skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will thank you for the link, since I would not have seen this conmment:
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Ahhh, the busker economy. I have an opinion about this, much to the astonishment of the assembled intelligentsia.

Patreon, Indiegogo, Kickstarter, GoFundMe, the lot of them are basically ePaydayLoans. They charge an absurd amount for basically acting as a payments processor. We've developed a Kabuki whereby the supplicant does the Kickstarter Dance so that their friends and relatives are cajoled into giving you money through the sheen of legitimacy. It also allows the supplicant to disregard the nonmonetary help of any and all comers - no less than four asshole directors I've worked with have turned down my assistance as a creative in favor of begging for my money so they can "afford" to do the work themselves.

And really - who uses these services? Generally people who do not have a product viable enough to stand up on its own. I really enjoy John Dolan's commentary but no, I'm not going to pay $5 per podcast to hear him ramble. 2,681 people do, though. That makes him one of the 1%.

Kickstarter is basically a business loan that charges you 20%. That's pretty fuckin' horrible terms. But if you can't find better because your idea is shit, go for it I guess. And I say this having underwritten three Kickstarters. In all three cases, they were ideas that would have been underwritten by conventional financing if only their creators had looked a little harder. Patreon? Patreon is a tip jar for people too introverted to sit on a street corner with an open guitar case... and I say that having supported a couple Patreons.

But it's shit, and it makes the world worse, and I hate it."
Where are the privacy implications, most of these privacy "breaches" are just opt-in features, which you don't have to sign up for.

Even this one, which is the most extreme by so far:

> While the FBI does not have the ability to freely browse genetic profiles in the library
If you watch Louis Rossmann's channel, who runs a component-level repair shop in NYC and campaigns/ed for Right to Repair, you'd know modern MacBook Pro's were poorly-designed, designed to wear out, and are expensive and difficult/impossible to repair. Memory: soldered in, SSD: soldered in, battery:
glued-in in several pieces, board diagrams: proprietary, test tools and utilities: proprietary, service knowledge-base and forums: exclusive, genuine parts: exclusive.

Older Macbook Pro were better but still have their issues. I have an A1278 MBP that sleeps spontaneously all the time because, in the palm rest by the HDD bracket, either the Hall effect sensor wore out or the bar above it (ferrous metal or magnet; magnets are around the screen) became too magnetized. Also, the screen hinges must be loosening or self-polishing, so the screen is getting floppier. I'll try tightening the set screws and maybe even Loctite them. https://www.youtube.com/user/rossmanngroup
Still remember the Bugged Chip story from Bloomberg? One comment under the story tells me that it is very hard to test bugged hardwares. So I guess every country should just by default distrust any communication equipment regardless where the equipment came from.
Whole Foods isn’t priming Amazon’s pump
> I'm beginning to think sites that don't just let you download the catalog and search it yourself are probably trying to hide something.

You know what would be a great feature? Letting you prioritize different categories, in relation to each other- on AliExpress, "fist sort by price, then by shipping arrival date" would be incredibly helpful- I'm totally willing to spend a bit more to get stuff here 20 days faster, and searching through everything for that is a PITA.
This is awesome! I was just about to ask if there were any resources pointing toward easy-to-recreate machine learning papers.

Is there any way to add some kind of flag/sorting mechanism on this for code that requires massive GPUs/ computing power to reproduce?
Giving data to the FBI, and giving data to any random political group are very very different things. This straw man can probably be seen from space.
Doom. When it comes to culture plant the seeds early and enforce it with an iron fist of death, because it takes time for the consequences to manifest and once they do its too late, like rabies. Resolution to culture problems take just as much effort and time to resolve as the neglect and time it took for them to set in.

I have the perspective of going through something like this on a microscopic scale right now. An employee under a manager underneath me launched and EO investigation of toxic leadership fueled on rumors and hearsay. Perception is reality (even if it isn't). I was spared the stupidity of this nonsense because the complainant made a mistake: they didn't confront their leadership before making a formal complaint. They deprived me, as a leader, the opportunity to resolve (or intervene on their behalf) the problem. Even still the corroding behaviors have set in from the bottom up corrupting the local culture of the group.
Come on, Facebook's vision is Frindster but 15 years later and Netflix is literally putting TV on the Internet, a Silicon Valley (I mean the show) worthy description.
Homeowner's Blood 'Ran Cold' as Smart Cameras, Thermostat Hacked, He Says
>where you assume every line of code has a certain chance of flaking, and then you just multiply out all the probabilities.

This assumption doesn't make much sense though. `y = x + 1` shouldn't flake. Nor is your comment here a correct reflection of "size". Size in the article means time the test runs or amount of memory used (ie. constructing a larger SUT), not LoC. Edit: I'm partially mistaken, one measure of size is binary size, which should be generally correlated with LoC, though not absolutely. Webdriver tests which use image/video goldens are an example where test size may not correlate with LoC at all.

