skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right.

I find these kind of "initiatives" quite condescending.
> They make people think in labels.

That's because people do think in labels.
Mother, Father, brother, teacher, sister, uncle, boss, manager, CEO. More primitively, tribe member, tribe leader, enemy, scary cat thingy, dangerous crawling thingy. It's part of our evolution.

> then assign it to the individuals, rather than define the work based on the individuals.

I would imagine this is impractical trying to run or build a large org then because you need to be able to define the work you have to do first, then assign it, it doesn't work the other way around.
Just for some added shits and giggles: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/dar.12596
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Another reason to support article 11, 13 or 17.
Long-term, I'd like to see anti-aging therapies really work out so that human lifespans are greatly extended, along with contraception and fertility technologies perfected so that people only have kids when they're really, really ready for them (probably after age 50).

As for nuclear, I'll beat the dead horse: we don't need it (at least fission). We need more renewable power, especially solar, since 1500W/m^3 hits the Earth's surface all day long. We just need to figure out how to make solar panels in a more environmentally-friendly manner (better recycling of their materials, etc.), and deploy them in more places, especially in places where they don't have negative effects, such as on rooftops, over highways, etc.

Then, we need to figure out how to have humans live in a more environmental manner, by increasing density. If most of the population lived at the density of Manhattan or Tokyo, we wouldn't have all these complaints about humans taking up too much land area.

The problems associated with overpopulation can be solved with technology and policy, if we really want to.
i meant that in a positive/fun way, sorry if it came across as rude :-)
He'll be in his early 50s. I know plenty of men at that age that could crush me regardless of what statistics say otherwise.
The smaller companies would have even less inclined to ignore a market of a billion people.
>Swift added, “The 30+ year legacy of MIPS architecture should mean something. It’s a value.”

This reads so desperate. "should mean something" betrays they're not even sure themselves.
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As much as there are things that are suspect in terms of the health and privacy of humanity inherent in Google's business model, I don't know why they get singled out. I did some consulting work for a company. It is private firm that is a subsidiary of a subsidiary of a subsidiary that isn't an American firm. Yet it has tech in the most sensitive places within the US government and DOD. And the US defence firms? Well, they are multinationals and (for money because there is no loyalty) will provide info/data/tech to anyone. Why would they do this? Because if Iran or China or Russia catches up with us, the US government will just give them more money to stay ahead.

The out of control capitalism in the US is the biggest threat to the health, wellbeing and security of its citizens. Google is just a symptom.

And for the record, I am not a communist. I believe human being need some (healthy) competition and that you should be able to work harder or smarter and get ahead. Just not to the extremes we have developed.
> "... I've observed is that even the poorest people are still living in some sort of structure that is capable of providing a limited amount of protection from the elements, a small bit of privacy, and a place to come back to at night. Even in villages, these small homes have electricity and satellite TV. They're often built with low cost materials like bricks and tin roofs, but they allow people who can't afford a brick-and-mortor home the opportunity to have some stability in life."

The description above is more similar to "favela" type housing in developing countries: http://catcomm.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Provid%C3%AAnc...

The closest American analog would be like a Great Depression shantytown: https://imgs.6sqft.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/20042951/h...

The missing middle housing, per their website, is more formal (regulated) housing with condos/duplexes/etcs, whereas OP's 'third-world' informal housing is more like "let someone build themselves something better than a tent to live in". For example, like the dense favela district next to Rio in Brasil. Above all, no city in the US would be ok with having random individuals build a favela district of unregulated/unauthorized housing. Encampments of a couple hundred people create lots of uproar; there would be a total shitstorm of lawsuits and political panic if people in the US cities lived next to "shantytowns" like those in developing countries.
If I show you statistics claiming that American men are, on average, taller than American females, does that tell you anything about the height of San Francisco males?
Reformatted your list so it's easier to read:

LISP/smalltalk: PG-productive, not difficult

Java: PG-unproductive, not difficult

C++: PG-unproductive, difficult

(Forth? Haskell?): PG-prodictive, difficult
Just want to highlight the "incredibly capable" comment. While robots are excellent at some very specific things, they are absolutely horrible at some things an 8 year old can do easily. Folding clothes is probably my favorite example. While there are some "clothes folding" robots that have been released or are in development, almost all of them take about as much prep work as the time it takes to just fold clothes themselves.

Once we get to a state where a robot can just take a basket of clothes and fold (and sort) them like a human, I think you'll see an explosion of robot applications. However, I think that time is very far off.
>> Robots ... low-cost ones, but many don't hold up in continuous use. Universal Robot from Denmark seems to be doing well, but their arms start around $35,000.

