skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"In the field of modern business, so rich in opportunity for the exercise of man's finest and most varied mental faculties and moral qualities, mere money-making cannot be regarded as the legitimate end. Neither can mere growth of bulk or power be admitted as a worthy ambition. Nor can a man nobly mindful of his serious responsibilities to society view business as a game; since with the conduct of business human happiness or misery is inextricably interwoven."

-- Louis Brandeis, "Business — The New Profession", La Follette's Weekly Magazine, Volume 4, No. 47 (November 23, 1912), p. 7.
Well the courts view is that the government pressuring a private entity to censor is no different than the government censoring by itself.

And I would argue the lack of transparency and ability to hide the true driver of the censorship is far worse than if the government just comes out and does it themselves.
Or they hire top notch developers, just for them to run away.

Because the culture and processes didn't change.

Seen it several times.
I sometimes wonder.... seeing so much rebounced interest and investments in space, that an actual asteroid might be heading our way.... and this private space race might just be a cloak around to hide it... by calling it "space race"... then I see news like this... and it just hits even more...

Weird though I know..
> Sure, but what about the company that they rented the car from? Or the company they bought car insurance from?

I expect if they said "I want to rent a car to use as a getaway vehicle for a bank robbery" whilst standing next to a TV showing a picture of them committing a bank robbery, yes, the rental company would have some culpability.
To a point where Microsoft should consider acquiring Atlassian because they are so similar in this regard
But not making it significantly worse is the bar requested:

> that example needs to be significantly more readable and maintainable

Yes, things can be slightly tidier with labelled breaks in some contexts. But that’s not a particularly high bar. There are tons of language features for which that’s true. Adding everyone’s pet nicety to the language makes it a huge language, which isn’t what they’re aiming for. If that’s what you want, go use Perl or C#, both of which are very fine languages.
I would have expected 2048 items to be the optimal cutover point, because with 16-bit entries that would result in 4KB arrays. Those fit exactly into a typical CPU memory page, whereas 8KB requires two. In the worst case that might double the page table overheads, e.g.: for random point reads.

I wonder if it would be worth the trouble to code-gen a bunch of variants with things like 8-bit entries, and benchmark to death to determine the optimal cutover points...
I don't have a single one of those apps. I've got _one_ app I install occasionally that doesn't work on my rooted phone (cvs/caremark) and it doesn't work unrooted (or with safetynet fix applied) either--it lets me try to log in, then tells me to use blue shield instead (which works just fine rooted).
Zeroth is knowing when not to reach for a tool you do know.
This is misleading.

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/international-tra...

If you look at this, yes, no deaths are shown for the date of Near's death. But if you actually pay attention, no deaths are shown anywhere past May 2021.

On and before May 2021, the death rate is about one per month. It's pretty much impossible that just by chance there would be seven consecutive months with no deaths; the reasonable conclusion is that the death listings are not in fact complete and that anyone who died after May 2021 just isn't listed.
Same, ever since Apple FINALLY added categories. It took years and years for them to learn that this is essential.

Mainly I rely on Notes because they're synced through iCloud. I can add stuff to my grocery list as I think of it throughout the day while working on my computer, and it's on my phone when I roll to the grocery store.

I don't like that they're not in a standard format, however.

Oh, and the incredibly ill-conceived "share" function. In any other Apple application, "share" means (essentially): E-mail or text-message a copy of this. But if you "share" a note, the other person HAS REMOTE EDITING CAPABILITY ON YOUR NOTE. I discovered this by accident when I sent a recipe to my sister, then opened it months later to find stuff she had typed into it. The privacy failure here is just appalling. WTF, Apple?

Then there are the mysterious deletions. I've looked for notes that I knew were in there, only to find them under Deleted... fortunately before they were purged. In those cases, the iCloud syncing would've meant they were gone forever. Again, WTF Apple.
You don't think a bunch of techno-libertarians trying to force their ideology on the entire society has any similarities?

