skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Netflix Boycott over Dave Chappelle’s Special, Dear White People Showrunners
This is an extraordinary claim. To my best recollection, he was only given information on the Clinton campaign. Do you have any source, any evidence whatsoever that he had damaging information on Trump around the time that WikiLeaks released the Clinton State Department/Podesta emails?

>He chose sides, while simultaneously claiming he is neutral.

It's interesting that you can look at hard evidence of a 100% political prosecution of a _journalist_, and not think one layer deeper than what information you've been fed about him. If the United States is willing to imprison a journalist who has never set foot in the US on false charges, what makes you think they won't also manufacture a second scenario to turn public opinion against him?

"I don't agree with the political prosecution of Julian Assange, but he is responsible for (AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE AGENCY FALSE FLAG), therefore I do not care what happens to him."
For anyone not aware, pretty much every BYTE issue is in the Archive. If you have a favorite article from childhood that you want to update for your kids, it's a gold mine. There are hundreds of tutorials ranging from introductions to programming for people who've never done so before to incredibly complex programming language implementations.

If you're new to BYTE, you should spend a little time exploring: https://archive.org/search.php?query=byte%20magazine

A general rule of thumb is that any cover with a photograph on it is past the magazine's prime, and you'll probably have a lot more fun looking through older ones instead.

(Edited s/picture/photograph at suggestion of TMWNN for more concision.)
Mussels make a powerful underwater glue
Moderna, Racing for Profits, Keeps Covid Vaccine Out of Reach of Poor
Do you have any real context on what's going on? If not then how do you claim with such high certainty that she's a "nutcase"?
I’d love to know how you achieved that. I’ve had friends like that and they don’t want to hear it, or refuse to acknowledge their own issues. Only after many many years and many issues has one admitted perhaps he’s not a good fit for corporate culture (still not fully acknowledging his role there).
IDK. Argentina has maintained its claim on the Falkland Islands verbally since forever, then in 1982 actually attempted to take them.
A 3x liquidation preference is anomalous. Pretty much every term sheet I see is an eminently reasonable non-participating 1x, which is a de facto standard term these days. If liquidation preferences are consistently higher across startups then it is a sign of an unhealthy investment market.
Before reading TFA, I would have called you paranoid. Now I wonder... Excluding Firefox from my package manager won't work for long -- surely I'll have to update, just for security purposes. Does anyone know of a good Firefox fork?
I hope you reread this exchange when you are not in defensive mode, and see to what degree you made arguments against words you put in my mouth instead of what I actually said, not to mention falsely charging me of "tacitly" and "reprehensible"ly sliding in a made-up definition of white supremacy, which your own link points out is a widely accepted meaning[1]. At the very top I said my criticisms were of your take, not your skin color, nor even of your intent. I took pains to point out we are all subject to this problem, regardless of skin color.

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[1] white supremacy

2. the social, economic, and political systems that collectively enable white people to maintain power over people of other races

… [William] Kelley turned his considerable intellect and imagination to the question of what it is like to be white in this country, and what it is like, for all Americans, to live under the conditions of white supremacy …
— Kathryn Schulz
I see people post this all the time, but I really don't think an axial fan can pull air through a HEPA-like filter. You need to spend $150 on a real solution. It's really not much, includes the filters, and looks a hell of a lot better to boot.
TronScript is hugely overkill. It makes changes that the vast majority of Windows users, even privacy conscious ones, would not want.

I dread to think how many well-meaning sons and daughters have run it on their parents and relatives PCs and then left, leaving behind a system that is now a nightmare to use.

Also, it takes literally hours to run. I mean, what the hell? ShutUp10 is done in seconds.
It looks like you have responded from wrong account .
COO, law firm, heavy on the legaltech.
It's actually pretty hard to drop something into the sun. You have to slow down quite a bit, which in turn needs a lot of fuel
There's quiet filters. I can barely hear the one(s) in my house, and they're just cheapo ones. Typically the key is to keep the fan speed reasonable, if you crank it up all the way almost any fan is going to be loud.
There are definitely bad prison cells. Multiple beds per cell, overcrowded, old, cold, hot, no windows etc.
None of the things in this article are specific to programming, they are all just the potential downsides of being an employee. In some situations you are an inferior, replaceable tool that is a burden on the company, whether you are a programmer or not. But there is a possibility that you prove yourself superior and become harder to replace.

I think the real downside to becoming "a programmer" is the antisocial tendencies that arise from staring at a screen all day, hyper-analyzing esoteric patterns of symbols. This tendency leaks into other aspects of life that don't benefit from an intellectual breakdown. It's plain to see the author is upset about something, but they defer to their analysis of programming as a profession instead of the stark reality of their emotional state.
‘The Night Agent’ Is the Netflix Limited Series: What We Know So Far About This?
This seems to be an unfortunate manifestation of French tax law and culture. This comes off as offensive to those of us who came up through, what we may believe, the more egalitarian, Silicon Valley entrepreneurship model. A PhD may actually be seen as a liability!

