skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't find it now because google is garbage these days but years ago I once ran across forum thread or blog post from a small business owner who semi-regularly received random bogus patent infringement and other claims with offers to settle matter out of court for thousands of dollars.

He had a lawyer but after burning through a lot of money with carefully-written objections, he decided to just start ignoring them altogether. Which generally worked. These lawyers (and their clients) were just trolling for easy cash and never actually wanted to go to court because their claims were bogus and they would almost certainly lose.

Sometimes, however, the other party's law firm would call him on the phone to follow with their demands. He would let them yammer on for a few minutes, ask some innocent questions, and then finally interrupt them with something like this. "Here is what I have to say to your client's claim... you have a pen and paper ready? I need you to write this down. Okay, good. Here it is: 'Fuck you.' No wait, I'm not done yet. Just let me speak. I want you to also add, 'and go to hell" please. That is my official legal response. Have a nice day." And slammed the phone down.

Take the story with a grain of salt, but he said it worked 100% of the time.
COIN has lost 25% since IPO (in that time, GOOG, FB, MSFT, AAPL, HOOD are up, PP is even, and SQ is down marginally), and their offers aren't particularly better than <anywhere else>, so it doesn't seem like this is true.

Like, even if you think crypto is going to be super relevant, there's tons of other cryto startups. Coinbase has or had first mover advantage, but that's no longer an enormous advantage.
Awesome writeup; I used SnapServ and so far the guy that runs it has been nothing but awesome. I am not experienced what it comes to this specific area of networking since it is my first time trying to get my own IP block; he walked me through everything and even corrected dumb mistakes I made in my RIPE registration with great explanations as to what my mistakes were.
Do you write your programs like a neural network? I would consider that a major red flag when hiring.
This is the kind of parallel argumentation that tech workers (and their managers) make against unionization ("you're too well paid to need a union").

It misses the point -- they don't need to be "oppressed" to be justified in talking about politics at work, the same way they don't need to be underpaid to be justified in unionizing. Each is a perfectly sufficient end in itself.
> All we need is a change in party running the White House to torpedo our own ideas. See also: TPP.

TPP was opposed by both major-party candidates by the time of the general election; Hillary Clinton flip-flopped her position on it to pander to Bernie-inclined voters (or charitably, in order to better represent her constituents' views).

Regardless, our withdrawal from it had nothing to do with "a change in party running the White House", and we would've likely withdrawn regardless of who won the election. It was just a consequence of the populist wave that swept America across the political spectrum (and is sweeping much of the world).
They aren’t the same. I’m not knocking dogecoin — it’s a real Nakamoto blockchain, a real working product. I’d rather folks bought BTC but hey, any software fork of Satoshi client is better than the scamfactory enabled by Eth.
Indeed. That's the very reason I don't bring my dog for visits (also afraid the kid will get too attached to him since he's so sweet).
At least they would be rowing, but political activism is not work. Imagine going to the barber and instead of cutting your hair he would lecture you on the hardship of Guatemalan shepherds.
F.B. Purity does just that, but the HTML is fairly complicated (if I remember correctly, the relevant words are a jumble of absolutely positioned spans, with a lot of fodder thrown in to throw off blockers). Facebook changed their code about a month ago, and the extension developer has been working on a fix for almost all of that time and still hasn't rolled it out yet.
Focus on "the mission", which is itself an ancap political project.
> I almost wonder if he was really looking for an objection to that proposal

Nah, he wasn't. Near the end of our time slot, he shared the behavior of open() with me (that's how I learned about it).

I told him that doing it that way was silly, because it made the code's intent less clear. He didn't seem impressed.
The "private shares" don't have anywhere near the voting rights that people would typically expect from an IPO.

>Elon Musk’s trust holds 54% of the outstanding shares of SpaceX and has 78% voting control of the outstanding stock.

https://www.rankred.com/buy-spacex-stock-worth/

And the reality is: what does he have to gain by going public? He's found no shortage of private investment. I see a ton of negatives to being public and almost no downside.
I don't think that cigarettes can be easily labeled as not having a social benefit. Nicotine has cognitive enhancement effects and it seems to help people with some disorders manage them better.[0] The benefits are to the extent that nicotine has been considered as a treatment for ADHD.

Nicotine being generally available could have provided significant amounts of social benefits by allowing people to self-medicate. Current healthcare systems are absolutely not adequate for picking up the slack and that's if the healthcare system is even willing to treat those people (ADHD treatment in some European countries is tricky).

While it was certainly bad how much cigarettes were pushed and I do think this caused more harm than good, it still probably had benefits.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6018192/
This is completely useless now that Google+ is dead (since 2019). However, as somebody who used Google+ back in 2011, part of the attraction was that the people who liked Facebook weren't on Google+. It was a good forum for geeks, techies, artists, writers, and musicians until around 2013 or so when Google decided to make all of their stuff part of Google+ (including YouTube).

