skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Would it need 60% to get Senate cloture?

That depends on the applicable Senate rules (including any special one-time exceptions) at the moment when it is considered. Constitutionally, no, because supermajority cloture isn’t a Constitutional requirement (and, indeed, a key motivation for the Constitution was frustration with the effect of supermajority requirements in the Articles of Confederation making legislation impossible.)

EDIT: To summarize some of the downthread discussion: Assuming no special action, if brought up right now under the existing rules, “yes”.
No, but if a lawyer can find a way to bill you for the services of both, they will.
It’s a little similar, except that these are attributes rather than comments. They’re part of the syntax of the language, and new macros can be written to add new attributes. Attributes are used for several different purposes within the language, so using them is familiar and common.

Rust also has two kinds of comments, one that shows up in the generated documentation and one that doesn’t.
That sounds interesting. Each week, I'd keep a list of things to download on Saturday (or whatever day the network is available). That would include software updates, documentation, books, movies, podcasts, songs, news, and shared files. I'd block out time for replying to emails on that day. I'd also upload stuff like backups and new blog posts.

The rest of the week would be spent writing code offline, working through the downloaded content, taking notes and journaling, spending time outside. I would spend much less time on my phone: no emails, messages, or other notifications; no feeds to scroll through; no sites to browse or blog articles to read. I'd likely do a lot of reading on some sort of e-reader, though.
Are there any limitations currently that are preventing you from serving ads over RSS? I could see this being useful. Like if I want to be notified when the new raspberry pi n+1 is being released
> Is it really any wonder that “politics” ends up being an issue in the workplace?

It's still a wonder for me, I don't follow your reasoning at all. How does this force people into being antagonistic and fighting over politics in the workplace? If anything, this should put a pressure on workers to not stand out and keep their mouth shut, so that they wouldn't risk loosing coveted employer-provided insurance.
Author nails it though with: "We should be far more concerned with keeping 0.1x programmers off our teams than finding the mythical 10x programmer."
The best version of Firefox is the Tor Browser with Tor disabled. Avoids the “features” Mozilla insists on.
They probably just meant to say extortion, since the OECD isn’t threatening to release any damaging information about the US. :)

That said, to your point, by definition a nation or group of nations can never commit extortion. They can treat other countries miserably and completely refuse to trade, if they want, and go to war if they choose to. Individuals have more restrictions on their interactions with others.
Pretty much unequivocal good if you want state-of-the-art compression and live in a country that enforce patents. The Wikipedia page for AV1 explains it well I think: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1#Purpose
>How is this legal in any shape or form?

IANAL, but have some experience with this from a business matter, resulting in obtaining advice of counsel.

And, yeah this is not a criminal matter, but a civil one, so you're right that the developer isn't likely in civil breach unless they are using FB resources (e.g. API or SDK) that they access under agreement with FB and are violating.

The irony is that if the FB standard user agreement prevents users from, say, using software to programmatically access the site, then it's the user of the extension who would be in breach with FB.

So, as long as the developer doesn't use the extension on their own FB account, then FB doesn't have much to stand on (and even then the C&D would only be applicable to the developer's use of the extension as a user).

On a related side note, if the extension actually did something not related to a specific account (e.g. scraped a public profile while not signed in), then even the user would likely not be in breach, as there is no affirmative assent (i.e. clickwrap) to terms of use required to simply visit the site.
It's easier than you think.

Because much of the culture war stuff isn't substantive. It's theater. There aren't any numbers on it.

IF your concerned with say racial inequality - well then good! Solve a practical problem by focusing your energy on poverty which already selects for a racially diverse group.

End gerry mandering ? That right there is the root of racial disparity in representation, and people hate it. Open Primaries is the only thing Libertarians and Greens agree on - that should be an easy lift when 65% of America wants more options.

What Yang is saying is "Instead of 2 flavors of ice cream, how about 10!". Who the hell votes for only 2 flavors?
Obviously a lot of HN people would probably prefer it not exist at all, but if you accept that the train has left the station on all this tracking on the Internet being here to stay, then explicit opt-in is still a massive improvement to the current status quo.
I'm always so delighted that when someone says something stupid, and people say that it's stupid, there's precisely this response somewhere in the comments. It's just so (chef's kiss) perfect and wonderful.
I think we're mixing up different political topics here.

The one I think you're talking about is the US workers' struggle to defend or increase basic worker rights. Which indeed is a political struggle of workers versus management.

If I'm not mistaken, the Coinbase case is about social justice types of topics like feminism, BLM, trans rights, colonialism, the like.
I am asking if congressional-executive agreements have an exception in the rules.
They have chosen a specific mission. The point is to focus on said mission, not N missions. If you want to work on a different mission, work at a different company.

