skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe the case for many political matters but there are indeed many things which DO have broad political support that are not currently practiced by large corporations. A union might help for those cases.
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I encourage healthy debate about controversial issues like this. When I opened up my New York Times today, I found this article, which questions how important two-parent households are for childhood success, especially among Afro-American youth:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/09/opinion/two-parent-family...

Some quotes:

“living in a two-parent family does not increase the chances of finishing high school as much for black students as for their white peers”

“Greater involvement in extended family networks may protect against some of the negative effects associated with parental absence from the home”

The conclusion of this New York Times opinion piece is that structural racism has more impact on the success of young Afro-American kids than single parent households.
Google absolutely allows you to confirm it's tags and uses that for retraining, which means yes, my facial profile is collected, stored and used for model training (unless you disable it in preferences).

You can't do "celebrity" recognition from a generalized data set.
Sounds promising. Raspbian is cool but occasionally still has some random package missing
This is more common than it may seem.

I've worked in at least two teams where there were those non-written "standards" which one learned only after a few lengthy code reviews.

Usually a sign of people trying to cargo-cult themselves to good code.

At least one time it was simply a case of gatekeeping so that other developers wouldn't threaten that person's position.
"Took some talent with him when he left" is a clear violation of his contract.

So that's not a "just". That's something he deserves to be sued and heavily penalized for.
The problem is it's basically impossible to raise a kid free from acculturation about gender norms to get the best data on nature vs nurture, even if the home environment is set up to be neutral about gender roles they're going to interact with the outside world which still has a lot of gender bias in job roles.

My stance is if there is a natural preference it's probably slight and even if it isn't we should build a system that silos people into jobs because most people like them may prefer to do a particular thing.
Let's assume for a moment that the photo was taken in public.

Normally, you don't have much expectation of privacy in public spaces. Generally, a photographer is free to take photos in public and use those photos as they see fit. Why is Google's use of your photo different than the photographer's use of the photo?
It's surprising to me that so many people give the benefit of the doubt to enterprises, when they (at huge effort and expense) emit "mealy-mouthed" rebuttals that leave open the possibility that they actually are doing evil.

These people aren't stupid, and their legal and PR teams understand the fine details of the English language.

It says what they mean to say, not what we wish it would say.

They "Won't". Not that they "Can't".
> The first is that make was developed for building C projects

This is sort of a misconception. The C compiler was developed for building C projects. Make exists because those projects had to build other stuff and needed a way to stitch the files together. Make's only built-in support for "C" amounts to some default rules for building .o files out of .c files.

If all you want from your build system is to compile a big unified blob of source in a single language into some kind of output file (like the examples you cite) you don't need make, just use whatever it is that your local language provides.

When you have requirements that go beyond that, where you have programs (often themselves built locally, and often in variant languages or runtimes) generating custom intermediates and need to track that madness, that's when you need a more complicated build manager than your compiler provides.

And that's when you start to understand why, despite four decades now of attempts to replace it, some of us still reach for make.
I can’t quite see how suing a company on behalf of its own investors is supposed to work, but I assume that if I’m an XOM shareholder it would involve wealth being transferred from me to me via lawyers who get to take a significant cut for themselves.
Interesting. My plaintext reading of the law interpreted "scan of face geometry" as a full 3D mapping (i.e. photographic plus infrared rangefinding), and I stand corrected on the intended reading of the text.
the Brazil nut effect results in less randomness in the system as larger items rise to the top and smaller ones descend
For most intercontinental routes, you're not going to be lucky enough to have a decent airport to do a fuel stop at without taking a significant detour, which costs both fuel and time.
But those are infinitely more useful than a smart speaker.
I'd test this myself but don't have a guitar with me at the moment
as a very broad shouldered individual, I suspect I will viscerally hate those "wings" on the seat if I ever encounter them. That small woman looks quite comfortable in the photos, but what about a 2m tall man?
On the other hand, I would bet that this is a small dedicated community. Much like mafia game communities, I would expect this is a dedicated fan group
Yeah you get paid the average cost of having that work done, not the average value at all. That may well be 10x what you're paid for the work, in some positions.
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I'm not sure I'd read too much into the "for servers" part.

Everyone expects Apple to switch to ARM chips sooner or later for their laptops and desktops. Their A CPUs would probably already be fast enough for entry level Macbooks, but they still need some higher wattage versions for big Macbooks and desktops. I'm also not sure how good Apples chips are with regard to virtualisation features.

These are all things that would be useful for servers, but Apple needs them for their high end desktops as well. (And Apple won't announce in a court filing that they are working on ARM CPUs for the Mac)
Sexism now doesn't solve sexism in the past, it just adds more needless discrimination.
> real rest api support

Currently we do support "real REST API" as-in you can use any HTTP API. What's missing is making sure POST and other methods actually are useful in that they can use/deliver values from other requests. Let me know if there is something specific you're missing for this.

