skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This kind of moral posturing may feel satisfying but that kind of reasoning is literally why in Germany we're 80 years later still cleaning up the mess of companies benefitting from forced labor under entirely legal-at-the-time public-private partnerships.

Facebook doesn't get to decide which laws are unjust. But Facebook gets to decide which laws it considers unjust and how it wants to deal with them. If big corporations can decide they consider tax laws unjust and want to avoid them as much as possible, they can also consider laws unjust that impact other people.
So is driving to the store, give me a break.

Here ya go:

In 2020, 861 women were identified as having died of maternal causes in the United States, compared with 754 in 2019

NHTSA projects that an estimated 42,915 people died in motor vehicle traffic crashes last year

It's good to keep some perspective when you say giving birth is, "literally life threatening."
My consulting company hires junior developers if they show good initiative and attitude. If you are finding that you can’t get hired as a junior (<3 years) you might be looking at areas that are too niche.

As a junior, you gotta lower your standards and get into the field. This isn’t like 10 or even 5 years ago. Junior developers are abundant. Boot camps are pumping out “qualified” (I don’t mean this to be rude, but many boot camps are not qualifying people to do real enterprise work. There is a gap, you have to find a company willing to bridge that.) candidates en masse. Do something that sets you apart. Make contacts.
"And here is a benchmark that allows you to see if you fit this role. Create a Chromium build for Windows with a replaced icon. Just any icon, but make sure that it shows up both as an icon of the executable and in the taskbar. Also, modify the browser so that the navigator.platform property is always MacIntel."

This must be some problem they are facing as I've come across this problem before in an old job where they hijacked the running instance of chrome and swapped out the icon to theirs on a profile for chrome so it would run their custom plugins and fool the user so to speak that it wasnt chrome. One day this mechanism broke as Chrome rewrote how they did icon management for profiles, much hilarity ensued as they tried in vein to fix it (they did eventually!)
This actually reminds me a bit of an old competition between two Microsoft MVPs comparing C++ and C#, where they went back and forth optimizing their respective versions of a model program, and discussing the optimizations they made.

The gist, as I recall it was: the initial, idiomatic, written-for-maintainability version of the C# program was significantly faster than the C++ equivalent. Up until the end, the C# version also generally needed to go through less heroics to keep up with the C++ version. Eventually, the final C++ version did end up being faster than the fastest C# one, but, considering what needed to be done to get there, it was a decidedly Pyrrhic victory.

One huge mitigating factor, though, is that the model program was doing something business-y. I doubt C++ would have had such a hard time of it if it had been a number crunching or systems program.
Suppose Twitter did all it could to investigate and found no evidence. What would you rather have Twitter say in that case ?
What I mean is that putting together a webapp without learning about something /other/ than how to put a <pick-a-technology> app together in the process isn't going to have anyone interested in hiring you.

If in the process you learned about something you could actually go up and do an interesting lightning talk about, that'd be worth it. Maybe you learned something about a specific industry and the challenges that developing something for it has that other industries don't have - maybe you accidentally spent weeks/months deep-diving into the technical details of HTTP/3 or some browser API and worked out you could do something that nobody has done before outside of Google.
Hugo (https://gohugo.io) maybe? I tried it for a small static site about internal documentation, and I'm very glad I did. The hardest part was reading the documentation, the installation, content generation and rebuilds were painless.
It is known as swatting.
Is here. School starts tomorrow.
If you're okay with losing a decent percentage and have enough addresses that are "warmed" up with other activity, you could create enough ambiguity, no?

Funneling them through the exit seems harder
Tremendous, wishing you much success!
I only read HN comments (sometimes I read the actual linked post if the comments make me curious)
>Putting it up for adoption is an option if the baby is white.

I'm pretty sure they take non-white kids too.
Yes that's exactly what it did, it kept us from seeing $10/gallon gas at the pump which would be immediately catastrophic to the entire American way of life. Even with $5/gallon gas like now and earlier in the summer we have seen pretty dramatic inflation in food and goods--diesel is enormously expensive and increased trucking costs just push up the prices of goods higher.

So now imagine what's going to happen when that is turned off, and even worse when the oil market sees pressure from the US buying millions and millions of barrels to take them off the market and throw them back into the reserve...
The brain "searches" through its memory space to find relevant information (dangers, opportunities, rewards).

If we define the perception of time passing through novelty, then there's less novelty the more experiences you have. I think that's an interesting model (if not perfectly accurate).

Likewise, the accumulation of relevant experiences might make time seem to actually pass slower, because you're making more connections at each moment and (arguably, might be false) have a more coherent and active brain -- but if there's less novelty worth remembering, it may appear in retrospect (when you examine your memory) that less (perceptual) time has elapsed for the same wallclock time.