>This doesn’t really make any headway towards understanding the problem.

The second part of the article does address exactly this (webdriver tests are correlated with flakyness, although they're also larger by virtue of needing to spin up a headless browser, which has a memory cost).

More edit:

As someone who has written and heavily deflaked some (very large) tests using, I believe, the "internal testing framework" mentioned in the article, flakyness always appeared as a tradeoff with speed. Parallelizing tasks introduces a level of randomness which can lead to flakes. Short(er) timeouts on things that can have long 95 or 99th percentile latencies, etc. It can sometimes be worth it to have a test flake some small percentage of the time instead of waiting longer (granted this is also often a flaw in test design somewhere).

But when you're testing a big system with many moving parts, it's not uncommon to have something that takes 30 seconds 95 or 99% of the time, and every once in a while 5 minutes. The question is if its worth it to keep extending your timeouts for n-sigma events, especially since that means that when your tests are actually broken, they'll potentially take much, much longer to complete. You can lower the false false negative rate, but the cost is that true negatives become much more expensive to compute. Is that worth it? It depends.
wow, I totally want your job/business model. Sounds like a great workflow and service -- as well as a large untapped niche that is probably undeserved.
48, actually. Where'd you get 52?
So is that not very worried or not at all worried?
It's more accurate to say that Private Equity shops don't ALWAYS make money by bankrupting firms.
Wait, is there anybody else other than the guys behind Kiwix who regularly make compact archives of Wikipedia? The only place I know of where you can download a premade archive (rather than archive it yourself) is off their servers.
If you can manage to get an editing slot (Google docs hard caps the number of simultaneous editors) the amount of suggested vandalism this already has is amazing. It also gives an interesting view in to what people are feeling about Google's level of testing.

Here is a preview: https://cdn.pbrd.co/images/HZfekkKc.png
I think it's a common misconception that "targeted" advertising in any way involves the ad viewer's interests. Showing you only ads for things you are interested in was never a goal. The advertiser targets who should see the ad, which may or may not match what the viewer's interests.

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.
I think since day one it was clear that sundar has no vision. he has execution and he is very good at it. vision? none. waymo and all other crazy bets are larry's legacy. sundar is no satya, I tell ya that much.
> Android is "the" platform pretty much everyone accesses the internet.

Not really. Windows still exists, as does iOS.
I dunno. I like Sundar. I like his straightforward style. Personally I think he's got it together a lot more than Larry and Sergey do. When Larry was the boss, I always felt like we were lurching. Sundar feels like high speed cruise.

Look this ship don't turn fast no matter who's at the helm. And it's not even clear it needs to. Maybe it's already sailing where Sundar wants it to (mad money + compelling products). As far as I can tell, public sentiment about Google is very different from tech/nerd sentiment about the same, and that's fine by me, because the public seems to like the company and its products. We are making money hand over fist with no end in sight. While our politics might not be progressive enough for the left fringe of Googlers (and I say this as a liberal myself), they are certainly not reactionary by any stretch.

I wouldn't expect a radical new idea to spring out of Google at any point in the future. It's too big for that. The folks with radical new ideas are working in their garages. And that's OK. Companies have life-cycles, like anything else, and Google-the-company is in the "mature adult" phase. It is refining and extending in the areas where it's strong. Occasionally it tries a new hobby, but it doesn't expect to make a career change. It can't. It likes its day job (the best damn information-seeking web properties on the planet), and even if it got pretty good at something else, it's hard to picture a scenario where the productivity of that alternative comes close to the main business.

I guess this is the long way of saying that I don't see why the investors would want Sundar out. I don't see why Larry or Sergey would. And I don't see why most employees would either. We're all getting rich and mostly being treated well, and building things that broadly speaking make the world a better and more productive place. Those are all the people that get a vote, so I wouldn't bet on Sundar going anywhere soon unless he wants to.
> Now, God doesn't exist

Do you have a definitive source for that?
There is a lot more to AWS than just EC2.
Self-growing material could make muscles that become stronger with use
I think I like the idea, but I refuse to give you my email, on the landing page, before seeing exactly what you are offering.
Boston, Austin, DC, Atlanta
MIT Artificial Intelligence Podcast: Guest Interview With Eric Schmidt
Going back to the previous comment, I don't really see how it's possible to grow your employee count by an order of magnitude without introducing 1-2 more levels of management. As much as flat structures are cool, I'm not sure how much they scale. The other option would be to just not grow, but I'm not sure how realistic that is.
an even better improvement would be photonic momentum or molecular beam epitaxy (MBE).
a triad of laser beams would be used to levitate and position an aliquot of polymer into position and cured by a 4th beam of sufficient quanta to induce polymerization.