> user login features

User login features are definitely on the roadmap but unclear right now how it will be integrated. We might go with something like Auth0 which gives bunch of different integrations built-in (like OpenID Connect). If you'd be open to talk more exact needs and I can give a more exact answer. (happy to answer as a comment here or email [victor@bravostudio.app])

Thanks a lot for the feedback, super helpful!
I just look forward to see Portuguese from Portugal being offered and not another variant.
If the choice were binary you would never learn anything new. I try to do as much as I can on my own, growing my skills where necessary. Once I’ve reached a point where I am satisfied with my learnings, or at the extent of my abilities, I get help from others.
First thing that came to mind was Goldbelly: https://www.goldbelly.com/

If I were rich, I'd use it all the time.
UK. I recently bought a new phone and when I opened google photos app for the first time, it asked to store local trained models to enable AI features for the app.
Same, I never paid any attention to garbage trucks but I was fascinated with street sweepers and similarly fascinated with the spinning brushes at car washes. Still am, and while I don't see street sweepers much anymore I genuinely enjoy going to the car wash and watching the multi-colored swirls of goo being slapped around my windshield by hundreds of little strips of fabric.
Stock bonuses usually vest over several years, so I’m not convinced that that’s appropriate to call it a single year’s compensation. The 50k+ you get as a new hire at Microsoft (or got) took 4 years to vest, so it was only a salary increase of around 15k per year, not 50k in compensation.
I don't think this is garbage truck specific fascination. Many years ago, I recall reading a story about a father who noticed his kids being glued to the apartment window watching a construction site next door. They were fascinated by the large and loud machines. He built a DVD video business from filming busy construction sites for kids. It was a success. Kids love big loud colorful things that move.
I don't want to be rude, so please tell me if you do, but do you have a source for that? It sounds quite a lot like a "think of the children" argument and whilst I can see people having made that claim elsewhere, I don't see any actual cases of it being reported.
You can be sued if engineers decide to quit and come work for you?
My advice is to take a look at the Ray Dalio All Weather Portfolio or the Harry Browne Performance Portfolio because they both backtest beautifully through previous recessions. Betterment and Wealthfront also create wonderful risk/return profiles when reduced to 2.0-3.0 out of 10 on their risk scale and may generate better after-tax returns. If you have retirement funds, the ideal approach is to keep them in target-date funds set for the date you plan on retiring.

If you can't sleep at night because you're paranoid about a stock market crash, buy some long dated put options on SPY to insure your portfolio or to hedge against the unknown. If you're scared about a bond market crash, buy long-dated put options on TLT instead. The reason for long-dated puts rather than short-dated puts has to do with lower theta decay. Options can be expensive so this is a short-term solution.

> If the dollar and the stock market are "going to crash"...

-The scenario in which that happens is when corporate profits are lower than expected and inflation is higher than expected.

The better solution is to not buy overvalued stock and underperformant corporations in the first place but a wise man once said: "Don't go into stock-picking until you know how to value a stock." If you don't know how to value a stock, then the solution is to go into real assets like real estate, gold, or commodities. If you prefer real estate, REITs with a low P/AFFO or P/FFO ratio will have better returns. If all of the corporations and REITs are overvalued, the textbook-solution is to start your own public corporation or REIT.

Last, don't put all of your eggs in one basket.
Lectures are explicitly for learning. Meetings aren't. Apples and oranges. There are stupid questions, and asking them predictably without awareness of the cost is a performance problem.
That's fair. It never occurred to me honestly, but it's reasonable - especially since I don't think humans can reliably make `down.sql`
I don't believe a word of this. It's the usual buzzword-soup that's self-contradictory with even the simplest glance (e.g. claiming a manager's value is both unmeasurable but also the key to promotion? If it's unmeasurable, you're probably getting promoted for something else, like company growth, being well-liked, looking the part)

It reeks of the self-importance of a director who reassures himself, "Well I got this far, so I must be doing things right." Is this author the kind of person who'd fail to buy google for 1bn, while "ensuring alignmnet with managers" and other PHB concerns? We'll never know.

But what we do know is that less that 5% of this article is actually about making the right decisions happen. That to me is a red flag.
Are there any good ideas to improve one's coding / design skills significantly ?

