skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi, I'm the author and founder at Plasticity (YCS17) and built this for some internal use cases our startup. This is actually a Work-in-Progress and not meant to be released yet, but it seems like someone has found it online. I will re-submit this here when it is ready as a Show HN given the interest, shoot me an e-mail at ajay@plasticityai.com if you would like to be kept up to date!
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Most "packaged" jailbreaks drop a shell binary into /bin, or outright install packages for things such as Bash and the GNU Core Utilities; iOS does not actually ship with these. (If it did, I would assume that the GPL would require that Apple provided source code for it here: https://opensource.apple.com/release/ios-1141.html .)
Have you looked at installing a attic fan to pull air from the lower floors upwards into the attic for venting? I recall This Old House doing a segment on this some time ago and a cooling option.

(edit) added link to youtube video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rwe8c6wr0AA
Ever since the infamous "diversity memo," (which I disagree with,) I've gotten the impression that political discussions at Google turned toxic.

A well run company includes people with diverse political views points. A workplace that's hostile to anyone who leans right or leans left ultimately hurts diversity.
> Do we now just throw away the knowledge that was gained?

Probably, yes. Would you forcibly kill another innocent person to save your life or your child's one? China does this with Uighurs (they are prisoned in camps, their health is checked and organs are extracted on demand, people are trashed then) for science and profit because they are muslims and weaker as a nation.

Seems that knowledge isn't so valuable by itself. If so, why not to trash it when it's done in a violent and shameful way.
Are you saying it's possible to be gainfully employed somewhere where the wokeness level isn't cranked to 11 and not be persecuted by cis-gen whitemale Christian bigots? Who knew?
Russian here.

We often use pollock or pile roe in our everyday cuisine.
You won't be using a whole cup of salty beluga's caviar for a pie or sandwiches of course.
A good employee is a quiet employee.
Really, maybe focus on what you have in common and not what's different -- people have a lot more in common and agree about a lot more things than they realize.
Well, that depends what you regard as important. Many of the things I'd guess you regard as important I don't, and vice-versa. Who decides? Why are you the arbiter of what's "obviously" important? That's a fallacious appeal to common knowledge.
Sure, yet many of the worst future risks are very much still abstract and not yet fully developed concrete risks in people's minds. Human motivation is very fickle and it seems to be in our nature to do everything last minute, maybe some genetic legacy to conserve energy and a natural aversion to adding more effort for yet another problem.

With this sargassum issue they can no longer just say they "don't believe" in something when its in front of them.

The stuff that's happening today is probably the best motivator to get people to invest in the future. That's why all of those BBC nature docs are the great sales pitches as they always touch on real issues happening now (see: shots of a polar bear on an ice block!).

Plus it's not just climate change, it could be any major human disruption of natural habits.
30% is not nearly enough. It's still a free lunch for property/landowners.
What the heck! This is how you fall into a deep despair of depression because you wake up one day and realize your greatest skill is leetcode and job hopping.
12 years in the industry, I can tell you that you'll be fine with zero grinding.
Once you learn how to learn, you can pick up anything you want on your employer's time if you have your fundamentals down.
You have a life outside of SE, live it.
the world was lost when US elected Trump. No stopping of idiots burning down the planet now. Bolsonaro could perhaps be stopped by force, but he's not the only one.
People who actually want "secure and privacy focused" text messages would want their messages to or from their boss to be "secure and privacy focused" too. Whereas people who just want to create yet another little clique don't want that. They'd rather most messages remained unencrypted, insecure, not privacy focused at all, so long as they can underscore how cool they are by creating an "in" group of people with secure messages.

The _whole point of the product_ - to repeat your phrase - is to secure _all_ the messages rather than repeat the mistake of tools like PGP that never get there.
Agreed, before Agile there was Waterfall, RUP, and many other theories of assembly line management processes. They are all based on starting universities for the way to produce a product, and these paradigms all came from auto makers... It's a constantly spinning wheel... Can't be stopped...
That's really the crux of the issue. I agree that people should probably leave most of their personal beliefs at home... unless it's something that directly related to what the company is doing. So Google employees are supposed to just shut up or leave?
The FCC put out this in July 2017: https://www.fcc.gov/call-authentication

Ajit Pai became chairman January 2017. So it took him a whole 6 months to work on the issue.

I really don't understand your criticism.
I am pretty sure they still assume that. Discussing that particular 'single correct world view' will be labeled 'common sense' and allowed, discussing all and any dissenting views will be labeled 'political' and will get you fired.
But one is just unproductive (you being idle) the other one is counterproductive (you upset others and divert their attention) and multiply the counter-productivity.
That is what bugs me. There is no realistic information shared about electors. It seems to me these people's character should be of the utmost importance from what I've read on the subject. Their neutrality from partisan politik was supposed to be a feature to guard against dropping chief executive authority on a candidate of ill nature.

