skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just did a search for a keyword from mail that I knew would be old - 2005. It found it instantly.
> Turkey is also an ally (like it or not)

Turkey was an ally. I love Turks as people, spent significant time in Turkey. But it's clear that as a government, Erdogan has turned Turkey away from the West, from America, from democratic values, and decidedly toward Russia (and not just ideologically).

Turkey's NATO membership is now just a vestigial momento of the cold war.
Particularly the why in the closing paragraph.
Interesting that you wrote paragraphs rebutting your first paragraph.
> Giving everyone freedom to camp wherever they want takes away people's freedom from disease and crime.

freedom from disease and crime is not outlined anywhere in the constitution afaik...
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I think the reference was to languages in general. In James Joyce's Ulysses there are four or five chapters which all tell basically the same story, but written in wildly different styles - one like an ancient legend, another a 'stream of consciuosness', and so on.
And an antagonist on the TV series 'Mars'!
Since there was never a public token sale (as it was all raised privately) they should have just done a debt/equity raise. What was the point in doing an ICO?

Though like all of these private token sales, it's a great way for crypto whales to multiply their imaginary wealth without having to exit to fiat and pay taxes.
Can you edit for more clarity? Lots of jargon still there.
Thought experiments like this may reflect our own attitudes more than reality.

Poor review practices in journals are not limited to the humanities and social sciences. For example, peer review in CS seems to be highly random, often biased (depending on reviewer and author rather than the paper) and only weakly correlated with quality and impact. Moreover, there seems to be a problem with reproducibility (as well as data accuracy) of many published results in the biological sciences, medicine, and psychology. And "not reproducible" in science may very well mean "not true," and can have harmful consequences such as prescription drugs that don't work.

I would also suggest that making it through a Ph.D. program in the humanities is incredibly grueling and usually requires an unimaginable amount of reading (in multiple languages, usually) as well as writing a massive and highly detailed book for a very limited audience. It requires committing yourself to years of intense and often solitary effort for minimal reward and low pay, so I think you have to have remarkable dedication and "grit" as well as a passion or affinity for the discipline. Moreover, actually getting hired into a humanities faculty position is an astonishing achievement in itself.

Will the skills of physicists transfer trivially to the humanities? Perhaps, but I think it would be an interesting study to see how well both sides do switching disciplines.
Tell HN: Google now requires SWEs to take part in company citizenship activities
This is a throwaway account that I created.

I work as a SWE at Google. The official SWE role expectations were recently amended to include citizenship contributions such as interviewing, recruiting, mentoring, and organizing extracurricular events. It is now mandatory for SWEs at higher levels to make these contributions, however it does not list any specific requirements.

This seems like another major blow to the company culture. I simply can't see how this will result in anything other than a further watering-down of any remaining pockets of good engineering culture within the company, as engineers no longer have the option to simply focus on getting good work done.

HNers, your thoughts?
Why not pay ten times the cost of overhead wires - to save on legal awards...
I'd say "child trafficking" / "child abduction" are reasonably common terms for parental custody disagreements that cross country lines.
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Not all. The poor stayed behind as servants or slaves.
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That's not at all how he described it in his Scott alexander-length blog post on the matter.
Using your proposal basis, it also sets up a big loophole for businesses to strong arm the government and taxpayers using historical preservation to pad their business.

For example, if I were the Strand owner and I thought of building a 100 story condo complex on top of the existing Strand bookstore, then I tell NYC, “Either you need to pay me a few hundred million or I will build this complex on the landmark.”

Wouldn’t that just incentivize wealthy owners to buy up landmarks to hold them for ransom against the city, which seems contrary to the function of landmarks?
That’s not an apples to apples comparison. A grocery store doesn’t have a network effect, Facebook does. That’s a powerful thing when we’re talking about products that exchange value with other parties in the network.
You are not the target customer.

Grocery store handle a surprisingly large amount of money transfers and act as pseudo-banks to many of the unbanked. Some of them have their own banks on top and others have bank branches in them. Lots of people use these services.
The time and cost to do an S-1 is massive and it can reveal embarrassing facts that lower the company's valuation, as in the case of WeWork.
A general discussion forum where people talk about trends and longitudinal behaviors is not about any single anecdotal poster on HN.
That seems to be more a case of the topic being a foregone conclusion to the point of triteness than anything else, considering that the only instance in which a future for white children isn't preserved is one in which everyone else is also screwed. In fact, the wealth of white parents is such that they could preserve the future for black children and have more than enough left over for their own.

I wonder how much labeled political correctness falls under this: less fear of social retribution than fear of looking like an idiot.
Thanks for proving the point.

