skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"speaking to her as a reporter, yes. "

Under most NDA's, this would not matter.
She originally received it as part of her employer.
Most NDA's exclude the disclosing party telling you somehow else as a way of it becoming non-confidential.

Again, i'll just take the first sample NDA google finds (http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/sample-confidentialit...)

" (c) learned by the Receiving Party through legitimate means other than from the Disclosing Party or Disclosing Party's representatives"

Google PR telling a reporter a thing is "learned by the Receiving party from the disclosing party", not through another means. There was also no written approval here.

Pretty much every NDA i've ever seen (somewhere in the hundreds or thousands) would still cover the situation where PR confirmed something to someone that they had learned in an NDA'd situation.

Whether reporters respect these NDA's or not is another story.
But this isn't even a close call.
I think you'd struggle to find an NDA this wouldn't be a violation of.
Lapis db:query("? ?", a, b)

Edit: this call is most low-level db interface in lapis apps.
I worked down the hall from the Reich lab as a postdoc and there was a weekly data club where students & postdocs would present. One of David's people was out or something, so David gave a 30 minute slideless talk about the work in their place. It was riveting. I was stunned at how he crafted the narrative and precisely explained the science. Since then I've taken the time to read his work and have always been super impressed.
“It would be a shame if anything bad were to happen to your website traffic. By the way, if you say anything about this conversation we’ll sue you.”

— Godfather Google when promoting their +1

WHY the hell is this not a bigger deal? This is extortion.
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It's usually not the market share itself that is the problem; it is when the company uses that market share to take anticompetitive actions in other markets that we have a problem.
Have you taken into account the full thread?

The person who was saying it was negative was Emma_Goldman above, who decried the purchase of a $4000 pen in a world where billions of people live miserable, indigent lives.

What I'm saying is, it's not so bad, because of those $4000, most of it was just moved to someone else's bank account, the actual use of resources was small. Effectively, the buyer just delegated the power of alleviating poverty with that money to someone else.
Maybe we can generalise - the best way to learn an abstract concept is to learn how applies to a discipline you find interesting.
The amount of deforestation that we've engaged in, reducing "surface roughness" on a large quantity of the Earth's surface, that's a lot of wind energy we've stopped from being extracted.

We can draw an enormous amount before we'd even get close to break-even on our influence on the wind.
As someone who struggled with math early on, but then persevered through an Engineering degree, I agree with this 100%.

Math is often presented to kids as a hard challenge to overcome. Instead, math is actually just a language that helps people talk about particular subject matter faster than they would otherwise. You don't need to solve equations in order to understand how math concepts work, and for a lot of people that would already be a 10x improvement.

Shout out to - https://jumpmath.org - I interned for them in college and John Mighton made a great series of books to help kids learn math. They are not quite as playful or advanced as this article suggests, but rather simple concepts explained in simple terms, then repeated in different ways. From memory, it was especially useful for kids who thought they were bad at math, and struggled to catch up to their classmates.
Interestingly I'm the exact opposite, of the 4 jobs I've had all have been through network, from the very first grocery stocking job to IT and product jobs.

When I hire the first thing I do is also reach out to my personal network to see if anyone is looking for work or know anyone who is.

My wife did just manage to land a job with a cold application, though, so it's not like either way doesn't work.
Was the Soviet Union?
As an exercise in low-cost structure construction this is interesting, but this is not a practical home. It apparently lacks any kind of sanitary facilities or kitchen. As noted in the blog itself, it's comparable to a tent in terms of applications.
I recommend making the language pull down alphabetically ordered, and putting English at the top, as I couldn't find English.
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Which is already telling something about PostgreSQL evangelism.

No. Speaking as an outsider, the Postgres community is about the nicest (and smartest) there is.
I hope they are advised on OPSEC as well. The lack of Google Play Services, shouldn't force them to search for 'Whatsapp apk' & install malware infected apps. I hope an official app store repository is maintained in the F-Droid is maintained & 'install from unknown sources' permanently disabled.
A 2x4 is a piece of lumber that measures around 2” by 4” in depth and breadth (in reality, it’s slightly smaller) and is often used for structural work.
Everything depends on your experience, but in my opinion, companies that would only hire based on tech stack aren't worth working for anyway. And marketing yourself on your stack is a bad idea. Ask yourself, what kind of problems are you able to solve? Which domain do you know? When you find the answer, sell that. If you know really well how to solve some issues, you can solve them in any language. And you're not paid for the code you produce, but for the problems your code solves.
Both left-anarchists and right-anarchists (anarchocapitalists) tend to deny that the others are "true" anarchists.

