skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You're suggesting that by opting into a common carrier status, they gain what?

It means that they can't be sued for content on their platform. If they do not have section 230 protections, every piece of content on the platform, they would be responsible for.

And if they then choose to be a common carrier, they also get that immunity from being sued. There are 2 different ways of recieving this immunity to lawsuits. And if you take away way 1, which is section 230, then their only option is to take way 2, which is by being a common carrier.

> but if they choose not to moderate, they aren't liable.

The point would be to strongly incentivize them to respect the user's choice of moderation, common carrier laws, are the way that people often talk about, but sure maybe there is a 3rd way that you have found to do this.

> Such as?

Such as moderation that is done at the request of the user, for that specific user only. The phone company, can blocks calls if that user wants it, and common carrier laws dont stop that.

If Facebook was only allowed to do moderation, at the request of that specific, individual user (or, of course, things that are already illegal.), then that solves most of these problems, where users want moderation for themselves.

If we want to get more detailed here, we could imagine allowing categories of moderation, that facebook can engage in, if and only if the user opts into it. Then we don't have to define moderation, and can simply have it be whatever that specific user wants.

> the average citizen want more moderation

That can be done through incentivizing facebook to allow user choice, of their own moderation. Problem solved. Then they can get that moderation, and we don't have facebook forcing this moderation on others.

> What you appear to want is a form of no-moderation absolutism

Nope. I want the moderation to be left in the hands of the specific user. Therefore, everyone gets what they wants, except facebook I guess.

> most users of those systems

And yet, the phone system works perfectly fine. I don't particularly care if the phone companies are mad about being forced to follow certain laws. We wouldn't have to make laws, if they wanted to follow them.
And most physical items in a store can easily be replaced. If a criminal is holding your shop ransom, it's not for intellectual property.
uMatrix 1.4.2 was released with a fix for the vulnerability: https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix/releases/tag/1.4.2
I'm going to ask an ignorant question and I'm sorry, but couldn't you basically write an application in web assembly, using OpenGL and creating whatever UI you wanted in there, and just use CSS for the scaffold? You'd only need a mobile and desktop web app, but you'd need one anyway, right? (Note.. I'm very obviously not a web developer, so forgive my naivete).
Speaking from experience, because MSVC (and also ICC) is far more sane with how it interpets undefined behaviour.
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No, not all binary trees are balanced binary trees.
I've had the opposite experience in the Bay Area, on average. I'd follow the typical advice people get, which is to create opportunities for serendipitous meeting. To say, I'd try to set up group dinners and invite a bunch of different engineer friends to them, only to get a bunch of responses like "I don't want to meet people I don't know already" and "I have enough friends, my social circle is full."
is 24mb really considered big these days? ive been to home pages that are heavier than that.
Describing a collision as a collision keeps things factual and avoids interjecting unwarranted characterizations of intent.
Just like serverless: servers with a bit of servers on top.
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We're about to find out aren't we?
I'm glad to not be part of that experiment.
Don't worry people! Common Base Linux-Mariner is only going to embrace and extend! There are absolutely no current plans to extinguish.
One of many sources regarding forbearance related to Covid.

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/3-moves-you-need-to-make-if-...

I don't have a source for increased foreclosures due to soon to be expiration. That's my speculation only.
From what I read the infrared version was defeated because it accepted a static image while the other requires video. It sounds to me like either one could be fooled by an appropriate video?
Is Cloudflare a "pipe"? I don't think so.
If one wants to go as deep as possible on this concept then check out Part 3 of Derek Parfit's "Reasons and Persons"[0].

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasons_and_Persons#Personal_i...
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In military aviation they're "mishaps" for precisely this reason. For things to go wrong somebody had to drop the ball, be it pilot error, ground crew, or maintenance deficiencies.
CDT is dog slow, though. It is painful to use.
I prefer to have the sheriff do the civil process to the managers (or managing partner) home address.... that way it freaks them out and gets the best response.
I would be interested in what you think of something like BBQueue:

https://github.com/jamesmunns/bbqueue
I don't like marijuana. Some people love it, but its not for me.

I voted to legalize it in Massachusetts when it was on the ballot.

Even though: I know someone who was hit on his bike by an obviously high driver, and its hard to prove the "driving while high". Its a problem. I've seen people tokin while driving while on my bike, which scares me (you see a lot of crazy stuff while riding).

Like all fan clubs the "Marijuana solve all problems" groups annoy me (its medicinal! now its for recreation! (its ok for this drug, but not for oxy!)).

Its crazy to throw people in Jail for it. Some friends who use(d) are fine responsible humans. Irresponsible people (jerks) are going to be irresponsible whether its pot or alcohol or something else.