People of literally every race are allowed to be proud of being that race... except white.
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> Claims like Paul's are just the intellectual equivalent of chest puffing. Don't get roped into the stupidity. This kind of attitude causes divisions and turns you into a prideful douche. It's indicative most of all that the author takes an extreme pride in whatever he takes to be his "intellect." Goliaths' waiting for their Davids.

Do you not see yourself in this paragraph?

Anyway, I’m sure French literature is a noble pursuit.
I just saw this on a netflix documentary too, called "Civilization".
Exactly! There’s only one option in the face of overwhelming odds :-)

https://youtu.be/BABM3EUo990
The headline is clickbait. The article's actual claim is that scandals a torts are securities fraud.
I wish they could take some middle ground here for example requiring that users read out loud a 1000 word statement describing the risks involved and limiting access to capabilities like background refresh, notifications, etc. if the user hasn't interacted with that app in a week.

Or they could just beef up progressive web apps...
There are serverless caterers.
It’s nice that go barely needs a style guide because of go fmt.
All of those are easily fixable in wallet software. Can't stop the signal.
The point is there doesn’t need to be a bank of last resort with libra.
Yes. Variables that start with lower case look like a locally defined variable in a func. Adding the underbar makes it absolutely clear, and prevents shadowing, or the need to work around shadowing with a slightly different name.
Wow. I normally don't go for video's, but I'm glad I looked at this one. This is master craftsman porn - one of the top guys on the planet talking about his craft.
Ah, yes. Mealy-mouthed corporate nonsense. That'll shut the rabble up!
To take advantage of the ICO hype. Telegram could never have raised $1.7B in different, more traditional medium.
Add in that alarms randomly don't fire, or fire at the wrong volume. I'm using my old phone as my clock and timer. I wonder if it's related to the bonkers notification settings.

Either way, disaster of a phone, and disaster of an OS.
No one is concerned about you as an individual. In a general discussion forum, how does it add to the conversation about general technological trends discussing outliers?
Ask HN: What Happened to Www.forensicswiki.org?
forensicwiki was an excellent reference for data recovery. What happened to it? Does anybody knows if there is another good reference out there?
It'd be a corollary of the Dunning-Kruger effect, I guess. Like, you don't know enough about the problem space to know that your first thought is already well known?
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thanks!

btw, i didn’t know that:

> Full time is 35 hours or more per week; part time is less than 35 hours.

thats just barely above 4 days @ 8hrs... interesting...
In this case the SEC mentioned that there is nothing you can buy with Grams and there won't be for the near future. All you could do with Grams is trade them on exchanges.
This gets posted constantly and every time it gets easier and easier to find white nationalist propaganda in the comments.

Always glad to see whatever ideological bender the administrators of this site are on, providing a platform for hate speech is a price they’re willing to pay for it.

Edit: I’m talking specifically about someone all but quoting the 14 words and lamenting at how society is intolerant of his views.
This law and media surrounding it is the CA state pandering to misinformed and reactive public pressure. First off, police body cameras are dumb recording devices. They cannot run FR software without being completely different devices, probably requiring a completely different set of hardware and software producers than now. Police body cameras are little more than GoPro like compact cameras with holsters for wearing while recording. They are not designed with any feedback capability, no networking, and no load and run some software capability at all. If they could run FR software, which they can't, their expense would prevent their adoption. And if they could, they would need to have wireless FR synchronization between officers and command to make any tactical sense. They probably should have AR to actually be of use in the field. Sounds too expensive to be affordable by police. At that level, keeping the technology an officer wears down starts to make sense; the body cam sends video to command and command is where FR is run on more economical and faster servers for all the officer video feeds. Any meaningful FR or related information is digested with command and verbally related to the active officers in the field. My point being, this practical use of FR is unaddressed by this new law. The law is nothing.
I dunno, someone like Softbank would have happily thrown that their way.
No document is as valuable as strong relationships.
Why don't we pull up a direct quote, then?

> At this point this stops being my story. A group of pro-CW-thread mods led by ZorbaTHut, cjet79, and baj2235 set up r/TheMotte, a new subreddit for continuing the Culture War Thread tradition. After a week, the top post already has 4,243 comments, so it looks like the move went pretty well. Despite fears – which I partly shared – that the transition would not be good for the Thread, early signs suggest it has survived intact. I’m hopeful this can be a win-win situation, freeing me from a pretty serious burden while the Thread itself expands and flourishes under the leadership of a more anonymous group of people.

