skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Innovation" does tend to be the reason higher-ups want face-to-face to happen, though. The reason, I believe, is the Building 20 story - an environment where people could mix their time between isolation and spontaneous meetings, and where they were uniquely empowered to change the physical infrastructure at will, seemed to lead to a remarkable number of radical innovations. Part of that story is about how innovation happens: it seemed to show that you couldn't get it from people beavering away in isolation, nor could you get it from group brainstorms all the time, you needed a mix so people could switch between deep focus on hard problems, with the occasional serendipitous ping that unlocks something.

I was hoping this article would delve into why (if) this story is not true, but it's too light.
It's not a jab; it's a simple statement of fact. That's what I've seen in my (entirely US-based) career so far. And I'm not personally the kind of person who's interested in euphemism and beating around the bush purely for the sake of euphemism and beating around the bush.

Note that what I was suggesting was not anything like, "Ignore white dudes and only talk to everyone else." I was saying, "A less informal system may be less impenetrable to people from other social backgrounds." Presumably, in such a situation, white men would still tend to be a plurality of voices, because that's just how the workforce demographics work out in the US. But, even given that, why wouldn't you want to make sure you're also doing a good job of giving full voice to folks who come from the other 2/3 of the population? Even if we frame it in purely mercenary terms, wantonly underutilizing employees' talents is probably bad for business. And relying on invisible, socialization-based mechanisms tends to have a poor track record in that department.
Early on, I found myself thinking that the idea that it came out of a wet market and couldn't possibly have come from a lab, to have its own wierdly racist overtones. I think someone recently tweeted as such too, and I felt "slightly less crazy".
This... "outside of the initial profiling"

doesn't jibe with this... "let me on my way without any harassment."
I'm looking forward to the media Kino of the anniversary of the January 6th Insurrection. The show will be spectacular. I'm buying popcorn, inviting friends and turning on CNN. Expecting North Korea level of wailing and Jim Acosta tears. Will take shots to every "insurrection" bellowed.
Yeah- that's what keyhole is: a codename for a series of nro/ nga spy sats.

Edit: and Hubble was built from a surplus skeleton of one, through a government transfer.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_Hole
Something as slippery as 'innovation' can not be pinned down so easily as 'office/not-office'. If it were well understood how to create a generic 'innovation' every company would be doing it and it would be meaningless. This is a silly article
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To be fair, this is more of a type of African philosophy thing. It's not really racial in an exclusive way aside the fact it's steep in African diaspora. But, what is most of philosophy of not Westphalian? Not to say that's bad either because much of western philosophy has innovated our understanding of reality. This post is just reactionary.
This would be cool for earth satellites.

On the other hand watching a stream involving something on Mars, let alone voyager, would be pretty boring!

Send: ls

Ok let's take a 20 minute break.
They actually use the NRO's Quasar relay satellites for this. They don't connect to the "internet," but rather to NRO mission ground stations, but they need that single point of ingress to Earth anyway because the hardware decryption modules, algorithms, and key-loading mechanisms only exist in military comms equipment, not IP routers. From there, provided the data itself is unclassified or can be downgraded, it can get to the Internet.

It's arguably an interesting question whether the government would consider using commercial relay satellites instead of just the Quasar constellation, though. The data stream doesn't need to be decrypted on the satellite, just forwarded. Obviously, you can't prevent radio from being intercepted, so throwing in a hop you don't own doesn't actually add any risk. You're totally reliant on the strength of your encryption either way.
It's always strange to see the Canadian shame over the memory of residential schools when a slightly better version still exists in the US.

Rather than run by the government, they're generally run by a church where they make millions of dollars in profit to put Native American children in foster homes and send them to public school. They still often lead to abuse, only tolerate a sterilized version of their culture, and they use the scummiest fundraising methods to allow all this. Fewer hidden deaths, not truly forced, but still a disgusting practice.
Why would it be a shithole? Just advertisers staying away would make it worth it.

Reddit was much better in the past.
How many roofers or lumberjacks are killed by homicide in the course of doing their job?
MLK was regularly accused of burning bridges at the time, as I've demonstrated in the link.
That tells one the index to use for !N to repeat that command

!! repeats the last command

!N repeats the command with that index in the history
I totally understand this is a tragedy, but what does this really have to do with hacker news?
If you're arguing that we could make hiring more efficient I won't argue with you.