The sky hasn't fallen as some predicted. Mostly its pretty much the same here day to day.
Industrial accidents, aviation accidents and workplace accidents are much like vehicle accidents in that people spend a huge amount of time, money, and energy on figuring out what went wrong and how to fix it.

The term accident in this context is understood to mean exactly what happened, which is that the event wasn't immediately intended- not that nobody is at fault.
Longer leases are the norm. You’re not stuck in annual lease hell when the market is hot.
>Also, notably, the bot can still lose in the short term to terrible players, which was the thrust of my post. In fact, given its bluffing frequency, it might actually do worse against weaker players than it did against pros.

To be clear about why this might be true for someone who doesn't know much of poker strategy--the AI is (I presume) going to optimize for strategies that can't be beaten by changing one's own distribution of plays (for (simplified) example, if the AI raises a given hand 20% of the time and folds 80%, it's doing so because even if opponent were to call 100%, fold 100%, or something in-between; it wouldn't change the overall expected value of that hand with that distribution of plays). Professional human players, on the other hand, will absolutely cotton onto a player whose distribution of plays is not optimal and can therefore be exploited for profit.
Oh boy, I have no idea what Silicon Valley really is like but you sure manage to make it sound absolutely horrifying. Sounding that smug, boring, authoritarian and exclusionary at the same time is impressive.
Or work remotely. One can make way above prevailing local salaries working remotely for SF Bay Area companies.
Or an IED
+1 to this

Public sector is serious brain drain

The counterpoints are people so uninspired and risk averse that it is the same as brain drain, and a subset of them are the people that began with a “serving the public” ideal and accidentally accumulated too many obligations by the time they figured out they wanted to live in a nicer neighborhood or send their children to a good college

The good talent are people that took a plea deal for non prosecution that included public service
"Main Street, Cupertino" is mostly condos, high-end Asian family restaurants, a Meet Fresh (a cavernous chain business selling Taiwanese slushie desserts to kids), and a high-end chain bar. Oh, and a Philz. My mind boggles at the thought that Main Street is an improvement over the panoply of mom-and-pop businesses that dot Cupertino all over.
> RedHat 7 is stuck on GCC 4.8

If you are actually maintaining a large C++ codebase and all your workstations are required to run RedHat 7 for some reason, you download a newer version of GCC and run it on RedHat 7. RedHat 7 is not "stuck on" GCC 4.8.

(And I don't just mean that "you can get newer official compiler packages from RedHat and you just don't know it", like the other reply says: you can install a new version of GCC even if that weren't the case.)

And in case anyone's mind goes here: newer versions of GCC aren't incapable of generating binaries that run on older systems, either; a large number of my users are using CentOS 6 (yes: 6) and I use the latest bleeding edge compiler to compile my code.

(The secret--which I assure you most of the people who do extensive maintenance work knows--is you always "cross-compile" your binaries for Linux, even if you are on Linux already, so you have complete control over the deployment glibc version.)
I'm just disappointed it's not called Microsoft Linux NT.
You wouldn't think it was amazing if you graduated with a Literature degree. This is the norm now. Texts are purposely ransacked for ideological goals instead of closely studied for transcendent themes and values. And I am willing to bet my entire life's savings that no one would give a shit about Dickens or Browning in this situation. Not one bit.
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It is.

Not only is our house cheaper than a decent 3 bedroom apartment, but we’ve been here about 15 years and will own the place free and clear in ~5.
Yeah, but the taxes I pay is less than a quarter of my monthly outlay of mortgage+escrow. Even if my taxes double from my home's value doubling my monthly outlay won'd double. Meanwhile my rent will easily double, probably even more than that in the same market.
Yes this is the flaw in the question. They should have said that the sum of their money is insufficient. Combine implies a physical action which can't happen if one of the parties has nothing.
I quite agree with this. People - often people with choices and means (money) - spend a lot of time agonizing over optimal monetary outcomes, except:

You're going to die.

The experiences you accumulate are what makes a life, as one moves through time in a one-way fashion.

No one gives a shit if you die old and efficent, unless that's the thing that made you sleep soundly at night.

I've rented and I've owned. They both have pros and cons. Now, as I get old, I like the idea of owning something where I can do whatever the hell I want, and moreoever, I can live away from humans who have parties, make noise or compete for space. Like you'd find in a rental building. I'd like to be able to build my own gym in a garage instead of timing my trips to a gym based on how crowded it is, and I'd like to buy a couch I'll use for many years to come instead of something that has to move around.

A cost-effective life is only a happy life if cost-effectiveness in and of itself makes you happy.
According to a famous blog post, many "senior engineers" also can't do FizzBuzz either.

5 - 3 = 2.
3 - 2 = 1.
Thanks for the link, this is just what I was looking for.
Why is the asteroid molten?
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That assumes that you're even doing the write in the first place, and not just logging a million "Error device not found" on your backup task. Speaking from personal experience, haha.
And it compromises equally as much by providing a false sense of security
> So is your argument that it's not just "hardcore nerds" capable of successfully building the systems in this thread? Because that's been my entire point.

