skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is probably the simplest way to point out the major flaw with claims like that the article makes. To properly assess risk in any scenario, one must account for exposure. People implicitly understand that men are more likely to be involved in a situation where police respond with violence (such as being armed).

I’m not sure if there is a surefire metric that can be used for this kind of exposure, but violent crimes are probably decent proxies. For example, according to the most recent US demographic breakdown, and FBI crime statistics [0], black Americans are about 4x more likely to commit murder than white Americans. So if that were to be used as a measure of exposure to potential police violence, they might actually be less likely to be killed by police than a white person, given the number of situations in which police violence has potential to occur.

It’s important to note that this doesn’t mean black Americans aren’t the victims of systemic racism. But it means that the racism is occurring not necessarily due to trigger happy cops who hate black people, but due to a society in which black people are disenfranchised in more banal, but impactful, ways (educationally, economically, socially), which results in higher crime rates, which results in more police contact/confrontation, which results in more deaths at the hands of the police.

This is all to say that many of the “defund the police” efforts, while understandable as a knee jerk reaction to police violence we sometimes see, is fundamentally misguided. It’s akin to campaigning against chemotherapy, because lots of chemotherapy recipients end up dying. Defunding the police won’t change the underlying systemic racism that is the source of the problem, and if anything will exacerbate it. This is reflected in polling of black Americans who live this reality, the majority of whom want more policing in their communities.

[0] https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
"Stallbucks?"
Unfortunately I’m in Brazil, GitHub does not operate in Brazil.

I’m thinking of suing a distributor or the local Microsoft subsidiary.
Why not use your work email to create a new account? How will they know it is "you"?
So expressing regret did not work, it rarely does and is widely considered a sign of weakness. Perhaps it have worked better to double down on your offensive positions, strengthen them, draw in deranged allies. (\s, maybe)

Or find an employer that does not require github which is like 99% of employers.

Apparently your username is a Portuguese psychological term that means self-reflection, that is cool. But maybe expand outside that.
Many localities apportion property tax out of the budget, so if everyone’s property doubled in price but the budget only went up 2% - property taxes would increase 2%.

In fact, we had a reappraisal recently and my value went up and total tax went down.
I'd hardly call a reduction in "money we take from you" a "handout".

The logic likely used by many in the group doing the accepting or reviling is whether the end result is a net contribution or not.
> I find it unfortunate that all the effort that has gone into ZFS as essentially a hobbyist copy-on-write filesystem didn't go into btrfs instead.

don't some BSDs and Linux share the same code base for ZFS?

Last I heard FreeBSD switched to ZfsOnLinux as upstream a few years ago before it was merged with OpenZFS.

IMO calling it a hobbyist fs is a bit unfair.
I don't know if I'd consider this a fair evaluation.

From my observation, the overwhelming majority of failures, collapses, and hacks have had a fairly limited exposure to the Ethereum-style/Solidity-based networks. This even includes the exchange collapses like FTX.

By and large Monero, Litecoin, Bitcoin, Algorand, Cardano, and the other networks that are reasonably isolated from the ETH/Solidity space have been largely unaffected by the majority of the "cataclysm" that the space has seen over the last year or two. I don't see any of these projects closing up shop in the near future and I don't see their communities giving up on them either (maybe with the exception of Bitcoin's refusal to move away from PoW or to introduce more programmability).

Odds are the cryptocurrency space is going to recede for at least a few years once the ash settles but IMHO there are too many projects that have yet to suffer serious thefts (as in actual loss not numbers go up/down) in their communities. Likewise these projects tend to also be the ones with shops that are holding sufficient operating funds in stable assets (i.e. US dollar equivalents & bonds) to continue development for the next 5+ years.

TLDR: The failures, hacks, collapses, etc have had limited effect on a lot of projects outside of the popular/flashy part of the the cryptocurrency space. Those projects still have a more or less assured lease on life for the next half a decade.
I agree with part of this. When possible, code should either succeed or revert back to the state before the operation, before doing a throw. Avoid half-completed work if at all possible. This is in general quite easy by first doing work with higher chance on failure, and only then connecting that work to the rest of the system state. E.g. don't add an item to a list and then do something with it, do it the other way round and only add items to the list when something has already been done on them.

If you are in a known failure scenario, you can try known resolutions. If some necessary resource like a DB or file system disappeared, try to self-heal as soon as the resource reappears. But if you're in unknown territory, better stop working and complain. Writing a message in a log is good enough, IF some monitoring system will pick up that log and alert the right channel.

I've seen systems trying to self heal, but working on wrong assumptions. Operators now have 2 problems: Fix the system AND stop it from damaging itself. Self-healing can turn to self-damaging quickly.
It's likely tracking cookies from another website they are using.

For example Google.

