skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if the problem is simply exaggerated. Is this really only the case with white-collar Americans? I'd imagine that throughout the human history the vast majority of human beings have always been working like this, or even much worse, e.g. actual slaves who constituted a huge percentage of the population. Maybe it's just that there isn't that much of a tradition to talk about the problem that often, and now that our material comfort is quite advanced, we think about such issues more and more, which is a good thing. We're not quite there yet but at least we're rethinking our lives and trying to find solutions, instead of just passively accepting whatever is thrown at us.
It's working today!
Any public company has an incentive to cut costs, so I'd imagine that a federal company would have higher standards.
YouTube hasn't suppressed or prohibited any of those items. The videos are still there. They just don't have ads targeted at them.
Boston is doing pretty well and many things started in Boston such as YC, Facebook, Dropbox, etc. Boston is small and already expensive. Plus the weather. I also think it doesn't have a lot to offer for single people. It has much more to offer for families.

Boston is also more diverse in terms of opportunities. If you're a researcher or biologist let's say, you are more likely to find a good job in Boston than SF.
Given the widespread apologism and hand waving around Google, Facebook and others here this is hardly surprising. Decision makers shoulder the blame but what we are seeing from these revelations is rank and file tech folks are 'eager' and willing enablers.

Ethics is reduced to meaningless posturing if whenever it comes to action people have a litany of excuses on hand. In the case of surveillance whether its government or private its individuals empowering themselves at the cost of others not particularly burdened by the wider social ramifications.

It's a bit tragic that its only when without power that people talk of ethics and even with little power it seems self interest always rules. And discussions become pointless as it becomes impossible to tell how many will do differently.
Maybe - but I think that if I posted 12 times a week about US transgessions - or German, or Irish, or Australian - I'd be facing a ban in extremely short order.

I'd not like to see this normalised.
What happened here is that people who have "extreme" opinions have found a platform to express them, and people tend to remember or focus on the outliers instead of the nuance (hence skewed perception). Whereas some or most within inside the community learned to listen to each other and respect having different opinions on controversial matters, outsiders did not respect this, and actively harassed a leader of the community (moderator) in a campaign for change (getting rid of the community).

Having been a moderator in multiple communities, I know a sure way to burn out is to be one. It is also a perfect way to get rid of your opponent: suggest they become a moderator. I've been burned by that multiple times. I still moderate communities, and I'm good at it (also because of my background, e.g. technical; other people have other qualities), but only small ones. Even if it has exactly the same signal-to-noise ratio as a large community, you end up with less noise and therefore it takes less time. People know each other better.

A very good (but specific) analogy comes to my mind: World of Warcraft. Nowadays, you can swap your character to another server (called "realm") and faction (red being Horde, blue being Alliance), etc. Back in the days of early WoW (Vanilla and TBC) you invested in your character and were therefore bound to realm & faction. These were relatively small worlds where different guilds (akin to "clans" or "teams") existed. People knew each other because of the size; akin to a small town with communities. Fast forward post TBC and you had the later expansions where with the click of a button people were in a group of random players of the same faction (regardless of realm). Playing together with 4 or 24 strangers whom you will likely never meet again. This decreased the relevance of reputation among peers and allowed for so-called toxic behaviour.

WoW is just one simulation of that phenomenon (for which I don't know the name). I'd say the problem, summed up, is that people get away with harassment on the Internet because of the sheer anonymity/pseudonymity and physical distance.
> we live in a post-nuclear era

That's a bold statement to make, particularly in the context of the US pulling out of INF and JCPA (Iran deal), especially when accounting for the reality that nuclear weapons "modernization" is still steadily going on [0]. That's not something you'd expect to see in the "post-nuclear era".

Particularly not with a US president who clearly does not understand nuclear weapons and would just love to sell and use them.

[0] https://thebulletin.org/2017/03/how-us-nuclear-force-moderni...
You probably know, but I should have added that the first line was a quote from Carl Sagan.
I don't think they're entirely new, but consider that the average tech employee is in their late 20s or early 30s and the only major exercises of US military power they've seen were in Afghanistan and Iraq. The US has squandered its goodwill among that group by engaging in wars of aggression that were only marginally necessary. They didn't experience the cold war when the threat of nuclear annihilation was hovering over everyone (until very recently; it seems to be returning). Couple that with the highly employee favored labor market dynamics in tech and it's not surprising people don't want to take military applications up.

