skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The distinction between government and private groups is
not a clean as you might think. At a large enough scale,
private groups can start to take on a role in society that
resembles that of a government, should we not then expect
them to be held to a standard that resembles that we expect
of governments?

Absolutely agree that companies, particularly companies with large market share, can effectively wield state-level powers and that it is something we need to figure out as a country.

In this case we're talking about Google's all-hands discussion about weeding out bad-faith actors. They weren't trying to silence people who simply thought Trump was the better candidate, they were talking about something very close to spam filtering. "Silence Republicans" is something that (even as a liberal) is something I'd be absolutely opposed to; filtering out outright fraudulent news sources (from any part of the political spectrum) is something we should all support.

We've been doing something similar as a country for many years. Notice how tabloids like the National Enquirer aren't typically lumped in with "real" news sources at the newsstand.
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Perhaps more importantly, there is lots of evidence that exclusively male environments seriously amplify the effect and make aggression a fundamental part of the culture. Even very aggressive men tend to behave differently in mixed gender groups.
It is, it's just a different phrasing. I think you're reading more into "brutal" than blazespin intended. You might be more correct in your interpretation, but I'm pretty sure they just meant "blunt", not "vicious".
From what I have seen, something about the phone necessitates a decision for replacement of one or more problematic parts (usually screen or battery) or upgrade to a next generation and most people I know seem to choose the latter.
This basically mirrors my experience with Canada. So don't play a rigged game, work remotely for foreign (US, Swiss) companies that pay more. Bonus points, become non-resident in Canada, stay for the lovely summers in Vancouver and then bugger off to some tropical beach paradise for the other 6 months a year. You can legally pay nothing in income taxes when you do that (you won't get health care either, but at programmer salaries, self-insure with the difference, or take out private insurance.)
The Washington Post created a tool called Bandito so they could AB test headlines. Sounds like the opposite of what you described.
If calling a spade a spade is defined as being an asshole for the enjoyment of being an asshole, then I agree with you. If that's what you were doing, then good on you for growing out of it (seriously!)

The flipside of being too diplomatic is that everything shifts too slowly for people to notice, and by the time they have noticed they're boiled like a frog. That's why SF police basically doesn't work at all, there are tent cities and needles on the streets, and a tiny bedroom costs $2k/mo. That's why everyone is using Jira and nobody likes it. That's why 90% of corporate meetings are a complete waste of time.

Small diplomatic concessions compound and lead to equilibrium traps where it's no longer possible to say "enough is enough". There are plenty of situations where being an asshole is much, much better than the alternative.
It's good to hear a good report from the front. I've named my first daughter this way and I'm less than a month from doing it again.
The same is true of the stock market, or regular “fiat” currency.

I guess the question is, does it matter if it’s “not really worth it”?

The fact that people have been willing to pay so much for US dollars or British pounds or Japanese yen has meant a lot in this world.

Isn’t it justified to awe at the power of a decentralized currency? Certainly it’s in the realm of heady ideas.
If it's a ton, it's better to work a day job while developing your side business and not telling your employer (because they will try to sue you sometimes).

It's never too late to start a side project! Just find a way to pay bills first :)
Because Apple recently stopped selling iPhones with 3.5mm jacks; today, the only way to get wired audio out of one is by using a first-party accessory. Now, third-party dongles and headphones fail to work and are met with a "No longer supported" message. If you want something to plug into "i" device, it either needs to be made by Apple or have their special approval.

Third-party developers would cry fowl if they implemented USB-C and tried something similar. Because losing it would function to hinder their control over their accessory ecosystem, I don't see it on the "chopping block" any time soon -- despite how much we all would like to see it replaced by something more consumer-friendly.
When I named my daughter four and a half years ago I had a few goals. Unique but not wacky. Exotic but not obtuse. Clear but not dull. Short. Easy to pronounce in different cultures where certain phonemes are difficult. Easy to spell. Memorable. Story about naming to please both sides of the family. It was an ask!
If Linus goes, expect SJW tardism to creep in and destroy Linux as we know it.
I'm pretty sure they just meant "blunt", not "vicious".

