skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"Bad opinions" is a pretty remarkable simplification of the concept of someone that doesn't think you're fully human based on the color of your skin or your sexuality.

And "someone that doesn't think you're fully human based on the color of your skin or your sexuality" is a pretty remarkable simplification of the concept that someone might have religious, moral, philosophical, practical, political, or other considerations about certain behaviours -- in an era when all nuance is often lost and they are bagged as bigots...

>Would you want to work with someone that didn't think you should be allowed to exist?

First, why would you use a huge strawman as an argument?

There are tons of ways to think X group should do something different, or do or not do something, or that they're not saints, or that they go about Y in the wrong way, without thinking "they should not be allowed to exist". But still people are called out for all kinds of tame stuff (e.g. saying only biological women should compete in women's sports, for example), called out to be fired, etc.

Second, yes, I might not want to work with people who don't think I should exist, but I also don't want to have them fired for not wanting me to exist.

There are many coworkers I had throughout my career I myself wished didn't existed (idiotic bosses), but I wouldn't want to get their fired, cause them pain etc.

And if they wish me not to exist, that's their thing. Even if they show it, e.g. with passive aggressiveness, etc (which happens all too often in the workplace just because two people don't like each other, compete for the same position, have different styles, one is jealous of the other, etc. - race/sex etc is hardly the most common cause of this).

Point being, I'm not some God to dictate who deserves to have work or not. Nor do their families, kids, etc deserve to suffer because I am "hurt" of their opinions. And even less so, their personal opinions, outside of work.

If they behave unprofessionally at work to me or anyone else, sure, have them fired.
Tobi Lutke of Shopify Talks about StarCraft
Serious question, as an European why would I trust say Cisco more than Huawei?
Get used to it... this is the world we (the tech community) helped, even pushed, to create.

I ask myself, would a FAANG company hire someone who doesn't actively tweet? Somehow, I doubt it.

It is increasingly impossible to live in the modern world without using the internet. Try buying something these days; many of the brick-and-mortar stores are disappearing. Try getting a job without using online services. Try buying a home or even renting an apartment without online services. The cost benefits of leveraging the internet for most operations (help-desk, ordering, even viewing) grossly outweigh the expense of having people perform such duties. The digitization of life is only going to grow, IMO.

We, the people, are being (operationally) forced to use the internet for more and more aspects of post-industrial life.

For now, our Orwellian dystopia persuades us to use the system. As the "free market" pushes us more and more in the direction of online-only services, AI-driven chat bots and the like, we will reach a point where you must be online to get nearly anything done.

Treat every activity you perform on the internet as if it will last forever. Because it will. And people can judge you for it now and forever; even after you've passed on.

Most of us have nothing to hide; but this perspective is based on our past experiences. We have nothing to hide if the old rules apply. But these are new rules. I can laugh at an off-color joke in the closeness of friends. Do the same online (via a like, re-tweet, share, whatever) and it becomes part of the permanent BigBrother data store... discover-able, query-able, judge-able forever.

Scary stuff.
Just add to what I wrote above. Perhaps you are right that he should get the money, it was in his contract. But as a society and company builders let's learn from the error and force better contracts onto the CEOs. It's time that the CEOs stopped writing their own contracts.
Are you suggesting much more aggressive methods?
Check out the Dask Bag it’s my favorite feature, it helps you deal with non tabular data that also might not be structured consistently: https://examples.dask.org/bag.html

Everybody I show it to likes it even more than working with data frames once they grok it.
Not really “for wokism” - some of the tweets captured are “woke” but still flagged for the language used. As one reply pointed out “fuck racism” would get flagged. It seems like it’s more just scanning for expressions of opinion, good or bad. “I like alcohol” - flagged bad. “I love charity” - flagged good. So these can be used by employers to determine “culture fit” which (opinion here) will probably largely be used, consciously or unconsciously, to enforce a homogeneous work force (racially, sexually, politically).
Why not change? It's a good question. Learning about GA is an investment, getting it coded up and tested is an investment, and the obscurity of GA is going to make the code almost encrypted to people who aren't fairly mathy. Although quaternions are definitely crazier than GA, the sad fact is they're much more popular.

There's some return on all that investment. It might pay off or it might not. I think it's a design decision.
Is there a fallback for no-JS users?
In the Twitter thread (regarding Fama):

> You can opt out of our service by contacting us at privacy@fama.io as long as you have not provided written consent to one of our clients so Fama may access this information on your behalf.
>Many human philosophies reject logic (Or any mechanical system of derivation) as a valid epistemological device.

