skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> no thank you for being a teeny bit snarky about it, as if everybody obviously should already know this.

I was responding to the article text; anyone writing a news article speaking to the prospects for an international agreement coming into force in US law ought to have a basic understanding of how that actually happens in practice in US law.

> it's the skirting of the treaty provisions of the US Constitution that raises eyebrows.

The treaty provision is a permissive mechanism that allows the President, with strong Senate support, to make agreements with foreign nations while bypassing the House of Representatives role in normal legislation.

It is not skirting that to make law within the scope of the legislative power through the normal Constitutional legislative process, just because the content of the legislation was agreed with foreign parties. The treaty power doesn't silently reduce the scope of the legislative power.
> Python definitely has more legacy cruft, but also has an npm equivalent PEP 582 with a working example, pdm

That's part of the problem. Python has lots of things that cover lots of things, but nothing does everything.

> It's mostly people thinking bare `pip install` is a reasonable way to add various applications to your system that complain about python packaging.

It is reasonable in JS, and I think it should be. Having to worry about virtual environments is a pain, and having to learn new tools to avoid that is a pain too.

> I'm not saying Python packaging doesn't suck, it definitely does. But so does JS and the mess that the npm ecosystem is makes working with it it much more painful.

I don't think that's a good point. The JS ecosystem adapted quickly to TypeScript, while Python is lagging behind. Most of the new JS features are reasonable, and the backwards compatibility is top-notch. Meanwhile, Python is spending brain power on pattern matching and :=. JS is missing something like Django, but on the other hand Python has no React equivalent. All of that without mentioning speed or the fact that JS has multiple implementations that works very well with almost all the ecosystem.
I think this is just pattern recognition, really. There's only a few places where it makes sense to put e.g. a fire extinguisher or power outlets so you can make an inference about where they're at without actively thinking too much about the layout of a building.
> If Toyota go dark, the world makes fewer cars. It would take time and investment to recover the capacity.

I think the world would be just fine - car manufacturing capacity has already dropped due to the chip shortage, but the world is humming along, albeit with slightly higher car prices. If Toyota became insolvent, second-hand Toyotas would go up in price, and some other car company would buy their factories. It wouldn't be Armageddon.
Facebook isn't a monopoly, as evidenced by their recent outage resulting in 70M new Telegram users overnight.

Even so, as others have pointed out, the telcos did have arguably reasonable restrictions placed on what one could connect to the network.

But to put glorified web sites in the same class as government-sanctioned monopolies utilities tend to necessarily be is asinine. Your telco had to run physical wires across the land, gas company physical pipes everywhere, there was no practical means of a free competitive market, it's a completely different situation.
Seems like most people here think hospitals and health care companies act purely out of the benevolence of their hearts and not for profit, judging by the down-votes on your comment ;)
It was alluded to in the list but I like this great quote:

"the best way to deal with complexity is to remove it"
Tesla is a battery company with a vertically integrated product line.
The advice is obvious to people who do a lot of blogging, but there's always someone learning who needs a resource like this to help them build their foundation.
I think that a concern exists in some about the potential gap between "untransmissible" and someone saying that they are untransmissible. Compliance/adherence is a big deal. "In the United States, the rate of adherence to HIV therapy is generally low." as one meta-analysis went.
The owner of the bucket could have taken that photo when it was new. Can imagine posting that on social media "just made my first garden bucket!", or having a series of photos from points in time to show the progress
Significantly lower. Agriculture accounts for about 5/6th of CA's water usage for a sector that generates 2% of its GDP.

To be clear, I love getting my food from the Central Valley, but I also think there are overdue discussions to be had about where the water's going and how much utility we're getting from it.
I don't get it. University tests are brutal too and have the expectation the student will devote large amounts of time and energy. It seems like a job interview is fair game for the same, no?

I feel like this is a very bruised ego here. I'm not saying any interview process is perfect, and I think a lot of them are very, very bad at accessing the capabilities and value someone provides, but same for University.
My understanding of common carrier rules is that they want to avoid a situation where a railroad or telephone operator who controlled the only available line could charge exorbitant rates to customers who had no alternatives. I don't really see how the same concern is true for Facebook - we have lots of options to disseminate information online.
Once they start blocking archive.is I'll probably care more
They are slightly different in meaning.
Cease = Stop doing it.
Desist = Don’t do it again.
I haven’t thought about it like this before. Thank you.
That's missing the point, if you want a law to punish people for transmitting a disease intentionally, that's as specific as you need to get. The magnitude of the consequences for this law wrt HIV infection is also likely higher than would be applied to a general infection because of the paranoia/homophobia at the time of its writing.

