skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This advice only works in startups. In large cooperations its career suicide. Unless you really screwed up, then you might attempt to control the narrative fallout this way.

The asking for explanation never serves the gathering of information, never serves actual optimal solution searching. Its always a power move, trying to get people to justify them-selves, to knuckle under. All is a social power gesture, all is a attempt to crawl over the backs of others to some imagined position at the top of the silo.

If you encounter this, a company is lost to technology. Nobody will discuss engineering discussions, as all is "ammunition" for the eternal civil war of all against all, which might be used against you in some ritualized self-criticizing public execution, disguised as a code-review.

If people ask from you to be self-criticizing, its as honest as asking for your weaknesses during a job-interview.
coded email targeting for people with financial problems / poor credit and offered them sketchy credit repair deals or cash advance loans with rates that were essentially usury
The author also states that she never "felt constrained by being a woman".

A bit further down, it becomes clear that the article isn't really about erasure of women in pregnancy literature, it's just another pamphlet against trans people. It begins with a link to a news story to a press release of a university about babies being able to distinguish female faces from male faces, labelled as scientific proof that "polite society has largely submitted to being gaslit on a set of delusions so demonstrably false that even infants can see through them." That's the highest level of scientific rigour demonstrated in the article: a cherry-picked news article that's not completely off-topic. The perspective of people identifying as trans or what scientists have to say on the topic is completely ignored, instead there are simply assertions that any other view is obvious "nonsense".

I'm also not a huge fan of many of the new terms referred to in this article. However, here they are only a pretext for spilling hate against trans people. If the point of the article was to criticize PC language, there would have been no need to insult some random trans-woman. Not even a trans-man, the people who the inclusive birthing language is intended for; no, the author just casually throws in some hate against trans-women because that's what she actually wants to talk about.
How did the BLE beacons track people? A phone app?
A system for tracking email marketing recipients. That is, bounce rates, open rates, recurrence and deduplication of email addresses.

It dawned on me 10-20 hours into the gig that these customers were professional spammers, and that I was helping them avoid being blacklisted.

I scrapped everything I’d made and eventually paid back my fee.
> each chunk has a CID

An extremely interesting problem, fingerprinting generic binary - reducing kilobytes and megabytes into a handful of bytes, and avoiding collision.

Much simpler on large data.
Python packaging doesn't have good ways to depend on specific versions of <insert-other-language-here> packages. This isn't specific to C/C++ and is mostly historical: it's designed for an ecosystem of packages where everything is written in Python! But nowadays, more and more Python libraries are bindings to code written in many other languages, so you need a package management approach that includes this.
I mean I could do that stuff but it’s not very enjoyable for me so I’d rather just pay someone else to do it (since I can afford it). I would guess many people feel the same.
"I thought trans people being oppressed was clear statistically and unambiguous."

Oppression isn't something you can even give a clear and unambiguous definition for, let alone measure statistically.

"my understanding is that they are a group with massively higher rates of suicide and depression"

This does not automatically imply they are oppressed. An obvious and common alternative interpretation is that choosing to surgically change your gender is at least sometimes caused by mental illness, which also causes depression and suicide, and/or that people who change gender discover that they don't actually like their new gender (for internal reasons, not due to the attitudes of others).
If your key type K doesn't obey the rules explained in HashMap ("if two keys are equal, their hashes must be equal") then Rust doesn't promise HashMap<K,V>'s functions will do something useful (although it will still be safe if your type is safe). So no this isn't a license to put silly things in hash maps. Non-useful but safe consequences might include spinning indefinitely.

But if you have put something daft in a hash map, drain() should definitely get it back out, so there's that.
I don't think you reading their comment without paying them was against their wishes, was it?
Too many things related to cryptocurrency.
Do chickens actually worry about this?
Those things don’t trade off against each other. What trades off is accommodating some people’s feelings about words vs accommodating other people’s feelings about words. Since these different feelings are about the same words both sets of feelings can’t be accommodated. When we as a society make our choice between two incompatible options we express our values.
I'm confused - Do you mean you were asked to work/be on-call 24 hours per day, seven days per week? If so - hell no. Hopefully I misunderstood what you meant by 24x7! [Edit to update] If that is in fact the case, I would suggest you ask for all of the Directors' cell-phone numbers and call them at 2am or 4am etc and if they don't answer then ask them why they expect you to do something they don't do themselves but I honestly think I must be misunderstanding the 24x7 bit
I think that everything is conscious, and that a good question for scientists to ask might be "What is on Matter's agenda?"
The side mirrors being digitised / pulled off seems a bit risky.
Whatever they are, they are not as bad as what we are currently doing to our atmosphere!
Wow. The article did not match the expectations I got from the title. I thought this was a joke that allows you to run dangerous code that browsers would normally block by default or something.
This comment is now one of the top hits on Google for "Qatar slave helmet". And it's the only hit when I put quotes around the phrase to force an exact match.

