skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
of course not. I'm just making the point that a lot of folks might go their entire lives without working in such a stuffy environment as the modern office. and yet, life goes on.
That's right; and that's a systems programming origin, not academics.
You can't paint only some things in lead on a whole economy scale for similar reasons to Amazon not wanting to enforce separated items in warehouses.

As long as "approved for tanks" lead paint is in the supply chain, who exactly keeps the use only to tanks. There are sufficiently durable alternatives that the lowest cost is to outright ban lead paint instead of setting up an enforcement framework to chase lead paint abuse while also paying added costs for after effects of easier cheating.
I wonder if this has anything to do with the recently leaked posts that shows google staff used the google search front end to target specific demographics they expected to vote for a particular candidate and then were shocked and upset when a substantial minority portion of those populations voted for different candidates?

If discussions are leading to credible allegations that a company was promoting candidates using their marketing resources in violation of campaign finance laws, it would be easy to understand why they might want to get those discussions offline.
> If he can set 25% tariff on everything imported from China, what's stopping him from setting 2500% tariff on everything?

(1) the absence of any statute granting him the authority to impose export tariffs, and

(2) the fact that any statute which did exist purporting to grant him such authority would be invalid under the Export Clause, which explicitly prohibits export taxes and duties.

OTOH, he could prohibit pretty much any trade he chose with China under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (the main law under which Executive-declared sanctions are instituted.) He just can't tax exports.
Thanks a lot for the feedback! That's exactly the type of community we think would be interested by this.
This isn't possible anymore either. There are numerous reports that add up to the fact that Amazon now co-mingles all inventory, theirs and third-party, for a single product into a single bin.
Freakonomics makes a case the drop in crime is directly correlated with the passing of Roe VS Wade and the legalization of abortion. This led to the 18 year later drop in unwanted male children now adults. Very interesting read on a very explosive topic :)
This is a very good point that I wish would get more attention: "Politics is an organizational problem, not a technological one.", "If we want to lower the cost of living, the cost of housing, the cost of doing business in the Bay Area, tech must get involved in politics."

People don't realize how conservative SF is: "The most innovative solutions don’t matter when your government has been captured by interests that want to freeze the city in amber" SF won't even allow companies to put more buses on the road (something that would benefit everyone!)

This was news to me: "Support for More HOMES in San Francisco was even stronger, at 74%. Despite this popular support, every member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to oppose More HOMES, except for Asha Safai and Vallie Brown " It seems that politics in SF doesn't represent the majority view.

This is part of a much larger set of problems. As we continue into the future all the tech problems get solved or already have been solved. What we're left with is all the problems that can't be solved: those are all political. There will come a day when instead of starting software companies, we'll be starting companies that solve political problems.
I disagree. OOP and inheritance is fine, and so is just about every feature/paradigm/language/anything in programming, when used thoughtfully by an experienced developer. For instance, inheritance can often be used nicely at a framework or engine level.

Most people are just inexperienced and bad at programming, and bad at managing large projects, and if a lot of bad programmers and managers happen to be using some paradigm or feature or language, it is often the paradigm that takes the blame for their shoddy work because nobody is willing to admit that they are the ones at fault.

Functional programming feels nice to everyone right now, because lots of experienced developers are enjoying themselves with it, and writing decent code. But mark my words: that good feeling will end once it gets too popular and adopted by new developers. And then people will blame Functional Programming for all the awful work people do in it. If you think I'm wrong, you are way underestimating how bad new software developers can be.

We don't throw away all our hammers just because some bad construction workers use hammers on the wrong things.
JSON RPC 2.0 – Good way to standardize APIs and aggregate calls
Huawei Launches AI Chip in Push to Unseat U.S. Makers
I've lived in both those cities this decade; the results are in some cases similar, but the issues are in fact different. The thing that's similar: both cities are warm enough so that you can reasonably live on the streets year round. Boston's an intensely liberal city and nobody uses it as an example of how liberal cities always have homeless problems.

Similarly, Google "dallas homeless problem" sometime. Warm city, poor coordination of solutions for the homeless -- whoa, homeless populations are rising! But that once more does not fit the narrative, so nobody talks about it in threads like this.

(Houston is doing much better. Houston, unlike Seattle, has put a priority on coordinating efforts to help homeless. HUH.)

That said you're right -- it's not just about taxes. Seattle is low on revenue, but that's only part of why the city has failed to produce a coordinated response to homelessness. Bad organizational skills are not restricted to the right or the left, though.
There's a significant difference between an ideology and an identity.

Eliminating the former is not genocide, eliminating the latter is.

Why—whenever the question of hate comes up—is HN so quick to rise to the defense of the hateful?
There's a difference between ranting on a subject and creating this "You're either Wonkru or you are the enemy of Wonkru. Choose!" kind of atmosphere on a permanent basis.

