skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea is to embarrass Google as an organization into changing their culture or at least the optics surrounding that culture.
Even if it doesn't change cultures, at least it provides some proportional amount of money to (try to) fix the problem, rather than ignoring it or digging into the general tax fund.
I suggest making it wider like [--]
No, and for most people, breaking out of poverty requires a lot more than just high-demand skills.

Mindsets, networks, seed funds (to buy interview clothes and travel to interviews), safety nets, self-confidence, time, cultural assumptions, knowledge of (or someone to ask about) white-collar professional etiquette, and a whole host of other things that people from upper middle class backgrounds take for granted can make it difficult for people in poverty to find or keep jobs with those new skills.

And if you have no rainy day fund, an unexpected expense like a car breakdown (because you couldn’t afford a reliable car in the first place) can derail you and force you to start all over again.
I think perhaps there’s likely thousands of tornadoes that never got recorded due to locality in low population areas.

I grew up in tornado alley and can remember many tornadoes that did little or no damage that never got a blip in the news.

Urban areas in 1950 were small compared to today - perhaps our population and technology are just exposing more than we knew before.
Seems to be what they used to do prior to deregulation and to a lesser extent in the 90s/2000s. Every flight being full is a more recent phenomena and they are getting better at it over time [1]. When flights aren't full you can pull a plane out of its normal route and fly those passengers on the later one.

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/flights/todayinthesky/...
I wish that there were some easy way to integrate the general philosophical concept of ublock origin into the rest of my life, outside a web browser.
There's also 10,000+ aircraft (and over a million people!) in the air at any time, and those planes have nav lights and strobes that are much brighter than satellites.
It’s probably more accurate to call this article “the future of UI/UX development on Apple platforms.”

That said, I enjoyed the read. I think that HTML + CSS has always been a nice way to lay out and design a screen, even though there are real limits to what you can do in a browser versus native software.

The idea of future Apple platforms having something a bit like CSS with media queries to define how views should display - and more interestingly, behave - across multiple platforms, is pretty neat.
It’s like when magazines estimate their readership, there’s no regulator checking their numbers so it’s just something buyers have to accept.

Completely untrue. There are several organizations that audit print circulation very closely. And the more closely a print publication is audited, the more it can charge for advertising.

One org is The Alliance for Audited Media: https://auditedmedia.com
Just added a Linux build to the website. Enjoy!
Does that one give my rough location?
A day of social media silence
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If you're suggesting that anything not originating on an enumerated list of IP's for localhost cannot request an url for something that resolves to an entry in an enumerated list of IP's for localhost, that would be possible, but is not really representative of the entire surface area of the effect demonstrated in the article.

It's also entirely possible you have some development api running on a particular port on localhost, and some app running in a container or VM that wants to make calls to it.
Basic decency, no nudity, and no violent or hateful speech. And after that, we felt some reluctance to interpose our value system ...

OK, so the video did not violate Facebook's standards and they decided to leave it up.

... after Facebook learned that the video was a fake, it "slowed down the virality."

Wait a minute, the video either broke the rules or it didn't.

If it broke the rules, then take it down.

If it didn't break the rules, then what justification does Facebook have to bury it?
For an open-source phone to work, the devs will need to be paid.

Open source as charity has run out of steam; to survive, open source must be profitable.

The way to do it is to have a license under which all uses personal, educational, hobbyist, etc. are completely free and open source, but as soon as someone wants to sell something with your code in it, you get a cut.

Not entirely unlike a transaction processor like Visa or MasterCard.

It should be viral, so that all commercial software made with software under the license must also be licensed under the license, and the corporation’s commercial code must be available for inspection upon (legal?) inquiry, though the corporation may restrict the ability for others to use their code in other corporations’ commercial applications.

Lock-in is achieved when it’s cheaper and easier for these freeloading corporate entities to pay up (the devs) than it is to try to rewrite everything.
I don’t think it would necessarily matter.

But it might be an indication of how “open” Google is to complete outsiders as opposed to people who were insiders but now just happen to not work for Google. Whether or not that matters is another question entirely.

But like I said, I don’t think it matters in the context of how much control Google has over the language. Many successful languages are either driven by an individual benevolent dictator or a company. As far as I can tell, languages controlled by community/committees tend to evolve more slowly. That’s okay at some point in a project. But there is something to be said for a person/company having the ability to rapidly push through changes.
How to find and remove outliers using JointPlot in Seaborn Library?
This is getting off-topic but it's basically two parts: the first being the he attended an optional “Diversity and Inclusion Summit” and had a strong emotional reaction, which he made an effort to circulate around the company for several months. It's loaded with emotional language (“an ideological echo chamber where some ideas are too sacred to be honestly discussed”) and claims of authoritarian oppression. That inflammatory rhetoric is what cost him his job because it clearly wasn't just a scientific discussion and left quite plausible grounds for anyone working with (or especially, had he been successful in making it into a leadership role, supervised by) to claim a hostile working environment — which is why he dropped the NLRB claim after it was looking like it'd be unfavorable[1]. Even if you think they're wrong, publicly putting your management in a position like that is unlikely to end favorably.

