skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having worked in several industries before landing in software development, I can tell you that the most common form of hubris we have as an industry is in thinking that our domain is where the hardest problems live. Or in thinking that the level of difficulty of our challenges has a 1:1 correlation with those of the business.

Building data centers is hard because there are not a lot of places that you can build them effectively. Large scale, specialty real estate deals are the kind of thing that effect a company's financials in a big way and for a long time -- much longer than the market cycles where you determine whether or not to continue or abandon your hypothetical, nascent cloud offering service -- and are exactly the type of thing that market investors will pillory your company for if you fuck up.

If you're Amazon and you're starting off in the datacenter game and it doesn't go well, you can always transition the property into a distribution center. Those are useful to you anyway.

If you're Facebook, what are you going to do? Who are you going to sell this $800-1200/sq ft (that is the cost of building a turnkey DC and puts AMZN's largest datacenter somewhere between 172-258mil and that's just one of them) "big box" to? They should make a multi-billion dollar investment for that and hire a global enterprise sales organization on top of that to sell it?

Maybe it's not so much that what CIOs say is divorced from reality but that they see reality at a scale that you don't. Their abstractions may not make sense to you.
I once only had a test that failed Saturday evenings. We didn't notice it for the longest time because generally, people don't check in code then, because they're not working.

The test dealt with a "week", and on Saturday evening, the current week in UTC differed from that of the local timezone.
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Ahahaha! I mainly do PHP though, so it probably wouldn't be a good fit. I mainly just fill the gaps in frontend tasks occasionally when needed (but used to do a lot more frontend at my previous job).
This is my first time reading about Cambrian Genomics and the story of Austen Heinz. I am extremely impressed by the ingenuity in such a neatly coupling of ambition and execution - it was as if at the age of 27 Austen had managed to secure almost all the right puzzle pieces to co-found a high-impact start-up that will change the world - and of course tremendously startled by what happened after the DEMO Labs incident which led to his death. It was so wrong on many levels.

There is a surrealistic irony about the nature of Austin's synthetic dream which does not quite entertain the idea of messy nature and the notion of fault tolerance and, that, in my humble opinion, is the fundamental trait which would enable one to realise the greatest dreams such as that of Austin's. On the contrary the synthetic dream puts a great emphasis on purpose-orientated design and doesn't appear to care about the process of evolution, least fault tolerance, and that, in my humble opinion again, is often what people need the most when they are depressed (it will be nice to see more cognitive research done on the development of this trait and its interplay with the depressive state of mind).

Rest in peace, Austen Heinz. Your accomplishments are very inspiring and it was very sad that things turned out this way. There are so much we can learn from the mad unfolding of chaos and this tragedy of yours would continue to serve as a post-mortem precautionary tale for the future generations of aspiring young entrepreneurs.
The problem is that platforms and web hosting services are engaging in censorship too.

The article gives Cloudflare as example. Hosting porn content, even if it is art, can get very expensive because most services have an explicit no porn policy.

Also without Google Search and without presence on a big social network, you’re essentially invisible.

The situation for mobile apps is even worse, as Apple doesn’t allow porn content in its App Store and Google started banning such content as well.

Also the article mentions the by-law censorship of articles in which sex workers are interviewed due to FOSTA-SESTA.

So the smaller websites you’re talking about are being pushed off the web ;-)
I was offered a rider on my last business insurance policy, for about a 5% premium increase. It was labeled the Terrorism Rider but the legal code was war, acts of state-sponsored violence, etc etc. If you don’t buy that rider, and someone drops a bomb on your building, your claim falls into an exclusion.

These exclusions were largely inserted into new policies for risk management after 9/11. If you’re negotiating a 9 figure insurance policy, you have lawyers who read the thing and can debate the issue with the insurance company’s lawyers if there is a dispute over exactly what the bespoke language you signed meant.

I’m not unsympathetic to the insurance company here. The intent of this language is “We did not sign up to take on Russia. We are willing to do that, but it isn’t free.” If somebody doesn’t negotiate for that, well, you pays your money and you takes your chances.
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> Your unwillingness to click on a popup is nothing compared with the systematic censorship that has been sweeping the web.