The former can be eye opening and it can provide the necessary emotional push to get something rolling. The latter is meant to shut others down and suppress opinions - it's a playground for sociopaths thriving on ad hominem aggression.
Speaking of Walmart, I just noticed something very interesting. When I buy something in-store at Walmart, but pay using Walmart Pay, the credit card I've enrolled in Walmart Pay records this as an online sale when it comes to deciding what cash back rewards categories apply to it.
> In non-OOP languages, like JavaScript, functions can exist separately from objects. It was such a relief to no longer have to invent weird concepts (SomethingManager) just to contain the functions.

This is one of the things CLOS (Common Lisp Object System) got right: It's object-oriented but functions are not "owned" by classes; they're separate and first-class and generic and can dispatch on multiple arguments. In CLOS, classes are truly just user-defined types, and classes don't impede your ability to write functional code.
People are allowed to have editorial discretion and form opinions.

It may be harsh to be dismissive of Google's claims, but Google chose to put itself in a position where they have deep, systemic conflicts of interest.

When you have a company with strongest possible interest in profitable advertising, who also makes browsers, operating systems, and controls key services that are effectively chokepoints of the internet, it's not unreasonable to assume that SMEs would question your commitment to finding a solution that would hurt you. When you write an article that demonstrates that others have been able solve impossible technical problems that an engineering organization at Google cannot, it's difficult to call that "bad fath" reporting. In fact, anyone who assumes that a company will inflict harm upon its own short/mid term financial interests is clueless, because that is what management demands at any public company.

If Google did something like implement strong organizational walls that isolated advertising from other lines of business, like a newspaper, perhaps I would agree with you. If Google was showing market dominance in other areas, like cloud computing, perhaps I would agree. But they do not, and in fact they are integrating components of their business more and more, and are compelled to do so by their duty to shareholders. (See Google One as an example)
Every country with tariffs have an army of bean counters whose job it is to deal with that kind of loopholes. Sure something will slip though, but anything big will get caught.
I live in Seattle and take the bus to work downtown every day. I think I've seen, maybe three needles in five years.
Yeah, because it gets cold in the winter in NY. Simple as that. You can't support the year round homeless population like the west coast.
You can over-engineer point free style to create an uncomprehensible code base. Point free style with more than 1 unapplied parameter is basically a nightmare.

https://wiki.haskell.org/Pointfree#Tool_support
I feel the same way about Toronto. Over triple the population of SF or Seattle, yet the problems I see described in this article are almost unthinkable here.
To elaborate further the justification for this discrepancy for anyone who likes reading:

Stocks are ultimately worth a function of 4 things:

1) The value of their future dividends,

2) The value of their future stock buybacks,

3) The value of remaining book assets at company liquidation/bankruptcy,

or 4) the value per share everyone will receive if the company is bought out.

People can invest for non-monetary reasons: for example wanting to invest in Tesla because they just want electric cars to be a thing or investing in Google because they just love certain aspects of the company. However, at late-stage investing, investments are based on fiduciary incentives from these 4 returns of capital. Absent those 4 methods of returning capital, stock investing is a pyramid scheme.

Amazon shareholders can eventually collude together to vote for more returns of capital if they ever stop believing in Jeff Bezos’s above average performance in returning increasingly higher amounts of free cash flow. This is about as likely as it is for Buffet’s BRK.A/BRK.B (highly unlikely due to his high profile but not impossible if everything were to go south).

A buyout of Alphabet is unlikely at this point because only 3 companies have a higher market cap now. Tech companies don’t have much book value to liquidate. They can potentially choose to not to ever give a dividend and they can keep doing share buybacks in joke quantities —- and pension funds can’t potentially vote to change that.

This is my theory for these stock performance discrepancies and I’d be happy to hear others thoughts on this.
That original post was written by the same Justin Schuh who went on this ridiculous tirade on twitter claiming he headed the manifest v3 adblocker neutering changes for privacy reasons: https://twitter.com/justinschuh/status/1134092257190064128

Of course it's not possible that this is true since the observational capabilities of the API are explicitly not being deprecated, only the content blocking capabilities. In other official posts they have claimed that the real "justification" is for performance reasons, which I think is equally nonsense.
Here's a direct link to the client-side benchmark tool to test your own documents and pull numbers directly:

https://www.pdftron.com/benchmarks/pnacl-vs-wasm/

Note that it only works in Chrome b/c it's the only browser that supported PNaCl (recently deprecated). Edge Beta (with chromium underneath) is buggy, so best not to use it for this tool.
It is interesting to see the global shock about the fires. For us in Brazil, it is hardly a shock coming from this administration.

