skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just wish they'd at least use a humanist sans.

I was really sad when Google switched Android's default font from Droid Sans, a humanist sans (and the direct predecessor of Noto Sans), to Roboto, a neo-grotesk.

Or when Apple went from Myriad to Helevetica Neue and San Francisco.

I just really hate everything about the way neo-grotesk fonts look, and mobile UIs have looked awful to me ever since.
The painpoint is, they will do it anyways. Maybe not Google leadershipt but someone elses management. Google and Facebook have shown that we can execute power over datasizes that are too big for any group of humans to understand themselves, and they have shown that by manipulating these datasets they can manipulate human behaviour. This is too big a power to not fight over. That's bigger than the nuclear bomb. So the question is not whether or not it will happen, but who will be the first. The first might very well be the one deciding the new world order.
Why would they have leverage? Oh no, Google is threatening to leave if we don't change our censorship policy, and if Google leaves - then what? Citizens get upset? I don't think that's exactly a strong motivator to the CCP. That's kind of the problem with dictatorships; you don't have to win elections.

>If censorship existed in the USA, Google would have still started under it, and simply operated with that constraint.

"If the US were just like China, we'd be in no position to criticize them" - sure, but it isn't. The USA and the PRC are not the same, and I don't think it's a relevant hypothetical.
Are the employees free? As well as memory, motherboard, etc?
I did not know that.
https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/cry-havoc-and-let-slip-t...

I also thought that line was from Henry V. So that's 2 things I've learnt.

Would pillaging not have been for more valuable stuff rather than armour in and of itself though? I appreciate theres probably some overlap.
That's an uncharitably reductionist take. Please refer to the original comment that started this thread.

> Certain words & phrases I know would produce legitimate useful search results in 2008 will now just pull pages of unrelated ads.

A person asked for examples. I delivered examples. I'm not contesting that the search is illegal in some jurisdictions. Merely pointing out that there are searches for which google used to return results with utility, and now intentionally do not return such results, and fall back to irrelevant suggestions.

Although the comment I made said more than what you implied it to, I will explicitly make the complaint you're mocking: Yes, I am unhappy that such results are censored. But it's not merely "I want free albums". I want to be able to search the internet. Not someone else's ideas of what the internet ought to be. It's a legally and ethically difficult problem, to be sure, but I think mocking the idea of supporting searches that the government dislikes is a step too far.

The Chinese and US governments' censorship regimes are not equivalent in magnitude, so it's not fair to compare them simply, but just as we can entertain the idea that the chinese are unfree in their searches for information, and as a result the breadth of what they can think about and experience, let's recognize that so too are we in the western world.
Zuckerberg owns ~20% of FB and ~30% of its class A shares. So that's all easier said than done.
I'm a global grain trader living in Geneva Switzerland, where somewhere around 50% of global raw food materials are traded.

Trust me when I say this is real.

There's been a massive over supply of agriculture products around the world for the past 3/4 years.
Nieves V. Bartlett: Can Police Arrest Loudmouths?
We have a ton of GC languages already. Rust is unique for being able to do a lot of things very safely, but also fast because it does not require a GC.
>You cannot know if a bloody invasion was the only other option.

Well that was the shovel ready option that they were actively preparing for. IIRC it was scheduled for November so unless some other unexpected circumstance was going to force the Japanese into surrendering before then the invasion was going to happen.

>Or bombing a non densely populated area?

Considered and ruled out in 1945

>Also, you simply can't count the causalities of nuclear bombs the same way as conventional ones

Yes you can. It's done the same way. Start at zero and go up.

>since there will be related deaths for generations; increased cancer rates, birth defects etc.

This is only an issue for the people who survived the bomb first hand. It's not like their grandkids are going to suffer radiation sickness.

I'm not sure if I'm misinterpreting your tone but your comment reeks of being in an ivory tower and out of touch. There was every indication (Iwo Jima and Okinawa to name two) that the Japanese were going to fight to the last man on the home islands. There was a Japanese army running around beheading everyone in China. The American blockade was fighting off kamikaze attacks regularly. They could have firebombed those cities if they wanted but that wouldn't have sent the same message to Japanese leadership.

Every day the war continued cost lives. Using atomic weapons and ending the war sooner was well worth the extra cancer. I seriously cannot fathom the kind of ideology or belief system that leads one to conclude otherwise.
I assume you never buy any goods made in China, as that's also aid in the suppression of human freedom in your point.
Structured data via DAG schemas on IPFS
The employees willfully obstructing potential revenues and profits, and hence styming Google's market cap should put their money where their mouth is.

These employees should be willing to accept a 50% reduction in compensation ( salary, bonus, stocks, etc). That would at least reduce costs for Google that's being actively blocked from revenue streams other American & European companies (Bing, Amazon, etc) are already participating in.
> Tell us about the creative projects and the lawsuits!