It also is grating, as many open source coders and maintainers choose to operate outside of both the academic and Silicon Valley cultures. Why would they want a committee of academics guiding and funding their projects?

All this being said, perhaps there will be positive outcomes from this fund.
I think even some big old banks do things like this.
What are some of the most underrated US cities for tech? One that comes to my mind is Nashville. It seems to have a considerable tech scene, the music scene is great, and it's much more affordable than, say, Austin.
Pro tip: press F11
Would you want to work with someone like this?
I guess its already happening. Many channels were complaining of shadow bans & demonetization.
In most cases/industries you'd assume the professionals would be right, but we're talking about the games industry - legendary for its shortsightedness and general idiocy - far too many obviously bad ideas get way too much money behind them. Very similar to the movie industry in that regard

And oh look at the one other industry still shooting itself in the foot with regards to piracy. Streaming is changing that for movies - you can see why so many are going for games streaming style services - just nobody has figured out the model
GAs are great. Love 'em. Same with monte carlo -- too many people dismiss these approaches and get mired in gradient-based optimization (which is far harder, more expensive, and often doesn't work any better). There should just be a rule that you have to try linear regression before building a neural network, and GA/MCSA before doing gradient optimization.

> I think calling it a "hack" misses the nuance: mapping the physical metrics and telemetry into a genome is nontrivial.

Well, that's definitely what I was trying to say, so we're agreed.

I actually don't think GA a great fit for this problem as parking a car is a time- and circumstance-dependent process, and a fixed gene is...not. But that's a guess.
Almost certainly.

Now, if it comes to a choice between sharply increasing wages plus a crash training programme for HGV drivers, or doing nothing and letting the shelves empty, guess which one is going to happen ..
It would only half the rate limit, but any real brute force attempt requires way way more than what a normal human would try. Something like 5 attempts would double to 10 in the backend, still nowhere enough to bruteforce, but enough for human trial and error.
Ads are now able to bypass Google Play to install apps WITHOUT user consent
Sec. of Treasury Janet Yellen in a letter to Sen. Crapo, earlier this year:

"Treasury also takes seriously the protection of the U.S. fisc. Our Greenbook proposals will bring corporate tax revenue as a share of our economy closer to its 21st century average before the 2017 corporate tax cut. Meanwhile, our Pillar 1 comprehensive scope proposal will be largely revenue neutral for the United States since we will be on both the receiving and giving end of the proposed profit reallocations. Indeed, one interesting feature of Pillar 1 estimates is that they demonstrate the extent to which both U.S. and foreign-headquartered corporations have managed to shift profits derived from sales to U.S. customers outside the United States for years, including under the 2017 tax act."

https://mnetax.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Yellen_letter_...
I am the founder/managing director of software company and ex-technologist.

HN is a perfect blend of business and tech for me. The comments sections are significantly less toxic the rest of the Internet.
> Any interview pipeline asking you dynamic programming problems has a broken process.

Every interview method ever presented on HackerNews has been labeled "broken".
> in the professional world, what you are going to do is dictated by your manager down to the last line of code. The feature and testing requirements would be specific enough to get rid of all creative freedom.

Maybe I'm just lucky, but I've worked in a large software house for over a decade and I'm enjoying a lot of creative freedom when it comes to the code I'm writing.

To me this reads more like reasons not to work at this person's particular company.
> Enclaves can protect against threats like malware or rootkits and even rogue administrators and physical intruders.

What will they do when the government comes knocking with a subpoena?
I'll admit, I had this same suspicion about this poster and one other in this thread.
Nice quite at the end from Mar Chantreux:

so unix sucks as all old technologies.

* if you want something conceptualy less broken, give plan9 a try

* if you want something more polished, give vim+coreutils a try

* if you want something convivialist, obenbsd is the best trade off i've seen (you can also give try to sbase or 9base)

* if you want something more consistent, let's start our project :)

* if you want something perfect, let it go :)
I can count on zero fingers the number of times I've needed to know any sort of calculus working in tech.
Brilliant work.
I'm a carpenter who's always been a programming enthusiast. I guess it's like programmers with a woodworking hobby.
Hey there, I've been working on something similar except with gourmet mushrooms. Curious if I could ask some questions about your process sometime?
ScummVM 2.5 “Twenty years ago today”
Nice, last question : do you use JDBC to connect to a postgres database or are there specific libraries in Kotlin?
Because I’ve read a ton of her material, and I work for Apple so I have some idea of what it’s like internally (although it’s a big company and many experiences are different). I also don’t have that context of working with her so I can look at that text message thread and easily imagine the problem is her affect and not some gender issue. She’s trying to provide absolute proof, but it’s very one sided and inconclusive by itself. Which just goes to show how she twists everything going on to be a great plot of the world against her. I’ve known people like this, and they’re disasters.