I, and many leftists (actual leftists, not the US sense of the term where it's about bullshit identity politics instead of economic systems), would disagree.

Plenty of civil wars have been fought over what amounts to momentary policy, hell, that's what the Cold War was about too.
Android Auto got a long way. Pretty good too now
Tesla vs VW is basically iPhone vs Nokia.
By that definition nothing at all is free.
You took the worst example you could take and that says a lot.

Do you plan to build something like kiwifarms? Don't and grow up, focus on building useful projects.
> it's constantly asking the government to tell it what to do because it doesn't want to be in charge of speech

This is a bad thing, according to you? Should Facebook instead make those decisions on its own?

The thing is, no matter what Facebook decides there will be criticism. If they make the decisions on their own, bad. If they ask for government to decide what speech is lawful and what isn’t, bad. If they don’t block fake news, bad. If they block fake news and realise months later it was real, bad.

And your genius solution is to break up the company. But any network, regardless of size will have this issue. The rise of Tiktok makes this very obvious. There’s tonnes of misinformation on Tiktok but it doesn’t get the same coverage because that’s not what aligns with the NYT’s priorities. Tiktok gets around the content moderation problem by simply saying and doing nothing, hoping no one notices.

So what’s your solution to TikTok? Break it up as well? Into what pieces?

The problem with people who come up with simplistic, unrealistic solutions to hard problems is that when the obvious flaws are pointed out in their thinking, they’ll double down.
Is there a source for the "60-80%" figure?
Now instead users have to spend hours upon hours editing docker images to remove it. Much easier.
> The fact that they were found not guilty of crimes is proof that they're guilty of crimes as well as that the legal system is complicit.
Traffic violations are actually policed pretty closely because it's a source of revenue. High tech is employed to identify drivers, and even some shady tricks like shortening the yellow light. So it's not a good example.

Regardless, it's a public forum(?), there should be tons of evidence if they routinely instigate swattings.
>Europeans invented racism

Perhaps the most absurd assertion I've seen this year, in a year characterized by bizarre assertions.
Call it WebScript or DOMScript or HTMLScript or MozillaScript or something.

ECMAScript is absolutely the worse name for it.
I have left uni 19yrs ago. 6yrs to reach 25.

CS topics are too interesting to forget. I always find fundamentals are useful to take good decisions in my work.

Guess what? I don't speak much my language for straight 15 yrs. But am still able to enjoy books written in that language, I can speak on phone fluently.
I love the wheel of time book series. I knew the reviews of the tv show were quite poor, but decided to watch the episodes anyway. Deep regret.

I’m writing this while wearing a Lord of the Rings t-shirt. I love Lord of the Rings, but I’ve leaned my lesson. I’m going to trust the reviews and not waste my time watching this show.
Yes, the U.S. Constitution protects free expression, so the U.S. government's hands are completely tied on this issue. Even if government officials personally think a site probably facilitates behavior that violates the law, actually taking a website offline, rather than targeting individuals for criminal charges only after they've violated the law, unless that website is owned and operated, perhaps, by an individual who has been found guilty of violating the law, is most likely unconstitutional. This is one of those, "private companies are forced to step up because the state's powers are limited," situations.
Perhaps GP means to highlight the distinction between the person deciding whether the money gets spent and the operation who uses the product. That can man a lot, eg if a boss just buys whatever he thinks it's good without asking the team what they want to use.
> You don't expect them to turn off somebody's power because they are listening to the wrong kind of music.

