skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "The whole point of no-platforming individuals is to make a statement that their views are seen as reprehensible..."

Uh...reprehensible by whom?

You do realize that what's "reprehensible" is extremely subjective, right? And the same tactics and standards that you are using to silence opinions you don't like can therefore just as easily be used against you and yours by people who find your opinions reprehensible.

That's the whole point of promoting the free and open exchange of ideas, it protects everyone's ability to speak freely. And then individuals can make up their own minds about what is "reprehensible" and choose whether THEY want to listen to it or not. In other words, people don't need you to be an arbiter of what is reprehensible for other adults.
This sounds optional in the same way that company socials are optional. Maybe you can skip it once, but too many times and people start asking questions.
This goes back at least to the Beatles.
Hosting Ory isn't difficult, FWIW.
A human artist can freely paint something in the style of another artist. It's not considered a derivative work. You can't copyright a style.

A derivative work is an adaptation, translation, or modification of a particular, existing copyrighted work.

If you asked Stable Diffusion for "Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night with a cat looking at the sky", you'd get a derivative work (although Starry Night is in the public domain, so you wouldn't be violating its copyright).
Organized developer:

Find clean plate and utensils. If there are no clean plates and utensils, then wash some. Then eat putting the food on the plate, using the utensils. Then wash your dish and utensils when you are done.

Most developers:

Eat a little bit of food using any object from the kitchen as utensils, then discard all the rest by throwing it on the floor, because your task was only eating that one bit of food. Bugs and rats will infest the kitchen and eat the leftovers.

Then the organized developer will be put in a performance improvement plan, because fuck logic. There's no time to be clean because our performance is being measured on how much food we eat.

Company interviews will be about eating a 10 food course using a Victorian cutlery set with 120 utensils. On the first day, the developer will ask where are the forks, the team will reply "we know that forks are the proper utensils for this, but our policy is to eat all food using spoons".
Awesome! It works now! Thanks. Device is selected by an actual number, not the device path, but easy enough to figure out. I guess the help actually says that, if I paid attention...
All the men commentating on this situation are missing the perceived sexism dynamic at the table. She clearly believed he was full of shit and wanted to call him out on it. Her statements about "bluff catcher" align with this. It was a stupid play that had no rational basis, but she did it based on an emotional read of him not an assessment of the realistic value of her hand. And she got lucky.

In amateur games I see this type of behavior all the time. To me all it says is that she's a noob in the world of pro poker. Playing against irrational opponents is hard, hence "beginner's luck".
You’ll get roughly the same answer in America but I still recommend it every $x years , if possible, especially in the late 30s.
I once saw someone complaining because they moved into a freshly-built apartment building and things were constantly wrong. A/C not working, shower not working, every time it came down to the contractor doing something wrong.

but the apartment building was finished, the project for building it didn't fail.

In the same way, software projects don't typically fail either, they just have a million things wrong with them.

I don't think I've ever actually seen a software project outright fail, it's more that it never lived up to expectations.
You can use gender or race or any other factor. I just don't want to have anything to do with that company because I am afraid I will lose IQ point on the long run.

I am a capitalist, I am not sure which factors are the best factors when it comes to correlating with performance.

Is it hard skills? Communication? Do I need a generalist? A specialist? Is it better to hire people with ego or not?

One thing I am pretty confident is that vagina or Melatonin are pretty weak factor. And I would not trust any HR or managers optimizing for it.

I am a lot more happy since I live in a country where that does not value these things.
Dying and giving up your vote is not particularly effective politics either.
Thanks. I'd already started paying for it, and now it looks like I won't have to anymore.
this is the opposite of what comments on HN are supposed to be.

you clearly asked "Can you give me one example where such a society was allowed?" that is past tense, not bounded to now. I answered. You are wrong.

Oh and BTW white ethnic activism is alive and well.
Back in those days extremely smooth scrolling and pinch-to-zoom was something that turned mobile web browsing from annoying hurdle to a fairly pleasant experience.

Mobile hardware wasn't capable of delivering such smoothness. Apple's innovation was to prioritize UI rendering over everything else. When you're zooming, rendering stops and browser only deals with zooming. Regardless of current CPU capabilities and load, scrolling and zooming is always smooth. And turns out people care about those way more than parallel rendering.

That's some underappreciated outside of the box thinking.
Oh, haven't read the article yet, but expected the same thing.

To make this work, I need a nice copy/paste method for pen+touch input to input the link, along with nice app switching.

Otherwise, it should be drawing a circle around the marks, right click, add link.

How do you click the links though?
The technology will arrive in India sooner than we think.

EV have very low maintenance compared to gas cars. As time goes on, new EVs will get better real fast. The old EVs will still be solid workhorses despite this.

