skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The past is often romanticized, but the reality is that it was never easy.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/american-chinatowns-history_n...

I didn't say that your point was invalid. I'm just pointing out that when you're desperate enough to escape an authoritarian regime or other dangers, legality isn't as important of a consideration. There's plenty of grey areas to work in. ie if there's a will, there's a way
Depending on the style of house it may look out of place but can you put awnings on the exterior above your windows? This usually has the effect of blocking sun when it's high in the sky and the hottest while still allowing the sun to hit the window when it's lower and cooler (morning, evening, winter months).
Sure; inheritance is a relatively efficient way to implement single dispatch polymorphism in C++. Not much more to it. Thinking about it in that way has made my life easier.

Not that there's anything wrong as such in the example, it is just somehow all the examples were so inane.
Obviously, we need to make sure NO ONE has any kind of quality of life. Large US cities should keep being shit shows and keep getting worse for everyone until 100% of people, no matter their socioeconomic situation, can live like kings.
We probably shouldn't refer to someone as "trustworthy" who is repeatedly demonstrated to be blatantly lying and spreading clear falsehoods.

As the parent stated, manifest v3 changes didn't hide any information from extensions (hence, by definition, not improving privacy), and independent studies completely discredit Justin's claims about the effectiveness of ad targeting.
I think, inevitably, the saying about work not being a good forum for discussing:

- religion

- politics

- sex

still holds true, regardless of how progressive the workplace.
Think about it the other way around: Apple could easily afford to put the largest amount of storage they offer in all their phones. From their perspective, it wouldn't be much of a cost difference in the BOM.

But, if they only had the one phone model, how would they decide what to charge for it?

If they charge a lower price, everyone buys the phone, but they're leaving money on the table because they know that some people would have paid more.

If they charge a higher price, some people don't buy the phone, and again, they leave money on the table, because their margin is large enough that they still could have made a reasonable profit off of these people selling them the same phone.

Price discrimination—a.k.a price discovery—is a way of taking one product, and selling it for two (or more) separate prices, by having people self-select into your lower or higher price "tiers" based on some feature that costs you essentially nothing—a feature which you probably could offer everybody, even for the base price—but which you intentionally remove from lower pricing tiers, so that only the people who value "a low price" more than that feature will select into that tier.

So, for Apple, price discrimination is them ordering NAND of smaller sizes—even though this isn't really saving them money, because it's bloating their manufacturing logistics matrix—just in order to make the experience of using their entry-level phone models worse, in such a way that they can specifically target price-sensitive customers with those worse phones. Then they can crank up the price for everyone else, because now they don't have to worry about scaring the price-sensitive away: they've already made a low-tier crippled offering to serve them.
Implementing a Deque in Ruby
Yeah, that's why I commented. So they could resolve explain what they meant and hopefully resolve the discrepancy.
The joke only works using math with a base of 9 or above and in a language where '8' and 'ate' are homophones, making the use of it biased against people who use other languages or counting systems.
Are you aware of anyone using eutectic salts in the walls in the desert? I remember reading an article from the 70s about it and it seemed well suited for desert environments where there's a large temperature swing from day to night. They would absorb heat in the day keeping the house cool and release it at night keeping it warm. If I remember correctly, the difficulty was finding salts that worked on the right temp range
well it looks like its a multiview structured light and another type of camera.

So I suspect it is a SLAM system (how else can it make up an accurate mesh like that) but with a calibrated and well integrated depth sensor on there as well.
Are you calling this high or low, and are you snarking or praising?

We're in way too deep here.
How else do you expect to get to be "American sized" ?
It could depend on multiple factors, such as: number of people you're debating with, their demographics, and the fact that some people are more ... shall we say... "trigger-happy" than others.
Do you watch all the sponsor content in 1x speed without skipping? This is the digital equivalent of not reading the ad “articles” in a magazine.
This was already submitted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20781524, not sure why it didn't get marked as a duplicate.
Some of those can take me a minute or two... I'm almost starting to be convinced that I'm a robot.

