skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There should be no level of “success” that lets you speak your mind without fear of consequence.

Yes there should be. In other times, it was being an ordinary private citizen of the United States.

When what’s on your mind are things like baseless accusations of pedophilia, for example, you ought to be afraid of “saying the wrong thing.”

"Speaking your mind" isn't exactly the same thing as engaging in defamation.
Imagine a phone carrier dropping your calls before the phone even rang on the other end. This is how I feel most of the time when I email people.

Every new recipient I email, if I don't hear from them within 2 days, I have to contact them out of band to ask them to check their spam folder. The problem is usually Gmail's heavy filtering.
Which leads one to think explanation #2 is most likely.
>insert xkcd framework reference<
The article does not cover at all why black people didn't invent their own film technology or were a sufficiently organised or attractive consumer group to spur someone else to (it was chocolate and furniture makers)

"Hating" is perhaps too strong a word, but the author makes multiple accusations of racism against companies, technicians etc - from my reading thinking things are far too intentional and getting angry/offended - where in reality it's a mix of money and physics - not racism against a people.
"Hallstedt claimed that the studio relies heavily on temporary workers "on a 9 month on, 3 month off cycle with zero benefits near minimum wage, strung along with lukewarm messaging that maybe you'll be hired 'after the next contract"

Contractors generally don't have benefits. I've been contracting for over a decade and have paid for insurance out of my own pocket the entire time.

I also don't get why they are complaining about their wages. They took the contract with the understanding that they would get paid a certain amount. If you want more, negotiate for more.

I gave my self a raise last year by doubling my rate. Some companies didn't accept it, but I not only found plenty that did, but the quality of the work is far superior.

If you don't want the risks of being a contractor, which is essentially like running your own company, get a full time job.
Don't forget that he's also a WWE Hall of Famer.

https://www.wwe.com/superstars/donald-trump
Not really, Musk owns a controlling share of Tesla. If he decides he doesn't want a board member, they are out. No board member is going to go against him.
> Closely related to speaking poorly is sounding disinterested. It's an absolute turn-off to hear somebody who's dead inside and their job is like a prison. It can also be taken as disrespectful. I'm taking the time to interview you, and I expect you to show some modicum of interest in the process.

Along those lines...

One warning flag to me is interviewees who ask no questions, or who ask pedestrian questions.

So much of what programmers do boils down to asking the right question - and then answering it. Why doesn't this loop exit? Who's maintains that piece of code? What authorizations do I need to fix this problem? What if we simply let this bug be? How do I know the right time to optimize code? What are my supervisor's/company's larger goals with this project?

Beyond that, it takes research to ask good questions about a company or person a job candidate will be interviewing with. The interviewee who comes prepared with good questions to inject into the conversation is someone who has a plan.

An interviewee who asks no good questions looks like someone who needs a lot of direction. That's something to explore in an interview, but there's really not much time. The safer bet is to pass.
I mean I don’t like the guy but he’s certainly for the most part succeeded in what he’s set out to do with his life
Why are people so lazy at naming? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_(software)

What ever happened to meaningful names that described the particular, not the meme?
In practice this boils down to, "you use whatever your language provides".

If sorting became a bottleneck, I'd literally look at every possible approach to speed it up that I could find before considering improving the sorting algorithm. Starting with trying to figure out how to throw around less data while trying to solve the problem.
Mark Zuckerberg -This Week I Talked with Yuval Noah Harari
I see that too in Firefox on macOS, even with all blocking turned off.

You can fix it with Vim’s ^L command (control-L: refresh display). I’ve had to do that in the MacVim GUI occasionally too, especially when displaying symbols such as “→” that are wider than a normal character.
Better that what I've been seeing, which is Google just sending emails sent from my private domain to spam, with no bounce back or notification of any kind. This is despite the fact that I send the emails FROM gmail using their 'send as' feature. Nor does it seem to matter if I'm writing to a contact whom I've exchanged many emails with in both directions for years. If I send from my @gmail address they always go through. Send the same content from my domain and it's a crapshoot.

Edit: And of course, I do have DKIM and SPF configured.
Anyone have details about about where you get these tiny ferrite cores? I just assumed they were no longer available.

I have a card of core memory from maybe a DEC10, but the fine copper wires woven through the cores are starting to break. Not sure what I should do to preserve it.
You can't think of a more likely reason why Saudi Arabia has influence? Wow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)...
Unix packages are an extra. On true Unixen, /usr and /usr/local exist for a reason.
Incidentally, that video is very nice for showing off global illumination in 3D rendering.
He acts like he’s above the law, which you are in a way when you’re a billionaire. Money is power. You don’t even have to be a billionaire (see: POTUS and pre presidency crimes). The system is of course tilted towards those with means, it’s ridiculously silly to propose otherwise.