There might be in the CRs you're mentionning. In other words, my advice would be to get the most out of those CRs as you can. Ask questions, encourage people to be critic with you, understand their point of view and learn. If you CR is rejected, get to the core of why it happened technically.
Oracle is a data broker? I missed that somehow
Interesting point. There is a school of thought that frequent, shallow and short recessions are preferable, because if you don't have them you will pile up problems that all fallout during a deep, long depression. If this is true, then as you say, the skyscrapers, ridiculous art prices, etc. are just the most visible indicators of "lots of easy money, being spent stupidly", which is both a result of prolonged financial security and a bad omen.
Burn taxpayer money on state- or state-subsidized education

Burn taxpayer money on state aid for high risk research

Profit? Not yet!

Introduce legislation to force the taxpayer to buy these crappy products and tax even more those who don't, to create a virtuous statist circle

Profit!
In what respect is it different? What did you intend to show?
Doesn't that carry a risk for Apple? I thought CA had some legislation specifically to deter lawsuits like this.
This looks very interesting. Alas, it doesn't pass security on Mac OS Mojave.
Meditate.

No, I'm seriously.

- - - -

Read "Thinking Forth" by Brodie ( http://thinking-forth.sourceforge.net/ ) and "Programming Pearls" by Jon Bentley ( https://archive.org/details/ProgrammingPearls2ndEditionJonBe... ) and sleep on them.
Can you cite that first claim?

I've frequently seen leftist labour activists claim unions are responsible for the concept of a weekend. But that's not true, and it makes me doubtful about all claims of supposed union "wins".

Wikipedia talks about the history of the weekend. It starts by observing that a day of rest is a feature of society for millenia and has religious roots. Then it says:

The present-day concept of the relatively longer 'week-end' first arose in the industrial north of Britain in the early part of the nineteenth century[1] and was originally a voluntary arrangement between factory owners and workers allowing Saturday afternoon off from 2pm in agreement that staff would be available for work sober and refreshed on Monday morning.[7] The Oxford English Dictionary traces the first use of the term weekend to the British magazine Notes and Queries in 1879.

A voluntary arrangement between factory owners and workers? Doesn't sound like unions.

In America:

In 1908, the first five-day workweek in the United States was instituted by a New England cotton mill so that Jewish workers would not have to work on the Sabbath from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday.[9] In 1926, Henry Ford began shutting down his automotive factories for all of Saturday and Sunday.

Unions only appear on the scene after this point.

In 1929, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America Union was the first union to demand and receive a five-day workweek. The rest of the United States slowly followed.

There's no mention of workers being murdered anywhere in this history, and in fact it's pretty clear that weekends were happening even without unions.

If left to their own devices, companies will exploit workers.

Google is a classic counterexample. It has been left entirely to its own devices and has spoiled its workforce rotten. Now it's in such a state it can barely fire people who aren't even working at all. This is the least exploited workforce in history. If anything from the outside, it looks like the workforce are busy exploiting the management.
Of course, but the convenience of a smartphone does outweigh the potential surveillance. I getwork done on my phone, book cabs and flight tickets, get food delivered. I've tried living without my smartphone but it's not feasible.

A smart speaker I can live without all my life
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Sorry maybe I’m dumb but I’m not following this.
Maybe being less scornful and haughty in our answers would be a good start to becoming a better human
Apple doesn't own people. If employees want to change employer, they are free to do so. Apple of course knows this, so it tries to terrorize current and future employees into submission.
I did a double-take when I read the first sentence, then realized you were joking!

For clarification (for other sloppy readers like me), actors are organized in the Screen Actors' Guild, and NFL players are represented by the NFL Players Association.
And you just responded to the weaker interpretation of his argument (which is easier to criticize) when you called it "too emotional."
The lawsuit claims that non-solicits are unenforceable in California. See page 7 (PDF page 16) of https://regmedia.co.uk/2019/12/09/applevwilliamscounter.pdf
This is why you don’t work on that side project while still working at your main job. Every large company I’ve worked at has been very clear during orientation: they will assert ownership of anything you do while employed, on or off the clock, using your own equipment or theirs. It’s not worth the risk to moonlight bootstrapping your startup. Not saying it’s right but saying that it is. These companies have a lot of lawyers.
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Only a tiny fraction of tech workers have the conditions you mentioned. You're talking about the top tier jobs of one specialty. Also, ignoring the many ways that conditions are unbalanced in favor of the employer.
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They're for long-haul premium economy. Those are already 2-4-2 on larger jets vs 3-4-3 or 2-5-2 in the steerage.
I don't know how you can say police aren't workers - they absolutely are. People are police for their jobs.

The teacher's unions protect teachers at the expense of students. Basically the union doesn't care - at all - about teaching students (it's for the teachers, after all). They only care about stopping teachers from getting fired. It's our youth that suffer from receiving a shitty education. The assumption that "the teacher is always right" is profoundly damaging to our youth. The decline of the American education system (below college) is well studied.

https://hechingerreport.org/third-indication-u-s-educational...

