skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think you can say Google would do it better than almost anyone else.

I think people forget there are probably more engineers not working at Google that are better than Google engineers. Yes Google does try to hire the best, and often does.

There are tons of amazing Engineer that never applied or have no desire to work at Google.

Please also keep in mind the Google we all think of as being awesome is gone, simply because the churn rate is so high. Many of the people who were responsible for building google to it's current status simply are not working there anymore ( yes some still are, but the vast majority seem to have gone or don't care anymore )

We really need to stop acting like getting a job at Google means you are a good engineer.
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> Time is a constant.

Verifiably false, but pedantic.
That video... I see a huge potential for "Twitch plays Robotic arms" ! XD
Someone, please do this.
Even GPL wouldn't stop Amazon from offering API interfaces to services built on GPL software. They're not selling/distributing the software. AGPL and similar provisions might work, but then you risk alienating most commercial interest.

Many either don't understand or don't want to take on any risk associated with some kinds of licensing or barriers in certain situations. Right now I've had to work around calling a GPL executable (pngquant), simply because we don't want to have to require it as a separate install. So switched to an alternative implementation.

It just depends on where you are, where your business is, and what you're working towards/against. It's hard to find a balance. And it will take some time to flush out. MongoDB and Redis come to mind here. They have to make some money to pay their bills and developers, also profit isn't a bad word. At the same time, huge cloud providers are offering services using their software and the devs make nothing. I get both sides here. There's no perfect solution here.
> Does that not sound manipulative to you?

You seem to be assuming there is a lot of peer pressure placed on you if you don’t want to do it.

Why?

I’m simply saying there are always social costs. For example you probably won’t be listened to as much when there are conversations around improving system stability.

It’s like our after work Friday drinks are entirely optional - but lots of people build friendships and trust there and this can often lead to higher productivity.

If you can build these friendships another way or have a different path to an equivalently high productivity then not going doesn’t have an impact on you.
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> Reducing consumption and consumerism, energy efficiency and habits changing surely help a little

Keep doing those things. Even if you aren't singlehandedly solving the crisis, you are at least setting an example for others to follow, which is what matters. When people see others caring, they begin to question their own level of caring. If everyone wrote off small changes as "What's the point?", then that attitude feeds into the habits of others too.

> but I'm interested in slightly longer term projects (say the next 10 years).

I don't have a perfect answer for you, however, incorporating this into a career or public works effort would be something. R&D and implementation is still worth something. Even if it's not crazy lucrative or game-changing immediately, proper change takes time and has to be started somewhere. Think of all the R&D efforts from the past that contributed to massive changes in the present. Someone had to think, work, and tinker on projects to come up with adaptable outcomes. The work of one still has the potential to impact many.

> It seems like we're on track for a huge crisis, but as group we're slow to react.

My theory is that we are essentially up against a "nonphysical" entity (it's silly but South Park captured this with the use of 'ManBearPig'), so people don't treat it the same as an "us vs. them" dilemma. It's really an "us vs. us". It's hard to react to something that's not right in front of our faces. There's always the ability to count on tomorrow until the day arrives that there won't be any more tomorrows to count on. At which point, people usually look around for solutions. There's a group that will outwards and a group that will look inwards. There's an endless amount of excuses and distractions to fall back to, but at the end of the day doing something is better than doing nothing.
What an ignorant comment. This isn't a free speech issue. The government isn't censoring down Tumblr. Its owners are.
Will add one point that helped me through procrastination. Learned this from writers, applies well to programming.

1. Make it your aim to write as horrible code/prose as you possibly can. It will get you started.

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I would argue that what you're seeing is a pattern of women continually becoming involved with assholes, cause they're not complaining about the niceguys.
Anyway, the original post was a sarcastic extrapolation of what we see in the media and comments, I didn't exaggerate it enough but I agree with your 1 words answers, thanks for chiming in.
> Technological books do not age as well, because technical knowledge is predominantly cumulative.

Tell that to Claude Shannon, Fred Brooks, and Ken Thompson. "A symbolic analysis of relay and switching circuits", "The Mythical Man-month" and "On Trusting Trust" have aged fine, I promise.
I don't care what other people think.

This sounds a bit too anti-social. I do actually care what people I care about, think. And I care what people with well-informed opinions think. But a random hater? Annoying class mates/co-workers? People with an obviously stupid opinion? If they think badly of me, that says more about them than about me.

This does a lot to keep me calm, sane, and free from anxiety that would otherwise turn me into a wreck. It's probably the one attribute my wife most admires about me.

