skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also stopped reading/listening/watching mainstream news a couple of years ago, and I'm glad I did.

Almost all news is extremely negative - I tired of being bombarded with images of war and famine, squabbling politicians, and celebrity body-shaming. The worst of it was the futility of it - what purpose did this serve other than to anger and depress me and push me towards a particular political narrative? I can't stop the USA bombing hospitals, terrorists bombing whoever, plagues or famines; I can't fix our broken political system or prevent mass-surveillance.

I can't ignore news entirely of course - I still read HN, still see snippets on Twitter, still hear conversations etc. But stopping purposely consuming mainstream news is honestly one of the best choices I've ever made.
Is Ada still around?
Some other designs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-tLe78z1jU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ecvz5wzJ-RQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPNrpq2POLI
Nice!

https://www.shadertoy.com/view/lt3XDM
I knew a Justice of the Peace and asked him about the radar gun calibration tactic. He said that it's bogus and in his 40 year career had never seen it work.
How about if you think of it this way? Manager to team of 24 software developers: "I've opened Google App Engine accounts for all of you, so tomorrow I'll need you all to take an hour from your day and code a little Go project that publicly shares some details on the "heroes" in your lives. You see, I've got a chance to win a prize from Google if you make your projects good enough to impress the contest judges! I'll take care of writing the accompanying essay, in which I'll share some 'inspiring details' about all of us (which I've agreed Google can use in its advertising!) and explain why we all found Google App Engine and Go so helpful. Any questions?" :-)
You should come visit us in Africa. It will probably make you feel better. Some in Africa have become rich from NGO money meant for the poor. Working for an NGO is now actually a profession. I always had in it mind NGOs should be temporary, provide relief during a natural disaster. Donors do try set strict rules on how the money can be spent but there is always a way to game the system. The participants of a workshop will stay at a connected individual's lodge and pay inflated prices. Cars used to ferry people at a charge and so on.
Mojeek is independent search engine: https://www.mojeek.com/
Generally, we work from home all Fridays, so you have to handle your meetings and email, but there's still flexibility. The summer fridays are nice because you are completely off, no expectation of availability.

It's a little silly to only do in the summer, but it's still a nice perk.
Best comment ever: "I am way too high for this shit man.."
- newly extra super paranoid hipster, yelling at the sky (via reddit)
Yeah this definitely read to me like a click bait title and article. The shortfalls seem trivial in the grand scheme of what was accomplished.
I admit your comment has amused me :) Rather than comment either way and inevitably offend someone on the internet, I'll link to the specific part of the documentary & include a transcript for those who would rather read:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKpknKwbKsI&t=17m20s

FL: "At the bottom here, where you see this older leaf, you can see these very small black pustules there. The disease is called Septoria Tritic, and then you have a poor yield."

EC: "That's why you need pesticides?"

FL: "Correct. That's why you need pesticides, so you can protect this plant for the next eight weeks."

EC" "Is it possible to operate without pesticides or plant protection?"

FL: "Yes, it's possible of course. Our forefathers also did agriculture without using pesticides. But it has to be said that we have eight billion people on Earth, and without pesticide, without fertilisation, it is not possible to feed these people."

Franz Lehner says if Greenies in the city really want to help to change farming, they have to do more than sign petitions - they need to open their wallets. He's started a program for people to sponsor bee-friendly crops, and get their name on a stick for it.

EC: "This is interesting! Farmers like Franz are now leasing their land for people in the city to sponsor growing flowers to help bees and other insects. Rather than, what - Kartoffeln, oder? - rather than potatoes or something, people have to pay, or can pay, farmers to grow flowers. So instead of just signing the petition, they actually give money as well. Ok? Eine gut idee, ja? Gut für Bauern?"

FL: "Yes, good for farmers, good for the environment, good for the people in the city."

Other businesses are cashing in on the concerns. German and Dutch hardware stores are now featuring Bee-Friendly flowers, and Bee hotels.
yeah, I was going to pound this home a bit more, but was seeing some other people already did.

