skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I don't have any advice for this particular situation, I'd encourage you to diversify your online business presence into a domain that you own (e.g. a website) with a direct line of communication to your customers (emails) because I've heard stories like these too often on Twitter. At the scale these big tech companies operate at you never know how long it's going to take before they get to your case. Best of luck!
This is great, now you don't have to worry about money for now, but still you do require a routine which can make you feel connected to people and local culture.

I will say get a full-time developer job of small company or a junior position at some FAANG level company, make friends get involved in solving new problem you are interested in.

Other option is to go to university and get course in your hobby like literature or phd in CS, start a hobby blog without focusing on growth and do some gig jobs.

Once you find a sweet spot where you can feel yourself at home, you will figure out the future.
Saying that viewing Taiwan that way as purely a consequence of propaganda is like saying that American patriotism, and the fact that Americans believe that the South's cecession is illegitimate or unrighteous, is purely a consequence of having taught people so since childhood.

Yes education is a contributing factor. But it is my no means the only factor. Your take also ignores the fact that unification is Chinese core value, which is valued more than western freedom of speech, and that this core value has been around for thousands of years.
Then they’re not very good cease and desist letters. A C&D should state exactly what you are asking them to stop doing and exactly what will happen if they don’t. That way the other party can’t claim they didn’t understand later.

Search C&D samples on google and see for yourself.
The point of having two chambers is that they are selected in a different way, otherwise you might as well have only one. The senate is a way for smaller states to not be in a permanent structural minority and have no say on the direction of the country. Many countries have a similar system.

Also even the house is not a proportional system. I know some people like proportional systems but let’s keep in mind they often come with political instability.
I've optimized for different things at different parts of my career. I've made FAANG level salaries working 7 days a week as a consultant. It was horrible.

I'm currently making a little less than you but working 20 hour weeks. It's amazing, and I spend the rest of my time usually working on side projects I hope to monetize one day. Since September I've just been traveling with my wife.

I'm very happy doing that. So my suggestion is find part time work even if it means a pay cut off you want to optimize for personal satisfaction.
Had they not repeated it in the 2nd paragraph, I'd have given the benefit of the doubt.
Do you think this applies in general to questions of legal liability, or is this one unique? If it's unique, why should anyone think that this case is unique? If you think in general it's "not hard" to know things about legal liability, either you're Elle Woods or you're an extremely overconfident fool.
Not to mention limit information dispersal.
Sounds like a Michael Myers movie plot
Would it have to be audio? It could do TTS on the phone then send the text back.
The World Car Battle: Speculative Race for Charging Stations
and saving few bucks too going to world class uni
yes, the opinions of 40million "more" americans are irrelevant in a country where 330million reside. its a big territory with a lot of different laws, borders and voting districts.

gerrymandering is the enemy not the electoral college itself.

in a similar vein people brought up that democrats got more individual votes and "won" the popular vote in 2016. again cool? but completely irrelevant.
US v China

US v Russia

US v Vietnam

US v Middle East

US v Cuba

US capitalism v everyone

I see what you mean about authoritarian US v the world

Edit: polite society = don’t mention how we’re like everyone else
It is served by Google. Google has an enormous amount of resources to vet the code that Google serves. They are skirting their obligation of due diligence.
I got three vaccine jabs and I am totally pro vax. But the unfortunately the majority of scientific data shows that fully vaccinated people still can spread Delta variant, because neither of the current vaccines has been tailored for Delta. For omicron this is probably even worse, since it is even more contagious. So I do not see how the narrative of COVID being spread by unvaccinated is true in the end of 2021.
It’s funny because he argued for a year saying he would if he got A, gets it, then says he needs B… on and on until like L then when its finally in front of him to vote he acts like he never could anyways. People like this are the skeeziest.

Then again, there seems to always need to be 1 democrat who will stand in the way of getting things done everyday people want. It was Joe Lieberman when democrats last had the senate. Who knows what the senate leaders would actually allow to happen but it’s easier to have all that hate on one Joe.
That's almost scarier. Seems like it could leak embarrassing information about what you've been searching or buying to your friends.
Yes, thank you. It’s quite an interesting observation, but to call this article shallow would be too generous. With a few wording tweaks to add a dash of self-awareness, this would be perfectly contradictory satire.
By Taiwanese, do you mean the taiwanese natives or the chinese people of the RoC that fled from the PRC?
I dont remember seeing the word 'free' in the posted article anywhere related to the paying for this bill. In fact, it clearly states the cost will come from taxes on the wealthy ... whom Manchin represents.
China could take Taiwan and I don't think anyone would stop them.

