skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I absolutely agree, and I also hate the automated chat systems which are even _worse_ than calling on the phone. It's trying to get the 'call tree' scripts out to chat. When if I'm online, a program script should be able to cover 80% of the issues, and the other 20% need a human touch for collecting the correct data or providing features missing; often intentionally from the website.

The local power company does this very well for reporting outages, and takes data that's hard to fit through a human that can recognize what the data means and get it to the correct departments and people.

Cable is the WORST in that respect. With zero transparency on what the root cause or investigation status. Also, insufficient and critically lacking detail (Is it JUST me, or is it my block, or is it the whole neighborhood or city, etc).
No social media.

It destroys mental health of many teenage girls.

No unsupervised texting.

Let them have friends at your place.
AWS offers throw away accounts during immersion days, jam sessions, etc (especially at re:invent). It would be great if these were extended to the general public, even if at a small fee.
Raising awareness and trying to get policy changed? Civil disobedience? If you have even a small percentage of the student body you have more than enough to affect change.

Basically the same options citizens have, but at a much smaller scale, meaning individual contributions matter more.
Yes, the fuel tax is far more perfect if the goal is to tax road usage and pollution but the state worried about future $$ and taxing gas is not future proof in the face of EVs. They want shovel read infrastructure to tax the people with money (the middle and upper middle class) and those people look like they're gonna buy EVs.

I'd like to think it's because EV proliferation makes the gas tax too regressive but I'm not that good at lying to myself.
They needed to clean out the C-suite, not the actual workers.
Arguably discovering surprise bills absolutely should be part of the free tier, how else can you mentally prepare for running something in production on AWS?
I think the point the OP is making is that an overt statement such as "White power!!1 Jews will not replace us!!!sixonetikitorches" directly exposes a white supremacist opinion, whereas there are less overt actions that, if analysed thoughtfully, also expose white supremacy.

It is very similar to people who say "I'm not racist, I don't think I'm superior to anyone and the dictionary definition of racism is to assume superiority based on race" (this is more or less a direct quote from Pauline Hanson, an Australian Senator who is wildly racist).

What I have found in discussions with people who I think are racist, but who deny it, is that they have an emphasis on personal agency and personal responsibility. So while they might be able to happily have black friends, they see, for example, disparaties in incarceration rates not as a social problem but as an aggregation of personal failures. If one believes that a particular race is, on average, more likely to commit the types of crime for which one should be incarcerated, and one sees incarceration as an "inferior" way of life, then the logical conclusion is that they are racist.

An interesting thing to note about analysing racism this way is that it can also uncover racist attitudes in the very minority populations who are being discriminated against.

Also "defund the police" is a shorthand that typically means "reduce direct law enforcement funding and instead fund other community engagement programs". Of course we need cops, but we don't necessarily need them all armed to the teeth in riot gear showing up for a drug bust (sub-question: do we really need drug busts at all?), and maybe they're not the best first responders in domestic disputes, and so on. Most people for whom "defund the police" is a catchcry recognise this, because there are very few true anarchists in society (and anarchy is kind of where "left meets right" in the political spectrum anyway, which is why libertarianism is such a dangerous and insidious ideology).
> Stop entertaining people who redefine words.

I take it you still stick to the original definitions of "fun", "garbled", and "terrible", then? Good on you.
https://github.com/rebuy-de/aws-nuke
Seems OP's reaction is like what is rife in Australia as 'tall-poppy syndrome' and cutting down prominent achievers. We collectively dislike promoters, but isn't doing something like writing a book to draw attention to your SaaS product exactly the sort of thing a founder should be doing? Especially given it worked in bringing them customers and attention. If you think they're too confident in their assertions, it's easy enough to ignore them.
If it's you vs Merriam-Webster, I'll take Merriam-Webster

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/defund

> : to withdraw funding from

and "withdraw" does not mean "remove completely"

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/white%20supremacy

> 1 : the belief that the white race is inherently superior to other races and that white people should have control over people of other races

> 2: the social, economic, and political systems that collectively enable white people to maintain power over people of other races
The idea that it is "his" workplace belongs in the Mad Men era of business.

If you want to attract and keep talent you need to listen to their views and involve in them defining the values of the company.
> [Vague description of provider now removed]

Hinting at the name like this seems unfair to any other companies that might reasonably be interpreted as "[Vague description of provider now removed]"... especially since I can't decide if you're sarcastic about [piece of description] part.

At the very least [two names] are big names that you could plausibly be referring too... and I could see only one name coming into many peoples minds and then them assuming you're referring to that provider.
Not the person you replied to, but this was a direct quote:

> “The fact that you can be a white male, and come to this meeting and call people racist and say ‘white supremacy doesn't exist’ when it's blatant at this company is white privilege,” the employee said. “The fact that he wasn’t corrected and was in fact thanked — it makes me sick.”

