skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would bet an EBS IOP is the same as a Linux block device IOP which you can monitor with iostat.
Tangentially: I don't understand why they have storage costs so high for DDB still (hasn't changed since 2013) when Aurora's charging $0.10 GB-month (with 6 way redundancy at that, vs DDB's 3x)...
I cannot tell if you are being serious or you are brainwashed.

My understanding of Google's history is their algorithms started as providing answers that the world already knew but could not find easily.

Over time they had to handle multiple lawsuits, harassments by entrenched groups that were upended by opening up of knowledge.

These adjustments / reactions made the algorithm look biased.

This disputed quote by Cardinal Richelieu comes to mind when I think of people claiming Google is a bad actor.

"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him"
Yes, just so. Criticizing McKinsey-type outfits for being amoral misses the point. For them, amorality is the product.
I wonder if you could add a CSS rule to set the background colour of images to white?
Google has matured into a regular big corporation. By that standard they are doing well with revenues and earnings growing.
Among the other things their terms say something in tune of:

If you hurt us in any way you are liable for damages

If we hurt you: f.. off, tough luck
I've always said women are too smart to become programmers. I'm pretty sure it is better for the soul to have a job with more people interactions. (Yeah I know there are meetings and you have to communicate with clients - still, you end up staring into a glowing screen most of the time. The general work environment often isn't great either. Why would Software Engineers need a nice environment, they only stare at their computers anyway, seems to be the general thinking).
Yeah it's weird.

This sort of ultra high IBU IPA remains really popular and all over the shelf when I go to Seattle or Portland.

This style of beer used to be popular in Vancouver, BC a few years ago too, but at this point the local craft brew scene has largely moved on from bitter west coast style hoppy IPAs, to the point now that when someone makes one its a bit of a novelty.
Google's market cap has approximately doubled while Sundar has been the CEO. That's the simplest reason.

Personally I think a lot of their products have gotten better recently, like the experience of using voice-controlled Google Maps in my car, and Google Cloud is superior to AWS in many ways, but the company really offers so many different product lines that it's hard for personal experience to be a great representation.
> whether you like the emojis or not, they've certainly helped to drive unicode adoption.

Especially since many of them are outside the BMP, so adoption forced people to go beyond UCS-2.
We hate to do this, but payment providers have clear terms around hosting adult content. I sincerely hope this will change one day.
I think they made every effort possible to cut this at the root, and even retaliate.

the fact that 4 out of 7 of the organizers of the walkout left the company[1], some with more than 10 years working for Google, is rather telling.

I don't think your comment holds water.

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/most-google-walkout-organizers-l...
Honestly, I'm with you on this one. Sundar seems like a good maintainer of the status quo and that's probably wise since the business keeps growing (growing revenue, growing market cap and growing free cash flow), but Google's evolution on cloud infrastructure/services and hardware are honestly kind of lame.

I mentioned those two because they seem to be their big bets now.

When compared to Satya who is thriving with Microsoft, Sundar looks mediocre at best.
I don't mean that in a bad way. Perhaps Google doesn't need to have those tectonic changes to produce value. In that case, Sundar's reserved and low-key profile makes more sense, but don't expect a high profile, exuberant and innovation-driven leadership. I think it's clear he is not that type of leader.
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Yocto steep learning curve is a fact.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD4M5FoHz-TxMfBFrDKfI... is an attempt to help.

Disclaimer: I have not watched them yet.
Yeah, I highly doubt either CEO wrote this. Its target audience is investors: "Everything is fine, buy more stock."
Works fine for me, and this is not the place for checking or alerting that some service is down.
Because you would sacrifice your kid's wellbeing just to make some arbitrary, meaningless statistic look good.

And do you think women having to work with computers all day would end up being less grumpy than men who have to do it? Why?
Alphabet. Alpha bet. Ohh!
> I think Wikileaks is a good model. Get raw information out there. We don't need filters and narrative in the way of figuring out what's going on.

I don't see how anyone can conflate Wikileaks with "raw information", given their history of timing info dumps to inflict maximum damage in political campaigns.
Also my hometown of Corvallis: 2 Towns Ciderhouse

To be clear Belmont Station has both a bar (biercafé in hipster speak) and a store. The store has a really great selection of both beer and cider. My favorite is Reverand Nat's sour cherry — self-described as more of a lambic beer than a cider.