It got started as a defense mechanism against bullies and other annoying class mates, but it has served me well since then.
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I can think of a few different eras that will likely have different insights:

* Foundations, before any computer was feasible to build: Newton, Boole, Babbage

* Early computing, when everything was custom-built: Alan Turing, Vannevar Bush, Claude Shannon

* Mainframes, where computer access is rare and precious

* Personal computers and early networking

* Mobile computing and ubiquitous internet
Because they can stop the scanners from picking them up. Some of these people buy a long range scanner made for drive up gates because you can glean the info from a block away.
I have a HomePod, a google home, several
Echos, and a Sonos setup.

The HomePod is incredible for voice recognition of basic commands and that makes a lot of sense based on the work they describe in this blog post. HomeKit has also really shaped up and at this point I use the HomePod as a home hub. In the small apartment I live in I’m able to shout commands from another room for things like switching the lights.

That said, HomePod lacks integration with any services or devices outside of apples echo system (ignoring HomeKit). You pretty much have to use airplay for almost everything unless you want to use that god forsaken Apple Music; which is fine, airplay is the fantastic, and there are even some good open source implementations too but it just means the voice assistant aspect of HomePod is severely diminished. So I end up using the echo for almost everything because I can hook one up to a pair of speakers and boom I’ve turned them into Bluetooth speakers, or I can use the echo to control Spotify on my Sonos multi room audio setup (and no, airplay on the HomePod is still not as good for this use case imho).

The google home is a clever search engine in a speaker but for some real world queries it’ll do stupid things like read Wikipedia instead of telling you the thing you want. So at this point I only use the google home mini as a cheap bathroom speaker because it’s a better than the old gen echo dot (until my new echo dot 3 arrives). The google home overall is the least compelling of all of these.

Oh yeah, did I mention HomePod makes a fantastic speaker for an Apple TV (or iPhone/MacBook) connected to a tv for watching video? The low audio network latency of airplay makes it a great stand in soundbar replacement.
Good point. I'm pretty sure this component of resistFingerprinting is derived from Project Fusion, which uplifts privacy/anonymity-related changes from Tor Browser into Firefox. In the Tor Browser threat model, the idea is that you can't avoid looking like a Tor user, so the goal is to make all Tor users indistinguishable from each other. Flipping this pref as a regular Firefox user is incompatible with its primary intent/threat model, so it fails to deliver and may even make you _more_ identifiable in some circumstances.

This is a great example of why I'm generally skeptical of these scattershot approaches to making users more secure by changing default settings in mainstream browsers. Security and privacy features always entail tradeoffs and should be designed and implemented holistically for best results.
I'd seriously consider putting on a believable show for 5 years earlier retirement...
The best geometry textbook hasn't changed for more than 2000 years.

Mathematics textbooks are just as likely as anything else to suffer from modern pedagogical theories that have not been tested by time and will come to be regarded as mistakes.
His argumentations don't seem shady to me: https://backstage.1blocker.com/say-hello-to-1blocker-x-8b55e...
Garbage. Here, have this: https://quillette.com/2018/11/30/the-new-evolution-deniers/
It seems fairly obvious that if Language A's design prevents a certain class of bugs possible in Language B's design, A is safer than B. If someone isn't satisfied by this, they probably are biased against Language A. I'd tell the hypothetical person to try writing a buffer overflow vulnerability in safe Rust.

That said, I can't find the source right now but I believe the quote is something along the lines a sizable percentage of Firefox's security bugs would be less severe or nonexistent in Rust vs. C++.
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Scientists can prove someone's gender by looking at his/her chromosomes, can't they (if you take exceptions, there are people born with 4 arms, or even 2 heads: was a new species created, or it's just very rare exceptions?)..?

If you abandon common sense and gender is a construct, race and age should be a construct, or however you want to call it, people should be able to change it.
The damage is not simply probability x impact, as it's also important to limit the potential downside. When a person or company pays for insurance, it increases the average damage in return for decreasing the variance.
From the article the cost to mine is around $5000.

wouldn't that mean the price should hover around the cost to replace?
No, they make pills that are 150 mg. I was on 300 mg of daily Welbutrin XL for several years, though more often I was on 150 mg. I also took about 20 mg of Prozac, which seemed to have a smoothing effect. My only side effects on the stronger dosages was an acid stomach, and I could mitigate that by eating half a bagel or muffin in the morning.

I remember asking my psychiatrist about the dosage because it seemed high to me. He told me that up to 450 mg was the recommended maximum, and that he did have a few patients who had been on stronger doses. I believe he said he knew of one patient on 750 mg, though he may have said 600 mg.