Here are some facts the president that should shed a light on how he and his office views environmental issues. If anyone is interested I can gather some links to detail any of them.

* The Minister of the Environment was condemned for crimes against the environment in 2017.

* Brazil has a Ministry of the Environment. President Bolsonaro unsuccessfully tried to extinguish that ministry once he assumed office.

* President Bolsonaro transferred the Brazilian Forest Serivce to the Ministry of Agriculture (!!). It previously was under the Ministry of the Environment.

* Ricardo Salles (Minister of the Environment) decided to review _all_ the national reserves in Brazil so they can get resized or extinguished.

* A standard procedure when officers find illegal logging sites is to destroy their logging equipment (chainsaws etc). President Bolsonaro personally asked his minister of the Environment to instruct officers not to do that.

* Environmental protection agencies now announce beforehand where the inspections are going to be.

* President Bolsonaro received a fine for illegal fishing a few years ago. A few months after assuming office, he fired the officer (just a regular low-level environment officer, same level as municipal police) that fined him.
> When you find an intolerant person, the right thing to do is to tolerate them. Let them see that you are willing to accept them, even if they are not willing to accept you. That is how views are changed.

https://i.imgur.com/wmA0ZeV.png

If the opponent is more charismatic than you, you will lose this fight. There are some very intolerant people out there who are more charismatic than you, and are better able to recruit supporters to their cause.

> This notion that the defense against intolerance is to be intolerant yourself is how society sinks into tit for tat tribalism.

This notion that YOU are more charming than the "intolerant" people is naive. What if the other guy is more charming, and manages to rile up crowds better than you can?

There's a reason why Obama signed papers to just kill Anwar Al-Awlaki with a drone strike. At some point, you just stop playing the "tolerance" game and gotta get your hands dirty. The idea that we can teach tolerance to everyone else is naive and counterproductive at this age.
From my citation:

> “While Trump plays a game of chicken on tariffs, a record number of Americans believe that free trade is good,” says Democratic pollster Jeff Horwitt at Hart Research Associates.

Horwitt is spinning his poll to make it seem like free trade is not what the trade war will result in. A majority of Americans support Trump. Don't make the 2016 mistake of trusting polls again...
I love the diversity of the two top level posts so far, haha!
I see a lot of bullshit being posted here. Bolsonaro himself actively encouraged the deforestation, during his campaign and during all of his current administration until now.

"The fires are fueled not only by a rise in global temperatures but also by Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro. The fiery, anti-environment populist has encouraged settlements in the Amazon region, sacked the head of the government agency that monitors deforestation from space, and just this week blamed NGOs for setting the fires to make him look bad."

https://www.wired.com/story/humans-more-than-drought-are-fue...
It is down: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/data/is-seattle-dy...
Guns are political (in the US at least) because the Second Amendment gives them special status as being necessary for the defense of a free state, and thanks to the NRA, that status is firmly entrenched as part of right-wing partisan identity. Sex is political because of Christianity and its influence leading to the criminalization of LGBTQ people and behavior. Neither is a symptom of our current political climate, they've both been deeply political for centuries.
You know, I actually paused after those words because I was afraid of a response like this, but I didn't rephrase because I just figured "they'll get what I mean".

In the context of my response, I really just meant it as shorthand for "not doing any of the negative stuff that Seattleites deal with on an everyday basis". Lots of homeless people are already doing that--namely, not putting the general public at risk with violence or needles sitting around--but many of the ones visible to us are making the city worse off.

So again, my OP should really be reframed as: "if you take a dangerous drug addict and put them in a house, they're still a dangerous drug addict".

And I do implicitly mean there that if you take a non-dangerous, knocked-off-their-feet homeless person and put them in a house, you now have a housed person, and that's a very positive thing :)
I think Solidworks is a better bet for numerous reasons:

1) The interface seems to be simpler, especially when making things a little bit more complex

2) Greater amount of CAD models already available in this format

3) Greater amount of resources and tutorials
No lines on Sundays.
Plenty of Google Drive features are political. For example, allowing people to monitor who has read a document. Or deciding what the default permission set should be for new files. Or whether or not the files should be encrypted at rest. Or whether the Drive client should download and sync everything, or download stuff on demand. Etc, etc.
My understanding is that Damore was asked for his response to a training class he had taken. That would make the dissertation, as you call it, a work assignment. Is that understanding incorrect?
Neglected compared to the past. Many bridges and roads are in bad repair. These are all very long term assets, and with rates as they are it seems a good time to repair them now. (Unemployment is relatively low in Germany, but high elsewhere in the EU.)
I assume "political opinion" as in "the way you vote", not so much speech about politics (which would just be protected by rights protecting speech.) Even in the US, you have a right to voting in a way that's protected from others' observation.

