skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I value political neutrality in the workplace

If you're doing meaningful work, you're changing things in the world.

Changing things in the world is necessarily and inevitably political.

If the workplace appears politically neutral, then one of two things must be true. Either what you're doing doesn't affect the outside world, or there are hidden, unstated political motives at work.

I would much prefer my company's leadership to acknowledge the politics inherent in our work and openly state their motives and point of view.

Doing otherwise is either meaningless or dishonest.
How do you maintain political neutrality when the two sides of an argument consist of climate change vs denial? Vaccines vs anti-vaxx? Being pro gay marriage vs against?

There is almost no such thing as polititcal neutrality. Every site, every piece of media and every search engine is likely to have some sort of bias you need to be aware of. There is an argument to be made that Google is a monopoly and should be reigned in, but coming at it from the stance of 'they have a political slant' seems ill-advised.
This narrative that China is some academic powerhouse has to stop. Just look at the absolute expenditure in education despite all that growth. Their priority is sadly elsewhere.
Be careful not to confuse solemn and serious. If the Apollo engineers could have fun shooting a tin can at the moon and the Manhattan Project engineers could have fun creating humanity's most terrible weapon, you can have fun making a VC-backed webapp or back-office database.

Don't let anyone convince you engineers having fun is the reason for all the garbage software. That's pure stockholm syndrome. The reason for garbage software is that developers aren't treated like real engineers, and don't act like real engineers. They're children in a room full of adults making Important Business Decisions That They Just Need To Accept. So what if those decisions are bad engineering? You're not a real engineer anyway so listen to the grownups.

The worst part is they do it to themselves. In the biggest sellers market in history, developers don't put their feet down about bad decisions because b-b-but I might get fired! They passively watch, nod sagely when it all goes to shit and say "mmm, I knew that was going to happen" like ignoring the responsibility that comes with professional training is something to be proud of.

You think sales people make more money because they studied harder? It's because they know their value. You think lawyers get taken more seriously because they dress better? It's because they are personally and professionally liable for everything they say - or don't say - to a client. You think doctors have more autonomy because they never have any fun? It's because every doctor knows that no extenuating circumstances, no "but management said", no piece of paper can ever clean the blood from their hands.

Believing that the problem is easter eggs is buying into the same mindset that brought us here in the first place. Those naughty developers again! Gosh, when will they start wearing ties to work, sit patiently in meetings while we talk at them, and then sign off on half-finished garbage code? Don't they know we have a business to run!

But the Challenger didn't explode because of Silly Shirt Friday. It exploded because management didn't respect their engineers. When the first fatal microservice is written, it won't be because developers had fun. It'll be because they don't respect themselves.
Via advertising networks, I have been able to send messages to my friends via vanilla advertising campaigns. If you are not aware, understand that your internet activity can pinpoint you exact via simple ad networks and nothing else. I like Brave.
Oh, I think the article is valuable, but it's BS to call it a "secret" system. It's not a secret. It's how the system is supposed to work.

Of course, the system is flawed so...
4 letter .ai domain name. Nice!
The Google Trips app accomplishes the same.
> the other party will be found guilty of disrupting your business by having you get into court for complaints without legal grounds.

Dubious. The other lawyer will claim they believed you had read the complaint and therefore that they were acting in good faith, and will see no punishment at all.
Nicotine addictive, vaping seen as a way to hook the next generation by tobacco execs, and other unsurprising facts tonight at 11.
Ending PHP Support, and the Future of Hack
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/im-longer-buying-games-steam-o...
I'm not sure why we collectively decided to trust the tobacco industry on this issue, this can't be overly surprising given their level of interest in this emerging market.
Not all people from the East Coast that I’ve met aren’t sociopaths, but the only actual sociopaths I’ve ever met were both from the East Coast.

Now consider how ridiculous it would be for me to conclude that in East Coast culture sociopathy is significantly more encouraged than elsewhere, and then think about how much larger the population and how much more diverse the cultures of China are compared to the East Coast. Your comment is silly.
This breaks the HN guidelines by being flamebait on a divisive topic, which predictably leads to flamewar, in this case national/ethnic flamewar, one of the worst kinds. We're trying to avoid that here, so please don't post that way to this site.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17974802 and marked it off-topic.
I think they are being genuine when they say their plan is to combat fake news with AI; their business is built around AI. It is one of their core competencies.