Let's hope you are correct.
Segregation is back! So progressive.
How to Model Human Activity from Smartphone Data
If you like Binky, I highly highly recommend Dogged Fabrication[0] and The Skid Factory[1], both of which are Australian car builders with insane amounts of skill, building some very interesting stuff.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrK2_gqI4knOij31p_iandQ

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA_dkvjUUu4&list=PLvKTvFJhZU... (the 4th and latest build, worth looking at their older ones too)
Successful companies also attract gold diggers. When the company is small, unless everybody is going above and beyond the call of duty, it's likely going to fail. As the company gets bigger, there is more and more latitude for failure. At some point it is successful enough that it can survive having people whose only goal is to direct a large amount of money into their pockets. This can lead to really weird decisions being made as people try to kill off "competing" projects, or to sabotage other people who are interfering with the flow of money into pockets. If you happen to be the hapless person who is innocently trying to make the company successful and who is not paying attention to where the money "should" flow, it can be quite painful for you. Of course, you will always be comforted by they near-apology, "It's nothing personal. It's just business" as they drive you ruthlessly into the ground.
Step into Silicon Forest, Putin's secret weapon in the global tech race (2016)
But he was explicitly referring to the manifesto and not the Code of Conduct and you jumped all over him anyway.
You're still on the hook for the taxes upfront when you exercise, and you're going to deduct $3k/year of that investment loss off your taxes until you die.

https://github.com/jlevy/og-equity-compensation#taxes-on-sto...
Well it's a good thing that contributing to FOSS is entirely voluntary, then, isn't it? Ain't it grand that there's no supreme overlord telling you to which repos you must submit PRs? Total miracle, right? Wait, no, it's only your natural right to make voluntary associations.
I’m no high roller, nor even much of a casino customer anymore, but having cashed in many tens of thousands of dollars of chips it would have never occurred to me to tip a cage cashier. They seem so disinterested in the fact that I’m standing there, it is not like they’re trying for tips. Nor have I even heard it mentioned. Now, I’m not a complete rube as I tip table and wait staff (heavily, if I’ve won big). But the person doing what I expect a casino to do: exchange their fake money for fiat? Never.
Is anyone really rallied to the cause by Linus himself? I think the product is the only real draw. With the exception of a select few that simply want to work with someone as high profile and legendary as Linus.
Ask old engineers about their problems and they’ll tell you it isn’t tech. It’s all people. Getting people to understand, get motivated, relax, get over themselves. These are the issues that hold back progress in practice.

But, if you want tech, machine learning really is horribly interesting and useful right now. Ocaml and Erlang are good systems to learn from and carry over to other systems. CUDA is a rare and powerful skill. And, if you want to get serious, learn TLA+ or Coq.
Certainly he has done far, far, far more good than bad. I don't think anybody feels otherwise. I would say he's something of a hero to me!

He has certainly rallied many to his cause.

As much good as he has done, could he do some things better? Linus certainly feels so. Interesting that so many here seem doubt Linus' own assertion.
Anyone here have experience using Futhark, either for fun or in a professional environment?

What was the project? What were the alternative technologies in this space?
The parentheses are meant to be parsed across the word boundary, as "(applied math)ematician," following the structure of "(math)ematician."
Apple's got a market cap of $1 trillion and $285 billion in cash. It can afford to do whatever the hell it wants, frankly.
A rectangular volume 10cm x 40cm x 175cm massing 70kg on a frictionless plane.
I read the "pattern-welded steel" as a reference to the current method: the sentence you quote explicitly says the original method is lost: in other words, unknown.
When you think a specific thought, feel a specific feeling, but express it in a way that really doesn't feel true to you deep in your core, you're deceiving the other person about who you are. That's how many relationships fall apart. You tell each other tiny white lies, and five years later you've discovered the lies have compounded and the relationship is too poisoned to recover. The same thing happens to cultures at scale.
Nice thought but Benioff is a liberal, so this seems unlikely.
In tmux, is there a way to make the logical screen larger than the physical screen - so you can (1) scroll around to see the whole screen, and (2) view different parts of the logical screen in different terminals?

Useful for mobile devices with small screens.
I suspect the hollow USB C male connector is more susceptible to this degradation. The lightning male connector is not hollow
Granted I’ve been reading the traditional style since second grade, I feel like learning this Hummingbird style would be an order of magnitude harder than learning another programming language. Maybe I’m just getting old and the plasticity is hardening.
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Man uses results of home DNA test to apply for minority business owner status
I read it as he didn’t think anything relied on those semantics and it turned out that was incorrect.
Is there an idiomatic phrase for the opposite of "damning with faint praise"? Praising through faint damnation? Maybe the "exception that proves the rule"?
I hope for the sake of the stability of the ecosystem he doesn't apologise again. It's one thing to just change, and another to make a public gesture to seek out approval on weak terms.

As soon as it becomes about other people forgiving him, they will just pile on because it elevates them.

Good on him for recognizing what got him here isn't the tool to get him and the kernel where he needs to go. But that should be it.

Anything more invites a coup and hyper politicized governance of what is now a core internet technology.

I hope he draws a line under this and moves forward instead of being co-opted by a committee.

"I did that, and now I don't anymore, here is what we're doing next," is far better than, "I am afraid of some consequences of things I did in the past and I want your permission to continue." For a leader, the latter is death.
Leonard Bernstein, bar none: https://www.google.de/search?q=bernstein+young+people%27s+co...
Some examples would be CPM S30V, S35VN, S90V, and S110V; CPM 3V, 9V, 10V, 15V; A2, D2, O1 and S7; VG-10.