The second part is the painful irony of his positioning himself as a Man of Science Protecting The Enlightment Against Dogma!!! but what he wrote was a poorly-edited (and don't forget, what finally leaked was presumably better after the several rounds of editing prior to it being published) rehash of traditional reactionary arguments for biological determinism with only a few references to peer-reviewed literature, with little discussion or signs of familiarity with their fields, and instead relying mostly on links to broad Wikipedia pages and conservative blogs. Note how much work it was simply to summarize his claims clearly enough to evaluate them in https://medium.com/@tweetingmouse/the-truth-has-got-its-boot... — that's the most point-by-point examination I've seen and it's considerably longer than the original.

On its own failing to perform at the level of a good student essay would be embarrassing but given the topic and how quick he was to cast this as political oppression while taking as little responsibility as possible for his own actions, I think it warrants the use of “tantrum”.

1. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/02/federal-labor-bo...
Without entering into an argument over the definition of smart, I understand what you're getting at. The top graduates of the top schools empty into finance, big law, medicine, and now big tech. Though it gives me some hope that startups are starting to get their share of talent too, now that companies like YC or VFA are basically throwing money at it.
That's pretty cool. Love that you still have it up.

Mine was "ezinvoice.com". http://web.archive.org/web/20020526173205/http://www.ezinvoi...

I probably have the original code somewhere on a cd-rom but it's been a long time since I've seen it.
Disregarding the fact that this is not what “subsidy” refers to, it’s disingenuous to only count negative externalities without counting positive ones.

air travel, cars, snow blowers, truck transport, train transport, bus transport, natural gas house heating, propane fork lifts, front loaders, orbital rockets (gps anyone?).

Imagine life without these things. To calculate the true cost of oil you need to include its benefits as well. Electric batteries are only just becoming feasible for most of these things.

Of those airplanes and orbital rockets still have no feasible battery alternatives and won’t for some time.
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If DEC had won, would we have the same issue?

"In some cases there’s non-privileged access to suitable timers. For example, in the essentially obsolete Digital/Compaq Alpha processors the architecture includes a processor cycle counter that is readable with a non-privileged instruction. That makes attacks based on timing relatively easy to implement if you can execute appropriate code."

I still call bullshit on his entire hypothesis.

https://hackaday.com/2018/01/10/spectre-and-meltdown-attacke...
Statue of Liberty was created to celebrate freed slaves, not immigrants
This is almost as good:

WARNING
Do not pull the secondary ejection T-handle with the canopy still in place.

https://www.sr-71.org/blackbird/manual/1/1-199.php
Every contingency planned for. Love it.
assortative mating - a certain 'type' of person going to college and meeting people they reproduce with - is also implicated.
Left unexplained is this rather large mystery:

"For the long period from the appearance of modern Homo sapiens up to the starting point of this chart in 10,000 BCE it is estimated that the total world population was often well under one million."

As others have often pointed out, as a large bodied mammal, we would expect humans to be roughly as successful as other widely dispersed large body mammals. And yet its thought that there were 100 million bison on the planet before human civilization arose. So there should have been 100 million humans on the planet. Why would there be so few humans, if other large body mammals were so plentiful? I'm inclined to think they are underestimating the number of humans on the planet in 10,000 BC, or there must be a good reason why there were so few humans.
I'm not sure I call that an "app", though I recall them being very popular in the early days.
But junk is perjorative word which suggests that it is entirely disposable even desirable to remove. That may turn out to be true but the experiment required to prove that thesis would require closely observing a biological systems evolution and disease evolution for some length of time, with "junk" DNA somehow removed and repressed. It may turn out to be a sort of filler with certain characteristics that work out to have repercussions for longer term genetic dynamics, and it may not. Since we cant tell yet, the name for it is very presumptive.
Didn't we already try this and find the results to be kind of... meh? I suppose if Apple makes their own version of WPF and UWP, people will jump on it and decide it's great now, but I'm pretty pessimistic that you can scale the same UI/UX across real computers, tablets, phones, TVs, gaming systems, etc etc without getting a subpar common-denominator experience.
The TSA, like the military, is a jobs program for people that are otherwise unemployable. Probably many people would be disadvanted if it were shut down
You're exactly right, but I think the real world is even more more nuanced than that (particularly when it comes to software).

