skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Once you have experience with capitalism in the real world

This is an incredibly snide, condescending thing to say to someone you don't know anything about. So your experience is the "real world", and anyone who thinks differently from you must be hallucinating, right? Sometimes I think it would be nice to be so confident.
> It's a singular failure of Silicon Valley that so many tech jobs still need to be done in person.

Even if they could be done remotely, people still want to live in cities for lots of good reasons - reasons that are centuries old.

Today, a large number of people who live in cities work without a common central office. This goes beyond tech workers to include lawyers, accountants, designers, in-home businesses like child care, and trades conducted strictly at client sites like landscapers and handymen.

The density of cities supports those sorts of work arrangements, and other things that a significant number of people value, like museums, libraries, parks, etc.

As a social technology, cities have demonstrated a tremendous amount of value per unit of investment, which makes them a natural target for investment.
The problem is that people frame this issue as might help or might not help.

The real issue is it might help, it might not help, it might hurt you in various unknown and interesting ways.

Nobody wants to be responsible for that 3rd option.
They debated about it but it's a nearly 10 bil per year business now. Why would they walk away from it now?
Not every place in the midwest is the same. There's plenty of places in the midwest that have diversity and culture in abundance: for example Houston and Chicago.
Yeah. I guess this person thinks sitting at a computer all day isn't real work. Real work would be working in a factory all your life breaking your back. Then I also think some people think making websites and coding is the same as using Word or Powerpoint. I guess they just don't really understand tech, probably a lot of people in the rust belt. Probably why they're driving young people away.
The headline seems to imply that Google will likely EOL Cloud if they don’t win in 3 years. That doesn’t instill confidence.
I switched from TeamViewer to AnyDesk too. Sensible licensing, protocol compatibility between versions, Linux versions _and_ repositories... Fantastic product!
According to her Medium post it only appears on two websites.

> I created a little notification, only a few lines of code, that pops up in the corner of the browser whenever my coworkers visited the union busters’ website or the community guidelines policy. The notification said: “Googlers have the right to participate in protected concerted activities.”

https://medium.com/@ksspiers/google-fires-another-worker-for...
> However, even if you are certain that your choice of LTS is justified (and I must say that it doesn't seem like you fully understand the new model yet -- which is OK, many don't, and it will take time), you must test your code on the current JDK.

I think this the italicized portion is the disconnect between what Oracle wants Java users to do, and what they'd rather not do. I know the pain of wanting your users to always be on the latest and greatest version, but in my experience, medium-to-large corporates are extremely risk averse and would rather invest time upfront to do testing/qualifying software releases before deploying, then keep that deployment running for as long as possible with the assurance that the configuration is stable (or at least has known & documented failure modes). They understand the new model just fine - they just don't want it. Mostly because it introduces a lot of risk and/or requires continuous qualification, which is not only expensive but completely changes the way they operate.
I've spent waaaay too much money at JetPens. Good stuff.
> As Sam Harris put it when debating this idea with Deepak Chopra, the moon does not disappear when we're not looking at it.

That’s a silly statement. How do we know that, if we aren’t looking at it?
There must be a lot more people who think the law's helping them than harming them, or it'd be changed. Might take time, but those sorts of laws have been common all over Europe for quite a while and I don't see any especially strong movements to repeal them, or even reduce the days off per year, despite incentives for businesses to attempt to drum up or encourage (at least, surely, not to oppose) such a movement, if possible, which one would expect to make such movements significantly easier to start and grow, if they had much popular support at all.
Money spent by non-profits that don't have to report their donors (hence "dark")
Of course they do. They wouldn't hire you otherwise.
It may have cost you nothing but someone was feeding, clothing and sheltering you. I'd like to start a business but I don't have the capital to cover feeding, clothing and sheltering costs in the meantime. Instead I work 4 - 6 hours in the evening trying to build something.
I'm astounded that they would seriously consider closing GCP after committing so much time, money, and effort into building it.

Every time there's a GCP story on HN commenters say "I won't use it because Google can just pull the plug." I thought this opinion was silly as GCP is the #3 cloud provider in the world, not a free service like Reader.

Guess I was wrong, nothing is safe. Google wants #1 or nothing at all.
I stopped ordering cat food from Amazon after one of the sets of cans quite obviously did not come from the manufacturer.

Usually, canned cat food comes in a cardboard box with the manufacturers branding and some important labels, along with X number of cans inside arranged and kept tight in some fashion.

This one was literally a bunch of cans inside a sealed, transparent plastic cover (and then inside the regular amazon box). When I checked the product page from which I purchased, it had only a handful of reviews (versus the usual 1000s of reviews on the real thing), but it had the correct supplier brand name. After reading a bunch about the colocation of products, this was fairly scary.

