skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whoever came up with the idea of re-marketing children's toys to adults was a genius. It combines the passive consumerism of kids with the expendable income of adults in a way that simply wouldn't have been tolerated more than a few decades ago.
> It was a huge mistake for Google (and other valley companies) to politicize the workplace.

I wasn't aware this was a thing. Did Google openly support one candidate or party? How did they promote politics in the workplace?

> Pandora's box is open now and I don't think they'll be able to reign it in. Thankfully, this leaves an opportunity for another generation of companies to return to a technology first message and eat the large, politically quagmired megacorp's lunch.

How? What do new companies change or do differently? Are the FANGY companies doomed by a toxic culture they can't undo? And why can't they?

I'm curious.
It could also mean "I don't know enough about this topic to form an educated opinion so I'd rather not wade in". I'm not afraid to admit that I often find myself in this position when it comes to these contentious political issues. It doesn't mean I don't care and I'm usually happy to be educated.
the tl;dr is that a department built a massive data set that included PII on the vast majority of citizens / residents but didn't have adequate governance or transparency controls in place.

Data belonging to 3.2M data subjects needs to be deleted allegedly.
Just like a bicycle. Which are also booming. And which are also dangerous to ride on the road with any car.

The argument I was addressing was, if its really an arms race, then no way we would go from the 4800lb Ford Thunderbird to the 2600lb Ford Focus in a generation.

Folks have by and large opted out of the arms race. For better and for worse.
Yeah ... but how does that look? A "naive" wc implementation (counting the character '\n') is <50 lines of code (if we have modern file IO in the standard library) in a practical PL.

But maybe there is a too big difference between the concept of "files" (as seen by OS developers that view them as a byte-blob in a hierarchical name system) and language designers that want to represent a file as a collection of lines (and probably would like your command line interpreter not allow to call "wc" on a file that contains non UTF8 encoded data) - but this is still a pretty big step for our current computation environment (where I can call programs by name that are also files).

For many people (including me) a "practical" programming language needs an implementation that can generate (compile) an executable or interpret a file representation of its source. Otherwise its a proof assistant.

Maybe we have to merge the concept of data in terms (no pun indented) of bytes (types?) in-memory and collections of bits and bytes that have a lifetime longer than the program (if it's not a daemon)?
The best online image editor is definitely photopea, https://www.photopea.com

Full psd Photoshop compatibility and everything.
This feels like a damned if you do, damned if you don't scenario. Every day we get told that cis-het white guys should shut up and stop 'splaining oppression.
”This change made parsing more lenient”

How do you know? It makes the outermost layer of the system accept more liberal in what it accepts, but that doesn’t guarantee that the inner layers can handle that more liberal content.

For example, the code may assume that “<user-ID>” always is the first node in the json. If you start sending “<car-ID>” instead, things may go fine until you get two customers who share a car.

”and made the software actually follow the spec”

How do you know? The spec of this piece of software may state it has a JSON-like API that requires the “<user-ID>” to be the first node in every request.

And yes, most of its code may handle that change fine, but it only takes one piece of code to break things.

”How do you justify ever changing anything with that attitude?”

In the case of ”a service running IBM DataPower Gateway which sat on top of WebSphere which sat on top of the COBOL.” where ”Much of the system was so old that it was hard to find anyone who knew how it actually worked, and it’s maintenance had been outsourced ”: very carefully.

This change may have been fine, but you have to check that.
This paper gives a very detailed analysis of chain drive efficiency:

http://www.ihpva.org/HParchive/PDF/hp50-2000.pdf
I always thought that part of problem with huge methane emission from livestock maybe due to what we feed them. Perhaps their stomachs are not meant to eat primarily grass and the types of plants we typically allow them to eat.

