skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If a peaceful solution through our existing forms of centralized governments can’t be found, either some people will revolt while most sit to the side and just follow/or killed and somehow those who survive will do something else like people have always have

FTFY, I'm personally not interested in "binning" the future into simple extremes, and the odds of it being anything else than what is encompassed by either:

> nationalize the robots, or the capitalists will use the robots eliminate the poor people whose labor they don’t need anymore

are very high imo.
Why must we look to redistributive policies? If there is some systemic issue you would like to mitigate with redistribution, why not address the systemic issue?
> Can you give an example?

Forcing employees to pee in bottles is pretty bad.

> If the punishments achieved it's purpose we wouldn't see continued offenses under same category.

Hah, the notion that punishments always work is funny. Good one. Try that on your kids. Look, making a punishment bigger may or may not help. I don't know about that. You can't just fine them out of existence for no reason, however. Bezos isn't Jack Ma and this isn't China.
IMO, it’s more about education, rather than politics.
Daily Notes / #13
Oracle Java Magazine
delay all commits to disk until a fixed timeout is reached for command submission, if the timeout is reached the call returns failed, the same problem exists with this special purpose scripting environment just in other forms.
there was much more to that, she demanded a list of reviewers who rejected her paper in a sort of ultimatum, and blasted group emails calling for sabotage

I don't know if you saw Jeff Dean's response, but here it is https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f2kYWDXwhzYnq8ebVtuk9CqQ...

There was also a thread on reddit with her colleagues reactions
https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/k77sxz/d_t...
> It's unambiguous

On the contrary, if you just use the name of the language then it's not at all clear to a user who's using the "wrong" language where the language selector is.
HR. its in the name. Human Resources. Theyr job is to provide human resources to the company, not to defend employee rights. Thats what unions are for.
It can make sense if you're building a GUI app for Mac that's “scriptable and recordable”. I think you'd use VBA for that on Windows. The GUI communicates with the operational core via a message channel (analogous to HTTP requests and their responses) that can be recorded into a “script”. With those scripts you can automate tasks that would otherwise involve manually using the GUI. The “frontend” and “backend” wouldn't call each other's functions directly but use that interposed message channel instead. In that respect it's architecturally similar to a web app, but with all the code in one executable.
Kotlin Coroutines Tutorial
The main issue is that the study conflates free time with leisure.

I personally have a lot of “non-work” time, but not that much leisure time. I just fill up time with personal projects, and stuff like house renovation that I would have otherwise put off.

In fact “work time” is only defined for me as “time I do stuff to get paid so I can make other stuff”. So yeah if I could “work” as little as possible, it’d be pretty good.
One of the arguments against raising the capital gains rate is that the people enjoying that rate don't need to realize gains, they can simply borrow cash against their assets, so raising the capital gains rate could theoretically reduce tax revenue.

Not sure how true that is in practice, but I thought it was at least worth considering.
the thing is Taiwan can't count on the US as we have demonstrated that we aren't willing to help when called on by a nation we have treaty obligations to. The US agreed to defend Ukraine from Russia in event of invasion in exchange for Ukraine getting rid of its nuclear stockpile. Then Russia invaded the Crimean peninsula, part of Ukraine, and the US did nothing.

Why would the US treat Taiwan any differently when China is the US biggest trading partner?

As for Japan, they are constitutionally prevented from declaring war.

So of Taiwans strongest alies, one cant defend them,and one wont defend them.
> The old saw about rather not hiring ten qualified people than making one bad hire is 100% spot on with this one.

For everyone who bitches about tech recruiting, I wish they would at least give some empathy to this point of view.

In Apple's case, they did make the mistake of this bad hire, and I bet the amount of time, effort, and negative publicity they've had to deal with, not to mention how this kind of toxic behavior just kills morale at organizations, is orders of magnitude worse than with an average employee. During the period I was a manager, I hated how the majority of my attention, work stress and time was devoted to handling a toxic individual, as opposed to all my other employees who were working hard to make the team better.