Look at this thread and her twitter bio. She’s trying to wear victimhood on her sleeve as a primary identity. Why post this random thread rehashing everything you’ve already posted a million times and all the press you’ve tried to put out? She WANTS to be a giant victim. Remember we’re talking about being fired; no one physically abused her, no one poisoned her, etc. Yet you’d have to assume as much given she doesn’t want to move on with her life. If you read the commments she gets on twitter it’s clear she’s getting what she wants from them (encouragement and sympathy), but ultimately she’s shooting herself in the foot. Who would ever want to hire her again, or provide her housing (after her whole anti-apartment rant toxicity rant)?
This is sensible because it's the same as taking laptop apart to replace failing RAM or disk.
journal article: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abi9702
generally by searching Facebook on duckduckgo and following links, for some people it might be preinstalled on their phones so they literally bought it.

in any case it was given willingly to me by Facebook
Ask HN: How are people storing user-scale secrets?
Like when you capture an oauth key, or some other 'password-like thing' that you need to store per-user and need to retrieve in plaintext so you can access an external service. Are you just putting this in a DB? AES-ing it?

My goal is to not leak oauth access when my DB inevitably gets stolen.
What is the internet connection like in the Canadian north?
We've got networks like this all over rural America. Only instead of giant towers they're little consumer fixed wireless nodes, getting 1-25Mbps (or more!) via 2.4GHz. 5GHz if you're lucky.
> If you go to a Canadian hospital wearing an N95 these days there's a good chance they will insist you to take it off in favour of a "clean" surgical mask with gaps around the sides and nose.

Wouldn't that just be because of protocol, ie. they don't know if you, a member of the public, actually have a legit N95 mask, or if you know how to correctly implement it, etc.
You're the one arguing for a change to the status quo, the burden of proof is on you.
He assisted his source in a failed attempt to crack a password hash? This is the "significant difference" you think makes him worthy of prosecution? He was a journalist exposing war crimes. He is not a US citizen and is not subject to US laws. If China extended their ban on youths playing video games for more than a few hours in a week to the world, you would probably have a problem with them forcing authorities in a country you're vacationing in to arrest your children and extradite them to China.
As stated elsewhere, this helps establish the credibility of the selection process in the eyes of the French fiscal administration, which, ultimately, is the biggest funder of the FDL (through various tax incentives).

Moreover, as it is a voluntary function, no one is harmed financially by this constraint.
>Also, if you're using Bitcoin with Lightning Network only, it's not possible to become associated with blacklisted addresses.

This is not true, there are many ways to gain information on those transactions.

> Some exchanges have been known to blacklist addresses, because they might have to follow certain AML/ATF orders. That's also why they don't accept completely anonymous cryptocurrencies like Monero at all.

It is necessary to react when you receive funds linked to illegal activity. Pretending that BTC is fungible when it is not can't change that. Accepting fungible goods like monero, cash, gold is generally legal though. So exchanges like Kraken do trade Monero but still do their due diligence on BTC transactions
This is dangerously misinformed on two counts:

1. Vaccinated people with an infection have similar viral load to unvaccinated people.

> Data from COVID-19 tests in the United States, the United Kingdom and Singapore are showing that vaccinated people who become infected with Delta SARS-CoV-2 can carry as much virus in their nose as do unvaccinated people. This means that despite the protection offered by vaccines, a proportion of vaccinated people can pass on Delta, possibly aiding its rise.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02187-1

2. Lightweight symptoms are good. The #1 pandemic control mechanism is self quarantine on symptom onset. Or perhaps you are one of those people that sends their kid with a running nose to school because it's slightly more convenient?
The really odd thing about this is how little anger there is about these issues. Isolated outbreaks of fighting over fuel at petrol stations but little directed at those in charge.

My only theory is that having been told to expect disaster for five years people have actually come to expect it.
Publicly funded media will present the views of those in power. That does not mean it will be any less self-serving than private media. Government newspapers have a sorry history.
> I don't think they actually published the papers, they just wrote stories using the papers as the source.

"The New York Times began publishing excerpts on June 13, 1971" -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_Papers#Leak
It's never that simple. Serbia still to this day has a scheme where you get a fixed amount taxation as self-employed "enterpreneur" up to 6M RSD (50k EUR/60k USD) of revenue, but are subjected to other taxation rules once you cross it (as a company or as an employee). It was heavily (ab)used by the IT crowd locally (until rule changes in 2019 about who can use this), and it was beneficial to stay under the 6M limit or you'd need to approach 10M (100k USD) to get the same net income.
> People will be more comfortable moving to the UK, and working.

