skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know what one needs to be protected from. If your coworkers are harasssing you for not being political, that's usually the point where you escalate the issue. If that doesn't get you anywhere, that's a signal to leave (and by leave, I mean by not announcing it to the world with a "Why I left X" blog post).

Maybe I'm lucky, in my 25+ years of working, I haven't had to deal with that level of unprofessional behaviour (but I've also generally avoided working with startups and "interactive" agencies for the past 10+ years).
"The smart companies are debt free" - every company has debt. All of them. Apple pays for Iphone parts 30, 60, 90 days after receiving them. That's debt. The only companies that don't take on debt are the ones that nobody will extend credit.

Hertz went bankrupt because of the type of debt they took, their lack of cash-on-hand, and the aggressiveness of their business model. But the expected value of their decisions may well have been positive - a single failure is a bad way to evaluate a decision-making methodology.
>More than a dozen Facebook employees tweeted that they disagreed with Mr. Zuckerberg’s decision, including the head of design of Facebook’s portal product, Andrew Crow.

Tempest in a teapot.
I'm not a cop. I don't know how they're trained.

I think the egregiousness comes not from the move itself, but the duration a excessive use given the person was already subdued, in hand cuffs, on the ground, and not resisting.

I don't think anyone would complain about a knee on the neck of someone actively resisting arrest while they were getting the situation under control.
I mean the praetorian guard literally auctioned off the position of Roman emperor.
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Transparency helps with normal "people problems."

The opposite is true with bots, spammers, paid trolls, and other attempts to subvert the platform itself.

It's the same reason why open source projects try to fix security vulnerabilities privately before they disclose them publicly: they don't want bad actors to be able to take advantage of the information. Except with social platforms, they can't ever truly "fix" the problem, just mitigate it by trying to detect and remove offenders.

If you provide transparency into how bad actors are removed, they'll just adapt to hide better.
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Burning and looting homes and businesses is absolutely violence, but there are plenty of assaults and murders if you're not convinced. This is an abhorrent take.
A 23M-year record of low atmospheric carbon dioxide [pdf]
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You can run the app on the host with docker containers and traefik and any service.local domain configured in labels will be announced via mdns. Services themselves don't have to be mdns aware and will be registered/removed as they come up/down. It works without traefik too, but you have to include the port then as well.
I think you've posted this comment on the wrong article...
Are they really? I read the NYT article and there were no names of anyone who is really coming forward. It could be happening, but if it's all just anonymous quotes how will we know?

I mean if this is important enough to protest, why not go on the record?
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My take: I don't think the government understands how must distrust there is for public institutions. The fact that they keep going on these pressers and lying to the public, only to be discredited after the fact, shows how tone deaf and disconnected from reality the politicians are. What's even more bizarre is all the people who are cheering on the police brutality, and encouraging more violence against unarmed protestors.

There are systemic issues all throughout the government, and as long as cops keep killing people the riots will continue. Maybe they'll temporarily subside, but when the next killing happens it will flare right back up. Cops operate with impunity, and the politicians go on TV apologizing for them because they're afraid of the police too. Just look what happened to de Blasio's daughter, who was arrested by the NYPD under questionable circumstances.

It's crazy watching this all unfold, but if real change isn't implemented soon it will continue to foment. It doesn't help that along with racism, there's significantly economic inequality. Real unemployment is somewhere around 24%[0], food prices keep going up[1], and many still haven't been able to access unemployment benefits.

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Why don't they revolt by quitting? I know not every employee is able to do that but I'm guessing that at Facebook the vast majority could switch job fairly easily.

Once Facebook realizes that they are losing good employees they are more likely to change those policies.

Unfortunately most Facebook employees want to continue getting outrageously paid at the 95 percentile of the market and soft "revolting" without risking their $$$. That tells a lot a bout their convictions.
The wonderful thing about this is that it effectively eliminates the legalized bribery that happens with lobbying. There are 15 lobbyists per congressperson just for the finance industry, each sitting on top of who knows how much money.

Also, it allows for "voice on demand." If 95% of legislation is unimportant to the average person, it can safely be entrusted to the representative. The 5% that is important gets a direct voice.

It seems vastly more democratic.
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And many major tech companies (Apple, Google, YouTube, Bytedance) were censoring the HK protestors with China, Even when a protestor was shot with a live round on Facebook Live.

Sounds like double standards with the current action with tech companies.
This submission broke the site guidelines by using the title to editorialize. Please don't do that.

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Yup, on hacker news, that doesn't mean I like the name of this page, right?
This is important to note, thank you. Our social nature (and dark it can be) must be accounted for in policy decisions... better than it has been recently.
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That is a warning.
> They are part of the org. They want a say in what that org does. Is this controversial?

of course its contraversial. its not free speech if they only say what you want them to, is it?
I don't think very many of the social and cultural amenities of big cities will come back anytime soon.

