skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Partial responsibility for the "Spanish Flu that killed somewhere near 100 million people was public transportation.

Were you in debate club in high school? That was impressive.
I don't understand this view that "everything is political". How can can a discussion on e.g. C++20 coroutines be political?
The question the article raises is whether collecting user data, fingerprinting and cross-site tracking isn’t unethical in itself since it happens without the user’s express knowledge and consent
you may be right, but my history as dictator has shown me to be too soft so far
I am not sure how well this generalises but, in my experience, it is very possible to achieve this IF you have a business/culture that is motivated.

An example of this working is in investment management. The job is largely about groups of people arguing with each other. Often this comes down to differences in "world view".

Some places get around this by just hiring people with the same "world view". But other places take the more robust approach of hiring different people and encouraging more argument. I am not sure if this works because they just don't hire very dogmatic people (a group that is very over-represented in tech) but it can/does work (and does scale up to thousands of employees).

Definitely, large groups that have members across society ban these discussions (the Masons is one example). If you are hiring/recruiting anyone, then no politics is smart. But this isn't the case here. It is possible...if you are motivated. From what I have seen, the Googler approach is to be actively unmotivated.

It is easier to think everyone else is dumb and you are smart than acknowledge you are wrong or don't know. Investment management is unusual, the feedback loop is clear. You are as smart as your last trade. That promotes a robust self-image. I can see why the average Googler doesn't have these traits. They seem to be in the job description (i.e. a lot of people want to work at Google because that will mean they are smart). You reap what you sow.
Past actions of our ignorant and destructive ancestors does not exist current behavior. We should know better by now.

Those same people created colonial empires, held slaves and engage in all sorts of nefarious deeds. None of these should be considered acceptable in this day and age.
So, I think there are two entities that are failing in cases like these:
1) the government (regulators, and Congress)
2) the corporate boards

The CEO of, for example, Monsanto, has doubled down on Roundup in so many ways he cannot fail to fight this and keep his job. So I'm not surprised that he is fighting it (and getting Monsanto's many PR resources to fight it). But, the longer term for Monsanto is very negative if they don't change course, because even if they can suppress this in the U.S. they can't in Europe or elsewhere.

So, while the failure of our regulators and/or legislators to respond is certainly part of the problem, the other part is that our corporate boards of directors, whose only remaining job really is to know when to pull the CEO, are not up to the task.
> are we supposed to tolerate his views?

His views are his own. He should be free to express them.

What we wouldn’t have to tolerate was his actions, because they clearly harmed others.
It existed before Gnome and I’ve not yet seen any GTK interface that doesn’t seem like a slightly better looking Motif UI.
Author of SuperSQLite here. SQLite is under-utilized in my opinion! Because of the name, people seem to have the misconception that it can't be used for production workloads. It's true that it generally works well for embedded use cases, but it can be used for so much more and has an extremely simple codebase without a lot of bloat.
I think they just got sick of having their employees telling them what businesses they couldn't engage in.

They may have had to make the restrictions overly broad to avoid tripping over some labor organization laws.
> But it's considered a fringe eco-hippy interest and not something most of the population needs to care about.

Here in Arizona, if we built things for cooling more like in the middle east (windcatchers/solar chimneys/qanats + thick walled rammed earth and/or monolithic domes), it would probably be more energy efficient.

But I can't imagine that style would go over well with our current (overall) political climate here...
"Over the last decade" is a critical qualification, I think. This phenomenon emerged in the early 2010s, by my best reckoning.

This sounds an awful lot like nostalgic pining for the good old days, but there was a time not too long ago that daring to hold an opinion that others around you disagreed with wasn't an existential threat to your career. Things shifted really hard, really fast.
The politics of $RICH_GUY_WHO_WORKS_AT_TECH_IN_THE_WEST_COAST are not secret, I was just laughing at the prospect of a seemingly neutral "project" which is just a way of denouncing companies that use their advertisement power to show how leftist they are (because in this day and age they have no other choice) while, at the same time, they give money to those eeeevil conservatives.
Scrolling through HN while your code compiles != full on political debates at work.

I’m on a group chat with a couple old friends and when someone starts a debate on a topic I’m passionate about we go hard and we go deep. Suddenly it’s two hour later and here I am trying to do some quick demography with raw data from the census bureau to prove a point.

I’ve started blocking the chat until after work because debates do tend to rage sometimes. And we’re old friends with a grounding empathy and shared experiences to fall back on. Doing the same thing with coworkers during work hours? I would’ve banned it too.
I’m not convinced that there would be any decrease in price - why would there be?

HS2 is probably going to be £300+ for a peak return from London to Leeds - yes, I pulled that from my backside, but given when it’s due to launch and the ever-ratcheting fares, I think it’s perfectly realistic.