And to be clear, my judgement of this person as an individual I would loath having to work with literally has nothing to do with others' descriptions of her, it solely has to do with her own words that she has published.
no that's not true. someone who said they were working for apple contradicted that fact in the other thread.

i personally find the claims weird and have never seen it anywhere. my experience is that some employees choose to use company devices as personal devices. or personal accounts as company accounts, etc.

again, the way things are today, i don't expect many apple employees to come forward and tell us the way things are.
I am not a "frontend" or "backend" developer, I am a software developer. I hate the terms. A lot of programming people do doesn't involve writing HTML UIs, regardless where it is ran. I write programs to solve problems. I am not strong in UI design, but there are people who are good at that. Programming a UI is something I can do though. UI development has a different set of challenges also, whether it uses HTML, Qt or whatever.

I'd prefer if we go back to the time when "frontend" and "backend" were generic architectural terms. Not everything you do on a computer is a web application.
Summarizing NLP Research Work [Updated]
>My experience is that all my code gets thrown away or rewritten at some point. I've seen what code that doesn't get rewritten looks like; I'm intent on never inflicting anything like that on the world.

I believe most code is old. You mostly notice code that changes.
https://www.orlandoweekly.com/orlando/is-florida-covid-data-...

No she hasn't.

She was a stupid kid and did stupid kid things, millennial style. She went through the legal system for crossing the line, but by the time she held the job for Florida state government - a decade later - she seems to have married, had children, found a respectable job, and was otherwise a normal human being. And she is probably mortified over the student/professor bad soap, stalker drama she inflicted on the world.

At worst she was a psycho college girlfriend cliché. At best she's a redemption story, and good for her if that's the case.

She never finished her degree, but still found a job as a data scientist, then blew it up because Florida officials wanted to lie.

Have empathy and practice forgiveness, especially on people who did nothing to you. It costs you nothing to withhold what amounts to snide gossip.
Other countries don’t arrest people who drive without a license?

I’ll need to see worldwide numbers, American numbers, and an exemplar list of laws before I accept such a broad conclusion.
Tbh, whenever I get another work device, there’s a document you have to acknowledge that says what can be done, what rights you have to data on it (basically none) and that the device and it’s content are Apples to do with as the company sees fit.

If you want a personal phone, they’ll give you a significant discount to buy one, but the ones they give away are clearly meant for work use. Anyone who just clicks through an agreement like that without reading it at least once is a bloody fool.
Diversity privileges
> Who's behind this, in China?
Xi and his ally within the CCP. Even within CCP there are power split and Xi needs to create a scene to concentrate the power to himself.

> Is the person ordering it aware of that
Surely they do, but to CCP, this is the only way to make them feel confident enough, by squashing all dissidents.

> Is it Carrie Lam? Their chief of police?...
Personally, I guess the order from CCP to HK govt is, "get rid of all dissident, use any means that you think that will work."

> I would think that Mr Xiping would have better things to do running a country of a billion people than decide to provoke the HK populace on a random day in September.

CCP have crack down so many things these day, no? Things happen in parallel.[1][2][3][4]

1: https://thediplomat.com/2021/09/the-real-cause-of-chinas-ali...
2: https://www.straitstimes.com/business/companies-markets/tenc...
3: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/commentary/china-xi-jinping-...
4: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-58459318
See https://boot2podman.github.io/2020/07/05/boot2docker-depreca... for the reasons why Vagrant was/is a workaround, after docker-machine and podman-machine stopped working.
Kroger Pre-Earnings Sentiment Spotlight 9/10/21
Seems like her career is done
lua is significantly MORE powerful than eBPF not less, and correspondingly will be easier to build exploits in.
Yes, Red Hat reused the name - similar to the CoreOS name.
I sent a message. I'm really interested in the HN discussion of this.. it's disappointing to see it just drop off the site.
Except other languages do have options for handling checked arithmetic, regardless of the default.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-refe...

https://dlang.org/phobos/core_checkedint.html

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/arithmetic-overflow-c...

https://docs.adacore.com/spark2014-docs/html/ug/en/source/ov...

https://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Sydney/en/Overflow...

https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch03-02-data-types.html
She's effectively policing everyone (her coworkers can't lookup the specs of a rifle, the company should stop using some common business terms because they're offensive, etc.)