But the aftermath would be pretty terrible. The US and EU would lock them out of the their economies, as would basically every country in the region except NK. Economic collapse would ensue and that would likely lead to a revolution: the CCP have basically ruled on a "give up freedom and get economic opportunity" ticket. If they can't deliver...

There is also a pretty big US air force base there which would be hard to... Invade around?
Wow, I love the preamble there. So nice when successful people don't do the "I am a self-made man, I started out squeezing loose hydrogen and oxygen atoms to create my own water" routine.
> I don't think that it's google's fault

Of course it is. It's their ad network.

> Google can't monitor an execute every HTML snippet

Of course they can. There's no excuse for allowing this nonsense on their network.
Joe Manchin is taking the hit for a lot of other Democrats would would vote against this insane irresponsible bill, but can't let their intensions be publicly known.

It was a foregone conclusion this bill would fail in this way once it was split up from the real infrastructure bill.
> about whether you’re a Java developer

I was once, but haven't used it professionally for a while. It's on my "I'd rather not" list, but not strongly so.

Oh, and now that you described it with so many details, the attachment to complexity does look more like addiction than love.
Automate everything. Regardless if it saves time or not. Pickup a good scripting language. Ruby or python.

Spend time with business people on “why” they are doing something.

Learn Excel.

After awhile you will be incredibly good at highly useful business process stuff.
Blackstone Chose Its Heir Apparent – Without the Usual Hunger Games
I use Cloudflare because I've gotten DDOSed over my blog before. Being openly not male on the internet is a great way to get people DDOSing you and sending nasty letters to your employer about your moral character. Sorry I have to do this, but I don't really want to be DDOSed over my tech writing.
Did you even read my post? I said nothing about not wanting to personally get sick (although of course I'd prefer not to). I was talking about cancer patients and people in other similar situations. What are they supposed to do, not go to the chemo clinic?

Since you asked for a source, here you go: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33253013/
Googol and Googolplex
I think that’s a remarkable exception rather than a common occurrence.
There is a push to water down rural votes (typically conservative) as democrats feel they are not represented fairly among the senate. Arguing that Wyoming should not have the same power in the senate that California has with many more people. The US government was not set up as a pure democracy but rather a republic. They forget the founding fathers did this to prevent a tyranny by majority. The ones arguing for abolishing this process are ok with tyranny by majority rule only because they find themselves in the majority. But too quickly forget that one day they will likely find themselves in the minority. Wishing they had these protections back.
An icepick/paperclip does.
You can get those solenoid valves for around $20 online (e.g. [1]), that one is scandalously overpriced - a replacement coil costs $160...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Beduan-Electric-Solenoid-Normally-Col...
That sill is Google's fault as far as I'm concerned as an end user.
Great point. I haven't tried that technique, but it sounds like a great way to get people to productively examine their fears.
Men tend to suicide more often than women. Men are also more likely to killed/be killed (although this is slowly changing).

Is it because men are intrinsically more violent than women? Or is it because of the way we bring up our kids? It's still unclear.

I went through a depression a few years ago. I noticed that my suicidal thoughts were related to my inability to express my feelings. I don't think I'm the only one.
his voter base.

indeed, very obvious
Caddy is a joy to work with. I like it even more than Nginx. The configuration language is very succinct and clear. Automatic HTTPS is included out-of-the-box if you need it (no plugins required).

It’s easy to deploy since it’s a static binary written in Go.
its about helping those pesky shudra not creating backdoors.
Allowing an ads customer to "just" slip a request for camera and mic access into an ad script is malicious.
> Split hospitals 50% covid and continue the rest as usual with limited capacity

Let me know when you've accomplished this. We'll wait.
> Why would anyone think that a verbose language is a good idea?

What if you are a "sometimes" programmer -- you write some code, then come back to it months later. In many ways this was the intent behind the development of early personal computing. Verbosity is an advantage in these cases because in theory it becomes easier to discern what is going on without having to be immersed in the language, frameworks, and environment all the time.
Yup, you're right I misread. With that said, a degree from Harvard is a golden ticket to success, anyone would be torn about giving that up. The issue is not that the ideals are disagreeable its that they have very real consequences in making it harder for certain demographics to have an equal shot at that ticket.

"That statement begs the question that you or OP can and should be defining Harvard's admission criteria in the first place"
This argument can then be applied to any school or workplace. Upset that google has started prioritizing White candidates, refer to your argument, who are you to question it? Upset that Princeton suddenly said they had too many minority students, who are you to question it? It doesn't work that way, anyone is free to question anything and blindly accepting things because someone says that these people know better is not a good thing in a free society.

