skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It’s like all the people who say they’re not a feminist but they think women should be paid the same for the same work and rapists should be prosecuted.

> “I’m for those things, but I’m against the banner under which they would be naturally advocated for, because I associate that banner with shitty people for some reason.”

That's an excellent example, actually.

"For some reason"....there are many waves of feminism over the course of over a century, and many variations within those.

There's everything from "Women should be able to own property." to "The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately 10% of the human race." [1]

Don't think that "feminism" or "political correctness" or "liberal" or "conservative" have some universal, timeless meaning.

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The article discusses whether people think the US, right now, is too far to the politically correct side of the spectrum of social communication.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Miller_Gearhart
I deleted (not deactivated, deleted) my account 90 days ago.
It was stated that in 30days my account would be deleted.

I tested it today, went to facebook and was able to log in.
My account still had pictures that I manually deleted prior to deleting my account

Not cool.

Will try again in 31 days..
Comparing to revenue doesn't make much sense. If you look at profit margins they could easily be spending more than all of their profit on R&D.

Also, that's a rather low estimate for average compensation for devs at Google. If, as you mentioned elsewhere, the 25% number is a purposeful overestimate, then combining it with an underestimate of compensation means that your total number is murky; it could easily be a drastic over- or under-estimate.

That said, 25% is also an underestimate - in 2016 Google reported that ~38% of full-time employees were in R&D. So it sounds like you think you're overestimating how much they spend on R&D, but in fact you're way underestimating it.
You can use window.open to simulate that. If you're fb, you're probably already whitelisted in the popup blocker.

Though I agree it's not ideal.
One thing to consider when deleting your FB account is that someone can then create a new profile with your name and pics and start adding your friends etc. Most will believe it's you and accept. It's a goldmine for personal information gathering for social engineering attacks.
Well, I imagine a significant portion of how you get to be a 1% contributor" is via things like that. If people don't care, you end up like Vietnam (as mentioned in a sibling comment, I don't have any personal experience in that country.) You may as well ask "why are we constantly running media blitzes to get more money for breast cancer care and research? They already have plenty!"
Slang for documentary.
I didn't really want to into argument about libertarian anarchism but I just didn't see your point directly relating to the rest of your post.

But your argument, inherent bias toward centralisation is the old and traditional argument that statist libertarian also use. Nozick is most well known for that argument.

I don't want to really argue for it to much, just want to make clear that, its not about 'wishing' anything away. Violence is reduced if some level of balance of power exists and conflict resumption is available and the believe is that this could exist without government.

As this is Hacker News its not the place for this argument, I would just recommend 'Anarchy and the Law: The Political Economy of Choice' as a great book on this. It includes chapters by different people arguing the two positions, and some other nice content about the subject.
A percentage of what though? A percentage of unlawfully obtained income or a percentage of personal wealth, whether or not it’s connected to any unlawful activities?
>> let's also not forget that a lot of this was achieved by slave labor

C’mon, you know this isn’t accurate at all, “a lot” is just an over the top false statement.
No, we should tax consumption. A consumption tax encourages savings, which lowers cost of capital, which is overall an economic stimulant.

Most people say: "But wait! A consumption tax is regressive!". No, you are thinking of something like a sales tax collected at point of sale. A consumption tax can be progressive, and I do advocate for a progressive consumption tax. It is no harder to administer than the current US income tax. All the entities currently required to report to the IRS are sufficient to implement a consumption tax formula, and mostly even with the same data, although probably with a few tweaks. Income - net savings == consumption. Apply table. Done. Rich people will still buy yachts and pay their share of tax. You could even implement UBI and/or welfare as a "negative consumption tax", and eliminate huge swaths of bureaucracy.
The existence of cable ads is useful to me when my ISP tries to upsell me on television service.

"Cable? I haven't had that for about fifteen years. Does it still have ads?"

"Yes, sir."

"No thanks, then!"
I hit that limit when I tried to import my Rdio collection and, similarly, switched to Apple Music. The Spotify UI is pretty awful for browsing a big list of albums, too.
This has the ring of psychological projection about it.
Why are they pointy-haired..?
> "claimed that it was technically within the company’s aim to determine someone’s approximate location"

What does this even mean? It's a weirdly formatted sentence that makes it sound like Twitter has the magical capability of determining your location... just like everyone else on the internet can with a geoip database.
>However, an aside, I am not red-green color blind. I have had several conversations with people who think red-green is the only type of color blindness, or that red-green color blindess and color blindness are the same thing.

