skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> isn't funded

conveniently leaving out that those doing the funding aren't the viewers but advertisers (for most media companies).

If the funding came from viewers - who pay for quality, informative and unbiased journalism, there would be more of it. But people don't want to pay.
Of course, "I have to hate it because opposing media likes it" is no more rational than "I have to like it because allied media likes it."
I'm no doctor. I just tried to research the COVID death rate and I found a lot of conflicting and nuanced information. My impression is that if you want to make claims around this, you should cite sources. Unfortunately the best articles I found on this were somewhat dated. I don't think I can offer either correction or rebuttal.

I think we can agree that there is a significant cost to having folks not work. As I read it, TFA is mainly pointing out the significant conflict of interest here. Big business owners have big incentives to get production back on track, but face little risk from the disease. Workers need money, but will also be the ones who will face the risks.
Biggest scam in the history of the world! And like good little sheep we fell and are still falling for this bullshit!!! For a country that supposedly holds personal freedom in high esteem... it’s so fucking pitiful the powers that be must be laughing all the way to their new powers and wealth, almost disappointed how easy it was.
Politics doesn't belong in a professional environment.

So employees should be avoiding the topic.
You should watch the portland state debate on youtube.

https://youtu.be/VCrQ3EU8_PM

Super disturbing to know this came out of Google.

Like what the fuck is going on in sillicon valley? You guys lose the plot? Did anyone actually read that memo? Like actually read it, not just skim it for angry words like "women", and "man".

Its a bit tone deaf but its a huuuuge stretch to call him alt right for anything he said (hes super left.)

In any case I hope he made bank in that settlement.
People are complicated, anyone attempting to lump individuals into "us" vs "them" or whatever other groups you want is a fool.
I would argue React is actually a great example why the article title is on point.

Idiomatic React has completely changed several times over the course of a few years. This shows that it did not anticipate people's needs well enough. And React is in the fairly enviable position of receiving corporate backing in the tune of a million dollars per year.

Now consider tools like Redis or Postgresql. You can interface with them from just about any language and you can go years without your usage of them ever becoming unidiomatic.
My thoughts as well - makes sense. It's going to continue to bring Google a headache, especially with conservatism on the apparent rise (i.e. still could have Trump in 2024).

Far easier to settle with a non-disclosure clause and an agreement to halt all public appearances. James Damore went on a campaign of visiting universities and other locations to discuss his views. Honestly, it was a good move, his case was weak, but the publicity seems to have paid off.
Completely agree. There hasn't been any innovation from Emacs since the 90s. Instead more and more effort has gone into adding useless capabilities into emacs such as mail/news readers, organization systems and even window managers. There's some truth to the statement that "Emacs is an operating system lacking a decent text editor" except that even as an operating system it sucks.
If you believe the pilots testimony what else could it be? Some sort of super advance technology being held secret by a government?

Star-faring craft built by otherworldly beings seems a pretty simple explanation. Getting people to accept that is the complicated part.
> I just had to bite my tongue

If you like your job, it’s a good thing you did. Good for you, not good for general discourse.

If Damore is now a “right-wing hero”... well you’re right, you would be a them, a “right-wing sympathizer” and in some ahem places that is one of the worst things you can be.

Glad he settled, but would rather have seen him as a step the pop the bubble that SV is trying to hard to build.
> Longer term, California must cut down on vehicle travel in order to reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions and stave off climate change.

Is this statement really true if car manufacturers continue to migrate towards electric vehicles?
Sure, and I agree with the suggestion. It's just not very effective to be hostile and vague toward people when you're trying to get them to change their habits.

(and my previous comment intentionally committed the same mistake)

Either give objective change requests or try to explain your point. ("your" as in an arbitrary reader, not you jgwil2)

While we are typing English, many places still do not mind using a default gender in their native tongue, and a non-native speaker can end up writing like that when writing in English. Heck, even English (the language) natives haven't fully settled in using "they" or which of the other variations the grand-uncle to this post mentioned.

I have no clue about the original poster's nationality, but I consider it rude to presume people are using this kind of language maliciously, especially on the Internet where you can't know what is acceptable in someone's culture.
Headlines matter.
The automatic diaper-changing machine is now in development
I will pretty much list the sites I visit daily.

Google News (I couldn't find a clutter free alternative that gives an easy snapshot of news about India/world)

Brief (aka Morning Reader)

https://overcast.fm (I listen to podcasts from the web app when on the computer, I wish they had a native desktop app)

https://theoldreader.com (I've given up on Mac RSS reader apps)

Twitter, Reddit, Some private trackers, https://lobste.rs, MeFi, Vimeo, IMDb (almost daily)

And yes, wikipedia :)
I use Dvorak exclusively and echo the other comment -- I'm not sure that it has made a dramatic difference in my speed, but it is much more comfortable! Your hands sit neatly on the home row, and do not have to reach much.
The only downside is that I use vim and after many years of Nethack am pretty good at hjkl movement, and I can't even take advantage! :( Definitely something to consider though if you want to switch and are a vim user.
The original is 1,287 bytes after removing comments and line endings where possible. After just a bit of search-and-replace to shrink variable names, I got the new one down to 2,373 bytes including the same error checking and output at the end. So 1.8 business cards, which is not too bad.

