skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They talk to the customers so the engineers don't have to!
I didn't say, "All speech should be free or none of it should be free", I said, "Both the repugnant ideas and the rejection of the repugnant ideas are expressions of free speech, and you either support both or none."

Of course there's speech that should be limited. I'm just saying if you support repugnant speech, you either also support rejections of repugnant speech or you don't support free speech at all.
Yes most mammal species can carry the virus. It has been detected in dogs, cats, deer, tigers, mink, hamsters, gorillas, etc. This is one of several reasons why the virus can never be eradicated.
> Actually Schenck v. United States was partially overturned and severely limited 53 years ago, so that hasn't been correct, technically, for some time

Actually, the “fire” line was dicta in Schenck, so it technically was never true.
I agree. Is anyone? Full disclosure: I used to work at Reddit. I was just putting in my 2 cents why Elon's proposal might not be immediately actionable without a lot of hard thought about how to deal with bad actors without the obscurity layer.
Wow, in order to source from Bloom, you have to pay a membership fee to Bloom, and even then, you aren’t allowed access to their database.

How is this candidate first?

Their FAQ also says they changed their name to reflect their mission better, except the founder has flat out said it was due to trademark issues.

Their list of companies are those that hired someone who graduated from bloom, not a company that is a member of their Fellowship program.

Sketchy.
sigh That's the point though; who caaaarrrreeeeesssss what the employees think?

Do you care what the political views of your plumber are? I do not.

Do you care what the political views of the person who writes the app that runs your smart tv? I don't caaaare.

What I care about is what the platform does as a company, and yes, I know, people run companies, and that means they have some impact... but fundamentally twitter is run by a bunch of people who are trying to derive value for their shareholders.

That means building things, getting users, and not wasting a shit load of time and money on content moderation.

That's the point; it's not about caring about politics; it's about making problems go away, so they can make money by selling ads (or whatever) and making people click on cat videos.

You have a handful of examples you're clinging to, which show some people doing something you don't like, so EVERYONE MUST BE DOING IT. That's exactly the point this post was making; you're assuming the tiny bit of data you have, is reflective of the entire management structure, company, employees and corporate decision making process.

It's not.

> I'm unsure how Y could be that niave. I really don't believe he is, but this is baffling.

That's the point this whole thread is making. You can choose to believe in that conspiracy theory style stuff, but, really... it shouldn't be a surprise to find that some people don't.
Why? It's not a government entity.
> I hope most would agree that this is a disproportionate punishment.

Racism is a crime in any reasonable society. If anything, being yelled at on Twitter is too little punishment.
That must explain why numerous right wing media outlets also chose not to cover it (Fox, WSJ, others).

It was not covered at the time because the way it was "released" meant that the claims were unsubstantiated and unsubstaniable. As more information comes out the appears to be actually verifiable (and verified), it is showing up in "completely mainstream media" outlets.

There's a problem when you try to release a news story using more or less precisely the same playbook that would be used if the story was fabricated. You can't blame the media for not taking you seriously when you (in this case Guiliani) does more or less precisely what someone who was lying through their teeth and knew it. If you want them to take you seriously, you need to give them the chance to verify your claims. The Hunter Biden Laptop story was bungled as much by its "releasors" as by the media.

Also, even today, it's not entirely clear what the big deal actually is, other than being able to say "possible corruption" and "Joe Biden" in the same sentence.
>Note that a single family dewlling on .75 acres likely costs the government a lot of money to provide services (plumbing, sewer, electric etc) and is likely already a net debtor to the city/county. This style of development is why American (and Canadian) cities are going broke.

Maybe in a dying city nobody wants to live in anyway.

Most costs aren't spending the entire budget on plumbing/sewer/electric. All of those are often billed separately, with surcharges for infra development. RE developers are on the hook for those in new developments.

Largest costs usually are: education, police, fire, roads. Except roads, these are orthogonal to density.

So in short, your argument: people are net debtors because we have roads. Plainly false.
You're missing the point. What matters is that GP's friend had used "activism" to describe acts of simple spite or revenge, and the label does not apply. Such behavior stands in the way of real activism. Perhaps you feel the spite is deserved, the revenge justified, based on the level of potential consequence. Your use of hyperbolic imagery and character assassination suggests that you might, and I might not even try to dissuade you ... but don't call it activism. Words have meaning, and a potato is not a pear.
We had a mix of code written by brilliant people who knew how to maximize cache coherence in template metaprogramming hacks... and interns who generated more compiler warnings than anything else.

Over the years, I found some truly awful code, in our cash cow application.

So I turned those into the smallest representations of what was bad, and showed those to candidates.

I was trying to assess, "How much will I need to mentor this person, and how hard will that be?"