So sure, go write a new law and make sure it covers a broad set of things without singling out a specific group that is already marginalized.
Interesting that people still use Facebook, even after everything that has happened and happening.
Stop it & die!

It would be an appropriate way for Facebook to phrase their C&D considering the forms that cyber-bullying take on the platform
“ A legal doublet is a standardized phrase used frequently in English legal language consisting of two or more words that are near synonyms, usually connected by "and", and in standard orders, such as "cease and desist".

The doubling—and sometimes even tripling—often originates in the transition from use of one language for legal purposes to another… To ensure understanding, the terms from both languages were used. This reflected the interactions between Germanic and Roman law following the decline of the Roman Empire.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_doublet
The cube is weird to me. I wasn't around when it came out, but I have seen one or two online and in person. I find it intensely ugly but also really beautiful at the same time. It's almost like an ugly baby. It's ugly, but it's alive and it's yours.
Awok: The Rise and Fall of an E-Commerce Giant
I think it's because the frame rate is usually used as shorthand for the amount it slowed down, since a fixed playback rate is assumed, but yes, it drives me crazy and when I heard "shot in 6000fps" I immediately thought to myself, "well tell us what fps it's being played back in so I can tell how much slower it is!"

When the guy filming it switches his camera from 30fps to 120fps, 240fps, or 6000fps, he knows exactly what the result will be so he starts thinking of "6000fps" as a specification for how slow it is, which it isn't.
Cease is more like stop doing something you were already doing, where is desist is More like don't even start it.

So perhaps they should be cease or desist.
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In my free time, I like playing chess on the computer, board games with friends, and hanging out with my animals. Some passions include VR, IoT, and sustainable agriculture. I hope to move my lifestyle to one of small scale, sustainable agriculture over the next few years to reduce my carbon footprint and ensure my food is ethically obtained.

Feel free to reach out either for job opportunities or to discuss any of these passion areas of mine!
I agree they were defensive responses. I was responding to accusations. The defensiveness was intentional.

The first comment felt like he was insinuating we are sketchy and the second that I was attempting to involve him in a "pissing contest". Neither are true and so I was defensive. I wasn't being an asshole. I was speaking plainly to those insinuations. I simply addressed where he might be wrong.
Testing is not a cure.

When treatment isn't available, the game theory becomes "expose yourself legally by knowing something that won't help you" vs "ignore it".
C&Ds often have questionable reasoning to back them up. Any lawyer can write something that sounds scary to get you to stop. Whether they are actually interpreting the law correctly is up to the courts, and Facebook knows most people give in because they don't want to chance it or spend money fighting it.
Ask that your federal representative legislate against this sort of behaviour, and to give teeth to enforcement agencies.

Unscrupulous actors get away with this because there are few rules against it, and enforcement is non-existent. If a shipping company is sanctioned from entry into American ports based on misbehavior on the other side of the world, they'd have an incentive to clean up their act... Or at least, to subcontract everything to shell corporations.
Pressure politicians to implement covid rule exemptions/changes, budget hikes, and personnel bonuses to keep docks open. They are too often closed to incoming ships due to unreasonable requirements such as vaccine passports for all sailors and quarantines whenever there are mild/asymptomatic breakthrough infections among vaccinated dock staff.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-03-31/for-st...
Gold is not used a store of value, and neither is bitcoin. Both are investments. The question is whether they are good investments or not.
I did this too and use facebook for the marketplace and half a dozen pretty active niche groups that don't have corresponding communities outside of facebook. I agree that it was tedious but since doing that I can't muster much ire toward Facebook beyond the general ire I have for everything on the internet, which I think has been a net negative for people's happiness (broadly speaking).
But they didn't ban the seller from using the phone system, they banned people from attaching a different machine to the system. That's like the Facebook trying to detect the extension and trying to block it. That's similar to some websites blocking ad blockers, while it would not go down well with Facebook users I think it's very different to what Facebook does here.
Yeah, looks like acoustic couplers were mostly a seventies thing
> He was fixated on this one very specific piece of knowledge.

