skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How would you suggest we start? Real, concrete steps please.
This is how I use the good parts of awscloud
In other words, there’s no such thing as ethical consumption.
How do you "make sure the communication/content is interesting"? Are you talking about moderation or talking about making sure there is good content posted?

I've read the Reddit origin story of founders submitting content under several usernames to give the appearance of a forming community, while also dictating the initial content and therefore the audience and culture.
That's a big difference from the starting state that Google had, which was that a single person could create a signed production binary from unsubmitted code all by themselves.

(It was very convenient for iterating on one-off fixes in production in an emergency, but you would rightly question how someone gets into that position in the first place. Plus there was no guarantee that the code would ever get submitted, and post-fix code review might cause the code to be subtly broken prior to being committed to the monorepo.)
In case like me you wondered "Why would anyone need money overnight? (or just for a second, actually)" EDIT: As the commenter below points out, it is actually over very short periods to even out a 2 week average period, but the mechanic is indeed as explained

AFAIK the "overnight loans" are a vehicle to dodge the reserve requirements for banks. In theory the bank is not allowed to fall below a certain reserve threshold because they would be too fragile towards bank-runs. This is needed because left to their own devices banks would just leverage to the max regardless of their cash position.

The crucial point is that the reserve is only measured at the end of day, so a bank can dip below the safety thresholds as long as they make it up by the evening. Overnight loans allow them to ignore the safeties since they just loan the cash for a brief moment to be in the clear with regulation come the daily measuring, but just return the money straight after the measurement has taken place.

It is an organized method by which the Fed facilitates regulation dodging for the financial sector.
Slap a tariff or tax on Cobalt based products coming in. Use the money to rescue to slave families from their captors. Use force if necessary. Freedom from slavery everywhere.
This rings true for anyone who has ever worked at a big tech company (I work at Google).

At Google when your project begins to scale up you can ask for more money, more people, or both. Most teams ask for both.

What you can't ask for is different people. You can't solve your distributed systems problems by adding 5 more mid-level software engineers to your team who have not worked in the domain. Yet due to how hiring works, this is what's offered to you unless you want to do the recruiting yourself. Google views all software engineers as interchangeable at their level. I have seen people being sent to work on an Android app with hundreds of millions of users despite never having done mobile development before. That normally goes about as well as you'd expect.

So you end up with teams of 20 people slowly doing work that could be done quickly by 5 experts. In some cases all you lose is speed. In other cases this is fatal. Some things simply cannot be done without the right team.
> You don't get to co-opt internal tools to post your interpretation of federal labor law, or to send a message to the management team, or whatever else her motivations were. That's why she got fired.

> This kind of thing would have gotten her fired from pretty much every company in the country and for good reason - she's untrustworthy and cannot seperate her job as a Security Engineer from her activism, and I'm sorry you can't see that.

What Google-specific support do you have for this, than post-hoc rationalizations based on her firing? Every indication I've seen has told me that Google has developed a very unique corporate culture, which makes inferences from "every company in the country" suspect.

I can definitely see your position (which approximately seems to be: a worker's primary moral obligation is to serve his employers to their satisfaction during his employment. Assertion of his own rights on work time with work resources is a severe moral violation as it puts the workers' interest above the employers'.), I just disagree.

> She's not a black person during Jim Crow era. She's not oppressed, and it's offputing that you would even make that comparison. She's a bay-area engineer who was making a very good salary and betrayed the trust that her position entitled her to.

I'd say she is oppressed, just in a different, less-severe way than black people during the Jim Crow era.

> And it is interesting that you can claim that she did nothing wrong, and at the same time understand why she should be reprimended.

Really? I thought it was pretty widely understood that morality and law are not the same. You can have immoral things that are legal, and moral things that are illegal. Corporate policy is a weak kind of law that has even less claim to respect than federal and state law.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21824570 and marked it off-topic.
I would reckon a lot of those statistics are based on analytics rather than polling.

In which case Firefox blocks a lot of trackers so naturally their marketshare appears less than reality.
I think, Open as in scriptable and documented. Chrome has many undocumented apis and most of it is in c++. Not everything is exposed to the webview area.
> The daily amount borrowed, by itself, understates the significance.

If someone tells me that the NY Fed is looking to significantly (>25%) increase its overnight and short-term liquidity operations and the necessary increases are in the range of tens of billions of dollars then that already sounds pretty important. I don't see how anything you said is an argument that cumulative liquidity is an appropriate measure here. Instead we both seem to agree that if someone had said - the loans are only $150 billion (because that seems to be the one day aggregate limit) then that person would also be misleading.

