skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The simplest way to get involved is to start attending the biweekly standardization meetings. The agendas are organized here: https://github.com/WebAssembly/meetings

To attend the meetings, first join the W3C WebAssembly Community Group here: https://www.w3.org/groups/cg/webassembly, then email the CG chairs at webassembly-cg-chair@chromium.org to ask for an invite.

From there you'll get a sense of who folks are so you can pair names with faces when contributing to the various proposal discussions on the many proposal repos listed here: https://github.com/webassembly/proposals.

To get a sense of how things are run and decided, read the process documents here: https://github.com/WebAssembly/meetings/tree/main/process. The TL;DR is that the community group and its subgroups decide everything by consensus via votes during the meetings.
I strongly believe that even if we'd accept the notion that this awkward conversation needs to be sidestepped, it's completely inappropriate to do it by invalidating the reality of that child's family and requesting them to agree to a ridiculous lie ("no, you have a mama and a papa") which insults their family. Arguing about this topic is entirely opposite to sidestepping the issue, it's the teacher explicitly starting the awkward conversation and failing at it.

Furthermore, while that indeed is not the lived reality for the majority of the individual kids, it's IMHO relevant for very many classrooms or teachers which will have at least one family like that; with 20-30 kids in a classroom, a 1% "rare case" will be represented in 20-30% classes and in almost every school.

Also, it's my understanding that the traditional family model is not even the majority in quite a few places where less than 50% of kids are raised in a marriage with both their parents, due to divorces, remarriages, deaths in family and simply single parents; so a kid may have a "mom and two dads" (i.e. the biological dad and mom's husband) or many other family structures; I recall hearing an (tragic?) joke about a particular class observing that there the majority kids were raised by two-woman family, namely, their mother and grandmother; etc. So it is important for teachers to acknowledge the diversity of actual parenting, you can't assume that "a mom and a dad" families are universal because so many families are not like that, those are not rare edge cases or exceptions, and they can't even be treated as deviation from the norm because in current society the nuclear two-parent family is not that dominant to be considered a true norm.
Netflix was more expensive than their competitors even prior to the recent price increase. After the price increase the only way I can justify the cost at all is the fact that my account is shared across 2 households. If they crack down on account sharing I will cancel my account. I suspect that many others will do the same and the net result will not be the increase in subscriptions they are looking for.
And... population densities in pre-antiquity was very low in great areas allowing this free roaming, as you said, if there was already and established population and a new one tried squeezing in, it very likely would end up in confrontation, if they were unrelated.

But people keep on romanticizing pastoralism and nomadic life.
> is to takedown plagiarized code snippets or solutions to company assessments

So which is it? Plagiarized or solutions? Because unless your company actually owns the copyright for the code in question, you have no right to it.

If a Google assessment asks “how many manhole covers are there in New York” and someone decides to create a repo with “Manhole covers in New York: 23,000” there is no copyright claim.

Do HackerRank users affirmatively sign a non-disclosure agreement? I checked your terms and there is not an apparent non-disclosure agreement. If not, there isn’t any legal recourse if users decide to talk about or solve your problems off the platform.

Educational and not for profit use is often protected by Fair Use. I didn’t see the repo in question so I can’t comment on if the use of the material meets the Fair Use criteria.

However if people are sharing their answers to your questions in a repo, especially for educational or non-profit value, there isn’t much you can legally do about it. For example, If I take the GMAT and I discuss a question on Twitter, that’s allowed by Fair Use. If I offer to sell a PDF of the entire test, that would not be protected.

If someone said “hey HackerRank’s Ruby test asked a question about finding the smallest value in an array” and then they posted a solution. That’s absolutely not violating a HackerRack copyright. People even have the right to describe their experience on HackerRank in great detail.

From your own policy: “Content that You own and post on or through HackerRank belongs to You..”

So if someone wants to post their solution to a question, your own terms allow that. It’s their solution, it belongs to the user.[1]

If someone else “plagiarizes” another user’s solution, HR doesn’t have standing for a DMCA takedown. The user that created the content does, but not HR.

However even if HackerRank did own the solutions, there is a high likelihood that Fair Use would be in effect.

I have a strong dislike of HackerRank type companies because it’s pretty rare that those ridiculously academic assessments predict real world performance. They are a screening tool for the lazy. A well designed, relevant code test relating to the work of the company or a solid technical interview is much more valuable in my experience. When I was interviewing with companies, I immediately passed on the job of HackerRank was part of the hiring process. I ended up at a FAANG for over 5 years, so it’s pretty clear that anti-HackerRank bias among potential employees like me have a detrimental effect on recruiting.