If this is real you should get in touch with investigative journalists, e.g. ProPublica.

("Get in touch with investigative journalists" probably applies to a bunch of the people posting in this thread.)
For a backend person, this is the easiest route - code in Python, built-in or commnunity-provided javascript/css tie-ins, makes sites that are easy to build and also look good. Only issue is that it can't be served statically, so you'd need to host it on a server - but you can get super cheap hosting <$10/mo.
Who gathered, organized, and aligned these thousands of workers? Is him being chief of breakthrough innovations merely a coincidence?
A WooCommerce shop I built in a couple of days ended up making millions of dollars for the catholic church... I learned to research who I'm working for
> Why not just say, "There are no rules. There is no fairness. If we think you make our site better you are welcome, if you don't we may or may not ban you if we feel like it. No we won't explain ourselves, because we have no rules, we do whatever we want. Don't piss us of, especially not before we have had our morning coffee."

That is, essentially, what the terms of service for every social media platform (that no one ever bothers to read) have always said.
Was that just a very high return rate or an outright scam? If the latter how could they sell for anything?
I don't think there's anything like that for Emacs. At least, I've not heard of it. I mostly learned it through reading stuff like Mastering Emacs and watching YouTube videos, as well as testing out other peoples configs.

UX wise, it's pretty different but I know a lot of people use Evil (https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil) or something similar to get a more vi like experience out of Emacs. If you're not vested in an Emacs workflow, or don't have one at all, I think it's worth checking out other peoples configs.

The biggest benefit of Emacs is that you can do some much from one place. That's much less context switching that you have to do, and I can see why some people prefer it.
I owned that one. It was a tricky thing to install back then on my pentium 2, 255mhz. Could get the graphics to work without glitches or the sound but not both at the same time. :D
Thank you for this link. Well written and mirrors a lot of my experiences though I am still looking for my 'miracle cure'. I think this could be helpful for sharing with other people in my life who don't understand why someone would stray from an empirically/scientifically sanctioned approach.
I agree on scientific publishing - if the research is publically funded then having a journal charge exorbitant prices for access is completely corrupt.

I don't think it's the same thing for books by individual authors though. Good writing is a lot of work, whether it's bytes in a text file or ink on wood pulp. Giving authors a way to make a living at it so they don't have to wait tables the other 8 hours a day would be nice.

If publishers, agents, etc. are providing a real service to the author - marketing, networking, getting good work seen - then I don't see anything wrong with them getting a cut, if the author chooses to hire them. Or if the author wants to take that on, build a social media following, beat the pavement doing book tours etc. that's fine too.
Truth in pure mathematics doesn’t really have any meaning, because you simply invent the rules, and then derive further truths from that invented basis (these rules are correctly referred to as axioms btw, not primitives). It’s your leap to somehow deriving a non-axiomatic basis for natural sciences that’s completely in error.

> Lastly, from what you say I understand that the trilemma „undermines all truths“. Is it itself true? And then what? Is it thus faith based? Or does it undermine itself?

I suggest you read the full sentence:

> The munchhausen trilemma undermines all truths (at least all truths that anybody’s every tried to prove so far)

It’s entirely possible that a logical proof may exist that survives the trilemma. However it does seem as though nobody’s ever come up with one, and it’s difficult to imagine how that could ever happen. The usefulness of the trilemma is to undermine arguments that people have elevated above their merits (like your claims about natural sciences). If you could prove anything at all, even the most simple thing, in a way that survives the trilemma, I’d love to hear it. I’m sure it would be the most interesting thing I’ve ever read.
Are there actual hermaphrodites these days? Some literature about religions mentions in passing that humans were hermaphrodites eons ago, they are strongly dimorphic now, because that's the midpoint of our evolution, and we will be hermaphrodites in the far future.
In the market and world we live in, Tesla is making $5 billion a quarter. I don't own one and it's not the product for me, but it is a profitable company.
An xml parser.
Hahaha, this is a great story! Goes to show how pungent that stink is.
Interesting that most posts here have to do with monitoring or surveillance of others. Privacy is important...
Men can even lactate, as can infants and women who aren't pregnant. Avoiding "breast-feeding" seems unnecessary to me.
Why is it OK to not call cis-women what they want to be called?

They do not want to be called "menstruators", they want to be called women.

Why does their opinion about what they want to be called not matter?
On Company Size
Nice work! Love it.
> 2. Read The Simple Path to Wealth by J L Collins

I loved this book, and it’s exactly what I do. I have every investment dollar in VTI (ETF version of VTSAX).

My other favorite book is The Wealthy Barber. That and The Simple Path To Wealth have be the wisdom to keep investing as simple and possible, and some insight on how to develop good investing habits. Paying myself first & dollar cost averaging are both incredible insights.