I have the same issue with Reddit. I can create an account on a different email and use it fine for a few days and then boom. But I stopped using it on anything I am logged into my Google account with and it's been fine for months.

What do you access Github on? I would create a separate user profile for work. Do not log into any services such as Google on it that Github have linked to you and you should be fine.
So once upon a time they were very similar but over the years they drifted apart until they were as different as whales and elephants?
And new SSH key.
From the Kraken terms of service:

> None of the Digital Assets in your Kraken Account are the property of Payward. Payward does not represent or treat assets in your Kraken Account as belonging to Payward. However, a court may disagree with Payward’s treatment of your assets and subject them to claims of Payward’s creditors.

This will be tested in court. Kraken's liabilities matter.
Citing Pike,

"Alef appeared in the first and second editions of Plan 9, but was abandoned during development of the third edition.[1][2] Rob Pike later explained Alef's demise by pointing to its lack of automatic memory management, despite Pike's and other people's urging Winterbottom to add garbage collection to the language;[3] also, in a February 2000 slideshow, Pike noted: "…although Alef was a fruitful language, it proved too difficult to maintain a variant language across multiple architectures, so we took what we learned from it and built the thread library for C."[4]

Alef was superseded by two programming environments. The Limbo programming language can be considered a direct successor of Alef"
Well, there’s also the point that a person might even regret comments they made!

But the ban is forever, there is zero transparency, and no appeal.
>modular components: motherboard, thermal module, the Surface Connect Port, speakers, Wi-Fi module, front and rear cameras, and side buttons

Reads like onion. Its "modular" because motherboard is not glued to display and buttons ...
What was the nature of the controversial comments you made? This thread is starting to spin off into concerns that, for instance, being "anti-telemetry" (like 85% of HN) would get you banned. Is that what you were talking about? Or was it something... more controversial?
Fingerprinting and tracking cookies from other services, such as Google.
> They also have a track record

Indeed:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31782952
Sure, if you only try to use it from work that may make ti a bit harder to pinpoint which is why I said among other things. I think we're all aware that browsers leak information about you and your machine if you aren't careful.
I think homoiconicity and the resulting macro system necessitates s-expressions. I mean how could you devise a "programmable" programming language with ASCII-based syntax in other ways?
If GH is preventing OP from performing their job for their employer, they could possibly be accused of tortious interference, since they are preventing a legal contract between other parties.
This is why, I think, property taxes should not be based on the "full cash value" of a property but instead be based on the rental value. The market selling price that we used today is a lot more volatile than rental value because it is based not only on the rental value but also factors in the current interest rate, a speculative premium on future returns, and holding costs such as the property tax itself. Think about how rents have changed over the past few years versus home sale prices, particularly with interest rates being a roller coaster these past few years. If county assessors instead kept track of the rental price of comparable properties, the assessment would be a lot less volatile. This policy would also lead to homeowners having their interests more aligned with renters: keep property taxes stable by keeping rents stable.
I can’t avoid contributing to work projects though.
I'm thinking I need a patron deity.
You don't have to pirate it anymore, they have a hobbiest version that is available for hobbiests that make less than $2k per year doing their "making".

It's $99 a year, 10 bucks a month:

https://discover.solidworks.com/3dexperience-solidworks-make...
What sort of comments did you make?

> This means that GitHub has effectively suspended my ability to participate in the development community, and also I cannot work as well, because my company uses GitHub

> I don’t know what to do anymore, I’m afraid, I’m going to be fired if I can’t work

You'll have to have a discussion with your employer/manager about why you can't use github any more.
Ask HN: Would an “editing quality measure” convince you to use TeXmacs over LyX?
Such a measure could give you a percentage that shows how closely what you see while editing resembles the resulting exported LaTeX output.

Such a measure would make it clear just how much better TeXmacs is than LyX in this respect.

Do you think this measure would convince many people to use TeXmacs over LyX?
in addition to the steps mentioned, avoid re-using ssh keys
Why would there be? They're not obligated to provide service to you.
Police-officers-per-capita is the metric to use.

https://i1.wp.com/blog.skepticallibertarian.com/wp-content/u...

Funding is a fairly meaningless metric because it usually includes corrections department funding (courts and prisons), and it is hard to adjust for: GDP growth, population growth, and inflation. The term funding is so loose that it can mean whatever you wish.

“While the number of sworn police officers has increased by 26% since 1987, that expansion has not kept pace with the growth of the general population. As a result, there were 11.5% fewer officers per capita in 2016 than there were in 1987.“

“ Spending on police nearly tripled (increasing by 168%) between 1977 and 2018, when adjusted for inflation. Per capita spending on police also grew during this period, but at a lower level, close to doubling (83% higher in 2018 than in 1977). However, spending on law enforcement accounts for a small share of total state and local government expenditures, and that portion has remained virtually unchanged over the past four decades, hovering at around 3.7%.”