But having a meritocracy isn't about about it being perfect but what philosophy you use to fill positions. Is your goal to find the best person for the job? Or do you have a different goal? And if so what is it?
What's the difference between malice and negligence for profit? In the end, the company has deliberately chosen a path which makes them money while creating externalities.
omg yes : )
Editorial control over their own website is a first amendment protected right. Such a law denying them the right to determine what is on their own webpage would be unconstitutional.
There was a rumor that YT, FB, and Twitter have a deal with the Gov't regulators to leave them unregulated if they give a back channel of control to state censors. There were some leaked documents about internal government "partner" programs. Did anything come of that? It read to me like they were outsourcing some of their censorship to state agents, or perhaps they were setting up rapid response customer service teams to implement state censorship policies (e.g., question the election, vaccine safety, pandemic origins, etc...)

I had thought they "just knew" what content to prohibit based on where the political winds were blowing, but maybe it was more coordinated.
Looks like it can be.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C14&q=Acc...

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C14&q=Acc...

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C14&q=rel...

> There is little information available that shows the relative values of stress across different occupations, which would enable the direct comparison of stress levels. This paper reports the rank order of 26 different occupations on stress and job satisfaction levels.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00472...

> One of the main tenets of GST, the introduction of noxious stimuli (i.e., experiencing violent events) correlates with negative coping strategies.
> how would an internet across the solar system work?

Realistically, each ~150 ms sphere would have its own cloud infrastructure. Those systems would then bridge with one another. So idk AWS on Earth and DogeNet on Mars.

I would love for a distributed model as much as the next guy, but it's unlikely to happen for the same reasons that it isn't happening today.
If you have ever done blue collar work in the US, you would see there is a big range in industrial labor conditions. You have filthy, dirty, hot, dangerous plants and clean, modern, safe plants along with everything in between. China is an even bigger country with many more industrial plants with a wide range.

There are enough good plants to fill infinite propaganda reels. The best propaganda is true. It's not mistaken if it's accurate video of real facilities. Americans generally are at least 10-15 years out of date with their impressions of urban Chinese quality of life and working conditions because our news coverage of China is very poor quality.

Foxconn is a Taiwanese company, by the way, it just has lots of facilities on the mainland as well, and to show I'm not a shill Taiwan is an independent country, Mao was a bad man, etc.
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How is the sports concern illegitimate? It seems it's already a major issue today, as we speak. We're past the point of hypothetical worst-case scenarios in that respect.
I think I saw in a podcast with someone from the anime industry that it is being used for digital animation by some people there. So I definitely believe it is making inroads. NVIDIA has also included it into omniverse as a first class citizen with other more "enterprise" applications. So I would definitely say it has traction.

I do not believe a vast majority of those people are using Linux however, or at least I haven't seen any indication of it. (But maybe some companies render servers do and maybe Blender is useful for that, but like Maya works on Linux iirc)
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A carbon tax might've worked if implemented a couple of decades ago, when it could be gradually increased over time, and giving industries time to adapt. It is meant to be a gentle way for the government to change behavior.

But the scale of emissions reductions required now -- at least 10% per year [1] -- would mean that the price of carbon would have to immediately be cripplingly high. Obviously, that's bad for anyone who isn't rich. And there's no appetite for high taxes.

The point being, if the government is going to intervene to the degree that the climate crisis requires, then the government might as well directly shut down industries and institute regulations on behavior, instead of indirectly through carbon taxes. As we've been reminded of recently, the wealthy always find loopholes around paying their fair share of taxes.

[1] https://www.showyourbudgets.org/?country=united_states_of_am... And even this budget is likely conservative, as committed warming is a topic of debate.
Among the things I look for when interviewing PMs:

- did they have an impact in the past roles?

- will they help us be excellent, by finding and embedding good ideas/practices/tactics from elsewhere?

If a PM in 2021 doesn't list achievements on their CV, then they:

- haven't bothered to Google something like 'how to create a great CV', or

- couldn't separate the great answers from the noise, or

- decided their accomplishments weren't worth listing.

Bad sign.
Apple is willfully conflating the app sandbox with the app store, and Gruber is eating it up hook, line and sinker...
The article says as much.
> It’s not really honest to expect Facebook to correctly classify every single, tiny group created on the entire website.

