skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, they mean increase. Decreased entropy would be cheaper to store and maintain.
What if you want to let someone you trust (friends, family, lawyers, journalists …) that you are in trouble and they should look out for you?

I think you left out the word know from the above paragraph.

For a lot of people, their biggest threats will be personal relationships: an abusive relative or ex, someone they are currently divorcing. That seems to not make your threat assessment chart and I don't know if that's a good thing or not.
I assume an open intersection or clear path is implied in which case the intersection space becomes non-rivalrous. Automated enforcement w red light cameras change the outcomes however
Mocks mean your code is too tightly coupled. You should be able to unit test your code by creating only fake data.

Things like dependency injection increase coupling to the point where you have to mock. Avoid dependency injection and other complexity within complexity features.
If the warnings are being ignored, and there’s a valid reason, can’t they be ignored? For example, unused variable warnings can be suppressed in many programming language linters/compilers.
Most places in the US have had property taxes for centuries, so these implementation problems have already been solved (not always very well, but money is collected). Disentangling the land value from any improvements is a bit tricky, but not much more than determining the value of the total property.

I have thought that valuating your own land could possibly work, but people would have to have a more detached sense of land/home ownership for that to work. People get emotionally attached to where they live, but maybe encouraging people to be less attached would help many current problems in society cause by NIMBY issues.
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Honestly, this seems to be a cultural thing. Having been exposed to both Russians and Americans, I would never dare use those words in a disagreement with American colleague, for example. But talking to a Russian one, I would use much harder ones for my point to be taken seriously, and would not have expected any bad blood over it.
If you don't agree then your argument is logically inconsistent. Cars are not living things. It's humans vs humans. Two humans travelling on foot can collide and cause injury to each other, meanwhile two humans in cars can easily avoid each other even in cross traffic.

If you want to argue that its about cross-modalities then why have train crossings? Just let cars drive across the tracks if they think its safe. Now surely you can see why that might be an issue?

The whole point of these laws is to create safety by reducing unpredictable events. Again, it doesn't mean you can't safely ignore the laws (even most of the time), but that's not what the law is for. It's ironic that you mention reasonableness and yet have a completely unreasonable understanding of the rules.
> while a super-HD 1080p one uses 3.8 Mbps up. (And virtually nobody videoconferences from home in 1080p anyways, who wants coworkers to see your skin blemishes in maximum detail?!)

I posit the real reason is because no-one makes a decent webcam for desktops and laptops, not even Apple.
> Why are those lab rats more special?

They are, experimental animals have and should have bigger protections against the cruelty that can get directed to them, for warranted and unwarranted reasons.
Inasmuch as the stunning rise in prosperity in China is relevant, it should be noted that China is a communist country, so it's not clear that any increase in prosperity there can be attributed to capitalism.
All true.

The value is in the network infrastructure, not the so-called "tech companies" operating on it as middlemen, spying on internet users as a so-called "business".

We as users already pay for that infrastructure. We pay for an internet connection. The network infrastructure is already monetised.

That network infrastructure is worth something even if every single tech company ceased to exist. Would you stop paying for internet access just because some website went offline.

The large websites many people are using are 100% user-generated content, much of it being in the form of human communication. That so-called content is not going to disappear if tech companies stop spying for money. (We often hear of tech company users losing their content when the companies discontinue so-called "service". Not surprising since the companies serve
advertisers, not users.) The tech companies are not the content creators. Generally, users do not pay tech companies for service and tech companies do not pay users for content. Tech companies are middlemen.

"Tech" companies want you to believe "This is how it must be. There is no other way." They want you to believe they are "the internet". But the menu is not the meal. The map is not the territory. The middleman has no inherent value. He must leech to survive.

People online often comment that "Facebook" (not to mention many other tech company websites) could be written, for free, in a weekend, and what makes Facebook so popular is not the people who write PHP for Zuckerberg, it is the network effects, the fortuitous timing and luck that Facebook has enjoyed to become so large.

What has been done to date can be replicated by others, but Big Tech wants people to accept another "default assumption": massive scale, all under single ownership, is a requirement.

AT&T was broken up and we did not lose telephone service. Around the world, customers of one telephone company are able to call customers of other telephone companies.
Same here, the fiber gets to my home.
For the US, the fast path would be to push for all Federally Funded Research to be published under a Public Domain License, no different than NASA Images, recordings, or other public agency created research.

We need to extend those provisions to include all research that gets federal tax money
You are correct and I did not overlook that part.

Also as stated in the guidelines, some of the reasons are the intention of integrating the open source projects with an internal Google C++ code base that does not use exceptions.
So integration would be difficult.

