skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't it the exact opposite? Presumably the papers scientists are reading are primarily the ones in their own field.
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Yup. In terms of the amount of practical benefit it's turned into, it's got to be the best online course I've ever taken.
Could you take advantage of Google's geographic reach to try working from different offices (potentially on the same team, or different team)?
That's the hundred-billion-dollar question, isn't it.

My radical proposal is to separate the research institutions from the universities -- especially the public universities. If you want public research institutes, that's fine -- but they should be their own entities.

The university system, with its mix of research and instruction, and its tenure-vs-non-tenure system creates terrible incentives.

Top researchers are rarely also the best instructors -- and so it makes little sense for the two occupations to be so intimately tied.

The university funding model is terribly destructive to top science labs as well -- the university sees them as a source of prestige, sure, but more importantly as a source of that all-too-critical grant money (entirely too much of which is bogarted by the rest of the university) -- putting many of the labs in this place where they have to keep securing grants at an ever-increasing pace no matter what, to keep the rest of the university flush with cash to spend elsewhere.

There's really no good reason why research needs to be done at a university, or why a research institution needs a body of lecturers and students.
What you missed in your reply is the fact that your view is completely U.S. centric. Australia legally requires companies to build backdoors and not disclose them if mandated by the government. Lookup the Assistance and Access Bill from more than a year ago and the concerns around it.
From https://linrunner.de/en/tlp/docs/tlp-faq.html

> Since kernel 3.9 the new scaling driver intel_pstate is available and enabled by default on Intel Sandy Bridge (or newer) hardware. intel_pstate supports the governors powersave (recommended default) and performance only, ondemand is gone.
Question. Why?
How do you know it's her property? I guess it was her father's property and now is in her possession. Does this automatically become her property? The device and the data?

I guess we have a generation facing this new problem. I have only seem discussion about how services like Facebook should handle the data of deceased people. I didn't realize your kids (and spouse?) can just take your device and release it. This future seems scary to me.
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There's something odd about that URL.

It takes me to

https://choice.npr.org/index.html?origin=https://www.npr.org...

Edit: And there's nothing at https://choice.npr.org/ itself.

This is from a German IP address.
And still doesn't come close.
I really enjoy the server-client diagram [1].

I've always thought myself very able to explain technical things quite well to non-technical people, but always struggled to explain the public/private key exchange in a simple way. This is really neat.

1: https://webauthn.guide/#authentication
I used to be more worried about favoritism, nepotism et al. but these days, I'm more worried about quantifiable metrics. The former are situational, and there's only so much nepotism you can engage with before your peers in other places start considering it to be in bad taste. The latter, however, can be ruthlessly and efficiently optimized, to the full exclusion of any value that's not captured in the metrics.
Business “Ethics”
Well all resources are made from natural resources, so you’re suggesting that people can’t own anything.
Have you watched his "spec-ulation" talk? It makes a very strong case against EVER removing a feature from an API. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyLBGkS5ICk
and exclusivity. Same strategy as having a full house on opening night with a long queue rather than an empty house with no queue.
Can you share to me your resources about this topic? I would love to read them because I had a similar train of thought during one of my personal “meditations”[0] but I was not able to follow up on it.

[0]: fancy term for doing nothing but stare into the distance and think about things
Humblebrag much?

I spent the first 7 years of my career in the public sector. Talk about a career killer.

If you are concerned about getting a job elsewhere, just study and do online coding exercises like crazy. That should land you a job at most companies with whiteboard interview at your seniority level.

If you are concerned about actual learning, most of my professional growth has been on the job.

I spent a long while doing 'proactive learning' where I would study new techs and frameworks. It turns out that all of them, either I never had to use, or when I had to, I needed a refresher, since I forgot most about it. Lately I have been doing more 'reactive learning', where I learn new things as I need them, or studying general topics that can be broadly applied.

Long story short, look for positions that will stretch your abilities, you'll be fine.
> hopefully stops rampant corruption at the highest levels of government

I think we have a strong proof that that isn't the case.
Siri can control your smart home and doesn’t phone home (any more). You can hook it up with a raspberry pi to control just about anything, including generic zigbee devices.
> On a more serious note, won't the high price only encourage fisheries to violate their quotas and drive Bluefin to extinction?

Yes, it's a basic flaw in the free market.
Why do you say that "VSCode does not look like a native app at all?" It has a Mac menu bar, context menus, drag and drop, familiar key equivalents. It's not a completely foreign experience like (say) vim.

Achieving these things has required heroics on Microsoft's part. Very few other electron apps go to those lengths.