I think we are in for at least a year of social distancing and heavy restrictions on restaurants, bars, concert venues, sports arenas, etc. A lot of things that were previously considered amenities will now seem dangerous, such as public transit.
Because then Uber becomes more of a food search engine and maintains dominance in the same way that Google does, simply by being the biggest and having the most content.
> No firm will realistically show you their cap table, or tell you the number of outstanding shares

I don't think this is very true. I can't imagine getting an offer without knowing the total number of shares.
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I'm curious is there an example of this? Burgers and lots of fast food seem already highly commoditized, McDonald's makes a lot of them pretty cheaply and centralisation would imply longer delivery and probably your food being cold which sounds inefficient if anything
This is exactly what I mean. But I guess I'm a minority here
For those of us (like me) who have never heard of MultiCore Ocaml before, here is the github page with a brief overview. https://github.com/ocaml-multicore/ocaml-multicore
> I know not every employee is able to do that but I'm guessing that at Facebook the vast majority could switch job fairly easily.

Switch easily even right now? I imagine they'd lose something in the process...
I thought the openconnect network was basically just a cache which tries to serve popular media directly from the providers?

They didn't have enough storage for their full library on the appliances previously. So that'd be like a caching proxy in front of the service

Maybe that changed with how tiny their library became over the years. (Edit:it didn't change. That's what it is.)
The React Core team has gone on record in support of the walkout: https://twitter.com/dan_abramov/status/1267544361929256966?s...
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If that's the case, then everything makes sense to me now, except why they would do that.
I don’t know. I think it’s saying that personal delivery services are not viable in more equal societies. The US would be one of those, where every party is losing money from the transaction.
I wrote the post you replied to and I don't make a statement on capitalism at all.

I don't actually care.

I play macroeconomic games in commun-ish countries too. (All the actual communist ones are sanctioned so I can't)

It doesn't matter to me if it is one organization coordinating all facets of life, or if it is infinite organizations trying to do it better by competition.

This is a fiat currency and central bank feature/bug and also opportunity. Its more useful if you understood that, than worry about the political ideology.
I'm incredibly sad that the era of VCs wildly subsidizing my millenial lifestyle is coming to a close.
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I'm the opposite. I strongly dislike these services as I feel they are not needed in many situations and open up the vulnerability potential, especially if your system is ever on a network not controlled by you (laptop at cafe, etc). I turn them all off/disable/uninstall them.
Yeah, and if someone made me that offer on my current ($2k/month) apartment, I would turn it down despite it being a 50% discount because I don't want the uncertainty of having to move in a year. This is not a problem if both parties know up front. The only way it becomes a problem is if I think I'm renting an apartment for $1k/month and then a year later my landlord says "Oh, actually your rent was $5000/month but you had the $4000/month move-in discount for the first year, your rent is now $5250/month".
"Facebook employees are beginning to revolt" is not an acceptable title for a company of 50,000 when what you're really discussing is a small amount of employees speaking out, as well as expressing your own disagreement.

It's also very short-sighted to not realize that there are reasons to not remove certain content besides "we agree with and like the content".

All these "revolution" articles get very tiring when you realize how little they are actually reporting on, if anything
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> Delivery services work very well in places with very high income inequality

It needs density more than inequality. This is true for many professional services.
The "just quit and work elsewhere" argument comes up every time on Hacker News.

Maybe they think the company can be a force for good or at least not evil, but it's not living up to that or taking advantage of its opportunity?

If everyone just quits companies instead of pushing them to do better, the only people left at those companies will be at best morally apathetic and at worst actively evil (in the eyes of whoever is trying to reform them).

By operating speech platforms, these companies are inherently political. It's not like they're making nuts and bolts. Inaction is still action. Letting people run ads with hate speech or building recommendation algorithms that start with mild conservative views and then send you down a rabbit hole that ends at full Nazi-ism, is still a political action even if you intended the platform to be neutral or unbiased.
From abstract:

These data suggest present-day CO2 (412 ppmv) exceeds the highest levels that Earth experienced at least since the Miocene, further highlighting the present-day disruption of long-established CO2 trends within Earth’s atmosphere.
Pretty sure you mean this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP2D4DEQBTU — the contribution was crucial IMO :)

I've seen Knuth give other (more recent) talks out of slides like that one (https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/karp80.pdf) where each PDF page is a possibly different size and he wants it displayed full screen individually, but don't recall that problem from other times… so the impact of your contribution may extend beyond that one talk!
I find it humorous for employees of an evil ad company try to convince us they have a conscience.
Gruber’s not really adding much here to the original NYT reporting. I would suggest changing the URL for this submission to point directly to the article at the Times.
Since you're claiming the answer is not technical, why would Vue be more popular in China than React and why isn't Vue more popular in the Western world?

> I think it's a preference thing. "Batteries included" vs "modular" are both viable designs.

Again, it's not one or the other.

