skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Given how easy high-skill employees jump ship today, I can see why companies would naturally become this defensive.

High-skill employees jump ship because the old school system of promotions etc. is all but dead. The days when people used to work for one company for 30 years, gradually moving up the ladder, are over. The vast, VAST majority of increases of pay today are due to people moving from one employer to another employer. The widespread corporate culture of refusing to significantly increase pay of existing employees is to blame. If the only option for people to get these double digit % pay bumps is to leave, then they will leave.
Can't agree more about 3). I watched Seinfeld in Des Moines in the '90s having never been to NYC. Started going there regularly in 2013 and was like, "Where I have I seen all this before?" Realizing that some of the idiosyncratic characters on Seinfeld were actually pretty accurate depictions of New Yorkers blew my mind.
It's "better understood" to be completely false.
Well, I don't think it was a rational thing to do, but that's not a reason not to do it. The race [1] took place on circular hiking route 118 miles with 19,000ft of climbing. I'd hiked sections of the route (which typically takes 7-10 days for hikers) but was really drawn to the idea of doing the route in a "single day" (actually starts at 6am Friday, cut-off is 10pm Saturday - 40 hours). It was also my fourth time attempting to finish the race. After each of the first three times I failed, my immediate reaction was "It is too hard. I'm not going to sign up again." That is usually followed within 24-48 hours with an intense desire to sign up and try again. The hallucinations were not something I sought, and as I said, the auditory was not something I even know existed. The overall feeling was trippy rather than discomfort. Unlike the many blisters on my feet. I'm definitely older and chunkier than most doing the race I'm proud as hell that I persevered and finished especially after failing repeatedly. During the years of training and attempts I learned a lot about myself - good and bad.

[1] - https://www.kerrywayultra.com/
> and does not question if the person gifting was the real owner of the gift

If you can figure out a method of determining whether someone owns the code that doesn't involve, "try suing in court for copyright infringement and see if it sticks" then we're kinda stuck. Because just because a codebase contains an exact or similar snippet from another codebase doesn't mean that snippet reaches the threshold of copyrightable work. Or the reverse being that just because two code snippets look wildly different doesn't mean it's not infringement and detecting that automatically is solving the halting problem.

The thing you want for software to actually solve this is chain of custody which we don't have. If you require everyone assume everyone else could be lying or mistaken about infringement then using any open source project for anything becomes legal hot water.

In fact when you upload code to Github you grant them a license to do things like "display it" which you can't do if you don't actually own the copyright or have a license so even before the code is ever slurrped into Copilot the same exact legal situation arises as to wether Github is legally allowed to host the code at all. Can you imagine if when you uploaded code to Github you had to sign a document saying you owned the code and indemnifying Microsoft against any lawsuit alleging infringement o boy people would not enjoy that.
Well we DO have GitHub copilot which I have yet to use
Yes, it has no basis in evidence but is sadly still commonly referenced in education and in popular discussion.
Notably many anti-statehood groups boycotted these plebiscites, and analysts noted that the questions were poorly structured. For example, the 2017 referendum had a result of 97% in favor of statehood... because only pro-statehood voters showed up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_movement_in_Puert...
> Among others - is it supported by any hosting vendor or I'll be forced to tinker with it myself without even cloud-init tooling?

1984.is has OpenBSD as an install option; that's what I use for my mailserver and webserver.
This is generally true, though there's an asterisk: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/what...

Whatsapp adding end to end encryption for backups is a big deal, though. The FBI pressured Apple to not do so for iMessage.
Not a good article.

Chesterton's Fence applies to many of the complaints; the OP doesn't understand math, but implies it's a bad thing they would have been prevented from becoming an engineer because of that. Which is just wrong.
Borges short story collections — The Library of Babel can launch you in any number of directions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel?wprov=sft...
But in this case, isn't the "third party" just a piece of client-side software that performs a bunch of http requests to systems the client user is allowed to access, on a device the user is allowed to use, in order to aggregate the results and show them all in one spot? It's not being sent to third party systems off the user's phone.

Banning it would be like restricting certain sql clients, like allowing the CLI clients, but banning pgAdmin or MYSQL Workbench.
And yet, nothing Zuck says will help me to trust him. Makes me wonder what Meta / Fb could be with a different leader. He’s not a product visionary.
Meanwhile, the rest of the world will go on teaching it and their students' academic performance will continue to trounce the US's.

I am 100% confident that I would not have gone into engineering if algebra had not been part of my compulsory education. And I'm very happy with the career I discovered for myself. Neither one of my parents were engineers. And I wasn't a particularly good student in middle or high school. Therefore, I doubt anyone in my family would have thought to enroll me in extra curricular math. I discovered that I was good at those things late in high school.