He was on HN FP recently:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18257867
> I just said that certain classes will be biased against in this attempt at a bias-less recruitment process

You're right. I've missed your point. You're correct that this will have negative results.
That is not how that works. A company -- with a few special exceptions and special charters -- ONLY goal is to increase value for this shareholders. A single shareholder with a non majority holding can sue if the company knowingly does something that causes the values of his shares to decrease -- even if the rest of the shareholders are okay with the loss because they agree with the sentiment.

There is some grey area along strategy short game vs long game, but a company's charter is to increase the value of its shareholders -- THE ONLY THING that literally matters for a publicly traded company*

* Some companies can be setup with a different charter that does not prioritize profit, but google and most of the publicly traded companies on the market today are not those. And it would be very hard to convert to such a company.
I posted about fusing Neanderthal brains to spiking neural networks here once. A HN poster threatened to get the Pope to stop me.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18425194

You have no idea how much more powerful neurology is over machine learning.
Perhaps the iPhone XS could support switching via its new dual sim feature?
It doesn't connect to any service, just understands text logs exported from WhatsApp
I agree with the cynicism about choosing based on school. But it does work to some extent. If everyone agrees that XYZ/ABC schools/companies are the best, then rationally students will try hard to get in to those schools. Therefore you can get most of the best by filtering for that history. Sucks if you didn't care about grades when younger but actually turned out smart, but most works.

(No I didn't go to a famous school)
"This is why we’re taking a stand."

By writing a Medium post? What about offering resignations?

I might be downvoted to hell but man... writing a post is not taking a stand.
> most numerical computing friendly features in Rust tend to be on the back burner

Yes and no, we’ve been working on underlying stuff that will be needed in order to ship those features, and while a roadmap for next year has not been decided, most believe it will be a major component.
I think "web development" is too generic to say something like that.

I'd consider a small data processing service, maybe a service invoked from the web server you're already using in Ruby or whatever, is a perfectly pleasant place to use Rust, and often likely to be 1:1 identical to those other languages.
I have a business and tech background, I massage and prune experience and roles based on what type of position I'm applying for. Example my early years in sales and marketing are pretty irrelevant as a developer, my webGL experience does little to promote me as a business analyst
Obviously. That's the entire point of hiring, as a business owner I want to hire the candidate that will deliver the best results. There is no doubt that certain people are privileged early in their lives, that's how it has always been, is and will be. The world is not a utopia where everyone is wealthy, healthy and equal, people in China are politically oppressed, children all over the world are starving and Russia gradually invades Ukraine leading to another all-out war. Doing worse in a job interview doesn't mean you were discriminated, it means that you need to revise the material and reapply.
> There's a trough of uselessness in vacations – 14-21 days is the minimum in my experience

Can confirm. I haven't had more than two weeks off in one block in the last ~20 years, and the results have been exactly what you'd predict.

This Onion article from 2013 is depressingly accurate:

https://www.theonion.com/find-the-thing-youre-most-passionat...
Perhaps I'm naive, but I don't expect that all (or even most) shareholders think that only money matters.
There's some statistic that says if one person is willing to speak out, then there's X number of people that agree but are unwilling to speak out. Don't know the accuracy of that, but I've taken it to heart and have been willing to be one of the first to speak out on multiple occasions at multiple jobs. Sometimes things change for the better. Sometimes things don't change, and I force a change by leaving. If nobody speaks up, then the status quo wins.
I'm sure you have some snark reason. Because snark about the difficulties women face in this industry is such a good look.
Sure. I don’t like his attitude either, which is why I’m rooting for Fabi.

I understand he has the right to manage the tournament as he sees fit. I just don’t understand the logic of not even trying to push for a few more moves. Low risk, high reward given his huge time advantage.
Last sentence: "RISC architecture is going to change everything." -- why should RISC vs CISC change something in respect to additional "features" built into the CPU such as Intels IME? I would in fact be surprised if the ARM processor manufactors didnt start building similar stuff into their CPUs.
You have no idea what someone's advantage in life is, and you're turning "diversity" into "diversity of race and gender" which is about nothing but immutable physical characteristics. Life is not constant. People move through various conditions all the time. Are you going to deny someone who grew up poor and then got a scholarship to Harvard?

Putting people into permanent "social classes" is far worse than letting people use their abilities and become competent independently.
The Truth about Artificial Intelligence 'They' Don't Want You to Know
I'm more thinking from the side of all the other employees who either don't care, or have different perspetives on how well the Chinese government might or might not be doing with their tactics. I find the public internet form, especially sites like HN don't promote as much discussion from all angles as we think. I'm sure that anyone from Google who spoke up for moving into China would absolutely be skewered on here. Yet, I know they exist.
>Additionally, the US produces enough domestic oil that it makes no sense to go after conflict oil even if that was a thing.

