skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And a non-trivial number of people believed that the U.S. has spent decades slashing school funding. Or that Stacey Abrams "should be the governor of Georgia right now." Or that Citizens United was about campaign contributions. Or that we are 10 years away from the end of civilization due to climate change. As a life-long Democrat, I didn't realize how much false received wisdom I had internalized until I married a Republican.

I think it's fair to say that Republicans are somewhat more likely to believe in false information, but Democrats believe plenty of incorrect things as well. And I'd rather have a broken marketplace than one where Democrats just get to decide what's true.

Especially when its taken just 5 minutes for the perceived guard rails to evaporate! We're not talking about "the earth is flat" here. We are talking about Hunter Biden emails that still nobody has proven are inauthentic. We're talking about election fraud allegations which are the subject of ongoing court cases for god's sake. Even if I'm amenable to "fact checking" something like "Obama was born in Kenya" I'm sure as hell not going to support Google deciding something is true or untrue before the courts do.
It's the reality of bureaucracies, not capitalism. You really think this couldn't happen outside of capitalism?
Are you sure you work at a legit prop shop? Maybe I'm being unfair, but from the way you're talking, I find it hard to believe.

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Reducing poverty helps the world, not enduring poverty. And fetishizing OTHER PEOPLE enduring poverty, instead of helping those people OUT of poverty, and working to REDUCE poverty, is a clear sign of an extremely dark personality, especially when you accept millions of dollars from terrible dictators to white-wash their reputations, to enrich yourself and your own reputation.

If Mother Teresa was so anti-poverty, and anti-greenhouse gasses, and anti-pollution, and anti-environmental damage (which she was not), then explain why she's also anti-birth control (which she was)? Isn't it much more effective to address those problems by controlling the population with condoms and birth control pills and vasectomies and even voluntary safe legal abortions, than to have so many poor sick people suffering and stressing the medical system and spreading diseases, forcing them to live in poverty (which Mother Teresa fetishized) to only slightly reduce all those environmental problems (that Mother Teresa didn't actually care about), while also causing many other problems, like all those decaying bodies floating in the Ganges and all that raw sewage?

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/1/14/dead-bodies-found-f...

https://www.planetcustodian.com/over-50-scary-images-depicti...
I used to work in trading. Honestly a very large portion of the markets trading type business for investment banks is really just taking advantage one way or another of these kind of regulatory loopholes, not as blatantly as this maybe but some still very questionable. That and ripping off clueless corporate clients with bid-ask spreads. Some traders are still able to convince themselves it's cause theyre some sort of market wizard though cause tbh most of these people aren't that bright. Any other finance guys can correct me if I'm wrong, it could be just because my experience had been working with teams that I was never too impressed with
can you explain a bit? I thought this was a reasonable attempt at changing the status quo of the US health care system.
Don't forget fomo. Everyone else is building skills with Latex and here I sit using Word.
Now, invest about the same in EU media and we might have some more influence. A majority of audiovisual media that people see and hear is made by USAian companies that project a USAian view onto the world. They took advantage of a broken Europe after the second world war and have been reaping the benefits ever since.
You're not giving legal advice, you're just... casting aspersions on the process of a business asking for you to file an expense report, for some reason, when it's a perfectly normal thing at many businesses (and one that I have performed hundreds of times myself, because ugh consulting.)

Like, you could complain that the reimbursement process is a tedious paperwork-generator, maybe, if you think your other objections aren't enough already?
I think the UI is probably not a high priority on their side and they assign most of the work to juniors and outsourced.
> Victors get to rewrite history

Robert McNamara makes a great point about that in fantastic documentary The Fog of War.
The 80/20 rule: hacking together a “desktop app” as a Chrome extension in 2hours
The fact that this may happen to someone somewhere isn't related to the feedback on one's performance as cited above.
There are some loopholes that should be closed however. You can go to a bank and borrow against your shares, using them as an asset without realizing capital gains. In my mind, if you use the shares (gains) as collateral for your benefit, you should have to recognize the capital gains as mark-to-market immediately payable.
How would it beat O(1)? Even a quantum computer can't read in the wordlist without looking at every word.
It's horrible, but it's true, thankfully you can't forge phone history, or time posts to happen at a future time. Right?
I backup my raid array to the cloud using hyperbackup, but any incremental backup solution would work. It’s ~$60/TB/year:

https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html

I only have a few TB, but the setup cost almost $1000 (it is less than half full), and it will take longer than I expect the hardware to last to spend $1000 on backups.
US's Ban on China really gives everyone an alarm...
My powered on phone was 0day'd by Cellibrite according to internal Law Enforcement emails in disclosure and my powered down phone was not supported at all.

