skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's protected in some states (California) but not federally.

Whether it should be is... Complicated. The KKK is a political organization. I don't, personally, relish the idea of dueling lawsuits if political affiliation were protected and a company fired someone for Title VII violations for passing out pamphlets from their local KKK chapter about the supremacy of the white man.
It's not doing so hot:

1) Hiring standards have drifted downwards over the past 15 years. Google used to be super-elite, compact, do-no-evil, massive-profit-per-employee. It's now a 140,000 person organization, and at that scale, standards just aren't high. You have a team of dozens of incompetent people doing what one person used to do.

2) With COVID19, ad revenues have crashed. It's not clear the impact on Google.

3) The smart, ethical folks on top (folks like Larry, Sergei, and Eric) are gone, and replaced with professional managers. They were smart to pick an internal CEO, but most of their executive team comes from places like Microsoft, Oracle, or Morgan. Having known a number of professional executives, the key skill is climbing executive ladders and moving into positions of power, not running successful companies.

4) Their products are increasingly starting to crash-and-burn, especially in B2B. Their culture relies on automated systems over people, and their automated systems have taken down tons of mission-critical businesses. Automated works well at 1000 people supporting 7 billion in B2C (small elite team model), and not so well for a massive, 100k person company.

5) I've switched mostly to non-Google products because they're better for what I need. AOL was massive too at one point. Losing the tech edge is not good. I still use gmail.

On the other hand, their revenues have continued to rise exponentially since they started. So perhaps they're doing fine?
Pharmacies are big business. If you think this is impressive, you should see what CVS is up to these days.
I like how some still characterize Apple's money pile as a weakness. The last five months showed Apple's cash pile to be a wise choice in a world where most businesses can't weather a few weeks of global perturbance without shaking tax payers for loose change.
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Why should we preserve old websites that no one uses? Why bother with historical documentation at all?

It's because, at the time, you don't know what information is going to be important and what is just garbage. Documents that are apparently useless today could become fascinating tomorrow.
It's funny, when I took a tour of the US Geological Survey, the curator of the collection hated Google (which was just a few blocks away). He said Google is great now, with all their maps, which were far more accurate and had better coverage than the USGS.

But what happens when they get bored with map data and get rid of it?

He had been ordered to turn over all of their historical arial archives for scanning by Google, and then told the USGS would no longer do arial scanning since Google was doing it. But there was no agreement for Google to turn over their arial scans back to the USGS.

At the time we all told him not to worry, Google would never remove data it had collected. Looks like he was a lot smarter than us.
You literally cannot go wrong with a Honda, Kawasaki, Yamaha or Suzuki cruiser. They're almost universally fantastic machines. The market for Yamaha V-Stars from the 00s right now is amazing, too- all of the midlife crisis bikes bought during the fad era of 2002-2008 are now at the bottom of their depreciation curve and flooding the market. Many of them look like they just rolled off the showroom floor.

If you must buy American, everything Indian makes except the FTR1200 has a great classic look. (The FTR is cool too but very modernized).
Hong Kong doctor accuses Wuhan officials of Coronavirus cover up
You can massage the data to tell any story you want.

To your point about city mayoralties, on average, Republican-led metros have lower inequality and higher cost-of-living-adjusted incomes than Democrat-led metros[1][2].

There isn't really a strong correlation between successful government and the predominant governing party. What you'll find is that things are not so simple that you can pin all of our problems on a single party in a neatly packaged way.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/10/why-are...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/13/upshot/red-blue-diverging...
I'm in the same boat, i'm not a consumer as they'd want us to be, I don't buy into any bullshit marketing, I never buy advertised stuff that passes my add blockers, I don't watch TV and when I unavoidably see billboards outside I make a mental note not to buy those products specifically because all the money spent on adverting will be paid by the customer in the end and Im not that sucker. I think advertising is toxic and obnoxious, but that's not everybody's opinion. I have some acquaintances who don't bother to avoid advertising and might as well find them fun even if they've seen them hundreds of times. I have no hope for these people, but they are are model consumers and somebody's plan is working accordingly
It seems easy to imagine a world where oil is not being aggressively purchased in the way that it was until this year, and also easy to imagine one where US military spending is curtailed by a combination of flagging support for US empire as well as the harsh reality of american fiscal policy. Not that either of these are a guarantee, but current oil consumption is incompatible with human civilization in its current form, so...
Japanese did it. Their model for economic growth was late 19th century Germany, which was largely based on financial repression.

The British did it. The UK had a huge stock of foreign assets at the start of the 20th century. They had to be sold to pay for war, and that crushed the currency (they also had to do a huge amount of financial repression). The exchange rate in the mid-20s was $5, $2.50 after WW2, and is now closer to $1.

