skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.

-- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Probably the big reason was removing all the non-64bit apps, and apps have have not updated their UI to support > iphone 6.
"designed to make you come back" ... but that's true of the whole ad-supported internet, broadcast TV etc. If it's free, you are the product. Still a problem, but not just a FB problem.
This seems to be contradicted by this article, which say that Facebook will not adopt GDPR protections globally:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16750976

See also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16754124
I wasn't aware you could use Dynamo or S3, that's pretty interesting
I both knew this and read the post I was responding to, which also brings this up as an option. I commented about Ctrl-[ because it was the last previously-unmentioned option.
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Totally agree! We should stop trying to make a weapon more accurate and go back to fire bombing complete cities. Only way to be sure.
Yes, they made some bad choices, and then they corrected them. They also funded the research that created the field. Things can be morally mixed. On balance though, the US military funding for cryptography has been pretty clearly a good thing.
Saying "talk is cheap" implores the listener to act on their statements.

Saying "virtue signaling" implores the listeners to stop expressing their views.
I would strongly argue that the motivation for nukeing Japan was not to give the Soviets an impression but to ensure that American troops didn't have to land on hostile beaches on the Japanese mainland. The decision was mainly made to save American lives by forcing a Japanese surrender
> The problem here is that Google sold their engineers on "Don't Be Evil" and libertarianism and "we're a sweet little tech company that people like" and is now delivering military contracts.

I'm not sure I ever felt Google was libertarian but maybe I just don't understand what that means?

Your comment makes me think this might be a strange viewpoint, but I don't consider "don't be evil" and military contracts to be mutually exclusive. I consider the military to be necessary. Perhaps one day we can live in a world where it won't be, but we are very far from that now, and given we can't even stop people within our own country from killing one another, I don't believe we will be able to stop other countries from invading us if they have nothing to deter them.

Do you consider the people who join the military to also be evil?
Interesting to hear!

Thanks for the EtherPad love. (I'm finally working on my next app!)
There's something a bit AppJet-like about Fly. I also really think this model could be the future; do you even need an "application server" if you have Fly and a datastore? I'm really looking forward to what you come up with for persistence. At AppJet, we had something called "magic storage" where you could access the "database" via proxy objects, with no explicit database calls. I wouldn't do it quite the same way now, but I can imagine some really neat JS persistence APIs that strip away the usual impedance mismatches between application logic and database, especially if the data is "right there" at the edge.
I don’t think that is a common counter-argument. The young earth creationism I’m aware of explicitly denies that God made things look as if the Earth was actually older, that humans evolved from other primates, etc. In the US, Answers in Genesis is probably the most prominent advocate of supposedly scientific arguments for a young earth.

Here’s one article from them: https://answersingenesis.org/age-of-the-earth/
Yep. Same with the Apple crash character bug from a few weeks ago. Also when linking .EXE's and .SCR's, I didn't see any hits on the server. Facebook blocks direct linking to executable files, and usually does a HEAD request against the web server - in this case I didn't see anything when sending via Secret.
"Because I was driving with my eyes closed" or "Because I wasn't looking" would be the human equivalent. Imagine if the driver used the same excuse, when asked why she didn't see the pedestrian and take over.
You know what's funny? The entire college acceptance system is biased toward wealthy families. You need to have the right experiences (often bought with money, inordinate amount of time spent by parents, or both). You need to write your own letters, of course, with "help" by parents or professionals. You need to plan your courses years beforehand, again, with help by others. If your parents are working their asses off to make ends meet, you likely won't have much help.

The entire American system is set up to make it as easy as possible for wealthy kids to go to college.

Somehow I've yet to hear one wealthy family objecting "This hurts my kid, because he is completely able to enter college on his own, but thanks to the system it will look like he got in only because he's wealthy! Make the system more fair!"

Anybody who says Affirmative action actually "hurts" disadvantaged kids had better be able to explain the above discrepancy.