And no I haven't tried to compile it. https://pastebin.com/LDRd6U4e
You can easily tell if it is hollow without opening it, however.
i'm just gonna repeat my little mantra that all residential parcels should be at least 4+1 (fourplex + granny unit) by right and all commercial parcels should be highly, highly encouraged to be mixed-use.

i love LA, but it would be even better if everyone didn't feel the need to use a car to get everywhere. i've been to both seoul (too long ago to remember much) and tokyo, and it's fantastic to get around by subway and foot everywhere.
From a public health standpoint, it's still good even if it only helps some fraction of people. I think that fraction is pretty large.
That would have been a PR disaster for Google. Woman retaliated against for whisteblowing the company's sexism for the whole world to see. She would have been made a hero.
You might want to check out 'The Effective Executive' by Peter Drucker. It sounds like you are in the perfect place in your career to read that book. It's a quick read and a short book.

Let me as you a question. A waitress comes over to you at a Diner as says "What can I get for you?". If you tell her, are you 'ordering her around?

Maybe try to reframe your perspective a bit on your subordinates. They probably depend on you to give them work to do right?

You said something interesting there; your 'bulldoze' comment. Without discounting the fact that there are bulldozers out there, a lot of the time that is more akin to just having confidence that once you hit a roadblock you'll 'figure it out because you always do'.

One thing in that Drucker book that always stands out to me is he says something like: You are in charge to make the hard decisions. The easy decisions make themselves.
Tip on perfecting your creativve response
> even making the distinction makes you one of "them" and politicizes the workplace.

this is how stalin and any of the authoritarian regimes would've started their control. To make people fear reprisals. To make people fear debate by outright social pressure to conform.

I think you did the wrong thing by passive default of agreeing and not rocking the boat.
Yes. We can also tune in tp permanent 10%+ unemployment, similar to france.

Thanks, but no thanks
AP Docs show top WH officials buried CDC report
Ah. No wonder your followup was so pointless. If you ever do want to know about the numerous existing safeguards that are built into our bi-partisan-designed election system, you can probably educate yourself online.
Might be how you approach the topic. I hang with some pretty far left folks and no one likes China's government and is pretty open about it. Might just be your circle. You could ask them I guess?
I think you're severely overestimating your case, not to mention the cost will probably be determined by a multitude of factors, one of the big ones being how advanced the self-driving tech is. Most of your points are just theoretical anecdotes.

You're not counting the RD cost that needs to be recouped.
You're overestimating the trust people will have with "oh didn't that once kill a person"-autopilot will have.
I'm can't tell of your comment is intentionally ironic, but I think it violates its own rule.
Yup, makes me wonder why Cuomo didn't shut down the subway system (or at least limit use based on some sort of need)? The media's given him props for leadership in his briefings, but ignored this massive sources of infections. Meanwhile, various narratives swirl about why NYC is being hit so much harder than elsewhere, like it's some sort of mystery.
But it's not free. You are allowed limited use unless you pay for one of their premium plans. Capturing some analytics is fine, but it would be nice to know what the data is and if it violates their TOS.
There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

The data is comparing frameworks along percentile, which is misleading, __when you realise that performance is a function of total payload,__ not relative percentage.

If the data of various frameworks was compared against total userland code & Toal size (user +framework), then we could have some meaningful data.

As it stands, I can say with confidence, that most of the larger and bigger apps use Angular, or react combination because they are most popular.

Considering that angular itself is heavier than React, angular apps will be heavier than React ones.

While smaller apps (or pages) will use Vue, because:

1. Vue is the only one of top 3 which can scale down to a script tag. So, for large classes of Web Apps, Vue is the only option.

2. Vue (&vuex) is smaller in size. And does not require boilerplate like react and redux. So I would expect Vue apps to be generally smaller than alternatives.

Given these situations, I would be surprised if Vue apps (on both average, and relative percentile) do not perform better than Angular & React
I'm running Discourse on a $5/mo droplet, 1 vcPU 1GB RAM. I just added 4GB of swap space. No issues so far.
always thought the reason is LA is prone to earthquakes
SCM Breeze[1] is one of the first things I install whenever I set up a new dev machine. Setting up bash aliases for git commands like `ga=git add` is nice, but SCM Breeze takes it one step further and automatically numbers each file in the git output. Then you can do `ga 1 2 5`.

