skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> and shame everyone who dares to complain.

And then watch at they turn on you by quietly voting for your opponents in greater and greater numbers as the problem worsens.
Right, so in this case, is it okay that racists are fired or similar? How does this relate to the tolerating of other viewpoints in this case?
If I remember correctly, one of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Pelucidar books involves a vacuum airship as well. His was just made of some sort of future super strong unobtainium type matterial though.
Most people in Hong Kong that are protesting don’t have a second passport. That’s why they are fighting. As for those with passports, most are still dormant even though they do support the protest.
This paper by the creators of AdNauseum explains their approach and philosophy - http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1873/IWPE17_paper_23.pdf

Individual people opting out of tracking doesn't meaningfully attack the ad tracking infrastructure, and will always be limited to a small percentage of technically proficient users who care about privacy.

A collective approach feeds bad data into their infrastructure, making their data less meaningful for ad tracking and also helping protect the privacy of everyone.
Total Chinese export is still going up. You only need 35% local content to be labeled “made in country x”. This trade war will reduce headline bilateral deficit with the US which China knows to be at an unhealthy level. There’s additional cost compared to the past but US is sharing the burden.
That in turn boils down to a reluctance people have to acknowledging the magnitude of an externality of they are the ones imposing it on others, or even its existence.

It's particularly severe when it's up to an MBA running a company, but an engineering education only goes so far in mitigating that tendency: the Koch brothers majored in chemical engineering at MIT. A major component of their education was all about externalities. And yet they've devoted their political activism to nurturing anti-intellectualism in the Republican party specifically so that the GOP would deny any and all externalities.
Ask HN: Are spam Apple calendar invites common? Do you receive them?
Beginning today I have been receiving a new type of spam, event invites on my iphone's calendar. It's incredibly annoying because I get a notification for something like "You've won $4k!!" that can actually be set as a daily event that I have to decline to off my calendar.

Is Apple's calendar service seriously allow you to send calendar invites to anyone you have an email for? Or have I potentially been affected by malware? Have other people experienced this?

If nothing else this is incredibly disruptive.
CMC Markets to my request for 2FA: “Password and trading pin is enough”
I've never visited Phoenix but isn't it the humidity combined with temperature that makes it unbearable?

Here in NY, with high humidity it can be upper 80s or low 90s outside but when you factor in the humidity you have no way to cool off. You can be laying down doing nothing but dripping in sweat. Combine that with being in an apartment that's on the upper floor with bad insulation and forget it. I imagine it's even worse in places like Florida.

It's also crazy how big of a difference there is between an upper floor that's poorly insulated vs a basement. You can expect a 15-20f degree difference.
> Heya. I work for an analytics company, and this kind of thing is pretty easy to detect and mitigate.

Already happens. I don't see nearly as many clicks accumulated in AdNauseum as I used to a few years ago.

Google tried to ban the extension https://adnauseam.io/free-adnauseam.html, but they've probably been reminded about the Streisand effect and just fixed their code to check for it and ignore it.
Not sure why you think this, in most states they, for example, cannot waive the implied warranties for consumers which has exactly the effect i said.

(there are other laws as well)
Your perspective promotes traumatizing systems. You are therefore a danger to yourself and society.

If you are locked up as a result of this, will the reeducation take?

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Thought experiment aside, you don't know what other people need and forcing your ideas onto them is how we get into these messes in the first place.

Authoritarianism isn't a healing modality.
I think it's also at least somewhat the case that hg had a great CLI when it launched and git had an abysmal CLI when it launched, but over the years and counting "necessary" hg extensions, they've both sort of converged more towards the middle: git's has only gotten better (and really only had room to get better) and hg's has mostly stayed the same, if not slowly gotten worse from the additional "overhead" of extensions.

Which is that the difference between the CLIs in the early days were stark contrasts of good and bad, but now they both seem about equally mediocre, but in different ways, when directly contrasted. (Especially with the latest git release finally splitting checkout into switch and restore, they are really on increasingly similar footing.)
So, if my view is that trans women should be called men, and I call a trans woman at my work a man, is this speech or an action? This is where I'm having difficulty distinguishing speech and action.
Whoa. Using Seattle as a positive story in the war on drugs seems...highly questionable. The city has been essentially destroyed by junkie infestation, enabled by (possibly well-meaning) people.
The charitable interpretation is "essential to keeping the home dry and free of mold" not "essential to live there".
Edgy, autistic, or all of the above?
I read the memo before reading the media coverage. I was very surprised at how controversial it was. It's claims were pretty modest: it did not claim that women were any less capable than men at technology, and it repeatedly stated that innate differences likely do not account for all of the disparity between men and women in tech. All it argued was that just because a disparity exists we should not assume that it is evidence of discrimination, and that policies designed to engineer an outcome closer to 50/50 are likely creating discrimination rather than reducing it.
Partially the curse of cheap energy - throw up a cheap shitbox and then use vast amounts of power keeping it cool.

