skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Theranos' fraud endangered peoples' health. It's shameful that someone like Draper would defend that.
The brown bear is more formidable like you said. But your odds are terrible against a full-size cougar or leopard one-on-one; even with a knife or stick. Even if you're facing the first rush (unlikely), they'll have better reach and strength to parry your first swing. Then they'll get to your neck and it'll be over. Or they'll slash out your legs or abdomen and you'll bleed out.

A full-size large cat has killed for just about every calorie it has ever consumed. All those encounters with animals fighting for their lives and it's still here.
> The thing I find most infuriating speaking to anyone who believes in a conspiracy theory is that no rational argument can win them round because their arguments are rarely rational or based on concrete evidence.

Well, if you want to have a constructive dialog with them, getting angry isn't so great. In this sort of situation the content of the argument isn't what's at issue; far more important is the motivation for holding the position. The conversation should be directed towards contextualizing the position in the person's life. Your goal in the discussion shouldn't be to convince the other person, but to understand what they're thinking and why.

If you mistrust scientists, why the hell would you be convinced by scientific evidence? The productive discussion is to be had about the mistrust. You can't just ignore their mistrust and argue as if scientific evidence is admissible: that is assuming your position in order to justify your position. I'd also like to emphasize that unless you're the one doing the research, and even then, there is scarcely ever concrete evidence available. Especially for something like vaccines where the positive benefit is the absence of something negative, evidence is quite indirect. You and I trust science. I believe that trust is justified but it is something that needs justification.

An important thing about people is that they are more rational in the small, especially about concrete aspects of their day-to-day lives, than they are in the large, especially when it comes to lofty concepts and abstract models of the world that they don't have direct experience with. Conspiracy theories are dangerous because they allow the latter irrationality to negatively impact the former rationality. However, turning it around, reasoning from a person's concrete life and point of view towards understanding abstractions such as institutions of medicine, science, politics, etc. is a way to counter conspiracy theories.

So, tl;dr; it's not that rational arguments can't win such people over, it's that you have to start from a different viewpoint and you have to use a process that isn't quite listing evidence, weighing it, and deducing logical consequence. Rationality is much bigger than that sort of thing. If you apply rational methods empathetically, you will convince a lot more people. This is true in all spheres of life. Even at the lab bench.
Ah, the old "my hateful violent behavior isn't literally racism" defence.
Long-haul utilization also depends on one other factor, which is time zones. It can be worth leaving the plane on the ground longer in order to line up for a more desirable departure/arrival time.

You see this a lot with transatlantic flights, where they spend more time than necessary on the ground at each end, but doing so sets up better timing (like eastbound TATL flights departing in North American evening and arriving in European morning).
Are you really expecting quality code contributions from people that find it hard/not worth their time to create an account on gitlab?
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It is a subjective account by people who were and are very close to Google. Thank you for pointing out the bias for people who may have missed it.
> Also they made me watch some of those YouTube videos about the eclipse going in the wrong direction.

You mean a video that's flipped or running backwards? Why would you question your whole worldview before questioning the reliability of the alleged evidence?
Years ago, I had to port a tcl/tk ui to java swing. I had source code to copy off of, but after two or three rewrites, the Java thing was still at least 100x slower than the tcl thing (granted, this was in the 1.1/1.2 days, but still...)
That may be true, but due to a number of scientific conclusions in the 20th century (the uncertainty principle & the incompleteness theorems), I've concluded that all knowledge is at best heuristic, and that claims to the contrary are a form of violence. I'm prepared to claim "all these use resources" but am not prepared to claim "some technologies use certain resources in a way that offer environmental benefit over other technologies, which use different resources." That seems unfair and/or dangerous.
I had used Neverware build of ChromeOS[1] - no dual-boot anymore so I had to make a choice.

Well, it had been a process - I had been growing dissapointed with lack of quality of Apple software, each iteration beeing of lower quality and plain dumber then competition (iCloud, Siri, Apple Music etc.) High Sierra had been the final straw.

Over time I have stopped using iCloud, Apple Photos, Mail, Safari and replaced them with Google Photos, Google Drive, mutt in Terminal, Chrome etc.

At some point I have realized that I have only single app comming from AppStore on my computer. The rest is either free software (paid for but dowloaded from the web not from Apple's walled garden) or from Homebrew.

At that stage jumping out of Apple's garden had been quite painless for me. I am not missing iMessage even. And I have started using Sony XZ Premium instead of iPhone at more or less the same time (better screen resolution, better bluetooth music quality with Sony MDR-1RBT headphones and at quarter of the price of iPhone 8).