So I think this suggests two kinds of time: instantaneous perceptive time (how much your cognition is active -- for example, it may be near zero during anesthesia) and comparative memory time (how much you judge time intervals from your memory of events).

One interesting example is perhaps when we've had an exciting week and it both seems that a month has elapsed in that week (since so much has happened), and that "time passed so quickly!". The former is explained by comparative memory time; maybe the latter is explained by us simply not thinking about the passage of time at all, and "skipping our clocks" (like forgetting to increment a clock or calendar). This is of course mostly speculation.
The amount of developers that either 1) don't care about their users having to deal with ads or spyware or 2) actively want the monetization and grubby data features offered by these companies or 3) are too overinvested and simply can't switch to another engine, likely far exceeds the amount of developers who both could and would reject Unity for this. Especially when considering a lot of the types of products that Unity is used to pump out; the type of passion projects which would be likely to have a developer who would take a moral stand are likely an insignificant minority overall.

I'd like to be proven wrong on this in the future.
You are maybe aware that living systems are chemical, not digital?

Changing a single bit in computer code is very likely to have an arbitrarily large, commonly fatal effect. Changing a single base in a gene rarely does. But a lot of bases changed is likely to have some effect; the more changes, the more effect.

What critics of natural selection always miss is that the set of small changes between one state and another, in a breeding population, do not need to happen one after the other. It could take hundreds of steps, but they all may exist scattered through the population at the same time, and can over just a few dozen generations propagate to all, when conditions favor that; or even fewer if lacking most is fatal.

Bacteria need a lot more generations to evolve, because they don't swap genes around much. But their generations are very short. Some mutations they do swap around, particularly antibiotic resistance, and ability to infect a new host, via plasmids. Anthrax normally lives in soil, but picks up virulence genes from plasmids it happens upon.
I dislike the example.

The author says that because we have a complex function, and the HTTP handler is designed the way it is, we cannot avoid running into problems. I disagree. This are two separate things.

You could take a more functional approach and separate the main logic and the side effect. Which is writing the response.

func aMoreAdvancedHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
res, err := helper()
if err {
http.Error(w, err.Error(), err.Status())
}
w.write(res)
}

func helper() ([]byte, err error) {
// todo
}

Where now the helper function has the problem of dealing with multiple operations that can potentially fail. Which is exactly the problem in the example. Not the HTTP handler itself...

For example, we could use the defer function call with a named error to check if something fails and guarantee that we always return an appropriate error. Similar to the pattern used to free resources... I don't know how is this commonly called. But again, the problem is the helper function not the handler.

I don't want to use the FP terminology, probably most people are familiar with this pseudo-code:

func helper() (res, err) {
return foo().bar().baz()
}

Where the chain foo, bar, baz will continue to be executed if all the calls are success, but early terminate if an error occurs.

So, where is the problem?
Ya thats another misconception:

1. Most oil and gas production is on private land within the United States
2. Oil and Gas firms have leases to drill on public land that they are choosing not to produce. In short, they make more money with the price oil is high. Just look up their old profits and compare those to oil prices.
3. The Federal Government has many tax breaks and handouts for oil and gas firms. its in the billions per year : https://www.eesi.org/papers/view/fact-sheet-fossil-fuel-subs...
a true visionary if I've seen one
I would love to hear a good relatively-plain-English retelling (assuming some good undergrad physics knowledge) of how to understand these statements?

> Time translation symmetry gives conservation of energy; space translation symmetry gives conservation of momentum; rotation symmetry gives conservation of angular momentum, etc

Something about how if you see that processes can be step-wise played forwards or backwards, it implies the certain quantity is conserved? How?
While this was true in the early days, there have been audit controls in place for a long time now. FB System Abuse == you're fired.

And yes, it's well known that Zuck did abuse God-mode back in the day.
I've never seen any of these on mobile or desktop, and I use spotify a lot. Is it a setting?
The most annoying thing they've done for me on mobile is blend 'your library' with songs and artists ive recently listened to.
>Adoption is usually mentioned in these discussions by you pro-forced-birth types.