Isn't this employee declaring that "white supremacy" is "blatant at this company" ? His reaction that such "white supremacy" and "white privilege" "wasn't corrected" made him "sick."

It's albeit not a direct demand that Ryan Singer be called out as a white supremacist, but it does seem to both imply it and express a strong grievance that it was not called out or corrected. Maybe you have a different interpretation of this?
In theory, economic rights. If someday a dividend is paid, a stock buyback occurs, the company is liquidated, etc., all shareholders of BRK.B will be paid the same as those of BRK.A (accounting for the 1500 to 1 exchange rate).

In fact it seems like voting is actually not that important, since if you didn’t trust Buffett to run the company for you, you would be investing in something else.

In practice the rise of stuff like cryptocurrencies and NFTs shows that this theory is only partially true, and perhaps there is some nonzero lift on the price due to people just buying it because they think the company is cool or whatever.
Municipalities are insured for lawsuits, and have the power of taxation; they are an attractive target for many lawyers.
People were doing exactly that (well, mutual funds), which is why Buffet started selling BRK.B shares.
"On the other hand, when did racial equality become an inherently political topic?"

What other category would you put it in?
> Really? Someone who writes that is where you're looking for guidance? Words fail me to describe how appalling this is.

Did you read the rest of the blog post? Or did seeing "<my dearly held American value>=fash" stop your thought? As Andy says, free speech really only works in a context where everybody is of equal power. In an asymmetric power context, speech against those with less power is objectively more damaging than speech against those with more power, and is therefore more legitimately subject to restriction. Tolerating speech against the marginalized thus pulls society further in a pro-fascist direction.

You should really consider whether it makes sense to be more appalled by someone calling out tolerance of hate speech as fascist, than by the hate speech itself.
> I can't find a single instance of systemic racism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws

systemic:
> relating to a system, especially as opposed to a particular part.

How many racist people are needed before it's not a particular part"?
> So much stuff just from the readme would introduce breaking changes to the Python ecosystem.

Being compatible with the rest of the Python ecosystem is the main reason why Cinder is built on top of CPython. Although yes, some features are indeed very experimental.

> in a world where we have type annotations, JITs feel like a massive step back. Stuff like mypyc could get us way further into high performance stuff

Ah, but that introduces a separate compilation step, which may not be tolerable in every situation.
No true scottsman
> “My honest sense of why everybody is leaving because they're tired of Jason and David's behavior — the suppression of voices, of any dissent,” one employee told me. “They really don’t care what employees have to say. If they don't think it's an issue, it's not an issue. If they don't experience it, then it's not real. And this was the final straw for a lot of employees

Sounds a hell of a lot like the house cleaning needing to happen is at the top.

That quote is the clearest indication that this isn’t a politics issue, it’s a management issue. This sort of “I don’t think it’s an issue so let’s not handle it” attitude applies just as much/more to actually getting work done. Classic bad manager 101 stuff.

You can have good success by being a bad manager of course! My bet is that there’s a lot of great ICs that counteract whatever messy people mgmt stuff is going on.
> It strikes me as very odd that you would suddenly so fundamentally distrust your co-workers with whom you share so much. But I'm also not in the US and maybe this is just the current climate over there.

Yes, it absolutely is the climate here. it’s awful. tribalism, division, distrust and eagerness to demonize anyone who doesn’t tow your line.

we’re doomed
Well, when they bought it, the share price was sub $100k. Some even lower. The B shares didn't exist before either (pre 1996), so some of these are legacy shares.
Exactly, which gets back to the actual underlying dynamic: the accusation of gatekeeping only makes sense on a societal level, not an individual one, and can only be turned into an equality issue if one (silently) shifts back to the perspective of an individual who believes they are entitled to an equal amount of sex.
I found this really hard to use. Asking for configuration credentials that I had no idea how to retrieve
came here to say that as well and recommend this video [1]

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXkEpzexYIU

/edit: ant this one [2]

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCjeM3Sei-s
It reduces the novelty of real sex and thus the arousal for it. Lots of studies on this.
"Hey Buster I thought you had class"

"I thought YOU had class!"
Interesting this is paid software. Given automakers sad security practices, I wonder how hard it is for some hacker to make a kit using off the shelf products and release the software open source.
We celebrate sports stars, CEOs from Atlassian/Canva/etc.

It's not about being successful. It's about not having an ego and acting like you're better than everyone else just because you are successful. Americans are much more willing to tolerate this behaviour than Australians.
I looked at the full report too (https://me2ba.org/school-mobile-apps-student-data-sharing-be...) and I still can’t find what the actual apps are.

Who are the worst offenders? How do I know if I’m affected?
The problem is this is liable to at minimum leak your entire social graph and all data that can be derived from same. The vastly more logical thing to do would be to abolish the gas tax and increase taxes either on vehicles or on income.

