skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a consumer, the tech war made me realize how the availability of my daily digital infrastructure relies on the whims of largely unaccountable corporations and governments.

I know what you mean about bank apps working only on unrooted Android devices and only with Google Play Services. It's an OS- and device specific restriction, because the desktop website does not have these limitations (besides 2FA, which is understandable).

The solution for me was to wait until I have my laptop on me to do banking. But I understand that not everyone will have this ability due to the nature of their business or workflow.
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...really? The Instagram purchase wasn't blocked. The WhatsApp purchase wasn't blocked. The Oculus purchase wasn't blocked. But this one will be?
In principle, you're right, but try telling that to literally any recruiter or hiring manager. What really blows my mind, is how a couple of 6 month contracts on a resume can invalidate a candidate for future 6 month contract work. To be clear: recruiters hiring candidates for 6 month roles, do not want candidates with 6 month contracts on their resumes. Is that because they're a 'crap hiring manager'? Maybe, but then many hiring managers must be crap, because it's a question I get every time someone sees that I took a 3 month 1099 and two 6 month contracts between 2019-2020. And there are a couple of 6 month full time roles in there, from startups and projects that went sideways. Try explaining that to a nontechnical person.

Personally take a lot of phone calls just to stay abreast of the job landscape, and that's what I see every week. Not that anybody would want a 6 month contract. Just one data point, of course. Would love to be proven wrong. The culture has to change, and it's entrenched.

EDIT: Some (technical) hiring managers can interpret a resume well and will have no problem with your short stints, and will see you for what you are worth. These are the people you really want to talk to in the first place. Just ignore everyone else.
Hence “silly trolling.”
When you retire, with very few exceptions, nothing you did in your working life will be remembered by anyone but yourself. So it's important that you be content with it. That realization has taken a while to hit me, and it's growing into a desire to retire early so I can do things that are personally rewarding and are not just goals on someone else's project plan.
No it isn't. This might be the case when SSNs stop being requested for non social-security purposes and 'real id' starts to get used in its place.

People don't necessarily have them either. Only those who have chosen to do so at a DMV.

SSNs are often assigned at birth, for people born in the US.
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I haven't been on HN for a long time (maybe a year counting my pre-account lurking stage) but I've noticed that quite a lot of comments here seem to just be knee-jerk reactions to what the submissions' title is.

Not saying that's a bad thing in its entirety (the titles here are usually great and can easily spark discussion on their own) but just something I hope I'm not alone in having noticed.
Good grief. It really is time for some of you people to step away from the computer, get out of the tech bubble for a while and have a look at what most people in society are doing for a living.
Note that impl is not exactly equivalent. If the type passed in is ambiguous, with an explicit template the caller can disambiguate, but with impl there's no template argument.

So sometimes you still want to use the "old" syntax in your public APIs, even when you could be using an impl trait
Sure, Disney lures kids to Disney World. Quite successfully too.
The thing is, that the current Airpods form factor would not be socially acceptable as a hearing aid and vice versa. Right now, one of the things that Airpods do, in addition to play music is provide a visible signal to those around you that you're listening to music. Change that to maybe they're listening to music, maybe they're hard of hearing and it becomes a big social problem.
Ashton Kutcher. Yes, I'm serious.
You want to seriously get access to people's plain text gmails?

Is this a joke?
EVs may be a winner take all market in the sense that there is a lot of software and tech that the incumbents (except Tesla) are traditionally bad at. If the market expects this it may take a long time for incumbents to catch up. We might see bankruptcies and consolidation. Auto manufacturing is the final large manufacturing industry left in the US and it going away will hurt the country dearly.
> and will not have to see and talk to another human being, ever.

Except by choice, which imo is a good thing! I hope it will help people start to become cognizant, proactive, and invested in true community more than community by proximity and happenstance. Saying hi to the same cashier is nice and all, but there is a lot of depth of truer community that has been left by a gap of the church leaving the mainstream. (not suggesting it return as the replacement, just identifying a gap the change left).

