skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just hope this diversity drama never comes to my country.

I already work in a very diverse workplace. Both genders and multiple nationalities are represented, and I really don't see what that brigs to the table. I mean, why is diversity good per se?

I don't see any correlation between any demographic variable and being a good coworker.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/opioids/ ?
"If it's not broken, don't touch it"

For the longest time Zara used an MS-DOS based POS system, and hey, it worked.
That's not something you should ask someone in a job interview though. And most people (mercifully) don't talk about politics at work. So what would promoting political diversity look like?
I read it as an attempt at a workaround for first sale. That they can't stop you from selling the hardware, but can prevent you from selling the license. IANAL, if it's invalid, great.

AFAIK Cisco doesn't actually "enforce" this, so much as uses it to withhold providing updates. You need a support contract to download updates yourself, and while you can request an update be sent to you if there's a vulnerability you need to patch while not under a support contract, that is only applicable if your license is legitimate (i.e., that you are the original owner).

In practice, most old third party hardware just gets used for homelab purposes, since it's not "legitimate". Which, as a side perk, actually keeps the resale prices of old Cisco hardware super low, which is nice for people who want enterprise class hardware at home.
> I think it is reasonably easy to prevent people from dating subordinates in the workplace. Up front, you explain that the policy is one word: don't. If it ever happens, you fire the higher-level person promptly. No excuses, no second chances.

In such a world, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation would likely not exist:

Office Romance: How Bill Met Melinda https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/fe...

The first time Bill Gates asked Melinda Gates out on a date, she turned him down https://www.businessinsider.com/melinda-gates-turned-bill-ga...
Wow, when they word it that way, you wonder why it’s an option at all!

But in any case, from the screenshot it seemed confusing but with the full description of the UI it sounds like they got it as right as a cryptic security setting buried 3 menus deep could ever be.
>Don't raise money unless you want it and it wants you.

The context is that when you're in Silicon Valley, the upside is you have lots of people that understand what you're trying to do, and a support network that helps you do what you're afraid to admit to yourself that you're capable of. The downside is it's easy to do what all your friends are doing.

If you see your friends raising, you might feel compelled to raise as well. Some people jump in without really thinking it through.

Reality is, money comes with strings and expectations. Too many people raise without understanding what that is, and suffer the consequences when they put their sweat and tears into their company.
> People should be free to name their projects

And free to comment on them, hopefully politely.
Also I think MIT OWC did some fund raising through donations and grants to pay for the online lectures.
Companies fire senior execs all the time. What "protections" do these people have? Sundar could fire them all tomorrow with zero expectation of repercussions.
Ask HN: Do You Use Google Apps Script?
If so, what for? Particularly interested in whether tech companies use it instead of using 3rd party tools like Zapier or writing custom (non-GAS) code to link apps together.
I guess I'm thinking of how conspiracy theorists say, "the moon landing is fake." Which implies only one attempt was made. Apparently nobody thought to ask, "what about all the other ones?" so the conspiracy was never updated.

I'm really curious now, I should do a poll or something.
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Equating GMOs and "poison" is intellectually dishonest
I feel like Vue.js is the solution for people who feel like this.
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Working only between 8 to 10 pomodoros in average per day. That helped me to create a boundary for my workday which allows me to be more productive and feel less stressed: https://medium.com/@marcochvez/how-i-get-my-workday-done-in-...
We screwed up our YC interview and here are what we learnt
It’s very much a paid trial, but I like this way of framing it.
Ah, I apologize for misunderstanding you.

I can't point to any specific trigger, but I notice that I get drawn to certain creators. If I start to recognize their name/brand, and I look at their past work, I get a sense of "I want to support that".

A good example is Complexly: https://complexly.com (sorry that their website is awful)

I started getting videos sent to me by friends, and recommendations on youtube. After watching a few, I looked through their catalog, and relatively quickly and easily saw what they were creating, and I thought "I want more of that in the world".

They had a Patreon link readily available, and mentioned in the videos that Patreon was one of the ways that they funded themselves.

I know that's not a great answer, but everyone's trigger will be different.

I think for me it boils down to a few variables:

Do you have a good product that I would pay for, but aren't forced to? Am I excited for your next product, even if it ends up vastly different from your other products?

Do you consistently put out good material? (and by this I include: is your product full of ads/tracking?)

Is your income transparent?

Do you encourage people to share your work, even if you aren't going to directly make money off of every fan? Do I get the impression that you'd rather me share it with 1000 people who won't pay, or 5 people who will pay?

Do you make it easy for me to pay you, in whatever form is convenient to me?