Some time ago when still on macOS I have started using dnscrypt-proxy 2.0 on my router which disables most of call home capabilities of Google, Apple, Facebook etc. And also I have my own extension for Chrome which keeps my Google Search and Youtube activity transparent to Google. Not industry-grade but I am enjoying enough privacy on ChromeOS.

[1]: https://www.neverware.com/freedownload
Because third-party software, specially old third party software, still uses mshtml and disabling Internet Explorer also gets rid of mshtml IIRC
> exist in their society. Which I think every human being is very much entitled to.

What? No! Maintaining the very existence of each human, requires resources and labor. Obtaining others' resources and labor means you are either purchasing it or stealing it, and if the latter was ethical then we'd have a society full of thieves and bereft of anyone doing any honest productive work. So while you are entitled to exchange some of your valuable things or labor for the valuable things+labor that help you stay alive ... you are most certainly not entitled to simply have them "automatically". There's no such thing as a "free lunch".
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The book has a detailed accounting of the type of culture the founders and executives were intentioning. It is not an unbiased source of information and should be read with discretion.
I agree with your points, but it's worth noting that to non-native English speakers, certain words, in particular profanity, don't have the same meaning/impact that they do for native speakers. Just the same as if you uttered a string of, say, Hungarian expletives at the dinner table with your family (assuming you aren't Hungarian speakers), it would not be considered terribly offensive, most likely.

I found this to be an interesting article on this topic: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/fashion/06love.html
> makes everyone in the area more wealthy

I'm as yimby as they come, but I'm not sure this is true for everyone. It does mean that the local burger joint can charge more for hamburgers and that the line cooks can plausibly negotiate for higher pay. But its a pretty strong statement that this is true for everyone.

> real estate monopolies

In what areas are even 25% of residences owned by a single entity? In what areas are 25% of rental residences being offered by a single entity?

> People complain about the lack of affordable housing, yet building new residential areas is a tapestry of red tape.

True
I think you mean knit bombed and unable to find parking. plenty of street art as well as graffiti on buildings.

you have to wonder, if Berlin is just a bunch of nonsensical leftists and anarchists, why would Google be so interested in opening an engineering office here? it couldn't have anything to do with the talent they want to hire and retain wanting to live in Berlin, would it?

I mean, does Google really give a shit about 18euro pqm versus 24 o4 25 in Frankfurt? highly doubtful. so what do you think the reason is, if you truly believe your Berlin anarchy thesis?
Really, it flies compared to Ruby...
Anything but github really, because monoculture and cargo culting are bad for our industry.
>The American-led world order since WWII has led to an expansion of freedom and prosperity [...] It also embodies a just and fair way of managing international affairs, through law and democracy rather than the undemocratic system of the strong forcing the weak.

Wow... The people in Guatemala [1], Iran [2], Chile [3], Timor [4], and dozens other places will disagree with you. The will of the people stamped down by the boot of American might and imperialism, for the benefit of themselves: for the maintenance of their supreme place in the world on the back of neocolonialist exploitation of weaker countries. Is this not the picture of "undemocratic system of the strong forcing the weak"? Let's not forget the odious bootlicking of Saudi princes, for instance, and their positively medieval rule, for their economic favour.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27%C3%A...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._intervention_in_Chile#The...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Timor_genocide
I don't think they are. To put it in orwellian-ish terms, it's pretty likely that the only people that will really insist on the distinction would self describe as patriots.

You will probably find a patriotism-nationalism-like relationship between moderate and extremist flavours of any "ism." Social-democrats & Marxist-purists, conservative-traditionalists & fundamentalist-theocrats; Democrats & Anarchists.... These all tend to come in at least 2 flavours: moderate or extra spicy.
You got the NSA stuff Right and that should suffice. People tend to forget so easily...geee. Will we see a global awakening against Google soon?
It couldn't be a vaccine if you already have rabies; vaccines are preventative medicine to build an immune response ahead of time.
coffee that is even more expensive. restaurants and cafes that only Google salary expendable income can afford. and....nothing else.
Discrimination against white or asian men.
I see the power in your idea of asking people up front what would convince them, but I question on of your premises:

Can we usually anticipate precisely what would and wouldn't convince us of a proposition? Particularly when it involves making a judgment call based on imperfect evidence?
The security story on Electron is pretty grim; it's an environment where you can plausibly say that DOM injection (cross-site scripting) is equivalent to RCE. Luca Carretoni broke this news last year at Black Hat, but didn't seem to get too much attention (I don't think many security people knew what a big deal Electron was in the dev community).

https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-17/thursday/us-17-Carettoni...
I think this is an interesting idea. I know jQuery isn't fashionable right now but I still use it for many projects including new ones. I think there are still a wide variety of webapps that shouldn't be SPAs, particularly if the Backend renders html and isn't node, and so I think there is a wide need for something like this, I'll definitely be checking it out.
I am not buying this excuse. It is individuals, making individual decisions, that create the environment, and the buck stops with them. This form of relativism can easily be extended to all sorts of fraud and corruption.
The argument being made is that Google will impart value onto Berlin while receiving value from the people of Berlin. I never claimed them to be a panacea.
> complete lack of empathy.

