skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there a book on how to not talk about conspiracy theories? I have some formerly right leaning elderly relatives who are now just plain crazy. They won't stop talking about ridiculous conspiracies. I don't open emails from them anymore. I've given up trying and wish they would at least stop talking to me about them.
Obviously biased, but I tend to agree. My experience with unions is not with them as a partner to the company and advocate of shared success. My experience is them as parasites that hurt the business and the customer, and may (may!) help employees. Out of the dozen or so cases I’m familiar with, only my brother in law loves the union and he does not work like most devs I know; he goes job site to job site for short to medium engagements.
Actually those who prefer GPL see things from the perspective of the code, not the users.

GPL ensures the code is freely available at all times, and anyone can use it, change it, distribute it but not take it away or restrict access to it.

From the code pov, MIT/Apache is freedom to take away and restrict access.
I hope I remember these things correct. Let's assume you have two 3D arrays and you want to form the point wise product and sum over the middle index, you can probably write sum(a*b, 1). Anything more complicated there is numpy einsum (check it out) https://numpy.org/doc/stable/reference/generated/numpy.einsu...
Letme know how these things can be nicely done in Matlab.
One problem I had in Matlab is some vectorization requires to permute the indices, but this is expensive if your array is hundreds of megabyte.
The biggest thing for me, also the worker, is being able to negotiate against abuse in an industry that Eg. Uses h1b to abuse employees on the regular. These employees cant leave.
It is always like that. There is no way that X is faster than C. It most definitely has to do with algorithm. What I can believe is Fortran being faster than C in some circumstances, but that is about it. Can you guys please stop this nonsense? No, your equivalent Rust code is not faster, sorry.
You're right. I just looked up the time frame: in 2017, I did the same thing. It was widely known about and FB took way too long to fix it.
It says exactly that. Section 230(c)(1):

No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.

So then be a publisher or content host but not both and then you don't need section 230 for protection at all, according to the letter of law. That said section 230 was intended to protect things like ISPs and email providers from frivolous lawsuits, but in practice primarily benefits online advertising companies and social media from valid lawsuits. Even if section 230 were to evaporate tomorrow Hacker News remains in no greater danger of lawsuits than any other medium currently not protected by section 230.
They absolutely should. And companies/management have a fiduciary duty to give them as little as possible. This is the competition that gives rise to capitalist efficiencies.

The concern from people like myself is that another word for a union is a cartel. When companies form cartels and engage in anti-competitive behavior, we penalize them severely (in theory at least...but that's another issue). Yet when labor colludes, we simply call it a union.

Tech is especially interesting because the usual claims of "workers have less power individually" (which is always true in all industries) is really really not a great argument in tech. The labor market in tech is so unbelievably competitive, and the average worker has leverage that is only seen in the upper echelons of other industries.
Residential neighborhoods in the Tokyo metro area are generally walkable but have very few sidewalks.
Unions are traditionally there to bargain collectively for their members. Typically that means higher salaries, better work conditions, more benefits, and similar things.

This union seems less focused on that and more on pushing sociopolitical ideas currently in vogue in left-wing political circles.
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And I suppose anyone with a journalism degree isn't a journalist because they were a student until they started working?
> Obviously if you leave SQL for e.g. Mongo, then you could not have picked a more bespoke and unique interface.

In principle yes; in practice you can expect to find full-featured drivers in all major languages, and anything higher-level that claims support for Mongo will also have support. Certainly even the most basic Mongo drivers will let you have things like collection columns.

> Network latency is the real performance drag, not string parsing.

Depends what kind of network, if any, is between the two endpoints. But the performance aspect is just illustrative of what a poor format for expressing machine-level queries it is.
I didn't say the dislike was deserved! But there is a "norm" and to depart from it you need to bring something very valuable.
This is for the contractors also.
“Hundreds” = 225 in an organization of around 100k employees. smh
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_ethic
An analogy for western audiences comes to mind.

Imagine if Elon Musk had criticized Trump two months ago and then hadn’t been seen or heard of since then.
Fighting for "workers rights" is a political position.

Maybe you're making a distinction between party politics (e.g. endorsing specific candidates) and pushing for general policies, but I think it's incoherent to claim that labor unions are apolitical.
What specific incompatibility do you find between his reporting and the ruling? It seems to match quite well?
>crime is a crime, justice doesn't care.

Which is why all the war crimes detailed in Manning's leaks have been prosecuted with the criminals behind bars.

