skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this had happened to a prisoner in Russian custody who it was hinted might incriminate dozens of Putin-friendly oligarchs, you can bet that the NYT would have 50 reporters personally turning the cranks on the conspiracy mill.
At my day job I have a "devops" guy who is all-in on "devops". By which I mean he wants everything run through a CI/CD workflow, committed into change control, with passing unit tests, and tasks passing through a Jenkins pipeline.

Did I mention we are information security consultants and work in neither dev nor ops? Yeah he wants our powerpoint slides checked into change control. I'm not joking.
It's disrupting employment norms :)
People that start the start-up game might morph into those who wouldn't mind a life-style business as they play the game. No need to kill something that is just another company even if it does not end up being the next unicorn. Investors take a risk and they know it, if you can't make it work for them that's no need to commit corporate Seppeku and to kill it. You have other responsibilities besides those to the shareholders, there are employees, their - and your - dependents and customers to account for as well.
Same with most cities and towns in the Midwest. The neighborhood bar isn’t going anywhere there.

I can see Boston, SF, Austin, and other transplant cities losing neighborhood bars. The people who to go bars there aren’t locals and they probably aren’t expecting to go to the same place for decades. They probably aren’t even expecting to live in the same place more than three years.
Not necessarily- a poor country with high biodiversity or other natural resources are a known phenomenon [0]. Also, another known issue is that the most polluted rivers are often from developing countries, partially because developed countries are sending their trash there.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse
There are several better ways of dealing with that instead of just making up arbitrary and capricious rules enforced in a random and unequal manner. When even companies like Apple protest it, there's something more than preventing abuse by body shops going on.

E.g They almost turned a routine matter into a catch-22 where it turns people requesting for work visa extensions while following all rules into criminals and putting them into the criminal court system.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2018/07/11/new-u...

They only backed down on that aspect after backlash from several big companies in the form of a letter addressed to DHS, but the other things in that letter still continue.

https://money.cnn.com/2018/08/23/news/companies/business-rou...
An HN discussion around how information systems become poisoned could be great. Arguing about the specific conspiracy theories will lead to pointless flamewars. May I suggest engaging with the former?
I'm returning to this discussion having read (well, most of) the essay, and finding it far better than the HN discussion was at the time I'd first encountered it.

There's a cost to informational complexity, but also a value. The problem is that complex ideas require complex exposition, but complex exposition discourages exploration.

There are a few classic ways around this. One is the Hollywood Film / Bestselling Book blurb, often a brief sentence, if not a single word, supposedly capturing the gist of a work (or at least enticing someone to drop a dime on seeing/reading it).

Another is the in-depth review. See various London / New York / Los Angeles book review articles, some of which have graced HN. These can give an entry point, but are often themselves complex.

There's offering a few choice samples of quoted text from the work. If there's a concise and sufficient lede 'graph, that can work, though much contemporary writing seems to actively avoid this. Otherwise, a few exemplary sentences pulled from the piece may work (I'm curating a few for posting to Mastodon as I write this).

Or you can highlight the key structure of the article. alexandercrohde's comment is of this sort.

I liken this to the barker ("See the Amazing Thing!"), cracking the coconut -- making the hard-to-get-at bits immediately available, sampling, much as a grocer might provide tastes of fruit or cheese to give a preview of wares, and of providing a roadmap -- not revealing all the delights of a trip, but at least preparing the reader for the journey ahead. That's what the parent comment of this thread does, and pretty well.

There's a place for each of these, and a value in matching the appropriate preview mechanism to the corresponding form of content. Given the complexity of marketing information, it's a necessity. The sample is not the product, but it can help in deciding which products you choose to spend time on.

I'm finding the article fascinating, myself.
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While DoH has benefits, the way Mozilla, Cloudflare propose to get it deployed is mostly detrimental to privacy, merely leaking and centralizing everyone's data to another party.

Seems like decentralized overlay p2p networks is becoming the only way to ever get privacy on the internet.
The history of these agencies makes me think you are mistaken.

The people that can touch Iranian centrifuges connected to airgapped machines in hostile territory can't touch a prisoner in one of their own facilities?

Seems unlikely.
The trick, though, is filtering out the 98 trash stories out 100.

But ya, pizza gate guy broke the Epstein story (honest, look at the court case on unsealing the proceeding records)
Please for the love of humanity and all that is good in this world, love, fuck
Well, when the paper of record's take on the Epstein events is a "what, me worry?" level of incuriosity, I'd say there's a loooooooooooot of problems to be solved.
What's the name / link for the group? I'm interested in learning more about this.
I'm not a vscode user, I just tried it once, but isn't it how it currently works? You open some file in a new language and then it istantly recommends you to install the relevant plugins with a click.
I've seen zombies turn around and amaze everybody involved as well, keep in mind that you have something that you've lost along the way up: agility. You can now make moves that you could not in the past, larger companies are like larger boats, they don't turn quite as nice or fast.
Is it possible for you to figure some idea out that could be your last chance moonshot for this company? Maybe it’s better to go out with one last boom or bust push instead of slowly dribbling away?