Maybe other types of plants and crops should be fed instead.
Messing Around with Project Panama 2019 EA and Personal Thoughts
It has nothing to do independence or not, but demanding CCP to keep its promises to Hong Kong people and using the usual legal framework now in Hong Kong to bring justice and peace back to the society
Google is only 2.5% black according to a quick search (and 3.5% Latino). That's all employees, not just developers. I'm not sure how that's even possible for a company of that size in America. AA may be underrepresented in tech overall but they certainly aren't in business, HR, legal, etc in my corporate experience so that number seems very low to me. I wonder if any analysis has been to done to determine if any biases or recruitment strageties resulted in those low numbers.

To Google's credit they are developing various pipelines to recruit underrepresented communities.
I'm reading his book right now as well. Looking forward to your work.
As a biracial and transgender individual working for a startup: I would prefer (and am appreciative of my company's ability to) not discussing these things at work to begin with.

I can't imagine why on Earth anyone would want to bring such a personal topic into the workplace. As a matter of fact, it kind of disturbs the integrity of a professional environment to have these kinds of discussions during working hours anyway.

For the record, I have never felt discriminated against or left-out, or anything other than being another member of my team in a meaningful way.

I think focusing on these kinds of sensitivities can pull a sense of mistrust and underhandedness to the team. I'm not going to invalidate his feelings on the issue, because we are all allowed to feel how we feel; but I would caution anyone in engaging those feelings at work for the benefit of all parties involved.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/12/technology/leaked-google-...
There are plenty of things that animals can eat that are inedible to humans, or at the very least unpalatable. Tree fodder, rapeseed meal, sunflower husks, wetland reeds.

Feeding animals nothing but corn and soybean is a travesty for a number of reasons but that doesn't mean meat production as a whole needs to stop.
Creating and Maintaining Good Documentation Is Hard
but totally complicit in surveillance tech for china. virtue signaling assholes
Version 2.8 addressed the odd UI issue didn’t it? I think they have a fully supported “industry standard” keybinding mode now.
I’m 24 and this is why I switched to iPhone 6 or 7 years ago, I was being left out of group chats.
> If we suddenly saw religious style miracles occur in plain sight with no other possible explanation, the idea of a miracle would become a scientific concept that we'd try and study.

I disagree. Even if miracles happened and were observed, I think they'd likely still be outside the realm of scientific study and would therefore remain unscientific concepts. Science is built around the assumptions that mechanistic and predictable processes are being studied, but an actual religious miracle would be preformed by an transcendent agent who is likely aware of all attempts to predict its actions and can react to and influence those predictions, breaking the assumptions. The only secular discipline that could really study them would probably be history.

However, if you replace miracles with Harry Potter-style magic, I think your point stands.
I bought it in paperback as well, and read and loved it immediately. I then gave it to a young programmer I met in Sapporo, who was (at the time) working with BeOS.

I have the text version (the proper one, I suppose!) on my laptop as I type.
> is just like every other place, full of intolerant biased people

because that's human nature and it shows itself more acutely at scale when not everyone can possibly be on the same page about things.
>I never told my team the truth of where I was going that night. And though I spent my night shouting
protest chants, straining my voice until Garner’s final words, “I can’t breathe,” cracked against the throat,
I returned to work the next day in silence. And after struggling to cope with the fear that my team might
not accept me — the activist me and the black me — silence became my strategy for survival.

So, crudely put, the author expected Google and his teammates to read his mind? And now he is punishing people's apparent lack of mind-reading skills by leaving Google.

This is of course an incredibly crass way of putting it, but while I feel like the author is touching upon a real issue I think he handled it quite poorly as well.
What is new in Java 13?
I wonder if there was a point in the history of Instagram's codebase at which it would've been cost-effective to rewrite it in a statically typed language.