$35,000 is the price of new, reliable car. and cars are much more complex, and suffer more forces trying to wear them out.

So why are robots so expensive ? is it mostly a matter of volume ? or is it something expensive about the tech ?
This article seems like a lot of speculating and throwing wild theories at the wall. It a big eye-catching headline with very little substance.

I understand how Google's unwillingness to participate in DoD programs can impact the US military, but I don't understand the Google/China connection.

Does anyone know what the "artificial intelligence venture" is referring to? Is it Dragonfly? I don't see how an exploratory program to bring Search, being developed outside of China, applies at all to this situation.
>Page 61 has the 10 exchanges that appear to have real volume of the 81 exchanges analyzed: Binance, Bitfinex, Kraken, Bitstamp, Coinbase, bitFlyer, Gemini, itBit, Bittrex, and Poloniex.

I didn't expect Bitfinex to be on that list, considering all the USDT shenanigans that they were caught up in.
Wouldn't a breakup/decentralization of Google, or any American multinational for that matter, just hand Chinese tech giants a massive advantage since the Internet as it is now heavily favors large, centralized organizations? I don't see people arguing for the breakup of the tech giants across the Pacific even though they hardly have a better reputation when it comes to privacy, etc.

By the way, I highly anticipate that the above argument will be made by said multinationals to prevent said breakup/anti-monopoly moves.
Are you aware of actix? What do you think of it?
You're right, few of the mentioned exchanges are actually well-known. They seem to be using coinmarketcap.com as their source for the 'top exchanges' which is basically going off of reported volume with no validation.

Of course there are going to be scammer/spam exchanges reporting ridiculous numbers. How about looking at Coinbase, Kraken, Bitstamp, Bitfinex, Gemini. At least those have been around awhile.
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> arbitrary euphemisms for gender / racial bias like 'bad culture fit'.

You make it sound like there are people out there saying to themselves, "I know I should stop discriminating against under-represented minorities, but I just can't seem to stop myself" as if discriminating were addictive like smoking. If somebody used to discriminate and wants to stop, the solution is to stop discriminating, not discriminate in the other direction. But this isn't somebody who used to reject people under vague euphemisms and needs this "nicotine patch" to help them kick the habit - this is somebody who's creating new euphemisms to discriminate in a way that's socially acceptable.
It probably has to do with potential revenue. They can afford their signaling when it’s relatively small money but they can’t pass up big money.
Prob warning the users :). Read it all the way but you're wasting your time.
So the company is openly discriminating then?
It's definitely not a flash in the pan. It's already taking off. Many chip makers today are moving towards RV for their embedded controllers. Western Digital moved to RISC-V for their embedded controllers, Microchip has a SiFive CPU in their upcoming PolarFire FPGA, Nvidia moved to RV to replace their controllers, Chinese chip makers (e.g. Sipeed) are moving to RV instead of using ARM. Those are only the ones that we know about. Why would they not do it? There's really no good reason to choose a Cortex-M0 over some RV core as long as your customers (internal or external) are OK with it.

Do it matter that it's open source? Maybe not in terms of the CPU RTL being open source: you still need to do a lot of verification if you take your job seriously.

But the fact that the ISA was open source made a bunch of people interested enough to start tinkering with it and contributed to tools etc. I think the open source part was essential to get the RV thing moving.
It's much more apparent in Destiny 1, with the Hive architecture, which is like something out of Mordor. And in the Forsaken expansion to Destiny 2, where The Dreaming City seems like a high-fantasy kingdom, but under attack by evil forces.
Oh so a corporate subsidy basically
> Is it fair to claim equal opportunity when you give more opportunities to other people?

Googles careers page advertises that they're both in equal opportunity employer and an affirmative action employer:

> Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer.

https://careers.google.com/teams/?&src=Online/House%20Ads/BK...

So I guess the answer is yes.
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Like the Volkswagen emissions scandal? The various times when mining waste enters drinking water supplies? The many times when E. coli or other diseases enters the food supply (up 10% since 2013 says https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2019/01/17... ). The sorry state of effectively unregulated cyber charter schools where students have "extremely lower learning growth in cyber charter schools ... when compared to other schools" - https://theconversation.com/what-cyber-charter-schools-are-a... .
Even better, you can watch his shows for free at any time: he has a YouTube channel with them all.
My understanding is it shows you the current status of mitigations/patches and allows disabiling/enabiling them. Just my take on it YMMV.
Yeah I comment a lot and pretty much never insult people. No-one is arguing that this is wrong because it's a government market distortion, they're arguing against it because it's injust, and proceeding from incorrect principles. So you invented an argument that's invalid by it's own definition as a straw man to rebut. It's stupid, there's no other word for it.
Because power corrupts.
I recently took a job with a robotics startup...it's a tough business to operate in with huge operating costs (compared to software), but I think there are a lot of opportunities yet untapped. The old Feynman saying "There's plenty of room at the bottom" is extremely true in robotics.

