skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can think whatever you’d like, anonymous hacker news account created for this comment. Everyone can read ill will into things.

I am trying to understand Ada better. I draw some comparisons to Rust because that’s one of the reasons why I’m reading about it in the first place: people ask questions comparing the two and I have no idea of the answers.

I spent much more than five minutes here, even though the writing is short; the learning website has a lot of stuff! As I said I’m the intro, this is mostly just a log of thoughts. But it was a good solid half-day of investigation. I’ll be doing more of it in the future, too.
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Speaking of ridiculous, Android and banking, just yesterday I was browsing my transactions and wanted to send a screenshot of one to my wife. As it turns out, you cannot make screenshots of banking apps. Because "security".
>I wonder when you say: "they are allowed", I can't help but ask: "by whom"?

The exact same people "not allowing" white nationalist content, of course.
I think it’s the best tool we have, and we can either use that tool or twiddle our thumbs while this problem gets worse.

As for your dilution analogy, deplatforming does have that effect because it breaks up the filter bubbles of the hate groups. It makes the media feedback loop of hate more difficult for those caught in that. From the perspective of those considering the hate, their input has been diluted.
You're quite right, but that at least sounds like a person. It's this unnatural almost-human type thing I can't stand. Also, I'm not signing up for alexa with a cartoon boy's voice any time soon.
In fact it doesn't have a thesis, as far as the question "why does stoicism appeal to modern rich and powerful". The partial quote you posted is part of a musing around that topic, but it only takes reading that paragraph in full to see what you call its thesis is nothing of the sort.

Here it is for the lazy:

"Thus, turning to the questions that Nellie asked me for her article, when I see a fad for stoicism among today’s rising rich, I see a good side and a bad side. The good side is that stoicism, sharing a lot with Buddhism, teaches that the only real treasures are inner treasures–virtue, self-mastery, courage, charity–and that all things in existence are part of one good, divine, and sacred whole, a stance which can combat selfishness and intolerance by encouraging self-discipline and teaching us to love and value every stranger as much as we love our families and ourselves. But on the negative side, stoicism’s Providential claim that everything in the universe is already perfect and that things which seem bad or unjust are secretly good underneath (a claim Christianity borrowed from Stoicism) can be used to justify the idea that the rich and powerful are meant to be rich and powerful, that the poor and downtrodden are meant to be poor and downtrodden, and that even the worst actions are actually good in an ineffable and eternal way. Such claims can be used to justify complacency, social callousness, and even exploitative or destructive behavior."
Enough flags will do that while not affecting the upvote count.
Useful context for me as I haven't heard of the browser so no knowledge as to how they can have such a large userbase.

I don't think the intention was draw a correlation between Alibaba and security lapses.
First one is worded arrogantly i agree, but the core idea of the question is very important. It is a variation of "what drives you? what motivates you?". It's purpose is to find a CEO that doesn't want to just sell out and cash in for himself - but to grow the company.

Slides from board meeting are about transparency, i do not want to work at organization that is not transparent about fiances(and especially not at one which has high profits, but very volatile cash reserves). If it gets deflected, but a summary is provided ,it isn't a red flag - it means that employees potentially have access to this data.

if you think asking about your future plans arrogant, why are you asking such questions to employees? this is a legitimate question about where you want to take this company towards.

In most western tech jobs - changing job after a year is norm - not an exception. over here it is frowned upon, but 2-3 years is a long enough time in most cases. And there are two main cases of job hopping: increase in salary is way more significant than any rise given; toxic workplace;

Last one isn't personal, but it has implied context of company itself. what are problems that you want to fix, and potential threats.

those questions are even more important if company is paying in equity. I wouldn't want to work there if i didn't get the answer at least to majority of them. It would be a huge red flag - or i would assume that equity is 100% worthless when comparing compensations between offers.

Relationships of power shifted - there is abundance of jobs, and scarcity of good developers. Quite frankly - there are plenty of bad companies, and few good ones - just like with candidates.

You would hate to bring in a bad horrible person in. We would hate to invest time and effort into useless endeavor.
Agreed! However, not all of the pilots in the article were actively flying, so there's that.
What's going on exactly?
I subscribe to a few BBC podcasts on a podcast app via RSS.

Is that going?
More like a couple times less. I left aerospace partially because the pay sucks.
Oh no, just a friendly suggestion! I was about to post a similar comment myself, not realizing immediately that you'd beaten me to it.
I’ve read The Wake, and it’s really not accurate to say it’s “about” Hereward. Hereward doesn’t really figure into its story at all, except as an offstage personage we hear about occasionally when his actions are compared to those of the protagonist, Buccmaster of Holland.