The Russians didn't have an Empire. The extent of their ambition was interfering repeatedly in the Balkans/Turkey for no reason, and (briefly) in Europe with the Prussian/Austrian war (and then having to dial back once Prussia gained in strength/Germany appeared/etc.)

The point about "debasing currency" is, however, nonsense and based on a misunderstanding of almost everything at play here. Perhaps most important: the US isn't an empire, having a large army doesn't mean you are an empire (if that were true, North Korea would be a world power), the role of the US is and has always been collaborative (this hasn't changed with Trump either, observing that Europe pays almost nothing into NATO seems quite fair).
We are working on building a solid PostgreSQL support insofar as allowing ODBC driver to execute this type of query from Excel. This is work in progress with not that much left on it.
I am basing my observations off of the conservatives that I know personally, but offered evidence in the form of public social media used by millions of people because a common retort to this observation is skepticism or the claim that people like this don't exist.
I tried the demo: https://robinsloan.github.io/perfect-edition/build/web/index.... It's very nice.

Since I was using the space key to page forward, it would be nice if shift+space would page backward (by analogy with scrolling up and down on mac os).
Given that the legal system targets based on gender more than race, why race is the go to inequality that is pointed out? There seems to be a social level acceptance that unequal targeting based on gender is somehow more acceptable (and by targeting I mean everything from the initial profiling and surveillance all the way to the chance of conviction and the sentence handed out, with each step granting compounding interest on inequality).
> Needless to say, I don't plan ever to return to the United States once I leave. This country is hopeless.

Indeed. I was hoping this year would be my year to get out too, with a masters program abroad. Now, I'm not sure if it's wise to do that, especially as it was in finance and the finance sector in that country's taken a huge hit, and connections I have there aren't optimistic about it hiring well anytime soon.
They're already making money from 200k paid user accounts, from their team/enterprise-facing products, which they're using the funding to expand on.

Also, Uber has raised 160x as much capital, which makes the comparison slightly hyperbolic.
Could you clarify what you mean by rapid-fire? Are you talking about burst shots? What fps do you need and why?
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Smug, superior, arrogant, yet surprisingly incompetent?

(Disclaimer: I know some really awesome people at Google who I respect the heck out of; that's just my impression of the /prevailing/ culture there now, but it's far from everyone)
Nice! Not sure if you're looking for feedback, but I had two interesting observations:

1. Ctrl + back arrow (to go back to previous webpage) doesn't work, I think there's a redirect loop to the primary index.html page (easy enough to go around)

2. Zoom in/out doesn't resize the selector, instead the window stays the same size while the text changes, and some part of the previous/next page are in focus (not a big deal).

Looks really cool, thank you for sharing!
They were until they were not.
I guess I should do more of my own research (I am security ops, not dev) but when did jQuery become legacy?
Benjamin Disraeli threw Peel off his horse? Who knew? And let me say that your orthography leads me to wonder what axes you have to grind.
Future digital tourism.

That or risk future archaeologists thinking COBOL was some God of the time and the natives built large metal obelisks in dedicated worship temples.
The interactions are the problem. So, yes, American exports have and advantage if the dollar drops, but conversely, American importers suffer. Most American products these days have a large percentage of imported parts.

Given that currently nobody can travel abroad, we don’t have to worry about travelers.

The real rub is debt and interest rates. When the dollar plummets, who wants to own dollar denominated debt? That in turn will cause interest rates to rise which will damage an already faltering economy.

It ain’t simple arithmetic.
Arnold would disagree: https://youtu.be/RJsvR_gSEjg?t=270
Wow - quite a few down votes on this one.

Care to explain why you felt to downvote the parent comment that highlights serious issues with PH?
They decide who can and can't have a job. Toe their political party line or you can't work or be in business, or get cancelled and lose your job. It's a political racket, same as if your corporation had a political officer in the USSR. It's troubling to see so many corporations have this position.

These companies really showed their hand when they started a few years ago saying there are too many Asians, Asians weren't diverse, etc. Real problem is Asians usually are politically conservative and that is not OK with CDO's.
I've heard that there is a hard limit of about 1 million years to recover ancient DNA because of deterioration processes [1]. Wouldn't their DNA have deteriorated by now? Or is it being constantly repaired?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_DNA
The role of the WHO is to provide timely advice based on the best evidence on hand. Sometimes preliminary research is overturned by subsequent studies. Sometimes best practices are flawed and need to be updated. WHO is not omniscient; they're pragmatic scientists.

Scientists have been wrong frequently throughout history, but do you know who's wrong even more often? The people who ignore science.
That is absolutely ridiculous. Wow!
Maybe I'm naive, but given the level of unemployment and the decrease in consumer demand across a wide array of markets and fields, don't we see an increased risk of deflation without printing more money?
DoT is easier for network admins to block. I prefer it, but that is a downside to DoT IMPO.
First one is: don't believe your thoughts. Observe them with detachment, even if the thought starts with "I". Especially if the thought starts with "I".

