skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is a great idea. I would love to see it implemented immediately as an experiment rather than tring to figure out on principle whether it would work etc. etc. etc. Only one way to know how it impacts the social climate... try it out!
Latin is not a good comparison in this case.

Latin is a dead language, but it never died. It slowly evolved into Late Latin,
then Proto-Romance, then free of the unifying influence of the Roman Empire the
languages started becoming mutually unintelligible across long distances and
evolved into their own things, eventually becoming Italian, Spanish, French,
Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan, Occitan etc... I over-simplify of course, but
that's the idea.

At no point was Latin replaced by anything else. If you had a time machine and
went to Rome, then started to slowly rewind back in time you'd slowly see the
language morphing back into Latin. If you did that in Paris, you'd hear the same
thing[1].

On top of that Latin was the lingua franca for science and arts for over a
thousand years. Through that route many words were loaned back into other
languages, sometimes forming doublets of words having a different meaning but
coming from the same Latin word through different routes. Take English "chair",
coming from Latin "cathedra" (seat) through Old French and "cathedral" coming
from... the same word, also through Old French but this time taking a detour
through the ecclesiastic language.

Gaelic's situation is utterly different. It hasn't evolved organically into a
different language that eventually became different enough as to be mutually
unintelligible, instead it's being replaced. It also has very little chance to
survive as a lingua franca like Latin because the language that replaces it
already does that better too. It's not a high prestige language that's used by
many 2nd language speakers like Latin was and English is.

[1] As a side note, that's why I can't stand ultra-prescriptivists. When a fellow
French speaker starts harping on about how the "kids can't speak right" and the
usual reactionary crap I usually ask them why they feel that way when they
speak such a broken mess of a low dialect of Latin themselves. I mean if it
doesn't have ablatives and deponent verbs it's not a real language as far as
I'm concerned.
No need for either, windows has and OpenSSH client and server as well as pretty good terminal now.
Well, this executive voluntarily resigned. He could have just as easily issued a statement condemning his younger self for their sexist and puerile remarks, disavowing his older views and committing himself to doing better. Plenty of folks have done just that, and found themselves growing and improving as people.

There are plenty of loud politicians that, since the 1970s, have supported gay rights; Bernie comes to mind [0]. (He also opposed DOMA [1].) Indeed, a majority of Americans, some 70%, have had to change their minds about this, but that does not mean that there were not folks back then who had reasonable moral stances about ensuring that all of us have the right to volunteer to go die for this country.

I'm not seeing what's actually bad here. Indeed I'm not even seeing what's vindictive. The wages of free speech is people reading and thinking about what you say.

[0] https://www.vox.com/2015/7/7/8905905/sanders-drugs-gay-right...

[1] https://www.vox.com/2015/9/9/9295867/bernie-sanders-gay-sold...
It's not due to bifurcation.

It's because Apache "adopts" products that are created independently by other companies who then want to open source their product, and leave to it someone else to look after.

Kafka was created at LinkedIn and eventually donated to Apache Foundation.

Pulsar was created at Yahoo and eventually donated to Apache Foundation.
Open-Source Hardware Momentum Builds
I'm sorry to hear that, but I would ask (5) how much time have people here had to serve "in the doghouse"? How much damage have folks here taken from these "powerful people"? It seems specious and speculative.
You want to scramble your voice before it's sent through the phone? In this case you'll need a descrambler on the other end, and the quality will probably suffer since voice codecs are lossy and you'll have to account for that in your algorithm.

It sounds like a fun project but practically speaking why not just use some end-to-end encrypted VoIP protocol? The only practical use case I can see for your solution would be to do it over normal GSM calls when you don't have a data connection. Then it could have some value.
Are you saying it’s not clearly biological for men to behave differently around women?

That it’s not clearly biological for a man to place a high priority on seeking a woman for “individual sexual or romantic gratification” in a way that can cause him to view other men as competitors at the expense of “group loyalties and shared destiny”?
I was about to say that last paragraph seemed like a bad take but it seems to work for Facebook I guess.
Can't you still use it? I still use it.
This is fantastic. Happy Independence Day!
'Village' should be a clue there
Blow to Intel as chip shipments to China’s server market at risk
Is his claim true? I'm glad some companies like Basecamp provide a counterexample...

> “History has not been kind to technology companies who do not continue to grow. Technology companies either grow or they die. There is no middle option.”
China has instituted a single point of failure in a man who will cognitively decline over the coming decade(s). A man who is so vain and petty that he has instituted a personal cult. (And it should be noted that all advances China has made was made before Xi's coup).
Up until March, my office was less than a block from the Paramount theater in downtown Oakland. Once a month there would be a huge naturalization ceremony there as I was walking in to the office. That always did make me feel proud to be "an American", seeing all the newly naturalized people and their families crowding the area.
> "Everywhere is slow apart from Hull"

Maybe that's true in areas that only have the incumbent Openreach (BT) fibre, but there are now several alternative fibre networks.