But you would expect them to turn off somebody's power if they were, e.g., using that power for a marijuana farm or torturing kittens with electrical shocks and standing outside their house shouting "I'M USING THIS ELECTRICITY FOR CRIMINAL MEANS, YOU KNOW".
Spreadsheet Gaming
This entire topic isn't about direct air capture (which I consider mockworthy myself, what if we had a field of science studying self-repairing, self-replicating capture devices - oh wait, botany!) but about burn site sequestration which isn't remotely as bad (but still bad I think: hydrocarbon leftovers have a long term storage problem just as bad as nuclear, it's just happens to be even better at hiding in plain sight)
> nor do they even go to trans spaces looking for people to insult. After all, the average trans person would just block them and move on with their life and that makes for a boring thread.

for what it's worth I have friends that have been harassed via this site and this is not the case. they don't stop if you block them. they keep finding ways around it and they make your life hell.
The Nissan leaf had a pretty traditional dashboard w/physical knobs IIRC. Last I heard it's being discontinued.
Although I agree to the gist of it in terms of ‘Programming’; I may not agree in terms of ‘Programming Languages’.

IMHO, mastering a programming language to write clear, concise & idiomatic code takes time (sometimes more, sometimes less). I think of programming languages as tools; none is better than the other. It’s a matter of using the right tool for the right job.

Learning a tool takes time and dedication; often having experience with one tool may shorten the time required to learn another.
>IMHO the only countries that really understand software at both a technical and business value add level are US, AUS, Canada, China, with India less so but in that group and Japan just barely getting in. Pretty damning.

We're paid pretty low in Canada as well. The two devs that started at the same time I started my career had a salary of $11/hr ($7.62/hr USD), both of whom are quite talented. My salary when I stopped being doing testing directly was $52,000 at 9 years of experience. Toronto and Vancouver pay better but the cost of living there is quite high unless you already own the house you live in.
It’s called CTI in industry — computer telephony integration. Normally well run firms will have CTI setup properly to transfer IVR data to an agent.

Sometimes however agents are trained to distrust this information as there are ways to spoof or attack the system. One easy way is to call a victim and pretend to be the company, then “3 way” them in with the IVR of the real company, have them verify, then disconnect them and take over, ask to transfer to an agent and you have full access to do whatever you want to their account (if the agent doesn’t re-verify). For this reason, 99% of the time financial institutions already have CTI data but will always do re-verification.
And the MS Office XML formats
At least in the dry conditions of South Australia there isn't a problem with rust ;-)

My old '99 model Porsche 911 996 is an exception to the rule. It's free motoring at this point; price rise since I purchased it 4 years ago has covered the cost of all and any expenses, including fuel and insurance.

Of course, the 996 was conceived in Porsche around the same time the Japanese came over and helped them out! They were in big trouble before they modernised.

Maybe this is a wake up call to the Germans to get in gear and sort themselves out before they run into (even bigger) trouble again!
Well functioning adults would have just given the boot to kiwifarms as soon as they discovered they were using their service. No childish discussions about free speech needed, who has time for this?

Regardless, Cloudflare with their first response has shown its true colors, joke of a company managed by kids.
What does this link have to do with anything, it says he is an Australian-American mathematician originally from HK. Not sure how this works that smoothly to demonstrate your point.
Would they be aiding in the commission of a crime if they carried on the service?
Do companies even take this requirement seriously?

I see "X years of experience in language Y" all the time in job listings, but I have _never_ been asked about it during an interview. My resume only lists a vague descriptor of language experience (Novice/Comfortable/Expert), so they aren't getting it from there.

Has anyone here on HN ever been in a situation where a company requested (for example) 7 years of $language and you only had 6 years and got rejected because of that?
From their perspective even if they can't pass it on, making you provide it as early as possible before you've reached a human ensures you'll have it ready when the human requests it.

How many callers just hang up at the automated first query for the information?

Having recently dealt with some brutal rental car phone support situations, I'm convinced these companies prioritize getting callers to just give up with the minimum of resources expended on their part.

Should you actually reach the live person they want you locked and loaded to not waste their time waiting.

