skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thx for the note.

So, I tend to separate a 'process' from a 'ritual'.

Most organizations would have 'rituals', but not processes in the context I noted above.

A 'ritual', is a process without clear goals, and without compliance and compensatory controls.

So, when a company has a pow-wow annual product strategy meeting, driven by a new CEO... or a technology group holds bi-monthly Architecture board meeting, or a data governance meeting -- those are mostly rituals. Not processes.

Rituals, masked as 'processes' are bad, of course.

They take oxygen out of the cult-of-the-process and move it back, again, to the cult-of-personality.

Which, then creates very similar 'profile' to the one of an organization that depends on a 'hero/mover and shaker/brilliant CEO'.

I do challenge myself at times, to compare how my disdain for the culture-of-personality would work at a war time..

Do general win wars, or do the troops?

I am going to say, at I need to learn quite a bit of more historical facts before, I can approach that subject.

Which is also why, I believe, solid bias-free education in history is almost essential for the work in management consulting, large organization transformations, and even creative consumer-oriented product design.

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WRT my point on entertainers.

Their talents today, are not fundamentally different than the same talents that were appreciated 3000 years ago.
Because these are bound to physical human abilities (and I include comedian/actors there as well).

This is in stark contrast to the professions that leverage scientific knowledge to achieve their expected outcomes
(eg engineers, medical doctors, etc).

There is no net-positive-to-society economic model, where we can justify an actor making more than 1000 science teachers or a 1000 soldiers.

As I noted above, I think the entertainers benefited greatly from technologies, that allowed them to multiply and extend their performances in space and time.

For non-sportsman entertainers , additionally the copyright system , put them on the same footing as engineers leveraging the patent system (both systems are now heavily abused to install mafia-like control over engineering or entertainment content).

Lack of wars among the super-nations, and using entertainers as vehicles for political agenda, also gave them additional compensation leverage. Last 50 years, in western societies, have been exceptional for those professions.

And I find their current compensations whether it is Messi or Bill Maher, or Tom Cruise -- just repulsive (and even more so, than of mediocre or even talented CEOs).
You're right. It's reasonable to argue that Google should or shouldn't respect Chinese laws, and I never implies that Google has a moral obligation to Chinese people. I just want to point out the hypocrisy in the argument that Google is immoral to provide a censored search service in China when it's clear that Google's search service provides much better results than the Baidu.
Until I try to get a patent, then it's a 6 year slog through rebuttals and 5 figure fees to lawyers who take my engineering designs and turn them into incomprehensible legalese to get them approved.
Not that the extreme methods are morally justified, but FLG is basically Chinese Scientology with the homophobic pieces as well as convincing people to forgo modern medicine for prayer. People die from it. Anti-Vax isn’t even that popular in the US and people are already clamoring for parents to be locked up.
We like the battery idea the best as well. We've chosen that as our first product to market. Me make multi-walled carbon nanotubes which are conductive in bulk. Its possible that there are non-conductive layers, but they are encased by conductive layers that counter act them. For concrete i've sen research showing 50% improvement in strength with 1% carbon nanotube concentration. We haven't confirmed this ourselves yet, but we are starting up a testing program soon. We are also planning on scaling with renewables like hydroelectric. If in the future carbon nanotubes can be used to replace aluminum as a structural material, there may be an opportunity to use they hydroelectric they were once operating on to power the process. But I agree, to reach a massive scale, we will need massive renewable energy. But I think we need that anyway!
The server could track it based on the fact it delivered the content to the end user with the same unique hash present, no?
In my phone with LineageOS, the option was to block anyone who was not in the contacts list.
Would weather patterns / trends not qualify a need for AI in this context? What about prediction of food demand by type for the upcoming year? Those are the big unknown inputs an AI could pretty easily morally aid to here.
That's a good point. That's a thing in California too. There's a 540NR for reporting non-resident income earned in California. I guess it never seemed 'unfair' to me because when I was a non-resident I was a student who spent most of my time in CA, and that's where I worked, so it seemed logical.

In some more complicated situations where you technically earn money in the state even though you don't have a home there, I could see how it would feel unfair. (I can't think of such a situation off the top of my head, but I'm sure they exist.. actually the athlete example might be a good one).
>One important caveat to any such approach is that the patient would still be vulnerable to a form of H.I.V. called X4, which employs a different protein, CXCR4, to enter cells.

>“This is only going to work if someone has a virus that really only uses CCR5 for entry — and that’s actually probably about 50 percent of the people who are living with H.I.V., if not less,” said Dr. Timothy J. Henrich, an AIDS specialist at the University of California, San Francisco.

