skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would never tell an employer about any of my social media identities. I don't try to hide them, and I stand by anything I say online, but I'd never give an employer my Twitter handle (not that I have one) or any other public ID other than GitHub. That some people are willing to give up their social media IDs at all baffles me.

That said, I don't blame employers for trying to prevent bad PR. If I had an employee spouting racist nonsense and they didn't have the common sense to keep their identity anonymous--or even worse, they connected their identity to my company--I'd have no qualms about firing them.

I doubt an AI, or even a manual solution, can effectively handle this job, though. It's going to continue to be more of a reactionary thing than a preventative thing.
Not all states recognize such a right. But most media organizations are based or operate in states like California that do recognize it.
Somewhat off-topic but I was just reading about Tegus running rampant in Florida. It must be tough running the various municipalities down there considering there are so many species who could flourish there. You always hear about the Pythons but there are quite a few species who thrive.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/05/science/a-lizard-interlop...

https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/local-news/florida-declar...
That's not gonna happen. "You have to get the consent of your family members before you can share your DNA" is totally nonviable.
So they detect and use only photos where you're alone with the product and stop the use in ad campaign, as soon as you remove the photo.

Easy.
Better to confound FB by posting/uploading fake content. Even better if you can keep it consistently wrong. Be sure to tag your name to other people's faces to confuse their facial recognition algorithms.
Just keep in mind that most privacy footers are company requirements. They may even be appended to all outgoing mail. The people who send them may be as annoyed by them as you.
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The logical conclusion of most of these arguments seems to be that the US should have floating currencies between the states, to stop unfairly benefiting the few net productive export states?
"People should update their software to the latest versions! And they should switch browsers to use one that supports my nonstandard features!" Oh, yes? Well they don't.

And as long as Microsoft keeps shipping IE11, we're all doomed. Office drones aren't going to switch to something better until they're forced to.

I can't believe Windows 10 still has IE11.
You're being unnecessarily literal, it's clear that the parent misspoke and meant social contract[0], not a direct, legal one.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_contract
It's not about efficiency or anything for me. It's about courtesy. For instance, if you're moving and you want to ask a friend to help you out, the right way to do so is "Hey, man, I'm moving this Saturday to the Mission. Can you help me out?"

The wrong way is "Hey, can you do me a favour?" or "Hey, what are you doing this weekend? Oh you're free?" And then going with things.

It's the same way with everything else. If you have a question, give them a chance to not answer it. "Can I ask you a question?" is a trap on question complexity because the answer is always "depends".

It's okay if they can't answer the question you have. You can just copy-paste it. Also, always ask in public channels unless it's sensitive. That way everyone learns.

If you priorize your conversation partners this behaviour is easy and natural. If you're prioritizing yourself (don't want to repeat the question, don't want to be seen as not knowing the answer, etc.) this behaviour doesn't seem obvious.
As a resident of San Francisco, I would love to see more housing built here. The fact that there are so many low rise buildings in San Francisco is ridiculous. It’s a city for gods sake! Build the hell out of it.

Counter point 1: “the buildings will be ugly and we’ll lose our community”. I disagree. Plenty of cities have common sense laws about how buildings should look. Your community is changing whether you like it or not. I don’t see how tall building erase community. They may change it, sure. But change is inevitable.

Counter point 2: “the increase in traffic will be terrible.” So run bart 24 hours, add more stops, extend the likes and run a train every 5 minutes. upgrade muni with all the extra tax base. Introduce congestion charges.

Counter point 3: “all the housing will go to rich people”. Maybe true, maybe not. But by the basic law of supply and demand, more supply means prices go down. If you build a bunch of luxury appartments, then that willl vacate some supply of slightly less expensive housing, and a trickle effect all the way down. Plus you can mandate controls on what types of units get built. The fact is that rich people like to live in cities, and if you can’t afford to live here then move.

Basically, it’s all possible but because of short sighted stupid policies and whining about “community” it won’t happen.
This started long before the Conservatives came into power and actually made an attempt to right the budgetary wrongs of the previous Labour government.
Handed down but up to countries to follow them. As the article states, Italy appears to have followed them to the letter, more so than Germany or France, but hasn't ended up in a great place.
> You also avoid supporting the transparent money grab of a website dedicate to a needless complaint that is 90% ads

I don't begrudge the person running the site to want to cover their expenses.

Also, their complaint is not needless. It's a perfectly valid complaint. No need to be dismissive just because the site has ads, an issue unrelated from the core message imparted.