However, the question is how come such a large code base using C++ without Exceptions come to be. Specially on a company with so many employees chairs of C++ committees :-)

Just to make it clear, I prefer the C and Rust model around error handling. I will also concede that, for GUI applications and when on a coherent code base,
you probably want C++ Exceptions.
Is “open source” really a feature for browser extensions? I don’t think I’d ever use a proprietary one.
Yes, I think it's possible to correlate two identities just using stylometry. Or at least it would be sufficient to shorten the list of possibilities significantly. But I also think this is something that (at this stage) only a highly skilled/motivated adversary with considerable resources would do (such as a state agency). And I also guess this depends on your "original identity" being "talkative" online so that the correlation could find something to correlate to. I don't think my guide is paranoid enough to protect fro such adversaries as for instance Tor itself made it clear in their design paper that protection against a "global adversary" is not really intended. In my case, this seems "out of scope" for now and above the threat model of my guide.
Your comment makes little sense

But one point that is very clear. You belong to a group of users that enjoy the leverage Apple has on developers, and you want it to stay that way
I think it's a failure to ever believe that unit tests provide any correctness proof. The only thing you achieve with unit tests is to prove that you are still bug for bug compatible when changing your code.

I think experience is needed to know when to unit test. Some code might not need any tests at all while other code might need quite a lot of tests.

My personal experience, for the code bases I work on, shows that for those code bases mocking is usually not beneficial, we find more problems with integration testing and fuzzing. That holds for those code bases, it might very well be different for other code bases, and here's where experience comes in again...
They're already gone from twitch, but there's still the YouTube archive. Part 1/7 https://youtu.be/8vWaawiUteM
Fair points, although I'd like to keep in mind: Never underestimate a single stubborn person or small team dedicated to an idea.

I'm a C++ developer and, for now, sticking to it on larger projects since I love the thinking behind the C++ evolution over the decades. Rust still feels like a hype/moving target. The big selling point appears to be memory safety, but that's just a detail and not enough to justify a switch. I'm keeping an eye on how Rust and Nim will evolve in the next 5–10 years, but for now, C++, Erlang, and Lisp are my go-to choices for projects which should last the upcoming decades.
This is actually very tough question. Here are my thoughts:

I know for sure what Google is full of word-filters, shadow-bans etc etc. The last benchmark which amazed me much was "left wing terrorism" when Alphabet blatantly pushed their agenda onto me mixing-in rare violent rightwingers into the what they called a «search results». I remember the old days when Google just started counting clicks and got criticised for shaping the results to the user interests. Now its not the case, the only correct interests is Big Brother interests. Also, Google DE and Google FR pages were inciting mostly peaceful riots. Definitely no go.

Also, I totally don't get why yandex.com got on the list, it is fully controlled by Terrorussia and their midget tyrant. BTW, my observation are that their image search censors different things than Goo, but such swamp-to-swamp is hardly suitable for everyday use, like CNN ⇔ RT zapping.

DuckDuckGo... *sigh* DuckDuckGo tries, tries very hard... but fails *sigh*. If there are any censorship there, its well hidden behind the terrible search quality. Also, I've noticed very typical to DDG failures to satisfy exact phrase queries. It is a toy.

I read what Microsoft is really into censorship but don't know if they are extended the policy to web search because their search quality is even worse than DDG's. I use microsoft.com very often, they have 2-3 distinct(!) versions of documentation pages also a terrible link rot, but integrated Bing is not of any help there.

Brave is actually very promising but I'd rather conservatively say what more assessment needed to rate them. Simply too immature to judge them right now.
But we don’t get 0? In the future there will be people working and paying social security taxes and those taxes will be used to fund social security payments. If the percentage of retirees is too large then that will lead to increase in retirement age until the percentage of retirees is balanced by the number of workers. With productivity gains due to automation hopefully we can increase number of retirees per worker. It is a very transparent system. Again, when you pay social security taxes you aren’t “saving for your retirement”, you are paying for current social security outflows. It’s how most government obligations work.
I'm legitimately baffled by this sentiment, not just when it's targeted at Apple (see Blizzard). I feel like I missed a memo everyone got but me where we decided to only do business with people we agree with.

I'm getting on in my 30s and I can sense my ideas fossilizing somewhat, so I do try my best to counter that by being open to new ideas. But this one is hard to process.

What are we supposed to do with countries we disagree with? Boycott them, trade with them but ignore their domestic laws if we find them distasteful, organize coups to overthrow their governments and install ones we agree with? What's the actual plan once we're done posturing?
> 20 years of pumping concrete is enough to know if it's significantly wrong.

