skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“The Times They Are A-Changin'.” These types of moves from Google are interesting, while not unexpected given the mounting regulatory pressure they are facing. It’s a bit unclear which stake-holder Google is trying to optimize for: Chrome users, AdSense publishers, or itself. Time will tell how this all shakes out, but it’s important for people to realize that there are a growing number of alternatives available if you care about privacy and retaining control over your browsing activity. Neeva is a good example of an alternative search engine which prioritizes user privacy by following a subscription monetization model, avoiding the ad-ecosystem all together.

Disclaimer: I work at Neeva[1], and these opinions are my own.

[1] https://www.neeva.com
Look at the pictures in the relevant books and ask yourself if you would want a Black child to see themselves in those images. Ask yourself if Dr Seuss would. No one is outraged, the world just moves on.
> disable that useless compiler output pollutio

The compiler is trying to help you write better code - suppressing warnings should not be taken lightly.
Thanks!

Does it have "cosmetic filters" (the ones that block certain elements on page) or similar feature?
I've been using "folks" and "y'all" for several years, and I've from the northeast and live in San Diego now. It's not a big deal.

Maybe it helps that although I'm very socially liberal, my stereotype of "people who say y'all" is "subtle and witty"?
We used to staight up call it 'ministry of war" untill PR people got involved. I prefered the more hobest approach, keeps you on your toes.
Golden parachute. Millionaires losing bonuses or equity never need to tighten their belts. Almost everybody who lost equity had no say.

The test pilot would be covering for a person actually responsible. Charges were probably to force fingering that person. But if that person wasn't charged, then it is all just business expense.

The losses are borne by pension funds.
I was told that internally at Redhat if you’re assigned to a project and the project becomes unsupported by the company, you have a certain amount of time to be picked up by another team, after which, if you aren’t, you are let go.

I know that this is kinder than just firing someone outright if the project they were on failed, but the thought of it makes me feel uncomfortable.
Not be evil? ;)
Ads pay for a service that allows you to video chat on a reliable and private connection with anyone in the world, for free. They also pay for google search, which has immense value to you.
> Is it really better that divorces are down when people aren't even bothering to get married before having kids

The value of stability in marriage is not just stability for kids, so yes.

That being said, the import of people having kids before getting married when is hard to assess without data on both the single vs. cohabiting parenting split (which the source has some reference to) and on the stability among unmarried cohabiting parental couples.
And maybe we should ban free speech too huh? That way nobody will ever get their feelings hurt.
>Most middle class homes in our suburbs only have 3 bedrooms so that sort of caps kids to 2 or less.

I grew up in a family of 5 with 3 bedrooms. My brother and I shared a room (as did my parents). Bunk bed setup. I wouldn't consider myself poor growing up, it's a normal thing here.

In places like Hong Kong I think it gets quite a bit more extreme than this.
> I’m going to respectfully disagree with the “our brains aren’t wired” part: the most important part of the spec is the chapter of the visual formatting model which can be summarised as “each HTML element is a rectangular box” - that’s it. Simple to internalise for anyone new today and everything else builds on top of that.

This is, respectfully, absolutely insulting to people actually working in CSS in real browsers. Okay fine, it's a rectangular box. When and where does it appear? Sometimes it's undefined. What properties does it have once it does? Hoooooly crap this is undefined.

As a just today example: I discovered that two eventually overlapping linear gradients in Safari (checked in iOS) render differently after wake from sleep or dark/light mode switch. One of the gradients doesn't render at all before, and only renders in the portion of its "rectangle" after. Bug? Sure. Common-fucking-place-normal-ass-website-styling-shit? Yep.

Edit to add the real kicker: it has nothing to do with the styles of the thing with the gradients on it! It has nothing to do with accommodating the children of the parent. It's just: one parent is a grid, the other is a flex. Nothing. At. All. Changes the outcome.
This was definitely required to help me figure out what the heck is going on. Basically it's a water wheel on its side, where the angle of attack for your paddles varies, which allows you to direct thrust in a particular direction.
Master list implies secondary lists too.

Plausibility check is a good replacement for sanity check. Or something like quick check to communicate it isn't extensive.
2% or %5 -- these are hardly small numbers. Anything with stats like that, when applied to a whole group of people, is definitely not an overstatement.
Time or attention is another way we can measure value. Imperfect, but all measurements are imperfect.
No examples?
Maybe. Maybe not. Post covid usually takes 6 months to develop and peak covid was less than a month ago in most parts of the US. Incidentally 6 months is a pretty standard time from trigger to autoimmune disease for things like givimg birth -> hashimotos or ???virus -> type 1 diabetes.
California Turns a Corner on Single-Family Zoning
> The aggregate activities of a company cannot be denoted through some parable about an evil man with "absolute power".

