skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google's "don't be evil" clearly meant "don't become Microsoft." It was never a call for general moral betterment.
I was expecting a Cthulhu reference at the deepest point for good fun! Nicely done, but would be nice to also provide indicators of pressure and temperature on the side as you go down.
Note taking has become such a core part of my process, no matter what it is. You’re always learning (or at least, ideally, you should be), whether it’s at work or engaged in a hobby, and I find it invaluable to record the things that I learn and in which situations I learn them, because I’ve noticed that even if I “learn” something now, I probably won’t remember in a week, much less in a month or a year.

At some point I grew tired of googling for a certain command usage in Linux yet again, or the solution to a certain sort-of-rare problem that crops up every couple of months but it would be a waste of effort to memorize what it is. So I started recording it. I have tons of text files filled with solutions, command usages, tips on possible problems/bugs, issues I’ve run into and what caused them, etc. I’ll even take notes on what programming practices seem to lead to issues and my thoughts about it, as well as resources I can find about it about better practices that avoid the problem. Programming, using Linux, learning Starcraft 2, learning guitar, learning a new programming language. I’ve reached a point where if I have to google something a second time, it gets written down.

Hell, I think it makes more sense to turn your question around - why aren’t you keeping any notes? Human memory is abjectly terrible, and becomes worse the more time passes until it’s less a “saved image” and more of a drawing of a painting of a polaroid of an image of a memory, filtered through years of experiences and growth.
This money is donated by employees who opt in

Why do they opt in? If they wanted to donate to a politician, they always can. Why this setup?
Sure, but now the claim is simply that companies focus on varying time scales, and sometimes those time scales are shorter than what some people would like to see. That’s fairly clearly true, but it’s a very different claim than that big public companies optimize for the next quarter over everything else.
Who cares? Google and every other large corporation donate to all the candidates covering the entire spectrum of politics.

It's a hedge bet strategy focused in risk management: the hope is to have influence over whoever so happens to be politically popular at any given time.
It's a mystery to me as well. I didn't post it. I still don't know how it got surfaced. I've not been actively promoting that blog.
What else does this senator stand for? Does it even matter? Honestly, I'm not really sure if Google should be basing their donations on just one issue.
Good point; it makes me think most people open articles because they want to be sold into a narrative, rather than learn facts.

This is why folks listen to the “news” media yammer about a topic even after they know the facts.
Let's say you win, and Google donates to causes you find worthy, and doesn't donate to causes you don't find worthy.

This basically means you want Google to donate solely to the Dems and nothing for the Republicans, or at least greatly skew the ratio. And that would mean Google would be officially coming out as putting its grubby hands on the scale for the 2020 election.

And since everything on the internet goes through Google, this means they get to play kingmaker.

Is this the precedent you want to set? Is this the world you want to live in? Choose carefully.
> Wicked Learning Environments

This anecdote about the NYC doctor who was praised for being able to predict Typhoid, but was actually just spreading the disease to all his patients is a scary reflection of some businesses.

Reminds me of tech companies from HBO's Silicon Valley, to them they're "Making the world a better place..." but in reality they could be harming everyone without even knowing it...
January deadlines are the worst. I would like to see more conferences and journals switch to rolling deadlines, which in addition to providing more flexibility for authors could have additional benefits of spreading out the review workload and reducing some of the incentive to rush to publication before the work is ready.
The ex-Mozilla CEO was shit-canned for much less. I'm surprised so many here on HN support this.
You're wrong twice within the first twenty words. Google doesn't donate to all candidates, and there are U.S. corporations of its size that don't make political contributions at all.
Accuracy in Historical Fiction (2013)
>Google's "don't be evil" clearly meant "don't become Microsoft."

yeah, and look and what a good job they're doing -- user-agent discrimination like the good old IE days, and talk of ongoing anti-trust probes.
What's better for your average Google employee with unpopular opinions:

'Google donates to cause I don't like! Let's name and shame! Boooo!'

'Famous senior engineer at Google donates to cause I don't like! Let's name and shame! Boooo!'
That's easy to say, but having read through the parts of the report that address whether Huawei is controlled by the Chinese government, I haven't seen any evidence. Above, I quoted a typical passage to you. You can see that it doesn't present evidence.

At this point, if there is evidence in the report, it would be easiest if you would to cite it.
If I "win", Google dissolves its political action committee and no longer makes direct campaign contributions. I don't follow your argument.
What Teens Lose When They Can Always Be Found
I, for one, am glad Apple opted to use the macOS user agent for the iPad browser. Previously, so many sites would give iPad users the mobile version of a site because their incompetent webdevs decided that `iOS == mobile` without even bothering to check for screen size.