Also, it has to be said: it's a verdict on US leadership. The man in the oval office isn't someone I'd feel comfortable arming, nor was Bush. Even Obama had the thing with the drone strikes. When US Presidents demonstrate carelessness and unpredictability in their use of force, it turns reasonable, peace-loving people off.
> the message of Christianity is that injustice is temporary and justice is eternal

The message of Christianity is that having faith in the blood sacrifice and reanimation of a savior figure is enough to receive pardon for all of one's inequities. I don't see what justice has to do with anything to do with it.
I wonder if people actually do this and then go on to "pursue their passions in life". I wonder how you'd feel if you actually went through what you described here. What makes one's passion and one's work two strictly separate entities? In fact many people who retire early feel really lost and even depressed because they lose their bearings and aren't contributing to the community meaningfully.

If you dislike the current job a lot why not change it? For example, some people might only consider programming in functional programming languages. The number of job openings might be smaller but they are really passionate about the technology and they can be much happier on the job.
Please don't equivocate gay rights and anti-vaccination. One is a trait many people are born with that does not harm others; the other is a choice that can and often does harm others.
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> "Whataboutism"

That dismissal is too easy. OP has noticed the disparity in news output regarding the matter. China as well as other countries have an established surveillance creep problem. I read OP's question as: "unless the problem in solved in those other countries, why is it mainly China in the news now?" and not "We didn't solve the problem, so we're not allowed to criticise China", which would be "whataboutism".

> And I don't think there is anything in the world that can compare to what China

Who knows? At least China is transparent about it. Other countries have cracked down so hard on whistle-blowers that it's become impossible to know what's going on in secret.
@ 1:08:20

> "Yes that is a water melon"

:P wicked tunes though.

[EDIT]

I still can't get over just how good some of the music is in the old 80s/90s demos.

I enjoy the modern 140/512/1k/4k graphic code golfing sites but feel there is a serious hole for music here.
Current crop of Apple A chips runs circles around almost all Intel chips which they put in the laptops at a fraction of TDP.

I think you will see a lot of performance boost after switching to ARM. If they start on the "low end" then a macbook will be practically on par with a mbp. This might not be useful at first for native development, but I am quite sure that macOS, iOS and web development will be very much possible on these machines - the three domains that Apple cares most about.
looks promising (as it actually analyses the css), but doesn't seem just a perfect as dark reader (when it doesn't hang)
They're strongly incentivized to play by the game when the alternative is annihilation. For 70 or so years, that kept everyone safe.
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Also, here's a link to the full set of documents:

https://github.com/BuxtonTheRed/btrmisc/blob/master/fb-643-e...
>>Only a small portion of SF is matches the dystopian vision you claim.

Actually, I’m pretty sure the vast majority of people in the Bay Area have very long commutes.
Which is "good enough". People who have the choice between "no car" and "self driving car that sometimes refuses to start because of the weather" will still prefer the latter, as long as it's not too frequent in their climate.

Not being able to drive on certain roads because of road quality and other restrictions also become much more acceptable if you alternative is not having a car at all.
> lowering some settings

To be picky, those settings aren't from 2004.
In the US there's only one real estate database per county, maintained by the county government. Owners can purchase title insurance to protect against other claims or liens, but the insurance company doesn't hold the title. And title insurance is quite cheap because in practice the risk is miniscule.
Maybe but you have to put them in a professional environment. Amazon can’t magic up a professional IT environment in Mississippi from thin air for local talent to train up in, and you need senior talent there to create that environment from day one.
How about we start at someplace obvious like not assisting people carrying weapons from blowing other peoples brains out. Or marking people who need to be murdered on a projected display. That seems pretty obvious to me. We can even extend it to not being used by people who's job description involves killing foreigners (including countrymen of many Microsoft employees) on command.

We can refine from there.
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These were interesting but some were surprisingly low amounts of money. I was hoping for some stories of people with 8 or 9 figure windfalls!

My thinking is that it's probably a good idea not to change your lifestyle unless the windfall is, let's say, at least 2 if not 3 orders of magnitude more money than you'd normally earn in a year.
The solution I posted doesn't use a stack, or any other data structures for that matter.
where then?
Austin? Seattle? NY?

Since a healthy startup environment needs resources, money, networking and so on, what would be another good place to raise your business?
Haha. Or php 5.6 to 7
That "over 25,000" figure is about 55k now.
Have chemists used near-miss tesselations? There are very few perfect tesselations of 3-space; more room to maneuver sounds nice.
Who knows where the people who might question this in China are or who did in the past, you likely wouldn't find out via Chinese internet or want to talk about it though to protect yourself and your family; it makes a lot of sense and easy to understand IMHO if you add this lens to the equation. As long as you are in-line with X boundary, and not part of some bad actor(s) in power in China and their plans, you'll be fine - and if you aren't going to be fine, Godspeed if anyone will find out or if there will any be any justice.
There are apparently people who are able to maintain a frugal, minimalist and prudent lifestyle even when they're very rich, seeing from various stories and anecdotes. But yeah the moral of a lot of stories we hear is always to remind people constantly about how they should not lose themselves after they get rich. Says exactly how hard it really is for a large portion of people then.
>I have not yet seen a compelling argument for Racket there vs. for instance a parser generator framework.