I hate the future.
What organised violence? People posting shit about you on a forum isn't organized violence.
> That is the equivalent argument in the physical world that the fire department shouldn't respond to fires in the homes of people who do not possess sufficient moral character

So, to continue the analogy, we are reading the post by (ex-)arsonist?
If it's on Electron, then I probably won't use it.
What the hell are you talking about exactly?
I've seen people claim that it's better to generate 512x512 images since that's what it's trained on, and then upscale, rather than generating higher resolution images directly. Anyone tried any systematic investigation of this?
> show the finance and banking cartels that we don't need them.

Who do you think controls BTC? What do you think crypto exchanges are? Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

https://hacken.io/industry-news-and-insights/the-major-crypt...

All BTC would do is forever entrench the power of the Capital, while weakening the one entity strong enough to take it on: The State.

It would condemn us to forever be under the control of finance cartels, with no control mechanism to reign them in.
Software is written by humans for solving a new problem with new constraints and requirements. Code being understandable to other humans is a desirable side-effect, but in no way primary. Some problems are inherently hard and few humans have the capacity to reason about them, no matter how nicely-formatted, modularised and linted your code is.
I'm really interested in this problem.
It's because explosion clouds look like cotton.
(Edit: And apparently a pun on the words for cotton and clap being similar)
EXACTLY, it would have fixed the issue instantly, they could have done it years ago as soon as they discovered the existence of kiwifarms.

Don't they care about reputational damage? Who cares about some obscure forums for weirdos.
That sounds sensible to me! Thanks. Nice to get these perspectives as I have never heard a colleague say that before.

I guess you can then get rid of the 2 weeks? Because you can measure velocity as a continuous rolling average. Retros could be continuous too and standups already are. Grooming is easy to make continuous too.
Joplin's Android and iOS app can both edit note contents, by tapping the '+' or 'edit' circular button at bottom right of screen.
The more expertise I've gained with my preferred language, the more I value that expertise in others. If my teammates are new to the language, they'll be frustrated when I use its idioms and take advantage of its idiosyncrasies. In turn, I'll be frustrated when they contort it and write inefficient code, due to ignorance of the compiler, interpreter, and available libraries.
Unless I'm missing something very obvious, the source repository https://github.com/streetwriters/notesnook only includes the client apps and not the server, and the parent organization "streetwriters" doesn't seem to have any other repositories for the server. How are you supposed to run your own instance without that?

There's also a lot of marketing-speak in the repository documentation and little to no documentation on how to actually deploy it. Overall this leaves a pretty bad taste in my mouth.

Compare this for example to Bookstack, which gets right to the point for how to install and deploy, with no marketing nonsense. https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack
For me as a young outside software developer I saw the N900 and it was my dream phone. I couldn't afford a smartphone but I was ready to buy the N1000 when it came out. And then, it just didn't.

In the IT school I was at Nokia was a regular topic of conversation. All of us completely frustrated that they were apparently unwilling to invest in a Linux based phone and everybody eventually getting an Android or IPhone.

They really had a chance, they were at the right time with the close to the right product and just failed.
I argue for a "break" with a number that indicates how many loops you want to break out of. I have this in my programming language https://easylang.online. Each "break" needs the number, so also a "break 1".

for i = 1 to 50
for j = 1 to 50
if i * i + j * j * j = 80036
break 2
end
end
end
print i & " " & j
I hope that law enforcement has already infiltrated the forum, it seems common sense, get them before they act.
C++ and DS are not the sum total of CS fundamentals. They are just tiny part of it which I think a lot of people use and it is necessary to learn them.

I am curious, do you enjoy your work? Considering that even if you do not have to 'use' any knowledge of how your 'system' is built, how do you resolve problems in your 'system'? Even then, what is is fun of not knowing what you are actually doing?

It amazes me.
I don't really give two hoots about Cloudflare, I just don't like false statements, like when "Cloudflare helped me run a DDoS network" actually means "Cloudflare kept my website from being DDoSed", with the addendum "and I'm bad, therefore, not protecting KiwiFarms is hypocritical."

It's just dumb.
> You're going to need to cite them better then.

