skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But again, that presumes it's possible to detach politics from everyday life, work included. It isn't. You can pretend they aren't there, but before you just sign up for that, you might want to consider which groups of people benefit from you doing that.

I'm not trying to guilt anyone into anything. If anything, I'm putting forth the call to action to recognize that being apolitical hurts almost everyone, yourself included. You may be apolitical, but your boss probably isn't. Your landlord probably isn't. Your local politicians definitely aren't. The owner of your workplace almost certainly isn't, either. And all of those people have the capacity to make their lives better, by politicking in a way that will make your life worse.

I don't care what side people want to get on. I just want them to know that whether they've chosen one or not, they are on one.
This is a fascinating stanford prison experiment level social experiment spearheaded into the mainstream by twitter, facebook, youtube. I guess religious wars takes away the burden of petty intellectualism we've been trying so hard to get rid of.
Yes! It's about time work and politics were made separate.

Political discussion quickly turn toxic. Nobody is convinced of anything, and career harm is a definite possibility.

This is a great, common-sense move. Kudos to Google.
If you're targeting those in countries with less freedom, you will want to be careful about pictures and names. A woman trying to get an education in afghanistan is life or death.
The key flaw of UNIX philosophy is destructuring deserialization and reserialization based on lines, necessitating all manner of argument escaping and field delimiters, when pipelines should be streams of typed messages that encapsulate data in typed fields. Logs especially (logging to files is a terrible idea, because it creates log rotation headaches and each program requires a log parser because of the loss of structured information) also. Line-oriented pipeline processing is fundamentally too simple. Settling on a common data simple/universal format robust enough for all purposes, including very large data sets, to exchange between programs and is just complicated enough to eliminate escapement and delimiter headaches without throwing away flexibility (by a new/refined set of processing tools/commands) is key.
Secure by default is smart, as is designing for the lowest common denominator. I do not fault the likes of Apple, Google, etc for that. However, what I do fault them for is not offering documentation to enable sufficiently technical owners to exercise their rights of private property and full ownership over the hardware they have bought.
Yeah, I've have the same feeling about games lately. I took a break for a couple years in college and then junior year came back and started playing a lot of Halo 3 and Reach multiplayer. That was fun and got me back into video games as a 'serious' hobby: one that I was invested in exploring on a broad level. But ten years later I find myself getting bored with new games so easily. Maybe it's just getting more involved with adult stuff, but I have friends who are also avid gamers and I like having that as a shared interest/jumping off point. Still, I find myself craving truly novel narratives and mechanics and they're in thin supply. I'm reminded of Sturgeon's Law and the burgeoning market of Indy/low effort game-making.

This was all a prelude to tell you that a couple months ago I picked up "Outer Wilds" and it sparked my imagination in a real way. It really felt like I had finally found a game that did space exploration 'right' and it ended up taking a place in my top-5 games of all time. It was truly a beautiful, crafted experience that kept me coming back for more. It was also not too long, not too short. Probably about 30-40 hours provided a comprehensive playthrough and I didn't feel like the game let you 'miss things', which I personally dislike. I wouldn't want to read a choose-your-own-adventure novel for the same reason.
There is an incredible number of psuedo-allegations against the Clintons. It's been practically its own industry over the last three decades. There may also be substantial criticisms but at this point it's pretty well-adjusted for people to assume that any given criticism is more likely psuedo than substantial.

I haven't really given Epstein's bias charges much of a serious look because the popular summaries don't address a basic question: what would it even mean for you to say that given search term is "biased" towards one candidate or another, unless what people are typing in is "who should I vote for as President?" Even if that's the level at which we're talking about, in what sense was the bias different than, say, if editorial board upon editorial board of newspapers throughout the United States declared support for Clinton, in spite of any history of frequent support of candidates from the opposite party? Isn't it more likely that what people are searching for is information about candidate positions, statements? Maybe news?

Now, maybe this is something that Dr Epstein explains in his more formal research, but why can't he explain it in his popular stuff? Maybe it's so complicated that it defies popular summarization or.... maybe there really isn't a lot of there there. The fact that I can't find answers to any of those questions even where he claims to have detailed methods ( https://aibrt.org/downloads/EPSTEIN_&_ROBERTSON_2017-A_Metho... ) strongly suggests the latter to me.

The combination of crying wolf when it comes to the Clintons and a lack of a hook makes it pretty easy to ignore. Maybe that's why Dr Epstein is primarily finding only right wing borderline propaganda outlets are listening.
I think that can work for a small group at lunch, and it's great to see. The problems begin on large faceless email/message groups, where the dynamic is less personal.
Why is all the money at sellers like Amazon, and not where the real work is, i.e. shipping?
Competent programmers compensate as best they can when using weaker tool chains, such as those lacking strong types.
That makes more sense.

