skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That seems like a lot of hand-waving to me.

> this was the context for Edmund Burke’s remarks in 1787 that “There are Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters’ Gallery yonder, there sits a Fourth Estate more important far than they all.”

There's this quote early in the article about the Fourth Estate being the most powerful, and yet by the end I'm supposed to assume all these things to accept this claim that "monopoly control" of the Second Estate exists on fact-checking?

What I actually see is an article where someone started with a conclusion (that some sort of free-market/libertarianism/lassaiz-faire/whatever brand of let tech companies do whatever they want is The Way) and then spent a lot of time thinking about how to reach it.
> That layoff was the best thing to happen to me. Shook me out of my cosy job, forced me into building my own consultancy, and taught me the power of solidarity.

This last part sounds like an argument against unions. One wonders, had the commenter worked in an environment where layoffs/firings aren't worth it due to externalities (and therefore never really happen), whether they'd rethink.
> School systems in China and India do this, neither country is known for amazing education,

The Chinese (and, I guess, Indian) education system isn't bad because they use performance on a test to assign students to universities. They're bad because they lack the resources to provide a top-notch education to everyone, so only the best students get to enjoy one. At the best Chinese universities, professors with a diverse international background give their students plenty of nuts to crack by doing some thinking on their own, and having some basic facts memorized seems to be more helpful than harmful for that. At the worst Chinese universities, the professors themselves may be unable to do better than just regurgitating the textbook. I expect overall quality to slowly rise over the coming decades as an increasing number of well-educated graduates become educators themselves.
>The reason big new things sneak by incumbents is that the next big thing always starts out being dismissed as a “toy.” This is one of the main insights of Clay Christensen’s “disruptive technology” theory. This theory starts with the observation that technologies tend to get better at a faster rate than users’ needs increase.

Or perhaps new technologies are solutions in search of a problem, and without any concrete sense of self and hierarchy, user "needs" can get artificially inflated to infinity...

Kind of how people "needed" cigarettes in 1950, and "needed" bell bottoms in the 70s, and "need" a good smartphone camera today (because of course they also "need" to broadcast to their friends and everybody else what they ate for dinner, their latest selfie, and their life 24/7) -- even if nobody on the receiving end really cares, except perhaps their parents and grandparents...
This kind of comment is unthoughtful and against Hacker News commenting guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That destroys intellectual curiosity, the value of the site."
IBM and Oracle are really not in the same class as AWS, Azure and GCP, when it comes to investing in cloud infrastructure. They’re bit players at best: http://www.platformonomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/cl...

From this article: https://www.platformonomics.com/2018/05/follow-the-capex-sep...
The usual counterexamples are sports player and actors' unions. Even in less glamorous areas, union doesn't always equal salary cap or salary bands or whatever. Usually their main concerns are setting a pay floor and stopping abuse / forcing humane treatment.
At least it creates jobs for the younger generation.
There's a lot linked in here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3780531/

I don't think you'll see a lot of reputable schools taking this on though. But this effect should be easy to replicate at least.
I know what you mean. Product engineering gets weird when you remove all constraints, and you actually end up hobbled instead of empowered by the "resources".

