skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PayPals parent company, Ebay, is not exactly innocent either.

> Federal prosecutors have said the harassment included anonymous deliveries of items like live insects, a funeral wreath, and a bloody pig face Halloween mask to the couple's home. The employees also sent pornographic magazines with the husband’s name on it to their neighbor’s house and planned to break into the couple’s garage to install a GPS device on their car.

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/couple-ebay-harass...
How much of that is because the approach to power generation has been to try and squeeze more out of the existing infrastructure (gas, nuclear, and hydro) instead of transformation to green alternatives (solar and wind)?

Just as an example, it seems that the Pacific DC and AC Intertie's go through some pretty remote places that could be prime candidates for solar installations.
How do you even know it works if you haven't been able to create a working implementation as the author?
What would I learn?
I only start reading Jane Austen two years ago, right after my divorce. A line from Pride and Prejudice hit me real hard and made me understand why my marriage failed. It is at the end of the novel, said by Mr Bennet to Lizzy: "My child, let me not have the grief of seeing you unable to respect your partner in life."
literally the second half of the title is "Use Python to send text messages via email", how much further on top would you want it to be placed?
For a project already invested in the Python ecosystem, F# isn't going to even enter anyone's mind. Think of it as PyFL => Python as F# => C#.
10-11 minutes seems to be the optimal length to maximize ad impressions.

So whener I see a video that is 10-11 minutes long, I assume that is the reason.

Knowing that, it is a lot easier to recognize "filler content" in these videos (content that could easily be cut out or shortened without reducing the quality, or content that if cut out, would improve the quality)
two good anecdotes vs over a decade of non-stop abusive practices.

2 white sand grains on a black beach count for very little.
The US has not gun at the moment. They have their own share of problems with China and any conflict in Europe is not in their interest. Not saying that Russia has all the card or anything like that too.
I agree.

I think Putin and Biden may have come to an agreement similar to the one reached between JFK and Kruschev to end the Cuban Missile Crisis. You withdraw your missiles from Cuba now, and we'll withdraw missiles from Turkey - but in 6 months' time, so we don't lose face. So I suspect these arrests are a confidence-building measure.

I predict that tensions will ease visibly in about 6 months.
Interesting tangent, there.

I’m not pining for “the good old days,” at all, and it’s … interesting … that this was what you read.

I’m enthusiastic about tech, the future, learning new stuff, and making the world a better place.

I feel that it is a shame that the concept of Personal Integrity (or corporate Integrity) is considered an anachronism.
My point is that Actix Web was still safer than it would have been if it were written in C++ (which is Rust’s whole goal as far as safety), and moreover the norms of the Rust community are so strong that most of the unsafe usage has since been removed, since it was unnecessary. Unsafe deals with memory errors, which are consistently the largest class of security vulnerabilities in native codebases. This is uncontroversial at this point. Rust won’t protect you from log4j, but it never claimed to. Java still protects you from mishandling memory, despite all the stupid automatic classloading features we keep discovering in it.
This kind of pressure on companies to censor seems like an end around on the first amendment. It technically is not the government censoring or mandating censorship, but it uses the threat of government power and the power to irritate and harass for companies that don't toe the line. Unfortunately, I can only see this getting worse. For example, if the Republicans come to power in 2022, I can see them having a committee hold hearings on the "riots" of 2020 and subpoenaing all these companies about how their platform was used to organize the protests/riots. Soon, companies will just censor any attempt to organize a protest online.
That’s a bit of a dismissive straw man. The quote was explicitly referring to nitpicking of things unrelated to the research. You intentionally snipped the very next three words “e.g. code style”. Contrary to your implication, it is not a scientist’s job to welcome any and all nitpicking and criticism, which is why there are professional moderated platforms for relevant science critique, as opposed to criticism.
They used to but manufacturers are starting to have to deal with quantum effects lately https://semiengineering.com/quantum-effects-at-7-5nm/
I only found this reference [0] on Getty's website, but not the actual book.

Edit: the Book of Kells is fabulous!

[0]: https://www.getty.edu/museum/programs/lectures/de_hamel_lect...
You can't say there "isn't any benefit" in using Tor without saying what you're comparing against.

OP had a problem, and solved it using Tor. Suggesting there isn't any benefit in using Tor, without offering an alternative, is to suggest that you just shouldn't solve the problem.

Of course there's a benefit in using Tor: it gets you through NAT for free!
It also gets you end-to-end encryption for free.
Are cyclic plant and animal behaviours driven by gravimetric mechanical forces?
That's totally fair; if you think your replacement is going to make people under you's life worse, it might be hard to leave. I've never been a manager or had anyone reporting to me, so I can't speak to that point.