Some markets just don't exist, period. Think nail polish for pet turtles. It's easy to figure this out, because every pet turtle owner tells you "I wouldn't buy this". There's no two ways about it. You know exactly where you stand.

This is infinitely better than the alternative, which is selling a product that kind-of fits, to a market that kind-of exists. You've identified a problem, everyone is saying "great idea, love the design, etc" - but hardly anyone's buying. They all stall, or come up with excuses as to why they can't buy, even though they say the product is great.

Both are cases of "no market demand", but the former is an infinitely better place to be. You know exactly where you stand and what needs to be done - scrap everything and start over.

The latter is a very dangerous place to be. It's easy to give yourself any number of options - "maybe we just need a (UI redesign|new website|better marketing materials)".
But fundamentally, the product is flawed. You haven't really found a market need. Odds are you've identified a market want. This is something that's nice for people to have (and that they might be happy to use). But it's not compelling enough to reach into your pocket and pay for.

This is an acute problem in software because

(a) we tend to be builders at heart, so we favour making things over identifying customer needs.

(b) it's relatively cheap to build something. Other industries have significantly higher barriers to entry, meaning you (usually) need to secure customers and funding before the production/manufacturing phase.
For those wondering where the quote comes from;

https://monoskop.org/images/e/e0/Raymond_Eric_S_The_Cathedra...
The preachers getting rich from poor Americans
You make a fair point about effective disaster resilience planning, but optimizing for the poor, elderly, mobility-limited, homeless, etc (while virtuous) would merely make that group less vulnerable than those otherwise capable populations, thereby making a new group the most, by the simple definition of the term vulnerable... Thus a tautology.
It's true, that is one of the things about lies, damned lies, and statistics - the more creative you are, the easier it is to invent new record breaking stats.

2000 years seems somewhat arbitrary - would you apply the same threshold to "500 tornadoes within a 30 day span", what about 1,000, what about 10,000?

There probably ought to a threshold where extraordinary evidence is sufficient to make extraordinary claims, otherwise if your requirement is 2000 years, I'm sorry to report that nothing could ever persuade you about climate science, or really most science.
Yes, their national birthrate, for example...
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What is the benefit of having an arch in the nose vs not having one? Or the benefit in light brown hair vs dark brown hair? Or the benefit in light brown eyes vs dark brown eyes?

How about the benefits in male pattern baldness where some of the hair on the scalp is affected by high levels of DHT and some aren't? How about diffused baldness where the way in which a person balds isn't in one particular place and is all over the scalp randomly?

These are all visual, observable examples. But when looking at individual genes, I'm sure you can appreciate that randomness inserts itself there as well - randomly, and not necessarily with any benefit. I don't think its arrogant or naive to appreciate that we are a set of random mutations, some of which have helped us become extremely successful in nature, but some of them don't have those benefits and only survived through luck or selection of other genes in the person they cohabited.
Luckily tornadoes are not actually that destructive on a broad population scale. Out of ~1000 tornadoes per year, there are only about 80 deaths per year on average [1] and the national cost of the damage is around $10-$14b per year [2].

Hurricanes are a lot harder to talk about deaths since hurricanes are so big and cause such widespread damage (although Hurricane Maria is supposedly responsible for around 3,000 deaths), but the economic impacts are much, much larger. Just one hurricane can cause hundreds of billions of dollars in damage [3].

I'm absolutely not arguing in favor of getting rid of FEMA, but there are definitely the costs of some natural disasters that could be avoided by relocating population centers. Although tornadoes are not one of them, in my opinion. The cost and death toll just isn't that high for a tornado.

[1] https://www.depts.ttu.edu/nwi/research/DebrisImpact/Reports/...

[2] https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-tornadoe...

[3] https://coast.noaa.gov/states/fast-facts/weather-disasters.h...
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> is not really representative of the entire surface area of the effect demonstrated in the article

So let's let perfect be the enemy of good? What's the logic here? Let's leave a huge security hole because we can't achieve perfection in all scenarios?

> It's also entirely possible you have some development api running on a particular port on localhost, and some app running in a container or VM that wants to make calls to it.

The VM should be on localhost or you should jump through a few hoops to whitelist it somehow. I see no reason why this should be allowed by default.
So it's just sour grapes for not having your favourite feature implemented?

Okay, fair enough ... but Go was always designed to be a small language with a limited set of features. Many reasonable requests may very well be reasonable on their own, but don't fit with the design aesthetics. It's like trying to add Common Lisp features to Scheme: that might be considered reasonable by some, but it doesn't really fit with Scheme's design. They kind of tried with R6RS and it was massively controversial, and many Scheme implementations stuck with R5RS.