I think they are going to fail, and quietly increase the human involvement once they realize that their AI isn't good enough. Then they will slowly scale back the humans as their AI improves, until the next controversy when they realize that they still need humans.
80% of China’s clinical trial data are fraudulent, investigation finds

https://www.bmj.com/content/355/bmj.i5396
There are many roles. From soc architects to ASIC design engineers, verification folks at all levels, analog folks, physical design folks (layout, etc), circuit designers. It takes a village. Degree-wise mostly computer engineering, electrical engineering, and computer science. But I mostly know the cpu space. On something like a phone/watch there are also all the sensors, camera stuff, etc. No idea where that all comes from.
You sound like the sort of person who shouldn't be watching the live feed, and wait for the articles, like me.
Other than the cost the biggest complaint is the injections. A lot of people are simply afraid of needles, and at the very least it's a 15 minute process once or twice a week. The whole point of TRT is to keep testosterone in the normal range, so there theoretically shouldn't be any health downsides, only upsides, once you get the bloodwork to see what dosage your body requires.
Plug in hybrids are probably only viable for a particular range of battery costs. When batteries are expensive it’s worthwhile reducing that cost by spending the extra money on a duplicated drive-train. As the cost of the battery falls the savings by having the extra drivetrain complexity fall.
Yeah, I thought Inbox would actually be safe to use since it was tied to email, but nope.

Gmail doesn't have the automated bundling features that Inbox does, and like you, losing Inbox will be a pretty significant blow to my ability to manage email.

I've been slowly migrating away from Google's services for a long time now because they keep pulling stunts like this - it's like they're completely unable to keep their engineers focused on maintaining any kind of product consistency or long-term support.

Android Pie's awful UI/UX changes and discontinuing Inbox are very nearly the last straw for me. I can't avoid Gmail entirely as I'm too attached to the address, but worst case I can always just forward to a new one.
Do the addons work in the mobile apps or is it just browser things?
I'm interested in why you believe it shouldn't be acceptable for leadership to express "dismay at the outcome of a democratic process."

I assume you feel it is appropriate for leadership to express dismay about some things, so what makes democratic processes special?
FYI many pharmacies (individual stores that is) do not accept it for certain medications, lie about accepting it, or will change their mind after ordering your medication in order to try and extort you.

Get it in writing if they say they will accept it or try and pay in advance or something. Pharmacies are up their with mechanic shops for being overwhelmingly comprised of scumfucks.
The various negative health outcomes we're seeing with refined &/or simple carbohydrates.
>I value political neutrality in the workplace

Political neutrality is just political support of the status quo. That is a perfectly acceptable political stance to take, but you should recognize it is still a political stance.
Slaves to speech suppression are masters of nothing
Isn't it rathwr unlikely they dictated anything to Apple, as Apple isn't, and wasn't exactly at the brink of bankruptcy. They could have chosen a different path.

It is probably more likely, looking at the history of a couple of different online movie/music services, that Apple simply decided to play ball with the media companies to get better deals, and earn more money. Simultaneosly getting a foot in the door to stop the "rebel" companies entering the scene, crashing the media industries party, and Apples too.

While Apple with their positioning obviously has a lot to win on being the #1 choice of the media giants, I believe they went there quite willingly.
Also, I'm really into cryptocurrencies now. Please pay me in bitcoin.
Which started under Steve Jobs (the 5 was the first bigger screen).
- Easier path is to applying for a job in EU for Google/Facebook/whathaveyou, and then transferring on L1.
Google has offices in zurich, london, frankfurt, dublin, etc.

- If you have phd in a related field, you might even apply for immigration right away (don't quote me on that).

- Diversity greencard is coming up, you might want to try your chances (but it's a low one).
> "His team used three pairs of laser beams to trap and cool neutral (uncharged) cesium atoms to ultra-cold temperatures (a few degrees above absolute zero) in a 3D lattice with 125 positions (a 5×5×5 cube). They filled half the positions with atoms in random positions and then moved the atoms around by changing the polarization of the laser traps—the equivalent function of Maxwell's demon, except using position to sort them rather than speed. By this means, they were able to create ordered 5×5×2 or 4×4×3 subsets within the originally disordered lattice, thereby reducing the system's entropy."

Quoting directly from the article, note I only skimmed it.
The Gmail client supports email snoozing including the ability to swipe to snooze. Under general settings swipe actions can be configured with Snooze being an option.
What I would like to know is what super-systems are required to be run by someone in the event of tesla going out of business/some-thing-else-bad happening to them...

But, it begs a question about such system in the long-term. If we look at the electric car segment of all transport, as it replaces ICEs over time - the systems they rely on to function are bigger than a single brand.
I am by no means an expert but I think the answer is yes. As I understand it, as we shrink smaller we run into greater leakage costs even when the devices aren’t switching. This is probably not a completely correct answer.
I wonder if I can use my flexible spending account to buy one now.
Link [1] is borked. Presumably, this one works: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.172...