phys.cst.temple.edu/graylab/papers/48_ALL-Laser_MBE_njp_QM_2_10_2017.pdf [PDF]
I looked at the user's profile. It says: " I live in India. I'm anti-government control and against mass surveillance. "

Took a cursory look at his/her's other comments and spotted "Google, which doesn't respect users' choices in Android not to collect location data and yet the company wants others not to deal in that data from its other services"
Even if they were paid better than everyone, seems like on an anonymous survey there is no downside in saying you are underpaid.
The issue at hand wasn't whether he ever misrepresented himself like that, but whether he did so in the context of this particular event - i.e. when he was being interviewed. I'm not aware of any video evidence of that, nor did any outlets referenced the video you linked to as their basis for the claims that he's a Vietnam vet. The reason why they did so is because he told them that he is a "Vietnam era vet", which is misleading (as Snopes rightly points out), but not outright false.
As a former Googler I'd like Urs Holzle as a CEO. I might even consider coming back if he's at the helm. Dude is both a solid engineer, and an outstanding leader. I respect him a lot and so do most other current and ex-Googlers. Problem is, Urs probably doesn't want the job. :-)
> Internally, Google is not so different from an ecosystem of VC-funded startups. They try a lot of things. Some ideas work and others don't.

For some definition of work. They're still mostly (~80-90%) an ad-driven company, after all these years.
A London Orchestra Broke International Law [video]
Anti-clickbait description: the international pitch to which orchestras should tune was actually specified in the Treaty of Versailles, of all places, as 435Hz. Orchestras can gain a slight 'brightness' advantage over others by playing very slightly sharp, so one London orchestra used a rather interesting interpretation of the rules to allow it to stretch the pitch upwards by a few Hz, thus technically breaking international law. But the rest of the story is also worth watching.
Uhhh, those mean the same thing, no?

Anywho, even if I think I know I'm safe, a billionaire CFO with far more legal resources than I could dream of has been wrong.
PSA: foo@example.com is apparently already taken.
I have never worked much with compiled languages but I recently started creating gnu makefiles in all my projects. I read someone's article, maybe from here, that gave me the idea.

I have been putting everything in it. From the terminal commands needed to spin up the cloud infrastructure to all the docker build commands and of course all the build tasks like gulp and composer.

Even my docker compose commands have been replaced with "make up" and "make down". It is really handy and has really streamlined a lot of processes when it comes to local dev environment issues with different developers.

I basically just use it as an easy way to organize shell scripts.

The next step is to convert my ci/cd pipeline to just use specific makefile commands from the same makefile so that everything is more portable and I can easily execute the exact same process locally when desired.
Also, Larry and Sergey got obsessed with useless and irrelevant things. (Flying cars? Robot butlers? Airship yachts? Glass?)
Another one is body sensors. I disabled body sensor permission for play services. Whenever I am using Google Maps, it would complain about the permission every few minutes. Thankfully, found later an option to disable that nagging in maps setting. Maps still worked fine.
>He is such a humble and kind guy while still being a nerd, one of us.

Yes, but I'm only half joking when I say that that's how all the pod people make you feel. In fact the people who I would consider the most through and through "one of us" are often off-putting and completely antisocial by nature, not even by choice. I think that's the difference between being naturally reality-focused or people-focused.
What about the "deep personal losses" suffered in the garment industry, in electronics, in agriculture?

What about all the people that lost their jobs as a result of technological progress? What of those poor ice pickers, who lost their livelihood to the invention of the refrigerator?
And if you want to see the unmangled article: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mZ0-Kc97DI_F3tf_GBW_NB_a...
Typhus Epidemic Worsens in Los Angeles
Except for every one deprecated product you can name, there's probably more like 10-20 new product. The issue is that Google has gotten so big and has so many different projects, that the number of deprecation is just bigger, even if percentage wise they're probably lower than most other companies.

Try looking at https://gcemetery.co/ and naming how many of those you even recognize and can describe without looking it up. Everyone just loves mentioning Reader, but except the new batch of G+ and Inbox, there hasn't been any significant product killed in a while.
Exactly. Your comment is the most astute so far in this thread.

Amazon is a cash cow that simply feeds a relatively decentralized innovation engine. Moreover, the strategic moves they make (intentionally keeping GAAP margins thin, not separately disclosing AWS in the financial statements for years, etc.) should always be assumed to come from multiple, well-considered motivations.

Someone says, "It's just customer-obsession." Yes, that's the simple myth/story they want you to believe.
Affiliate sales page thinly veiled as a PSA.
Apple never denied the keyboard issues.

They offered an extended warranty and fixed the core issue in a subsequent design.
DNA dies in a day.

That Dropcam stream Google flagged your facial fingerprint on...not so much.
Good for them I’ve had so many problems with data ingress across that border on on our .ca
I Made a Program That Outputs Text for Minesweeper in Discord
Just FYI marginal revolution is one of the best economics blogs online. It's a very credible source
Trading companies do.