I think that trite one sentence statements make it difficult to have interesting conversation. I knew nothing about the topic: the above is from a little quick googling that anyone could do.
How the fuck did all these high-profile investors miss this.

NEA, IVP, Iconiq Capital, Third Point Ventures, Tiger Global, Altimeter Capital Management, Lux Capital, Mayfield, Insight Partners, Sequoia Capital, SoftBank, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Ribbit Capital, Temasek Holdings, BlackRock and Thoma Bravo.

These aren't schleps in this list. Blackrock, Sequoia, Tiger, Lightspeed, the fucking NEA. Jesus. Did no one do _any_ due diligence?? Did they just trust the auditor Armanino and Prager Metis (who??)[1]??

At least Enron had Arthur Andersen and some cover of respectability in the audit space at the time.

Irrational exuberance is really something.

1- https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/11/11/meet-the-metave...
Suing on what base? It doesn't make any sense.
Ask HN: Anyone else struggling to get a software dev job?
Recently interviewed with a medium sized company for a backend dev position.

They said I passed the interviews and promised an offer. After a month of "trying to find a customer to place me", telling me I'm a fantastic candidate etc. they finally decided to cancel the verbal offer until maybe next year.

I've recently had other bad experiences were they basically try to find excuses to cut me on interviews. It's like I'm answering the questions correctly minus one, so I'm disqualified.

I don't remember job searching being that hard even a few years ago, anybody relates?
There is no qualification that a handout must come from someone that you have not, are not, and will not ever pay money to. A handout from your landlord is still a handout.
They're probably seeing a new account pop up and using the ip range along with some machine info leaked by the browser to pin down the OP, or just the machine info.
IMHO, Github is for, well Git repos, so I would understand of the behaviour described resulted in a ban on commenting in other people's Github but a blanket ban seems very heavy-handed.

On the other hand, maybe Github has enough on its plate not to bother trying and they just blanket ban on a significant enough red flag.
I think most of his points stand. The questions should be answerable. However, you’re right that we’re taking it at face value that he has more that he supposedly wants to publish later. It isn’t clear he has more, but certainly there are huge amount of questions surrounding FTX and Alameda that are not answerable, even prior to this whole debacle.

I think one searches for darker answers because the likely answer, that everyone was duped by these people in normal ways and there’s not some deeper connection, is a far more disturbing prospect.
> If the permaban is appropriate is a different discussion. Without seeing that comment that go you banned, it's impossible to say.

When you need github access to have so many jobs, it starts to reach the point where basically no comment should result in a permanent ban.
There is also red-lang, it's successor in geist: https://www.red-lang.org/
Read China and Taiwan history to find how such policies end.
I think S-expressions are fundamentally too difficult to work with, without good editor support, to make Lisp anything other than a niche power tool for the highly motivated. I love CL, Scheme, Clojure, Janet, Fennel, etc. but I don't blame anyone for finding them inaccessible.

I think Python, JavaScript, and Go have caught on for somewhat similar reasons, compared to Java and C#: they are easier to get started with, and you can still scale them up to fairly large applications.

On the other hand, I think S-expressions are a sadly underexplored format for data serialization and storage.
The latter immediately occured to me. It is a lot easier to claim ignorance if your key gets used by someone else to drain the vault, than it is to drain the vault yourself.
The "backlash" is that people who care will migrate to other Git hosting providers, of which there are several, at least two of which are HN darlings.
Yes the ABC is often an issue and can lead to an underestimation of the CO2 values.

This often happens in non ventilated and relatively air tight rooms.

We collect air quality data from many schools and see this happening in some classrooms that even over the unoccupied time during the night the CO2 will not reach ambient levels the next morning.
> daddy Zuck

After reading this phrase I think I need to take a long vacation from reading most major news sites until like 2024 or so when this all blows over.
I think the query language was capable of remapping data into a different schema, but it suffered from its own design.
Sun Microsystems poured millions of dollars into marketing Java. During the dotcom bust billboards, posters, magazine ads, and online ads where common.

This massively accelerated it's adoption curve and built a valuable trademark which would be part of the reason Oracle paid $7 billion to buy it.
Looks like you got a personal moderator on HN too :)
Solidworks for makers is only $99 a year, way less than fusion.
Yes I guess the set of IP addresses used by an account could narrow it down.

Use a VPN and perhaps get a different computer or use a different browser in case they've fingerprinted it. That seems like a lot of effort for GitHub to go to but I guess it's not impossible.
If your employer uses only GitHub as git host and not use proprietary extensions like issues, you could simply have your company IT mirror (or do it urself) the repos to another host and setup sync - gitlab can do it - you can do it urself as well with few shell scripts.
well considering that phosh has 0.000000000000000001% of the people working on it that android has…
I understand the joke, but it's really bad choice of title.