Nobody ever fits all of this criteria perfectly (I can criticize Complexly all day long), but they have a solid product that they give to everyone, and have relatively low friction for taking my money.
If you pursue "efficiency" to extremes like this, you're going to bump up against political and social realities that are going to ruin your efficiencies in ways that make giving pay increases seem like a no-brainer.
What is wrong with endowments, taxes and other funds being used to produce online content?
It seems from the changelog that it compiles and runs on PowerPC but that it won't emulate PowerPC. That seems a bit odd to me in itself. It's extra odd that they aren't supporting something the trunk project does which is still fairly widely used.
With this allow people to hack iPhones to disable "brick if 3rd party screen"?
I know that in many states where there are serious problems they have provided narcan to all first responders. I'm wondering if this is a bit of a false positive in the data. The addiction levels could be the same, just fewer people dying of overdose because more access to narcan. HN WDYT?
Yeah but then you have to define energy.
Co-worker or not, which you mentioned, is not all that helpful in determining whether this is OK or not.

Being outside of the workplace does not make a power relationship that is akin to slavery OK. (You could claim the woman is free to leave, but there are implied threats against doing so, such as an asymmetric implied threat to reputation, with email documentation, at a minimum).

Yes it is true that context matters. However, I think it's safe to say his ex-wife who shared the quote has more knowledge of the context than we do... and again, slavery is not an indicator of leadership to aspire to. Nor is paying massive rewards to such a person.

Edit: what part of this do you disagree with?
Completely agree that access to plugins is a huge plus. Except if a very large number of Shopify users start to install the same plugin or plugin type, and you start to see articles titled "60 of the best [page builder|digital download] plugins for [WordPress|Shopify]", and you field daily support requests asking, "which page builder plugin should I use?", and users actively avoid an existing feature in your service to use a third-party add-on that does the same thing your feature was doing only better. At that point it's a great candidate for a core product feature or enhancement, as has been the case with Gutenberg.

Also worth noting there is no official WordPress.org paid plugin store and paid plugins are typically not hosted services as with Shopify.

The average experience WordPress users get when shopping for, maintaining, and getting support for plugins is much less smooth than a hosted platform like Shopify. (There are great WP plugin developers and terrible Shopify ones too, but fewer of the former than the latter.)
There are several different approaches to GMO crops. One, like you say, is the herbicide-ready crop. Another is the insecticidal crop, like Bt-Corn, that produces insecticides that kill common pests, and works in the way that the other poster suggests. Yet a third is to impart nutritional characteristics to a crop that weren't there before, like vitamin-A-producing rice. Of course, there are also the usual goals of higher yield, drought resistance, reduced waste, ease of harvesting and regularity of product. The hybridization and selective breeding processes have done the majority of work in those areas and are not considered GMO by most activists, but they are nonetheless modified.
Polyamory isn't simply about sex, it just means you can find love with more than one person.

I think if you can say you have a wife, which implicitly tells your sexual preference and explicitly tells your legal family situation, then it's okay to add that you also have girlfriends or boyfriends as well.
Managers and directors at Google-sized companies know nothing of the inner workings and personal lives of the core leadership team of the company. VP and above often do.
I wonder if the incidence rate for abuse is higher among the wealthy and powerful. Seems plausible that those in power feel they can bend the rules. And sometimes (not often enough) this blows up in their faces and ruins their personal life, as well as so many around them. In retrospect, perhaps many would trade all their power/money to have their family lives intact.

Many of us wish to be rich/powerful/famous and slog towards this goal. Maybe it's good that most of us don't reach that level.
wouldn't the article suggest exactly the opposite of what you're saying? as in, since they control all branches, the crisis has started to improve?
Anyone use Linux on the desktop with a document scanner? A big component of my at-home PC use is scanning documents (I'm a self-admitted digital hoarder). I have a Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500, which is "supported" by Linux/SANE. I have tried to use this scanner under Linux, and while it does work, the problem is that the Windows-only Fujitsu software (ScanSnap Manager) does a lot of useful things to the scan data: straightens the document if it was fed in at an angle; converts to PDF; adjusts contrast, white levels, etc so the digital result magically looks like the physical document; and more I'm probably forgetting.

I have Ubuntu on a little NUC PC attached to my TV. The other day, I heard the fan running loudly on this system. Ubuntu's update system, across several processes, was collectively pegging both CPUs at 100%, causing the fan to ramp up. Why does an update system (which was waiting on my input) require so much CPU?

The huge number of distributions is both a blessing and a curse. Ubuntu has clearly put a lot of effort into the ease-of-use aspect. But what I found (years ago, to be fair) was that if you had any non-trivial problem, the forums weren't terribly helpful. On the other hand, a distro like Arch has fantastic documentation, and really knowledgeable forum users, but you need that because you're doing everything by hand. I haven't found the sweet spot that gives an Ubuntu-like experience out of the box, but has a very technical Arch-like community.