I guess that's what you get for using Firefox and extensions that value your privacy
I’ve seen channels with as few as 10,000 subscribers have sponsors. This is literally screwing with some person’s job.
To be clear bombing cities is definitely evil. Are you saying that given a choice between global nazi domination and bombing cities you would pick global nazi domination?

Note I am not making this claim just asking the hypothetical.
>100 SJWs [...] contracting with a company of 100 MAGA [...] would be more productive than putting all 200 of them in a single company and imposing the traditional politeness restrictions of a corporate job.
So the question in my mind is, why did Google need to grow?

I had trouble parsing what you wrote but I think the question you're asking (growth with employees vs growth by contractors?) is answered by Coase's "The Nature of the Firm": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nature_of_the_Firm

EDIT to reply: I don't think it's about "diversity". OP specifically asked ", why did Google need to grow?"

Presumably, the question could be expanded as "why did Google need to grow to 100,000 _employees_?" instead of
"only have ~1000 core employees on Google payroll and augment with 99,000 _contractors_". (The reason given by Coase is that activities mediated by too many unnecessary external vendors with contracts is less efficient than hiring people into the firm.)

I left it open for OP to clarify what he was asking but I don't think it's about diversity.
Two months ago I took my 6 year old (who is raised in San Francisco therefore may be more accustomed to pedestrian life than, say, the US average) on the train from Naples to Pompeii at 10am, we spent about 4 hours at the site and caught the train back. She was tired at the end but liked it very much, and I was thinking I wanted to go back some time because there was a lot we didn't see.

I didn't expect the vastness and size of the site. Pretty great.
Careful how you respond to spoofed ID calls.

There is no one, either individual or business, that has the same area code and prefix as my cell phone and would have any reason to call me, so when I see my area code and prefix in the caller ID, I know it is a spam call.

For quite a while, I'd respond by immediately declining the call, but I wasn't careful how I did it. It turned out I was not just hanging up or sending them to voice mail--I was hanging up and sending back a text message that said something like "I'm not available right now".

Of course the text message does not go to the spammer. It goes to the person whose number is being spoofed, who would then sometimes text me or call me trying to find out who I was and why I suddenly text them out of the blue.

Take a moment to make sure you know what the various call decline options on your phone actually do.
Sexuality has always been an open topic at work. People talk about their kids. Display pictures of their family. Bring their spouse to the Christmas party.

It's only recently that people can talk about their non-heterosexual relationships at work. In 1995, mentioning your lesbian partner would've been overtly political and, in certain workplaces, is STILL called "political" and can get you fired [1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/10/us/gay-teachers-wife-texa...
Sergey Brin and Larry Page together own 14% of Alphabet’s shares but own 56% of Alphabet’s voting rights because the shares they own are mostly non-public preferred shares. Since they own more than 51% of the voting rights, GOOGL shares don’t carry a meaningful premium over GOOG. Today, the premium is only between $2 and $3.
An order is still an order, whether it is legal or not.
>I fully support legalizing all drugs, but don't understand why the latest wave of criminal justice reform tolerates property crimes.

This so much!
You're not a criminal because you're doing heroin or whatever, you're a criminal because you're stealing everything that isn't nailed down, harassing and threatening people in the neighborhood, attempting to break into houses repeatedly.

This is all happening to my neighbors and I.
But the police do nothing.

It's pretty frustrating.
I've similarly wanted to start learning some basics of reading financial statements. A friend of mine in a financial role recommended the book _The Basics of Understanding Financial Statements: Learn How to Read Financial Statements by Understanding the Balance Sheet, the Income Statement, and the Cash Flow Statement_. When asking how to "read and understand an S-1", I assume you mean the financial statement figured within, so I think that book may be beneficial to read, although I've not yet read it. If someone has further recommendations geared towards S-1's or other financial statement reading that would be great!
It also seems like Amazon now holds shipments until the last possible moment if you don't pay for Prime.

