skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Saying that feminism might be corrupted by grifters who do not actually seek equality between the genders would be controversial, but acceptable.

Saying that homosexual pride was important at the start, but now in most places gay people have the identical rights to straight people, and therefore gay pride is no more meaningful than straight pride would be controversial, but acceptable.

Missing either context by saying you're against feminism ("So you do NOT support equality between genders?") or that straight pride is the same as gay pride ("You do understand that 'pride' in this context is a rebellion against 'SHAME'. People are saying they refuse to be ASHAMED of being gay. Noone has ever told a straight person they should be ashamed of being straight") is not acceptable.

It is bigotry. There are left-wing bigots and right-wing bigots. And there are right wingers who are not bigots.

But there are definitely correlations and trends between bigotry and political beliefs...
honestly? they can handle most of my phone workloads. Notes, texts..is there anything else?
Hint: zoom out.
How many casual users are going to be downloading mobile apps from random indie devs who do that? How many casual users are going to be sideloading at all?
Yet, near share, Googles version of airdrop, has been disabled in mainland China for years.
Thanks for answering.

Not much of an expert in Kubernetes and co, but never looks really easy either.

A shift to private SaaS essentially means it becomes much harder to get an MVP running. You don't want to setup kubernetes for an MVP. With a public SaaS you just do whatever you know. Doesn't have to scale at the beginning.

In pricing you just lose some flexibility. On the other hand, you can remove the somewhat non-predictable costs for cloud services from the equation when calculating your unit economics.

I wonder how this will affect VC funding tho, because potential revenues will be lower in this case as well. So, technically, the total addressable market becomes smaller as well.
You think their satellite fleet has absolutely no precise equipment for knowing and maintaining its position? Or for communicating with terminals and each other?

Like, come on. I get shitting on Musk is the cool new thing, but this is genuinely the case where SpaceX is doing cool things in space, and at an extremely fast pace. Get over yourself if you can’t see through your Musk hate and only see them as “a company that builds trucks”.
Judging from some of the videos that circulated from the Alameda CEO I'd say it's also a significant portion of incompetence. I'm not going to guess which one was more though.
> "Physical activity reduces many major mortality risk factors including arterial hypertension, diabetes mellitus type 2, dyslipidemia, coronary heart disease, stroke, and cancer."

That's a lot more than just a few number of years.

> "This is laughable."

Really? Exercise is linked to decreased stress, increased stamina, clarity, and general well-being. Being physical and mentally capable and competent into older age is a good thing and a major improvement in quality of life. Not sure how this is "laughable".
I would say no. They just need to know how to implement what they are asked to implement.

Say you are an engineer working for a gun manufacturer. You need to know how to manufacture the gun. You don't need to know what it is used for or by whom or even how much it is sold for.

If you are aware that a crime is going on you in principle are required to report it, but not doing so is not nearly at the same level of crime as actually doing the crime. So here I think the court will look at two things?

Did the engineer know that a crime was being committed?

Did the engineer personally benefit from the proceeds of the crime more than their ordinary salary?

I am not a lawyer though so don't take my advise.:-)
I realized that I was vague in places that might create misunderstanding. When I say, "eliminate sources of abuse", what I mean is, get rid of systems that hurt people (like mafias). When I say, "take measures to prevent further harm," what I mean is either get people the therapy they need, or imprison them as humanely as possible if there's no other option.

I was trying not to be too wordy and long winded (as I have a tendency to do), but I realized this could come off rather ominous. So just to be crystal clear, I'm am advocate of nonviolence.
I like to view software as pure thought that happens to be encoded in a weird, formal structure, very much analogous to writing and poetry. It's been a very useful perspective for me in a lot of ways and the parallels are substantial.

It also implies a much vaster realm of "software thinking" filled with things like uxntal and colorforth than currently exists in the world. Instead, most people (myself included) spend the majority of our time writing corporate memos in passive voice.
> Only the original author may remove content they produce.

Counter example: Cyber bullying. Person A and B talk on twitter about how to best hurt person C, damage C's reputation, invite others to hurt C, etc.

C himself is never part of the conversation. As for A, B and all the others which are part of the conversation, none of those people have any interest to end the conversation or to retract anything they said.

Nevertheless, the conversation can cause real harm to C, even though C is not part of it.

How would Jack's philosophy deal with that?
So which one is it? Are intermittent fasting people posers or conspiracy theorists? Or both?
> have enough time to switch to 128

It appears that the original developer thought that for 32 bits :)

I say that as someone who inherited a system that allowed for 2^32 session references stored in the db. Lets just say that sessions were created a lot faster than anticipated for the amount of traffic we had.

So one fine Sunday morning in a November a long time ago we ran out.
> Um, no. "Regular" extensions used XUL

They can use HTML and Javascript, same as Firefox' internals;

> XUL is mostly gone

... but the UI capabilities stay the same. It's just like that for extensions.

