skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The devious move would be to play dumb in the domain of HR paperwork, and delay signing anything. Just say you need to review it in private and make a copy, pocket the paper, and never give it back, or even bring it up again.

I did exactly that at a smallish company ~20 years ago. It actually worked, and caused quite a ruckus a few years later when they discovered it. At that point they didn't really have any leverage because I wasn't working for them.

I seriously doubt this would work anywhere that isn't 30-80 employees. Small enough to not have an completely automated HR system, but large enough for things to slip through the cracks.
Funny to see that an introduction to my favorite editor... from the year I was -20 years old. :P
It was great for Cannon Fodder ;)
The car manufacturers. Maybe the best long term play is targeted aquisition.
It's new and the procurement cycles for these things are long. Also, Australia is coal country.
We have real numbers for the US also as far as people who bought Google Pixels.

https://www.recode.net/2017/10/4/16418170/google-pixel-marke...

If Samsung were selling high end Android phones in volume, how many cheap crappy phones are they selling for the ASP of all of their phones to be $250?

The high end Android market is minuscule.
But there's now no alternative to Blink, and Google can do the IE/Netscape thing of just ignoring the standards process and making up new web technologies that benefit them (and everyone else has to adopt them). The browser UI is the least important thing to compete on.
So your answer is that, if we disbanded the existing publishers, a new set of nearly-identical publishers would pop up in there place and our system for the dissemination of scientific knowledge would continue to operate just as it does today?

I don't know that you're wrong, but:

Right now, I really want an article in Nature or some other prestigious journal, in order to advance my career as a scientist. If those prestigious publications were suddenly gone, there might be other publications that would spring up to fill the vaccuum, but the new ones would have no track record and no prestige. So wouldn't everyone just as soon either self-publish or else favor non-exploitative, open-access journals?
Agree, I believe the benchmark shown Yaji and jq in this repo is useful for you

https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks/blob/master/README.md
There must be a name for a concept that seems like it would be obviously true, but actually isn't.

I don't think it's a bad thing that google ha a diverse set of products that didn't work together. I don't need my google calc/excel to integrate with youtube, and I don't need google play music to integrate with gmail.

Google should look at these things as individual companies, which it seems like is something that they finally somewhat figured out with the alphabet rebrand. Just let gmail be a successful company on its own, and let youtube be a successful company on its own. From my perspective as a user, things actually get worse when all of these things try to play together.
This is a very thoughtful comment and I don't think it should be downvoted.

I particularly appreciate last quote it's utterly relevant in the Valley.
Exactly. Once self driving cars are there , Uber and Lyft have no advantage other other companies. Rental car companies actually have experience managing large fleets which is something Uber and Lyft don't have.
I read this thread early this morning when the only comment was "the left is eating itself", got mad, decided HN sucks now, then decided to try understand the point of view of the commenter, I read the rest of their comments, decided my original position was correct.
I’ve heard quite the opposite: recycling lithium is difficult.

Maybe the other metals in the batteries make it worth recycling, but not for the lithium recovery (with today’s tech).
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A YouTube channel called The Thought Emporium has a series about using a sdr called the HackRF to make a radio telescope and a satellite receiver for a few weather sats.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGWFg7EDnyY&list=PLZLsjPxmF1...
Why can't the certificate issuer log a certificate, marking it as renewable for 6 months (or whatever), and not log the renews?

That would require changing the Google's standard, but it's a ridiculous small change.
Slavery and the genocide of Native peoples is America's original sin. The legacy of racist policies permeates through every aspect of American life -- Silicon Valley is NOT an exception, liberal havens are NOT an exception. North East Portland is a traditionally black neighborhood, but now I see more "Black Lives Matter" lawn signs that Black people.

It's not a surprise that being black at Facebook is a tough experience, as all of us who are black in tech know. Being 2-3% of the population would be tough for anyone to deal. Add on to that the very real notion of "micro-aggressions". My girlfriend was delivering a presentation and a manager literally admitted to day dreaming about which way she braided her hair that day, it totally threw her off base. At the end of the day a majority of us who are black in tech are dealing with death by paper cut as we try and traverse through our careers. Employee groups have been a big help to me, all I can recommend is to try to integrate yourself with other black employees at your organization -- there is strength in numbers.
Figurative Programming and gloom: the [G]raphical [LOOM]
That is wild. Why is the girl doing free-form poetry being held down? I would have interpreted that as being the way she decided to approach the subject.
Do you have any benchmark results for ArangoSearch compared to similar products such as Elasticsearch?
the irony of your post is that you don't seem to follow your own advice.
Great opinion piece that deftly demonstrates government action for climate change in the EU and US contains a large aspect of political maneuvering and virtue signaling, with sometimes large unintended consequences.