Meanwhile, my Target orders often arrive in 2 days or even overnight (in NYC) for free. Wal-Mart's prices for most items I reorder regularly are almost always lower than Amazon and the shipments regularly arrive in 3 days even though they estimate up to a week. The unfortunate thing about Wal-Mart is that they seem to be adopting a lot of the website clutter that has made Amazon so frustrating (e.g. 3rd party listings with shipping/pricing all over the map, and aggressive recommendations on product pages).
> Tesla is down 4% just today based on new tariffs announced by China for the future.

The tariff is scheduled to take effect Dec 15th. Tesla will be producing cars locally in China by then, or within 30 days of then. I believe Tesla China sales have already slowed in anticipation of the lower cost locally produced version.

If anything, Tesla stands to gain from increased import tariffs from US->China.
If you don’t like the sponsored content, skip it by hand. Don’t automate it.
What do you mean? The stuff is made in Vietnam. Just like all of apple which source their chips to Intel and then assembled in China still count as made in China as a whole in the tariff book. This practice is as legal as it gets and cheaper than paying that 25% extra.
It has a nice set of peripherals: USB, CAN, 2x I2S, 12b 3MHz ADC with 2x..256x oversampling (on 16 pins), 12b DAC. It seems the wait for an affordable RISC-V MCU is over.
Just to tackle your first two paragraphs: I hate to say this, but this impression may just be a lack of experience on your part. It's not wrong exactly, just a very narrow view of the range of work that gets done with software.

To bastardize a better quote: All abstractions are leaky some are useful.

Even assembly is an abstraction. And if you're working on tuning to nanos maybe that's the problematic abstraction. But I'd say enough worthwhile work gets done on top that it is a successful abstraction.

I think that's fair to claim all the way up your stack. An OS is worth it, even if you do have to fight it once in a while. Same with processes. Or the JVM. Or even gasp OOP classes.

They don't need to be sacred to be valuable.
“Traditional doesn't mean terrible.“

This. Worked at HP for years. It was a pretty great company for the most part.

Until Carly Fiorina joined. Amazing how one person can so transform a company - in a bad way. It started almost immediately. But buying Compaq really accelerated it. Companies like Compaq that have been in a slow death spiral throw off good employees.

That leaves low performing politically focused who protect their own. When they get purchased and “integrated” and they start filtering throughout the parent - like an infection, spreading their poison and killing it from the inside out.
Let me clarify:

- A non-decision by Google management to not place limits on its internal culture is a decision in itself, and has consequences that we are currently experiencing.

- "Justice" is not something for a profit-seeking company to have influence or power over. This is my personal belief. I believe there are other channels that are better designed to address those issues.

- My belief on this subject is limited to the above.
You know they don't get paid unless you buy the product, right? Would you sit through a minute long advert for a vpn even though you already have one? Because that's pointless.
Amusingly, in an article about a lisp, he's got an unbalanced right parenthesis.
Yes, I know the guidelines. Not helpful.
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> And so if you take that personal decision and instead make it about some gender stereotype e.g. they aren't physically suited then it discourages women from entering IT.

The memo did not claim this. The references to innate differences were only in reference to women's choices. At no point did the author claim they women "aren't physically suited" to IT.
'Big creators' seems to be fairly ambiguous. I've seen plenty of sponsorship segments on <10,000 subscriber accounts, which (I'm guessing) is probably the threshold where the creator is starting to make noticeable money from Youtube, but not quite enough to go full time. It's the big creators who seem to not have the sponsorship segments in my experience, because they have enough income from other parts of their brand.
> You first sentence also kind of assumes that the side that believes the world is on fire is correct. It would probably be beneficial to allow the discussion of politics at work if the side that believed the world was on fire was indeed always correct, but sometimes they aren't, and what then?