Their selection of California stuff isn't quite up to snuff but they carry 2 Towns as well — a friend had explain that reference to me.
That Sundar's quote is weird and it does a similar population sleight of hand. The "group of our colleagues" is already a subset of population selected for relevant skill (by virtue of having been hired by Google), so it's out of scope of Damore's memo.
While I agree with the sentiment, keep in mind it's a little more complicated than that. People who work on some category of regulations can only find relevant work in the government or in that sector of industry. Making it impossible to move from the government to an industry job effectively traps people for life in their one job unless they change careers.

As a concrete example, my fiance is a lawyer working in environmental policy. She's worked for the EPA and for various environmental justice groups because she went with whatever jobs were available in her field, and that wouldn't be possible with your proposed change.
Flux v0.10.0
> Every news source will be biased

Can I just rant for a moment here about how sick and tired I am of news outlets being expected to be completely without bias? Bias is human. As long as people are writing the news, it's going to be fucking biased. In days of Yore, in the golden age of television and written news, the people presenting said news almost always had biases, but despite that, they presented all the facts of a given story, and then usually would editorialize a little towards the end of whatever piece.

I have ZERO issue with this, and in fact, would strongly prefer it to the current norm in most (at least US) news outlets, where they bend over backwards to present both sides of any given story as having legitimate points in the name of "balanced" coverage. Fuck that. In plenty of scenarios, yes, there are points to both sides. In certain scenarios, one side is just wrong. WRONG. Outright, completely, and irrefutably incorrect. And I get so tired of watching news anchors entertaining these nitwits as though they're to be taken seriously. They are not. They are worthy of derision, mockery, and laughter.

And I don't think I'm alone, either. The surge forward of support for various comedians who do news-esque broadcasts I think is a strong indicator people do not want and are sick to death of news presenters pandering to this both sides shit. Again, in those situations where it's merited, where you have two or more groups all with legitimate points to be made and nuance to be communicated, absolutely. Get that out there. We have a lot of issues especially socially where that applies. There are other ones, however, where it's bluntly obvious to those reading it that one side is actual people with an actual thing to say, and the other side is one of a few or possibly more than one things: Corporate astroturfing, political think tanks, lobbyists, or random assholes on twitter. These things are not equal and presenting them as equal is harmful for everyone who consumes that piece of news.

Rant over.
What are some Larry and Sergey pet project? Genuinely curious.
This meme has to die. It's time.
Board members are almost never paid at nonprofits. Usually they are donors themselves, in fact many nonprofits require they be donors.
My personal favorite has been the enthusiasm of which it has been pointed out by certain elements of the millenial crowd how your employer has a legal right to fire you for social media musings, your political activities, etc. The presumption being that such retaliation will be in the interests of social justice. Rather than the interest of say maintaining a companies business interests in China or to quash organizers.

There is a lot of naivety.
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I dont think this is pedantic and my point is exactly as you describe! There is no such thing as "unbiased" and people who are in search of that are living in a dream world.
But if we don't connect our TVs to the internet, how can we stream Netflix, YouTube, and Amazon video?
You posted that someone needed to demonstrate "structural discontent" via a news story involving at least 1K employees. They linked to one involving 20K. And your response to that is: "This proves that discontent is diminishing?"

You set the challenge, they exceeded it 20x, and you've not made a believable case that this shows "content is diminishing." In fact exceeding your original demands by 20x seems to thoroughly show that the basis for the claim is true.
I like the idea of the "don't be evil" rule, but it always seemed overly naive / simplistic to me.

Even without factoring in self-justifying rationalizations, people can have significantly different ideas of what counts as evil.
While I always appreciate such initiatives, it look like they are going too slow. In a few years time...There will be dozens more doing the same.
To me, an aspiring scholar, LibGen is the most amazing tool ever. Things like inter-library loan and access to databases on university networks already make life so much easier to what it used to be—but nothing beats LibGen in terms of convenience. I’m in a the nowadays obscure field of patristic theology and I can’t believe how much stuff I can find on LibGen, often things that even highly specialized research libraries like Harvard don’t have.

The hours that LibGen saved me in gathering all the sources for my research must be in the hundreds. Thank you!
> It's not false - strictfp mandates deterministic FP. If you use that your program will always run all floating point calculations in exactly the same way, full stop.

If you use it. Which is not the default. Your original claim remains false.
They've maintained a strong market performance
But it seems to collectively place the blame on all men, rather than the minority who are interested in dick-measuring contests.

And not only is this unfair, it’s silly. Brewing has always been an almost exclusively male hobby, the rise of the hop nerd is nothing to do with sex at all, contrary to what the word might imply.
If we're going purely by etymology, what does a suitcase have to do with electricity?
There's no financial incentive to do fact checking and there is enormous political pressure not to. Ironically, from parties that will thoroughly censor Facebook when they can.