The Wake isn’t a lightly fictionalized biography of an historical figure. It’s something much richer and more imaginative than that. If you’re interested in the period, I would definitely recommend it.
Because when you use their ecosystem, they get user data. They acknowledge that in their blog post:

> We also want to make our programmes and services as good as they can possibly be - this means us getting hold of meaningful audience data.

They claim it's because they're a public service and need to know what the public want, but there are other ways, and I'm torn on if it's a legit case or not. NPR has been trying to up use of NPR One for what I assume are similar reasons, but haven't gone the way of shutting out listening sources yet. Instead, they propose a standards [0] to do it from the listeners, and it's showing no signs of success.

0. https://www.npr.org/sections/npr-extra/2018/12/11/675250553/...
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I don't approve of America surveilling her own citizens, but at least she doesn't abuse the information the way china does. Show me the reeducation camps, great firewall, etc. in America. Not perfect, certainly, but much less bad.
I like how it has almost become the norm to post the link to Adrian Colyers blog about any paper on Distributed Systems than a link to the paper itself. :)

(I'm not complaining, I love his blog)
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I’m describing the spread of hateful ideas as a cancer, not the people themselves. We use the description of “virality” to describe the meme or idea, not that the people sharing are viruses. Same thing here.
Being seen is not the same as being recorded.

Does your GF mind if you record her in bed without her consent?

Explain her your photons bouncing BS or tell her that if she doesn't want to be recorded she shouldn't undress with someone else in the same room.
You can absolutely decide what you do with your body, but what it makes you is not solely your decision. Like it or not, what we are labeled as is partially determined by what society thinks we are.

Here is an extreme example to prove this. I can say that I am a chair, and I can argue this until I'm blue in the face, but that won't change the fact that others will think that I am a human, not a chair. More relevant to the conversation, let's say I am a man that only has relationships with other men. I can call myself straight all I want, but if I tell other people about my behavior, they will categorize that behavior by the behavior(homosexual), thus it will not always align with the categorization that I apply to myself(straight). Okay or not, it is human nature to behave this way.
But this brings up a good point. What is the value of google showing you the play buttons in the search results? They're trying to keep you on google's site.
While I understand the objections to Google self promoting their products and masking audience data I don't see how removing their podcasts from one of the most popular platforms helps with what the BBC claims to be important.

"What we think is important is pretty simple. We want people to have easy access to the wide range of BBC programmes, not just a select few, and be able to discover and listen to new ones really easily."

Cutting off your audience potential to understand your audience better is some kind of broken logic. The comments section highlights that their own audience generally does not accept their reasoning.
Ha ha, a resistor on every pin is a signal integrity hack.
So the F-35 becomes like a really really fast AWACS on the front lines? I... don't hate that.
Haven't looked into it. Thanks!
ITS (possessive)

Not "IT'S" (pronoun + verb)
my guess is metrics. I once had my cable company call me out of nowhere near the end of the year. Wanted to lower my bill by 12$ a month, wanted to increase my service from internet only to internet with full tv package all tiers, AND if I agreed to all this would get a 300$ visa gift card. After 6 months if I did not like it no strings attached and I could stop. So I being skeptical I was even talking to my ISP company asked why would they give such and offer when I was already a non complaining customer. They said to me that honestly they just are trying to get their year end TV subscriber numbers up before the numbers go to investors who see annual reports or something. They were in a huge push to beat the local competitors. It ended up really being my ISP and they were good on what they offered.
That you chose to put there, on someone else’s computer. Other than you and your friends’ and family’s willingness to do work, there is no lock in, and I don’t believe that’s a useful way to define lock in.
What is the alternative to a private company making their own decisions on what to allow on their platform? A blanket order to not ban any content whatsoever?
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Yea. As a traditional engineer (non software) I shudder in horror at what y'all go through. My industry is all about what you know and there seems to be nearly infinite things to know. That knowledge takes years to accumulate, so a Senior Engineer with 10 years of experience almost always has an order of magnitude more value than a novice engineer. Although there are some seniors that I have no idea how they got promoted, it is generally rare.
I recently started writing on Medium again.

I wrote an article on why single platform strategies suck. It was distributed in the product management section of Medium.

Hopefully you'll enjoy it. If you do please leave some claps. If not please flame me, I like abuse.
I will not comment on (1) and (2) but (3) is wrong. I don't think that's even a 737 MAX on the picture.