Then we can begin to build community with people we choose to more than just because we live in the same zipcode or go to the same tax bracket targeted shops .
Stop making words up that the author did not say
> A person's freedom ends where another man's freedom begins

I don't know why you think your freedom to offend/insult is higher than another person's freedom to not be offended/insulted.
Is there a specific “test” to run as a performance standard for scikit? I noticed this the other day that my Mac mini M1 absolutely blows away my MacBook Air 2020 with an i7. I was always curious if there was a good way to gauge performance.
People out of poverty also consume much more energy, so getting billions out of poverty without having a clean energy answer deployed might make things worse not better.

(I’m not making a claim that we should slow either branch down nor keep people poor so only the rich can keep burning fossils.)
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At this point crypto is just scammers scamming scammers. Everyone involved believes everyone else is a mark they're taking advantage of.
The results are not about the number of variables, but about the degree of the polynomial that is the optimization target.

To increase the degree of a polynomial, adding a dummy variable does not help.

You need to add at least one term to the polynomial that is the product of 3 variables.

I do not see how you can add such a term without changing the value of the function that must be optimized. If you add a dummy variable and you add a term that is the product of 2 variables with the dummy variable, then the optimizer will find an optimal solution for a non-zero value of the dummy variable, which will offer no hint about the optimum for the original polynomial.
The Red Cross has ~7 million donors per year (~2% of the population). That's not really evidence that they could sample a large enough portion of the population as quickly as they could be vaccinated. And again, it doesn't increase herd immunity. It does at least have a side benefit of increasing our blood inventory, but also has the downside of potentially spreading infection among the unvaccinated while they donate.
>reasonably paying blue collar jobs
As a disclaimer, I'm not from the US and my sources might be entirely biased but I thought a big chunk of amazon employees were ill paid and on foodstamps?
Second vote for sous vide for chicken, absolutely the juiciest chicken I’ve ever had.

One warning to a first-timer though is if you’re used to baked or grilled chicken the texture of sous vide is going to feel undercooked. One or two bites though and you get used to it because of how good it is.
Due to demographic shifts, much of the Republican party has discovered that it won't get what they want through democracy, so when pressed with the choice of weakening its power, and weakening democracy, it has taken the second one.

In parallel, due to the difficulty of getting legislature through a 50/50 deadlocked congress, the power of the executive has grown to fill the gaps, so you get people on both sides grousing about executive overreach. If congress would do its job, that problem wouldn't be present.
I think the nice language is in there, but it’s buried within the backwards compatibility as you mentioned.

I’ve started putting together https://cppbyexample.com as a way for newcomers to learn because pointing them to a reference or outdated examples isn’t helping anyone.
Not in a negative-impact-on-society kind of way
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After seven years reading philosophy, your definition of "human success" will likely have changed substantially.
Well, first, because even if we change the law, we don't apply that to actions taken before the law was changed (and for good reason).

Second, because basically all of our laws are made by legal bribery.
> I feel like you mean the best in your heart, but would encourage anyone to think deeply before white knighting for minorities. A lot of times well meaning laws can have disastrous consequences in smothering less-powerful voices (laws against "immoral" content referring to anything sexual online regularly making things worse for actual sex workers, for instance). The ACLU has a long list of historical incidences where "legal" censorship ended up hurting civil rights activists, queer activists and creatives, and too many other groups to name.

Absolutely, especially in clown shitfests like the UK. That doesn't mean people who enjoy racially abusing teenagers on Twitter should just be left to do so. There's a middle ground between banning anything anyone might deem "offensive" (like erotica or BDSM) and the wild west.
I'd add, that the fact that there's no visible indication that I'm listening to music with my hearing aids is a social negative in my relationship with my wife (although I can see it being very helpful in the future when I'm back in the office and have to be visibly present at boring meetings—I'll be able to just turn off the external sounds and settle in for an hour of podcasts or audio books or music).
Business domain knowledge is always a big plus. It may not be a deal-breaker. Someone who works for a web development shop or an agency can't know in advance what domains they might work in, but if they can demonstrate domain expertise from previous jobs that at least shows they have the interest and ability to pick up new business domains. The least useful developers over the long term are those who focus solely on technical skills, willfully ignoring the business and its priorities and requirements.
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>a new 3D CAD software with an open source kernel and apple UI design, scriptable in swift

Why would a company take on such a huge undertaking then link it so intrinsically to just Apple platforms.