But more interesting, given much of the thread has somehow become an anti-press tirade, is how easy it has been for the new style autocrats to reuse the cry "Lügenpress!" just by translating it.

And while it is becoming increasingly unfashionable to say so; there is such a thing as truth, it is knowable and, there are conscientious people who follow facts wherever they lead and report them.
For stack allocation might as well just make a fixed sized char array then. sds by its design seems meant for heap strings (d in the name means dynamic).
You have to opt in to the early batches and don't they post photos showing how ugly it is? It seems like customers are informed about what they're getting.
I really hope this is the way content creation funding goes in the future.
Clay is the plastic of the ancient world.

Let's say the probability that: a single copy of a physical book survives 1,000 years, is found and is understood by an archaeologist, is pB and the probability that a single copy of a book on an SSD survives 1,000 years is found and understood by an archaeologist is pD. Even if pB is far larger than pD it could be the case that there might be so many more copies of single book held on SSDs thus making it more likely the book will survive via an SSD than a physical book. On the other hand the technology to recover data from SSDs might not exist in 1,000 years.

It could also be the case that each generation would copy these books onto new digital media providing an unbroken chain of copies. The oldest copy of the Iliad is Venetus.A which is from 1000AD (1000 years ago) despite the Iliad probably first being written down in 800BC (2800 years ago). It was copied from earlier copies of copies of copies.

I really don't know how this will play out and I've been unable to find research on how long SSD and flash memory based media survives especially if buried in a landfill.

* - If archaeologists exist in the future. The current push from the STEM boosters to defund and de-emphasize the humanities may result in a near-future without archaeologists or funded archaeological projects. Over 1,000 years the entire field could die.
I think they will regret it. Google was once a real special company. Their IPO filling, their stance on China, those were principled, courageous stands that came straight from Larry and Sergey. To see their beautiful baby turn into another mega-corp, as hypocritical as any, colonized by activists and careerists bent on distorting the social fabric to advance ideologies and profits? Contemplating that turn of events when you had the power to stop it but chose not to? That has to suck, even when you are doing the contemplation from your yacht.
Although his family was part of the Swedish speaking minority.
Thank you for the information. I didn't know it was added on.
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When the entire culture of a multibillion dollar megacorporation has become one big meme, there's not much that can be done
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https://abc.xyz/investor/news/releases/2019/1203/

Slightly more organized info in the intro bullets.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the CEO and President, respectively, of Alphabet, have decided to leave these roles. They will continue their involvement as co-founders, shareholders and members of Alphabet’s Board of Directors.
Thank you - it did feel a little silly to type, but I didn't care to search online, nor to get up.

Laziness subsided, my Collins (complete, 2016) - which is a rather accepting dictionary of new-fangled words or usages - has only two definitions, both involving death. (1. to kill as a result of electric shock; 2. (US) to execute in an electric chair).
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You're reading far too much into what im saying. I'm not calling google a bad actor (though certainly I think they can be for reasons that have little to do with the search algorithm.) I'm saying that there is bias encoded here and, further as i thought was clear, im not saying this is a bad thing.
>No, it's ok, we've had enough of your filth

1. Who is "we"?

2. What my filth?

3. Game of Thrones, until the unfortunate last season, has been one of the most successful ever, and it was notorious for "adult" content (read: sex and violence). It is mainstream.

So please get off the high horse, there is clearly enough demand and acceptance of "adult" content in mainstream culture.

Individual artists would benefit from the ability to get paid in the case they don't luck out and get HBO to back them, though.
Well it isn't everyday you hear the original CEOs of FAANG companies stepping down these days.

First you heard Gates, then Jobs (Twice) and now Page and Brin. We'll see if whether if Pichai can continue this now that he has been crowned King of Alphabet and Google.
What you want to do rapidly evaporates when you're faced with the question of what you have to do. Engineering, medicine, and law are three real paths to success in India, so you will face heavy parental pressure to participate here, irrespective of gender. Success is being in your high-school engineering or medical stream. Escape from failure is being in the third stream but intending to participate in law. All else is failure.

Secondarily, Indian education admissions have a high co-efficient on standardized tests and a near zero co-efficient on 'well-roundedness'. Affirmative action is caste-based and implemented via quotas filled from the standardized-test scores.

Finally, lots of SWEs in India are drudge-work engineers. They may spend a few days changing the text on a ColdFusion page. For these jobs there is a bare selection mechanism that involves your university GPA-equivalent and whether you can speak English (usually). The large number of graduates will then spend their time 'on the bench' as spare burstable capacity to perform this sort of drudge-work maintenance. The lack of a selection mechanism removes a source of bias.

