skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's straight up garbage. I watched a single video about abortion because of the recent Roe v Wade news and now all YouTube does is recommend me abortion videos.

My strategy is to now use YouTube while logged out. I've used adblock to block all videos on the home page and on the sidebar while watching a video. Also turn autoplay off. I now put in a little extra time and effort to search for things I specifically want to watch instead of looking at any recommendations, but it is kind of worth it... Kind of. Even the search isn't great for finding things though.
Outer space and the veil of ignorance
Never though this would happen in my lifetime.
Principal risk, though.
I think I will apply your train of thought in future interactions with difficult people.

Customer service persona, I like it.
This is so weird, I work in a niche field and relatively few people have the skills my team has. We are normally looking for someone who has a skill we don’t have. We can teach the right candidate everything we know on the job.
These two stats took the top of my head off:

"Only 29% of the weight of birds on Earth consists of wild species: the rest is poultry. Just 4% of the world’s mammals, by weight, are wild; humans account for 36%, and livestock for the remaining 60%."
I could indeed build it for Android, but since I'm using the Cupertino components, it would look and feel like an iOS app. As I said replying to the parent comment, I'm currently waiting on the Material 3 components to be available before I do that.
As an early Flutter adopter, the ecosystem was a big problem, and while it seems to have progressed, it's still pretty anemic compared to other language's ecosystems.
NIH director confirms agency hid early Covid genes at request of Chinese
In not being suboptimal for our purposes.
If React Native is good enough for Discord, it's good enough for a lion's share of applications out there.
As soon as 3rd party candidates become viable, they will become owned by special interests also.

And calling all politicians "right wing" is pretty unclear on the concept.

Perhaps they are when compared to your opinions, but if you can't see daylight between your options you have been manipulated to extreme cynicism by corporate forces that benefit from your disengagement.
So the cyclical periods and the exponential periods are interwoven. And never does the exponential look more predictably exponential, into the future, than at the end of the exponential. Equally so, the cyclical, sinisoidal, looks the most sinusoidal at the absolute end of the sinusoidal. So what's happening is we're forever doubting which of the two we're in, and what we believe percolates into everything we do, the products we buy and therefore make, the sufferings we contend with and those we postpone.

So there was a lot of talk about the "markets are cyclical" at the end of 2019 and early 2020. So at that point, nobody thought "this time is different". Everybody thought "this time is not different." That made that time different. Simple as that. Now, in this bear market, where stocks are conforming to the cyclical and people care nothing at all for the things they cared about in the exponential, this time is not different, because people believe "this time is different." Back to the cyclical.
I think the "private website" space is shrinking - despite what adverts for Wix and Squarespace might infer.

The consumer/blog space of geocities, tripod and the like went to social media. Then we went through a period of "businesses putting up 10 pages for a fixed price" through first of all "a local web guy" then by themselves using Wix/WP/SS etc.

I've just had a bathroom fitted by a guy who functions purely on Instagram for his portfolio and Whatsapp for communication. As I'm old and curmudgeonly I wanted an email address, and when I got it, it's the one that came free with his phone.

Even local restaurants seem to be changing - using aggregators as their primary touch-point. Can't really blame them. They can easily submit their static stuff
- opening times, location and menu - and the complex stuff like a booking system, taking deposits, sending calendar reminders is just handled by a single entity who's good at this stuff.

WP seems to occupy this weird middle-ground I don't see as being attractive to anyone. As a light user there are dedicated CMS for your industry - for the hardcore, you hand-build it. WP, paying for packages, and being on the hook when they don't play nice - Who-tf is the target market?
If you've learned how to glance at airspeed, how to pitch for speed, and when to flare, you're 90% of the way there. Those are the hard parts you need practice for. Right? And everything else, ATC can talk you through. I mean, a King Air is going to have dual engine controls, but you only operate them both in sync. It will have manual gear, but you just need to find the control and activate it. I'm not that surprised an experienced cessna pilot could land a complex twin engine.
Well if my only choice is 'send arbitrary information on what I'm doing' and 'don't send any information' I'm always going to pick the latter.

Has anyone tried just showing people the information the application would like to report back? I know it's been tried with crash reports.
2) is actually "We should have school districts _not_ teaching _Republican_ ideals because the local schools support it.

3) is then a contradiction, in that there is nothing that could be taught, since everything is either republican ideals or not-republican ideals
I'm bad at recognizing sarcasm online I guess. It was my mistake and misunderstanding. I don't think it was you at all.
Couldn't most of that be done by computer? Weight sensors in the wheels can determine weight and balance, the computer can evaluate the weather and plot the course taking into account all of the factors you noted, including refueling stops and emergency airfields, and it can even run through the checklist for you.