The next major CAD software will run in your browser, after seeing how Figma played out it's hard to imagine any design tooling targeting native anymore. Today Figma, tomorrow the software that dethrones Photoshop, eventually... 3D and CAD.
> I got the full brunt of the internet at 8 and that's 1000x worse than anything on FB.

This is like saying you got your ass beat by the big kids at school after messing with them and now every other kid should go through that experience as well.

> I still don't think there's anything wrong with FB

Check out some submissions [0] and see if you hold the same POV afterwards.

0. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Every location on earth is at risk of becoming uninhabitable within the next 50 years.

Predicting which will be most at risk is relatively easy. Predicting which will be least at risk is much harder, as some of the effects are complex. e.g. Things getting warmer seems like it should be good for cold places, but it turns out to have negative consequences as well.
I get the FB hate in general, esp bc of data privacy and impact on democracy.

That said, not sure I understand the critique of the products for kids. Is it that _facebook_ shouldn’t build tech products for kids? Is it that big tech in general shouldn’t build tech products for kids (eg, YouTube for Kids)? Or am I missing something else?

Sincerely asking, not trying to be snarky.
The way the world is and the way the world ought to be are not the same. Life should be fair -- but it isn't.

GP is not suggesting that OP goes down with the ship; they're suggesting that they get in a life boat first. In these circumstances, IMHO, it's good advice.
That rule is about about the IAP feature. Gambling apps are not required to use IAP, since they don't fall into the definition of what must use IAP. See for example, apps that let you purchase insurance being listed as an example of IAP exempt apps in 3.2.1(v). 5.3.3 forbids using IAP for these purposes, as under some jurisdictions it would put Apple under the gambling regulations. (Apple could be viewed as collecting bet money from betters on behalf of the bookmaker).

5.3.4 makes it perfectly clear that gambling apps are allowed, if they are "free", properly licensed/authorized to operate, and geo-restricted to only be available where they are authorized to operate.
> there was some really really cursed Soviet encoding

I know at least 10 stories that start like this
As I understand it those same documents showed that actually they mostly _benefit_ teenage children.
Wonder if they had autopiloting built into them, could control them across the ocean.
It's not a lie. People can have a negative view of something and continue to do that something. They can also have that negative view without truly understanding why they have that view. People are actively trying to mislead polls with answers they think the poll is looking for, or just false info to skew numbers. FB is in the news with negative stories, so they repeat those when asked even without thinking about why.

If you asked someone about a teacher or some other adult trying to manipulate a kid, they'd obviously say that it is bad. Telling them FB is doing it with what posts they see, they don't respond the same way. They just don't get how an "al-go-rythym" can be so bad. They don't truly understand the ramifications of the hoovering up all of the data they do. They shrug their shoulders and say things like they are okay with it as long as it's not real money.

So, I stand by my stance saying it is only tech nerds that truly get what is going on here.
What happens when you have to use something that isn't on your list? Do you fire people who don't like Vim?
> what did you learn from this experience?

Basically, you need to be able to recognize your pain points and accept that you will need to periodically pay down technical debt.

Specifically, you need to pay down technical debt that has negative productivity.

For example: When I joined my current job, there were 1000s of compiler warnings, and the code was spread among 4 git repos. It is a C# product, and it had ~200 projects.

During my first project, one of the founders micromanaged me until I realized he was in over his head in the design. So I redid the design, and then said that my next project was cleaning up the warnings, and merging all the repos and many of the C# projects.

It saves HOURS each day; but it only worked because the founder recognized that he had to let go of some control to me. (Refer back to my point about paying down technical debt that has negative productivity.)

(I didn't tell him at the time, but if I wasn't able to clean everything up, I was going to walk away. I didn't want to spend every day juggling changes across repos.)
> Any tips on this?

Go with someone and write down your gains and take photos.
“If they can't bother[ed] to…”

They can’t. Not one developer I have worked with in the last 10 years has lifted a finger in the name of security.

This is why managing containers is a full time job by itself, a specialised discipline.