But I agree, I think this is kind of weaponized by corporations to avoid employee churn.
Is it? What I got from the quotations the article chose to use was “we don’t have enough info and we think you have not told us everything we need to know to about what happened”.
We have a First Amendment... but if you run a platform that does not even use the First Amendment, you'll get subpoenaed and harassed.

In theory, I ran a platform that protected everything the First Amendment did, and protected nothing that the Amendment did not protect, I should be legally in the clear.

But I'm not going to attempt such a thing - because it's clear Congress would do the ultimate shakedown.
I think you probably already have the answers you were seeking (yes, ideally you should) but I'd like to add some points:

Ideally, it would be nice if the code has a professional-level quality to it, but I think everyone involved in evaluating research understands that it is at best a prototype. Proper software engineering is expensive, and it is not the role of research to do this. The process, as it was explained to me: university research pushes the state of the art, industrial research labs are slightly behind this and looking to transfer into practical uses (along with this some government agencies are interested in tech transfer) and finally software engineering takes these ideas and turns them into actual products. You aren't making a product, so it is OK for the code not to be perfect (also, from experience, 'professional' industry code is not always that great either). The main point is that someone has some chance of reproducing your results.

The exception to this is if you are making a product, where the definition of product is a tool for further research. Examples might be tools for symbolic execution or formal verification, in which case it might be worth some time to make the experience of using it good for that benefit, to reduce friction so that people try and want to use your tool.

Artefact evaluation is rapidly becoming something people are encouraged to do and helps enormously in verifying results, but the point is usually to try to reproduce the results of the paper to back up the science, not to start an argument over coding style. I would hope that artefact evaluation processes make this clear and ensures that evaluations of artefacts focus on reproducibility. For outside comments that might arise, I suggest you publish the work as open source and respond to any criticisms with a fairly standard line: yes this is research quality code and we would like to have time to improve it. If you would like to submit a patch/pull request we would welcome any help.
"This is before we get in to the whole topic of quarantine “hotels” and the force with which people were escorted to them and the conditions there"

The truly disgraceful aspect of all this is that Australia had a proper quarantine system in place and it abandoned it. When I was a kid, everyone knew of Australia's quarantine system and its past history as it was so public. Anyone who'd traveled on Sydney Harbour back then would have seen Sydney's quarantine station (I used to pass it every time I went to the beach): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Head_Quarantine_Station

The fact is Australia was unprepared for COVID because of government funding cutbacks and other political BS. The country has no one else to blame except itself.

BTW, this was the ideal site of a quarantine station, it was easily accessible (near all incoming shipping, etc.) and yet it was properly isolated geographically from the rest of Sydney (see aerial photo in wiki link), thus people who were quarantined there would not have been able to infect others as they have done in the idiotic 'hotel system' that now exists.
NFT volume, DAOs and the curious case of LooksRare
It's not that I didn't understand the point you were making, I just think it was not really relevant. It would be incorrect to say that they violated the user's first amendment rights. But the comment you responded to says:

> at least pretend that you allow free speech

Which is different than that, and I'd argue most platforms do at least pretend to espouse the ideals of 'free speech' even if that notion has been weaker lately.

> The second one gets at the actual issue - Google have just booted someone even though they didn't apparently violate their TOS. They just arbitrarily did so to appease a paying client.

It is a speech issue, even if not a legal issue, if you can pay Google to shut down random accounts that say things you don't like. The ToS violation is a red herring.
Dogs Went from Wolves to Man's Best Friend, According to Scientists
> and then immediately withdraw the funds to a real bank account.

If you link your bank account, you're at risk of them pulling funds from your bank account due to [reasons].

There's been such cases.
When the author is sampling R sounds of the world, two prominent omissions come to mind:

- American English uses the r flap for the letters t and d between vowels. I think I may have also heard Australians do this?

- I've heard Puerto Ricans when speaking Spanish do something close to what is described as a "Brazilian R". A /x/ type of sound where /r/ would be in other accents. Backed up here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rican_Spanish#Feature...
> Government is the people--except in a capitalist country where government is owned by corporations.

In what country is this true? Was everyone in Soviet Russia the government? Why did they order the killing of themselves if so?
> Not sure you'd say that's substantial or not, but I'm inclined to believe him.

I would certainly believe that person. However, saying "this major at this school has low standards" is not the same as saying "a bunch of majors at all schools have low standards and are thus worthless."
The Amazon chat bot has been pretty great for me. Instant replies and I most times I don’t have to type anything out. It’s really a decision tree with multiple choices but extensive and actually helpful. And if there is a bigger problem it instantly switches to a person who has all the context.
It is much more fun to read the teenaged Jane Austen's "History of England" than to read yet an another article by yet another scholar talking about Jane Austin.

It begins:

"HENRY the 4th ascended the throne of England much to his own satisfaction in the year 1399, after having prevailed on his cousin and predecessor Richard the 2nd, to resign it to him, and to retire for the rest of his life to Pomfret Castle, where he happened to be murdered..."