About the only part of that it can't do is the visual inspection.
Kif Kroger is actually BASIC. Four million lines of it!
Elon Musk’s Belated Disclosure of Twitter Stake Triggers Regulators’ Probes
> Constitution doesn't matter when it's federal law. Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

> The US constitution overrides other US laws, not the other way around.

> Stating the constitution overrides federal law is an argument from ignorance,

It is not an argument from ignorance. There was no argument about discrimination made. There was a reply (a correction) to point out a flaw in your argument. You are intentionally trying to pretend there was no error in your own argument by circling back to an orthogonal point. It was simply incorrect on its own to say "Constitution doesn't matter when it's federal law." I don't understand why you are bending over backwards, to defend something that doesn't matter to the points that matter to you, at all.

You have been striking out against people who are trying to help you have a stronger argument, by pointing out weakness. That's something worth thinking about in the future. GL with whatever.
Probably would be better to split the Congress into three, one that represents the states (Senate), one that represents communities (House of Representatives/Communities), and one that represents ideologies (House of Values) and then come up with a new balance between the three.

Keeping a geographic based house is necessary because sometimes people of a wide variety of values still having needs in common due to shared local geography. Both rich and poor are impacted if the dam above their town breaks and a flood doesn't care about your race, gender, sexual preference or anything else. House of Values wouldn't even need to be based on each state but rather could be something like "One representative for every 250,000 votes the group receives nationwide". Maybe even allow people to split their vote between groups. Perhaps under this arrangement the Senate could go back to being appointed by governors and state legislatures as the earlier issues with corruption would not necessarily apply (depending on how laws get passed between the three houses).

The above of course would require near universal support from the public as it would be a change to the basic working of our representative democracy. Not sure if we're capable of getting that level of agreement on pretty much anything anymore.
It's a good story with great context. I can imagine how exciting and surprising it must have been to find and fix the culprit. A bit of a let-down to think if the method was literally true to its name none of it would have happened, but then we wouldn't have this story.
That's right, my discourse has no argumentative value. I do not advance any substance allowing you to agree or disagree. It's just a difference at the premise level, I have experienced dart and I have experienced Kotlin. Learn boths properly (reading the kotlin guide is sufficent and can be done in an afternoon) and then you will be able to judge if I was wrong or not. From experience, the difference is huge and affect every aspects/features of the language, without even talking about the JVM ecosystem interop.
I think you should ban over 60s instead given what we've seen :)

No offence to you people - I know some of you are here! But by and large this is the crowd where I've seen the largest problems.
> the west seems to consider the highest form of self-actualization to be triumph over adversity.

What’s an example of a culture that doesn’t lionize triumph over adversity?
Problem:
IMO the current problem is largely with SaaS providers, not necessarily with SSO solution providers / provisioners. Saas Vendors often don't support SSO / Provisioning, at all, or if they do, on more expensive plans. Almost like auto-trim levels, SSO/Provisioning are lumped in with "Enterprise" security features, you've gotta pay for a larger package to get just the security features. I think this will likely change over the years as SaaS vendors realize security is worth providing to all customers independent of what they pay because it reduces Total Customer Cost over time / reduces churn.

Solutions on Creating/Provisioning:
TBH there aren't great solutions that I have found to this problem other than the following, I'm interested in other ideas here as well:

SSO/Provisioning - Solutions I've looked at (Okta (Medium+), ServiceNow (Enterprise)) and used (OneLogin, Google "SSO", Rippling) in the past year, are all fairly easy to use and once you understand the mechanics, easy enough to hook up to your source of truth and provision user accounts. An additional challenge is that they don't all support the same level of provisioning (IE - It sets the account up, but doesn't set up or provide an ability to setup the permissions project access in an automated way). I've found this really hard to understand until you actually try to implement.

1Password - If the above fail (IE SaaS provider doesn't support it or you just don't want to pay for the premium trim SaaS plan) (Zoom - Looking at you here), we've used 1Password with fairly good success. You can write up a best practice or list of the accounts that you need to manually provision, and as long as you have access to their email in advance, you can sign up accounts to their email, create their password in 1Password, and store in their personal vault. This requires you to obviously trust the person setting the accounts up, but we've done this and it saves a ton of time and energy onboarding employees because you can do it ahead of their onboarding.

Solutions on Deleting/De-Provisioning:
SSO - Obviously the best way.
1Password - This can work because you can "lock" the 1Password account which removes the employees ability to access their 1Password account, but retains your ability as an admin to see / handle their accounts. Where this breaks is if the employee changes the password on their own, and doesn't store it in 1Password, either maliciously or unintentionally, then you better hope the SaaS vendor has an admin view.