For all I know, empathy might well be a disability that holds each of us back from doing his/her best. Why do you think it is so essential?

(EDIT: changed diction; changes are marked in italics)
Microservices?

No bash though
After over twenty years of the abomination that is browsers produced by Microsoft, I'm ready to beg them to stop making a browser. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. they release a new version or new name of their browser, they say, "But this time its going to blow the other guys out of the water in terms of speed, security, and standards compliance!" And EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. they drop the ball in significant ways.
I think the author is correct in thinking that Google will cause him discomfort by creating this campus. Everyone in this area not employed by Google will have to move because Google is basically buying the land, directly or through its employees.

Some of Google's money will flow to locals not directly employed by Google, but will this offset the increased cost of their living expenses?
I've experienced similar issues with sites where someone else used my e-mail address to sign-up for something, I purposefully did not follow the authorization URL, and the companies have flatly refused to delete my fraudulent accounts or remove me from their mailing lists.

One in particular tried to tell me to reset the password on the account so that I could sign in and opt-out of the mailing lists. I refused, saying that doing so would be acknowledging the account as mine and putting the onus on me to manage something I never signed up for. They refused to budge, despite numerous escalations.

I swear I feel more like Hank Hill every day.
I thought the well-paid, high prestige jobs required a Phd in the field? Or has machine learning become widespread enough for the unwashed programming masses?
Dude, after reading the Atlantic article I remembered hearing about that expedition. hard core ..and this pic, its timeless https://www.newyorker.com/projects/interactive/2018/180212-g...
Geez, "culture" on how to be a corporation. How relevant to the residents of a community.

I can't complain, I'm also just a yuppie whom Kreuzberger would probably hate, but if their claim about the tax regime is correct, then what's the point of attracting a cancer that would just make everything in your area more expensive...

I'm reminded of John Oliver's segment about tax incentives: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bl19RoR7lc
This is hilarious. Reminds of what tobacco companies tried to push 20-or-so years ago!
> GMP is available under the LGPL.

GMP is not a common system API like POSIX, so if you rely on it, you actually have to bundle GMP, or otherwise handle the dependency.

LGPL is fine for things like standard C and POSIX, because your program is not tied to that LGPL-ed implementation.
The GPL itself recognizes "system library" as a special status. It is permissible for GNU programs to depend on proprietary libraries if they are system libraries. Under very similar reasoning, depending on LGPL-ed libraries is okay in an otherwise completely free program if those LGPL-ed libraries are system libraries.

LGPL limits you to dynamic linking, which is gross for this kind of thing. (Have you looked at a dynamic library function call lately?)

If you make a language depend on a LGPL library for numbers, that turns into GPL if you have to build a static image for an embedded system.

This is not a problem with malloc or printf which you just get from that system, rather than by carrying the GNU C Library into your program.

Legally you may be able to get away with adding a LGPLed library to a MIT or BSD program; in practice, licensing is not purely about "what can I legally get away with". What kind of hassles and restrictions will there be factors into it. Also philosophy factors into it: it's ideologically inappropriate for a liberally licensed (BSD, MIT) program to depend on special-purpose, non-system GNU libraries.
Do you love your country, your homeland, your family, your culture? Then that's very okay. Do you think that your country, your homeland, your family, or your culture are objectively superior to others? Then you're a fanatic/xenophobe.
That's not what they're saying. They don't want Google specifically, for reasons they detail in-depth on their website. Being welcoming to everyone doesn't really work, or otherwise we wouldn't have prisons.

Being open-minded is a two way street, remember.
It depends on the tables and physiology, because you need to safely oxygenate all the body's tissues with regular breathing at depth. He could probably dive [edit: said Nitrox, I'd learned non-air Nitrox increases maximum depth but it increases time-at-depth] Trimix until about 100m, deeper might need a different mix.
As a student in CS I see myself falling for this simply because other hammers have learning curves.
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I think you might be missing the bigger picture. 5 years ago these views would not have found any traction because nearly everyone loved Google. The general level of hatred in the community towards Google has increased significantly in that time. In my estimation this is due entirely to Google's own behavior since Sundar Pichai became CEO. When your CEO has an inability to resolve conflict in the direction of positive sum solutions, the losers of the zero sum game are going to hate you intensely and will certainly not come to your defense when you are attacked.
Yes indeed! One of the advantages of diving underwater with a re-breather is that you lose less heat through respiration compared to open circuit SCUBA diving. Also the type of gases you have in your mix matter but that's another topic altogether.

