skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems in the US eating well is less valued than some places. Not sure why. This seems to propagate through generations, i.e people growing up around fast food and prepared food don't place value or learn to cook.

Also (and this is probably an "insensitive" opinion) yes, sometimes people really are too stressed and busy to properly prepare food. Other times (perhaps more frequently) they are just too lazy.
While I do take a strong stance against flat-earthers, Holocaust deniers, etc.. I can sympathize with Zuckerberg here a little bit, because just banning Holocaust deniers is on a big slippery slope, that could lead to larger issues like "Do we ban religious speak against homosexuality due to instruction from an invisible man in the sky?" since we only deal in materialistic fact here and all controversial opinions are unwelcome. Where do we draw the line?
This is a fair point, and I wouldn't be surprised if what you are saying is correct.

That said, saying "Google's startups-within-a-big-company strategy has driven most users outside of Google's chat ecosystem entirely" isn't a whole lot better.
No, that's all material to the point. It's the same type of thing that led to most IP cases being heard in a particular Circuit/District Court in Texas.

When you as the consumer have nil input into establishing an impartial venue, and the COMPANY has an ongoing business relationship with the Arbiter on which the Arbiter depends it completely undermines the integrity of the proceedings. It's like asking your Mother in Law to preside over divorce proceedings.

How is this so hard to understand?

If a company can force you into that regime, and has all the bargaining power in the transaction, you are not at the table as equals. You are cattle. You are meant to consume and remain silent. Any complaints will be ignored in the order they are received.

You can say that IDEALLY the Arbitration company runs arbitration for many other companies, so is an impartial body in this case. Losing this ONE business wouldn't hurt right?

Except their bills ARE PAID by your opponent. You don't bite the hand that feeds. It's why the public justice system "works". If arbitration is so effective, it should be integrated into the public justice system and funded accordingly. Otherwise, it's your Civil Rights being discarded by corporate contract lawyers.
I'd be curious to know if they actually tailored their recommendation to you. It is entirely possible that you saw benefits just from getting attention and spending a bit more. Simply stated, I've seen studies showing that paying more does increase the effectiveness of things. Even if there is no difference in the thing. (Sadly, I have not followed up on those claims, so I don't know if that replicated.)
There is some pretty dubious and I think wishful stuff in here, like "applications should align their usage closely as possible with web browsers", or the idea that ad-hoc protocols specified over HTTP should use links rather than fixed URLs. Does anyone have the backstory on this I-D? Anybody can write one, right?
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Have you encountered Julia, and if so, what did you think of it?
> "I'm Jewish and there's a set of people who deny that the Holocaust happened," he told reporter Kara Swisher.

"BARBARA. Sorry, I'm sure. By the way, papa, what is your
religion--in case I have to introduce you again?

UNDERSHAFT. My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion."

- Major Barbara [0]

[0]http://www.fullbooks.com/MAJOR-BARBARA1.html
Possibly parts of Switzerland where they still speak Romansch.
If your slide contains a picture, whose details you're describing (say for instance a medical photo or city zoning plan or something), certainly you want your audience's visual attention on it as you're describing its pertinent specifics.
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Also because Obama never encouraged or endorsed it.
I merely gave a vague answer to a vague question. Allow me to be specific: The US has a progressive tax structure which could be put to better use taking care of it's own citizens instead of attacking the rest of the world, and letting mega-corporations subvert environmental protections.
Emergency services are so underrated. In minutes I can have medical experts, fire rescuers, or even a small army at my door.

And there's parts of the world where this is simply not a thing. We take it for granted.
“The Accent Gap” – voice reconition software has a bias problem
> Stuff compiled for .NET 1.0 will not run on the CLR for 2.0 and later

That's not true. (Mass shared hoster kinda guy here) when we pushed a bunch of customers code compiled for .NET 1.0/1.1 over to hosting environments with only CLR 2 available, their code ran just fine. These were .NET 1.0/1.1 assemblies.

There are some edge cases where stuff could break, say when doing reflection or emitting your own IL, but that for most LOB web hosted apps was pretty rare.

I did in fact marvel how backwards compatible CLR 2 was when it first shipped.
Yeah, it's exactly like that. Every Friday is a holiday.
Would you post other people's hate speech on your own web site? By your reasoning, if you don't, you're blocking free speech.

Facebook is not the government and has no obligation to publish anyone's hate speech, holocaust denialism, or other harmful conspiracy theory nonsense.
Death-defying NASA mission will make humanity’s closest approach to the Sun
A few years ago, I interviewed with a company that did both: unlimited PTO with an enforced minimum.
Familiarity. I can either work with a protocol that has been around, in some way shape or form, for almost 30 years. That has matured, has a myriad of information relating to edge cases, is familiar to new and old developers, and is quick to develop for.