I think if they made projects require independent profitability (after a startup period), a lot of that weirdness would go away and customers would be happier too.
If we were to do this, it would cause large numbers of techologies to never ever reach the public because people couldn't do the work to "prove" that something is safe. I would only recommend this policy towards things that we could reasonably expect to have catastrophic outcomes.
There's plenty of high quality questions that go unanswered for ever. So I don't think you should flatter your self with this analysis. At least great moderation can generally help with low quality questions.
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Executive salaries aren't the same thing as the surplus value extracted from your labor. If that was spread equally, each employee would make considerably more.
Are Liberal Arts Colleges Doomed?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coPevaETtnM
Thoughts on leetcode and its relationship to eastern measures of excellence
Everyone knows leetcode, the debate rages about its efficacy of filtering for good engineers. What has occurred to me recently, is that leetcode is essentially the same as the entrance exams into the IIT schools in India, as well as the rigorous exams in China. It requires extensive memorization, with bits of logic sprinkled here and there. It is an eastern way of thinking about intelligence and how to select for it via an objective process. This is not to disparage those from eastern countries, or their methods of education. But it drives at a deeper reality of what has made western civilization great; an emphasis on free/critical thought, innovation, and creativity, over rote memorization. Top schools in the United States take a holistic picture of their admissions candidates, partly to ensure they can admit legacy and diversity candidates, but also because GPA and SAT do not paint a full picture of who will do great things. In this same vein, the barrier to entry at the most profitable and powerful corporations is now dictated by an eastern way of evaluation, reflecting the dominance of those who have immigrated over the incumbent forms of thought. I think this is a bigger cultural issue than people want to admit and is only the beginning of the debasement of western excellence.
> There is (very simple) POSIX subsystem in Phantom.
"Credit card companies also play a key role by largely refusing to grant charge-backs to people who have been roped into a subscription without their knowledge, according to Baker."

If you get rolled into subscription without agreeing to that isn't that the same as someone charging you for what you didn't order, so aren't the credit card companies supposed to refund you ?
I agree high profile shouldn’t matter, but it helps to grab the attention of recruiters who often pay attention to high-profile consumer companies like “Uber” but not to smaller, more enterprise-facing startups. It’s not necessarily a logical disconnect, but it is real.
Any one knows WHICH server provider in Finland caused this?

Just following the chain because NordVPN says it was this provider who does not told about their security leak?
That's interesting. I was thinking about this a lot over the past 2-3 weeks. The sheer amount of clothing lying in all the shops across the world.

Talk a walk into any Macy's / Bloomingdales / Hudsons Bay and count the number of items of clothing.

Then multiply that across that one store's chain of shops. Then realize there are multiple chains like that.
Then realize there are multiple stores not in chains.
Then realize that's just the geographic area you're aware of.
Then think about other cities, counties, regions, provinces, countries.

Then remember all the clothing you have at home already...
It’s amazing to me how much Americans have swallowed this kind of “they deserve it,” management line. People seem to immediately imagine themselves as executives in the boardroom, quashing the rebellion before it begins.

As others have pointed out, protections for organizing at workplace sites are common through out Europe. Google employees built Google into what it is, not their senior management (especially given what has come to light). And the company would be better off if workers co-determined its future.
IDK how well simpletask handles the date formats that TaskWarrior supports. I just found simpletask-taskwarrior [1] which appears to use nl.mpcjanssen.simpletask.sort.DateComparator [2] (which calls hirondelle.date4j.DateTime.compareTo [3] ) for the date fields of TaskWarrior tasks.

Obviously, neither ISO8601 sort nor ASCII sort can correctly sort "tomorrow" or "weekly" with "2101-10-31". TaskWarrior recurring tasks have a parent template that presumably zero todo.txt tools can at all handle. Not even Markor.

[1] https://github.com/mpcjanssen/simpletask-taskwarrior/blob/ma...

[2] https://github.com/mpcjanssen/simpletask-taskwarrior/blob/ma...

[3] https://github.com/IanDarwin/date4j/blob/master/src/main/jav...

Ctrl-F only finds one mention of "todo.txt" in https://taskwarrior.org/tools/
> Auto manufacturers use machines built by other businesses and parts built by other businesses.

Yeah but they generally aren't renting those machines. Renting critical pieces of business infrastructure that aren't easily replaceable is opening yourself up to rent seeking on the part of your supplier. Remember the Oracle business model--lock people in and then keep raising the price just below what it would cost to rebuild from scratch.
IDEA: A site that creates a good Chinese name either from your name or totally from scratch, with good visualization option to tweak 10-20 factors. Uses AI algorithms trained on nuances of names. If you pay extra, you can have the auto-generated name tweaked by an expert, someone like the author of this post. Sites like this exist (e.g. https://www.mandarintools.com/chinesename.html) but are primitive.
I am not OP, but they helped me with a rare openvpn config for which my forays into the openVPN forums led nowhere.