My point is not that this isn't an important issue but rather that it is an important issue and as such it deserves serious coverage and the linked article is not it.
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Wow, that’s really neat, I never thought of using css variables in this manner. Although, to be fair, I never knew they were called custom properties either.

CSS and HTML are pretty powerful as a duo these days, I’ve been doing some freelance work with no JavaScript lately and you really can knock some pretty sweet features right out of the park from collapsible menus, animations, validations with regex’s (and many predefined types like url and email). Combined with grid, flexbox, and the easily read semantic elements I’d say this is the best vanilla web development has ever been.
> most have not complained the OSS releasing process is heavyweight

Citation needed. I have been at Google for 6 years and I have seen many people either 1. quit in frustration at our OSS policy; 2. stop contributing to OSS projects on their free time because of frustration with our policy; 3. just ignore the OSS policy at the risk of getting fired because the precedent is that most people ignore the policy. Most people I talk with do (3), nobody will admit to it publicly though.

I'm right now waiting for an IARC approval for a small HTML+Typescript that took me 6h to build on a weekend and that I want to MIT-license. This has now been pending for 2 weeks. This is completely ridiculous and it means there is just no reasonable way for someone to follow the policy while doing small side projects on the weekend. Going through the releasing process would have taken roughly the same time, except that Google would also probably not be interested in owning that code for multiple reasons.
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Because rather than upgrading software and building APIs that integrate at a low level, IT shops are building software and APIs on top of UI automations. Some new fancy service desk platform the suits want may not have a connector to your 15 year old heavily-customized SAP instance (which is run by another team you have no influence with), and budget / time constraints leave RPA as the only option.

It's pretty easy to see why this would cause problems, but the consulting companies have been pushing hard on RPA because when it blows up in 5 years, who are you going to call? I say this as a consultant who has to sell this awful crap because "partnerships".
Employer based health insurance and what not makes it harder to compare job offers and increases your costs to switch employers.

If instead, your employer simply paid you the money they would have paid to subsidize these things, and you paid for the services you wanted, you could actually keep your services in case you changed jobs or lost your job or took time off or whatever. It would be pretty hard to setup an individual pension that behaved like an employer pension, but pensions are already on their way out.
Hmmm... I had to think long and hard about this, as the pickings are pretty lean.

The two standouts for me, though, are Stitchfix (don't laugh! I'm aesthetically impaired, and they have seriously taught me how to dress better. I'd never been complimented on my clothes until I started using them.), and for this winter, a pair of electrically heated gloves.
Hugging Face raises $15M to build open source community for conversational AI
Warning: there is a US show "The Killing" that is an adaptation of the original show (originally called "Forbrydelsen"). While the US version initially starts as a shot-by-shot remake, after a few episodes the story diverges quick significantly.
The world has never been merit-based. The fact it isn't now is not an anomaly. It's the norm.

Further, Marissa Meyer did not drive Yahoo into the ground. Yahoo was already free-falling to its death when she arrived. Perhaps she expidited the process somewhat, but when it was already near terminal velocity, who can say?
They use a different domain probably because people with uBlock Origin and pi-hole won’t be able to visit their main site at cliqz.com (which is enough for me to ignore everything coming from them).
I've seen lots of comments (not just on HN) about how Pulumi/CDK are easier, more powerful, etc. This is probably true from the perspective of someone writing infrastructure as code. Working in security I spend more time _reading_ pull requests for infrastructure as code, and I think Terraform's declarative syntax is 100% superior in that regard. Being able to see the infrastructure without trying to mentally execute code, and being able to run static analysis tools against your infrastructure, make it my preferred infrastructure as code tool.
One day you will wake up and find that your favorite free platform has shut down
Thanks for mentioning this, my org is in the process of evaluating various options for Infrastructure as code stuff and Terraform is very high up on that list. I don't believe Pulumi has been discussed and looks quite good, always nice to be able to suggest it before adoption.

In some quick searching, Pulumi has a high level (and assumedly biased) comparison between Terraform and itself: https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/vs/terraform/
> in UK that happened to an unpaid intern in banking.

Note that events, in general, must be rare to make the news. In this case it sounds like it's not even a new trend they're reporting on but a single person in all of the UK. For all I know, that person was going to go off the rails regardless of what job they had (most people doing office jobs can handle an office job, either by dealing with it or deciding to do something else, so why couldn't this intern? I think you'll agree it's just not representative).

But of course, that doesn't make your comment wrong. You're right that I overstated how chill an office job is and I agree with the rest of your comment.