So I see advice like this as worsening class divides and increasing the likelihood that you live the same life as your parents.
> If breaking up the code makes it slightly less easy to understand right now, but will make it easier to add some feature later that you know you know you're definitely going to need, then hold off.

This. Your code shouldn't be documenting what it will do in the future: it should be clear what it's doing right now. Otherwise some other engineer maybe from another team will come upon it, misread it, and bugs ensue. Trying to save yourself time in the future ends up wasting time for others, and likely for yourself as well.
All of the people you listed committed actual crimes.
Short of something fundamentally changing my personality, I'm absolutely certain that I would never do the things he does.
Today I learned my toaster is a robot
They can try to disincentivize private censorship, but unlikely to stop it. I believe the primary argument is forcing these companies to publish speech is a violation of their own free speech.
You're not the only one that feels that way. I wish I could add something constructive beyond this.
> user friendly is not the same thing as simple

Testify!
I disagree with you. I think that the phenomenon that you described (which exists on most social platforms that are advertising themselves as "free speech") is not present everywhere and my impression is that the problem is exactly with the "chase all the users" mentality.

One example that I can think of the top of my head is Scott Alexander's blog, where I saw opinions put forward (most of the times in a respectful manner) that ranged from extremely egalitarian to extremely libertarian. I am entirely sure that some of the people posting there have views that veer into "one flavour of bigot" or another, but because the community as a whole would rise against the most objectionable types of ideas that one could put forward, they never do it. To me that is a healthy community and I hope it can be achieved in other places without needing an "alpha-personality" at the center for people to gather around.
To be fair, what you're championing for PAGNI is the poster child for YAGNI, so you're basically against YAGNI.
I do not assume that people mean "if we only removed capitalism, everything would be fine" when they say "capitalism is the problem." I assume they mean something more like "replacing capitalism with [y] would make things much better than marginal changes to capitalism" where [y] is probably democratic socialism, or that they mean something like "most problems can be traced back to capitalism and to fix these problems we need to fix capitalism" where "fixing capitalism" means enacting whatever policies the speaker happens to advocate for.

Someone saying "it would be better if the US adopted a government closer to the USSR's" is a pretty out there statement and I'm not going to assume that someone means that unless they're pretty clear about it.
Expected by who? Those who have access to private info? As far as I'm concerned, I don't see why I should expect anything less than 100% usage if a vendor does not warn me otherwise, and countries exists where mandatory warantee is 2 years.

And that's just about the law. Don't get me started on resource consumption and on my perfectly fine 10 years old computers I'll be forced to stop using soon because of litteral planned obsolecence (of MS, that's another story but a major actor of the computer industry too, and that will yield even more environmental destruction)
Implying that someone hasn't read the article violates the site guidelines.
In other news the sun is yellow.
But if a piece was written for a specific key and the instrument was tuned to that key for that piece, that would be both more mathematically correct and also matching the original intent of the composer? What is the rationale for equal temperament?
im not sure this is the forum for capital lols,

Sorry. At this point, hearing people still try to defend crypto as being "trustless" is kinda comical --- sorta like people who trusted and defended Bernie Madoff because he was once chairman of NASDAQ.

How many crypto rug pulls would be enough to convince you otherwise?
If they are winning, then they are the hero in their personal narrative. Victimhood is just another piece on the chess board for these people.
I think that should have gone over my head as I do not remember anything in the book to be libertarian. Maybe the final part where they are trying to set up the lunar government, where the libertarian stuff fails in practice?
I'm not clear (as a European) which part of your code-hosting could be risky in this regard?

There's many privacy and other laws that affect myself and my neighbours in Europe that concern me, but hate speech has never been one of them.

Perhaps wherever you're from you draw lines differently to how we do it in Europe, with regards to what is socially and morally acceptable to say?

I should add that we also don't have a right to "free speech" in the UK as, say, Americans do, and yet it hasn't forced us to keep our mouths shut.
> or you're not being honest about how quickly things can get done.

If you get an estimate from someone on how long it takes to do something, and you approve that estimate, and it's delivered in that amount of time, that should be good enough for you. Realizing later, the guy could have potentially banged it out twice as fast is you imagining injury where none exists.

If that person _does_ do the work twice as fast and comes back asking for extra work, do you pay them more? What incentive would employees have to work this way?

> I want there to be trust so we can both grow the company together.

You are not partners with your employees, and the idea that someone spending their free time doing X or Y undermines your trust in them is garbage. I live in MA where everybody is an employee at will and can be fired tomorrow without explanation.

> How can I do that if I am competing with you for your own time?