Out of my 110/12mbit connection Mullvad let's me use 108/11 of that, and even has wireguard support.
Plenty of people still use Emacs.

I picked it up several months ago after using Jetbrains IDE's for quite a long time, and honestly haven't felt the need for any of what Jetbrains brought to the table.

Mostly thanks to LSP.

If you're not a Java developer, Emacs is perfectly fine as a configurable extensible editor. With the additional caveat that its lack of multithreading can get in the way sometimes.
I imagine you also keep an eye on the manager everywhere you dine to ensure they aren't actively monitoring the patrons or staff?

This article is the kind of sensationalism that discredits very real concerns about a technology by bundling all use cases up with a big, scary bow.
The reason for avoiding the usage of the word "recruiter" is certainly intentional. We don't feel like that term lends itself well to what we're trying to do honestly.

We're not sure exactly what term best expresses this, but more on the lines of a concierge service. The business model is structured in a way that ensures we do what's best for both candidate and company.

Please don't slap me for using an "X for Y" analogy, but we're CarMax for Hiring. We need to work on translating that into words.

CarMax has fix prices and aims to ensure that your experience as a car buying isn't tainted with a feeling that you got ripped off. We want candidates to know we're on their side and are not motivated working against their best interest.
Russian media is mostly state-owned, and independent journalists are jailed for speaking out against the current regime. The government is in the process of trying to emulate China's Great Firewall.

The country is in a state of disarray, where the oligarchs are getting hit with sanctions, oil sales are dwindling, and the only way to maintain the status quo is to keep the public focused on an outside enemy, which currently is Ukraine.

I don't know why they would expand access, but they might just use it to feed the populace more propaganda.
Composite students learning from composite patients.

> the patient was actually a composite of hundreds of patients over twenty years spanning states.

https://twitter.com/TheRealDoctorT/status/117230945733996135...

What a well composed doctor.
Well I hope the FKK party emerges out of this one.
Not a judgement on the idea, but that's how 4chan works on some boards.
> I've done enough Hacker News discussions to note that the lay-reader won't understand what this means, and this probably needs more elaboration.

This is why I didn't mention it, but I agree that shared memory and typical uses present a particularly challenging problem for Rust.
No, but let's not pretend that there aren't incredibly powerful forces that very much constrain what you can say in media... If you ever want to make a living off it.

Consider: Why are artists criticized for selling out? Why do they do it, regardless? Why does, for instance, counter-consumerist media get co-opted into consumerist messaging?

This pressure is not done via law. It is done by basic economics. Well, guess what, basic economics of a foreign country are now putting pressure on media producers. Welcome to where we kept the rest of the world, for the past ~60 years.
Ok, help me out: "cold-potato"? :D
Older version of salary survey: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1a1Df6dg2Pby1UoNlZU2l...
It might help if you were only allowed to downvote/edit/close on topics where you have proved yourself.

If have gained some reputation answering Java questions, maybe that does not make me qualified to decide if a C++ question is suitable for the site. A bit like the fact that reputation from SO does not carry to other StackExchange sites.
Now I wish green lights had strobes to wake up zombies looking at their phones. I'm going to wear out my horn at this point due to people treating a red light like phone time out and not paying attention.
> With all respect, just because the state of the market was terrible doesn’t make a more secure insecure product good for the end user.

With all respect, let us know when you (or anyone else) releases a perfect version of a product. Nobody has unlimited money and time in which to polish a product to perfection.