I was trying to avoid wording the above with any bias one way or the other - presenting both sides in their self-promoted light... The problem is that I think it's unclear when the world is on-fire or not and when you feel that a discussion isn't world ending it might just be that your thoughts are trapped in a bubble and you're having difficulty empathizing with the reason why the other side thinks the world is on fire. Certainly the world isn't on fire in every conceivable way, but evaluating whether a problem warrants a discussion or not is already a potentially opinionated decision.
> why AREN'T they being oriented toward collective and individual well-being

Because these are opposing forces. It improves my individual well-being to be able to steal yachts from the marina, drive them around, and set them on fire. But it doesn't improve the collective well-being of the community — including its yacht owners — for me to be able to do that. It improves the collective well-being of a community to take a dangerously mentally ill person and lock them up forever so that they aren't a threat to others. It does not do much that person's well-being.

Obviously, there are good policies that thread the needle. It is not a zero-sum game. But it is absolutely a game where not everyone can get what they want and very hard choices and sacrifices must be made.

> redesign government to be something everyone can love and that is loving.

There are actual serial killers, rapists, child traffickers, and abusers out there. They are in the minority. But a key function of government is to protect the majority from that minority. No government that protects us from those bad actors is going to be loved by those bad actors.
I used to go kayaking on the Middle Fork of the Snoqualmie (on I-90 east of Seattle) instead of the far superior Skykomish run on Highway 2 just because of the Popeye's at the Tanner exit of 90, right by the Snoqualmie run.
These are the two juiciest paragraphs for SaaS geeks:

> We have a highly efficient go-to-market model, which consists of a self-service tier, a high velocity inside sales team, and an enterprise sales force. As of June 30, 2019, we had approximately 8,800 customers, increasing from approximately 7,700, 5,400 and 3,800 customers as of December 31, 2018, 2017 and 2016, respectively. Approximately 590 of our customers as of June 30, 2019 had annual run-rate revenue, or ARR, of $100,000 or more, increasing from approximately 450, 240 and 130 customers as of December 31, 2018, 2017 and 2016, respectively, accounting for approximately 72%, 68%, 60% and 48% of our ARR, respectively. Further, as of June 30, 2019, we had 42 customers with ARR of $1.0 million or more, up from 29, 12 and two customers as of December 31, 2018, 2017 and 2016, respectively. As of June 30, 2019, our 10 largest customers represented approximately 14% of our ARR and no single customer represented more than 5% of our ARR.

... and ...

> Our business has experienced rapid growth and is capital efficient. Since inception, we have raised $92.0 million of capital, net of share repurchases, and we had $63.6 million of cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash as of June 30, 2019. We generated revenue of $100.8 million and $198.1 million in 2017 and 2018, respectively, representing year-over-year growth of 97%. Our revenue was $85.4 million in the six months ended June 30, 2018 compared to $153.3 million in the six months ended June 30, 2019, representing period-over-period growth of 79%. Substantially all of our revenue is subscription software sales. Our net (loss) income was $(2.6) million, $(10.8) million, $0.5 million and $(13.4) million for the years ended December 31, 2017 and 2018 and the six months ended June 30, 2018 and 2019, respectively. We generated operating cash flow of $13.8 million, $10.8 million, $10.6 million and $3.0 million in 2017 and 2018 and the six months ended June 30, 2018 and 2019, respectively. Our free cash flow was $6.0 million, $(5.0) million, $1.5 million and $(6.4) million in 2017 and 2018 and the six months ended June 30, 2018 and 2019, respectively.

Very impressive SaaS business, especially in such a competitive space. And I'm a happy customer for several years. This chart of their quarterly revenue run rate going back to 2016 is truly amazing and will make every SaaS founder green with envy:

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1561550/000119312519...
People are downvoting this, but the person has a point. That's exactly how Trump got elected (followed by millions of people wondering how the hell it could happen).

