skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “I very much regret joining Google,” he says. “I figured it would be a good place to see intelligent arguments through."

Um, here I thought it was a place to get some work done, not have political arguments? I don't see why so many people bring politics into the workplace unnecessarily. I have very strong political feelings, and I just try to keep them to myself at work, and talk about them outside of work. Especially if other people voice opinions to the opposite.

Work is hard enough to get done with just normal feelings about one's work, let alone getting politics involved.
I actually used Perl last week to whip up two scripts (csv2insert and csv2update) to automate converting CSV files to MSSQL-specific SQL insert/update scripts (respectively). Microsoft's own CSV import tools suck, and it was pretty straightforward to use Text::CSV and print() a bunch of SQL lines.

I'd need to do some more polishing before putting it up on GitHub or something (namely: sanitize incoming single-quotes in CSV cells, and possibly break the steps into subroutines), but I was yet again impressed by the ability to automate a bit of text data processing with less than an hour's work.
I can see how that would be a great solution on Windows, since there's no decent built-in TTY (prior to recent builds of Windows 10). It's advertised as an "ssh client" which is great there.

But I don't know why anyone would choose to use that on a Mac. The UI requires initiating connections to remote systems (or "localhost") through the GUI -- which feels really backward when you can just open a new window/tab on any other terminal app (for local tty sessions) or run ssh from the command line (for remote sessions).
I am so puzzled that this kind of forum can exist at work. My current position is also at a web company but any kind of non-biz chatter like above would quickly get self-policed out of existence.
The majority of American air conditioning units are window mounted, like these: https://www.consumerreports.org/window-air-conditioners/how-...

As an example, the house I grew up in, late 1940s, was piped for heating only, to an oil furnace. When my parents wanted an AC, they got a window unit. (Bonus: The original heating system had ceiling vents, at some points the house was re-vented for floor vents)

My place has in floor heating, if I wanted AC there aren't any vents in my house, so same thing, I'd have to get a window unit.
Alzheimer’s test predicts onset up to 20 years in advance
PoW is currently an oligarchy, for what it's worth. I was using the term monopolistic in a lose sense (i.e. tending towards large players controling the market [i.e. "centralizing"]).

In most PoS protocols, coins come from either PoW mining before a transition to PoS, or from an initial coin offering. Neither are great solutions IMO, but PoW doesn't really distribute coins very well either.
Does closing the message boards make work more alienating? Or does their existence make work more alienating (for most of the workers)?
For me it's the little things like being able to hide all window chrome (and there are a lot of little things...)
Yeah, most Wikis make it hard to make private docs then share them easily. Most Wiki's are public or nothing.
Sharepoint has the best permissioning but basically requires an admin from user #1...
Maybe technically, and mostly because of how they're typically implemented. I'd call providing brochures to people that explicitly request them information not advertising.
There will always be a majority and there will always be a minority. But the thought process behind, "they are a minority, therefore they need assistance" is elitism at best and racism at worst. Furthermore, the laws that we pass that give special treatment to one group over another make that divide all the more permanent.
Celtic?
FWIW this guy does actually spam his project a lot. I recognize him from reddit where people have also complained about his constant promotion of this project.
It will be very hard for anyone outside of the people directly involved to have an informed opinion about this, simply because Google will never release their side of the story.

That being said, I have seen several people claiming "I was fired/removed/banned for having opinion X" and in MOST of those cases my view was that they were at a minimum being very insensitive on multiple occasions.

Engineers often seem to have a tendency to treat Internet debating as a sport, relentlessly pointing out small logical flaws or playing Devil's Advocate, and then to entrench themselves further when facing backlash. If you pair that with political topics (where other people can get very, very emotionally invested quickly) on a workplace message board it's a recipe for a hostile discussion.
Head's up -- your link is broken. I don't think markdown is supported :)
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Unfortunately, modern discussions tend to conflate dissenting opinions with toxicity, so that adjective isn't as informative as it could be otherwise.
For me it’s only 1 feature: the profiles window. I configure them as ssh to hosts. And then I have a decal/text in the corner + a color in the bg. But most importantly is the favorites manager
I just give $0 tips through the DoorDash website (and you have to select $0 TWICE, at both the top and bottom of the checkout page, by the way) and give them tips in cash.