It was a "ghost town" from a marketing viewpoint, but it was my ghost town.
That might be available in AROS? Don't quote me on it though.
I can only guess that they either have or might want to have in the future, some foreign companies come and base their businesses there to generate some much welcome money and jobs into the national economies.

They might also be suspicious of the motivations of the West.
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Thank you and everyone else involved. I tried reading the source code of many terminal emulators, found them to be really difficult to understand. This project helped me understand terminals better.
We are primed by nature to take anything social more important than everything else, except nature dangers. It makes totally sense to block out social cues "conversations" like lyrics to focus.
Miners get the transaction fee in addition to a mining reward. Once the last coin is mined, the reward goes away but the transaction fee remains
Google doing RSS... Let me guess, their RSS will have ads soon.
I would finally read that lengthy bash manual. What gems like /dev/tcp or suspend -f am I missing?

Well, I would at leaststart to read it
I'm a developer in Iran willing to do this, email in the profile, just in case the owner wants to and reads this.
Brian is just a guy who has thin skin, and needs to be surrounded by yes-men.

This need for constant adulation is so strong that he did a big thread on Twitter whining that billionaires might stop being CEOs because it’s “not fun” to be criticized by the media.

He’s not going for alignment on things that matter. He’s just a thin-skinned, whiny, weak little bitch who needs to be surrounded by yes men.
My favorite is the recruiting page for coinbase. Which imo is overtly political

https://www.coinbase.com/careers
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There's honestly quite a few developers that produce zero or negative value (e.g. by implementing the wrong things, introducing lots of bugs or significant complexity etc). 10x:ing them is not difficult.
I think OP paid to travel as a passenger. They explicitly didn't get the option to work on the ship for a discount on their passage. Apparently you can just pay to travel on these container ship lines, although it can take more than 2 weeks to cross the ocean and accommodations vary.
I misspoke. You shouldn't "safely assume." What I mean is that all-else-equal, it's some extra information to go on for a candidate. That they might have gotten an extra boost from nepotism to their current position equivalent to the other person, and that if you had to pick between candidates, the MBA had an X% chance of not quite being as good as the other.

Yes, it's somewhat like "flipping the initial assumption upside down", but really it's just accounting for there being the opposite boost in the first place.

Candidates aren't solely judged on interview performance. Again, if things are extremely close, you'll have to include other data like career or education history to make the most informed choice.
It's not the open source license which we can't forbid using, it's the enterprise version.
Work time ceases to be work time when your hours on the job take up more than a quarter of the time in a calendar day, and that's probably the maximum upper limit, in honesty. As societies we have structured our adult lives around a window from 9 to 5 in which we are supposed to work and also interface with every other adult that works.

It's an untenable situation at best.
Here's the first-hand account of the extension's author: https://slate.com/technology/2021/10/facebook-unfollow-every...
Looking at https://downdetector.co.uk/, the 4 service at the top are Instagram, Facebook, Facebook Messenger and Whatsapp, so I'd be tempted to say yes.
How does it benchmark to experiencing some stress in a situation where stress is the normal response and learning to deal with it is antifragile.
Does that help them? It makes the trade that at sports the abuses less financially viable, but that might make the abuses worse. If the trade stops they lose their jobs and money stops flowing from wealthier regions to poorer regions.

Fair trade is better than no trade (other things being equal) if you want to support foreign workers.

Just global trade systems are a hard problem, as I see it, and really can't be organised from the consumer end (ie by simply choosing where/if to buy goods).
Good on you for actually getting any useful out of brain.fm

I’ve tried it a couple of years ago, and for me it was mostly repeating tunes and nothing particularly good for programming/focus work.
Your comment is the reason I have a print copy of "Object-Oriented Programming: an Evolutionary Approach" on my desk. Second edition, though, not the one you worked with.
I use firefox. You can too.
Facebook's C&D letter [0] reminded me of how difficult it was to migrate my friends to Google Plus because the Facebook TOS prevented third party access to contact information and mass messaging. With the recent whistleblower testimony [1] I was thinking one of the most impactful decisions Congress could make would be enabling users to fully own their contact lists. Organic growth of alternative social media platforms would be easier if all it took was a click of a mouse to send all your contacts a message on your other platforms.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28801908

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28741532
This is about as useful as saying in 2005 that you could play games on Linux.
You need to read more carefully. OP wrote they paid to be on the ship and did not have to work.
You may be interested in privacy pass: https://privacypass.github.io/

However if you are completely disabling cookies and connecting for a unreliable source (like a public wifi or TOR) then there is nothing to store that your session is trust worthy.
Makes sense, but you're still condemning the victim to a lifetime of drugs and compromised immune system with little consequence.
Ad blockers such as uBlock Origin try. IIRC, Facebook obscures the HTML in a way that makes blocking without a more advanced parser harder.
> You're paid to do a job. Politics is for your personal time.