Nowadays I just buy from Chewy / Petco / Petsmart etc. It's just not worth the risk.

Edit: don't mean to add some FUD or anything with Amazon, I was just expanding parents comments about baby supplies with pets as well. Still buy a lot of stuff from Amazon, but not anything where I stand to lose more than money.
That “instanceof” change looks strictly worse than Kotlin’s “smart casts” (after checking x is an instance of Y, x implicitly casts to Y as long as its value doesn’t change).

The new Java shorthand, by introducing a new variable name, also introduces some sneaky variable shadowing risks (as this blog post itself explains!)

Edit to add: maybe the difficulty is in formally specifying “smart casts”, or at least clearly documenting them? I don’t think Jetbrains has documented all the rules used by Kotlin. It doesn’t seem undoable, though.
> I suggest you look up what stock ownership means.

Stock ownership traditionally means partial ownership of a business.

Except that you almost have no decision making power unless you own a lot of stocks, and that's not going to happen while working a simple middle class job.

It also doesn't mean that the company will pay you a portion of their profits. It is entirely up to the company whether they want to pay you a portion of their profits.

So you own something, but have absolutely no rights to the profits and practically no decision making power. In the spirit of the usual definition of "owning" something, you do not own anything with stocks.
So odd seeing it score a 9. The sad part is that we accepted that as the odd thing and not the norm
>On seed stock it get's even worse, if you are next to a GM farm and get cross pollinated then your stock is tainted and you have to reseed again with clean seeds that will just get tainted in the next spawn.

I see a simple solution here when some farmer gets stung by this: some company needs to make some really cheap GM seeds which exist only for the purpose of "accidentally" tainting the GM field next door, so that the owner of that field can get a dose of their own medicine.
Its one reason I avoid doing too much front end work. There are so many bootcamp people now and most are good enough if they're motivated. I don't see how these high salaries can last.
That's because it's not legal. It's a violation of the jury's duty to render a verdict based on the law and the facts presented. Stating an intention to vote a certain way without respect to the law and facts is grounds for removal from the jury. See https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/jury_nullification and the referenced court case.
Wow just Wow where some of these apple engineers be "coloured gentlemen"
> It's a rather big philosophical stance to say that the 'truth' of these propositions can be determined outside of the axiomatic systems.

I don’t think so. ZFC is either consistent or it isn’t. That is, a Turing machine enumerating all theorems of ZFC either produces 0=1 or it doesn’t. This is, however, independent of ZFC (if the latter is consistent) by the second incompleteness theorem. See https://mathoverflow.net/a/332266, in particular Nik Weaver’s comment:

> I think the strongest argument in favor of the definiteness of ℕ, and against the idea that PA, or any other axiomatization, is the be-all end-all, is the evident fact that we have an open-ended ability to go beyond any computable set of axioms, for instance by affirming their consistency. If you accept PA you should accept Con(PA), and the process doesn't stop there: you can then accept Con(PA + Con(PA)), and so on. This goes on to transfinite levels. If our understanding of ℕ really were fully captured by some particular set of axioms then we would not feel we had a right to strengthen those axioms in any special way; the fact that we do feel we have this right shows that our understanding is not captured by any particular set of axioms.
I’m constantly baffled how Europeans, who get paid 50-60% as much as Americans, and have almost no innovative companies of their own, think their system is somehow better.
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Check out TiddlyWiki http://tiddlywiki.com - it's an open source program that's been around for 15 years. TiddlyWiki wraps up a bunch of web-type resources (text, images, pages, etc.) into a single JavaScript file that works on anything that can run a browser, and can be run straight from a file, or integrated with a variety of web backends. It's actually one of the most interesting pieces of software I've seen in the past 20 years, predating many of the capabilities of iPython/Jupyter notebooks, although aimed at different use cases. That said, although I have some TiddlyWiki notebooks, I find that OneNote is my primary go-to notetaking choice these days, at least partly b/c I have a Surface and taking notes with the pen (both text and sketches) while still having the ability to use pretty good handwriting recognition is really my killer app.
True, due to population momentum. It’s important to differentiate when discussing policy.
Would your rules only apply to traditional news orgs like Reuters and Bloomberg, or would it also apply to Infowars and influential YouTube channels, Twitter feeds and Facebook groups? Would it apply to comedians who report the news?
indeed, spending lots of money on ineffective treatments is a serious risk.

perhaps a good model would be to pay only if the treatment actually works.

this could easily be applied to any kind of treatment that promises an improvement, including chinese medicine. with proper enforcement, snake oil would soon disappear from the market, and any experimental treatment could continue, even if it gets more expensive because the successes have to cover the costs of the failures. but i expect that someone who survives thanks to that treatment will gladly pay.
Imagine if you bought a strawman into your comment. Or maybe we don't have to imagine.