Excuse me for not caring much about Tumblr porn, nor seeing all this supposedly rampant censorship on the web among all the hate speech and political propaganda. Perhaps you’re just expecting wrong content in the wrong places?
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[1] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/11/notpetya_insurance_...
I think the author brings up a good point, but most of those are simply due to us using Google's services instead of other services.

>In 2014 Google Play banned sex-themed apps

This point, however, I think is slightly different. It's difficult for the average user to get apps on their android phones without the app being on the Play Store. On the other hand, people go to great lengths for sex stuff so I'm surprised there aren't very popular alternative app stores for android.
Some suggest that a company should not exceed Dunbar's number (150). They say that when a company grown it should split up and work together as two companies to be productive.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar's_number
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I particularly dislike seeing buttons like "Make Google Better" that if pressed will turn on search history.

That pushed me to Firefox and "temporary container tabs" add-on. Now I _can't_ be logged in while using search, so I can't accidentally press some deceptive button that will turn on additional collection. When the tab's gone, so are all the cookies. But mail.google.com and the login domains load in a persistent tab so I can still use those.

A search link fixer add-on prevents capture of what I clicked from that search menu, and the resulting page opens in a new temporary tab separate from the one I searched Google on originally. It's a second layer of separation so that I don't have to depend _just_ on ublock/umatrix to prevent what's sent back from resulting tab from correlating.

Still not perfect, but it makes me feel more comfortable. I still don't feel comfortable enough with results from DuckDuckGo to use it by default, but it has been getting a lot closer.
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>2012 model

Don't forget the infamous 2011 model! And it's less publicized but a similar GPU issue affected the 2010 models as well.
I think you bring up some very good points and frankly, it's quite depressing. A decade or two from now the internet will be exactly like cable TV.
I remember "war not covered" language from home insurance policies, going way back before 9/11. Also exclusion of flood damage, and there are special FEMA-backed policies for that.
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The way you state it feels like it was C++ that copied those designs, when it was the other way around.

I cannot speak for Boost, but STL is also not free of OOP as such, iostreams, data-structures, allocators.

ATL was all about using templates, as optimization or not, one is on template land when using ATL, it is even part of the name.
It would be interesting to know how much of this news comes from selling advertisements, vs selling stories. If a company isn't making money from ads, then they're getting money from somewhere else.
> We in the West, otoh, have purpose and let our people put themselves to better use!"

AKA people invent novel ways to support themselves when the alternative is starving in the street
> Jeff Bercovici himself

so this guy and his followers didn't like suggestion of peach odor. Yet i don't see any outrage from him and the likes about "tropical rain" or french vanilla for example:

https://vagipal.com/index.php?route=product/category&path=59

googling "vaginal deodorant" brings a lot, including various vaginal yogurts/probiotics, aromatized and not, intended to fight the bacteria and yeast infections and the resulting bad odor.

So, what was the original noise about beyond the peach odor?
A viable one at that. Many NGOs in India are actually sketchy business operations.

I am no expert but Indian laws are very strict when it comes to foreign money transactions. The law behind is called the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010. Everyone taking in foreign contributions need to register and file the amount of dollars flowing in.

I tried searching for the NGO on the FCRA website:
https://fcraonline.nic.in/fc8_statewise.aspx

in state of Andhra Pradesh and got nothing.
> Heck people put google.com into the box and search for it rather then enter a url and hit ctrl-enter.

Not even that. They google directly from the address bar. Once you could google without going to google.com, anecdotally I started to notice most people would google everything, including URLs they obviously knew
It’s interesting that insurance Co didn’t point to an absence of proper inclusion clause. They tried to find exclusions that may help them to pull the fast one on a customer.

