skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would guess that process is not 100% efficient and some stays buried in the soil. Just a guess though.

The big deal with forests is they keep a large amount of carbon out of the atmosphere on a rotating basis. We really need that right now.
> Modern car fuel contains ethanol (10% in the EU)

It‘s a maximum of 10%, but you almost never actually get that much. E5 fuel contains 0-5% ethanol, E10 contains 5-10%.
Don't do mobile?
IE was great on OS 8 and OS 9. It’s shortcomings were becoming annoying and embarrassing by Jaguar (OS X 10.2), at which point Safari brought huge quality of life changes.

IE for Mac was better than IE for Windows at that time as well.
Form factors matter for electronics that need to fit into small spaces. It’s a tradeoff between size and ease of assembly.

Also, vendors want to make their microcontroller boards compatible with their breakout boards, which means supporting MxN combinations without having to do testing and write documentation for all of them.
Yet another major heat wave is set to roast the western U.S. and Canada
Yes, if you go to little known artists' exhibitions you'll soon notice the partner playing the role of sales assistant, watching, identifying, approaching...
A smart man once said, "I'd rather be a hypocrite than the same person forever." It was Adam Horovitz, of Beastie Boys, when confronted about going from sexism in their early content to defending gender equality later in life.
True, but compared to their peers they are a laggard.
The videos from it are on Youtube.

English voiceover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUKIjdjGjBU&list=PL2okA_2qDJ...

French: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Sk_35lB-EI&list=PL2okA_2qDJ...
That doesn't mean it was a good thing. Democracy isn't the only "right" way to maximize outcomes for a society, as much as western moralism might want it to be.
This right here. Tell them to carve it out or even return a signed version where you've done the redactions yourself. Tell them that non-work time is your own time and that previous employers have been willing to waive this requirement without issue.

I've managed to have it crossed out at 3 of my most recent employers.
Like the tweeter points out, they're not really all that decentralized. They're controlled by an anonymous cartel that's not accountable to anyone. At least national currencies are controlled by central banks that are accountable to governments that are in turn accountable to the people.
Agreed; and there's also a selection bias: The most visible, active, HackerNews population is likely to be (for whatever reason) more involved in opensource and side projects.

Whereas, in the overall population of IT workers, that percentage will be far far smaller.

For what little it's worth - I'm now a middle-manager (ick) in a traditional large IT company (ick ick), and neither myself nor the recruiting / HR teams I work with have ever once looked for, demanded, or even seen side projects. The UNIX SYSADMINs, Oracle & DB2 DBAs, VMWare specialists, application developers, testers, etc... they're all dedicated professionals but not necessarily zealots. Some of them will tinker and do certs and play with stuff off hours, most of them don't, but all I strictly care about is can you do your actual job professionally when and where I'm paying you. We do encourage learning, and have incentives for taking courses, reading books, etc. But we don't expect you to do unpaid work. As a sibling comment indicated, on operations side we work hard enough that I encourage team members to unwind and take care of their family, needs, hobbies, mental health, life goals etc when they're offline.

(My personal 100 Croatian Lipa, all opinions are my own, etc :-)
What makes you think this problem isn't being tackled? Every year Twitter and Facebook talk about how they detected and removed XXX million bots from their platform. For example, the spam problem has been rapidly iterated on [1] to little fanfare. The abuse, T&S and security teams at these companies probably cost on the order of hundreds of millions of $, how is that consistent with your framing that the problem is being ignored?

You can't simply throw machines and manpower at a problem.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/420400/spam-email-traffi...
That depends a lot on the workload, of course. But quite often the DB is not constrained on CPU, but rathen on IO or memory (or even networking), and calculations mostly consume CPU.

Moreover, calculations usually require just a small subset of columns in a table, and thus can use indexes efficiently, whereas grabbing all the columns to then filter them in application (because that's how many ORMs work, at least by default) becomes not only worse in terms of memory and networking, but also in terms of IO and CPU required on the DB side.

So overall I'm sceptical of that argument, unless there's clear proof from profiling that it's indeed the case.
It's true in the sense that they are the precursors to gentrification, which is significant both culturally and economically.

Actually, also fashion and music trends, lots of things. The bohemians just suck at capitalism.
I can include my input here. I recently found a gig through a side project. This happened in Berlin and had the option to say no when companies wanted to do a whiteboard interview / leetcode.

In Germany, I think I'm supposed to ask my employer for permission on if I can continue working on this or not, so we'll see!

https://arbeitnow.com/blog/how-a-side-project-led-to-a-job-o...
Sure, if you are not paying for a service you are the product. I get that. You get that. We can make informed decisions about balancing cost/privacy. But the same cannot really be said for the average consumer. This is not because the average consumer is too stupid to understand, but more so because the services themselves deliberately obfuscate their data collection and its consequences forcing users to do their own research to try and understand what is happening.