Where was evil mentioned at all? Why is comparing countries with dictatorships to companies where majority ownership is held by one person not allowed? Are you really saying there are no commonalities between the two at all and any similarities are to be outright ignored because they're not the same? Of course they are not the same, but they are both massive bureaucratic organizations where a few individuals have an iron grip on control.

> Rest assured, whatever has happened with Facebook was a team effort involving many different stakeholders.

I'm not sure the past of facebook matters, what is its state right now? To me, it looks like zuckerberg has stacked the board with yes men and there is not a single thing that anyone can do from within the organization to go against him. Call it whatever you want, but he seems to be controlling it pretty absolutely at the moment. He _literally_ idolizes and models himself after Agustus Caesar. He sees the use in studying historical tyrannical governments, so it seems possible to me that there could be something useful in the comparison and that it shouldn't be dismissed outright because it's not exactly the same.
It has nothing to do with any of the things you listed, maybe you're projecting. It's not retribution to avoid someone, nor is it vengeful to shop somewhere else.

I have for years had a big list of people, companies, and other organizations I wish to actively avoid. The pandemic just gave me higher resolution on the "undefined" set of humans and organizations.

I already avoid racists, extreme partisans, assholes, anti-science types, people who are mean to waitstaff, people who don't read books, et c. Covid gave me a few more categories.
> Retribution, vengeance and holding grudges

That's not the only utility for this.

Understanding the networks of information flows over social media will allow for easier reintroduction of accurate concepts, using similar looking quacks and new language for people who prefer to believe quacks over any reputable institution.

It can also be useful to get people to realize how consistently they are led on, as many of them forgot their prior theories and are just subscribed to random causes alongside their vegan, spiritual or political journey.
You know how they refer to the Pfizer vaccine as the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine because the later actually developed it?

Well, your mind is going to be totally blown when you find out where they're based.

The trend in pharma has been to HQ in the USA for tax reasons and access to capital, but a lot of the research still happens in the EU
Honda's now selling the first production car with level 3 self-driving
I thought neuroscience had largely moved away from the idea of "grandmother neurons" in favor of sparsity [1]. This seems to suggest that the model is functioning differently than the human brain...

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6822296/
No no that's not my angle at all, but I'm glad we're in agreement. Clear communication is hard!
three words: corporate virtue signalling
Oh, did you miss the Tom & Jerry thread? That was a week or two ago.
This is completely false for the majority of places I've worked. Plenty of people don't notice how much they've got stuck, or don't know who the right expert is, or feel self-conscious about interrupting them to ask a question. Having a daily scheduled time where all the experts are available and everyone should check whether they're getting bogged down is a big help.

I've experienced the kind of "standup" you describe too, but it usually coincided with not actually following the rules for what a standup is (e.g. not actually standing up) and a bunch of other fake agile.
The problem I see mainly is people complain about something without providing a usable alternative.

Most of the web tech are open source so it's just a matter of forking an existing tech and convincing others to use your thing instead. If your thing breaks half the existing workflows that's your problem, not others'
There are also users whose use of a service is driven by direct value received (connecting with families, for free). Both can be asserted as true, both carry very little informative value as statements. The strongest statement that this leads to is something like "some users are manipulated, some receive value."
> Most middle class homes in our suburbs only have 3 bedrooms so that sort of caps kids to 2 or less.

No, it doesn't.

Heck, my wife’s parents had an urban studio apartment and two kids when she was growing up, so I don't think three more bedrooms than that provides a hard cap of two kids.

In fact, I lived in a suburban middle class home with three bedrooms and three kids, so I know it doesn't.
This private / publix split is idiotic and gets you nowhere. Either you are censored or you are not.

"Oh sorry, the ISP is private, so they are allowed to disconnect you if they dont like what you wrote on twitter"
> they have to show me they have nothing up their sleeve first

https://github.com/WICG/floc describes something open source and running on the client. Will that be sufficient, or is there additional disclosure you'd like to see?
Or we could be have like sane rational people and not indulge either sides insane society destroying extremes. you don't defeat extremism by adding to polarizing the situation even more.
Another advantage is that a population that doesn't consist of clones is more resistant to diseases.

With regards to "why separate sexes? why two?", the technical reason is mitochondria, the "cells" within our cells: you don't want the copies from one parent to fight with copies from another parent. The standard solution for the multicellular organisms is that only one parent provides mitochondria, the other does not. There were attempts with more than two sexes, turned out to be too complicated.
Benchmarks consistently fail to show this perf advantage. Fair ones anyway. Which makes sense because property graphs and RDF are very similar and mostly differ in terms of syntax, i.e., stuff that good query planners and indexing schemes compile away.
This is a great idea. Also any free slots could be opened up to general questions, perhaps via a Twitch or YouTube stream, so that the more general questions can be recorded for posterity and documentation.
It’s not. The parent is leaving out basically all the context so that this kind of thing sounds inherently unreasonable.

