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> Did you check "explain analyze"[1] to check your query plans to ensure that the indexes are being used or not?

Word of caution `explain analyze` actually executes the query and then returns the execution plan. Just `explain` will give you the estimated plan without executing (although usually less accurate than the analyze counterpart).

Learned that one the hard way.
Maybe the bug is not having blockquotes, something that people clearly want? We're seeing a desire path of feature use.
that post doesn't require any proof because his parent didn't cite any proof either. responding to a hypothetical with another hypothetical is fair.
> Real good deeds aren't announced.

Public announcements of resignation have two impacts: on fellow employees, and on the employer. Fellow employees may be waiting for validation of a sinking feeling that they're in the wrong place, before they quit themselves. When the employer sees numerous conscience quits in response to a bad action, they have an opportunity to reflect and change.
My solution has always been to not bother with Facebook. A few employees quitting was already on Mark's radar, he expected that and is willing to accept that. Honestly seems like Mark fears actions by Trump against social media - Mark cares about the existential threat, he can hire more people. A very large boycott of Facebook by its users might actually get Mark's attention. We seem to have forgotten how to effectively boycott for change.
I've had a few engineers who struggled with the issues mentioned at the beginning of the article. They were skilled engineers who typically knew the right thing to do, but felt they needed permission or approval to do the things.

And the solution I took was to gently encourage them, but also let them be just a little bit uncomfortable. They need a safe environment they can fail in with no repercussion, but also need to practice overcoming the unknown and being willing to take on some risk.
It certainly doesn’t help.
Facebook is promoting "facism" for not deleting Trump?

lol
This website has rapid interaction from other users and visible upvotes that add up over time to create a personal score that nets you extra benefits. If I worked for Facebook, I'd like stronger evidence than amateur psychology for me to feel morally compelled to give up my livelihood.

Edit: furthermore many users post with real or pseudo-real names that reward them with real life social clout.
GitBook CTO here:

Our production domains (gitbook.com and gitbook.io) have been blocked and locked by our registrar (Google Domains).

None of our infrastructure is impacted, all user content and databases are safe; our domains simply blocked by a heavy handed policy.

As mentioned on Twitter, we are all hands working with Google to fix this issues ASAP. We'll then share an in-depth post-mortem

https://twitter.com/GitBookStatus/status/1268554857411227648
I followed your advice and closed my repo.
I don’t use his surveillance platforms and I don’t fear him
Maybe not 250K salary, but with bonuses and equity, absolutely you can get there.
The original study: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/095679762091678...

Abstract:

> Identifying brain biomarkers of disease risk is a growing priority in neuroscience. The ability to identify meaningful biomarkers is limited by measurement reliability; unreliable measures are unsuitable for predicting clinical outcomes. Measuring brain activity using task functional MRI (fMRI) is a major focus of biomarker development; however, the reliability of task fMRI has not been systematically evaluated. We present converging evidence demonstrating poor reliability of task-fMRI measures. First, a meta-analysis of 90 experiments (N = 1,008) revealed poor overall reliability—mean intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) = .397. Second, the test-retest reliabilities of activity in a priori regions of interest across 11 common fMRI tasks collected by the Human Connectome Project (N = 45) and the Dunedin Study (N = 20) were poor (ICCs = .067–.485). Collectively, these findings demonstrate that common task-fMRI measures are not currently suitable for brain biomarker discovery or for individual-differences research. We review how this state of affairs came to be and highlight avenues for improving task-fMRI reliability.
I remember when the 60kWh Model S got its EPA rating - it was 208 miles vs 265 of the 85kWh version, so roughly a 11% gain in efficiency.

Bottom line: batteries do scale - at least in terms of weight.
That's somsething of a sideways argument though. I mean, it's speciously true of any organization that isn't actually a democracy. Google isn't a democracy. Apple isn't a democracy.

But most corporate environments act at least a little like democracies anyway. And that's not by choice, it's a darwinian thing. Companies that can't motivate their employees to work towards shared goals don't tend to succeed. And so on some level you absolutely do have to do what your employees want to do.

And if you don't, they quit and work somewhere else. Which is literally what the linked article is about. That thing up there in the headline? That's democracy in action. At Facebook.
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> And once I'm done, I'm done.

My wife does live production (AV) for big shows and concerts. It's a stressful job; for a lot of it, you're on tight timelines and have one chance to get it right. Any mistake you make is pretty clearly obvious to all of the people in the room. You plan the shit out of it ahead of time: one missing item on a truck can be a (pardon the pun) show stopper.