I'm OK with Affirmative action.
Could "fingerprinting" a screenshot be foiled by running the screenshot through a lossy algorithm? Or doing something like converting to jpg->gif->jpg->gif->png->jpg... a few rounds? Enough to keep the picture viewable, but just barely?

Or hell, even simpler; taking a cameraphone picture of the screenshot?
I think you'd be surprised, I've worked on a few government security clearance roles where 80-90% of below management staff were Indian.
And yet, had all of the engineers in the US refused to participate in military work, guess who'd be running the world right now just the same? The world actually exists and the choices people make in it have real consequences. Not participating in military technology is an unbelievably childish option. If you are at all serious about the ethics of this, you have to choose to support the entity you trust the most. For me, that's the US. Feel free to make your own choices, though.
If police are incapable of intervening to prevent a crime then citizens certainly need guns to protect themselves.
How do you think the 2nd amendment is under assault? If you look at the list of things our youth were marching for[1], it doesn't say anything about taking guns away. Just like you can't yell "fire" in a movie theater, you shouldn't be able to walk around with a rocket launcher or semi-automatic weapon. Also, there's no way in hell any group of citizens can fight the US army these days so it seems like a moot point. You don't need automatic weapons to defend your house from intruders, but for some reason our leaders tell these kids that the solution is to shut up, wear invisible back-packs and learn CPR.

[1] https://marchforourlives.com/how-we-save-lives/
> are quitting

Do you mean these people have handed in notices or are planning on quitting in the next day or so? Or do you mean these people are considering quitting if google doesn't change its ways? Or do you mean "Some people I know are saying that they will quit" but have no short term plan for actually quitting?

Quitting a job over an ethical issue doesn't take long. It goes like this: "I quit!"

And then, those people are no longer 'quitting' but now have become 'have quit.'
Why do I do this? (2016)
Yea it that case then it's not that hard or extra cost. But I imagine most people aren't already running Nomad or Consul and can benefit from this. Lambdas, Wordpress, etc. can now get rotating secrets which is pretty nice possibility now with a lot less operational overhead.
Improving the accuracy of munitions targeting enemy military forces hiding in a building that neighbors civilian buildings/shields is not the same as genocide.
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We can all look at the data. The graph I linked ends in 2003 (like indicated in the graph itself), and jpollock posted the value for 2016, which is 70, so even higher than 2003. In other words, you are telling incorrect things and when called out, instead of giving in to reality, you are doubling down telling even more incorrect things. Not good. And it's quite saddening that in this forum dedicated to rational discourse, your flawed reasoning is being rewarded with so much attention, currently sitting at fifth place among all root comments.
I mean, the OP gave a real world example of the lack of drivers...

Doesn't having to write several paragraphs qualifying your previous statement make you question your position? Choosing the right hardware, being in the right industry, etc...

I'm also not just "[believing] what I hear". I've used Linux (and do pretty much everyday in some form) on multiple primary machines, and I also currently use my Mac.
But, if I sell you an ebook, you would expect a copy to read, right?

Accusing Facebook of selling data makes it easy for them to rebut: no data changed hands.

Similar to accusing copyright infringers of “stealing” movies. It muddies the waters.
It isn't a myth that companies have to act due to strict profit motivations. It's law.

The example you used on charitable causes, falls directly into marketing.
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Well I didn't necessarily say the law itself is unclear, just that the understanding of it as a whole seems to be unclear. Anecdotally, almost everyone I speak to at events seems to have different views on what they need to do. I'm in the EU.
I don't want the US to be involved in proxy wars with other countries.

So no, I don't believe that the US would do that and I am happy about that.

The US would only use Nukes if there was an attack on the US.

I want the US to stay out of all wars that aren't directed related to attacks on US soil and US citizens.

If the EU is worried about invasion, then they should have their own military to defend themselves.
Alternatively, I suppose this can help you select a doctor. Especially if board scores are also different based on race.

