skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this a serious question? Just because you want to target something doesn't mean it is ok to do it. Geez, the arrogance. You want to do X, so the rest of us have to give up our privacy? Technical feasibility is not the same thing as ethical, courteous, or just plain being respectful of other people. The whole industry seems to have done some sort of massive mob rationalization of inappropriate behavior. It's not ok.

If I am on a tech site reading about disk drive failure rates, feed me an ad about an SSD sale. If I am reading about mountain climbing, show me ads about climbing equipment. Fine. But don't start following me around the web with adds about ascenders for the rest of the afternoon. Or travel insurance. Or ... It is none of your business what I browsed half an hour earlier.

Thank goodness at least one business (Apple) has enough customer focus left to try to address some of this nonsense. All the better that it helps them against some of their competitors. That just makes them more motivated. Bully for that. At least we are still the customers rather than the products with Apple.
I wonder if you could do the same thing with water ice for clear ice cubes.
There is speculation in this article and elsewhere that the timing of this forced change of leadership so soon after an anonymously sourced article revealing Korey’s abrasive management is evidence of a larger PR proxy war between governance and the CEO. I’d be curious to learn about whether this is a common conspiracy and if anyone has other such examples.
I don't know if my random insight is spot on or not, but that's what came to mind.

Most new property being built in SF proper is being used as secondary housing for rather wealthy folks. I'm sure some of it is also being soaked up in an attempt to expatriate money (kinda like what you see in Vancouver).

It's someone else's house in some sense but not likely what you're thinking.
The real grift is that despite the claims in that article, we all know what will really happen to the prices: standing seats will cost what economy seats used to, and every other tier bumps up.
If in fact this was coordinated to distract from the firing of a woman CEO to be replaced by a man, it worked masterfully and whoever executed it should get a raise.
Why not just move?
I always lean forward on the tray table. I find resting my head / getting it horizontal is far more important than anything for the rest of my body.

Is this just me? I get the sense that very little is optimized for this. The next person reclining their seat makes it harder to fit my head on the tray table, for example. Conflicting resting positions!
Last I read, planned high speed rail was from SF to LA through Fresno. Fresno is relatively affordable for the state.

For your plot to come to life they need to be creating high speed rail north from SF, not south. But if they do, I wouldn't actually be surprised by that as an outcome.
> "I hope that someone would consider this kind of opportunity -- this is something new. You do not have background for this, you cannot base judgment on previous experiences. We are exploring a new world."

The man says desperately trying to convince anyone that this is a good idea. Also he's talking about 'short-haul' flights then mentions 3 hours which is not exactly a short time to be stand-squat-sitting on a bike seat...
All the pictures are of women in the seats. Men often have broader shoulders and larger upper arms. If I sit next to another man, we sometimes make contact on the upper arms for most the flight. The wings seem to take up a couple inches themselves, so it could become too cramped horizontally to be comfortable.
You're confused. The topic was generational bias over country of origin, not reliability.
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You begin to identify how much a CEO is selling smoke.

The ratio is imho easiest to identify by keeping track of buzzwords (ie business lingo). The more vague (yet at the same time oddly specific) the lingo is, historically the more likely the CEO and company is pulling one over the investors eyes. The more straight forward and normal the lingo is the more likely they are to being honest, because they can't avoid the hard facts when being forward with their language.

When it comes to investing in companies this is one of the key things I look for. It can be used on multiple levels, however, some companies will spin buzzwords who are legitimate. The key is identifying the difference between empty buzzwords and meaningful business language.
Do you feel the same about people speaking a language you don't understand? It has the same problems of being a noise that you can't pay attention to because it doesn't make sense but you can't shut out because it's loud and filled with features.
Embedded Rust usage is growing all the time. The formatting problem is not a blocker; it's just a "papercut" per the article. C and C++ have their fair share of annoyances too.
Alright; a historical artifact that supports that (or any other claim) would be intrinsically valuable.
I'd go for a bunk-bed cabin myself. I wouldn't mind lying on my back all flight with limited headroom if I could read a book and my knees weren't being jammed by the seat in front of me.
Editing (as in, have an editorial, and remove content or submitters you don't want) and shadow-banning (which isn't entirely the same. Its social engineering)

Anonymity drives this too. But, some people need pseudonomous status to feel safe. Does this include making trolls feel safe?

What else is there other than pay-to-participate?

I have participated in NZ "nethui" where the different sides of editorial policy, and anonymity come up.