It's a pattern that happens all over the government. The masses are the first filter, a second pass is done by a smaller (generally more recognized) few, and then reconcile until everyone is satisfied.
It would be up to the details of their individuals contracts. It would be possible for someone's contract to either directly (unlikely) or indirectly (far more likely) allow for debating of politics to some degree. That freedom would be part of their compensation package, though one often not considered in simple models. I think Google is realizing they have undervalued the cost to them of allowing such an action and want to renegotiate. Since it is likely an indirect benefit, this would largely be done by changing corporate rules and culture concerning politics where workers could respond in numerous ways.

While it is possible for a contract specifying 8 hours of work without a single thought other than work (and any legally mandated breaks) in exchange for the given salary and benefits, I've never seen any organization that actually operated using such contracts.
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Article about them here https://www.forbes.com/sites/jennysplitter/2019/01/31/beluga...
> So cis het white men

What are you complaining about? Clearly you don't mind racism and sexism.
> For example, how should a gay man respect a colleague who honestly thinks that homosexuality should be punished with death.

Do you think that's a good example of the kind of things Google staff debate about?
This is so hilariously wrong that I don't even know where to start.

Google's culture was predicated on hiring intelligent, emotionally-continent adults. Free discussion of politics wasn't banned during my time there because everyone was capable of understanding precisely the opposite of what you're describing: that differing views on the world exist and are attributable to more than just whether someone is a good or bad person.

When you scale to a hundred thousand employees, you can't keep your bar that high, and you have to start letting in people who more closely resemble the average narrow-minded, maximalizing dumbass. For a little while that meant the company needed to bow to the more culturally-powerful regressive left (esp when things leaked, for PR reasons), but as the culture war heats up, the only winning move for a company with a (classical) liberal founding culture is to discourage political engagement at all.
I am someone who has changed development jobs quite a lot, far more than the average for my seniority.

Skill in software engineering can't just be measured by skill at writing the language, and this is trending forward faster and faster. The really accomplished engineer is one who has experienced many teams, many managers, many processes, and many deployments.

The accomplished engineer is opinionated about testing methods and about code readability, because he has suffered under many misconceptions about these things and taken the time to consider the alternatives.
Belugas are a well known handbook case for contamination accumulating in life beings. Not because they live long (Pines live much longer than Belugas, but do not store the same amount of metals and pesticides). Is because, they are coastal and have a fat layer of blubber. Contaminants are often lipophilic and accumulate in the fat layer. The body of belugas act as a garbage trap.
So Google employees are supposed to just shut up or leave?

An important question, I think. It would seem some think they should, and some probably think they should do both.

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.

An attitude I find personally disheartening, but I'll stop there because these discussions never end well.
Yeah, the US is cracking down hard on asylum rights. There's been a lot of people in dire conditions--fleeing human trafficking or government oppression--turned away from the southern border and sent home in danger of their lives, because they don't check all the boxes on the extremely narrow definition that ICE is using now.
> I imagine something like "applications" folder where every subfolder automatically becomes an isolated "container". It would have to be designed with security as the primary concern, though; unlike current container solutions.

Isn't that basically just Qubes OS?
https://www.qubes-os.org/
Nice of them to decide to call this "multidimensional quantum teleportation" too. We'll be chasing the "OMG whatif scientists teleport in monsters from other dimensions didn't anyone play doom" fire down for the next 20 years.
Excellent comment. I agree with the parent's notion that google is trying to force their employees not to point out the bad things about their conditions, but this notion that there was ever a time where politics were absent is 1) ahistorical 2) reactionary. Politics is what happens when two or more people try to discuss an observation or explain a thought.
> Latest iteration is to write the majority of the app in Go and …

Check Sciter/Go : https://github.com/sciter-sdk/go-sciter

It is used precisely that way: backend - Go, UI - Sciter.
Man this so hard. I would pay $1000+ per x years to go to a 3 day certification event where I have to create software and have that software be judged and certified competent. With the assumption that companies would pay the same very board $5000 for my results and I could skip the lame, poor signal programming portion of interviews.
To be honest though, I've never been a fan of discussing politics at the workplace.
Why do tech companies file so many weird patents?
That is absolute bullshit. If Western countries had refused to trade with China for human-rights reasons, we'd be hearing accusations of economic imperialism! Now we're responsible for their ultra-nationalist authoritarian capitalism because we don't impose our imperial authority on them?
I think it's more about avoiding HR problems than a conviction of humility.
Romantic attraction.
What forces a homosexual black man into talking about politics at work? Could you give an example ?
I really have to wonder: do Google engineers google for things when they can't work out a solution to their problem?