The uproar in France clearly demonstrates the downside of "just tax or fine it" approach to government control, be it gas consumption or sugary drinks. These tend to disproportionately hurt people who don't have the power to make any change.
Search is a new feature that could be used without limitations, in every edition. It’s really powerful if you combine a full-text search with a traversal or document join.
Chrome or Firefox? I meant that Firefox mobile crashes more frequently than the others (in fact, specific sites make it crash consistently and have done for years; I could probably dig some up, but I gave up reporting them since none of the bugs have been fixed for years to my knowledge).
For the most part it's still not a frequent occurrence I suppose, but it only has to happen once or twice on a popular website to make someone switch away.
No one has seen all the numbers but both services spend an extraordinary amount on advertising, Rider and driver obtainment, market development/setup costs, and legal costs. Like an absolute shit load.

Presumably all of those costs would disappear once someone wins the market or a "truce" is called. Right now both teams are spending like crazy in those areas because they need to have best numbers at IPO time. But once they both go public and the stock prices stabilize I suspect the spending will go down and they will be more profitable.
Only in the sense that the jury is still out on wifi and 4G - which is sorta true, but most people aren't that concerned about it.
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"I don't know much about the American social structure and context, but over here, colonialist views are very much embedded into the collective subconscious, leading to sometimes very despicable behaviour (even though it may not be malicious)."

That pretty well describes the majority of American culture on this issue, as I understand it. There are those who are malicious, but I don't think they are much larger a minority than anywhere else.
GitHub, or Lynda should acquire scrimba!
At some level an IPO is just like another raise. Any article or advice about not taking VC money applies.
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Is no one in charge of marketing or strategy in Google? Surely you can rewrite all the code underlying the product you like, forklift replace it if you want. But why endlessly rebrand existing products. Just keep the brand going. Or converge/consolidate branding even if the underlying software might be different between target markets, like Microsoft did with all its different messaging platforms over time. Now it’s Skype. And Skype for Business. (They’re very different.)
That's true. But there's a clear existence proof that there is a market for people willing to pay what it costs to drive them around. It existed before Uber and Lyft and it still exists alongside them. Certainly there's a price sensitivity curve but there's no reason to believe a national on-demand service like Lyft or Uber couldn't operate profitability in the absence of being undercut by VCs burning money.
AFAIK, the only difference between "semaphore of 1" and "mutex" is that a semaphore is definitely able to be signaled by someone who isn't holding a lock, whereas a mutex is sometimes only able to be signaled/unlocked by whoever acquired the lock.

As long as you trust the code running on your machine (if you don't, you have bigger issues to worry about), you'll be fine - nobody signals a semaphore before waiting on it if they're hoping to achieve mutual exclusion
It would give the Chromium dev team a massive amount of leverage in directing web standards.

This matters because, on-the-whole, Mozilla's dev teams tend to be much better at writing standards than Google's are; partially because many of the standards Chromium focuses on are prioritized and developed with the intention of being helpful to Google's long-term strategies. There have been multiple instances (html imports spring to mind) where bad decisions were averted purely because Mozilla had the guts to say, "we're not putting that in Firefox, come back when you have a better proposal."

Yes, Chromium is Open Source, but Open Source isn't magic. It's still very much a Google product, designed to increase Google's overall influence over the direction of the web. Unless Mozilla's plan is to literally fork Blink, then having a primarily for-profit mono-culture in charge of what features get fast-tracked and prioritized for browsers is still incredibly harmful.
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THESE CARDS WILL MAKE YOU SMARTER
Teaching kids to code: as a developer I think it doesn’t teach important skills
In short: The current model provides barely any vendor lock-in. This is great for the free market and prices, but not great for the companies.
Yes, it's accurate. The alt-right came out of tech circles: gamers, 4chan, etc. If you want some search terms start with Steve Bannon, IGE, weev, Vox Popoli, and Gamergate, and follow those rabbit holes until you hit acronyms like "HBD" and "NRx." The entire neo-fascist movement orbits tech. The majority of its intellectual leaders are tech people or people with significant involvement in the tech world.

Hell a lot of it incubated right here on HN before the de-facto policy became to flag/shadowban that stuff. Go back to HN circa 2010-2011 and the site's full of it. I'm pretty convinced that if the admins hadn't banned that stuff HN would be a highbrow 4chan /pol by now, since everyone else would have bailed when it got increasingly hard-core.