As others state, the very fact of switching to the chat application just to see whether or not the other user has sent a message is a block to one's train of thought. The colleague mightn't be finishing typing their message until you respond, they might even engage you in some banter first — so you can't just ignore their lonely 'hi', you have to actually engage with it, wasting both of your time.

The website manages to convey quite succinctly but not rudely a better way to communicate that one day could become a form of netiquette. There's nothing harmful with that.
> "People should update their software to the latest versions! And they should switch browsers to use one that supports my nonstandard features!" Oh, yes? Well they don't.

I mean, I agree that developers shouldn't feel entitled to have all potential visitors using the most up-to-date software, but it is also definitely true that there is almost never an excuse to be using a web browser that doesn't automatically update. Forget CSS features, it's a pretty big security concern.
I highly recommend this accompanying video, which takes jake's idea and goes into the details of how viridis replaced the ever-naughty Jet.

Colormap selection is surprisingly fascinating.

"A Better Default Colormap for Matplotlib (SciPy 2015) Nathaniel Smith and Stéfan van der Walt"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAoljeRJ3lU
> Acually fitting the model is not the hard part.

Ideally you shouldn’t be fitting the model yourself. The idea behind ML is to use brute force computation.

If you’re fitting the model by hand, you’re a Statistician.
"If someone is about to give birth, don't say "I hope it doesn't claw it's way out and kill all of us" in the hospital room with the expectant mother"

I really struggled to find appropriate outlets for my humour for a lot of years...

"When people you know say "hello" what they are really saying is "are you still friendly since the last time I've seen you?" so just say Hi with a hint of warmth if you can manage it, because people are never going to stop greeting you anyway, there is no way to recoup the cost so might as well let them know "yeah, we're still cool""

For a while, I had the charming habit of refusing to return greetings, because I felt they were bothersome, inefficient and unnecessary.

The rules themselves are each tailored to some particular misstep I have made. The principles that emerged really were kind of basic stuff good parents, teachers or Mr. Rogers teaches you. That being less selfish is wise, paying attention to people is rewarding, and that there is a very big difference between listening to someone and waiting to speak. The principles are only words, and the rules are too specific to my own experiences to really translate. What matters is the intuition I had been building up from the moment I decided for myself that this problem was worth the effort.

I hope it helps.
A business that pursues a poaching strategy will not develop the practices to identify in-house talent. Ergo, you have a hard time understanding anything about employee performance other than you pay a lot.

When you are the one adding the fish to the pond. You know exactly what type of fish it is as it grows. Whereas the fish that you catch may be a catfish rather than a sockeye. The free rider problem is a real thing, but so is the market for lemons.
I'm not parent; possibly because he's not a US citizen and what he did falls under the umbrella of protections afforded to journalist?
And the one company highlighted in the article as speaking out is on the verge of being broken up by Western governments. The western world is being played like a fiddle.

Negotiating power is everything, and western democracies and their private and corporate citizens have absolutely none compared to autocratic regimes.
In my case, the project we wrote an OP1 for was judged to be too technically complex such that anyone capable of executing on it would be a "flight risk" capable of commanding higher pay elsewhere.

Therefore they decided to destaff the effort and wait for me to prove them right rather than give me a couple engineers and enough rope to hang myself (which I wouldn't have most likely given my track record that established me as a "flight risk" apparently).

Can we say self-fulfilling prophesy?
that is pretty much why I have quit facebook, I was sick of ultraconservative relatives tagging me in these political shitpost linking to Shapiro style videos and conservative political memes. The only reason I still have a account is so my grandmother and sister can see baby pictures of my kid.
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These are not "the basic schools" of economics. If I had to pick two camps, I would pick Keynesianism and Neoclassical economics. Politically, Keynesianism has won over both sides of the spectrum.

There is no "diametric opposition", virtually all socialists of today agree that markets are to be favored over central planning. That part is settled by history.

What socialists and non-socialists disagree over is generally the degree of state intervention in the markets and who should pay for what, that is who pays taxes and who gets the benefits.
I would like more open discussion between people at the very least. I think large news outlets simply have to do a better job at taking advantage of their outreach and giving proper visibility into people like her when they're finally given their chance to be in the spotlight. She may be the least famous person in the article but she is his replacement and their coverage of her merits is laughable at best. Any other mention of her in this story is strictly filler. Just give her more than dropping her current title and that cringy statement. Improper coverage like this happens too often and needs to be pointed out so that it bad attention when it is published.
The motto is „a ever closer union“, although that does not necessarily see a nation state at the end, and it has become somewhat outdated...