IMHO, that's what makes writing interview questions so hard: you really have to know the topic inside and out to know (or at least recognize) all the answers. If you only know one, your question is shit and you might as well have the applicant play guess the number.
This is one of the too-rare cases where government is doing precisely what you said they aren't doing: leveling the playing field --increasing fairness, as opposed to giving sweetheart deals.

I have plenty of concerns with how my government is run and how their tax revenue is allocated, but tax avoidance is a basic problem of fairness and a problem to be solved.
To my understanding, the original purpose of trademarks was to protect the buyer. If I buy a bicycle listed as being from X, I can expect that it was manufactured by X, or at the very least endorsed by X (e.g. Kirkland products). If a different manufacturer Y labels their product as X, then I no longer have that certainty.

But corporations have taken that and gone way too far on it. If I describe a product as being "compatible with X" or "fits on an X", that in no way makes a claim that it is manufactured by X. Like how tv manufacturers should be able to say "Perfect for watching the Super Bowl this weekend.", but avoid doing so for fear of being sued. There's no endorsement at all there, nor any dilution of the trademark, and yet it gets treated as though the words themselves are protected.
Yeah, at least in the past it was pretty standard for them to assign you a seemingly random interview gauntlet focused on a role that wasn't a fit for you and wasn't even the one you were applying for.

I interviewed for javascript vm/browser runtime stuff multiple times and until the last interview cycle I kept getting assigned to interview with people who worked on android apps or cloud storage infrastructure. Complete mismatch. I don't write Java, dude.
I try to keep my overall plan in one single page in a Word Doc. We break our epics and stories out in Jira but we have a same page that everyone on my team looks at when it comes to doing our large scale planning. It's great.
> Facebook is a utility that should be nationalized - it has grown too big.

This can't happen to utility monopolies:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/oct/06/telegram-says-...

If your claim were true, everyone would just be stuck suffering and beholden to Facebook's ability to fix their service for lack of options.
Who do you think appends your transaction to the blockchain? A middleman.
Perhaps, but then one _could_ say, "I'll pick 'cease', please! I'll get back to doing it again later"
The Common Lisp condition system is just an implementation of composable effects, which are useful for plenty of other stuff beyond error handling.
The header for a blob file is "blob", a space, the length of the content as ASCII integer representation, then a null byte.

$ echo "hello world" > HELLO.txt
$ git add HELLO.txt
$ cat .git/objects/3b/18e512dba79e4c8300dd08aeb37f8e728b8dad | \
> zpipe -d | \
> hexdump -e '"|"24/1 "%_p" "|\n"'
|blob 12.hello world.|
$

The header and the content get concatenated together, and the whole thing gets Zlib compressed. The SHA1 is calculated from the header-plus-content before it gets Zlib compressed.

$ cat .git/objects/3b/18e512dba79e4c8300dd08aeb37f8e728b8dad | \
> zpipe -d | \
> shasum
3b18e512dba79e4c8300dd08aeb37f8e728b8dad -
$

What I would like to do is record an audio file (e.g. LPCM BWF), take its SHA1 and store it in the CAS as raw content, then reference it somehow from a Git commit. That way it will be part of the history and will travel with `push` and `clone`, won't get gc'd, etc.

> That said, even if it is compressed, a command like git cat-file could be used to pipe the contents of the file to stdout or any other program that could use them as input without having to create a file on disk.

That's a neat suggestion! However, I don't see how it would be compatible with random access, which is important for my application.
Or "stop doing it and don't restart"
Hong Kong’s anti-doxxing law comes into force despite human rights criticism
What makes this browser plugin illegal software that is worthy of a ban?

What else can Facebook demand that its users use or don't use?
Nigeria’s Tiwa Savage being blackmailed over her sex tape
Great ad for the extension, I wanna try this now.
i had a similar experience wrt a product position. interviewer was fixated on a particular 'right' answer to a trivia-based question. was gladly not a fit there.
People still need to be able to collaborate.
100% the right takeaway. Even if it's just a couple of sentences of encapsulating "what I'm going to talk about", that should always come before starting into a long backstory.

I read a lot of blogs that make that mistake of starting off a post by droning on for paragraphs about the background, history, or context they want to set for the blog — but I need to know why I'm here in the first place. The title got my attention, but it still doesn't totally tell me what I'll get out of this.

A 'history of a problem' section also has to try and be concise and use really engaging language (it's hard) otherwise those background intros can feel like a chore to read and people will leave.
I've heard the "unlimited PTO" policy referred to jokingly as the "no PTO policy" at some shops.