Because honestly, all you need to do, in order to form a perfect political opinion, is google for it. No further effort required.
Exactly, the relationship with China is way more fractious and important. Very unlikely triggered by domestic US opinions as almost nothing will affect their relationship with the US (specifically because there is no consolidation of single-party power), so people debating “stretch goals” in advancing US inclusion and US civil rights doesn't really change anything. If you know “how to America” then you know how to take advantage of anyone in charge and it doesn't matter how divided the country is.

But Hyper-patriotic Chinese employees dealing with US ideology towards China certainly would change things.

Its not so different than vocally disagreeing with Israel’s “foreign” policy and expecting to still remain employed anywhere. Not gonna happen!

You have to recognize who the masters are or who they are beholden to.
Hi, I'm the author of this library. This is a pretty common opinion, the SQLite code base is rigorously well tested for performance and correctness.

See:
https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html
https://www.sqlite.org/hirely.html
Being from China, which bans Google, while working at Google and arguing in favor of China's policies toward Hong Kong must make for some severe cognitive dissonance.
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There is an important distinction in hydrogen fires from jet fuel ones: the moment it is released hydrogen escapes upwards, taking any fire with it. Jet fuel on the other hand tends to pool downward, while releasing its vapor (the part that actually burns) upwards. So it tends to spread fires in both directions.

So a hypothetical of a zeppelin crashing into a building might light that building on fire, but most of the hydrogen from the vehicle would escape upwards into the atmosphere without having contributed to the building's fire.
It must be exhausting to have this mindset. Sometimes a story is just a story, a joke is just a joke, and there isn't a me vs you argument to be had.
A full VM seems somewhat of a better stance on this no ?
What's remarkable is how the media narrative surrounding this rule change seems to suggest that it's a bad thing, while the popular response is overwhelmingly positive. I've yet to see one of these articles quote someone who isn't an internal activist or present the perspective of any employee who likes the change.
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The comment refers to 'some hypothetical climate change in the future'. Given that there is no justification for projecting trend lines beyond existing data points, use of the word hypothetical is correct.
I've seen people at work defend trans hate as a "conservative value". It's fine if people have different opinions on taxes but to reject people's identity like that, especially one held by some of their colleagues, should cross a line and they shouldn't be able to hide behind "conservative values".
There's apparently at least one private company that gathered a database of account-to-number correlations precisely by adding over ten million numbers to Telegram's address books. Here's an article in Russian where one account is deanonymised: https://meduza.io/feature/2019/08/10/kto-takoy-tovarisch-may...

Dunno if this is patched by Telegram in any way now. However, I don't see why it would be difficult for a program to add numbers to the contact list incrementally. To my knowledge, computers so far were pretty good at incrementing numbers. And if the contact list length is limited, the question is just how many phone numbers a company can buy.
Really? So monkey see monkey do? Leetcode doesn't represent much of anything to do with 99.9% of software development jobs. Mostly we're not solving puzzles, we're talking with stakeholders, designing systems, working with co-workers, architecting solution and building systems with code. Leetcode is an absolutely terrible way to evaluate any of that.
I think there are a lot of reasons someone at work may not be doing work, that have nothing to do with talking about politics. BRB...gotta get to work ;)
Haha... nice sponsored content!
> Since we all spend more time writing code than reading

I spend quite a bit more time reading code than writing it...
Google's page ranking algorithm can be considered very political despite being essentially just math as you put it.
When you say write down, do you mean design/list of tasks or literal code?

I live in a major metro area, so working out in my condo isn't an option and I do like getting out since I live alone (I go every day). I pick up what I need at the store when I walk home from the gym. It's an extra 10 minutes maybe. I keep my diet simple, meat, veggies, eggs, not much more and I don't eat any processed foods. My only chores are keeping my condo picked up instead of a mess of a bachelor pad, which it is in right now (har har).

Right now I'm trying to plan out my first side project in a while since job interviewing/preparation really burnt me out.
Of course there is a need to discuss politics. It isn't a separate thing that can be divorced from what it's about, i.e. everything. That includes work.
In this day and age, with the gutter level of discourse used daily by politicians? With a media designed to elicit outrage and a populous that has been led to believe that what divides is far more important than what brings us together? Absolutely, at least until the madness goes away.
It's funny how there's always some weird overlap between "human rights and public policy" and "culture war over which cartoons are problematic or who was honored with a Google Doodle today".
Yep, it’s common enough that it’s considered an anti-pattern. It’s called “distributed monolith.”
> This also made me buy less stuff. Now I generally wait until I need more things or until my cart has enough stuff for a free delivery.

