skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because liberal arts higher education has been completely usurped by Postmodernism and Marxism, and it indoctrinates students with the belief that everything everywhere is politics, always. This mentality has infected "liberal" intellectualism outside the academy, to the point where it is, essentially, the "culture" of much of the Left in the U.S.
https://www.missiontoseafarers.org
Are you saying whoever they sold the ads to would give them the money whether or not they showed the ad?
So if a person decides to opt in to this feature, they get to use said feature?

Oh wow, stop the presses everyone.
Not to be mean, but I'd say that Brian Armstrong took the actions he did to weed out people like you from working at Coinbase.
> the reaction both from employees and people I spoke to in private was overwhelmingly positive.

Overwhelming positive reaction from subordinates (whose paychecks he signs), and peers who are also tech/finance bros. Sounds like a statistical universe to me!
Having worked in both (EU and US) I have seen both sides. I saw the trend (identity based politics) starting to appear in tech in Europe, for example "we shouldn't try to win business from company X due to their stance on issue Y" came up multiple times in company all hands (500 person company).
Can be show how is done, with data instead of algorithms? (aka "...show me your tables and I won't usually need your flowcharts; they'll be obvious." ~ Fred Brooks")

Haskell is hard to decipher for me...
Wozniak is actually still an Apple employee.
Yeah, if you started using `git-master` around ~7 years ago, it hasn't broken ever since. The last breaking release was v4.0 in 2016, but it was in development for years before that in the git-master branch. 3.5->4.0 was a pretty nasty upgrade process since we had to nuke a lot of the unsustainable things one last time (https://awesomewm.org/apidoc/documentation/17-porting-tips.m...).

Glad it works for you!
Brian, is that you?
Looks like my pihole will be getting some new entries. I have no doubt I won't be able to police all of my family's devices.
Not just every search query: apparently location data too.

>When contextual suggestions are enabled, the feature uses your city location and search keywords to make contextual suggestions from Firefox and our partners, while keeping your privacy in mind.
Sounds like both sides are generally looking for more from the labor arrangement than simply keeping the lights on.
Optimal would be to separate work time from leisure, but I realize that may not be realistic for everyone. I use separate OS accounts, or with some customers, separate computers to never mix work and private stuff.
Why are they downvoting you? The article mentions that they do claim to own a lot of Chinese paper
This looks like a textbox case of the "Paradox of Intolerance" by Karl Popper, does it not?
My thought too. Once you get used to retina, you can't go back.
It looks like you skipped over the first idea they presented; that Mozilla doesn't need the money in any case.
>if they do anything, at most alert local law enforcement and cooperate with them

And cloudflare isn't even doing that. They just shrugged and decided they would continue to collect profit off the criminal behavior and act as a brick wall for OP in this case. They don't have to be the law enforcement here, but they should be obligated to report this activity to law enforcement and let law enforcement do their jobs. OP will probably have to get a lawyer and spend a lot of money and time to force cloudflares hand to turn in the phisher, all while their business is being hurt directly, and that's just not right at all.
The issue was 'automating user interactions'. The demand is 'I agree to never again create tools that interact with Facebook or its other services'.

That demand is wrong. What if the developer makes an extension for some other web site and then FB buys that site? They'll go the legal route again. I don't think that is right.
Nobody disagrees about his basic financial mission! He's a CEO, and that's what CEOs (are supposed to) do.

The farce here is in claiming that Coinbase's mission is somehow "apolitical," even beyond the standard (& correct) observation that everything is political: they are explicitly a financial services company with a political message of economic freedom. They are explicitly advocates for an explicitly political form of monetary exchange.

When Armstrong says "mission focused," he really means "consistent with Coinbase's politics." And that's okay. But it's ridiculous to dress it up as some kind of apolitical position.
> The challenge I have with this line of thinking is that you can literally apply it to any and all issues.