The problem with India is twofold: manufacturing and import regulations. But someone somewhere will figure this out: they’re trying to fix that same issue with iPhones. Some EV company (maybe Tesla) can piggyback off of the same solution.

That’s when all the “old EVs” with perfectly useful motors, readable easy to upgrade batteries and solar energy will make sense.

Now I’ll admit: this super hand wavy. But ever since I bought my EV, I have just found my transportation costs trending to zero. It’s ridiculously cheap!
You can get a brand new perfectly functional smartphone for under $200. If electric cars drop to even $30k they're still way out of reach for most people, and we'll be waiting a long time from them to hit the used car market.
And storage.

I work at an engineering firm that is heavily involved in these efforts in SoCal, and this is probably boring to say (without details) but the storage component is fascinating. Not my sector, though, so I won’t/can’t elaborate (I do work in sustainable transportation planning, though).
For me...the rise of a billion devops tools with their own opinionated designs and syntax.

I'm convinced that some of the complexity is by design, or at least left around for the purposes of selling certificates and trainings. For example there's basically no reason why Terraform has to be its own language, the declarative engine can be wrapped around any other one. It's much more profitable if your tool is a "skill" to build an industry around than if it is just something that people use, easily understand, and can be done with.
Academia.edu has been spamming me for years
This is also the reason that most heavy abstractions fail. Abstractions often define the rules for one very specific universe. When the next CEO comes in a decides to toss that universe, it can become almost impossible to reason about our new reality in the context of the old abstractions.

For this reason, I tend to stear away from OOO design patterns in domain logic. I've found that simple function based code written around algebraic data types tends to be much more fluid and able to conform to changing worlds.

Ironically, that as I've gotten more SR, the code I produce tends to be much simpler...
It's not literally just an extra engine you're carrying around, it's the whole ICE drivetrain and exhaust system: engine, starter, air intake, transmission, alternator, oil pump, fuel tank and fuel pump, gas lines, catalytic converter, muffler, all the various sensors for the engine, etc. Electric cars have none of those.

Thanks to government subsidies in place for 14 years so far and locked in for at least another 10, I've experienced no actual depreciation on my electric cars to date. I've actually made money upgrading to a new one every few years. My current daily driver is a 2021 VW ID4 that had a sticker price of $44K, $36.5K after the federal tax credit, and Carvana offered me a bit over $43K if I want to sell it today.
Near where I live, there's a kindergarten, and playground where my daughter would often play in. About a year or so ago, an undetonated missile was discovered. It was one of the many bombs dropped on residential areas during firebombing of Tokyo in WWII. The place where it was discovered is right in front of the kindergarten, and very close to the playground. Luckily it was safely extracted away. But kids have been running around that place for decades.
Nope. Sociopaths don’t have morals. And most people will do immoral things if the value/cost is high enough.
"There will be $20,000 economy EVs with crappy everything but still go A to B."

It's called the Nissan Leaf and it's been available for years!
> The only way to surely avoid nuclear war is to allow Russia an avenue to some kind of victory in Ukraine using only conventional weapons.

That's just ruzzia propaganda parroted by their apologists all over the world.
You can't get raped "a little". And be assured that ruzzia won't stop. Any concessions will only embolden them to go further to other countries. Now with the resources and people of the concurred territories. If ruzzia succeed in ANY blackmail it will keep doing it because obviously EU and US are weak. That is until it's stopped. Might as well stop them now. Just look at Crimea they occupied for 8 years, did it stop them?
are those the kind that typically fail?
I've sorted them in alphabetical order now
Hey, there’s a first time for everything!
There was rampant fraud and miscounting during the counting of votes prior to the electronic machines in Brazil.

The people might have understood how their vote worked (they put a cross next to an executive candidate, and write the number or name of the candidates for the legislative) but that's nowhere near understanding how the whole system works.

The people who used to benefit from the paper ballots (the fraudsters) are the ones claiming for its return.

I suspect that's what that statement was about, given that this HN article is about the Brazilian elections.
Yeah, thanks for telling me what I would have done 300 years ago. Nice time machine you've got, to be able to tell that.

300 years ago, the advantages of 1722 over MDCCXXII were blindingly obvious. It wouldn't be what I was then used to, but it had clear advantages. Whereas today, the advantages of writing 02022 are... um... that kragen likes to do it that way.
I’d suggest adding instructions to handle enter if that is your criteria.

When doing a take home exercise the candidate is desperate to figure out what you are judging on. The more you make that explicit the better your outcomes will be.

