skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The debunking of myth began quite a while ago, maybe the 19th century even but certainly, the mid 20th century showed what horrors could be produced by the nation state.

Moreover, the majority of Western Europe could be called irreligious and lives more or less equivalently well and "morally" to the United States. Indeed, the United States has always been uniquely religious for an advanced society. We are now also set-up by a wide variety of unique social ills. There might not be any relation between but then again there might be.
For the most part, unfortunately, they run unprofitably, and have required therefor the patronage of high net worth individuals to keep them running.

In an ideal world, there would be a requirement for an organization that labels itself as "journalism", "news", or "reporting" to have a measure of financial independence. ...but as it stands, it seems such independent agencies would not be able to financially sustain itself as so much "news" is free online, and people remain unwilling to pay for less-biased sources of information.

We have entered the disinformation age. If you are not paying for news, you are the product, not the consumer.
When I was in 5th grade, I spend all of the breaks collecting milk- and lemonade bottles sold by our school cafeteria. If I recall correctly, they had a redemption value of 25 Pfennig (0.25 Deutsche Mark, roughly 0.12 EUR). I stored them in my locker and returned them at the end of the week. I was able to make around 20 DM (10 EUR) per week, or 80 DM per month, sometimes over 100 DM, which was a monstrous amount of money for 10 years old me.

There were a few kids doing this, so you had to be quick and know the locations where many bottles were to be found. The best spots were usually the places where the teenage "cool" kids who considered returning bottles below their dignity were hanging out, and you had to be brave enough to approach them. To this day, I remember the pure joy of finding a motherload of bottles, maybe up to 10 at once, and always leave bottles on the top of garbage cans in the city for the homeless :)
If you work full time, ask your boss to pay you at the same hourly rate and drop your working hours until you get paid current salary - 1000$.
Then use that time read, meet new people, start new hobbies until you find one that sticks, go to the gym, start indoor rock climbing, boxing, painting, whatever. basically, train your mind (on something other than tech), and your body to get the best of it.
Do whatever you like as long as it's not 100% mindless media consumption and you'll feel fulfilled. I'm inclined to think that the most rewarding things in life are the one you handle yourself, paying someone to clean your room (instead of doing it yourself) or to tell you how to exercise (instead of learning about anatomy and reading about bodybuilding online for example) won't bring you the same fulfilment.

Don't focus on "productivity" or "getting things done", it's life, as long as you can afford food an a roof over your head you're good to go. You won't remember your perfect workout program or your shiny new side project of the month in 5 years.

If you can spend 1k$ on "productivity" you probably aren't in a bad situation money wise, enjoy that, you already don't have to think about problems faced by 90% of the world population.

Automating / delegating / micro managing your life is the best way to make it more stressful imho, it very easily gets out of control and ironically becomes your life's focus. The only road to happiness is a sound mind in a sound body, and the probability you'll get that through a carrier is slim.

I highly recommend reading these: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius
Not retaliating at workers. Not being in the business of more efficient murder. Not paying smart people a lot of money to ensure as little profit possible goes towards public use.
Presuming the UK actually exits. They can still withdraw A50 -- or possibly extend it but the EU has cast doubt on this.

Even if it does exit -- EU will have incredible influence over the UK and can effectively enforce GDPR on most companies over a certain size as those companies will have to create entities and corporate structers in the EU for varying reasons -- mostly tax minimisation for exporting.

Little sole traders with no amibition of expanding outside the UK will probably have the benefit of not having it enforceable on them.

Again this presumes the UK chooses not to implement it's own data protection laws.
Yeah...looks like only the first, and maybe the second, guy was really on the stairwell. All the other people appear to be photoshopped in :-)
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By waive do you mean invoke? Because otherwise this makes no sense.
This is just what it's like to work at a large tech company in the Trump era. Emotions run too hot, and the vocal minority runs the show. I'm just waiting them out, their lack of focus on their actual work will be their downfall.
I think I started using it for much the same reason; I was having trouble with the official node installer. But once I uninstalled rvm as well, I was sold. Now I can have a project with a specific elixir/erlang/node version written into my `.tool-versions` file, and I don't have to worry about anything.
I’m finding this fascinating, any other good links to learn about this kind of thing?
Aurora databases and DocumentDB share the same underlying reliable single-writer, many-reader block device for storage. That is all the magic. Not sure where you got the idea that DocumentDB has Postgres underneath it.
Been that way for more than a decade(at least since I was looking to get into the industry around '00 or so).

Problem is there's a thousand young devs out there trying to bang down the doors to get in. In that situation I don't see how you have effective leverage.