Why do people find this so hard to understand?
I have what feels like a religious belief, that denying humanity the ability to use tools to explore, to poke & prod & pry at the virtual materials in front of us is Anti-Enlightenment, flies in the face of the godhood & what nature & destiny & whatever provenance might be has built in creating mankind.

No material in the universe has ever been resistant to understanding, to probing, to exploration. It's from this exploration that humankind has emerged & whatever of greatness of civilization that we have has been built. These mechanized systems that we legally are not allowed to explore or work is one of the most de-humanizing hells I can imagine.

Humanity as we know it can not endure in a world where we are never allowed to understand or go further. Shame on any company or law that acts otherwise; they are monsters.

Thank you for your very succinct well captured write up. Humankind seems desperately in need of a defense force, needs to be able to grasp what an existential threat forced-consumierzation is, how radical of a historical upset this juncture we're at is. I 100% agree that giving people insight & visibility & faculties to work with, understand, see, & monkey with computers is essential to keeping our core liberaties alive, in an increasingly mechanizing & automating world.
I did a Show HN a little while ago but you might want to check out TogetherLetters [0]. We made it to keep going with regular updates for groups of people (friends, family, coworkers, etc.) via email. Never shared on the web and it's consistent (bi-weekly, monthly, and quarterly in the free plan, weekly added in the paid plan). It might help solve some of your FOMO pain.

[0] https://www.togetherletters.com
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I checked my settings and it was on by default for me too. I had to opt out.
There are a lot of areas in the east that are abandoned and falling into decay.
As someone who doesn't have Facebook, what actually appears on your feed at all when you've unfollowed all connections? Wouldn't your feed be empty?
Brian Armstrong has literally said he has a plan for Bitcoin to surpass the dollar as a reserve currency within the next decade [1]. That, to me, is an activist who wants to “burn the system to the ground”.

[1] https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/coinbase-ceo-bitcoin-surpass-dolla...
Yes. All of the "private" correspondence he's received, which of course he cannot share, has been overwhelmingly positive. Indeed.
> I'll never go back

I probably said that a couple of decades ago. Things change.
As I pointed out in the other thread, Chrome has been doing this for a long time.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28781981
4. The best code is no code, or code you don’t have to maintain

5. Software is a means to an end

these x1000!

Thanks for a very succint, distilled list.
you will get ripped off before the sun goes down. there is a reason why these places charge such crazy fees. writing a bad check is as simple as it gets and poor neighborhoods are full of desperate people.
This is experimentation in governance. What better way to encourage that than to provide an illustration as these 136 countries are doing?
Hillarious that they said it was an opt in feature, then when I checked my settings all these boxes were checked already. Who opted in for me, mozilla?
Except some bosses use their business as personal assets. A personal jet is a good example
Oh wow! You found that ONE TRICK that governments HATE. Somehow thousands of legislators and economists around the world never, ever thought of that and are going to be completely fooled by a company that structures its revenues in this fashion. I am absolutely sure that will work...
> we're operating in an environment of virtue signaling and fear of speaking up.

Well, which is it? Are people speaking up too much (virtue signalling), or not enough (fear of speaking up)? Perhaps the people speaking up aren't saying what you want to hear, and you imagine a hidden majority of people who agree with you that you can convince yourself you are right, through a "invisible argument of authority" towards these abstract people who you know exist but don't speak up out of fear, but surely agree with you and outnumber the other voices.

I find the usage of the term "virtue signalling" a bit disappointing. Yes, there are a subset of opportunists who are dishonestly using social platforms for their own gain - but such people are in such a minority that pretending they should dominate the conversation is throwing the baby out with the bath water.

People are trying to organize to make society better, more inclusive, right the systematic wrongs of the past, and build a better future. Dismissing the majority of these people with a dismissive term like "virtue signalling" is not only being insensitive, it's callous and belittling.

The first thing you should realize is that the "virtue signalling" happening is due to voices being oppressed and voices not being heard for too long. There are uncomfortable conversations that need to happen and these voices should be heard.

It's all good and fair that you decided those conversations should not happen in the context of your company and to make the judgement as a leader that it serves only as a distraction, but to use a callous term like "virtue signalling" in the context of these conversations shows the true character of the person conveying this message - and personally, that is not a leader I would want to follow along with any mission.
The SEC just approved the closest thing to a US Bitcoin ETF you can buy, for now
Is tech adoption that random? A VHS vs. Betamax redux
It's not exactly the same thing, but to this day I hear the Tetris theme whenever I have to do something very stressful (for example, fixing a broken website with the CEO on my back).

I adopted it and now hum it to relax.

Interestingly, I'm pretty high on the aphantasia scale, so maybe it's just my brain's way of playing the "tetris effect."
HN is dominated by temporarily embarrassed billionaires.