As to supply and demand influencing pricing - yes and no. While there will be more capacity, existing operators and franchises may or may not take advantage of it, and even if they do, what possible motivation would they have for reducing their prices? They won’t be competing with HS2 on price - if anything, the inevitability high fares for HS2 will provide an anchor for a price increase on the old mainline. The only others trains running on the same route will be theirs, as that’s how the rail franchise system works, so their only competition will be themselves - i.e. none.
Yes, that's quite recent (10 years or so iirc) and that in itself means something.

The largest shareholder is still Swire (British HQ'd in London), and I believe that the departing CEO came from there.
Or, specifically, my data not being stored in a place that I have no control over.
Root said to have raised $350M at a $3.5B valuation
Plus why in the heck do we have fossil fuels being subsidised? That always felt absurd to me, at least these days
nice!

so is any of the input feeding back to GCHQ?
Saying that you're glad people have attacked your art, and hoping that they continue is needlessly combative and reeks of an holier than thou attitude, as does the rest of the article.
Everyone here is talking about what _should_ happen.

Yes, the workplace _should_ be serene and work _should_ proceed in harmony.

But there are other things that aren't proceeding the way people think _should_ be happening, which they deem to be far more important.

Which is why you're seeing more people willing to disrupt the workplace, which they consider a minor obligation relative to the bigger picture.
My point was to the actual trained model.

I can't see access to data ever being accepted, for the reasons you mentioned.

However, publishing the model in a way that third parties can fuzz it seems to allow for discovery of the worst bads.
Parents: "Every Apple from that tree is a bite of Grandpa!"

Kids: "What??!!"
AC units also last longer if they run continually vs frequent starts and stops.
This strategy would be great in browsers, to break fingerprinting. Change the permission model such that access is always perceived to be granted, so there is no distinction between providing legit data and random but well-formed fuzz.

The tracking will still be there, but the tracker will never know if you granted access or not, it would always look legit.

Unfortunately, I imagine that would be tough to pull off in practice because the problem isn't just with web browsers, it's with every piece of software that embeds telemetry SDKs.
The memo made some very poignant points, but then the author expressed some strange opinions that I would never attempt to defend.

(Even worse, there was no reason to put some of these opinions in the memo.)

But what's more scary is Google's official response to the diversity memo. (For context, Google instituted certain hiring policies to increase diversity, which the "diversity memo" questioned.)

If you have the time, I suggest that you go reread the diversity memo and Google's response. Try to read them without taking sides. (It's hard.)
Did they call it trans hate? Or did they object to unisex restrooms and/or pronoun usage rules?

I usually see “hate” used very loosely here, when the reality is much more nuanced, and mischaracterizing it as trans hate (or hate in general, for whatever the issue might be) is contributing to the problem.
This is needlessly malicious. People have made the same argument for non-trans gay people and it's no less gross if you make it for trans gay people.
Could you please open issue on github providing the output that you get in the terminal?
Presumably someone at youtube writes, interprets, enforces and improves their policies on videos showing firearms.

If they tried to do all that without mentioning guns..... well, actually that would explain a lot :)
Or, you know, locked up indefinitely in a cell.

The USA is explicitly anti immigration right now, asylum or no. We can't even get people in on working visas to our SF office that have worked here before. They get arbitrarily denied.
Yeah that could be one possible solution. Not allowing Cathay flights over mainland China could be considered another.
> His views are his own. He should be free to express them.

Hitler didn't do anything but talk and lead others. Hitler just inspired an entire country to attempt genocide, through inspiration ALONE.

Hitler wasn't a man like Stalin (Stalin would personally execute people). Stalin "swung the axe", made sure his hands were as bloody as the people he led. Hitler in contrast, was a coward who ended up killing himself in a secure bunker as soon as the world turned against him.

Words alone have huge effect on people. The words of a powerful man can alone be enough to cause issues.
I think it's fine for an employer to dictate this, I certainly never want to debate politics or encounter others doing that at work. But it's not fine if the company wants employees to "bring their whole selves to work", as I understand Google does. I think the very concept is misguided; I don't think people should be expected to bring "their whole selves to work". But if that's what an employer wants, then they should expect to get exactly that.
There are theories floating around that China is using the current unrest as an opportunity to "cleanse Hong Kong of colonialism", so to speak. Ironic to say the least.
Or maybe Google's interview process is flawed by emphasizing whiteboard skills over people skills.
> Now, that is a pretty extreme view for today's society but good for making an example with.

It's not so extreme... I've actually experience this!

I'm gay and worked with an orthodox jew in New York for many years. We got close enough to have honest conversations about how scripture literally says gay men should be put to death.

For a long time he would talk his way around it. Eventually all he could say was, "it doesn't apply to you, you're not jewish" (ok, only murder gay jews, as if that makes it ok?) or "those laws won't apply until the third temple" (still, not ok!)