I agree, but that's what Facebook said it would do. IMO the onus is on Facebook here. They promised to do something they surely knew they couldn't do. I suspect because the alternative is admitting that they don't really have any control over their recommendation algorithm, and the logical conclusion to that is to stop recommending things. But they don't ever want to do that because their engagement numbers would tank.
They were created to regulate airspace and when you have people flying drones into planes and helicopters at airports then someone needs to step in.
Yes. Everyone, including criminals, deserves human rights.
Or does it just not matter if most employees innovate? I can see this being the case given the limited job scope of most people.

I am pretty sure at this point employee retention is well understood. The conclusion of the market is that it doesn’t matter.
Hand wringing about "malice" isn't typically productive. No airline manufacturer wants to build a plane that crashes, but when one falls out of the sky and hundreds of people die, they still get taken to court and need to account for their decisions.
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The online advertising business model simply made it possible for small publishers, which in an earlier era would have been small time tabloids, to reach a wide audience that previously would have required a vast media empire. Back when things had to be printed on paper, it was really hard to get an article in front of millions of people, and throwing lots of shit at the wall to see what sticks was simply impossible. Nowadays, instead of competing with a dozen national papers and a handful of local ones, there were essentially unlimited numbers of competing headlines. In this new land of competition, everyone raced to the bottom. There is virtually no cost in publishing 100 crappy stories to have 1 take off and go viral, indeed that's an optimal strategy.

There's nothing special about advertising revenue. It's incredibly rare that I see an ad on a site that's related in anyway to the article that I'm reading, nonetheless that there is some financial motive to modify the article. I'm no more likely to click on an ad for diet pills on an article saying there was voter fraud then on one saying there wasn't.

If I were required to read every single thing published by an outlet I subscribe to, then I would definitely reserve my money for institutions that published a small number of high quality works. But if I can select which articles I read, it makes sense for an institution to produce as many options as they can so that I'll be more likely to find at least one thing I want to read.
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It's amazing how this Google troll is allowed to repeatedly post negative comments about Google without any repercussions.
"Nintendo's highly successful game release for the Nintendo 64™, Super Mario 64™, was built using the N-World development toolsuite from Nichimen Graphics Inc. Nichimen chose Allegro CL from Franz Inc. to develop its powerful N-World products."
> crime trajectory continues on the same path as in 2020 and 2021.

Ah yes, the crime trajectory of 2020, which is different from the crime trajectory of 2000-2019. And we both know why.
There's probably some overhead for switching between a C++ implementation and user-defined JS, and the sorter would need to do that a lot since most sort calls come with the compare-callback.
Lol, even the phrase "Trigger warning" is too triggering!
It’s not strange at all. Drone pilots have more limited visibility.

The bigger issue is that drone pilots have no skin in the game. If they cause an mid air collision resulting in fatalities: opsie daisy!
The funny thing about this comment is that it is the perfect demonstration of how media/people omit or spin facts to control the narrative.

Some missing facts:

The CDC and Fauci recommended against masks to protect the mask supply for health providers. Media pushed this messaging.

The vaccines seem to cause heart issues with some people dying from it. Only months later is the CDC admitting supposedly minor heart issues. Furthermore they are pushing people to take it (even those who stand to lose more than to benefit from it). Media pushes this narrative.

The vaccines do seem to work for most people and seem effective against the variants of COVID-19.

Many BLM protests were peaceful but some were taken advantage of and just became opportunities to loot.

Defund the police has caused skyrocketing property crime and violent crime.
Isn't it known that Facebook is aware the more enraged you are, the more engaged you are.

You have an entire outrage culture of if it bleeds it leads, you can either be a part of this or not.

In the last few years I've had to cut out most social media and online dating because it made me very miserable. With the time I've gained back I've improved my career, dated absolutely amazing people, and found more peace. Feeling good about yourself is free, but if you feel good about yourself you don't need to argue on Facebook about things which ultimately affect you very little if at all.
Well at least we agree on one tiny part of the above. I guess I was a bit callous in my reply. This news has set of a somewhat violent chain reaction in Canada. I'm glad the news came out but lately I am disturbed how much "news" is just overhyping and conveniently lacking details in order to drive ad revenue, and this is the perfect story for that. Many people who I speak to are under the assumption that there was government run mass children murdering squads killing native American children execution style. I am very sympathetic to the atrocities native American people went through _and it continues to this day_. Children are still taken from their homes today via child services meanwhile education on reserves is under funded making native children on reserves far more likely to wind up in foster homes. What do we do to fix it? We're protesting against figures in the past and doing nothing today because we all think it's over.
I once went out with a nurse in the UK who worked in palliative (end of life) care. On a daily basis she was responsible for life-changing decisions concerning medications; she had to comfort the dying and tell bereaved people that their relatives had died (frequently ending up in tears herself); she had to give bed baths and clean up human waste daily. She had to undertake continuous training and assessment with her career at risk if she failed; she did not know more than a week in advance what shifts she would be working which on any given day could start at 6am or 9pm (and go through to 4am the next day).