Some of these are arguably "more Damascus than Damascus", in a sense that they're also mixes, but on a much finer level. For example, S30V - a relatively affordable "super steel" - is one of those known as "powder steels" due to the way they're made, achieving extreme uniformity and purity of the alloy even at microscopic level:

https://www.knifeart.com/particlesteel.html

This lets knife makers create alloys that are outright impossible using traditional methods (because they wouldn't be able to make them uniform enough). It also means that they can formulate an alloy precisely to match the desired qualities, instead of approximating it by mixing steels in layers as Damascus does.

The kind of stuff we can do with modern technology and modern materials would be considered genuine magic back in the days where the quality of those blades was a life-or-death matter. It's kinda ironic that these days, we use it for EDC knives to avoid sharpening them more often than we'd like.

Here's a good example of how a modern knife made from one of the highest-end steels performs (scroll down to the "Performance" section):

http://knifeinformer.com/spyderco-military-s110v-review/
I read about Kirtimukha, but what does that have to do with concern over causing plants suffering by eating them?
Would we have this discussion if the authors of powerful software powering multi billion dollar enterprises benefited more?

I wonder what happens when these peolle are given financial security?

As an investment in the future, the returns could be amazing! Many, if not all, authors really care and it shows.

Would making sure they are free to care, live well, maybe create more be such a bad thing?

Secondly, with that on the table, I wonder about the quality, and drive to create like that. We may see amazing tools.

Re: Open Source

Being able to see the source is high value. Being able to build on others work is high value.

Arguably, high enough value to trigger this kind of mess.

Pay them. Seriously.

Is the problem one of ego? AwesomeSauce.com wants to be recognized and get value from their work. Is recognizing CantLiveWithout DB or Language, Toolkit, etc... taking away from all that somehow?

Is it one of confusion?

AwesomeSauce.com paid, only to see AlsoAwesomeSauce.com not pay?

Does that matter, if bazillions are being made?

Seems to me this all can be litigated to our mutual detriment, or it can be handled as a family struggle, or worse.

Have to say, I do not blsme people looking hard at billion dollar enterprises, and their many big fix, support requests with a jaded eye, maybe a hungry one.

Fixing that scenario may well be ultra cheap compared to the mess and opportunity costs to come.

I put this here to stimulate some discussion, not as judgement, or anything aimed at anyone.

Really open licenses are a good thing. Really, really good thing. Many of us know the story. Pick up some code, any computer we can find and just build.

Breaking that seems extreme. Maybe it just does not need to be that way.

Maybe it should not.

What is worth what here?

Perhaps those conversations go far easier than the current ones will, and it is not like tech as a whole can't afford a solution.

Again, not a negative, or statement against anyone. Just thinking out loud here.
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If you subscribe to postmodernism then there is no such thing as an 'irrational' claim. All of the observations and logic another person may be using to make the claim are all equally likely to be valid/invalid and claiming otherwise is just forcing your opinions of truth on them.
I think I Just went from entrepreneur to customer, lol. It might still work if you just did it for fun and the games had to support OpenGL or something. But yeah, wow, parsecgaming is polished af.
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The Definition of a Startup in 2018 by the Numbers
Sure, but we'd still never know which way in particular was used, so it's "lost" in the sense that we can't know what it was to replicate it exactly.
> Passenger in front of you reclines seat

To this day, I fail to understand why airplane seats recline at all, much less as far as some of them do.

On my last Delta (international) flight, the person in front of me managed to recline so far back that her hair was directly in my line of sight. She wouldn't even put up the seat for when meals were served and then she got mad at me for "breathing in" her hair.

At least I got quite lucky and the seat next to me was vacant so I could use the tray table behind the other seat whose occupant didn't recline once the whole flight.
> call someone names, curse at them, sarcastically suggest they should have been aborted, and many other such tactics.

That's a positive change. But it also ought to be possible to say "this is a dumb idea" or to engage in friendly ribbing when someone does something dumb. These are good, healthy mechanisms in normal groups of people. Eliminate all teasing, and everyone is friendly on the outside and bitter and resentful on the inside. People should be teased for breaking things. There is such a thing as attempting to be too professional.
Are there any sites or resources in particular you used to find remote US tech jobs? I'm looking for something new but as this thread points to, the pay here in BC is pretty bad relative to the cost of living--remote would be great.
> Cryptocurrencies make us question why money has value, what makes an asset, and all sorts of interesting philosophical and economic questions.

Honestly these questions have all been considered before, answered, and codified into law, and the crypto communities are full of people who have no idea what is going on around them. The banking systems we have are the result of us considering these questions, deciding politically we want something very different, and then building the technical systems that match that design.