Yet when it comes to her listening to someone else's feedback (not sounding as if she's asking questions when she's not during a presentation) that's tone-policing and she can't tolerate it.

So much hypocrisy.
Theater didn't have any value, in fact it has negative vale. How much time, energy, and money is spent waiting in TSA line, and for what?
Taking your shoes off does not decrease the chance of the plane blowing up by 0.0001%. it decreases it by 0%. I am willing to bet that more people have been injured, removing their shoes in the airport than from a shoe bomb. Injuries from falling over while driving shoes to picking up a fungal disease from the dirty floor.
An airport is a sieve, yet we treat it like a secure fortress, due to theater
In France, you mostly see him as a caricature nowadays. In general, the urge to see people as war heroes, regardless of their abilities or achievements or who they thought against, is almost absent in continental Europe, especially compared to the US and England.

I guess the reason being WW1 + WW2 are being considered as absolutely horrifying wars, and Napoleon's invasions are seen as ruthless acts that created the imbalanced situation that led to two world wars.
Actually it is. Any place successful with out the ccp is. They built a whole neighboring city to devalue it and blocked water deals with Singapores neighboors
> The economy is very resilient.

Sure. The problem is a lot of people will get hurt along the way. People all across the board are stretched thinner than ever, people working multiple jobs, dual-income households that still can't afford a home of their own. Who gives a shit about GDP?
Right, a full graphical workstation OS or a next gen multicore cluster isn't quite the same.
It'd be a shame if anything happened to that article you wanted to read, lol. Dark patterns like this are infuriating.
Google Assistant faces EU antitrust investigation
It's peppa pig episode where mommy pig writes a book and george overflows the buffer of her computer by scoring very high in the chicken game
This is one tweet that I saw on Twitter that looked actually bad https://twitter.com/ashleygjovik/status/1426014545202479108

> Her entire social media presence appears to be built around capitalizing on these stories

Or, she is focused on shedding light on bad behavior of others and she was actually bullied and picked on by some twats at Apple and she wants consequences?

So in the end, I don't understand why it would be a problem to create a website for news coverage and tweet highlights. If she feels she's been wronged, it's okay to fight back, even if she was employed by Apple. What's wrong with that?

On this site, people always say "bad Apple" ("bad Google", etc) behaving badly and abusing its power. Yet, when an employee comes out with complaints, we pretend it is not okay to complain about your employer?

I don't know who is in the wrong here, we have seen both dramatic employees that take offense in everything innocent, but we have also seen corporations covering up bullying and abusive behavior. Which one is it in this case? I don't know yet, I bet you don't either.
Good point and good to be aware of. Still, it requires dedicated physical access and specialized physical equipment, right?

I think that at least for the foreseeable decade or so, there are only a handful individuals globally for whom this would be a practical vector rather than a purely theoretical one.

It'd be interesting to see if it can be practical to improve in regards to that
Or being managed by her.
Throwing away is easy but remember, you have to do the runtime check instead of compile time check, and that is not so easy in a lot of cases
Crazy to me religion and normal beliefs are not put in the same bucket. Why would a religious belief hold more weight than a normal belief?
I used to work on a product that had a bug component called (our product) > Frontend > Backend (of the frontend).

I worked on (our product) > Backend, and so whenever the frontend was sending me problematic requests I'd file bugs against the "Backend (of the frontend)". Their UI logic was irrelevant to me, more or less; I only observed their "backend" code's behavior.