Thoughts don't define you! Don't let them capture your attention. After all, do you really need to think to wash the dishes or to drive your car?

Use your mind when it's needed and then let it rest when it's not.

Second one is: learn to discern influences, beneficial or not. Only then can you let yourself be influenced consciously. This will protect you from any kind of manipulation.
I just recently received my PinePhone Braveheart unit, which is by no means a similar device. However, I did try running Mobian, which runs a similar stack (including Librem’s innovative Phosh.) It actually is pretty impressive, and even though it is not aimed at consumer use it is pretty close to being usable as a basic phone with Linux.

There’s really two problems.

1. Speed. The CPUs are just underwhelming. It is not unusable by any means, but it definitely feels like many steps backwards. I think at least the PinePhone needs to be running lighter software; Wayland is certainly not an issue, but a lot of heavy GTK software is probably not a good idea. Web browsing is tricky and makes me wish there existed lightweight browser engines that implemented less of the web standard, but it is actually passable believe it or not.

2. Linux desktop software is just not designed for phones. I think Phosh is clever, and feels very nice to use... until you remember its a phone, and then realize the inherent differences. Normal phones have some kind of central push notification management, but not here. I assume when the device sleeps, you simply stop getting any notifications. I haven’t actually seen a notification pop up on the lockscreen yet, so I’m not sure. There’s an SMS and messaging app, and Telegram/tdesktop works really well, so there is that.

I think that both problems could be solved somehow, but it’s feeling like it could be a tough one. One of the things that both iOS and Android did right off the bat was dramatically change the model of execution that apps had, to orient them around the concept of constantly being swapped in and out. There’s really no obvious way you can support standard Linux desktop apps without some compromise here. I would actually be pretty happy if these devices were capable of just staying awake on a low frequency most of the time, because I think that would dramatically simplify things, but you would have to worry a lot about power draw from apps running and etc in ways that you don’t have to in most modern phones.

Some may view the lack of a good push notification story as a benefit, but for me there are definitely things where I want it to be reliable and timely... so I am left feeling a bit lost.
It’s a lot better than the “Dear Github” era where nothing is released.
I don't suggest it would be easy. But even the anecdotes from your comment indicate that it should be done.

'Border security' is not what defines migration patterns - its jobs. If everyone in the US must be paid a reasonable wage, irrespective of documentations status - then it's not only moral and fair, it's also civic. The entire system is deeply hypocritical.

A lot of jobs will disappear, some will get more automated, in some cases prices will be passed on.

I'm doubtful any of it will change: 'one side' is addicted to the votes, the 'other side' addicted to the profits, and secretly everyone is addicted to low prices.
Agreed on Radley Balko.

He is the best writer on police brutality, AFAIK.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/radley-balko/

https://twitter.com/radleybalko
Some of the answers in this thread actually allude to the bias in this study: People actively change their behaviors to accommodate Google's knowledge panels, meaning some portion of the "15000 top search queries" they studied are actually people seeking Google's results, not general search results.
That's screen on, though, if you look at the title of the chart. That's probably no worse than my Pixel 3 (which is by no means an endurance athlete, but is probably fairly representative of the Android mass market).

The lack of screen off times in the article is definitely worrying, though. That's just as important a metric.

Edited to add: actually, the first graph is screen off, I think. Looks like it's a tick under 10 hours. Which is poor, so I hope there's more scope for software improvement, but I also think is a fairly significant improvement over where they were 6-12 months ago.
When you posted about joining Oxide I couldn't quite figure out what they (now you) do by looking at the homepage. I stumbled across this other lecture (https://youtu.be/3LVeEjsn8Ts?t=2189) that is along the same line of thinking, and it started to make sense.
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The big tech companies in question (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc) are using the WHO's guidance as the barometer for what does and does not constitute "misleading information" when it comes to deciding what to block. So, OP's point is not misguided. It's not like Twitter's own medical staff are the ones deciding whether hydroxychloroquine is or is not effective.
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Postgres, though not new, has some incredibly powerful features these days that make it worth investing in.

- JSONB column type, get NoSQL-esque document storage when you need it.

- Generated columns, computed from other columns without the need to maintain triggers or syncing app code

- Extensions, all kinds of OSS and SaaS-based extensions that add powerful facets to your DB
I can only recommend listening to or watching some of Peter Schiff's talks. That's exactly the scenario he has been talking about for years.

If that scenario would play out (I think it's very unlikely right now, but probably inevitable long-term), the US would have a big issue as it's not exporting a lot, but importing basically everything. Hence, cost of living would go up (inflation) and standard of living would most likely decrease substantially.