Hope this helps, there is absolutely a gap right now that you have identified, and I agree with.
The Architect's Guide to Software Defined Object Storage
Well, usually it can stop, but if it gets confused during road construction where there's no shoulder to pull off to and it just stops in the road, you run the risk of a truck rear-ending you.
Freelance developers selling WordPress to their clients (and who build custom themes and plugins) are being ignored by WP core and they are regularly broken by changes. It seems like Automatic is optimizing for Wix marketshare and abandoning some of it's key champions.

I think they could have avoided much of this by listening to these devs, having backwards compatible designs, and slowing down to produce higher quality code.
Thanks for the background info about the founding fathers. Growing up in Europe I only ever heard of the definition of republicanism as being opposed to monarchism. I guess the other meaning is specifically American, in the same way that "liberal" in America doesn't mean what it means in the rest of the world.
Who are you and what's this "program" you deem to impose on others?

No thanks, I'll stick with the actual majority that have mastered using relevant language and rational context in discussions without being slaves to performative social constructs.

Instead of assuming what's actually important to me, perhaps some introspection of why you immediately think of slavery in a computing context would be more helpful.
If you were her friend, sure. But you're just some internet stranger piling on. Hard truths are delivered in private, not shouted in a public square where the author isn't even present.

But that's not what actually inspired me to comment. The main thing that bugged me about this subthread is that, rather than contributing to a potentially interesting conversation about whether workspaces are toxic, and what to do about it, people are nitpicking whether the author's self-described trauma is legitimate or not. Regardless of whether it's true, it strikes me as a form of ad-hominem... ignoring the content in favor of attacking the author.

That's not so much about you, I have to admit, as the whole subthread. Thanks for a thoughtful reply.
Interesting hope this makes it to the other competitor phone hehe.
IIRC, you are correct. And OpenBSD still sets up distinct partitions for `/bin` and `/lib` etc.

The first PC I built had 7 disk drives in a tower case, four distinct hard drives. Yes it was crazy. But the largest of these by far was 540 MB. It made sense to keep the boot stuff on its own hard drive.

Linux has `boot`, of course, but `boot` should never appear in $PATH. I think.
I am an observantly religious person who contributed to the ACLU for identical reasons. I think it's sad to see how far they appear to have fallen.

Maybe it's time to look to see if there are any strong replacements?
You don't cold call, you hook up with a small agency, who also doesn't cold call. They are plugged into the VC network; when some startup needs outside technical help, they ask their VC to find someone. Your agency gets those calls. There are many of these small agencies focusing on different parts of the software ecosystem, the trick being to find them.
This is called random dictator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictatorship_mechanism#Random_...
People or governments?
lol, the other end of the HW spectrum! My i486 (could of been a 386, but not a Pentium) and I could only look on with envy!
All I meant is, if drawing too many things overloads the system so it can't render at 30fps, that's fine, I build things that don't look bad if the rate drops. I can't do action games, high-speed video, a few other things. That's fine, I can still do lots of things.
State powers are very broad and a federal judge needs a good and specific reason to strike down a state law. See the tenth amendment.

The only way one might reasonably call the imminent opinion "activism" is based on stare decisis. And that's a debatable topic.
These people are con men. They’ve been publishing a ridiculous torrent of press releases for the last few years on how they’ve completed simulations of their simulations or ported Linux to a sim environment or are now partners with Kreplachistan State University. Their claimed eval platform is FPGA if it even actually exists. They make Elbrus look like Intel. I’ll believe they are real when I see it but there's almost no possibility of that.
Thanks. I have no complaint, but I want to point out that there is a difference between an enthusiast and a professional. Enthusiasts don't know what they don't know.
I would have tried to bond with the other interviewers there. This is an opportunity for you to show them your character. They have to work with that guy. Show compassion for them. Even if you never work there, why make a fuss? Make it an opportunity.
I'm curious, is anyone using Edge functions for anything other than rendering server-side, getting a client's approximate location while still using a CDN, or using cookies for client state?
The title is: The Simpsons - Helen Lovejoy - Think of the children
These kinds of things have been pondered in EA circles, lest you think that's a unique gotcha.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_monster

And they're not because EA is tackling a diverse set of issues, not just AI alignment and longevity, as the top spot of donations is going to malaria nets in Africa.
> This is not upstreamable in its current form

What does "upstreamable" mean in this context? Is this good or bad?

As a follow-up, what would need to be different so that it is upstreamable and would that be good or bad?
strong disagree, C is a very poor language that does not provide a proper stdlib to reuse, collections/containers/functors. No OOP means no efficient code reuse, zero syntax sugars, manual memory noise, etc etc
C toy programs can be short though.
I am indeed not aware how those societies worked, and I put that caveat in there because I knew someone would probably say we what about cavemen or something.

