skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a weird headline. I think he is thinking harder than he should. He goes into metaphysical.

My take on it. I'm very happy being able to work for in a level headed workplace that doesn't resembles a religious cult. And I am very happy to do a non-joke job, unlike programmers working in cat video site startups with unlimited funds for buffoonery.

Our work is almost anonymous in the West, and most of our clients prefer it be that way. We don't mind, and I actually like it this way.

When I finally closed the door on the West, it was a relief. A red pill as people say nowadays.

The West needs a correction. A culture of unlimited money in Silicon Valley assures that they will never get an incentive to get serious, until they really need it, and then they croak.
Those squirrels....I found the break by turning the base on and using an AM radio to follow the wire around (it made a kinda tone). When the tone stopped I found the break. The hardest part was finding the radio And getting the batteries... I would assume it would work for the husqvarna perimeter too.

The squirrel trying to get to bird feeder :

https://youtu.be/cnNqi1hnHY8
While the expression is living in your parent's basement, I don't think the kids are literally living in the basement unless the parents happen to have a home with a nice finished basement which is nicer to live in than an upstairs bedroom. It's just an expression.
I once read that the person running the .co registry was a k user and released his own k-like language. I wonder if that has anything to do with the speed of the .co TLD
He forced the consequences onto her.

None of these men will ever actually face consequences. They are all obscenely wealthy and well connected.
Actually, you can order taxis via Rappi if you want to pay digitally
But climate change doesn't start fires...
Well, I can tell the difference. Men look more aggressive and professional overall. I mean, the US women national team lost to kids etc, so you tell me.

We have some women teams here in Spain, and while there's some movement in the league honestly it feels... like watching amateurish football. I guess they need time to catch on, but meanwhile it's not very appealing.
i can confirm, geocar's understanding of the code is correct
> 4 isn't right (anymore) because they made all political ads available to anyone who wants to see them.

I think #4 is still valid:

1. Facebook may not be to correctly identify political ads vs other ads.

2. Their Ad Library seems to be missing important information [1].

3. A disclosure like the Ad Library still obscures influence campaigns by greatly reducing the ability of watchdogs to passively monitor the political discourse. Instead they have expend much more manpower to actively monitor the library with the right search terms, and if they fail to do that they'll miss things.

[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-blocks-ad-transp...

> Facebook has launched an archive of American political ads, which the company says is an alternative to ProPublica’s tool. However, Facebook’s ad archive is only available in three countries, fails to disclose important targeting data and doesn’t even include all political ads run in the U.S.

> Our tool regularly caught political ads that aren’t reflected in Facebook’s archive. Just this month, we noticed four groups running ads that haven’t been in Facebook’s archive:
Photopea – A Web Based Photoshop Alternative
Microsoft to Close the Microsoft Store for Business and the Store for Education
https://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/Year-in-Review-2...

> When I say the government needs to raise more money, some people ask why Melinda and I don’t voluntarily pay more in taxes than the law requires. The answer is that simply leaving it up to people to give more than the government asks for is not a scalable solution. People pay taxes as an obligation of law and citizenship, not out of charity. Additional voluntary giving will never raise enough money for everything the government needs to do. If Melinda and I signed over our foundation’s entire endowment to the state of California, it wouldn’t be enough to fund their public schools for even one year. A vibrant economic system depends on setting expectations for who pays how much.
> Long after Hitler has been replaced by the next boogeyman

I don't envy the people living in those times. Hitler is one hell of a boogeyman to top.
Same here, I ran FreeNAS for 3+ years ZFS and all that. After having a drive die, replacing the wrong drive, trying to recover and loosing all the data (I had a 2month old drive in a Bank safe so was able to recover) but after that I switch to Synology that provides a nice blinking light for the failed drive, auto updating OS, surveillance, plex, etc I never looked back. Since then I've bought at least 10 more for work and family. Sure a drive dies every few years but w/ RAID6 and Amazon a swap is 2 days away click repair move on. Coupled w/ B2 cloud backup I never worry about data loss anymore. Synology is an appliance, FreeNAS was a pet, at this point in my life I don't have time for Pets.
Wow. You created a Hacker News account an hour ago just to say this?

Who cares if it's "contentless?" Interactions on HN are frequently petty, mean spirited, and uncivil. Two people who are extremely active and give a lot to two different communities but don't know each other in real life had a pleasant interaction here that could have a fruitful outcome. Was this an event of Earth-shattering importance? No. But to read it as an illustration of the "vapidity...that infects open source projects" strikes me as noxiously cynical.
Increased unaddressed income inequality, a growing partisan divide that led to a large group feeling disenfranchised enough to rally around a candidate whose whole platform was "burn the status quo to the ground", etc?