My point is that we are not closed to outsiders. Anyone can become a 'hardcore nerd', but the essence of meritocracy is merit, but there just aren't a lot of shortcuts there. If you're willing to put in the time to learn the mastery so you can step with the elite, then welcome. Otherwise, GTFO and stop trying to take our jobs.

'Elitism', 'gatekeeping'... all that, just sounds like sour grapes to me. Those folks can come back and try again after they've leveled up more. Otherwise, they can go back to whatever else it is they do.

> I paint "hardcore nerds" that condescend to people they call "muggles" as all bad, because 80% of getting things done is working with other people, and that behavior explicitly calls out an ability to work productively with others.

And I paint people that look down at nerds as bad. And "getting things done" used to require a hell of a lot less interpersonal action, but nowadays skillsets and business seem to trend towards codependency, not independence. Part of my issues with tech today.

> The persona you carry around is a great way to have all of your points dismissed indiscriminately. Expressing yourself strongly is great! Being an asshole, less so.

I swear to god I am sick and tired of you folks talking down to me about this stuff like you're better. You are not the first and certainly not the last. Allow me to be an elitist asshole, my message has clearly resonated with you (after all you did say you were walking away from this thread like 3 or 4 replies ago) so I'm not entirely sure what point you are getting at! Bad press is still press, as it were.

It's a shame that society has turned so hostile to the specialized operators of the world. Do you think the same thing of the Marines, who straight-up advertise that they won't allow just anybody? What about doctors? Hell if I was a plumber, or an electrician, or an auto repair guy I would want to make damn sure that someone else trying to enter my space and potentially compete with me is at the very least competent. And newcomers are great! Up until they try and reshape the world to be easier for them and worse for the incumbents.

The way I see it, the nerds built this shit and tech is our house. No matter how hard everyone else is trying to muscle in on it because tech is what's hot, we were here first and this is our territory. Not my fault every business idiot and their mother is throwing money at us because what we've built is so much better. Everyone is free to run a business however they see fit, but if you want to do it in or with tech you gotta pay the fee. Or not, if you're willing to build the mastery to work around that (but then guess what, now you're a nerd too!) It's the same way everything else works in this cursed world we're stuck in.
I can think of many major security breaches related to poor or leaked passwords and honestly none come to mind with faked biometrics. Not to say that there aren't any, but passwords have a terrible security history and everyone should be glad that they're slowly becoming just another factor rather than the sole gatekeeper.
Considering it was almost 20 years ago, just as the Internet was starting to take off and it certainly pre-dates things like Cloudflare, things like this were pretty mandatory. Couldn't tell you if it's still the case, but it did make me appreciate having a good DR and OR plans if the nukes did drop.
Everything is testable. Not everything is usefully testable with unit tests. Unit tests assume that correctness can be determined by evaluating isolated units of code.

There are broad classes of software, notably high-performance data infrastructure, where unit testing manifestly doesn’t make sense. So people don’t write many unit tests even though this is mission-critical high-reliability software. Other kinds of testing is extremely thorough though.

The kinds of code units that are not unit testable are those where the correctness of the implementation behavior is almost completely contextualized by the behavior of external code units. As in, the unit test may be correct or broken based on the behavior of external code modules, not based on the inputs to the module. Software that is very schedule driven, like modern database kernels, has this property generally. Good integration testing picks this up very well. Writing a proper “unit test” under these constraints is effectively equivalent to a relatively comprehensive integration test.

And for parts of the code that can be unit tested, I tend to use exhaustive or quasi-exhaustive testing of their properties as part of release qualification, which is too expensive to be a true unit test but picks up more obscure errors than unit testing is ever likely to find and serves a similar function.

I believe in brutal and thorough testing. But unit tests specifically are mostly a waste of time for some of the common applications where C++ excels as a programming language.
What about Lindows?
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I don’t think the distinction matters much for the first point. Not many people are going to wait until they’re 25 (or later) to start, and I haven’t heard of anyone pushing for legalization only for >25 year olds.
I'm awake, and the world is still working as I thought it was, yes!
Landlord insurance goes up but only covers the structure and costs less, while homeowners covers more perils and contents.
Logical Replication of in-progress transactions in PG-14
https://ractive.js.org/ ?

(A predecessor to Svelte)
This sort of thing is mostly a matter of preference; Rust does a good job being unopinionated about things like how you invoke a function. In this particular case I think the explicit call is more readable than the character-soup, personally
> or watched extra rent vanish by moving

Oh let me list all the ways a landlord will screw you!