Doing an office job myself and knowing a lot of people that do, I know it can be plenty stressful, and sometimes very stressful for a long time. It's not necessarily chill just because you sit down. Mental problems can be just as bad as or worse than physical problems, total agree there.

But even though the best blue collar workplaces will surely score better than the worst office workplaces, I think that the average for an office worker is better pay, better benefits, better health, and higher job satisfaction. Therefore I do feel like the person I was replying to is either trolling (or, as a variant of that, testing with different comment styles to have controversial content accepted, but Hanlon's razor probably applies instead), or saw only outliers.
It amazes me how inexpensive the bribes companies pay out are in comparison to the profit they make off of the deals generated by the bribes.

> The Nationwide subsidiary paid $4.58 million to the National Association of Counties in 2017, the latest available data. About 1.6 million county employees and retirees have participated in 457 plans for which Nationwide is the record keeper, said Brian Namey, a spokesman for the county association.

$4.58 million / 1.6 million employees = $3.03/employee

> At the International Association of Fire Fighters, about 100,000 of the 292,000 members are in a Nationwide retirement plan, according to union President Harold Schaitberger. He said the union’s for-profit subsidiary, called the International Association of Fire Fighters Financial Corp., earns $3.4 million a year for various product endorsements—$2.5 million of it from Nationwide—and sends the parent union $2.45 million to support programs that benefit firefighters.

$2.5 million / 100,000 employees = $25/employee
Oho! I could really do with a host for a small mailing list to help manage a meetup.

May i be so bold as to ask how the sustainability of this business looks? How likely do you think it is it will still be around a year from now?
Because they are seeking remedy from the wrong parties in a fungible market without proof of more direct involvement. It being in "corporate interest" doesn't mean it is wrong. To be frank they are acting a lot like extortionists.
What have you been reading? Can you share some of that data with us so we can come to a common understanding? I was under the impression that this was not a fact, just a supposition; I would love to be enlightened!
you say bogus, I say its entirely possible.

https://www.wired.com/story/plant-spy-chips-hardware-supermi...
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This morning I was thinking of Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle". If you've read it (and you should, it's a good novel) you know it's about worker rights and the story follows a guy who happens to work at a meat packing plant for awhile.

If you haven't read it, you've probably been taught it is about the bad practices of food producers in that era. Nevermind that part is ancillary to the central story.

Just pointing out that this warping of views to suit the wealthy has been going on a long time.
The point, more broadly, is that these are loans with a quick expiry baked in. The money comes into and poofs out of existence on a relatively short timescale (ranging from overnight to a couple of weeks); we aren't going to see an extra ~$3T in circulation. They're providing lubrication in the repo markets, they aren't just shoveling cash into the banks' vaults.

Most people misunderstand this point when discussing repo operations, so it's worth emphasizing.
>I don't see how anything you said is an argument that cumulative liquidity is an appropriate measure here.

I agreed that accumulating the entire amount is also the wrong way to account for it (but was pointing out that the daily amount is also an error in the other direction):

>>even if it's not as bad as him having a $50 shortfall (esp since he does pay you back).
If it is propaganda, who does it serve?

And BTW, where's my $120B overnight loan?
> Old-school forums

Odd spelling of "newsgroups".
What are the side effects of this system developing incorrectly?
I am only commenting on your Yahoo example : Yahoo was not run straight into the ground by Marissa Meyer.

Yahoo was dying already and some people even think she did a proper job winding stuff down.
When it’s your job, your family starving or out of work or homeless, then “suck it up buttercup” doesn’t sound so nice. The reality is the extreme poverty is lower than it has ever been, thanks to trade. Think it’s bad now? Try 50 years ago. The world is getting better despite the propaganda to the contrary. That we are even talking about this at all shows progress.
I know that Pulumi can use Terraform providers, at least. I'm not sure how good the integration is or if it's in the main way of doing things, though. I'd love to hear more details if anyone here has used it.
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I know people who are extremely dependent on weed, who will have anxiety attacks without it. It's less dangerous than most drugs, but there are people who are important to me that I wish could function without it. I'm talking grown adults, with families, who do nothing but play video games.

Their problems would exist without the weed, but it seems to play a part in their stagnation. I guess I just don't know that many people who will just occasionally smoke it, it seems to turn into a lifestyle as much as any other drug.
It may be anectotal but I have seen quite a number of dutch people buying land here in central Germany. May be related how moving between countries has increased over the years but then you would also see danish and belgian poeple but as far as I have seen its surprisingly many dutch. Another expaination would be population density of course.
Unlike other drugs (smoking, drinking) adults (at least the noisy ones online) very much want marijuana.

