skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"House" by Tracy Kidder is such a fantastic book. Kidder does a great job pulling you into the story of the house and the folks involved with the process. My favorite scene (if I recall correctly) is one where the owner's father is on site one day and noticed the efforts the builders go to for seemingly unimportant pieces in the house (specifically around which piece of wood they chose for something that would be hidden). It reminds me of the stories about the internals for the first Apple machines.
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There are great research-related ones as well. !pubmed !dailymed !drugbank etc.
Why was this flagged?

Neither https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17858906 nor https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17859353 were flagged.
It wasn't paywalled for me. Try this PDF:

https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/201-facebook-politic...
I guess you answered your own question. There is a cart/horse problem with VR/AR. The tech isn't quite there, so no one wants to buy it, and people aren't going to improve it unless the money is there. And since people aren't buying it, the money isn't there...so the tech isn't quite there...

Maybe in time.
Alex Jones is not respected by most conservatives (even the hypothetical person who agreed with every single one of his views would still think that his delivery was a bit hammy). If conservatives are rallying around him, it's based on the idea that as soon as the least defensible person is gone, the least defensible person becomes whoever used to be the second least defensible, and so on, and so on...

It's almost the mirror image of the NRA strategy of saying, "don't ban any guns," because if you ban only the worst guns then a new set of guns becomes the worst guns, until you've banned every gun.
The first three are deeply problematic and rooted in deep-seated white supremacist beliefs and absent mitigating circumstances I’d consider firing people who held them. Sorry, that’s just how I have to feel given everything that’s been going on these days.
If you want to do something like this as some kind of R&D mule, I highly recommend you do it in the desert where land is very cheap, sand readily available on your own property for mixing the concrete, and code enforcement is less prevalent.

Additionally, you may want to check out super adobe structures. It would be interesting to try automate construction of some of calearth's [0] designs. I can imagine a machine filling and laying the earthbags fairly easily... and IIRC some of their designs have already been certified and legally built in San Bernardino county.

[0] https://calearth.org
An unmarked check call would mean explicit error handling like if err != nil {} which isn't unchecked..it's just checked not using `check`. If you don't have this, then your error variable will be unused an you'll get a compile error.
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Everytime bail comes up I see the same comments. Like, nearly word for word. The more I let that set in, the more uncomfortable I feel
It would also be a lot cheaper to dispense with courts and replace them with private arbitrators with the power to send people to prison.

A system where the decision on whether you go to jail or not is made by bail bondsmen is not just. If they decide not to grant you a bond, to where do you appeal?
> * Personal pet peeve: no infix operator for integer division.

Sure there is

julia> 10 ÷ 3
3

type as

```
10 \div<tab> 3
```

in any decent julia-capable environment (REPL, editors, notebooks, etc)
> incitement to violence

good point, do you feel this way about people who say 'punch a nazi'?
I take kratom (the leaf of a Southeast Asian tree which contains an atypical partial opioid agonist) for a variety of things, including anxiety, and it’s extremely effective for me, but I don’t recommend it lightly because it’s still a “buyer beware” market. (I.e., probably don’t buy it at a smoke shop, seek out reputable brands and sellers, talk to other users, do your own research, &c.) Understanding of the drug itself is improving, and it seems to be fairly safe, but it is moderately addictive (especially if you take large amounts regularly) and you would be taking a risk by combining it with an MAOI or other drugs that can depress breathing like benzos, alcohol, or opiates—even though kratom itself doesn’t have the same effect on breathing as traditional opiates.

For less heavyweight solutions to anxiety and sleeplessness, I like catnip tea (nepetalactone) which is very mild, and kava (kavalactone) which is a bit stronger, and I guess feels similar to a weak benzo—both of these are mild GABAergics. Valerian is also pretty good, but sadly I’m allergic.
Western feminism is no longer a movement that does any appreciable work towards equal rights for women. They, uhh, kind of already have that in the developed world.
Unfortunately it's limited to very few places and is practically non existent if you consider Brooklyn as a whole.

Meanwhile Brooklyn has Verizon fiber gigabit network and supposedly getting one from Altice too. Two gigabit fiber ISPs in one place would be something quite unique.
you have given an intelligent critique to this comment...thank you
Kind of moot considering how hard Zuckerberg stanned for Peter Thiel. How much was that Palmer Luckey payout?

I'd argue that if you're working for Facebook you're kind of superficially liberal to begin with. Zuckerberg is only liberal until he has to worry about his bank account.
I've been developing a few internal chrome apps for my company recently and you're mostly right. Most chrome applications ask for essentially r/w access to the page and users don't understand what it means to click yes. With this you are essentially keylogging yourself on every single website you visit. Like damn.

I will say it is possible to view the manifest.json file of any installed application, meaning you can get a complete list of all allowed permissions and any host based restrictions 'good' chrome apps will often include.