That's not a challenge to this line of thinking, it's just another way of wording the exact same thing.
The biggest mistake people in our industry make is thinking they are somehow exempt from the rules of society and business just because they can use a computer better than most people.

Heads down genius coder everyone steps around ends up fired or stuck in mid level forever, in reality. Guy who makes friends with the Customer Service department and Sales team with mediocre fixes get promoted, and in reality achieves more with his career.

Software is useless without users.
And they aren't doing that in OPs case. Just continuing to profit off the phisher and shrugging their shoulders.
> Look at the company’s trajectory over the decade it has existed.

The decade where it wasn't "mission focused"?
No, I'm brown and I have hair.
I enjoyed "The Cargo Ship Diaries" [1] by Niall Doherty about his time traveling as a paid passenger on merchant ships.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21868783-the-cargo-ship-...
Whats political about using coinbase to buy and sell bitcoin?
The company buys, the candidate sells. This is proven by which way the money flows - from the company to the employee.

But both have to agree. You're right that a company will have to be willing to offer enough to get the candidate willing to sell.

I recall interviewing a candidate long ago who was only interested in what the company could do for him. He never displayed any interest in the company or what he could do for the company. I recommended no hire.

After all, what would you think if you went to a car dealership and their salesman would only talk about how much you had to pay and how much the dealership wanted your money, and never talked about what the car would do for you?
Of course!

North is also a VERY predictable and easy to figure out direction with a little thought if you can see the sky, and anyone with a smart phone (99% of the population now?) have GPS and high resolution maps and satellite photos accessible at a moments notice on it. Yet people get lost all the time, and I bet if you asked 10 people which way was north walking on the street, you’d be lucky to get 3 which pointed in the right direction (and 2 of those would only be right through sheer luck).

I’ve been around groups several times now when a fire happens, and had to grab extinguishers because of unexpected fires when I’ve been around, and most folks can’t figure out where a fire extinguisher is (let alone get it) when a fire happens even after they were shown it when they arrived.
One could make the argument that skipping the bureaucracy catches up with you in the long run.

Or maybe a small team of 10x programmers could really get away with it, indefinitely. But can you reliably staff enough of them, now and forever, to keep that going? For a business it is often better to have a codebase that scales with arbitrarily many average-quality engineers, than to be dependent on hiring miracles. Even small numbers of them.
Which is why you have to very careful if you gamble on a cruise ship. They answer to no gaming commission, nobody inspects their gaming machines and you are basically trusting the company to run fair games.
A counterpoint: I’m actively seeking out “mission-based” or “anti-woke” workplaces in AI/ML. I’m not interested in crypto, so not Coinbase though.

This pluralism is what makes America great, right? As the beloved slogan goes: “It’s a free country”.
Thanks, nice work on qocache and qframe too :)
> Playing videogames is another drug with which to escape reality

Maybe the most trivial of games. Even naughts and crosses has deeper implications than the physical mechanics.

Most games have a grand appreciation of reality like reading Frankenstein or watching The Lighthouse.

Perhaps it's the low stakes context that makes them more accessible, and thus informs our understanding of things outside that context.
What's the mission?

Not being a reliable financial exchange, I hope, they already failed at that. (1)

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/coinbase-says-hacke...
Donating money to a project in Iran may be legally hairy for Americans. Check the situation before doing so. I am all for helping worthwhile projects financially, but international politics is a mess.
I wonder what effect Ever Given had on all of this
Says Opt-In.

I think the comments have merit if it was on by default but it's not. You have to explicitly give permission. I honestly don't see an issue with that.
Revolutions with Mike Duncan.

https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/revolutions_podcast/
> it'd be nice to have more than a promotional self-description

Literally linked in the description provided to you: https://vladimir.prelovac.com

This is being spoonfed information.

> Does he have a good individual reputation (e.g like Raymond Hill)?

