skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of a recent conversation with Tyler Cowen and Jordan Peterson: https://medium.com/conversations-with-tyler/tyler-cowen-jord...:

COWEN: If we turn to senior management of large American companies, as a class of people — and I know it’s hard to generalize — but what do you see them as just not getting?

PETERSON: I would caution them not to underestimate the danger of their human resources departments.

COWEN: Say more.

PETERSON: Yeah, well, because I see that the social justice etiology that’s destroyed a huge swath of academia is on the march in a major way through corporate America. And if the corporate people think they’re immune to it, they’ve got another think coming. It’s not like they’re any smarter than the universities.

COWEN: And who gave the HR department so much power? How did that happen? What myth did we follow that led us wrong?

PETERSON: That’s a good question because they had virtually no power to begin with, right? HR departments have always been underpowered, so to speak.

If Google is still mostly focused on writing software and building the future, rather than prosecuting culture wars, that strikes me as a slight but real positive sign.
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oh no. not on here also.....
That law protects against retaliation only against certain protected actions by the employees. Nothing these Google employees did is even close to being on that list. The Google employees simply didn't like what their company was doing and decided to take a very public action against it. There is nothing protected about that at all, whatsoever. I don't even think it would be covered if they were unionized.
UX Lessons from Nigerian Churches
> I want to agree with that statement. But, there's a problem: how can we come up with a method of judging worth that doesn't rely on some sort of "over-human validator" (e.g. God)?

Our brains are pretty well built for this. Are you sure that requiring human-type validation is even avoidable at all?
Some people said they got 60 fps on iPhone X. :) Personally, I'm getting 25 fps on MacBook 13, 3.1 GHz Intel Core i7 with Intel Iris Graphics 6100.
What we can learn about startups from conspiracy theories
> May I ask how the word "shitty" more truthful than "poorly written" or "complex"?

Evokes emotions people affected by a situation can sympathize with more effectively, which by virtue of establishing a shared emotional bond over a topic helps the developer convey not just the situation but the frustrations of the situation more effectively than one might expect "poorly written" or "complex" to do alone.

> Citing professionalism isn't a quip, it's shorthand for a code of conduct and long accepted practices of interaction with others.

The code of conduct isn't uniform, so it can't be used effectively as shorthand for such. But at this point we're in the weeds.

Again, no short-term revenue prospects, just a tool OP wants to socialize to make a few lives easier. If you have an objection over verbiage, that's fine, but it's an exhibition of professionalism from yourself to the OP to build a sound defense of your position as to how it would help the engineer to self-censor the description of a tool where the audience by-and-large may not care.

Up to you. My point is the engineer doesn't need to suppress who they are in this specific context, and my point to you is it shouldn't impact your usage of what looks to be an effective short-term debugging tool.
They lost me as a customer this year because of this exact reason.

I started doing my taxes in turbo tax this year. After a few screens I got the upgrade option for extra deductions and saving money. I clicked ok and got upgraded. I followed through the entire taxes and my return didn’t change. NO WAY to downgrade. Clearly, they got theirs.

I opened up Taxact and filled up their forms and my returns were the same without upgrading (to their equivalent option). I filed with TaxAct and removed my info from TurboTax. I will definitely use them to compare my taxes if I ever have to but I will not file using TurboTax. POS.
An annotated analysis of the EU Ethics Guidelines For Trustworthy AI
>Google has a culture of retaliation, which too often works to silence women, people of color, and gender minorities

Are there more stories on this?
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> retarded morons

> low-effort dipshits

> they couldn't understand certain facts about the universe, even if they wanted to

> I wish the world wasn't like this.

Maybe "the world" isn't the problem in these interactions?
I don't know what's "fairly strange" about it. Meat consumption, for Americans, does not make up a big fraction of our CO2 footprint.

Globally it's quite significant, but "get[ting] in front of developing nations eating of ruminants" is a much more politically fraught issue than doing the same in the U.S. My brother and I are 3-4 inches taller than my dad, because we grew up on a meat and dairy rich American diet, versus the rice and lentil-based diet my dad grew up with in his village in Bangladesh. Help me figure out the right messaging for what we should tell Bangladeshis that they shouldn't eat meat now that they're finally getting to be able to afford it.