I mean...we didn't have an unnecessary war that left us in a bad state; we got there ourselves.
“Technically true”?

The widespread defamation of Covington students makes it clear they’ll outright lie if those pesky facts don’t fit the narrative.

As far as anyone can tell, the media opted to re-victimize the victims of racist harassment because they don’t like White people.

That same racist group went on to murder several Jewish victims out of racial hatred, recently.
The report is the product of considerable work involving 73 interviews of 59 people and more than 610,000 documents and emails.

That's 10,000 documents and emails per person interviewed. How is that even possible?
Why do you believe MIT would have this information?
Side Note - I really admire Stanford's commitment to open education. The professors there have released so much high quality material for free.
There is a big community of people supporting the 8-bit home computers too. I'm subscribed to r/c64 on Reddit for example, and people recently posted a "top 10 C64 games released in 2019" video, for example.

What makes the Amiga interesting, though, is that it represented a transition from the 8-bit environment to modern machines that is modern enough to resemble modern systems (GUI, multitasking, reasonable graphics, lots of people had harddrives etc.) and that was revolutionary at the time.

At the same time around 5 million Amigas were sold, making it one of the most successful lines of home computers ever; not that many of the alternatives have as large a pool of potential supporters, and many of the rest are "too old" in that their users had one of the earlier ones and moved on to one (or more) of the later ones, and their nostalgia may have another focus.

E.g. we first had a VIC-20 briefly, but I really started with a C64, and while I love the C64 too, you can't imagine the C64 as a replacement for a PC. But my Amiga stood up very favourably to PCs for years, even after Windows gained traction. It was faster for a while. It had better graphics. It had proper pre-emptive multitasking. It had better sound. More of my nostalgia is focused on the Amiga.

Part of it is probably also down to what and how you used them. For the first years we had a C64 I mostly used it for games. I spent more time on my Amiga on creative endeavours, from writing code to drawing in Deluxe Paint, and writing.

And in retrospect there are still aspects of the OS that feels ahead of today. E.g. one of my favourites includes pervasive scripting. OS X comes closest to that with AppleScript, but on the Amiga AREXX become so integral that some applications have their central event bus built around AREXX to they point where every keypress and every menu action gets passed through the same mechanism as the AREXX commands. Another is datatypes: You'll find Amiga applications published in the 90's that happily supports WebP images for example, because someone wrote a datatype library for it, and so every application that supports datatypes can load WebP without modification or recompilation or anything.

But of course there is an element of rose tinted glasses and all that, which I think largely comes down to how big a part of your life it was, and to what extent it was part of your formative years. For me, my computing interest dominated my life (and still does), and so the Amiga dominated my life from I was 13 until I was around 20, and it was practicality more than anything that made me switch (to Linux): I moved to a smaller flat, and I could only fit one machine and needed a Linux machine due to work, and it had to take preference.
> Penny-ante campaign contributions and a few face to face meetings probably aren't enough to overcome that.

True, but a promise to use that power to benefit particular politicians probably would.
You're linking to press releases now, so this discussion has run its course. You refuse to acknowledge that unjustified adjustments have overwhelmed the rest of the books. Reading the press release, we find it's bragging about a few parts of DoD, not even including USArmy which is what we were talking about.
Not all men that have chosen not to have a family are "living in their parent's basement" or have "given up" on life.

I made the choice about 20 years ago to never marry, and never have children. I own my home, have an amazing career full of growth and future potential and currently am in the top 20% of wage earners.

Had I made a different choice 20 years ago I likely would be married with 2 kids right now, and be making significantly less income likely living paycheck to paycheck struggling to pay rent

What is depressing to me is the belief that family is the only way to have fulfillment in life, and if you choose not to have children you have "given up" on life
> it's considered far more acceptable for a man to be working

That last word is the key point. Men receive less judgment for remaining single than women, but they also receive more judgment if they don't work. That's a reason we're much more willing to code an unemployed or underemployed man as a "loser" than we are to do so a woman.
I think it's a very reasonable concern, making matters worse their one child policy has shifted the demographic towards a higher percentage of men. In Polygamous societies, civil war is very frequent (meaning men without a chance to find a woman find ways to vent often through violence). Add to that, Chinia is a very fragile state economically. Their banks are extremely overleveraged. This is a historically dangerous situation, and that's not even accounting for the newly minted authoritarian dictator.
Oh wow.

> David would go for months or even years at a time completely ignoring my pleas to see his son — not even so much as a text to us, despite living about a mile away.

I can see not having the desire to be with her and break up the relationship, but abandoning his child and not seeing them for years at a time is downright evil.