I've encountered casual racist attitudes elsewhere, but tech circles are the only places I've found significant numbers of true believers in the Bell Curve and people who think a single number (IQ) quantifies the worth of a human being. It's also, like I said, the only place I've had people try to evangelize me to hard-core fascist ideology.

There's a world of difference between having casual negative attitudes toward other races because your family held them when you grew up and having an explicit ideological belief system that advocates racism, totalitarianism, and hyper-elitism. It's the difference between an un-examined bias and an examined, affirmed bias. I've found the former in places like Ohio and North Carolina. I've found the latter primarily in tech.

It does surprise me to find these views in tech. It surprises me because tech is all about changing the way things are, so I wouldn't expect to find total commitment and capitulation to the naturalistic fallacy. But here it is.
> I doubt it would be legal for them to mention things covered by the Official Secrets Act.

Official Secrets act only applies to people who signed it.

A journalist would have to be insane to sign the official secrets act as it is hilariously broad.

If you don't sign it then you can print (almost) whatever you want.

Even the much vaunted "D-Notices" are not mandatory, it's an informal agreement between the press and the government that occasionally the government will ask them not to print something and the press will (mostly) trust them, it seems to work fairly well, one thing I've wondered is that because the D-Notices are voluntary rather than mandatory the government can't abuse them the way they could if they where mandatory (since if they did the press would stop ignoring them).
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> A fine (no matter how big) will be seen by FB and its investors just as “cost of doing business"

Depends how big you think. FB had revenues of $40bil. So let's fine them $50 billion.
Looks like a reinvention of async/await.
Believe it or not, one of the worst things that you can do is try to ignore it. Ask any minority why “I don’t even see race, just people” is so infuriating. By ignoring the issue, you are also effectively minimizing or erasing the other person’s experience as not the majority.

Let your coworker come to you as they are. Take them to coffee, get to know them, and ask how you can help them feel welcome and be at their best at work. Sounds like a lot of work and effort on your part, but the burden is on you the majority to earn back the trust broken by lived experience.

This is also not guaranteed to work. You’re fighting against a mindset developed over someone’s lifetime that’s akin to an alarm that you might think is noisy and not tuned properly but has become necessary for this person’s survival and psychological safety because they face threats to those things at a frequency and level you never have to see.

Racism isn’t the act of acknowledging someone’s otherness, it’s letting that otherness drive your interactions with someone and not giving them the opportunity to talk about who they are as a person. Racism is every time you go to lunch, it’s a barbecue place and you don’t invite your coworker because you don’t want them to think you’re stereotyping but you also don’t want to talk to them so you just go without them anyway without asking your coworker if they want to come because it’s easier. Racism isn’t the act of starting the uncomfortable conversations, it’s not giving those conversations a time and place to happen at all.
>Google's only product is advertising

Weird, because I pay them monthly for google play music, and for google apps, and for youtube red, and for youtube TV.

I also have several android devices, and look forward to paying them every time I get into a waymo.

Google has LOTS of products. The "you aren't the customer you're the product!" redditism is just wrong. It's something that sounds really insightful if you don't know anything about the company, or are trying to stir up drama.
Did anyone here buy $lyft on the secondary markets?
You can reward moving as far to the right as possible or something like that.
Arguably Google is already abusing their monopoly power but in the way that people like. I'm talking about AMP. In the future AMP/regular page boundary will blur and Chrome/GSearch/AMPpages will merge in the ubiquitous googlenet hosted on google servers (because it will work better than regular internet pages). Almost everybody will be happy after this and Mozilla will fall into obscurity.

Basically you can't create a revolution in tech by failing once and then trying harder the second time and it looks like Mozilla failed even while being better. The only way for Mozilla to win is (like linked article suggests) is to dominate somewhere else and then leverage that to push web browser. They won't do this and don't want to really.

PS: maybe they could buy/merge with other privacy oriented players in tech and create end-to-end privacy services that are usable, seemingly secure and integrated and then push this offering. But I can't see a big market today for this offer if it would exist.

PPS: also to add to less known evil moves by Google - their U2F websites refuse to work in Firefox, despite it supporting U2F for a long time.
They legislated the power to hand a developer a $50K fine and put them in jail for 10 years for refusing. And you can't tell anybody else about it, for them to back you up with their technical input etc.

At the end of the day, if they tell you to do it, chances are you'll have to do it. And you can't complain to anybody.
> I think ultimately the tokens here will be securities here, unless the transfer of the tokens are restricted

Transfer probably doesn't have to be restricted. From what I've heard, the promoters of the security aren't allowed to solicit exchanges to list their token, but aren't under any obligation to stop others from selling it.
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Interesting.