I'm in the throes of this right now, trying to beat a once-miserable codebase into something that that improves our customers' lives, is stable, is secure, etc. on a shoestring budget. It's a hard, wretched slog but we're doing it, one point release at a time.
> I'd love 6 weeks of paid vacation as much as anyone. I don't see us getting that. I'd love to make twice as much money. I don't see that happening. I'd love for promotions and hiring to be more fair / better, but I don't see how this accomplishes that (nor do I know anyway to improve it).

Not at Google so I can't comment about them directly.

Also very neutral on unions, so don't take this comment as my preference.

6 weeks may seem hard to get, but many companies offer only 2 weeks, and 3 weeks seems the norm. 4 weeks seems doable with a union (although it may not be necessary - more and more companies are offering 4 weeks).

Non-compete clauses are something unions can help with (I know they're not allowed in CA, but lots of other states allow them).

The amount of time or how often one is on-call can be something unions can help with.

Conditions for severance can be something unions can help with.

On the flip side, unions can also make things a lot worse. YMMV.
Doctors fear opioid epidemic will be replaced by a new prescription drug crisis
Ask HN: Could a soft FPGA be designed in an HDL to run on a hard FPGA?
Pay is not the only thing.

There could be an employee elected board that is able to resolve things like disputes with managers. It's clear that there have been situations where HR is no help here. There could be agitation for greater transparency with perf, especially around things like promo quotas and ratings distributions.

Unions aren't just about pay.
I don't believe it, actually. Considering how much waste I use wrt food .. clothes seem much less wasteful. But, who is to know?
Here’s a more full account of the Western Union and Bell settlement on patent infringement-

http://oldtelephones.com/blog/2012/04/25/bell-telephone--wes...

I’m also generally skeptical of revisionist narratives. People often say no one saw X coming, no one saw apps on a phone or a screen with buttons etc etc. But it seems hundreds or thousands of writers, designers, futurists, failed technologists and so on did predict these things. The hard part is building them and then creating a system (eg financed hardware) to create widespread adoption.
The specific instance in Qatar's case is in providing AC to a stadium, apparently covered, if not entirely contained, and taking advantage of temperature-induced differential density to apply cooling only to where people actually are, rather than the entire enclosed space.

Which might actually be more efficient than equivalent practices of conditioning all interior stadium air in the US.

A difference between outdoor radiant heating (which I also find immensely wasteful) and outdoor AC is that radiant heat, erm, radiates, so you're only providing a sufficiently warm blackbody, and not attempting to change the temperature of an entire space. Surface temperatures (including skin) are increased by radiant heat, but air temps are not: a campfire will warm your hands and face, but not all the surroundings. Since cold isn't similarly radiant, there's no equivalent mechanism.

What this translates to in terms of Joules or kWh per meter-degree of thermal variance for heating vs. cooling, I'm not sure.
Krasnikov Tube
Out of curiosity how much traffic does the personal kb get?
Thanks bkfunk. All — I launched layoff-aid.com for SF tech talent in 2017. Love the initiative here and happy to help push it forward or do whatever else I can to better solve the problem. Email is Adam@ , mention HN
> I don't want to give Google any more money.

I guess I'm on the opposite side of the spectrum. I want to opt-out of being the product and instead be a customer by paying for "Google Premium" or whatever. It would be an "all things Google" subscription, not just YouTube. Any place there would normally be a Google-curated ad... there wouldn't be one. No more ads at the top of my Google searches. No ads embedded in web pages I visit (rather, Google pays the content provider some fixed amount from my account balance or whatever -- after prompting me to authorize it). No tracking, no "value-add," nothing. Just, "Here's my money, provide me an equitable and reasonable Internet experience that makes sure content providers get fair compensation, and otherwise leave me the fuck alone."

And, most importantly, that would mean that I could never be locked out of my GMail account without a fucking handwritten letter on Crane & Co. stationary with a direct phone number to a human being who I can talk to about whatever is going on.