That way DoorDash provides at least a partial matching contribution to my tip instead of eating from my tip.
(1) Food producers unilaterally refusing to sell food could be just as disruptive as drug producers refusing to sell drugs. "You can just grow it yourself" isn't a reasonable distinction -- from a practical standpoint most people can't. The reason we don't need to prohibit that behaviour is that the market works.

(2) The government doesn't grow food. Sometimes it pays for it, and sometimes it gives people money so they can pay for it, but there isn't a public option in case farmers decide not to sell us beef, because the market works. (But yeah, the government does -- and should -- help people pay for drugs they can't afford when the prices are reasonable.)

(3) Food production is subsidised, but it shouldn't be. And these subsidies have little bearing on the possibility of extortion in the market.
> But would I change if I could go back in time and become normal is a question I have asked myself and the answer for me is - no

Just as long as people remember that this is a personal decision, and not one you can make for others. I wonder what I would do for my children, both of whom have autism and who I love. But my older child is non-verbal, still wears diapers, and is a flight risk. He cannot take care of himself. I worry what will happen when my wife and I can no longer take care of him adequately. Adult autistic support is not great.

But what will he lose if I "cure" him. Both boys are happy, affectionate, and they are the lights of my life. They are far happier than those who are far more "successful" in life.

It's not easy.
Just never allow such a transfer force a new user to create a new name. Ensure this is part of the terms of service. Prosecute violators that is to say buyer and dev under cfaa and ensure a hefty fine is levied with prison time. Nefarious parties will find few sellers thereafter.
Interesting that they opted for the single-most popular query language on the planet, versus somebody's hobby project? Why is that interesting?
Does thinking about things 'on a spectrum' make us more enlightened?
fixed yield bonds/mortgages also provide an interesting hedge in the current climate against

1) Recession
2) Negative interest rates.

in theory one could make a bet that a recession will occur in X months forcing a rate cut/stock decline and use leverage on fixed rate investments to make an above average return.
Looks pretty well thought out and useful and the documentation is great. can you elaborate on what you use it for at braintree?
He's replying to a comment suggesting that dead people be fed to vultures with the observation that elderly people are a population with a propensity for being treated with diclofenac and a link indicating that the presence of this drug in carcasses is threatening vulture populations.
I work for Google, opinions are my own.

> Sorry to all Googlers here for being so blunt, and feel free to point out one or more examples from the last few years where Google has prioritized their users above quarterly / yearly profits.

No need to apologize =]

An example that comes to mind is the current focus on accessibility. I think from an objective financial/engineering perspective, it's much preferable to just ignore accessibility because it adds complexity and isn't used by the vast majority of users. However, providing access to everyone is the right thing to do.

Another example is crisis tools (https://crisisresponse.google/). I don't think we make money from these apps.

Of course, I'm sure people will say this is just for marketing or something but in the end, how can one get around that?

I don't think Google is flawless. Far from it! But it's a huge company with way too many products so it's only natural there will be bad decisions and good ones, just as there are bad people as well as good people.

> Look to Chrome mobile, the one that they can force ram down the throat of > 50% of mobile users. Chrome mobile doesn't have addons because it doesn't compete.

I'm not sure I understand.. are you saying that Chrome mobile takes up a lot of RAM? Because if so I would agree with that, but isn't that precisely why extensions shouldn't be allowed? Implementing extensions would add an even greater burden and poorly written extensions would provide a bad user experience.

If anything I really wish we could strip Chrome down. I think people adopted Chrome early on because it was really light and personally I really feel like we let everyone down by letting it get so bloated.
The way this concept would really work, in practice, at a streaming service is as the basis for some kind of cluster analysis that could predict what you might want based on your listening behavior and that of others "like you".