Edit: The cracked phone has been in my possession for a while now and I've only powered it on twice for mere minutes since getting it back if there are any phone experts around that want to investigate.
why would i buy a car from a company founded by nazis?
So do people not need to renew their driver's license then? Or is there a fine? What if you don't pay the fine?
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The only companies I have worked for that really cared for performance were betting companies, because speed is money in that sector (esp. in live betting).
> Yes, most places in the country have a massive deficit this year because states are spending money to protect their citizens and stimulate the economy.

This is Stockholm syndrome.

Are citizens being protected? Because last I checked, the "smart" people have largely outlawed working, destroyed any semblance of normal life, the average person is $5k behind on rent, and all the old people died.

The federal government has all but given up pretending money is a finite resource. Likewise states are much the same. There really is no such thing as fiscal discipline nowadays.

You can't stimulate an economy if no one is allowed to work besides the already well-off that can work from home.

It's just class war under the guise of public health.
After working with graduates from "the best university", I doubt it is "the best".

After using "the best" search engine, and finding what I needed on Bing instead, I started doubting it was "the best".

Perception is different than reality. I genuinely wonder if these are "the best", or if these employees were merely the ones willing to move their lives to a new city for a high paying job.

But I'm sure FAANG and FAANG employees would tell you they are the best.

I wonder if they would fall for marketing tricks. Do "the best" fall for marketing tricks?
At least an emblematic Tweet, and arguably the straw that broke the camel's back:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1259638112688304129

Contrast that with leaders who are welcoming to tech and would be happy to be the next Silicon Valley:

https://twitter.com/zebulgar/status/1335715868487995392
It's sad to think of how many omelets I've deprived myself of over the years.
> But then you need to make up a deployment system with rollbacks and all the other stuff k8s gives you.

This is borderline trivial. If you build an AMI, you update a launch template with the new AMI and use instance refresh (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/introducing-instance-re...) to replace instances. Rolling back is the same thing, you just set it back to the previous AMI. Instance refresh took way too long to become a thing, but it was not even very difficult before that. List instances in your autoscaling group, mark them unhealthy one by one.

Now, you'll probably want a couple other safety checks in your deployment process to make sure it all goes smoothly. But you're realistically looking at what, a couple of days of work to have something built to your specifications that can deploy any of your services without introducing the added complexity of Kubernetes?

> I've got the feeling that if you're reasonably comfortable with k8s, there's no harm in starting with it from day 1.

The harm is not that the deployments are hard. In fact, they're quite nice. The problem is that small teams don't have the bandwidth to keep up with the relentless release cadence. They may not have the expertise to get the upgrades done confidently.

There is also the fact that, when something does go wrong, you've got a whole lot of complex Kube stuff to churn through.

None of that applies to managed Kube, but then you're paying extra for Kube every month. By contrast, you could have just paid extra one time for a relatively simple deployment script in CI.
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This article did not explore that. However, order management systems by headless commerce platforms (not Salesforce) do a good job of handling this in an intuitive way.
The future is a diverse API toolbox (HTTP, Websockets, GraphQL, SOAP, HTTP/2 & HTTP/3) with a variety of patterns (request / response, pub/sub, hypermedia, gRPC). OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, and JSON Schema will dominate the landscape.
Amazon is about the last site I'd use as an example of a good UX. They've clearly been working on making it better, as the account drop-down has shrunk, but the amount of items on this screen is such that it really should have its own search to navigate it. A simple thing like buying a new gift card for someone is surprisingly clunky.

https://i.imgur.com/ZNKOkMN.png
No, no it isn't. There are a lot more than 2 options to choose from.
For the unaware, Central Europe is a narrow band that comprises Czechs, Slovaks and Polish. Who can get very offended if you even dare to suggest that they belong to Eastern Europe.
Perhaps it's because at least in NXP's case the reason why headquarters are there and not somewhere else is that the Netherlands are a tax haven for IP-heavy companies.
Alice collaboration opens avenue for high-precision studies of the strong force
Again, not analytics. Traffic stats. Blurring meaning here again, packaging data lying around from CF ops. Same as a stats counter from 2001. Veiled comparision to Google, who's in a different category for the most part - they're more like 'business analytics' where ('privacy' aside) you can see how users surf, improve UX, make decisions to help goals.
Well, his efforts to secure preemptive pardons for himself, his family, and his legal team do indicate that he is aware he has done some stuff that might be frowned upon in court once he's out of office.
Etting up CI/CD pipeline for better looking Python code
In my opinion you've hit the major reasons. I would also include that culture, and especially founder culture is different too, and that hampers these "massive scope" ventures. A somewhat more fractured local market (languages, laws, markets, habits) also plays against it.
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Sigh! --so now people are submitting links to tweets, as news stories. What next, submissions in the form of emojis?
Public transport is heavily underfunded in NYC and they're trying to find any excuse to fund the MTA and bus system.
The parent is being sarcastic, very sarcastic.
Googler who doesn't work in front end here, so take my opinion with a grain of salt:

1) A "footsoldier" dev has no choice in frameworks, and heavy frameworks with heavy reusable components are the norm. Frameworks are used to improve dev velocity and ensure consistency among the 100 teams that contribute to the web UI.