Most companies are great about it though and encourage PTO.
I received a C&D from Facebook many moons ago. I was a young man and absolutely shit myself, to the extent that I don’t even have the source code anymore. All I did was publish some CSS to make Facebook look a little less shitty.
Facebook wants to think it is
Boeing has huge civilian aircraft sales to China, that's also leverage. The focus on SpaceX and only SpaceX gives you a clue as to where this "issue" came from.
Pleonasm
I don't think that would be a problem unless you often find yourself absent mindedly almost accidentally starting to work when you mean to be taking a break.
Good point, ethereum fees are a deal breaker.

At least with regards to the fees problem we now have side chains that make really cheap to send/receive stablecoins (USDC, USDT, DAI, etc).

You can currently transact stablecoins on Polygon paying one tenth of a penny in fees [1], and there's more than US$ 1bi in stablecoin supply already being transacted there (US$ 700mi for USDC alone).

[1] https://polygonscan.com/tx/0xc260342a31648108f88e3cb5afe740a...
2024 means boosters for at least 2022, 2023, 2024. If covid becomes like the flu that requires a new shot every year then 3x (exceeding the population by 2x) is pretty much the exact number of shots you'd expect.
I think you’re missing the point or I was unclear. The point is not that masters at a skill don't exist. The point is that attributing their skill mostly to something innate rather than practice, study, etc is not supported by the body of research they review in the book (the book is written for a general audience, their academic research supports the arguments in the book).
That’s a terrible interview question. I haven’t been at Google long enough to comment on hiring practices a decade ago, but nowadays I wouldn’t be surprised if an engineer who asked that type of question got feedback from HC to change their question.
Long time ago I took the time to unfollow 99% of my "Facebook Friends" and get out of groups and pages that were of no interest to me.

So now I follow a handful of friends and a few pages of interest to me, it's quite interesting.
The parent was not claiming that crime rates are the same in all cities. They were claiming that police in other cities would have a similarly hard time doing anything about a smash and grab like this (not agreeing, just paraphrasing).
Here's a good image detailing the wage differences between East-West. Similar charts can be found for GDP, quality of life, and other assorted economic measures. As well as many cultural differentiators like religion. The wall fell decades ago, but the impacts remain, therefore sometimes it makes sense to distinguish between the two.

https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fvoxeu.org...
You can deliver documents via for-profit couriers in the US. They're going to charge you profitable rates, though -- not necessarily rates that are accessible for poor citizens.

Those countries you've listed that have privatized (or partially, in the case of some of them) are subject to strict regulations so that they continue to provide basic levels of service to keep their countries moving smoothly.

If you want to see what Deutsche Post would do without those government regulations they're subject to domestically, look no further than the price to send a document across the US via DHL.

The bottom line is, many of the mail services that countries need to operate smoothly are not profitable. The only difference between any of the mail services in any country on the planet is the mechanism by which the government forces them to provide those services.
I would likely be outdoors on an extended trip.
In a similar vein, I've been using News Feed Eradicator:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/news-feed-eradicat...
i think its basically some skeleton for DDD & command bus patterns in Laravel world. seems like an overkill for most laravel apps though
Interesting :)

But if I ctrl+[left-click] on a link I don't get a new tab :(
One trick they can pull out in the future is to write into the terms of service that you can't use the service to develop extensions manipulating the service. Then they change something, anything to make the extension not work. If the extension gets fixed, clearly someone broke the terms of service.

Watch for a terms of service update from facebook.

I had a company fire this at me back in 2000 or so. It worked, in that it wasn't worth dealing with the issues and I stopped. It didn't work in the sense the company is long gone anyhow....
I worked for a millennial once and multitask was his favorite word. Tried it for awhile but I made way more mistakes. Course he rode me for those mistakes.

So I only pretended to multitask and my error rate plummeted. Does each generation have to figure this out on their own?
Yes, but I can't install browser ad blockers on gaming consoles, TVs, and whatever other appliances the internet of shit will produce.
This was a shocking and eye opening series for me. Complete lawlessness, murder and mayhem; which is rampant in certain areas of the world.

I had been under the impression that international waters were much more regulated. Man oh man, was I wrong.
Individual civilian afghans are not embargoed by US law - it's not Iran. The Taliban are, of course, embargoed and listed in various things like the OFAC list.

Hundreds of thousands of ordinary Afghans have gmail accounts, many companies use google workspace or office365, etc. For example.