There are markets where robots have been (profitably) in service for a decade or more, but they are big robots with extremely limited roles: An arm that lifts a door onto a car, a glorified cart that follows a yellow line around a warehouse or hospital or whatever, etc.

The new generation of robots is human scale and has more flexibility built in. They deliver door-to-door/peer-to-peer, instead of along a fixed route. They carry small packages instead of a stack of boxes. They do inspections in places that aren't safe for humans. etc. Plenty of room for smaller, smarter, cheaper, robots.

But, it is definitely a tough/expensive business to build in, and the market probably doesn't have room for at least half of the companies currently running on investor money.
Which project with authoritarian state went forward?

https://theintercept.com/2018/12/17/google-china-censored-se...
The NYT also enabled harvey weinstein and spread lies about yellowcake which caused an illegal war and countless dead middle easterners.

https://www.thewrap.com/media-enablers-harvey-weinstein-new-...

Giving your family subscriptions to these companies is just as bad as given then facebook accounts.

You seem to be under the childishy impression that if one is bad, then the other is good. That's not how things work. The NYT and Trump could both be bad. The NYT and Facebook can boh be back.

For all the talk about how bad social media is, so many news people are all over social media begging people to buy subscriptions.
Thank you for your kind words!
I never thought of this and now that you told me it makes so much sense. Obviously a fork lift that isn’t heavy enough couldn’t lift heavy stuff because it would just tip over.

It doesn’t matter how strong you are if you don’t have the mass to balance what you’re holding. Mind blown.
OOP's got a similar problem: When the idea was originally dreamed up, message passing was an essential part of the definition. This wasn't an arbitrary thing, message passing was a precondition of the characteristics that people were trying to achieve in the first place.

Nowadays, the definition's been deeply watered down, and there are vanishingly few languages that both call themselves object oriented and stick to the original idea. So maybe it's not worth fighting over the terminology anymore. But still, I can't help but feel like we've lost something in the process.

FP didn't become the darling until more recently, and I think that it's just possible that people could hold the line and prevent the term from being watered down. And the original idea was very much one of programs that were composed of smaller parts, such that the whole thing was ultimately just the evaluation of a single expression.

Note that this definition predates Haskell by a decade or so. It was trying to capture what the designers of APL were going for.
I didn't, but I copy&pasted from a different post and apparently there were blank spaces in some lines... sorry :(
Here it is on the wayback machine for EU users getting a 451 error.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190322180054/https://www.baker...
Only in the last 2 years. My comp went from $70K in 2011 to nearly $400K in 2016 without stock appreciation making any material impact. I got an offer from Oracle in 2016 for $380K. Amazon matched it, and then stock appreciation added another $80K in 2017 and $130K in 2018.
What about climate-change deniers? Aren't they killing us all with their ideology?
The company where I work recently changed health insurance providers. Reps from the new company pushed this stuff HARD, along with their program for using an app to get basic health care from some random remote doctor.

To the best of my knowledge, exactly nobody was interested in these programs.
From the article -- which will see more than $20 billion stolen this year.

Think about the number in that article for a minute, $20 BILLION dollars "stolen" last YEAR.

How many places are there in the world where you can steal over a billion dollars from them, and they won't hunt you down and kill your family? A nation-state? Nope they will send their intelligence service after you. A drug cartel? Don't even get me started, this is the same scale of numbers that drug cartels earn[1]

And since there is no "War on Ad Fraudsters", no departments dedicated to hunting down and arresting 'kingpin' Ad hackers, why would you sell drugs when you can make about the same amount, so much more safely? When you figure all the expenses you don't need, the bribes, the security forces, the underground tunnels, even going out and acquiring product. This is so much better way to stealing money.

[1] the estimate, from the Justice Department, that Colombian and Mexican cartels reap $18 billion to $39 billion from drug sales in the United States each year. --- https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/magazine/how-a-mexican-dr...
I thought David Schwimmer was pretty perfect as Cpt. Sobel in BoB.
That was always the flaw in the multi-national company concept. Even if you are completely in the cloud your people still have to live somewhere and perhaps more importantly, your money has to sit in some country somewhere.