Also, you're missing the structured interview component.
The unread count is correct; you didn't really _read_ those emails. The problem is that the UI is placing undue emphasis on the number of emails you didn't read; that's a pretty irrelevant statistic. Half of the emails I receive don't need to be read; just glancing at the subject is enough.

Inbox got it right by not showing unread counts and just letting you mark emails as done when they're no longer needed.
Once again Stallman shows that he was right all along.
Funny - I once gave a presentation where I made the claim that the most common Augmented Reality app used was spoken car navigation. Augmented Reality certainly doesn't augment only your eyes. I also think the Apple Watch haptic system is underutilized as a augmentation device. Total agreement.
Regardless of this. Reading is something I either do to learn something interesting or to relax. Depending on this I choose my medium for consumption.

Frankly ebooks (kindle) have my preference now for almost everything except books containing code or mathematics. Paper books are better to me in that domain.

If something is "good" for your specific use case will depend on many things. Convenience being a factor as well as personal preference.
Bloomberg is very positive from a production standpoint.... but each car produced loses money no?

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-tesla-tracker/
curious, would fracking be used years or decades down the line to extend well life?
> because they do not have the size of the apartment. I think it really matters, because apartments in Tokyo could be much smaller than those in NYC.

No, it doesn't matter to most people. A country with smaller apartments will have smaller appliances, smaller computers, etc. - like Japan.
What? Howso? Firefox doesn't piggy back on edge/ie.
>oy gevalt.

There's no reason for this kind of dog whistling.
I was immediately put off by the generous bezels on top and bottom.

Sony had really improved on this aspect of late (actually kinda got rid of that questionable design and form factor that was ubiquitous in Sony phones). It seems they figured they need it back for some reason.
Niche yes, but mainstream (like mom and pop) refers to the ownership of the medium. And HN is owned by one of Silicon Valley's most powerful firms.
I’ve done this. It was the worst decision I’ve ever made. Looking to get out ASAP.

Turns out there’s more to life than tech, and you can tech anywhere.
I indeed missed the context here. Thank you for the clarification and excellent explanation. Sparkfun looks like a great resource. Cheers
Windows doesn’t actually come with a dirth of drivers out of the box and it keeps backward compatibility with drivers longer.
The average Chinese is just as clever, if not more clever, than the average Westerner. They'll absolutely produce good results given good funding. But the tradition of the University is not Chinese; the Areopagitica is alien to mainstream Chinese civic and intellectual values; the inviolability of the right to interrogate the universe as a free, searching, essentially individual being is not part of the mentality driving all this investment. It is essentially like 20th century Soviet enthusiasm for science and mathematics. The government expects the benefits of a world class intelligentsia with the downsides held in check at the point of a rifle.

I think the US and Europe should slam the (academic) doors shut; no more collaboration until the Chinese government learns some basic humanity. The strategy of influencing the Chinese by educating their elite has not worked. Clearly.
I think the majority like the idea but surprised there isn't a financial effort from the prison and associated industries to fight the idea. If it works though, it's a huge win for getting minor offenders out of concrete cages.
Here is the copy/paste from a Kroger quarterly report, detailing some of its risks: (NB: includes “changes in government-funded benefit programs” as a risk)

Kroger's ability to achieve sales, earnings and cash flow goals may be affected by: labor negotiations or disputes; changes in the types and numbers of businesses that compete with Kroger; pricing and promotional activities of existing and new competitors, including non-traditional competitors, and the aggressiveness of that competition; Kroger's response to these actions; the state of the economy, including interest rates, the inflationary and deflationary trends in certain commodities, and the unemployment rate; the effect that fuel costs have on consumer spending; volatility of fuel margins; changes in government-funded benefit programs; manufacturing commodity costs; diesel fuel costs related to Kroger's logistics operations; trends in consumer spending; the extent to which Kroger's customers exercise caution in their purchasing in response to economic conditions; the uncertain pace of economic growth; changes in inflation or deflation in product and operating costs; stock repurchases; Kroger's ability to retain pharmacy sales from third party payors; consolidation in the healthcare industry, including pharmacy benefit managers; Kroger's ability to negotiate modifications to multi-employer pension plans; natural disasters or adverse weather conditions; the potential costs and risks associated with potential cyber-attacks or data security breaches; the success of Kroger's future growth plans; the ability to execute on Restock Kroger; and the successful integration of merged companies and new partnerships. Kroger's ability to achieve sales and earnings goals may also be affected by Kroger's ability to manage the factors identified above. Kroger's ability to execute its financial strategy may be affected by its ability to generate cash flow.
My main objection to it is that it doesn't at all solve the problem. Everyone clicks "accept", people still don't know what cookies (etc.) are, it was yet another silly regulation that harms small players and entrenches megacorps, and overall makes the internet less fun and more corporate junk.