Amazon does if you get upleveled and negotiate.
> I even installed Whatsapp

This just switches being tracked by Google to being tracked by Facebook. They now have names, times, numbers, etc of people you talk to/interact with, as well as your rough location via IP, access point, or cell tower (which are shared with people who have location services enabled).
I think it's more a reflection of thinking that if a lot of employees complain that they're not paid well, maybe the company will increase their salaries in response. But there's no potential benefit at all to claiming that the pay is good (regardless of whether it is or not).
Agreed! Is this normal for Google? +-10% every year? The change % doesn't give us a lot of insight...these numbers in total seem much higher than the company surveys I've seen results for.
Yeah, but all you said was "if you didn't work on X, you can't have an opinion about X", which is a completely useless and trivially wrong statement.
> Same level / performance will be equal after a few year

For the person who didn't start higher, the difference between those curves is lost income.
Sure you can. There are still several First World countries that rely on conscription in Europe - some even reverted recently, in fact, since the ongoing hostile talk with Russia. And one of those countries is Switzerland, which has a world-class army, better in fact than many of its European neighbors without conscription.

Now, conscripted soldiers work better for some things and worse for others. They work better on defense, especially on their own territories - but that's what the good guys are supposed to be doing, no? And it's not like you can't still have a professional volunteer (from those who completed mandatory service) component, for things that require more training.
You forgot -Wall. Also, does this enable C++11? And don’t forget to set that NDEBUG macro.

All the things above is still a 2 line Makefile. And it is intuitive, too - you jusy copy your command-line g++ invocation and paste into Makefile.
Most people have multiple devices. If it's all local, how do you keep it synced? I have a work PC, home Windows PC, Macbook, linux laptop and chromebook in addition to a phone. How do I sync across devices at all times? New contact is created on one device but how does it get to the other devices if there's no common server? New work location; new restaurant; new anything? Or are you assuming everyone only has one device.

I'm sure you've got it all figured out. You should go work at google and implement it.
Circle CI also supposedly only hires the "best engineers".. I didn't realize the best engineers needed so much focused management.
Moreover, you stop being the underdog and become the Goliath-- this can be understated. It's easier to rally a tribe behind the banner of defeating a bigger evil/foe, be the unlikely victor in a lopsided battle. I doubt this is a sentiment people working at Google feel much at all any more.
I used to work a corporate job in an investment bank with around 30k employees. The majority of those employees were politicking chameleons with little productive output and a disproportionate salary. I used to hope that large innovative tech companies were different. From what I hear on HN it's becoming clear that that's not the case. It's almost as if the "largeness" of a company allows the non productive people to hide within it, all while successfully siphoning off their sustenance.
What I love the most about this interview is the plain setting, so fitting and makes the conversation tone so much more relaxed! Props to the guy for getting Eric Schmidt to do this.
If you're using GNU make, as the author appears to be doing, makefiles should be named GNUmakefile instead of Makefile so as to not confuse the user or the tools by conflating GNU make with BSD make or other make dialects.
>and that's the story that is going to cause the most outrage/grief, and sell the most advertisements.

I'm not sure if it's that calculated. What it looks like to me is that one journalist writes a poorly thought through hot take, and then everyone else copies the article without really thinking about it themselves either. There's a bias towards mainstream storytelling because the journalist that writes the original hot take is usually immersed in the mainstream.
How is buying your own product GAAP? None of the cloud providers can claim their usage of their own products as revenue, it is a cost.
French regulator orders Google to review search ads policies
I have taken apart my 2018 MacBook Pro and there is no glue and it's no more difficult to repair than any of the other models. Provided you can get the parts of course.

Also the A1278 is at best a 6 year old machine. I would imagine it's pretty normal for there to be some wear/tear issues.
Speaking of which. I sent two samples to 23andme and both times they rejected my sample saying that there was not enough DNA to recover. Hopefully that is in fact what happened......

They did send me a refund though.

I really really dont like the idea of someone potentially having my DNA while I didn't even get my end of the bargain (dietary recommendations, possibly knowing what will likely kill me, etc)
I was in Hawaii last year when there was the nuclear bomb scare - something like this would have been infinitely helpful (the suggestion by the author to share the page via Twitter/FB etc with other people if they’re about to get hit seems like a good one).

There might be affiliate links on this but I don’t think most people looking for something to save their life would really care :)
fair enough, apologies
I have the most recent 2018 MacBook Pro and I still get stuck keys.
Google Play apps with 4.3M downloads stole pics and pushed porn ads
> Examples of this back and forth that have benefited drivers include Lyft’s pioneering in-app tipping and instant payments for drivers, features Uber has since copied.

In—app tipping is the worst thing that ever happened to ride share services.