Not sure that proves your point.
> One of our goals at Blizzard is to make sure that every player, everywhere in the world, regardless of political views, religious beliefs, race, gender, or any other consideration always feels safe [..] playing our games

This HN comment from 6 years ago comes to mind: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6154475
> Switzerland is not famous for futuristic factory cities and impressive government projects.

The Gotthard Base Tunnel would like to have a word ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotthard_Base_Tunnel

It might not be as visually impressive as a new airport or bridge, but it is one of the largest infrastructure projects of the last couple decades worldwide.
> Not really. WinForms is a lot of the reason for C#'s existence, and WinForms is just a wrapper around pinvoke'd Win32. You're crossing the boundary a lot.

That is an implementation detail. I also don’t know many who consider WinForms to be particularly high performance.

(Additional note: though I have not explicitly said it prior, I believe that PInvoke actually was quite slow for a long time, at least certainly during the WinForms era. For all I know, it might still be.)

> I have a hard time believing that RPC can possibly be faster than cgo.

I can’t find a solid reference, but the issue is that Cgo is simply not ideal for heavy applications. It makes scheduling slower. If you are doing expensive work in C++, such as phoning out to the network or decently heavy computation to the point where Cgo overhead is not the concern, then you are unlikely to have much issue with the cost of RPCs. If you are doing tiny amounts of work with no IO one must wonder why you would not just port those bits to Go.

(Example of scheduler issue: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/19574)

I continue to contend that considering this to be a show stopper to be unfair or at least not very honest.
You don’t want web developers to have access to the tools we need to make websites cpu and and memory efficient?

I for one am sick of web apps being so slow and bloated. The day react’s code runs in wasm with native wsdl calls is the day websites the world over will suddenly get a lot faster. What is the problem with that?
Volunteer to work on a committee to overturn this policy.
I think he doesn’t understand what that field does.
Of course it's from the Bible -- as a quick google would have told you. It's Mark 2:21-22.
"We don't want to lose money from the Chinese market, but we also don't want to lose money from the American market, we're not really sure what to do and have no moral guidance on the situation, will you accept this double-talk and continue paying us?"
Thanks for sharing! I'd like to learn more. For what use cases should one opt to use D-Wave Leap instead of a more conventional optimizer?
Good. Even less people will use it.
You described how I’ve always felt about Paul Grahams writings except maybe the startup or programming ones on which I defer to him as more of an expert. He is sometimes an engaging essayist and doing what I guess essayists do which is describe the world from their perspective without letting too much rigor get in the way of an interesting story. I just get turned off by making a point like “we don’t say fuck around kids because of our precious taboos and because we want to think of kids as innocent” which is not particularly wrong but so oversimplified as to be not really worth saying except to imply that the writer is more enlightened than the rest of us.
Just because something is a certain way doesn't mean it has to be that way.
I don't see any way they could have addressed that without the hysteria still spinning it negatively.

Because it's not like they mention that out of nowhere: They are directly referring to accusations that they were pressured into shutting that particular player down by the Chinese government.

There's a whole lot of people out there who will not be satisfied with any answer contradicting that narrative.

Heck, even if Blizzard went out there and would fully admit "The Chinese government pressured us to shut this particular player down", then people would complain how Blizzard could ever buckle to those demands in the first place.

The reality is that nobody needed to pressure Blizzard because its competitive scene has already seen quite a number of bans, some controversial, many not, over players using the spotlight to share their particular political messages.

It's nothing new and just like they explain in the statement: They do this regardless of the political views being aired, they just consider it not a platform for that.

Very comparable to how the Olympics are supposed to be an "unpolitical event", at least in theory.
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That explains how they won those cases against small fry like Madoff and Martha Stewart.
Native and I like it's rules better than Thunderbird.
From the other comments, it's more likely to be the region of one's Apple ID, which is decoupled from the region of one's phone.

As one can log in and out of multiple Apple IDs (from different countries) in the App Store without breaking anything synced with one's primary iCloud account, it's very likely that Apple encourages this as a best practice.
What about it indicates that?

Libra is backed by a basket of currencies or investments designed to spread risk around, which is a great idea unless a huge chunk goes belly up at the same time. And then what? We repeat the subprime mortgage crisis, where people also thought that there would never be mass defaults across the system at the same time?
Why isn't just a plain old microscope used to detect microbial life?
I’m so sick of dealing with people who make this nonsense argument. You know damn well the cultural context the literal words you wrote carry. It’s incredibly (and intentionally!) disingenuous to say this is anything like someone saying “I’m proud to be of Spanish decent.”

You know, come to think of it I’d be weirded out by anyone saying something equivalent, like being proud of being Asian instead of saying “I’m proud of being Korean.” When black Americans talk about black pride that has a specific context: they are proud of a heritage that includes not knowing where they are from because of the slave trade.