This was a post-Bush II, Hillary Clinton-driven innovation[1]. She helped popularize the practice of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) that has unlocked previously inaccessible domestic oil supplies. Before then, oil prices were virtually dictated by OPEC. Bush II's foreign policy was informed by this fact, and the ongoing war in Iraq he started opened their resources up to western multinational oil corporations[2]. Under Saddam, the oil in Iraq was extracted by a company that had been nationalized in 1961[3].

1. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/09/hillary-clinton...

2. http://www.iraq-businessnews.com/list-of-international-oil-c...

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum_industry_in_Iraq#His...
It obviously depends on the algorithm but if you train your hiring algorithm based on past hires, and your company has predominantly hired males in the past, your going to end up preselecting males. algorithms aren't bias in themselves but if you want to avoid biased results you have to be very careful on the data sets you use to train them with.
How one young woman led some of the world’s most powerful leaders
Did you run a controlled study? Body builders have sworn by "precision nutrition" for years, which is basically the opposite of IF. This kind of anecdotal "evidence" is very problematic. Could be that both "worked" and your composition improved over time, due to better fitness regimen.
EPUB formats have been pushed live on my page!
> Since 2005, though, good engineers have had lots of options for where to work, many of which pay better or have more growth potential than Google.

Growth probably, but very few actually pays better than Google considering all the perks and work life balance you would get from working for Google. And since the startup boom is almost over, it is even more so like that now...
Let's assume that this event is Google officially jumping the shark (in terms of workplace desirability, which has decreased due to moral turpitude and a gradually lowering engineering bar).

Who's the new Google? Is there a company that can pick up the mantle of near-universal desirability to software engineers? I don't think it's any of the other FAANGs.
Good call, thanks.

Additionally, even that is kind of jargon. The simplest answer is “the borrow checker will allow some kinds of code that is sound, but the previous borrow checker could not understand that it was sound.”
The majority of system calls are going through the syscall crate, but system calls not yet supported by the syscall crate are being called with assembly directly. However going forward I plan on just updating the syscall crate so it supports newer system calls and make a pr into the syscall repo, instead of manually calling system calls with assembly.
What I don’t understand is why Carlsen didn’t push for even a few more moves. Fabi was running out time, it was low risk for him to probe a little more and see if he could get something a little more decisive.
I love the idea of sending data over ham radio but, outside some kind of disaster or simply making hams happy, is there a practical use?
What I find to be rent-seeking bullshit is when licenses impose higher fees on using fonts in PDFs over static images.

Why? Because a pirate can theoretically extract the TTF/OTF from a PDF, so the licensor needs to be paid extra money to compensate for the piracy that PDF usage will bring.

This is such a bullshit 20th-century excuse. It's 2018. Any pirate worth their salt can find any foundry's complete collection on a number of torrent sites. Or for that matter, they can just Google the name of any font and one of the top Google results will be a website illegally offering the font as a free direct download. They don't need to extract a file from a PDF to get their hands on it. There are more efficient ways.
"Because registration data connects individuals or organizations with domain names, domain name registrants are required to provide accurate and reliable contact details. If the domain name registrant knowingly provides inaccurate information, fails to update information within seven days of any change, or does not respond within 15 days to an inquiry about accuracy, the domain name may be suspended or cancelled."
- ICANN (https://whois.icann.org/en/primer#field-section-3)
I believe you’ll have to fork the crate, the owner of it no longer programs in Rust.

They may also be willing to hand it over to you, I don’t know.
> The problem is you think you can judge who is repressed, usually based on group identity, but that never ends well.

https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/research-and-pu...

"Black male offenders received sentences on average 19.1 percent longer than similarly situated White male offenders during the Post-Report period (fiscal years 2012-2016), as they had for the prior four periods studied."

The concept of legacy admissions to Ivy League schools alone.

https://www.economist.com/special-report/2004/12/29/ever-hig...

It turns out that we can, in fact, make general statements about large populations.

> Judging by capabilities means that anyone can learn to do the job well, even if they have to work harder to overcome their circumstances, and it'll always be down to the individual.

Prove to me that free will exists and that generally humans are capable of exercising free will.
Provider switching can be done directly at the SIM level; the phone just sees it as if you’ve swapped your SIM.

I’ve used such a SIM for ages on an iPhone and no issues what so ever so I expect them to use the same method.
> That selection post excludes personally identifying information.

