skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Collective nouns are very confusing.

When a Sheriff calls a group of people together, its a posse. But when a group of Representatives come together, its a congress. When people are advising the President, its a cabinet.

But in other situations, people can be a mob... but not to be confused with THE mob (which is apparently a different group of people all together). While mob has negative connotations, "Flash Mobs" are generally positive.

When people are organized into a military group: it can be a squad, brigade, division, corps, or army. You'd think it'd be correlated to size, but the proper term seems inconsistent and not really properly defined.
If everything has to come from somewhere, then the first cause of all other things must be an uncaused thing, otherwise we have an infinite recursion of things and thus nothing existing at all.
> collecting and processing measurements and displaying them, used by managers of industry companies which expect a one click app install etc?

Kubernetes is just a scheduler/orchestrator. It's not a full blown PaaS as you are expecting it to. You are supposed to glue together parts and make a PaaS based on your needs
Yes, especially if it was made with materials which need to be abated
I think you're right in that it is somewhat against the spirit of the GPL. That said, I'd like to offer another perspective: Dual-licensing with the GPL allows for the open sourcing of programs that would otherwise have been proprietary. I think this benefit greatly outweighs the moral quandary. The potential for forking alone is a huge boon to the open source community.

RMS's thoughts on dual-licensing: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/selling-exceptions
XOM, EOG, COP and APC can pick up the tab I'm sure.
I haven’t dug deeply into their financials, but directly comparing them to other car companies is misleading as they are far more vertically integrated.

An EV charging network, direct sales, and building significantly more parts in house means they can extract more money even if they sold an identical product to the rest of the market. I doubt the solar business or grid batteries are particularly profitable, but it’s the same Apple vs Samsung song and dance. Outsourcing everything means you’re sharing profits with your suppliers and have little leverage over your competitors.

That’s not to say they can or will do all of that profitability. Tesla’s self driving tech could fall behind rendering a massive investment worthless. But, the numbers aren’t so high it’s impossible for them to be a great investment just IMO unlikely.
That’s not how commodity markets, like for oil and gas work. If the entire industry saves $280 billion, they don’t declare a giant dividend. The industry is extremely competitive, and the price of gas is very sensitive to changes in the cost of extracting the gas. If you forced operators to say pay the costs of capping wells up front, those costs would almost entirely be passed onto the consumer.

Since almost everyone uses gas, people are just going to be paying money they saved earlier through cheaper gas. More generally, the “but profits!” view of the world isn’t very useful when applied to highly competitive industries. Yeah, Purdue makes a lot of money in absolute terms, but it makes cents on each chicken. Consumers are the ones that mainly benefit from factory farming in the form of lower prices. Focusing on “profits” overlooks the real economic issue: people like cheap gas, chicken, and other commodities.

Down voters: There is nothing here to “disagree” with. The fact that gas prices closely track costs of extracting oil is not only Econ 101, its well established empirically.
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I am quite baffled at the line of reasoning here. If you are concerned with the fact that minorities are underrepresented in a top school due to having lower scores, how about you volunteer to give extra lessons to these kids, try to popularize science (and math in particular) among them, and otherwise help them compete on par in a completely unbiased and merit-based system.

But instead, left-leaning activists insist that affirmative action is the only solution to the problem, ignore its downsides (such as increased tension between social groups when you apply different rules to them), and when faced with well-substantiated objections, they burn the Rome by completely dismantling the merit-based system. And, of course, fully blame conservatives for the consequences of a decision they did not make. Especially, the head of the federal executive branch that has zero jurisdiction over the matter.
What is a "nasty" photo? One that looks like it's not staged to hell?
I don't use Twitter, but it appears to very much so have a two class system.
Blue check marked people have a quite different experience to regular users.
Tesla is much more than a car company. It’s an energy company that also sells cars.
Not in the eyes of a reasonable employer (with the exception of maybe a handful of titles).

Facebook's net effect on society is very complex and any employer who would throw out your CV for having worked in a competitive, controversial and (probably) challenging work environment isn't worth caring about anyway. Let it come up and speak honestly.
I have sleep apnea, and ADHD. Before getting on CPAP life was pretty tough. It definitely exacerbated my ADHD at least 2x. So, I can understand that if you're neurotypical and have sleep apnea it is going to be affecting your executive function such that you aren't at 100%. The flip side is ADHDers are significantly more likely to be morbidly obese and have other health complications like sleep apnea as a result. At that point it's a real downward spiral. Very glad I finally sought treatment for my apnea after kicking the can down the road for 4 whole years, which is very typical ADHD behavior in itself.

For real though CPAP is life changing if you need it and you get on it.
> Oil and coal companies literally kill thousands of people every year and destroy the planet we need to live.