The thing is, though, you know this. Further, reasonable people know what you’re trying to do.

Edit: in case anyone is unaware. The original comment is a direct evocation of David lanes 14 words. “ We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.”

Edit II: I appear to have confused the person I’m replying to here with the user that rephrased the 14 words but I’m still pretty sure they’re trying to defend the notions of a far right terrorist.
This part descends to absurdity:

> Every Voice Matters, and we strongly encourage everyone in our community to share their viewpoints in the many places available to express themselves. However, the official broadcast needs to be about the tournament and to be a place where all are welcome. In support of that, we want to keep the official channels focused on the game.

One of their core values is "every voice matters" and with this paragraph they are trying to twist it from what it actually means, to supporting their decision to suppress dissent
> Honestly, I wish more apps were like this.

It's really hard to find apps like that, and I often feel like it's getting harder as time goes on.
If TON doesn't launch by October 31st they have to return the money and then Telegram will run out of money and go out of business. They only have 20 days to figure it out.
I'm not sure it's that simple. As Mr Graham points out, we are shaped by our echo chambers, the chorus of voices that shout out against our fellow "heretics". As children, those chambers come from our families and religious / community institutions, as dictated by our elders. As we reach our rebellious phases, sure - we scrabble around and find beliefs we want to believe in - but the effort expended in doing so is difficult and the reward is little. From a social perspective, a little deviation acts as a differentiator - we are made interesting within our peer groups by our rebellions - but too much heresy makes us "other". As we get past that, self-realisation comes in waves; nestled between desires of belonging in a new group, we find moments where we are invited to re-evaluate some deeply held truth. Rarely is the re-evaluation self-driven, and almost never is that belief so different that a nearby echo chamber is not crouching nearby, waiting to nurture our newfound "chosen" belief in it's warm, corroborating belly.

For the record, I want to believe your belief. I recognise that this autonomous self-truthing could be the pinnicle of what we as humans could become. I also think the very concept of society becomes a meaningless nothing if it were possible.
To some extent, yes. My delivery has certainly been agressive and douchy--but all I'm advocating for is a broader acceptance of the value of other's intellectual pursuits--are the pursuits of physicists extremely impressive? Undoubtedly so. Does that mean we have to initiate a dick measuring contest about the respective intelligence of the members of different academic fields? No. It's totally useless! At least in my view.
https://au.ign.com/articles/2019/10/10/verified-chinese-bliz...
Sorry, I thought you were implying something nasty.

I like TheMotte, although there's a few opinions I see that make my blood boil.
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That's a facile response, because it works for everybody. Everybody intolerant thinks of themselves as a fundamentally tolerant person, whose hand has regrettably been forced by the unforgivable actions of the enemy tribe.
The actions Google has taken over the last 3 years are far different than in the past. Something is wrong with the organization as a whole.

Last week, Google donated to the Salvation Army[1] here in Seattle (a group that fights against LGBTQ+ rights) yet Google claims to adhere to the GSBA Code of Ethics that bans such behaviour[2]

Google has also chosen to fund climate change deniers[3] over the last year.

1 - https://mynorthwest.com/1540117/google-gives-1m-for-seattle-...

2 - http://www.thegsba.org/membership-sponsorship/standards-of-e...

3 - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/11/google-c...
I was laid off once. I almost feel hesitant/guilty to share this because of how many silver linings it had for me, vs friends I've seen put in much more untenable positions after a layoff; I feel like I got off comparatively easy.

Early in my career I was working as a video game tester. This was effectively just to get my foot in the door to "any sort of tech job" (previously I had only been a Mover). One day, at the end of what seemed like a very normal workday, our entire group was told "our primary contract just got cancelled, we won't have work for you all tomorrow, we'll be in touch if we do but otherwise don't bother coming in."

In hindsight, if that happened to me today I'd probably have an aneurism on the spot, but, likely due to naivete, I just shrugged and thought to myself "well the commute was miserable, the job sucked, and I got a decent chunk of time out of them for the resume" and leaned hard into some connections I had at a local software consultancy; they ended up picking me up as a subcontractor and the rest is history.

There wasn't so much "bounce" for me because simply put, I wasn't far enough in my career to have anywhere real to fall to, and I think if I hadn't already been building connections with the intention of moving into Real Programming Work I would have probably felt quite a bit more panic.

I think the takeaway I'd make from this is that the impact of a layoff, and my ability to bounce back from it, would differ DRASTICALLY based on the surrounding context, but that network/contacts+relevant skills have become a core "must have" in my book of long-term-career-stability.