>Even if a person harbors only a small number of X4 viruses, they may multiply in the absence of competition from their viral cousins. There is at least one reported case of an individual who got a transplant from a delta 32 donor but later rebounded with the X4 virus. (As a precaution against X4, Mr. Brown is taking a daily pill to prevent H.I.V. infection.)

This...leaves a lot to be desired...
Not explicitly can't but there's a lot of 'boys work' and 'girls work' gendering around work and skills. Progress has been made sure but there'll be a lag of decades before changes at the childhood education level work their way through to employment stats.
It’s pretty much both.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-typical-amazon-worker-...

Companies this year are reporting their CEO pay in relation to the compensation of a median worker for the first time as a result of a 2015 rule mandated by the Dodd-Frank act. Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos recorded total compensation of $1,681,840 in 2017, almost all of which is money paid for personal security — Bezos drew a salary of $81,840 and received no additional stock. Bezos’s compensation is 59 times the median Amazon worker’s.

He doesn’t need to draw a fat salary or get more stock, he already owns more than $110,000,000,000 in stock.
This treatment was actually done with stem cells from an adult donor.[1] (Stem cell research is a bit of a black eye for liberals in my opinion. W. Bush's restrictions on embryonic stem cell research were not particularly draconian. It was limited to use of federal funds, and even then only restricted creating new embryonic stem cell lines. And the left was just wrong on how much could be done with adult stem cells. That is not to say that adult stem cells are an alternative in every case, but rather that a lot of the folks calling Republicans anti-science were themselves wrong on the science of how promising adult stem cell research was.)

[1] I'll also add: the question of whether destroying embryos for research is moral is not a religious one, but rather a political issue on which religions have strong opinions. So long as the government makes it illegal to kill people, it must as a purely political question define what a "person" is and what the exceptions are to that rule. Thus, the death penalty is a political issue rather than a religious issue, even though e.g. the Catholic church and several protestant denominations officially condemn it.
The HP-01 (2009)
maybe it'll buy us some time to figure out fusion! I think if we can get the electric car market to a more significant level as well (and power them on renewables) that would also have a big impact.
There's no reason why a worker can't seek to influence the company that they work for, on behalf of their own self interest, which could include their moral sensibilities.
I got a new laptop this year and I couldn't even work out what protocols it supported. No where on the laptop spec sheet did it say that supports hdmi and displayport over usb c but when I use the plug for it it works. When I use the same adapter/plug on my phone it doesn't work.
A question worth pondering is if this is something that should continue to be fixed at the site level, or whether it's representative of an overarching problem with the data that browsers make available around cross-origin requests. access-control-allow-origin was supposed to be the means of addressing cross-origin concerns, but in this case even its usage doesn't prevent the issue.

Perhaps browsers need to expand the potential effects of access-control-allow-origin.
It doesn't matter if it changes anything. It's about having principles and standing for something. We're a part of this world, and we have a duty to do the things we think are right. Not everything in life is a god damn utility maximization function. Sometimes you have to do the right thing because you want others to act the same way you do, and because it's wrong to build tools for future totalitarian rulers.
Ask HN: Why Auction business model blacklisted?
Why auction marketplace business model is blacklisted by many payment precessing providers? And I'm not talking about penny auctions.
Is it against rhetorical interest? Granted, I didn't define 'fat dollar amounts' but $6k is not that fat nor does it sound to me like it's significantly more than you'd get for that type of bug from Apple.
As far as I remember not Ragel was the issue, but the code around it.
If you use a Rust parser from inside broken C code which Leaks memory the same thing can happen.
I'm not going to defend Japan. As I said I'm happy to believe they treat women worse than Saudi Arabia; which is what my source provided.

As for Rwanda, this is just plain absurd. This is at best a checkbox study where they are looking to confirm reverse sexism. Yes I did read Rwanda has significant reverse sexism. After the genocide their society was over 70% women and they elected leaders to provide sexist policies.

Reverse sexism is not an ideal to be aiming toward.
They still hire bad drivers.
Others have mentioned tighter tolerance in the cable and PCB parameters.

Each successive frequency increase has required more complex PHY design.

On the digital side : more sophisticated bit encoding schemes

On the analog side : tighter tolerances for clocking and signal jitter, more sophisticated transmitter and receiver technology (better emphasis/deemphasis, better equalization)

Here's taste of the PHY changes :
https://www.chipestimate.com/Type-C-USB31-PHY-Challenges-in-...
> Rather than fight it, wouldn't it have been more effective to try to replace it?

No, probably not, even if it would be more effective if you did actually replace it.

> A couple of really smart folks with some funding can found "NotGoogle, and actually not evil."

Isn't that the concept of DDF?

> Breaking Google's monopoly would do far more good than just taking on this single issue.