[1]: https://github.com/scmbreeze/scm_breeze
My coworkers have no problem discussing Donald trump and republicans. They laugh about our president a lot. Yet when I bring up the Chinese government, silence could be heard.
Seems unfair and propagandist to characterise Damore this way.
CNN international version or what I get here in Europe has been showing body count 24/7, going as far as making the actual content smaller for the overlay.

In my eyes that define is hysteria.
You need to read up on Stalin.

He focused more on mass murder and less on social pressure.
Not in 2020. That goes against the "bring your whole self to work" mindset that's recently become popular.
I don't understand this PoV. Regardless of the Chinese government's incorrect handling of the coronavirus, deliberate or not, they did not dictate nor control the US response. I'm sorry about your friends' grandparents, but what's happening in the US right now is all on the US.
Yes. One that comes to mind is "[name]さんじゅうななさい" which can be either interpreted as "[name]-san, 17 years old" or "[name], 37 years old", depending on whether you interpret the さん(san) as an honorific or part of a number. (The sentence would usually be written in a combination of hiragana and kanji, but is intentionally written in all hiragana here to ensure ambiguity.)
I think the crazy nature of things now very much means you can become some groups hero overnight..... potentially not of your own choice.

Accordingly I don't see the headline telling me what he personally thinks.
> The most famous example is of course Hawking's prediction that black holes emit thermal radiation and will eventually evaporate.

Ahhh you're right, that's a gravitational-scale thing! But even a rotating black hole has a tiny state vector, which is the only reason that model has any chance of working. Good luck extending this approach to an ordinary pebble, asteroid, or planet. Also the compression-of-quantum-state contributes to the black hole information paradox (a result of Hawking's theory), right? Has that actually been resolved, and until it is, isn't that essentially an incompatibility with [some stuff that I can't talk about intelligently]?

> Another example would be the recent test of whether the Newtonian gravitational potential affects the quantum phase of neutrons (it does). This doesn't test any relativistic effects of gravity, but it does provide evidence that gravity is an interaction in the quantum sense.

Sounds pretty cool, but I doubt I'm going to be able to discuss this meaningfully. Is this related to the Higgs boson? That's the force carrier for gravitation in the Standard Model, if I understand correctly.
> At first, I was repelled — it seemed like a gross display of obsequiousness ...

It always makes me cringe, whether it's about people deferring to others, or to me.
Stuff like that always makes me feel like someone has turned off their logical reasoning and they are just basically creating code that fills in some personal mental gap that somehow 'completes the set' of the things they are working on at the moment.
The people that use Spring love it, well, at least they did when I was last working with them. They also loved talking about patterns, often didn't have enough traffic to stress the systems built on these relatively heavy object hierarchies, and were relatively comfortable (the only competition was the other half of the company using .NET.)
it's a rough rule of thumb at best though – higher-order-functions or other things that take a callback blur the line a lot (IoC, what a sibling comment said). or say a library has an event-loop, or maybe does networking and you only provide some handlers – would that make it a framework?

i guess it's about frameworks being "the main thing happening". i.e. a framework controls the whole program's execution, occasionally yielding control to your code. which is a bit wordier to be sure :)
No, Discord is not a good platform for that - or for anything for that matter. Your data and metadata is more valuable than that.

Now, actual communities in something like Matrix? Totally agree, would be very useful and insightful.
As the article shows, you can speak up and you can get fired for speaking up.
This article is silly. 7/8th of it recapitulates what is already commonly known. Then it doesn't go on to show a new result.
> Looks like the TLDR is that LA only has subways in downtown

This is not really true. The rail system extends out to other areas but those areas are typically served by a single line.

While the rail system benefits many people, I also wonder whether it has led to more people moving here, increased rents, and ultimately more traffic as people realize they need the expense of a car to fully get around.
Nor is it always a space (could be a tab).
I think I failed to emphasize the "If". :) I wasn't offering a comparison, so much as posing a framing device in order to ask a question: if minimal abstraction is 1, and highly abstracted is 10, what's the best-practice/modern web equivalent of 2-3?
Ask HN: Useful material for creating a game engine?
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That does not sound dissimilar to the situation in the US. (But it's hard to know without having been involved in a labor dispute in either country.)
I love react. But when I hear developers say their react app loads instantly I think:

1) Their app is pretty small

2) Their machine is really fast
Case fatality rate isn't the same as the actual mortality rate. Case fatality rate is an indirect measure of your testing ability, testing criteria, and testing procedures. It says very little about how deadly the disease is, and comparing it across countries is completely useless.

Actually, it's worse than useless, because any conclusions made from it are going to be horribly wrong.
>Politics doesn't belong in a professional environment.

hmm i wonder if your boss feels the same way (i.e. that his/her business interests are completely separate from his/her politics). the idea that you're politically neutral at work - the very locus of political contention - is laughable.
This topic is quickly going downhill in the comments, but I just wanted to clear some stuff up because there seems to be some "what he said isn't that bad!"