There's this person on twitter who regularly calls for doxxing and actual harassment by seending stuff to people's employers and family. I can't remember how to pronounce their name though. Kuhffuls? Kheffils? Shoot, I just can't recall...
A platform to create documentation/wiki content built with PHP and Laravel
If it's not illegal then it probably isn't causing any serious harm, so Cloudflare doesn't need to block it. If it is, say a direct death threat or telling others to harm someone, then it's already illegal and your explanation isn't needed.
Walrus operator? In. F string interpolation? In. Pattern matching? Hacked in.

Genuinely useful feature that is awkward to emulate? Nah.

Let's face it, everyone writes a double or triple nested for loop every now and then.
You can go look at the forum yourself at https://kiwifarms.ru/ (WARNING: DO NOT DO THIS IF YOU MIGHT BE ONE OF THEIR TARGETS! This would be EXTREMELY bad for your mental health!)

You'll struggle to find swatting, organized harrassment and non-internet stalking, but you'll see plenty of extremely unpleasant comments. If you were a kiwifarm target... well... see my comment above.
Example: an extremist government comes into power in the US and orders all social media and traditional media companies to censor a certain type of speech. They could very well have popular support if there has been a war or a depression or some other crisis, it was only 75 years ago that we had a literal Office of Censorship, were putting Japanese-Americans in internment camps etc. US media is very concentrated today, the government only needs to go around to a handful of companies to censor the vast majority of outlets Americans get their news from.

Sure someone can set up a server somewhere and publish whatever they want but if no one reads it it won't really matter. Most people won't change where they get their news overnight even if the government does impose censorship. That's why federated social media is so valuable, widespread use of it ASAP is a benefit to society. It can de-concentrate the ownership of media distribution, decentralize control and make the next Office of Censorship's job much harder.
I understand the criticism alongside _if you know one, two programming languages, then you know it all_. However, what seems to be overlooked at times is that there are different categories of programming languages, where your experience and knowledge in imperative languages doesn't help that much.

Looking at Prolog for instance, where you need to understand a whole new concept on how to achieve something requires time and experience.
The linked post by Prince is pretty frustrating.

“This is not our stance, but we do it anyway for all the reasons we just said are bullshit.”

I have a ton of respect for Prince but this spineless double standards stuff is BS.

PS: I have no idea what the deal is with Kiwifarms and frankly I don’t care. If it’s really that bad then we need to have a judge order an injunction.
> I hope they are burning coal to produce the steam to go full steampunk.

That's a commercial off-the-shelf hobbyist steam engine, they prescribe using smokeless fuel tablets like [0].

Coal would just make a bunch of soot and a big mess in general.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Esbit-1300-Degree-Smokeless-Tablets-E...
I think a lot of the infrastructure-as-code motivation comes from struggling with documentation. At least it provides a unambiguous source of truth which is going to be correct. Understanding it and it’s quirks can be tedious but it’s better than port scanning and guessing hostnames to figure out what infrastructure exists.
I don't know what software you are referring to. But with the IVI, which is what users interact with, the difference is night and day.

Most cars have shitty, laggy IVI that will get no meaningful updates. You are on many cases almost forced to use Apple/Android Car.

Teslas give you more of an Apple treatment. You will receive meaningful updates for years. It is mostly fluid and good looking. It is exciting for the people looking for the latest gimmick, the same way people look forward to iOS 15 or whatever.
There’s absolutely no way that Oracle would release a trademark.
I feel like that's assuming a lot about Cloudflare - what evidence is there of such Machiavellian maneuovres on their behalf?

Would it be impossible to run DDoS as a service for profit without Cloudflare? People were doing fine at just that before Cloudflare ever existed.
Can somebody explain what Maemo and MeeGo means here?

I remember the N900 coming out and wanting Maemo.

Then years later when I didn't care anymore I MeeGo peaked my interest, but I didn't really care anymore.

What other then GTK vs QT is different.

And why was it needed, I never understood why they simple didn't go forward with Maemo.