Or I can create my own protocol which has none of those benefits besides possibly quick development.
Read the full context of that quote. There's even more in the SRE book.

"Don’t make your system overly reliable if you don’t intend to commit to it to being that reliable"

If a service has exceeded the reliability target for a given time period, you can take it down to basically let users know that this can happen and to not expect more.

You don't want them to get to the point where they are integrating so much with a service (and assuming a higher reliability that you have not promised ) that they end up mad at you when it performs worse, but still as intended, at a later date.
I negotiated this with previous employers. I do consulting work now and I've negotiated this with myself as well :)

I think I'm more productive this way, because, after a 3-day weekend I generally have a fresh perspective and feel like I'm looking at the same tasks with new enthusiasm. When I worked 5 day weeks, even interesting tasks became drudgery and I'd stare at the clock continuously even when I wasn't working a strict 'clock-in' style job.
Best Buy is nice because I like being able to actually handle and try the products I'm going to buy. Plus buying from a physical store supports the local economy with jobs and sales taxes.
Write them anyway. I’ve had that BS, usually from USPS or UPS Mail Innovations (which is horrific service), and a quick email to CS gets me the credit (money or a month of Prime).
> Editor of anti-fascist magazine Searchlight Gerry Gable told the BBC: "Zuckerberg could kill much of this dangerous material getting worldwide distribution - but he is a like a spoilt teenager."

It's a strange world when the "antifascists" want control of speech.
Not sure what you're expecting. Did people forget what an electronics retailer is?

A retailer such as BestBuy never sold their own "BestBuy" branded electronics. Retailers have always been the middle-man between the electronics manufacturer and the consume, so that the electronics company doesn't need to rent or build their own stores. It's cheaper for BestBuy to not hire their own bestbuy salespeople. Instead Verizon and Apple hire their own knowledgeable staff and put them at Best Buy.
play on voobly instead, its so much more stable
Doubling is pretty significant, as is the rate of increase prior to, and dropoff after, 1963.

If some sort of catastrophe befalls our current civilization and future archaeologists attempt to C14 date our fossils and artifacts derived from carbon sequestered during this era, their results will be wildly unreliable.
The problem is that we don't have any reliable means to predict in vivo efficacy.

Recognizing failed attempts earlier means substantial reductions to the cost of drugs (i.e., cost savings on the order of hundreds of millions of dollars), so there is very strong financial incentive to stop projects that will fail phase 3 as early as possible. Pretty much every pharmaceutical company has as its "what we'll start doing better" goal as killing off failures earlier. That nothing has appreciably changed in this regard suggests that the fix is beyond our current capabilities--human biology is simply too complicated and too confusing for us to reliably predict at this point.
Words are not defined by their creators, they are defined by their use.

Those people indeed know what USAGE is -- in fact, they define what USAGE is. When we talk about USAGE, we talk about how people use it.

They might not know what "USAGE as defined by coldtea is" but that's not really relevant to them or to the population at large.

:-)
I'm sorry I'm not following. Could you explain in depth a bit more?
The recorded live chat to the side of that video is one of the most bizarre-o things I've seen. Literally ran like a few bots ended up in the chat together and kept firing off like in https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditSimulator/
You must have been terribly disappointed with NetHack.
and then there are people who complain about ambulances blocking parking spaces or even roads... https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/man-paramedi...
Zuckerberg is correct on this very issue. Suppressing holocaust deniers makes them martyrs. Their following grows and it actually makes them stronger because they now have reason to believe that the people in power are suppressing them because they're onto something.

Political correctness people are completely clueless about free speech and social dynamics. They are a danger to our freedom.

EDIT: It's also interesting how this story was immediately removed from the front page. The political correctness clowns are at work again.
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I don't think it's broken at all. Tort law, in general, is what we use as an alternative to more aggressive regulation. You remove tort options, the side-effect will just be more regulatory measures.
>that puts up a tinderbox townhouse complex

I never said anything about townhouses, I'm talking about high-rise condos here. A high-rise by necessity is made of concrete and steel; you can't build a 15+ story building out of wood in most places.
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It's been a while, and I've only really used Racket extensively, but "unquote" and "unquote-splicing" operate at macro expansion time, not run time. So unless you're using a typed lisp like Typed Racket, the macro won't have enough information to (for example) know that something is a number vs a string - the kind of distinction that's important for efficient and correct SQL query generation.
UWP is dead in the water.
> One of the features contained a bug which would cause the GFE to restart; this bug had not been detected in either of testing and initial rollout.

I wish they elaborated more on what type of bug was that, which was not caught by testing / initial rollout. Either tests must be poorly written or the bug must be very subtle.

On an unrelated note: kudos to Google for publishing this postmortem and hope that this becomes an industrywide practice. I also wish they publish (a belated) one about Google+ and their throng of messaging apps over the years.
This may be true - I've not used Common Lisp, only Racket.
I thought NPR has/had one, but can't find a reference.
I misspoke, assume I said interstellar.