I'm pro-choice, thanks for assuming. Just trying to have a reasonable discussion. Apparently I have angered the cult by merely mentioning adoption was an option.
Nike has >30% of the revenues of the sports clothing industry. I guess Nike is a common carrier, they have to let me in their stores and the government must force them to sell their shoes at government regulated prices. If there's not a store near me, they must build one for me or offer me shipping at equal prices to everyone else. After all, they can't discriminate just because I'm far away from their closest distributor, they're a common carrier. Oh yeah, guess they need to build a store, because I don't have internet and I don't have a phone, so not making it available to me as someone who only walks through uninhabited deserts would be discriminating against a customer.

https://csimarket.com/stocks/competitionSEG2.php?code=NKE

I truly don't understand the logic of stating every organization with 10% market share of any kind of product is now instantly a "common carrier". To me that's massively watering down the meaning of "common carrier" past the point of usefulness. A common carrier classicially is when there's realistically no possible alternative. There's really only going to be one or two railways going through a city or town. It doesn't make sense for there to be a dozen different water systems or coax telecommunications providers or fiber providers or electrical providers in a city. But if Nike doesn't want to sell me shoes I can just go to Sketchers. Or Addidas. Or Vans. Or Footlocker. Or Journeys. Or Kohls. Or any other of a dozen different department stores. Or Target/Walmart/other big box store. If Nike doesn't want to sell me shoes, there's tons of other options. Even just buying Nikes at a different retailer! And that's just in person shopping, never mind the literally thousands of retailers online willing to ship me shoes!

But no. Nike is now a common carrier. They must do everything they can to ensure I can buy their shoes at a government-ensured fair price. So they must build a store in the middle of nowhere to ensure I can easily walk there, look at their wares, and decide I'd rather just buy from TOMS.

Then the idea that GitHub is a common carrier is even more distant. There's lots of options out there. You could use GitLab, Bitbucket, Team Foundation Server, JetBrains Space, Beanstalk, AWS CodeCommit, Google Cloud Source, Sourcehut, and so many others. They're all right there on the internet. You don't have to sell your house and move to the next county over to use Bitbucket. You just change your remote and push.
Given a between the peanuts YouTube gives creators and what sponsored content gives them, they might leave?
I personally don’t like these customized playlists but make no claim to whether I’m in the minority/majority. It’d be great if one could toggle the feature but it’s at most an annoyance
Ethereum accounts don't own tokens in the same way they own ETH. Token balances exist with smart contracts, so when someone sends you booby coin all they are doing is updating the storage in a smart contract that 0x123 owns 1bil booby coin. Indexers like etherscan parse all transaction events and just keep a tally of what smart contracts have your address listed in balances.

By paying to get rid of it all you are doing is paying for etherscan to update its backend that your address is no longer listed in that smart contract. The real solution is to have wallet software that only tracks tokens you care about.
Most probably the employment figures only tell half of the story. As long as one has to get two jobs in order to have a decent living in many parts of the US then I don’t think said employment rate tells the whole story.
> for all the heinous crap they have done, antiticpated this demand spike was temporary better than any politican has.

It's not that they necessarily anticipated the spike and subsequent fall; it's more to do with investor dynamics. Oil is a traditionally huge boom and bust field and is incredibly capital intensive. After the bust in the mid 2010s, coupled with huge investor outflows due to ESG reasons, the message that oil companies got from investors was to minimize capital spending (because they had little) and focus on profitability. So when this cycle came around, few were looking to do commit the capital to lift supply up. And now that demand is swinging back down, I suspect the bust cycle will look less dramatic then it has in the past.
if that's what Spotify considers a recommendation, then I don't want any
How do they deal with copyrighted material?
we are still negative GDP growth which is a disaster even if unemployment stays where it is, because it means our economy is becoming less productive and less efficient. Which isn't really that shocking when you consider money is being printed and handed out rather than allocated efficiently. Bunch of debt accumulated with not much to show for it

The US is becoming the equivalent of the startup meme of losing money on every sale and making it up with volume
I have had lots of friends who have had children. There is basically zero chance that a pregnancy doesn't significantly affect your health for months. Can't take a month or two off work to give birth and recover? Lose your job. Lose your job, maybe can't make rent, maybe need to move.

Go into labor during final exam week? Might flush a semester down the toilet or leave you in limbo. Might tack a year onto college, might miss some important job opportunities.

Giving birth is disruptive to health and life. There's no need to be so flippant about it.

Even just being pregnant is disruptive to life plans. Try interviewing for a job being 6 months pregnant!

Oh yeah, and some people die during childbirth or could have other complications. It's almost like shitting a watermelon out your ass isn't something to be taken lightly.
Honestly, the only thing I care about is audio interruptions to my music. If a record label wants to pay spotify to place a text widget on my screen that says "check out this new album", I am OK with that because it's very ignorable.

That is, what I'm paying for is "no audio interruptions".
Oh, please.

I once worked on a Java-based server at Google that had to answer requests with millisecond latency. In order to achieve this, the server had to block garbage collection most of the time. Periodically, each instance of the server would ask the load balancers to stop sending requests to it, so that it could then safely run the garbage collector, and then ask for traffic to return.