Of course this isn’t absolute as there are other factors to consider. But this is what I mean by saying these kinds of interventions increase racism. Since in your example this could lead to patients discriminating against Hispanic doctors.
The Emperor was weeks away from capitulating on his own, and Soviets were invading the place already. Nuking Japan was mostly to tell Stalin he can’t win. Japan capitulating sooner was a nice side effect.
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I think the end goal is making it harder to do heroin in a bathroom.
If, in a purely merit-based admissions process, they would represent e.g. 30% of the Harvard class, then it suggests discrimination.

But the idea that Harvard admissions is purely merit based is a joke, so this is very hard to pin down.
Don't host emails where the IPs used have a high chance that they have been used before. So no AWS/Azure/xyz stuff.
Fun fact: Kodak's headquarters had a rifle range in the basement.
Have you seen how Cal Tech which doesn’t look at race has double the Asian Americans roughly speaking than many other top schools? Just throwing that stat out there doesn’t prove anything about discrimination.
In postgres you can choose if the replication is synchronous or asynchronous. For cascade replication (a slave uses as a master for another slave) the replica is always async.
We try to come up with language that accurately describes our experiences and models. Over time that language has come to incorporate a large variety of mathematical notation and physical descriptors that were selected by optimizing for usefulness, completeness, and pedagogical clarity.
Certainly. If it's an opinion, then that's fine. This issue is different - it's about manipulation, the willful presentation of known fake information as real news. That is not allowed in the print media by law (libel/slander) - so why should it be allowed on digital platforms?
I think you're reading my comment with a bit too much scope placed on postsecondary education.

My point is about being treated as white when it's convenient, and being treated as non-white when convenient. All depending on the biggot's current goal at any one point in time. It's the limbo state for any group that assimilates but retain distinguishing characteristics that make them stand out from the pool of caucasians (a group that used to have deep seated strife over country of heritage, but now are treated as one due to their more amorphous distinguishing characteristics).
I would like to see your sources.
If there is, it's been a long time coming. The Eternal September started in 1993, and has been repeated across every social site or service ever created since then. The only way to avoid the flood is to leave before they arrive.
Typical white male excuse.
You are privileged enough to work in Google then you have no problem finding a new job. Strawman right away with child porn? Color me surprised.
> So, is property tasteless?

Owning something which you do not make use of and denying access to others who would make good use of it is not a good thing to do.

> Why are people trying to sell something? Shouldn't they just give it to me?

I'm not arguing against the whole of free market capitalism, just advertising. We can still have a free market without advertising. A bit like how we can and do have democracies while severely restricting political campaign funding.

> And then scientists should determine which products should be made.

> And scientists should determine who is the best at making those goods and services.

> And scientists should decide who doesn't deserve to live or reproduce.

Scientists provide information. They do not enforce anything; they are not an executive branch of government.

"Science" is the word we use for the process of rationally answering questions about the universe. That includes comparing products. And comparing who is best at making goods and services.

If it were the case that there were a subset of people who didn't "deserve" to live or reproduce (for some definition of "deserve") then yes, we would want scientists to be involved in identifying that subset of people. The obvious example is criminal punishment. The USA and other countries decide that some people no longer deserve to live. (Other societies in history have sterilized people). Yes, of course we would want those decisions to be based on science -- science as the provider of information and as the process for arriving at conclusions from data; the legal system and government to actually execute and enforce things.

> ... So... I purposely tried to go too far. At which point do you think I went too far?

You didn't go too far. I think you confused two things: (1) scientists making information available to society, and (2) some group of people enforcing a policy.
Seems like the two most likely consequences would be more inaccurate drone strikes and a higher risk of further expansion of the territory controlled by Communist Chinese hegemony. I don't think these Google employees want that so I'd like to see their thoughts on why they think the US military having worse AI would bring about a better universe.
The thing about GP's statement is that it's premised on the idea that it doesn't work in reverse: i.e. that the existing systemic racism that these policies are intended to offset don't likewise rob us of our best and brightest.

And, of course, that idea itself rests on the notion of an inherent superiority on one-side. To be clear, I don't believe that's part of the conscious thinking, but I do believe this oversight is illustrative of the kinds of blind-spots that tacitly guide a lot of thinking on these issues.