Best of luck to you - sounds like a tough spot.
It looks like he found that reddit thread.
But figuring out the glass's temp is non-trivial.

Not really. Many windshields already have elements embedded in them like the ultra-thin wire used for the AM radio antenna. Sensing temperature via the resistance of a wire like that is about as trivial as it gets.
I always wondered if Californians know what turn signals are.
Oh, I agree that you don't add energy to Earth just by harvesting energy that would have been absorbed and converted to heat. So a solar panel on the ocean doesn't warm up the Earth any, because the ocean is just as black as the panel. But you do add energy to the Earth by harvesting, or merely absorbing, energy that would have been reflected into space. So the same solar panel on the Salar de Uyuni will warm up the Earth. That's what my comments above about albedo are about; I'm not double-counting in the sense you thought. Does that clarify?

None of this is significant until solar power generates substantially more power than current world marketed energy consumption, which is to say, for at least a decade or three.

Thank you for helping me to explore these issues!
Why would it select for no non-competes when people are willing to sign them and a culture of legal "take anything you can get"-ism among employers pays off in other areas?
Definitely agree. A couple of mental models I sometimes adopt to look at my situation more objectively:

* Thinking about what I would do as a parent if my child was in the same situation as I am

* View myself as a video game character (in the 3rd person, looking from above), and thinking about what I would do if I was controlling this character in a game with the same rules as life
But then you'd have a boss. Make sure your investors do not turn out being your boss.
In other words, if government regulations incentivise efficiency, then our capitalist economy will provide that efficiency.

Which is what any environmental economist--or any economist generally--would tell you.
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Revolvers as used in practice, particularly DoH as in this context, are fairly centralized.
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Or simply look for reflectivity at an angle, like the recent HN story about the guy who implemented a touchscreen on his Macbook by adding a small mirror to the camera above the screen.
Simply engaging the former grants TFA's argument that "poisoning of information systems" is indeed what is happening with the Epstein suicide, as opposed to sensible questioning of official narratives.

If I say "our information systems are poisoned by establishment media sources which converge on talking points like 'Epstein conspiracies are baseless' without even asking any basic questions about the events" is that in line with your suggestion?
What exactly does that have to do with machine learning and neural networks?
I think you may have hit it. This article is about the "neighborhood" bar. In other words, it's a place where you meet with people who live nearby. A neighborhood bar is not a place that's a $10+ Uber away.

Which isn't exactly the fault of anyone who has to take one for a night out. This points to a nexus of problems with American cities, including sprawl, and the fact that few people know their neighbors.
Germany to cut €35M in funds to Brazil for Amazon preservation
I might be missing something here. Where does intelligence come in? On any given deterministic computer platform, there is a finite number of 15MB executables. And there is a finite number of 100MB text files. But the second number is much larger than the first, and thus not every 100MB text file has a 15MB executable that outputs it.

Of course, maybe we can find a 15MB executable that outputs the specific Wikipedia file he’s asking for, and there might be clever ways to search for or construct that executable on a specific computer platform, but it doesn’t strike me as some particularly generalizable sense of compression requiring intelligence.
> Giving everyone equal rights and opportunities is a supposedly founding principle of your "democracy".

It's not 'my' democracy - I and my ancestors remained in Europe. And lets not engage in revisionist history - that founding principle was explicitly limited to "free White persons of good character" [1]. While the at once ineffective and cruel manner the US enforces its borders leaves much to be desired, that doesn't make the very concept of controlling immigration unjust. There are countries other besides the US to immigrate to.

As for your comparison with Nazi Germany, perhaps it would have more weight if the US was incredibly restrictive with immigration (and, as always in these matters, ignoring that people weren't scrambling to get into Nazi Germany..) But as it stands, not only does the US have the largest rate of immigration in the world [2] (though not per-capita), but it also grants citizenship to anyone born there - a practice almost exclusive to the Americas [3].

I'm sorry if this reply seems harsh, but I find it utterly mind-boggling how you could compare the Nazi ethno-state, to a country where the majority ethnicity is voluntarily becoming a minority. They are going from 87% white in 1970 [4], to minority-white in 2044 [5]. That's in 74 years, a single lifespan, from overwhelming majority, to minority. Literally the opposite of what Nazi Germany was doing. But if this is comparable to ethnic cleansing, then what does that make almost all other countries? Some sort of ultra-nazis?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalization_Act_of_1790

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_net_migra...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_soli

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_State...