I may have given bad reviews to people who deserved better, but I honestly think I never once gave a good review to someone who deserved a bad one. A few times, the company went against my suggestions, and each time, the candidate wrote some terrible, buggy code that I later had to untangle and fix.
Hundreds of billions? Is there a source to this idea that Twitter has these numbers?
As an immigrant that can't ever vote, has restrictions on buying property, and belonged to a 40% immigration population in SF, i beg to differ.
I like the sound of this approach insofar as it sounds more like a collaborative effort than simply trial by fire.
I'm an individual in "The West" and I don't want to hurt Russia's economy, or Russian individuals. It isn't my objective, and it isn't the objective of many other intelligent, moral people who both oppose collective punishment and reject warmongering whether it comes from NATO, Russia or anywhere else.

If Github and other private organizations and companies want to act as proxies for the US government, NATO and the US military then they ought to expect to be treated as such.
I’m personally against this approach. I’m an appsec person. I absolutely do not know how to write most of the code I review. In my past two jobs I’ve been required to read code and explain it during interviews. I’ve never had trouble explaining what’s going on because on a very basic level, most languages use the same conventions.

If this were a heuristic of a good developer, it would let me (not a dev) in and who knows what the effects of that could be :).
No that's incorrect. You appear to have made a category error. Protecting against a virus isn't a valid reason for violating the fundamental human right of free assembly.

And no, there is no human right to be protected against the risk of disease.
But that doesn't seem any different to the process he would have to go through personally if he was allowed to obtain more than 15% himself without triggering the poison pill. I'm sure this makes it more difficult I'm just wondering, given the stakes involved, what is actually stopping this work around?
Convincing orgs to use mtls can be difficult although perhaps incidents like this one will generate more interest.
I could have sworn I read a NYT article about tracking strange price fluctuations and these shell companies who at times would buy and absorb other companies… some of these shell companies were very shadowy/ hard to get information on. A few seemed to have random people listed as CEO (real people who had other jobs, like a gym teacher at a high school), and they refused to respond to questions from NYT.
> It has terrible UX, but I could target a U.S. Military retiree that likes creole food, located in Boston, enjoys watching Golf and uses iPhone 11 Pro with an older iOS version 14

So, it's got lots of categories you can target. But...what evidence or guarantees are there of accuracy of the targeting?
Signed Video framework for integrity of surveillance video
I’m a recently joined SDM in AWS. I do not mean to negate your years of experience. I expect to find exactly your experience as my time progresses and I see more teams.

I find that a lot of Amazon’s management systems appear to be built as safeguards against the pitfalls less experienced leaders might not know how to handle. Unfortunately it is optimized for the “least common denominator” of human collaboration, which is basically coercing individuals to behave like machines. I agree with your characterization of the problem.

I would go so far as to say that I disagree with the system in a philosophical manner. It is opposite of good leadership, in motivating humans to grow, innovate, and create success, in my understanding. Yet I cannot ignore Amazon’s market success; it may have succeeded in spite of these flaws.

I do not know how long I will stay. I anticipate a deep enough philosophical conflict to motivate my eventual exit.

Until then, my team will benefit from stronger cohesion, shared knowledge, clearer prioritization, growth, work life balance, and ultimately happiness. Some of them have taken their first vacations in the last few years, in the few months of my tenure so far, because of the changes we’ve embraced.

I will create a healthy environment of leadership for my team, and we will succeed. We will show Amazon what is required, as long as I can.

If past experience is any indication, I will carry my team’s allegiance because I look out for their interests, individually and collectively.

And when we deliver strategic advancements, we will gain autonomy. If not, I know that my talents can be impactful elsewhere.

I hope that I can quell the tide of dynamics of which you warn.
Completely agree with webAuthn! Absolutely love that user experience and I feel like even if its not with a YubiKey, almost all devices have biometrics in it. We should be leveraging that
Painting a Landscape with Maths, by Inigo Quilez
Loginless? I didnt quite understand that.
This is the sort of take you hear from a Reddit dopamine addict who's idea of 4chan comes from the losers on his favorite marketing platform.
I can't prove that it was true, but I can prove that it was a story going around at the time (although this has it as $25): https://books.google.com/books?id=NyeVNsWvJHAC&pg=PA32&lpg=P...

Whether or not it actually happened, it's entirely believable. Traders, at least there and then, were huge gamblers. Anything, any time. Something I saw with my own eyes was a thing that happened when trading was slow. Somebody would get a clear plastic trash bag, declare a size of bill (e.g., $5 or $20), and walk around with it. People would write their name on the designated banknote and drop it in. Eventually they'd shake it up, draw one of the bills, and give the sack to the person named on it. I saw one of the cleaning staff win a bundle of cash this way.