No, that doesn't make sense to me. Concrete buildings are expected to last longer than 20 years, though not expected to last forever. If the shortcuts they take were cutting the expected lifetime of the structure in half, 20 years of experience would not be enough time to see those failures start to happen.
It's pretty hard to add some form of security to a system, when security was not an important requirement during the design of that system.

What's probably even more difficult is to get a decent analysis of the possible threats to the system before it is built, while it is being built, and after it has been built.

When security is not an important factor in your operations, you are probably building systems with limited security.
You should see the opposite of this. Where every module of code is unit testable with zero mocks and just a small subset of untestable IO functions packed in a neat corner.
I wonder what performance gains we could obtain by running locally all services on loopback. The network latency should be the same of kernel itself.
BR is different because the encoder doesn’t have to be real-time. It’s also just medium quality. 1080p60 264 or 265 encoded at 200+Mbps is what you get out of decent video cameras.
What is the appeal of Vivaldi browser? I know it is started by Opera's CEO but it is closed-source (only the chromium part is open-source). The only feature I like is tab split view.

Last i tried, it was pretty buggy on video sites.
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The point of what being there? There's nothing there.
1000/40 is $270/month here in USA. Fortunately Google Fiber just dug up the neighborhood so hopefully I’ll have 2000/1000 before the end of the year, for 1/2 that cost.
>Emacs does not. vim does not. OpenSSH does not. Python does not. ffmpeg does not.

And yet, Fedora [0], Ubuntu [1], and KDE [2] do. So what you're saying doesn't paint a full picture: even if upstream of those projects you mentioned doesn't take the automated bug reports, there is likely some downstream that is using them to aggregate crash data and turn those into bug reports. It is not feasible, on a large scale, to manually comb through crash dumps and ask people to figure out how to use gdb. Open source projects don't have any special sauce here.

Also, it seems very strange to complain about companies collecting data that they're required to collect by law. "Forking" there is a fool's errand, any other company legally doing business in the same areas will be following the same laws.

[0]: https://developer.fedoraproject.org/tools/abrt/about.html

[1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Apport

[2]: https://community.kde.org/Telemetry_Use
Well, then I hope I’m wrong about the vehemence behind her remarks. But I’m still puzzled about the reason for her objections in the first place. What’s so wrong about mentioning that there are some ways to get reprints besides Sci-Hub?
The page asks me for a login. Is it supposed to be public or not?
You're more familiar with this than me, so I wish you would be less ambiguous and give more context.

The people who were killed to rob the armored truck were the guards, not the police officers. The officers stopped them trying to get away. If I'd read about that, I'd forgotten. So I resolved the apparent inconsistency by assuming you meant the guards.

Now in the page about the robbery, I see the section titled "Car swap and second gunfight": (although, "This section does not cite any sources")

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Brink%27s_robbery

So, after reading that, I would definitely not argue that 20 years in prison was too much. She may not have actually shot anyone, but I agree, was complicit. I don't think it was obviously too short a sentence, because of, like I said before, George Floyd's killer getting ~20 years.

But Gilbert isn't out. And I don't see (ctrl-F) what exactly he did. I can't judge Chesa Boudin if he has made some argument to defend his father unless I were to read it.

Since Gilbert didn't make a defense at trial, and Kathy Boudin plea-bargained, is it possible to say what specific actions they were imprisoned for?

There is a quote: "Our goal is to see that these people, who have contempt for society and have shown no remorse, will never see the streets of society again"

This seems to underline it was a political judgment, not about what was done, but about what they might do in the future. That doesn't make it arbitrary or incorrect, but it is about something other than the physical actions of those involved.

If you want to talk about why Kathy Boudin shouldn't have been released, that seems external to the topic of what Chesa Boudin has said or done that is unacceptable or reprehensible. It wasn't him that made that decision, was it? It seems like it should be moot now anyway. Surely the ongoing issue is his father?
I know plenty of vegans and vegetarians who support the use of experimental animals for medical purposes because they like everyone else use medicines! But sometimes there is a line to be drawn, this "experiment" does a huge disservice to all legitimate research that need support from the public. Even an undergraduate could see that it wouldn't provide anything we didn't already know, it's an engineering showmanship, you don't have to be a professor in reproductive physiology to see that.
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Do you have a source that food was destroyed to prevent it's price cratering and that caused starvation? Usually if there's demand for food it's price won't crater, and the fact that people were starving tells me there was said demand.

Of course if that is the case that that happened, that's an external (government) intervention in a market.