People can reject what they want, but rejecting hammers doesn't make them less capable of hitting nails.

>logic remains popular mainly due to the theological musings (...)

It's a flourishing field, popular for its usefulness in formal proofs, etc., not a dead remains of the past.
Not to undermine author’s efforts, but I feel we as an industry took a wrong turn somewhere. An entire book on what essentially is a single Git command is just insane.
It is extremely difficult to create large, colorless, flawless synthetic diamonds. Currently synthetics are primarily used for industrial applications like drill bits.
But that cons is broken, such that you can't construct lists of strings.

For a correct implementation of cons, the following gives a list '("a" "b") of two strings:

(cons "a" (cons "b" ()))

and (list "a" "b") is just sugar for the above. This doesn't work if you redefine cons on strings to mean concat.

In other words, if (cons "a" "bc") gives you "abc", then it's not cons.
People are angry because the position of CEO is billed as the one with the most responsibility and yet they take on none of it.

They can drive a company into the ground and still walk away all the richer. Any time the company does something well the CEO gets all the credit while all the bad things are shrugged off.

Responsibility means consequences both good and bad.
I don't think you know what "golden parachute" means.
This sort of thing is going to keep happening while you believe in the legitimacy of the state.

ps. Don't shoot the messenger
As is having one country doing the lion’s share of advanced software. No?
This is a seductive and false type of thinking we’re susceptible to.

The law matters. If the protocol you're imagining is created, it'll be fought at the carrier level.

Just because piracy hasnt been squashed yet doesnt mean we’ll be able to hack our way around obstacles forever
I certainly could still run it, but it’s just not worth it to me anymore. Over time I gradually stopped caring because it wasn’t a rewarding way to spend my time anymore. This thread just jogged some really old memories.
They added a couple pieces to help the VMs, but the syscall layer is pretty Plan 9 inspired on Inferno. A few of the man pages call out 9p explicitly. All of the Sys_* here are the system calls on Inferno https://bitbucket.org/inferno-os/inferno-os/src/master/os/po...
You're right. Being smart is also knowing when to buy a replacement. Being smarter is knowing how to treat a car well so it can see it's 20th year of service.

Unfortunately, certain countries, such as Canada, are very hostile to cars. The weather and road salt take a toll.
The US has record low unemployment. There are many fields outside tech where workers can be picky about jobs.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22205001
Show HN: Inspired by open startups, I built an API-driven personal dashboard
I've always been fascinated by open startups[0] and their transparency with sharing metrics. I wanted to create something similar for my personal site.

To create this, I used Next.js API routes[1] + Now serverless functions[2].

◆ Unsplash API for views/downloads

◆ YouTube API for views/subscribers

◆ Google Analytics API for page views

Bonus: Uses SWR[3] to refresh stale content

https://leerob.io/dashboard

---

[0]: https://baremetrics.com/open-startups

[1]: https://nextjs.org/docs/api-routes/introduction

[2]: https://zeit.co

[3]: https://swr.now.sh
Hey, so how's edonkey/gnutella/winmx/kazaa doin'?
This is my worry for them, quantity over quality. Though I have to say their quality is pretty good. It just feels like too much and really confuses people when I start to tell them. My issue is still, how can I describe keybase without people saying to me it looks bloated. Maybe it is and that's the problem.
I found a simple and light screencapture tool and I record my coding sessions into reasonably-sized videos.
> A rather childish way to see it

I think that’s part of the point. This isn’t a journal article. It’s art, as the author says. It’s meant to in part reflect the emotional space of the experience, not necessarily speak to some objective truth.

I’ve been part of these types of safety meetings/safety standowns for much of my career. And while maybe not the most mature interpretation of the meeting intent it definitely reflects many or most attendees attitudes towards them. As art, I think the author did a fine job capturing that sentiment.
The name doesn't even need to be common. There are a dozen's dozen ways to spell my last name, and I've received emails intended for somebody else simply because the sender searched the directory and clicked the first hit they got.

For extra credit, I share the same name [spelling and all] with a decently famous musician. If you search for me you'll get him unless you include//exclude an extra choice word or two.
On the TODO list. However, I think it'd have to be opt-in.

EDIT: Maybe not. You'd just see a scrollbar since the iframe can't auto expand:

https://blog.winricklabs.com/(1-25-2020)-making-an-embeddabl...
I work at Google. I make 450k per year.

In high school I experienced severe depression. My first psychiatrist prescribed me antidepressants that didn't work well and caused me to have auditory hallucinations. I went on antipsychotics that made things worse.