Musk is going to get off with slap on the wrist (relatively), with damages due of single digit millions at most. De minimis.
Absolutely. While every job will depend on sort, so many of them will have negligible benefit by changing the least efficient algorithm to the most.

And most of them just use a native language sort that does something relatively smart out of the box.

It's good to write all of these at don't point so you understand why things are inefficient.
Ever tried https://protonmail.com/ ? I wonder if they face the same kind of challenged?
Thanks for wading in.

"Gmail does not, inherently, have any network effects" - you do and you can't help it.

I've been doing email for quite a while (20 odd years) and I don't find Gmail refusing my customer's email for silly reasons too often.

I have had some odd rejections from Gmail (int al) and no-one to talk to. You opine that Postmaster tools are under-invested in but actually miss the real point:

You (G) seem to under-invest in people and put too much faith in magic (AI/ML/nonsense). I really am not a Luddite (I'm giving the tyres on my smart new Node-RED home IoT thingie a good talking to via Javascript right now) but please don't forget ... "memento homo")
That's fair, but still by virtue of being successful (in this particular context of success) you have a lot more money which offers you a lot more freedom to express yourself. Musk is practically free to do most anything he wants to do, but he chooses to stay in a position where he exposes himself to risk by not tempering himself.
Don't call the president of the United States a success?

Sounds like you're letting your emotions get the best of you.
Well, I guess I can add a new line to my personal creed:

If I fail, let it be like Trump.
I’m pretty sure his life goal reads “you’re the best dolan!”

He makes the rest up as he goes.
> I would not consider converging economic interests ties.

This seems to be exactly what 'ties' are, here.
typical United States
i won't lie, i honestly would harbor such suspicions about any euro-looking person that visits thailand, especially if they visit for extended periods of time. i wouldn't just call someone a pedophile without some kind of reason, though...that's a pretty serious thing.

the properly wretched things some visitors and expats get up to in thailand and it's neighbors is just tragic. a lot of underage sex trafficking and abuse goes on. in fact, it's not that unheard of for police to basically extort sex-tourist "johns" who thought they had paid for time with a kid, but got "busted".
some might say that’s a feature though!
A book is considerably more browsable than a 6 hour audio recording.
I used to joke about solving problems from yesterday while taking a shower or crossing the street to the office but this is deadly serious.

I’m solving problems not just because I’m doing a mundane task and have time to ruminate. It’s also because I just slept and am fully rested.

If a mechanic treated his tools like we treat our bodies his coworkers would look down on him for sloppiness. Take care of your “tools”.
> The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis remains controversial, but it's a well-known linguistic hypothesis that language available influences thought.

As far as I'm aware, it wasn't even a hypothesis, it was a shower thought.

It's probably right in some limited ways, but until somebody shows me the exotic grammar in their language which makes it dramatically simpler to express the discoveries of the field of astrophysics, I'm not convinced there's much there.

There are a handful of languages whose speakers express radically different views of numeracy from indo-european and asian language speakers, but as long as you're expressing the same concept with broadly similar power, it's not clear that the language itself informs the concept. There's nothing profound about a numeral, especially a numeral for "1", and there's mostly nothing special about words like "ennui".

> We created neural networks inspired by the way we understand mammalian brains to work, right?

Not exactly, no. The neural network metaphor is broadly related to all things with neurons, and based on a specific simplification of the concept of neurons which is general and abstract enough that it maps about as well to plant signaling as it does to insect or mammal signaling.
> the presidency is not finished yet

Please read. I already handled your observation.

I'm saying that it ain't over untill the fat lady sings.

If he gets lawsuited as hell ( and loses) and all his loyalists starts to abandon him or if the business of renting out his name also takes a serious decline after his presidency. Or even jail-time depending on what happens.

I consider it a failure, yes.

I also think they the people he's putting in the chair, aren't loyal to him ( no, not the Russians story. Talking about the tea party)

Ps. Trump wanted to be president the last 20 years. So that part worked yes. To be determined of it was a smart move ( eg. The Simpsons prediction 16 years ago wasn't made from thin air)

He wanted to be president, so the T. Name would benefit, so he could earn more money. That's what's troubling me.

I don't hate Trump or anything. I just think he's unworthy for presidency. Those are totally different things and in the other comments, I also have facts-based arguments which you seem to lack.
American Civil War 2: Media will have itself to blame if all hell breaks loose
I feel like Uber can always make money as a marketplace - but competitive pressures from other marketplaces will drive profits down. However, is there any further growth in the model? Seemingly no unless they gain monopoly.
Nobody in Hollywood is afraid of consequences for baseless accusations of anyone supporting the president as being a Nazi.
The US army (Air Force didn’t exist then) started the Nuclear Energy for the Propulsion of Aircraft program in May of 1946, Feynman was 28 at the time however he did work on the Manhattan Project and using nuclear propulsion for submarines, aircraft and surface vessels heck even trains were things that people at Los Alamos and other labs were actively working on since the late 30’s.

