skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
is it weird to find them fascinating? I am a millenial and WW2 and its horror is something that I have learnt, but to meet survivors (of holocaust) and surviving items is very exciting.
Serfs couldn't leave. You can quit whenever you want.
> Workers of a private company should have a say in the doings of the company.

But the person I replied to advocated them abusing that say to undermine an elected government.

They weren't just saying 'Google should not have the government as a customer' they were saying 'Google should have the government as a customer and then deliberately abuse that to force their political agenda'.

> A union at Google could threaten to effectively halt all institutional operations of governments or other companies in order to influence their actions.

See the difference? That's not 'we don't want to be involved in this, thanks'. It's 'we're going to abuse our position of power to get you to do what we want rather than what the voters' representative want'.

And I'd gently suggest that if you think this would be fine, it's just because they happen to have the same politics as you, which would be lucky for you, but beware it may change.

What if the Google union forced the government to bomb Yemen, instead to not bomb Yemen?
> Finally, you make a very common mistake when you assert "you can't yell 'fire' in a movie theater".

I thought the 'mistake' would be assuming that this action is prohibited even in the event of a fire.

Now I question if it is assumed to apply unconditionally, even during a fire. And if so, what is the appropriate way to deal with such an event
There really isn't a formal structure for this yet, is there? AFAIK, Googlers aren't unionized, though I definitely know a few interested that are in being so.

I am also curious if you know of prior examples of strikes being on moral grounds, I usually associate a strike with demands for employee rights or compensation, not corporate behavior.

This starts to move past the edge of my zone of knowledge, I've never been union, my knowledge of them is relatively basic.
A start. Now they need to shrink in-app purchases.

Seriously, I see games with over a dozen kinds of in-app purchases that total well over $100 (sometimes individually that high), and many listed purchases seem to be for repeatable things like gem bags. How much money can you possibly spend on a game!? It should be completely against the rules for heaps of purchases like these to even be an option. Basically, your app should have a hard limit on the number of items, a lifetime limit on dollars spent in total, and this theoretical maximum spend should be displayed in giant print next to the price when you download it. Furthermore, on every single app update, if any in-app purchases are changed, the new total dollar amount should be displayed in large text next to the updating button and such apps should not be possible to install via auto-update on a device.
Fischer v Massachussetts[1] (and other cases won by the second amendment foundation) holds that resident aliens are counted amongst "the people" for purposes of second amendment protection (and other rights too!)

[1] - http://ia800500.us.archive.org/20/items/gov.uscourts.mad.135...
Normal division of labor means you're going to get slower service from a manager than from a server. It's a simple math problem.
Denny's lost a $54MM lawsuit over, among other things, refusing to seat black people, including a collection of black Secret Service agents, or deliberately forcing black people to wait longer to get a table, or, in some cases, requiring black people to pay more for their food.

So, no, even if we (weirdly) stipulate the idea that creepers are a protected class, the Denny's situation is not comparable to what's happening here.
Perhaps NSFW, but being frank so it's clear what I'm saying.

There's cultural differences the other direction. German toilets catch feces on what we called a "shit shelf" instead letting it fall and submerge in water. Which, of course, made for a pretty bad odor situation.

And in Turkey, the "toilet" was a hole in the ground. Even in the Hilton, it was a fancy carved marble and gold leaf "4 inch diameter hole in the floor". My quads and other muscles aren't accustomed to that, and neither was my aim :)

I just shrugged both off and figured there was some history I didn't understand.
You're muddying the water and completely missing the point:

Facts are what they are, regardless of what people may say or feel about them. The laws of physics, such as Ohm's Law, can be discovered and are facts even were people to deny their validity. The same is true for all facts of nature, including the nature of humans and their rights.
The beginning... we basically can't avoid this. If it isn't Google, it will be someone else.
Respect to that one Googler. But are those 3000 in the category of experts which would hurt Google if they leave.

I am doubtful that paycheck can be match elsewhere in companies which are more morally upright than Google. However if it is single issue protest about military but acts regarding user data usage, financial, environmental or other type of dodgy behavior is okay then these people can definitely move on to different employers.
> Once again, do you have a reference to this?