It took two years to resolve everything and find a doctor and a medicine that worked for me. During this time

1. My mother was a homemaker and could spend a large amount of time driving me to doctors that were far away from home. She was also able to coordinate extended leaves with my high school (I missed an entire month straight at one point).

2. My parents made a lot of money. We were able to afford a psychiatrist who didn't take our insurance, spending thousands of dollars a month on bills.

3. My parents and several extended family members had personally experienced depression and were able to empathize well with my experience rather than telling me to suck it up. I had continual support from them.

If some of these things go the other way, I don't graduate high school.

Add this to all the myriad of other privileges I experienced along the way and I very much did not end up making a mountain of money at Google by just trying hard.
How timely! Just this week, I was able to bring together our client's large IT team with my agency's large team of engineers in a shared Slack, after nearly a year and a half of our only communications being through email and (lots of) ad hoc Skype calls.

My vision driving what has been a many-month push to get our teams together is to build a much higher degree of trust, respect, and collaboration between the teams of engineers, to enable our program team (consisting of both the client's team and our agency's team) to more nimbly plan and triage issues together, and to mitigate email grenades that unnecessarily pull in business stakeholders who, without context, see only bits and pieces and (understandably) fear the worst.

The combining of the teams is obviously still early in the experiment and there's a lot of history we are going to need to overcome together, but I'm optimistic this will be one of the simplest but most effective strategic moves I'll have made in my career up to this point. I'm excited about the future (challenges and all) for the team and will be doing everything in my power to make sure everyone is supported and building the trust necessary in any high-performance team.
More likely is that before coronavirus Lieber's arrest wasn't politically feasible.

He was Chair of the Chem department at Harvard, respected key opinion leader etc. All he did was take money from more sources than he disclosed, to fund the normal business of his academic career. Reading between the lines, looking at the photos, everyone familiar with science+academia can clearly see he's slimy but no more slimy than many other respected businesspeople. But to lay people it seems like a scientist is getting persecuted for furthering international cooperation in basic research. And of course one does not chair a Harvard department without powerful friends.

From the court filings, it seems Lieber was caught a long time ago when he e.g. explicitly lied about funding sources to investigators.

When coronavirus happened, suddenly Wuhan, China, and research became politically exposed. Before coronavirus, if you said Lieber took money to help develop a university in Wuhan people in the USA would think he was doing charity work in some unknown tier 3 city. Now people in the USA hear the same and think of advanced bioweapons. It's a good time to indict and convict.
Of course, this stock photo looking guy started the company https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-mones-45740a2a/
This article gives bad advice. It should say "Don't overspend on a car", or, more generally "live within your means"

The example of the basketball player who makes $100MM driving a 20 year old car doesn't help. A new car would not alter his financial situation in the least, and he sure didn't get rich by driving an old car.

I know people that can't afford to maintain and park a car. They got a job that offers a bus pass for $10/mo - much more affordable than driving their crappy car.
How big is your team?
I don't know whether this is technologically sound but a few things to bear in mind:

* Before they took this decision, the govt consulted with the UK's Cyber Security Centre (these guys are not meek civil servants...GCHQ end up owning every Home Secretary, they are powerful).

* The distinction they made was between allowing Huawei into the "core" part of the UK's networks.

* Because Huawei won't provide "core" infrastructure, there is no risk.

Tbh, I am not an expert but this sounded very wrong to me. 5G is going to require building out a dense blanket of receivers...if you let them do this, then they are in...it doesn't matter.

The suggestion was that sensitive data is only carried through certain infrastructure...I don't really buy this because it doesn't really protect 5G which is obviously a component of the network anyway, and I don't really believe that there is some kind of parallel internet out there for GCHQ only...but I don't know.

To me, this sounded a lot like cheapness. The issue with lack of competition was brought up in the Parliamentary debate...that is a problem that exists but the way to solve that is not to buy equipment from unsafe providers (the Foreign Secretary seemed to accept btw, that Huawei was controlled by the Chinese govt).
Would recommend taking a look at the landing page in Chrome on mobile. Pics are stretched and look terrible.
I'm early in my career, but something that I did recently that seemed to have an impact was to encourage people, both tech and non-tech, to voice what they actually want, regardless of whether that thing seemed possible, and to then work with the group to walk back from there to something possible and reasonable. Prior to that point, everybody was in the habit of just not wanting anything that didn't seem immediately doable.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22202110
Immediately obvious it's probably a pun but as a native English speaker, I can't tell if it's:
- a blog author saying they personally can't support the sale, calling out icann who presumably sold it
- icann just approved it ('t typo)
- icann can't approve it (legally or something)
- icann won't approve it
Attorney General Barr: We're having a really hard time gathering evidence against child predators because of all this end-to-end encryption.