Be interesting to see if that changes in a warming world, I hope so.
> Who pays for this?

sadly, me and other taxpayers like me in Seattle.
I've traveled extensively in Europe. While transit was available in most cities, and usable, aside from the real metros, like London and Paris and Barcelona, and a few gems, like Budapest, transit was often not frequent enough and clearly took longer than a car. The reason I took transit was it was cheaper in absolute terms, and, as a student, my time wasn't worth much. Also, that was pre-uber. I daresay that if I visited those places today -- places like Oslo, Prague, Porto, Rome, Dublin, etc -- I would have taken uber. It would be faster, and my time is worth more.

The only Asian cities I've spent any noticeable time in are Bombay and Hong Kong. Bombay -- I guess it's called Mumbai now -- is a shit show, in every sense of the word. It's one of the largest cities in the world. Transit is awful and dangerous. The only reason my parents took it growing up was because when they were young they were too poor to afford anything else. When we go back now, as rich foreigners, we always take a private driver or taxis everywhere. It's just not worth it.

Hong Kong is a different story of course, due to the British influence and the fact that it was Britain when I last visited. Also, its constraints as a small island mean transit is a must have. And I would agree that it's transit system is better than most American cities.

That all being said, the American cities with densities approaching that of London, Hong Kong, etc all do have rather good transit options. As I stated elsewhere, the issue is the US has no large cities in the European and Asian sense. Our cities are sparsely populated. Yes, a lot of that is due to government policy, but it's also due to the fact that America is -- for the most part -- completely empty land.
You can thank the McCormick Reaper for putting that to an end. No need for Roundup.
If it isn't a trade secret, can you pls outline how it is detected and mitigated? Thanks.
If you think the west coast has insane policies, then you should really try living elsewhere for a bit of perspective.

I've lived in WA, CA, VA and TX. No state has sane policies and the more I've moved, the more I've realized this. WA still ranks at the top of my list for states to live in.
I agree, rules that govern large organizations didn't grow out of "mean bosses doing mean stupid things" but out of need for such a large organization to work well together. But, while that is true, it doesn't necessarily mean people will like the new Google, everyone's got their own personal taste in how the work culture should be and regardless of having very rational reasons why the culture is changing in some way, people that enjoyed the previous culture are likely to not enjoy as much the new one, resulting in increased difficulties hiring and keeping them.
Or it can be to create a neutral environment to get work done, as a professional environment should be. I just want to put in my hours and go home. Keep your politics to yourself.
Its significantly safer than San Diego & Irvine IMO, both of which still criminalize homelessness and have had Hepatitis outbreaks due to these ineffective policies.

Google, Apple, Expedia and Facebook are each building and hiring thousands here in Seattle, our homeless are significantly less aggressive than those I encounter in California.
I don’t care to get into it or take a position on the matter, I am just pointing out that it’s possible to have disagreements about where the boundaries are without it being the case that there is an element of hate involved.

It’s possible for someone to disagree that a man is a woman without hating them for thinking they are a woman. It’s also possible for them to be sensitive about how they express that without unnecessarily harassing or harming the other person. And it goes both ways. The degree to which others, particularly those with incompatible views, are willing to modify their own life in order to accommodate yours, is going to vary greatly. Figuring out where to compromise is the difficult part.

Do you think it’s disrespectful for someone to eat a big juicy steak at work while sitting right next to a vegan animal rights activist who sincerely feels anguish at the thought of us factory farming and slaughtering animals for food?

I think that issue is a lot simpler than some of these other issues, and yet I doubt that polite society can even agree on that.
Uninterceptible communication would be one application
As a resident, Seattle's drug policy seems okay. I think the goal of harm reduction, trust building, and getting people back on track is a laudable goal. People need a pathway back, not to keep being kicked down.

But we need higher standards about the anti-social behaviors that are comorbid to drug use. The problem isn't that people are on narcotics. It's at least _possible_ to be a functional member of society while on opiates, and I don't think someone should be wrung through the legal system for having the wrong things in their blood for a bit.