California also probably runs one of the largest most efficient welfare programs in a literal sense, and if I hadn't seen these comments that's what I would have assumed this article was about.
Original non blogspam: https://www.ifixit.com/News/68671/does-the-surface-pro-9-mar...
The fastest way to leapfrog your career is move to a new challenge every 12-18 months. The moment you’re stagnant, leave. You can be in a challenging environment at one company, but this doesn’t sound like one of those companies. Their issues are likely systemic. You’re right about losing your skills.

The only thing we can’t make more of is time. If you’re not willing to risk another year hoping, it may be time to move on to the next challenge
Sure, but do you really want to live in a world where a 3rd party can block your employment for something you said that is merely offensive but not against the law? Even worse, a ban with no a appeal process that lasts forever.
> Airplanes are far better than any normal indoor building space.

But only when they fly. When you are waiting that 30 minutes sitting in the plane after boarding, the fraction of re-breathed air can get high. People have measured 2000 and 4000 ppm CO2 readings.
established pharmaceutical manufacturers - from jumping on the bandwagon and eating your lunch

Some pharma labs already do this. Most of the 50 supplements I take are made by the same labs that make prescription drugs. On the plus side, they are very good at consistent measurements. On the minus side, some of the supplements I take were actually drugs that failed approval. They still work for what I use them for, but not for what they were intended. I've come to understand they make just as much money from supplements as they do from prescription drugs given they do not have to pass the same scrutiny as prescription drugs. I use a red leaf extract that was meant to be a blood pressure drug but I can see why it failed as it is the most powerful diuretic I have ever used, meaning one can not sleep when using it.

One of my favorite examples that I do not use is Viagra. It was also meant to be a blood pressure drug but failed. It had a unique side effect which led to a marketing team coming up with the term "Erectile Dysfunction" which is now considered a medical term.
I’m never a fan of any form of capital gains tax. When I earn money I’m liable for tax, but what if I lose money? I’d be responsible for the whole amount loss.
I've come to the conclusion that Apple and all their "amazing" engineering doesn't actually know how electricity works, because these silly issues plague their products.

The fuzzy MacBook is pretty annoying, but how about the Mac Studio, which can trip a GFCI when plugging it in (which, as far as I can tell, it almost certainly a design flaw and not a fault with my particular unit)

I expect this kind of stuff from the tat bought on eBay, where it's promptly thrown in the bin.
I've heard this, but seen no real evidence. As of right now it's hearsay
Surely there must be. It makes no sense otherwise - this outcome has been widely predicted for a loooong time.
I haven't done it but I've heard you can use a PO box for your license.
We need to normalize strict separation between our social and work life.
I just wish it worked in VSCode without the clunky gui and subscription models that those who have come before and tried to do it forced down our necks.

That way I could use all the subtle fanciness of vscode that I use elsewhere and keep a consistent code environment.
You're right; ultimately, if you have total power, you can just block the internet.
You can’t figure out a way to get around this?

Sheesh, what happened to hackers … ?
I knew it! I wonder what the hell you said that they are doubling down on it. Well without shaming you on your mistake, I will try to discuss your matter with some law specialists here.
Work and home ip address/geolocation.

Work domain.

Work projects.

Browser fingerprinting.

Vscode telemetry data.

Windows telemetry data.

There are lots of ways to track it, and probably there’s a machine learning algorithm that helps it, because every time I find a loophole, when I’m suspended again the loophole stops working.
My fave prince track by a mile - thank you for the link and the story.
Isn't an index card a fully operational air-gapped hardware wallet?
More taxes are not the answer.
In California, government employees get paid far more there than any other state and vs their private sector counterparts, have enormous pensions and are now the predominant members of the middle class in California. They live off the riches of the tech sector like the Saudis live off oil and benefit massively from prop 13 and other tax breaks. Peter Thiel did a great analysis of this.

https://thepostmillennial.com/peter-thiel-on-the-tech-curse-...

Besides, more tax revenue would make California worse. San Francisco
used its huge tech windfall to spend $300 million a year on not that many homeless people. It did create a lot of those sweet government jobs and cost plus contracts though. All these government workers are now reliant on homelessness continuing to be a problem.
Are they private repos? Also forget everything you know about Github being a social platform. Leave the emojis and memes on your phone.
>There should be more discussion about how to store value without counterparty risk.

Due to the social nature of money, this is impossible.
Particularly on the banking front, I wouldn't be so sure that this trends only results in people moving to say GitLab.
In an attempt to learn more, I accidentally misspelt Symbian as Sybian on Google search. The world truly is er wondrous. Cough.