What the US has, and the EU would need, are some mechanisms to level economic differences between the constituent states. Any federal US program effectively works as such, even though that is rarely acknowledged in the public discourse. As but one example: military spending is financed primarily by the economically strong and populous states, and disproportionately favors poorer states with defense contacts or military bases.

The EU has a few such mechanisms, some explicit (regional development funds), some less so (agriculture). But the total E.U. budget is rather tiny compared to the economy. Something like a common unemployment insurance would be best, mechanistically. Because it would automatically adjust to changing fortunes at the very local level without requiring constant political intervention and the accompanying bargaining. At present, such a policy is unlikely to find approval because of pervasive remaining mistrust („lazy Greeks taking our money“).
I’ve heard Backblaze has only one region. Is that true?
Yeah, but if your mother is not a chimera, they're gonna nail you right out of the box unless the fake DNA comes from a member of your mother's side of the family.
This is great >
https://gizmodo.com/11-of-the-most-obnoxious-email-signature...
I’ll check it out too, thanks!
I'm under the impression that the original comment was referring to an IPFS-powered web, rather than the web being powered by IPFS. Good ol' HTTP servers will continue to form the web as we know it, and IPFS can provide a new web of static content.
> 100% anonymous

This language feels disingenuous, given that fingerprinting could be used to match an identity elsewhere.
> We just have to continue solving difficult engineering problems in order to harness it.

But that requires large amounts of cheap energy to do. The last 200 years haven't been an insane time of innovation just because we, as a species, got magically more brilliant. It's because we had unprecedented accessed to cheap energy.
Non-binding quasi-legalese. I'm not bound by a privacy agreement because I open your email. It's so silly and useless.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/91.15
Game, set, match.
how do make effective action items with that root cause?
> but it is partly the fault of programmers who don't expect the effort to understand how design is done and what "good" looks like in that craft

Very much something I agree with. Even on HN, when a non-designer has made something with a GUI, you'll often hear the excuses along the lines of "well, don't blame me if it's ugly, I'm not a designer".

Then you shouldn't have deigned to make something with a UI until you've run it past someone first. You land up with these utilities and apps that are intended to be used by regular, non-technical people that are just complicated and unwieldy Office '97 collections of tiny, unusable buttons that don't make any bloody sense to anyone.
For me it was going to kinesis and trackball
Substitute ‘business’ with ‘women’ and ‘hacked’ with ‘sexually assaulted’ and this writer would likely have to find a new line of work. No real attempt at looking at this from the position of individual businesses or understanding what they stand to lose by going public with news of a compromise. No critique of the obviously ineffective approach by policymakers to address this issue. This just reeks of shifting blame to the victim, sorry.
Agreed. There are times I only join conference calls to ensure that no work gets assigned to me without me hearing about it first, or that I have the ability to chime in as work is being assigned. I implemented this policy when it became clear that work was being assigned to me (imo incorrectly) because I wasn't there to say no.

If decisions are being made over Slack, I have to be involved or suddenly I may find myself responsible for something I have no control over. Simply because I was not there to let people know who actually is responsible.
> But to play devil's advocate for a moment, isn't there something of a natural disincentive to level up one's employees in such a tight labor market? To follow the author's analogy, by mentoring someone, we're effectively "adding a fish" to the pond, and if someone else "catches" the fish, that effort is largely wasted.

Most good employees don't quit for at better job unless there's a dysfunctional workplace. Partly they don't know if there's better jobs, and partly it's just a lot of effort, but mostly because other companies don't know they're good employees. The labor market is a market for lemons. If you own a $2000 car that drives OK you don't sell it because other people won't believe it's any good.
I have never worked for Amazon so I'm just speculating but if you have a culture of being data driven, specifically in the ways you optimize things then I'm guessing you'll probably be pretty successful and it's not a giant leap to plugging that data in to some ML models or something. To plug that stuff in the some ML models requires an entire culture of data collection and some thought as to how you'd improve or benefit from it; it's sort of like the "no brown M&Ms" rider that Van Hallen used to have.
What are some good examples? I remember using Android's relative layout system several years ago, and it was quite powerful, but I wouldn't call it easier to grok than CSS flex or grid.
I enjoyed this look at the memristor. Coming at the question from first principles is one that works for me. I've saved it in my notebook for forward to folks who go on and on about how revolutionary they are.
You are right. The founder of Patagonia talks about this. In particular growth vs sustainability.

Growth for growth is usually a short-term game, and it can generate amazing returns quickly, however it is usually a lot riskier and not very sustainable in the long run.
But I think that's not used as a multiprocessor, with threads getting scheduling on either (or both) depending on power policy. The embedded cores are, I think, used as separate systems running separate OS that happen to have access to the same DRAM, like a peripheral that can do DMA.