Or another thing I saw happen. One night I went out drinking with our trading clerks. All of them were aspiring traders, and all of them quickly learned the numeric hand signals used to indicate bid-ask spreads. Sitting at a table with them and couple of random women picked up at the bar, I saw two of the clerks doing number signals back and forth as one of them was chatting up one of the women. When I asked later what was going on, they were betting on whether he was going to sleep with the girl that night.

And of course Michael Lewis's book Liar's Poker is named after the fondness traders have for a betting game: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/liars-poker.asp

So did it happen? I don't know. But I do know our CBOT clerks were buzzing about it at the end of the day, so I don't think it was just completely made up.
I think he's more interested in the power of twitter as the public square. There's no doubt Trump won his presidency through that social media presence (and his non-stop rallying of course). That kind of power is more useful than say buying the Washington Post.

I would be more interested in him implementing certain features like a journalistic credibility score for outlets and individuals. Base it on number of retractions, mistakes, and outright lies. Surely a score like that might put certain fake news propagators in line.

This is something he pitched before although as a standalone website. Integrating into twitter seems more useful.
They've recently passed on, but I'm pretty dang old, so it's ok.

My relationship with my mom was really strained, during my transition from living at home to college. Improved dramatically soon after.
Many places make voting difficult. I recognize this, and agree that it is terrible. Voting should be as easy and widespread as possible. There comes a point on the effort scale, however, below which not voting means you just don't give a damn. Voting in my city involves thirty seconds on a website to request a ballot and then dropping your envelope in the mail. If you don't care that much, or have managed to screw your life up to the point where that is just too much work, then I don't really care to have your input on how my city is run.
I mean, this is just being pedantic, but you could in theory declare a giant uninitialized non-local array

uint8_t my_memory[4*1024*1024*1024];

and some additional globals for housekeeping[1], and use that as your backing memory for your malloc implementation written entirely in "standard C"[2]. And that usually does not even waste any memory, since my_memory will be in the zero-filled BSS section and the actual backing pages only allocated on demand by the OS once you write on them for the first time.

Of course in reality there's probably a few "non-standard"[2] system calls in the path, mostly mmap.

[1] Not necessarily, you can place them at special places in your my_memory array by convention, e.g. at the start of the array.

[2] I assume that we're excluding standards on other layers like POSIX, otherwise it's trivial.
I could be wrong but you know when you sign up for services you have option of signing in with github or other oAuth providers? I think they used this to gain access to various private repos, npms, cloud credentials.

So it seems like if your company had some super secret project running on github, heroku, AWS, they had full access to it.

This is my rough understanding just skimming so could be wrong.
Sure, but that requires compilation unit level analysis or inlining (when inlined you can include pointer provenance from main), otherwise you can't guarantee the relationship between x and y.

I guess what bugs me about optimizations is that it feels like something _I_ should be doing. Like if GCC told me this code optimizes down to printf 1 and why, I'd question what I was doing (and rightly so). Doing it automatically feels like too much spooky action at a distance.
New York Public Library makes banned books available for free
Anyone else noticing an uptick in OAuth bug/authentication integrations for CICD/dev ops platforms?
Your sentence is a a classic example where everything after the "but" pretty much contradicts what came before it.
It ignores motorcycles, who at least in my head is why the term "cyclist." is used. Trucks, Cars, bikes, cyclists. Last two slightly more humanized because you can see the human fly off of the thing in an accident, trucks and cars, driver wearing a seatbelt is part of the machine.
> renters get the same one vote per person as everybody else

It's not just directly voting for a city councilor, planning board member, etc. that counts. Showing up to public meetings to show support or disagreement with something can do much to pressure those elected officials. But renters are going to have a much more difficult time showing solidarity for pro-development action, not only because of the difference in socioeconomic status (e.g. living paycheck to paycheck vs. a homeowner who has a stable, white-collar job).

1. Homeowners can shoot down a proposed development by demonstrating a strong response against threats on just their street or block. As long as homeowners defend their turf locally, and it can be counted on them to do so across town, they win. Renters, on the other hand, have an asymmetrically difficult battle: pro-development individuals need to show up to all the proposed-development meetings, not just one for a particular street or block, if they want to expand housing.

2. Homeowners are probably much more strongly driven to show up because the focus is on what they lose. Character of neighborhood, traffic, safety, noise, etc. and the threat against the status quo seems more likely to trigger that visceral defense mechanism. Renters probably focus on what they gain: affordable housing, access to new communities, etc. My intuition is that the perception of losing something is a greater call to action than the possibility of gaining something.

3. Homeowners are well-defined and known individuals. They already exist, and their turf is already developed. Renters, on the other hand, are an abstract group of people who may or may not even move in, should something be built. I currently rent an apartment - but will I show up to a neighboring town's planning board meeting to voice my support for some proposed apartment complex that's still in the early stages, could flop at any point, and even if it succeeds I may not even move there? The renters of a future complex may not even know who they are yet, if they aren't adamant on moving in there should a place be built.