Google and other browser vendors know what's happening. They know how many users have agreed to what permissions. They know most chrome apps ask for excessive permissions. It's just like Android. The right thing is to invest in more robust permission systems and training users indirectly to understand permissions better, but that would lose them money so they don't.
I remember reading somebody’s life story (I think one of my relatives), who mentioned that a strange man showed up on his doorstep when he was a little kid in the early 1900s. His father talked with the man, gave him some money, and sent him away.

Years later, the father explained that the man was the father’s brother, who had committed some crime before the turn of the century, and would occasionally show up saying he was down on his luck.

Whether the story was true, what stuck with me was the fact that there was once a time that somebody could leave town and largely create a brand-new identity. I guess it’s possible today, but it’s not easy. For starters, you need a social security number, and businesses are able to check whether those are valid better than they could a few years ago.
> Once the data is collected, it can be used at some later date for any purpose whatsoever.

INAL, but I'm fairly confident you cannot unless you want to get lawsuit. Granted, the terms that practically nobody looks at give companies pretty far reaching grants on how they can use the data but that does not mean they can change the terms on old data that was collected under a previous contract.

I work with personally identifiable information and I have to get approval from a privacy team and a lawyer team to utilize data in any new way because of said contracts.
Then it seems like you both agree!
Some 'Facebook' Employees Unite to Challenge Its Intolerant Liberal Culture

Some Facebook 'Employees' Unite to Challenge Its Intolerant Liberal Culture

Some Facebook Employees 'Unite' to Challenge Its Intolerant Liberal Culture

Some Facebook Employees Unite to 'Challenge' Its Intolerant Liberal Culture

Some Facebook Employees Unite to Challenge Its 'Intolerant' Liberal Culture

Some Facebook Employees Unite to Challenge Its Intolerant 'Liberal' Culture

Some Facebook Employees Unite to Challenge Its Intolerant Liberal 'Culture'
And in the 30s, 40s, 50s. It’s an enduring dream.

One of my favorite parasite fighters https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_XF-85_Goblin
I have a strong suspicion some of the newest crop of Netflix/Hulu/Amazon shows are already doing that to some degree.
The original title or "more than 100" would be more informative. "Some" could mean single digits or thousands.
> The Standard Model does not explain neutrino mass

Not as originally formulated (because back then neutrinos were thought to be massless) but it's straightforward to extend that original version to include neutrino masses, by giving leptons their own equivalent to the quark sector's CKM matrix [1], the PMNS matrix [2]. In modern parlance, "Standard Model" means this updated version.

Granted, if you do just that, you make neutrinos Dirac spinors (just like the quarks) and there is no obvious reason for why they should be so much lighter than the other fermions. Giving them a Majorana mass induced by a much heavier (GUT-scale) equivalent to the Standard Model Higgs would provide a natural explanation for that mass hierarchy through the seesaw mechanism [3], and that would be true Beyond the Standard Model physics.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa_matr...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontecorvo–Maki–Nakagawa–Sakat...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seesaw_mechanism
"I guess some of those private schools don't teach rudiments of logic and debate."

I actually went to public school all my life (with the exception of a Montessori school in kindergarten, my memories of which are fuzzy at best). Good try, though :)

"The idea is that we would have more resources and motivation to fix the hellholes"

That's a nice idea in theory, but in practice there will be more motivation to take that money otherwise spent on private schools and put it toward moving into the boundaries of a non-hellhole public school, leaving the hellhole schools to rot since they're still out of sight/mind.

Best-case scenario, the rich families do end up pouring more resources/motivation into improving their own local public schools, possibly making a handful of public schools in wealthy areas non-hellholes (or keeping them from becoming hellholes) while - again - leaving the hellhole schools to rot since they're still out of sight/mind. This already happens quite often, and will only intensify.

"which should never have been allowed to become such in the fist place"

Agreed.

"Also, not every public school is a hellhole. The public high school in my town beats most elite private schools by any measure."

I never said all public schools are hellholes, and while my high school wasn't super rich/fancy by any means, it wasn't really a hellhole, either.
That’s an interesting reaction. Are there also some left leaning views that don’t deserve respect?
If you've browsed a lot of NYTimes articles without a paid account, then you'll get paywalled. Using a fresh incognito window usually takes care of the problem. If that doesn't work, I've found that visiting their articles from a Google News link will remove the paywall for the first article you visit.

TBH if you visit them enough to get the paywall, then you probably ought to just pony up the reasonable monthly subscription fee.
I remember google having equivalent or even inferior results to yahoo search for quite a while, especially in niche topics like sports and music. The differences in algorithms just didn’t matter much for average case queries.