Coming back to this, one of the defenses I've had from CS people who couldn't do day to day development all that well is "well... that's not what CS is for - it's really for diving deep in to the theories behind problems... " - or some other relative claptrap. On its own - yeah, there's a class of problems that are served well by people with a CS-focus. Just don't try to drop them in to a "developer" role and assume that they'll be "just as good or even better" than someone who's simply been doing development perhaps with minimal schooling or just self-taught. One skill isn't really a superset of the other, but some people tend to think of them as such.
Silicon Valley Is Turning into Its Own Worst Fear (2017)
Link to bypass paywall: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.ft.com/content/78d78b7c-fbf...
Maybe read the Ubiquiti EULA. You don’t own the software.
Add in the visa/immigration issues. A large percentage of the workforce in SV is imported from outside the country. While the business wing of the Republican Party loves cheap labor, there are other wings that oppose it. Once upon a time the labor wing of the Democratic Party would have been against importing labor but the influence of that wing has waned considerably while the business wing has established itself in both major parties. If you're not a native born US citizen, a label that describes quite a few tech workers in the Valley, the left seems more aligned with your continued existence in the United States.
Eh, Bay Area isn’t that left wing. It’s more neo-liberal than anything else, just look at the area’s reps in congress.
It would be nice to use these results see some 'good' implementation, rather than just highlighting the worst offenders.
In general, yes, being in the same location as the office where you want to work is helpful. You should be able to find work from anywhere, but if you are targeting a specific niche, or a specific company, by all means, be where they are.
No, they get a free pass because of the law.

Any privacy regulation ever has some clause to the effect of "unless required by law" or "except for purposes set out in APPENDIX 25/c: open government data". It might even be more general, as in "except for a legitimate purpose". And the government itself providing such data is usually taken as a rather big clue regarding its legitimacy, almost tautologically so.

Datasets released by governments do tend to be fairly limit when it comes to personal data, though. There are some well-known datasets (political donors, public company officers, etc.). But when, for example, answering FOIA request, personal data of private citizens is almost always redacted.

There's just one stream of public data that I would take issue with, and that actually happens to be the worst misuse of data I can think of, including whatever Facebook is up to this week: the release of arrest records and mugshots. I would consider that practice to be unethical even if it came with a time limit and only included convicted offenders. As it is, with even wrongful arrests having a good chance to be your top Google hit for decades, it's pure cruelty and indecency.
I don't want much judgement in the laws. If someone has ingested alcohol and it's not yet metabolized I don't want them driving. It's irresponsible, full stop. (Same goes for other driving impairments-- drowsy, under the influence of drugs, distracted, etc.) The idea that one should be making a judgement call on their degree of impairment and choosing to drive is odious to me. If you're impaired, don't drive.

Edit: I'm not a molecular biologist. Let's edit this to say "If someone has ingested alcohol and it's not yet metabolized to the extent that it is unable to create a discernable impairment I don't want them driving."

Edit 2: It sounds like an objective test for reflexes and response time would be a better test of impairment (of any type) rather than using blood/breath alcohol measurements as a proxy for impairment.
The argument in the quote is that the whole thing is a libertarian power fantasy.

It’s not that Musk fears AI bc the hypothetical runaway computer will think like him. Hard to restate without reusing the word projection, but it’s more like that his concept of AI risk itself says more about him than it does about future technologies.

Weird example, but it’s kind of like how in Dr. Strangelove General Ripper’s fear of a soviet plot to emasculate us via fluoride has everything to do with Ripper’s own feelings re his balls and nothing at all to do with the actual soviets.
That is why SRI exists
Looking for Rust Script:)
https://discord.gg/wfj3PQH

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If you are using a service like google oauth you need to sign a business associate agreement with them before using any of their services in a HIPAA compliant manner. I've searched for how to sign this contract pretty unsuccessfully.
Similarly, I got a thinkpad x395 with the 3700U.

On Linux (Arch's current kernel), everything* works.

*I haven't looked into the IR camera nor the fingerprint reader, but the latter supposedly has a driver, as per Arch wiki's thinkpad support page.
I'm not someone predicting the end of the world. My mantra is generally "It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine."

I was merely pointing out that humanity doesn't actually care if we wipe out all life. We wring our hands because we fear we will wipe out ourselves, as if we are terribly important.

It's narcissism, not morality, that drives such fretting.
So true! :-)

Oligarchy is basically what the US is.
Depends on the issue - if there's a code / logic bug that doesn't affect the data schema, we use elastic beanstalk versions to go back the previous version (usually this is a rolling deploy backwards), and then clean up the data manually if necessary. Otherwise, we roll forward (fix the bug, clean up the data, etc).

It's more often been the case for us that issues are caused by mistaken configuration / infrastructure updates. We do a lot of IAC (Chef, Cloudformation), so with those, it's usually a straight git revert and then a normal release.
Does some of that work time allow people to innovate and grow as an individual (thus possibly adding greater, future benefits to the company)?

I’ve seen instances of western companies run by by-the-books business folks with no concept of the value a “learning culture” and how it can add to future growth.

Then again, not all people will use their time wisely and they simple stand around and chat all day.
India air pollution at 'unbearable levels'
I work at Google and I'll be voting for Elizabeth Warren.
I think you are absolutely fine. Your field won't require fancy bleeding edge math research so you go well with equations developed hundreds of years ago, which can be found in many many textbooks. There are also gazzilions of tutorials etc which try to instruct coders with math.