People wrongly think he said women are bad or stupid but that's not what he did say. He also didn't -just- say men and women are different.

He did say a 5-10% difference in certain traits is why there are huge discrepancies of women in leadership and science/engineering positions. And maybe that's ok and we should just let it be.

Sorry, but "girls don't like to make hard choices or do 'nerdy' things" isn't a real thing. Hundreds of years of "stay in the kitchen" is what proactive programs to bring women into these positions are trying to reverse. It's not biological.
I don't like that attitude. We should be able to discuss politics without the need for judging each other.
Much like your post.
No conversation was had.

James sent a memo (common thing to do) as a draft to a few people for comment. Got fired in about two seconds flat by people who clearly did not even read the thing.
I think you can look at nearly any city and the layout makes more sense than LA currently. It's a shitshow.
And Snowden defected to Russia. Sometimes you just have to go where you are free to state your case and not be shouted down which sometimes means an enemy-of-my-enemy scenario.
Depending on the conditions, it is through that neutrinos can pass through even very degenerate matter like that which forms neutron stars. "Empty space" really doesn't mean all that much if the thing that is interacting with it does so weakly.
I'm questioning the notion that SDV are somehow just around the corner, considering that another technology with similar regulatory/safety/public opinion challenges still hasn't become ubiquitous after over 20 years.
No, it’s because LA’s subway system is relatively new and, since subways are so expensive to build in the US, not very extensively built out. To be honest, it’s a miracle that LA has a subway system at all, given how irrelevant it is to most people in the city.
This fully ignored why the fatality rate is important. It's because its the reason people are in the house in the first place. The lie was the fatality rate is 3%.

The issue is that no one was given a real choice. Everyone knows though that given the opportunity and facts that they have a between 5 out of 1000 or 1 out 1000 chance people might not choose to stay inside.

He states immunity passports are controversial, but in reality no one has ever actually posed the question to society whether they want that not because we might end up in a situation where citizen and business owner say F it and go back to things as normal as a majority or a large enough portion of society that it would cause issues.
One on each side, I guess.
> As someone who actually read what he wrote, I just had to bite my tongue. That's not what he said at all,

As someone that also read it, those arent the words he used, but that is very much what he was saying. A facade of misrepresented psuedoscience doesnt change the intent, motivation, or reality.
Perhaps I'm naive or uninformed, but I could believe that Damore has clean hands.
Hmm yeah maybe I should. Because my coworkers don’t mind making crude jokes and personal attacks on the president. Yet they shrink when I bring up CCP
The existence of any safeguards was never in question, but thank you for pointing me in the right direction. Have a blessed day.
Are they discussing politics or bonding over their contempt of Trump?

Those are quite different things.
This view to me is just as tone deaf at Damore's piece itself.

Whether or not you agree or disagree, it clearly had an impact of making a very large and significant segment of female employees at Google feel as if they were biologically inferior or otherwise not suited to do their jobs. You can sit here and say "Oh, that's nuts, that's not what he said" - but you're also not hearing the same internalized misogyny and bias that a LOT of female engineers are, day after day, at every company they've ever been at. He should have known it had the potential to have that impact, so I have approximately zero sympathy in that regard; what his true intentions are/were is irrelevant.

I would bet any number that the largest cohort of people who are baffled by the reaction to his memo are white men. I'm sure it's not even close.
That is exactly why I included the first link in my reply above which makes that distinction.

The headline: "Limited coronavirus testing in the US has meant its death rate appears alarmingly high — but it will likely drop"
It was a semi-private, opt-in platform to my understanding. There is no reason to think Damore pushed his sexism into his day-to-day work.
Oh come on are you serious? The alignment with "Right-Wing" in the headline of a story that more or less has nothing to do with that and is about the end of a lawsuit isn't intentional?
Perovskite (Structure)
I don't think anybody with a serious knowledge of AI, motion planning, computational geometry, real-time sensors (ex. military) or much of anything else things Roomba confers distinction. So why do I care about what this guy things about robots? That's right. I don't.
> still could have Trump in 2024

You mean you think he'll lose this election but come back to win the next one?
I work as a voting officer in my county. Those ballots are legal documents and require a chain of custody for the election to be deemed fair.

How we scale voting by mail in any way that protects the secrecy and security of the process eludes me.

Highly skeptical, and opposed to this, especially given the context in which the idea is proffered.
Draco: Double-stranded RNA activated caspase oligomerizer
This is one of the few examples where the phrase "political correctness" could be used correctly. Speaking 'correct' facts is not the 'correct' move to maximize the probability of still having a job tomorrow.