4. There's strong stigma against renters, to the point of being demeaning and tribal. A local council near me voiced their opposition to building more affordable developments, and the chairman said he was concerned about "derelicts" (exact word) moving in to the neighborhood and said if they built more affordable units, you'd see a rise in street drug vendors, threatening the local children. How can renters and low-income earners combat such ridiculous accusations when local leaders cast them as criminals, just because they can't afford to buy a median $400,000 house?

Your comment ignores so much of the asymmetric power dynamic between owners and renters.
Interesting take
I love these Office Space references
Come now, it was surely a typo, there aren't even that many humans!
Maybe this reply to my comment wasn't directed specifically at me, but I want to make it clear you are arguing against points I didn't make. I wasn't saying cancel culture doesn't exist. I wasn't saying people don't self-censor.

I was instead saying that people who complain about self-censorship often don't understand the reason behind why some things are now objectionable. This results in them painting with too broad of a brush when they talk about that self-censorship and cancel culture. You can still make edgy and politically incorrect jokes today if you do it right.
I came here to say this, too :)

But, of course, it isn't a silver bullet...

1. You still have to have a sane PATH. A fair amount of the Nix install-related issues that get opened are PATH problems, and you can also run into problems with PATH in cron/launchd (as @tyingq noted).

2. You still have to know what the script depends on. This can get tricky beyond small scripts you wrote yourself. (I write a tool for discovering and ~linking/resolving external dependencies in Shell scripts, https://github.com/abathur/resholve. As I've been working on converting some of nixpkgs' existing Shell packages to use it, I almost always find dependencies the initial packager missed.)
Expect no one will care.
I could "release" a story on how I found an iPad on a bus that shows that Donald Trump Jr. has sex with babies and then posts it on a hidden social media network. I could release it (like Guiliani did with the Hunter Biden story) with no verifiable evidence, just an insistence that this is all true.

The story would be false, because I just made that up. I would think it would be pretty remiss of FB or Twitter to allow my invented story to spread given its completely unsubstantiated nature.

Now, if at a later date, it turned out that people were able to verify that DTjr did in fact have sex with babies and shared the videos with a private network, it would also be remiss of FB and Twitter to prevent discussion of it.

We live in an era where people can release stories with generated audio, video and other visual media to make any invented point they want. The idea that these stories should be able to be spread around freely even in the absence of any actually verified facts is fundamentally absurd. If you were to get that wish, I am absolutely certain that you would hate the world it would create even more than you might the current one.
Is it actually DDG that is censoring them, or is it Bing and DDG is as well because it is using Bing results?
Surely you aren't questioning that Twitter has users beyond our Solar System.
Why? How else would you measure bias?
Are you any good?
That's just nonsense completely divorced from scientific reality. Even a strict quarantine wouldn't have sufficed to stop a highly contagious respiratory virus with multiple animal reservoirs.

It's now clear that the best strategy would have been to focus on protecting the most vulnerable, as recommended by leading experts back in 2020.

https://gbdeclaration.org/
It's difficult to explain. One example would be if she offers to get you a drink while you're working on something. She'll spend 3 minutes running down a list of every possible drink, even if you said you didn't want anything or just wanted water. She will repeat herself or go back and forth about if she has something or not, going into a story of why she thinks one way or the other. When you pick something she'll ask a bunch more questions about if you want a specific glass, do you want ice, etc.

I honestly don't care. I didn't even want anything. I'm in the middle of stuff. Can we play 20 questions later?
And it was part of an argument in support of the government shutting down opposition to the draft.
Frankly, ARM server chips have always SEEMED like they held a lot of promise but never delivered on this. If you want power efficiency per-thread, I struggle to see the value of an ARM chip vs a voltage-optimized x64 CPU. It definitely seems like there's an unaddressed market here, but I also feel like if Intel/AMD felt that Amazon Gravity or Alibaba were starting to impact their market share they'd just release TDP-binned server chips.
Ah, a fellow "Tombow Zoom 505" enthusiast! In case you didn't know already, they have expanded the lineup somewhat. There is now a 0.9mm Mechanical pencil and a Ballpoint pen over and above the original 0.5mm Mechanical Pencils and Rollerballs[1].

There is also a new "Multifunction pen" (Black+Red+0.5mm) in three colours. It is slightly longer than the Mechanical pencil[2].

Finally, the Pentel Kerry makes a very good companion to the Zoom 505.

1. https://www.tombow.com/en/products/zoom_505/

2. https://www.tombow.com/en/press/180312/
That and/or building a better relevancy engine for search-based ads. It isn't the worst idea because they don't need to do horribly privacy invasive things to provide query based ads. But obviously they will because there are even better relevancy scores to be had with the other signals in a given user's account.