It's so strange to hear how Google touts itself to be at the forefront of inclusivity and tolerance, and here their executive acting this way for decades and nobody does anything.
This is besides the point of the article, but the link is in HTTP (no TLS but available with a correct certificate), and the report site which has the information linked in the article is also in HTTP (but has a bad TLS certificate).
The author reads way too much on Zuckerberg’s response. It Makes me question their perception of the events and as a result, the analysis as a whole.
Why they hired a law firm to begin with?
> Men basically have the choice of either a stuffy suit that look like it hasn't changed in a century and is completely impractical, or baggy pants and a baggy hoody.

I don't wear either of these on a daily basis, nor my birthday suit, and people think that I dress nice. Men have a plethora of clothing options that are stylish, comfortable, and appropriate for work situations. I'm currently wearing slacks that are designed to feel like sweat pants and a thick cotton button up shirt.

Women have it pretty bad when it comes to clothes shopping. Men take for granted that we all are roughly the same shape, so most of us can shop at the same stores. It's not like that for women.

Women come in many different shapes. So you look and see that a clothing store has twice as many jeans for women as they do for men, but don't realize that all of those are split over four or five styles that are mutually exclusive: most women can only fit into one, maybe two styles. But for men, most of us can wear slim fit, regular fit, bootcut, etc jeans.

This same phenomenon extends to stores as well. Lots of women's clothing brands specialize in a certain shape of woman.
Yeah. A small company I used to work for had a phase where Amazon contacted us and wanted to potentially partner up. CEO went and spoke at Amazon and they got to see our goodies and then nothing came of it.

I think that their intention was to duplicate what we were doing if they got on the other side and thought it was valuable.

Turns out the company was/is floating on investor money like so many startup ponzi schemes. I suspect Amazon just didn't think it was worth it.
Thank you!

Just to clarify one little thing, because it appears to be something of a common misconception:

> Mac doesn't even allow unsigned drivers anymore

You can absolutely still install unsigned drivers (kernel extensions) on macOS, the user just needs to run a Terminal command from recovery mode. This is a one-time process that takes all of five minutes if you know what you're doing.

You can theoretically replace the Darwin kernel with your own version too. macOS is not iOS, you can completely open it up if you want.
Most important thing to convey is the conceptual framework used and assumptions made to simplify things. e.g. "We will fix problems only by altering the base image, not the build system." "We will not change to 64-bit build as a part of this change." The sort of thing so that if someone really internalizes the perspective, they will be able to decide all the details on their own. Also a basic picture is always very popular. The details should be in git someway or another, but being able to use the details quickly is the job of the overview. I find it useful to document common change workflows ('To add another type of processor, add the class name to this map in this file, provide a jar implementing that class here, and add a new ID to the enum here.')
The camera on the new phones are amazing, but nowhere near good enough. I think the bar for good enough is that every photo a regular person takes is an objectively great photo. People use these cameras to capture important moments in their lives. Important moments deserve great photos. Computational photography has gotten us much closer to that, but there is still a long way to go.
They tried the same trick as anywhere else, then. And it is unsurprising that they failed.
Sometimes companies form separate legal entities in each region or country so they can deal with each in isolation.
How much cryptography is actually used in commercial applications? Having hundreds of pages of arcane (but highly interesting!) theory is great, but if it's not applied to real systems, like in banking, then its usefulness is limited, to say the least.

Edit: I don't know why I'm being downvoted.
Is the Endgame Near for SoftBank and WeWork?
Agreed incredibly vapid passive aggressive chittering on a public forum.
The report itself is rather interesting:

http://factfindingjan2020.mit.edu/files/MIT-report.pdf

> After meeting Epstein in February 2013, Ito conducted what he described as “due diligence” into Epstein. Ito told us that he performed a Google search of Epstein and also spoke with certain individuals to learn more. According to Ito, the “influential” people with whom he spoke included Nicholas Negroponte, Media Lab co-founder and Professor Post-Tenure of Media Arts and Sciences; members of the Media Lab Advisory Council; tech billionaires, including a former LinkedIn senior executive and co-founder; and a well-known Harvard Law School professor. Ito also met other influential individuals at meetings with Epstein, including Woody Allen, a senior executive at the Hyatt Corporation, and a former prime minister of Israel. Ito explained that these meetings and discussions influenced his view of Epstein.
I have 24k emails over the last year in my work email. I think this is fairly typical in large companies.
I think I agree with the Colombian judge then, but I live in a country where Uber is regulated just like any other taxi company.
Type systems and static checks in general are great. What do you think of the example type in the post above? It seems like the type system might not be expressive enough to handle existing APIs, that’s something which was hard for TypeScript too, but has slowly been getting better. Perhaps that will be the case in Python too.
To obtain a medium-quality BibTeX entry for your DOI:

curl -LH "Accept: application/x-bibtex" https://doi.org/<doi>
This situation is fucked up on multiple levels.

