skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They know perfectly well that an individual right to boycott has never been in danger;

They claim exactly the opposite:

> Since 2016, 28 states have passed laws requiring individuals and businesses that receive government contracts – from substitute teachers to construction workers — to certify that they will not participate in boycotts of Israel or Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

And they go on to provide examples of individuals being coerced to sign an anti-boycott pledge, not just corporations.

Are you saying the ACLU is making all of that up?
For me Go is unique in that it can produce a fully static binary that can fetch from a HTTPS endpoint. It also supports many architectures. On top of that the package system and it's just way more convenient to use than other languages. Easy to learn, easy to put somewhere in practice.

Not every program has to be 100% safe and delivering 2M req/s. Sometimes you just want to build a program once and ship it.

What other language has that?
Go isn't perfect though. It's startup sequence is long, the API towards C (and other languages) is quite bad, and if you build a fibonacci program and compare it with C it's 3x slower despite requiring no allocations whatsoever.
HR don't validate resumes before you get a call back; that would be super-inefficient. As a hiring manager of course experience at the big co's catches my eye, but unless you're hiring there as well (and most of us are not) I actually figure I can't get them interested anyway, so don't pursue these people. Someone who claims deep technical or experience or people management though? I'm totally going to jump at the chance to talk to them asap, even if I've never heard of their current company.
Many tech interviews at startups are simply: "talk about a project you once did :)"
People have been doing cancel culture from time immemorial. It seems to be a default in human behavior unless there are ideas specially saying, “don’t do this.” These ideas used to be called “liberalism.”

What seems to have changed, from my perspective, is that liberalism has stopped being the values system championed by the left, and instead what we have are two different visions that are both more or less authoritarian.
One qeustion is whether cheap cloud services even make sense for an AWS, as opposed to a Dreamhost (targetting smaller businesses/individuals specifically) or Hetzner/DO.

I would imagine AWSs profit is in servicing large clients using lots of CPU/bandwidth, so the only reason to even bother with small clients is some kind of low-probability funnel for the occasional startup that blows up. Or just a loss-leader strategy for market domination (but only if that small-biz experience is vastly superior to other clouds' offering).

One way or another, small businesses should never trust that big businesses are going to look out for them, for any number of "rational" reasons on the big biz side, especially if it's not clear you're their bread-and-butter.
Thanks, that is kind of weird. US states aren’t supposed to engage in foreign policy.
1. Static linking. I'm astonished by how many languages expect the end user to install dependencies/runtime themselves, and something about it feels very impure.

2. The "go" keyword (and the whole goroutine system underneath it). Threads are clunky, somewhat unportable and generally unscalable. Goroutines just feel right.

3. Ability to use multiple major versions of a library. Diamond dependencies are an unsolved problem in many languages I've worked with, but with Go you don't ever even think about them.

4. Implicit interfaces. Having to write "implements X" just to be able to use a type always felt wrong. Implicit interfaces just make sense.

5. The gopher mascot. I just love that little guy.
Sorry to hear about that difficult situation you are in. Sounds like it's more and more common these days.

If I could offer a suggestion... try a sport? Join a tennis club for example, and go to all the meetups.

If you don't like tennis, try something else!
Cannot read the documentation website on mobile.
Same amount of evidence as saying kids would just vote for who their parents vote for.
It is expensive and it is true that building most careers becomes more difficult if you take extended time off. And some women do experience extreme changes to their body. That "kind of thinking" sounds entirely fact-based, not "negative".
Not sure if that is a false positive. It just lists the top 20 accounts ranked by similarity score. Under 0.8 or so is unlikely to be a 'positive'.
Hey, the national security hawks get another twist of the knife to China and the home telcos get fewer people horning in on their turf... win-win scenario for everyone concerned I guess.
It's not that the state is indeterminate it's that a programmer would have some serious trouble ensuring that it was possible to dump registers at that moment.
It’s a data warehousing company and I’m an se2. Sorry but would prefer not to say anything else. I will say that I got this job at the height of the market froth and am not sure if they’re still offering this salary although we are hiring

I used levels.fyi to find comparable salaries and my friends in tech said it’s pretty accurate
anti-bds legislation is relatively common

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/anti-bds-legislation

> To date, 35 states have adopted laws, executive orders, or resolutions designed to discourage boycotts against Israel. Separately, the U.S. Congress is also considering anti-boycott legislation

> Tennessee [...] state contracts must include “a written certification that the company is not currently engaged in, and will not for the duration of the contract engage in a boycott of Israel.”

> South Carolina’s state legislature passed legislation banning the state from entering into contracts with companies that participate in certain boycotts.