Of course when I say I worked on the "backend" I mean the part of this product that talked to other backends and storage layers. In a large enough distributed system, "frontend" and "backend" are relative rather than absolute terms...
> what do I do when I fundamentally disagree with someone else about the implicit sexism or bias of an expression?

In this case you ask at least one 3rd party, maybe more. Some of your mentors should be similar to the person who feels victimized, in this case a woman. So do that in real life where you know them, not online.

> What if it's something as innocuous as "low-hanging fruit", and, a colleague is offended by that?

Haha, that's pretty funny and apt. Lead with that when you ask for advice on this.

> I feel victimised, and they feel victimised.

That's also fine. You deserve to have your concerns heard. When someone else is the first to raise a concern with you, it's necessary to listen to them first. Then when they indicate they feel understood (you can ask them directly), you can follow with your concern.
The last few years of the US would certainly validate and solidify those beliefs.
> I don't know what you mean. 9/11 resulted in two major wars and that was a non-state actor.

As I said elsewhere: In the last few years the US has been run out of Iraq by Iran, Syria by Russia and Afghanistan by the Taliban. I don't see much appetite for going back to any of those.

Or more starkly: The US lost both those wars and the US population is sick of it.

If China sank a couple of US ships, I'm sure the US would declare war. But China would be 100% committed to winning an invasion of Taiwan, no matter what the cost.

The US.. not so much.

> Japan, S. Korea, India would, and that's the start of a fairly powerful coalition - some of which would probably engage the Chinese Navy in S. China sea, and maybe be involved in blockades.

Note that none of these countries have every said they would defend Taiwan in the event of an invasion. That's statement is conspicuously absent from anyone at all, actually.

As for a blockade, I think you are - again - overestimating support Taiwan has, and underestimating the realpolitik that would happen.

Where are the blockades over Chinese behaviour in Hong Kong? Or diplomatic protests? Or...anything at all other than newspaper articles?
That is the point of the comment I believe: pointing out that we tend to ignore the vast majority of the inhabitants of Sparta when we think of Spartans.
Vagrant was a workaround, before the new project got off the ground: https://boot2podman.github.io/2020/07/22/machine-replacement...

Any virtualization solution could be used, with some more typing (like running the shell commands directly). It's not unique to Vagrant.
its not evident what is the distro that GKE installs. is it even open source ?
i havent been able to find it. Happy to be corrected here.
You'll notice that the post you quote was a reply to their post, where, as I said:

> They said "It's like when the medieval Catholic Church refused to print a bible in anything but Latin so that they'd remain the sole authority on its content." and concluded with "shame on those who maintain this status quo."

And as I said before that:

> someone who comes in with guns blazing doesn't get to complain about being met with hostility

It's not "gatekeeping" when there's no effort to engage productively in the first place.
Taking the parts you like from something and leaving the parts you do not is not cultural appropriation.

Any culture can redefine anything they want from other cultures. Just like most western yoga studios are LGBTQ friendly and many Hindus are not.
Solar Startup Born in a Garage Is Beating China to Cheaper Panels
Actually, it's a good practice to reduce the attack surface.

Diagnostic tools are easily made available by installing an ephemeral debug sidecar.
Can you please link to it? Can‘t find it on AppStore
Perot was a viable candidate. And as someone who didn't take him seriously... my lord was he right about the 'giant sucking sound'
Nope. They represent the economically moderate, culturally conservative segment of the population. (Fun fact: if you put Germany’s CDU’s positions into NYT’s political party poll, you end up in Trump’s Patriot Party: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/09/08/opinion/repub....
I spoke to their environmental manager as I was concerned. They've done a lot for Apple Park, don't remember all the details, but it's fair to say they've spent a ton of money on it.
I find such Professional Nuisances are adept at rapidly increasing how irritating they are as others come to realize the PN is providing little to no business value or what value is provided isn’t enough to compensate for the irritation. Generally PNs are gossipy martyrs that thrive on bringing down others and denigrating their employer as they put up a false front of whistleblowing and/or positive disruption. A good HR team knows the signs and shows such folks the door ahead of any debacle.
white dudes are underprivileged?