Honestly what would be really interesting to me would be to give users a clear-cut choice between tracking vs paying. E.g. replace the dialog in the article with a choice between allowing Facebook to track your activity across other companies' apps and websites or paying a $2/mo subscription fee. I am not so delusional as to think that 75% of people will opt for the subscription, but it would be really interesting to see how many actually would!
> At this point, I think most people "get" just how little FAANG companies are doing to combat

Do you have any evidence of this claim or do you just “get” it. This kinda reminds of the rhetorical device where somebody says “you know it, I know it, everybody knows it” without actually citing any proof.
Isn't he working for MS marketing?

The hardware costs of machines is completely insignificant compared to anything Microsoft 365. So we would be talking about maintenance costs of those machines, because only those would still be relevant. But those are small today.

My impression:
Security has become a scare word when I think at the MS cloud (It was mentioned as an advantage in that Twitter thread)

Recent example:
Some people thought about integrating Teams with some project managing tools. They just wanted get protocols from discussions around projects imported in their software.

You think there would be an API to query Teams that would allow you to extract content from Teams? Chats? Files?
Yes, there apparently is, it is in beta and probably not available yet, but that isn't the problem.

After you have worked through some unnecessary and arcane authentication processes, you can access Teams content with the MS Graphs API.

You would need to register your App in Azure, manage all that damn credentials and app access keys and stuff you really don't want to deal with....
(btw: in practice those get pasted around by developers everywhere because nobody has time to manage this security theatre shit that just enables industrial espionage from Microsoft and is a severe security threat itself)

What would be a far more safe alternative because of practical simplicity: username + password, but anyway....

You think you could then access Teams content? Nananananananananana!

You have to convince Microsoft to give you access. You have to describe the functionality of the app so that MS activate the tenant specific functionality on your endpoints. Reviews are on every Wednesday. You have to put something in a form and wait...

I get that for mailserver, but this is complete insanity.

Needless to say, the idea was dropped by developer. This is Microsoft completely working against their customers....

Sorry for the rant...
Yeah you should never do that. It feels as it takes away a part of your soul and also shows how little they trust you.
I saw the source, and understood immediately there was no point in clicking.

Gawker died because, as it turns out, Peter Thiel wanted it dead, and had enough money to buy the outcome he wanted. It was astonishing that he prevailed in the initial suit, but gobsmacking that the judge referred to issue a stay pending appeal -- which, in practical terms, meant the appeal was impossible.

Gawker was murdered by a craven jackass and a broken and complicit legal system. OBVIOUSLY, though, the Federalist will come down on the side of the moneyed class and their favorite tech investor.

This is because they have no principles.
>read five minutes, done.

I mean it's obviously harder... I agree with the point you're making but finding an exploit like this is way harder than just "reading the source for 5 minutes".
Yeah, the more usual wording is "given a free rein", which makes it a little clearer. A monarch isn't given their reign, it's theirs by right (well, with a bit of hand-waving. Or possibly sword-waving, but not since Henry VII).
Dutch crime reporter dies after being shot
Hi Everyone, I am Gabriele, CEO and cofounder of Coinrule. Happy to answer any of your questions.
"Data flow programming paradigm" would be one term that describes the architecture for such a system. It is more general but if each node in the graph emits output only if novel input is received then one gets idempotency.

A Makefile (ie, for the "make" tool) or any of the similar build systems implement this pattern using file based data exchange (DFP graph edges) and graph nodes implemented as processes.
It's deceptively tricky to build out this kind of strategy. IP builds product awareness, but it doesn't lead to a sustained gaming audience, which needs something more akin to a platform strategy per franchise(a Madden, Mario, Guitar Hero, GTA, etc.) - you don't want to just make a "Stranger Things" game, because even if it's a deeply realized experience, it doesn't loop into another franchise in the way that, say, playing a Queen song on Guitar Hero will lead you towards seeking out the game's recommendation for other songs; neither will it have the kind of premise that is as self-contained and enabling for player projection as a GTA.

Netflix has become known for optimizing content against the algorithm's feedback and not really letting a show run to a natural conclusion before killing it. This is going to be troublesome if applied directly to gaming, since it won't create platform reinvestment.

Until I see more announcements I'm going to guess that this will turn out like Amazon Game Studio - lots of investment without results.
Public policy is always the greatest factor for change at this scale. It’s extremely unlikely that you’ll effect change by individual action, even if you enlist a church-like following.
You have next to no understanding of the opposite side of the political spectrum if you think Parler shut down because of people running away from their content. Who created that content in the first place?
This guy is Iron Man.