Here's the cognitive dissonance of it all. How can we achieve the goal of a "diverse" workplace (which is based on certain attributes like gender, race, age, etc) when we can't select a candidate pool with these things taken into consideration? Will this have a net negative effect on at least creating an equal opportunity?

I'm not saying I'm for or against this blind screening. But I am skeptical it will work as intended. If anything, those with the most advantage due to their socioeconomic status from birth will simply advance in the system even more quickly.
Supreme Court Appears to Lean Heavily Against Apple's Walled Garden Defense
Is modern fortran available for iOS/android?
I also live in the USA. I think the differences between our censorship and the EU's are mostly of degree, but I wouldn't disagree too strongly with you if you think otherwise.

>I'm sure the Chinese would say exactly the same thing that the EU does about their system; it "protects" individuals from what they don't need to know.

I'm sure they would. I'm also sure that Donald Trump would say that he's not a liar. That doesn't mean it's an argument we need to take seriously. You can make judgments for yourself - I believe that the EU leadership is more or less acting in good faith (and is likely to continue doing so), and the CCP is not. That's a meaningful difference.
> The owner of a git repo can even rewrite the whole history of a repo.

If tomorrow Linus rewrites even a part of history of [0], every single one of Debian, Canonical, Red Hat, Amazon, Gentoo, Google, AOSP and my-friend-who-always-builds-mainline are going to notice. They are all going to continue to have the choice to fork their own; only this time, better motivated. Hell, if Linus is sensible in such a scenario, he will abandon his 'history-rewritten' fork and clone one of these guys' and carry on, just so everyone can stay on the same fork with the least effort.

Yes, rewriting history would be a fork. Git is not a VCS where a remote can rewrite local branches. Only the local user can make Git do so. If someone decides to follow Linus's history-rewritten fork, they will have to voluntarily do so; and even if they don't, they can always carry the original fork on among themselves, paying no heed to Linus [1]. Does this sound similar to how forks work in Bitcoin and Ethereum?

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0: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

1: This is because Linus is the owner of only one repo: [0]. Upon cloning a repo, the cloner becomes the owner of the clone. Ownership does not transfer. A cloner is free to go their separate way with their clone, as they are free to continue to copy changes dilligently from the source, and everything in between. Git does not concern itself with reputation or authority.
The big one is that Actix is able to use async IO, but Rocket is sync.
How so?

To the best of my understanding, not hiring somebody because of age would be age discrimination.

Inferences about learning speed or motivation based on achievements per years don't sound like age discrimination to me.
If instead of requiring various concepts of philosophy to be real, one simply requires them to be irreducible - not explanable as an ensemble effect of a larger system - then one winds-up with nearly the same thing. And I don't know how this requirement of irreducibility isn't a part of many philosophical views of the mind - specifically, isn't that what's important about "qualia", that they are irreducible?
Right - an MRAP is a 'battlefield taxi' - it's a basic vehicle to move around a hostile area - it's defensive. You aren't doing anything offensive from inside an MRAP unless it has a remote weapons station on top. Great for collecting casualties.
We ship all stuff on stable but I regularly use nightly for local development to get extra features for debugging (for instance cargo expand is nightly only).
>Many developers don't care about the stuff we make computers do, but are passionate of the tools and implementation details of doing them

This is a positive characteristic of a hacker. Very much desirable.

Do note that I was specifically talking about proselytizing in a negative sense. One can love their tools and still not participate in dick measuring contest of which tool is better and actively belittle someone else who also loves their own tools.

There can be a constructive discussion about programming languages (it does happen among the PL theorists and hackers), but in general PL theorists are a rare sight.

In a general forum, sadly, many developers do judge a person with what programming language they use, disregarding what they have created. This goes against the foundation of hacker ethics.
If you think that denying information to Chinese people because their Orwellian government demands it is the same as the stone you use to grind your obviously conservative axe on, you may need to pause and think a bit more on it.
I never dug too deep into medival history, so thanks for pointing the Keeper of King's Arrows out to me. Definetly worth a deeper look or two.

Quite interesting to see the first signs of "industrialisation" of war already that early. Usually that is put into much later periods. (With the notable exception of naval warfare, navies always required more management attention than armies).
What’s the set of people who would pay with DAI but don’t have or are too unwilling to pay with a credit/debit card?
It definitely can be. For me, I don't get hungry until late morning, and can usually hold off until lunch. I only really feel the need to eat 400-800 cal during the day, which is around 30% of my daily needs (depending on exercise and goal number)
What would you suggest for knowing sales of apps without Apple's APIs? Basically all of these issues come from Apple requiring all apps to be sold through their store. For the end-user experience this has proved very good.
If employers are looking for a radical utopian reform, I'd rather see them do away with the interview. Interviews slant hiring toward personal charm, and toward the cultural uniformity of the workplace, at the expense of competence.