Facebook has been used to incite genocide: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebo...

and enabling the spread of anti-anti-COVID stuff likely has a decently large body count, as well.
I agree. I often hear "landlords need to make an income too" as an argument against rent relief / freezes. However:

a) Many landlords have financing at their disposal that renters don't: loan forbearance, mortgage freezes (and yet rent freezes are unfair?), etc.

b) In good times, the defense for landlords raising rents is "they're taking a financial risk by renting out their property others" -- if that's the case, then why is it the government's priority to protect them more than the tenants these landlords are evicting? You invested in the opportunity to generate income. Not the guarantee. If you lose your shirt, that's on you -- nothing prevented you from putting the money in savings or less risky account.

This may be my own subjective view and politics coming through, but I firmly believe that if you're wealthy enough to afford a property to rent out to the less wealthy, the needs of the tenants trump the needs of the landlords; similarly, the needs of the landlords should trump the needs of the banks. The economy is hurting, everyone is hurting, yes. But why is it the people at the bottom have to hurt the most?
I'd assume the dividing line is what type of motor drives the wheels directly.
It's useful to quickly check whether the connection is 100BASE-TX or 1000BASE-T.
>A big part of government function is managing externalities (pollution, food safety, roads etc) -- things that are not economic when purchased individually.

Says you.

Damn near every government (from local to national) has a charter more along the lines of "do these specific mostly administrative things that we agree are best done at this level".
I'd rather pay for my gas when I'm paying for my gas, as opposed to regardless of my consumption of gas. That way there's incentives to reduce consumption
I suspect it's because Political power is just not easily quantifiable except when it's deaths, and then it's easy to lose perspective in both directions because we typically have less of an anchoring experience, and the brain shuts down.

By contrast you know how much you make and your circle makes and you can easily imagine (rightly or wrongly) what you would do with 10x, 100x, 10,000x, or 100,000x as much, and then it's X person/org is not doing Y good thing that I imagine myself to do, and probably also doing all the Z things that I won't admit I would do. It's easy to make big companies and rich people to be their worst while also totally ignoring that jfk raped his intern, for example.
I dont really see why this is a big deal. The majority of the data mentioned in this article have a clear application in improving user experience and customer support.

Sonos is an ever evolving ecosystem which works with a huge variety of services and devices, which are also constantly evolving. I was just at my parents house with sonos speakers and I could be play to them instantly from the Spotify app without any configuration or delay. It’s basically magic.

They are essentially operating a massive edge network for many thousands of customers to support all of these magic features and add new ones to stay competitive. When you are operating a network, you are gonna want telemetry and metrics so you know what’s working and how to improve. That’s what I believe this data is used for, which seems pretty legitimate to me. I don’t think it is some conspiracy to gather a database of WiFi network data for nefarious purposes.

If you don’t want the telemetry, setup you own speaker network with a rpi or something which you can operate yourself in your free time. However, most people don’t want to do that so they buy Sonos.
Which is why Silicon Valley is in California, and why attempts to create a startup culture elsewhere have mostly failed.

I doubt that that is the main reason. Also, in this case it worked against the startup.
Interesting. I did not consider that it might be taken that way. I wrote it in the style that I would appreciate. Thanks for the feedback.
No. At my org, I look at technical resumes and I'm directed to pass people I believe could pass a technical interview (among a few other factors). Greater scrutiny will be applied later in the process. I know that people who have worked at facebook can pass a technical interview so it's easy to pass them onto the next round.
If anything Facebook is a positive given most of their engineers are highly qualified.

edit: to the people downvoting me, I can tell you for certain that having facebook on your resume as a software engineer gets you interviews
I recently named a flamingo bird Ragnaros, and in doing so learned that a flock of flamingos is a flamboyance.
I think "just give it to the feds instead" should be a checkbox on everyone's state taxes. It would give the states a clear monetary reason to make their inhabitants not resent them.
Thanks be to Jesus Christ,

here is a long testimony https://soundcloud.com/brianlovejesus/testimony-of-jesus-wor... including where i have been psych med free (even caffeine) with doctor's approval since 2014 thanks to the Lord Jesus Christ.

I hope if people demote me they would listen to it first :) blessings unto the Lord always and thankfully God is in control in the Lord Jesus' name
That was long before capitalism had corroded and hollowed out all of our public institutions. I'm referring to what some people mean when they say that we changed from being a society that has markets to being a market society. If you think that it's just a matter of Congress wielding unlimited power because it says so in a document, my question is how are you going to build the kind of political coalition to make that into a reality? In a society as hollowed out as ours, our entire conception of what the role of politics is will have to change.
It's interesting when a two-sided marketplace collapses and the people involved have this "what do I do now" attitude...ummm... the landlords want people to rent their place, and the people living their need a place to rent...seems the problem has already solved itself.
Asians and immigrants tend to value education because it can offer a path to a higher standard of living and coming over to the US kinda self selected for the type of people with an upbringing that valued education and the willingness to take risks in unknown territory (even if it's because life in their country of origin was really bad). This is why Asians/immigrants and their children have a disproportionate occupation of seats in high caliber schools and jobs at well paying companies in the US.