But like you said, at the end of the night, when the trucks are all packed up, you get to go home and never worry about that particular job ever again. If something went wrong, there might be a post-mortem the next day with lessons learned for next time, but it's over.

Some days I am thankful that I don't have her job. Some days I am jealous that she gets to walk away from it all at the end of the night.
How about sorting by companies that support honest debate versus those that don't? From the post, "Facebook will keep moving the goalposts..."
I've seen this one person's resignation on nearly every site I follow this past week. My hope is that this is the start of a substantial shift in the company with more employees walking out (I don't believe senior management there will do anything on their own), otherwise it's just what the parent commenter's implying: a lot of noise.
No need for signalling point #1, point #2 alone makes you a much better fit to any company than that guy.
How do you tolerate people who are against tolerance in a tolerable way without becoming intolerant ?
Same goes for the other hypothesis. People are talking out of their asses, can't you see?
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it's a tough problem to solve or reason about. i personally don't have any answers around this, but do you allow hate to spread and then be reactive about it and deal with the consequences? or do you nip it at the bud proactively allowing for potentially something that you wrote? some sort of censorship. how do you deal with it?
If you like it or not, free speech works in two directions. A private company censoring the president is not the right approach.

It's our job as a society to not blindly follow what is being said by politicians and more importantly, to take action with our vote.
Okay, but is it as effective a protest?
I don't use facebook, but I thought trump posts on twitter, not facebook? Is there a trump site on facebook that also posts his twitter stuff?
I totally disagree. Sure, sometimes I just want the technical facts... in those cases, my first stop is Wikipedia. Wikipedia has articles about TAE the company[1] and as well as the Tri-alpha fusion process[2].

But when it comes to fusion energy, there are many possible approaches, yet few are actually being pursued with serious commitment of resources. The future of our species may depend us trying more things harder. And for this reason I find it quite interesting to read the "human interest story" behind the non-mainstream attempts being made, what their motivations are and how they are managing to get the necessary resources and to keep up the commitment throughout the long road to uncertain success.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAE_Technologies

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple-alpha_process
Ranked choice voting would be a good start.
In the US it isn't immediately obvious why it would work, either. As a worker you're much better off being laid off than quitting. "Firing" when it is pretty flagrantly just a mass lay-off shouldn't impact future hiring.
One of my tricks is to substitute "person" whenever I read the word "AI" and "AGI". Here's the substitution performed for the paper you linked to (just the abstract not the whole thing)

> One might imagine that [people] with harmless goals will be harmless. This paper instead shows that [incentives for people] will need to be carefully designed to prevent them from behaving in harmful ways. We identify a number of “drives” that will appear in [most] [people]. We call them drives because they are tendencies which will be present unless explicitly counteracted. We start by showing that goal-seeking [people] will have drives to model their own operation and to improve themselves. We then show that self-improving [people] will be driven to clarify their goals and represent them as economic utility functions. They will also strive for their actions to approximate rational economic behavior. This will lead almost all [people] to protect their utility functions from modification and their utility measurement systems from corruption. We also discuss some exceptional [people] which will want to modify their utility functions. We next discuss the drive toward self-protection which causes [people] to try to prevent themselves from being harmed. Finally we examine drives toward the acquisition of resources and toward their efficient utilization. We end with a discussion of how to incorporate these insights in designing intelligent technology which will lead to a positive future for humanity.

If you zoom out a little bit this is exactly what people do. We structure societal institutions to prevent people from causing harm to each other. One can argue we could be better at this but it's not a cause for alarm. It's business as usual if we want to continue improving living conditions for people on the planet.
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If there's a suspicion of money laundering, you won't get any information from any financial institution, FWIW.
Except much cheaper.

Space Shuttle Budget:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_program#Budget

Falcon 9 costs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9#Pricing

Not directly comparable but still show a large improvement in efficiency.
In this analogy the parent poster would not be seeking to improve society, they'd be seeking to end it.
Even a dictatorship can be put under pressure if enough of its subjects take a stand. The relationship between employer and employee is a continuous negotiation. Facebook has put something new on the table: we expect you to look the other way when Trump calls for violence.

If enough employees push back it's very likely that Facebook will change its stance, regardless of whatever power Mark thinks he has.
>Maybe the internet (or social media) wasn't such a good idea after all?

technology and science aren't apolitical. there isn't a single piece of scientific innovation (short of the polio vaccine and other freely distributed medical advances) that hasn't furthered political aims. combustion, electricity, transistors, nuclear power, the internet, etc etc etc. technologists and scientists think they have the luxury of being apolitical but they don't. the sooner we realize that the sooner we'll start making ethically sound decisions in our work and thereby having a meaningful effect on such misuse.
Ah, that word "just." Whenever I see "just" in some kind of kind of technical demand in the first line, I immediately know that there's a lot of stuff to unpack.