I read it as “opposed to trash pick-up in general” and then thought “who the hell would be opposed to that?”
I don't think it is necessarily as simple as just, "build more housing".

Rent costs are complicated. A big part of the reason that SF housing is so expensive is that it is so desirable to live and work there. Companies want to be there because that is where the talent and capital is, and talent wants to be there because that is where companies and capital is, and capital wants to be there because that is where the companies and talent are. High cost is what keeps some companies/talent/capital away DESPITE the benefits of being in the area... but if we lower real property costs, MORE companies/talent/capital will want to be there and the cost saving won't persist. There is latent demand ready to fill up any extra housing you build.

There have also been studies that ask this same question, and they have found that opening up housing development in high rent areas just means developers build more luxury living places, and costs don't go down.

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/05/housing-supply-home-p...
Li Kai Fu - AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

https://www.amazon.com/AI-Superpowers-China-Silicon-Valley/d...

Despite unclear connection from the title, it's actually a good contextual background on industry in general.
If it's not safe for your work, you need a different job.
How would this actually work in practice? Do you expect regulators to break out just the book store from the other ecommerce stuff?

Would the whole shipping network, fulfilment, and distribution centers be repeated across all of these companies or would that be a separate company? What about the vendor marketplace and ecommerce code and massive analytics systems they built? Plus customers will have to go to multiple different websites depending on what they want (babystuff.com, bookstore.com, etc)?

These companies can't simply be divided geographically and regionally like oil and telecom companies can, that's counter to how internet companies work. So it'd have to be business unit / divisional.

It's easy to throw around anti-trust laws as a panacea for all the stuff we don't like by tech companies but we seem to be missing the whole concrete picture of what that actually means in practice.
Yeah but I'm wondering why Google is giving out ChromeOS at (presumably) no cost to hardware vendors. That means they must make their money from the customer somehow through e.g. extensive tracking.
I agree with this, but unironically.
You take comments like "the media worldwide is leftist" seriously? These are mostly not bad supporting arguments, not enough to conclude this is just a big misreading of the presidents funny style. Shit is going down and that's a fact, of course you should be worried. "It just means you are still sane"
I think you raise a good point about the nature of a for profit organization and it’s design being optimized for a particular thing, which is very much not a thing meant to generate good answers to tricky political questions that impact a whole lot of people/things. In reality, it’s headquarters is in a politically radical place where conservative voices have a helluva hard time speaking up because they could face career backlash by dissenting with the overwhelming majority views in those rooms, which are not representative samples of America. Google decision makers are not designed to be accurate representatives of America’s constituents.

Ideals aside, I think there’s a clear business reality that the radical left employee base is giving google a lot of headaches. Many might argue this is for the better, but that’s mostly because they have similar political sentiments. It seems like woke culture has made google a very tense place and is gobbling them up.
Looks cool, but when I see things like this I figure there's no point in trying to learn something that won't exist on 99% of the systems I need to work on. Bash sucks, but it's almost always there. Embedded systems, desktops, big iron... Like many of the established Unix tools, bash has market penetration and staying power.
eBay's marketplace (eBay.com) revenue should be the amount that's their listing fees and percentage of the final price that they take. The amount that the sold goods are worth should be the gross merchandise volume. See https://investors.ebayinc.com/fast-facts/default.aspx for their current numbers. Looking at their fees: https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/fees-credits-invoices/sell... , it seems to be 10% to 12% for common things. For the recent quarter, their GMV is $21.5B and revenue is $2.2 billion so that seems about right (this is minus StubHub and only their primary marketplace).

Shopify's revenue from https://investors.shopify.com/financial-reports/default.aspx is $362 million and their GMV is $13.8 billion. Looking at their fees at https://www.shopify.com/pricing , they charge between 2% to 3%. This seems to be about right.

This is a superficial look but, I think to your original question, the revenue should be comparable.
In this era, I am no longer convinced that the internet is such a good thing.
There’s little point in teaching either functional or procedural programming, as they’ll both be more or less covered when you’re learning Object Oriented programming.

There’s nothing preventing certain functions from being procedural or functional.
Eggs Successfully Collected from the Last Two Northern White Rhinos
More info here: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dynamic-filtering:-qu...
>Why is that directly his fault? Just because someone supports a side doesn’t mean they’re complicit in everything every arm of that “side” conducts.

You can be complicit by omission too. There's a reason why "just following orders" does not grant immunity. And why supervisors/managers are held responsible for the actions of their subordinates.
I don't understand why FT gets posted so much, even though it requires a subscription to use. Do most people on HN have a subscription to FT?
I don’t know why they don’t support 3rd party payment tokenization.
I use that setup + a hosts block file, and i recently started using a pi-hole. I also use stylus to block a few custom elements and change themes for a few sites. I mostly visit news sites and some random sites.