Having people use words to precisely pin-down entire genre's is perhaps near the end of it's usefulness.
Your first and second link are the same. It doesn't mention her retirement, so you probably meant the second one to be different. Anyway, thanks for the info!

Maybe you meant the following link for the second:

http://www.metnews.com/articles/2011/judg103111.htm
We changed the URL from https://www.cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/papers/huang.pdf to where Knuth actually said that.
Also known as a Single Event Upset in the industry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_event_upset
Thank you, such a classic. His omelet video is incredible too. Learned his French variety a few years back, took a few tries to perfect but now can open nearly any fridge and make a great meal in 2 minutes https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X1XoCQm5JSQ
K and H are pretty egregious at first glance.
There is one seller of iOS devices and you can't select another seller if you want to run software from the Apple store.
I won’t even share it’s name, why would I open source it? Lol. It makes a decent amount of money and requires close to 0 engineering know how to build. So no, I will continue to let it make money quietly...
PoS is also expensive but the expense is in opportunity cost not in capex and energy. There's clean expensive and dirty expensive.
So, in this case, why would I prefer iTerm over Terminal.app?

Seriously, I don't understand what the benefits are, if it's only "just as fast as Terminal.app".
I include a video of people (heroically) trying to dance to Numbers in my first post above, as evidence that Kraftwerk is not dance music.

You're welcome to upload your own video, dancing to Numbers. We'd love to see it. I mean that sincerely.
Hard to say. If I'm mad at you because you're conservative, I can still call you "toxic" because it sounds worse. I can even justify it if, from my perspective, all conservatives are toxic by definition.

Note well: I'm not saying that's what happened. I'm just saying that someone choosing that word doesn't tell us much.
> If you could create some score of peoples intelligence, how they react/respond to people, their normal physical movements and put that into a distribution the autistic people would definitely be on the tail end of the curves.

Some measurable aspects of human physiology and behavior would fall into a normal distribution (i.e. "bell curve") if you graph it, yes. Bell curves are common enough that there is a lay assumption that all distributions look like that, but it isn't the case, at all. Certain forces are required to lead to that flavor of distribution and in the absence of those, you can get graphs of all sorts of shapes.

For example, if you were to graph "how feminine" a set of people are, you're unlikely to get a bell curve where most people are androgynous. Instead, you get a bimodal distribution where there's a hump on one side for dudes and one on the right for ladies. In fact, graphs of height show a similar distribution.

If you graph how many fingers someone has, you'll probably get something closer to a power law where almost everyone is on the left at "10", a few misfortunate at "9", even few very unlucky at "8", and so on. (Plus a couple of odd points for polydactyly, etc.) This is the famous "long tail" you hear about in economics.

So there is certainly variation in all attributes, but that does not imply that the center of that range is the most populated. And thus, there may not be a "normal" in the typical "average and most common" sense of the word.

What does a normal set of genitals look like?
Amazon wants people to create bitstreams that run on FPGAs rented from Amazon. They're paying people to develop more demand for their shovels.
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This might be a "problem where every instance is bespoke". Another would be nuclear a weapon detonation or a major hurricane. You can plan for it and run simulations all you want, but your resource constraints aren't known until after the event.

ICU rooms contain patients teetering at the edge of death, who might take months to heal or die. They might be "almost out" and suddenly crash into a totally different crisis than the one they were wired up for an hour ago (cardiac patient has a stroke, stroke patient has an MI, bariatric surgery patient throws a pulmonary embolus, etc). Ventilation, gastric tube, rectal tube, urinary catheter, 10 central venous drips, an arterial line, and a 5-lead EKG and pulse ox, all on in a patient who's on a pneumatic mattress that is constantly rocking the patient to prevent bedsores, is not uncommon.

And there are three vendors attached to every device. For example, Masimo has the pulse ox device, but the leads are from Cardinal Health under license (no doubt produced under subcontract in China, with soy-based insulation) and the sensor sticker is held on with a second layer of generic silk tape because that's what the nurse had at the time.