See it's better when you share your opinion, that way it's easier to see what you are thinking. You are getting mad at me for all these assumptions, but I was right, you really think white people are underprivileged, "it's unfair", and you call me reprehensible. This is where I'd hope you'd be sarcastic.

It's been fun zepto, i thought threads could keep going, but they can't. Here is what you are going to do, you are going to keep looking up statistics why is harder to be white. You'll keep complaining how the white man doesn't get his fair share. And that denying white people even more privilege is the real racism. You are the "poor me", and life is going to be incredibly challenging for you but you'll probably find support in some white guys group where they can "stay proud" and stand up for the white man. Just take care of yourself and don't hurt anybody.

Still never answered the question, thats just cruel, I was really hoping I'd get that answered.
You're misunderstanding the 160,000 number. It's not 1 in 160,000 were newly hospitalized per day. It's 1 in 160,000 were hospitalized at all.

So it's actually 1094 hospitalized at all on an average day, whereas 643 new hospitalizations are occurring per day among the unvaccinated.

I'm guessing you took Biden's numbers from here: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/09/us/politics/biden-vaccine... and I agree that in the context he provides your use of the number that way seems reasonable - as is often the case, Biden didn't communicate well.

However, if the number means what you mean we'd have many many more hospitalized people than we currently do, and articles like this one https://www.foxnews.com/health/covid-19-hospitalizations-non... would be full of completely made up, easily proven false data. Neither is the case.
That's cool. As per the other comment, you should share it with the community.
Async code is just hard, and most useful javascript is doing async stuff.

The code in the above comment probably should have used a recursive setTimeout() that waited for each API call to finish, rather than a setInterval().
Not sure why it's a bad example. 35 years later it did not "just re-merged", it still is in a few pieces. You need to think about how the present would look like if there was no breaking up. And that present likely would not have google, fb, amazon - only AT&T.
Not just practically impossible, it is theoretically impossible. Given Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, observing a position with a certainty of the planck length would require it to have so much energy that it forms a black hole. Since you cannot get information out of a black hole, this makes observations below this scale impossible.

Of course, the scales involved are far beyond anything we have been able to probe. And this arguement relies fundamentally on the interaction between gravity and quantum mechanics, even though those theories are famously not compatable. So the 'theoretically' in theoretically impossible is doing a lot of work.
> un-unified

split
> Regulation is the scapegoat for nuclear's failure

No it isn't. If you have a regulatory structure that makes progress so expensive and counter to the government plan then progress is very hard to make.

Even the regulatory agency themselves have realized this and are changing their structures.

> What has also prevented changes from happening is that nuclear scales down poorly, so the cost of iterating designs is so large.

US regulation allows nothing between fully commercial and university research making any time of prototyping impossible.

Its in fact very possible to make smaller reactors that can teach you a lot and are not absurdly expensive and still useful. That data then could be used for to further inform regulatory agencies.

> The replicated nature of these sources is an advantage in so many ways.

Yes but even if it doesn't scale down well in terms of engineering you can still do factory construction of reactors. If we can mass produce plans, rocket engines, rockets and cars then the same could be done with reactors.

The reality is the government selected one winner and made deploying anything else practically impossible. The change in regulatory agencies has basically made progress impossible beyond marginal improvements.
the Communist Party?
I have been trying to read more about the events and personalities involved in the French Revolution and its aftermath. This is a reading list of what I'm trying to follow (in no defined order):

1. A tale of two cities: Dickens.

2. Gods are thirsty: Anatole France.

3. Talleyrand: Duff Cooper.

4. Memories from beyond the Grave: Chateaubriand

5. History of French Revolution: Carlyle.