Planning is distributed, in market economies. Central planning by definition cannot be distributed.
Bryan and the Oxide folks have a podcast of their own called "On The Metal" where they interview awesome tech people, generally people who work closely with hardware. I enjoy it a lot:

https://oxide.computer/podcasts
Where is that "uncontrolled extreme emotion" in her words, that you refer to? All I see is some guy who is still hurt almost a year after someone disagreed with him on Twitter. I can't imagine Alexandra has any sleepless nights over this, you may want to reflect on who is the "hysterical" party in your story.
except for the one in nearly all iphones..
In Greece no ISP offers symmetrical. Fiber connections are 50/5, 100/10, and 200/20. There was a pilot program for 1Gbit symmetrical but it never made it to consumer market.
I feel this is really a moral issue and so one tailored for the EFF because high speed upload is key for home servers or widely distributed nodes in decentralized systems.
Sure, but the "intent" in question would be the intent of the copyright holder that chose to use the GPL. My point is that the intent in a lot of cases is NOT to do what is being suggested.
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Is there a command line version of WebCola or an online demo version?
I feel this is really a moral issue and so one tailored for the EFF because high speed upload is key for home servers or widely distributed nodes in decentralized systems.

Especially if it comes with widescale IPV6 rollouts which will mean no more NAT traversal.
The most important section though is buried in a late paragraph:

>Engineers said it seemed unlikely that having less rebar would trigger a collapse in and of itself, even factoring in significant deterioration over many years. An inherent safety factor built into most projects would mean that a slight reduction in steel content would not necessarily lead to disaster.

This certainly suggests that there may have been some shortcuts taken during building, but this is not a smoking gun, and doesn't even start to answer the questions of "why now, after 40 years?"
How is Blender managing to reposition the camera from a 2D recording (at 30s)? Is it building a 3D model completely automatically from the 2D source?
Hopefully it starts a snowball. Plus, as a non-Coloradoan, it gives me a quick canary. If the remote job list "no Colorado applicants", I know to ignore it.
Agree. And these are almost all familiar to me, at least in 2021.
Video handling definitely got better in last 6 months.

> What is the appeal of Vivaldi browser

It's browser made for power users. Bunch of features built in with a lot of flexibility.

Few of my favorites: Vertical Tabs, "Stack tabs by host" (this extension practically), Hibernating background tabs.
> "one of the worst things"

The set of "worst things about these disasters" includes a pile of corpses. Non-engineering members of the general public continuing to be non-engineers is not even remotely as bad as a pile of corpses. It isn't in this set.
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Apple is specifically in Cupertino, which is the suburbia part of Silicon Valley. The term "Silicon Valley" has been shifting in the last decade+ to encompass the cities of San Francisco and Oakland and basically to be equivalent to "San Francisco Bay Area," but Apple remains actually in Silicon Valley.

So that means you have the drawbacks of high cost of living but none of the attractions of being in an urban city. Getting between Cupertino and San Francisco is awful - your options are a lengthy Caltrain or a miserable drive, and neither living in SF and commuting to Cupertino nor living in Cupertino and heading to SF in the evenings (and heading back home late at night) are particularly enjoyable. So you don't really get the cultural benefits of being near a big city.

I learned recently that Apple does have a NYC engineering office (I live in NYC, and I used to live and commute in SFBA), which made me actually think about applying to work there for the first time ever. The cost of living in NYC is a bit higher, but at least I get to actually enjoy the city, which makes it much more worthwhile for that cost of living than working in the Valley proper.
Be careful. Principled application of this advice can lead to separation of concerns. Programs that are broken down into independently verifiable modules can lead to an abundance of spare time and pursuit of new features in the absence of errors. Ensure your job security by making sure that it is difficult to test your code.

In all seriousness though it's smart to take a layered approach to testing. It is plain good engineering to be able to separate your program's concerns into independent, verifiable modules and to isolate side-effects from pure code. Definitely write a few integration tests to verify that the modules work together and that global properties like configuration have the desired behaviours. And by jolly live dangerously and test in production!

But don't do it dangerously. Make sure you have the right team and infrastructure to test in production safely without taking down production or frustrating customers. But test in production for reals. Integration tests are fine but nothing compares to prod. Not mocks, synthetic inputs, simulated environments, and not good intentions.
Then we need the Gentoo approach as well ^^
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Don't tell me what to feed my dogs!
It gives full sudo access.
I can use Ruby on Rails but I don't think an RoR app can handle thousands of comments per minute in an optimised way. I run a midsize app in Rails 5 and already having lot of scaling issues.

Iirc Reddit stopped open sourcing their code from 2017 and I guess understanding and running that 12 year old spaghetti code wasn't worth it anyway. I don't see anything useful on their github page too https://github.com/reddit
Conventionally asymmetry has actually made technical sense to increase download speed.

I must say I’m rather surprised ISP used to just give people symmetrical lines for free.