> Now the content is in its own process, the extension is in a sandbox, and the only code you can screw up with search & replace is your own extension's.

That approach is the whole problem: The view of extension code as somehow inferior to Firefox' own code. Those are both applications, not the code from some website run inadvertently when you visit a web page, but something you installed because you wanted to have run.

> some aren't implemented

Everything is implemented - inside FF. It's just arbitrarily being kept inaccessible to extensions.

Note that, in Thunderbird, a small hole-in-the-wall has been implemeneted, for loading regular extensions, and they are able to run with full privileges and do the work they need to be doing.
Remind me what the lifetime EAF of those 80s French nuclear plants is?
Of course. You'd need to start at more important latencies, like UX callback latency.
But if you only told someone to do it and haven’t actually done it yourself, are you guilty of breaking the law?

Yes, you are. Splitting responsibility between those who give orders and those who follow them to avoid penalties is exactly why both are persecuted and put in jail.
Smaller by a single number at most, it's effectively insignificant. Not sure where the 3-bit counter assumption came from as the original post said 32bit signed int.
In some cases, yes, they are held responsible. When I was trained on HIPAA compliance lawyers made it clear that individual employees could be held responsible for some violations. And yes, we restricted service availability based on region until we achieved compliance with GDPR and various regional PII/PHI data export laws.

I work in another regulated industry today, and throughout the year sign off on understanding various regulations and trainings of 3 letter agencies, that are essentially in place to indemnify the company in case of a violation. I’d expect financial services follows similar steps.
I think there's room for both motivations, either in different people or the same person.

People seem to go crazy in healthy food discussions. I think one takeaway I get is that different people get by with different methods. People get very preachy about their own method, without realizing how unique it is to them.
God rest ye merry fighting men (2006)
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This is an interesting take, and I agree with a lot of it. As I mentioned in the post, I'm not going to stop building in public entirely, and to some extent part of why I'm changing up what I'm doing is to be on to the next bigger, better thing. I felt the current version was leading to stagnation. "More bigger swings" is an emerging theme for me.

I didn't understand your last point - possibly because "copywrong" and "TBL" are new terms to me...
You don't 'queue up' actions in EU4 or any other Paradox grand strategy - you indicate something has to happen (start building something or move a formation somewhere) and it start happening immediately, in real time. The day/month/year doesn't serve any practical purpose outside of orientation for the end user. Nothing happens at the end of the day/month/year except for actions initiated earlier who's end happens to coincide.
Just out of curiosity - how do you know that YC doesn't advise startups to do exactly that? Advice can be ignored, after all.

(Note: I'm not saying they are or aren't, I have no idea either way.)
Yes, that's how research works. What's your point?
Fwiw, I got a lot of pushback at Google when I requested to go to 80% or 90% (4 day week or alternating 4/5 day week) for the sake of my mental health. I tried to be firm about that being the best accomodation for my needs and got nowhere except seriously burnt-out months later, put on a PIP, worked my ass off to get off the PIP, and finally quit when I couldn't just suffer through the burnout any longer.

So take those "policies" with a grain of salt.
>And thus do we have another piece of evidence for why morals and ethics matter,

It sounds like there's plenty of other evidence, but allowing a 'negative balance' hardly sounds like a smoking gun.

A negative balance is often how credit is displayed.

>Since Alameda didn't have the funds to meet these requests, Bankman-Fried directed Alameda to tap its "line of credit" with FTX to obtain billions of dollars in financing, the complaint said

The article actually says as much. Now as Chief Engineer it's possible he was aware it was a scam, but it's also possible he was just told they have an arrangement with Alameda that allows them to maintain a credit line.
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If you are in finance or law it is a good idea to know what you can go to jail for. Engineers are people and people can go to jail for breaking laws they didn’t know about.
In all these thousands of years, capitalism existed. People traded with other countries. Those who got into trade got rich. People who were allied with the ruling class were rich. The people who were rich used their wealth to accumulate more wealth. It was pretty much the same as today in terms of the pareto distribution of power and wealth.
That's not really regulation though,is it? It's a tax paid by consumers on some goods and services.

Any actual regulations?
Mh tough but really good question.

I think we need to start taxing work done by robots. For every dollar you earn the state takes an income tax. This is not really true for robots, because it's hard to tell how much they "earn".

With the money from this tax, you could provide some kind of universal basic income (or something alike).

Low skill workers are usually not doing the job because they like it. They do it to survive. Also low skill workers are not necessarily low skill. They just cannot keep up with the increasing amount of tech in every aspect of their work life.

They might be wonderful artists, musicians, tutors, ...