At least in the sense of loud writers and not quiet readers.
The list defined above is [1, 4, 9], but the one you just defined is [1, 4, 9, 16]. It's interesting how the shift in notation subtly confused the semantics of what's going on.
> And it's not like they need to sell ads to make money.

Not at the moment, but long term they need to diversify their income. They lose users and the management doesn't work for free.
This is the outcome he wanted, so it sounds like everybody wins here.
This is a lot of doomsaying, with no evidence and very little details or logic. It's like you expect your reader to already agree with you and nod along to "mistake" and "misdirected" and all the other negative language you use without any explanation of what you're actually talking about.

> We made a wrong turn a very long time ago

What, inventing agriculture? Certainly some think that. Otherwise: what are you talking about?

> translated from a moral domain to a material domain, which was finally transposed to a symbolic one.

What? Can you explain what this is supposed to mean?
"People like [the OP]" are in my experience consistently better at what they do than the sort of folks which Coinbase is now apparently soliciting.
Unsurprisingly, these are incredible. There is something magical about small, beautiful things. It's not profound to say it, but I find it hard to tire of the fact that you could package up all of the demoscene, 64k, code golf, and JS contest entries like these (and maybe throw in a copy of Project Gutenberg and Wikipedia for good measure) on an SD card and balance a lifetime's worth of treasure on the tip of your finger. A single board computer to run (or emulate) all of it could then go in the palm of your hand. What a time to be alive!
Every time I meet East Germans, the discussion will inevitably touch the unification and the social tension.

What I heard were complaints on

* privatization by the West and sometimes closure of enterprises. People of age 40 and older remember well the tough years after unification when their parents had no job and had to take a lower-level one.

* they claim that management of states and enterprises was taken over by the Wessies

* a lot of complaints about amerikanization of the culture and aligning with the US in every international policy question under Merkel. I regret I did not ask further about the culture, but just an example: by default radio stations in Germany put American music, more than stations in other Western European countries that I heard. It's very hard to stumble upon songs in German, just as any other language but English. (If you listen to French stations, foreign non-English music is much more probable to hear.)

* East Germans are more atomized and secular. That's similar to other East European contries.

* Women were forced to emansipate in the East, because they needed to work, whereas in the West they could afford being housewifes. And a surprising consequence, in the West a man can't be friends with a married woman -- Ossies living in the West complained of that too.

That's what I've heard from them and some my own superficial impressions from radio. I can't confirm that, but sure it's more or less founded info.
libavif seems to be licensed under 2-clause BSD, which is very permissive.
Nobody is saying that they have to focus on N missions.

The only claim is that their mission is a political one, and not even for the trivial reason of "everything is political."
Define what you believe Marxism to be. It isn’t a buzz word for anything to the left of Reagan.

And everything is politics. A political system could decide to outlaw computers and the internet. How would your SaaS business survive then?
Admittedly I don't know kvark, but some of his statement there were wrong, in a way that gives impression he didn't do much 3D programming before hand. That's why I imagine he worked on the If one were to go through a point by point rebuttal, it'd go like this:

- Not knowing you need to have entry point for the shader to be executed.

- kvark's complaint about OpFmod being misnamed are kinda missing the point, % isn't the mod operator but remainder operator (in C/C++)

- https://mobile.twitter.com/TheSpydog/status/1232819839888166... You know it's a pretty bad idea when Unity and Adobe are begging you not to do this.

- I mean what you prefer to write?

GLSL:

int a = 2
for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
a *= 2
}

WSGL:

const a: i32 = 2;
var i : i32 = 0;
loop() {
break if (i >= 4);

a = a * 2;

continuing {
i = i + 1;
}
}
Have PTSD. Lots of trauma sort, permanent injuries to me and family members. Details not relevant m.

Most days I’m either focused on work. Listening to an audiobook or playing a game.
These help keep thoughts from going dark.
It just has to occupy my attention sufficiently.

Tetris used to work well, but at a certain point I can play well without paying attention. Unless it’s set super hard and that gets old fast.

If it’s a grinding game then I will have audiobook or equivalent going at same time.
Something like civilization 6 or hearthstone keep my mind busy enough that I don’t need anything else.

When possible I’ll try and do something mentally challenging with the kids.

I can usually stop racing thoughts these days. I keep Lorazepam on stand by if i start to lose it.

But I try hard to avoid having idle time.
My team is currently evaluating Debezium for a PG to S3 CDC solution, and is very advanced with the PoC.

What would be the argument for trying AirByte? It is the first time we hear about it.
A beautiful story, thanks for sharing.

I can only attest from both travel and work that exposure to other cultures and peoples destroys any and all bias.
How are you blocking ads without ublock origin?
Welcome to the future where only big companies survive. As a small business you don't have means to avoid taxes. As a multinational corp you just invent research, marketing and other fictitious expenses between your branches and always come up with expenses close to incomes, paying 15% corporate tax of close to zero net profits You operate very efficiently in the market where other participants have to carry the 15% deadweight as they are unable to avoid it like you.