Users switch between applications far more often than they switch OSes. Native behavior allows users to bring expertise from one app to another. I'd be productive more quickly with Chime, because I already speak its UI vocabulary.
This is one I made https://pinballmap.com/

I like it, but I think it would be nicer without the big list of "regional maps" at the bottom. I'm not really sure how best to include that list (users have told us, "list all the regions so I can ctrl-F for them! or else I hate you!"

Next I want to add some stats to the landing page. Like, top 25 pinball machines that are on location. And each one listed would be a link to show that machine on the map.
I bet you would only get a few pages loaded before being captcha'd since the IP is still one of a cloud provider.
> Therapy is the answer here. You have to un-brainwash yourself from the notion that your job is your life

Yeah, but where is the guarantee that therapy really un-brainwashes instead of re-brainwashing you to just be content with a comfortable middle-class lifestyle. I guess it is a totally rational strategy if you want to maximize happiness (whatever that means) but it still feels like a cop-out.
Cloudflare isn't really any better than Google.

Really, they're worse. If Cloudflare decides you should not be, you're not allowed to use the internet at all. The last thing we need is to give them even more power.
my favorite solution is still disabling the damn notification center altogether for good. nothing to be forget about then.
To be more accurate, those in the internet said that the internet forum 4chan was a significant factor.

I think history will prove it was not in the real scheme of things.

However it is still full of sociopaths working on their own nefarious deeds!
What if you're at an overly-corporate place being the jeans & t-shirt person?

Throughout modern history tech founders used this to great effect against suits.

My theory is that radically different dress from the norm (whether dressing up or down) can be advantageous provided you remain utterly confident and bring value to the table.
If you shoot all the cops (and probably the army), then you have conquered the land, congratulations. You are now the state. Probably have to go and make your own cops now.
That isn't all of 4chan though, there are still some communities left there that aren't too far gone. And most of what you've "noticed" coming from 4chan is actually coming from 8chan, which is the distilled form of /pol/ sociopathy.

Additionally: 4chan isn't a subculture, it is/was a subculture incubator.
That statement is predicated on the mis-guided assumption that politicians are a statistically-representative sample of Americans.
Use this time to spend your mental energy on projects that you're really passionate about while enjoying your great (i'm sure) Google salary. I think you underestimate what an amazing position you're in right now.
I admit a case can be made for having every-pred in the language, since from a mathematical standpoint predicate composition is an innate low-level feature (putting the questionable naming issue aside)
I think that's a bit out of scope for the discussion about this list. A very short summary might be that a lot of people see Alphabet/Google as having gotten too big (various monopoly issues) and their business is largely based on advertisement that involves lots of tracking. Especially the combination of the two makes it bad. (You probably already knew this and I'm not actually sure if I should be spending time giving a serious answer to a two-word comment.) Anyway, I think this thread should be about the list and not about the mystery of why anyone would not want to use Google products.
> Echinoderms form the focus of extraocular vision research

Very droll.
> From my personal experience users don't care at all if the app has a native look or not, as long as the app looks decent and works.

The same can be said of Windows (that users don’t care about the user experience). But the users may just not be aware of choices or may have things foisted on them for various reasons. That doesn’t necessarily mean they don’t care for a good experience. This also depends on the platform and the age group of users. It’s possible that younger users and/or those on Windows don’t care much about annoyances or just give up thinking that this is what a computing experience will be. Users on the Mac, especially those who’ve used it extensively (and learned) are more likely to realize and talk about non-native apps. It’s the same reason why hardcore Mac users have panned the newer “Catalyst” apps from Apple in macOS.
Exactly what reputation is this? I have heard that about a former employer British Telecom, I suspect it varies I can imagine the sort that went into CS and rote learned their way to a Degree might have a problem.

Not that some of googles published api's and standards work can sometimes a little shonky and could do with a lot more rigor.
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Is it a good thing if I didn't even scroll, but just watched events unfold? Surely that's a compliment, right?
> you will probably have to work at least 20 years to have enough for retirement