Racket allows for easy interop between the various languages, so for instance, you can use typed racket from untyped modules. You can import documentation modules in base racket and so on.

With other languages, you have to glue the infrastructure yourself, racket does it for you.
I have some friends I can talk about anything with.

I have some friends that aren't capable of doing that, at least not with me. If I expect my friends to be perfect, I'm not a very good friend.
Aside from the discussion of surveillance, surveillance + systems of censorship is a whole different level of beast.
a lot of post that require pay register or some commercial action for evaluation
I'd guess it has something to do with the fact that human skin tones all fall within some range of orange. This is the reason behind the pervasive use of orange and teal color grading in TV and movies: it accentuates the contrast between people and the rest of the scene.
It's worth noting that YouTube have both a blacklist and a whitelist for advertising. Most videos that get "demonetised" are still eligible to earn ad revenue, but advertisers have to specifically opt-in to advertise against these videos. A small proportion of videos and creators are completely ineligible to earn revenue because they explicitly violate YouTube's ToS (usually on copyright grounds). Channels also require a minimum number of subscribers and views to be eligible for monetisation. This strikes me as a sensible compromise.

Most content creators are frustrated by the lack of transparency and the often arbitrary nature of demonetisation, but they see it as essentially necessary to safeguard their livelihoods. YouTube didn't start demonetising videos apropos of nothing, they did it as a specific response to an advertiser boycott in 2017. To a great extent, demonetisation saved YouTube from economic failure.
Importantly they claim themselves to be. But also the political system is still communist even if the economic system isn’t. During Leninism, the kulaks were incentivized. They needed a capitalist system; it wasn’t till Stalin willed it that confiscations happened and starvation happened by the millions. So communism historically has allowed capitalism, when expedient.

What’s more officially it’s “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era[1]" Read it, they really believe it. I know people are having a hard time believing it because it’s anathema to them.

[1]http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-03/17/c_137046261.htm
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> particular kinds of engineering talent—that are much harder to find outside the bay area.

Does that also hold for biotech talent?
Nuclear weapons weren't necessary for that job, but the outcome was the same: the removal of the Afghani government through military force.
Yeah, the article misunderstands the nature of active personalities versus passive personalities. People aren't necessarily weak, slow, or incompetent because they lack your same level of initiative and inertia. People need to be directed properly. People are wired differently and strong leaders respond to this by dictating communications in a way best received by the individual.

The opposite of leading by example is leading by hypocrisy, which is less than exceptional.

Leading by example sets a performance standard. In addition to leading by example never assign work you aren't willing to do yourself. Strong leaders are occasionally willing to get their hands dirty. It keeps the complaints low about how hard life is since the leader is willing to do the grunt work if the team member isn't and therefore doesn't need that team member.
> I doubt you'll continue to keep finding similar paying jobs in Dallas.

You are replying to a post about how employers should stop paying such a premium for a SF ZIP code with the observation that the premium exists.
It’s my favourite (“favourite” is not synonymous with “best” by any metric other than amusement) solution as well:

http://raganwald.com/2018/11/14/dyck-joke.html
Chicago, Atlanta, Denver, Boston.
And his mother is a CPA working for local Memphis government. When asked about Jackson’s achievements, she just shrugs and laughs. I don’t think this is a case of the ol’ “kid’s science project” for him by his parents.
I tend to say that we're not using it enough :D
If this is censorship then everything is censorship.

"You can't smoke in my house" "call all the papers I'm being censored!"

If you want to have a real discussion about it you have to concede that there are degrees to everything. Which is why some form of, according to your definition, censorship are illegal and some are not.
What youtube is doing here is entirely supported by the constitution. There is not even a gray area, or a maybe or a second interpretation, nothing.

Youtube is entirely within their rights, as is every one else, to decided what they want to host, share and promote on their platform, spending their own resources mind you as hosting and transferring videos costs a lot of money, and specially they have the right to decide with whom to enter into a financial contract, which is what they are doing here. I will argue forcing them to agree to pay or promote someone they are not legally required to is censorship.