And because of that they are very poorly motivated to stop its use among teens.

So this isn't going to get better, it'll get much worse.

Adults also believe marijuana use is perfectly fine, and risk free, which may or may not be true for adults, but is not true for teens.

But because they believe it's risk free they aren't exactly telling teens not to use it.

And keep in mind: those adults who really want to use marijuana are the "nosiest" online, which is where teens get all their info.
The only way to fix the crux of the YouTube "problem" is to force Google to disclose how their subscription and recommendation algorithms work. The reaction from YouTube top brass to previous demands of transparency have been to treat the AI as some sort of deity instead of a computer program. In the USA, I'm afraid it will take a constitutional amendment to fix this.
My wife works for the local school district, and when she started I helped her navigate the retirement plan options.

They actually have numerous 403b providers to choose from, including Vanguard, but they basically offer no guidance (probably fear of some sort of liability or fiduciary duty).

But of course they allow their providers to come to facilities and offer "retirement advising" meetings. Naturally, the most predatory providers are the ones that have sales people to send out to make field visits. What's worse is that it is very unclear that this is not a district/HR-sponsored event, but purely a sales meeting from a provider.

My wife, thinking she was doing the responsible and proactive thing, went to one of these meetings with Valic. She very nearly got hooked into their scam of expensive, high-fee, garbage annuity products within her 403b. When she brought the paperwork home I was dumbfounded with how utterly terrible the product is, and how lengthy and opaque the prospectuses are. By the way, "Valic" literally means Variable Annuity Life Insurance Company.

She was massively frustrated by the experience, especially on top of the stresses of being new to a job she nearly got suckered into an awful retirement plan, and the district does basically nothing to oversee that the providers are actually any good.

Fortunately we were able to bail on Valic and sign up with Vanguard, which is a great option. Unfortunately, one has to a) know what they are looking for, and b) go out of their way to find it and sign up.

This is one of those cases where "freedom of choice" devolves into "buyer beware". Having lots of options is not inherently a good thing when many of those options are hot garbage and information and guidance is not transparent.
> and people who depend on taxes

What is that supposed to mean?

We all depend on taxes. Have you heard of public infrastructure? NASA? DoJ?

It's super disingenuous to pretend that the average employee is somehow getting massive value from giant tech companies. Someone would need to be very (probably intentionally) oblivious to believe that.
There are many alternatives to every service Google offers, even though it might not be as good as Google's offering.
Complete ignorance about this, but I guess this is how accounting works. You need to track how the money flows, so you write -$10 fives times and +$10 five times. You end up in the same position, but now you can track where the money went and how it came back to your wallet.
> Nothing about a union means you can't negotiate, have merit based promotion, etc.

Yes there is. It is the fact that many unions do indeed do this.

For whatever reason, people will often democratically choose to have stupid rules, such as seniority rules.

The problem with a union is that if people democratically choose the dumb decision, then I am screwed. No thank you!
This is just my experience, but my endocannabinoid system is just flourishing. I, unfortunately, started smoking cannabis at age 16 and was using daily by age 18. I quit for 5 or so years in my mid-twenties and picked it up again in my early 30s.
The great news is, you can do exactly this on Slack, too!
I don't think government IT cell people are lurking here. I believe the sickening comments are coming from real people who have fallen for Hindutva propaganda. It is sad that a section of educated Indian has such regressive views.
How am I contradicting myself? I'm saying that devices like Alexa that monitor our conversations, or constant tracking via smartphones, are way more invasive than a video doorbell. Equating the two, which seems to be very common recently, is irresponsible in my opinion. There is nothing contradictory in thinking that its dangerous to utilize devices which will monitor your private life practically 24x7, vs a video doorbell which solely views a public area, and doesn't invade anyone's privacy, nor collects sensitive data.
Somewhat off topic, but I saw Norsemen mentioned elsewhere in the thread ...

Norsemen was filmed simultaneously in Norwegian and English (the actors did each scene in one language and then the other). That way Norwegian audiences can enjoy this expensive-to-make show in their native tongue, and it can also gain widespread popularity in the much larger English-speaking world (which pays the bills).

I recently read that Hinterland (aka Y Gwyll) did the same with Welsh and English.

Anyhow, is there a name for this technique of producing a show in multiple languages simultaneously? Any other examples of it? It seems like a good idea for producing high-quality content in languages that otherwise wouldn't necessarily attract that level of investment.
I trust Joanna Rutkowska's competence, but I wouldn't bet too much on chip makers not messing up again in the future.

It will be progressively harder, but it will happen.