A whole 20 years? Cry me a river.
Not defending Electron, but Cocoa is an OS-specific, proprietary framework. It makes sense why most text editors (which are mostly libre software) wouldn't use it. I do have to ask, though: why not just use TextMate, at that point?
I'm arguing that the phenomena seem identical in their underlying structures. In both cases, we're dealing with a situation in which a person faces mountains of evidence that a source (a newspaper, or scientific papers in a given field) keeps pumping out inaccurate or wrong publications, but despite all that evidence, they assume that whatever isn't explicitly pointed out as wrong must be 100% true, accurate and honest.
It's the same as with programming: many people now have a career in science because that's something that comes with prestige rather than that they are driven by their curiosity and need to understand how stuff works. Once established the treadmill needs to keep turning so you get tons of low value papers and the occasional gem. Publish or perish does nothing to improve the quality of what is published, rather to the contrary.
I used to figure I might run for public office some day; no longer. I haven't done anything that would merit a scandal or be counted as "dirt", but that doesn't change it. I don't want a bunch of busybodies poking into ever detail of my life, and more importantly, don't want that to happen to my family.
Also, let’s not forget about the extreme cost of living difference between the Bay Area and europe. SWE from google aren’t easily buying homes here, especially if they want to live near their work.
Thanks for the input, I will fix the article ASAP.
There's a reason Georgism never took off. It's not a great idea.
I think this is worse: http://arngren.net/
Literally every who has been a regular on 4chan thinks the site got ruined at some point. 2007, 2009, 2012, 2014, 2016, pick your year.
This is a great, highly accessible guide. The biggest value add is in the description of the protocol, although the W3C standard (https://www.w3.org/TR/webauthn/) was also expertly written and is a great, relatively accessible resource. Duo has done good work in this space.

I've written an implementation of WebAuthn for Python-based webapps: https://github.com/pyauth/pywarp that may be useful to implementers.
”One day the public is going to cotton on to all of this. I cringe every time I hear extremely authoritative lectures on "what scientists say" about highly politicized public policy matters....I'd exercise some humility.”

You shouldn’t be cringing. You should be educating people about how science actually works, and how it simply doesn’t matter very much whether any particular paper is reproducible. It’s a straw-man argument, because most papers aren’t worth reproducing. I don’t know many good scientists who take what they read (in any journal) at face value. If you do, you’ve been mislead somewhere during your training (fwiw, I also have a PhD). At best, papers are sources of ideas. Interesting ideas get tested again. Most get ignored. Even if a few hokum theories become popular for a while, eventually they’re revealed for what they are.

The tiny percentage of subjects that rise to the level of public policy discussion end up being so extensively investigated that reproduction of results is essentially guaranteed. And yeah, you hear lots of silly noise from university PR departments, but that stuff is a flash in the pan.

For example, nobody legitimate is in doubt of the broader facts of global climate change or evolution or vaccination, even if 95% of (say) social science reaults turn out to be complete bunk. Yet climate deniers, anti-vaxxers and “intelligent design” trolls absolutely love it when this distinction is ignored, because it allows them to confuse the public on the legitimacy of science as a process.
> all I do is copy code from the internal codebase

Lazy mothafucka
Cloudflare's "bot management" is effectively their own solution but doesn't provide a way to affirm you're not a bot like other solutions do; think of it like a fraud detection service and not a captcha service.

I also find it unlikely that they move away from Google's recaptcha since they seem to have an unlimited, unrestricted (can be used for any domain) recaptcha API key that they heavily rely on for the "captcha" challenge website owners like to use.
> The majority of users leverage these technologies for a reason. If you use cross-platform technology you can simply reach a broader audience and in the case of a commercial product, generate more revenue with only minimal additional effort.

I understand the reason. I also understand the productivity/audience argument, since I also have done web-dev. It's just that it's suboptimal, and I expected at least some people to develop native apps.

> From my personal experience users don't care at all if the app has a native look or not, as long as the app looks decent and works. In fact, the majority of users likely prefer having the same, highly customized UI of an application, rather than having a completely different looking app when switching platforms.

No, it's not. Unless you're targeting Windows where nobody knows the advantages because nobody has ever seen a consistent application. People used to consider whether the app is Carbon or Cocoa in the early days of OS X; just because Carbon had a suboptimal integration compared to Cocoa (even when the two frameworks are both from Apple).

> Take Visual Studio Code as an example. Within a few years, this editor became one of the most popular code editors. The app uses mainly web technology and a browser window and does not look like a native application at all, yet for the majority of users, it feels like a very fast native application.

VSCode is a successful product in spite of being a electron app, not because of it.
It doesn't feel native at all, and I know many people complaining about it.
I expect many people to pass over when a native-based app that has a similar feature set with VSCode gets released.

(One can have a contrary opinion that the web-based architecture allows VSCode to develop more features than native; but in my experience, today's native app development isn't really that hard anymore. It has a similar barrier level.)
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12298986
Why don’t you start showing up and working harder at google to see what you can learn and do?

You’ll certainly be able to see higher and further from a place that has supported you for this long than starting from scratch elsewhere.

If you don’t learn to make the most of any place you’re presently in, there’s no guarantee you’ll do it anywhere else.
I’ve been a teacher. It’s basically just a job. If you want meaning have your own children.

I have no idea what proportion of software engineers consider what they do meaningful but the team who work on Google Scholar have done a great deal for me and I’m not even an academic. The drivers at Uber and Lyft and their riders have almost all had their lives improved by their existence. Amazon has made the experience of buying books so much better it’s ridiculous. Lambda School is taking 1000s of people from basically useless as programmers to a new career. Those are all pretty meaningful, at least as meaningful as your list, which seems be about displaying caring as much as actually effecting people’s lives.