(I wonder, if this thing fails, does it have a hand crank?)

Edit: The answer is no, you need to find an AC power outlet. If the power is out, you die. How scary.
At least the data for Caracas is wrong. In August we are in the 22°- 30° range similar to june.
That's not a particularly impressive list, Steven Hawking was born in the 40's, Bill Gates was born in the 50,s, Bezos in the 60's. I am not seeing how 30's was a particularly 'strong' decade.
I have a couple of side projects, I always get them explicitly added to the employment agreement even if, technically, they are not in conflict with the employment agreement.
Or, you know, talk to your potential employers. Location shouldn't have to be a qualifier.
Looks like the wired analysis and your own views can be summarised as "we don't understand everything about psychology", and that "biological differences barely matter, it largely comes down to nurture instead of nature." One is worthless noise, the other demonstrably false.

Whats more, this has had progressives crawling all over it with arguments including "Just allow the slander to go on unanswered", "its someone else's definition of sexist so he's sexist", "I heard he does other evil things" and attempts to distract from the point.

At this stage vaguery without clear examples can be dismissed as nothing at best or marked as evidence of bad faith debate driven by religious compulsion at worst.
Just to correct you: `clock_gettime` is handled by the vDSO, and does not involve an actual syscall for over a decade now.
> As a hiring manager, I disagree.

Sounds like you’re bolstering his point that hiring folk care a lot more about work experience than side projects.
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Anecdotally, this has never been a problem for me. My side project is even registered as a company in the UK and being directors of it has never been an issue for the full time "real" jobs me and the other two people involved have.
> Even NASA concedes that the last 20 years has seen the planet become greener. Humans planting trees for reforestation have almost nothing to do with that trend.

Are you sure, from nasa.gov itself:

> which is thought to be due to intensive agriculture to feed growing populations and ambitious tree-planting programs

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/greening-of-the-earth-mitigates...

> Birds do more for nature using only their assholes than humanity could do with their entire beings..

And what do humans do to birds ?

> Human activity is the greatest cause of bird extinction around the world. The top human causes of bird extinction involve: the increased human population, destruction of habitat (through development for habitation, logging, animal and single-crop agriculture, and invasive plants), ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_extinction
Back to that time where you could find some nice piece of code :

useWackyUnit ? 'F' : 'C'
My app just got removed with no prior warning
I'm not OP, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if long COVID is an autoimmune reaction or just people that developed autoimmune diseases from having COVID.
The "Law of the Jungle" prevails, indeed.
> Why can't an employee from some Big-N company make something for fun on the company domain?

Because it's under the company domain?

Anything carrying its brand is linked to the company. You can't be a big company and an humble startup at the same time. If Google wanted to provide an opportunity for its employees to launch funny products without pressure they would give them a separate domain. As is, they do it this way because they think it's good marketing. That people expect big company support from big company websites go with the territory.
Hi Rvz, also one note to be extremely precise and informative: we are in FCA Temporary Crypto Asset Registration list as the framework in stil being finalises by the financial authority, and even if we don't a license to operate on the market we are anyway in the process of getting a full license to be able to expand the product offering in the future.
Why are you wasting Earths resources by flying? And for a 10 day vacation at that.
Springheel Jack runners...
Europe’s aggressive new emissions rules put gas engines on notice
So you won the shit lottery, and now you want people to stop playing, to protect them, is that it? So if you get MRSA in a hospital are you going to tell people to stop going to the hospital? And if someone called you an asshole for doing that, would you also claim that they are treating you as a "sacrifice for a fake greater good?"

You are blinded by rage, self-pity, and a false sense that you are protecting others. Because you won the shit lottery, you think its more likely than it is, and it colors your perspective on vaccination. You have a better justification for your cognitive bias than most anti-vaxxers, but you're still just as wrong, dishonest, and deadly. Signing off.
You can adjust the strength of the grip of the claw machine.

A friend of mine worked at an arcade.

He made the grip tighter whenever he had a surplus of prizes that nobody wanted and looser when he had good new stuff.

He wasn't even coy about it. He would tell the kids who always hung out at the arcade when he was doing it so they could go nuts.
In the long run, presupposing a constant size of forest, this is approximately true, but

1 if you harvest sustainably and use the lumber for building long lived structures, it might be a sink in the timescale that's important for combating global warming.

2 these forests have been sinking a lot, stands to reason they could alternatively be expanding, which would make them a carbon sink for the duration of the expansion
god no
When the height of lockdown and the gas shortage in the US showed more people hoarding and scalping goods than trying to self-regulate and ration, I couldn't help but wonder what it would be like if people had to wartime ration in today's culture. There is a narcissistic streak in the Baby Boomers (they were called the Me Generation previously).
From the other point of view: through Maps, Android and Gmail Google has absolutely dominated the ad marketplace to a point where only Facebook can compete (and even then, weakly). They’ve built out incredible, unprecedented datasets of user activity online. If Twitter is polarising then YouTube is hyper-polarising.