Virgin Media, of course, has their own extensive national broadband network (hybrid fibre/coaxial). And smaller fibre-only ISPs such as Hyperoptic, Cityfibre, and Gigaclear have their own physical infrastructure. These guys typically offer gigabit speeds or more.

Personally, not having fibre in my building, I've ditched the wires in favour of 5G home broadband, and enjoy ~400 Mbps for £30/month (30 day contract). Even better, I can take the battery-powered router with me when I need mobile WiFi, even roaming around Europe!
the point of the tesla battery in south australia wasnt to provide base load continuous power it was to provide close to instant peaking power to smooth the grid it was directly competing with natural gas peaking plants. (which it beats)
I recommend trying a bunch, but I can recommend Sync for reddit and Boost for reddit. Both are for Android, by the way.
The article includes semantic security in the definition of FHE, so i would assume this implies that all the existing FHE scheme have this property.
Instagram will soon recommend who to add to your block list
Tesla enters Europe energy market with its Autobidder platform
So, do you feel that the money has been misappropriated? I mean, should it have been spent differently (for the same cause)?

I am asking because I understand the issue that you feel regarding spending the money but do you think that it should not have been spent in this cause at all?
U.S. Population Growth Has Been Driven Exclusively by Minorities
Neutral is contextual.

If you consider social interactions, they can be described as an interaction where signal is identified against noise - given a specific context. Its natural then for a context to exist such that the signal and noise are inverted, or neutrality is lost.

Not everyone can afford a mea culpa.

That said this is precisely the kind of interesting dynamic that is worth testing out to see what sort of affordance it creates, and how the medium changes to incorporate mea culpas.
Sparkler bombs are pretty interesting in this space. Potassium nitrate or potassium chlorate both have the potential for lots of power and dangerous outcomes.
How can I appear more like my interviewer in those first 20 seconds?
I might see this working only if it doesn't curtail freedom of speech that much. But it's too eerie. Without UX cues I don't know if Twitter wrote something or you did.

Train it slightly wrong and Twitter takes control of some important figure's public viewpoint, perhaps even replacing something worth being angry about in the first place.
I stumbled on rahul.io and was blown away: includes word, webamp and wolf3d!
This seems really interesting and well designed. The current FAANG where I work was represented fairly & accurately.

However, I experienced a glitch when, after playing with it for a while, it told me "unauthorized"
Have you tried Tailscale?
> it seems like a no-brainer to turn away covid-19 cases in favor or other, more treatable diseases.

A hospital wouldn't be turning them away, they'd be throwing them out. Any likely fatal case of covid is already in the hospital.

That's death panels on steroids.

What survival percentage should get people ejected? 10%? What would be the social consequences of turning people away from a hospital who would live 10% of the time? Should they also start turning down people in serious car accidents or who have had serious heart attacks? Where would these triaged be sent? Would there be some sort of lightly manned hospice warehouse where suffering people wait to die, or would it be more merciful to give them an injection?

If you don't give them an injection, but 1-2% of the time they still end up recovering on their own, how would we answer them when they start loudly and publicly asking questions about our priorities?

These probably aren't questions that you would personally have to answer, because your role in this hypothetical is just to not be on lockdown and to be free to do whatever you want when you want, but other people are going to be required to physically carry this stuff out.

> Most hospitals ended up dismantling their temporary covid-19 field hospitals due to lack of use.

This is good news, not bad news.
For small scale, acknowledging my mistakes is vital.

If I'm being attacked by a crowd of people I don't even know, who don't know me, fuck em. I've seen this time and again where someone gets called out. Even when they apologize they usually still get cancelled. It's only the people who refuse to apologize to sjw's who have, ironically, been safe (joe Rogan, the draftkings guy, etc).

Twitter is, and always will be, a hate machine.
Cool. It's taken me years to find an efficient (and most importantly, easily debuggable) way to transfer Git's history to SQL. Since you are looking for use cases, I'll share with you some of the ways that I'm leveraging SQL to help drive code analytics for Git.

Once Git's history is in an easy to query state, you can do some interesting things. For example, if you aggregate all the contributors in a Git repo, you can produce something like this:

https://imgur.com/tT4DSJc

which makes it very easy to identify project investment/commitment. In the above example, you can see that Microsoft is heavily invested in vscode, as a lot of the developers that are contributing to it, have been doing so for more than 3 years. And if you aggregate contributions by file types, you can see how people are contributing to it as well. In the case of vscode, the contributions are mainly TypeScript contributions.