Also Attorney General Barr: Sure, Epstein's New Mexico ranch was an epicenter of his elite child trafficking ring but there's really no need for the FBI to raid it anytime soon.
Yeah, you shouldn't count on it. Especially if they use neural networks - they likely have the know-how to identify you using your writing patterns (though the needle in the haystack issue might help you against not really persistent detectives...)
Hydrogen (being the least massive of all known elements) would not accumulate in the core.

Lower mass elements would be displaced by higher mass elements like uranium, thorium, gold, platinum, etc...
What about banning them for philosophical principles? Why would I buy anything from someone who denies Enlightenment principles and views human rights as “Western rights”?

On a long enough timeline, authoritarianism always wins.
EU presses ahead on forcing standardized phone chargers
Gas and maintenance are mostly a function of mileage though I agree with the basic point. There comes some point where repairs and maintenance start to become an unpredictable black hole and it’s time to get out.

Definitions of crappy vary as do things like whether to go with the relative predictability of a new car or the probable better value of a used one. But it’s certainly true that, for a lot of people, car costs that aren’t really required for functional transportation can be a big chunk of discretionary spend.
That is FANG tier? Do any FANG companies use HireRight? They aren't on the blogroll list.
As someone who works in retail, a large number of the UK population support this decision, as they also buy Huawei phones. Huawei phones are incredibly popular and customers tell me they're very angry at the current anti-Huawei/China feeling at the moment. For those who don't have a lot of money, they really appreciate that Huawei makes phones for all kinds of incomes, not just £40,000+ a year. A lot of them (rightly imho) perceive the US action against Huawei to be out of fear that the US may not be topdog in an area of technology.

>If the British government was truly concerned about market failures, it would not reward Huawei, which profits from unfair support by Chinese state capitalism, giving it advantages over its competitors from market economies.

Is this not outrageous? That we're so intolerant of other kinds of economies that we must try and band and block so that people don't realise the disadvantages of our own system? If your system is so superior, let it compete on its own merits.
2019-NCoV: Institut Pasteur Isolates Strains of Coronavirus Detected in France
Fantastic article. Before you make a comment about the diamond industry, read the whole thing. I’ve had the same view, but this article moved me.

Also, the audio version is wonderfully read. Recommended.
Mind sharing your secret chicken adobo recipe?
(You beat me to it for a few minutes.)

I second this, my work is 10 minutes away cycling, city centre is also about 10 walking.

I know that not everyone has this privilege but it really puzzles me how most of my neighbors own (and use) cars to perform pretty much the same commute.

Taking money out of context for a bit, when I used to own cars they also took a significant amount of time and attention from me. I know it may not be for everybody but switching to bike+bus+walk has been a liberating experience for me as well.
When my son turned 15 we told him he could get any car that he could afford to pay half of, was recommended by Consumer Reports, and was a stick shift (so he can’t text and drive). After working for a summer he got a Toyota Corolla for $3k with 200k miles. It’s been two years and the car has needed nothing but oil changes and, soon, tires. It gets incredible gas mileage and it was so cheap most people only need liability gas mileage.

And this isn’t just a anecdotal. The Corolla has been a well rated reliable car by many sources for years. It’s just boring as hell.
that used to be more true than it is with current engineering standards... driving a car for 20 years with only oil changes, routine maintenance, and new tires can be common
Not so much wokism, more being bland and unobjectionable.
Can anyone here explain to me how a diamond anvil cell works? The metal gasket is under the same pressure as the diamond, so presumably it would deform and let the pressure out?

And if it were strong enough to contain the pressure, why not make the whole thing out of the same metal?
I have been giving presentations professionally since ~2007.

The only thing I agree with is the end:

"The most effective speeches and presentations sound as if they have been spoken, ad-lib, and not written down at all. Great presenters and speakers make it all sound so easy and so natural that one assumes it just pours out of them. It almost never does."

You'll never see an amazing talk/brief/speech like described above, follow the formula outlined in the "How to organize a presentation."

The "How to organize a presentation" is great for someone who has never given a presentation to be able to give a tolerable presentation.

However going from tolerable to good takes a completely different pathway and most people never get there.

I suggest if you're serious about being influential as a presenter you try an open mic for poetry, improv or standup comedy. You'll bomb probably, but the exercise is really important.

Practice storytelling. Write more. Understand your audience before you even start building your presentation. There's so much to do that is never ending but at the end of the day you're trying to build a relationship with your audience so that they trust you and what you are trying to convince them of.