Right now your process biases for enter handler adders. Is that your intent?
> I’m not sure why you’ve been downvoted

Because "Covid 19 was engineered in a lab, then released" is nothing but a conspiracy theory.
Indeed. The system as a whole has so many protections that it's very hard to defraud it. It's certainly possible but it gets harder each year.
lol he gave a talk at my engineering school once, his alma mater, and I always wondered if he was playing up his off the cuff nature.
> This doesn't work in cities. None of those places have parking lots.

Put the chargers where the cars are parking. With vanishingly few exceptions, they're all parking somewhere.

I'm all for a less car-centric society, but it's gonna be easier to reach that future if we address climate change a bit on the way.
> They need something stronger to collapse their dictatorship

The dictator is literally on deaths door it seems and the succession plan is not clear.

That, combined with the protests, seems like an ample opportunity
They don't have a radar gun pointing at the asteroid which measures velocity. Instead, they have to measure position after a period of time to measure velocity. The smaller the change in velocity -- and this is a very tiny change -- the longer the time needed to measure the change.
Jesus christ. these threads on hn have become so toxic this is pointless to engage.

how tf is ethnic diversity harmful?

also my comment had nothing to do with hiring.

but to respond anyways:

ideological diversity !== making room for racist, homophobic, christian nationalist or otherwise hateful people.

and people have every right not to want to have to work and sit next to someone who is actively working to make their life worse, take away their rights, and or who are simply diametrically opposed to their very existence and often overtly bring this with them into said workplace. e.g. see all the other threads on hn that have to do with race and gender.
I've been programming professionally since about 1994, using C++, Java, Scheme, Python, Go, JavaScript and friends.

Today, tools are incredibly better; compilers, debuggers, profilers. I'll take something from JetBrains or Visual Studio any day over what I had available in the 1990's. There were some gems back then, but today, tools are uniformly good.

What has gotten difficult is the complexity of the systems which we build. Say I'm building a simple web app in JS with a Go backend and I want users to have some kind of authentication. I have to deal with something like Oauth2, therefore CORS, and auth flows, and to iterate on it, I have some code open in Goland, some code open in VS Code and my browser, and as a third component, I have something like Auth0 or Cognito in a third window. It's all nasty.

If I'm writing a desktop application, I have to deal with code signing, I can't just give it to a friend to try. It's doubly as annoying if it's for a cell phone. If I need to touch 3D hardware, I now have to deal with different API's on different platforms.

It's all, tedious, and it's an awful lot of work to get to a decent starting point. All these example apps in the wild are always missing a lot of the hard, tedious stuff.

Edit:

All that being said, today, I can spin up a scalable server in some VM's in the cloud and have something available to users in a week. In the 1990s, if there was a server component, I'd be looking for colo facilities, installing racks, having to set up software, provision network connections, and it would take me ten times as long to the first prototype. I'd have to write more from scratch myself. Much as some things today are more tedious, on net, I'm more productive, but part of that is more than 25 years of experience.
The best-selling Toyota in India costs around $20k USD. This is roughly 4x the cost of some of the cheapest new cars available in India. It doesn't look like Toyota is going for that emerging growth.
Often it's the opposite. Investors are usually happy to funnel a little extra from one budget to the portfolio company. After all, if an investor won't pay for it, who would?
> EVs will get better real fast

Other than standardising the batteries, unlocking the chips so they can be maintained and maybe switching to a motor that doesn't require niobium, what's to improve?

Electric motors are a mature technology, and putting a box or a 3:1 teardrop on wheels is quite simple.
Those examples, especially the Demon Core, had much higher quantities of plutonium. The Demon Core [1] was a sphere of 6.2 kg of plutonium surrounded by neutron reflecting tungsten carbide.

The photo in this article shows a few small sticks of plutonium. They are not in contact with each other. They are not surrounded by neutron reflecting materials. The chance of criticality in that configuration was insignificant.

Of course, any journalist worth his salt will make it look like we very nearly avoided an Armageddon.

I stand by my statement: the danger in that situation was not the plutonium configuration itself, but the attitude towards safety of the workers. In that immediate instance the chance of a criticality excursion was close to nil, but if not reprimanded, those workers could have done something much more dangerous next time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core
> few drive more than ~25 miles/day

I hope a lot of these people (assuming they're not willing to go car-free, which would be ideal) will switch to low-speed electric vehicles. They're much cheaper than standard cars, take up less space, and are far less dangerous to other road users. This one from Polaris is $15k, and there are off brands for much less. https://gem.polaris.com/en-us/e4/
So that's the reason why all aluminium wirings in buildings were ripped off and replaced with copper?
where by cheaper you mean slightly more expensive if you compare to public charging stations that are the vast minority of charged miles, and 9x more expensive than charging at home.
Any plans to work on accessibility (e.g. for blind people using screen readers)?
Am I computing this correctly? Assuming charger is at 120V, P = VI -> I = 300*1000/120 = 2500 Amps? That's a lot of juice...
> The problem is political parties ... ban them completely.
Obviously in the US you can't do