I also enjoyed The Richest Man In Babylon.
I wonder if those children holding those signs realize a vast majority of those funds, if ever paid, will merely go into the pockets of the rich and powerful in whatever nation they are sent to(like China).
In some sense, either your kids take care of you OR other people's kids take care of you when you are too old to physically support yourself.

Outside of euthanasia when you become physically infirm, there is no other way to live through old age.
Black schools in the south were grossly underfunded. They did have the advantage that the limited opportunities for educated Black men were limited, and that teaching therefore wasn't a bad career option. (The Vietnam draft produced a similar but passing effect for White males: if you were teaching, they wouldn't cut off your hair and send you to Vietnam.) I really don't think that desegregation made the schooling of Black kids worse that it had been. That's pretty faint praise, of course.

I did go to an all-boys high school. It was OK. The main effect was to leave me feeling that I had had enough male bonding to last me a lifetime. An acquaintance in college suggested that I might join his fraternity, and I said, No way.
Is it really necessary to go so deep? Why not start in the foothills of some granitic massif and drill up? I'm sure you'll get lots of heat!
Storage is almost entirely capex, not opex.

So yes, you do need to actually base the cost on the worst case scenario.
If I choose to say "pregnant people" and I explain that I'm choosing that word to intentionally include both pregnant women and pregnant non-women, is that shaming or bullying?

If I then go to my peers and say, "heads up, the phrase 'pregnant women' might not include everyone who is pregnant", and they say, "oh, that makes sense, let me adjust my own language!", I think that's probably not shaming or bullying either.

If, over time, those conversations spread and we see a general public movement to use "pregnant person", this again seems like good intentions without any particular agenda besides, "oh, of course. If we recognize trans men, then we should probably make sure we say pregnant people".

I don't think changing the language is bullying, shaming, or pushing an agenda - it's people making changes that are logically consistent with how they experience the world. Again: if trans men exist, then pregnancy must occur in men and women.

The reason you hear people react strongly is because they believe they have a simple logic, and people come in and say, "I deny that trans men exist, or I deny trans men are men."

That's a pretty strong thing to say and a pretty strong thing to hear.
Who's claiming that Tesla provides the most value out of any company to the world? Basically no one. It is a profitable company though making $5 billion a quarter profit. That is no small feat
It can be hard to make friends from interest based activities. If you only see someone while hiking or whatever they aren’t really your friend. You have to see them in more than one different context. Often for many of us it’s that jump from “activity acquaintance” to “friend” that proves very hard.
Thanks. Yeah I had to ruin the Michael Russel quote and thr (otherwise correct, I think) general point about entropy increase by adding some detail about the energy of that particular reaction that I have no idea about.

But on HN "the best way to get the right answer [..] is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer" so let's call it a win
https://archive.ph/PaQuv
I'd love a cli like this for miniflux.app
So you’re assuming that you know better than them what they’ve done wrong, that you have to tell them, and how they should make up for it. That’s how your tone is coming across.
> I support the writer's hurt feeling but you can't justify not accomodating people because it requires looking at words differently.

Why does that only apply to trans people and how they want to be addressed? What about cis-women that want to be addressed as women, but now the medical profession is refusing to grant them that basic request for dignity?
I have met our species and I’m confident that if not taught carefully, there will be individuals who are confused to find that they do not produce milk.

To be clear, I’m not talking about gender identity, but that unless we speak in clear, non-riddles, we’d be shocked by how many people don’t understand some things that we think are obvious, like how about 50% of human nipples/chests/breasts will never naturally produce milk.
I'm biased as someone who used to work in email marketing, but I'd say there are some important differences between respectable email marketing and spam:

* Respectable email marketing = you have a pre-existing relationship (e.g. account on their website); spam = they found your address somewhere

* Respectable email marketing = there's an unsubscribe link that works; spam = no unsubscribe link or it doesn't work

(Could very well be that the people you're working with were actually spammers)
That’s the exact opposite of what a therapist would tell you. Putting all your eggs in one basket makes you way more prone to identity crises and trauma. Diversification is often a clever thing to do.
> You can access the data through a VPN.

Okay, and then law enforcement asks the VPN. Yeah, it improves matters some, but we're talking about a huge book archive here. People aren't going to maintain OpSec

> If necessary, the hosts can also encrypt the filenames and data so that, until law enforcement gets the encryption key, they can't know who accesses what (public key and other necessary info would be communicated through Signal).

That's a plan suitable for some sort terrorist organization maybe, but exactly how is that going to work for an archive of millions of books that are intended to be served to the general public? What's the key distribution mechanism? How do you distribute keys to everyone but the cops?