How many people do you know who brought a gun into their house solely for protection against someone with a gun?
> The 737 Max is doomed without the MCAS, the entire reason it exists is to keep the same type rating the same to keep pilots from needing to re-certify.

I would suggest at this point, the ...creative documentation... that Boeing's been doing to keep the "737" a "737" has reached the end of the line.
It’s a barrier to entry for equality of many sorts. The right not to be spied on is tied up in the inequality of Internet access. No paid offering for $(NETWORK_SERVICE) can compete with the zero monetary cost of centralized ad-funded services. If you could host your “cloud” photos, emails, or whatever on the home connection you already pay for then it might be a different story.
> Now that we know they're not invested in a Google cloud beyond 2023

I have no clue how anyone could arrive at that interpretation. What exactly let you to that conclusion?
I think this is probably the better way to look at it.

We seen a lot more "I can't access my data anymore" emails before we had our own service. Those seem to have dropped a lot, at least based on my own experience when doing support, since introducing 1Password.com.

At the end of the day, our 1Password.com solution is also more secure thanks to the Secret Key being used as well. Our local vaults are certainly secure, but 1Password.com is even more secure.

No matter what we do we will have people who don't agree with us. The best answer we can have is be able to logically explain why we have chosen to do something the way we have. Whether the user agrees or not is up to them, but we try to be able to at least explain why we chose to go a direction and hope that the explanation makes the most sense for the most people. We don't always get it right, but we certainly try our best.

Kyle

1Password Security Team
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Committing crimes, even just omitting required notices, falls outside of management discretion. At-will doesn't apply.
Did you miss that the complete headline is actually 'Google execs reportedly debated getting out of cloud computing, but instead set a goal of being a top-two player by 2023'?

Or is it more the fact they considered it at all?
What I'm about to say you may already know, but for the benefit of other readers:

> groups who frankly almost nobody wants to have associations with

I'd caution you about this claim; Gab, Spinster, Glindr, some of the less savory Japanese instances probably fit what you're saying. If you want to be less charitable about most people's broadmindedness, toss in the furries. But from what I've seen, a large chunk of Mastodon users tend to just be LGBTQ. For this group, the control/independence is a lot about knowing what you can expect your moderators to take seriously (both in terms of allowed content and protection against harassment). I'd question the term "fringe" for this group.
There's also been a movement away from Twitter onto Mastodon of Indian users upset by Twitter's acquiescence with Indian government demands. In that case, it's not so much about privacy as making legal demands a game of whack-a-mole.

Otherwise I totally agree with what you're saying.
They do. its called AutoML.
Just spitballing: what if they rented compute based on sandboxed access to the huge trove of behavioral and activity data they have on their users (which amounts to everyone who uses the web)?

It would be the ultimate differentiator. The only potential competitor would be Facebook, who doesn’t offer cloud services.
> In his view, [former FBA manager James Thompson] said, “Ultimately consumers are the police of the platform.”

While a current Amazon spokesperson disavows this view in the next paragraph, it’s clear from the rest of the piece (and other pieces, and countless anecdotes) that this perspective was foundational in the development of Amazon’s marketplace and cannot be eliminated by the words of a PR rep.

It’s also clear that Amazon is making efforts to redress this with various policy changes and programs. But it certainly appears the problem is cultural, and that only a cultural shift will be able to turn the tide of trust that is slowly draining from Amazon’s supply chain.
> I'm now actively looking and buying from other places unless I desperately need something in 2-days or less and know exactly what I need.

Even then, its getting harder to find somewhere I can "trust". Example, I buy 8TiB Seagate drives, used to be I could depend on Newegg to get them, but now they have a market thing like amazon.

My last box from them was empty, literally. I'm down to B&H photo for buying drives which is fine they're great but I'm getting pissed off at all the things that used to work fine to buy on amazon but now its total sketch.

An Amazon example, I bought a NUC from some random store, but totes shipped by Amazon we promise so I was like well eh, its like the only place on the internet to buy this model.

Didn't even get sent, fortunately I got a refund but I'm DONE buying electronics on Amazon or Newegg. I can't trust that I'll get what I want from either anymore. This ignores the crap like getting a power brick and finding out the stupid thing is a counterfeit and not the name brand it was supposed to be.
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This feels like a threat. Are they going to graveyard Google cloud? Probably not. But they've discontinued so many random, good services that I'm cautious to 'learn' a new Google tool. I wouldn't want to invest in a product only to be forced to transition to AWS in 3 years. Might as well just skip to AWS.
Are you saying that water service is a right as opposed to a product? Water being a right != water service.
You’re right, but it’s pretty simple to slap CloudFront (or Cloudflare) ahead of those origins if you need to in a pinch. I don’t work for Amazon (and have no dog in the fight) but I am a fan of AWS. And if you’re ever using AWS for anything, there’s no reason to _not_ use their free certs.