From my experience, it is absolutely possible to do advanced 3D programming stuff without any idea of rotation matrices or quaternions, despite they might be used internally. Hell, I even used sin() and cos() on computers when I did not yet know their meaning because we did not cover it yet in school. I just copied code from somewhere and it magically worked.

(Disclaimer: In the meantime, I did a PhD in theoretical physics, which is very close to mathematics)
I feel like this article is responding to a strawman. As far as I can tell, nobody in Possible Minds is arguing that corporations should never be restricted or that nobody should think about regulation. They're just saying that controlling AI is a critical problem in and of itself, which won't be solved by just controlling the corporations who build AI systems.

"Long before existentially troubling control problems will arise [...] these mediators will shape an immense number of decisions" - certainly a true statement! But true in the same way that Enron can create an immense fraud long before the energy market causes existentially troubling climate change problems. It would be hopelessly silly to read a book on climate change and respond that it should have been about accounting regulations.

(Sidebar: I don't think the title was cut off in quite the right place. "Moderation as a virtue" is a reference to one particular criticism by Ted Chiang and isn't really a good summary of what this article is responding to.)
> 1. Being in extremely left-wing Bay area with historic ties to the free speech movement.

Why the activism against hate speech then?
Breaking up big tech companies is undoubtedly good for the workers, create more competition in hiring. It would probably send money downwards and be a huge boon to innovation tbh.
I live in a college down (Bloomington). And driving a motor vehicle is NOT a requirement for Indiana's drunk driving laws.

College students have been field sobriet'd on those damned Lime and Bird scooters, found they exceeded the legal limit, and then were found guilty for DUI. And unlike cars and boats, these things have no license. Doesn't matter.

Indiana's laws are fucked up.
Quick anecdote from my personal experience, learning to code as a hobbyist and then later getting a hybrid Software Engineering and Computer Science degree (it was mostly CS with some SE topics and projects): you can totally learn without a degree, but my code, reasoning about data structures, algorithms and performance and general software architecture definitely improved sharply by getting the degree. I think partly due to exposure to additional subjects that I may not have self-studied, partly due to having time to spend on it and partly because of the coursework/lectures.

Of course you totally can learn everything you would ever want or need yourself, but there's definitely value in a few years dedicated to learning this stuff and getting exposed to subjects, projects and peers is useful. Whether or not its better probably depends on the individual and what you make of it, though.
"I smelled _____"

There's your probable cause right there.
Until the fix is identified, can't one 'march forward' by rolling back recent changes to a known-good state?
You would need to look into the history of the Bay Area going back to at least the 1960's, and probably one or two decades further.

It's more a case of counter-culture vs. mainstream; with the tech scene appearing Left-leaning only to the extent that the Right tries to portray their agenda as the mainstream in the media. (The Left does that too, it's just that the Right has been more successful since about the 80's when the pols roped in the Christians. Before then, Christians mostly stayed out of politics. Mostly. E.g. "liberal" becoming a "dirty word", etc.)

That's why you see e.g. Left-wing sentiment and Libertarian sentiment (as well as Furry sentiment; pro-gun sentiment; anti-gun sentiment; weird-sex sentiment; non-binary-gender sentiment; ... I could go on at length. CA is a weird place, and SF is the weirdest place in CA (except for Berkeley)) in SV. Really, it's a political and social kaleidoscope out here. If it looks Blue or Red it's the tinted filter.
Paul Graham, who started this website, wrote: "Eliminating great variations in wealth would mean eliminating startups. And that doesn't seem a wise move." How would you respond to that?
My five year old watched a 3 hour opera performance no problem and excitedly recounted details of what happened afterwards. I've done nothing to cultivate his attention span, though I was pretty careful to give him a lot of context beforehand as to what to expect-- if he had gotten lost as to what was happening I don't think it would have ended well.

My ten year old enjoyed it.

My eight year old coped but squirmed a lot and complained of it being boring afterwards. I think he has a slightly shorter attention span and likes theater performances less-- but also was just particularly impatient that day.
Big tech employees earn in the top 1%, but are devout socialists. They're actively working against the free market capitalist fundamentals that made them what they are.

What do they think will happen to their incomes, and those of their companies if the AOCs of the world run amock on the economy?
Congrats, that sounds awesome. So when a bug affects prod, do you:

* Find the code that is affected

* Write a test

* Have it go through ci/cd

* Deploy to prod.

Or is there a different way of deploying a big priority bugfix to production than normal deploys?
1,500 Microservice at Monzo
Drowsy driving causes more deaths than drunk driving plus drugged driving combined. Ever driven on less than a solid 8 hours?