Just based on my personal experience, psychiatric drugs are highly variable. I did very well under Welbutrin, while even the smallest dosages of Effexor had me waking up with constant nightmares and a non-euphoric, altogether unpleasant "buzzed" feeling not unlike a hangover without the headache. I also know people who swear by Effexor.

Edit: Today I almost entirely mitigate my depression with natural light therapy.
I rather enjoyed this essay, not because I am into theology, but because I also see the value of old books. I think that I am a bit of a heretic (if I can use that word in a theology thread) because I strongly believe that there is advantage to be gained by reading old books of... science!

It is often presumed that because we learn new things as time goes on, and old theories are discarded as new information comes to light, that there is not much value in reading older science books. After all, isn't half of that stuff wrong? But similar to how Jack says how one can learn about different flavors of Christianity by stepping out of his own century, and thereby how much they have in common, I feel that by reading the original works of Millikan, Carnot, Gibbs, or Einstein, that you get a much better idea of the perspective that developed the theories we see as so cut-and-dried today.
@mods this was posted earlier today, discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18588697
If some other country ask for something similar, then Google should either give them or quit that country. Simple as that. If Google, or any company, wants to operate in a country, they need to obey their laws.

It is not like Google has not done it before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_Google
The Dole case doesn't seem to have been an admin error so much as short sellers who borrowed Dole stock and then sold it and then defaulted on paying back what they borrowed. Probably more an issue with the borrowing / lending regs than the admin.
If the system can burn out your mental health while increasing engagement, it can and will make that choice.

While the platform, many more times than not profits from that engagement? I completely agree.
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Ok, so the statement this was all in reply to:

> None of my pharmacist friends will even fill an opioid anymore until the patient has filled and tried using a Rx Tylenol first.

Is an oxymoron? (Opioids are a superset of opiates, for what it's worth.)
What does ONSITE mean? Your site doesn't specify any concrete locations for your offices, especially in Europe. Do you consider REMOTE applicants?
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Can you explain why you think that?
I think the insect apocalypse has the potential to rival climate change as our greatest threat. At least climate change has a known cause.
That's not a problem of their own making, their payment processors essentially dropped them for (cough) "blood, needles, and vampirism" (per the announcement). See https://pastebin.com/FFSQUML9 and https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/03/payment-processors-are...
I agree that there is a philosophical discussion to be had, but the actual request was to change his official date of birth from March 11, 1949 to March 11, 1969 which is just ridiculous.
Wasn't there an experiment where a sandwich company bought ads next to videos on Pornhub to target hungry people who'd just gotten off and were hugely successful?

Found it: https://blog.eat24.com/how-to-advertise-on-a-porn-website/
I've found https://github.com/ianstormtaylor/superstruct to be really flexible/powerful.
If you don't control your sales and distribution and are beholden to one channel, then you presume a large risk.

Apple does not do this. P&G does not do this. Exxon does not do this. On and on and on...

I don't understand where you're getting the "majority of businesses", because most financial healthy businesses do not have channel concentration.
Time is a fantastic filter. When I was cleaning out my grandparents attic I found a few dozen old books from the 30s and 40s. Wanting to see if they had any value I searched Amazon Ebay and even Google.

I could find no record of them having ever even existed. I opened a few of them and found out why. They sucked.
SEAL was started before or soon after Rust became stable.
> Well, women (at least in Italy or Europe I guess) can retire earlier than men.

I'm from the US and haven't heard of this before. Is there a widespread rationale for this? As a whole, women live longer, so equating "retired years" doesn't seem plausible.

In the US, you get (easy) access to 401k and IRA at 59.5 years old, and social security can't be claimed until 62. Gender doesn't matter.
Contrast this with the fact that paris has had the worst riots in half a century due to a new carbon tax.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/france-anti-tax-protests-...
This is really true -- on Reddit if you post a dissenting opinion, you're usually downvoted.
Seems like a better plan than voting for people that pledge to make it worse.
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Once forg has more features, won't it be bigger as well?
I can't be 100% sure that you are incorrect. But given how much the price of gas affects the market for fuel efficient cars, I cannot imagine that making polluting technologies more expensive would not cause manufacturers to pivot to greener methods.
Cool idea... the continental US outline doesn’t fit over the continental US though.
> There has always been "grey" areas from an anatomy perspective

Yes, extremely rare ones. It's not clear to me what the existence of the occasional XXY individual, etc., has to do with the idea that gender is just a social construct.