Anything that can be done to prevent this is a net positive for users. Sites should never check browser UAs, and any problems that arise from a “wrong” user agent are the site developers’ fault for doing things incorrectly.
Anonymity? Instead of everyone knowing the exact person working at Google donated to a cause/politician, you only know there might be an employee at Google that did.
there is a passage in the book where he and his son are riding uphill into a headwind in cold rain, and Pirsig goes on a riff about what a folly it was to be on a 300.

I didn't start riding street bikes until many years after I read the book, and it's been funny over the years whenever I've had one of those periods of utter exasperation and misery, the "why the hell did I decide to ride a motorcycle to the place I am right now" moments, I think about that passage and how they made it out alright. and i've only ever had modern fuel injected bikes with heated bits and waterproof stuff, hard not to admire the riders back then.
'idlewords has actually done a great job of getting tech workers to pressure their employers into ceasing the political donations. It's inspiring to see someone manage to make a dent like he has. A quick brush on his twitter will verify what he's saying, here.
When you guys are studying and learning from this, what is your strategy? Do you read the entire book online? Do you work through it and implement various things? ...?
This was my experience as a contractor for the Navy, years ago. We’ve had radar systems that can detect planes after a reflection on another plane, but the software is dogshit.

Someone once told me, it’s because generals and admirals can see hardware, and fell like they got value for their money. Software, not so much.

Perhaps it’s something innate in humans. Remember how Beats headphones used to add weights to feel more substantial?
I'm reading this on mobile (Android Chrome), and definitely am not seeing what you've described. Is it because you've requested the desktop site?
He's repeatedly gotten companies to cease political donations.

Though a company playing kingmaker wouldn't be bad, necessarily.
Loved this with ONE exception:

> “Twitter is the most amazing networking and learning network ever built.

> For someone whose pursuing their dream job, or chasing a group of mentors or peers, it’s remarkable. In any given field, 50-80% of the top experts in that field are on Twitter and they’re sharing ideas, and you can connect to them or follow them in your personal feed.

> If you get lucky enough and say something they find interesting, they might follow you, and the reason this becomes super interesting is that unlocks direct message, and now all of a sudden you can communicate directly or electronically with that individual. Very, very powerful.

Man, so many things about the statement make my skin crawl. The idea that you should be "chasing" mentors or peers. The idea that you should be "lucky enough" to say something "they find interesting" and then "they might follow you".

Lucky you, you little worthless common person!

Talk about a subjugating attitude about the world. Bill Gurley seems to be very excited about the idea that people are just hoping and pleading and begging for more powerful people to notice them.

Sorry for the negativity. But this is just such an unproductive attitude and perhaps the cause of a lot of what makes Twitter awful.

EDIT: Let me add a more positive take. I agree with the underlying sentiment here -- that Twitter does provide folks with an opportunity to actually engage with people they might not have otherwise had a chance to engage with previously or in other contexts, and that is truly excellent. I'm just reacting strongly to the way it was presented ("you should be so lucky as to be noticed by someone more powerful than you.").
These are paycheque deductions, so presumably at very least some of the people at google who’s paycheques are funding these donations (plural, lots of other ones in that thread) might care.
I've found there's a happy middleground. You need medium-sized-services that still share code libraries. For many companies, this is often 7 or 8. The key is to combine like business units/features, not necessarily fragmenting at every visible code boundary. A deployed "service" can really just be several HTTP paths and/or gRPC services in one repo. You still get to keep decent separation of work, deployment, versioning, dev focus, etc with these medium sized services without sacrificing the benefits of larger, more centralized/shared reuse.
When I went there I asked a ranger if there was something special about bristlecone pines that allows them to live for so long. She first told me what it means for a tree to be alive. Apparently, as long as there is a connection from root, through bark, to leaves, it's still alive. So a lot of bark could be missing, but if there is a path it's good.

For the longevity, it's just the perfect environment in the White Mountains. Trees don't die of old age. Pests, disease, and erosion are what kill them. That area, being California high desert, there just aren't really any pests or disease. Erosion and weather are the biggest threat to the trees.

That place is totally cool, in that I really like it but don't think anyone I'd drag up there would enjoy it as much, ha.
All these great things that Java fossils like myself have been telling Node and Ruby hipsters about. Of course they won't be caught dead writing in a language their parents use.
Armed with this information, you should try to understand voltage, resistance, relays, and transistors, in roughly that order. That may help to bridge the gap from the water gates here, to transistors which are solid state; you can't see them moving, but they largely accomplish the same basic function and can be used to create the same kinds of gates using just electricity.
I doubt it. I notice you are only agitating against specific donations toward Republicans, rather than all contributions in general. What's the least-effort way for Google to avoid the bad publicity you are seeking to inflict? Stop donations to those specific people, obviously. And let the ratio of donations get skewed.

