skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally. I have a very normal memory and have sometimes wished a particularly unpleasant or embarrassing memory was a bit less sharp. Then again, I’v often wished my memory was a bit sharper for learning new languages, names or technical details.

I too must admit to a morbid curiosity to see how this turns out. I suppose we’ll have to wait about twenty years to see.
> But you’re not contributing in anything for the world.

The role of capital markets is (among others) to integrate all available information from the real world into a price. A trader does this (for example) by studying company financials, their corporate strategy, expectations for the performance of their products and then buying or selling stock if the current price does not reflect this information. In a capitalist economy capital market serve as the major signal on the performance (another word for efficiency) of a company.
Would You Pay for a Service That Lets You See Data from All Apps You at Work?
We are planning a subscription based service that shows data from various applications grouped under a contact, like all mails to and from that person, attachments, CRM data, Files Exchanged etc. Will you pay for such service?
Wouldn't you just need to go one step further? Aging isn't a problem, but macular degeneration, or erectile dysfunction, etx from aging is a problem, so you can treat that.
>I think there's a fair case that these parents are locked in a society-wide arms race: everyone would be better off if the kids were under less pressure to get the "best" education credentials possible, but almost everyone thinks they would be worse off if they unilaterally "disarmed".

That sounds like the case Elizabeth Warren made in "The Two Income Trap".
A mouse with a ball inside of it?
This is wonderful. Glad to see Lambda exploding in growth ;)
Assuming things went down more or less as described, I wouldn't put much stock in Yelps chances should this end up in front of a jury.
Forgetting the merits of the suit for a minute, if Yelp really needed 24/7 access, why not hire another security manager to work nights? If his job is so mission critical do you really want to risk him not being able to wake up at 3am in the morning from a phonecall?
Google will flat out refuse. In their view they own the entirety of your intellectual output for the duration, whether or not it's done on your own time and resources, and whether or not it's in any way related to your day job.

I mean I get it (sort of), early on there wasn't really any "moat" to protect the business, so they had to put shit like this in their contracts lest someone goes off and upends their entire business model. But that's no longer the case. Their moat is _insanely_ wide. They don't have to worry about employees' side projects anymore, and they haven't had to worry about that for about a decade and a half now.

Likewise, their trading windows for RSUs are bullshit. There aren't (or at least weren't when I was there) any trading windows for employees below director level at MS, and I knew more about what's going on there than I ever did at Google. There's this illusion of internal transparency (created mostly by weekly TGIF where people get to pat themselves on the back for projects that will soon be canceled, but in the meanwhile can be used to get a promo), but nobody really knows anything material for real. The only exception I can recall is the TPU which was announced internally about 1.5 years before anybody outside Google knew anything about it. And it didn't move the stock one bit as far as I can tell. In fact, TechCrunch had the "internal" announcements before TGIF 90% of the time.
You don't even have to stream. At any given morning before leaving my house I have around 20 podcasts preloaded. Assuming you spend 5 hours a day listening to podcast at 2x speed, and 1mb per minute for the audio, that's still only 600mb. Up to to 1GB to give yourself some options.

Realistically, people listen closer to 2-3 hours a day, and even day, you can preload for a whole week using only 2GB of storage.
> do you think you're able to beat the market on a risk-adjusted basis?

I don't think anyone is going to beat the market doing their due diligence. It's more about making sound investments instead of treating investing like gambling at a casino or rooting for a particular sports team.
Well, I can't quote my copy as I'm under NDA from sharing it, however if you have a copy that you signed then carefully read the section about "equipment that you use to access your google work account".
Today I have 5 stocks i've bought over the past 60 days. I wont take the time to post my past 24 years of investing. I'm doing ok and so is my team of close friends I bounce ideas off of.

https://imgur.com/EQ0iWWT
Will do, cheers.

Been following you guys for a while, cool to see you're expanding -esp here in good auld Dublin and having enough momentum to afford such a move.
>The reason "auxiliary" workers get a raw deal...

is because they are something of a commodity. It's low-skill work that is managed in bulk and individuals can be replaced with little friction. The core IT work is in demand by companies, rather than the other way around.

I mean, your point is also true, but it's more of an additional factor rather than the main one.
Which reminds me to wonder - does anybody know why the cost model uses constants from a config file? Compared to all the amazing things that Postgres does, it seems like "measure the value of a sequential read and a random read at runtime, then use those values" should be pretty easy...
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> unless doing so would cause more than a minimal burden on the operations of the employer's business

No employer is required to approve PTO for religious holidays if something needs to get done.