> Illinois’ state pension announced in December 2021 that it will divest from Unilever, the parent company of Ben and Jerry’s, over the ice cream company’s decision to stop selling ice cream in the West Bank.
Twitter Is Not Rocket Science – It’s Harder
Same. Looking through some of the handles on my list tells me that I come across like a not-particularly-well-educated McSmug that needs to take a good long look at myself. Wouldn’t be so bad if I wasn’t reading the posts thinking I definitely could see myself writing this.

This was certainly eye-opening.

Update: It’s actually a little strange that reading through some of the matches it’s not just style that overlaps but perspectives in quite a few cases too. I’m definitely not the unique little snowflake that some others are finding themselves to be.
> Why is this different? It feels like there are lots of business situations where you essentially give up a right as part of a contract.

It isn't different, in your framing, but there are lots of policy reasons why we wouldn't want the state to coerce or compel speech. Especially political speech, as the case is here. And the text of the 1st amendment and years of jurisprudence make freedom of speech different than other rights (just as 5A due process is different than other rights, etc.)

We mostly recognize that it is generally a bad thing for the government to make you say things, unless there is a very good reason to do soon (like, you must label your food products with nutrition info) [0].

To reframe, imagine the government made you sign a pledge that "Abortion is murder" or "Abortion is great, everyone should have one" instead. Or imagine a law that says "All contracts are voidable, if you (a business) and your employees and your outside contractors must not participate in a boycott of Israel." That law might reach extremely far (too far?) if the company is Walmart (~2.3 million employees) and Walmart wants to do business with your state (it does) and Walmart is asking you to sign that pledge to now do business with them.

So, the question is -- if instead of forcing you to say something, and threatening you with jail, is it okay for the state to just refuse to deal with you (as an incredibly powerful market participant). Some will say "That's pretty clever lawyering on the part of the state to do that," while others will be a little more unsettled, thinking if the state can do this, what else can they do?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compelled_speech#Examples_curr...
To steelman you need to show the same standard would be applied to formal allies besides Israel. I’m very curious to hear about any examples. I haven’t been able to find any. For example there doesn’t appear to be any action to restrict the Morocco boycott movement, despite their being the USA’s longest formal ally.

Also, remember the risible anti-French boycotts during the Bush 2 administration because they weren’t enthusiastic about an obviously fake casus belli? France was and is an important formal ally of the USA and those boycotts would never be legislatively opposed.
Are you writing about that on a blog, on Twitter or somewhere else?
Oh, I see; you're using it as a writing aid (to change your style) but the content you're posting is basically written by you. I have no problem with that, and that seems pretty cool!
The invention of the Camera was drastically different. Realistic portraits and actual photographs are just not the same thing and have their own respective places.

AI threatens to make artists obsolete by via the direct usage and synthesis of their work along with the work of their peers. Used without their permission.
You can live a long time with a very low quality of life. It's not just dying that the concern. I don't think we're really talking here about not having enough money to survive in retirement, we're saving to have the dream retirement later.
No, I didn't misread - I was just being less accommodating than GP. If those people are confused, they only have themselves to blame.
The issue with fail2ban is that it's an extremely heavy python application. It takes up a boatload of resources!

SSHGuard however is much lighter and even less to configure manually.
I like having the twitter/mastodon thread easily linked, but 10/10 times would rather see the article first.
He sure hates PowerPoint with a passion.
To some extent it's true on a macro scale, but it's a trope to say this is exclusively the case. I would say it is easier to paint the picture for promotion by working on new things but not by a large amount. The vast majority of folks at Google work on maintenance, as would be expected.
Does this seem like snake oil to anyone else? I’d love to be proven wrong, but that’d take a half dozen independent verification studies.
I don't see what they could possibly gain, all it would take is for one genuine case of a backdoor to be confirmed and then all that investment would be nearly worthless.
I am not surprised (or "shocked"). Despite the privacy snafus, it still remains ingrained in the user's habits. Unless the company crashes and burns, I don't see the end of the road for WhatsApp.
Or just run wireguard and ssh on top of that without all the fussy config and tooling to expose ssh to the internet. You could even live dangerously and just use telnet once you have wireguard going.
Yes, because at a basic level, government officials don't want money from contracts to go fund things that undermine the government itself, or the safety of its citizens.

In this case white supremacists have a long history of using violence.
Transpiling to your main language doesn't make it an internal DSL. Reimplementing what gawk does as a library you can use within your language (and not just by passing opaque strings to it, but by actually expressing awk-style commands in a proper datastructure) is the kind of thing I'm advocating for.
What are sukuk, and how do they work
As someone who's been ghosted as well I think you should name the company or (in my experience it was) the person who ghosted you. This is totally unacceptable and I think we should make them pay when the labour market gets tight again.