I think you would find that this is the exact outcome that many people on 'your side' are hoping for.
So if MI5 decided to torture and kill Julian Assange for the luls, they now have that power. What could go wrong?
"Oldest" in the sense that it has existed (as far as we can measure) in it's current form longer than any other species.

You can't say that a species is as old as it's ancestral species, because you're talking about two different species.
It was about being trustworthy with people’s information.
Does it include nearby airports? I have two airports nearby that each have better deals depending on where you're going.
Yes, about hair splitting was a poor word choice, though hair-splitting remains a very frequent activity in philosophy. Fine gradations in distinction and meaning using the blunt tool of language is difficult.

I've been digging into the "what is philosophy about" question on several fronts.

The Stanford Online Encyclopedia of Philosophy (https://plato.stanford.edu) has a pretty good outline, as does the Basics of Philosophy ( https://www.philosophybasics.com/branch.html)

I've also been partial to digging through various library classifications and subject headings (LCC / LCSH), particularly CLASS B / Subclass BC, generally metaphysics, epistemology, ontology, cosmology, ethics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of religion, logic.

Another view is that philosophy consists (as a residual) of disciplines which have resisted formalisation under either mathematics (which has laid claim to much of logic), cosmology (now mostly natural sciences), moral philosophy (largely social sciences), and philosophy of mind (now largely a sub-discipline of psychology). What still survives today as philosophy is mostly the "messy bits".

And a tremendous amount of religion-adjacent concepts.

That's not knocking philosophy, which I'm finding quite useful, but it's a reality of the field.
The employee donors are a matter of public record; they're listed in each FEC filing.
They are doing pretty well imho. They offer the world a massively popular open source mobile operating system, a massively popular open source browser, they seriously pushed user security with influence over practices, software, and Project Zero, and all their services work well with on my Linux systems.

Yes, the monopoly and censorship stuff is very worrisome but on the tech side they are undeniably better than Microsoft.
Oh, it will be very bad. Nobody voted for google. And nobody can vote out google, once it's in. How the hell do you even organize a campaign without the internet?
This common practice is bad. I agree that it is sad how cheaply influence can be bought. Why else would it be so common?
Yes, it's more a demonstration of principles than anything else.
The donations are capped by law at $10K, so they are all "small" in that sense.
Illegal dumping and increased spending on policing would be the result.
Also reduces article page size by 68%: https://beta.trimread.com/articles/1142
I want to ensure that the app is just locally computing the decibel level, rather than streaming out data about what it's hearing.

I would ideally want websites to also have a "no more network access after your initial load" mode, but as you say that's fundamentally incompatible with modern web development. So I kinda just accept the loss there.
There are two sorts of 'fundamental'. You are correct that the 'for' is just syntactic sugar for 'goto' which is more fundamental than map/filter in the sense that it translates into assembly/machine language, upon which all programs are built. Then you can say the silicon logic gates are even more fundamental, you can do even more things with them, etc.

The map/filter is more fundamental in a mathematical sense. If you turn a list of A turned into a list of A*, the 'mapping' is the fundamental concept, the 'for' loop is just an implementation detail. Maybe the computer did it in parallel, or in random order, or I asked you to turn a pile of towels into a folded stack of towels. The same way if I say 'want to watch a movie' - the movie the fundamental concept, whether it's digital, film, etc. is irrelevant.
Google doesn't run a social media company, and 'idlewords pushed millions of dollars from tech workers to progressive candidates across the nation almost exclusively using Twitter shitposting. Political organizing without Google is doable.

It was some great shitposting.

For example, 'tptacek threatening to post more Eric Raymond quotes unless a donation goal was reached:

https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/966540097163325445
There are some alright dramas that come out of Taiwan.
Is there any software outside of point-of-sale terminals that would actually normally use the F24 key?
Read the actual threads? I show examples of what I believe are indefensible donations, and end every one with a plea for employees to de-fund the PAC in its entirety.

I can't help it if we're in a polarized environment where the Democratic party doesn't elect climate denialists, homophobes or white nationalists to office too. Maybe next year.
Regarding one of his last ideas. For those above 35 what technologies seem against the order of things?
I‘ve been working on community event software for a decade now.

Here are the consistent elements I’ve seen across virtually any kind of community that’s starting out.

1) a community begins when two people who are passionate about a purpose meet together. They don’t need to be captains of industry, or politicians. They just need to be passionate about some unifying thing.

2) The “Big Bang” moment for a community is its first event. The best way for these types of people to meet is by attending events (virtual or in person). Events are human connections at scale.
What does in code mean? So operations in a ASIC don't count, but DNA does?
Sure, but a link to an article using the given title of that article is appropriate. The HN title isn’t claiming that thing; it’s a link to a publication saying that.
Hi fellow brother, this comment is unrelated. But we need WOKE Indians like you. I run a website named India Channel.

http://indiachannel.heliohost.org

It is an anonymous website like 4chan but without images and made for Indians.