There are tons of employees who get scheduled to work on Christmas all the time.
> This means the person wrote this code on their own time

What is “your own time” as a salaried employee payed for work product not hours on the job site?
It took me a long time to be convinced of this, but the tax-advantaged nature of philanthropy in the United States is regressive and anti-democratic.

The US government basically says: you have to give us X% of your money ... unless you spend it first on something philanthropic. Well the problem is that basically anything that doesn't make a profit can be a philanthropy. It can be your church, your college, a soup kitchen, or an organization that wants to give every stray dog a funny hat.

So if you suddenly become a billionaire, you can just set up a foundation and "tax yourself" by donating the money to what YOU think should happen rather than what the goverment (as elected by others) think should happen.

Furthermore the system of deductible donations benefits the rich much more than the poor. My tax rate is about 40%. So if I donate a dollar to charity I am effectively only losing $0.60. The government was going to take $0.40 anyway. If you make less money and your tax rate is only 20%, then it costs you $0.80 to give $1 to charity.

Some good reading:
https://www.economist.com/briefing/2012/06/09/sweetened-char...

P.S. given that our system is what it is, I do donate quite a bit to charity because I can afford it and because I see worthy causes around me.
This is exactly to the point. The post to which you are replying is an example of a sort of argument that is not uncommon: it is formally correct, but it completely ignores the subtleties of human interaction.
You are pretty much already there

For the majority of people, I would recommend just buying Vanguard funds

If you really want to trade anything else, IB is the way to go
RHT should make me about $6000. I bought it the day after IBM announced they would pay $190 a share. Disclaimer I'm Redhat Certified.
That's like saying because per capita beer consumption is 75 liters per year there are no alcohol-related problems.
I would never listen to podcast sitting at my computer. 100% of my podcast listening is done while doing chores, walking or taking transit. That's why the rise of smartphones were crucial for the golden age of podcast.
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It's a bad novel, rife with cliche and sentimentalism. There's no space for subtleties such as unreliable/ unpleasant narrators or different points of view or multifaceted personalities. The main characters are, for the whole novel and without any meaningful evolution, the following:

Stoner, the hapless intellectual dreamer;

His wife, the hysterical and capricious ruiner of her husband's life;

Stoner's romantic interest, the sweet, subdued soulmate;

Stoner's (work) rival, cunning and evil.

That's it. The wife's description can be construed as extremely misogynistic, but I'd say it's just painted very naively, as are all the others.
I think that was the point. The original parent was making a tongue-in-cheek reference to how tech workers seem to resist the idea of forming a union, but occasionally band together to do union-like things informally, in an ad-hoc, not-particularly-reliable fashion.
He's probably referring to a regular mouse that you move around your desk. As opposed to a touchpad or static mouse with a large sphere you spin around with your thumb.
You can't know, but that doesn't mean that you're completely in the dark. The doctors can provide you with estimates regarding the chances having decent 20 years.
Average pay is a meaningless statistic unless combined with a number of other statistics. What would be interesting is knowing the mean pay.
If I was in that position I'd fail to see a distinction.
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My real point is that there is no such thing as a "useless" service. It is a completely subjective distinction. At what point do cars become "too luxurious"?

Either we have a fully managed economy (which I'm pretty sure the historical consensus is clear on) or it has to be guided by attaching costs to externalities.

All this is doing is just picking on Bitcoin because people don't like it. There is no principled economic or environmental argument here, just a biased rationalization applied inconsistently.
I would disagree...

I believe the point is to illustrate that you either have inalienable natural rights or you don't -- which is usually the basis of the "taxation is theft" argument -- i.e. you either own the produce of your labor or some other entity owns it and allows you to keep a portion of it out of kindness or whatever.

Not arguing for or against just explaining the reasoning behind their reductio ad absurdum "thought experiment".
I do that off and on, mostly because with the editor I use, it's harder to highlight single letter variables.
The Rashomon God
Title: "The Rashomon God" (referencing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashomon_effect)

Science has thousands of laws of nature that describe God,

Poetry has thousands of names for writing "God".

There are billions of mirrors walking around who reflect You.

There are trillions of stars shining who radiate You.

I have seen You since I was born, and before.

And I have grown to feel You even more.

Once You know Your Own reflection,

You learn to recognize Yourself passing from the other direction.

But why is it always cloudy reflections?

The Most Beautiful must be died for.

(I wrote this slightly-nerdy poem today. It was inspired by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19216303. I thought some of you might like it.)
What I'm saying is that gambling should not be legal. I don't know if it's worse than drugs and alcohol (my initial claim is definitely a hyperbole), but it's definitely not good. Just step a foot inside a casino and look at what kind of people spend their days there.

