skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The reason Facebook ... is successful

I think it's much too early (and much too close-minded) to call Facebook successful. Yes they have made a lot of money already, but their story is just beginning and it's a big eager to call Facebook a success.

Facebook is Public Enemy #1 right now, and for good reason. Success is defined by more than Money - and even at that, Facebook's not shown success in its stock price recently anyhow.

Facebook is not a success. Facebook has been used to systematically dismantle democracy and to fuel fear and hatred and lies into the American population at large scale.

Facebook does emotional experiments on you without your direct knowledge or any outside influence. Facebook has been hell-bent on testing to see if it can make hundreds of thousands of people simultaneously depressed. They can do that and they are proud of it.

All the money in the world doesn't turn Facebook into a success. It is a moral pit of hell and will never been seen as "successful" by most people or hopefully anyone.
This program reverses the output.
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German legislation (sadly not directly available in english) [1]

12 months paid leave at 67% of previous income plus 2 months if shared with the other parent.

1: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/beeg/index.html
> I'm curious how much better you could do by skipping the OS entirely and making a userspace disk API, similar to DPDK

I've thought about the same thing myself. Some sort of direct access to block IO, with the ability to force writes (and reads?) to go directly to disk, and to force some sort of ordering between requests.
It's not just economy of scale for babysitting, though that is a big component. In fact, the timing of compulsory education being enacted into law coincides with men coming back from the world wars and the creation of child labor laws, denying children the right to work so their parents could have better jobs. I'm not here advocating putting kids back in the factories, just pointing out the history.

In addition to that, I think it's clear that there's two curriculums at school: a spoken one and an unspoken one. The spoken curriculum is math, science, reading, etc. The unspoken curriculum is mass social indoctrination around conformity, complacency, and willingness to do boring work with minimal reward for long periods of time. Essentially, to psychologically prepare children for the realities of work life.
> "Leakers, please resign instead of sabotaging the company,"

So are the employees upset about the "growth at all costs" mentality, or upset that it was laid bare?
Perhaps I drank too much of the LIDAR cool-aid. The woman was 2/3's the way across the high way - she didn't just materialize. What's the purpose of this 360 degree 3D map if the AI isn't using it to avoid a collision?
What material is "the bubble" made out of if Facebook employees immediately jump to "spies" when it comes to leaking something like this? Has it been so long since they've had contact with soul-containing humans that they forgot how they operated?! Zucker-bot must be replicating ye olde FB HQ.
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As you've expressed. And I feel you're being logically disingenuous by failing to gradate levels of punishment.

It's a straw man to say I'm suggesting there shouldn't be a high burden of proof for a severe punishment.

And whether a viewpoint terrified you or not is largely irrelevant.

Personally, I modulate my desire for individual liberty with what I consider a reasonable responsibility to nurture an environment where individuals are afforded opportunities to exercise that liberty.
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Nice to see that instead of trying to question why the memo was leaked, some are blaming the leaker
Wow, as according to this leadership was fully aware that collecting cell phone contact data is unethical, but they did it anyway because the end justifies the means. Scary stuff. I always thought it's awesome to work there, with free food and games and stuff but I guess it all comes with a cost. Facebook internally seems like a pretty unhealthy community.
Most companies have held internal memos like this as private to the organization. Any breach of that is a firing offense. FB, Google, Apple, etc. are not doing anything that corporate America hasn't been doing for ... for I don't know how long.

It is disconcerting how FB employees have come out in support of these ideas from the memo, though.
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Why do you think Facebook, Google, and Mailchimp are censoring blockchain related content?
I genuinely can't fathom this argument at all and it seems rather widespread in these parts.

For one thing I'll keep strongly objecting to the use of "censorship" for something as mundane as this. It's a strong word, a private company saying that you can't do X or Y on its own turf is not censorship. If you tag the walls of a McDonalds and you get thrown out it's not censorship. If you're using Mailchimp and they say "we don't want to deal with that anymore" it's not censorship. If they based their decision on race, sexual orientation or religion it might be discrimination but Bitcoin is not officially a religion yet.

For systems that have a quasi-monopoly or a very dominant position such as Youtube it's true that it can be a problem. Not being able to post your videos on Youtube will probably reduce visibility a lot. That's still not a free-speech issue though, it's a monopoly/lack of competition issue. The solution isn't to force Youtube to host your content, it's to work on having competition in the video hosting space.

