skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> All of the author’s core questions can be answered just as well for coins and notes as they can for bitcoin— Every greenback has a unique serial number, after all.

Most money (specifically, most US dollars) are not in the form of coins or notes. See:
https://www.quora.com/How-many-dollars-are-there

~1.4 Trillion USD in notes
~60 Trillion USD total

coins are certainly less than notes, but I'm not sure how much less, so let's guesstimate no more than 0.5 Trillion, and that's a stretch. So, about 97% of money is not in notes and coins.
I just would like this typo fixed
Is the point of a regulatory agency to decide for hundreds of millions of people what their acceptable level of risk? What if thousands of people die from not having access to medications that a regulatory agency deems too risky?
I deleted my social media accounts (save Hacker News) a few years ago. I’m so happy without them, I’d probably have to be paid to join a new one. Been there. Done that.
I think the key difference is, you aren't trying to paint those who disagree with you or even refuse participation in such discussions as members of some axis of evil. Unfortunately, it is only possible if the overall culture of your company is conductive to that, as opposed to the monoculture of "if you aren't as enthusiastic about this topic as me, then you are the enemy".
I strongly suspect that Google can't hear the question over the sound of their stock reaching record highs, but it's an interesting question.
Point taken. Ultimately, being an employee means being willing to accept things you disagree with. Until you can't.

I can see people taking this personally. Tough spot all around, perhaps.

And we all act like children, some of us never stop :)
Yeah, absolutely! Poor little white straight men, nowadays you cannot find any of them working in Google. What a pity!
You can be creative and still act like a professional in a professional environment.

One example is advertising agencies, which in the last century (in spite of what you see on popular television) were very button-up places but created cultural touchstones we still know today.

(Edited to clarity I'm referencing ad agencies in the 20th century, not the SV-wannabe agencies a few have evolved into today.)
To be honest, I've never received a damaged book or CD from Amazon in those padded envelopes. I really prefer them over the boxes, because they seem less wasteful.
Coinbase is big, but not the best exchange.
Why are you assuming ignorance? In the parent's examples, the kids knew lots of things. Additionally, it is our current state of education that's led to such a large portion of the population being unable to do basic math and the like, which is the definition of ignorance. No one is suggesting less education, just different education.
It hadn't really been practical for years to have an "all hands" with a 100,000 person company.

Time constraints alone had already put pressure on the whole concept. Humans don't scale that way.
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It makes sense, if I was CEO and only 20% of employees were attending, and whatever I said at the meeting got leaked, I'd cancel them too. And I think most people would. Also, I think a lot of people just want to go to work and work, they don't care about politics or even business strategy.
How much value is even added by the autocompletion of queries?
How about teach them to crave slow data insight then?
Well, the comment you responds to says that Jimmy did not make Wikipedia, but just paid for its development.

If true, his credit taking is plagiarism.

This sort of thing is rampant in several "open" source communities as well.
When you sign up to manage a company that's been on the Fortune 500 for over a decade, I imagine you're being paid to tolerate and manage some amount of annoyance.
There's a quote I thought of when you said this. It's from a very old Wired article (back when Negroponte was a part of it) titled "The Millennium Clock" by Danny Hillis:

"I think of the oak beams in the ceiling of College Hall at New College, Oxford. Last century, when the beams needed replacing, carpenters used oak trees that had been planted in 1386 when the dining hall was first built. The 14th-century builder had planted the trees in anticipation of the time, hundreds of years in the future, when the beams would need replacing. Did the carpenters plant new trees to replace the beams again a few hundred years from now?"

I sincerely hope we do launch more deep space probes in the near future, for our collective far future selves.
Presumably this doesn't extend to renters that just had their leases run out as opposed to evictions. Otherwise wouldn't you just not renew leases and merge apartments no matter what?
Try again; Sourcehut just updated their pull/push logic to make it significantly faster.
At least eBay will make you whole if you have a problem. Amazon won't, in my experience.
Business is good. Getting more and more crowded. We help companies that focus their sales team on brick & mortar accounts.