The statements the author made early in the article really resonate with me. I consider myself a Linux "pro", as I've been using it as an enthusiast for 20 years, and have been a professional admin for about a decade (server-side, not desktop). So I have fixed or feel I can fix just about any Linux issue. But at this point in my life, after work, I don't have the time or desire to fiddle with things, I want them to "just work".
In such a world, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation would likely not exist:

We can cure malaria without having millions of women sexually harassed at work.
The author Russ Roberts runs the EconTalk and is a well respected economist/journalist/thinker in the field, definitely worth reading for a fair assessment.

The thing one needs to understand about economics is that it's field where analysis and advocacy have never been separate. It's not just Marx and von Mises that were strong advocates of policy. Smith, Ricardo and Keynes had the favored policy and thus favored world view.

So being a respected economic commentator by itself isn't by itself a testament to objectivity.

The article is worth a glance but others here have to pointed to the serious methodological problems - following individuals falls victim to regression to mean, some poor can become wealth and some wealthy can become poor says nothing about the average gulf between the groups. Even more, if we have a society where the whole population is divided between wealthy and poor randomly, with each having a 1% of becoming wealthy and otherwise barely surviving, we might have a fair society but it would also be an extremely dysfunctional society (but know such fairness really could exist, so we're just left with the income inequality).
It's not even the right motto. Do you believe you can do evil, without being evil?
The most important take-away from this article is the Science paper by Jalal et al., "Changing dynamics of the drug overdose epidemic in the United States from 1979 through 2016" [1].

In that paper, the authors conclude:

> The overall mortality rate for unintentional drug poisonings in the United States grew exponentially from 1979 through 2016. This exponentially increasing mortality rate has tracked along a remarkably smooth trajectory (log linear R2 = 0.99) for at least 38 years. By contrast, the trajectories of mortality rates from individual drugs have not tracked along exponential trajectories.

The authors also suggest that we should attempt to "understand the forces that are holding multiple subepidemics together onto a smooth exponential trajectory", and suggest a double-whammy of increased supply (due to improved communication, transportation, and manufacture) and increase demand (despair, loss of purpose, and dissolution of communities) that cuts across both demographics and geographic regions.

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[1] http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6408/eaau1184
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Levandowski was famous in part because his pay was an absurd anomaly.
Congressional elections:

2016: 246-194 Republican

2014: 247-188 Republican

2012: 234-201 Republican

Six year incumbency.
> Barack and Michelle Obama

I actually don't think that's true. They met through work, but didn't start dating until her summer term in the job ended.
I think the point is that the diversity she brings isn’t enough diversity to justify her as someone who is adding to diversity in a tech company. You could add 1000s of women like her and the company wouldn’t be particularly different.
Organophosphates are well past patentability. You'd be hard pressed to introduce a new one that outperforms the old. They're used because they're off patent and cheap to acquire.
This is correct. I dropped my "Affordable" Care Act plan in January when BCBS quoted a monthly principal increase from $696 to over $2200 for the Silver level plan my family of four had been enrolled in. We are young and healthy.

$2200 is monthly rent on a luxury condominium in Honolulu.

I asked the agent on the phone if he had children, and if he could afford such a plan. He replied that he could not.
How is that fact making you terrified in the context of this discussion?
This is the change in the size of each economic group between 1979 and 2014 as a percent of the total population

Then aren't your numbers a positive sign? The size of the poor, lower middle class and middle class have shrank and the upper middle and rich have grown.

Doesn't that suggest that people are generally moving up in economic class?
If by "fire" you mean ask them to resign with a multi-million dollar incentive/severance package, then yes, you are correct. Executives rarely, if ever, get fired
Agreed. I think he was trying to write a controversial piece to break free from the status quo thinking of "inequality is growing" but totally missed the forest for the trees in his conclusion.

Makes me wonder if he had an alternative agenda with this piece and question his economic analysis in general.
Fornite makes $250m a month (by some reports) and is entirely hosted on AWS.

That's one game.
> When has anything even remotely the size of healthcare been 100% deregulated and successful

Plenty. The electronics market huge and barely regulated. The hardware for smartphones are cheap and amazing, televisions, etc. Automobiles are huge and relatively unregulated. It's not a great comparison, but your question was bad.

The size of the industry has nothing to do with whether or not it should be regulated.

The reason to entertain this thought it because deregulation is part of the solution to high health care costs.
That's not entirely true. Citation?