Why people troll is a good question. Some people are deeply unhappy and have arrived at a place where they feel good by making acts of depression happen in other people. "Why should you be happy if I cannot"

The hate-language and violence towards minorities, women, gays and trans is especially evil. We now have a world where its ok to write things, which in times past were clearly encitement to violence. This last paragraph will possibly attract attack on the specious grounds its anti-men. This is symptomatic of the problem.
I was 50-50 on the victim blaming comment to show up since this was HN and not reddit, lost that bet :)

As much as blaming is wrong, I do believe in personal responsibility as well. I do not agree with the broad brush that's being used widely around victim blaming being 100% bad. I think it is a spectrum and in this case it definitely tilts towards the buyer.

And no - pre-order from this site is not the same as PS4 pre order. There is a huge difference between a big company that has something to lose and will stand behind its product Vs a random company that goes bust after a facebook spend - that's what makes it a gamble.
Microsoft to finally shut down to-do list app Wunderlist on May 6, 2020
Ask HN: Why do engineers hate Jira?
High property tax
Ha! That's not the point at all.

People go to graduate school to learn new things and, specifically, to learn to discover new things. A PhD is essentially an apprenticeship for researchers. You spend very little time in the classroom, maybe a half dozen classes or so over as many years.

If you go for the title or for the money, you're going to be very disappointed, very quickly.
The implication here is that maybe the cofounder's 'next business' is the same business with a different back-end and that the market presence and customer base (which absolutely are assets of the current business) are being carried forward. If this is the case then the OP has a valid claim to any profits generated by those assets, or to being bought out.
If you are shutting down the company, I would make the effort to upload all the code to GitHub or GitLab with the agreement between you and your co-founder.

It would be a pity if that code goes lost
If you want to bring your brussels sprouts to the next level, add bacon and maple syrup.
Well, it was actually intentional. While a lot of us were backing up our groups as individuals (whether as owners or just members), and having no trouble there, the Archive Team was taking requests. So there was volume involved, and they have been in touch with Yahoo who refused to be supportive of the archive effort. So their target really was these guys specifically. Not just the ToS, but these guys in the context of an archive effort at a point of "ToS" (Termination of Service).
>In a the case of a hash table, the size of the thing you are hashing is not affected by the number of items present in the hash table.

But it is, and that's precisely the reason why hash tables are not O(1) but rather O(log(n)). By the pigeon hole principle, it is impossible to store N items in a hash table using a key whose representation is less than log(N) bits without a collision. This means that there is a relationship between the the size of the key being hashed and the number of elements being inserted in the hash map, specifically the relationship is an element of O(log(n)).
Sure, but they're perhaps the most unsatisfying foods of them all. They also have almost zero nutritional value and calories. A vegetarian Indian friend of mine lamented, "Americans think that a vegetarian meal means lettuce."
> If a waiter served a customer a half-eaten sandwich, I’d expect the manager to immediately berate him in front of the other staff in the kitchen — not take him aside and say “Hey, that isn’t cool.”

Gross.

Korey's own words, about teaching her direct reports "accountability" by asking them to work overtime, presumably unpaid, is gross.

Korey's own actions, by forcing all employees to talk publicly in Slack channels in "the interest of transparency", and then firing those who talk about problems at the company, is gross.

If this level of irresponsibility made its way to the board, PR disaster in stow, you sure imagine they'd try to get rid of her quick.
Yes, exactly true if you see it from that angle.

From your angle, I guess one other alternative to GraphQL and REST would be RPC. ;)
What I'd rather see is designs that make the middle seat more palatable.

There are more aircraft with 3 seats on each side now.

It's not perfect, but ideas that make the middle seat better via dedicated armrests, or offsetting it slightly back, would be welcome.

One supplier with some decent ideas: https://www.airlineseats.biz/for-passengers
More critique to add on to the article (attaching to the thread since I like to similar topics grouped together for discourse reasons):

One of the author's key points is that the economics of networks is the reason for poor discourse. Money & influence are identified as the drivers of bad behavior.

But this has only inspired the author to write the very hand-wavy outrage media piece that is in the exact same nature as the media that they are condemning. No real solutions, no real framing of the problem in a way that can be solved. In short, the article is created by the exact system the article complains about.

If you think that the economic incentives of discourse is broken, there's real "journalistic" work to do. Propose an economic model of "value creation". Show, through modeling, how easy it is for bad behavior to dominate with the given market conditions. Isolate and propose policies that would change behavior. Model out what should happen if those changes were to take place. And then call for a real world test to see if that really happens.
I don't know why this article complicates the situation. She apologized for incidents that occurred last year, Verge reported on those incidents and those incidents prompted the board to find her replacement:
https://twitter.com/stephkorey/status/1203051598961954816
> I'm fine with my property value dropping as more housing is built. None of my neighbors agree with me.

Property values typically increase as density goes up, see eg. SF or NYC (Manhattan) real estate.
This has to be the case. Think about it, why would the reading audience of the general public care about working conditions in such a random, relatively small company?