With things as it stands today there's a good ~50-60% churn in the industry and things seem to keep rolling on(although I wonder what improvements we'd see with better working hours and improved pay WRT other dev domains).
Note to self (mostly): there's a SQUEAK_FAKEBIGCURSOR env var which you can set to 1 to have the VM display twice as big cursor. I've no idea why there's the 'FAKE' part, from the source it looks like it just creates a normal X11 cursor that's twice as big. This should work will Cuis, Squeak, and Pharo, as it's part of VM.
I had a project that used docuSign a few years ago. There were some very strange things going on with their API.

I remember having to call them asking where to find a template ID so I could save that and send out the proper doc to customers. It was not listed anywhere on the developer dashboard. The rep told me in a very condescending way that it template ID was part of the URL. I should have known to just use that!

My app was written in a python backend. They had a some API examples in different languages for their docs. The python example was a total embarrassment. It was clear that the person who wrote it had no experience with python at all. I am not trying to be mean, it was that bad. Every line ended with a semicolon (in python this is not an error, but is officially discouraged). The person also seemed to not be aware of a dictionary. They built their json paylod by concatenating text. It was the messiest python code I had ever seen. I think this particular bit of code is gone now, but it was incredible.

I felt so bad that I emailed them some suggested fixes and asked if they had python experience. They responded with a something along the lines of ya, we had the java guy do that. But the code stayed up there for a long time...
An ordinary camera can see around corners
After an abrupt shutdown, Munchery’s small business vendors picking up the bill
It's an unfortunate metaphor.
What's evil about this?
But people who developed those libraries allow anyone to use them, so you have the same chance as yor neighbor to develop the next Google, and there are a lot of smart people trying to do it, and not all of them will succeed.

So, your career is a direct result of your own hard work and passion.
I doubt Microsoft is as worried about "disruption" than just expanding their reach. The number of developers who currently run Postgres (hell, even the number of customer Citus currently has) is far greater than the numbers likely to completely switch from SQL Server to Postgres.
I don't think necessarily GraphQL is hard to understand as a concept. It's just difficult to figure out how to use it in an actual app context. How do I handle more complicated things such as authentication and, more importantly, what are acceptable and secure ways to structure your queries for auth (and things like that). I can certainly hack around with `context`, I just don't know what is actually good or not.
Just inTonation
The transportation costs kill ya!
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A somewhat recent news about Google’s silence on sexual harassment by men at senior levels while paying them big exit packages a few years ago.

Logging people in to Chrome automatically and then backing out after heavy backlash.

Google tracking Android users’ location and using it even when they have turned it off.

Then there’s also an older one — Google’s bypassing of Safari’s privacy protection through default blocking of third party cookies.

I’m sure there are many more that I’ve missed.
You might think a CS research group is a little odd at a linear accelerator center

That's being rather modest. Those who know anything about the origins of HTTP and the WWW won't think it's odd at all!
The book Homo Deus also introduces this idea, but calls them “intersubjective realities”, and they include not only religion, but capitalism. He claims that the strongest of these today is humanism, and even those who are religious usually share the humanist dream. He then goes on to talk about how we will continue to create new ones, some of which are terrifying.

I think that term makes it easier to see how they will continue.
In a way it's ironic, too, in terms of the insurer saving money. A pregnancy and birth is far more expensive any birth control method I can think of... other than perhaps abortion - which (get this, religious fundamentalists) inexpensive birth control helps prevent.
It's not going to save you from a search.

It might save you in a criminal trial, if your devices show no evidence of what they were searching for, no signs of being tampered with, etc.
"npm ci" deletes node_modules directory every time. Try using that when you depend on some native modules. :(
Try "Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Colour" by Phillip Ball. [0]. If you're just interested in the colour blue there's also "Blue: The History of a Color" by Michel Pastoureau [1]. The Pastoureau book is more of an overview of art history than a discussion of the history underlying the discovery of the pigment itself.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Bright-Earth-Art-Invention-Color/dp/0...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Blue-History-Color-Michel-Pastoureau/...
Even if they added this feature, the API bug would still remain (it would just be covered up by the UI).

A sophisticated enough client user would still have access to the all data associated to the API user.
CitusData made tons of improvements to upstream postgresql, though. Can’t say that about Amazon.
It means being able to control the statistical properties of the embeddings (e.g., vector representations of objects) learned by the layers of a deep neural network.
Also, the Incas, Mayas and Aztecs.
> Unions explicitly fight to support all of these people.

Unions fight to support newcomers? Common union tactics such as closed shops and seniority-based pay agreements are deliberately and severely hostile to newcomers.