2) Devs care about performance but might not have time to do much about it given competing priorities. Cloud is a fast-moving area, so new features are being added all the time. Even if they want to improve performance, they're limited by the frameworks you have to use.

3) For folks that are saying Google controls the browser, framework, and component library, and so should be able to do better than this, you are right. But the different divisions don't talk to each other as much as you'd think. Why should they? Angular devs shouldn't get special access compared to React, no? Whether this is an organizational failure or an enforcement of separation of concerns is up to you. I imagine critics will complain if Chrome did something special for Google properties, and they'd be justified.
Right!

All of these state budgets depend on projected tax revenue which isn't coming.

People aren't working.
People aren't having kids.
People aren't staying in the state.

The cuts MUST be massive.
Here's an anecdote: my partner used to work at PayPal, and they had a entire team dedicated to just the "wallet" portion of the web UI. There were reasons for this: that piece of the UI had to work in all nationalities, for all languages and currencies, in every browser on every device under the sun.

But here's what I'm thinking: I wouldn't be surprised if every single tab in the Google Cloud UI had its own team, with their own practices, dependencies, resources that need to be loaded, etc. And I wouldn't be surprised if there's nobody in the organization whose job it is to consider the Google Cloud Dashboard as a whole product, in terms of making it a cohesive experience, eliminating redundancies between independent pieces, doing cross-cutting optimizations, getting everybody on the same page. Given how many different things are stuffed into the interface (just look at the navigation menu), that would certainly lead to some bloat.
Then perhaps they should take their own advice
The distinction CA (and other states) make is between being a "resident", "part-time resident", or "nonresident". If you are classified as a resident or a part-time resident, you pay CA income tax on all of your income, even if it was earned from work that happened outside of CA. If you are a nonresident, you pay CA taxes only on the income that was earned from work happening in CA.

It's possible this move might help Musk become a "nonresident" and pay less CA taxes, but I kinda doubt it. The classification of type of resident is based on more than just "official address of your house". It also includes things like where your work is, what banks you use, what doctors you go to, and even what social activities you take part in.

This is pretty common in many states, btw. One time I had to file a tax return to a small city in Michigan because I had a 4-hour work meeting there and they taxed it.
> A primer would be nice, actually.

Microsoft, the evil company over here, that keeps being compared to Oracle. Several C++20 features like Modules and co-routines were driven by their VC++ implementations.

Apple, the company hated over here by bringing the end of open platforms, without it LLVM and clang wouldn't ever exist.

Google, the spying company and forking Linux with Android, the second major clang and llvm contributor.

IBM and Red-Hat, with their own Linux agenda pushing stuff like systemd hated over here, major GCC contributors.

You are missing the whole point with Java, it isn't about Java, rather all mainstream languages just like Java only move forward with dirty money (from HN point of view), but hey it is cool to hate Oracle.

Hint they are one of the first enterprise contributors to the Linux kernel and have been ever since.

Do you also feel like removing Oracle contributions from the Linux kernel?
> On top of it you still have to wear the mask

This is the most nonsensical part to me. If the vaccine does what they say it does (reduce severe cases) then the justification for mask wearing and social distancing is gone.
Democrats didn't try to flip the election by having Trump's electors vote for someone else due to Russian interference? https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/06/us/politics/democrats-att...
It’s true, I guess it’s also about looking for success somewhere else (mems and weird elements) instead of direct competition on integration size.
One has the money, the other wants the money. That's all the connection politicians ever need.
Doubling your speed quadruples your stopping distance for most cars. This is useful for all drivers to understand from a conceptual level, even if they aren't crunching the numbers.

There is a similar one useful for RF - doubling your distance quadruples the signal loss. Probably only useful for hams or people setting up wireless networks. But I think it can be good to understand this so that you can reduce your RF exposure for health precautions.
It's a big problem that people have been working on for years, if there were good solutions then UML would have a much better reputation than it does.

My take is this.

Some of the content of the "diagrams" can be derived from the code (for instance you can get the methods and fields names and types of a Java class) There is certain extra metadata that it takes to make a good diagram that could be stored in a separate file in a textual format which plays well with version control. A generator script puts it all together to make the images.