They can go from 0-to-60 with AMZ platform experience across purchase orders, merchandising, advertising, invoicing, etc.

Still tons of opportunity in strategy and digitizing catalogs for all manufacturers & importers in the country/world.
Thousands of people are driving on licenses they do not know are expired. Throwing them in jail is one-hundred percent absurd.
The only time Amazon has done that, the buyers were refunded (and that's not just Bezos being polite, that's a meaningful legal obligation if it's a purchase).
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tom7 videos are pure gold. I particularly liked his chess video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpXy041BIlA
How is an advertisement full of buzzwords about diversity at all activism? It's corporatespeak for 'look at how good of people we are'. It's a literal nothing in today's world.
Yes, I think the IBM-ification of Google was telegraphed a decade ago. Sure, there's kombucha on tap, you don't have to wear a blue suit with black shoes, and you're not forced to use Lotus Notes; but the differences are constantly declining.

If I were Google, I would also be alarmed by the "Google vs Bing" meme format. It's a silly meme, but it's pointing out that consumers are realizing that Google's filtering and groupthink shape results. If you want the approved marketer-friendly result, you use Google. If you want the truth you use Bing.
Why is every single property of type string - to see what to put there I have to reference a comment in code? I shouldn't have to read comments to see what the magic string is for the f1-micro tier, or the hard disk type or the region. CDK has actual Enums for all of these things that work to make life easier. You're not making it any easier to code up a DatabaseInstance - its simply a bucket of keys and values where I'm looking up what those values should be.
There's Acuvue and there's everything else. I tried probably half a dozen brands over the years recommended as good by opticians - supposedly premium brands priced accordingly, and Acuvue are dramatically better than all of them.

If there's anyone else who have got close in terms of comfort, quality of vision etc, it's a well kept secret.
Can you provide some examples? Need to push for changes like this myself.
This is so broad. What are your interests? Easy enough to rattle some ideas with a bit of help.
Does yelp use a monorepo?
In my experience the majority have 27 inches monitors.

I have 3 of those at my desk, 2 vertical and one horizontal. it's a popular system from what I can see.
>Didn't WhatsApp used to be $1 a year before Facebook bought them and it was a very successful pricing model?

I was hounded and paid £0.69 to renew the 'subscription' ─ which was subsequently offered for free to everyone, shortly thereafter. I felt betrayed, but I would happily pay the same amount today (or slightly more), if only to preserve some shred of privacy.
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Perhaps your neighbor could tell the stories of every person who didn't do that as a counterpoint? It's the only way to be fair.
Trump became president in 2016 and that's when the "anyone who disagrees with me is a sexist/racist/homophobe..." etc became the default political modus operandi of many west coast liberal activist types
The price is not $12.99/month, it's free. The $12.99/month are for those that want to support the service financially, it's donationware similar to wikipedia. Jimmy Wales said the idea is that a small minority will pay for the service for everyone.
Since Walmart is on my list of companies that I will never do business with, this would make me absolutely enraged. But then, I'm thinking that Amazon should be added to my "no business" list as well, so this may be a moot point.
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Was it a product review or seller review?
This is actually best practice from a Maker vs Manager perspective.

http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html

Managers should group all dev meetings into one meeting day so that your devs can actually get their work done the rest of the week without interruptions. You can book all your manager to manager meetings on other days because as a manager the interruptions won't break your cadence.
> Most people that attend IMO are prodigies

Can we all agree to never use that word? Actual prodigies are measure zero in the general population. Terry Tao is a prodigy. The rest of us are just normal schmucks.

Prodigy suggests that talent comes naturally to and is dismissive of the massive amount of work that goes into preparing for something like the IMO.
Oh interesting, I hadn't seen that. It looks like it uses the same idea of shuffle-lookups on the first three nibbles. That's a fairly large patch though, I don't think I've fully grokked it. At the very least, my code differs from that in that mine does less byte stream shifting, instead doing shifts in the scalar domain. Their code also needs to deal with quotes, escaping, etc. due to being part of a JSON validator.
When I first joined Google, I loved this meeting. This was 2010. You got some pretty candid responses and presentations from the executives. Fast forward 2-3 years and it had largely turned into a dry run of a public announcement later that day. All very choreographed, no real answers to anything. So probably around 2013 I stopped even paying attention to it.