If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
Really frustrating to see this flagged: either we don't trust the moderators to moderate or someone simply doesn't want to have this discussion. We're all (mostly) technologists here, diversity in tech and the issues surrounding it are not going to go away, as this post shows -- people ain't gonna talk about this in the office, the least HN can do is provide a forum for tech workers to discuss the issue with guardrails on decorum.
I recommend the book "Inner Engineering". The book is written by a man that goes by the name Sadhguru. He's spent the last 30 or so year spreading classical yoga around the world. He founded the Isha Foundation. They initiate people into classical yogic practices that involve asanas, kriyas, and different types of meditation. The movement has grown a lot of steam in recent years. Recently Sadhguru initiated 5000 people in Australia in an inner engineering mega program. Usually the programs are much smaller and led by teachers that he has trained for several years. I started my journey with Isha a couple of years ago when I found him on YouTube. He has a ton of content. I recommend watching his [Ted talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rETWfA3Sq8) if you're interested.

To give you a little background about myself, I'm a 27-year-old male software engineer. Before Isha I wasn't religious or spiritual, but I always thought some of the Eastern stuff (buddhism, taoism) I heard sounded interesting. I also had experiences with psychedelics that were very profound to me.

Anyway I found Sadhguru on YouTube one day and everything he was saying just really vibed with me. He's explaining millenia-old yogic ideas in modern terms, and it really resonated with my intellect as well as with my own personal experiences with psychedelics. They talk about nature in terms of space, time, and energy. They talk about the human mechanism and consciousness. They talk about yoga as a method of liberation or enlightenment, the end of suffering.

So then I started going to the programs and doing yoga. I've attended and volunteered at several programs. The people that go to these programs are all regular people like me. Maybe around two thirds are Indian, which makes sense because that's where yoga originated and where Sadhguru is from. I've met other engineers, physicians, professors, businessmen, etc. I would say that the common factor among all of us is that we each have a desire to have some deeper understanding of life, so we are willing to listen to Sadhguru and try out yoga.

It's been an awesome journey. Sadhguru and his foundation have had a huge effect on my life, and I'm very thankful for it.
Be a vegetarian, ride your bike or walk to work, and live in a high-efficiency apartment in the city using solar and wind-generated electricity. Have 2 or fewer kids. Take holidays via train. Buy less single use crap.

Bonus! Give everyone 6 months holiday a year because humanity has more crap than it's ever needed but not enough time.

I mean, how much lower is that? I wouldn't mind it.
> The name khara comes from the Greek word χαρά, meaning joy.
That is why seeing them loose the cloud war feels so good! Yeah, apparently there are developers outside of Google having opinions and making decisions!
this [1] is what i see listed as amazon's choice. it's got 4 stars, and it's in stock. the reviews aren't amazing, but it looks like a competent solution in a category full of terrible options. the same product is the first result of a google search for the same terms. It looks to me like amazon's choice is probably the best option.

[1] https://www.amazon.ca/Belkin-Audio-Charge-Adapter-iPhone/dp/...
nothing wrong with corporate profits. the problem lies when a corporation is being used as a money laundering and tax evasion scheme. and a boogie man that wealthy people hide behind.
Okay, but the problem we're trying to solve is the carbon being in the atmosphere, so even biofuel is objectively far worse than, say, solar.
I have been using a bike with belt drive for about 2 years and while the lack of chain reduces some maintenance doing other maintenance like switching tires gets more complicated.

And of course the loss of efficiency due to belt drive is also pretty bad.

I am convinced that this will be my last belt drive bike.
A column of APCs and PLA heading into Shenzhen.. super restrained. I'm sure those protestors are so lucky to the CCP to not be Tiananmen Square 2.0...

Really?
Every such thread we have pron disliking type theory vemenently. It just makes me chuckle now.
The Psystar case (or at least, my read of Apple's opinion of that situation), implies that Apple (circa early 2000s) considers making such an emulator available would not legal.
Kapitan adds support for Helm charts as input
I think you would agree that you're assessing the situation with a whole lot of bias.