If you can’t afford an FTE to manage containers you can’t afford containers.
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I live in WA state. All vote is mail-in. I can't vote in-person even if I want to. This is not democracy. Some further thoughts:

* I was raised in a country with a single party and 99% outcome elections. People, kids my age (at the time), sacrificed their lives for the right to vote. I don't take voting for granted, but I do take voting seriously.

* The mail-in argument is predicated on the postmodern "the exception is the rule". I reject that on principle. A small minority has special needs, we can find many ways to accommodate that without disrupting the vast majority. And if we can't, too bad for the small minority.

* The custody chain is fundamentally broken. The reason I marginally trust election results is because representatives of both parties keep a hawk eye on each other to prevent foul play. This can be done in at in-person polling locations for a day or two, but cannot logistically be done for weeks over the area of an entire state.

* As a corollary, him who delivers the mail has weeks to either make certain votes appear from thin air, or disappear / delay blocks of votes from areas likely to vote against his party. Oops, we just printed 10k ballots too many...

* The vote must be secret. Mail-in vote sits with your signature on it for weeks who knows where. In the era of cancel culture, possibly worse, the doxxing risk is non-negligible. Remember Brendan Eich?

* There is no confirmation that the vote was filled by the person receiving the ballot. Perhaps their spouse / elder guardian / etc. filled it in for them?

* Ballot harvesting, the process of pressuring people into voting by knocking on their door or downright bullying them into collecting the blank ballots. Done selectively in areas leaning towards your party it can easily turn an election. Note how both parties complain about this when they are at the receiving end of it.
Someone hurling racial slurs on Twitter or sending rape threats, from the comfort of their home without any credibility, isn't a "credible threat", but isn't insignificant.
That's right. In a democracy, a rich person can always vote more often than a poor one. Perfect democracy.

Sorry, that was a bit sarcastic. Obviously, the market is not a form of direct democracy. It's a form of resource allocation. And a pretty stupid one, where everything is allocated by short-sighted impulse decisions and without any consideration of emergent phenomena.

There are tons of scenarios where the free market simply does not have any solution at all. See the tragedy of the commons or of externalizing cost. Nothing in the free market will ever be able to address these issues. Even the often quoted and constantly misunderstood 'invisible hand' of the market is not some kind of mythical or emergent phenomena of the free market itself; it's the moral and social considerations of the actors themselves that make up the 'invisible hand'.

Pretty stoopid.
Fear mongering nonsense. The Moderna vaccine contained tromethamine as an excipient from the beginning.
Thanks! Yes, exactly like that.
States can't unilaterally decide that either. Federal law[1] determines which state is in Pacific/Mountain/etc. zones.

[1] https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/CFR-2003-title49-vol1/CF...
Nuclear is a good idea, but its hardly a silver bullet.
Ask HN: What Is Your Salary?
The hiring market is weird right now which makes it difficult for job seekers to know what their value is. Companies try to control the spread of salary information so they have more leverage when negotiating. So my question is where are you, what is your role, and how much do you make?

I’m in the midwest United States earning $150k as a senior frontend engineer with 7 years of experience.
Look into Kettlebell training, it does not take much space and it's incredible for general fitness.
yea i could be, that's the point. I don't trust any government or "corporate" source on this type of stuff unless they show me physical evidence. I ain't defending those countries if that's what your suggesting, i am very anti CCP and Putin but i don't just attribute stuff to them because some "expert" says they did a hack.. based on what? something that could easily be made to look like any state did it like what the dump from the CIA shows... i use CIA because that's the only public state information we have about this type of program.
How is this legal? Isn't it gambling to allow people to earn/lose money in a game?
> also ensure nobody enjoys your chicken

That's an overstatement. Plenty of dishes cooks chicken all the way to well-done and the result is still delicious.

For instance, chicken adobo let the chicken sit in a simmering pot for nearly an hour, and it's absolutely delicious.
Wait until you find out that people are allowed to run ads during children's television series!
Would you be able to comment on the applications as a stabilizing agent? Also, is it common for the formulation to be changed between when the (very small and abbreviated) trials are completed and a vaccine is widely administered?
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