Further, a crime isn't just a crime. A journalist attempting to protect their source is an essential part of their freedom of the press. Prosecuting them for that action infringes on their rights, making it unconstitutional. Even if you disagree with my assessment of Assange's actions, it should be clear that justice does care about the context.
What, they run out of money?
A headline that truly captures the times we live in. There's something poetic about using machine intelligence to detect human stupidity.
The performance aspect is just illustrating of what a poor representation SQL is for machine-level use. And I'm by no means demanding a "full-fledged" ORM; even basic querying requires a layer or two above SQL to do cleanly.
Haven't we been hearing about the beginning to the end for years now?
If it was a long/short scale error, the error factor would be in the other direction.
> I honestly didn't think anyone browsed the web without javascript enabled. How common is that?

I don't know how common it is, but I do. I have a secondary browser profile which does allow it, but frankly for just about any page I visit if it doesn't work without JavaScript I will skip it: the Internet is large and I rarely need to look at a page.
I've picked this up through consulting work. There are several large Japanese companies that located to this area about 30 years ago, and a few Japanese suppliers have sprung up around them. In dealing with them on side jobs and through friends, it's become very apparent that they are FAR less willing to spend money on IT than American companies. (One supplier, doing many millions of dollars a year in sales, is still running their company on Excel spreadsheets.) Which is a shame, because, from what I've seen, they're so far behind, they're smack-dab in the middle of the biggest-bang-for-buck area of the IT spending curve.
Not an UK person, but I can't find BALPA in the list of unions here: https://labour.org.uk/people/unions/

BALPA is more comparable to a potential Google union as it's equally representing a tiny group of elite and extremely well compensated individuals. I don't think that a google employee has much in common with traditional populations of leftist party aligned unions like the factory line worker or coal miner.
Sinopharm has an old school vaccine there you put disinfectant on the virus and then inject it which seems to work well.

Info on the vaccine https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/08/17/si...

They were using it in a limited way back in June https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma-asia/china-s-sinopharm-t...

and has recently got approval. I can't help but wonder if they'd offered it generally with a not fully tested warning when it was offered to "employees of some large state-run companies" presumably in April/May, how many lives would have been saved.
> But having sided with the U.S. on pretty much all of the counts concerning press freedom, an appeals court may well 'find' that the heath condition is not enough.

It is highly likely that the High Court will be asked to re-examine pretty much the whole judgment; it's highly unlikely that the defence won't question the holdings that they lost.

(It is also pretty likely that this will then be appealed to the Supreme Court, and relatively likely the case will be heard there too.)
The fact that the congressman speaking does not mean his statement deoes extrapolate for the entirety of congress. Did we hear other arguments on front of the Chairman against said protection ? His speech, for all we now, can be qualified by political donations received from the interested parties for him to have a certain opinion. However for the issue at hand, lets give you the benefit of the doubt. Let's say that congress shared this opinion in majority and no financial interests were at play.

On what basis do you make the judgement that section 230 was intended to protect monopolies ?

Big boys != monopolies.

Can you successfully argue that AOL or MS were internet monopolies then ?
Meh. This is not new. Nytimes is mostly spun up fake news anyway.
Off topic but this is the first I've heard of ApartmentTherapy, that's a pretty neat site.
Not all content is equal. "More content" does not imply good, useful or even correct.

Pandora's Box has open for a long time, but automation tools now are more convenient and accessible than ever. I shudder to think at the ammount of drivel that will keep flooding the internet. I concede it will be "fun" (for lack of a better word) to see the eventual search algorithm changes necessary to keep the web useful for research. That, or a massive curation effort. The sad thing is, for such a massive body of knowledge, the curation effort itself will have to employ automated tools, and the algorithms for these tools can eventually be cheated to allow for low-effort content as well.
It's theme park Bohemianism.

Real Bohemianism means hanging out with drug dealers, prostitutes, pimps, alcoholics and junkies, people with mental health issues, gallery owners, critics, and other undesirables.

Some of them may happen to make art. But if you want "safe" - a bit of culture but not too much - Bohemia is not for you.
Naver (the dominant search engine in South Korea) seems innovative to me. They successfully launched e-commerce project in 2018, which became #1 in 2019 beating the incumbent (which is owned by eBay). It's as if Google launched Amazon competitor and won within a year.
For example, Epic EHR has its own parody account of all the problems the software causes its users.
It's as if survival depends on a species being prevented from reaching a point of average intelligence where a single errant outlier with a malicious streak can destroy the whole. When everyone has the ability to build a doomsday device, someone will. Hence the vast, fecund universe for the taking scored by the inexplicable, seemingly eldritch, fermian silence.
It's all very interesting. I'd say the CCP is the most powerful group in the world right now. That they can control billionaires like that is impressive and scary.