So it wasn’t that much of a crazy thing to work on, heck while looking back at it I’m sure Feynman was in jest but I’m not sure it was the case when he was in his mid 20’s.
Batteries and nuclear power are probably surprisingly good analogies, inasmuch as both of them take obscene amounts of capital to productionalize.

Per Brookings [1] the Manhattan project cost 2018:USD$34.52 billion.

For comparison, from the same source, the entirety of US small arms materiel (ex ammunition) for all of WWII cost 2018,USD$38.41 billion.

There was probably very easily a present where the Manhattan project was never funded, and nuclear chain reactions still sound like a crackpot theory.

[1] https://www.brookings.edu/the-costs-of-the-manhattan-project...
Oh yay I can get Vindigo running on a device again
If you designed a craft to tap undersea cables, what would it look like?
American Physical Society Climate Change Workshop (2014) [pdf]
You are just fundamentally wrong. There is a cost associated with operating the “dispatch,” operating the car and paying the employees/contractors. Take that cost, distribute it over the number of rides you expect to give to your customers and then add a little on top. The question is whether or not the customers will engage in that transaction or is the cost too high? Uber has plenty of fat to cut. If it were running efficiently, there is no possible way it would go out of business. You think Uber will raise their prices 10 percent and then everyone will decide to give up ride-sharing? Uber is the most efficient method of doing taxis. It succeeds by default. I don’t understand how you can possibly think that Uber can’t make money.
What I think you mean to say is that if these cancers were caused by environmental contamination, we would expect to see elevated levels of other cancers as well.

First, I'm not sure this is true for all forms of cancer and all types of carcinogens. While it's true that tobacco smoke contains a wide variety of carcinogens and causes a wide variety of cancers, it doesn't seem impossible that some particular chemical might cause an increase in rhabdomyosarcomas without producing a general increase. For example, I don't think that asbestos exposure leads to an across the board increase in all cancers, just an increase in lung cancer and mesothelioma. What makes you so sure that there cannot exist a more focused carcinogen that causes just rhabdomyosarcoma?

Second, you seem to be assuming that just because the article focuses on one particular type of cancer, that the town does not have elevated levels of other cancers. Do you have outside evidence that makes you so sure of this that you conclude that the increased rate of once type of cancer "must be a statistical artifact" rather than evidence of a greater underlying problem that merits further research?
The thing about a heavily armed society is that it necessitates law enforcement preparing for armed resistance in routine tasks as a default rather than exceptional case, if nothing else to reduce the probability of such resistance by reducing the expectation of it being successful.

You can't reasonably both have a pervasively armed populace and law enforcement unprepared to deal with armed resistance from suspects even when the crime of which they are suspected is not itself violent.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/donald-trump-was-a-stock-m...

I'm not sure if we know the entire story.

To be honest, his taxes would prove that I'm right or wrong.

If he had profits and if he isn't living on borrowed money that much. Kudus to him, very well played.

But my gut says otherwise. I think time will tell.

But for now, I think Daddy's money and 1 success ( T. Tower) with a couple of ongoing things derived from that 1 success 30 years ago ( Name licensing mostly, presidency was a business move to make it more popular, it seemed to have failed)

Your personal creed should be: I wished my dad would have a lot of money ( 230 million $) for me to invest for over 50 years ;)

Ps. If you question where the money came from. It's paid back with the tax reform that he pushed. Everyone lost except the top 1%. He still knows successful people, although he isn't one.
I predict that this patent is legally irrelevant, because it will expire (20 years) before there are any (working) implementations.
I agree on "if you aren't interesting" but disagree on the things and people requirement.

I believe an interesting person can create interesting photos of almost anything.
That's the opinion of a Trumpian shill, one who should have the experience to know:

1) Predicting the time of economic tops and bottoms is usually inaccurate.

2) Reading economic variables and predicting a change in cycle phase is usually accurate.

The yield curve, company earnings reports, commodity and energy usage trends all point to an economy which is maxed out. Interest rates are at a minimum. Energy prices have increased from their minima. New home sales and construction: past peak. Employment: top of the curve.

It is anyone's guess how long the economy hovers where it is before contracting, but it will contract.
I feel like there is a hidden metaphor for OSS companies hiding in this article:

> Customers benefited, but no one else did

Customers being the users of OSS, the ones not benefiting being the companies making it
I appreciate your concern, and your moral obligation to try and tell people. I do not mean to be rude to you, but your understanding is outdated and wrong.

Saturated fats are actually good for you as these fats are required for a healthy metabolism and endocrine system. They also comprise a good portion of your cell membrane.