[1] https://www.hackerrank.com/terms-of-service
Where do they sell ads outside of the App Store?
SB 9 pasted in Sept of last year that allows for duplexes on single unit lots. Here is the info for LA County https://planning.lacounty.gov/view/sb_9
This is a horrible abuse of the DMCA. HackerRank does not own the copyright to independent solutions.
Does Brave Search not rank slow and bloated sites lower for mobile users?

If you do introduce such signals into your search ranking in the future, should we assume you have bad intent?
Or just learn to love sardines.
> plagiarized code snippets

I'm looking at the page that was taken down[1] and it seems to be largely full of pretty basic code snippets demonstrating how to use the Solvers module.

Your DMCA request[2] includes the statements that say, in part, that Fair Use has been considered, that you own the copyright, and that the information in that statement is true and accurate.

Could you elaborate what on that page you consider to be your copyrighted content, and how you came to hold that copyright? Is it the code snippets, as per your comment? Did your company have an employee write that content?

When the DMCA takedown request was being drafted, did someone consider whether those snippets are even qualifies as an Original Work? I'm getting at whether they contain even a minimal level of creativity, as the US Supreme Court has said is a requirement for copyright[3].

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20220114132753/https://docs.symp...

[2] https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2022/04/2022-04-1...

[3] https://www.copyright.gov/what-is-copyright/
Unless in that time the people who filed the notice withdraw it and acknowledge the error. Then GitHub can immediately restore it.
Absolutely. Since they are claiming copyright infringement on random stuff they didn't write, how many things are going to get caught and not have the reputation of SymPy?
Even if you had no zoning or "organized" NIMBY restrictions, it would be extremely slow to build denser in the most popular "full" residential places: any new construction there requires someone else to sell and leave for that construction to take place. You aren't going to be able to build a hundred-unit tower like you could if the land was empty or was just a vacant old structure.

Targeting stuff that isn't currently residential would be a much easier starting point.

IMO, but more controversially, it goes even further: in the long run, especially with fast transportation and digital communications, it's hard to see certain places ever getting "affordable" given today's wealth distributions. Some locations are going to be in higher demand due to non-human-development related factors (weather, scenery, etc). Others due more to development factors: NYC is more in-demand than if it was an empty bunch of land because we've already done a bunch of development there. (That latter case is especially interesting because it shows how development can both increase supply AND demand, it's not solely something that affects supply.) So if some places are inherently going to be more in-demand than others, and you build more when the market price is currently $X, prices won't fall very quickly at all as you get the people who otherwise want to live there, but couldn't do $X but would do it for $X-1, $X-2, etc, now re-interested in the area!
Streaming rivals dip as Netflix user miss signals slowdown
Filtering out people who get upset about nonsense like this is a feature, not a bug.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220418090618/http://www.thehis...
Now that the end-user is essentially using their browser as a thick client for that RIA/SPA, and the client-server interaction primarily supplies certification and replication services, we can congratulate ourselves on having more-or-less reinvented Lotus Notes.
It’s interesting to see what people consider an “unlivable” town - some would include places on that list that I would consider major cities!
If there's anything you were hoping for that you find it's lacking, let me know!
Netflix has lots or smart people, and I didn't pay any attention in strategy class so I assume they have thought about this better than me. But it seems like offering an ad-driven product, even if you, for the time being, let people pay to not have ads, is signaling a low-end, commodity positioning on the market. Maybe that is where Netflix thinks they can make the most money, to be the walmart of streaming, presumably battling it out with amazon for that title. What I'm interested in is how the higher end landscape gets affected. It would be great to see more choice, or more good offerings, in the upmarket space, away from any flirting with the ad-driven hellscape that has swept over the rest of the internet. Netflix going all in on low-end maybe opens the door for more high-end
Find a different job in a better industry.

No other profession tolerates this horrible style of interview.
I have a few different ones, mainly running on a Raspberry Pi 3B (which is likely overkill)
- A monitor for my infant daughter's room temp that communicates with a "smart plug" to thermostatically control a heater
- A second process that creates a dashboard to display temp/humidity
- A webcam for said infant daughter
- An app for logging and displaying health/fitness data
What would that tell you about a company, though?
Exactly. When you file a DMCA takedown notice you are asserting under penalty of perjury that you own the copyright. While few have suffered consequences for false notices, pissing enough people off might change that.
> Our intention with this initiative is to takedown plagiarized code snippets or solutions to company assessments.

Oooh boy I can't wait to begin publishing solutions to your company's assessments.
They explicitly don’t. See this: https://www.hackerrank.com/terms-of-service
Everything except the last paragraph, concur.