Someone else mentioned Azure having a similar offering (I’ve never played with Azure so I can’t speak to it). And if 2/3 of the providers offer it, I’d imagine GCP will at some point as well.

I love how easy it’s becoming to launch SSL. LetsEncrypt did a lot to make it mainstream. I’ve never used LE but I am grateful for their impact on our industry.
I highly doubt the idea of opium was invoked without intention to reference its addictive nature.
Because reviewers aren't held to the same level of responsibility for the content of the change as the author. Making them responsible for back-door vulnerabilities slipped in by employees compromised by a nation-state would grind the company to a halt.
It entirely depends what you're trying to do. If you want to make a bunch of money, it's unfortunately more about politics and luck than merit.

If you're trying to maximize income, you should focus on understanding finance/business and building soft skills. You're probably over the threshold of how much you need to know about computers. Maybe get some training on how to work better with others, or how to negotiate effectively. In other words, soft skills are going to be the value you have over your peers that have been cramming CS for the last 4 years.

> I've been coding for half my life, out of pure interest for the building things and never got into it for the money.

The reality of working in tech is probably similar to what you've already experienced: Lots of people working with computers, but most know less about what's going on than you do. I was kind of shocked by this when I started working, but now I realize it's because most people don't need to care about how their tools work to do their job.
I have a hard time believing articles from sources with no track record making bold claims. Seriously, "theinformation.com" and hardly anyone is skeptical?
I'm saying protection against having to have sex with your boss to get work is MVP worker protection.

And so if someone wants to convince people how effective unions are at worker protection, Hollywood's unions aren't the most convincing example.
In general I agree with you. I hesitated to bring Kiyosaki up because of his later activities. I never highly leveraged anything. The first book never mentioned this. But it did get me to invest in income real estate. I have been glad of that. I never read his later books because they didn't pass the smell test.

I also liked the Rat Race game. I used to play it with the kids. One thing he had you do is pick a goal of what you wanted to do when you retired. I always picked saving a forest and my daughter always picked a small farm. We compared notes recently and realized that we have both reached our goals.
She declined to comment on the Journal’s store.

The most telling line in the story.

Also, there's this:

“Sellers are responsible for meeting Amazon’s high bar for product quality,” an Amazon spokeswoman said.

Apparently at Amazon, they mean "high" as in stoned. Certainly not "high" as in good.
The Government has no business in picking and choosing which cities to promote. The free market will take care of that. The government should instead focus on why everyone is leaving the heartland because it's not just because of the beach.
I don't see how that article supports the claim that you are making. From the article

> A 23andMe spokesperson told TIME that data privacy is a “top priority” for the company, emphasizing that customer data isn’t used in research without consent, and that GlaxoSmithKline will only receive “summary statistics from analyses 23andMe conducts so that no single individual can be identified.”

Also, if I buy some shares in Amazon I don't get have all their client data.
I went into CS without ever having programmed before and consider it the best decision I've ever made.

As others have said, CS gives you a framework for analysis and problem solving. That framework can be applied to almost any other problem in life.
> If the company fails to achieve this goal, some staffers reportedly believe that Alphabet could withdraw from the market completely.

If I was a paranoid person, I might think this article is a sinister plan from Amazon or Microsoft. A quote like this can easily become a self-fulfilling prophecy: managers are already wary about GCP because of Google's flaky reputation, hearing a quote like this could easily make it worse, and the lack of new business makes Google all the more likely to shut it down.
No I'm talking about the rows in their database being ciphertext with the client having the private key
The issue with fact-checking Facebook ads vs. TV or newspaper is one of targeting and timing.

Facebook ads can be micro-targeted to the point where they're only seen by a very small audience, which is simply not possible in mainstream TV or newspaper. If you have a misleading campaign on TV (e.g., swift boat stuff on Kerry in '04), that can be recognized and called out (not that the dems were super effective at that then...). However with Facebook, it's much more challenging given the small sample size to (1) see all of the ads people are seeing and (2) figure out who has been exposed to them.

So at the end of the day, it's tougher to identify misinformation, and then if you do identify it it's pretty much impossible to re-message the same audience with the correct info. Add timing to that (many campaigns are only up for 24-48 hours) and you start to see why this is a fundamentally different beast from TV and newspaper ads.

One of the blunter but potentially effective solutions is to have a much larger minimum audience size, which is what Google moved to (although still at a pretty small scale).
> a major critique of this methodology remains unanswered: that the increased risk of completed suicide is so tightly coupled with military servitude that the role of guns cannot be convincingly established in either the univariate or multivariate analysis.

> What do you say to this?