> Do you have to explicitly pin the data? If so then this is an issue. If not, and you just pin random chunks, then if we normalize people using IPFS this will be solved. If we normalize it enough, there will be too many people hosting IPFS for law enforcement to reasonably take down.

IPFS isn't Freenet. My understanding is that it's a content-addressable, multi-source system. Meaning the main different thing from plain HTTP is that stuff is named by hash, and that if there's a dozen people serving a given file, then the system can spread the load among them, or tolerate some of them going offline. You ask for hash X, the system figures out where to get it.

Unless people make the intentional choice to mirror content, then it's not very different from serving stuff over HTTP, only with a worse user experience.

What you suggest sounds more like Freenet, but I doubt that it'd work great even there. Freenet does the "store random chunks" sort of thing, but this means that it's extremely inefficient, and easily loses data. Freenet was made for plausible deniability, so any storage is probabilistic, and data is replicated as it moves through the network and eventually lost if nodes go offline or it just falls out of storage due to the lack of interest. Storing 31TB would require a lot of nodes dedicating a lot of storage, and a lot of interest in accessing all of that data on a regular basis.

> If we normalize it enough, there will be too many people hosting IPFS for law enforcement to reasonably take down. Or if we just get enough activists that are willing to risk being fined or arrested.

That's not a great plan for something that already got people into legal trouble
SAFEs share in dividends: "However, if the Company pays a dividend on outstanding shares of Common Stock (that is not payable in shares of Common Stock) while this Safe is outstanding, the Company will pay the Dividend Amount to the Investor at the same time."

Of course, most startups will never declare dividends.
I'm as a paranoid about the CIA as the next guy but the idea that they would try something like this without political cover seems unlikely to me. Further the idea the Joe Biden would even come close to signing off on this doesn't seem like any version of him. Maybe if he's genuinely off the rails and K. Harris or the Sec. Def. really is running things - maybe then I'd believe this but failing that I can't imagine him being that kind of person or anyone in the chain signing off on this without him on board.

If it was the US - and I think the chance of it not coming to light if it was to be vanishingly small - I would be really interested in the details. I would expect someone handing it to Biden as a fair acompli and him just going with it.
Drug dealers are one thing, but this just goes to show some truly awful people are using it
You've posted this at least 9 times; please stop.
I'm trying to articulate my understanding of what the typical American considers manly. Do you have a different understanding of what the archetype is? I'm happy to work with that.
Do you have any references to documented, truly REST APIs? In your experience, what (pragmatic) shortcuts were needed to veer from (some definition of) "pure" REST?
What runtime did you use for that?

JavaScript maps absolutely can use numbers (or any type) as keys, but that's not how its API works. Square brackets access object properties, but map entries are not stored like that, and that last `typeof` is `"undefined"` in every runtime I tried (not `"number"`). Try `map['set']` to see another example.

Here's what I think you meant:

const map = new Map();
map.set(1, 3);
map.get(1); // 3
map.set(1.2, 3.4);
map.get(1.2); // 3.4
typeof map.keys().next().value; // "number"
I maintain a small open source Python module written in C. I can't use the limited API (I use stuff outside it), so I have to maintain a build matrix. If you want to see what a decent-sized Python build matrix looks like, take a gander:

https://github.com/jnwatson/py-lmdb/actions/runs/3457851983

It gets out of hand pretty fast.
I think the problem is in the VSCode Go extension. I use vim-go and have no problems.
In the 1960s and 1970s, it seemed to me that there was an implicit bargain: girls would shine and boys be put upon through the elementary grades. In the secondary grades, girls would feel peer pressure to fall back.
Apologies, I didn't see a FAQ and I'm not going to create an account just to find out the answer; according to

> Streams are a collection of posts.

This is trying to be ... twitter? instagram? reddit? something other than a search engine that would enable one to "discover" the answer to arbitrary questions?
> Modern operating systems are all microkernel-ish to some extent.

This won't become true even it gets repeated more.

A micro kernel requires a micro kernel design form the ground up. (Something like FDs would be only one example of something where you would need different APIs…)

You can't make a micro kernel out of a monolith. That's one of the reasons something like Hurd failed, and something like macOS is a slow and buggy hell.

The story about the graphics drivers on Windows is also not true, afik. I've heard they moved this back into kernel space (with some special encapsulation) long ago because it was way to slow otherwise.

Because you can't move an existing design to be an micro kernel after the if your APIs are all designed for a monolith setting. Alone the fact that you need async "SysCalls" (or better said "ServerCalls") in a proper micro kernel design makes it impossible to make a micro kernel out of a monolith (where all SysCalls are usually sync, because it makes no sense to have an async layer for intra-process calls).

Also micro kernels aren't slow. The canonical link was posted already in a sibling.

The main point about micro kernels, and why they still more than matter, is not about bugs and crashes. The main point is about security. You can't have a secure monolith! The TCB would need to be way to large.