So some good things, some bad things. Some don't apply to Google India (like the last one, I think).

EDIT: Sorry, had to create a throwaway for this one, but I lived there (and observed this for many of my friends, though not for myself) and felt you deserved to have live info. I'll accept the full ban on my account for bypassing the rate-limit.
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Can't emphasize that enough. I read a book in 80's on safety critical design and that was the first rule. Safety has to be a primary design goal from the start or you are hosed.
GCS - not to be confused with Google Cloud Storage ;)
It's a matter of perspective taking.

If a "Never saw a line of code until I took this class" sits between two "Coding since 11" students, they're going to watch their neighbors effortlessly breeze through the curriculum. If they don't know those student's background, it's not unreasonable if they come to the (false) conclusion that they're not cut out to be a developer because it's just so much easier for "everyone else" (N=2).

If you "track" your intro classes, you can put the first-timers together and likewise keep the experienced students from falling asleep in class by tracking them into something more challenging
Most of Ohio is a 6 hour drive from Chicago and 8 hours from NYC. People call it the mid west, but really it's the mid east.
Sample size a couple dozen only, but IBU on the menu has also been helpful to non-IPA drinkers I know, so they can avoid things they don't enjoy. It's also trended locally (Ballard) towards golf - see Reuben's releasing a zero-ibu IPA.
Why are only few breweries that good ?

And is that something that can, with the right investment be scaled, and offered affordably ?

Or is it inherently expensive ?
I think the appropriate way to view this is not just as that this domain needs "SAT" (which enforces standardized algorithms as "the solution") so much as it describes an urgent need to popularize the concept of constraint satisfaction and optimization problems as a domain of coding that programmers actually deal with regularly and informally. Being able to sort, search and rank is the first step to having a backtracking solver, a technique that is very powerful and generalizable(albeit slow). But how many CS programs teach you to write solvers?

Our education methods could do a lot more to draw this technique into its applications. For example, in game programming, satisfaction tends to come up rather abruptly when talking about physics solvers; not because it's only needed then, but because the jargon was appropriated from academic simulation papers, and it comes as part of a sudden bomb of math concepts, making it look more intimidating than it is. Non-realistic physics are just called "collision code", handwaved away and not given a great deal of formal attention, even though they are performing the work of solvers too, just usually with a mix of linear programming and local search. As such, a lot of new game programmers get stuck on collision problems and concurrency bugs that result from poorly constrained solutions, because they don't have the conceptual tools surfaced to reason about it with confidence.

Likewise there are plenty of CRUD-style apps where a solver is a helpful building block for creating views and filters, but it's not approached as one, so you just get a buggy feature.
I had been wondering if the comcast boxes would be providing this as a side door. (hdmi from tv going to cable box, cable box has net access )

When I asked about data sharing with these dvr boxes and the new streaming stick option, only thing they could tell me is that 'virtually all video decoding and streaming devices are sharing data with multiple third parties'

I returned the dvr box, and have not chosen to use their new streaming stick.
When you say "hobbies" are you alluding to sex tourism and Casa De Epstein type stuff?
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I don't think that corporate presence on Facebook is really the problem. Facebook is designed to maximize user engagement. That doesn't conflate with truthfulness of content (user- or corporate-posted)—in fact, often times it's the opposite. Of course, this isn't new—yellow journalism was a big problem in the early 20th century. But Facebook's algorithm—and the ease of starting new media outlets—makes it orders of magnitude worse.
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It's a line-item hack, the way that Hollywood studios structure films to be separate sub-corporations with their own fixed budgets.

So if a film crew, say, accidentally blows up a small town somehow, there's a firewall between the assets that were dedicated to making that one film and the entirety of, for example, Sony Pictures net worth and capital.

I'm not sure that firewall is well-tested in American law, but it's a well-used approach and I've always assumed the Google / Alphabet arrangement was for similar reasons (so that worst-case scenario on any 'bet is always "Alphabet cuts bait and shuts it down, liquidates it, and debtors go after the assets of the 'bet" without risking the performance numbers of the Google cash cow directly).
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Why is that a safe assumption?

You're assuming that he wasn't, in fact, the best candidate that interviewed based on what?

Since they didn't seriously consider him they may have left behind the best candidate available to them. The original poster said "he's one of the most knowledgeable people I've been around."

Assuming that poster has a wide exposure to developers, its highly possible that the position didn't get a better applicant.