skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not? Is everyone that works for the government supposed to hold exactly the same opinions and political leanings? If a staffer in a Republican area of the US donated to BLM and was fired, would there be a different reaction?
Yes, tho it seems that as soon as they are not publishing it, i.e., only holding it for private storage by the single posting party, the only problem is with strict liability content like cpron, which mere possession is a crime?

Additionally, the hosts like Google/YouTube, etc. can say that they have found that the material has potential legal issues, and they will hold it for release when the courts sort it out.

Again, the key here is to have some kind of recourse. Anything less is psycopathic - they make a fair exchange by providing a "free" service in exchange for the users' attention, and then when someone puts in 2/3 of a decade of attention and content-building, to simply cut it off with no recourse is just massive theft or vandalism, at best.

And, if they are not going to provide that, they need to provide at least constant prompts that Damocles' sword is hanging over their heads and they need to make local backups.
Maybe she didn't deny it like the other person in the article? Maybe she thought the state would not fire dissidents for donating to rallies/strike blockades. It says something about Canadian labour laws.

I guess it is a culture thing. In France these kind of protests are very common.
Fun list. The only nitpick I have is for Spark. I would not consider it easy at all. From my experience, team members that needs to come up to speed on Spark usually take about a month to do so.
> Writing code that runs on GPU in the browser (maybe with Unity?)

Is the author referring to WebAssembly ?
The "total market cap" is a completely fictional number that represents nothing real whatsoever. It makes no sense to compare anything to this number.
Not necessarily pro-US, but definitely anti-China. It's analogous to pro-Russian news coverage in mainstream American media. Not gonna happen.
>This really seems like a situation with no good options.

I think several fundamentals are wrong to start with, for example a simple definition of democracy appears to be that 51% gets to dictate the other 49%. With so many fundamental flaws even the concept of a typical protest is surreal where the person protesting is supposed to stand in harsh weather in front of a building to do so. This is not my idea of a civilized society.
I wonder if the authorities will be as quick to prosecute the leaker, who openly admits in public to breaking the law, as they are to attack the doners who have broken no laws and are entitled to privately support whatever side they choose.
About 3000 physical books. Many of them I bought as part of a collection, the best one being a compilation of classic sci-fi (500 volumes).

The number of physical books is quickly decreasing, though. I'm giving out most of the read ones to charity and libraries since I completely drank the eBook kool-aid.
Slightly related, but I was surprised while browsing AliExpress about the existence of really tiny Android phones, as in slightly bigger than a key chain. Later on I've learned through a news piece that these devices are used to bypass prisons' security checks (they probably fit in our orifices). Crazy world out there!
I go to a chiropractor. They do wonders! Perhaps I had to go there a few times in the start, but now I go there probably every second or third month, and it immediately releases whatever pain there is in my neck.
What a childish response and a great way to invite future regulation. I’m not an Edge customer but if I was I wouldn’t be anymore. Why would I entrust my money with a company that ignores the law and responds in memes?
As a mid-30s sw engineer, I’d say it’s a good look. I hate professional facades and meme’ing is how people communicate now. I’d also say the first part of your your last statement is probably correct, in that you might be an old curmudgeon ;)
It still has no use case I've yet heard of beyond "enable criminal financial activity" and "make more money for people who bought in early" that isn't better enabled by something non-blockchain-related.
Emergency is the favourite tool of tyrants
Does anyone have a good link to a rundown of the situation in Ottawa and how it’s come about?

As someone somewhat out of the loop on the situation I would love to read up on what actually has happened and why. Here in the UK we have a fair bit of political controversy of our own dominating the papers so it’s not had much coverage (as far as I can see, although I may live under a rock).
I've always been confused that in ${current_year} people are still directly writing huge + complex shell scripts.

Compare/contrast Javascript, another language we're "stuck with": while you can still directly write it, many people don't, instead using transpilers to target Javascript as an "object code" from some other, stricter language (e.g. TypeScript, ClojureScript, arbitrary native languages via Emscripten / WASM compiler targets, etc.) Via these languages/compilers, everybody who wants compile-time strictness can have it. And you can even get runtime strictness that Javascript itself doesn't have, as the checked semantics of these languages will often be "lowered" into the resulting Javascript by generating explicit assertions (usually this is on by default, unless you ask for an optimized build.) But the output is still just "Javascript", that any browser can run.

Why hasn't a similar thing happened for POSIX-standard Bourne shell? Why are we seemingly "satisfied" with writing + maintaining 5000-line install.sh scripts in our codebases, with a bunch of extra mental overhead / tooling required to keep the code sane and clean; when we could just be writing in a sane and clean language to begin with?