Better.
would it make any sense to use this for tuning a car stereo? particularly, to compensate for engine or road noise?
> If you do have something political to say, a grave social justice error in the company's policy for example, you can still be reasonable about it. To mention it respectfully and proportional to the issue, rather than going nuclear.

> Any ethnicity, sex, gender, sexuality, religion and political conviction you can think of and we all get along just fine with zero tensions.

This really sounds like you are blaming the black employees at Coinbase for standing up for themselves, and that if they just sat back down and took whatever hand they were being dealt that there would be "zero tensions"... which I guess hinges awkwardly on what you mean by "tensions"?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/technology/coinbase-crypt...

I encourage you to read this article--which, FWIW, I'm sure is one of the articles Brian Armstrong here is calling a "hit piece" in his Twitter thread--as this wasn't merely some abstract issue of "politics": black employees at Coinbase felt they were being actively discriminated against.
Capital vs. Labor is an attitude that can be completely divorced from the unit economics of how much people are paid. Capital is the owner class that calls the shots, Labor is the people who do the work.

"Shut up and do the work, or GTFO" is a statement that only Capital can make, and it's a statement that can only be directed at Labor.

When the topic being quelled is a conversation about fairness within the ranks of Labor, and between Capital and Labor, the picture is crystal clear: "Capital says no, and you (Labor) will comply."
wouldn't that create a recession or depression?
https://functionalcs.github.io/curriculum/
It's not just all the new stuff that's emerged in the last 30 years. I feel like I didn't really understand a lot of the fundamentals like I thought I did back in my 20s and that there were some major holes in my education that only became apparent after some years of experience in the field. Often you don't know what you don't know. I now know there's a lot I didn't (and don't) know and I think that's a valuable thing that mostly only comes with experience.
Estimated Response Times
100-300ms Django with warm cache
500ms-2s Django with cold cache

That sounds very slow to me.

How do these numbers compare with other popular frameworks like Laravel, Symfony, Flask, nextjs ... ?

I for one use my own PHP framework (own routing, templating engine, db abstraction) and see response times of about 40ms.
Why is Raymond Hill not working on uBlock anymore? Why is there uBlock and uBlock Origin?
The company I'm at effectively has that as part of their unlimited PTO policy, though the timing is company-mandated, being the first week of August and the week between Christmas and New Years, which is a week so many people are likely to take off anyways, it just makes things easier to make everyone take it off.

Going into the week off in August, I wasn't sure how seriously they took it, but sure enough, I didn't get a single e-mail that week other than weekly reports from automated tools. I even checked Slack that Friday, and there wasn't a single message except for the channel where people post pictures of fun stuff they do over the weekend.

It was pretty nice.
Cigarettes look like a justifiable product at the level of "we roll leaves in paper," or "we give you a drug with side effects no worse than some other psychoactive drugs," but when you get in to the details of how it was actually done (carcinogens added above and beyond the smoke itself for the purpose of enhancing addiction, marketing designed around the well-known "trigger" stimulus response of relapsing drug users, denial of the effects to offload health liabilities to state insurance) it's no longer anything but an errant time in our history which will hopefully not be repeated. It is the prototypical example of the profit motive departing from the public good.
I'm not a native speaker, so almost every time I hear that phrase it ends after "sticks and stones", because on TV and movies, that's usually enough for the intended audience.

After Googling, I think I might have picked up this version from Tim Minchins song "prejudice" [1] although Google also come up with this clip where a senator also use the "break my heart" version, clearly when it was meant for him to say "never harm" [2]

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVN_0qvuhhw

2: https://youtu.be/QoMheenRUHM?t=92
Would it need 60% to get Senate cloture?
I'm pretty sure Woz mentioned in an interview that he still "reports to Steve" on the Org Chart.

Edit: "Based on the last Apple organizational chart that he was aware of, Wozniak said that he still reported to Jobs."