In this case though it makes no sense. Email is an open infrastructure, anybody can start sending emails whenever they want. You don't have to ask anybody for permission, setup postfix on some dedicated server and mail away.
If you can remember the example queries I can pass them along to debug. (You can check your search history if you have it turned on. https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity )
I have the great fortune of dealing with YAML every day. The sheer number of ways in which string literals can exist is eye-opening, as is the interpretation differences across libraries. That the YAML spec has not been updated in a decade is icing on top.
Is this "don't worry we're mature enough to police ourselves"? This is of public importance when Facebook decided to have such lax privacy policies as to allow the CA leak to occur.

I think what's good for the public is important to consider, hopefully more than what's just good for Facebook and their shareholders.
Those first two points apply (almost) to PHP. Probably the nicest parts of it are ease of deployment, and the isolated “throw the world away” process model per-request. I’ve played with SCGI myself in Nim, it’s quite fun to explore.
>A private company censoring people for discussing a perfectly legal technology deserves a boycott.

You're being ridiculous and disingenuous.

MailChimp has long had a list of Prohibited Content and Sending Subject to Additional Scrutiny that include "perfectly legal" items: https://mailchimp.com/legal/acceptable_use/

When you signed up, where was your heartfelt cry for liberty for people selling pharmaceutical products, credit repair services, daily horoscope reports, or mortgages and loans?

This is just a pet issue of yours and that's why you're upset. Don't pretend this is some great violation of principles.
I was a huge fan of Rdio back in the day before it got bought by Pandora and shut down in 2015 (ish?). I tried all the other streaming services, literally, and could tell you why I had a problem with all of them. None of them lived up to Rdio in my mind, and so I had the idea back then to combine artist and album and song data from Spotify, Discogs and LastFM with the YouTube API and make my own streaming service! [edit: Spotify is now a lot better, but it wasn't great back in 2015-16 in my opinion]

When you search for a song on Minotaur, it first searches our elasticsearch cluster, then if it can't find what you're looking for, it does a search on Spotify or Discogs or LastFM. Then if you click on a result it quickly pulls in that piece of data, then caches the rest of the artists info in our datastores, for quick retrieval later.

Once you play a song, my "algorithm" searches for the best version of that song it can find on YouTube, then caches that as well. It works pretty well most of the time, but occasionally a crappy version comes through. If so, you can flag the track and paste a YouTube link to a better version.

Let me know what you think.
FYI, MailChimp is based in Atlanta, GA. Maybe you mean to use "Silicon Valley" as a catch-all for tech, but I don't think it's fair to associate SV with anti-ICO attitudes in this way. The anti-ICO sentiment is coming from everywhere, and I think it's pretty legitimate.
those are great, definitely adding those aliases.
If I have sudo access on a friends machine, installing Steam Locomotive is generally the first thing I do. Adding it to the "Getting started" docs at my company does sound like a good idea.
>There’s something peculiarly thick-headed about the New Atheism – the parallels between its idolatry of reason and the faith of more conventional religion have become an argumentative cliche.

I've always found the parallels and hubris of militant evangelical atheists/religionists comically ironic. Especially since hubris is the antithesis of real science.

This point reminds me of a Sagan quote:

"An atheist has to know a lot more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no god. By some definitions atheism is very stupid."
Wow that is fucked up, and yet sadly I think state side HN readers will rage more about the use of "loaded" words like blacklist, whitelist, slave database, dog balls (for javascript brackets) and so on before focusing on real problems - but where is the fun in that.

There's a good documentary about Texas throwing kids in the jail for trivial crimes for multiple years that highlights how retarded the system is (beyond this case), can't find title at the moment grr..
I'm sure that somebody will come along with a "curated" list.
> It starts this early so parents can get their kids to school and start working afterwards, without getting fired.

As a working parent, totally agree. Employers should be more accommodating for working parents just like they do for maternity/paternity programs, but they haven't yet.

Big corporations with HR and dedicated benefit personnels are more tolerable than most startups, unfortunately.
I'm not sure there's an algorithm in the world that would be able to recommend videos that aren't similar to the ones you currently watch but that you would still like. I think the best route is to just reccomend videos that are similar and rely on external sources (friend/community recommendations, Reddit, etc) for lateral movement across genres.
Full memo is here:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanmac/growth-at-any-cost-top-face...

As other commenters have said, it seems to me that this is being totally overblown due to all the recent CA drama.
You seem to think the only "good" bits of bread are seeds and nuts some people add. That is not bread. Bread is water, flour and yeast, and salt optionally.

Great bread doesn't have to be expensive and it doesn't need anything extra. And "healthy additives" doesn't make bad bread good.
> questionable contact importing practices

If your phone company had suggested it used morally wrong and potentially illegal tactics to get your private contact information, and equal uproar would ensue.

> The ugly truth is that we believe in connecting people so deeply that anything that allows us to connect more people more often is de facto good.