Is it just that nobody's bothered to create such a language/compiler? Do I need to be the one to step up, here?
If it’s the law it’s not a request is it? More of a command or face the consequences.
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Really? On almost all Discord servers I've visited, everyone has a nickname and doesn't share photos of themselves.

On Instagram, I've also noticed a lot of young people who share e.g. art have a completely anonymous profile (and I guess probably another, non-anonymous profile for their friends only).

Not sure about Snapchat or TikTok, though.
Hasn’t the US just gone through 6 years of protests against the government that have been a lot more violent than this, and I don’t recall anyone being fired for donating.

If the rule is you can’t use civil disobedience and be employed by the government, that rule is being unevenly applied.
> There just isn't enough interest to persuade app developers to support a smaller screen format, and web developers won't do it either.

On iOS supporting smaller screen sizes is fairly trivial as long as you’re using the apple-blessed layout APIs and not doing silly things like using static widths. It’s a bit more hairy on Android (simply due to the overwhelming mediocrity of Android Framework) but not anything too terrible.

It might be more annoying with cross platform frameworks though.
When this protest started, people were complaining that the government was approaching the protest with relative tolerance compared to things like pipeline protests.

Well, now protestors are being arrested and their accounts being frozen. They're no longer being treated nicely compared to environmental protestors.

While I don't agree with their stance, I do think that "we should not have a vaccine mandate" is a valid political opinion, and I support people being able to protest in support of their opinion.

Yes, it's legal to freeze the funds. The list of net-negative-for-society things perpetrated that have been legal in the jurisdictions in which they occurred is long.

I would rather these protestors, environmental/pipeline protestors, and generally all other protestors be treated gently rather than quashing protest.

Canada's laws protecting protestors are much more limited than those in the USA. If the Canadians have decided that this is how they would like their country to operate, that is their right, but I would hope that this sort of thing never happens in the US regardless of the cause.
At 5.3 the behaviour of the basic arithmetic operations were changed in a fundamental and non-backwards compatible way to bring in those integers. That certainly counts as a language fork, as opposed to the other two examples.
As far as I know, the law does not demand asset seizure, but freezing. And the frozen accounts will be unfrozen when the emergency order expires or is lifted. The goal is to prevent the use of assets right now to finance blockades, not to deprive people of their property forever.
It's not so much the emulators that have latency, it's the platforms they run on that have mostly been optimized for throughput and battery life for the past ~20 years. It's possible to get low latency on modern systems, but it requires relatively advanced and often non-portable techniques to fight the system's attempts at "efficiency".

Where FPGA really shines is in producing a consistent timing model and the associated performance quirks (such as slowdown in video games).
1000+ or so. I often visit thrift shops where books are extremely cheap and you find things you didn't know you were looking for. The nice thing about (older) books is that they comprise a whole world of information that's not available on the internet. By far not all books have been scanned, uploaded and indexed yet (if you spend a lot of time online, this is a little counter-intuitive) so in thrift shops and libraries you can make great serendipitous discoveries. I've run into amazing books of which there is barely even any online record, let alone a PDF or audiobook. Occasionally you can also find valuable things, like a rare book I bought for 1 EUR which I found went for about 400 EUR in an auction (I still have my copy). Highly recommended if you like books.

https://imgur.com/a/9ql1Ayb
Persons unknown hack givesendgo. They publish this on social media, doxing the people making donations.

Are persons unknown a government agency acting as black hat hackers, or are they actually private persons.

Either way, is it right for Twitter to leave this information up?

What if it turns out to be a government agency?

How is it right for a government to make use of information obtained in this way? What about due process rights?

It's one thing for a private employer to fire an at will employee, but don't we expect our government officials to follow due process?
What architectural/impact differences does Linux have vs others?
I'm not clear on the process in Canada. Is this like being a political appointee or more like a traditional government employee? I would certainly understand firing a congressional staffer who was working for a democratic senator and donated to defend the Proud Boys, or equivalent or let's say a Rand Paul staffer who donated to Hillary Clinton's campaign. It shows a conflict of interest. I don't think it would be appropriate to do the same for a GS employee unless that group was advocating the violent overthrow of the constitution.
Well it's a big government isn't it? Surely they could reassign her to communicate for her bosses on some other matters?
Seems they are not done yet.
I think you're point is correct around rust in that writing rust is harder than writing C due to the constraints the compiler places on what you can do. So far I'm happy with this tradeoff because I've had some very gnarly C concurrency bugs that took weeks to understand and debug. If the rustc compiler can point out that I'm doing something stupid and save me two weeks for a bit of pain immediately I'm all about it.
Rate limiting or clamping "0" delays upwards can also help for polling applications where you want to be as fast as possible, but you're never going to be actually zero. For example if you have a thread that's pulling images from a camera (publishing at 30 fps) in a loop, you can delay for 1ms between polls and nobody is going to know, but that can have an enormous impact on CPU usage; especially on embedded platforms. Instead of running at 100% thread usage (calling camera.read() and waiting for it to return true), the spin/loop cost is basically free and you only need to worry about the cost of acquiring/decoding the frame. In theory branch prediction should help because you'll take the "no image yet" branch 99% of the time, but in practice that just makes the loop iterate faster. I learned this the hard way writing a custom camera publisher in ROS, but I've seen it a lot in tutorial code and I think a lot of beginners make that mistake.
The horrible reviews point out a few things that don't much matter to me:

- Terrible camera
- Terrible speaker
- Software too buggy
- Price

The 'software too buggy' does matter, but I suspect that was earlier reviewed versions or related to specific aspects like the camera, certain soft-keyboard modes, or non-tablet-optimized apps as specifically called out by some of the reviews. My usage of a phone is largely not for many entertainment/consumption/apps but more general informational websites like HN, reddit, or for work (github, etc).
It was also retroactively deemed unlawful.

It would be like donating to BLM and then the government using emergency measures to shut down the protests like freezing bank accounts of those involved and then you lose your jobs and your accounts are frozen by the government and anyone that doesn't help the government stop the protest can be prosecuted by the government as well.

A lady in Ottawa who owned an ice cream shop was harassed because the information was leaked but in her mind she was supporting truckers that were out in the freezing weather protesting instead of working and still needed food and shelter.

People donate to protests and causes on a whim that get popular on social media all the time. I imagine a lot of people were donating to support some of the most thanklessly hard-worked people in society, truckers, that worked throughout the pandemic bringing back goods for the lucky people that could stay at home. The backgrounds of some of the initial organizers (some who are legitimate white supremacists) was not known initially and I imagine the majority still don't know and are instead protesting what they see as unnecessary mandates for truckers to get vaccinated even though they drive their trucks alone, and there's no indication that truckers are the cause of the spread of COVID.

I'm having an extremely hard time imagining people being okay with this and if you just change the protest cause just a bit I think it helps make clear why this is so dangerous.
Yes, this is the answer. Zoom out in the browser to 50% and you'll see how a site looks for a user with twice the number of pixels across versus you have.

In my opinion, the most important thing to keep in mind is to always have an acceptable number of characters per line (~40-90). Wikipedia gets this wrong on the high side for hi-res monitors.
> Do you think that is possible? Because I only see the situation getting worse and worse from here.

Of course it’s possible. The material standard of living of the poorest people has consistently been making huge gains since the beginning of the industrial revolution and continues to do so, despite wealth inequality. This is backed up by every objective metric you can think of.
> they’re not some magical antidote to sadness or malaise

Very True. Although, for loneliness, they might be close for a while.

I really feel for folks who were trapped at home alone during the pandemic without kids or family. Especially extroverts. Oof.
In the not so distant past, a staffer supporting white supremacists financially would get you an invitation to certain BBQs or a pat on the back.

Today, it's increasingly (although not universally) a liability. I'm OK living in a world with consequences for supporting secessionists and white supremacists.

No idea why this is flagged. The organisers of the occupation and the GoFundMe are known to be white nationalists or neo-nazis. https://globalnews.ca/news/8543281/covid-trucker-convoy-orga...
This is particularly alarming because if Apple actually followed the privacy practices it claims to, then there'd be no reason to do this.
It isn't persons unknown... credit has been claimed.
1500. Essentially all fiction.
Not OP but dropping a professional facade is often the first step on the road to actually becoming unprofessional. Not something you want from a company dealing in finance.
She doesn't work for the government, but rather is a political staffer of the government of the day.

So imagine that the communications director to the Lieutenant Governor of a GOP state donated to BLM.
I don't think these points address the original post's points. Specifically they highlighted the issues of _finding_ images to run and having the _knowledge_ on how to use these tools in the first place for abstraction.
A better analogy would be the locksmith refusing to let you in because you can’t produce the deed, which itself is in the house.
Probably not. I’m not GP but the most common are known as ‘checkpoint inhibitors’ that attack one of the pillars of a ‘successful’ cancerous mutation: (over)expression of PD-L1, a surface protein that tells the immune system that it’s sniffing a healthy cell (eg. ~these are not the cells you're looking for~). Checkpoint inhibitors work by binding to those ligands, effectively disabling their spoofing action and allowing unhealthy stench of the cell to flow through.

There’s also CAR T-cell therapies which effectively extract and culture T-cells to be more sensitive to the specific disease, then re-introduce them to the patient. These are best for blood cancers.

There’s also monoclonal antibodies and a variety of sensitizers in development and being tested.