In my view the main difference is not in their view of what should happen, but rather in their impossibly rosy assumptions of what happens next. Left-anarchists assume that if you get rid of the government the world becomes a left-wing utopia, while right-anarchists assume that if you get rid of the government then the world becomes a right-wing utopia.

To me, neither of these scenarios seems more likely than the other.
It's the initial user interaction. Users usually expect appliances to be powered on and be running right the way. If it takes 30 seconds to start, the user is not sure whether it's not working or it's just initializing. These things don't have great visual feedback to start with.
> What did you do to get a response back from jobs you've submitted an application to?

This is a seller's market. How much trouble are you having getting responses back?
From what I gather, it's made from plastic, foam and wood, and uses electrical heating. I didn't see any mention of fire risks, which is something people have brought up before with these structures. I hope there's at least a fire extinguisher in there.
I’d expect that you’d go outside for such needs.
Correctable dead-ends are better educationally than crafted successes. I don't think the goal is to teach students how to parse english, or making a conversant programming language, but it could show why programming languages use something other than natural language.
Count me in as well. This fearmongering about AI really is nonsense, as is all the 'we must regulate it now' stuff - how can we regulate something that is so ill-defined to begin with?

As for the lethal autonomous weapons, they're not going to be an existential threat[1]. For a start, if both sides have enough to kill the other side, that still leaves all the humans not involved in the war. And when the rubber hits the road, we know that machines are far from infallible; they break down all the time. Until machines can repair themselves (or run the full supply chain from raw resources to factory-made replacements), we don't have to fear for the existence of the human race.

[1] there is potential for a lot of suffering, sure, but how is that different to a human-run war?
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I did not understand how it is completely waterproof. What if there is rough weather? And how does it prevent water from entering in case there is standing water around the base?
Another option is to target Lua. The C version runs everywhere and the LuaJIT version is super fast.
I know what I'm talking about. Over the last couple of years I had to speak to many people in the PostgreSQL community. While there are indeed many smart and nice people with balanced views and opinions there, the majority has this ideological bias. With ideology being that PostgreSQL is superior to MySQL in every single way. All counter-examples and arguments are usually ignored. I think it's something unique to PostgreSQL community, I've never met anything like that in other technical communities.
Advanced replication strategies in MySQL and Oracle mostly cause hair loss and divorce. Everywhere I have worked that uses these databases eventually convinces itself that it needs futuristic replication technology and then goes on to suffer from outages and weird corruption. It turns out, distributed consistency is a hard problem. Oracle and MySQL both benefit monetarily from people assuming it will work and then activating it, only to find out a month or two later that it's a complicated problem that requires actual planning and oversight.

I think Postgres will be a better product when it incorporates similar functionality, but the implementations in MySQL and Oracle lie somewhere on the border between false advertising and reckless endangerment. I appreciate that Postgres not having it as two-lines of configuration sends a message that you are making a commitment. Nearly everything else in Postgres is set-it-and-forget-it. You really want to have a DBA if you're going to try to make replication work. When you read the docs on having a hot standby and how much of a commitment that is and sense yourself getting tired, you're starting to appreciate what you might be getting yourself into with single-master replication, let alone multi-master.
Maybe not hero, but I thoroughly enjoy Andy Wingo's writings and talks. Every time I forget that programming is fun, I go to his blog.

He really likes what he does and is a very inspiring individual, and does a lot to bridge the gap between academia and us regular folks.
Clive Operating System (2014) [pdf]
If you feel confident with a new stack because you've used many other similar stacks in the past, you should just lie and tell the recruiter that you have 6 months or 1 year of experience with it. Recruiters don't want to hear about messy reality - So if you're qualified for the work but not experienced, lie.
"Pasting her "Dear white people" into Perspective's API got a score of 61 percent toxicity."

- I'm not surprised by this at all really, many people would find her writings offensive and "toxic," especially her "Dear white people" race-baiting ramblings...
2x4 in this context probably refers to the size of the cross section, in inches, of the timbers in the floor structure. Floor joists are horizontal supporting members that run between foundations, walls, or beams to support the floor. 50mm x 100mm for the imerially challenged.

There's no way you could live in this at -20 degrees without heating.
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The original idea was to write little entries as we continued the Linux port, explaining why certain things are they way they are -- a sort of tour of a very serious production system. I still love the idea, but unfortunately, I think it is safe to say that this goal failed. :(
> Is your startup / company deploying on Solaris?

For precisely the reason of Oracle's direction from day1
And for a long period, too: the covers for True Faith (1987) and Technique (1989) were still startling in their newness. (If I ever come into serious money I'm buying this: https://fineartmultiple.com/buy-art/peter-saville-monarch-of... ...)