The problem is tent cities burning trash under the overpass. Lines of disheveled camper vans near the shopping centers draining their sewage into open buckets on the street (thank god they're kind enough to use a bucket) Panhandlers harassing residents at such scale that all but the most resilient citizens grimace at the thought of walking through their city center. Some of these people seem not to have drug problems at all.

I'm okay with low standards about drug policy enforcement, so long as it's coupled with high standards about behavior in the public space.

It's the second half that Seattle has yet to solve.
That sort of "plumbing" exists in lots, if not most places. Google is not different in that sense, except for the size.
Hiding the world from our children instead of letting them see how awful the adults have made it is dishonest, at best.

I prefer to teach kids how to find compassion for people in such situations.
Can confirm this from my friends in Vancouver and growing up there. Most Hong Kong people assimilate quite well, it’s new wave from mainland China that doesn’t. You can feel it in the atmosphere. Driving Ferrari’s everywhere and showing off. It’s not a good look for anyone.
The purpose of this article is different - someone will say "the safety situation in Seattle is terrible because of ultra-liberal drug policies". Then you are supposed to reply with this article as a counter. And New York Times beats The Seattle Times, so you've won the argument.

It's all about providing a counter-narrative to prevent cognitive dissonance.
>Brings to mind the attitude of "shutup and play ball" when sports athletes try to use their platforms for some aspect of social change or another.

But even then there's a difference; NFL players aren't protesting the actions of the NFL. If Google employees were using their position to push some agenda the company did not agree with and had nothing to do with then I'd agree.

It's certainly within Google's rights to take a "shut up and work" position, but I don't imagine it will work out well for them in the long run.
It's the data, and it's the model. You can also build a biased model, the same as you can build biased code.
Ironically, this site wants to use my browser's canvas to fingerprint me.

Umm.. no thanks!
Facebook learned about Cambridge Analytica as early as September 2015
An AppleCard Feature No One Is Talking About
I mean, it works for everyone, most people (usually native born Americans, because immigrants tend to do very well) just don't want it, and say so via their actions.
I'm more interested in what average Chinese experiences than the macro currency/debt figures. Yes food price has been going up. But salary has been going up in the past decades or so as well. I feel purchasing power has been flatlining now than before. Environment wise it's getting better actually. I agree with the growth of salary and food price, people's savings are destroyed. But other than that I wont use the word destroyed for other aspects. I personally think if it's not because of the economic achievement of the Chinese government, you wont see as much nationalism from there today.
Fish farming is a spooky rabbit hole to look into. All kinds of species, from saltwater to fresh, crustacean to finish, are fed fish that were caught in the wild, fed piles of antibiotics (this part gets really concerning, the implications for water sources connected to the farms are terrible), and all kinds of manual systems for removing polluting farm waste are employed where the pollution simply moves from farm to surrounding ecosystems.

There are better systems that are more sustainable, but my understanding is that most tilapia (for example) you'll find in a freezer at your grocery store is probably produced this way. It's really gross. Farmed shrimp and prawns are another one to stay far away from - they're labelled sustainable, but the farming practices are absurd. I don't trust any sustainability labels, anywhere.

Another one is Atlantic salmon farmed in the Pacific Ocean. That stuff is so gnarly. There's a reason British Columbia is shutting down a lot of these farms (and reviewing the remaining farms in 2022). It's bad for the environment, the product is not healthy, and it's incredibly inefficient. Yet somehow this product was labelled the smart choice for years.
Dictatorship works great if you have a benevolent, emotionally stable, intelligent dictator. Although some of Singapore's laws are very draconian.
I think people are also ignoring the fact the drug use might not correlate with the crimes these people are committing. Perhaps they are just mentally ill, with no access to proper care, and are self-medicating. Jailing them will never solve the problem. Affordable healthcare might, however.

But oh no, then we'd have to pay taxes! We don't want a safe city that badly.
> Mahama Gandhi didn't work for the East India company while simultaneously fighting for freedom.

LOL!

I worked at Google for about two years as a "TVC" (a programmer in a cubical, not a "real" Googler) and it was like being kidnapped by aliens, after I left that's how it felt: Like I was one of those people who had just been returned to Earth.

One thing that doesn't get talked about in re: Google and values: there's an entire "underclass" of employees that are of definite inferior status. The janitors, re-stockers of cafes, and maintenance people, etc. They wear special uniforms, and are trained not to fraternize with the "real" Googlers. They don't get to ride the fancy buses to and from work.