If you really wanted to do this, you'd have to have the entire suite designed by a single engineering firm with an obsessive focus on supply chain management. You'd need the Boeing or Airbus of ICUs. But doctors are generally convinced they don't need engineers, so good luck with that.
Not even liens, but imagine what would happen to the person (and their business) if they were caught intentionally and maliciously building failure modes into the thing they were hired to build as a means to ensure they got paid.
As always value is a separate thing from "money some hypothetical somebody will pay".

Oxygenated air has next to zero price you could sell it for, but it has basically infinite value to somebody deprived of it.

Browser extensions create a ton of value, but its likely very little of that can be turned into a paycheck for somebody without destroying the value they create.
The cryptographic protocols of 1.3 could be said to be largely unrelated to 1.2. If you wanted to learn in layers then Noise is a lot closer to 1.3 than 1.2.
You forgot to mention a small detail: force every other country in the world to enforce your ridiculous laws.
That sounds really exciting, then you stop to reconsider and realise that it will take take a spaceship roughly 200,000 YEARS to reach it, travelling at the Voyager spaceprobes' speeds.
I appreciate your response, and will give you the benefit of doubt -- however this is in conflict with what a superficial reading of Schneiner's article suggests. Reading the reporting it would seems to indicate that this is happening/in process at Facebook.

While I cannot speak for the Forbes' author, Schneiner is widely reputed as a trustworthy source, especially on matters related to information security. This article calls into question his professional reputation as a information security journalist or yours as an executive at WhatsApp.

As such, in order to help the general community decide for themselves, please shed some light on the following:

1. Does Facebook/WhatsApp have any specific plans for moderating content, via any mechanism, on the client? If so, please enumerate the kind/type of client-based content moderation currently in discussion.

2. Has Facebook/WhatsApp previously looked at doing content moderation on the client? If so, please enumerate the kind/type of client-based content moderation that was previously discussed.

3. What will you do, if Facebook/WhatsApp decides to implement content moderation and/or a content "backdoor" on the client sometime in the next 3 years? Will you continue to work for Facebook/WhatsApp?

4. Should Facebook/WhatsApp decides to implement content moderation on the client, what forewarning will Facebook/WhatsApp give us. What will you personally give?

5. You say that this is easy to detect. Can you please provide technical guidance (or pointers to such) on how to go about detecting this, so that the community at large may better learn how to detect this in any instant messaging app, WhatsApp or otherwise?

I ask the above, in all sincerity, as Facebook's previous poor handling of data requires these kinds of inquiries -- especially when in opposition to reporting by Schneier, who's reputation as a information security journalist is bar-none.
The absolute peak demand in 2019 was slightly lower than the absolute peak demand in 2017. That's a bit different.
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As someone who works in this field I have to say this is a really well written article.

Discussing topics like Design Assurance Level and failure condition classification(major vs catastrophic), Single Event Upsets (bit flips), safety assessments in a really clear and well written way.
around here (florida), they try to fingerprint children (some less than 5 year old) at special events... (in case they get kidnapped)
Proof of work is like labor. More work, more coins.
Really makes you hope this doesn't just make them dial it up to 11 in response..
> https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/623.pdf
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They would be correct, I mean their also generally just dangerous to anyone around them.

Just like antivaxxers
No more so than the FBI themselves are...
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Brazil feels pressure over Amazon deforestation data
OF WHAT ARE THEY AFRAID OF?

(jk)
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i hope USA companies stays in America, FUCK usa, FUCK americans, FUCK zionists
Hi Ilya,

This is untrue. Do I have your permission to publicly publish the full email chain that you are referencing?
Sure, go ahead and start a new project. Money's cheap with zero interest rates, funding startups has been ridiculously easy for the past 10 years.
Ok, but please don't cherry-pick provocations from other places and bring them in here to get upset about. It's agitating, but not interesting.