That's an unpopular thing to say but that doesn't make it any less true.
I mean that no country has a majority of the users hitting HN. In terms of posting comments it's a bit more than 50% from the US.

The point, though, is that people coming here are coming from many different countries, so opinion is more divided than it would be from just one. There aren't only political and ideological divides, but national, cultural, and linguistic ones. Understandably—because the information isn't available—people don't take this into account. That unfortunately leads to a lot of misunderstanding and even ill will.
> several Google employees familiar with the letter would speak of it only on the condition of anonymity, saying they were concerned about retaliation

This is too bad that the fear of retaliation exists for a letter like this. Is this actually the case? Or did the author read into them wanting to remain anonymous incorrectly? Perhaps they didn't want to become a spokesman for this issue outside the company, but are fine making their opinion known to coworkers and managers.
Only we don't.

Murders go up and down all the time. Average resident of that city doesn't really see that as "feedback". In fact, the average person is completely unaffected by that. Probably less than 0.01% of any demographic in the US is murdered in any given year in any given city. Even if the rate went up by an order of magnitude, most would barely notice. (Local TV news not withstanding.)
That's the minimum value to provide if you want to start a business in the logging market.
To jump from

> I don't know who you are, why you are in my home, and what your intentions may be.

to shooting someone would in most countries be considered a illogical and reckless act.

I'm having a hard time thinking of any scenario where taking someones life is a justified, logical and logically judicial act. Especially in the case you said.
Why we need wallet-level verification protocols to restore trust to blockchain
... and why the hell wouldn't they?
Sure, but if you put half of humanity on Mars, you'd clearly be increasing our risk, as the difficulty of surviving on Mars is nearly insurmountable. If you want people on other planets, they need to be self-sustaining. And if we can't even be self-sustaining on Earth, why would we be elsewhere?

We're a very very long way away from being able to survive if Earth fails. It is foolish to bet on any kind of interplanetary survival strategy at this point. Getting humans to other worlds is by far the easiest part of that equation.
This is a really good point that should not be ignored.

If being color blind upholds, and being color biased upholds. What should we do.

There’s a separate issue that if you think there isn’t systemic racism against Asian Americans then you may want to practice empathizing. So if there’s historic systemic racism against certain groups, isn’t it worse to identify some groups and turn the screws on them? A vengeance based social policy will be difficult to implement as the perpetrators already got theirs out of the education system and it will likely have lots of negative consequences and lead to a worse society.
Doesn't the small size only apply if you compile to assembly? If you compile to webasm shouldn't things be different? I am assuming a C# to webasm would be very different from the current C# to IL compiler.
That's the purpose of the titular program, but the package as a whole includes a lot of other utilities.
Another stereotype? It could be Perl or Bash.
Anyone know how this compares to Azure Key Vault?
I feel like the fall of the British Empire and subsequent reversion to the mean is probably responsible for most of that prosperity.
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First thing that came to my mind too! But it could also be bash...
I work in them.
>there shouldn't be any systemic race based acceptance criteria.

There shouldn't be any systemic race-based anything.

Unfortunately, however, there is.
There are actually 3rd party services that mail companies can use to check how trusted an IP is. So a lot of times, they'll provision an EIP on AWS, run a check against that service, use it if it's clean, and release and try again if it's not.

It does lock you to using EIPs though, which makes it a bit harder to scale up.
> Considering that democracy means people choosing their government

Well no, that's just one aspect of democracy that can't even remotely serve as a sufficient condition for democracy.
The post reports on generic graffiti now?

Are they that desperate to find their daily DeBlasio/Schumer/Cumo 2 min hate? Can they not just call random Democrats Communist to satisfy their readership? Could Sabo possibly find a more tenuous link between Schumer and Facebook?

The fact that Sabo admits to having an unnamed financial backer coupled with the fact that this non-news is reported on in the Murdoch press makes me think this is some sort of guerilla marketing by an underhanded conservative firm similar to Cambridge Analytica.