> Lockdown in a terrorist, separatist and rebel location is a security measure more than a curbing of Freedom of speech

This is harsh. One could equally argue that the Hindustani and Pakistani governments are terrorizing the Kashmir valley, with their security measures and counter-measures. There's more to this issue than misplaced nationalism with countless layers and nuances, though, I agree it is in India's interest to deal with the Kashmir dispute in a way it sees fit and call it a day, since the agreed plebiscite isn't acceptable to it, at all.
Perhaps but snow crash was still the most entertaining. :)
Maybe, it worked on Decstation 2100s and 3100s (black and white) around 1992. Everybody in the computer lab was playing it.
> The Ford Focus is now king.

The Ford F150 wishes to disagree.
Visual studio, rider, IntelliJ idea, eclipse, they can all do it, although the last two can only go to the last stack call instead of moving to the specific statement if I recall correctly.
Or, they're passionate about change and doing what they can to push back against the status quo, but don't think that every battle needs to be fought in every arena. And in fact, doing so can be counterproductive.
I don't think it's as simple as you're making it out to be—not universally, anyway. Diet and nutrition are also complex systems—moreso for some of us in the population. I've written this out a number of times before so I'm just going to link my last comment on the subject.

I feel the need to speak up for people with similar conditions for whom simply cutting out a crucial part of our diet is not resolved.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20635612
Maybe? But an effect which relies on a link between diet and farting isn’t exactly remarkable or even surprising.

My dog farts the most noxious gas if he eats apple or chicken.
Sir are you classified as a human? Negative, I am a meat popsicle.
Why aren't there any animals with wheels? Evolution doesn't guarantee optimal solutions.
Is that a yes or a no?
Which is why companies should start treating politics in the workplace as a liability. You can't have a workplace where someone "brings their whole self to work" at scale.
I think this is seriously naive.
I don't understand why the action was to disable the account, rather than deleting the offending tweet.
When my kids were infants, they loved xeyes.
Tell HN: Google fi bug directs calls to strangers
Encountered a bizarre bug last night, thought HN might have some interesting things to say about it: my friend called me on my google fi number, it rang on my phone and computer, but when I tried to answer someone else picked up! A real bonafide person. I know because my friend told me immediately afterwards.

Can anyone well-versed on VoIP comment on the technical feasibility of this?
Just use English / US (International), it will make "é" become ' + e and allow lots of other combinations.
Big Brands Using Amazon’s Anticounterfeiting Measures to Crush Small Businesses
I would disagree with that. There are thousands of significant issues facing the US, and the world in general, you can't be vocal about them all. Just because I don't talk with people about what is happening in Hong Kong, or Yemen, or about gun control in the US, doesn't mean I think the status quo is OK. It just means there are other issues I am more focused on.
Why would you need studies ? It's not like trying to introduce a new medication on the market.
If I like knitting 30 mins a day and I feel relaxed after that I'm not going to wait for a study to tell me it's actually making me feel better or not.
> 2) I cannot visualize how VR can help in "diversity training"

Empathy. Most people are selfish and it can be difficult for us to care about an issue that hasn't impacted us directly. VR could give people the opportunity to experience what it's like to be someone totally different and "walk a mile in their shoes."
But not being able to deal with it isn't what we're discussing.
So we could have highways offering 100% automomy and small village roads offering 20% autonomy.

Investment wise it wouldn't be impossible since roads are already expensive to build.
That is a very weird example for the article to lead with. He's talking about the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown. What kind of "debate" can a primarily white and asian group of people have about those events? The whole fun of nerd debates is taking dueling positions on low-stakes issues--something that would be way out of line with respect to those issues.
The possibility of gender topics turning into a gender war should not preclude any and all discussion of the topic.

It seems like a valid and substantive comment that adds to the discussion to me.
A similar thing happened to my phone while I was at Defcon several years ago. After that I put my phone on airplane mode. Then when I got home, I reset all my passwords, and wiped the phone.
I've never bought a Funko and I would never consider those figures a work of art, but there's something to be said for a simple medium that meshes so effectively with any IP. You can show yourself as a fan of a TV drama, comic book, and sports team on the same shelf. Something as detailed as Banpresto is likely to clash with other decor/figures.