Bailey: I’m avoiding using someone’s preferred pronouns because I don’t respect their gender identity.

Motte: “What so using someone’s name is offensive now?”

From what they did say I think it’s reasonably safe to assume that the person they we’re talking about was non-binary, agender, and went by they/them but it really doesn’t matter.

A very common experience that trans people face is people unnaturally avoiding the use of their pronouns and either structuring sentences awkwardly or by using their name all the time. The literal act of using someone’s name isn’t offensive but when it’s done because you’re avoiding using their pronouns then it’s rude. And it’s super obvious when people do it which makes everyone feel uncomfortable.

Now because trans people deal with this all the time it’s possible that they were more sensitive to it than normal and overreacted but given the parent took offense to being called out and they used dismissive scare quotes to describe the person’s gender identity rather than it being a two second “oh my bad” thing I think suggests not.
The fact that the Dr. Seuss book had content that facilitated a ban is certainly enough for it to be of academic and historical value.
It was a self-conscious joke, at least originally. Like "we're aware this looks like a useless waste of time".
It's kind of neat observing the same economics that drive Instagram influencers also drive sharing logical thinking. I wonder if both sides of the human brain behave the same way? (organic v. ogic). Actually it's far more likely that social effects are the cause, and social effects benefit both organic runaway trains as well as logical runaway trains.
P2P decentralized protocol will work.
I came across that book at a used book store while I was in college (back in the mid-90s). I thought it was hilarious. I couldn't put it down.
Wage stagnation has nothing to do with immigration and everything to do with the obscenely rich being permitted to get obscenely richer. It's disappointing that your friends have fallen for that lie.
I worked at a company where the CEO was into Kaizen and brought it up frequently at team meetings. It was otherwise as dysfunctional as any place I've ever worked. It was also my first, and hopefully last, exposure to "full court" Scrum. Both of these are now flags to me that a company is more into process than results, which is sad, because they both came from good places.
I'm sorry, but until we invent a relativistic quantum machine that can squeeze more than 24h in a day this just won't happen. Careers, by definition, will take the vast majority of your productive time during your most productive years which also coincides with the best time to take care of young children. I'm failing to see how policy could change those two facets of adult life.

Also, if I was in a place that had a certain class of people getting paid not working for "family time" while I have to not only work but also cover for them I'll just leave.
Good waterfall is better than good agile. Bad agile is better than bad waterfall.

Many places also do agile badly. The ones that have stand ups without a (certified) scrum master are likely doing it wrong and can often be anti-productive.

Kanban is fine though, and a good low overhead technique for multiple people in a team.
It depends on how you define engagement, I suppose. I've never heard people discuss time spent as an engagement metric, which is (IME) usually actions taken by a user that the business wants to measure.

Engagement just measures how engaged your users are. Time spent measures that. These are all proxies for value, because it is very hard to measure value received.
Hi! If you're thinking of giving office hours for your project... I've been working on a site (http://booktime.xyz/) that's meant for this. It's like a calendly where you can manage different meeting types more easily, they can be paid or unpaid, and we keep your contact private. Feel free to email me at (david@booktime.xyz) too. We've been polishing it up, and I'm happy to take feedback.
I know of at least one government contractor that was still shipping a clipper application at least until 2019. It is amazing the software that is foisted on government grantees.
(Many of) The trade-offs were known to Richie et al; writing in 1993:

> None of BCPL, B, or C supports character data strongly in the language; each treats strings much like vectors of integers and supplements general rules by a few conventions. In both BCPL and B a string literal denotes the address of a static area initialized with the characters of the string, packed into cells. In BCPL, the first packed byte contains the number of characters in the string; in B, there is no count and strings are terminated by a special character, which B spelled `*e'. This change was made partially to avoid the limitation on the length of a string caused by holding the count in an 8- or 9-bit slot, and partly because maintaining the count seemed, in our experience, less convenient than using a terminator.

[…]

> C treats strings as arrays of characters conventionally terminated by a marker. Aside from one special rule about initialization by string literals, the semantics of strings are fully subsumed by more general rules governing all arrays, and as a result the language is simpler to describe and to translate than one incorporating the string as a unique data type. Some costs accrue from its approach: certain string operations are more expensive than in other designs because application code or a library routine must occasionally search for the end of a string, because few built-in operations are available, and because the burden of storage management for strings falls more heavily on the user. Nevertheless, C's approach to strings works well.