The second best solution if you must tax miles driven is to mandate new cars include short range Bluetooth readable odometers and let users electronically submit this data to oem. While we are at it car electronics should be mandated to be able to perform this task without giving your contact data to the fuckin car.
> open borders

No thanks. Feel free to go conduct extreme social experiments with your own life, not mine.
It's jarring because you're hearing an opinion that challenges a fundamental part of your world view.
This is a very late reply, but Windows 10 has its own x64 on ARM emulator [1]. It's not production ready as Rosetta but we'll see how it goes.

https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2020/12/10/introdu...
I try to avoid the trap of the inbox if possible. If something is an emergency I’ll go log in, otherwise I keep a Apple Note with a checklist that I can add quick little blurbs to remind me of emails I need to write later.
>DigitalOcean is the worst with the dormant accounts. Just got dinged around $2.40 on my credit card. Going into DO I could not find what was causing that charge. There was nothing there. Wuuuttttt.

Wuuuttt? Fraud is what.
I was about to post this same thing. That takes an extraordinary amount of self-awareness and maturity on her part which can't be common.
Yes, it's amazing. You often don't even need to have a PCB made much either because there are tons of modules for all common hobbyist circuits available very cheap, cheaper than the individual parts! I'm building a robot with a Raspberry Pi, a MOSFET module, a camera module, an LED module, a power supply module, a current regulator module, a motor driver module, and audio amplifier module, an Arduino module, etc. Not a single perf board or custom PCB required.

Other important equipment like PC-connected oscilloscopes and lab power supplies are super cheap now too.

You might have missed an opportunity in the 1990's to make your own boards by drawing with an etch-resist pen. I was making boards like that using money from my paper run.

Maybe we need a new national anthem "Praise God for the rise of China" ;)
and the next time it crashes, it may never recover

Hmm, you should look up the price history of Bitcoin.

It crashes a lot. And every time, it recovers to eventually put up a new high several multiples higher.

Bitcoin is still only 10% of gold's market cap. It still has room to grow.
It was all completely believable until they got to the part about demanding computer books be removed from local bookstores. Even after that I think it still echoed exaggerated versions of the fears of my parents in the late 90s/early 2000s.
That doesn't imply that I have to like his self-promotion book. After all, if I'm to read a book I want to get something out of it. As I already mentioned, the book has good parts, but it reads quite jarring in many places.

Also, I guess this is personal, but a little humility is good for everyone, IMHO, and doesn't necessarily contradict a healthy dose of self-confidence either. DHH seems to have little of it — at least judging from his books and also from his Twitter.
> Honestly, in this story everyone looks like a big child.

I agree for the most part there. Less so the founders, I think there sin runs more along the lines of being extremely naive (but in a way a lot of people might be, especially when the alternative might be to accept you're screwed).

> something must have gone fundamentally wrong much earlier. These levels of tension and distrust don't just arise out of nowhere.

Well, the tensions exist because they're being pushed for by large influences societally for political gain. The problem is they promoted a workplace environment where it was considered okay to bring it in, as well as to poke fun at clients (which is what kicked it all off).

I see this as an example of the cost of free doughnuts.[1] It's well known that we value the loss of something as more than the gain of something, and we value free things for far more than they're worth. Employees were given free reign for a long time in ways that weren't all that conducive to a diverse work environment or to respecting clients. Now they are being told not to do things that most work places already expect you to know enough not to do, either by explicitly telling you or by culture, such as don't blast your political views out to everyone, and don't be disrespectful to the clients, as that's where your paycheck comes from. My guess is the majority of people that leave if honestly reflecting on this in a few years would acknowledge that maybe announcing and focusing on your differences with those you need to spend time with is not as good a strategy for a happy and productive workplace as focusing on your similarities.

1: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/07/13/156737801/the-...
The definition of a robot tends to be fairly fuzzy. If you look up the Websters definition (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/robot), and ignore the first definition about being in human form, you get:

> a device that automatically performs complicated, often repetitive tasks (as in an industrial assembly line)

Which basically hinges on "complicated". I suspect most people wouldn't count a dishwasher, washing machine, etc.
> Okay please share what made it click to you as a "fundamental global revolution"

There's a lot going on right now in the decentralised finance space. A couple of things that interest me:

1. Payments. Stable coins (backed by collaterals) like DAI (by MakerDAO), USDC (by CENTRE aka Coinbase, CirclePay et al), Libra (by Facebook, Shopify, Uber et al) have a potential to replace the current payments system and those rent-seeking middle-men. In DAI's case, the currency is truly autonomous and decentralised, so there's a good chance it ends up uncensorable and unregulatable. USDC and Libra offer a great way for folks not in high inflation countries with weak currencies to lock up cash-in-hand in USD. Libra is poised to see a broad adoption once Facebook makes it common place on Instagram and WhatsApp, where most of the commerce is moving to. It remains to be seen how Stellar ends up doing in response to Libra.