737 was originally designed to be low to the ground to make it easier for ground crew to "bulk" load i.e. just throw stuff into the cargo area. The reason why 737 could be so low to the ground was that they were using turbojet[1] engines. Turbojet engines are very slim compared to new turbofan engines used on later 737 generations. When they moved to turbofan engines which have bigger diameter they needed to move them higher up from the ground. So they moved the engines in front of the wings. To gain even more ground clearance they moved accessory gearbox and fuel pump from underneath the engine to the side. That's why engine appears flat on the bottom. Obviously the engine is still round because the fan is round but the lip is flattened. All this allowed Boing to fit more efficient and quieter engines to 737 without extending landing gear. The shape itself does not generate much aerodynamical lift if any.

On the 737 MAX they actually extended the landing gear and it does not feature "flattened" engine shape any more.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratt_%26_Whitney_JT8D
It's pretty standard. That's why there are so many letter revisions of military equipment, from small arms to aircraft. It's pretty standard in software design, too, for that matter.

Just because the 737 MAX has a problem doesn't mean the underlying philosophy that directed the design was a poor one. The philosophy is basically, "keep what works, fix what doesn't." It's basic iterative design.
Not if your speech is advocating for the erosion of the rights of others’ speech. Just as there is a paradox of tolerance, there is a paradox of free speech, and the hate groups use it to great effect in this country.
I learned Ada because I took a new job back in 2008 (at Boeing, doing spacecraft modeling and simulation) and discovered on my first day that I would be using Ada. Naturally, I was expected to just pick it up on my own (Not complaining, that's pretty much how it goes these days).

My mother (who found it amusing I was going to be coding Ada in 2008) gave me her old Ada books from the 80s (her employer at the time sent her to an actual course to learn the new DoD mandated language, back in the days when employers invested in their people), which I still have. I ended up programming in Ada up until 2012, when I managed to get a job using Java.

The language itself I rather liked (better than Java, for sure). It's the only language I've ever used that tended to produce programs that worked correctly on their first run (getting them to compile was the difficult part). The aerospace industry OTOH, I don't miss.
Ask HN: What language has a functional feature that haskell doesn't yet?
It really is amazing the kind of mental gymnastics HN commenters will display in order to shift the blame to everybody else, isn't it?
At nearly 9 pounds maybe we should put "laptop" in quotes. :)
People these days are just incapable of understanding charts where none of the exes are time.
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What the CEO really has is 200x the affect on the company. A 15m bonus for a CEO may sound ridiculous but if picking that CEO led the company to 50m increase in revenue over an average CEO than it was well worth it to hire them.

Or at least, that's how CEOs sell themselves. I think that idea makes sense, but only if the company does well. If it doesn't the execs still have the power to grant themselves massive bonuses before the shareholders can react.

It's kind of like the classic 2% fee investment manager, they'll say they are the best at what they do, when of course they almost never beat the market. Still, regardless of how they do, they make bank. I think what really needs to happen is people need to learn to stop trusting people just because they talk smooth and make an optimistic pitch, and start focusing executive salaries on being entirely results based, with only a modest base salary.
> I don't know exactly, but the impact difference on trash in the ocean will approach zero.

Sorry, I couldn't see your healthy skepticism as it was blocked from view by your statement of fact.
> manned fighter at the front lines

Why a manned fighter? Why not remotely-human-piloted drones?
It doesn't, I think he's confusing it with minimalism, which is a counter to over-stimulation.

Matt D'Avella comes to mind -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CttGNGjwp6A
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Hell, i'm a VP at a public company and the president of my division makes 25 times what I do, never mind the average worker.
>podcasts

They say it quite clearly in the article. They want to collect personal data from users.

>podcast players

I assume so they can easily censor podcasts they disagree with politically. There was a big scandal a few months ago with several large sites removing access to Infowars podcasts simultaneously.

At the end of the day, it's all about having more control over users.
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Wasn't this in the article - searches for BBC content is going to Google not the BBC. If they remove content from google, searches will go to BBC where they can display more than the limited range Google show.
> We have a very "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" and anything that costs one person money to help another is a non-starter.

And yet there seems to be actual political risk and difficulty to simply repealing the ACA in its entirety without a replacement... because as bad as the ACA is in practice, in theory many Americans want it, or something like it, and do not in fact want healthcare to be left entirely to the free market.

The attitude and outlook you describe certainly exists, but don't conflate the ideology of a single political party to the status of general American culture. We're not all libertarian minarchists and cowboys.

And for such an "individualistic" society, we sure do have a lot of socialism already, such as food stamps, school lunches (hell, public schools themselves) federal student loans, Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, the GI bill, farm subsidies, public libraries, etc.