I'm sure there are ways to handle this issue without it leading to the uprising of organized crime.
An easy way to encourage unthinking hate towards a group is to falsely tag them with the term "nazi". Be careful here.
Absolutely. This is why I was hopeful at Google entering the Podcast scene. I was hoping they would use the large amount of data to push podcast recommendations forward.

I have yet to see anyone really doing anything like that, taking your list of subscribed podcasts and using that to recommend you new ones. Seems like a trivial and extremely useful service to provide.
I don't think anyone goes into heroin liking to put questionable needles into their body, but that's what they usually end up doing.
What’s HN’s opinion of Stephen Wolfram?

Is he legit?

Is the tome A New Kind of Science worth reading?
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One relevant 'Twilight Zone' episode.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_12_Looks_Just_Like_You
( clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d6h3kaQs6g)

and another
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eye_of_the_Beholder
I was actually up 13% on ENB a Canadian pipeline company. My gain is cut in half because I doubled up on shares. I'm long on everything but RHT which is a cash payout.
I have somewhere between 5–20% comprehension of what they're talking about in a technical sense but found the conversation from 4m31s (as you've linked) to ~10m45s utterly fascinating.
In an elite hackers setting, in an offsite camp in the Santa Cruz mountains long ago, this Wolfram character bolted around like a bull in a china shop, finding people to give orders to, basically, and blowing his own horn at many opportunities. It was quite a contrast to the intense hack sessions and co-teaching that was going on at the same time, while serious nerds did what serious nerds do... The news that he screwed dozens of programmers out of the proceeds of Mathematica (1990), exactly matched the in-person behavior. This was before the net was the way it is.. ymmv
Unless that was his only job function (unlikely), I dont see why the headline should be that granular.
> Google will flat out refuse.

Fair enough, they can decide their terms. Honestly, I wouldn't be interested in working for Google in the first place, but if I were, that would put an immediate end to my interest.
I use Lineage on a supported device and everything seems to work perfectly. My camera is blacktaped, but it did work fine when I tested once.
Agreed.

I'm starting to think that most of these analytics services are more trouble than their worth if you have a good engineering team. A few metrics API's + timescale DB + Grafana goes a long way. If you have a differentiated business you're probably measuring something unique. And if you're measuring something unique then you're better off building your own analytics.

Also, realistically most businesses are built on top of databases. So the most important stuff is in the databases anyway. So might as well just put metrics in SQL too.
Griping at and shaming companies who may or may not have a legitimate use case is a battle that will never end. You don't necessarily know which products have cameras, and you don't have a ton of leverage anyway.

Instead, what would make sense to me is to have an across the board regulatory requirement that cameras, regardless of purpose, product type, etc.:

(1) must be clearly marked (logo, wording, etc.), and

(2) must have some kind of reliable, independent way to shut them down or defeat them (such as a plastic shutter to cover the camera, etc. -- not just a software controlled indicator light).

That way there is considerably less need for complicated agree-to-disagree debates about whether a camera should or shouldn't exist in this or that context. Instead, there would be one thing that is clear cut, objective, and possible to enforce, and people would be empowered to do something about the cameras around them. (Except for security cameras, which would need to be a separate category.)
sweet summer child... has ML on stocks become the new hello world? Seems like a right of passage at this point.
Congratulations on the launch Isaac Z. Schlueter.

Although, I’m curious to know what companies would choose an enterprise version of a software that’s so fragile like NPM.
That would be the time when I am not doing company work.
Let me pose a different question, will Golang always be retarded?
Sure, but you can't sue over that unless that wasn't demanded of people with other beliefs, which doesn't appear to be the case.
What I can't reconcile is the prevalence of this type of abuse (along with many other types of abuse) when we're supposedly hard to find, hard to replace and hard to retain. I don't expect the rock star treatment, but there are a lot of positions that are MUCH easier to find people to fill who are treated with a lot more respect or, failing that, at least not with utter contempt.
An acquaintance of mine who was given an offer by Google, and arrived on the appointed day, brought the agreement, a red line, and a clean copy. They refused to make any change in their wording even though they said their intent was not to enforce the wording as written. They said that they couldn't sign it unless Google's intent was actually in the writing as well. That afternoon, Google asked for all the gear they had been issued back and rescinded their offer of employment.

Google's statement was that Google would not make any changes in the employment agreement and signing the agreement was a condition of employment, thus by refusing to sign the agreement, this person had 'voluntarily' chosen not to work at Google.

Can't really argue with their reasoning.
> You are agreeing. As an adult, the choice to agree or not agree to conditions of a private transaction seem to be a fundamental liberty.

1. There's already plenty of stuff you're not allowed to sign away, no matter how much more "free" being able to do so might make you. I certainly bristle daily at how un-free I am not being able to sign myself into slavery.