I think the difference in algorithms matters even less now, and that google’s modern advantage is not in ranking algorithms but in automated display of structured data, like sports league results, filmography for an actor, etc., and work around knowledge graph methods to automate that stuff.

Early google was unequivocally only differentiated by branding and sparse design.
That's a view that's very fine in the abstract but breaks down when you try to apply it to reality.

There has never been a time when a white supremacist and the target of his ire could sit down and "have a free exchange of ideas"; those interactions ended with the poor soul on the end of a rope.

There likewise has never been a time when LGBT individuals could sit down with radical evangelicals and discuss the finer points on how the fomer are evil sinners who should die in hellfire.

Workers formed unions and striked rather than calmly discuss their differences of labor policy opinion with business owners.

No one has any right to demand civility for ideas that reject it on principle. When you pine for the "good old days" what you're saying is "I wish it was the fifties when those women/coloreds/gays would sit down and do as their told under threat of violence; we had such a good market place of ideas back then."
Regarding 'only 100+ people out of 25,000 employees' comments - I would bet that the total number of employees who disagree with mainstream PC liberal views so prominent in our industry is about half, at least one third. However - most are choosing to stay quiet.

I am posting this anonymously as well. While I don't work at FB, I work at a 'hot tech startup', and cannot risk being 'outed' as a conservative. I would categorize my views as 'slightly right of center', very moderate, but it seems like anything not agreeing with Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders' socialism is equal to being called a 'nazi' in our industry.

I feel very sad about this state of affairs, and I applaud Mr. Amerige for his bravery to do this. I applaud everyone who chose to publicly join him in this effort, putting their careers and livelihoods at danger, risking never being employed in Silicon Valley again.
You're probably thinking of complaints that our CI was flakey at times (failing despite changes being ok), which is true (though it's been pretty stable lately). However, people sometimes equate that with bad test coverage, which is absolutely not the same thing. Easiest way to get a test to pass is to delete it.

From my perspective at least, the julia test suite is quite comprehensive (if something passes the test suite, I'm generally happy to put it on master and have people use it). We're also lucky that there is so much open source julia code available, which we can use as essentially one giant regression test. We used that heavily in the lead up to 1.0 to make sure that there weren't any surprise bugs waiting for people.
Collective bargaining can be used to leverage other assets, besides money.
Yeah, tech in general and especially email is annoying to switch from. My parents still use a yahoo email account because they have had it for so long and don't want to get other people to update their contacts.
Why?

We're all generally well-paid (even with respect to the value we create). But this whole message board is practically dedicated to the ways in which our industry pisses us off, from confiscatory IP clauses to open offices to death march projects. Who's to say labor can't organize simply for a better shop to work in? That's not unprecedented.
As I have mentioned in other threads, of the dozens or possibly hundreds of co-workers I've worked directly with during my time so far in Silicon Valley I have met exactly one who disclosed conservative views and support of the Republican party. Either one, there really is a massive lack of political diversity to the extent that less than 1% SV developers are conservativez or (more likely in my opinion) two, there is widespread fear of retaliation and discrimination for making even relatively mainstream conservative views known. And I wouldn't blame them for the latter. I routinely see thinly veiled threats against conservatives in company slack channels (e.g. threatening "Nazis" while subsequently calling border control proponents "Nazis" not long after).
How reusable Tomahawk's engine is? That is, for a reusable engine of this size, what would be flight time until a serious maintenance is required?
Ethyl alcohol is cheap, highly available; people are already familiar with its particular flammability and toxicity issues and are comfortable handling it.
Step 1: buy 51% of FB stock.
The Republican Party has moved further and further right for the last 30+ years. When one side of an argument goes extreme it almost forces the other side to react severely. A similar stressor works on young adults. They’ve spent almost the entirety of their lives up until the point they move out or go to college at their parents’ discretion(s).
Both tweets were deleted - but Google still had them cached! \o/

1st link -> http://archive.is/8xh4z

2nd link -> http://archive.is/KGyCf
10Mbps sounds like Sonic Fusion (AT&T DSL partnership) and not Sonic Fiber.
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Sounds like an antitrust violation investigation may be in order.
Has Facebook ever had anything close to cultural principles? At least Google had "don't be evil" for a while.

This is such a clear mirror for what Facebook is going through itself. As a company it never stood for anything except for growth and engagement at all costs. When leadership doesn't stand for anything, it invites others to try to guide culture.

If Zuckerberg had come out to say either the product or the company's culture stands for something, it would put this all to rest...but he won't, because growth and engagement at all costs.
> because your passport will be checked.

That's far more a concern for people trying to re-enter the United States. For those leaving, this is hardly an impediment.
You don't really need to remember that many mappings of Fahrenheit to Celsius, at least for weather. Remembering approximately mappings for 0-100 by 10s should be enough for most people.
Who said they're all conservatives?