And if you don't believe in karma, I saw a linkedin post by the guy who ghosted me about how he got screwed over by the company and let go. It's not super healthy, but it still feels good sometimes...
One time, this person was taken out for a recruiting coffee by a lunatic, who, hours after being rejected, texted to ask for the coffee money back. Instead of capturing that text message and enshrining it in the Twitter dunk hall of fame, where I'm reasonably sure it would have found a comfortable home, this person instead built the interaction into their psyche, to the point where they're uncomfortable picking up the bar tab because they're worried their peers will think they're going to come back on that tab years later, like Don Corleone.
I think there is a scale.

I think it's unacceptable to send the mob after an individual to destroy their life. I think there is more wiggle room when the target is a celebrity who signed up to be a public figure. Same with politicians. Not that it should completely unlimited, mind you, but if someone chooses to be a public figure then they are accepting that some people will be critical of them.

With companies, I don't know if there should be much, if any limit to what gets said. Companies are not people, Mitt Romney's opinion notwithstanding. To me it becomes a moral wrong when there is a human target.
I wasn’t laid off but was at a startup that went through 4 rounds of layoffs. It took me 8 months to get an offer in this economy. Literally mid interview loop a few of the companies froze hiring. It was pretty crazy.
Yes. A hardware patch.
Yes

Honestly I the existing and proposed age limits (e.g. that you can't serve as President over 80) are addressing symptoms of a deeper problem. If your country's population wants to elect a senile 90 year-old or dumb 18 year-old or Russian traitor, your democracy is deeply flawed. A law preventing the people from doing so won't save them, as they can just elect someone else incompetent. If voters know what they're doing we shouldn't need requirements for people to run for office.
What if it was Qatar instead, or Saudi Arabia? Are they not allies? Are ppl allowed to express dissatisfaction with their behaviour?
No, that would just be a software bug (and indeed, interrupt handlers absolutely can't just arbitrarily trust segment state on 8086 code where app code messes with it, for exactly that reason). The errata is a hardware error: the specified behavior of the CPU after a segment assignment is clear per the docs, but the behavior of the actual CPU is apparently different.
> They know perfectly well that an individual right to boycott has never been in danger; they're just rattling the collection plate.

It seems it was in this case, but for their intervention.

https://eu.cjonline.com/story/news/politics/state/2018/06/29...
Doesn't it make sense to do both given that the cost of additional mitigation is trivial?
So basically anyone with a bunch of free dynos (who doesn't use heroku DBs) can just switch to the $7/month eco subscription and keep their dynos running?
I know what you were trying to say, but calling a smaller company "out of touch" due to not getting close to FAANG compensation in itself seemed a bit "out of touch" to me regarding the business realities of small companies.
Regarding Walden and the "have to read it in high school" - I recently came across it again while playing Dear Reader ( https://www.dearreadergame.com )

If you've got an iDevice with Apple Arcade, it's something interesting to play.

It uses books that are now in the public domain that are twisted into games of word order, spelling, and passages that make you read the abridged version and to an extent, force/encourage you to become familiar with the words to better play the game.
>The Twitter thread is better.

let's recognize subjectivity a bit here. it's different, you may like it more -- that's great , but prove 'better' a bit better.

i've said this dozens of times, and i'm sure people are getting tired of the sentiment, but Twitter is a worse reading experience than all but the very worst blog formats for long-format content.

ads, forced long-form formatting that breaks flow constantly, absolutely unrelated commentary half of the time (from people that have absolutely no clout or experience with whatever subject), and the forced MeTooism/Whataboutism inherent with social media platforms and their trolling audience.

It gets a lot of things right with communication, and many people love reading long-form things on Twitter -- but really i'm just asking you to convince me here ; there is very little 'better' from what I see : help me to realize the offerings.

tl;dr : old man says 'I just don't get IT.' w.r.t. long-form tweeting.
The example from the beginning can be found at any site where people share dating experiences, there is nothing specific about tech money.

Stopped reading as soon as the usual spiel about white/man went.
I can think of a few others…

Sawzall, a language focused around processing logs. Rob Pike led on this but use has pretty much all been replaced by Go. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawzall_(programming_languag...

Dex, a language focused around array processing from the team behind the Jax machine learning library. Early stage research project.
https://github.com/google-research/dex-lang

Rune, a language focused on security, early stage research project. https://github.com/google/rune

Wuffs, a language focused on writing safe file format handlers (parsing, encoding, decoding)
https://github.com/google/wuffs
The thing that amuses to me is a lot of the laws and rhetoric around these matters presume a draft. But we haven't had that for years.

Instead, you had folks who signed up for the national guard thinking they'd just screw around with fancy guns in the woods 2 weeks a year absolutely apoplectic they might actually be put in harm's way.