Assuming you aren't feigning helplessness in order to make life difficult for the other poster, here you go:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Denny%27s+54-million+lawsuit

Congratulations, not only do you now have a fish, but you have completed a small lesson in how to fish.
I'm not at all stipulating that creepers are a protected class, I'm saying that the tipped food service industry has a racism problem and this is a really easily gamed system that people will think they can exploit to make more money than their coworkers.
A few million people died under that misappropriated symbol though. It sucks you can't use it for its intended message anymore, but most peoples' sympathies lie elsewhere.
Ask HN: What photogrammetric software do you use and why?
Smalltalk was the first language I loved. It was great to write, but I had difficulty understanding the structure of other's code. Even with that great integrated debugger, I couldn't figure out how Morphic actually worked.

These days for graphical programming, I prefer C with nuklear (https://github.com/vurtun/nuklear) over smalltalk.
When I was in Guangzhou squat toilets were the norm.

You also had to bring your own toilet paper too which I found out much too late in the process

0/10 Experience for sure
I got most of the way through the page assuming it was something to do with Microsoft edge. Perhaps worth at least one line early on in the page to give a bit better idea what it is?
I'm not making a slippery slope argument. I'm asking where you draw the line.

Does Congress pass a bill declaring Facebook public? The rules can't be gut feeling, how do I tell the difference between a comment section that is a public place and one that isn't?

If there are two types of things: A which is a public place and B which isn't, how do I sort into those two bins?

"Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble"

What part of the first amendment guarantees me YouTube has to host and monetize my videos?

The government isn't allowed to tell me I can't say something or to punish me for doing so (with the exceptions decided by SCOTUS). The first amendment doesn't mean my neighbors have to be my friends if I use obscene language at dinner parties.

People seem to confuse the First Amendment and the Civil Rights Act.

The Civil Rights Act reached into much less public places and prevented certain behaviors. If YouTube was deleting videos because they were made by black people or Muslims or women, this would be a very different conversation. Religion, race, sex.... those are protected classes.

Freedom of expression doesn't mean your opinions are a protected class. The law doesn't and won't reach that far into the behaviors of private entities. The first amendment protects you from the government, nothing else.
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I assume the parent meant that it was convenient they didn't talk about the topic, or that you couldn't give examples. Most everyone on HN knows a lot of people at major tech companies.

Anyways, we'll see what happens, if the company doesn't give in perhaps we will see some more "why I quit Google" blogs down the road.
I think this is exactly how health/medical data should exist. My family should have their own health/medical network node and only my direct healthcare providers should be able to access the data from it and only after I authorize them with a digital signature. Whatever data they generate about my person (or persons in my family) should be owned by me, stored in my family network, and only available to others after I explicitly authorize it.

The massive collections of monolith data sets for financials, health/medical, credit history, employment records, taxes, census, etc are far too valuable to not be highly valuable to criminal orgs and/or government entities. Centralization into monolithic organizations will lead to irreversible issues of data non-privacy for a generation or more..
So, _Schenck_ has largely been overturned on a number of occasions, but the following (untested) likely still holds as punishable (but not forbidden against through ante-hoc regulations):

* _Falsely_ shouting fire

* in a crowded theater

* for the purpose of imminently inciting harm to others
> I think developers have grown increasingly desperate for this.

Developers have. But unfortunately, most that the users (aka our customers) want is a place where they can share cat videos, have instant communication with friends and (distant) relatives and, depending on allegiance, Trump or Clinton memes in peace. There are only two things that can not be done on the social networks: gambling and porn. Everything other has been slowly absorbed, especially by Facebook.

Also: when you're working 10+ hours a day or more, you most often don't have time to maintain your own blog, much less a full blown web server. There's the reason why Instagram, FB and Twitter are so damn successful: they're essentially frictionless after the sign-up process.
> Well, the thing about both yellow and orange, is that there is no actual retaliation against the customer.

Yeah I like that part. Maybe the customer is having a bad hair day, maybe they are autistic or homeless. There is no need to kick them out or confront them if they haven't said or done anything bad. Just have a way to quickly pass the handling to someone else and move on.
Because the police are not equipped to handle "petty" sexual assault cases as a routine. The only process they have to resolve these problems, besides enforcing a restaurant manager's request that a patron leave the building (which isn't a real problem), is to take a complaint and make an arrest, which is expensive not only for the victim but also for the accuser.