This is the most toxic part. Your employees time is not yours. If they are salaried, it's expected they will pull their weight without having to track their hours. It's often expected that if the work takes longer, you'll put in the extra time, but again that's about tracking the work. You aren't their owner. Jeez.
Thanks, this saved me from figuring how to bypass their "free article limit".
As a huge Shakespeare fan, I'm a big fan of it.

The literary canon is terrible, and students know it. They keep wondering why they're reading the same books people were assigned a century ago. It does the opposite of encouraging reading. It tells students that only a very narrow set of voices are "great" and everything else is trash.

It's even worse that these voices are almost all male and almost all white, and come from a time when casual racism and casual sexism were just par for the course. Even students whose heritage is represented are bored by this material. It's even worse for the rest.

As I said, I adore Shakespeare. I've performed every Shakespeare play. I'm about to direct Midsummer for the third time. I find Shakespeare fascinating because it can be reinvented so many ways -- it was intended to be performed in a wide variety of venues for many different audiences.

But that doesn't mean it has to be forced on everybody. It's important enough that everybody should be exposed to it -- one play, heavily interpreted to show off that flexibility. They don't need every line of it and they don't need a lot of different plays. Certainly not the same four tragedies that get taught in most schools. It kills interest in Shakespeare. I killed it for me, until I rediscovered it a decade later.

I would much rather students get exposed to far more works by living writers -- people whose works they might actually want to read. The "canon" really is the books that rich people liked to read a century ago and therefore must be great. Pick one or two of these per year, because they do have merit, but ditch the notion that they are the only books with merit.

If that means less Shakespeare, that's okey-dokey with me. I'm sorry to see schools lose any funding for anything, and there's lots more stuff I'd rather see go than a theater festival. But if they're channeling the money into books that actually mean something, and expose more students to books that they can engage with rather than forget the instant class ends, I'm all for it.
I doubt it. Bitcoin was simply the combonation of two well-understood things: hashcash and cryptographic signatures.
Was going to mention MongoDB. the day they announced the change, I created a fork (https://github.com/danx0r/mongo). Now, if a client wants mongoDB I just install this version on a cpu somewhere and go from there. If the project really needs more up-to-date versions of the core DB or the cloud tools, we have a discussion about the restrictions that apply to later versions.

I think this does not really constitute pump-and-dump or loss-leader behavior because the code generated during the open license phase has real value to the community.

One thing I think could use more analysis is, does Mongo's license change breach any copyleft provisions of the original license? I recall they started with the permissive Apache license but prior to the last change 4 years ago they were AGPL.
I wonder if anyone believes their own views are too dangerous for broad distribution, and should be limited to protect demoocracy.
There are multiple evolving fields of science, including cognitive science that deals with researching what we are talking about, and they have a scholarly literature. This is another thing about science, it's peer reviewed. It's not a perfect process, but it's the best one we have to date. You get the best picture by reading papers, following the references in them, or the other way around, the papers that cited them.

I don't really see the double standard, because scientific research must be substantiated and falsifiable. People still cheat, there is fraud, but there is a process to control it. Individual volition can only do so much damage, the truth always ends up winning, even if it takes years, because the truth is irremovable. Even if we forget it we will keep rediscovering it.

This is the difference between a shaman and a doctor. The shaman takes your money and pretends to be doing something, the doctor works hard using tools, techniques and theories people worked hard on inventing and discovering. Truth pays dividends there, it can heal your sick child, because the truth is real power, not cultural power like a Shaman might have, but actual power against diseases, hunger, death itself one day.

I also don't think it's right to call it materialism, matter is just a small part of the picture, an important one as far as we are concerned, but it's only 5% of the Universe, and if you go deeper quantum physics is more fundamental and nothing about that is materialist. The normal, intuitive concepts of space and time or causality don't even affect it, because it is also responsible for those as well. And yet despite how disturbingly weird it is scientists can still deal with it, and find applications for it. This year's Nobel Prize was given to people that made an entire quantum industry possible.
The new iron curtain is hiding your valuable data from competitors and adversaries.
It seemed to me to be a handbook on how to conduct a revolution. Much as Heinlein's Stranger from a Strange Land was a handbook on how to start a religion (hello Scientologists).
Thanks!

It is built with Next.js and hosted on Vercel.

That's all there is to it, there's no database, just a big json file that contains all the courses.
Both phases come with a lack of self-awareness and sometimes anosognosia as symptoms
And now he is going to own a social media site so his account can't be locked.
I think the reason they might appear rare is because the number of desktop apps that depend on a remote server for functionality are less common.

For example, a photo editing suite, word processor, or code editor all have the expectation that they be usable entirely offline, and any additional cloud-based features are coded to fail gracefully.