It’s a <500 employee company. The plight of tens of thousands of Amazon or Uber employees and contractors is much more relatable, more people are likely to know someone who has worked in those environments.

Some small startup company with a CEO with hubris isn’t exactly news.
Apologized after being exposed publicly, right?
> There is now a near-consensus – at least among those who are not completely steeped in social-media propaganda – that the current public sphere does not serve us well.

I mean, is there? There's near-consensus that the current public sphere has some significant problems. It doesn't follow that the old sphere was actually all that great, or that the Internet is a failed experiment. Are there really people who would seriously advocate that life was better before the Internet? Did none of these people grow up in a rural area?

While I'll be the first to pile on companies like Facebook and Twitter, and I'll be the first to say that I don't like the general direction the Internet is going right now, my goal isn't to regress back into isolated pockets where fewer people have voices. It's been an interesting experience recently to find myself regularly needing to defend an idea that I figured was self-evident -- that it's good for people to be able to communicate with each other.

> But as the Internet began to spread to each household and then to each smartphone, fears about the danger of an “eternal September” have been confirmed.

I'm relatively young, but I'm still old enough to remember some of the more toxic gatekeeping arguments I heard in Open Source/gaming/general "nerd" communities, and it's really weird and uncomfortable for me to hear people today so easily reference the same phrasing as if it was entirely prophetic, rather than deeply problematic.
I believe she’s awful just from a few of the slack messages. But I’d believe her cofounder is probably just as awful. That there was so much ammo lying around is the problem.
I believe you said Reagan's policies didn't benefit most people at the time of his administration. If that were true, then I think people who were of voting age at the time likely would have had time to reflect on how they felt when they handed Reagan the largest landslide victory of all time and whether they still feel that way today. My guess, and I'm sorry if I came across as a jerk, but my guess is that most people, upon reflection would still say, given the alternatives of Jimmy Carter or Walter Mondale, they still benefited more under Reagan more than the other possible candidates. As for ending WWII prosperity, Vietnam and a couple of oil shocks took care of that long before Reagan became president.
Yes, exactly. Other groups have medical tests uploaded to the files section, to be shared with other members and discussed on-list. And yet others had artistic works or literature.
This isn’t true at all. The vast majority of housing being built is used as the primary residence for SF residents, people from SF move into these new buildings and open up cheaper units in older buildings.
What's even more depressing is that hospital meals are designed for healthy people. Most people recovering from a gastrointestinal disease or chemotherapy find most food unpalatable, and hospital food seems like straight up garbage to them. For example, there are few to no "light" tasting options. Everything is seasoned restaurant-style (pedal to the metal in the flavor department). Hospital food ought to have a bland option.
There's a discrete jump in the career value of the education between not quite finishing a degree and graduating. It's not because there's some super important final semester that's worth much more than any of the previous ones. It's no doubt because it signals some quality like conscientiousness, or perhaps is just easier for an employer to evaluate the meaning of.
I've only just heard from this woman. She seems to be writing on the issue but not an archivist. (Though I'm not 100% clear.)
He's not the only exception.

I have all my Signal messages set to auto delete after 7 days (or less). And I'm pretty happy with how that works. If I thought people at a bar were recording every conversation they had or could overhear forever, I'd talk less freely (and go to different bars).

Not everybody wants ephemeral chat. But I suspect more people _think_ that's what they've got - but in reality do not have...
That 5500 is a terminus ante quem[1], the time before which - not the time at which - humans must have started consuming milk products. I don't know whether the 6000 year number is based on anything, but changing it to 5500 wouldn't make the title any more correct. You'd have to explicitly mention that it was a bound, which is probably a bit much for a headline.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminus_post_quem
I find it really hard to feel sorry for the person who grew up in a 55,000 sq ft house and went to boarding school. It's highly likely that she and her family are so wealthy she never needs to work a day in her life, so she treats the whole thing like a game.

From the verge article:

"Korey, for her part, didn’t have to work hard to project an aspirational lifestyle. The CEO grew up in Ohio in a 55,000-square-foot historic mansion with an indoor swimming pool and three dining rooms. She’d gone to boarding school, then landed in Bloomingdale’s executive development program while at Brown University"

Go breed Arabian racehorses or something, lady, stop cracking the whip on $40k a year peons.
Because Silicon Valley is seen as a utopia for innovation, and it massively shapes our world and our culture? It's important to report on how it works.

This was a prominent Instagram brand. It has all the trimmings of the Silicon Valley Startup: they make suitcases but talk about themselves as a "travel company" with lofty missions, they "value transparency" but not when employees actually use it.