It's remarkable how easily we've forgotten that the very concept of "personal time" took decades of sustained political effort at the workplace.
In the same light, I'm also not paid to believe in some ludicrous "mission". That's something for my personal time in GTA. Unless I have genuine equity, in which I stand to gain from the company's overall success. In that case though, I should also have some level of say in what I can talk about at work.
I guessed that much, but then aren’t you required as the filling party to prove:

1- that the removal did actually happen.

2- that you did not consent to the removal.

(1) is probably doable in most cases, but I can’t see how could you prove (2).
We used to have a lot of comments, as in hundreds, that said "update this comment with more professional language" and this was 2 years after we were in production.
It has to do with the scale and physics of the motion. When you film an avalanche from far away, it appears to descend very slowly at the normal replay rate. But if you made your typical science fair volcano on a tabletop, the foam descends a lot more quickly at the same time scale.
Switched to Firefox 8 months ago and I'll never go back. I dare you to try it.
The interview loop is not necessarily an indication of the work environment. It is a chore, 1-2 interviews a week, about a couple hours each including prep & report writing, evaluating a candidate that will not work on your team, except in rare instances. I can see interviewers zoning into a specific answer simply because they have no energy and no interest to explore alternative avenues.
It's not ironic. It's literally the point of why he's calling it "mission-focused" and not "apolitical." If the almost all members of the NAACP happened to be pro-crypto, do you it's reasonable for it's members to pressure its leadership to spread the adoption of crypto?
> The UI for <input type="datetime-local"> has been added.

I've been out of frontend web dev for a while... does this mean the days of trying to find/create your own (good) datetime picker component are gone?
Chill out a little. What makes these threads explode is that many many people have spent weeks or months of their lives preparing for an interview at Google - it can create a lot of reasonable resentment especially when one feels they haven’t been given a fair shake - and by many accounts even Google recognizes that there’s an element of luck involved even when the person is good.
Sailing ships require large amounts of labor, which is even more expensive.
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Well, you “engaged” with the muted piece by interacting with it (even if it’s to mute it), so you must be interested in that content, no? /s
Not only that, but you can see why places like Twitter need 4 years to change a font. It looks like tech in general is undermined by highly unprofessional people and this whole thread is a testament to that.
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Just looked into Buy Nothing. What's the advantage of using this platform vs. second-hand/thrift shops?
Brian Armstrong was on Tyler Cowen and Tyler asked him if bitcoin was a zero sum game, in a round about way:

COWEN: I’ve seen estimates that about 20 percent of bitcoin has been lost, or people don’t have their passwords, or it’s somehow abandoned or whatever. Let’s say that 20 percent were found. Those people would be better off, right? They’d have more wealth. Who is then worse off?

ARMSTRONG: Yes, I suppose you have dilution, and you have inflation if you’re increasing the money supply somehow like that.

COWEN: Then if we ask the general question that the social value of bitcoin — bitcoin in general — again, clearly a benefit to the people who bought at low prices. They in essence found bitcoin. But if someone else in the system is losing an equal amount, why think that the social value of bitcoin is positive?

ARMSTRONG: Who’s losing the equivalent amount in this case, just so I understand?

COWEN: I don’t know exactly who, but someone else has less purchasing power, right? Bitcoin isn’t apples. You can’t eat it for lunch.

ARMSTRONG: It’s not clear to me that bitcoin is a zero-sum game.

COWEN: But what is that? When do I get my apples, so to speak? Where do they come from?

ARMSTRONG: Well, anybody can participate of course. I think, now, about probably 10 percent of Americans and maybe 60 or 70 million people globally have crypto, at least. So it’s been growing a lot.

Brian didn't seem to understand the question and it left me a bit unimpressed.

https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/brian-armstrong/
This was the same for me. I'm an engine / graphics programmer with experience on console, looking for work after the studio I was at shut down. Google decided to match me up with a team working on an Android app, because it was "Graphics", and it resulted in maybe the worst phone call I've ever had in my life: any time I asked about technical questions, they just said they didn't have to worry about that part since they were using stock Google libraries. They were working on a application that displayed 3D models, so I asked about their art pipeline, which elicited the answer "what's an art pipeline, I've never heard that term before" from the project manager. It was clear that my skills weren't valued, and at times it seemed like they didn't even want any additional team members.

None of the people who interviewed me are still at Google.
I know this thread is almost 20h old. But, I started using awesomewm maybe 8 years ago, decided on a look and config and haven't changed it since, every computer i use have the same setup, it is indeed awesome! Thank you so much for your time and dedication, it's a pleasure to use
> There's an other Steve at Apple ...