I remember still being a teenager in Appalachia and being made to feel like you're a hair shy of an agent of foreign power if you suggested the best way to "support the troops" was to say no illegal wars of aggression that put them in harm's way instead of slap a yellow ribbon magnet your car and say let's bomb Iran too.

You haven't truly lived until you tell some aggressive moron wh very purposefully signed up for the infantry because they wanted to kill people of color in an illegal oil war that you don't give a single solitary fuck what they think, you don't thank them for their so called service and that many Marines died at Okinawa died for your right to say that, and that if they don't get their hands out of their pockets and step back you're going to invoke stand your ground and call their wing commander or whoever the fuck is in charge of them to collect the body.

(Many, many folks sing a song about the constitution but break down when you use it for anything other than greasing the wheels of the military industrial complex, and it's DIGUSTING.)
Elons breakthroughs are largely financial, and I don't like the guy but I admit this for sure.

Elon is the kind of guy who can gather $Billions from the market year over year, each time promising that this is the last time and the company will be a wild success afterwards.

Remember when Model 3 factory was all that Tesla needed in 2014? But then full self driving, Cybertruck, battery swap, AI robot that plugs in the cord for you, Model Y, Tesla Semi, Solar City buyout, Solar Shingles, Dojo Supercomputer, $35k Model 3, 4680 cells, etc etc.

It's the same thing year over year. He brings up a topic without necessarily promising that it's coming. He uses it to get another $Billion in loans and equity. He fails upwards, if a thing fails (see battery swap, solar Shingles, full self driving) it still raised equity / bonds and gets him more investors the next year.
> Simply allowing people to cross at the corner and encouraging them to do so by building a path works keeps them off his land and in public areas.

But that's not what this person wants. He wants to maintain exclusive access to land that isn't his.
The answer to both is "it's boring".
It is a good thing to have a government that is responsive and explanatory in its application of the law.
>I'm not sure I fully believe the algorithms promoted right-wing content, although I do believe the algorithm promotes controversial content, which is one of the strategies on the right, as more of a cultural underdog trying to get visibility.

The right isn't a cultural underdog trying to get visibility. The right has always been the primary political and cultural force in the US, to the point that what counts as "the left" in American politics (the Democratic Party) is still ideologically center-right.

I agree with you about Elon and the eventual fate of Twitter, although I fear you haven't yet seen that the entire "free speech absolutism" debate and the narrative that social media platforms are captured and controlled by a leftist agenda was always about promoting right-wing accelerationism and never about political neutrality or free speech.

There is a reason you've rarely if ever seen these discussions or passionate defenses of absolute free speech take place in defense of left-wing speech, only right-wing speech. And it isn't because left-wing speech is never censored or suppressed - it very often is (particularly LGBTQ speech, which is often categorized as "sexual" or NSFW regardless of its content.)
I'm not the OP, but I'm in a similar boat: my contract ends next month and I'm told they're not going to be able to get it renewed due to budget cuts. I'm also planning to take 4-6 months between gigs (possibly a lot longer depending on what the job market looks like then).

> How does one do this?

In my case my wife has a job that provides the health insurance (so your "dependent on another" is partly right). In addition, our mortgage will be paid off in January, so that'll make it easier to live on one (smaller) income. We'll still be running a bit of a deficit each month (between $200 and $300/mo) but we've got a good 12 to 18 months of living expenses saved up in our emergency fund (that would be 12 to 18 months of living expenses if we both were to lose our jobs). After that there's a Roth IRA we could draw upon. So not too worried at this point.
I am not trying to compare fail2ban and SSHGuard.

I used fail2ban in the past and it was helpful.

If I was currently running an Internet-facing SSH daemon, I would give SSHGuard a try.
Creepy. Seems like almost all narcissists/egomaniacs are also pathological liars apparently.
Doesn’t work once, never using it again.
If I can’t trust it to work as expected I’ll never use it to make purchases.

For Siri I just use it to set alarms. It’s incredible how much money has been wasted on “digital assistants”.
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>No, because the essence of art is meaning, and AI cannot deliver that without a human agency behind it.

I see no reason why another AI eventually couldn't come up with prompts from human interests found from algorithms. There's exactly no reason a human needs to be involved at all.
Thanks for that reminder. I had to delete an app I had running since 2013. Up until the moment before I committed to deleting it, I felt no emotion at all. But right after I confirmed deletion, I felt like an animal I had on the farm died. I was sad. I had that thing chugging along with no real issues for almost 9 years. I used that platform to learn and try new things and then built an app to track my workout progress. It was a great way for me to learn Django without losing money and build some useful tools.
If you go to the same bar all the time and haven't made friends there, try a different bar. And maybe consider those dates as opportunities to make friends in addition to romantic pursuits. A lot of my social group connected originally via dating apps.
https://youtu.be/n3SsJdm8bMY