The only issues i have had have been on pinterest.
What sites do you have issues on?
Make internet access cheaper by operating an efficient internet service provider, which can afford to offer access to the internet at a rate that more people can afford, in the places where it currently is too expensive.
Conflating reviews of different editions is the straw that makes it impossible for the shopper. I was looking to buy a translation of 1001 Arabian Nights. Some reviews warned of scams, some spoke positively of the quality of the translation, but they were the same reviews on every translation and every edition. I gave up. That much seems like a simple change too... simpler than conflating them. The only explanation I can think of is to deceive the customer into thinking a product is more reviewed than it is.
> the Foundational axiom from zFc

The capitalization there suggests that the F in ZFC stands for "Foundation". It doesn't; it stands for (Abraham) Fraenkel, one of its creators.

I don't see any sign that, e.g., Russell understood the Tractatus as a satire. He was pretty good at spotting bullshit and if he took it seriously I would consider that strong evidence against your interpretation.
Agree. Good point! We had the same issue in Georgia in a village with a Muslim minority population. We try to be very careful when it comes to the privacy issue. We have signed documents of the family members giving us the rights to use photos on the website. Not everybody agrees. And we never use family names.
> I wonder why there isn't more visible startup activity in SJ.

Because VCs are mostly investing in software startups with twentysomething who are stupid enough to believe the hype. Those who believe hype want to live in the "cool" area, and that's San Francisco or Berkeley--not San Jose.

Those people building real businesses don't care, and probably aren't even located in the valley anymore.
> no context

You asked for evidence of riots. Are you claiming that these scenes don't constitute rioting?

As for context, some of the links I provided are news reports in Cantonese or Mandarin. I suppose you don't understand what the newscasters or the people in the videos are saying?

> bodyslamming a (sic) innocent girl

And there was a bunch of armed people on standby all ready to retaliate? Yup, not the scene of a riot.

> https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/clbof6/in_a...

You know that the guy punching is Chinese how?

All of them were speaking Cantonese. I speak Cantonese and I understand what they were saying.

> https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/coy60g/a_young_femal...

The woman was shot at a _siege_ of a police station and she was in rioters' typical battle gear. The police have not ruled out that they could have shot her, but they are still investigating. The woman has so far refused to come public. If she was indeed shot by the police, you'd imagine that the protest movement would've called press conferences, published hospital reports and all that. So far, nothing.

> https://amp.news.com.au/national/queensland/hong-kong-protes...

I condemn all violence. This subthread is on evidence of rioting in Hong Kong. Yes you can cherry pick videos showing violence carried out by Chinese-looking people. And that's what you have done.

Edit: Wording
Currently using Brave Browser, AdBlock Plus and Privacy Badger. For my daily usage, I only have a few sites I need to whitelist.
They prey on nostalgia, but the rugged aspect also speaks to me.

Casio watches, Nokia cellphones (formerly, now Huawei or Xiaomi), Thinkpad latops and Panasonic Toughbooks - if you have one, you are likely to have one of the others.

Looks like people are getting defined by their lifestyle. (I guess Rolex and Apple would be on the other end of the spectrum)
If you wish to learn French, Rust, Chinese or Java you can pick up a rule book in your native language and get a grasp of the language.

If you wish to study code, what most people don't realize is that it's a new language. It doesn't matter if it's written in a language you're familiar with. You need to understand the domain, you need to understand the structure of the code, the naming of the variables. That's a whole other language. Most developers have to infer this new language by reading code. Imagine learning a new language by reading a book written in that language. That's why Domain Driven Design is popular in the OOP camp, talks about Ubiquitous languages and bounded context. That's why DSL is popular in the functional camp, why Lisp fans are crazy about Macros. It doesn't matter what the language is, if you want to make your code a joy to work with. You need adequate documentation of the code structure before folks dive into the code.

Imagine a student with no experience trying to learn about the Linux kernel strictly by reading the source code compared to a student who first reads a book on the Linux kernel then dives into the code.

This is what APL was hoping to solve and was pushing by "notation as a tool of thought", but then it brought it own set of problem. APL is like Chinese, Chinese notation is a tool of thought. You can read one Kanji and gain so much from it, but you have to learn the damn notation first.

The only language that comes close is Declarative logical languages like Prolog, but yet they suffer from some of the other faults and only holds logically in closed-world assumption. Written by humans, so improper naming can misleading too.

What's the solution for all? NOTHING! Some Developers will always hate on whatever you use if you make them work harder than they want to.

With that said, the article was spurned by Ilya Suzdalnitski, who only seems to care about medium claps. He wrote an article [1] about how OOP is a trillion dollar disaster, then in about 2 weeks about [2] functional programming sucks and is a toy and his solution was OOP. This is someone who's happy to straddle the fence so long as he gets views.