We likely would not have used Java had we foreseen needing to do this. I believe some time after I left, it was all rewritten in C++.

Sadly the garbage collection debate is full of people who want GC to be the answer to everything, and have chosen their arguments and beliefs through confirmation bias to support their desire. Many of these "GC is faster!" arguments come from that, but it just ain't true most of the time. Performant GC is incredibly complex and incredibly complex systems tend to fall over if you don't use them in exactly the right way.

Worse, GC is extremely bad at managing resources other than local memory. In complex distributed systems or other software that manages external resources, GC languages tend to be ill-equipped for the job because they lack explicit resource-management tools like RAII. In Java, you sometimes see frameworks where everything has a `dispose()` method and complex systems are built to make sure that `dispose()` method gets called... this is a failure, it should be handled by destructors.

GC is generally nice and convenient for application engineering, but a poor fit for systems engineering. The boundaries between the two are admittedly fuzzy.
It'll be several years before there's enough capacity in the US. And by then, will this tax credit still be around? (I'd guess if we end up with a Republican administration & congress a lot of this will go away)
The hardest part of Hugo for me was creating my theme from scratch (docs are eh on this but I found some good 3rd party tutorials) but after that it's been an absolute breeze.

After spending a little time understanding Go templating it is really beautiful
Is google maps profitable? It seems to be another thing done for the sake of maintaining a market dominance with no clear monetary justification or roadmap.
Its even worse. The keyboard (as normal for typewriters of the day) had no numeral '1'. Instead you would type a lower-case 'L'. So the actual hex encoding is 0L23456789FGJKQW.
They never included the official tornado cash contracts deployed on the arbitrum layer 2, so its still legal to use that one.
We are talking about accidents that mostly happen on the ownership border between house owners and grid maintainers. If you can cover up an arc flash there in such a way they will not notice on their next visit without dying, you might deserve to get away with it.
Twitter works OK here (north of Boston)
That performance difference is not due to architecture but process technology.
Intel is on Intel' best node and Apple is on TSMC's.
I'm with you here. At AMD, Koduri released GPU after GPU that was slow, terribly hot and inefficient, plagued by driver problems, and overpriced. He left on terrible terms for a number of reasons, but one of them was his complaint that Radeon was underfunded and deprioritized, so he couldn't compete with Nvidia. Here we are, six years of practically unlimited funding and support from a company with a greater R&D budget than AMD's entire 2016 gross...

and he's done the exact same thing.
According to one analyst, the price of Brent Crude coming back to down to ~USD$60 per barrel would bankrupt russia and stop their illegal war in Ukraine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO2485yFor4
And yet this happens naturally all the time and we don't investigate every single case because it's..... A private health matter.

No matter how many times I say this someone always jumps in with "what about". Let me stop you right there. It's not your business. It's a private health matter. Period.

There's a reason we don't count unborn fetuses until they are actually born as people. Mainly the fact that so much can go wrong between those two points in time.
I see you are repeating something patently wrong and even adding some equally wrong "spice" to it, like that cash notes are non fungible by design, which is somehow "literally an inseparable part of their physical existence". This despite currency (in any form) predating the formalized concept of fungibility.

Money is fungible by every (literal) definition of the word, whether banknotes or coins. Being fungible doesn't refer to the physical aspect of being absolutely identical but to its value. Money exists to be fungible, fungibility is literally one of the big things that make money work. Going even further, money is probably one of the few things equally fungible whether new or used, and sometimes even old/outdated (think retired currency which can be converted to currency in circulation).

Whether coins or banknotes, they are interchangeable from one to another regardless of serial or the year stamped on them. And almost any other two new "identical" products are just as fungible: two loaves of bread, two planks of wood, two pencils, or two cars (not the case for used products). They're all mass produces, quasi-identical units.

And the serial numbers? They're used mainly for uniquely tracing the note and don't affect the fungibility in any way. The proof? Randomly pick a banknote every time you pay for something. If it works every time either you're the luckiest person in the world, or they're completely fungible.
I'm definitely not a fan of forcing anyone to use their (personal) phone for MFA for accessing company resources - I wouldn't really consider it a single point of failure though unless it was so poorly set up that there was literally no alternative log in method in the case of a lost/forgotten/broken phone.
And if that happens it's the company's loss not mine - yes I enjoy my work and don't like letting my team members down but I can happily find other things to do if I can't access the systems I need to work (and they're going to pay me either way).
From working at Subway to one of the greatest mathematicians (2015)
As a fivetran customer who did a bake-off last year between all the ELT vendors, there is absolutely “a product there”. The advisors’ comment assumes a lot of context which the article doesn’t 100% clear up.

Fivetran has been a home run for us.