Just to throw out a counterpoint, there are some who feel the education system is not declining, although I disagree. I encourage you to come to your own conclusions.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2018/10/15/how-are-...

There's a movie about it if you want to watch it:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1566648/

Yes, it's a documentary with an angle, but there's enough information in there to convince me.
That's the thing - smartphones are surveillance devices as well, but their utility makes them a necessity. It's possible to argue that you'd submit to the surveillance if you're getting all that you get from a smartphone.

But a smart speaker just plays some music and tells you the weather. It's not nearly enough utility to be worth the privacy risks.
Which ones do you have in mind?
It does still quite a bit, it's easy to forget how varied the US is. My cousin married a guy who's very into traditional toys for his son, a few Christmases back his son was playing with a doll with the other kids and he was not a fan of that at all.
That is your framing of the situation. Apple's framing is that he was plotting this while still working at Apple, and figuring out how to steal technology and take other engineers with him to start his own gig. His contract apparently says that he couldn't do that.

So yes. You can be sued for that. Obviously. Which is why he's getting sued.
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>Even with the stops, you can come out ahead in travel time and total comfort.

I seriously doubt that. I've been in corporate jets like Citations. They're really tiny inside; I can't stand up in them at all. Small jets do much worse with turbulence, and being so small inside, they just aren't going to have the amount of space available that you get with a first-class "cubicle" that you get on one of the top-tier international airlines. And no, you won't come out ahead in total travel time; those little planes just can't cross the Pacific in one hop, especially if you're coming from the East Coast US.

The people you know probably just go from the East Coast to London or something, which is a pretty short trip. Try flying to Australia or Japan instead.
They're isolated in a display booth. so nothing in front of the seat.

It wouldn't sell, but they should've really displayed them with a delimiter/wall/something in front, in usual economy spacing, if they were going for authenticity. I understand why they wouldn't/didn't.
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A commitment to pay Bitcoin, that is signed or unsigned, cashable at any time, is an IOU.

It's the same as a signed check, except lightning is passing itself as a network to spend the equivalent of third party checks. Businesses and untrusted parties do not do this, so they settle (cash checks immediately), which Lightning can't handle at scale with users.

If Lightning wasn't really an IOU, then it wouldn't need Bitcoin to settle transactions, now would it?
They did it for about $6mil, which is pocket change for an intersection of that size.
That's the obvious answer. This is a name that looks great when reading, but sounds awful when spoken.
It's possible that they did due diligence and determined that Nuvia would likely prevail in court, no?
You can be sued for anything.
SAG doesn’t exist for the movie stars. It’s for the nobodies and the up-and-comers to avoid getting screwed by excessive unpaid work for “exposure” or who get squeezed into long term contracts before they have star power.

I’d like to see stats on union participation among doctors and lawyers. I’d bet it’s vanishingly small, especially for lawyers.
This article is a bit out of date, and I'm not in the field, so I'm not sure what we've accomplished by other means :

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3068817

Copying introduced some artifacts. I'm pretty sure it was OCR'd:

> "We believe it is worthwhile, because of the great potential for important ap-plication of radiation with enhanced co-herence in this spectral region. In every region of the spectrum in which coherent sources exist, they have great-ly multiplied the usefulness of radiation. Gamma rays have many impor-tant applications, because of their short wavelength, high penetrating power and ability to ionize. Controllable and directable sources of such radiation in which phase as well as intensity have significance, would greatly multiply its uses."

>" However, detailed speculation upon specific apdetailed speculation upon specific applications is clearly impossi-ble at this stage, because the form, per-formance, output characteristics, cost—even the existence—of a graser are obviously impossible to describe at this stage of our knowledge, beyond the few characteristics enumerated above."

>" Moreover, it is well known that the most significant applications of new de-vices are rarely foreseen. No one, for example, in 1958 could have predicted the use of lasers in computers, surgery, nuclear fusion, isotope separation, and soon."

> "The most exciting possibility for co-herent radiation in this short wave-length range is that of holography, which might permit direct observation of the structure of molecules, crystals, proteins, genes."

As an aside, SciHub is awesome. All of these publications should be open access. I wouldn't have been able to read many of the review papers in ML and biochem crucial for developing my own understanding if not for SciHub.
Thank you for taking the time to explain, with a diagram even.

Another comment mentioned "radix economy", which, together with your description helped me understand (generally) why Euler's constant is the most efficient base in terms of number of digits needed to express numbers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix_economy
Not sure if this is true, but I suspect certain sounds make me sleepy, such as the sound of airplane engines in the cabin, some projectors or airconditioning units. On most airplanes, it is near impossible for me to stay awake.
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