"If it's racist to acknowledge these facts, then it is also racist not to" No one is ignoring racism and its history but rather I am arguing that college admissions is not the place to address them. College should provide an equal arena for everyone to compete for admissions based on academic and extra-curricular achievements. Intervention to bring minority applicants up to a competitive level should be done in early childhood up through highschool. The SAT is simply a series of questions that test academic achievement, getting rid of a test because a group does not do well on it is a race to the bottom in much the same way as removing advanced math from a highschool curriculum is.

The problem should be fixed at the source, if Harvard wants to make an impact, take a few billion of their endowment and donate it to local school districts that are struggling to provide for their children.

"That's an unserious, facile argument that ignores 400+ years of history"
I'm going to ignore the insults. Coming to a resolution that helps the affected minority should not be based on punishing one group to raise up another. It should be focused on raising all groups up to an equal stage, that can only happen if work starts with the young.

You're right, its Harvard's call to do what ever they want and to spend their endowment however they want but everyone is entitled to an opinion and to proffer a proposal on a message board. Discrimination based on race is the definition of racism, that's not an opinion, its simply the factual definition of the word.

From the oxford dictionary, racism is defined as "prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against a person or people on the basis of their membership in a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized." Note: typical means usually, not always.

I appreciate your view point; as a father of young white kids, I disagree with it but I understand how you are likely approaching this from an equal but opposite position.

Edit:
Harvard's current racial demographics
white: 39%
Asian: 20%
Black: 8%

Whites are already underrepresented as a portion of the general population by 50%. Blacks are underrepresented by ~5%
Sure but I think most corporate spyware prevents things like mining software, cause get real thats all it will be rented for.
Exactly right. "Rural, low population states have far too much power in the present system. This is not sustainable" is wrong in that, pure democracy leads to pure majority rule, which causes stability issues in no time, history tells a lot of those stories.
I am Lithuanian; Lithuania<->Taiwan<->PRC conflict is frequently a topic of discussion these days among my peers.

My position, shared by a few others, is that this is the next best thing that happened in Lithuania after leaving USSR: the first being joining NATO and EU in 2004.

Everyone in the world can (and almost everyone do) endorse PRC. "You won't get fired for picking IBM/Oracle/PRC". While very few countries have the guts and the internal political structure that allows opening a Taiwanese representative office. Lithuania shows that it prefers dealing with a country that takes the human rights into account; being the first one "in the party" to do so bring us significant advantages. Both Taiwanese investments and Lithuanian exports to Taiwan are picking up pace.

This will hurt us in the short-term, sure. It already does: packages(/containers) from PRC are delayed or cancelled, invoices are not being paid, we are losing business there. In the long term, if we don't change our mind (not impossible), I think this is for the better.
I would gather they are referring to two jobs that in total sum to above 250k a year.
Gerrymandering is completely out of control. Mostly R's are locking-in their wins for the foreseeable future.

I don't think it's a D/R thing in particular. He's completely corrupt by WV coal and other corporate interests paying him to be an insurgent DINO to do their bidding. Sinema is clearly a nutter and possibly corrupt too. The D's and R's also contain too many corrupt, plutocrat sycophants to name individually here. The system is what's broken, and it's doubtful it can be fixed from within.
It's a problem, but it's not "the" problem.

The problem is that letting advertisers write their own JS means advertisers are willing to pay more for the ad. If Google banned that practice, or put in a lot of oversight, people would pay less for ads through Google. But some other ad networks would still allow the bad practices, and thus be able to pay higher rates. So sites would just move more ads to those other networks.

That doesn't absolve Google of responsibility, but it does mean that we can't actually solve the problem just by being mad at Google.
I would suggest reading ‘so good they can’t ignore you’ very inspiring about building a career that makes you happy.

Basically look for
- autonomy
- meaningful goal
- good coworkers
That’s _not_ how it works. The fact that information comes from a human does not make something a human subject experiment. The information has to be about a human. Here the information is about a process for handling CCPA requests. We can argue about whether, in a single site operator case that also qualifies as information about a human since there’s no clear organizational policy, but I want to make it clear that information simply coming from a human does not make an experiment a human subject experiment.
We Need to Take Back Control of Our Data
that's the same problem just some of them causing west troubles, some of them don't. The question is why we even allow to do so. Wasn't that clear in 2014 with russia that it's extremely aggressive? Kicking out russia from economy in 2014 would prevent such events. China also had so many times you can stop it, or at least put the world on other track.

it's not about capitalism. Current time is the most close to WWIII , if Russia and China will decide to attack Ukraine and Taiwan right now. What would west do?

Most likely the answer is nothing. You just need to hit hard. And that's how WWII started.
Got it. Way too subtle then.

I don't write people off on labels. I have a high degree of suspicion that I share with others when they publically and openly signal adherence to a damaging set of certain lies, like antivax advocacy. In this case, they write themselves off.