And Switzerland isn't what it used to be for banking security.
If you want to sell a product, you are liable for that product. It's simple.

Excessive trust is negligent. Let the market decide how to mitigate risk, but eliminating the risk creates opportunity for profiting from malfeasance.
Interesting.

Here is the clang aarch64 output: https://godbolt.org/z/nH0y7F
https://web.archive.org/web/20190322182840/https://www.baker...
I agree. I hate the downvoting feature here. It silences unpopular opinions instead of forcing people to respond. The mods really seem to like it though
Yeah, sometimes it gets physical. But I think they're talking about daily, continuous, physical labor that can be very destructive to your body in the long term.
> The question was just about the legality of it

So somebody asked "how can this be legal" and your answer was "because it's a law" and you're actually trying to claim the moral high ground?
Yep, short-sighted, too. Because in a few years all of your tech will have been stolen by the companies the government forces you to work with in order to enter the market. Obviously google knows this and someone has done a cost/benefit analysis and has decided that they will be personally rewarded so it's worth it. :)
Point well made. I have found that to be true from personal experience.
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> By the way, I highly anticipate that the above argument will be made by said multinationals to prevent said breakup/anti-monopoly moves.

Zuckerberg made that argument months ago, surprise, surprise:

https://www.recode.net/2018/7/18/17584482/mark-zuckerberg-ch...

> Mark Zuckerberg says breaking up Facebook would pave the way for China’s tech companies to dominate
Am I the only person bored stiff by conspiracists? I don’t deny that the phenomenon is significant, has an impact, and needs to be addressed, but Christ it’s boring! Cranky and conspiracists have always been derivative, repetitive, often delusional people and all too often far from the brightest bulbs. Their “theories” are inevitably garbage, written and talked about in truly sub-mental ways.

I get it, it matters, but it turns out that a topic’s importance doesn’t necessarily correlate with it being interesting, intellectually stimulating, or deep. There is no there, there. It’s just the interaction of lonely people, stupid people, mentally ill poeple, and a few relatively bright people who fell into a cognitive trap and became insufferable. The ones with David Icke who think that the queen is a lizard, the ones who think the Earth is flat, or believe that dinosaur fossils were planted by the CIA, the chemtrialers, the ones into “cloud busters” and the Orgone, anti-vaxxers... they’re all so samey and goddamned boring.
Looks like it's a story that came in from a wire service, particularly since the writer and story are both from San Diego, but this is an LA publication.

I guess that's the risk of just mindlessly hooking up your CMS to someone else's feed.

(Yup, there are lots of other hits for this exact story published elsewhere; other publications seem to have done a better job filtering out these notes to the editor: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22to+leave+its+usual+spot+i...)
> I don't think I could have gotten there with toy/educational examples online/in books.

For programming, the available documentation is not just ludo-educational, it's also the official references, like the RFCs and specifications. There is literally no better source of knowledge for computer science. I haven't delved into technical specs very often in my life, but I have at times and I bet most good programmers do it often.
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I did a bit of Googling on this.

Washington post article supports the original post narrative: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/po...

Original research by Christian blogger claims delay in lightning rod adoption was not because of clergy: http://theskepticalzone.com/wp/lightning-rods-and-the-church...

If you have a research supporting or contradicting original post, please comment below.
I'm leaning back and watching our profession go to shit. The liberalization of programming is very profitable for software companies. The wages need to go way down as currently we're the contemporary blue-collar job that didn't get screwed up by the modern corporate machine. This has less to do with gender than with plain-old creating inflation within the profession.

Accountants, doctors, lawyers, all managed to closely guard their profession while we're opening up the doors to basically everyone and we think 'it's cute' when the janitor learns how to write web pages. People saluting this should check back in about 10 years to let me know how it goes.
My wife and I 'When Helping Hurts' last year, and I'd highly recommend it as a resource for thoughtful volunteerism. Beyond the content, I thought it had the best set of questions/exercises I've seen in a book of this kind.
This growth-at-all-costs mindset is ultimately crippling our society. We are essentially giving away our freedoms and giving into a country that is exploiting this mindset.
Yes, maybe. But it doesn't require asking any questions or negotiating (which is what the article is about).
Comparison with VB is a mark of respect everywhere except HN echo chamber.
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I believe Sergey Brin came to the U.S. from the Soviet Union and was the driving force behind Google pulling out of China around the early 2010s (except for Hong Kong).

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/7503641/Sergey...

I think your assertion needs to be backed by evidence.