> You're making a common mistake on the speed of light.

Correcting for my mishap, all I said was that finite c makes interstellar travel much less probable, which isn't wrong. It would take infinite energy for your spaceship to arrive at c as the Lorentz factor blows up.

> if we can, somehow, develop technology to be able to consistently accelerate at just 1g

This is exactly the kind of long-shot assumption you are forced to make because c is finite. I would say that reduces the probability. Plus, once we start talking about billions of years of time-dilation, we aren't really in the 10,000 year scope we set up earlier, so it's not even wrong.
> (with adequate transit)

Well, do we have adequate transit?

I saw some maps that visualized where you could get from affordable neighboods on public transit within an hour in several major metros. Can’t find it now but it was striking. Even in NYC you could go from affordable parts of Brooklyn or the Bronx to most of Manhattan. But in the Bay Area... it was tiny areas around BART stops only. Most of SF was cut off. That’s why businesses are having such a hard time hiring.

I tried to address this when I noted that either Musk needs to build tunnels or we need local working class housing.
Alcohol-related death rising between 2009-2016, makes sense considering the economic state at the beginning of that window.
I'm not sure which OP do you mean? The parent mentions "SQL experience", the grandparent is ambiguous, and the GGP explicitly mentions "database schema".

If by OP you mean the original article, I completely agree with you; my comment was directed to its ancestors.
Please don't troll here.
To be clear, he said that the words of Holocaust deniers are allowed on Facebook. I guess what you think shouldn't be allowed on Facebook depends on what your definition of free speech is (if you accept that Facebook should allow free speech).

He also added: "I find it deeply offensive. But at the end of the day, I don't believe that our platform should take that down because I think there are things that different people get wrong. I don't think that they're intentionally getting it wrong.

That strikes me as naïve. Some, no doubt, are intentionally getting it wrong. Others have their heads so deep in the conspiracy sand that no polite discourse on Facebook is going to resolve it. Either way, this doesn't seem like a huge deal. Zuck says Facebook allows freedom of speech, even in muddy waters.
As long as you remember the first rule of Best Buy (never buy cables at Best Buy), you can find prices as good or better there than Amazon, and I have to say, the people there are very helpful and friendly. I especially liked their Magnolia store-within-a-store concept for higher-end audio products.
Please don't troll (or be trolled) here.
I wish this would catch on, but the only way I feel like most companies could be convinced is to cut salaries by 20%
How do you draw the line of what crosses the boundary too far and needs to be taken down though? Ethics are not absolute and change from country to country while Facebook is a global platform.
Because there was a follow-up (PRC looking for policy data): http://www.nbcnews.com/id/52133016/t/chinese-hacked-obama-mc...
You realize that your long cables are in fact adapters, right?
Creativity can require you to turn off your logical "filters", and sleep deprivation can make those "filters" less effective (it tends to have the same effect on social "filters", unfortunately).
I was raised in the Pentecostal Holiness Church (IPH). If you're unfamiliar with it, it's basically "Jesus Camp" (the documentary). Childhood summer camps were exactly like that but without the George Bush cardboard cutouts (at the time they were more focused on satanic influences in popular music).

Most of what I remember of Christianity was a preacher yelling in a thunderous voice about how so many people were going to hell, brimstone, etc. How satan was the ruler of this world and how even our own thoughts would send us to hell.

I got out (and it was very difficult) and I'm glad. And I can't claim to be sad to see Christianity on the wane, not even one little bit. The church I went to as a child is was shut down and sold. It's now owned by a school, which is a much better use of the land.
>Staples like rice and beans are only really cheap when you're buying them in dry form, bulk. This means you need to season them and cook them, which can be a long process.

I don't know. You make it sound as if it were difficult to cook these staples. During my college years these were the easiest things to cook, along with pasta and tomato sauce. Basically it was just a matter of filling the pot with water, dropping the ingredients and then just wait.

Similarly with tomato sauce, add the ingredients in a pot and just wait.
What's the counterargument to PPP/
Amazing that they handled the downtime in such a short time span. Boosts my confidence to actually use GCP. Huge props!

Meanwhile.. waiting for the Amazon prime day post mortem.
Would you suggest it?

I mean, I can see how it could be an employer's initiative. If it's the employees' initiative, I think the situation might be a bit complicated inside. The complications could be an important part of how the experiment went on.
We would appreciate to see the worldwide numbers of those stats.

Well, that wasn't the message being discussed at Google IO, specially at the ChromeOS sessions regarding usability.
>We should absolutely not allow people to own homes in neighborhoods where they simply can't keep up with the financial realities of the neighborhood.