If you build something people want and it isn’t harmful you’re having an effect.
> Yes, I might have phrased it better, but the intention was that at a younger age, you perhaps didn't yet have to upgrade a legacy projects with semi-obscure tooling where the original developers have long left; or have had to hack your code in a dirty way because the team leader might have read about e.g. an experimental frontend framework and a DB system that is in alpha status, but still orders the team to use it (to show the company that he/she is using cutting edge tech), so 80% of the time you're just figuring out how to get the system running instead of actually creating value for the project.

You're conflating age with experience. Yes, somebody that's younger is likely to have less experience, but the two words are not interchangeable. Their link is definitely not strong enough to begin guessing peoples' ages based on their level of expertise.
Just made this jump recently and have been pleasantly surprised that all stated is true and it's delightful to use. More importantly, I feel as if _we_ use Siri, and not the other way around. Fingers crossed…?
> I'm considering companies with a higher hiring bar than Google.

Like working for me?
The bigger reason is to make the oil fluid again!
Fair enough but those sort of interesting jobs are A rare and B badly paid.
> Use this time to spend your mental energy on projects that you're really passionate about

Watch out about that. Non-competition being what it is, if you make something they own it.
Unfortunately the definition of "dirt" has drifted slowly to any moral lapse, which almost every person has at one time committed (at least, among my group of close friends who share that kind of thing, maybe things are more moral somewhere else). It's sort of a slippery slope though - unearthing information of Epstein/Moore type activities is more legitimately in the public interest than Trudeau blackface lapses (arguably). I think the millennial generation will be more forgiving of dumb things done in youth, simply because their dumb things are more thoroughly documented than the boomers/gen-x'ers.
Man, what's this garbage? No HTTPS for a pseudo-security product?
No offense but probably a placebo effect? Sushi is fine there but the restaurants were always a bit of a tourist trap. Best sushi in the city is not there.
So, now the question becomes why, unprompted, you launched into such a vehement defense of the nature of his work, without understanding the nature of it.
Fair enough. It's entirely unlike constraining in statically-typed languages, but in practice it can still work as constraints if you verify the specs as pre/post conditions of your functions (for which Clojure has some nice syntactic goodies available by default).

The way we've used it, it worked almost as if the maps were statically-typed, and it saved my bacon quite a few times.
The amount of inconvenience will vary heavily from person to person.
It's not that they didn't evade taxes in Europe. You can incorporate in Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Ireland are popular tax paradises as well. Easier when you deal in non-tangible goods, which is probably why until recently corporate tax evasion wasn't such a big deal.

It may well be that labour lost its negotiating power since the 1980s. The wealthy are as well connected as ever, but labour hasn't got a seat at the table any longer.
Could they win customers by implementing their APIs on AWS so that people can move to AWS should Google discontinue their services?

They could still make money by being far more efficient when running their software natively on their own stack.
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Sad thAt this kind of immature behaviour is on HN. Mods should be easily able to search for this kind of behaviour
No, not all products in this list are free: neither as in beer nor as in freedom. Which is fine by me: moving from something like Google Analytics to any other closed-source paid product is probably an improvement for every visitor.
Three reasons.

1) Economists generally believe that it is inefficient to tax capital gains. (Dividend income is already mostly treated as ordinary income.) That is to say, raising the same amount of money through capital gains reduces economic activity more than doing so via say consumption taxes.

2) We are already on the high side of the OECD when you combine capital gains rates + corporate tax rates. (Corporate profits are taxed at both steps.) Here in Maryland, the combined state and federal capital gains rate is 28.25%, a hair below Sweden’s 30%. Sweden’s corporate tax rate is also about the same as the current post-Trump tax law. Personally, I’m uncomfortable being to the left of Sweden on anything.

3) As to adding more tax brackets, it just doesn’t raise enough money. Our tax brackets already go well into the top 1%. So you’re talking about targeting the top 0.1%. The total income of that group is about $1 trillion, or 10% of all income: https://inequality.org/facts/income-inequality. Even confiscatory taxes in that group aren’t going to raise very much money. According to 2014 data, those people paid an average of 27% in federal income taxes alone. (Excluding state income or other taxes). Doubling that, which would take their total taxes to levels far beyond what is typical in Western Europe, would raise maybe $250-300 billion. That’s assuming those people don’t head to Sweden to lower their taxes.

At all levels, the United States spends $7 trillion+ annually. Another $250 billion is a drop in the bucket. It’s a fraction of the $3 trillion per year or so that Medicare for All will cost, for example.