After certain rounds of Mergers and Acquisitions to achieve ever bigger economies of scale incentivized by the tax system we end up with a few single players per market, if not only a single one. Such bureaucracies become almost indistinguishable from state owned companies operated under soviet union.

How that ended up you can find in history textbooks.
IMHO, biggest reason it failed is due to SEO and marketers. Smaller reason for requiring Sign Up after seeing one answer.

Lots of people started abusing answers section advertising their products, they called it novel way of getting traffic at the beginning, then they called it everyone must have answers on Quora for questions related to their product, then they just started added bunch of non-sense just to link their product at the end or in the middle.

They also made difficult to read answers, making my sympathy towards platform decline day by day, whenever I need answer to something and want to give my attention to this website, they tell me: "Did you see first answer? Now fuck off from here"
I think this is entirely correct. In this framework we wouldn't call it a 10x programmer, but a 10x thinker.
When you open the browser website you find in the middle photo of HN on orion with uBlock as the only extension (as illustration of extensions support.
VoLTE
I don't see how at-will employment is related here.

This is Coinbase. The vast majority of the employees there are not stuck in a job they wish they could leave but can't. These are some of the most privileged employees in the world.

The bigger issue is like the OP stated, the state of politics in the US. How does at-will employment relate to issues like not working with certain government institutions because you disagree with their purpose?

Coinbase isn't trying to avoid political arguments over healthcare, they're trying to avoid employees rallying together and changing the company to further their personal political beliefs.
Much of Google's success was cemented in place back in the day when they recruited people by putting fun little puzzle inserts into computer magazines.

That's such a huge difference from their hiring practices now.
Yes (if it's just generic business software applications)

Source: employ software engineers.
> you are effectively stealing from site owners

This is "you wouldn't download a car" level argument.
Notion Reaches $10B Valuation, Boosted by Remote Work – and TikTok
Which euro country? Seems like you haven’t experienced the workplace woke-ism yet. Don’t worry, though. It will be soon in every euro country that isn’t already. After all —- globohomo wokeness is America’s biggest export.

Good on Coinbase and I’ll vehemently defend them for it after experiencing it first hand.
> burrocracy

I always felt like we were being ruled by donkeys...
In my opinion, it does! However, on my machines, I am the arbiter. Facebook cedes control to me the moment any of their content hits my browser.
They lost almost half of their engineering team. Product development has almost stalled. I dunno, man.
Thanks.

Firefox is slowly losing users in all the countries in that list except in China. It's slowly growing there.
I'd don't know what you mean by "performs like" but it's definitely significantly closer in runtime speed after the first run to compiled languages than interpreted (in particular Python/Matlab).

Anyways, my point was more in response to this from the person I responded to: "my instinct is to look for opportunities to vectorize by rewriting loops into matrix notation on paper and then expressing them as array calculations". In some languages (Julia in particular) that is slower than the equivalent loop based code.
In Peruvian Andes, ancient crops hold promise for a climate-blighted future
> The cider itself is acidic

Especially with scrumpy; it often (usually?) tastes pretty vinegary - not like commercial cider at all. I think it's much more refreshing and thirst-quenching than sweet commercial cider.

I like to cook with cider vinegar. It's refreshing, and relatively sweet. I'd say the difference between cider vinegar and scrumpy really comes down to a matter of degree.

It's surprising that vinegar is refreshing; but roman soldiers used to carry sour wine (vinegar) with their equipment.

And when a roman soldier (supposedly) passed a cloth soaked in vinegar to Jesus on the cross, he was passing him the most-refreshing thing he had - it wasn't some kind of sarcastic taunt.
You’re looking for a job. You have 10 minutes to ask questions that make you stand out, to a individual who probably cannot answer the question.

You do you.
So... where can I download the extension?
I much preferred the chrome approach. One window per "container" was really easy to manage.
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From the perspective of a state, the rule of taxation is, "progressive, simple, enforceable: pick two." The US code gave up on simplicity and probably has 10% of GDP dedicated to dealing with the result.

Specifically, the playing field is being leveled between nations by their colluding against competitive countries to prevent capital from leaving them when their policies become unbearable.
Just get everyone together and talk about the problems and how you can fix them.
HAHA WHAT DO YOU MEAN, FELLOW HUMAN?
Think about it the other way, if they reject a candidate for asking, it's their way of saying "The PTO situation is terrible here".
Facebook confirms that some of its services are having issues again
This sub-thread is missing the forest for the trees.

This interview was not the highlight of the interviewer's day. They most likely didn't overthink every angle and every word. They probably were on autopilot looking for some pre-defined criteria - and could care less if the candidate was qualified, accepted, or rejected.