2. OK fine. So we ban corporations from entering into forced arbitration contracts with individuals. You still can. With your neighbor or whoever. You can try with a corporation, but will find that they aren't permitted to. Since we collectively via the power of government conjure corporations from the aether, eff 'em.
I don't care one bit about the specs. The Librem 5 has so much more to offer.
> Air Pods are one of the best innovations in mobile in the past 5 years.

Agree. I have a set of Bose Hearphones - a pseudo hearing-aid which cancels ambient noise while enhancing human voices. It's been quite life-changing when having dinner at a restaurant with friends where previously I'd sit in silence because I couldn't make out what people were saying. It's also great for talking while walking down a loud street where previously I'd just walk in silence because I couldn't hear that well...

...but I mostly leave them at home and always carry Airpods for when I want to make a call or listen to music. Other wireless headphones are too big, clunky, and charging them isn't as simple as dropping each bud into a tiny magnetically secured case. So simple and one of my favourite tech products in a long time.
Quantum Computing Overview
> When you have a building made of steel and concrete, the steel melts and the building collapses,” says Erik Tveit, Project Manager at HENT AS, the general contractor for the site.

Really.
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WOW! That's the kind of tool I needed. Working on simple NN now and then is hard to show to decision makers what processes were applied. Having a visual latex like that, makes life easier.
I think forced arbitration should only be legal in actively negotiated contracts (i.e. both parties were active in writing and modifying all the terms), where the proposing party disclosed the implications in plain language, and where agreeing to it was entirely optional for either party (sort of like GDPR consent).

I think those conditions would effectively exclude it from consumer contracts while permitting it when both parties understand and want it.
1. I can't take seriously someone who writes "the cost of injustice" in this context.

2. When unions muddle the machinations of corporate management and production ultimately shutting the whole thing down surely they will be happy about the power balance they achieved.

In a free market an employee's own abilities and the dynamism of the economy determines their value. So the trick is to invest in one's education and coming up with policies that keep the economy chugging at a healthy pace, labor unions is not such a policy.
A conspiracy requires 2 or more people. I am guessing you were using the term loosely but the problem is many cases fall into a gray area. This coast guard guy I mentioned was arrested on drug abuse charges as a legal convenience, but on currently available information, seems to have operated alone in the furtherance of his criminal plan.

Prosecutors like conspiracy charges because it provides evidence of intent. Otherwise any amount of preparation for commission of a crime could be spun in court as harmless curiosity. A common example of this is where people get caught with child pronography and claim they were just trying to research the topic. I know of a person in an extremist political group who was found by police to have a pile of explosives in the garage and was able to explain it away by claiming it was for model rocketry.

The bottom line is that that some people have intentions to do harm at scale, but intentions are tricky to prove, and surveillance sufficiently good to interrupt harmful acts is expensive to deploy. That's why law enforcement uses entrapment strategies so often, although these are problematic int heir own way because they can tilt into encouraging criminal behavior rather than merely detecting it.

This is challenging because few criminals say 'I, John Doe, intend to commit [crime] at [time and place] and I'm 100% serious' in unambiguous fashion. Many obvious-seeming criminal threats are little more than nasty trolling, and although that is a crime it doesn't make it any easier to identify non-confessor criminals. On the other hand someone can legally acquire significant destructive capacity and widely broadcast opinions that correlate with but do not constitute intent, like longitudinal hostility to some individual or group, but you may not be able to formally demonstrate the existence of intent until the crime is actually committed even when there's a preponderance of evidence to suggest it ahead of time.
> It doesn't adjust for inflation; that's a separate problem.

It’s my only question.
> Wow, you mean collective employee action can be used to force an employer to stop exploitative behaviors? Who knew? :-)

I think part of the problem is that we non-organized workers (i.e. most tech workers and our similar peers) have accepted the unfortunate media-fueled trope that collective worker action equates to organized-crime connected unions like those of the Hoffa-period Teamsters.

Unfortunately, many white collar workers also don't want to be associated with the image of people in hard hats, even though their power relationship with their employers is not that different from those of blue collar workers. Acknowledging this would mean acknowledging the existence structural impediments to their career advancement that make the chances of their entering the C-suite very low, and that's a bitter pill to swallow.

The vast majority of worker unions (nurses, teachers, international brotherhood of X, etc, etc) are completely above-board organizations.

Also, this outcome demonstrates that there are many forms of collective action that are not full unions. The degree of organization needed depends on the circumstances (The early strong manufacturing labor unions emerged partially as a result of violent repression of worker protests by companies).

One could even argue that the anti-poaching class-action lawsuit against large SV companies many years ago was itself a form of collective action.