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/18/steve-wozniak-still-on-apple...
I distinctly remember the claim that most economists (left and right) believe the optimal corporate tax rate is 0%, but I can't find the source for this. The argument is that the corporate tax is simply an indirect income tax, and so as an alternative to raising income taxes, all it does is to penalize entrepreneurs for incorporating their businesses.
And we are supposed to believe this?

These are guns for hire and will target UK phone numbers if the incentives align, someone offers more or if forced by the Israeli government etc.
yes, the DMCA safe harbor relies on underlying potential liability to motivate compliance; without it there is no reason to bother. Which is why providers often are more lax about counternotice procedures, because they have already structured user agreements so that they have no liability for an unnecessary takedown, so the safe harbor on the user side doesn't matter.

Knowing you aren't liable on the content owner side for particular content means the DMCA takedown process is irrelevant to you.
Country level collusion.

Ugh.
Any computational system uses symbols, whether or not a person has analysed the system and defined those symbols; information is symbols.
there's also the news media.

(although I have noticed something unfortunate: I have a LOT of 5-star documentaries to watch, but rarely do, while I watch even 2-star scifi stuff almost immediately)
> What is the SAT/ACT if not jumping through hoops?

I wouldn't call those "university tests." Also, you can do quite well by just mastering your High School subjects without extra test prep, and the stuff tested (e.g. Algebra) is stuff you'll actually build on in university. They're also standardized, so even if you decide to do test prep, it's not like you have to prep for different exams for each school you apply for.
Have you considered that people have reached those beliefs after observing and reflecting on how they perceive the world to work? Why are you so sure it’s “indoctrination” when people come to a conclusion that doesn’t comport with your worldview?
UPS already doesn't consider their customers packages private property and does in fact open boxes that are deemed suspicious. But even then, cloudflare isn't even doign the latter. They aren't bringing this information to the police, they are continuing to collect money from the phisher and stonewalling OP until he shows up with a lawyer and a much bigger can of worms for them.
My favorite iterations of early Aqua are those seen in 10.2 through 10.4, too. 10.4 would be on top, but I prefer the matte menubar used in 10.2 and 10.3.

10.5 and 10.6's Aqua aren't bad and certainly better than the newer flat looks, but I was never a big fan of the darker metal look taken on by window chrome in those versions. Aqua in 10.2-10.4 was much more bright and cheery, and as strange as it may sound that reflected in my mood when using my Macs.

Out of the later iterations of Aqua I think the best is that of 10.9. It pulls back on the darkening brought by 10.5/10.6 while refining the rough edges that came with 10.7 and 10.8, and as a whole reminds me a lot of 10.2-10.4 Aqua minus the brushed metal.
Wet-Nursing Stoked Class Tensions
Isn't it that one can just unpack any extension? Unless it is doing something on server side too; all client side code is in extension itself?
no roots. its bought.
Have you tried not being a robot? Only robots would have this problem.
Very interesting. Similar theme to a point Tyler made awhile ago, that I think he touches on even explicitly in this interview, about how if BTC gets to $100K or $200K, you have a bunch of billionaires running around that have essentially done "nothing" to earn it. Seems like it would just exacerbate inequality. Anyone can participate, as long as you're reasonably tech-savvy, and have disposable income to invest (gamble) with.
> Energy usage means security

Umm.. No.

"More energy = More security" is a slogan now being used to scam non-technical users to buy into the crypto ecosystem, but that does not make any sense if you are willing to think about for a second. Also very convenient that this slogan started getting popular when BTC started getting bad press for energy usage.