For the record, I've eaten butter camping in the winter - long lasting dense energy source for sure :-) My favorite is Kerry Gold Irish unsalted :-)
Shellac is a colourless or amber substance, derived from a secretion of the lac beetle. It's used as a coating on many food products (including apples and citrus fruits) to inhibit moisture loss and enhance shine.

Cochineal is an insect-derived red food dye, but I haven't heard of it being used to colour apples. It's often labelled as carmine or natural red 4.
What I have found on upwork is the smaller the contract amount the more difficult the client and more likely to get a dispute.

40 dollar for a small task seems to be a magical cutoff point where any task less has a checklist of dozens of smaller tasks bundled in.

800 seems to be the level where above that you can expect some professional-ness
> the Finland conspiracy

This, for those like me who had not heard of it, is the idea that Finland does not exist, and there is a conspiracy to make the world think that it does.

When really, almost the opposite is true: not only does Finland exist, but it is the surviving part of the Roman Empire:

https://imgur.com/gallery/eNuUdTd
How can I download big10.txt or the novel to recreate it?
Very much so. I've worked with major corporations that are still standardized on IE9. Meaning, every employee's computer has IE9 on it. IE6 is still used by a lot of companies simply because they have too much ActiveX code they don't want to migrate.
The lack of numbers and clear facts in there are very telling. I'm always wary when significant claims are made but no numbers or studies are cited to support them. In this case it's just about feelings; believing something like a sort of religion.

I'm not saying all of their claims are outright wrong, but this borderline childish website did not persuade me of anything - if anything I have some antipathy against this movement now.
So even more research becoming only possible at companies, and not at public universities? Even more research that will be kept secret? Even more infrastructure that is only available to the Google monopoly?

No thanks.
It is, if the goal is to be the next Roman Empire.

That goal, of course, is quite dubious, since it involves illiberality, authoritarianism, etc.
"It will even display what you did inside various apps–and on this front, third- party developers will be able to specify trackable metrics inside their software."

Well, that sounds like a totally disinterested move that has nothing to do with Google's strive to track every single thing you do.
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Do some companies have faces?

Does the city of Berlin?
It's not poor. It's just sort of cheap, quite affordable compared to other places.

But if locals want to keep it that way, then they need to show that they are the majority in that municipal area, or they should have bought the buildings a long time ago.

Or at least strategically important flats (the cheap ones on the ground floor next to the hallway, or just simply the cheapest ones, maybe just a lot in the basement, that grants private property rights) - though it depends on the co-owned property rights in Berlin/Germany, but I hope a condo cannot be sold without all the owners agreeing.
You did not express a position here, just provide a link, so I had to make assumptions
Lumping together people and corporations is questionable.
Another possible cynical angle is that they are getting out in front of a major PR problem. The rumblings about the addictive nature of tech have been getting louder for years. I just talked to a startup that was just going to replace the whole Android launcher to help solve this. And there are plenty of HNers who have their own custom solutions to this, some going as far as downgrading to a dumbphone.

If they can shift the discussion from "phones are bad" to "some apps are bad", suddenly it's not their problem anymore. People looking to collect scalps will be focused on the ones creating the most exploitative experiences. Which is not only good for Google, but good for everybody, in that's putting pressure closer to the right place.
To me those sorts of questions are terrible interview questions. I'm looking for a few things when I hire:

- What are you like as a human being? Can we work together?

- Can you code? [1]

- Are you willing, in fact keen, and able to learn?

- Can you see beyond the technical issues?

[1] This tends to be frowned on in some circles, but given the bi-modal distribution of developer skill, leading to plenty of smart people who aren't good programmers, in my view it's of critical importance. Generally asking somebody to solve a relatively simple problem in a language they're comfortable with and that is also similar to something we use, or pairing together on a problem, works well here. What I don't care about is understanding of specific frameworks or technologies: if you're a good dev you can learn those, and we're happy to invest and give you the time to do so.
The Flux Challenge is "tailored to touch Flux's weakest spots", especially "coordinating multiple async data sources", so Flux solutions are sought, but other approaches to state management are welcome.

The Challenge author used his own reactive framework and RxJS:
https://cycle.js.org/
https://github.com/Reactive-Extensions/RxJS

My solution leverages my Matrix data flow library (versions in Common Lisp, CLJ/S, and JS). Matrix is much like the JS MobX, if you know that.

https://github.com/kennytilton/matrix
https://mobx.js.org/index.html

Moral: The data flow paradigm is well-suited to smoothly absorbing external input, so the async feeds of the Flux Challenge are right in the data flow wheelhouse.
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