As to the other components of GHG emissions--those are ramping up outside the U.S. as well, explosively so. Food delivery services are becoming quite popular in Dhaka. Help me figure out the messaging for how we tell Bangladeshis they can't have drive-through Starbucks and avocado toast like western people.
Just wondering, why do people not use Coq/Isabelle/Agda/etc in order to check such proofs? Wouldn't that save them from the "shame" of producing yet-another-incorrect P(!)=NP proof?
Though another point made is that USA has been exporting it's carbon emissions to China. In other words, they are an extension of US consumption since so much of what we buy here, is made there. It's entirely possible our decrease is correlated to their increase.
I do that often and never found one... some can even be hidden inside the slot: https://www.geek.com/chips/this-card-skimmer-is-so-slim-it-w...
Does this work in Jupyter? That would be a good use case for it. In pretty much everything else you really should be setting up a debugger...
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There aren't any "synthetic meat" products. These are plant proteins; and my understanding of the related Impossible burger co. uses a GMO to produce an animal protein within a plant.
Going through vimtutor two times increased my editing speed significantly.
Social Security is projected to be insolvent in 2035, exactly when Gen X begins to hit retirement age:

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/22/social-security-is-headed-fo...
yes I meant I didn't see anything very old.

I meant that it's just copying the API format (e.g. probably to make migrating from the other service easy) which isn't uncommon (e.g. most of AWS services copied APIs)
Okay, again, I'm uninformed: How is anyone supposed to establish WHY a company does something? The rule says, "For example, depending on the facts, it could be retaliation if an employer acts because of the employee's EEO activity to..."

The word because bewilders me here.
Who knows why anyone does anything?
I don't know why I do 90% of what I do.
If someone accused me of having tuna for lunch because of someone's EEO activity, how could I possibly prove they were wrong?
I don't think that GP was talking about the people who actually made web assembly, but about those who hype it. I'd be surprised if the former were not full of awareness of and respect towards the technologies that came before.
Gitlab 11.10 Released
I don't understand one thing. The customers know that companies are here just to make money. Then why do they think the letter is coming from the heart? Why don't they think it is some marketing guy's ploy to extract little more value/money?
Load Balancing Data Across a NiFi Cluster
Looks like someone is looking to pull a Peter Thiel. He stole Palantirs primary product from a developer in Florida. The developer sued and won completely, with the court openly declaring that Palantir had stolen his technology lock, stock, and barrel. But... they had enough money that it didn't matter.
Song about Objective-C anti-patterns (2010) [video]
yep, it's planned :) https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte/issues/2464
https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/22/facebook-makes-its-first-b...
Reducing future payouts doesn't make Millennials worse off today from an analysis of the flows of real goods and services. At most, it means they need to save more to maintain the same expected standard of living at retirement, which ends up bidding up asset prices and thus indirectly subsidizing retirees currently selling assets.
It's not just about making it hard to function in society, it's also preventing these people from achieving their goals and being happy (whatever happy is for them).

Usually you can spot a personality disorder objectively if the person has no continuity of any kind in her life: relationships, career, personal achievements...

In the case of wanderlust, it can be an unhealthy coping mechanism: "Something is wrong, I will ignore the problem and travel away".

I have healthy and unhealthy examples of wanderlust in my friends.

One healthy example is a couple of friends traveling together to find out where they would like to settle down and live (there is a goal, the motivation is positive).

One unhealthy example I have is a friend traveling randomly because she doesn't know what to do with her life. When I asked her about her latest travel she couldn't tell me much except "it was great". (no tangible goal, negative motivation, does not seem to enjoy traveling that much).
No, it says farming overall accounts for 8% of green house gas emissions, and animal farming is 42% of that.
The idea that ethnicity means anything beyond appearance and a few specific genetic proclivities is the social construct.

That, and the idea that "races" can be clearly distinguished and defined, as you said.
As a meat eater, I've had mixed results with Beyond Burger and the Impossible Burger. With real meat, it's pretty hard to mess up a burger; if it's anywhere from medium rare to medium well, it's still going to be a pretty tasty burger. The current burger substitutes require a much more narrow window before they just don't taste very good. That said, I'm extremely bullish on these; they're already great and they're only going to get better from here.
Agony of an African Programmer (2014)
JQuery flaw opens the doors for attacks on hundreds of millions of sites
The walkouts were organized to protest ongoing claims of sexual harassment and abuse. That is protected action. Namely, the second bulletpoint here: "communicating with a supervisor or manager about employment discrimination, including harassment"
Sounds like "grievance industry" nonsense...
Something I've always wondered - if only certain instances of 3SAT are difficult, why are those considered the same problem as easy instances of 3SAT? Why do we say 3SAT is hard, rather than 3SAT with specific structure? Or do we lack the ability to determine whether a given instance of 3SAT is hard?
I agree, but after some time I started wondering: What happens if the employers measurement of quality (height) has an uncertainty? If the employer has two candidates very close together, using Bayesian statistics, the employer must conclude that the male (for height) is more likely to be better, because there are more men that are this tall than women. I think this is "fair" for the employer to do, as their goal is to hire the best person. But obviously it's unfair to the tall woman.
I think at the absolute worst I've spent almost 10 minutes painstakingly walking through successive google CAPTCHAs before just giving up. The modern web is basically openly hostile to anonymity (or pseudo anonymity). That's one of those genies I don't see any way of putting back in the bottle : the privacy conscious consumer is just too small to matter at any kind of scale. They end up relegated to a niche set of tools and services (which ironically enough presents a neatly encapsulated attack surface for any malicious actors who might be interested in targeting these users).