2. Banking. Banks, like eco, dharma, and onjuno, built on top of Ethereum altcoins can offer higher interest rates than traditional banks.

Other things I'm excited about and looking forward to:

1. Anonymous assets. Monero enables truly anonymous transactions. It isn't a stable coin, so that's a bummer. MobileCoin, which I believe is built on Stellar, is private but I don't think its anonymous or stable.

2. Web3. Storage (FileCoin, Sia), Compute (Golem, ElastOS), Network (Orchid, Mysterium), Content (IPFS)... may yet emerge as a credible distributed alternative to the current centralised cloud computing model.

3. Inter-chains. Today, a lot of innovation is concentrated on Ethereum, because of its versatility. Upcoming entrants like Polygon, Polkadot, and Cosmos would make inter-chain interactions much smoother. This has potential to upend the current status-quo and probably give rise to many more applications previously not possible.

Read also: https://blog.coinbase.com/what-will-happen-to-cryptocurrency...
If you delete your AWS account you will still be charged if you don’t remove / terminate some of your services for up to 90 days!

https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/close...
GPT-3 and Mensa (Comparing AIs, Limerick, Swearing)
> almost tripping my pedals on the sidewalk rise (I forget the word in English)

The curb?
Tucker? Is that you behind the throwaway?
As a personal user, I wish they gave two options to fix this.

Option 1:

When credit balance reaches a certain level (or monthly spend reaches a certain level), initiate a resource stop on every resource that can be stopped without data loss. This would still incur charges for some things like EBS volumes, S3 data, etc, but at least it would slow the bleeding.

Option 2:

I don't care about data loss, just terminate everything when I hit the threshold. This should require a double-opt in and maybe a warning banner in the console UI.
We also may be reading a lot into how large this committee was.

If I were at a company of ~58 people, and ~20 of them were forming a DE&I committee to evaluate the company's vendor relationships, speakers, etc., I'd be tempted to join just to get the potential target off of my back. They're not going to fire 1/3 of the workforce, after all.
I passed my TOGAF 9.2 exam
The culture here is getting bad. We have an "inclusion council" that hands out these diktats. The word ban list (not blacklist!) is approaching 100 words including husband, housekeeping, normal, hacker and meritocracy. Worse part is we're a security company

edit: "here" is okta, not basecamp
Oh come on. We all know that the 'accidental revenue' from the way Free Tier is set up probably makes up a cool 2 million or more annually. Plenty to justify its continued abuse of naive students. Why would they walk away from that cash? The only people they're pissing off is people who aren't using AWS anyway.
Is this legal? There's pretty strict regulations on what data you can share as an educator. Does this not apply to them? I imagined since HIPPA applies to anyone working with medical data that FERPA would apply to anyone working with education data (these companies).
I don't wish I cared more about this BS, and I don't.
Yes, I think this is how default dict is implemented.

The issue here is that the clients have to know the particular default values for each parameter. For me, it was easier to return a defaultdict where the callers didn’t need to know what default value to pass into their gets.
This might even be rooted in human psychology. "The Master and His Emissary" and other books about neuroscience argue that we have brain functions specialized for focus and other brain functions specialized for context. Activating focus reduces contextual thinking.
> Why should people not be allowed to make that choice?

Because in practice people don't make that choice. Manufacturers do.
I really recommend using something like Linode for cheap throwaway, might be a bit more expensive (i.e: 5 per month), but the surprise factor disappears..
I figured it out. I'm using Safari, but I think you might have a bug there.

In most cases had to click a total of four times: once to get focus on the element, then a double click to select the text, and then once more to get a cursor within the text where I wanted it.

There were also some times where I only had to click three times if I did it with the right rhythm (once for focus, once for selection, and once for cursor), or five times if I had already selected an outer container component and was trying to select an inner component (double click for focus, double click for selection, and once for cursor).

For what it's worth, my own initial expectation was that if you click on an element, it should automatically place the cursor where you clicked, and that by default you should be selecting whatever text you are clicking on, not the outer envelope that contains it.

I observed all this on the "Multidisciplinary" theme (black background).
unfortunately for most cloud providers, you have to read through pricing very carefully and be even more careful with what you deploy. an infinite loop could lead to $$$$ in charges and billing alerts just alert you, they don't actually shut anything off
Dictionaries don't define the meaning of words; they record the usage.
Because anyone who claims reverse racism exists is a defacto racist (even if they would deny it) becaus they obviously don't understand how racism works.

If I had someone saying that shit in my company on a Zoom call, I would excuse myself, remove them from the call, schedule a 1 on 1 meeting with them, and explain to them that they need to take training on what racism is and how it is perpetrated, or leave.