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Love_and_Freindship_and_other...
Honestly, put your code out, and version control it. Benefits:

- People who use your work will cite you.

- You may get collaborators.

- It's an easy-to-get-to backup

- For non-academic jobs, it's part of your resume
How bad is my gas stove?
No, the "inadequate response" they are talking about is that the companies didn't give them the information the committee is asking for. So they are using subpoenas to get it. If there is a trump org, or connected org, that was pushing propaganda on Facebook trying to get people to do something violent, that is extremely important and fully within congress' mandate to have access to. Likewise, if the opposite occurred, and if there isn't any propaganda or misinformation, that's important as well.
Everything I learned about Dominic Cummings from his £10-a-month blog
If true, this sounds like a blatant admission that they're completely bought by the super rich.

There's simply no good reason for yachts and private jets to be exempt.
Seems like the author of this blog used MacOS for a grand total of 5 seconds before writing this post.

"Lacks cut and paste" - lol, what a maroon.
It's not entirely fair to call the second point a major slip. I think that it is still sort of inaccurate, but not exactly for the reason I had said above; see the thread following kevinventullo's comment below. In any case, my second point is sort of pedantic. I don't love the terminology used, but I wouldn't heap very much blame on the author.

The first one is a bit worse. I think if I had read this knowing nothing about convexity I would have gotten the wrong idea from the arbitrary choice of 1%. I understand the desire to simplify, but it is an art to simplify while keeping what you say technically correct. Quanta usually does an excellent job of this. I wouldn't say that the first point above is an egregious error by any means, but I think it is a slip.
> This is not what licenses are for!!

You must be fun at parties :)
Hah, it wasn't until your comment did i realize the product was Deta cloud. I was reading Delta Cloud lol.
In this scenario the trained human is being paid to operate a VR device. Instead of paying a human to send you tools and operate a VR device as you do the repair you might as well pay them to fix the thing.
Oh yeah, I wonder why PT-PT is so different in terms of pronunciation, it would make sense for Brazil to move in a different direction given the waves of immigration and how insular it is in South America and Portugal to stay closer to Spanish/Gallego given how close they are there.
Most of the docs mention Python and Node.js micro-frameworks, but the Deta Base SDK has example code also for Go. Is it possible to deploy (self-contained) binaries compiled from Go on Deta? On Deta Space?
Have used it for a small work project. I love the simplicity. I haven't found a cloud provider that has this limited scope/battery included feel.

I love services like digital Ocean. But everything is designed to deploy and scale "the right way". For projects with small scope this really fits the bill.

Improvement: add something like nodemon -e "deta deploy" I end up reruning that command alot.

Something like "deta -w ./my-awesome-project"

The comments remind me of the inflection point with any opensource/ startup company dev: "great product, id love to use it, but can I trust it?"

Aside: this reminds me of anvil.app but different.
This has that same omg it comes with a sql db editor interface (not very fancy but it works)
Reddit and Twitter very much touted free speech 10 years ago and didn't have this issue (unless you want looking for it). And Google and FB effectively allowed whatever but didn't talk about it, until 2015 or so.

1. Tout free speech to great success and become a dominant platform

2. Get advertiser and political blowback

3. Ban unpopular speech

4. Now "free speech" platforms only have unpopular content

As a tangent, pre 2010, the best argument I had with conspiracy nuts was "if all this shit you're saying is true, then why is the government / corporations not trying to silence you, like you say they are doing to all the people involved." Can't use that anymore.
Disclaimer: am googler, my opinions are my own. I have no non-public knowledge on this topic.

It's not clear to me what the House committee is asking for. From what I read in their letters it's basically, "We think you have more than you've given us, so give it to us".

That's not how this works. If you want to subpoena information, you need to be specific and targeted. If you don't get what you think you want, call people in to testify.

Here's the actual Committee release [1]. Two quotes from the Alphabet letter:

"For example, Alphabet has not produced any documents that fully explain non-public moderation discussions and policies"
"Additionally, Alphabet has not produced documents relating to YouTube’s policy decisions"

But, IIRC, YouTube (and Twitter) were pretty publicly vocal and specific about their policies for months preceding Jan 6th. I just don't see what warrants this round of grandstanding.

[1] https://january6th.house.gov/news/press-releases/select-comm...
"Rechts" also has the "ch" sound which is not as foreign per se to speak, but kind of deceptive and maybe too subtle to Portuguese speakers. I got the R quickly since it's more obvious, but for the ch it took me a bit longer to even notice the difference between my ch and the German ch.
Attrition usually loses the top-performers because they can get much better offers. The poor-performers don't have any good options to leave.