Or, to put it another way: if you want to hold a political opinion, and then express it by voting, but otherwise keep it completely secret from your community... that's your right.
You make some good points.

I think Google would need to make an unacceptable faustian bargain with the CCP to gain access to the China market for e.g. cloud services.

I guess the obvious risk is that the CCP begins with a small demand, and than gradually increase the demands over a long period of time.
See my response above, I really didn't mean either of those things, it was just a lazy end to the sentence.
> You've got cause-and-effect backwards. More and more people are deplatforming as they realize that white-nationalism is a bigger problem than they once thought.

And yet, despite (or perhaps because of) increased deplatforming, these groups are stronger than ever and are committing more attacks.

If what you say is true, we should have been seeing a decrease in white nationalism since 2014 when deplatforming started to accelerate. We've seen the opposite.

> Deplatforming works. Lets not look at white-nationalism, but lets look at "Elsa-gate" instead. Children were watching creepy "Elsa" videos (from Disney's "Frozen"). How do you stop this? You ban them from the site

Elsagate wasn't a political movement, it was a group of trolls gaming the YouTube algorithm for views and lulz.

> The problem is that White-Nationalists can simply... go to Facebook... or Youtube... as recruitment grounds. The big websites aren't cooperating yet. This needs to be a systemic top-down effort, unified across the major websites.

Both of those websites ban white nationalism. Facebook even bans praise and any forms of "representation" of white nationalism explicitly: https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/03/standing-against-hate/

We keep cutting off the heads of the Hydra of white nationalism and it keeps getting stronger. Bans and suppression is useless at best, counterproductive at worst.
I imagine a conversation like:

Q: What should we do about this homeless encampment? The options are:

1. Provide it with free trash pickup so that it's a slightly nicer place to live and to be around

2. Shut it down, remove the tents as well as the trash, make the inhabitants move elsewhere

And then I would expect the "tough on crimes" crowd would prefer option #2 to option #1.
The Battle of Los Angeles [video]
> which according to laws enacted since 9/11 can prevent American companies to do business with other countries.

The most relevant law is the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which was passed 34 years before 9/11.
How AI uses only text information to colorize line sketches?
The official poverty line is drawn by the government. It's great news for them if the poverty line rises slower than cost of living increases.
Ok, so are senior executives going to follow that rule?

One recalls the transcript from the all-hands meeting after the 2016 election where Sergey Brin said “Most people here are pretty upset and pretty sad, “I find this election deeply offensive, and I know many of you do too. It’s a stressful time, and it conflicts with many of our values. I think it’s a good time to reflect on that. ... So many people apparently don’t share the values that we have.” and in doing so put a target on the back of every centrist and conservative at Google.
>I know plenty of people who live in France in comparatively tiny apartments or homes, who still feel the need for both spouses to work to make ends meet.

What kinds of careers do these people have? If they both have low-paying jobs, then that's unfortunately understandable. But the McMansion-and-2-SUV-owning Americans I derided earlier aren't people with low-paying jobs, those are people with high-paying jobs who frequently refuse to live below their means; if they lived in a small condo or townhouse and got efficient cars their living costs would be a fraction of what they pay now, and wouldn't need to work so much.

Even in Europe, lots of people have luxuries they don't really need, especially cars. Sure, people in towns, or who have jobs away from the train lines might feel the need to have a car, but there's plenty of people there who live in the city, where public transit is excellent, and they still have (frequently expensive) cars. It isn't just Americans who make lifestyle choices that require dual earners, but we epitomize it.
But professional jobs are not on the clock like that - salaried jobs aren't paid by the hour.
A useful way to think about this is that the Supreme Court ruled the state cannot punish someone for advocating genocide in the abstract at a KKK rally, not because advocating genocide is somehow a natural right or that free speech is absolute, but because the government had previously exceeded its authority by going after political dissidents (particularly Communists) using similar logic. So free speech protections in the US for hate speech are a reaction to state abuse in the context of the US.

In Europe the abuses were different so the protections are different.
Hmm disagree. This was a very lightweight “hey you’re defending a pretty terrible act”.

Surely there is value to socially pressuring people who offer morally reprehensible positions?

My child had one of these low quality, high lead toys amazon sells. Babies put everything in their mouth. He was exposed to, minimal, but as we know there is no safe exposure limit to lead.

So, dang, tell em again how this amazon employee defending putting lead into children’s bloodstreams is... well I guess I just shouldn’t personally attack them, just the terrible things they are defending.
> Repeatedly letting criminals free to walk the streets

That's a funny way of implying that everyone that the justice system imprisons are criminals in a world where we imprison 22% of the global incarcerated population despite accounting for 4% of the global total population[1].

Fear-based rhetoric around crime and the people who commit crimes* is not empathy.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_ra...