W.r.t. white privilege, there are probably definitions that are too far-fetched, but I’ve had my cop interactions and watched white and black cop interactions, and I’ve watched around other interactions, and there’s definitely a difference in how you’re treated.
Copyright law will need to catch up with AI. What if I use your ML model to train my ML model? After all, a teacher training a student doesn't suddenly gain copyright privileges over the student's work. And it's not like you could easily test either. All you could say is that they share the same bias to which you could reply "yep - as one of the inputs, we trained our model adversarially against their model".
From the posted DMCA notice:

> Allegedly Infringing Material Location Links:

“Allegedly”? Does this mean even the lawyers are not sure whether the material is infringing upon their client’s content or not?
If you don't take down something you get a DMCA notice for, do you lose safe harbor status for everything, or just for that one thing? If the latter, then wouldn't it be a good move for GitHub to ignore DMCA requests that their lawyers are sure wouldn't hold water?
It's pretty hard to compare some random free PHPBB running on a underspec'd host to companies with billions in revenue to support their platform. Honestly, reddit and HN are so simplistic, there's not much added by JavaScript doing any rendering.

Reddit in particular is horrific. Their API is slow, and their JS bogs down on anything that isn't a super-fast desktop. Server pages would be able to handle most of what they do, faster and better, except for crap like live updates or typing/posting indicators that don't add much value.
> Read the docs introduction for a more in-depth... introduction.

Heh. This reminded me of http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000012.h... .

"PERSONNEL WHO ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO BE IN THE HANGAR ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO BE IN THE HANGAR"
They ban you if they don’t like what you say to curate the discussions anyways
My OVH server in France got disconnected a few years back because one site had a link to some malicious material. Had to reply via email to get them to reconnect it. That was back in March 2017.
Could you share which peripherals you see a need for additional documentation on? In most cases where a specific IC is controlling a peripheral or interface, we're at the mercy of the IC vendor or relevant standards body (VESA, PCI-SIG, USB-IF) to decide what is public.
Do you have (or can you add) configuration instructions for OpenBSD and its built-in httpd?
> I suspect some people in this thread think no one should have this feature

I think this feature should be opt-in rather than opt-out. If its turned on for everyone, it should only promote non-controversial suggestions, like the spelling of "their"/"there"/"they're".

You would probably balk if google docs made "suggestions" to call the war in Ukraine a military exercise. Or if it suggested removing any criticism of the CCP because some people may take offense.

Scolding me for using the word "landlord" here in Australia (where its a gender neutral term) feels to me like the same sort of unwanted intrusion into my mental life. This feature makes me really angry.

What will Google do when Russia or China ask them to add their own set of locality-specific "suggestions" to google docs?
FWIW, "guys" is the default gender-neutral collective term commonly used in large parts of the US, including the west coast, even when the speaker and the collective are all female. The term "folk" has connotations such that it isn't always appropriate, and sounds a bit old-fashioned regardless -- it is not a suitable replacement. If the intent is to gender the collective because it is germane, the common term varies quite a bit with region (most of the women I'm around, raised in big west coast cities, use "girls").

I've lived all over the US and learned to code switch the regional dialects. I've never seen anyone get upset about someone not using the local default collective term in good faith. Trying to get Americans to speak the same version of English is a futile task.
Moderation to remove illegal content and non-relevant content is not what Reddit is doing. It’s not the same thing at all
You can do that on Lambda: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/golang-handler....

AWS still needs the container/runtime to stop your code getting access to other things on the same physical computer.
> A $250/month room with a shared toilet is better than living in a tent somewhere.

For the person living in it, yes. For other people living in the area, bringing in a large number of people who are just one step above living in a tent, may have impacts on the neighborhood that they don't want. Much of the resistance to building more housing is this at various different levels.
That depends on the browser, I believe.
Thanks for the great info. What is this custom database? Why did you reinvent the wheel? Is it as durable as Postgres? Any links?
Some journalists would give away their own location to the enemy to meet a deadline or secure a scoop, not intentionally but they may not be thinking in terms of sides.

But it’s not like the source is trying to keep a secret.
For ARM64 performance, if you don't mind a desktop instead, there's https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ADLINK-A... with a 32-core Altra A1 in it including RAM for 4000 USD. It is very reasonable when compared to a Threadripper.

In terms of power efficiency you'll need to wait until Apple stops monopolizing TSMC's N5 node.

Apple almost singlehandedly invented the ARM64 ISA, and bankrolled the leading-edge TSMC process, so it's probably okay for them to have the best SoC for a while as long as others have a fair chance of catching up soon.
I’ve lived in several plaster and lathe buildings and other houses that would've benefited from longer range WiFi
How does this compare to cloudflare workers?

CF always seems so cheap compared to alternatives, if you ever expect to scale beyond the developer plans.
Right, cities in Texas aren't cheaper because they don't have zoning (they either explicitly do, as well as HOAs in new developments and all sorts of other NIMBYism, or they do in indirect ways like you mention).