Taking the feat of surviving away by introducing something like UBI you could unlock a whole new generation of creativity and innovation.
If somebody from Diigo is reading this: Why is there no content on the frontpage? It's a sleeping social network that could generate many more subscriptions.

The Organize section could be like https://ooh.directory/

The Share section could offer a feed of all content that users are willing to share publicly. There could be support for ActivityPub to make it a worthwhile investment of time.

It should be a better sales channel to get new users hooked on good content first instead of forcing them to commit to a new account before trying anything.
This WILL happen with https://store.epicgames.com
"How much was really lost?"

With respect to culpability for the wire fraud charges, arguably it does not matter. The crime is a devising scheme to defraud. The execution of the scheme does not have to be successful.

Even if every FTX customer gets a 100% refund of their deposits, SBF is still going to face prosecution. This is what makes his recent behaviour so childish, immature, juvenile and foolish. The transcript of his proposed testimony before Congress shows that SBF is anything but a "whiz kid". He is clueless. A pawn.1

1. https://assets.bwbx.io/documents/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/rbgv1U_v...

"How much was really lost?"

How much what? Fiat money? According to the self-proclaimed crypto experts, the fiat monetary system is to be avoided.2 Why would crypto believers want fiat money.

According to a Google "engineer", the highly regulated, democratically-elected government that issues and guarantees fiat currency may seize it in the near future, referring the reader to "snopes.com" as an authoritative source. Not only that, according to the Google stooge, using fiat currency poses a risk of "total surveillance" and is undermining peoples' privacy.2 You cannot make this up. Employee of almost totally unregulated "tech" company, hoovering up the personal data and invading the privacy of hundreds of millions of people for profit, a company with nearly 140,000 employees and billions in the bank that does not even have a basic customer service line, is giving unsolicited advice about privacy.

2. https://apxhard.substack.com/p/why-bitcoin-is-different-from...
I agree, though information asymmetry (what you know that your competition doesn't) is a huge competitive advantage in a capitalistic market. Building in public erodes that information asymmetry away, giving away much of your competitive advantage.
Shkreli is a good example of how well oiled justice runs if the defendant is politically indefensible. In the same vein the treatment that SBF got so far (eg getting invited as speaker on a NYT event that featured people such as Selenskyy) makes me fear it will be a much softer prosecution.
You can iterate & reuse a vim function, and if you use neovim, you can write it in Lua instead of vimscript.

But a script is a totally reasonable approach, and what's important is what works best in your workflow, just pointing out options for the sake of interest.
Point taken, but I think it's a different concept -- named internal short-links versus randomly generated small strings for longer links.
With that kind of tech they can displace all the “media moguls”, combined. Realistically though, they’re probably talking about average-to-low-quality 480p rips fit for 90s TVs.
This is why I don't get why the phrase/excuse/justification "I'm just doing my job" is so commonly used.
"Real" earnings staying stagnant are a byproduct of inflation artifacts and certain non pay employee expenditures rising astronomically, notably the employer paid portion of health insurance. There's also the socialist or conservative refusal to build houses (depending on where you live).

Assuming you are US based, you will notice that the nationalized health services are slowly going bankrupt or worse, losing all their doctors. Even still, the per capita expenditure on health care in Western countries is an exponential. Giving credit to the nationalized systems, they managed to constrain it to perhaps n^1.6 instead of n^2, but it's still not a problem with "capitalism" directly, as it affects health systems with no meaningful concept of private business.

How does progressive thought deal with people wanting to spend enormous amounts of money on increasingly more advanced Healthcare as they age, and those costs being hidden such that nobody realizes how much money that is?

It appears that the American system has replicated the failures of communist planning - nobody know how much anything should cost!

Perhaps the nationalized systems were able to perform better, for a time due to having very smart people trying their best to work it out - but this even is starting to become unglued.

A proper progressive answer to this cannot be to nationalize more Healthcare, as that is failing the metric used to criticize the private system. More slowly, admittedly - but still failing.

If all talk about the way capital markets improve the world is the "neoliberal gospel", there needs to be an answer for these problems that don't rely on sovereign wealth funds or extremely creative central bank manipulation.
GitHub copilot is free for open source contributors. Maybe start contributing to projects you like / use everyday?
I have no idea what this essay is tryig to say, but it seems to be sort based on leftist/marxist premises?

I mean, look at this:

- He thought the internet was going to get rid of "hateful" ideologies, to which I say, "lol what?"

- He thought Trump tweeting things is proof that software is gone wrong

- He complains about "Capital" at the end of the essay

The whole essay seems to be a typical incomprehensible leftist terminology filled mumbo jumbo. I remember reading this kind of material when I took "Communications 101" in University, where nothing ever made sense.

I guess I'm surprised this essay has so much engagement on HN.