That said, some of their work (especially on real people) is bafflingly low-effort. Case in point, see the comparison between New Jersey Devils star player Taylor Hall and his Funko recreation:

Real life: https://specials-images.forbesimg.com/imageserve/5be4813ca7e...

Funko: https://www.characterstation.com/eshop/19246-large_default/f...
And what exactly is that impact? The author never specified; just asserted "cars are bad because reasons" and left it at that.
Nvidia CEO says Google is the only customer building its own silicon at scale
Re. [1,2] see [4], but I wouldn't expect it to convince you.
Re. [3] I fail to see how an apology is an acceptable excuse for the protesters' behaviour, regardless of their cause.

[4]: https://weibo.com/1989660417/I2cCLyIGC?refer_flag=1001030103...
IntelliJ cannot step back to the previous statement as the JVM does not support this. Thus neither can Eclipse.
Oh xfig is missing. I still use this awesome program for drawings. It's primitive but in many ways faster to use than inkscape.
There are many more issues to be solved than there are seconds in a day. Being unable to focus on everything does not mean you are happy with it.
from the lawsuit:

"47. On July 3, 2019, [redacted] wired $466,373.67 to Toptal."

so, this whole lawsuit seems to be about: $163,476.79
How We Ran a Successful Failed Experiment (Better Web Parsing)
I guess I should have written "Should Mastercard be required..." Typically these debates are about what should be allowed under the law rather than what's actually allowed under the law today.
多谢！我会联系你。
Thanks a lot! I'll contact you.
How does this correspond to economic data?
[flagged] because the socio-political perspectives of non-white engineers are not as valuable to share on HN as those of white engineers. The views of minorities are relentlessly supressed and attacked in the comments on this forum while others simultaneously criticize any piece that shines a light on this bias. While the discussion here was disappointingly predictable, I was still hoping it was discussion that could at least be attempted.
Relevant talk:

The Tragedy of systemd:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_AIw9bGogo

"systemd is, to put it mildly, controversial. As a FreeBSD developer I decided I wanted to know why.

I delved into the history of bootstrap systems, and even the history of UNIX and other contemporary operating systems, to try and work out why something like systemd was seem as necessary, if not desirable. I also tried to work out why so many people found it so upsetting, annoying, or otherwise rage-inducing.

Join me on a journey through the bootstrap process, the history of init, the reasons why change can be scary, and the discovery of a part of your OS you may not even know existed."
Autodesk did recently release Maya and Max Indie which is roughly $300 for the first year. Pricing after that is ambiguous right now unfortunately.
I don't think so. Those look like the original CDE Motif Window Manager[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motif_(software)
One of my favorite sci-fi novels.
Because it may be harmful.

See for example the idea of giving people involved in road traffic accidents a bit of psychological therapy afterwards.

That seems like it'd help, and most people would say that it can't hurt, but when you look at the people 3 years later we see the group randomised to talking therapy have worse outcomes than the group randomised to no talking therapy.

(I'll try to find a reference).

Here's the reference: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/10974967/
I was born in the early 80s, can confirm, am aware of a Rolodex :)
It is very sad to compare an iron fist of holding power with a more subtle aspect in Chinese culture. The violence committed is incomparable. Though you might argue the face and guanxi culture is more subtle brutality.
Lionel Messi Is Impossible – Statistical Analysis
Is capital not synonymous with ruling class in the United States? From the outside perspective it looks like it definitely is
What I'm curious about is, how robust is it? How does it handle bumpy rides and rough terrain?
The article doesn't say anything about it and i can't tell
Seriously? It's hard for me to picture cows wandering on a sandy beach. But, if true, I stand corrected - to a certain degree. Thanks.