But I'm not sure you can really compare cavemen to the past 6000 or so years of attempting society at scale.

For one there's fairly limited understanding of what those societies were really like. Discussions about how they were attempting to architect their economy are likely to run into walls pretty quickly. Do we have anything to suggest they were perfectly equal?

Secondly, I think the constraints are much different when you're talking a few family groups mostly eating and hunting, where everyone knew and personally cared for each other, rather than 8 billion people in a highly developed and interconnected global economy.

I suspect a lot of societal features and economy in general is just due to the need to scale out trust. Many things are easier when you have almost perfect knowledge of everything that's going on in your tiny group, but the larger that group gets the more you need to invent abstractions like money.

The closest things that exist to those societies now is probably families or partnerships, which can operate on a broadly equal basis - though even they often don't.
Sorta, kinda. Some of us do agency work for clients. We're consulted for our expertise to help medium to large companies avoid pitfalls like vendor lock-in (relevant in this case), performance bottlenecks, and cumbersome content management. We're then paid to implement those solutions in a creative, strategic and compelling way. I don't know if it'll hold my interest, but it was certainly a way to get into the industry. It's a great fit for anyone who's passionate about advertising, marketing, and technology.

I think there's a (perhaps unintentional) true, deeper subtext to what you're saying though. WordPress has become too undifferentiated. There are parts of WP that are very mature and still as of yet unbeaten, but that's not what it takes to stay relevant.
A variant on this is to pull 3 ballots out and take the majority (if none, keep pulling until there is a plurality then stop).

This would make the extreme outlier results less likely, but still maintain most of the properties you said. For example, if there are 40% violets and 60% blues, then chance of a violet winner becomes only 35.2%. If there are 10% violets, their chance of winning is only 2.8%.

Depending on how risky you want to be, you can replace 3 with 5, 11, 31, or 101. For example with 11 ballots, 40% violet in the population, their chance of winning is 24.6%; with 10% violets, their winning chance is only 0.03%.
Did he soup it up? If not, nobody cares who owned it before.
> Normally, getting the approved I-140 is a major milestone, and means you’re close to receiving your Green Card.

Yeah, no. Even if you are current, it could be months away, or it could be years. 2 years is not uncommon these days, even if your country is theoretically 'current'. More if there are RFEs. If you are exceptionally unlucky they can even send a RFE _after_ approval, sometimes months after (these are called Notice of Intent to Revoke).

Even permanent residents can theoretically receive RFEs years after approval. Or site inspections. As of today, this is uncommon and only really done if fraud is suspected. However, if the administration changes again, you never know.

And getting the green card is never guaranteed. It's a 'privilege'.

If you change jobs you need to restart the whole green card process. But not if your Adjustment of Status has been pending for 180 days or more. Then there's some 'portability' clause. Still dangerous - there were lawsuits because USCIS sent RFEs to a previous employer. Which obviously they didn't respond to. People were unaware that anything was going wrong until their applications were denied, at which point it is too late (and, if your I-140 gets denied, and you have been using your EAD, you are retroactively out of status and have accrued unlawful presence, as well as your dependents). They did this because according to them, those applications are not related to the employee at all, they are done by the employer.

As a result of the lawsuits, they will notify the 'beneficiary' now, at least.

> Any secondary source of income, even if it’s from a business that you’ve built from the ground up, would violate the terms of your H1B visa

Interestingly, you are never given those 'terms'. You'll eventually learn about this. But it's very vague. Doing a garage sale? Might be ok, if you don't do it very often. How often is often? You can be a landlord (and bring in significant revenue), but you can't fix a tenant's clogged sink - because then you'd be working. Hiring someone else to do is is apparently A-OK. You definitely can't drive for Uber, or release an IOS app on your free time, or have an Youtube channel (again on your free time).
Not 100% sure, but I think that's what happens when the OP chooses to delete their own post.
IMO the downside of HSTS you’re referring to only applies to the specific HSTS-only TLDs. Otherwise, HSTS is useful to prevent a downgrade attack where someone types in http://bank.com on a new computer and poisoned DNS (via a rogue network operator or hacked router) means the initial page load for the bank loads over HTTP and thus the IP returned can show a fake login page, even to the point of the browser auto-filling login credentials.
Nuance? You are in the weeds.
It is so far from nuanced that it's laughable:

"With that power comes accountability, and in democracies like ours, at least, the need for some democratic oversight."

"...these big platforms need to be subject to some level of public oversight and regulation."

"...we have a long history of regulating new technologies in the name of public safety..."

"A regulatory structure, a smart one, needs to be in place... regulation has to be part of the answer."

"...regulation... will make democracy stronger"
Oh frabjous day! I have been waiting for this for literal decades.