Perhaps. But if displacing Google were “easy” (like on the scale of “it would only take some of the best tech talent in the world and an enormous supply of capital”), the FAA and M of FAANGMAN, and some others, would each already have done it.
Next, can you develop Not Banana app? I think you could hit it big with that.
> If I saw that code at my company, I'd ask why someone building a rest api for web-services had to iterate through a 10000*10000 2D array while calling a method of every single cell

Why not? I work with the scripting languages only and regularly hit this scenario so I won't say this is completely useless.

When you analyze a few hundred 50GB files for specific patterns, you have to go line by line
in those cases shaving off milliseconds, optimizing how data should be accessed and optimized becomes valuable.
A New Kind of Twin
Regarding "workspaces", I find Tree Style Tabs be essential for organizing sets (and subsets) of tabs.

(I think that Tree Style Tabs change tab handling so much to the better that it's completely worth a native implementation as a part of the browser. That would be a killer feature.)
https://wordpress.tv/2017/10/15/james-strang-introduction-to...
Seems to be Fake News

https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2011/02/are-cows-magnetic-sen...

Also - https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/jo...

Science for the partial fail, partial win.

It was disproved but it still gets News'ed as fact and cited as fact.
My counter-theory is that that's exactly why they go public.
The CNTs we are making right now are about 10-20 microns long. Making them longer is a focus area for us. However, the nano-materials department at Rice has created a wet-spinning process the can bundle CNTs into continuous fiber. They aren't quite a strong as a continuous CNT from what i've heard, but still stronger than carbon fiber. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XDJC64tDR0
Starcity (YC S16) Is Looking for a Senior Product Designer
This isn't even an abstract question about utility. What esoterica outlined was finance 101 (change "compensation" for ROI), which millions of people use in their day to day lives to make investment decisions. And stock options are an investment just like any other.
The US is a little unusual in that we don’t have a ton of trains already.

Europe and Asia have tons of passenger trains that millions of people ride on every day. Why do you think the risk is that great? These trains already exist and they don’t get hijacked all the time.

There are reasons to be against trains I suppose but fear of terrorism seems very farfetched. There are much softer targets around. It’s not like a train is a force multiplier like a plane is, you can’t take it anywhere.
Going public, they can get better at respecting local laws and regulations, and still sacrifice their customers (and of course employees) at the altar of their shareholders. (At least that is what I read the Op is saying).
The brand is already tarnished. I know many people that use lyft over Uber for this reason alone.
The difference is that the Japanese guys are doing this without being asked. Removing shoes on entry is just the way it is done, regardless of the task apparently.
It's not really a needle in haystack problem. If you record every moment of all your citizens. You can build a calendar application where you enter the name of the person and go through all the moments in question throughout the days of curiosity. Specifically when that person is under suspicions of some criminal involvement. I feel sorry for china because I can only imagine how much more data besides just phone calls are collected from citizens unaware.
You can say someone stole your bike so you broke into their house to steal it back, but it doesn't negate that you also committed a crime. I think law enforcement would probably be pretty unlikely to bother charging someone popping a few cybercriminals who stumbled across their honeypot, but they could charge you if they want to.
Oh you're right, I didn't think about it. I take it back, it's not that obvious that it offers meaningful safety benefits.

Still, I suppose if the probability of being caught goes from 1% to over 50%, it might be enough to scare off even the spur of the moment criminals.

Also, a decent fraction of crimes are at least somewhat planned or even repeated, and those should be affected by the chance of being caught.

On the other hand, there are also more things I didn't think about. Suppose surveillance actually catches all car thieves. Will most of them go get a job? Or will they just switch to crimes that are harder to detect with surveillance? My guess is that most criminals will either stop committing crimes or spend most of their life in jail. But I may underestimate the creativity and capability of criminals.
I do wonder in the new age of increasingly automated employer-contractor relations, if “hire” is the right word.
On the contrary IMO. You have to be so transparent about so many things when you go public - it eliminates a lot of room for shadiness.
looking at this response, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19307693

it seems to use your own stem cells, and is not used because of its risk factor
> Bookmarks are hidden behind menus

Alt + View + Toolbars + Bookmarks bar

I don't really get why this defaults to hidden.
Yes they censor porn
It really seems to be a thing to have a story these days, no matter how true it is.
Maybe act like an adult instead.
meanwhile a mosquito net will save 10x live as /10 the cost.
One experiment they could try is fixing bookmarklets, which have been broken for over 6 years now:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=866522

Even this 20 line PR to bring back the most basic functionality has been languishing for 7 months
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1478037

Another experiment would be allowing the user to set the new tab page to a local html file without having to create two config files full of magic incantations.
You should check out "women who code"
So lets say I have a new country. The laws are 100% equal and there's absolutely no discrimination against women.