Ultimately it may all be moot : we're slowly moving towards the point - still years or decades off, admittedly - when effective de-anonymization of the public internet will become a reality. For better or worse, I guess.
They don’t expect to be fired because it would be against the law if they were.
Because the observability you get with a print statement is limited. You can't do further investigation without modifying the code and running it again. With a debugger you can explore the program state interactively.

My experience with python is limited but in my day job it's not uncommon to be tracking down stuff that happens infrequently. Debug cycles get brutally long.
> this.set is almost identical to the this.setState method used in classical (pre-hooks) React

It's an amazing reflection on the velocity of the web & JS ecosystem that React APIs prior to hooks, which were shipped all of 3 months ago, can be sincerely referred to now as 'classical' :-)
I used to own/run a hot sauce biz. I did quite a bit of sales, but it started to grow to the point where it was eating into all my spare time, and quitting my day job to pursue it full-time wouldn't have been equitably profitable for many many years. So I ended up dropping it.
When a Country Bans Social Media
Something to consider is that when you look down, the bottom is not low status jobs. It is living on the streets, prisons, and mental institutions (prisons have largely supplanted these, at least in the US).
Don't ants in a colony all share the same genes and have the queen do all reproducing? (From the sperm of a single male possibly? I'm not super familiar.)
Any evidences on corruption or bureaucracy? Or, its just an opinion.
Last few years India has specifically worked on corruption and bureaucracy. Specially in ease of doing business it has gone up from being at 100+ position to 53 in last 10 years. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ease_of_doing_business_index

Indian government can definitely improve (and so can every governments of world). But since 1991 all Indian governments are taking slow steps in the right direction, with increase transparency and lesser corruption and bureaucracy (opening up the economy, digitizing governments, simplifying taxes, right to information act)
The problem with that, like so many laws, is that you have to prove motive for the law to work. I'm sure the previous commenter is not so naive as to think companies give a formal, written demotion stating that their EEO activity was the reason.
Microsoft engineer complains that company is biased against white men
What? No. WASI isn't meant to be implemented by the browser. It's meant for WASM runtimes outside of the browser, like Lucet and Wasmer.

People have been experimenting with "WASM outside the browser" for a while now, and WASI is just an API for making OS calls that a runtime can implement.
Why is it against HN guidelines? If something's actually racist, it should definitely be called out.

Not saying the original comment was racist, but in general I don't think we should be promoting racism.
pea protein isolate, expeller-pressed canola oil, refined coconut oil, water, yeast extract, maltodextrin, natural flavors, gum arabic, sunflower oil, salt, succinic acid, acetic acid, non-GMO modified food starch, cellulose from bamboo, methylcellulose, potato starch, beet juice extract (for color), ascorbic acid (to maintain color), annatto extract (for color), citrus fruit extract (to maintain quality), vegetable glycerin.

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Beef
>Have committed to $22MM of protein

I've never understood this convention and it always causes my brain to short-circuit when trying to read it. Is that $22 Million Monies, or $22 MegaMillions

I'm assuming that the shorthand is supposed to be read as: $22 Million

So then I spend the next 5 minutes stuck in a feedback loop of what the hell am I supposed to be thinking.
And it'd probably cost a billion dollars. Government contracting is way more corrupted than the shenanigans alleged by this article.
Next time they should communicate with their supervisor in binary encoded ASCII, 1s encoded in days they are in office and 0s in days they are out of office ;)

Edit: Guys stop hating me im just trying to help the cause!1!!
A good start with Sri Lanka...now how to get the other clueless countries in on this.
Per another Wired article [1], they organized the walkout to protest sexual harassment:

> Thousands of Google employees and contractors around the globe—many of them women—briefly walked off the job Thursday to protest Google’s handling of sexual harassment claims and other workplace issues, and to demand more transparency around harassment incidents and pay levels at the company.

The aforelinked EEOC page [2] explicitly mentions that asserting your right to not be harassed is protected activity:

> communicating with a supervisor or manager about employment discrimination, including harassment

> Other acts to oppose discrimination are protected as long as the employee was acting on a reasonable belief that something in the workplace may violate EEO laws

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/google-walkout-just-latest-sign-...

[2] https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/retaliation.cfm
When you run a multi-billion dollar company, you need to know why you do 90% of what you do. If you don't, you can talk about it with people called "lawyers" who can tell you whether it's a good idea or a bad one before you do it.