I have to admit, a one party system does seem like the best type of government, on paper. It can be more efficient and do things much faster than anything else. Billionaires can't just pay politicians to create/modify laws in their favour. And for the average citizen, life's the same as in a democracy.

But that only works if the party is working for the country, gives people a decent amount of freedom and listens to their needs.

When the party no longer keeps the people content (which seems inevitable, looking at history), there's practically no way to change it besides a violent revolution. That's a huge drawback, and the reason we're better off with a slower democratic system that doesn't have a single point of (catastrophic) failure.

Modern China seems to work a lot like Imperial China. Just with different names for the emperor and his officials, more freedom and rights for the population, as well as more means to keep them in check.
These threads are always such fun ways of seeing exotic features of stacks I don’t work with! Thanks for sharing I enjoyed it
Because you can get more money, better working conditions, and guaranteed rights, and that will irritate your bosses' bosses' owners and their investors.
As history has shown us, mass organization prevents evil /s
The point is moot since these were documents belonging to the government.
It is as if you can’t compare the two very different societies. I think it is better to keep US union talk focused on US unions.
"IF HAMMER PRICE EXCEEDS 25% ABOVE RESERVE PRICE, THE HOFF WILL PERSONALL DELIVER THE CAR TO THE NEW OWNER."

Capitalized per the original article.

OMG

Capitalized because this would be awesome.
Wow... amazing response to this questions. We have been researching this as well for a product.

I am surprised to see that so many people have issues with email delivery. Though email delivery can be delayed and in theory there are no guarantees.

Have you considered using SMS or a 2FA App like Duo? They should be near instantaneous.

The idea of sending this over telegram or signal is a good approach though the costs of Whatsapp messaging would be prohibitive. Even SMS will not work at scale. So really boils down to 2 things

(1) Speed - can you service live with delays or provide an alternate?
(2) Cost - this cannot be tied to the per message cost like transactional or promotional email/SMS. A different pricing model help.
A good chunk of Google employees don't have a 'personal' phone. They use test android devices, or work-provided phones and plans. Google even has an internal program to migrate your personal phone number onto a corporate device.

Calls between employees will be video conferences over google servers anyway - nobody goes typing old fashioned phone numbers anymore...
Who would guessed Epstein's suicide would be Assanges saving grace? Not I.
I always find it amusing that PostgreSQL is classified as "boring tech".

I'm using it every day, and I'm always amazed by how wonderful this piece of software is. PgSQL help me doing thinks in seconds that would take days do to in Mongo.
Afaik green energy has never meant to provide standalone, at least until the surplus energy generated at daily peaks can be reasonably stored for days.

This paper is a bit dated, but explains well some of the concerns: http://www.templar.co.uk/downloads/Renewable%20Energy%20Limi...
I disagree with this point to some extent. Look at video game devs, who have similar problems where there’s a lot of labor supply enabling abuses. Also look at the abuse capable of h1b visa holders.
Have you lived in China? CCP membership means nothing. There are dozens, if not hundreds of government officials and corporate identities in prison (or worse, executed) who were party members.

Global perceptions about Ant Financial are completely irrelevant to Jack Ma. This is all internal politics. Anyone who poses a potential threat to the party (read: Xi Jinping) is liable to disappear (even if only temporarily).
There's the one upping approach, when they start talking about how the moon landing was faked you could call them sheep for believing the moon exists.

I don't think it's a good strategy for improving discourse, but some people probably find the creative element enjoyable.
> engineers can "collectively bargain" with Google by simply leaving and working somewhere "better".

I.e. not collectively bargaining, instead hoping that enough other people will individually decide put their livelihood on the line to give employers the impression that things should change up, after which they will not be able to enjoy the changes because they switched job (which can be a pain in the ass regardless of opportunities).

> The reality is that Google is an easy place to work relative to how much people get paid. People don't want to leave a cushy job for one where they would have to work harder for their money, so instead, they are trying other means to have their cake and eat it too.

The relationship between an employer and employee is naturally adversarial in that there's a fundamental conflict between their interests. As an employee, I want to be paid as much as possible for my work (indeed as little work as possible), and I want it to be as pleasant as possible. The employer on the other hand will want me to do as much work as possible at as little cost as possible. Of course I want to provide value to my employer, and my employer wants to provide value to me, but that's because we both have my employment as a bargaining chip. That's my only chip, but it's only one of Google's ~100000.

In those terms, if you can approach having the cake and eating it, why not? Why should only my employer organize and use their massive resources to achieve their goals to the greatest extent possible, while workers should willfully stay disorganized and never utilize their collective influence like a corporation will? Because having two cakes is bad? There's certainly more than enough cake to go around in FAANG.
If they haven’t investigated and written in search of the truth, they are not journalists.