There's a couple problems with saying this out loud though:

1. Some people are reluctant to admit that culture may be a nontrivial part of the reason why some groups of people do better than other groups in academics.

2. People are thinking too much about race when i think immigration is a bigger factor. Children of people from African countries excel in US schools too.

For those interested, you may want to look into studies relating to the 'immigrant paradox in the US' to learn more.

EDIT: just to clarify something: I'm all for immigration and I wish the current administration wasn't so anti-immigrant. This country has prospered from the work of immigrants and I absolutely think non-immigrants should compete with immigrants instead of acting entitled and pretending like some immigrants took their good jobs. Just because you were born on the right soil doesn't mean you deserve a better chance at getting a job. And immigrants pay taxes too.
Yea, the representation is essentially a very restricted form of to parenthesis matching.
When government bond yields are below 1% from maturities from
0 to 10 years, there is no safe 4-5% return.

The price/earnings ratio (or its inverse, the earnings yield), is a better measure of stock valuation than the dividend yield. In a taxable account it is better to get capital gains because of stock buybacks than to get dividends.
So let it be more expensive by internalizing the costs. Society will adjust. After all, Americans use an astounding amount of energy. I get your point on the competitiveness of the industry, but let's be real, a lot of people are, indeed, making money and socializing the costs.
The just so story that is told about this is with no non compete there would be no Intel. The founders would have all been stuck at Fairchild.
Small players are still free to use the software under the terms of the GPL. What if the software were only available under the GPL with no commercial licensing option? The small players would be in the same scenario.
If you write "murder of crows" a few more times, it will totally convince people it's not a thing.
Ok that's right, sorry.

Here's two others: aim for the stars and hit the moon. And,

He who tries to get everything gets nothing

(Translated.)

Those sayings also disagree with each other
Yes, or at least I hope people will believe that. It’s dangerous to have people believe they can work for an organization and not be responsible, to some degree,for its actions.
If you go fully against Robustness principle, you lose the reason to use textual formats as well, since they are designed to be forgiving of human errors in input and catch them in syntax.

And - it is certainly OK in many instances to have fixed-width, fixed byte-order binary encoding as the format's basis. It comes with the twin downsides of wholly different categories of errors cropping up, and with the lack of a universally agreed upon tool for human entry.

Perhaps text was a fashion, though. I definitely have had thoughts in that vein lately. And in that case we shouldn't always be rushing to use it as the source of truth when we have many good, machine-level agreements about numeric formats.
The remark was mostly to point out that we can and should aim for better, but we don't.

I'm a bit drunk so excuse any poor oracy
>Enron went to zero after their fraud went public.

And when governments become irrevocably insolvent, they fail (as does their fiat currency). It's still very much the same principle just at a more grand scale. Your claim that accounting transparency fixes the issue in private companies is undercut by the fact that the accounting firm Arthur Andersen was essentially defunct because of fraud in the Enron scandal. The watchers weren't doing their job ethically.

>The looming crisis of local government is known, but nobody does a thing about it. Unlike with stocks.

I disagree. You speak as if everyone is on the same page but that's not the case. Take social security in the U.S. as an example. Some will say it's a completely broken system and needs to be done away with. Others think it's solvent by simply modifying the tax base, or by raising the entitlement age, or any combination of factors. The same goes with stocks; sides will argue about whether a specific strategy or earnings result is a death knell or a temporary inconvenience until everybody can finally agree. Both scenarios are systems of human convention and thus solvable by modifying those conventions. Public pensions will follow suit just like private company pensions; when the burden gets too big to bear, the convention will be modified. Some civil servants will be on the short end of the stick, or tax-payers will be overly burdened, or something in between because it's totally a problem of human creation and not beholden to natural laws that can be bent. I've literally witnessed this happen both in private company and public pensions. When tax-payers start to disagree with policies en masse, they can elect the right politicians to fix it. If that's not happening, apparently enough people don't feel it's enough of a problem.