They are also of a different racial mix. Googlers are generally white or Asian but the staff are generally Hispanic. So there's politics, and then there's politics...
Seattle, part of Washington, actually has concealed carry as legal. There is no duty to retreat either, no real different than any "gun friendly" state. So your point is invalid. Anyone can have loaded carry pistol, this shows you to be pointless in this example.

I assume you're just trying to troll and failing badly.
Yeah so far from what I've seen all the big tech companies PAC's give with roughly 50/50 distribution of funds between left and right wing politicians. Whether that is good or bad is up to your own judgement. Personally I stopped donating to my company's PAC because I want more control of who my donations go to, but from what I've seen the corporate PAC's are all pretty well balanced.
No one is preventing you from working.
Haven't been here a while and the first 2 links I clicked are walled. Seems like shilling sites to the front-page of HN might be a decent business.
Reducing build times for C/C++ Projects with Conan and Lattix
Since people are objecting to "figured out", we replaced the title with a more neutral sentence from the article body.
I remember the Founder's Letter included with Google's IPO in 2004 - "Google is not a traditional company. We do not intend to become one." It looks like they became one.

The other interesting takeaway for me is how long-term equilibria can leave holes that may be exploited by short-term-focused actors. When Google was young, it's say-anything culture was a big competitive advantage: it let them hire people who were nearly unhireable elsewhere because they were too free with their opinions or too difficult to work with, and it let people be more open about their emotions, which is a prerequisite for creativity. Many of these people were immensely productive, building key systems. But as Google grew, this same culture would've led to the destruction of the company, so eventually management is forced to clamp down on it. Not before making the founders and many employees fabulously wealthy and reshaping the industry, though.
Looks like a fairly recent thing:

https://9to5mac.com/2019/08/19/report-remove-icloud-calendar...
The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.

~ Carl Sagan
No it’s not. Where did this stupid notion come from that everything neatly fits into two sides
> I'm convinced we are halfway to a much bigger transformation for Software Engineers / SRE , Developers etc...

I think kubernetes is the intro that gave everyone a taste of whats possible. What's yet to come is an easy abstraction layer or OS integration that makes it possible to use without learning 100 bits of new terminology and config minutiae.
Makes me wonder what GitHub can see (e-mail addresses, IP addresses). I also wonder if it is possible to use code analysis to figure out who these people are. Not that it is relevant for me, just curious...
I honestly would have been surprised if Sourcehut shunned Bitbucket refugees. Water is wet, news at 11?
False dilemma. We can mandate them by court order to attend treatment programs. There are ways of helping petty criminals that don't involve locking them in a box 24/7.
if you want to "make a difference" take a cue from Gandhi, Mandela, Martin Luther king Jr. etc

To elaborate the examples/options:

1) Become a lawyer -- Real change can be enacted through legislation and litigation. Knowing how the law works is power in this context.

2) Be involved in politics -- Again, real change can be enacted through legislation. This doesn't just mean running for office. One of my ex-girlfriends' step-fathers worked at a juvenile halfway house, and he regularly acted as an unpaid lobbyist. I have another friend who has also acted as an unpaid lobbyist for environmental causes. Anyone can do it. It's just a matter of being articulate, preparing, and having the time. (Also, everyone knows that lots of paid lobbyists are basically like mercenaries, so if your sincerity comes through and you know your stuff, there will be people open to your alternative take.)

3) Public speaking and writing -- All of the above did that.

Also, with regards to 2 and 3, do this in the larger community, outside of your workplace. This makes your activism a pull for people, instead of a push. Just imagine if people of _political_party_you_dont_like_ started to get involved in committees at your job and started to foist their particular beliefs on you there in the form of policies. It's not a big stretch to see how that could be interpreted as a subtle form of political attack, through the sensitive area of one's livelihood. It's easy to see how that can close minds, where otherwise there might have been a chance to convince, instead of coerce.

This brings me to number 4:

4) Convince. Don't coerce. -- In particular, in the startup community, we should know that getting people to pull can work much better than a push, which can even elicit a backlash.
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Does it address what would happen if I, relative to your reference frame, got in my spaceship, accelerated to .5c and tried to talk to you over my ansible? From my perspective, you're traveling slowly in time, but from your perspective, I'm traveling slowly in time, so who's voice would sound slowed down?