But you know what? We still liked and respected each other and worked very well together. So, I suppose it's possible.

I think I moderated his opinions a bit over time. That wouldn't have been possible if I would have berated him constantly and/or refused to work with him.
>But what if you’re attempting to use those utilities against your real documents?

You copy or move documents inside the specific sandbox.

If you want a pipeline, you establish a chain of inbox/outbox folders.

Obviously, most of this should be done by the OS, not the user.

The workflow:

- You click "download" in your browser.

- When it's done and you click on your download, the OS asks how you want to open it. Instead of "execute" option you get "run in a sandbox" option.

- You type in the name of the sandbox, the app gets copies to /apps/sandboxName or something of that sort.

- The system automatically creates /apps/sandboxName/inbox and /apps/sandboxName/outbox.

- To process a file in some way, you drop it into inbox dir.

For command line, the only change would be switching from "executable pulls arbitrary files" to "I push specific file to the executable".

zip -r squash.zip dir1

becomes

| -r squash.zip | zip dir1 |

Start pipeline. Push squash.zip as an argument to zip, get the output. Zip would be the container name.
Sorry! Thought it was limitation, stand corrected! Might need to file bug with Slack then :)
Yes, we let literal Nazis March in Skokie. Tolerance except for those one thinks are immoral beyond reason is gives just as much license for, say, an anti-abortion activists who genuinely sees abortion as murder to remove people who support abortion.
There's a big difference between fiscal policy and sexual orientation, though.

If you say "taxes are theft" I may disagree with your viewpoint, but I'm not personally attacked by it. If your viewpoint is a challenge to their personal identity, you should probably keep that to yourself.
> Crossrail is a massive transfer of wealth from working people to wealthy land owners.

Not that I particularly disagree with you, but I have two friends I'd consider 'working people' rather than 'land owners' who potentially benefit from increases in the value of their homes nearby the Crossrail improvements.
Amazon deforestation and land-business model is the human piece of all this. Far right in South-America always wanted to have more land and more space for their agro-business, and now they have many political influence to do whatever they want. They don't care the damage and they are screwing every industry in South-America for their goals. Argentine president, Mauricio Macri, also let his business partners to do the same in the Chaco.
I hope other European countries respond.
Spawning Game Servers on AWS
How can it not be? Discussing what C++20 coroutines should look like is not fundamentally different than what society look like.
Clair "Pat" Patterson was a graduate of Grinnell College and their summer 2019 college magazine has a nice comic style summary: http://magazine.grinnell.edu/news/get-lead-out
shouldn't be it's purely client-side. And of course, if you don't trust them, just stick a proxy in-line and watch for traffic.
May I ask what extension you use for cookie exporting?
It is the second kind, and in addition to the multitude of dedicated political discussion boards it is also very popular at the social forums like memegen and google plus. I was a bit shocked by this when I started but I got used to it, now I just filter it out.
...or maybe even offer those features to Google Voice's dialer, as well.
And there's a real concern that sleeping with a door open will kill you if your house catches fire.

https://closeyourdoor.org/
I went into full-time freelancing career as a graphic/web designer in 2007, then came the financial crisis and by mid-2008 I was struggling to feed myself because of the lack of work.

So in my desperation I tried mechanical turk.

I worked very hard for 8 hours tagging stuff, correcting text and selecting things with boxes. It was horrible, repetitive, mindless grunt work. And I earned like 5 dollars. That was not going to work.

So instead I advertised my very limited PHP and JavaScript skills and I started working as a programmer instead of a designer. It turned out there was still a demand for those.

I am very thankful that I had some coding knowledge because I don't know what else could I've done.

(I also tried 99designs, which paid better while still being dehumanizing, but that's a story for another day)
We let literal Nazis March in Skokie, the world did not end. Tolerance except for those one thinks are immoral beyond reason is gives just as much license for, say, an anti-abortion activists who genuinely sees abortion as murder to remove people who support abortion.
The problem with your selection is that it's interpreted as the most outlandishly fringe extreme religious/conservative viewpoint, and thus it has a political angle. I would have gone with something like the government being run by lizardmen aliens (which some people in the world claim to believe).
Billionaire David Koch dies at age 79
I bet majority of Google employees are taking a deep sigh of relief now.

It must be suffocating being surrounded with political talks at work when one is trying to do their job well.
Does action include hateful speech? Not being facetious just genuinely wanting to know. I've always found it difficult to dissociate views vs actions when it comes to espoousing a hateful view.
I don't know why you're being down voted, that's all that is showing up.
Yes, every meaningful change in society has come to light because everyone calmed down enough.
I saw a neighbour covering the windows with reflective oven foil on the inside. Should work to reflect the heat back out.
Thanks, it makes sense... I remembered some recent alarmists headlines about how lobsters will decline in the area due to warming but forgot that it was warming in the first place that made it the sweet spot it's currently.