What I find most interesting is the change that happened in this country, including Google, with Trump being elected. Google had enough closet Trump acolytes and sympathizers who were removed from reality like only a Trump supporter can be (it seems).

You can disagree with policies like immigration, tax breaks for the GOP donor class and so on without thinking that supporter is delusional.

But what changed is that those same Trump supporters suddenly thought reprehensible behaviour was suddenly justifiable, even required. Examples:

- Leaking videos of TGIF because you think the company oppresses your political views (just leave!)

- Worse, you leak personal details of employees who speak up against issues you believe in so they essentially get targeted by alt-right zealots.

In no world can I fathom me taking my personal political disagreement to the point of doxxing someone. How anyone can think this is justifiable is utterly beyond me.

You see this in the US government too. Like we now have too many leaders who are prepared to burn institutions to the ground to further political goals. Look at Mitch McConnell's stonewalling of the Obama administration (more cloture motions than any previous Senate by a huge margin), choosing not to hold hearings on nominees, stuffing the judiciary with underqualified minions and so on. Look at the Justice Department, which is now defending the White House despite any evidence to the contrary.

How can anyone think this is OK? Whatever norms are established by the GOP now will absolutely be used against them in the future (eg a simple majority on Supreme Court nominees). Do these people not realize how dangerous it is to destroy institutions meant to protect all of us?

But that's the Trump era we live in. I've met more than one Trump adherent who simply will not or cannot see fault in anything Trump does. And I'll tell you, that scares the bejesus out of me.

I fully agree with Google employees protesting things like helping the US DoD better identify kill targets (identifying what not to kill is the same as identifying what to kill) and supporting the oppression of a billion people by pandering to Chinese censorship. Gone are the days when Sergey was essentially responsible for pulling Google out of China.

But what Google really needs at this point is a purge of people who are prepared to dox their fellow employees. Those people are utterly destructive to the company and need to be excised.

So anyway I'm not surprised at TGIF being scaled back. It's been on the cards for years and, at this point, it's honestly not much of a loss.

Whatever Google's problems are however I don't think Sundar is the leader they need.
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Two items in this order are now something totally different: https://i.imgur.com/EoJDqT0.png

USB C 3.0 cable is now: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0119EIHTG/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

Other USB C cable is now: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0119OI9XU/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

What's interesting is that both were originally sold by Anker's merchant account (relatively respectable brand), but now each listing is linking to a different merchant...
I switched from Acuvue to CIBA vision (now Alcon) Air Optix about a decade ago. I completely forget that I’m wearing them. They are monthly contacts that are approved for multi-day wear. I usually take them out every night, but if I’m on a trip I might keep them in 3-4 days. They have been fantastic. I did have to get a slightly wider diameter to prevent halos at night.

Of course, they were just a recommendation by the optometrist, I wore a pair of trials and they were good enough that I stuck with it.
Assuming a uniform random distribution:

P(A) = 0.25
P(B) = 0.25
P(C) = 0.25
P(D) = 0.25

The possible correct response sets, if multiple correct answers are possible:

P({A,D}) + P({B}) + P({C}) = 1

We do know that the answer is only correct if the selected answer is in the set of correct responses:

P(x) = P(A & {A,D}) + P(B & {B}) + P(C & {C}) + P(D & {A,D})
P(x|{A,D}) = 0.25
P(x|{B}) = 0.5
P(x|{C}) = 0.6

We can probably assume the response selection and establishing the set of correct responses are independent events, as they are being done by different people, and the person going second has no prior knowledge of the results from the first.