Real regulations about this stuff require real technical expertise, and it's going to be at least a generation before that expertise exists in the political class. The alternative is to let the tech lobby write the regulations, but booooooooo.
He compared two identical numbers. The effect size he obtained will shock you
I looked through the article but couldn't find a study to back your claim. Can you please look link directly to a study that specifically looks at the most successful members of the underprivileged and compares them to the laziest members or the upper class? I know a good deal about social mobility and your claim reads like something somebody made up.

Edit: in fact, the Wikipedia article directly contradicts your claim, saying "Looking at larger moves, only 4% of those raised in the bottom quintile moved up to the top quintile as adults. Around twice as many (8%) of children born into the top quintile fell to the bottom" - suggesting that the best of the underprivileged are far more successful than the laziest of the over-privileged.
Mom & Pop, by definition, refers to the ownership of the medium. Not how many people work on it.
Even when idle, extra cores still cost in terms of area (hence yield). So if you want to sell very cheap chrome books and such, that may not be attractive. Power isn’t at as much of a premium in a laptop cpu (bigger battery and also bigger screen, more ram, etc. so that the CPU part of the power draw is proportionally less)
What a beautiful board. I love how you can see the processor working. I'm sad that they have no plans to make other processors as well.
They teach arbitration and related matters in many law school curriculums now, another sad sign of the continued slide into privatised legal systems.

Unfortunately they have been successfully tested often in many legal systems.
> current U.S. policies on science are extremely unfavorable to foreign researchers

To U.S. researchers also - the proposal funding rate is so low on account of the resource/PI ratio that many U.S. researchers are moving to Europe where there is greater promise of hard funding.
I'm surprised at how high up Canada / Switzerland is in the rankings. Both pretty small for that much impact.
Wait, you mean there's bias in our media?

All joking aside- I remember watching ed Snowden go from being a "whistleblower" to a "leaker" in the space of 8 hours. I watched Alexandria ocasio Cortez go from a bold new voice to being portrayed as a know-nothing (in a pretty sexist way) in about 6 hours. I remember how all the media were creaming themselves with excitement over the wmd's they were going to find in Iraq. I observe how the crimes of saudi Arabia are getting papered over and not reported right now. So yeah.. not surprising.
I also found the flight status information helpful. On our last trip, I found out our flight was delayed via Inbox an hour or two before I heard about it from United and was able to make necessary schedule adjustment with the updates.
> UI - simple, uncluttered mobile and desktop experience with uncomplicated keyboard shortcuts. It even had the little things like a satisfying sun animation when your inbox was empty! Desktop Gmail has a surfeit of widgets and add-on icons that perplex, distract, and confuse.

Just for this one in particular, you could try basic HTML mode for GMail: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/1pq68r75kzvdr/?v%3Dlui

But then of course you get even less features.
> I think they are going to fail, and quietly increase the human involvement once they realize that their AI isn't good enough. Then they will slowly scale back the humans as their AI improves, until the next controversy when they realize that they still need humans.

Exactly. AI is not good at subjective decisions of qualitative data. For example, nobody knows any political candidate's net worth apart from IRS, until they make those records public. And say political candidates make statements that they are way less or way more than their net worth they cannot detect it is true or false.

That's why I was surprised. Pichai is smart enough that AI can't combat fake news. Hence he was just saying to save face.
Yeah, there you go. I'm finding it harder to keep track of everything these days. Thanks for linking.
Social pressures are another problem though with multiplayer games.

Your friends play x

You dont like x for reason y

Which is stronger, your dislike of y or the enjoyment of playing x with friends.
Could this play a role in causing Gender dysphoria?
I tend to think of these electronic “Purchase” transactions as a purchase of a temporary license. This mindset means the price should be significantly cheaper.

You never really own these digital assets. A good test is trying to gift/sell something in your library to someone else.
There is certainly good research coming out of China, but there are also journals set up to primarily publish articles citing their own papers, or papers in peer journals to boost citations...
I was bothered about the same thing but it looks like in the Gmail app you can configure the left/right swipes separately to "Archive", "Delete", "Mark as read/unread", "Move to", "Snooze" and "None". The default seems to be both set to "Archive".
True, but I kind of get where their headspace is here. It feels like a weird jaunt to rely on alt tags for what is ultimately just simulacrum of what exists in the alt tags considering that-for the sake of accessibility-going with plain text to begin with probably makes a lot more sense.
this is racism