One effect that would accelerate this is rising interest rates (to conquer inflation) meaning a significant drop in asset prices (since you now have to borrow at a higher rate).
Do NOT accept it as admission of incorrectness. That will typically create an image that you're not a good worker, even when you're just trying to be polite to the person giving feedback.

Here's the pattern that I've found useful:
1/ Rephrase the feedback "What I heard you say...". This buys you a bit of time and putting feedback in your words takes the personal sting out
2/ Turn it into a non-hostile discovery discussion by saying something like "I'm interested in understanding why you think x, y, z...". Layer in any relevant context in your question phrasing... e.g. if the feedback is contradicting the project objectives then you may want to add that in your question
3/ Rephrase what you heard in your own words
4/ Repeat steps 2-3 until you have sufficient clarity
5/ Decide the appropriate next steps and articulate that. A feasible next step might be to take no action because you either resolved the issue through discussion or identified it's not a priority
>The US protects the middle-east oil supply

Now that the US is basically self-sufficient in petroleum and seems to have entered an isolationist mood, I wouldn't count on its risking the loss of one of its aircraft carriers to re-open Gulf shipping lanes if Iran or some other actor decides to close them.
Ah, I see your point.

Still, this isn't the stagflation of the 1970s. While there may be underlying problems, the main issue is that Covid shut down parts of the economy, which also meant shutting down parts of employment. The trick really isn't to avoid inflation. The trick is to make it back to approximately normal without killing too many businesses and bankrupting too many families (while also not killing too many people). If inflation happens as a result, but we get back to a healthy economy, then we can worry about inflation. For the next one or two years, I don't think that inflation is the issue to focus on.
But we did "radically and rapidly" changed the rules of our society. Lack of focus on family and kids is a relatively new invention.
I think the person you're replying to was suggesting OP embezzle their self-education budget into their pocket.
I learned to ride on the crappiest banana seat schwimm with a dynamo powering a heavy head-light. I love it. I graduated to a Rampar BMX and then a Rebel top top components including KKT pedals and and Oakley 0.5 grips. Man years later I got a Fuji Aluminum Road entry level bike for my teenager son and he rode it for a few months and tossed it. Not interested. It was a great entry level bike. I believe on the evolution of the rider, from a Huffy Wal-Mart to a Bianchi or Giant.
Yes, the demo's hosted on a github.io page.
GPT-3 guesses the next word or words after a given input, allowing it to write articles that make at least some sense. Translation of a textbook (especially math) would be way out of its wheelhouse.
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Fine, lets play that game.

Show me the statistic that say how many shoes/sandals/boots were sold in the US last year. Now show me what percentage of those shoes were made in the US of foreign components and what percentage of them were made beginning to end of US sourced components.

Many of these companies can't even keep their internal supply chain logistics in order enough to report what country something was actually manufactured in, much less reporting hard volume/etc numbers sufficiently to do anything but obfuscate.

Put another way, if the "economic" numbers weren't so cooked they might be a reasonable basis for argument, but time and time again when you dig into something you quickly hit a dead end because no one actually collects such detailed statistics across the entire economy. Sure you can tell me how many planes Boeing made in each of the past 30 years, but good luck as you move down the supply chain, or for less valueable goods like refrigerators.

If you look at the computer industry you frequently can't even tell how many units a company sold in the US because they want to obfuscate their declining volume. To be more specific, can you tell me how many zseries mainframes IBM sold each year for the last 10 years? The last couple times I looked at this, the closest you can get is "installed capacity" which is IBM multiplying the machines by their theoretical capacity which is measured using some proprietary IBM metric and doesn't even represent actual sales because they have "capacity on demand" which allows them to sell/install a machine with capacity X but only charge and provide the customer with a fraction of X. So, each generation of machines is some larger multiple of X, which allows them to sell fewer machines (and capacity), and claim more installed capacity.

You will get a more realistic view going to your local target, and standing in the sock isle counting what people are buying than you will get from the target sales numbers.

(socks are another one of those areas where its actually possible to buy US manufactured textiles if you look, because they are the kind of garment that is easily automated. Its likely even US cotton, but whether it was shipped overseas for processing first, good luck..)
Yes, it sounds like this was inappropriate but possibly not illegal. Normally the strongest sanction the judge could take here would be to find them in contempt of court, but he let them off with a warning/admonishment which also seems fine.

> IPT secretary Susan Cobb wrote back to say: "It was inappropriate for your staff to seek to intervene in ongoing legal proceedings..."

> Lord Justice Singh told the room: "The tribunal's secretary acted entirely appropriately in responding the way she did and by drawing these matters to my attention. In March 2019, it was recognised that the direct communication was inappropriate."