[5] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/22/us/white-americans-minori...
How does that reconcile with the actual (admittedly outdated) facts? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_ratio_of_...
The largest difference seems to be in the "pre" condition for the training group vs everyone else. Seems weird. Anyone have an idea why that is?
...d'oh! You're right, and it's past the edit window... c'est la vie
I just leave the defrost on when it's raining or cold regardless of whether my windshield is fogging. No need for an automated system and my windshield never fogs up.
Noteworthy examples that seem to be missing from this are the use of hallucinogenic mushrooms/herbs by the Viking berserkers and the more modern use of Captagon by members of ISIS.
For people with interest in nutrition and the impact it has across both body and mind, I suggest checking out www.examine.com. It's the best site I have come across online when I need any science backed knowledge on nutrition.
Except you're not accounting for the nutritional density [0] per yield being reduced and also the fact that the majority of cash crop goes to feeding livestock.

[0] https://rodaleinstitute.org/why-organic/issues-and-prioritie...
> all the major Arab spring protests were initially spark by food prices and similar failures directly affecting peoples day to day lives,

Soviet Union and Mao's China had been able to finance industrialization and military build up through food exports at the cost of tens milions citizens lives.

So it all comes to how determined and ruthless regime really is. Arab dictatorships simply got fat, soft and lazy and lost its grip on power for a time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1932%E2%80%...
Slapping every H1-B application with an RFE is not positive, unless your goal is to make immigration lawyers richer.
Allowing him to take his own life through intentional carelessness is a possibility.
This is probably wrong. You’re basically saying that a statically compiled LISP isn’t homoiconic.
The article claims this at the end:

> Farms using neonics had 10 times the insect pressure and half the profits compared to those who use regenerative farming methods instead of insecticides according a 2018 study. Like agroecological farming, regenerative agricultural uses cover crops, no-till and other methods to increase on-farm biodiversity and soil health. The regenerative corn-soy operations in the study didn’t have to worry about insect problems, said co-author Jonathan Lundgren, an agroecologist and Director of the ECDYSIS Foundation.

> Farmers who are dependent on chemicals are going out of business, said Lundgren, who is also a grain farmer in South Dakota. “It’s painful to see when we have tested, scientifically sound solutions. Working with nature is a good business decision,” he says.

It links to this study as a source: https://peerj.com/articles/4428/
I'm not sure why anyone takes her argument seriously. Companies don't pull me over while I'm driving. Companies don't put me in prison. Companies don't extort me under threat of violence. Companies don't enslave me. Only criminal organizations and governments do those sorts of things. At worst, companies can use existing government frameworks to coerce me (and I can use the same frameworks to coerce them). Typically, all they can do is stop paying me.

Most importantly, people can switch companies far easier than they can switch governments. Changing jobs is easier than moving between states, let alone countries. Switching costs could be lower (mostly related to health insurance), but overall companies are competing pretty hard for workers. That's why they advertise positions, hire recruiters, and go to colleges and job fairs. Could you imagine governments behaving similarly? The only thing that comes close is the military, and that's because their potential recruits can choose private sector jobs.
> "what the fuck did I just do?"

Made me think of the perceived difference between an I, a You and a We in this context. Try it.

If someone asks you what your stance or beliefs are on a subject, doesn't explaining "I think..." or "It seems to me..." put you through something emotionally? Now try third-person, isn't "Joe doesn't like that kind of thing" actually feel different to say? Isn't it less emotionally taxing, easier to get through?

How about "what's next for us, Self?", better/easier than "how do I feel? What am I up to?". I think so.

Or, better yet, "/me agrees".
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Your conspiracy theory doesn't explain mail.ru.

I'm also curious how you explain link aggregators other than Google using AMP caches.

> And Google has communicated in multiple other ways that it thinks websites should be developed exclusively in AMP,

It doesn't support everything that full HTML supports, so this statement is obviously false.

> a replacement of the open standard everyone agreed upon in HTML5.

That's like saying RSS is a replacement for XML. It's a replacement for Apple News and Facebook Instant Articles, not for HTML5, which it is built on.
I R baboony.
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Code golf is anecdotal, at least, evidence that proving lower bounds on the Kolgomorov complexity of a particular datum requires intelligence.
I respect and understand your opinion as well, but making companies become regulated as far as what content they can or must show is opening Pandora’s box. Especially with a government that gets a lot of bad press, they could use that regulation to drown out any voice.

If the government is really concerned about people’s voices and free speech being impeded, they should make their own forum or social feed where nothing is censored. We’ll see how that turns out.
Note that this data was just from 4 of the giant Indian IT outsourcers (e.g. Infosys, Tata Consulting, Wipro), who were basically the worst abusers of the H-1B system. I'm interested to know what the rate is for smaller companies and US-based companies.
Dude the fact that the industry is stealing games and openly gloats it wants to make all games "services" (aka never give you a local application). Is the end goal.