Here is another contributor example, which shows GitLab contributions:

https://imgur.com/3UU6Kda

What the above analytics shows, is GitLab has a lot of contributors and a lot of them are new contributors (6 months or less), which makes sense since they were hiring aggressively not too long ago. Not sure if this is still the case with Covid-19, but this can be easily confirmed 6 months from now, with the same chart.

Now for something more interesting in my opinion, which is code review analytics.

https://imgur.com/xWH6QFl

It has taken a lot of research and development to get to this point, but once you can easily query Git, you can surface very interesting things by cross referencing it with external systems, like GitHub's pull request system.

In the pull requests screen shot, I created a window that only considers open pull requests that were updated within the last 30 days. With this type of window, I can see what has changed across dozens, if not hundreds or thousands of pull requests. For example, I can easily identify file collisions, between pull requests. When was their last commit, and so forth.

I'm still working on refining my code review analytics, but the goal is to get it to an advanced state, where you can see exactly what is happening between pull requests and to derive insights from those requests.

So those are just some of the use cases that I've developed, which leverages being able to query a Git's history with SQL.
So I think this is 'how not to do it' for a few reasons.

1) This kind of thing has to be done in person. Writing angry emails from above will only have the effect of getting people upset.

2) Scolding people about 'not working hard enough' is lacking in insight. 'Hard work' is probably not the issue, almost certainly, it's structural etc. - which is to say - it's probably more 'managements' fault than anything. Which implies a hefty does of hypocrisy.

So the message should have been mostly about 'the problems we're facing, what some underlying issues are, and a plan for addressing them' and how everyone has a responsibility to participate.

At most - if there is a legitimate problem of distractions or slagging off ... he can hint at it and that's about it. But only in the context of material plan and assuming responsibility himself for the overall concerns.

3) It's fair for a CEO to be concerned about staff trying to take on 'too much concern' for their ostensible political causes - but - he should not deny that a) his staff feels as though the issue is important and b) the company, on some level has a responsibility to be a good corporate actor.

So what he can do, first, validate their real concerns instead of dismissing them, explain why social responsibility for these things are often an individual thing to be done outside work and why organisations generally are not in and of themselves political or issue oriented, but also indicate some things the company can do to be 'good corporate actors' in the context of these issues.

To put a different way, it's not a corporations job to 'sponsor protests' for example, but it definitely is a corporations responsibility to make sure they are 'not being racist' within their own operations and relations. In fact 'political action' is often secondary to the real, material actions which in and of themselves are 'root causes'. For example 'not being racist' is much more important that 'going to a protest' because if we all behaved appropriately, such problems would arise much less often.

Surely there are at least some things the company could do to improve their actions as a group, which I think would in fact be more relevant and material to the concerns of some of the staffers anyhow. By implementing some appropriate measures, and indicating that 'this is actually the best way to address such problems' - he's both making his company better at the same time as addressing their real and emotional concerns.
> In what way you would think this is a good example is confusing?

This is a difficult position for companies in the modern day, many employees have taken a stance and are trying to bring social issues into work. I think what the CEO is alluding to, is this, that while the company is open to understanding these issues and understanding employees concerns, the role of the company is to make money.

You see it in the article, stating that layoffs lead to staff being demoralized, well guess what, if you keep losing ground because staff are focused on bringing outside issues into the office, then layoffs could be somewhat seen as a response to the losses the company is making.

While some tend to make moves towards to the extremes, the company seems to be trying to find a balance, supporting issues and having programs in place, while trying not alienate some of it's customers.
Thanks for posting this. It’s a tumultuous time, and I needed a reminder it is possible for us as a nation to recover from the mistakes.
Reads like a self help book of the month
Are they using LTE? We ran into a weird edge case issue a few years ago with Verizon wireless. They NAT and inspect everything, including rate limiting traffic the fit an abuse pattern. Weirdness happened more if the user was transmitting many packets when trAnsitioning between towers.
This is the typical pop-sci cycle, and it happens over and over again. Someone neatly packages and oversimplifies a concept (power posing, the importance of sleep, even thinking fast & slow), which is swallowed whole and heralded as a wonderful insight by the general public, bringing the individual fame and fortune. The concept is then dismantled over time and found to be at best, 'difficult to replicate', and at worse, just made up.
"Well, this executive voluntarily resigned."

In this context, "voluntarily resignation" usually means "resign now, or you're fired":

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/23/business/23family.html

"He could have just as easily issued a statement condemning his younger self for their sexist and puerile remarks, disavowing his older views and committing himself to doing better."

He did do all of these things. It didn't matter, he was still fired. No forgiveness allowed.

"Plenty of folks have done just that, and found themselves growing and improving as people."

In my experience, making someone apologize and then firing them anyway rarely leads them to personal growth.