Here, you have requested something fairly close to a general AI which understands both written language, images, and even more fun, images of language. Cartoon violence right on down to "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?" And will quoting Henry II of England set off your detector?

Let's unpack your COVID post thing -- note that WHO guidelines have changed a few times. Recall that era wherein they said that there was no evidence of human-to-human transmission. Also, don't buy masks. So you'd have to factor in a time domain as the guidelines change, in addition to your generalized AI as above.

In IT, I have frequently heard requests for "why can't we just get the things we know we will like?" and such. It all boils down to that mind-reading, future-predicting generalized AI.

Why don't we just turn it on?
Let's also not forget if this was in any other country, the US would be sanctioning them already, making a bad situation even worse! I am personally very glad to see this potentially being the end of the US hegemony.
I think they don't care as long as lulz. Don't think too much about what kids like to do in free time.
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Politics affect your profession and your life. You cannot separate politics from your life.
If everyone were to sort themselves into companies that were anti-genocide and pro-genocide, how could we ever have an honest debate on anything?
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You are extremely out of touch with actual bay area compensation for big companies. I made more than 250K total comp as a senior eng at Google in 2015.
Well to start forums are a self selecting group of like minded individuals. To be an active member usually requires thought and care, intelligence and skills such as reading comprehension and critical thinking... Oh, and the whole system isnt built to game your senses in order to mine minute data points about you that is then sold to companies who then masquerade their content as ads all while pretending that they're doing good work for the world...

But honestly, if you cant tell the difference between Social Media and a forum, maybe you should step away from the net all together. Read some books, learn a hobby. Go outside. Make some real life friends... For it seems as if you too close to the forest to know that its made up of trees.

Its just like fast food. If its all you eat, you have no idea what real food tastes and feels like...
Which is why US companies sometimes pay people to voluntarily retire instead of laying them off.
We still have a whole heap of mystery about us - especially where the brain is involved. :-)
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Yes, if you are not sending money to the third world countries often.
Just in case you were wondering how Bezos is a billionaire.. he now has MORE people making MORE profit, and that accelerates as the operations become more effective (until they plateau and then on the next technological leap they will jump again).

I am not targeting Bezos, I am merely using him as an example. Let's call it "scale", and "effectiveness".
No one suggested it was all the fault of white supremacists, but unless you're suggesting that anti-racism protestors are DDOSing their own websites it does seem reasonable that white supremacists (which is synonymous with pro-racism) are involved.
The funny part about that shampoo bottle is that it's the same kind that they keep over the toilet in the cabinet... The reaction when I showed them the bottle was priceless.
DHL was so annoyed that they started producing their own electric vans in Germany (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/StreetScooter)
I strongly disagree. Quitting your job is just about the most disruptive thing you can do in terms of the effect it has on your own life. Some folks might have an easier time finding another job than others, but that doesn't change the fact that he's actively choosing to stop creating value for an organization that his morals don't align with.

And additionally, quitting your job on moral grounds is _absolutely_ something you should post about. He made a personal post on Facebook, as a current Facebook employee, noting that he's leaving. This will be seen by his coworkers, and as the very presence on HN demonstrates, the public at large. Virtue signaling is Old Navy changing their profile picture to a rainbow flag during Pride month, or an NFL team posting a black rectangle on Instagram to support BLM. Virtue signaling is _not_ quitting your job to protest your employer's ethical failings, or writing content that would violate a non-disparagement agreement.
Remove "stupid", and this is otherwise accurate.
Can confirm. The only SMS I ever receive is from bots (mostly OTP codes). I can't remember the last time I received an SMS from a human.
> “I thought maybe I should speak to another institution for legal advice because I am a foreigner,” Elena says. “[But] they said I had no additional time and that I have 30 minutes to make this decision.”

Really nasty tactics. Impossible to understand the consequences of what you're signing in that short of a time.
>Often software that is 20 years old will not require this.

A quick search around the net reveals this to be false, because Windows XP Mode doesn't work in windows 10. I haven't used windows in many years so you'll have to forgive me if there's something I'm missing here, but I see quite a few pages like this complaining about XP programs being broken or requiring a lot of fiddling to get working: https://www.dosgamers.com/windows-xp/windows-xp-games

It makes no sense to me that you have no problem with this, but at the same time you're complaining about having to type something like "docker run ubuntu:precise" to get an old version of a Linux userspace running inside a container. If this is too much work then you can pay Canonical or Red Hat or any of the other numerous Linux companies for a support contract for an LTS distro. This seems to be very similar to the situation in redmond where you now have to pay for an extended support contract if you realistically want to keep using Windows XP/7.
Except for the fact that a Falcon 9 is a small fraction of the cost.
> It sounds like the employees are foreigners who are probably unfamiliar with the polish legal system

I would be a little surprised if this was true. One of the big reasons for Western European companies to hire in Poland is because Eastern European countries are very cheap.