This is the part that so many people don't seem to understand. They confuse "trying to maintain Go's minimalist design aesthetics" with "not open" and "unwilling to listen". Those are not the same things!

Some of the most frequently quoted examples all include things that have either been implemented, or at least seriously considered: monotonic clock, package management, generics (not implemented but Go Core team proposals go back to at least 2010). Arguably, some things took rather long, but again, Go is a small language and changes are discussed and considered for longer than most others. Many consider this good, as it provides a stable working environment to "get stuff done", which is the entire point of Go.

It's also not clear to me that exactly "community-driven" means? The entire community voting on all proposals? Accepting a proposal as long as a subgroup is loud enough? Very few projects – if any – operate like that. There is always a comparatively small group of core developers who, in the end, get to decide.
That's close enough, in big company dynamics being in an unrelated arm can be farther away than some members of the public. Feels like a nit.

I didn't imply every skeptic was donning tinfoil, but I saw a couple claims here and elsewhere in that range.

The default setting is to allow e-mails to be sent confidentially, not to actually send them confidentially. Seems like a typical default. Here's a new feature, by default you're allowed to use it unless domain admins want to disable it.
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junk bonds

shrug

there was just a time when people threw that term around arbitrarily
I've only found a lack of public toilets in conbini in notorious party areas/tourist locations (Shinjuku, Ikebukuro, Shibuya, etc). Any conbini outside of those, or even just on the outskirts have usable toilets.
Thanks for inadvertently pointing me to this [1], it was so interesting!

https://idlewords.com/2012/09/no_evidence_of_disease.htm
Because the Chinese government is dangerous and actively building a surveillance state and running a little genocide experiment at the same time?
I'm going to go against this and say no. We swap gene locations, all the time wholesale in mice, and usually the effect is limited. That doesn't get you a paper, so of course you publish when something... more interesting crops up.

It's just that there are many well-studied systems where where there are profound and severe effects that are singly extremely consequential, where you go "huh, wouldn't have guessed that" and the cause turns out to be really subtle.

If we're going with eukarya writ large, it's even less. Basically entire programs of plant husbandry is the industrial process of performing chromosomal translocation and overloading, and picking the one out a thousand? ten thousand? that reveals a commercially useful variant.

And yeast, well we've sliced and diced those chromosomes like no one's business (but it turns out they are particularly robust). I would go so far to say as "the general rule is that chromosomal location doesn't matter in yeast, with a handful of exceptions".

Conversely, there is one gene whose chromosomal location is basically invariant in prokarya, that's dnaA, which pretty much "has to be close to the ori".
I hadn't known about the Bollinger B-1 or B-2 yet! Sadly, the design is... well, hideous (at least, that's what my wife would say). The one thing I really like about it (aside from the cargo volume) is that it looks like it sits up high like a proper suv / pickup should.

Maybe it's just the perspective of the few pictures I've seen, but the Rivian truck doesn't quite seem to have as much ground clearance as I would like. When your driveway is a half mile long and you get caught on your way home from an emergency run to the veterinarian by a blizzard, getting stuck in a drift at the end of the driveway really, really, really, really sucks (yes, that happened). Carrying a 30lb dog with vertigo that far in 10 foot visibility isn't what I would call fun at all.
I believe this is covered by the CLA: https://cla.developers.google.com/about/google-individual

> You hereby grant to Google and to recipients of software distributed by Google a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute Your Contributions and such derivative works.
Brazil isn't going to stop so do we invade a sovereign nation to get them to stop in order to benefit the world?
I've never clicked a Google link and bought something. I've never watched a Youtube ad and bought something.

I don't think they're making much money off me.
They still keep advertising at me.
Why just China? Wouldn’t the same be true in the US too?
My experience of this is secondhand, but they try to push people to group vs. individual therapy (though still in-house).
To add on to zaroth's remarks, here's a list of records set or tied in the most recent (and IMO not very remarkable) 53rd Super Bowl:

https://www.si.com/nfl/2019/02/03/patriots-rams-super-bowl-2...
I'm completely serious, my undergrad degree is in chem and my grad degree is pharmacology. Bleach effectively "burns up" most organic chemicals. Bleach is so reactive that, while it's "dangerous", it's not a persistent environmental toxin. The thing about ventilation is re:reactions with amines (most drugs have nitrogen's) that make tear gas-like stuff. Whomever disposes of antibiotics is doing this, or chucking it in an incinerator. Burning it is better, but e.g. an oil drum filled with garbage and some gasoline will vaporize a fair bit of stuff and complete combustion is not nearly convenient as stuff you can buy at the grocery store
Lawful discrimination against minorities (Jim Crow, Poll Taxes etc.) is by definition authoritarian. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarianism
Which shouldn't matter. The network is untrusted.
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