.

Here[0] is the article I had meant to link to.

Ah man… I really feel bad that you read the wrong article a few times after I unwittingly mislead you. I'm genuinely sorry about that.

[0]: https://www.ocpathink.org/post/whites-will-always-be-racist-...
Personally I think being junior is so so difficult to do remotely. It must be insanely hard to get things done and have the confidence to organise people who are more senior than you to have those random conversations and exploration meetings that make a product worthwhile (and that you can learn from). It is possible but you need to manufacture the spontaneity if you see what I mean. Most of the people who love WFH seem to be very advanced in their careers.
My comment was more about the demographics of the group (young, white, male) than where they chose to live.