Despite being inconvenient this seems like... a good thing for the planet?
The Earthship people called. They want their cool-hunters back.

https://www.earthshipglobal.com/
Yes but what work? Should that work be done? Google just wants everyone to be good little soldiers and do what they’re told.
Right, if counterproductive conversation was the real problem, then Google should shut down access to HN, b/c I'm sure the aggregate drain on Googlers' productivity is much more than point to point office conversations...
Yes. Also, the most boring work. Also all work. Also work itself.
You must be fun at lunch breaks.
> If this were the case you'd expect to see a lot more faithless electors in our history than we have seen.

...other than the large numbers in the late 1700s and early 1800s, you mean?

And in any case, "intent" and "actual practice" were pretty different here. But that doesn't mean that the Connecticut Compromise [0] (which split the US legislative body into the House with representation apportioned by population and the Senate with set representation per state) was solely or even primarily due to slavery. And once you had that, using the total of Senators and Representatives for your number of electors makes a good amount of sense.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut_Compromise
To get a feel for the program, or to do it on the cheap: https://www.udacity.com/georgia-tech
It could be disinformation, but I've read that some Cathay pilots and cabin crew were reprimanded for participating in the protests.

Also, I don't necessarily mean a terrorist incident. Any kerfuffle at 35,000ft would be enough grounds to turn an airplane around and land it at the nearest runway as per standard safety practices.

With HK-mainland tensions at an all time high, I don't think this can be completely ruled out.
Disclaimer: Amazon employee, opinions are my own

This claim really doesn't say much on its own. There are millions (billions?) of products on Amazon. This would be potentially a lot more damning if they released how many items they searched through to identify those 4,152.

It would also be nice if they provided some data on how prevalent these problems are at other retailers and marketplaces.

There's reason to believe the problem is probably worse at Amazon (automated approval process, historic emphasis on low cost and selection) but how much worse is it?
Alternatively, NASCAR races (seeing things zoom around a track at 200mph) is also really fun. So we have a race for tool-assist, and we also have a race for human-only.
Hi @jgalt, I'm the author of this library, and we've been using it to serve extremely large files over ~130GB at Plasticity (YCS17) for AI model data! Shoot me an email ajay@plasticityai.com and if you'd like to chat, but it should remain extremely responsive even at that file size.
That's the point, you should be able to hold that opinion, but you should not publicly state it openly at work in the first place.
"I expect them to block most things, but still allow things I care about but which the "other side" doesn't regard as serious issues."

Fixed that for you. No one is the sole arbiter of what is "important", so I've usually found just not discussing to be the best solution at work.
My next house will be an Earthship. My current house has an amazing permaculture footprint, but I want to demolish it and rebuild. Can't though, so I'm looking for land instead ..
How much of this could be solved by a simple "know your supplier" law? As a consumer, I should be able to ask any retailer: "From whom did you source the actual item that you sold me?" Amazon should not be able to get away with saying they don't know.

As it stands, Amazon is just a conduit for goods to bypass consumer safety laws.
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45% of Vancouver is of Asian descent, and 30% of Vancouver is Chinese, many of whom are HK expats. 500,000 folks of HK descent live in Canada (1.5% of Canada). There's another 300,000 Canadian passport holders living in HK. It'll be very interesting to see what happens over the next couple of years.
It's the Cultural Revolution-era "us-versus-them" tactic. You either fall in line, or you are the enemy of the people.

https://medium.com/@pnolan20/lets-stop-the-us-versus-them-co...
It's remarkable how little it takes to get on the radar of a Congressional representative.
This is exactly what Jupyter does when running locally - it's a pretty good example of this kind of app.
I know a couple of non-white/cis/het/male developers who are able to behave like mature, goal-oriented adults and do stellar work. It's not a luxury, it's called being professional.
It's taboo because it's human nature to have fixed opinions (which only change over extended periods of time) about your worldview, be it politics or religion. Few political arguments have outcomes beyond disagreement.
Finally common sense prevails!
Get to work on time, eat your free lunch, work, go home.

To those of you who disagree; if you want to "make a difference" take a cue from Gandhi, Mandela, Martin Luther king Jr. etc. Mahama Gandhi didn't work for the East India company while simultaneously fighting for freedom.

If you are serious about it put your money where your mouth is and stop being empty vessels.
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You just aren't trying hard enough.
Tolerance isn't considered a virtue because it's easy. Tolerance is a virtue because it's difficult. It requires us to put up with people who may adhere to worldviews we find utterly alien or hold views we find abhorrent.

It's easy to come up with an example and find yourself thinking "It's unreasonable to tolerate that!". Instead, consider asking yourself why people a century ago might tolerate views you think of as perfectly reasonable today.
This doesn't actually work. https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/261284/how-does-...