Shame everyone who disagrees with you, cancel them, ban them on your online forums, and then it's like they don't exist. You win! Except they can still vote, and you're no longer in a situation where you can influence them.
Even if they didn't, they might welcome the chilling effect that comes with the unconfirmed belief that they might have.
This is very interesting - my eyes stuck on the programming for non-programmers as we in MOOCTORS (https://www.mooctors.com) we are building a tutoring platform for MOOC students who are not necessarily programming experts. We invite technology experts and everyone who can code to register as tutors on their free time, help students on their MOOC courses, and earn an extra income for doing that. How Synthesis could power tech/coding tutoring?

best,
Athanasios
It's very easy to decry literal straw man arguments. As a googler, I don't think I've seen much discussion of drinking straws at all, and certainly none about how they're phallic.

If you think any discussion of politics is that infantile, I don't think there's anything I can do or say to convince you otherwise, but for everyone else, just recognize that this example is ridiculous. And real, actual, conversations about political topics aren't anywhere near as asenine. They're about important things, that often are relevant to work: privacy, discrimination (inentional and non-, by both people and machines), and literal actual government policy that affects google and googlers: immigration, taxes, etc.

I'm not sure how you could avoid those topics and still be an effective employee, or in some cases still be an employee at all.
Or you can go inside the station and get pre-assembled, slightly-soggy sandwiches from their kiosk with no wait. IMO definitely worth the tradeoff.
> Ever tried SnapChat?

... no

> Imagine the case for non-technical users.

Most non-technical users I know - elderly couples, family, etc don't even install apps, they just use what their OS gives them. I don't know any who does not have VLC or LibreOffice however (but that may be a french thing)
>Forcing websites to explicitly mark cross-site cookies, or they get blocked for cross-site usage.

Why does anyone even allow third-party cookies anymore? I've had them disabled for years at this point, and I can count on one hand the number of times it's been noticeable, and I think there was only a single time I actually found it worthwhile to enable third party cookies to access the site.
The fries are definitely prepared more frequently -- biscuits too -- but the sides are not what I would call the best part of Popeyes because they can be made in bulk and put under heating lamps for longer periods of time than say, chicken.

I don't know how quickly the chicken turns over but it's pretty consistent -- especially if you're ordering something specific (X number of legs, Y thighs, Z breasts), because they need to ensure the proper quantity and that may require breading and then deep-frying the chicken on-demand.

The seafood is probably more "prepared to order" than anything, but I honestly don't know. I've never worked at a fast food restaurant, I'm just a giant and unabashed fan of trash food.
>and you're propping them up with your own judgement.

What judgement has I made? I said I'm surprised the Economist used the word absurdly. Is surprised a judgement?

>alleged "experts" that happen to agree with you.

What's my position in this matter? Did I say it's a safety concern in any comment? Again is surprised == I agree with the demand? Or please remind me if I said something else that made you think I agree with China's aviation authority?
Just for curiosity, what's the legal process to go from being a French startup to a public US company? I guess there is some paperwork.
To effectively clean up the city. You can’t have tent encampments in cities, which leads to refuse build up, which brings the rats, which spread typhoid. Yes, this is a fact, and yes this is right now a current problem facing Los Angeles. If resources can be distributed outside city limits which are paid for by city taxpayers, city residents can see a return on their taxes with cleaner, safer neighborhoods. For those who are not drug addicts or bums, but need help to get back on their feet, those are the individuals who should be offered beds and resources in the city.
The "privilege" here is that banning discussions about politics can be used as a tool to silence the opposition of the current status quo.

By definition there are two camps of opposition to the current status quo - one to the left of it, and one to the right of it.

Would you accept both sides of it being allowed to speak freely in tech companies, or just the side you are on?
Not knowing about a rarely used operator isn't that big of a deal, but the "hard" part of fizzBuzz is trivial in the couple of languages I am proficient in.

In JS:

const isEvenlyDivisible = (num, denominator) => Math.floor(num / denominator) === (num / denominator)