We still have a ways to go, but personally it feels like the immune system is the best agent we have for fighting cancer. It’s entire job is to rid the body of pathogens, down to the individual cell/particle, with an adaptivity and specificity we can only dream of in medicine. Aside from the fact that cancers look just like us for the most part, it’s perfectly suited to the task.

The thing I really am looking forward to specifically with the mRNA technology we have today is the ability for a lab to take a sample from a biopsy, identify very specific markers for those cells, and quickly develop targeted therapies for the individual patient. It might be 100 years away, but that feels like the future to me.
i would certainly expect your scenario to play out as you stated.
Is it against the law for a US company to say "No" to a "request" by the Canadian government? Does edge even have a presence in Canada or need to follow Canadian laws(if the request is actually a demand)?
You seem to be implying that the protestors were white supremacists, do you have a source for that claim?
> Dedicated devops team handles all infra/CI/CD

Side-topic: I thought DevOps was supposed to be the opposite to this - but this is my experience too.

On-topic:

If you really can't get someone to sit down with you, you could ask to attend some meetings and try pick up on what senior engineers are talking about.
IMHO the barrier of entry really came down because with PEG-styled parser libs they put you back in the comfortable "declarative land" where you specify what you want using roughly the same mental model as RegEx without having to worry too much about quirks caused by implementation (i.e. leaky abstraction).
Bad laws should be disobeyed. That is the point of civil disobedience in the first place.
I use Flink a lot in Vienna. Largely also because shopping hours are so incredibly restrictive here that using Flink is even more convenient than elsewhere. Grocery stores are required by law to close at around 8, but Flink operates two hours longer. And having even larger orders show up within 10 minutes obviously makes this even more convenient.

I'm pretty sure this type of business actually fills a niche here.
Some organisations are simply illegal to give money to; this has long been a "War On Terror" thing. It is not clear whether that actual process applied here or whether this is just private action.
Didn't he just query a publicly accessibly s3 bucket? What law did he break exactly?
Those are concerns for due process, which is out the window in this situation.
This system is completely anonymous. The government is only involved when giving out the certificates to the services and the ID card to you.

If you don't want to use this system, you will also never be able to complain about the government not offering digital services and requiring you to physically stand in line. The nPA is the base for those services and can be used today (provided the government provides the service digitally).
HN people are overachievers... So invariably your approach to child rearing is going to be reading a lot and being informed. It's helpful to do so to know what's coming. But in reality you don't need to. A lot of learning will be on the job.

Yes, your free time disappears completely. But there is an upside. Watching a human being grow and learn is fascinating. Plus that human is a part of you in a sense. That is also beautiful and hard to describe in words.
This is simply not true.
It's obviously the same company and will treat your privacy right the same way (i.e. as nonexistant)

Further, you need a facebook account to log in (at least, for now) and it needs to be your real name (if you don't want to run afoul to Meta's terms and conditions).

so yeah, the will use and combine your data for any nefarious purpose
see:
https://support.oculus.com/146743104076817

"Yes. Facebook will use information related to your use of VR and other Facebook products to show you personalized content, including ads, across Facebook products. This could include recommendations for Oculus Events you might like, ads about Facebook apps and technologies, or ads from developers for their VR apps."
A protest almost by definition is a disturbance of the peace - otherwise it’s just a gathering of like minded people doing something.
They are not ignoring the law: “And most importantly, we can’t even if we wanted to.” Sounds like they are a non-custodial wallet or similar.

While they may truly believe the law is amoral and are in part happy to make that statement, this is primarily a marketing stunt for the pro-privacy and unseizable aspects of self-custodied crypto wallets.
Same here. It's my daily driver. It does everything that a larger phone does (except NFC and WIFI hotspot) and it fits in the coin pocket of my jeans. I can sit on this phone and it does not break (granted I have the mophie extra battery case around it). Oh, and I seldom need the extra battery since I'm running a verizon sim and the battery even without life mode lasts all day if I'm not on it constantly. This is the answer to OP's question, although it's a shame that it's slightly sim limited (can't change the APN so can't use visible) and there apparently won't be any updates or newer models. The only other viable small option is the mini iphone, which while it fits in my coin pocket is not as small as I'd like and will be much too easy to break.
Thank you very much for pointing out --%. I often find it incredibly hard to find what I'm looking for from Microsoft's voluminous tutorial-style Powershell docs.
Oddly, my experience is a mixed bag here. Teams I've been on that went for rigid standardization with docker have largely been much harder to upgrade than those that allow local dev however the dev wants.

This is subtle. There are more bumps along the way. However, the task of upgrading isn't neglected forever. Instead, it usually seems that each new member winds up upgrading some small piece and making sure the code works with a small change in environment.
Presumably because "government not able to seize my money" >>>>> "government able to seize money of my opponents". (I am not an Edge customer either)