I had a similar discussion here on HN. The main conception of color-blindness was exactly what you describe.
No, they don’t say they want to join the poor, but I think wealthy people think the government is not really involved much in their day to day life, whereas I don’t think poor people can say the same.
Wow, that’s a really interesting result I haven’t heard! Do you recall at what brand you experienced this? I generally visit Shell and Chevron stations across CA but I’d make an exception to attempt to repro that.
Credit card numbers are immaterial, especially for Google's use case of showing advertisers that their spending is resulting in tangible, offline purchases. Transaction amount and a timestamp combined with Android Location data is enough to deanonymize most customers. Any extra data like partial names, cardholder addresses, rewards program data (provided by the advertiser) will only enhance this dataset and generate more matches
I'd like to read this but I have facebook blackholed and refuse to change that. Do you have another link?
i would argue that if taxes are so onerous as to support a black market for a legal good, the taxes are probably much too high. for instance, consider the price of cigarettes in the state of new york. the average cost of a pack (after tax) is $12.85. the federal tax is about $1 per pack, and the state government levies an additional $4.35. without accounting for local taxes that are added in some counties/cities, that amounts to a ~70% tax on a pack of cigs. in addition to being an absurd tax from the get-go (in my opinion), it is also quite regressive, since poor people are significantly more likely to be smokers. when you add states that levy per-pack taxes of less than $1 to the mix, you basically guarantee that people are going to bootleg cigarettes.
That you have the option to, for applications that won't work without full access? Yes, definitely. I don't want my format to say "well this file manager application needs to access your filesystem so it's not available for your OS because your packaging format doesn't allow us to run unsandboxed, good luck".
I’m not saying their are no jobs for but twiddlers, but there aren’t as many in most major metropolitan areas where most of the jobs are either enterprise developers or yet another software as a service. It was more about the optionality.

The skillset is so specialized that I would spend years their an not be as hireable in the wider market.
And… you make my point for me. Thanks. Tell me, does your “supersolid dark mater” also rotate once every 24 hours?
I believe due to the new "extreme vetting" (without enough additional funding) backing up the whole immigration system. Unfortunately there's no getting around that since all the vetting is done in the US and there's very few exceptions for faster processing.

The vetting has always been a major bottleneck in the US's immigration processing, it is just even worse now.
From the article (emphasis mine):

"More than a dozen F-22s were left behind as Hurricane Michael bore down on the base Oct. 10. Now, in Michael's wake, many of those are damaged, and some beyond repair, at a cost of more than $1 billion, Air Force officials said."

So of the ~12 planes left behind a subset were damaged and and even smaller subset (apparently four) were potentially damaged beyond repair.

The arrogance on display here is staggering. You think the USAF is not aware of hurricanes in Florida? Since you are obviously an expert please tell me how many category 4 hurricanes have hit the Florida panhandle in the time the USAF has existed or in the time since we started recording them. How many have hit Tyndall directly? How many times has it successfully withstood tropical storms and hurricanes?

Please share the credentials that qualify you to provide detailed guidance to the USAF on how to design and run an air base.
Something similar here:
https://github.com/lmcd/EasyAnchors
According to all historical evidence to date, every human body will die. There is also no method of physical immortality known to medical science.
There are plenty of ways you could improve a random engineer. One for many guys would be to have played a team sport, or been in a marching band. Or something else outside the scholastic bubble.

Another would be mandatory physical education in college.
Comparing costs with revenues is right. Profit already accounts for costs, and can be razor thin in very large companies with lots of costs - a comparison of costs with profit in such a company would be highly misleading.
> I think this attitude makes it sound like everyone is walking on egg shells and can't state what they really think for fear of offending someone in power. That's hardly the case.

The company has to explicitly foster an egoless culture to make fair peer reviews work, but egoless employees aren't going to present themselves well enough to get promotions. The system incentivizes politics. If you didn't see it in your team, your teammates hadn't learned to play the game yet.
For every biologically inspired invention, there are plenty more that were invented by understanding principles of engineering and science.

Evolution has given us some incredible stuff, but there could exist simpler, more elegant solutions. A barn door will give you lift just not as efficient as a NACA airfoil shape.

Evolutionary mimicry has its place in engineering, no doubt. But arrogantly stating that we must emulate biological systems is blatantly and demonstrably false. Otherwise, we wouldn't have nuclear power, superconductivity, lightbulb, sewing machines and computers.
> It’s like all the people who say they’re not a feminist but they think women should be paid the same for the same work and rapists should be prosecuted.

Feminism is an odd example. Do you mean gender feminism, postmodern feminism, Marxist feminism, equity feminism, radical feminism, individualist feminism, black feminism, liberal feminism, etc?

You can't even say that the commonality among them is they "think women should be paid the same for the same work" because they don't even agree on what qualifies as a woman.