This kind of story continually happens, at Uber, at WeWork, at Zenefits, at Riot Games, at Nest, and at startups I've worked at too. The more we bring these stories to light, the better working conditions will be at these places.

EDIT: Someone pointed out below that the company is actually in NYC, not Silicon Valley. Still, this style of startup culture exists all around the world.
Yes! I can’t understand why we can’t have this, like a sleeper bus.

If I were to guess it’s probably because of aircraft evacuation and/or safety standards.

Or maybe it’s just not straightforward to make bunk beds fit with potential need for more aisles, or dealing with the cylindrical shape of the aircraft.
because pantoptclick is wrong!

you can be in California and using say an iPhoneX and it will tell you you're one in 500k. If you calculate the number of people with their iPhone set to English in the PST timezone (the only things there is to distinguish one iPhoneX from another) and then you divide that by the pantoptclick number you get it's claiming there are only 10-100 iPhoneXs in all of Seattle Metro Area, San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles Metro Area, and San Diego Metro Area combined. Clearly wrong
Probably the majority of any hate has little to do with any specific software and more to do with the general concept of trying to have business people assert any kind of authority or set any kind of goals at all, and hatred of such attempts may get transferred to the software by accident.

Relatedly, specific attempts at enforcing certain business-centric processes like Scrum and Agile would be upsetting for the same reason, and for the additional reason of requiring bureaucratic overhead and social interaction, which engineers want to minimize at all cost.

Businesses wishing to enforce such things is completely understandable from their perspective, and the continual search for some kind of workable process is an iterative thing. But probably those places that lean very heavily on the side of process and surveillance have gone too far. Setting and meeting medium and long-term objectives would be the thing to optimize for, instead of obsessing about process or ultra-short term task items.
And never be exposed to a single social, political or ideological idea outside the spheres you happen to land in.

Democracies depend on voters who are lucid, informed and rational. Modern technological civilization provides so much, and in very abstract ways, that it is non-optional that people be able to understand, or know they don't understand, massive swathes of broad-reaching ideas and concepts. Because democracies say "choose a candidate to represent you on all these things".
Not an instructional video, but I rewatch the Facemesh scene from "The Social Network" over and over:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSKoVsHs_Ko

IMO, everything about this scene is fantastic, starting with the fact that the bits of text are taken from actual court proceedings.
Thanks for that history. I wasn't aware of it.

I got into this tangentially because of a community and ecosystem of Y-groups that I've been involved in. When I found the Archive Team's efforts, I hitched my wagon - though I'm not at all central to that group.
We Need a World Data Organization. Now
> Could gmail have been built in Oracle forms, how about slack? How about Asana? How about an LMS such as blackboard, moodle, or D2L? Can you name any popular mainstream product that could be built upon and run off the Oracle forms product?

Yes, it could.

Not going to judge whether it's a good idea or not, but it most certainly could be implemented.

I suspect you're not aware just how much capability relational database management systems have.
I think I know the answer already, but just in case: is there a way to use Signal to communicate with users using Whatsapp? IOW, can I receive Whatsapp messages in Signal?

The only reason I use Whatsapp is because it's what all my contacts use. It's everywhere. It's the de facto standard for text communication. And I hate the app. I hate its guts.

I read that whatsapp implemented the signal protocol, does that mean anything with respect to being able to communicate with people using a different app? Because I was hoping so, but I can't find a way to see my whatsapp messages in signal.
That's a troll trap right there, not that I'm complaining.
Bear in mind that assets includes market research, customers, branding, and any vendor relationships
The sitting position occupies a cubic volume with dead space below the butt and above the lap. If you want to put more people in the plane, make them lie down and place the lie down spaces on top of each other and side by side. I'd be down to fly in an airplane like that which by logic should have cheaper air fares because of more people on the plane.

It's the perfect sleeping position. The problem is Would you rather be lying down all the time or sitting down all the time? Overall I prefer lying down because I have the option of sleeping and staying awake while lying down; while when sitting, I have the option of staying awake and a really hard time getting some shut eye.
there are plenty of temporal truths relative to their frame. "hours worked this week" or "percent complete."

you might also be tracking a moving object, and as that object relocates geographically, different types of sensors pick it up, and the device saying "ive found it" changes. each sensor is the source of truth.

if those things were printed on standard paper, they can be false moments after they are printed.
Right. My point is that the Verge reported on something legitimate, unlike what the linked article seems to be implying.
I suspect the author of this language and/or his audience has done most of their work in dynamic languages where "associative lookup data structure" means a hash table.
I have never managed a warm regard for TNG.

Installing a Ship's Channeler killed it for me. A long time after, I learned about "teching the tech", and all was explained. Contempt for the audience is hard to hide.
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Conversations, even in a foreign language have a different feeling than monologues with pauses.