For most Western European companies, Polish people _are_ the foreigners (along with all the unfair preconceptions and prejudices that comes with that).
Yes, but here voice messages are used for synchronous communication.
Feel free to stand in line behind the people upset that white supremacists ruined the swastika (for half the planet), the toothbrush mustache, Norse mythology, American conservatism, the name Adolf, social media, leather trenchcoats, and various numbers and memes and direct your outrage at the proper target when your number is called.
Absolutely. It's practically unreadable.
I woudn't be so sure, not at FANG anyway. Those public stunts are no go for most big compagnies.
Stuff like this gives me pause:

https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/California-s-la...

I don't think it's at all inconceivable that voting fraud could be a real issue.

Though I agree and then some w/ the larger issues you mention.

IMO democracy as we practice it is (quite obviously) failing us (in CA and SF anyway). The "Sortition" idea recently shared on HN sounds very promising (not that I think there's a chance in hell we'll see it tried!).
> -Allow users to customize what they want to see

This means that Facebook has to provide a process to categorize posts into the categories. Facebook argues they don't want to do that categorization.
This depends on the language path. I've been mentoring a few of the language paths, but as an opportunity to learn/use the system, I've also been a student on a number of them. Some are overwhelmed. For instance, there was an online course on Prolog earlier this year the seemed to overwhelm the Prolog track with a glut of new students. Other tracks have problems that are harder to mentor, the code is complex, so some mentors choose to avoid those problems creating a bottleneck. Their choice is reasonable, but without more experienced mentors the problem just gets worse.

Additionally, they're working on the third version of the site. So a lot of people are focusing their attention on that, or dividing their attention between making new content and handling the current load.
While true, I feel like HN is a different variety of Social Media than Facebook. You're not going to see vacation photos, screenshots of tweets, and memes everywhere. It's a forum yes, but it's very different from places like Facebook and Reddit.
right but that falls in line with the fact that you would have to know what theyre buying at the exact time theyre buying it. and this data is realized money when all trades had already been made and profited from. politics moving slowly has nothing to do with buying up shares via e-trade or fidelity and it happening instantly
The diminishing returns argument only holds for aircraft, where the battery has to constantly work to lift its own weight.

For ground transportation, the percentage of the weight dedicated to batteries is important, but so is the ratio of wind resistance to battery power.

For low speed start and stop traffic, it is true that if your car is already 90% battery by weight, adding battery won’t help. For freeway driving, this doesn’t hold at all, since most of the energy is being lost to wind resistance.

The reason teslas have so much storage space is that air doesn’t weigh much, and the empty space helps them design for aerodynamics. Filling the space with batteries would make the vehicle too expensive.
What advantage would Tesla gain picking up all the dead weight that GM has, with its dealerships, unions, pensions, and huge factories dedicated to building ICE's?
Not really the tool for the job, for anything non-trivial (multiline) you end up with \'s (there are some hacks around that), and shell variables need doubling, so

run:
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better off writing that in a proper shell script and then

run:
sh path/to/script.sh $(SOME) $(ARGS)

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Leaving your job in the middle of an recession/depression is scary for anyone.
Yep! These companies have quite deep pockets but they systematically ruin the opportunities for smaller players to make an organic growth.

Most of the "Uber, but for *" startups get funding with these companies, and I don't even feel bad about using their 60% off codes if 8t provides something I'd pay otherwise anyway. When the promotions stop, I stop using the app too.
Reading this most charitably, the implication seems to be that his action _isn't enough_.

That he should also devote his efforts full time to combating the problems he speaks about for less compensation, or donate the excess compensation to related causes, otherwise the action is unworthy.

These are restatements of classic utilitarian dilemmas, as stated by, among many others, Peter Singer[0].

"In a society in which the narrow pursuit of material self-interest is the norm, the shift to an ethical stance is more radical than many people realize."

[0] https://www.utilitarian.net/singer/by/199704--.htm
Regulation of the commons is pretty essential: it's not really feasible to "buy" silence in public places.

As for cars and trucks, the noise they produce is regulated in about half of the US: https://www.semasan.com/resources/exhaust-noise-laws-state