I'm a liberal and I'd join this group in a heartbeat.
Useful background, thank you. Am I alone in thinking the response from Palantir looks like more feedback than one would have expected from the average corp? It makes jamiebuilds' reply seem more provocative than it otherwise would have, but I praise their conviction to their morals.

Edit for vague closing sentence: I'm praising jamiebuilds' moral conviction.
See, you're doing it too. You're assuming that ALL feminist ideas are morally invincible on the grounds that they are championing "equal rights for women" (whether that's actually true or not) and shaming GP for implying differently
HCA is a massive criminal enterprise. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_Corporation_of_Amer...
Has anyone mentioned https://observablehq.com/? I hate notebooks too, but I like this one a little.
"Move fast and break things" seems to suggest an anarchic pragmatism towards life.
Because conservatives are anti-union and anti-NLRB.

Edit: why the heck am I being downvoted? I'm literally just explaining what I assumed the GP was referring to.
It should be noted that many views espoused by what Americans call 'liberals' or 'left-leaning' people are in fact the mainstream in the EU (such as issues about abortion, gun control, death penalty, healthcare, and so on) and commonly accepted by almost all parties except what we'd call 'far-right' ones. So I'm wondering: when those articles pop up calling the tech world/the Valley/company X a 'liberal monoculture' or whatever, are they implying that it is also the case for the entirety of a continent? Or is it simply that, as in Europe, a minority of people with fringe and socially unacceptable views is wishing rather loudly that their views weren't so fringe and socially unacceptable?
The problem is who decides what views should or should not be tolerated?

It's not a who, it's a what: context. To the degree it's a who, you're talking about the ethics of everybody within earshot, including the speaker.
I think the write up is good, functional. But it feels littered with "layer violations" of OS, WM, App.

His underlying OS abstractions that he can see are mostly good, OSX is a BSD-like OS, and he has good OS level analogues for most of what he engages with as an OS. I don't think day-to-day anyone realises "grand central" exists. Filesystem, I think OSX filesystem journaling is comparable in behaviour to ZFS. The whole 'is it case sensitive or insensitive' thing is a bit of a mystery to me: Why did OSX make that design decision?

Secure boot, crypted partitions, trust in the privacy of the system? I think comparable.

WM level, He's got clone-a-like things. He gets most of what he wants, I suspect I'd be good too.

App level, I think he's walked into a space where there is a tiny core of OSX apps like Preview, which are just really hard to get in the free domain. If you run a mac with homebrew you're doing cask install of things which exist in ports or pkg, so there is a large overlap, but once you call up an OSX app like preview, you have gone into a space its hard to replicate.

Chrome users will see next to no difference if you live inside chrome. Electron app users would see little difference.

I don't know I'd walk directly to libreoffice, if I could get O365 working. But the moment where you have to install linux runtime compatibility laters, or Java, are the moments where for me pain re-enters the room: these things are not always nice to live with.
Rephrasing other people's responses: I think it's sorta like the halting problem. If we could solve "how do we know if we've discovered all laws of the universe", then we would likely already require the knowledge of all the laws already, since it likely depends on everything else.
Well stated. I did the same but self performed a large portion. Have someone who knows what they’re doing work with you to help you get started
I don’t buy that zuvkerberg is a liberal. He’s made it clear he doesn’t respect anyone’s privacy nor honor their trust. He seems highly manipulative wrapped in whatever phrasing works at the moment.
Nobody said it "should" be. It simply is, in Go, the language we're discussing. If you nerdsnipe an HN thread with an argument that there's no difference between a language, its runtime, and its standard library, people are going to pile on to point out that's not true.
The hospital in OP article is part of HCA, that has perpetuated $billions in fraud profits. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_Corporation_of_Amer...
I find this incredibly surprising. Do you give them a chance to?

So many of my colleagues (at a big tech co) have expressed various conservative views. Granted, I live in NYC, but this feels a bit like you're experiencing confirmation bias.
You equal criticising religion to white supremacy? That's really troubling.
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I don’t think this is true at all, I think it’s the middle that’s moved. I was quite left leaning when I was a teenager, but some of my views would be called ‘alt-right’ or extreme today. My values haven’t really changed that much, but they’re much more aligned with the right today. (Downvoted within seconds, very nice).
That feels like a strawman. When people want to debate feminism nowadays they don't want to talk about whether women should have equal rights or not. For example some people say abortion is part of feminism. Some are for it some are against it. That doesn't mean they want to keep women as sex slaves.
This is exactly the kind of intolerance this memo is advocating against. If you genuinely would fire all the 45% of people that voted for Trump, anyone who disapproves of the rhetoric of BLM, or considers Islam to have a poor human rights record then I would suggest you take a look in mirror before trying to find intolerance in your employees. Easily the majority of the US population would hold at least one of those views. Heck, even the first almost brings it to 50%.