Just as I wasn’t an engineer until I started designing and making things.
> Google made something like 300,000 in profit per employee in 2019.

Isn’t this roughly the same order of magnitude as many Google developer salaries? If so, how much more expensive can any employee be before he is too expensive to employ?
It probably comes the people that would prefer you shut up and stay.
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Linked site won't load so here's a vaguely-related book recommendation: Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco. I don't want to spoil it, but it involves a group of writers who try to come up with a single, maximally compelling, conspiracy theory. Reading it sets up a super interesting tension -- the book is clearly fiction, and yet the conspiracy theory it presents is as compelling as any (and in fact incorporates many) of those you'll read "in the wild".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foucault%27s_Pendulum
Your claims contradict my experience.

One example: C re-write of a popular chess engine Stockfish (written in C++) is significantly faster (10%-30% depending on who measures it at which time and on what hardware). This is a piece of code which was already heavily optimized for many years as speed is critical for the engine's performance. One guy (although very talented one) re-wrote it in C and got the speed gains. Another guy (also very talented one) re-wrote it in assembly and got even bigger speed gains (see CFish and asmFish projects)

It looks to me that you are comparing badly written C to decently written C++ and claiming speed gains. I use C for my own software(solver for a popular game) and I wouldn't dream of using stuff like "pointer chasing structures".
If you need to use stuff like hash tables in your performance critical code you have to code them yourself anyway as using some generic hash and memory handling algorithm is a recipe for being slow.
I'd argue that higher salaries, better work conditions, and so forth is exactly what this union is being formed to address.

The idea is that collective bargaining can equalize the salaries, work conditions, etc. for all members, not just the pale-skinned ones.
Losing your email or domain would also be a problem.
Hard to say for sure since we can’t measure “bit“ flips in-brain
Or you could just watch cnn
Technically speaking, there are limits and you cannot compare incomparable. You can find distinctions between two phenomena, a.k.a. inherent traits that make them different-by-definition from one another, but you cannot compare (liken, collate, contrast) them in any meaningful way. Like, what's the outcome of comparing "soft" with "warm"? And hence, comparing apples to apples are not pointless, quite contrary - they are comparable items and it makes total sense to compare them in the context of superiority by desirable value axes.
> I find really, really baffling the general position in the US regarding unions. It is like there's a general discourse that they are a bad thing, just like with "that other" thing (cough socialism cough).

I'm from the 'birthplace' of US Auto unions. This part of your reply is actually a good place to start the explanation, because that's actually the perception of some other unions, and at times there is historical context to that.

> From my point of view actions of police union are usually borderline "mob-like" (as in, I mostly hear about them when they save the necks of abusing and / or corrupted officers).

Two points:

- The UAW and Teamsters in particular had ties to actual mob organizations in the past. "Jimmy Hoffa" is a name to look up if you'd like an example of what some people think of when they think of unions.

- The examples you give of corruption/status quo in police unions are present in the Auto shops as well; whenever I heard a story from an auto worker about why 'they' did not like the unions, it was usually a story like what you said; a worker getting 'protected' by the union when their actions were unsafe. IOW even some of the people -in- the union see it as a broken institution.
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> This is because those unions are serving a very different purpose to the stereotypical union some engineers seem to fear. SAG, the DGA, and the WGA aren't guaranteeing hours or limiting pay: they're simply trying to curb abuse in what it a very abusive industry, and putting in place procedures to protect members and resolve grievances.

This is an important point, and one I haven't thought of before - I think Americans often think of Unions as organizations that prevent layoffs and gain ever higher benefits, to the detriment of the company. Indeed, this announcement confirms their goals are slightly different from a typical union's goals:

> Its goal will be to tackle ongoing issues like pay disparity, retaliation, and controversial government contracts.
Second the recommendation, great book.
In your scenario, the good news would be that you'd be within you're rights as a juror to vote not guilty on the grounds you did not think the law was just; it's called Jury Nullification. The bad news is, the "justice system" goes out of it's way to hide the existence of this right from U.S. citizens.
The article is about the 13MW Haliade-X tubine, but on part of the Doggerbank (Sofia wind park) an even larger 14MW Siemens Gamesa turbine will be installed. As short as maybe 5 years ago >10MW turbines were thought of as unlikely in the near time, and look where we are now. And we still haven't hit any hard limits, meaning there is still room to grow! And as the turbines grow, so do the foundations. Most turbines are installed on a single steel tube that is driven into the ground, a monopile. A single one can be 100m long, 10m in diameter and weigh 2000 tons!
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