So yeah, you need to know about the state of the industry to understand where game companies are taking us and it isn't for our benefit.

I do not want every new game to be an app controlled by googles cloud and thats exactly what the game industry wants. They want to move us all to the dumb terminal model of computing.

If you can't see that, you are blind. They openly talk about it on businss sites.

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-04-01-making-pir...
The real question, as I found yesterday, is can you switch on high-speed wipers, rear fog lights, hazard lights, and max-demist, in a few seconds, while you're devoting 99% of your brainpower to not crashing into an unseen vehicle slowing in front, not veering out of the lane that you can't really see, and glancing repeatedly in the mirror in case you're about to be rear-ended.

The question is not whether you can operate the controls under normal circumstances. It's whether you can do it when task-saturated with more important tasks. Under such circumstances, I simply wouldn't have had any attention left for glancing at a touchscreen, but I did know and could hit all the manual controls rapidly without looking.
One of the most consistent means of self-improvement I've found is to think about the behavior that other people exhibit that has been irritating me, and consider whether or not I'm actually upset about my own behavior and projecting that elsewhere. It sucks, but more often than not, I've found that the things I'm upset at other people over are reflections of my own behavior.

So, just in this thread, I've noticed a few interesting statements.

> I am in management, possibly longer than you have held your career.

vs.

> I do not assert superiority and I also don't make baseless assumptions about strangers on the internet.

Do you understand how those two statements are in direct odds with each other?

>Oh how I tire of profoundly sensitive people.
vs.

> This is what causes me to look for new employment and cry into my pillow at night.

Obviously this is an attempt at humor, and it's funny, but maybe not in the way you were thinking.

>Simply throwing up your hands because life is hard isn't an acceptable answer.

> You can bring a horse to water but you can't make it drink when they as they think they should have to.

> I do think of people who have trouble with confrontations as weak.

[...]

>This confusion is why I am walking myself out of the corporate world. [...] I am tired of the fun and games.

So... you're confused, having trouble with confrontations, and are throwing your hands up... because you're weak and life is hard? ;)

Sincerely though, best of luck in your future endeavors! A few paragraphs in an HN thread is in no way an complete insight into the years you've had working wherever it is you work. Nonetheless, in this window you opened up, I hope you see some patterns in the feedback you've gotten here on HN from your posts in this thread and take that into consideration when working with other people in the future.

Enjoy what's left of the weekend!
Plus GUIs are random in temrs of response time...
> you have to demonstrate your ability to know where all those functions are before you even pull away to start your test

if only s/he had to pass the same threshold to post on HN!
Is it true that some users of bars are alcoholics? Definitely. Is it true that some users of bars want to participate in date rape? Definitely. Is it likely that these users represent even a small percentage of overall bar patrons? No. We don't need to shut down an entire industry to protect a tiny subset of users.
This does not just impact consulting companies and body shops.

Big companies like Apple, JP Morgan, Blackrock, Coca Cola, Visa, Verizon and dozens of others are also very negatively impacted.

https://money.cnn.com/2018/08/23/news/companies/business-rou...

Full text of their Business Roundtable letter to DHS about work visas and the list of signatories:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/brt.org/archive/letters/Immigration...
This also sounds like the Ethiopian concept of coffee as a 'social house.' There's a place in the ethiopian neighborhood of DC that really practices this: https://www.kaldissocial.com/#new-page-1-section
rapind's experience parallels yours.
To be honest I’m extrapolating a bit based on my own understanding of complex systems, and how the IPCC report things vs, how individual scientists interpret things, and how scientists tend to report things. But when reading IPCC watch out for language about “safe predictions” (linear extrapolations from historical data based is kind of safe, since it’s easily quantifiable, model based on uncertain non-linear changes in unprecedented conditions are less safe, so official reports are wary of quantifying things beyond hand wavy descriptions.

This YouTube channel was suggested here on HN a while back, and has been interesting to follow: https://www.youtube.com/user/PaulHBeckwith
Or alternatively: Hire a new C-level and some time training them up to replace you, and go do something else.
It's why I like my Up!: they decided everyone already has their own touchscreen with infotainment. So you have a dock for your phone, a USB charger and a bluetooth enabled sound system. The rest uses mechanical controls.
Even here at hn. Look how many people never read the article and only the comments. I'd imagine the number of people to go down into a link from an article to be quite small unfortunately.
That’s asking God what to do.
They didnt. They said both time, with a different point of view (different bias if you will), that this is too early to draw conclusion. Any rationnal person would do the same.