Random observations in no particular order:

- The simple assignment syntax looks somewhat procedural and is easy to read in small hunks at a time, but is still functional. I like this. This meshes well with the very real limits of how the human brain can parse things.

- I wish there were type declarations. There's a type system, but it seems to be all inference. Type declarations just at the function inputs and outputs (and leaving it pure inference in the middle) would promote readability when you've got no compiler in hand and are just eyeballing the pure text, in my opinion.

- I'm surprised by the inclusion of a system of nonlocal returns (panic/recover). It still looks relatively functional, but A) boy that's not an area where the word "relatively" is comfortable to use and B) I shudder to think what the inferred types will tend to explode into when using this feature (an Either of an Either of an Either of a ...?) in a nontrivial program (and the examples don't really shed light on that either, due to the "all inference" model leaving us with no plain text declarations of types in sight).

- I haven't seen any examples yet of what happens and how you're supposed to resolve it when the type inference can't quite figure it out. There seem to be some examples of doing explicit casts which seems to be a workaround for this, but I don't see it discussed very clearly.

- The quick and easy syntax for returning new record/structure types seems nice. Though I'm again a tad worried that the range of types I could end up producing would get pretty large.

- The syntax holistically seems to keep things from "drifting to the right", which seems to be a common readability cramp that emerges in many functional languages. Nice.

- Using the term "Variety" for roughly "closure" is... very nonobvious to me. But I shouldn't nitpick on terminology. (And for what it's worth, I read the protobuf that Ko uses internally to define its types of types before anything else, and so maybe I'd be less surprised if I had encountered it from from the docs and lessons first.)

Caveat: these are all "hot takes" from the couple dozen minutes of digging I've done so far. I might be reading some things wrong or have missed some documentation, so take these comments with a grain of salt and do your own looking as well.

Overall, this seems neat, but simultaneously leaves me a little worried that I'd be able to too easily write things in which the type inference finds something that compiles, but isn't the type that I would've declared.

I'd be really interested to see what this shapes up like if combined with some system for explicit type declaration. Gluing Ko together with a serial data schema like Protobuf and using Ko for "migrations" seems like it could be a really useful combination, for example.
But what does "black" mean in a UK context? It certainly doesn't mean the same as what it means in the US. Or in Australia, for that matter. Different history. Different cultures.
Expired security certificate brings down o2 UK and Softbank JP
The point:

We are an enthusiastic group of students trying to put in our two cents into the fast developing fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). ... One space we believe is currently not covered is that of an easily consultable repository for state of the art, quantifiable results across tasks. ... The main source of data is the community that can upload the relevant results of their field! We have further aggregated data from reading (a lot) of articles, from scraping the web, and from several existing datasets and websites. A portion of our dataset came from the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s "Measuring the Progress of AI Research."

Kudos for the effort. I wish more areas had something like this.
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> In the UC system, it is now considered a 'micro aggression' to make the statement 'America is a Meritocracy'. Why? Because it doesn't necessarily reflect the fact that for some people it's harder than others

Alternate character interpretation: the phrase "meritocracy" has turned into a dogwhistle for white supremacists and as such its use effectively reifies a white-supremacist position whether you mean to do so or not. As another example: I do not think that the overwheming majority of folks who use the term "gypped" have a problem with Romani, nut there is history and context to that too and you can't ignore it. Or, if you'd like a more amplified example, consider what the phrase "blood and soil" actually refers to.

It's not "Orwellian" to say "hey, that shit hurts people, be conscious of how your actions affect other people." It's polite.
I bet this is a normal A/B test from google and they'd shut one or 2 of these in a couple of years
I assure you that there's no real way to spend Google's money on ads and then somehow make it back on rev share w/ publishers (or on the money you didn't collect from the real advertisers who didn't win the auctions you overpaid for)... of all the possible scams, I don't think this one would work very well. I'm willing to look into it though.
I assume the password manager is supposed to prepend the host of the login form or whatever host is configured in the password manager.

So if I save example.com in my password manager, it will access example.com/.well-known/change-password no matter which urls I later visit that might be on subdomains of that original page.

If I already configured evil.example.com in my password manager, it's game over anyway before anything relevant to this spec even happens.
I'm seeing references to something Ericsson contributes to their network. It would very interesting to see what went wrong and in particular, what caused the change or deployment to be "un-revertable". My money is on a cascade of issues, some of which were latent and only triggered today.

This is, by far, the worst cell outage I've seen in the UK. There is zero connectivity via O2 in e.g. London, data or otherwise.

[1] https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/o2-network-down-ericss...