Otherwise, if you can't or won't realize there are degrees of what you call "censorship" and not all is the same then there is no point in having the discussion.
It's also that tech workers simply don't need the money. They aren't going to starve if they leave Microsoft or Google over some project dispute; they'll find another job in two seconds.
Serious question -- how does Facebook keep getting hit with these 5+ year-old emails getting published? Did they not have any email retention policy?

Is the root cause that they migrated off of email and did all their sensitive discussions in "internal tools" with no actual data retention enforcement? If so, that seems quite ironic.
"Before you leave, please know: I’m hedged either way. LOP and Racket have been an incred­i­ble force mul­ti­plier on my pro­gram­ming pro­duc­tiv­ity"

Well, wouldn't we expect that the author of a particular programming language to be mad productive in it because, you know, they designed all the mental models and assumptions that are baked into it?

You would never once stumble on syntactic ambuigity because, to you, there is no ambuigity...or perhaps there is but you slyly added that bit just to fuck with programmers heads...or who knows the reason.

I'm just postulating that for an author to boast about their productivity with the language they designed is somewhat self-serving.
>And I wonder if selecting the color of text and background should really be a function of the website that the text is on.

Websites, are intended to be an expression of their authors, and part of that intent is creative, including layout, color scheme and typography. Why shouldn't an author have control over the colors of their site?

>There is no technical reason why not everybody should be able to set the color for any website any way they want.

No technical reason, and plenty of plugins exist to enable that, and browsers have supported it to some degree for a while.

But modern websites are incredibly complex, and css can be dynamic. It would be an incredible burden to have everyone design a custom stylesheet for every site they visit from the ground up. The vast majority haven't got the time, talent or desire to do so, which is why it exists as an option, not the default.
Regardless of the answer, I have plans to learn it simply out of curiosity. I'm just not yet convinced that there are any practical benefits to using Julia over the other languages.
Really well written. Thank you for sharing.
There is no other platform. No one else could afford to run youtube. Google is practically giving it out for free. Video hosting is too expensive.
Sure, but it often also means we (the shareholders) get a voice and so "Why would anyone care about how much CEOs make?" Is "because we are partly the owners and we care about what we own"
Now, maybe I'm biased having lived in a country who started policing the Internet telling people they are fighting child pornography, and quickly evolved into a black hole of censorship and blocked Wikipedia couple of years ago because it doesn't fit it's own narrative.

I see the Internet as a great force multiplier. Want to watch courses from top professors for free? Here you go. Want to buy a yacht? Here is some videos of 10 best yachts reviewed. Endless entertainment to last you a million years? Check. Want to slit your wrists? Here's five pro-tips to make it quick and painless. It certainly makes everything orders of magnitude easier, as it's supposed to.

If I'm seeking information or encouragement about suicide, technically an algorithm that provides me exactly that is just doing its job, and I don't see why we would like to change -or god forbid, police- that. What I'd see as a problem is when the algorithm becomes more eager to find this content than I am, fights with me to have its point of view accepted (like, messing with elections) or becomes fixated on providing me the content even if I changed my mind. So, maybe the best way forward is to enable to user to tweak the algorithm, or at least make it more responsive to changes in his mood/wishes.
The colour scheme is painful. Both on 'day' mode and night mode
fully would be ideal, but even partial would help. Last week a young woman lost use of her legs after some 80yo driver lost control. A bit of danger aware control system may be able to turn this into a lower level accident. Now maybe that would be too hard to ensure and insure..
OpenAI or Is It?
I agree that true AV is way off but it seems like there’s a huge amount of good with partial systems (e.g. continuing to improve auto-braking to deal with inattention) and it’s not inconceivable that you’d see some popular retirement destinations (e.g. much of South Florida) do something like designated lanes for AVs (passenger or delivery) where you could simplify the problem and have things like weather/hour restrictions.

Retirees tend to avoid rush hour and bad weather, and they’re less time constrained, so there’s some room for experiments and there will be a growing incentive as more Boomers become unsafe to drive but are unwilling to give up a key part of their self-identity & lifestyle.
Why is there a 1986 vaccine injury court? Checkmate.
> So long as it is a car that CAN self-drive not one that CAN ONLY self drive then that sounds great.

It's just the natural progression of tech. For example, you don't see the Flintstone style propulsion system on modern cars either, even though users could drive their cars that way and some would even find it more intuitive.
see the videos in one of the tabs. https://www.ankarsrumoriginalusa.com/store/pc/Ankarsrum-Orig...
What the reason HTML was chosen over RIP? I’m not sure if it was urban legend but I thought there was a story that they were going to use it for the web but there were royalties demanded
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It probably has less to do with markets than the university training city planner types get.