People have weird ideas about what the police do. Much as they'd like to pretend otherwise, they aren't referees or mediators.
It is as if the only thing you should run on it is Electric Sheep.

https://electricsheep.org/
I wasn't even looking at a particular solution when I posted this. Maybe YouTube should change something, maybe the social safety net should change, maybe gun laws should change. Lots of options. I just am skeptical that, compared to those options or maybe even others, repeating to people that they have no legally cognizant reliance interests on income that is not contractually guaranteed is a promising way out. I mean, yes, true, but some big billboards proclaiming that is not going to solve the problem.
We actually started experimenting with nginx + Lua way at the beginning. It was a great way to build a poc.

v8 is fast, surprisingly so. In an http request/response cycle you can write and awful lot of JavaScript logic in v8 without adding perceptible latency.

We have a small office in Chicago, but are mostly distributed. :)
Sorry, but to the western world it is a symbol of genocide and a dark time in history, it will never be reclaimed. No one cares about the previous history of the symbol, it is forever tarnished.
Yes, it's determined by whether the diagnostic data setting is at Full or at Basic. This is presented as a toggle in the initial OS install setup dialog and can be changed later in Settings->Privacy->Feedback & diagnostics. The only change to this since the initial version of Windows 10 (besides reducing the data collected at Basic level to comply with European law and regulations) was that the third, intermediate Enhanced level can no longer be set through the UI (it still exists as an enterprise configuration option) since the Creators Update release in spring 2017.

There is more detailed information here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/configuration/confi...
I would be more interested if 10% of petitioners leave. Single accomplished person can easily move defending their moral position.
Economic self-interest? It takes worker time to file formal complaints and involve the police, and if they can get the customer banned that's all the owners really need.
> Is that really a UI issue?

More of a UX issue. The worst possible kind.
This assumes rights are universal.
This is a great idea. It's a 3-color system that lets women report different levels of harassment, and their supervisor is required to take different types of actions, no questions asked.

> The color system is elegant because it prevents women from having to relive damaging stories and relieves managers of having to make difficult judgment calls about situations that might not seem threatening based on their own experiences. The system acknowledges the differences in the ways men and women experience the world, while creating a safe workplace.
The costs of calling the police to your own restaurant are wayyyyy higher than you seem to be thinking. Everybody in the building will remember their time at your restaurant as "that one time the police showed up and took that guy in who was screaming the whole time about how the hostess is lying and he's a father of a family of four, goddammit!"

Even in the best case, where the cops show up, talk to the guy, cite him (or something) and leave, something like touching/grabbing a staff member or making inappropriate comments is going to be really hard to catch or prove in a court... Having your manager go up to the table and calmly tell him that it's time to go is going to be way less likely to disrupt other customers.

And last, what restaurants have you been to that have CCTV? Fast food, definitely, but I don't remember the last time I sat down for a nice meal out and noticed security cameras on the walls. This produces an atmosphere similar to calling the cops into your restaurant: you're implying that people who go there are sketchy enough to deserve being surveilled or brought in by the authorities at any point.
You’re getting downvotes but I think it’s unwarranted. The swastika has a deep and significant history; it would be worthwhile for everyone interested in WW2 history to understand this misappropriated symbol.

I don’t know that it makes a difference to say it but I had family members killed by the Nazis so I’m not detached from the history. That said, I think most people from a Western country could say the same thing.
Any three thousand people leaving would be a huge hit. There's massive retraining costs and inefficiencies with lost knowledge, even if you could extremely quickly hire 3,000 qualified replacements above their existing hiring rate. The article does suggest some very senior names are signatories, but obviously doesn't disclose who.
I’m saying the vast majority of humans don’t even recognize when ideas are forced on them.
It's pretty trivial to get "(perhaps unintentional) racist says black dude doesn't look right" out of this, given how prevalent racism is in our society, and how the default reaction to non-whites is generally more negative in any given context.
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I am not sure why i got down voted, but I was wondering if it is possible to isolate policy + enforcement of policies by the industry, through an independent body (say w3.org) over all, instead of individual companies. This will make sure that the policy is uniform no matter where the content gets posted, be it youtube or face book or any site. Think about movie ratings by Motion picture association. If a movie is rated R, it is R no matter where you watch it, be it netflix or any movie theater.
As a Hindu, this saddens me as well. Even though I’m not religious, it was a symbol of prosperity. I sometimes wonder how centuries of history can be appropriated and misrepresented by one bad actor.
https://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/25/us/denny-s-restaurants-to...

http://articles.latimes.com/1994-05-25/news/mn-62027_1_civil...