There are many things wrong with software and the startup culture; this essay doesn't even remotely touch any actually substantial point what those things are.
I don't think it's necessarily true, I mean making sure that private capital doesn't exist seems also pretty authoritarian to me.

I also think there is a value difference between socialism and democracy (decisions are made society-wide, by equal citizens participation) on one side and conservativism and authoritarianism on the other (decisions are made society-wide, by selected authorities/elites), even though from a liberal viewpoint (decisions are made individually by affected individuals where possible) they might seem similar (because in both the decisions are made society-wide). Measures against (a) or (b) can be designed and implemented both in democratic or authoritarian way.

And in fact, basic income is on the liberal-socialist, aka "anarchist", spectrum rather than on socialist-conservative, aka "communist", spectrum. (Both spectra offer different solutions than the current liberal-conservative, aka "capitalist", spectrum.)
I admit I often wish my phone had the design aesthetic of a PDA from two decades ago. Contoured to the hand, a real d-pad with buttons right on the front, no camera cutouts or rounded corners to block my view, root access right out of the box, headphone jack, multiple memory card slots (damn having an SD Plus card that folded into a thumb drive was convenient!), and a thriving freeware community with no microtransactions, a jog dial, a removable battery, and a case held together by tiny screws instead of glue. You could break a screen and the replacement cost forty bucks and took ten minutes with a screwdriver.

Christ, being able to stick it on a dock and hit one button to mirror your entire device onto your desktop was great.
IMO it makes much more sense to do the opposite, and follow mastodon posts in the UX of a RSS reader.

I personally haven't been liking any content aggregation outside of RSS/reddit because I can't take the timeline model of unrelated things being streamed to my eyes without context. I tend to want to specialize what I read or otherwise I tend not to remember it or appreciate it as much (for instance I'd typically scan through news-like nodes during breaks and read art/science/in-depth feeds after work, but something that mixes both makes me uncomfortable).

But I do have a "people" node in my ttrss instance that aggregates from social network sources/blogs/shaarlis. Gives the best of both worlds, I think.
Right, "software engineer" is often used just as a synonym for "Programmer". That's just how the industry is, currently.

There are no regulations as to who can develop what software as far as I know. Whereas there are for who can design a bridge, act as your lawyer, or prescribe you medicine.
Is one allowed to plant their own tobacco if they're inclined to do so? What about other tobacco products like rolling tobacco? Is that banned from sale as well?
According to the Xenia discord, many games are straight-up broken on AMD cards. One example is Gears of War 2.
> He later explained that he was able to refuse to stop his research because he had tenure, so there was nothing they could really do to stop him.

Not having to chase your next meal can make a big difference
What a delightful little website! Thanks for sharing!
The pricing link under About leads me to your blog.
I agree. People act weird under extreme stress. Once when I arrived at work my boss was grinning. I asked him what was going on and he told me my co-worker tried to kill my supervisor. I laughed. Other co-workers were laughing and grinning too.
SBF Written Testimony Notes 12/12/2022
Airbnb is not crushing hotels. The use cases of airbnbs are usually different than hotels. On top of that, Airbnb is on the verge of a reckoning with the issues plaguing the system. Sketchy hosts, destructive and abusive guests, over saturation of listings.

The only reason you’d probably think airbnb is crushing hotels is the financial reports of hotels from during the pandemic. But before the pandemic, with airbnb already in full swing, hotels were still hitting record revenues. Their financials are already returning.
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Australian YouTuber highlighting corruption targeted in arson attack [video]
I apologize if this is off topic, I’m not sure, but I found it incredibly interesting. His lawyer summarizes the situation pretty well at 2:40 in the video.

For context: The YouTuber, friendlyjordies (Jordan Shanks), is being prosecuted by gambling lobby group ClubsNSW for interviewing a former employee and whistleblower who had previously exposed widespread money laundering in the industry.
He also made several videos accusing the Deputy Premier of New South Wales of corruption, which led to the channel’s producer being arrested in his home by an anti-terrorism unit.
Killing Vine was really weird decision.
There’s no money in an email list (in itself) and yet it can be valuable. I think it’s all about growing an audience. Maybe there’s a long tail of people who miss RSS.
Britain has different length area codes. 020 is London, 0121 is Birmingham, 01234 is Bedford, 015396 is Sedburgh, population 2700.

The local part of the number is 8, 7, 6 or 5 digits accordingly.

I never found this to be a problem. If you're dialing locally from a land line, you usually know the local code. For national or international dialing it doesn't matter.

Occasionally people put the space in the wrong place, like 0207 77777777 for a London number.
The comment starts with that assumption for the sake of a concise example. do you expect them to write the whole sequence out using a 32bit counter? :-D
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> Sadly, RSS is a poor medium for ads

It's not a technology issue, in today's world, most content that would be on an RSS feed comes with ads built in.