I don't think it's as unlikely as you do. The system is starting to fail for a lot of people. We've already seen the regressive populist shift, in response, and a progressive socialist shift is inevitable. Trump won but don't discount how popular Bernie Sanders actually was.
Why was the title changed to something with a misspelled/wrong word "it's" that makes it hard to read?
The fact we have to ask is unacceptable in the first place! The same way you shouldn't have to ask if there is polonium in your tea. Given the easiest and most sensible solution is the same in both cases - dump it because it isn't worth the risk.
That’s my point. You can call me gay all day, every day because of my hypothetical lisp. That doesn’t make it so.
Aleksander Gołubiew wrote historic novels in Polish "archaized" in similar manner. I especially like his "Bolesław Chrobry" series, also set in 10th-11th century, but in Poland. Sadly it wasn't translated to English, it's a very interesting book. Kinda like Game of Thrones but higher percentage of real history and no fantasy elements (other than people believing in folklore).

It's very funny experience to read it, at first you struggle, then you stop noticing it. Reading the third book you catch yourself using the more useful words when you think.
In normal flight, MCAS is not active. The plane handles pretty much like any other 737. MCAS becomes active at high angles of attack, near the stall, to meet handling requirements for certification.
The joke is actually about FORTRAN, where variables don't have to be declared, and is implicitly declared as Integer if it's first letter is in the range I-N and otherwise implicitly declared as the type Real (usually 32-bit floating point). Thus the variable GOD will implicitly be of type real.

Pascal have the same type names, but does not allow implicit declarations.
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"It’s impossible to be sure that cybercriminals will never get ahold of the browser developer’s servers or use the update feature to infect hundreds of millions of Android devices."

Apparently they didn't consider the same sentence would be just as valid if they replaced "browser developer" with Google...

This is an example of the authoritarian security sensationalism that's far too common today, and it only leads to the big companies like Google getting even more power over users. One of the most secure places is in an isolated prison cell.
In fact, it's what Apple doesn't as well

https://podnews.net/article/bbc-blocks-google

So why are they calling out Google specifically? And what results would they prefer?
This sounds more like the behavior of a narcissist than a generational thing (and there are plenty in that generation).
That is a tone deaf and harmful misunderstanding of poor people.

Also, I don’t dispute that things like waking up early, meditation or exercise have real benefits. Whether they have real benefits is unrelated to this discussion.

Separately, without money to alleviate obligations, many poor people find themselves overwhelmed through no fault of their own. A bad, unexpected legal or medical situation can leave you at the breaking point of stress for no other reason than lack of money.

It may help to consider having more empathy as you mentally imagine the plight of poor folks.
> We elect the government to serve the people

Quit making me laugh, buddy. Unfortunately, I think we all know that once they get their office, they do very little to serve the people. Not sure about the case with Australia, but you can't sue the American government unless it lets you. Otherwise, it just claims sovereign immunity. Wrong as that is, it's a very good defense as it keeps them out of court. This might lead the employee to sue the employer ("I was complying with a lawful government order; you can't fire me for that!"), making Australians even more of a liability.
I went through some medical issues a few years ago and took to carrying all of my medical records on a tiny USB flash drive. I took this to a few consultations and doctors could not use it due to policy and/or fear of plugging an unvetted device into their system. It's a terrible outcome of the modern security landscape that the only path is cloud storage for our medical records.
Only software developers with no honour would ever do that.
The number of times stoicism has come up and I see people allude to practicing stoicism or identifying it by the indifference or complacency of the stoic tells me that people are not adopting it philosophically, but more religiously.
Probaly obvious to you, but why?
I haven't read the paper itself, but the article makes it sound like they simply counted the minimum number of bits required to represent the English language. It mentions no neuroscience-specific insights, so the "brain" part of the title is quite misleading.
White nationalists are a subset of white supremacists who believe not only that whites are better than non-whites, but that this means they should kick the non-whites out (or exterminate them, in many cases).

https://www.merriam-webster.com/news-trend-watch/nationalist...

> Conflating the two is a racist attack on white people.

I'm fairly sure I just sprained my eye muscles.
It seems to me that the essay makes a claim about the nature of stoicism and how it could be expected to influence modern fans of the philosophy, and you are making a claim about the magnitude or degree to which modern students of the philosophy actually commit themselves to it. I'm not sure there is a genuine contradiction here. She may be correct in saying that, to the degree that one adopts the precepts stoicism, it will tend to have such and such an effect on you; and you may be correct to point out that modern students of stoicism are not likely to commit themselves to the philosophy with religious fervor.

By the way, I would say a better thesis statement is found in the final paragraph: Because I think it’s important that we mingle some Voltaire in with our Seneca, and remember that stoicism’s invaluable advice for taking better care of ourselves inside can–if we fail to mix it with other ideas–come with a big blind spot regarding the world outside ourselves, and whether we should change it.