1 https://medium.com/better-programming/object-oriented-progra...

2 https://medium.com/better-programming/fp-toy-7f52ea0a947e?so...
From their docs “Reaction is built with JavaScript (ES6), Meteor, Node.js and works nicely with Docker.”

Is Meteor still being actively developed?
I've read a few of the documents (by no means all) and I'm just left wondering where the meat is?

There have been other leaks that suggest a rather unpleasant political mono-culture, and some creepiness with the "bring your whole self to work attitude" and I don't doubt that the Google execs would be glad to be rid of Trump, but I don't see a "smoking gun" of obvious conspiracy.
That's not completely true. They are making a majority of the money (creators), but it's not directly related to what you watch. The entire pool is split by watch time (watch time from people even not subscribed to youtube premium) on all videos on the platform. So, more of your subscribers getting youtube premium does not benifit you.
I mean, there's no way that cell phone makers don't understand that putting chunks of rubber in certain places would make their phones more durable, right?
TL;DR: Yup, we're doomed.

Read or listen to David Wallace-Wells' Uninhabitable Earth[1] and/or Jem Bendell's Deep Adaptation[2]
and decide for yourself. Both a couple of years old, neither will leave you the slightest bit optimistic.

[1] http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-...

[2] https://jembendell.com/category/deep-adaptation/
Why this 63-year-old teacher ditched the US to retire in the highlands of Panama
Personalty think if Debian won't change the support email then he should just put in an auto response listing the Debian's maintainers email addresses.
Article comments on this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlNkQJzw4oA
It may surprise some people on HN, but for most people in the world, changing jobs is a hard thing to do. And yes middle managers can be that petty.
I think it's just a vocal minority, and on reddit there were way less people disagreeing with the extension :/

- Dev
While I agree with you philosophically, you are using a different definition of “value” than the parent, i.e. you are talking past the point of the parent comment.
It does get a bit absurd. Prime Video has excellent content but having to access it through Amazon.com makes me feel like a theater is forcing me to walk through a gift shop to get to my seat.
Yes, I do think it's far easier for someone to phrase toxic and hateful views in a civil manner, than it is for someone to hear it and respond in a civil manner.

I wonder though if there's a conflation here between dealing with the argument itself, and dealing with all the social realities of being subjected to the person making it - how threatening they appear, how connected their beliefs are to impending action, how confrontative the exchange is, etc. Like, it's totally fair to believe that the person making the argument is dangerous, and respond emotionally from that. It doesn't mean that it's the argument itself that is being responded to - the argument might instead be evidence of impending dangerous behavior, which is different. It also doesn't mean that the argument itself is dangerous - the danger might entirely come from the circumstances, like if the argument is being used as a physical threat.

Like, I don't know, imagine it's Joyce Brothers making the hateful argument, from her hospital bed with a cocktail in her hand. It might be easier to engage with the argument in that case - to determine if it's based off of incorrect facts, bad reasoning, or just hateful premises that can't be challenged.
Combating coordinated influence operations on YouTube
I can't really tell how do we apply make this idea compatible with the common workflow/model of computing. In my imaginary world everything down to the level of a statement of what is a code file in the real world is a separate record in a relational database, there are no file names and no folders (only tags, commentaries and other metadata).

In the real world folder hierarchy is probably inevitable so yes, it has to be stored in a way (in a separate table perhaps so we can have many-to-many relationships sort of what hardlinks do).
I actually live in US now. It's complicated over here. There are numbers that are talking about 20% of so that either cant afford or dont have in general access due to absence of infrastructure.

Will play devils advocate a bit: there is a lot of projects that attempt sponsoring model. Why one should choose yours over, lets say, this one https://www.worldvision.org/sponsor-a-child-in-africa .
Off the top of my head, disabling uBlock has been the only way to unblock on-and-off trouble with some ATT-owned websites (ATT's own website, ATTWatchTV.com, etc) and owner.ford.com (original, the beta works fine).

My experience has been generally good, but weird stuff (especially authenticating/login) just won't work sometimes with uBlock and Privacy Badger running.

I also use the HTTPS everywhere Chrome extension, so perhaps that is an added factor that breaks things.
As a long time customer, I can attest that they thoroughly deserve their success. Their product has always been amazing. Absolutely reliable. Beautifully well designed. We never once flinched at our bill.
If other variables are constant, the dehumidification is proportional to air changes/air flow.

However, some of those other variables are not consistent across different designs. For example, they may use a different refrigerant that requires a different compressor. Centrifugal devices like fans and compressors use power in a non-linear fashion. Look up pychrometric chart and/or fan affinity laws for more detail
Oh, I see - the transmitted information is far "less" than the quantum state itself.