Which means the policy wording clearly matched the covered event.
Two things I've brought recently after they showed up freaking forever on my various feeds:

https://cuffup-shop.com/

https://connectio.io/

Ironically, the latter is a product that helps with decent retargeting, and one reason I purchased it, because it seemed to have worked on me.
The problem is that it's not just the sites that don't get funding, but it's hosting providers and pretty much the entire chain of services that you use that won't do business with you if there's sexual content involved.
There's more than enough neat stuff I don't know in there. Unfortunately it's tough to trust a source with so many errors in the stuff I do know.

I wasn't aware of any CLT for iid random variables with infinite variance. Do you have references?
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I've tried with compressed air and it's only a temporary fix. Same issue w/ 2016-7 MacBook Pros.
Little bit click baity. Still close to 80% employees support him, which is a huge success for a company as large and as diverse as Google with a lot of employees who are emotionally invested. Sundar is doing fine
Probably close to a year ago, someone posted a cynical fictional example timeline of discovery of MBP problems, (deleted) threads in Apple's forum, Apples' (lack of and) eventual response and the fans' denials and acceptance throughout. It highlighted the stages of denial, censorship, acceptance, revision, etc. It was pretty snarky but would up being pretty on the nose given what happened in the subsequent months as it was more discussed, officially acknowledged and then somewhat addressed in a hardware revision.

I think about that comment every month or so when another MBP article pops up here. I'd be grateful for a link if anyone knows the HN comment I'm thinking of.
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Are you sure that it's the algorithm that's wrong or could it instead be that the people who buy ads target the wrong categories?

If I want to target 18-25 year old males with make-up products then no algorithm is going to save me from myself.
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How many people here complain about authoritarian governments and yet support this mass surveillance via DNA?
is it really "the west"? AFAIK it's just "the US".

The EU also signed a trade deal lowering tariffs with Canada (CETA) last year.
Is Google cloud a superior product with superior engineering?

As an enterprise customer of all three, I will tell you that both Google and Microsoft have terrible UI, terrible permissions sets and terrible documentation. Microsoft has terrible policies and support but their interface still edged out Google. Google constantly shutting off APIs and forcing people to refactor isn't doing them any favors either.

IAM and the documentation are AWS' secret sauce. It's the thing that wins over those internal champions/coaches that an enterprise sales organization needs at their prospect companies to close large scale deals. In an environment where I have to manage security, compliance and administration on top of just using the thing, it makes my job 1000x easier.
That's fine, except that the insurer has to prove the state-sponsorship beyond reasonable doubt, no? Exceptional claims ...
I don't understand why the corporate monoliths refuse to slap their ads on porno. Porno has got to be the most popular kind of content on the internet. Why cant my porno be brought to me in part by pepsi cola?
Since I heard about Tumblrs new policy a week before it was implemented, I've been hard at work building Libr (https://librapp.com) to replace it.

A large amount of art that isn't porn, but that qualifies as "adult content" under the new policy has been all but purged from the internet.

It's impossible to ban adult content in a cost effective way without also banning a large amount of legitimate art.

Libr is about two thirds of the way there (source is on GitHub) and I have posting, content search, blog feeds and content authoring of video/images and text posts done. Following, liking and the main feed are next.

This will be a Progresive web app - No app store needed, meaning no app store bans.
In that he's transitively responsible for hiring, he needs to have some familiarity with Google's core competency in order to avoid a turtles-all-the-way-down situation
I didn't think about this in that case. Thanks for the article. I especially like using this color in my forms: https://hexcol.com/color/f9f9f9 and i'm doing this really often. To be honest, I think those system architects should take care of this bug more than web developers, but it's just one more line in code for us, so it's worth to think about.
Isn't it how the real world works? Have you ever seen BMW or P&G ad in a hardcore porn magazine you have recenty bought?

Internet is only different bc VC bucks were willing to tolerate porn for some time, like in tumblr case. Time is up, so everyone has to play by society rules now.
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> Advertising junk food and pickup trucks to someone that "can't think of two products I care about less" isn't an error. It's an attempt to make you care (if possible), and reinforce the brand so their name is familiar= if opinions change about junk food or pickup trucks in the future.