Saturated fats and cholesterol do not clog your arteries. We initially thought that because it was present in atherosclerosis, but it turns out we were blaming the responders to the crime scene, and not the actual cause: inflammation brought on by high carbohydrate diets. Note: if you read further into this, big food companies were also involved in influencing the negative stance on fats by our politicians back in the 50s, helping create our current obesity epidemic.

I'm on mobile, but will link to current research when I remember. Also, source: I do research at a medical research university in the div of cardiology/endocrinology.
Kubrick didn't know there was a last chapter until later.
Understood regarding name calling, but the other guy literally cited a wikipedia article on Nazi Concentration Camps to corroborate what he was talking about. How did I in that case did I respond to a "weaker interpretation that was easier to criticize"?
That's very cool. Good luck!
> That simply is not relevant anymore if 99% of email is on Gmail.

He says elsewhere that more email is sent via Exchange servers than GMail.
Fake it till you make it.

No money was involved for sure ;) - https://youtu.be/jkghtyxZ6rc
I'm not really sure what it is you expect to bite me about using a term as almost everyone else has and continues to use it.
Then you have failed to counter the claim of "One of the primary arguments in favour of cryptocurrency is avoiding the fragility of fractional reserve banking."
> Without the innovation of the Uber app, the traditional taxi cartels would have no incentive to improve their services and the fact that they have been forced to do so in order to compete benefits the consumer.

The taxi “cartels” can’t “compete” with Uber or “improve their services” to match Uber. Some of the key things that make Uber attractive to customers is low rates and the ease of booking through an app. Taxi companies are *legally prohibited” from competing on rates. Rates are set by the government, and surge pricing (which allows Uber to offer cheaper rates to more cost sensitive customers by charging more to less cost sensitive customers) is illegal for taxis. Likewise, the government usually regulates metering and payment processing for cabs. It’d be illegal for most cab companies to do GPS based metering and smart phone billing like Uber.
Google search only has 60% of my content from 2006
Take out the drivers and you have a company that makes short term rentals of automobiles to consumers. There are already companies that do this. You may have rented a car from one of them last time you traveled. Take a look at Hertz or Budget and see if those are companies you actually want to be invested in.

And regarding patents: what will probably end up happening with self-driving patents is that there will be a bunch of different entities (everyone currently working on self-driving tech) that will cross license their IP to each other. A patent in this space is going to be good for licensing fees, but not for giving yourself a monopoly on self-driving tech.
I had assumed that in geopolitics the order goes:

1. Security interests

2. Economic interests

3. Shared values
It has, in fact, happened on numerous occasions. It happens less often now because police have taken precautions against it.

There are legitimate bases for debate about the details of those precautions, but “there was no problem for them to address” is not one of them.
I think he would have more power and impact, regardless of any spare billions, if he would choose words carefully. Increase the signal-to-noise ratio of his twitter feed. Billionaire means you can get away with various things. Billionaire plus diligent attention doing a great job in public communications, that’s a winner.
The article author may have setup a strawman. From http://www.feministvoices.com/alice-eagly/:

> Eagly began working with Wendy Wood to develop an extension of social role theory which they called the biosocial extension: "So that's the effort, to understand that, and not to deny that there would be direct genetic influences on psychological dispositions or [that they could be] hormonally mediated. No doubt there is some [influence], but to bring in another set of causal influences, and then to try to understand how they all work together. So not to be just a nurture psychologist, but a nature-nurture psychologist".
You could argue Musk wasn't really making a specific attack against the person related to any specific action/activity he did in his life (for example volunteer rescue work helping children) (AFAIK). It could easily be perceived as just a general insult Musk made in response to an attack.

Rather than Musk's intention was actually proposing he is a pedophile because of his involvement in x... Which would be far easier for the 'victim' to disprove as a false statement and connected to specific work and specific losses (ie, his volunteer work which he draws emotional happiness) the person might then loose out on said work in the future because he was falsely labeled a pedophile.

The latter situation is usually how it'd have to work. Something concrete and specific.

Otherwise it's perfectly legally to insult people on the Internet and hurt their feelings.
I very much want to believe that Google cares about small email providers and self-hosters. I believe that you care personally, but have a look at the documentation. All the help articles target bulk-hosters, the documentation doesn't even mention humans! The case that a human wants to send an email to another human, which is the very reason email was created in the first place, is not even covered or planned, so I'm pretty sure Google doesn't care about collateral like us, who have fun caring about their own email servers, playing by the rules and doing everything to not be on blacklists.

Why not count the amount of emails coming from those domains and give them a "softer" filtering algo if it's below a certain threshold? Or open a whitelisting program where you can go full Google on people who violate the terms? I think there are (automatable) ways to solve this problems, but only if Google understands that emails are for human interaction, not to receive ads.

(Edited for typos)