You don't punish the subordinate. Given his level, he should have been out.

Instead they transferred her from legal to sales and her performance tanked because it was a job she was in no way qualified to do.

He got her to quit (and sign a bunch of forms) promising to support her, then bailed.

He refused child support and after she sued, he started using threats against her kid to fuck with her.

This is a woman who got into a relationship, then realized that not only was the guy a complete psycho but the company had his back because he's the important one.

The rot at google is very real. Top down too.
Presumably the documents and emails come from people besides the interviewees.
An abuse of power? They had an affair, how was that a plan to create a situation of asymmetry and dependency? How did she not know this was a bad idea all along? Did she think a person willing to cheat on a spouse was going to be a good person down the road?

> David and I began an affair shortly after that night and we were together for years.

She made a bad choice in life. She had an affair with a married man that worked in her department, when she knew such a relationship was against company policy. No one said she had to leave the department, only that one of them had to.

Everything that happened after, while terribly cruel, is not anything you dont see frequently when a relationship falls apart that involves children. It's very sad story but I am not victim blaming anyone, they are both at fault. But they both willingly went into this situation with their eyes open knowing full well what the consequences could be.
Often times outside law firms handle investigations like this. MIT clearly had some failed policies where they were laundering the reputation of a despicable person for donations, which shouldn't happen. An internal investigation would be strongly biased to find no wrong-doing. Ostensibly, an outside investigation is more neutral (even though MIT is still paying for it so they're clearly biased to be soft too...)
Unfortunately, in my experience, I've had my fair share of "shit funnels" or "shit multipliers." That applies to any manager role, really.

As a former product manager, I think of it as being at the bottom of a canyon and shit rolling in from both edges of the canyon (business and technical). It's a hard job to do well and keep everyone happy.
That is what Zuck thought. And it would be missing the point. That is not what the author took issue with.
Wow I can't wait to work on this guy's company. He sounds so easy to work with.
Though there's some biological risk[1], it seems obvious the real problem is that you'll be dead before your kid is in college (and I am skeptical about how involved you could be in parenting before that...)

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternal_age_effect
Your preferences != other people's preferences. Most people prefer things to be faster. And most people do not own or (if they do) carry a DSLR. Phone cameras are important.
I don't know, probably adds to my CPU overhead a little and I don't feel like doing that.

Not using chromium or electron apps helps my RAM situation pretty strongly. The only time I run OOM is if the pi is doing on-device compiling with too many threads. I run a modest 8-12 firefox tabs. Usually just over half the ram is utilized throughout the day.
https://news.yahoo.com/men-paying-76-000-limb-155514396.html : just read this..what a coincidence!

[..] Some men and a few women are getting plastic surgery to lengthen their limbs and grow up to six inches taller.

Dr. Kevin Debiparshad, founding surgeon at The LimbplastX Institute in Las Vegas, Nevada, has performed this procedure on more than 30 people since opening his practice in 2018.

The two-hour, $76,000 procedure involves minor breaks in the leg bones, nails and screws, and physical therapy. It takes a full year to see the end results.

Some patients may lose some athletic ability, and a psychologist previously told Insider "cosmetic procedures don't have a lasting effect on people's positive body images nor their general well-being."
[..]
To conduct a fact-finding operation regarding MIT (and its members') interactions with Epstein and donations contributed by him to the university or its members.

http://factfindingjan2020.mit.edu/
Those two things are not related. "Give me all the e-mails and Sharepoints on the Exchange server" and "I want to talk to these 59 people" are separate requests.
All for DFW, and I totally get what you mean, but at all evaluating an author based on how well they talk on their feet seems, well, daft. No offense.
That has been practised for a long time in Australia. Ironically and sadly the authorities responsible are now reducing their controlled burning because they say there are too few days in the year when it is safe to do so due to climate change.
What will happen to your Windows 7 PC on January 15, 2020
I don't, it's just the most frequently asked question.
> live elsewhere

> nearly double the average for where I live

Well, that's probably why
Well, yes. But specifically I'm referring to people who blame men for all kinds of problems, complain about "the patriarchy" and things like that.
> Maybe the type of person who can build frontends for Google AdWords doesn't have the skills necessary to do something better and should be content providing a service and taking care of their family.

Whose definition of "better" are we required to use? I strongly suspect yours, mine, and the person building front ends for Google AdWords will be different definitions.
What did he force onto her?
I found noteworthy that MIT recognized the risk of bias and attempted to control for it by retaining a second law firm (that had no history of working with MIT, whereas the first firm they retained has been used by MIT for previous tasks).
As I get older, I am more interested in what’s achievable with ‘beauty’(a loaded term).

There is a lot we take for granted when young. And things we don’t notice. Like gravity, for example..