Some of that metadata is: do we draw this object? where do we draw it? how do we route lines to connect it to other objects?

i think you need to be able to make more than one diagram (a UML of 100 database tables takes up most of a blackboard panel, a diagram that shows how 5 tables work together to support a user story is golden)

there is a tension between automatic layout and routing which will usually be unacceptably bad and manual layout which is a lot of work (I love boxes & arrows in Powerpoint except for the Bézier curve connectors... then I learned my favorite anime illustrator doesn't know how to draw anime characters with Bézier curves either.) This is an area where you need to find a compromise that works.

In the 1990s there was interest in tools that could parse some code, manipulate it in a UML-like interface and round trip it back to code with whitespace and comments intact so that it makes changes about the same as a professional programmer would that you can check into git just like another team member.

That path requires unusual compiler technologies, but you can also use canonical sort orders and similar tricks to make data in some format like YAML evolve in a way that plays nice with git.
ST Microelectronics from France and Italy
20 years ago reputed organizations such as newspapers, radio stations and television informed people the truth. Conspiracy theories were fringe and didn't have a way to spread.

Today more than half the population believes in conspiracy theories because they learn the "truth" from disreputable sources on social media. This is dangerous for society.

I am glad social media companies are taking action themselves, instead of the government forcing them (which would be a 1st amendment issue).
This is one of the few apps that can open/edit gigabyte files on MacOS without choking.
Yeah as much as my daughter likes the Trolls movie, I'm not paying to back that up.
Am not OP. Am Finnish.

Basically they went to work to other companies and spun up lot of new ones.

There are lots of small and medium sized companies in Finland that are operating in technology and hardware.

I presume a majority of them had similar salaries as earlier. Engineers have never been well payed in Finland and Nokia knew the market rate very well. It rewarded few individuals very well, but the general salary range was probably nothing special.

Finland has lots of engineering activity - always has had. The problem has been marketing this knowhow to external markets.

Explosion of Nokia was a blessing for Finland. It was too large for a country this small, and it started domineering investments in all levels of economy.

From geek consumer point of view it is a shame their engineering was run down by poor management.

But the company was fixed on this course from it's early years. It basically trusted on two things - that radiotechnology would be it's secret sauce for all eternity, and the main point of competition would be it's logistics network.

When the radiotechnology used in handsets became commoditized, China basically levelled the playing field regarding logistics and outsourcing, and the software development inside the company remained a second tier effort, it could have not ended any other way (in retrospect).
You can add mirrors to increase the pool size. More RAM will speed up the pool, but cache drives also works really well. And you can have a hot spare.
> I have to use something to do my actual job and it take more time that it should because of the UI I'd look elsewhere

The one who made the decision to use GCP would not be the one who would use it actually. If GCP offers a bigger cut than other Cloud providers, loading time would be irrelevant in that optics.

Enterprise users are risk averse. Speed is definitely a plus, but they would care more about stability/predictability than anything.
Agreed. I used my first hint at level 21.
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Things are very different in Silicon Valley and in California now from the 90's when Musk was on the team that started Paypal.

I think he might not want to be in the NEW California and Silicon Valley.

I could spend a lot of time doing research and trying to figure out why... but things have changed somehow.

I think the mass exodus of people from California kind of supports his decision.

I think California has a negative growth rate last time I checked.
It forces the gestapo to go door to door (i.e., expend human resources). Many jews disappeared from western countries simply because the nazis used the civil records first -- it detailed what everyone's religion was where they lived. Who needs to go door-to-door when you can use centralized records to pinpoint exactly where you need to be?
Coding for Android has taught me that is definitely not the case.

They managed to make a mess worse than JEE, the native layer took 10 years to finally use Android Modules, they keep fixing the header files, still don't have proper C++ bindings and force everyone to write JNI boilerplate by hand.
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Typically three. Two local, one remote. Consider not RAID protecting the local backup.
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Weird for non citizens to live in US, not weird that one of the countries with highest capacity to absorb immigration and with highest salaries in the world has big immigration flows.

Besides that I think some people from US might be biased on the feeling of Europe towards US. If you just know Europeans living in US you will have a wrong perception, mostly because Europeans living in US are here because they want to do so not because they were forced to move.
(The irony of linking to that through Google AMP!)
STMicroelectronics is, according to Wikipedia, Europe's largest semiconductor chip maker based on revenue

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STMicroelectronics
Every infosec role ever. Glad I’m just a developer.
Google is not deciding what is true or untrue. Google is deciding what they will host on their service.

The mods on this site make similar decisions every single day, but I've never seen you post about that. Why shouldn't youtube have the same ability to moderate their site as Hacker News?