This is literal insanity. Of course this is a big deal. This man writes that he thinks there is almost literally nothing, legal or not, outside the company's willingness to grow exclusively to earn more money. Accepting murder, terrorism, death, just to grow and earn more money? Fuck that man, he's evil and the memo is written to sound as evil as possible. It's sick and it's wrong and it's a lot more than a little tacky.

Facebook has no desire to help you or your friends connect. Facebook has no desire to keep you safe or keep you a customer. They want your friends as customers and they don't care if you die as a result. It almost sounds in the memo like this crazy person wanted someone to die, it's super weird with the fixation on " even some DEATH won't stop us now!" uh okay, sounds like a nice man.

The man says "the truth...we believe in.." and then says later he never believed in it, claims himself that he's a liar and a cheat. He is obviously not mentally well and cannot be trusted to do any real work, especially the kind that has dramatic effect on the lives of 2B people.
From the Wikipedia article you linked to:

"The name Pawpaw or Papaw, first recorded in print in English in 1598,[8] originally meant the giant herb Carica papaya or its fruit (as it still commonly does in many English-speaking communities, including Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa). According to Douglas Harper's Online Etymology Dictionary, it began to be used [presumably in North America] "from 1760 to designate the papaw tree" [meaning not Carica papaya but Asimina triloba]."

So the original pawpaw is papaya, and the American pawpaw is the imposter.
Those pesky Russians...that Putin sure has a lot of time on his hands /s
Google already bans ads for firearms, fireworks, and tobacco products. There are restrictions on adult content, alcohol, gambling, drugs, and financial services [1].

They've always been more selective about what can be advertised, versus what shows up as the result of a search. The product being legal to buy has never been the standard.

[1] https://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/answer/6008942?hl=e...
His/her communication isn't the most clear, but the point being made is that bread is not healthy, and that it essential to current human population size, but the species would be better off not consuming it ideally. That it should be seen as a treat, as something to eat despite its effect on the body, not because of it.

tl;dr Paleo diet.
The tone of the responses are objectively creepy. Almost cultish. It makes you wonder if FB has become known as an amazing place to work because their HR org had become so good at selling the FB culture to anyone who joins to keep them in line.

Now that mirage has a few cracks in it and executives are freaking out.

Reminds me of Westworld.
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Don't tell them rice contains arsenic.
It probably does more harm than good since it detracts from the severity of actual warnings on products we know can be dangerous.

I have the same issue with the EU cookie law which while well intentioned it essentially trained a whole generation to accept an annoying pop up without reading or understanding it.
It's very difference to admit you are doing unethical things vs providing tools that can be used to unethical ends.
I'm guessing moderate pawpaw consumption is still relatively safe. This study isolated annnonacin from pawpaws and applied it to neural cells directly in large dosages. The soursop case involved prolonged and daily intake, as well.
If you mean "enslaved", maybe.
They banned "Week in Ethereum" feed so you don't know if they are banning your email using the word "pepsico" because they found ICO in a simple search regexp or even Ethereum in different contexts.

I completely understand banning ICO spams which at the end are just spams.
I've noticed a growing pattern in Youtube land. I'll watch a video of of some event, maybe a talk given by a professor. Then a week or so later I'll get a suggestion to watch the same exact talk which has been uploaded by a different user, perhaps with some minor video modification to trip up duplication filters or something. It's really lowering the quality of my suggestion feed.
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What a disgusting story. How come the State is so vindictive towards the weak and so powerless against people who starts unjustified wars or brings down the financial system ?
I wonder how they schedule that. Does that mean that all PE classes (assuming PE is part of the "unimportant" category) are either at the beginning or the end of the day? What does the PE teacher do in the middle of the day, then?
My worst semester at University I had three 8am lectures... I knew I was a bit of a night owl, but at this point I didn't realise that I actually had a severe sleep disorder. I had just assumed that what people said (you just have to be disciplined, just go to be earlier, etc.) was potentially true, which was demoralising. It was actually pretty liberating to find out about differences in circadian rhythms. I still get similar bad advice, which is about as useful as "just be happier" is to a clinically depressed person...
My definition of success in this context is attracting around 25% of the entire human population to it's platform.
What does that have to do with school start times? Do parents take “parental leave” every morning to take their kids to school later? Of course not.

And maternity/paternity leave has little to do with school age kids.

France has the “genius” idea to have school only 4 days per week in most places. So Wednesdays off. Parents have to figure out what to do with their kids — they can’t exactly take off every Wednesday. And why does this 4 day week persist? Not because of ideal learning outcomes but because of teacher unions.

Europe isn’t better at everything and America isn’t worse at everything as people often like to suggest. And all of those great “benefits” people like to point out — they aren’t free. Salaries are dramatically lower in Europe and taxes higher — so even when all of these benefits are tallied, Americans still have more disposable income along with lower unemployment and a far more robust economy.