On what visa (be specific)? A big part of Brexit has been making it harder for people to come to the UK and work.
Infinite scroll as a concept is good.

Infinite scrolling doesn't work with scrollbars, and somehow people still think it's okay to put important links in the page footer... on an infinite scrolling site where it's literally impossible to ever reach the page footer.
They were doing this for a while now. eg. https://web.archive.org/web/20181220022532/https://www.reddi... from a few years ago
Curious to learn more book recommendations. I enjoyed The Idea Factory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Idea_Factory), A mind at play (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Mind_at_Play)
Is a surgical-mask better than a fake N95 mask?
I am curious if never logging in to Google while using an Android precludes one from being susceptible to this. Generally you are unable to reach or interact with the app store without first registering a Google account on the device, and accepting various EULAs.

EDIT: Thanks to the commenters below, it appears not participating in the app store ecosystem does not safeguard someone from this. Quite concerning.
Other places Milk Bars make an appearance are Clockwork Orange and The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask.
Lol screw this stuff. Bootstrap a profitable company, grow it and either sell it or keep it forever. Zero bullshit.
While I welcome this decision, it is absurd that the law places any limits whatsoever on the act of examining how an artifact you legally own functions.

What they like to call "reverse engineering", because describing in plain language what is being forbidden would reveal what a severe limit on personal rights this is. Especially as we are being surrounded by devices where "reverse engineering" is the only way to determine what they do.

Such laws are no less than restrictions on what we are allowed to discover about our environment.
Maybe I don’t have the privilege of time/resources/position to get involved. I have to keep my head down and GSD, not looking to rock the boat, endanger my position, or forgo income by spending time on such issues.
The current state of Western Media is not very nice, but it is far from 'extreme'.
In addition to these things, make sure the company who's hiring you, if you're located in another country knows how to do so, before wasting too much of your energy with them. I was recently burned by this after receiving a good offer.
Yes, but if someone is set on pirating the game, they'll just wait until its cracked in a month before playing it. So really, publishers aren't going to gain any sales compared to not including DRM to begin with. If they do it's going to be a tiny, tiny fraction.
After your question, I asked me friend, and she said it's so damn confusing what the rules and borders are that it's easy to get confused.
> Private media is highly centralized, and the people involved are also highly involved in politics

Do you really think that people who write about politics can ever resist the urge to try to shape politics?

Why would a government journalist be any better?
You Only Need Two Investors
How about she's making it her identity because she feels unheard and that the US justice system is so toothless that they've not done basic investigations after hundreds of complaints have come in?

America doesn't give a shit about corporate culture even when they're toxic and actually illegal. She has a full right to keep talking about it and keep bringing attention to it.

Your defense, even though you're just a basic employee, is pathetic and tone deaf. As a random employee you have absolutely zero idea of what's happening at the scale of a company like apple. Claiming otherwise is disengenous.

There needs to be a federal investigation of these claims at apple, and if found that she was lying then we could make claims like this.
They definitely do this on macrumors just look at any comment section there
I'm a freelance performance and theatre artist. This means (in my case) that I stage/create performative works of my own, perform in other people's pieces and sometimes build special effects using electronics and programming.

I used to study physics before I got serious about theatre, and my dad is a programmer. I think he introduced me to HN at some point a few years ago, and today I am using it daily to indulge my curiosity, laziness and procrastination. (;

This is an awesome thread to read, thanks for posting the question!
If you have to ask, you aren't drowning in demand. Sounds trite, but it's true, you'll know it when you experience it, hard to give numbers around such an increase in demand.
Good to know. Will they verify your (fake) name & address, too?

Anyhow, it's time to fight back against these roach motel subscription companies. Just shut off the money.
They probably have those with windows that open, too, thanks to the last pandemic.
For anyone who wants to know a bit more about this, this a recent talk about how to implement move constructors in Rust: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrDhMWISR3w
Trace them enclaves with some side-channels. These things are not as secure as people think.
Even if the garbage, leaky COVID vaccines did something to reduce transmission of the dominant Delta variant (they don't), there is zero precedent for employers being responsible for the transmission of respiratory viruses between their employees. It's an absurd notion concocted out of whole cloth by people so monomaniacally focused on Covid that they can't see more than the two inches in front of their own face needed to realize that letting employers mandate experimental injections is a terrible idea.
Is this really the current situation, that counts as unprofessional feedback, sexual harassment and a scandal?

Your boss doesn't always have to give you perfect feedback I don't think, just like you might not always show up to work on your A game.

It's just interesting to watch this evolution in SV and facinating to hear that this is such a terrible piece of feedback.

Many / most professions have feedback that is far more direct and blunt.
Old joke.
I'm a stem cell biologist. I still do a little coding though so that's why I found this place
That and questioning her experiences with sexism at Apple. I see people claiming to work for Apple having a go at her too, which I'm guessing are male.
and r/howto