Twitter, I agree, is too insignificant to have done any of those things. So I can see how working there would feel a lot less morally compromising.

> stay and try to change Google

They’ve been at Google for 14 years. I think at that point you probably have a pretty clear idea what you, as an individual, are going to be able to change in the place.
The actual founders of Tesla seemed to have done most of the heavy lifting, I expect they are more than capable of running this company equally as well.
Is that even a lesson that needs to be learnt? Nuts not to, surely? Even this sort of issue aside, what happens when you want to add a feature and for whatever reason (that could include the original author's retirement or death!) hire someone else?

Binary delivery seems like buying some cool-looking alien device that manufacturers widgets; you have no idea how it works or how to maintain it, so you just sell widgets hoping it keeps working without maintenance.
If a person buys a device with a credit card and key features are immediately removed remotely, that would seem to be fraud that justifies a chargeback. No different than if you bought the product from a salesman who misrepresented it. What recourse do people have over longer timescales, though? Would insurace cover replacement if the machine is rendered unusable for the original purpose?

Not looking forward to when safety features are silently and remotely removed from vehicles due to IP disputes.
I have the successor to this model, the SK-5. I got it as a kid in the 80s and it still works great. My 6 year old has a great time sampling her voice and other sounds on it. In the past I considered trying a circuit bending project with it, but now I'm glad I left it intact. It's such a great little keyboard.
> {Romanian language equivalent of the phrase}

Acul din vagonul cu fân.

Literal translation: The needle in the hay wagon.
Quite probably. They're welcome to disagree about the reality we are literally discussing right now, just as there were no doubt members that disagreed with the realities outlined in the letter, and in taking part helped cause the situation (that according to you they are denying) in the first place.
> But unlike a number of commenters here I find nothing hypocritical about the decision to go to Twitter…

It’s not just about which is less ethical or hypocritical. These are imperfect organisations filled with people who want to have a positive impact, and this person may reasonably believe that a fresh start or a particular role positions them better to make the impact they want to have.
Depends if you go through HR or not.
The lack of rampant privacy violation lawsuits over the past 5 years is evidence in support of the theory that our freedom didn't depend on protecting that particular vicious scoundrel.

It's true that defending freedom often implies defending scoundrels. But it's a failure of logic to assume that we can't stop scoundrels, generally, if we want to protect freedom.

Gawker didn't just screw up. It was habitually irredeemably horrible. If there is to be any limit to conduct online at all it seemed inevitable that they'd eventually cross it.

We should be proud of our civilization that it was an orderly legal process that ended it, rather than a violent vigilante reprisal.
I still don't get it. That analogy assumes that light is the only way causality information can be transferred - i.e. if I see the phone call being placed before its sent then it seems like causality is violated. But it I look at what's happening via the FTL phone then I can see that it's not
But who is gonna fine Google or Microsoft? The US certainly benefits from these huge corporations, so there isn’t much incentive to hinder them with legislation and fines.
When I was querying Windstream and AT&T for internet service, one refused to build new service, even if we paid for the construction cost, because the other was already in the area.
I don't think he means twitter worked out the problems they have, just that it's possible they could be honestly trying to address their issues. It's a tough problem to solve well. Whether we like it or not, public companies are held hostage to shareholder value and that ties one hand behind their back while they try to solve the problem. I think we need government regulation to force their hand. We don't allow companies to fuck up the environment for the rest of society, it seems logical to not allow companies to fuck up our government. Dorsey seems less bad than zuckerberg, but it could be fake.
If your concern is polarising and divisive platforms I don’t know how you could ever give Google a free pass for YouTube. Its recommendation algorithm is a radicalisation program that targets divisive videos by design because they get higher engagement. It’s not something they intended but they’ve done near nothing to stop it. And in terms of number of people it reaches YouTube eclipses Twitter easily.
Here’s the SHIB donation, looks like it’s quoted at 350,000,000 USD now [1] and the relief fund has a transparency page linking to their wallet and bank and grant transactions [2]

I agree with you btw just wanted to link to context

[1] https://etherscan.io/tx/0xb65bcbb85c1633b0ab4e4886c3cd8eeaeb...

[2] https://cryptorelief.in/transparency
I'd love this, cookie banners are a plague and the ones that get through my adblocker get manually blacklisted on sight. I get the intention, but the lawmakers couldn't have got the wrong end of the stick harder if they were actively trying to in my opinion. It's like the words "alarm fatigue" never appeared in their analysis of the situation.