As you point out, apps like Slack and Discord don't fall into this camp. Not only is their core functionality expected to be online, they are also Electron apps (basically, embedded Chrome browser) that likely have a thin layer of client logic, and load most resources remotely, just like accessing a web page.

Sure, word processors and code editors exist on mobile, and many of them likely work just like their desktop counter parts when offline [1]. But that's not what most mobile apps are. Most mobile apps would be useless without a remote server, and if that remote server needs to make a breaking API change, then you need a way to communicate that.

[1] I assume. It's been a while since I've used mobile MS Word. Even then, I suspect these apps will prompt the user to update or else lose cloud service at some point, even if they otherwise continue to work fine locally.
Hey guys, I have an idea: why don't we try building free-speech protocols rather than free-speech platforms?

Humans are fallible. We like to think we could build something where people can talk freely, but if the ability to censor something we don't like is presented, at some point nearly everybody will take that action because they personally deem it necessary for some greater good.

Ultimately, protocols that cannot be altered or censored (at least without significant and difficult amounts of effort) are what are necessary to obtain true free speech.

There are some groups that are understanding this, and working accordingly. LBRY for example, says exactly this in their "what is LBRY" article:

> Building protocols, not platforms, is the best way to secure a free, open internet.

As long as people use centralized services that are susceptible to fallible human intervention, that fallibility will be acted upon.

Centralization was adequate back when the internet was first brewing. Many people had common interests, people were respectful of others' data often enough that encrypted network protocols weren't deemed necessary. Now, encryption is almost required because so many people have bad intentions. The internet has grown, and so have the amount of conflicting demographics using it.

Just as we had to adopt encryption on a wide scale to keep the internet usable, adopting decentralization at a wide scale will be too. And that includes making it easy enough for normies to access that they think nothing else of it, much like how they don't care what encryption is, as long as there's a lock icon in their search bar.
Interesting note. The author is https://www.templegrandin.com/, who is one of the best known cases of a successful high-functioning autistic person.

If a particular subject doesn't "click" for her, it will be a lot more of a barrier than it is for most. But, conversely, how many more like her have been accidentally excluded by cognitive barriers that most of us can't even see?
It's marked here [0] as "also common in other English dialects". I heard it plenty in South Africa.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diminutives_in_Australian_Engl...
The state of the island's electrical infrastructure is a much larger stain than the loss of an aging radiotelescope. Spend the money on that, instead.
I don't feel that's particularly incompatible with anything I said.
Say I'm the comedian and I make jokes about everyone. I'm still a piece of shit if I mock someone's fresh, personal tragedy without checking in with them and ensuring they're open to it. I've come to disagree with the appropriateness of telling jokes about everyone-- there are definitely circumstances where it is totally inappropriate to tell jokes about specific people.

That being said, I'm not trans so idk about whether or not Dave's jokes about trans people was like that. I just wanted to specify that I don't think telling jokes about everyone is appropriate at the lines of other people's tragedies or pain.
Nice to Woodpecker CI getting some traction. Great software for selfhosted ci. Simpler to start than Jenkins, not as flexible ofc, but most projects do not require that amount of flexibility and footguns. Woodpecker one of the best tools for small/medium self-hosted CI's out there atm.
> He does not appear to speak on behalf of the Oakland PD but on behalf of his own private views.

The article itself claims that someone else, a 'Lt. Omar Daza-Quiroz' is the official spokesperson. Since you apparently are the author, this attempted deflection seems not credible at all.
Demonology is a “study” conducted by true believers for hundreds, if not thousands of years.

Someone sat down in the 13th century, and earnestly questioned whether Forneus was a marquis or earl, and whether 30 legions of demons under his command was too many. (It was. He has only 29.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forneus
Right. They could be using it to plant wildflowers: https://texashillcountry.com/shotgun-flower-shell/
This is not new and there's not really any difference between a sniper shooting someone and shooting them with a remote controlled gadget. A person aims the gun and a person pulls the trigger.
Given the incentives, it's an obvious outcome. This occurs in the United States as well.

34% of white Americans who applied to colleges or universities admit to lying about being a racial minority on their application

48% of people who lied claimed to be Native American

3/4 of people who faked being a racial minority on their applications were accepted by the colleges to which they lied

https://thehill.com/changing-america/enrichment/education/57...
I’d argue that people need to be taught basic group theory and abstract algebra first, preferably in the form of puzzles to get familiar with more abstract thinking, and to see things in terms of composition of objects instead a of mixing numeracy in the mix.

I think that numbers create all sorts of problems because people focus on them as they are familiar and miss the bigger picture.