They're cheaper because they can still expand outward more than SF, LA, NY, etc before hitting inconvenient geography. Lots of other places that benefit from this too, of course, not just Texas.
I am borrowing the shareholders’ big investment to amplify the value of my own work. I’m not taking any risk and I’m not paying them, instead they are paying me more than I could earn without them.

> one person profits off the work of another

Trade needs to benefit both parties.
It seems to me there is a gap in robot rights vs human rights:

Google has scanned in much of the world's library collections - the search agent is allowed to look at all of it, but I am only allowed to see samples. How is it Google is allowed to keep a copy on hand, but is not allowed to show me?

And now OpenAI has done the work of curating hundreds of gigabytes of publically viewable images (copied without regard for copyright, since of course that's how the internet works, but they have made a copy of each of these images for their training set) -- it seems strange to me that if I want to ask DALL-E, "what image in your training set is the nearest match to this output", copyright law prevents it from showing me (perhaps it could at least return the URL it recorded, and I can hope that Archive.org has taken on the risk of violating copyright on my behalf)

In any case, intellectual property laws have created a world where the robots are compelled to withhold information from us mere mortals, with the excuse that they can't make one more copy for us.
The GC proposal recently moved to phase 2 and has a lot of momentum. Teams working on compiling Java, Kotlin, and Dart to Wasm are closely involved in the standardization effort and implementations are under way in V8 and other Web engines. Right now the bulk of the effort on the standardization side is in tweaking the instruction set to simplify it and improve performance and on the implementation side the focus is heavily on optimizations, both offline and in the engines.
Hmmm I had a look into WASM runtimes and the idea seems interesting to deploy something on a server as a lightweight execution environment (I think of Firecracker from AWS for VMs).

To be honest on the server side of things containers are so nice because 99% of the time they include all your dependencies you need to run the app.
Gals is another word, like folks, which is not widely used outside the US.
Facebook internal memo on Jan 6, with comments from employees
Source: https://gizmodo.com/facebook-papers-donald-trump-2020-electi...
It’s very easy if you ignore the edge cases. Adult human female. Otherwise it’s like saying you can’t define “sandwich” because hotdogs exist. Almost any noun is like this
Many of the people who are fleeing to find a better life (whether it be prehistoric or modern) aren't doing it because of "romantic pastoralism", a lot of it is to flee from existing oppressive relationships and create new better ones (war, conflict, drought, abusive families). Don't you think that core tenet of freedom isn't worth pursuing?

The book is definitely not romanticizing nomadic life, it says that the movement of persons have been one of the defining aspects of human life (given a plethora of anthropological records) that we have gradually lost due to the rise of modern states, the tracking of individual citizens and their movements, and strict management of borders.
There are plenty of ways to pay cash without selling Tesla shares
Renounce your citizenship and sail to Antarctica!
You don’t understand. There is so much consumer curiosity about how fulfillment centers work that employees discussing work experiences is a big distraction.
After the youtube-dl incident, Nat Friedman (then-CEO) tweeted: https://mobile.twitter.com/natfriedman/status/13283656794734...

> We are taking a stand for developers and have reinstated the youtube-dl repo. Section 1201 of the DMCA is broken and needs to be fixed. Developers should have the freedom to tinker. That's how you get great tools like youtube-dl.

Now they are deleting obviously-compliant docs from nonsensical requests. I guess the "stand" went away with Friedman...
Unfortunately there have been similar problems in other jurisdictions. It's far from clear who is "safe".

For example, the EU now has a DMCA-like copyright takedown process.
I dunno. I don't like it. Advertising undermines many many things in a digital world.

Many say they would prefer paying $100 annually for an FB without algorithms and without advertising, same for Google. Obviously many people prefer the appearance of free. But that "free" is costing you more than $100 in value to advertisers.

I hate having things underwritten by advertising and gamification. It corrupts services to their core. As the saying goes, you are not the customer any more, the advertisers are. That's the utter corruption.
There are undoubtedly times when this sort of feedback is undesirable. If you're writing fiction, or poetry, or just want to flame somebody (damn the consequences), these sorts of prompts just get in the way. Similarly, if you're writing math equations, there's not much use in a spell or grammar check.

But as others have said, writing feedback -- automated or otherwise -- is a resource. Sometimes it's helpful, particularly in the professional context. Other times, it isn't. We still have the freedom to choose when to use it and when not to. And I see no harm in having the tools available to help when needed.
> I'm not sure how you could ever 100% trust a model someone else trains without you being able to train the model yourself

Are sure you can even trust the models you train yourself? It's possible that a model you trained is defective in a way you don't realize, e.g. will not recognize speeding cars with a sticker that has a picture of a bicycle[1]. It's likely that someone will discover that vulnerability before the publisher does, given the current state of ML model observability; ML model exploits are going to be wild, and inexplicable.

1. or the letters "GTEHQ"
I’m specifically talking about shareplay/groupwatch features, not the content itself here.
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