The classic example is investor accreditation laws, and why, as far as I can tell, there isn't a single ICO that doesn't violate them. It's not that no one considered whether or not you should be able to raise money from many different people, and it's not been logistically complicated to do that for at least three decades. The reason is that the political will does not exist.
I think the problem is that the base, cheapest ticket prices have been generally increasing while at the same time losing 'features' that now cost an additional amount of money to have. It's not like airfare is decreasing when they arbitrarily decide you must now pay for water.
OnePlus to release its first-ever TV
This is a better summary of the key issue than any I've read from a lawyer.

The root of it is that the copyleft licensing scheme was from the beginning merely a clever hack. Ideally (from a free software perspective) copyright law would not protect functional software, and we would have another law that requires all published software to be free software.

The GPL was a speculative attempt to bend problematic copyright laws to the purposes of free software. Over time the GPL has proven to work, sort of. But it was not clear at the beginning that it would. Years, decades, have gone by and we now see that there are ways for companies to restrict user freedoms with software that technically complies with the GPL. The GPL was pretty successful for the 1990s concerns, why not make an updated license that addresses 21st Century business models. It is still not clear whether the AGPL will work as well vs SaaS as GPL did against the "selling copies" model.
In the sciences we tend to start from the assumption that what we measure is real. As a practical matter, that's fine, but there is no sound rational basis for that assumption. It's an unprovable assumption.

Can you show that what we measure is not real? If you can’t prove anything one way or the other, who cares? Why even bother with this line of thinking?
I'm generally a supporter, but this is a good step. I can speak from rough personal experience that this type of realization is brutal, and leads to hard work that "attaboys" don't reach because it just leads to you behaving like you should have been doing in the first place, and you know that.

It doesn't have to be either/or, you can be assertive without operating from fear and insecurity (which is usually the place venom like his classics comes from).

You can actually be _more_ assertive when it's not burdened with also protecting your ego.
> I travel out of my way to go to a real butcher where I can see the cows going in the back of the building, and the results in the cold case in front. I know the meat hasn't been frozen (coughWhole Foodscough), isn't in storage so long it has to be pumped full of gas to keep its color, and if I want exactly six ounces of something, I watch the guy cut it fresh right in front of my eyes.

It is truly a great privilege to be able to do that. I have neither the time nor the ability to go to a real butcher so I will keep buying from Whole Foods (or other local organic markets), tyvm
Most music outside of the Western classical realm has heavier reliance on improvisation. Music notation there is often simplified as a result. "Chord charts" or "lead sheets" are common in jazz where only the melody is notated in standard Western notation, together with the lyrics and the chords, with the arranger or players responsible for the rest. Pop musicians sometimes just get by with Roman numeral chords over lyrics if it's a song they've heard before that they are covering.

From my perspective, excluding length and rests is problematic for this notation, though. Even lead sheets had these. Rhythm is such a huge part of music. This would be a difficult system to convey even a simple melody line to a musician unless the person also hears the song. (If this is intended to be more like tablature where this is typically what happens, then yes, it's fine.)
The best reason to work at a startup is if you are a founder and have significant equity. The other reasons to join are if you are enamored with a technology that they specifically use or want to get experience quickly wearing a lot of hats.

There are no other reasons to work at a startup. You will work much harder, for less money, and poor benefits relative to larger companies. You work in uncertainty. Unless you are a founder, you will not make a lot of money in an exit unless the company hits the lottery and becomes google.
Much modern management theory recommends against the praise-criticize-praise format, FWIW -- I noticed this while I was taking a required management course at the Mouse. Everyone knows what it is, so you wind up dissipating the value of the praise because it feels like something that you're just saying for the sake of the formula.

This comment is fairly irrelevant to the topic at hand.
If the way you truly feel at your core is expressed in a way that has unintended consequences, this "being true to yourself" can get in the way of you being an effective leader, five (or thirty) years later.

There are two pieces here: one is the message you intend to convey, and the other is the manner in which you convey it. The two are not the same. The idea that as long as you speak the truth it doesn't matter how you say it ignores that how (and whether) people will accept what you say depends on the vessel in which the message is carried. The idea that others should just take it because it's the truth is at its heart just naive and inhuman (not to mention inhumane), and ineffective. If being true to your inner self is getting in the way of you being effective, it's ultimately counter-productive to your own ends: it's not actually being true to your self.

Yes, lying (including white lies), is detrimental. So is bottling things up. I completely agree. However, this is not zero-sum, either/or. You can both express how you really feel and convey it in a way that others will receive your message in the manner in it's intended.
> You can never control other people's behavior

This is another way to say

> we believe the world is harsh and unforgiving

You seem to have internalized this perspective completely.