Political parties are creatures in the election laws of each State. The sections of State law which create (and then regulate) parties can be removed.
The thing that really gets me is that crazy events like this happen sometimes. I mean, here is Stu Ungar winning insanely by calling with 10 high: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzgRZ_AKVfg

No one accused Stu of cheating.
yeah i'm also sceptical

and that's i'm worried that it's going to be part of a hype to symbolically buy them, wasting the materials to create solar panels even further, only for them to stand in a garage or otherwise well-protected from the sun by the buildings around
Who's betting on this? I believe in Brazil it would be illegal.
> The tradeoff that pure EVs make is that you haul around 4500 pounds of dead batteries everywhere, which isn't great either.

A Kia Niro PHEV that can go 25 miles on its battery, and a Kia Niro EV that can go 240 miles on its battery, are only about 400 pounds apart. That's like carrying around two passengers, which has negligible impact on fuel efficiency or road wear.
And at one time there was no place to put gasoline into your automobile. How did that play out? It played out very well and you can fuel up with multiple types of fuel in every corner of the continent. EV charging is simple by comparison.
> So we put more (and therefore unequal) resources into helping the competitor who’s having to run 40 more meters than you.

So, to each according to their needs, and from each according to their ability, more or less?
And with 20 miles on battery. Change of batter 10-20k
One of the original thinkers on this topic. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hnOpGXOrHc4
That's an excellent example. Mostly because I've probably had to replace simple retry loops more than once after they triggered various kinds of death spirals.

Even recently, an engineer on my team spotted a retry technique, where the system tried to check if the DB's replication mechanism was slowing down, then would just re-enqueue the message for later. This ended up doing a bonkers amount of wasted effort because when DB replication started getting overwhelmed, messages would just constantly be re-enqueued and not ever processed. So the queue system ended up just having a bonkers amount of messages that were just popping off the queue, doing nothing, and hopping right back on.
Yup! I ended up having to look him up via the states bar association's website. Was able to get his bar association email which was different then the gmail. It's the only contact I have in google contacts because it happens about 3 times a year.

He got a congratulations email on a bmw purchase one time. Had a good discussion about cars, we are both gear heads.
13 elections in one of the largest countries in the world and not a single issue has surfaced. Probability says issues have happened but the fact that none have surfaced suggests they're negligible.
The presentations from that symposium have been published by ACM:

ASPLOS-I Proceedings of the Symposium on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, March 1-3, 1982, Palo Alto, California. ACM Press, 1982, SIGARCH Computer Architecture News 10(2), SIGPLAN Notices 17(4)

The IBM 801 was presented by George Radin: "The 801 Minicomputer", pp. 39-47.

You can download freely all the presentations from:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/800050

There is somewhere online an interview with one of the ARM designers, I do not remember whether with Steve Furber or with Sophie Wilson, where they mention how they have learned about RISC from this symposium.
Frustrated embedding eSign – are others facing this too?
Do you think any eSign solutions are truly dev-first? What problems are others facing embedding eSign?
If you’d asked me a couple years ago my bet would’ve been on Microsoft’s fork of React Native for desktop. They’re clearly actively developing it and using it for their own purposes. But its relative obscurity isn’t a great sign.

Luckiest ideal scenario: something like React Native that really does compile to actual UI APIs for the compile target. Doesn’t have to be JavaScript, but it probably will be because inertia.

Every time I see “native” and “UI” RN is still the only real option which means native. I’d really love to see more options in this space.
Pick two or less..

Sure, but I don't see how that relates to the topic at hand? This constraint exists for all organisations. As do budget constraints.
I think programming is made worse today by how programmers are managed. Agile, Kanban, Scrum, JIRA - they’re all there so upper management can get a sky high view of what’s going on, but it’s all based on “estimates” that are often shots in the dark. They might give the CEO a warm, fuzzy feeling, but they’re often based on fiction. And I waste half my day in “planning poker”, “retrospectives”, “standups” - yuck.
I guess a corollary then is to make sure all your members don't have odious personal politics
If true, that sounds like a serious indictment of manufacturing power sources with the ability to destroy a good portion of the Earth.

That does remind me of the incident where a technician dropped a socket off a wrench and quite nearly detonated a 9 megaton bomb in Arkansas.
> Korean songs

I believe the correct term would be lyrics, not songs.

A song can have its lyrics translated/altered into an entirely different language and still carry the same weight. Many pop songwriters would argue that the lyrics are one of the least important components.

Non-anglophone countries are full of such songs based on English language originals. Though this musical localization seems have be have been more popular in the past, for multiple reasons.