Edit: anyway, production in the US has doubled in the last 20 years but the increase in global production is less than 50%. So it has not "exploded" in all the places where they catch them.
I have a solution for them: they should not express openly their sexuality. I don't care about their sexuality. Nobody cares about my or their sexuality. And if they make up a complicated sexuality and make it their identity, they should prepare to get mocked for it.
C preprocessor tricks, tips, and idioms (2015)
Tolerance didn't become a virtue solely because it was difficult. It became a virtue because it was difficult and the alternative was war - total, global war that could've annihilated the human race a lot more quickly than global warming.

We've largely forgotten what war was like - it's become something that we send disenfranchised young soldiers from poorer economic backgrounds to so corporations can make more money. I suspect that if people were actually faced with a direct choice between tolerance and war and could make the choice rationally, they'd choose tolerance every time. But of course, usually once wars happen it's because people are no longer acting rationally. And right now few people really believe that the alternative to tolerance is war, they just believe that the people they can't tolerate will willingly give up the beliefs they find repugnant.
I understand your perspective but I'm honestly very surprised given your example. I'm in Canada and the things Trump does and says are still present in conversations nearly every day.
CO2 Concentration – Brazil vs. China
It runs for a longer time; the dehumidifying function of an air conditioner (the original use, thus the name) is a function of airflow x time, and airflow doesn't change much.
If donations are no longer legal, only the wealthy will have enough money to run for office. It would not have the democratizing effect you seem to think it would.
Painting roofs white, or using light-colored shingles, keeps buildings cooler. It sounds like white paint is easiest for flat commercial roofs.

http://www.whiteroofproject.org/
I really wish I could have a well-designed (for electricity use) house. Unfortunately, they don't seem to exist unless you build it yourself, and I can't even dream of doing that (although to be fair I can hardly dream of buying a house at all).
Yes, there are precious few places that support sensible hw MFA and allow multiple of them to be registered. It is quite maddening actually.
This insistence on purity seems kind of naive and unsympathetic. I assume real history is more complicated. Do you really think there weren't blacks fighting for civil rights while working for racists?
Our company use mercurial and we are very happy with it. Mercurial has evolved and it's UI is still better than git. We use it due to following reasons:

1. Very easy to use and very well documented with a book.[1]

2. Mercurial good python philosophy of "explicit is better than implicit". This means every merge also needs to explicitly committed preserving history. Our team likes it.

3. Better multi-platform support.

4. Easy to extend to fit specific workflow.

5. Just run hg serve and access a beautiful web interface to review code. No need of external tools. In this aspect though fossil-scm [2] is ahead of both git and mercurial.

[1] http://hgbook.red-bean.com/

[2] http://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki
What is good looking in your opinion?
This guy seems to have a particular beef.
I hate scrum. In my previous job we wasted 15% of our time for sprint planning, retrospective, weekly, daily etc... Thanks god I left that place.
Subscriptions did not help save the 1,800 local newspapers that have shut down in the US since 2004.
The issue with refusing to tolerate intolerance tends to be the difficulty in defining intolerance. There are strong incentives to define intolerance as today's political foes, and weak incentives to resist this urge.

For my own part, I exist in a political context where I know that lots of people want to deny my whole existence. And so long as society is willing to keep them to nothing worse than the occasional unkind word, I'm willing to live with that. I prefer it to the endless mission creep that all too easily comes when the ostracism and purges start.
I draw the line at compelled speech. I don't want to have to remember your "pronoun" in order to have a regular conversation with you. At some point the politeness of inclusivity pervades upon the efficiency of getting your job done.

Being offended and upset is a personal problem, not a public one. Requiring colleagues to bend over backwards to accommodate your needs should be a matter of politeness, not company policy.
I use this a lot for basic things like base64 decoding. Of course, nothing you can't do with A.N. programming language, but handy for quick checks.
There are existing software implementations, particularly the various free-energy principle implementations available in SPM from UCL (albeit, in Matlab), and a few others. What has tended to happen is that neuroscientists are more interested in a minimal bio-plausible proof of principle, and machine learners often don't keep entirely up to date with neuroscience after their training. As a result, a lot of the most interesting ideas in neuroscience haven't been scaled up to larger machine-learning applications yet.

Me being a dual trainee in both fields, well, I'm working on it.
Its like hong kong protesters is fake protesters. They scared for nothing
This is getting ridiculous. There’s too many paywalled articles posted on HN and the web link is no longer a reliable work around. Bad user experience is just going to drive people away. Please think about reworking your algorithm otherwise comments are just going to be based in the title since few people can actually read it. Yes, I realize this is going to get downvoted because of posting policy but I’m willing to take the karma damage to try to improve the community before it’s too late.