*There Woz

Assuming you mean Wozniak, who left in 1985[1]. Then again, the company is big enough, I cannot exclude the existence of other Steves[2], some of whom might like this kind of tinkering.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Wozniak#Final_departure_...

[2] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OneSteveLimit
I double checked, and my friend successfully got away with homeschooling her kids in Germany. This was over five years ago. She thinks that maybe because she's American, they didn't follow up as much as they would have with a German citizen. She also told me today that she was there for almost a year, not a few months.

I wouldn't suggest anyone else try this.
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I'll donate to this project.
You may be able to configure F.B. Purity [0] to your liking. I installed it last night after seeing it mentioned in another thread here and it's cut down on all of my newsfeed clutter.

[0]https://www.fbpurity.com/
I wrote this in an email turning down a chance explore opportunities at Coinbase.

> To me, diversity and social justice are critically important. I have the luxury of being selective in where I put my time and energy and it is important those values align with my career. I appreciate aspects of being "mission focused" but I think that there is a gulf between my personal values and Coinbase's values such that I would not be comfortable in the environment.

I can't speak for anyone else but I think I'm not a terrible engineer and I definitely ruled them completely out of the realm of places I'd be willing to work.
C&Ds are also specifically protected speech under the first amendment, under the theory they're really a threat to petition the government.
He makes the same mistake that people always have in promoting what the ISO C and C++ Standards call a "free-standing implementation". That is supposed to be a build mode intended for use in embedded systems, where the program is itself the whole system, so it cannot rely on OS services.

This gets conflated, absurdly, with an inability to allocate, manage, and use heap memory. Billions of embedded devices reserve and manage heap memory without difficulty. Indeed, every OS kernel is running in just such an embedded environment. Managing memory for its own use and on behalf of user processes is among its chief activities.

The problem with defining a "free-standing" version of a Standard is that, in practice, real systems invariably need to use some of what is not specified to be part of the negotiated "free-standing" subset. There are at all times active proposals to add this or that extra library feature to the "free-standing" subset. Meanwhile, the language implementers have very little incentive to package any "free-standing" subset at all, because no one such subset that any substantial number of embedded users can actually use is possible.

In practice, embedded-system developers use the regular toolchain, and just link a runtime support library that implements the things they need. So, for example, C++'s std::vector will, by default, call operator new(). But any particular use of it, in an embedded program, may specify a custom allocator, and the object code for the program then ends up with no calls to operator new(), and so links happily to a runtime library without one.
The cease and desist seemingly has no real legal basis

It seems pretty straightforward to me - the Facebook terms of service say that you won't make scripts that interact with the Facebook site except through approved APIs, the cease and desist is telling him that he is breaking this agreement. There's no lawsuit involved, Facebook will just enforce this themselves by banning the account and making the script not work. It's not a big deal, this probably happens hundreds of times a day for various bots that people make that manipulate Facebook in different ways.
Startups are still doing this mission thing? When is the lie that they're not just awful companies like every other going to stop working?
I agree...it would send a message to beach these ships in high-visibility areas
An optimizing compiler will turn div-by-constant and mod-by-constant into multiplications and bitshifts. For example, the Rust compiler: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=release&edit... (select "Show assembly" on the top-left button).

pub fn divmod10(x: u32) -> (u32, u32) {
(x / 10, x % 10)
}

generates

mov ecx, edi
mov eax, 3435973837
imul rax, rcx
shr rax, 35
lea ecx, [rax + rax]
lea ecx, [rcx + 4\*rcx]
sub edi, ecx
mov edx, edi
ret
Well I am the target audience (Laravel developer) and I have no idea what its trying to portray.
You're right, just like you were in the failed interview.
Even if FedEx did fold your 8.5x11 document into thirds, they still couldn't profitably send it across the country for 58 cents. Nor do any of those other privatized mail services in their smaller home countries.
Thanks! Yeah, naming is hard. I think it did come up when we were searching for a name. For clarification, the name is a play on the Program for Arctic Regional Climate Assessment (PARCA), where "ice core profiling" was performed to study climate change.
the core of cat-file.c is quite short. i think you could get the random access you want with minimal effort. ideally, upstream support for --offset and --count or what not to git; a lot of people would benefit.

https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/builtin/cat-file.c

you can absolutely make tools to expand out & load git repos into content stores. it's going to depend on the content store how you do that.
> Then again, he made his start dismantling phone kit and making free long distance calls just to find out how it all worked

Are you talking about this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_box:

> Blue box designed and built by Steve Wozniak and sold by Steve Jobs before they founded Apple. Displayed at the Powerhouse Museum, from the collection of the Computer History Museum[1]

Also: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/02/the-d...

If so, you might have your Apple Computer Steves mixed up.