> rapists should be prosecuted

Few (if any) are debating over whether or not rapists should be prosecuted. The current argument is over whether or not that should be done with or without due process.
Well there's a difference between MoFo and for-profit Mozilla.
It’s enough to be okay, certainly, but not enough for the lifestyle you would have anticipated by getting an education and entering a lucrative white collar field.
Based on their source above: Way less then Asians.
So what exactly is your enforcement mechanism for stopping this surveillance ?
try imgur
Most journalists don't understand how the web works.
> Digital advertising revenue in 2017: $238 million

Is this from advertising to paid subscribers only, or to paid and free both? If it is the latter, your math may be off by orders of magnitude.
The gender of the user of the word ought to be unimportant, but it adds to a context that determines how it's being used.

If we generalize what you've said to race, it shouldn't matter whether a white person is using the n-word. Except some number of white people did use that word for a long time with utmost contempt. If you used that word as a white person in an inclusive workplace today with the full contempt of the word, I doubt you'd still be in post 24 hours later unless you had something like tourettes. [0] I doubt we'd be having such a discussion about that.

In many cultures, women have been treated as second-class citizens and, in many cultures, they are still treated as second-class citizens. Consider that in one canton in Switzerland, women didn't get to vote on local matters until 1990. [1]

In nearly all countries, the distribution of power is still very much skewed towards men. The difference between a woman calling another woman a bitch and a man is the potential for confusion with contempt based purely on gender alone. A woman is perceived as unlikely to hold contemptuous views towards women based on their gender alone. This doesn't mean there are not women who despise women for being women, it's just that it is not perceived as such. It even depends on where it is and how the word is used. As such it's probably one of those words to avoid.

This isn't political-correctness-gone-mad or because of some liberal cultural-marxist conspiracy to turn men into second-class citizens; it's because in a fraction of a second, even though that word may have no connotations of contempt to you, you have potentially reduced that person to an object of that contempt. Some people may not be affected by this, but some people will and be rather hurt. It's simply bad for business, no matter how useless you may perceive that person to be. If men had been treated as second-class citizens for centuries by women and dick was a pejorative term used against men, it would be a problem if a woman used that word against a man.

Consider the following:

- You'll never guess what that bitch has done now.

- You bitch!

- She's a bit of a bitch

- Hey, bitches!

Where I'm from (UK) each has a different level of contempt. I can't see that much in the last one. The first one is almost certainly contemptuous. The second one is very context dependent: if said scornfully it's contemptuous; if said jokingly it's probably not, although it could be confused as such.

[0] Although, if you did have Tourette syndrome or similar, it is unlikely that you would say it with the full contempt unless you actually felt that contempt. Sadly, some people with tourettes do find it hard to keep a job because it is rather poorly understood.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage_in_Switzerl...
A nifty code snippet I use for this:

// ErrLine returns an error formatted to include the line
// number of where it occurred (presumably with a performance penalty)
func ErrLine(err error) error {
if err != nil {
// notice that we're using 1, so it will actually log the where
// the error happened, 0 = this function, we don't want that.
pc, fn, line, _ := runtime.Caller(1)
err = fmt.Errorf("[error] in %s[%s:%d]: %s",
runtime.FuncForPC(pc).Name(), fn, line, err.Error())

}

return err
}
I had a Green Card within 14 months of moving to the USA. I came over on a H1B then filed adjusted status within 6 months. It helps to be married to an American though which isn't the case for everybody.
Execution is not just technical. Sales, marketing, fundraising, recruiting, hiring, design/product, media, strategy, etc...
That’s like a liberal saying NPR is objective. There is no objective. They might be serious and mostly honest (just like NPR), but Quillette definitely has a bias.
Forget the visa... this is how to get a high paying job in software engineering. If I saw an applicant put in this amount of effort into an open source project of their own creation, I'd hire them in a heartbeat.
Surely, if you think your state is going to disappear citizens in place of executing them after sentence, the publicity of execution is the least of your worries?

To me it seems incredibly anachronistic, even more than the US the odd one out in the First world for retaining the death penalty at all.

Over in England they felt that viewing an execution could encourage spectacle rather than sentence. After some changes in public opinion and an enquiry public execution ended sometime in the mid 1800s, before they even ended beheading and quartering for treason! The death penalty itself lasted another century.
Less educated people haven't learned enough to communicate in a respectful way. It's not all about degree or income either, if someone has a CS degree they can still be uneducated in some sense if they've never taken humanities classes. If it sounds elitist its because it is.

However there's a big difference between finding south Park funny and in saying or doing targeted offensive things.