"There are plenty of loud politicians that, since the 1970s, have supported gay rights; Bernie comes to mind [0]."

I don't think even Sanders supported gay marriage in the 80s. The linked clip just says that being gay shouldn't be illegal.

"Indeed I'm not even seeing what's vindictive. The wages of free speech is people reading and thinking about what you say."

Reading, thinking, and responding to speech is good and healthy. "You are never allowed to earn a living, participate in commerce, or support your family for the rest of your life, regardless of what you do or how many times you apologize" is vindictiveness.
An apology, to the cancel crowd, is merely an admission of guilt. There is no such thing as redemption. By the time someone apologizes, the mob has moved on to a fresh outrage. In their wake are ruined reputation and careers.
One of the reasons why biotech has so low success is that we see it as kinda ok to unleash a half tested app onto people, basically most startup apps out there, while new drugs are extremely hard to get tested.

It's kinda understandable given that some drugs can have serious negative long term effects on people, whereas a buggy CRUD app can't really do much harm in comparison.

While the costs of a "buggy" drug are usually larger than the cost of a buggy app, the benefits of a "good" drug are usually larger than the benefit of yet another app to share pictures, or a uber but for X.

Just see how much it costs to save the economy just from the corona measures. The opposite of that is the benefit of a 1 year increase of people's healthy life spans, much more in fact as only parts of the economy were shut down.
>employees using their company to further their personal political or religious beliefs needs to be stomped.

Why? What's wrong with employees wanting some ownership of and control over the fruits of their labour?

Personally, I believe the reckoning that Tech is now facing is a direct result of decades of ethically-bankrupt profit-chasing and the cults of personality that certain CEOs nurtured and their fans exacerbated.

I think a little humility, particularly in the upper echelons of the tech sector, is past due.
> "Whitechapel; I had shockingly bad internet in each of these places."

I get up to 400 Mbps in Whitechapel (Vodafone 5G). Very fast and reliable.

(Edit: speed test just now: https://www.speedtest.net/result/9708635870 )
I also write poetry, not only am I immune but I believe in karma :)

I'll give them a read, thanks.
Thanks for making this! Would be great to be able to compare the companies.
There are not that many Basecamps though. If a niche is competitive enough then the eat-or-be-eaten law tends to be applied quite rigorously and one way to avoid being eaten (or at least, to avoid being eaten on someone else's terms) is to show healthy growth. That's why month-to-month growth is a very good metric to gauge a start-ups eventual success.

Think of Basecamp as a very successful exception. And there is nothing wrong with that, in fact I'd like it if there were many more companies like that. In NL we have an interesting IT cooperative that I was an early investor in that is moderately successful, nowhere near as successful as Basecamp but at least they have tried. The remainder all seems to follow the usual patterns.

Stagnation makes you into a sitting target rather than a moving one and those are much simpler to dispatch so better keep moving.
Volley (YC W18) is hiring a lead mobile engineer to build voice-controlled games
My understanding is that salt domes previously used for natural gas storage can be retooled to store hydrogen. Those have enormous capacities, months worth. At least in europe and north america they're hardly georaphically limited in the sense that pumped hydro is.
Unfortunately still we have Guam, Puerto Rico and others that have given so much but remain as not quite citizens
> Passing off guesses as knowledge only works as a career if you try to dress up your guesses as knowledge...

What he wrote was essentially common knowledge at the time, not a novel theory that needed defending. That’s why elsewhere in this thread it is pointed out that you can’t judge it by today’s standards. We have different common knowledge today that people use as justifications for their opinions without feeling any need to cite a paper. Some of that knowledge is right and some wrong.

For a modern example, you could take a look at a comment that says his conclusions were wrong without citing any evidence.
The lag time for deaths after infection is 4-6 weeks. (I've heard of cases where people spent three months on a ventilator before recovering. They're very rare, but they do happen.)

And of course if the initial lockdown measures were effective, the base for a new wave of infections would be low, and it would take a separate 4 to 6 weeks for the next wave of cases to become seriously problematic.
It will play badly.

Its still worth testing. Not all scenarios are managed by bad actors, so if this has positive results in those situations it may lead to the creation of more tools that could help.

That said, I am sure people are currently finding ways to correct themselves. The main thing here is that the original incident itself is modified.
I liked his point that if you believe in "cause no harm" (non-agression), you should wear the mask. It raises issues in what counts as real harm/aggression (wearing clothes someone in society dislikes is technically "harm", but not a harm considered real or aggressive or... I forget the terms).

Then he insults everyone who disagrees with him multiple names and accusations of bad faith (which makes serious discussion undesirable and difficult). I think that's a thing Taleb does (online).
This follows last week's layoff.[1]

[1] https://www.bizjournals.com/portland/news/2020/06/29/layoffs...