They demoted two employees who were highly performing, weren't told otherwise, but coincidentally highly instrumental in organizing and staging protests. Doesn't take a genius to figure out why they were forcibly transferred.
Because I was making a tangential point that had little to do directly with the original comment (if by original you mean your top level one). I was responding specifically to "TBH I don't agree that one level of skepticism should be warranted for all things." as I just wanted to flush out that that concept a bit more. Usually, I quote what I'm responding to, but I was on my phone earlier, and the inconvenience that causes sometimes outweighs my desire to do so for the sake of clarity.

You may note that I clearly steered my example away from the topic at hand to avoid getting it tied up in a topic that I think is contentious because it affects people's personal interpretation of themselves. I did so by steering it to another charged topic, but one a little less tied to an individual and one that has numerous examples of very thorough science. I'm not sure why I chose inconvenient specifically, other than it encapsulated colloquially what I was trying to express. It's been used for the same purpose previously, and famously so, in "An inconvenient truth", so perhaps that affected my choice.

I get the feeling you really want me to apply the word inconvenient towards the topic at hand and your statement in some way. Honestly, since your comment is mostly about making sure we take it carefully and really understand it, I'm not sure I have a useful way to apply it without being ham-fisted and forcing it, which I would prefer not to do. If I had to apply it towards the topic of cognitive differences between the sexes (or even the races), I would say it applies only inasmuch as if the science disagrees with (or as you state, conveniently agrees with) the popular narratives, we should still look at them closely and follow the science, but we should be careful not to let our preconceptions steer us from changing our view little by little and more evidence comes in. I seriously doubt any neurological differences amount to much in comparison to natural variation and environmental factors, but I also don't think it's fair of me to prevent future people from having a better understanding of how, in general, their neurological processes might differ from other people in positive and negative ways in multiple different aspects, and how to take advantage of or mitigate them as needed.

As an example of this, my oldest daughter has ADHD. In her junior year of high school, she's finally learning techniques to mitigate the problems this causes for her (as well as the benefits), Having an explanation and template for her behavior and how we should interpret it was invaluable to us. It's not perfect (what template could be when applied to an individual?), but it did help us all channel our frustrations into useful life strategies, as parents and for her as a child. If an area of research that yields better understanding of our minds overall hampered because of our inability as a society to accept where it conflicts with our ideas of equality (as weirdly disjointed and unevenly applied as those are), then I think we are all worse off for it.
I would guess it would go like this:
1. Fired employee sues employer
2. During discovery, fire employees lawyer requests all documentation/emails/performance reviews for employee
3. Lawyer tries to show proof there was no other reason for the firing.
I like this article -- its accurate and describes real pain points in the existing debugger experience which _do_ have technical causes that might ultimately derive from language/ecosystem design flaws.

I'm curious to see what the author's team is building. I'm quite excited to see language-level adoption of debugger features. It's unfortunate to me that debugger's are mainly bolted onto the side of language's with (at best) convention-based 'semantics' baked into the compiler/interpreter implementation. With the interface to 'debugger semantics' completely outside the code and with at most a language-level 'debugger' statement that is basically equivalent to adding a non-conditional breakpoint.

How about a language with a debugger() {} block so that the full logic for logpoints, breakpoints, conditional breakpoints can be persisted in the source rather than in inherently non-scalable ide gui -- and specified as part of the language design?

How about something like debugger() { setRewindTarget("point1") } -- for capturing a particular program state in a returnable way -- with perhaps some semantics/heuristics around the behavior of common abstractions which interface with out-of-process contexts (sockets and files) -- and/or the ability to specify what you want to happen to those kinds of resources inside the debugger {} block so that you can quickly create exactly the rewind behavior you want for a particular task.

How about more dynamic and easily queryable debugger contexts: 'break on first execution of each line in each function in project (for reading a new codebase)', 'break on first execution of code changed in last n commits', 'break on code written by author according to git blame' ...

How about features for augmenting print() based debugging. Baked the semantics needed to support a value-history inspector into the language implementation. A program should be able to describe 'debuglog(matrix as image)', 'debuglog(object as tree view)' and the _language_ should ensure the program is compatible with a debugger protocol able to communicate with an appropriate rendering context capable of displaying these in a useful way ...
Sure, you don't think Google will find a way to identify these "problem" employees, transfer them to a pointless project or put them on something that will cause them to leave on their own accord?

Their managers could easily give them CMEs for good reason (wasting time on activist bullshit instead of doing work, etc..), essentially forcing them to leave...
Did you look at the linked article? It's not verbatim. It's clear that it was heavily based on Smartcar's docs, but it's most certainly not verbatim.
“love to blame individuals for systemic issues.”
M is the Roman numeral for 1000, so MM is a thousand thousands, in other words a million.
frankly I am quite skeptical of the macro-economic predictions of a 'blockchain mark consultant'
...never mind the fact that it costs several hundreds of dollars per year, even for personal use, while pretty much every computer ships with Python.