You could argue that you'd just be paying a gestapo-like figure for the "privilege" of doing stuff that "should be" free. But you're already paying, in the sense that you're the product, and your time and attention is the currency.
Clickable links:

Survey: https://forms.gle/imnTvSV35UjY5EC28

Results: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZX_bcVE9bbuFbz20N4fM...
How am I suppose to message with others if everyone I know it's on either Whatsapp or Telegram? This phone seems only works on SMS, nobody I know in EU uses SMS anymore. Only companies that need to spam you uses it.

And to be more fair, I am sure some people will still find this useful. There must be market for this phone but I seriously doubt it will be scalable business.

I barely get phone calls. I did 5 phone calls last year. 5. I do a lot of videoconferences, messaging, emailing. But this product seems for the nostalgic ones and I don't see a really big market for this.
I once interviewed a guy who listed an academic paper on his résumé. I skimmed the paper, and asked him a soft question about it in the interview (I was just curious about some non-essential detail). He looked surprised said no-one had ever mentioned it before (and answered my question just fine, of course).
Where I live, no, you need a professional engineering designation. It's a license, sort of like a lawyer or doctor has, http://www.peo.on.ca/index.php/ci_id/2057/la_id/1.htm.
I use Emacs Org mode in a git repository hosted on my Raspberry Pi. On my phone, I use Orgzly to edit the files, along with Termux to manage the git repo. I also use Termux to launch Emacs from time to time when I need an advanced operation not yet supported by Orgzly.

I keep sensitive files encrypted using GnuPG and my private key lives on a Nitrokey Pro (a GnuPG token).

I usually export to various formats with Org mode built-in exporters (mainly ascii, markdown, html and pdf) but I sometimes use Pandoc, especially to export to docx.

I have even started blogging with that system. I can edit an Org file on my phone using Orgzly or Emacs, and then use Termux to automatically 1. push the change to my Git repo 2. publish the files to html using Emacs in batch mode 3. send the html/css files to my website using a bash script and sftp.

I don't think I will ever look back :)
>Well, first, I was responding to OP's complaint that the article "supports the author's point of view and offering no opposing points of view. This is not journalism." by pointing out that, in fact, it's not journalism, it's opinion.

I understand the distinction, but posting dubious opinion articles on news sites is still problematic. The Scientific American does not host articles espousing racist ideologies / vehemently blatant pseudoscience, by publishing this it is a form of tacit endorsement (despite it going in their opinion section).

>Second, the whole reason articles like this get published and read is that, in this case, one man's "alarmism" or "deception" or "paranoia" is another man's sober scientific caution. It's the same problem with GMOs. People are rushing to market with unproven technology to make money while insisting it's all perfectly safe.

The problem is that both the antiEMF and antiVaccine people are in fact not applying scientific principles to the issue. Cherry picking studies and opinions that support a given viewpoint is at best a rhetorical argument from authority, it is absolutely not a scientific approach to verifying a hypothesis.

>Why not wait a century, do more research, and decide then? What's the urgency to roll it out now?

The urgency comes in part from the fact that the 4G network is congested and at capacity in dense urban areas, and also from political dealings between US and Chinese telecom companies.
Those "levels" end up being oddly sexist at times. For instance, one of the women who sued Google for wage discrimination (Kelli Wisuri) was hired at L2, while male hires with similar or lesser experience were hired directly into L3 or above. And she and most of the women in her team were placed in a non-commission role, while working with men who gained commission on top of their salary.

Source, page 11 of https://googlegendercase.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Elli...
Animated and narrated summary of the modern history of oil
As a hiring manager, I rarely look at GitHub and never look at Stack Overflow or Kaggle, or whatever. All these tell me is that you don’t have any hobbies outside of coding.

As for GitHub in particular, it let’s me know if your project was something substantial, or merely an exercise for a class.

GitHub, your book, all that stuff takes time and effort to read, and quite frankly it isn’t worth it. You’re still going to need to go through the interview process so I can figure out if you’re competent. Reading some 1000 line random GitHub repo is hard, and it’s just not worth it.