It depends, heavily, on lease agreement. Where I was, a lease is for a given period of time, often 12 months. (Not aligned to anything: literally $DATE_WE_SIGNED to that +12 mo.) Breaking the lease requires paying it to completion. On average, that means 6 months of rent. Now, if you did the work of finding a tenant that the landlord approved of, that new tenant could then take the apartment (and you'd be off the hook once they started renting).

Since I know many people think this: leases don't necessarily turn into month-to-months: legally, they could, but my landlord typically did not allow this to happen: at the end of the 12 month lease, they will typically raise the rent at which point the lease contract gets renewed: often you have two choices: renew for 12 months at the higher rent, or renew as a month-to-month at an even higher rent; IME, around 5%. Now you have to balance the likelihood of moving vs not: if you don't move, you'll pay 60% of a month's rent over the term of the lease for nothing. Even if you are moving, you might not be moving at your lease date exactly, so even with planning, if you degrade the lease to a month-to-month on the renewal prior to your move, there might be a few months were you're paying 5% more just 'cause.

Giving notice to quit usually requires, e.g., 30 days, so you'll be on the hook for next month's rent, too, even if you'll have moved out by then. This is hard to avoid, since otherwise you risk not having a home if you can't get the next play lined up.

Now, of course, if you're going to move, and you can plan, at all, then you do everything in your power to align these stars to minimize the cost, doing whatever is appropriate for whatever state your lease is in.

(In my case, we opted to turn the lease into a month-to-month, and paid exactly 2 months at the higher rate, or ~10% or $200 over the 12 month. That renewal weirdly also came with a 15 mo option, which was new; over that rate it cost $300 to abandon ship. Honestly, other factors dominated, like pay adjustments due to new locale, local housing costs, even just the moving costs. But it did occupy time, worry, and made logistics unnecessarily more difficult. We also had no overlap due to the magic of family and the nature of our move.)
Too close to Windows, Microsoft will sue.
> it's common in the Rust ecosystem to override the default Result type with a custom error parameter but still calling it Result.

Yep, I do that all the time! I never considered putting a default value for the parameter though
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Agreed. The presymbolic term people might be looking for is "resonance." Read early JJ Gibson (who introduced affordances). He talks about this dichotomy.
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Germany has national rent control[1][2] and leases are heritable. Leasing in Germany is much more like owning than it is in the USA.

[1] https://mietspiegeltabelle.de/

[2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mietspiegel
It seems like stripe is the only supported payment provider. Generally Patreon and similar services serve as a policy intermediary to the payment providers, and the platform policies are usually driven by payment provider policies against offensive content which the payment provider opposes or other categories at high risk of payments fraud. Platforms such as Patreon and OnlyFans serve as collective bargaining tools due to platform scale and fraud management, allowing users to sell content they would not be able to sell on their own site without being suspended by e.g. PayPal or Stripe.

How can Pinepage prevent Stripe from suspending users?
Assuming this is sarcasm, and you do believe this is a plan to EEE. How exactly would that work for Linux?
PATH’s slow and annoying, runs an inconvenient weekend route to Hoboken, and except for downtown Hoboken, you need a car after the train. It works when you have relatives in NJ.
The common USB device classes (video device, HID keyboard/mouse, etc.) don't have this, but anybody can define a new device class that does.

It seems like maybe Microsoft should have required something like this for Windows Hello cameras, if they intended for people to use the hardware as a single factor authenticator.

i.e. the camera generates internal crypto keys and tells Windows about them when you set up Windows Hello, then Windows does a challenge/response to make sure it's getting an image from the authentic camera during login attempts.

Apple did something like this with the fingerprint reader home buttons on iPhones, which is why you had to replace the motherboard + home button as a single unit on damaged devices. They could have provided a reprovisioning tool, but it's Apple, so they didn't.
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“Embrace, Extend, Extinguish!”

OK, we got the decades old slogan out of the way, now can we talk about the actual distro?
Ah yes, once Microsoft manages to erase every copy of the Linux source code with their new Github acquisition, they're well on their way to world domination and all that jazz.
In the US, the only way to generate passive wealth is through homeownership for most people. Others know how to invest and manage their portfolio actively.
assuming either linux or 80 was a typo here hehe
You can never prove that they won't leak your data after paying though. I'm not a CEO/CTO and haven't had to make these decisions, but from my perspective it's an empty promise that by paying them they will actually keep their word and not leak your data.
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“On January 19, 2017, Cernovich, an independent blogger and self‐described “popular political journalist,” moved to intervene, seeking to unseal the summary judgment record, and Dershowitz joined his motion.”
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I would have assumed Ubuntu, given that they've partnered with them a few times, "deb" is the default Linux download for Edge/Linux, Ubuntu seems to be the default distro for WSL, etc. Surprised it's RedHat based.
Sorry I meant to say that if all houses double in value, and municipal costs don't change, then your taxes do not change. Just because the value goes up does not imply that taxes go up.