Vue in itself is just a simple rendering engine much like React, Inferno, etc. There are official libraries (router, state, etc) but those are separate projects which you can choose to use or not. It's not a framework like Angular, Ember, etc.
Here's my process wrt https://reframing.substack.com/:

1. Get an idea, write it down in Notes, mull over it for 2-3 weeks, do research and create an outline, write the article

2. I had something to get out there, so I wrote something on Friday. Committed to myself that I'd do the same next week and I'm now 4 weeks in.

3. I think of it as sharpening my writing muscle, especially with regard to what topics I choose and how I tell that story. I'm willing to consider a lot of my current work as a "throwaway" until I get better at my craft. Eventually, I'll develop a proper audience and hopefully, something will go viral.

4. Perfectionism was a big one, previously I would always put things off until they're perfect. Now I have to ship every Friday so I'm less focused on getting it perfect. Another was that the story I want to tell shifts while writing it, hopefully, I get better at this over time.
Maybe the gig economy is just "too early". Like maybe the whole industry is actually a giant bet on income inequality getting worse :(

That seems incredibly grim, and I hope most investors are just waiting to see if anyone can pull a rabbit out of a hat somewhere (bootstrapping economies of scale, automation, etc).
An interesting question to ask yourself is how many of the thought leaders in our community (including here on HN) who vociferously denounce DOM-based development at every opportunity have never written a native HTML5 application.
> Burning and looting homes

I need evidence here.

> and businesses

Businesses like Target, who come into small communities, push out the mom-and-pops, then raise prices?

> there are plenty of assaults and murders if you're not convinced

I'm not convinced, and I need evidence that a) the shootings that you're about to link to are in fact linked to the protests (because in one case it seems like a drive-by) and b) the assaults were not self-defense from e.g., someone pointing a weapon at a crowd of people or e.g., a truck driver attempting to plow through a crowd of peaceful protestors.
don't. It's pure virtue signaling to the extreme. If you need more example, look into js community. They are following a trend.
Leaving your position also leaves you without any power to enact change within the organization.

You can't win a game without playing it, in other words.
Have you used any of these apps? Delivery Fee + Servicing Fees + Driver Tip is usually minimum +20% on your order total. How is that cheaper? Restaurants have to pay a flat % to the Apps and this usually crushes their profit even with volume. Do we even need to argue that Uber drivers are getting a good deal? Car maintenance + lack of benefits usually leaves them making minimum wage or worse. It's A job but I don't think anyone is saying its a Good one.
i think autopilot is a misnomer in this case, it should have been called brainless driving assistant

on a serious note, it's not that another edge case was missing in training data but what we call "common sense" is fundamentally missing in neural network based approach, and no amount of parameters, model permutations and gpu power would compensate for that
The employee writing the announcement for the project is a person though. "Microsoft" hasn't done that.
There are in fact such words, e.g. "esquivalence": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Oxford_American_Dictionary...
Relevant post by Troy Hunt which debunks the claim that Anonymous "hacked" the Minneapolis Police Department: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23382427
> You're using an outdated document as your source.

You're right, the document is outdated. I've searched further and while I did find a few instances of police shooting at protesters, I didn't find deaths.

> I will not post direct links.

Please do instead. And no, I don't think twitter is a reliable source, twitter is an information battleground, you should know it.

> HK police brutality is something like that.

HK citizens have all the means and the interest to spread knowledge of police brutality in their protests. I don't think the comparison with China and covid holds any water (even assuming that what you say about China's covid numbers is true, as "everybody knows" is not a proof).
Local services like that have existed for decades. They usually have poor websites or even phone ordering, often don't have an app, and the payment methods can be behind the times. But they have always worked fine. The new wave of VC-funded services are trying to grab away the market with both much better UX and subsidizing the deliveries. It's just that no one seems to have a viable plan to exit that phase and be profitable. Meanwhile the traditional services are being edged out of the market. I don't know how this doesn't trip up more fair competition laws because of that.
Doesn't this take us back to the discussion around the word Autopilot? Tesla sells it as driver-assist, no more autonomous than an autopilot system in a Boeing 737. Good for following the obvious path, and otherwise needs input from the actual pilot.
Yep, as others said - no way to get to the actual game without going through 3rd party trackers.

And that's without getting into the actual idea of promoting the worst type of games possible. F2P is an plague.

I can only guess that the commission on all these referral links pays well enough to not bother with any ethics.
It's easy to get sucked into counterfactuals, which are fun hypotheticals but sort of useless in debate. Yet one has to consider- if Intel was never created, wouldn't someone else simply have invented the microprocessor technologies they created? Were there not competitors? It seems inevitable.
They're virtually quitting their jobs by the sounds of it.
that it might become perfectly cromulent?
Cruise line customers generally don't have hundreds of nearby restaurants to choose from.
Uh, publishers understand libraries and they've made their peace with physical books. They're just suing about someone who is undermining this balance.

As it is, real libraries are bad deals for everyone. Libraries spend too much on books that aren't read and they don't spend enough on books in demand. A digital system that charges per reader makes more sense.

But I don't expect anyone to believe this because people have some weird attraction to something that they think is "free" even though it costs millions in tax dollars.