P(x) = (P(A)+P(D)) * P({A,D}) + P(B) * P({B}) + P(C) * P({C})
P(x) = 0.5 * P({A,D}) + 0.25 * P({B}) + 0.25 * P({C})

Unraveling:

P(x) = 0.25 * P({A,D}) + 0.5 * P({B}) + 0.6 * P({C})
P(x) = P({A,D})/4 + 1/4
P({B}) = 7/2 - 6 * P({A,D})
P({C}) = 5 * P({A,D}) - 5/2
1/2 <= P({A,D}) <= 7/12
0 <= P({B}) <= 1/2
0 <= P({C}) <= 5/12
3/8 <= P(x) <= 19/48

That range doesn't overlap with the possible responses. So there's an incorrect assumption in there somewhere. Maybe the one about the question being fair. Backing up:

P({A}) + P({B}) + P({C}) + P({D}) = 1
P(x) = P(A & {A}) + P(B & {B}) + P(C & {C}) + P(D & {D})
P(x|{A}) = 0.25
P(x|{B}) = 0.5
P(x|{C}) = 0.6
P(x|{D}) = 0.25
P(x) = P(A) * P({A}) + P(B) * P({B}) + P(C) * P({C}) + P(D) * P({D})
P(x) = 0.25 * P({A}) + 0.25 * P({B}) + 0.25 * P({C}) + 0.25 * P({D})
P(x) = 0.25 * P({A}) + 0.5 * P({B}) + 0.6 * P({C}) + 0.25 * P({D})
P(x) = 0.25
0 <= P({A}) <= 1
0 <= P({D}) <= 1
P({A}) = 1 - P({D})

So the correct answer is 0.25, and the correct multiple choice response is one of either A or D. One's best response is based on knowledge of the psychology of the test-writer. It is not random. The person writing the question consciously chose one or the other, intentionally violating an assumption of the test-taker--that knowing the correct answer to a question would translate to being able to unambiguously select the correct multiple-choice response.
Not really much different, but Imgur doesn't dominate Google Image results. Why does Google make the exception for Pinterest?
Sorry I thought I was replying to the poster of the comment I replied to. How is the connection "pretty clear"?
They must have. They have actively invite politics into their companies, and make a playground for them.
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Thanks for the recommendation. My laptop only has enough space for one drive, and I assumed that SSDs wouldn't have enough space for my needs. Glad to see that's not true at all, in fact, I can upgrade the space considerably. I'll go this route even if it doesn't fix Firefox.
Excellent parenting. Kids need to be kids; no matter how intelligent :)
He's referring to individuals.

There have certainly been consequences for some of them.
I was considering LASIK but why risk it? Glasses aren't so bad and I could always get contacts if I really wanted. Even without my glasses I can see okay, not great but okay.
Sophisticated technology.
I don't really use or like FB, but from what I have seen: stable and fast DB, intuitive, clean UI, lots of features.
No hazzle to join.

But biggest is network effect.
A communications channel controlled by the workers and not the managerial structure? This is a truly tragic development.
In a rent-regulated context, the landlord declining to renew when the lease is up is treated the same as an eviction at any other time.
Get Acuvue Dailies. I suggested them to multiple people and everyone seems to be happy
Well how else are you supposed to nest your preprocessor macros? :P

Thanks though! I like taking the time to make my code as clean as I can. Glad others appreciate it!
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2nd best way, still has touch bar.
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Really?? There are actual communists and anarchists winning elections in the US west coast these days (e.g. Sawant, a Marxist and Chesa Boudin, an anarchist who worked for Hugo Chavez).
>The courses which are typically boring for advanced kids are calculus, linear algebra, differential equations, probability, statistics, combinatorics. Most of an undergrad math degree usually falls into this bucket but it really varies by university.

That's just not true. That's the freshman/sophomore curriculum. And there are big differences between the diff eq, stats & linear algebra course which are which are 'proof' vs. those which are 'practical'.
A better question would be how much value is removed from the autocomplete suggesting inadequate searches.
>organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful

Not inspired by that? Is it too abstract? Asked another way, what kind of mission would inspire you? FYI I do agree with the general sentiment by munchbunny.
...and they hired someone who worked on Family Separation:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/miles-taylor-fa...