Alas, the actual examples aren't fully enumerated (to the tune of some 4,500 complaints). The syntax of "slow service" in the cited examples is in seating customers.
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That's intentional. By doing so you are interrupting the occupant's peaceful moment, make him anxious, and as a result he will get out faster.
bambax's comment is particularly silly too: "It seems, Americans don't trust one another to sit alone in a toilet". One could just as easily remark that "It seems Europeans must be so childishly shy about normal bodily functions that they must build walls from floor to ceiling in order to pretend that they don't happen". But obviously, both versions are stupid.
Presumably a manager would notice a server constantly asking them to take over a certain class of tables and fix the problem.
The average Joe or Jane gun owner in the United States can not purchase, and does not own, automatic weapons.

Literally tens of millions of responsible Americans walk around, every day, carrying semi-automatic weapons, and this is not a problem.

This is also true in the Czech Republic! Shall-issue, just like Texas. They are one of the safest countries in the EU.

You are far more likely to be shot by a cop, than by a citizen legally carrying a semi-automatic weapon.
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I respectfully disagree. I had family members killed by the Nazis and I care about the swastika being reclaimed, at least in the sense that it should be common knowledge that it was a misappropriated religious symbol. For some folks, the understanding stops at “swastika = Nazi”.
Aren't Buddhists supposed to advocate non attachment?

Why not just let your attachment to that symbol go, and create a new and better one that symbolizes your values?

I want to end hate. And I end my comments with this. }=^={
Supposedly, and this is hearsay, but when Google bought Skybox Imaging, they cancelled their government contract(s) and kept the private ones. The idea commonly believed amongst employees there was that they did not want to provide intelligence services to the federal government.
There's a lot to unpack here, but it seems that the gist of it is that things that happen in our society are because humanity is some kind of untamable animal, and that we should all just resign to letting it run wild as it does.

Do you not believe that society is only the sum of its parts? Do you not believe that the mathematics of society can be changed, the more parts of the equation object to letting their talents be used for unscrupulous goals?

I would point you towards any cultural shift in modern society, and how it began—usually, as the imbalance of classes further divides, until one class can't tolerate it any further, and uses what power they have to reset the scales. That is what is happening today, and it isn't a fluke of the short attention span of the beast of humanity. It is a conscious, concerted effort of people in this country who are tired of existing in a system devoid of morals. And to frame it as something like embracing the status quo, or becoming a puritanical society, is simply a false dichotomy.
A few times a few at least, and that’s only counting extermination in the KZ’s and VZ’s. If you consider the total casualties of the war, including combat deaths (even German) and civilian casualties outside of the camps, it’s more in the realm of 50-80 million. Subtract 3-5 million for the Pacific theater, and it’s still a lot.

It also doesn’t help that neo-Nazis work today under the same banner.
It's launched, they're done with it if engineers can't get promoted for incremental improvements.
> Homes usually pay ~$6,000 to fill a pool.

Where? I'm seeing anecdotes of an average of $100-300 to fill up a pool with a hose, and $1250 to bring a truck in.
You are right, this is for sure the main reason, the title is misleading.
They cost a great deal of R&D budget for their role in the development IT technology, and the larger part of development came from non military research, from academia and companies like Bell Labs.

The Google workers urging their CEO to pull out of Pentagon projects are the ones who do not have such short memories as to be distracted from the blatant deceptions and disasters carried out in recent history, with no sign of relenting.
Government overrules the public on privatizing public resources despite near-unanimous opposition from the public that stands to "benefit": HN can barely muster a shrug.

Government overrules the public on something HN actually gives a shit about, like net neutrality, using the exact same process: HN calls for blood in the streets!

This is despite the fact Nestlé typically pays nothing (or an absurdly low amount) for the public resources it's selling, gets incredible tax breaks to create jobs, and then only creates on average 24 low-wage jobs that mostly go to non-local residents...
It’s interesting. I took some classes on this and there is research showing the value of diversity in problem solving. [0]

But making the leap that this somehow means that skin/gender diversity equates to higher performance is quite a leap.

The instructor’s argument went something like this. “A bunch of studies show diversity improves outcome. A bunch of studies show people are racist against these populations. Therefore since having more of this population increases diversity, we need program XYZ.”

The class was infuriating, because the instructor kept using these studies as evidence and then directly linking it to a call for increased representation through positive discrimination for a few select minorities. Many questions were flippantly dismissed as “they’ll get their turn.” Of course this frustrates the different minorities who also wanted to be included.

I never got stuck on the logical leap of “If A then B. If C then D. Therefore A = D.”

[0] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10726-011-9250-x