This sounds just like what people in the ad industry would tell worried clients. The actual reason is likely to be more mundane: the guy is, according to the tracking database, in an age and income group with high statistical correlation with interest in junk food and pickup trucks. Not all targeting is as detailed and personal as everyone thinks after reading scary articles.
That's the real story here - payment processors and the US gov are policing morality by making it impossible to run a for-profit NSFW business:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/03/payment-processors-are...

Tumblr and similar sites are just a casualty of monopolistic payment processors doing the bidding of the government. IMO - as long as what you're doing is legal you should be able to make money for it. Anything less is censorship.
Tumblr exists since February 2007; they lived, grew and prospered with erotica (and much more!) for 10 years.

Let's stop telling ourselves that you can monetize with erotica. It's just American Puritanism, and yes, it's breaking the internet.
Insurance is like a `bottomless wishing-well`, demands regular offerings but return favours during unforeseen emergencies not guaranteed.
The insurance company’s argument is “When we gave your lawyers a bespoke contract that said ‘Irrespective of whether a loss would otherwise be covered or not, we will not pay any claim which...’, what precisely did you think we meant?”

They quote the language in the policy and quote the national security apparatus as having made a determination that this was hostile action by a foreign government or their affiliates. Contractual disputes are often substantially less well-grounded in assertable facts than this one.
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I used to work at another BigCorp (around $150,000/yr) and really thought Google pays competitively, but boy was I wrong. Here are two offers that I received recently:

1. Small company: around $160,000/yr + equity

2. Google: no exact number but I was told that for the level I was approved, the base is around $120,000/yr. Apparently my coding skills on a Google doc were equivalent to that of a new grad and they are really trying to low-ball me. Somehow they are under the assumption that I'm "dying" to work there.

If you interview at Google make sure to have other competing offers, otherwise you'll be up for a surprise. Also remember that although they'll tell you that the hiring committee looks at a candidate holistically, only the onsite interviews will dictate your level and the compensation. They don't seem to care what products you've built previously, years of experience, or education. How you code in a Google doc is what seems to matter.
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Hi Dan. Acknowledged re: tit for tat, I did try and end it earlier as you can see but got lulled back when the other poster misquoted me.

I was being very cafeful to be civil though - even though this is difficult with someone who won't give a firm opinion on something. I succeeded in that.

You haven't said I was uncivil before either - we've had a few discussions about articles I've written that have been on HN and you once disliked me criticising the Bay Area.

Email is in my profile if you'd like to discuss further.

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> every CEO's ultimate vision was to increase shareholder value

That is like saying every organism's ultimate vision is to flood the world with offspring carrying its own genes. It is true in some sense... But it is also good that it fades into the background in the day-to-day because the things you (supposedly) do to get there have much better consequences than just trying to go directly for the goal.
“The US government has publicly claimed this was a hostile act by Russia” wins that argument, trivially, in a US courtroom. And it will be a civil trial; the standard will be “preponderance of evidence.”
you forgot the fact that it's coagulated using the insides of a calf's stomach!

(although depending on cheese, animal rennet may not be used)
I like my Microsoft mice too.
Microsoft did it pretty easily because they have the financial flexibility to make a multi-billion dollar investment and already have a global enterprise sales and support organization with a 20 year head start on the competition.

Facebook can't say the same and getting 100 datacenters up and running would cost them 25 billion before hiring anyone -- that's more than half of their cash.

I agree with you though that it makes zero sense for Facebook to do this.
I think most companies wouldn't have an issue to fix a design defect for free because most laptops can be cheaply serviced.

On a Lenovo you can easily replace the keyboard becuase it is not rivited into the main case. You could also replace the display without the entire case.
This is why I try to avoid insurance policies wherever possible.

It’s still hard to argue with people questioning why I don’t buy insurance for my $25k or so of household contents in a relatively secure building.

I don’t care how cheap the policy is, I’m assuming they’re charging more than they payout on average, and I lock my doors consistently.
I think something like outline.com is going to change that.
If publishers will keep flooding their content with garbage - somebody is going to clean it for them.
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Android? Chrome?