I see a lot of this discussion about PC fascism to be a straw man. You have to wonder what all these do or die "free speech" activists would have sounded like in the 50s. Woman! Make me some toast. Where exactly is all the PC fascism nowadays? I don't see it. Mostly what I see are people unable to adapt
To changing standards. Bunch of snowflakes
So helpful, but it's crazy to me that Apple provides such horrible options for creating UI for iOS. AutoLayout is verbose confusing mess and using storyboards is a disaster. Why can't we have simple declarative markup to create UI? Android's xml files are a pleasure to work with.
You can also use apps that are clients, like open source clients that access api's, well, if they exist
NPM does not, but GitHub, yarnpkg?, and whatever else may. NPM does allow unpublishing a package altogether, and then you can publish again (AFAIK) with the same version.
I can't think of a situation where you'd need to show contempt for a colleague.

> a coworker that should deserve termination

Isn't that for their employer to decide?
This is one reason I stuck to iPhones. No carrier-customized firmware nor carrier-imposed apps I can’t delete. You get the standard iOS every time - with the only customization a delete-able bookmark to the carrier’s website in Safari.
No, it was that on the surface the claims being made seemed flimsy, but the overall discussion was so full of debate and forceful counter-claims of which party is or isn’t bullshitting that as an outside reader I couldn’t tell anything about it. I didn’t have to read deeply into one niche topic to form an informed opinion about it. Rather I had to read deeply into one niche topic just to even close the loop on understanding if a basic sense that someone was bullshitting about a generic, high-level thing was warranted in a simple heuristic sort of way.

Basically, the convoluted bullshit acts like an obfuscator that makes you need to do an unreasonable amount of legwork to get to a point you can safely trust just a generic appraisal of whether something is / isn’t bullshit.

This is a problem because bandwidth is limited. You can’t go reading 30 page articles every time you want to decide which of two general strands of a conversation have any merit for further engagement, and the noise pumped by bullshitters (especially when they are claiming they’re not the bullshitter and that it’s really you or someone else) makes this harder and harder all the time.
Labour supply is not elastic like your naive market argument assumes. The lag is too long and people are simply not responsive enough to the incentives to change how they think to make themselves good engineers, which requires a particular mindset not easily taught, far more often discovered.
It's not like every SWE working in the vast is making $200+ / year. Not even close.
This may be pedantic, but storyboard files are XML too. And Apple does have a DSL for AutoLayout: it’s call the Visual Formal Language.
If liberals had stayed par with SNL, there wouldn't have been such an upwelling of anger over Justice Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings.
Very interesting story, thanks for sharing your story, that's what makes HN so special.
When I took a programming languages class with Dan Friedman [0], the entire class was taught in scheme. One of our assignments was to implement a typerchecker for the simply-typed lambda calculus in minikanren [1]. I recall it being a relatively straightforward assignment.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_P._Friedman

[1] http://minikanren.org/
Do you know _why_ KL divergence is minimized? I get that it gives a lower bound on the marginal likelihood, which is cool, but is that it? What are the alternatives?
Because good engineers won't move away, because they like being paid well.
I'm in the same boat. My original pixel is awesome and never had an issue with it. Of course, can't run containers in it but otherwise it's perfect.
Whoops, I misspelled *dribbble
Wait wait wait wait wait wait. ChromeOS is Linux now? Is it as good as using a full blown Linux distro for development?

What languages can you program in?

Bash?

Is Docker running natively?

My head is spinning. I don't want to buy a MacBook, but I'm unhappy with the polish of the Linux world. Is ChromeOS a legitimate alternative?
Yes, but zig takes it a step further by allowing you to pass a heap allocator into the standard array/vector type.

There are discussions about implementing something similar in Rust, but it doesn't exist yet...
Emacs. ;)
You actually can buy Ferrari F1 cars
https://races.ferrari.com/en/corse-clienti/f1-clienti/

Also I think Enzo Ferrari would argue that the F1 cars and team are the real Ferrari porduct. The road cars are just ads and merchandise for the race team. =P
But I've used Android Studio successfully as well as vscode and atom. They are pretty heavy and it does show on these machines.
What Flatpak also does well wasn't mentioned, which is sandboxing applications (can snap do this as well i think), I use proprietary applications on flatpak sometimes so i can feed them the resources they only need, like discord, it does not need to see my files or my running processes for the running games feature, so i just restrict them with flatpak. Sandboxing is nice for proprietary software basically, or software that collects info or just any software that connects to a server, you can snip out useless stuff you don't need while it still hopefully functions well.
Yeah, I know, but we still have CI builds fail that work locally -- until you rm -rf node_modules and install again using the lockfile. The recent addition of hashing seems to be in response to my issues -- I am trying that out now.
Are you using dmenu or i3-dmenu-desktop? If you're using the latter, I'm pretty sure you can create .desktop files for AppImage apps so they're added to the list:

https://build.i3wm.org/docs/i3-dmenu-desktop.html#DESCRIPTIO...

For myself, I've only needed to use AppImage once, and that's for a program that I only bother using from a terminal anyway; other than not showing up in dmenu out-of-the-box, I haven't had any other complaints.