I am classical liberal and know what it is like to have a minority view that is in reality held by everyone when you get past the barriers.

In this case, the website looks scammy.
"what should we have done then, when the Chinese invaded Taiwan?"

"anything at all besides what you did"

- On the Beach (2000)
It is democracy, but it also federal republic. Important qualifier is the federal. There are also lot of non-federal republics.
In my experience (doing consulting/freelance work for a few years now), you have to get away from "freelance" kinds of jobs into "consulting". The terms are not well defined and there's a lot of overlap. But generally consulting seems to imply jobs where the client is relying on your judgment and you're responsible for the project as a whole. Freelancing is more about doing narrowly-scoped pieces of technical work.

Sites like Toptal mostly offer freelance type jobs, and there's a lot of price competition among freelancers.

For consulting work, clients don't think twice about paying $200/hour, even when the actual technical work is pretty straightforward. Higher rates are definitely possible if you have specialized skills and/or find the right clients. But you can really only find these jobs through personal connections.
Absolutely trivial to demonstrate to be false.

I can use websites to videoconferencing. Streaming considered video and audio comes with non trivial loads.

I can use websites to compress images, to compute tabulated data on various Excel clones, remotely control devices or play games.

This isn't 1995 and we're way past indulging user lazy choices which have us a decade of internet explorer nightmares. Web is much more than that, and one need to know where to draw the line where their products minimum requirement lies.
> You are also missing the part where the Taiwanese have always held an ambiguous stance towards reunification/independence.

You are also missing the part where the ambiguous stance is mostly a consequence of China's threat of immediate violence if independence is ever declared. Taiwanese support for reunification is under 15% or so - and even lower among Taiwanese who were born in Taiwan. Why would they, when their living standards are way higher than China's and they live a free country?
Right! My point is that they will hire fresh software engineers/other disciplines, and then with some networking and being on an adjacent team, you get access to informal learning opportunities and internal transfer opportunities, so that over the longer arc of your career you can get into whatever field you want.
is it possible that something external to facebook, such as a malicous ad could be used to make it appear as if users are doing somthing nasty?

i dont do facebook so ive never seen any list of FB community standards, does anyone have one handy?

i found these, but they are not up to date :

https://gizmodo.com/here-s-everything-that-s-banned-on-faceb...

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/24/facebook-content-that-gets-y...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4GL67wsYuI
There's a bit of that in The Unincorporated Man (which at times reads more like an economics paper with a plot than sci-fi).

At birth, you're incorporated. Instead of getting taxed, the state gets some portion of your shares as do your parents and you. The majority shareholders can make some important decisions. Additionally, if you want to go to college, you sell some shares of you that you own to the college.

That the book won the 2010 Prometheus Award from the Libertarian Futurist Society and a review of it is titled Anti-Corporate Libertarian Futurism in "The Unincorporated Man" ( https://gizmodo.com/anti-corporate-libertarian-futurism-in-t... )
thanks for offering this perspective, which is much more normal and common than the experiences offered here in the software engineering bubble!
> The US is a republic, not a democracy.

This pops up every now and then and is complete bullshit. A republic is a system of government with a parliament and an elected head of state. Being a republic and being a democracy are completely unrelated. There are republics that are oligarchies, dictatorships, or democracies. Similarly, there are monarchies that are oligarchies, dictatorships, or democracies.

You can discuss about legitimacy and the fact that the US is a federation of states instead of a government of citizens, but “it’s a republic not a democracy” is stupid. Using it as a way of justifying blatant undemocratic aspects of the way the US work is doubly so.
I knew someone would mention this. You are wrong but I'm not going to try to explain international espionage, fraud and laundering in a comment post.
I thought I was going to be rich with my first job at a startup out of college but the dot com bust basically made it all worthless. Stock is great but cash would have been better.
> yeah i was coming here to suggest this. LLC with the S-corp election will save you ass-tons in taxes

Where did you hear that? No accountant I've ever spoken with mentioned it's worth setting up an LLC to save money on taxes as a typical set up where you're a solo developer who runs their own tech business.

I mean, paying yourself less of a salary through an LLC is going to result in paying less income tax but it's not a system where suddenly you're paying way less in taxes AND you get to keep the remainder to do as you please right now as if it's some type of easy loop hole.

There's also regulations around single employee LLCs around all profits being taxed as income for the owner.
Negligent, I wouldn't call it malicious but I would call it negligent.
Without wanting to be that guy, I’m really glad I grew up in a country with shuttered power sockets.
Xi spent multiple years living (correction, only a few weeks) in the US. You are off the mark. There are other, much more complex reasons in play.
It happened 1 year in 20, after an incredible run up, and good companies recovered.