* https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html

He mentions Algol 68 and Pascal [Jensen 74].
> This falls into the category of taste / political opinions and has gone too far too quickly.

Welcome to America.
It’s 100% narcissism. When will the vast majority gain courage and marginalize this pandemic of misinformed thought?
Hah, that's actually a very insightful description of TikTok (to me at least). Thanks!
But what should we all do?
My favorite example is the phrase “human resource”. If you reframe humans as resources, exploiting them is the next, natural step.

Words matter. Corporate speak dehumanizes us all.
As mentioned close to the bottom of that article, another take on it was that it involved UFOs:

https://losangeleno.com/strange-days/battle-of-los-angeles/
1 HOUR?
Presumably that’s why they tried it? They’re reporting on how well it worked, and in particular how it seems to be encoded.
Please don't call legitimate concern fear. Few people have experience with ME and it won't be anything visible to you.
The wonderful thing about the internet is that you don't even have to go outside to talk to people who have been sick, who know people who have died, who are sick at this very moment and know people who are dying right now.

It's myopic to pretend you can get a similarly accurate top-down view of the situation by talking to your neighbors.
Someone could use a history lesson..
I tried to read it.

The formatting is weird on mobile and it rambled on for a long time with saying anything before my hand got tired.

What's the point of the article?

Bryan Cantrill is an amazingly accomplished technical person, so I don't understand how he could written this piece.
I was thinking the same thing, and it’s certainly true functionally, but the mode of operation is quite different. It’s not about combining force vectors from different wheels, instead each blade rotates to always be thrusting in the desired direction.
> If you've every made the buying decisions for an organization, you've been targeted individually before.

Mellanox seems to think I'll drop 50k on NICs again, and I need to be reminded that last time I bought from them. It's been 11 years since.
On top of all the censorship concerns, refusing to continue publication of these books actually is a damning indictment of the copyright system.

The author has been dead for decades, and yet these books are still under copyright for decades more — to an organization that refuses to print them!

IMO a copyright holder that REFUSES TO PUBLISH books they hold monopoly rights over should lose that copyright immediately. Anything else is ridiculous.
Silence – GPL-Licensed Encrypted SMS/MMS for Android
I thought we might work at the same place for a second there but I've not received anything like that today.
I speak for the tweetle beetles.

We tweetle beetles may battle with paddles in puddles in bottles on poodles that partake of noodles, but when noodle-eating poodles talk politics in limericks it ticks off their ticks who stick sticks in their backs to start building shacks in which to investigate facts... then our battles are shackled to meanings and leanings and motions of oceans an ocean away from the childish motivations become tired contrivations for sad populations.
Oxide is in the Bay Area, and its employees so far seem to be doing fine.

That said, it's not like the Bay comes up favorably when compared to...everywhere else in the world; given the choice of hiring in the Bay and...everywhere else, in the entire English-speaking world, I think most sensible people would choose the latter (especially when considering how many of the best and the brightest there are in places like the East Coast and Canada who $175k or $180k would seem fantastic to). I'm sure Oxide won't be hurting for talent, and I'm sure its employees won't be hurting for cash, either.

Plus, they are getting equity. Says so right in the blog post.
That clearly isn't the financial situation in the USA. Here I am, a software developer, supporting a family of 14 on a single income. I'm definitely not wealthy.

I couldn't do that in Manhattan of course, so I don't live in Manhattan.
I find it ironic that the people advocating for what used to be traditional culture. The man (generally) working and the woman(generally) raising the kids are the new counter culture. Makes me wonder if the pendulum is staring to swing the other direction.
There could be national security implications preventing that; e.g. it was broadcasting for an event protected by the Secret Service, so presumably they had non-zero involvement in its deployment planning.
>And they reject the fundamental liberal, reasonable, legal, and scientific principles upon which liberal societies operate.

Is this a crime in itself? Do we really need to cancel academics over rejecting something because they find it logically or practically wrong? Isn't it a bit of a word-game to to identify liberalism with 'reasonable'?

The whole statement seems to start from the presumption that liberalism is reasonable. I can think of many arguments stipulating that it's not. As it turns out, describing your ideology (in this case liberalism) as inherently and unquestionably 'reasonable' isn't a particularly strong way to go about defending that ideology. A Communist or a Nazi could easily say the same thing about their own ideology.
The term "guys and gals" is slightly more archaic than the gender neutral "guys" that is used commonly in many parts of the United States.
> Plus, severe influenza can result in similar organ damage so Covid is not unique in that aspect.

I used to work with somebody who was never the same after a bad case of flu in their 50s, so this kind of research—regardless of which virus—is very welcome.
Monetizing by upselling to longer consulting sessions is discussed in the article.