It should be fair to everyone and not discriminate. So make the tax rate equal for the person who has been there and the person who just bought a house. Otherwise you are making it harder for one of those groups to be able to own a home in that neighborhood for the sake of making it easier for the other group, in which case your sarcastic quip applies back to you.
The "disgusting" reports of surströmming refer mostly to its smell, mostly of persons who it is involuntary forced upon. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surströmming#German_eviction
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> "Partial refund". That's a very low standard for a service level agreement, but typical of Google.

It's a standard across the industry, pretty much since the beginning of SLAs.

They're not insurance, and not meant to compensate you if your business is disrupted. That's on you. (And there are many ways to protect your business from provider outages.)

SLA payouts are meant to be mildly punitive, and to align incentives -- in aggregate, the SLA payouts add up and can hurt Google if there are a lot of customers affected by frequent outages.
The wage suppression and funneling of profits back up to the executive level already demonstrates that companies aren't really interested in keeping or attracting talent.

Large corporations have succeeded at crushing working-class unions and convinced most white collar workers that they're not in their interests, even as working conditions and compensation for white collar workers slide downward (either directly, through abuse of things like salaried status to get unpaid overtime, or as they're extracted by various forms of rent-seeking like healthcare or housing costs).

Since there's essentially no check on their power and the American economy is tilting more and more towards favoring corrupt monopolies, why offer anything more than what they absolutely have to?
Used to be, hate speech got disseminated slowly because of the resistance of the crowd to repeating it. But give one guy a machine-gun message-spreading website, that's a whole new world.

Free-to-speak is one thing; free to distribute hate speech by electronic means to billions of people in seconds is another.

Its a game these days, to pretend one thing is the same as another even though they are massively different.
It really does depend on your workflow and your needs but I am running CS2 and latest Office in a VM.
That's all fine and good as long as America stays within its borders. As soon as they cross those borders a different body of law applies.

If you are of the opinion that this is not the case then maybe America should withdraw from the Geneva convention and various other useful treaties as well because after all, what's the point in having rules of engagement if you're going to ignore them anyway...
Bad link?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/0...
You can use dict's get() method to get back a None for missing keys instead of throwing a KeyError exception. That avoids the overhead of checking `if key in dict` or catching KeyError.
The use of the term "curry" drives me nuts. It's just an all encompassing word for Indian food, culminating in that dreadful "curry powder" spice blend the Brits came up with. Spend some actual time in India, and you'll see there is an infinite number of sauces and flavors.
He's not quite anyone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Nottingham

Perhaps this is meant as a public service, just to gather best practices. If you want to build your own thing, please go ahead, but don't call it HTTP.
Have you ever successfully changed someone's behavior by calling them lazy?
I just asked about it in my current company.

They said that taking 2 weeks as a single slab is OK at any time, taking more than that requires a bit of coordination and paperwork. Taking smaller pieces along the year is trivial; I did it many times on a reasonably short notice.

That is, sometimes it's not a scam.
Farewell, Google Maps
> $50M is tiny compared to the opportunity cost of having 100 of your best engineers jump ship to a competitor or found a new one.

See my comment to nnq. You can't just take "100 of your best engineers", and stick them on some bogus project that regularly gets raided for its best talent by hiring managers.

If they'd rather work on a bogus project than on a real product, they're not very useful engineers.

The project will quickly be seen as a joke, and not just by one unnamed "person who has spoken to Fuchsia staff", but by everyone in the company. No serious engineer would stay on it.

There's literally no evidence for this far-fetched theory, and no verified examples of this happening in the industry at all. If an engineer isn't producing something worthwhile, he's not a good engineer, certainly not "one of my best engineers".

The whole theory is pretty crazy and it's funny it ended up so high in the comment thread that we're discussing it seriously.

> Silicon Valley basically works on the principle of "Never let your employees do to you what you did to your past employer or competitors." [...]

This is a lot of unsubstantiated hand-waving with no real data to back it up. The data I've seen is that involuntary turnover (aka termination) in FAANG is 5-8% annually, which is very reasonable for healthy companies.

Have you worked for a FAANG? People are regularly put on notice and fired for poor performance. Even a very successful company can't afford to keep poor performers indefinitely. If they do, they would not remain successful for long.

You're describing a public company with fiduciary accountability to its shareholders as if it can be run like some corrupt retirement home for aging diva former-engineers. You realize that if Google was throwing away $50-100m of investor money per year, an exec would eventually have to publicly explain to the shareholders why their money is wasted this way, and if Google was trying to hide that it is a bogus project, then they would be lying to investors, which is a criminal offense?

This theory is frankly nonsense.
Moreso, I know and know of numerous people who preached about shared supporting of society and anti-capitalism... until they made a good chunk of money. Then they went off to their gated community walled gardens and started complaining about taxes.

These individual vs societal beliefs aren't constants. They're vehemently reflective of an individual's very current situation.