Worth noting that the pulsar image was actually found by Bernard Sumner/Albrecht, Joy Division's guitarist (and later New Order's singer), though of course Saville transformed it from found imagery to iconic sleeve.
I had a friend who collected Factory Records 12" for the sleeves (music too, but even if we didn't like the music, we got the record). I used to go around the record shops and search with him. Was too broke to do it for myself alone. The album art by Factory was sometimes better than the music on the record.
As a dev, I use my multiplication tables pretty constantly, especially for quick estimates using approximate numbers. I probably didn't need to know them as early as I did...
> Nearly everything else in Postgres is set-it-and-forget-it.

There are many people who would disagree with that. Talking to Uber engineers would probably be a good idea to dispel that myth.
There are some aspects of doing math that isn't fun, because it is grinding. Learning the time tables for example - you just have to do lots of exercises to get used to multiplying. No way around that.

Just like in sports, where you must also do a lot of basic practise to get good.

Making the practise like a game can be done to done degree, but ultimately, a kid is going to see through that after a while, since it gets boring.
> Yes, there's additional risk if another country has them, but that argument is independent from country.

I don't think that's quite true. The stability of a country, and the current alliances & conflicts all influence the chance of a deliberate attack. The funding and security of a country influence the safety and chance of an accidental one.
There is a platform under the dome to prevent standing water from entering it. Further I would expect it would be best to build on a slight rise to mitigate this issue. As for the waterproofness of the shell, as long as the higher panels overlap those below them by a sufficient amount (maybe 10cm) then the dome will shed water in even heavy storms.
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> So through a buttload of effort and some domain specific knowledge you can exercise some percentage (probably less than 100%) of your wallet vote which was worth 3/10ths of nothing to begin with. You have to be a tech-savvy idealist to go through with it, and that demographic is never going to be big enough to force a massive corporation to self regulate against their own best interests.

Making sure a consumer's data reaches no part of a given company sounds highly impractical.

What you describe is an extremely broad scope of "opt-out". By your definition, you couldn't opt out of any company without very detailed knowledge of the company. For example, whenever you make a purchase, or just walk into a store, that data ends up in multiple parties' hands.

I doubt there is precedent for using antitrust law to allow consumers to make such refined choices. How useful would it be to silo the world in such a way?

We're not privy to the amount of data being collected within companies. Even if you break up one company that collects data, what's to stop 100 others from doing the same, particularly those in other countries?
I'm not disagreeing with you. 'Scary' and 'hard' becomes an issue when that's all that's being said about math. Video games are 'scary' and 'hard' but... they're also fascinating and fun. The popular math narrative is incomplete unlike video games. Why is that? Dr. Eugenia Cheng says it much better and has a good answer as to why [1].

[1] http://www.pbs.org/video/math-is-amazing-and-we-have-to-star...
As someone who might fairly get scolded for this, we feel like praising MySQL's features is a bit like enjoying the recessed lighting and granite counters in a house whose roof is actively leaking.

There are certainly features MySQL has that Postgres doesn't, but data integrity is problem 1, and most of us got burned by MySQL on that one at some point before we got here. Or, we deployed MySQL and then found out that the features we were depending on were InnoDB-only, but switching to InnoDB cratered our performance. Or we tripped on one too many of MySQL's numerous special cases or silent limitations.

You can use MySQL productively. You can even benefit from its special features. But the thing taken together is a bit of a mine field.

Postgres has some false advertising issues too ("object-relational"?) but the day-to-day living with it is a lot nicer, because the roof doesn't leak. I can live without the granite counters.
I'm left wondering about moisture. Ventilation seems pretty minimal and, inside the walls, nonexistent, so how long until this has mold all over it?
"It's also impossible to violate an NDA you're unaware of in my layman's understanding"

You are wrong.
I think unikernels are a use case where something like Rust could really, really shine without any feelings of NIH or reinventing the wheel.
I think kids see those exercise problems as arbitrary and therefore unmotivated to do them. I dunno if there's any way of making then interesting and or relevant to motivate kids to do em.

I suspect curiosity is of paramount importance, and that curiosity is not fostered in school about math.
Using search rankings as a cudgel to force others to promote their social network and to silence discussion of this is sufficient for me to want them broken up.

Its easy to see that this could be misused to much worse effect. Personally I intend to migrate my domain, my email away from google.
Someone on intergalactic IRC is trying to contact us. 1.337, it's not Pi but it'll have to do for now.
It's impossible to be bound by an agreement others are party to. Its impossible to agree to such without being aware of it. You are wrong.
> Left-anarchists assume that if you get rid of the government the world becomes a left-wing utopia, while right-anarchists assume that if you get rid of the government then the world becomes a right-wing utopia.