> overperforming workers

Only a union supporter could argue that a worker can 'overperform'! Tell them to stop doing so well they're making everyone else look bad!
At the end of the day, even if you find a better alternative, database engines are a bear to switch. Our database is still SQL Server, even though we've switched our development platform 3 times, and I'd love to be on Postgres.
I haven't used Citus but once thought about Cstore_fdw. How much of this is about Cstore_fdw? I am curious because in data warehousing space my experience has been column store databases totally rule when it comes to speed on analytics. I know SQL Server has column store indexes but that requires you to create them whereas with genuine column store you get the performance boost by virtue of how data is stored.
There is very little incentive for someone in the tech industry to unionize. Well paid, safe environment, adjustable hours, often free food and unlimited vacation(s).

Why should I go through the extra effort, financial loss, etc. Typically to help support engineers less productive than I to keep their jobs? No thanks.
> Which is a long, long way from "false".

No it isn't.

> "BuzzFeed’s description... are not accurate"

That is literally saying that their reports were false.
I have to partially agree... I usually create .cmd scripts for windows that have what is needed, with enough checks to rarely have interference, there are some things that don't come out right sometimes though.

The question for me is, can I get all the VS build tools, python 2.7.x and 3.x, git for windows and node.js all installed and where it will work from a command prompt with scoop? Setting up a new developer is the primary use for the scripts I have currently. I have one for windows (chocolatey) and one for mac (homebrew), I wouldn't mind if the one for windows was cleaned up a lot.
"The Californian Ideology"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Californian_Ideology
why is this surprising or wrong? you give the application data, you give them permissions to use your data, and you don't pay for the application (although it seems like there are subscription models rolling out). did the author assume people were just building these things for charity?
This is still a typically stringed piano, just with felt added to dampen the other strings, I believe. The webpage describes an Una Corda piano built with only one string
You can think of the political spectrum as a two dimensional plane, so you have the libertarian axis, but on the part of the economy you have a quite different dimension!
Interesting that everyone is picking his favorite features when they define their political spectrum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_spectrum#Greenberg_a...
Can attest to very little CPU performance loss via OpenMP applications over bare metal. Maybe as little as 5% for our use case (numerical modeling of weather impacts).
If you frame a feature you are lacking as something that will never be possible, your own near term solution that solves lots of things but doesn't solve everything seems much more impressive.
we are on the internet
View 1 is on the DS domain. We have no control once the user is in there aside from giving the redirect URL.
When I visited friends at the University of Michigan in the early 00s, they would purposely leave their doors unlocked on the weekends and let the homeless come through and pick up after their parties with the tacit agreement that if anything of value went missing, the doors would be then locked. win-win
If you're only going by the short snippet lordnacho quoted, yes it might seem like it's just "culture".

Culture would be shared rituals like language, food preferences, music etc.

YNH's "shared fiction" idea is about humans' ability to deliberately create new abstract entities that compels humans to act together in service of that entity.

Examples of his shared fictions would be a "company" or "fiat money". These "fictions" somehow organize humans to cooperate and multiply their power over the world.

Culture, on the other hand, like regional food recipes, would accumulate organically and accidentally.
Part of raising your child in the best way possible is raising your grand-children.
sweet... may check it out to see if I can get what I need for my baseline scripts that currently use Chocolatey.
I dunno if that's true either. Things like UBI were wacky ideas popular in SV culture long before their recent mainstreaming. I think the libertarian streak is better described as a mistrust/realism (depending in your views) of the _competency_ of any given government program.

The government's advantage is that it lets us directly align objectives in a way that markets often don't, but it's disadvantage is that it'll generally optimize much less efficiently for the objective it's targeting. This means that government action and markets are appropriate in different situations; I'm not crazy about the fact that we're the least competent at transit construction in the developed world, but I'm still a supporter of transit investment despite the eye-popping levels of waste.

Live in San Francisco long enough, and you get a really strong sense of how detached a government can get from reality, and how much its actions can reflect the selfishness and idiocy of part of its constituency instead of any pretense of benefiting society or achieving its goals. It's unsurprising that you'd see a portion of the population, especially one used to more well- functioning institutions, start to drift towards support of government policy that doesn't rely on individuals within govt making complex decisions. UBI and other such hands-off policies fit directly into this. They're not anti-govt spending, they're anti-centralized decision-making
What give you this confidence? I discovered the list when I was trying to figure out why "link:" was no longer working, after existing for more than a decade. In another comment here, TeMPOraL says that "define:" (which is on the list) doesn't seem to be supported any more. If it's not making money for Google, and it's not necessary for their internal activities, I wouldn't want to depend on any of these to work in the future.
The excellent thing about citing a claim is that it obviates the need for trust, it’s about demonstration. My default position isn’t to assume that because you’re anonymous and online, you’re lying or misleading me, and supporting a claim with evidence only further reinforces your credibility. The absence of that evidence doesn’t make me consider you dishonest either, I’m just not going to put much weight in considering the specific unsupported claim you’ve made.