BTW how you reach consensus on a chain is different from how the accounts in the chain are secured. Just because all BTC nodes are burning up electricity all the time does not mean that your accounts are more/less secure.
The same could be said about sense of smell. And frankly any of the other senses. Even touch, if you realize that the atoms in your hand never really "touch" other objects.
NerdWallet S-1
Browsers only automate user interactions with the underlying HTTP APIs. What defines “scripting” here?
How many of those visits were people trying to figure out what was going on with facebook? I bet most.
what will prevent an multinational to make dozens or hundreds of subsidiary with each having revenue threshold of $890 million ?
If everyone is entitled to interact with the internet on their own terms, then why would that not include a service being entitled to act in a way that's adversarial to your desires?
Why is it "insane" to rely on it? It works well on widely used distributions. The only thing missing from node is a version manager like nvm.
But it's a much more compact than that glibc monstrosity is. Sure, the glibc version will win in a micro-benchmark, but micro-benchmarks don't capture the effect on the instruction cache.
What's extra sad about that is WebKit supports AVIF images, but Safari doesn't because it hands image decoding off to the OS where it isn't supported. Works in Gnome's WebKitGTK though.

https://www.coywolf.news/webmaster/why-webkit-supports-avif-...
I think that is kinda forgone now... How many of them do they now have in row? Going back to at least Clinton, maybe further...
Macquarie Health Corporation Hit by Windows Hive Ransomware
I suppose I could have said "The problem I have with..." instead.
Detecting errors in the LLVM release 13.0.0 - https://pvs-studio.com/en/blog/posts/cpp/0871/
Modern art was indeed heavily influenced by theosophy at the start, even if it stands on its own feet since half a century and more. And historians that trace the development of abstract art are indeed amiss if they omit this influence, but superficial histories such as exhibition catalogues will understandably try and avoid such 'complications' in the narrative.

Btw one artist conspicuously missing from the article is Hilma af Klint [0], a Swedish "modernist" and theosophist too, that predates all the the others (Turner, Kandinsky, and Mondrian et al).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilma_af_Klint
I hear a mantra myself.

Shit that was easy. Turns out anyone can say that.

It's almost like "I know you are but what am I?" doesn't mean, prove, or disprove anything, except to identify people who say things like that.
Didn’t Mozilla recently lay off a bunch of good engineers? Seems like the organization thinks it needs money, although you could debate whether they are spending it the right way.
Detecting errors in the LLVM release 13.0.0
It's hard to find a serious economist who doesn't see major flaws with bitcoin. It's because bitcoin was designed by engineers, not economists.

Bitcoin could only have been created by engineers - it misses a few fundamental tests of currency that any practicing economist would have "fixed" during the design phase. So we are left with bitcoin, which looks silly to most experts but is basically a religion to those who only see the technical merits of the project.

If we run the experiment all the way out, we end up with a ruling class based simply on time and fervor of adoption of a random piece of tech that appeared 10 years ago.

If we run it allll the way out we have a bunch of bitcoin billionaires constantly fearing for their lives because they are essentially walking piggybanks, ripe for kidnapping and torturing their wealth away via rubber hose cryptography.
> Just want to say how ridiculous this is from a European perspective.

What is ridiculous? What Brian said? the response? I'm not following.
Yes it does. Just replace the vaccine with snake oil and follow it to its logical conclusions.

I'll use some BS numbers to make the point. Let's assume: study population of 100, 20% of the population had a prior infection, half are given the snake oil.

Starting conditions:

1. Never infected, Never Snaked: 40

2. Prior infected, Never Snaked:10

3. Never infected, Snaked: 40

4. Prior infected, Snaked: 10

Now let's assume wave 2 happens. 20% of the never infected gets infected, and 0% of the previously infected get reinfected.

Both groups 1+2 combined and 3+4 combined have an average infection rate of 16% for wave 2. The groups are equal because snake oil is bullshit.

What the Ars author was suggesting is to compare group 1 with group 3+4 combined. Now you have a 20% infection rate vs a 16% infection rate. The snake oil appears to have an (20-16)/20 = 25% effectiveness just by including previously acquired immunity.
You are right that cloudflare doesn't have to take down the site, but the fact that they aren't, you know, forwarding this information to law enforcement for them to decide, and instead opting to continue to collect profit from the phisher really looks like aiding and abetting from the outset.
I learned on HN that Facebook etc. were down (at that very moment).