I'd say you're strawmanning both sides here, left anarchists know the state grows out of the conflicting class interests of the working class and capitalist class, and that abolition of the state necessarily requires abolition of capitalism. Propertarians believe that if you got rid of the government, the free market will sort things out because it's the gov. interference in private enterprise that causes societies conflicts. Neither believe in a magic switch or anything.
This is cool to play with and all, but what rubs me the wrong way about posts like this is the delusional 'look I made something that is applicable as anything but a novelty! I'm solving major societal problems here!'. This thing doesn't have windows, it requires replacing panels on the outer shell every few years, you can't build up not even 1 level and has virtually no sound insulation so horrible in term of land use, doesn't have walls solid enough to put plumbing in let alone fix anything else to, doesn't meet any building regulation in terms of safety - not even if you take regulations from 30 years ago, ...

I understand the draw and see the romanticism of living like a hermit in a forest; really I do. But for some reason people delude themselves into thinking that this can scale. When you're saying 'I love nature so much, I'm going to go live right in the middle of it!', it's like saying 'I love my horse so much, I'm going to eat it tonight'. Which is fine - I eat horse meat. But don't claim you're 'loving' it in the same way normal people use the word 'love'.
In MariaDB 10.2 and MySQL 5.7 and above, this wouldn't happen. It's FUD. The sql_mode, and mysql/mariadb version is not specified.

This seems purposefully contrived; just another developer who throws their toys out of the pram, because they don't read the documentation and just expect software to work for them.

If anything the author has done nothing more than demonstrate ignorance, malice, or both.

When choosing a database, of any kind, you are choosing where to store precious data! Read the fine manual!
MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and even the likes of MongoDB offer so many diverse options and storage formats and retrieval options.
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It's funny how this, at the moment, is behind the news “Google: it is time to return to not being evil” by 4 positions.
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The system perl on my work mac is v5.18.2. It's years out of date. If I want to run something that needs a newer version I can either update it without knowing what impact that has on the rest of the things running on my computer (seems like a bad plan...) or I can install a newer version alongside the system perl. My preferred method for that would be brew because I use brew for pretty much everything. I don't really want a second (or third, or fourth) package manager for every other thing.
I read their article, and a dozen of the rebuttals. If you want to use MySQL badly enough, you can.
Since when did we in the US start caring about technical matters over whats right?

A huge portion have always supported disclosure by journalists even when such disclosure represents an obvious violation of the law.

In short please pardon my language. Fuck the law.
Someone else mentioned inflation. This is what I said to my wife recently on a trip to see her family in China.

Everyone is as complaining about inflation. Inflation has gone crazy for over a decade, but since I first went there average wages in China have gone up by about 8x. The thing is they can't have high wages without High inflation. If wages go up then the workers in the factory making stuff get paid more, the truck driver that takes the goods to the shop is paid more, the shop assistants get paid more, the shop owner pays more rent. Therefore they have to charge more for their goods. But this is not a bad thing.

Meanwhile the exchange rate has made foreign goods twice as expensive. But if wages are up 8x then those foreign goods are actualy 4x more affordable. Hence all the foreign cars. It's all just the Chinese economy converging on global norms. When I first went, cars were an impossible luxury for most Chinese and in my wife's city the streets were bare except for taxis, busses and bicycles. Now there are traffic jams everywhere.

The problem is China has already almost reached international norms. The disparity that has allowed it to grow so fast is almost equalised. Factory wages are increasing because most of the untapped rural labour has been tapped. Within 10 years Chinese will be much better off, but China will have all the same problems every other advanced economy has and its economic miracle will have played out.

EDIT: Wolfram says bigger multiples than I thought. Wow, things change fast.
Thanks for sharing your experience and links. I too am going through a similar experience and this is helpful.
[author here] The article links several rhino conservation organisations pointing out why this is actually a bad idea - it would expand consumer demand for what is already an aspirational product, it would lend credibility to the completely fraudulent claims that rhino horn has any medical effect and it would provide cover for trade in poached horns. It sounds plausible, but ...
That's not a company, that's a research group. Is that different? I think so. They're supposed to push the visionary envelope while a company is supposed to make money. Instant-noodle accessibility is critical to the latter.

(I love that you wrote "our very own YCombinator" though!)
> they will not tally up years of experience or record your answers directly
> into an Excel spreadsheet.

About half of my interviews started with an HR phone call where they spew their laundry list of technologies and ask me to disclose the years of experience and how do I rate my skills from 0 to 10 for each element in the list.
The comments on this article make me absolutely certain that Google has a large PR team patrolling HN.

HN may be fairly right-wing but there is an implausible amount of apologetics for one of the world's largest and most powerful companies engaging in plainly coercive behaviour.