Wouldn't that kind of negate your point?
Well yes, one provides an actually valuable service while the other is a form of entertainment
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So transparent competence > opaque incompetence > transparent incompetence.
Imagine saying this with a straight face when “Google and most SV companies” became literally the largest donors of neoliberal lobbying in the US during the last 10 years (also, Europe).

Your worldview skews very right if you say that. While I respect you and your opinion, the framing of Google being ‘far-left’ is absolutely out of touch with reality. Sure, Google management tries to have a position in the US culture war but in the end they still work heavily with law enforcement and military and work strongly to suppress worker’s rights.
My luck must be better than. I’ve had no issues with the L2700 series.
This isn't nearly as broad a precedent as the title sounds.

They used some pretty reasonable tests of copyright infringement to conclude that no such infringement occured.
How on Earth do you figure? They're all big corporations owned by capitalists. How could they even come close to far-left?

They only seem far-left if you're a reactionary drowning in "Ben Shapiro pwns the libz with LOGIC" videos on YouTube.
'I do have to oil it weekly, but it is attractive and very nice for the price.'

lmaoooooo and all the photos are for cutting boards or some strange hanging thing I can't describe.
I'm not sure if it's just the headline, but this seems like solving the wrong problem. Universal platforms fail at moderation. Moderation doesn't work unless the moderators are part of the community. Reddit and Mastodon are the ones to follow here (as well as Hacker News, or lobste.rs, or tildes.net, or a zillion specialized forums).
Advertising agencies are lot smaller than 100K employees. Also if there are very big agencies they are distributed and individual country/city offices are responsible for clients. Beyond corporate functions there are no business "best practices" to be enforced by headquarters.
This works great when you are developing the polio vaccine. But in the wrong hands this is just an illegitimate tool of power. Plenty of people joined companies like Facebook because they were made to believe that they were truly changing the world for the better... the ability to fool people like that is just corporate demagoguery.
Social network posts aren't a collection of verifiable facts. The idea of someone being able to edit my post about my family vacation strikes me as more than a little bizarre.
> So my goal is mostly to be able to work on an interesting project that I chose while being "relatively free" in how I work, and maybe if I'm lucky reach "financial freedom" in a few years, but I don't think that aiming to build a unicorn would be an optimal choice.

Please do NOT raise money if these are your goals. Investors will not bring you freedom. In fact, they will bring the opposite. Check out Startups for the Rest of Us [0] and Indie Hackers [1]. You will find dozens of founders and companies that have created freedom through profitable internet businesses without investors.

[0] https://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/
[1] https://www.indiehackers.com/
The keyword there is "between".

Google is a trillion dollar company and donates to lots of political causes all over the spectrum. We're talking about the internal politics which are clearly left-wing.
Depending on where you find the data, a lot of Americans live paycheck to paycheck [1]. An extra $240 a year will certainly help a lot of people out there, not just in America. That's why free services like Google and Facebook continue to win out. I really like what some companies in the gaming sector have achieved where the richer subsidize the poorer via buying hats and other cosmetics to keep the game free or lower priced.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/24/most-americans-live-paycheck...
I think the issue highlighted by this article is that the risks have not been accurately communicated. It's not really been advertised as HAVING side effects, and the doctors most willing to fight for your money are probably the least likely to tell you about them.

If commercials for LASIK were like drug commercials ("... side effects include vomiting, migraines, and death..."), we'd likely have a more informed populace.
Apple tends to frown on applications that do the same or similar things to Apple's own apps. This used to be explicitly disallowed in App Store rules, though now only certain things aren't allowed like third-party App stores or third-party web browsers.
Google is currently fighting unionization efforts. That's not leftist.
I am sorry that you don't like their content, but for what, 95 years Disney has produced decade after decade films that are popular, profitable and proven to be rewatched (and re-paid) decade after decade - films that were made 80 years ago are still bringing in millions - that's what you want for a steaming service.
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