Proactive management would reward the top performers and reprimand/fire the poor performers. That's the opposite of attrition.
> American English uses the r flap for the letters t and d between vowels

I think it's more constrained than this; I don't have it in "baton", for example. I'm no phonologist, but I suspect it has to be followed by a liquid (L or R sound). I have it in e.g. "butter" or "little".
I've written a few paragraphs on the topic. Maybe it's helpful:
https://nymity.ch/book/#make-your-code-public
OT: another site where you have until January 31, 2022 to download your purchases is Pottermore. They gave a lot more notice--the shutdown was announced in 2019.

I somehow missed that, but they sent an email at the start of this year reminding users of it. Go to https://bookshelf.pottermore.com/ and enter your email. They will mail you a link to your bookshelf.

Follow that link and you'll find all your books with download links to download DRM-free ePubs.
> We also need to consider that running your own business is a lot of work, and doing physical labor can be hard on the body. One of the benefits of office jobs is that you get high pay, stable hours, relatively low stress and get to work in an air-conditioned room. So I would still prefer that over skilled trades even if the pay was the same.

On the flip side you stay in better shape, and therefore are healthier. When you work a physically demanding shop you exercise all day every day. With your typical office job, we’ll I have health issues from sitting too long.
I'm not sure I fully understand the question. RAII is powerful, but it is just a tool to organize what is still manual resource management. it can help with memory/thread safety, but it doesn't guarantee those things by itself. ex: it's nice that std::vector's memory buffer will be freed when the object goes out of scope, but I can still do something stupid like hold onto to its .data() pointer and try to dereference later.

to answer the more general question, I think most engineers would prefer to refactor a c++ project over rewriting the whole thing in rust, and rightly so. you usually don't want to fuck around with delicate things that currently work in these sorts of projects. perhaps over time you end up with an FFI layer over a thoroughly tested c++ core. then new features can be written in rust or whatever friendly language is popular at the time.
Earning a criminal record has an extremely high cost even if you are poor. Actually, especially if you are poor.
I've owned almost all generations of these little machines (in addition to a Psion Netbook) and to this date they're among the design & form concepts that I miss the most. With the docking station and optional extended battery, PCMCIA, etc, they would adapt to any work environment, but even in bare-bones mode, you could get some actual work done — Which isn't always the case with an iPad unless you add bulky extras. I wish Apple had the balls that Sony had back then.
Non tech folks come up quite often: I disagree with that, chatbots often require talking to them in a precise language to find an answer or reply in a strange way if they don’t have an answer, I think that’s even worse for a non tech savvy user.

Also: what level of non tech savvy are we taking about? Test with some real users of different ages, I’m sure there’s something to be found that improves usability to a point that’s better than a bot.

Agree on the cost cutting though, if you don’t care about an individual user go ahead and waste their time. I’ve actually had enough encounters with the human counterpart of a chat bot that was equally unhelpful in resolving simple issues.
You're about a hundred years late to be making this stand. I've never actually seen anyone claim that quantum physics in general is hooey. What do you even mean by that? That in fact, all of modern physics observations, as well as cosmology, materials science, etc, can actually be explained by classical physics? Or do you mean that you think there is some underlying classical/deterministic process which drives nature, and quantum mechanics is our attempt to predict outcomes based on an incomplete understanding? That is a defensible position, but it still wouldn't make sense to call quantum physics a waste of time.
Are you confused by hydroxic acid and hydrochloric acid?

Because I don't. They are obviously different spelling.

If people are confused by these two words, I have bad news for them. They might literally have brain problems.

> They're not a scientific journal, they're a video platform serving a general audience

So what? Are they not allowed to state anything that is scientifically accurate?

What next? We should ban non-scientific channel who says masks help?

> Youtube bans video titles which if misinterpreted might make people do harmful things

Anything that is misinterpreted will lead to harmful things. That's the consequence of misinterpretation.

Hacker News could be misinterpreted as a community of hackers trying to hack into people's computers. Therefore, we should close down the community?
On the contrary, that is exactly the sense I was thinking of. My point was that considering this in terms of an erosion of your free speech doesn't make sense because there's no expectation of free speech in places like Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, etc. There is an expectation that as long as you adhere to TOS you'll be allowed to continue to use a platform, however.

I just thought it was a mistake in this case to get into a broader debate about free speech online, what should be allowed, how it needs to account for various countries' conflicting laws, etc. Because that's a huge issue, it's probably not what was intended by the original commenter and we have a much more narrow and clearly defined issue we can focus on (being kicked off despite adhering to TOS).
Why do you jump to that conclusion? Youtube's algo is long suspected of pushing more and more extreme/radical content, and the comittee seems to be looking for more information on if that process affected the Jan 6 riot

That's not looking for a scapegoat; it's looking for a set of root causes
A large-scale study on research code quality and execution