Beyond that, for the debate you want to have (a good one I think) all parties need more information. I can’t judge the efficacy of a system without dats on its past. Maybe the inherent asymmetry in information between TLA’s and the public makes this impossible in all cases, but not to the extent we currently live with.
Always have proxies when doing a long list of those or you will get banned for 24 to 32 hours or even worse the Captcha's from hell who never seems to work.
The philosophy of SERPs! ;oP

Sure, you are right, and moreover Google could interpret the request as an AND; but they don't return results that _correctly_ fulfil such a query.

So, practically the distinction seems useless?

To recapitulate, it's not my interpretation that the results don't match a logical AND, it's a fact.
It all depends on what you want to be liberal about. You could be liberal about gun rights and advocate laissez-faire capitalism, but not be liberal on social issues such as gay rights and religion. Liberalism is not technically left or right-wing. When someone on the right is saying they don't like "liberals" they mean they don't like social liberals.
afaik, the game industry is kind of an oddity. I don't fully understand it, but from what I hear, game devs are overworked and underpaid.
huh. I guess Ghostery isn't protecting me enough. My computer gets angry when I have just a couple of Chrome tabs open. Though I haven't tried it for general browsing in a long time.
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> I have in the past commented on the fact that insurance typically did not cover female birth control, but often did cover Viagra.

Not trying to disagree with you but I think this isn't a fair comparison.

Erectile dysfunction is a medical issue in the sense that you're actually broken. Birth control is different in that you can (mostly) live your life without birth control.

I say mostly because there are women that need to be on birth control for actual medical reasons in that they have complications with PMS and this mitigates things.

A more fair comparison would be male vs female sterilization or condoms.

If condoms were free for men but not for women then that would be a great point.

Again. Not saying I disagree with you just that this isn't an apples to oranges comparison.
WordPress plugin with 600K installs hacked by ex-employee
HelloSign's embedded signing happens in a iframe, through their JS client. The user is never directed to HelloSign's site unless you choose to to an un-embedded workflow.
BuzzFeed does plenty of clickbaity quiz things, but it doesn't traffic in outrage last time I checked.

I have a different evaluation of BuzzFeed's output, though I only become aware of the worst things that get some outrage. There is an undercurrent of identity politics. One shouldn't criticize and vilify entire groups on the basis of indelible characteristics. One shouldn't forward a narrative of certain groups, defined by indelible characteristics, inherently having bad behaviors. BuzzFeed has done this.
Search results quality is decreasing (which is just my personal speculation, DDG is usually retrieves less polluted results).

My experience is that DDG results are terrible. I try it periodically and never lasts more than a day. Has that changed?
PRs are never merged because the github repo isn't the source of truth for Flow, their internal systems are. They have this workflow where they will import PRs from github and apply them internally, then close the PR when it's done.

At a glance, it looks like all PRs are just closed, but looking at them individually shows a different story.

It's the same with React-Native, and several other OSS projects by facebook, and Jamie knows that, having worked at FB when that workflow was used.

It has its faults (I personally really hate the workflow they use, but I get why they use it. Github is where the people are, and Phabricator and other internal tools are difficult to integrate into it in a lot of cases, but I still hate it), but to say it's because they don't care about OSS or they do all their work internally isn't true. Plenty of FB employees and outside contributors both make PRs on github, discuss them on github, and just merge them internally closing the PR on github.

Flow has plenty of issues without needing to make them up or exaggerate them. Their errors still take weeks for many to understand and get used to, flowtyped is a mess compared to typescript's type distribution system, their fucking habit of single character type variables makes looking at built in type definitions extremely difficult, the flow binary still is extremely unstable on windows even after years, and the recent move of aliasing Object and Function to `any` seems like a misguided attempt to simplify some code and speed up some checking.

But at no point do I think they should can the whole thing, and I absolutely think they care about open source. Like I said in the comment above, Flow is in a bad place right now, but they are putting their money where their mouth is, the Flow team is reportedly growing at FB, and over the past few months I've seen a massive uptick in the number of releases, blog posts, external contributions, performance, and a significant decrease in the number of bugs I was hitting on a daily basis.
"Adjustable hours" is not true everywhere, and being expected to work large amounts of unpaid overtime is extraordinarily common in this industry. There's many with companies with forced arbitration clauses for disputes and other unfair practices. Unions provide a great deal of protection against these abuses for pretty insignificant union dues.

Workers have more power now due to the red-hot tech job market. This will not be true forever.