But an election occurs and there's not a perfect representation of the people. Only 25% of the elected MPs are women. But there's no actual discrimination happening.

What's the fix? THERE IS NO FIX. It's exactly how it should be. We absolutely should not say 50% of MPs must be women. That is not how democracy works.

>Because at that point they lived in a democratic society with no barriers. They could run for political office. Under your definition, that's a 1.0.

Yes that is a 1.0. Was there discrimination? I'm sure there is still today. However there is no fix. That is a 1.0. We are equal.

We dont need to have a rule saying 50% of the elected positions must be black people. That would be discrimination and wrong.
I’m sure if you got some serious alone time and trust with other billionaires you could fill a book with these stories.

Around 1983 my mom was dating a chef at the restaurant she worked at. One night he was out carousing and got himself killed. Fast forward a year and my mom meets the manager’s brother, thinks he’s an asshole and blows him off. He’s visiting from out of town and gets wasted, mom helps him to the brothers place and the guy turns out to be hilarious and a great story teller. They agree to a date, it escalates to marriage and we move. A year later now step-dad’s employer offers him relocation to either Chicago or a sleepy suburb in another state. Mom convinces him to take the latter on our behalf. Fast forward ten years I ask a cute coworker out to see Earnest Scared Stupid. That escalated to marriage four years later and on to two beautiful kids that are now almost out on their own.

I sometimes wonder if I should tell them that if some guy didn’t die in a crash they would never have been born. When they become billionaires that can be their story.
Oracle attacks Google over data collection, online ad dominance
You’re doing it wrong then. It should be 100% spent on building your own framework. What game??
We grow conductive multi-walled carbon nanotubes. Some of the layers may be semi-conductive. But in bulk they are a conductive material. We haven't refined the process to the point where we can select for conductivity type yet.
Can I just say I detest magic link emails that don't offer me a way to just use my password manager?
These days? This goes back centuries.
> I think that pinned tabs are already a bit more aggressive about keeping that website "active"

Just not... around.

Routinely, after both clean shutdowns and system crashes, firefox just loses all my pinned tabs. It's the primary thing that keeps me from using firefox as a default all the time. There's weird 'restore last session' and folder searching you can do to try to maybe 'recover' some, sometimes, but... WTH? I'm pinning things - I want them around. If I didn't want them restored on browser launch, I wouldn't 'pin' them. Unless pinning is intended to be transitory, and I just missed the memo?
Ah, so just barely more than thunderbolt 2 or USB 3.2 can handle at 60Hz.

It's really disappointing that Display Stream Compression hasn't been built into everything for the last 5+ years, and is only now barely getting into equipment. 2:1 or 3:1 compressed display data looks fine, and being able to add more pixels or bit depth or refresh rate far more than makes up for the tiny losses. Without it, tons of screens are stuck at significantly reduced framerates or 4:2:0 subsampling.
Those who will live by the algorithm will die by the algorithm.

People can be reasoned with, appealed to, threatened, or compelled in any number of circumstances, and that is human. Algorithms will simply be gamed and abused by those who control them.
I suppose you can have a giant game state and return a new immutable copy on every frame if the amount of change is small, and you reuse most of the unchanged state.
block all calls coming from India

problem. solved.
Does anyone actually believe this? Call me skeptical, but would they not just shut down "this" program them redesign it, adjust it a little, call it something different and act as if they were completely honest with the people and continue on doing exactly the same thing under a different name?
This is s short list of things Google censors[1]. Some are to comply with jurisdictional laws, others because they think it’s appropriate. There are also cases where while the content or index remains, it's demoted.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_Google
clearly we need an AI/ML that will actively scan any video footage and cut out anything that looks like an ad.

then people might actually find out what is and isn't ad.
I use NordVPN. I've been using it for a few months, and I'm happy with it. It has a lot to offer. Also, to others reading this, do you think NordVPN is bad? I've heard some say PIA is better, but didn't explain as to why.

I also have another smaller VPN called CrypticVPN. They have a lifetime plan and a small amount of servers, but they also allow port forwarding.

I also made a openVPN server with a cheap VPS, and I'm just toying with it really.
We weren't ready to apply to the carbon xprize when it was announced. But we're ready to scale quickly with Y Combinator!
Thank you guys you gave me a genuine big laugh. That said game programming is extremely hard. Probably the hardest IT field imho, so send my regards to all my fellow procrastinators.
Technically, we were employees of a legal staffing agency whose staff we’d never met

Isn't that a red flag for stretching the definition of "contractor"? If all of your direction, assignments, etc. comes from the client, isn't that an employee nexus?