>You don't have to convince anyone else

You absolutely have to find a buyer at the level you want to get out at. Just because the system is fast and automated doesn't mean you can act as a single party. A vote is certainly different because it has the nuances of living in a society (so you can't just get your way because you decided it), but that doesn't negate the intended point that the root of short-term thinking is in human psychology, not the nature of an organization being public or private.
Yeah, density was the main concern that led me to make my original comment in this thread. I was thinking of a more suburban setting when I wrote the comment you're responding to, but you do have a point (unless local zoning laws allow septic drainage fields to be used for other things, but that I know too little about). If you can't build on top of drainage fields or dual-purpose them, then you'll need to sacrifice some building space, which isn't optimal from a make-the-most-of-a-land-parcel view.
In London it's only fintech, rest of the IT salaries are a joke compared to SV.
Cupboard of pandas is still my favorite and I will use it regardless.
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It takes a lot of restraint to work for an organization with that kind of power and not turn into a total dickhead.

The state cops here have that kind of power yet they are way more professional and do a hell of a lot less fishing than the locals.
Sadly this is how mining works.

The gold mining companies literally raped the ground in Montana for decades, with the same pattern of using highly toxic cyanide leach fields to extract low volumes of gold from massive quantities of ore, take profits, pay huge bonuses to the board, and then declare bankruptcy and form a new company to repeat the process, leaving the state to pay for cleanup.

Montana passed laws to force them to buy insurance upfront for cleanup and tried to ban executives from doing this over and over again. It largely worked, but they just moved to other places that don’t understand or don’t care yet.

https://billingsgazette.com/opinion/columnists/guest-opinion...
Facebook is hated among a loud minority.

Most people don't much care, and even among those, unless you're a decisionmaker with questionable record, I wouldn't worry.

I've also never before heard that rank and file Enron or AA employees suffered such reputational damage.
No, especially if you work on one of the many integrity teams internally trying to make it better.
Yeah the article itself speaks of the destruction of TJ, not just it's "transformation."
You are right and i agree. I believe it’s about having strong discipline and prioritizing the things
It is also a big brake on salaries, too. If employees are difficult to let go, and the cost of a bad hire is compounded by that, then it stands to reason that you wouldn't want to pay high salaries.

Some companies in the US are terrible at getting rid of bad workers- too many cracks for them to fall through. Some, however, are known for paying high salaries and letting anyone go who doesn't live up to them.
The problem, I think, with this is that while both capitalists and anti-capitalists oppose this policy, they view it differently. For capitalists, this is a corruption of the ideal market system. Consequently, it makes sense to try and advocate for a correct to those policies. For anti-capitalists, this is the nature of the market system. Consequently, it makes no sense to advocate for correcting these policies, the whole system needs to be uprooted.
F1 is more interesting to read about than watch. Quick fix: limit braking efficiencies. The ridiculously short braking zones make opportunities for fighting very limited, so I’d love to see racers having to be more strategic in their driving. It’s not really a spectator sport, it’s a technical contest. MotoGP exists for racing and action.
Well, they have to compete on some front. If they can't exceed Google on salary + risk-discounted equity + benefits + flexibility + employee-desire-for-company then it is economically efficient that they do not get people.
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> I have to say as a foreigner in the UK, the typical 'we don't say what we mean'-approach here is tiring and waste of time.

In that case I suggest you stay out of Japan. I’m sure the English people’s directness must be exhausting for Japanese visitors.
It's a pandemic. Why the fuck aren't they already closed?!

Oh that's right - the debt black hole that everyone must find ways to keep feeding, lest they be devoured themselves. Wouldn't it be nice if our economy allowed businesses to graciously survive a shutdown?
Here's what I would do if someone who previously worked at FB applied to my company.

It depends on what you did at FB. If you were simply a programmer or techie, working on DBs or frontend development, or whatever, it's completely okay. It's completely okay if you were in a management position overlooking technical stuff like this too.

If you were a techie who worked on features that are questionable (eg, tracking users accross sites, shadow profiles, collecting data without consent, etc), I will possibly still hire you, but I will ask you how you felt working on those features.

Simply because I would not feel comfortable with someone working in my company who had no doubts and was completely willing to work on stuff like that. Personal preference. Ethics and morals are important to me.

If you were in a management position, and were in charge of unethical features and privacy-invading practices such as the ones mentioned above, I would not hire you.
Except we don't have universal access to really good lawyers.
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Why can no one but the US pay developers well? The GDP per cap is there in many countries... but for some reason developers are only key employees in the US?
Just like Wernher von Braun wasn't allowed to work on anything after he left Germany.
This is a nice read if you ever were interested in wireless backhaul. He really goes 21km through line of sight, 3ms latency, 80u/70down (other side was family member's 1gbit).

Sends his legal wireless signal across a tiny. border toofrance/switzerland/france
Can you paste the relevant portion from the constitution? Just trying to understand it a bit better, thank you.