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

https://www.enca.com/south-africa/crime-stats-reveal-western...

https://businesstech.co.za/news/government/270771/this-is-so...
" Up front, you explain that the policy is one word: don't. If it ever happens, you fire the higher-level person promptly. No excuses, no second chances."

In the real world, it's not that easy. Things happen.

Also, it's probably illegal, or it wouldn't hold up in court.

VP of Customer Service falls in love with one of the help-desk assistants, they get married, VP gets fired - that's a lawsuit.
I think it's just too easy to write "republicans" in a comment. For a good chunk of the population that's enough to convince them that it's "republicans". Even for the author of the comment, once it's written it has to be defended and you can only become adamant about defending what you said not too long ago.
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> I doubt there is high net difference of money to live from

In percentage? Probably not a big difference. In absolute numbers? OOoooh yeah.

I can only speak from my personal experience, but my take home money after -all- expenses, including after feeding my retirement fund (basically what ends up in my savings and investment accounts unrelated to my retirement budget) is generally more than what a lot of people make as gross income in many other countries.

There's no argument that the money comes at a high social inequality cost, but I wouldn't be able to get close to that anywhere else.
Perhaps the children could feed off the insects they pick from the plants. /s
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GAAP can give an inaccurate picture so management can give non GAAP numbers to show how they see things. They still have to produce GAAP figures as well by law. Or:

>Management also believes that presentation
of the non-GAAP financial measures provides useful information to our investors regarding our financial condition and results of
operations because it allows investors greater transparency to the information used by Tesla management in its financial and
operational decision-making so that investors can see through the eyes of Tesla management regarding important financial metrics that
Tesla management uses to run the business as well as allows investors to better understand Tesla’s performance.

as they put it
Why? I feel like this solution makes using React even simpler.
What about the other elections?
Disclosure: I work for MongoDB.

You're in the right ballpark, for sure, but the SSPL addresses the difference explicitly. I'll use your example of Tumblr to clarify.

Tumblr is built on some component technologies, like a database, an app framework, operating systems, backup systems, load balancing, etc. But Tumblr itself is not any of those things. Nor does it make any of its component technologies available to the public as a service. You cannot pay Tumblr to backup your servers, or to rent you VMs running an OS, or to do load balancing for your infrastructure. Even if every single one of those components were licensed under the SSPL, Tumblr would not have to release a single line of their code under the SSPL, because they provide something else -- a publishing platform.
But that's not a useful fact. People are going to get older regardless of what economic policy choices you make, so observing that people go through economic changes as they age isn't actionable.

By analogy, if you're trying to choose effective dietary policy, a study that shows people got taller over the past twenty years isn't helpful if you measure the same people. All it shows you is that children grow larger as they become adults.
you mean the white pointy tubes? yes.
Your statement implies Melinda Gates as sexually assaulted at work by Bill, which is wrong.

Or more directly, your response does not speak to the argument.
A loan that the company knows about is not embezzlement. It's a perk designed to make Rubin's life easier which is worth more than money to both Google and Rubin. He could of course arrange his own loan, just like an average Google employee could arrange their own lunch.
Sure, because zero-tolerance policies work so well in practice..

While we're at it, why don't we also tell teenagers about sex? One word: Don't. Problem solved.
What specific aspects do you feel are more complex and confusing?
> How much is it worth to not have this person work for a competitor?

Isn't this line of reasoning an antitrust violation?
Well, Youtube should have had a dark theme from day one. It makes zero sense to show videos on a bright white background.
No contract any VP of Customer Service is going to have will insulate them from being fired for cause, which is what would be happening if they violated a basic HR handbook rule about dating subordinates.

And that's assuming the "VP of Customer Service" has a negotiated contract in the first place. Most employees, even managers, don't have negotiated contracts; they have the default handbook contract, which I guarantee you restates and maintains the US default, which is termination at will.
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The proliferation of libraries that make it trivial to do machine learning. I know plenty of professional data scientists with liberal arts/business degrees who never completed calculus.

I'd say the bulk of the data scientists I work with now are non-cs/math people. I work with some math/stats PhDs too, but they are outnumbered like 3 to 1.
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Simple advice but difficult to execute: make a plan, follow the plan, only adjust when absolutely neccessary.

I'm in the middle of completely reviewing some fundamental math concepts: linear algebra, calculus, etc. Once I found the resources that I wanted to use I set out an order of execution and use a Podomoro to track my time. I'm doing everything I can to get at least one full Podomoro (1hr 40m) of study per day. I don't have kids or much responsibilities outside of work so I'm able to find the time, but still find it difficult to not get caught up by everything around me.

At the end of the day it's a matter of imposing your will and intent on a specific goal.