We have an IRC too (check page). If you say, I'll add a programming /prog/ board too.
Yeah, I wonder if the political sentiment has turned so much in the last decade in the US, or just HN doing its usual thing of being contrarian towards the headline news. How was the Brandon Eich issue received here, what was the overall sentiment?
Writing notes is part of my thinking process too. Sometimes people would find me staring at a list of just 3-4 items on a piece of scrap paper, or a whiteboard with just three boxes connected with arrows (usually representing a part of a system) and ask me, "That's just 3-4 items, why do you need to write it down?"

For some reason, getting it out of your head into a physical medium helps to reason about it better.
If you want to add axioms in order to be able to show each of an infinite number of statements which are all independent of the initial axiom system, and also none of them follow from the rest of them, that could involve an infinite set of axioms, yes,

but any statement we could make about stuff in physics, if it could be expressed in the language of the formal system, would, as a single statement, be something that could be added as a single axiom.
I think the point is less that this is an ideal state of affairs and more that this represents a huge opportunity for people who want to learn/network than a pre-twitter world.
I tried it on both Bromite and Firefox, mobile view, horrid.
But it does so in a closed system, so we can't hear it.
Google runs... Google. As in the search engine that pretty much the entire internet uses. It controls the algorithms that decides what everybody will actually clicks on.

Plus a bunch of other internet-plumbing stuff that everybody uses. It really should not have a political opinion, but not because it's technically infeasible. It is feasible and easy to create a slant. And if done right nobody will even know.
Try to look at the forest instead of any individual tree.

The ex-Mozilla CEO donated to an anti-gay marriage SuperPAC; the entire existence of that SuperPAC was 100% dedicated to opposition to gay marriage.

Google donated to a candidate that has voted on hundreds of different bills; less than 1% of his votes are under scrutiny in this Twitter thread.
More generally: formal methods are only as good as your model
I'm sure you have very good reasons to believe the things you do.

It doesn't change the consequences of your actions.
It's mostly because most setups will use maven or gradle which do much more than just compile code. They will often pull down dependencies, check for bugs and style inconsistencies, run unit tests etc. If you run plain javac against a bunch of files it will compile just as fast as Go. In any case it will be in a blink of an eye.
Connecting Values to Behavior with a “Standard of Performance”
The SBCL20 workshop page las lots of nice info and links too: http://www.sbcl.org/sbcl20/
Could you name one or two of those that are Google's (Alphabet's) size don't contribute? That seems highly unlikely in the US.
I don't see why it wouldn't benefit from the GC changes. AFAIK Loom has no scheduled release date.

They seem like they're committed to supporting new features, but you're probably right they will lag on some things.
Your question is a bit vague, but for most fish species, "pressure detection uses the organ of Weber, a system consisting of three appendages of vertebrae transferring changes in shape of the gas bladder to the middle ear." This makes their perception of pressure more direct and granular than ours, so what prevents them from diving deeper could be similar to what prevents us from walking into a fire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensory_systems_in_fish
I downloaded the PDF and looked at the beginning of two random chapters. My first impression is that the authors define machine learning formally, but fairly simply and then offer practical material. Not really fair to offer an opinion after a 15 minute look, but it looks like a good book.
85 in parts of Texas Hill Country too.

Those wide empty roads going 55 feels like 30mph.
I take it you've never seen the Numberphile YouTube video of a logic gate made from dominos.
There ought to be a standard "caniuse" features discovery API rather than parsing UA's or oodles of platform quirks/detection "magic."
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If an “open market system” means that immigrants should be hired
on an equal footing with citizens without being tied to a single employer who holds undue power over them, then I agree
with you. You seem to be arguing the exact opposite (for more protectionism) though.

The H-1B is essentially the only way to bring skilled workers into the US, besides a few other small niche categories. Almost ALL foreign skilled workers, not just the cheap ones, come in on that visa category. You have many fundamental factual misunderstandings about the reality of the program but that doesn’t seem to stop you from forming very strong opinions about it.

I know many H-1Bs who make >1m/year, so it’s categorically not just for cheap talent.
Yes but hipsters won't be seen dead using it. It's soo not cool. Our industry is much less rational than we think.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonowon,_British_Columbia
> terrible people

Shaming someone for a specific vote on a specific bill (taken out of context; surely you're aware that people vote against bills for all kinds of reasons) and "terrible people" and bringing up the KKK is exactly the kind of character assassination we expect from the shallow partisan media outlets that are destroying the possibility of political discourse. I would have expected better from you.
"Lying" is dishonest clickbait. Presenting a mobile browser with an UA identical to a desktop one is standard practice.