Thinking of running that as a single multiprocessing system I'm reminded of the bug caused by Samsung doing big.LITTLE with cores that have the same instruction set but differently sized cache lines: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12481700
No, IANA Economist, but I'd wager that states in the US are much more homogeneous than are countries in the EU, both in terms of laws + regulations and in labor productivity. Plus, there is a (more or less) democratically elected government that is (nominally) responsive to all of its citizens. Much more so than the various EU branches are, at least.
If I recall correctly, a concerted effort to step up these industrial espionage activities began around 2008. Many American companies never publicly acked or fessed up to being hacked either out of embarrassment or “multifaceted” reasons.
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Have you ever compared it to other modern editors like IntelliJ and VS code? If so, any thoughts about productivity?
I know there are exceptions, but I think the idea of the IM status is generally dead these days. It's hard to micromanage it, and the only general status for a work day is "busy". People leave it by default on available and that's a new normal.
Mozilla are directly violating their own manifesto, where they claim "We are committed to an internet that promotes civil discourse"[0]. Have you even read the article?

When they were asked to clarify what exactly was violating their ToS, they replied with the most standard bureaucratic non-answer, the kind you might receive from an auto-response email service, full of corporate-speak.

[0] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/

EDIT: According to this[1], Mozilla supposedly cares enough about this free speech, free platform issue to donate $100,000 to "a coordination platform used by activists across the political spectrum, to improve the security of their email service". Do you still believe it's a stretch to hold them to a much higher standard than a for-profit corporation? Note the "activists across the political spectrum" part in their own words.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/10/03/mozilla-awards-half...
Wow, I should try it then :)

OTOH, being an in-place rewrite, it likely cannot afford to change some of the more important architectural decisions, very likely including the ones that prevent multithreading.
That is a pretty disturbing view of sex and I would hate to live in a society where it was common to see it as nothing special. I think anything considered taboo is naturally much more special.
More importantly, it is a keyboard-driven and somewhat Vim-like browser.
We're in the #metoo era now, so maybe these businesses should now all come out together too.
> But let's say I were willing. How am I to get to my job?

This is the level we are at. We are dealing with children who can't even figure out simple stuff, like how to live without a car. It is impossible to them. They have no idea how to live in the world without cars. Ridiculous.

I have never owned a car. Somehow I have survived.
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The honest answer is that you can't know whether they're trying to implicitly point out that she was only hired for her race or whether they're trying to hold her up as a hero of the black community.
At first I thought the invasive pythons were being killed off by the parasite, which was great news, but the parasite is instead killing native Florida snakes, according to the article (edit: thanks DoreenMichele).

The Burmese pythons are the only predators that can kill Florida alligators. It's thought that owners of pet pythons released their snakes into the everglades when they didn't want them anymore through the 80s/90s, and the population became a problem starting in the 2000s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burmese_pythons_in_Florida

What also might have contributed to the boom was Hurrican Andrew in 1992, when exotic wildlife sanctuaries and zoos in Dade County got destroyed and animals escaped:

https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1992-09-20-19922640... (1992 article)
I've been considering Swarm distributed file system because of its closeness with the Ethereum development.

It seems to do the same thing and works already but hardly gets any press. IPFS and the Protocol Lab's Filecoin sale seemed to generate a lot of marketing despite it becoming clearer later that Filecoin is for an unrelated incentivized network.

It is hard understand the pros and cons of choosing to use IPFS over Swarm, or where they are in comparative development cycle.

I know many decentralized applications that opt for IPFS for their storage component, and know of the libraries to help different software stacks with that. But I can't tell if it is right for me, versus the state of Swarm.
On the other side of spectrum there are those people who "really want to learn real programming" but you have to do all the work for them. You point them at the resources, contribute ideas and it turns out person is not following through even though when they talk they are enthusiastic.

So basically you have to somehow spot right person to spend time with, and it is hard. At least guys that don't want to be mentored are not time sinks.
"There are ways to get money without VC, there are many small business loans out there, there's also friends and family which you can also get loans from,... You can also raise from Angels with non-traditional VC terms such as profit sharing."

For those developing hard technologies, there are also plenty of non-dilutive government grants. SBIRs are a popular funding mechanism that typically start in the $200k-$300k range and can go up to $millions if the technology goals are met. There are also many other government funding mechanisms, especially if your technology is health or defense related. The downside of all these government grants is (1) timing - it usually takes ~>6 months from proposal to $ in bank and (2) inflexible - if your plans change, it is not easy to pivot the use of the $.
Thanks for clarifying, we're in agreement there.
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