For sure there are great things about Europe, but don’t minimize America because it’s fashionable. Look at actual numbers.
If you're talking about their main recruiter for YEARS, she went somewhere else a few years ago.

I think everyone even a little related to the SD/IT field in the state has her on their LinkedIn or has at least talked to her before. She's really great!
You're right that there is always a race to build a new hardware platform. You're wrong that one literally replaces another.
I think big tech has it very different, given how much they know about their personal employees lives. Some information should leak within a healthy society so backlash and corrections can occur before an election might be compromised by a horrific breach.

For a view on what's different an excerpt from a Guardian piece is below.

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“It’s horrifying how much they know,” he told the Guardian, on the condition of anonymity. “You go into Facebook and it has this warm, fuzzy feeling of ‘we’re changing the world’ and ‘we care about things’. But you get on their bad side and all of a sudden you are face to face with [Facebook CEO] Mark Zuckerberg’s secret police.”

The public image of Silicon Valley’s tech giants is all colourful bicycles, ping-pong tables, beanbags and free food, but behind the cartoonish facade is a ruthless code of secrecy. They rely on a combination of Kool-Aid, digital and physical surveillance, legal threats and restricted stock units to prevent and detect intellectual property theft and other criminal activity. However, those same tools are also used to catch employees and contractors who talk publicly, even if it’s about their working conditions, misconduct or cultural challenges within the company.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/16/silicon-v...
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Private prisons have basically nothing to do with this. They house very little of the prison population (less than 10% IIRC)
There are different methods of schooling! Granted, they're more work for the parent, usually costly, might not work with a normal 9-5 schedule, and a bunch of other potential problems.

But if you have the resources, you can look for what you believe would be the best path for your future kid.
Anecdotally I definitely did better in High School when I had band first thing in the morning.
The same issue happened recently with youtube banning videos from fire arms enthusiasts. One might disagree with their political stance but they are entitled to do so.
Thank you. You made my day! :D I'm confident that there are other such commands that I'm unaware of and don't know how to find them. May be you could help out.
https://github.com/Clozure/ccl/blob/master/lib/case-error.li...

%assertion-failure doesn't look like an accessor.

http://clhs.lisp.se/Body/f_car_c.htm

car described as "accessor", not named %car. No public function in CL is named this way. In fact, the character % doesn't make an appearance at all:

http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw50/CLHS/Front/X_Per...

I've never named a function or macro %something in 18 years of Lisp.
Every team has an emergency backup. And sometimes they will let the other team use them if there is a situation that requires it, since they don't travel with the team.

Happened a few days ago in a game in Colorado. He was dressed and everything (no jersey though), but he didn't end up playing.

They just sign one day contracts with the teams if they have to suit up. And it's only a few hundred bucks if I remember correctly.
dot (part of graphviz) is super handy.
look into the P or W series aswell, i currently use a w541 as my main machine, with 32GB of ram. (which i need for virtualization purposes)
What is the world's largest .zip file? (2017)
n might be large.
There's also selection bias at work here though - the only responses that'll get media attention are the ones that are novel or 'newsworthy' - we aren't seeing the normal boring comments.
I used to work for an eyeglass lens manufacturer. I remember having to set up a new label printing system to print labels that said "this product contains blah blah known to cause cancer blah blah". This was on eyeglass lenses. What's the exposure risk here? Eating them? Who eats their eyeglass lenses?
The tone of the responses to the leak are objectively creepy. Almost cultish. It makes you wonder if FB has become known as an amazing place to work because their HR org had become so good at selling the FB culture to anyone who joins to keep them in line.
Now that mirage has a few cracks in it and executives are freaking out.

Reminds me of Westworld.
The problem with stringly typed languages is that they don't fail fast or clearly. You end up having to spend more time debugging and diagnosing weird behavior when things go wrong and less time actually productively writing code.

This is a problem with weakly typed languages in general, but stringly typed is the nadir of weakly typed.

The problem increases geometrically with the size of the software system - you can't make building blocks to build other software on because the foundations are too unstable, so the only thing that really works is short programs that don't do very much - or, as some people put it, "toys".

He mentions strict format checks as a way to offset that, but I don't think that's nearly enough.
year to year
I thought that theory told us multicriteria optimization is intractable?
I think its all part of a narrative build up to start censoring people under the justification of stopping things like terrorism and bullying
About 1/4 of Norway's GDP is oil and gas (US is about 7%). Ireland is a particularly ironic choice given their recent GDP growth and subsequent dip were mostly from being a tax haven for wealthy US companies.

I wouldn't personally attribute either of these to better educational or societal systems.