See _Why we Sleep_ by Matthew Walker.
Ask HN: Agtech has become a data play,how can farmers commoditize/monetize it?
Windows BlueKeep Attack That U.S. Government Warned About Is Happening
Left-wing views tend to be highly agreeable views and there's almost no discomfort or backlash in expressing them. IMO, it starts at the top with CEOS who do things like banning firearms sales after a mass shooting for huge PR gain, and propagates throughout the company.

Oh and if multiple execs call a meeting and were almost tearing up over an election loss (Google), I highly doubt i'd be comfortable even mentioning my political views, so the stats probably fail to mention people lying about their political views to avoid trouble.
> It's truly unfortunate that there aren't "boyly" and "womanly" adjectives

...there are? "Boyish" and "ladylike" (or, indeed, "womanly") are the words you're looking for.
The same goes with being tired. While the typical US DUI test does sound stupid, it at least has a chance of catching those who are tired.
Are they? Or are left-wing SV tech workers just disproportionally cited in the press?

I know plenty of SV tech workers I'd call Libertarian, and even a few Trumpists, though the latter tend not to make a big show of it.

Maybe that's because of my age. But I think among the younger workers there's a much higher percentage of immigrants and I really doubt the "SV lefties" narrative holds for a majority of them (because they tend to come from pretty conservative societies and sought out the US for economic benefit).

I could, of course, be wrong in my hunches. In which case I'd love to see some sources.
As a left-leaning tech worker, I don't have a more satisfying answer for you than that I think the left-wing position is correct (realistic, just, etc.)

Part of why it's surprising, I suppose, is the presumption that those making lots of money would tend to be libertarian, since libertarian principles (lower taxes, lower regulation, etc.) would yield higher profits. But I believe tech workers (myself included) make too much money. I don't work harder than, say, the in-house chef at my employer, the construction worker building our new buildings, the folks digging new subway tunnels, etc. I'm self-serving (i.e., a rational agent) in that I'll take the highest-paying job available to me, but I don't have it in me to be self-serving to the extent of saying, this state of affairs is good and we should support it long-term. It often feels like the only reason I need this much money is to keep up with people making even more money than me driving inflation in housing etc. prices, and I have no inherent interest in playing that game. (To be clear, there are reasonable arguments that I should be making as much money as I do, that my contribution to society is greater, etc. I don't think someone who holds such beliefs is a bad person - I'm just reporting on my beliefs and those of many of my peers.)

I also see that making more money is how you get leverage to influence society, so I optimize for putting money into my hands - which is unrelated to whether the direction I want to take society ends up with more money in my hands.

I also suspect a lot of tech workers, by being at profitable and highly-automated business, are more likely to believe in the feasibility of a highly-automated society that puts money in everyone's hands regardless of how hard they work (think Star Trek, or the "fully automated luxury space capitalism" meme, or whatever). We see huge profits coming from collectives without an individual profit motive (aka "the engineering department") and not as much from rugged individualism, so we're more skeptical of the necessity of right-wing market-based solutions to improve society.
Brave browser tries this right?
Would love to know more about how you roll forward in that case. Or do you canary so thoroughly that bugs never get to prod?
People have endless elaborate theories about the complicated reasons why passenger trains can't/don't work in the US, and they all seem to assume the US just can't do rail.

But, you know, there are some passenger trains, and if you ride them and pay attention, you will see the big problem - the US has lots of rail and it's used for freight, which takes precedence.

So, maybe people should step back and ask whether this is actually a logical way for the country to be run, economically and environmentally.
Since you haven't disagreed with anything that's been said, but only criticised how they were presented (in multiple ways)... couldn't you just do the work yourself to frame this argument in a way that satisfies you?
Push different code to production, either the last-known-good commit, or new code with the issue fixed.

I imagine that much larger operations likely do feature flags or a rolling release so that problems can be isolated to a small subset of production before going wide. But still the same principle, redeploy with different code.
A test can test for those: "does the code give mathematically correct results?"
I find it weird that she picks and chooses. Limits the execs but takes money from the low level employees.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/elizabeth-warren-limits-donatio...
Cult of One
How do you deal with DB migrations?
I imagine if they registered as a Democrat then we know they are a Democrat and most likely who they voted for in the general election.

We also know their address and email
>I looked at Lenovo workstations recently and their offering is 90% Intel.

This will only change if people choose what to get from the remaining 10%

I did my part, getting a x395 recently, which worked out quite well.
>This is not about responsibility or morale, but just about the pure economics of life.

Well, the "pure economics of life" for humans include that for human life to be sustainable, we should tend to the young (for a culturally adjusted 18 years or so), and that we should tend to the older (65+) too.

Being framed as a "ponzi scheme" targeting the young at the point they enter the workplace, hides that fact that a lots of money and parental energy (and even more time unaccounted for as money) were given to said young before that point...

It's not exactly a "ponzi scheme" if Ponzi and his money, time, and effort is the only reason you're alive and working now...