For all of this she was paid £25,000 (USD 35,000) / year.

The injustice is that software engineers and the tech sector in general are being so insanely rewarded as most of the rest of society stagnates and living standards fall (I say this as an insanely rewarded software engineer).

This will not end well.
That's like saying common sense would predict that putting a net in a pool will slow the spread of kids' pee.

We know from the Fauci emails he was informed of the ineffectiveness of masks by the CDC and chose to push mask mandates regardless.
So, i get the sense that the political shape of the US has led to a kind of proxy war in the media. I see it as a powder keg and I really can't see it ever changing without exploding into something more real, like a succesful foreign invasion, an actual civil war, or a dictator taking power etc. Obviously some kind of regulation would be a much better approach but in my pessimism, I don't think that will ever happen in the current political climate.

Just to clarify, I don't think any of the events listed above will ever happen in our lifetime. I am just using them as a way to reinforce my expression of non-expectation on any real change to this in our new found normality.
i cancelled my prime subscription recently for this exact reason. the plethora of fraudulent products/listings is staggering. amazon fresh isnt so bad since that's at least sourced from local stores, but the thought of amazon moving into the pharma space is mildly terrifying to me, should it ever fall prey to similar dynamics as its retail ecosystem.

i just got tired of having to do extensive research on whether a given amazon listing was counterfeit/paid for reviews/used product listed as new/declined manufacturing quality/etc. Id much rather just pay for shipping costs and get a product I know to be legitimate directly from the manufacturer.

The modern rule of the amazon-age internet in my opinion is: no matter how simple or complex a product is, if it is sold online, then it is being counterfeited on amazon.
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Also, churches and governments were working hand-in-glove and the public approved of, or at the very least ignored, what they were doing. Blame cannot be laid at the feet of any one group as all shared equally in sustaining this terrible system.
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I imagine it would become formalized real quickly in wartime, too, even if it isn’t yet today.

Centralized censorship platforms are an existential threat to a free society, an accident waiting to happen.
Could you describe what the values of the older movement are? I would have assumed them to fall under the umbrella of "don't consume animal products and reduce suffering when possible", which the new type of products still achieve.

I think it also likely that much of today's raising of consciousness - for veganism or otherwise - comes from successful marketing; is that inherently bad?

Lastly, two of the largest milk producers have filed for bankruptcy in the last few years, so there certainly seems to be some positive impact. Dairy is bad for humans and animals (and the environment!), and I'm very glad people are accepting that and making a change.
Interesting, in the discussion of the preprint he writes

> Minimally, it should be immediately possible for the NIH to determine the date and purported reason for deletion of the data set analyzed here

and then he goes on to say the thing about the trust of the NIH being abused.

The tweets and the preprint are from the same day, so it appears he indeed mostly just ignores the fact there is a know and plausible reason for the data being taken down.
Agree. The big companies like Google are really greedy.

Can they just lower the fees when they make way more than enough money?

No, they don't. They just keep making more and more money, seeing economic inequality becomes more and more a serious problem.

It's just against social good.
Yes and SA, Qatar give help to tons of groups that threaten to US (so does the US) and Turkey helped out ISIS and yet they are allies.

Apparently those things are not prerequisites to do lobbying. Or SA enacting basically a genocide in Yemen. Apparently that shouldn't stop lobbying.

However Iran is not and has not been actively engaging the US since Bush Jr Iraq War.

In fact Iran saved US allies in the region form ISIS. Iran was practically an ally of the US against ISIS. No Shia militia or Iran allied force has attacked the US in any way.

I would argue AQ types are a far bigger danger to actual US people then any Iranian militia and those don't get financing form Iran and its allies.

Not to mention Israel and what they are doing to Palestinians (and not to mention they are a rough nuclear nation) but of course "Iran is 'threading'" so of course that is simply not acceptable.
I read about how the Nazis almost won WW2 by means of advanced mobile weaponry - tanks.
If the USA allows the deadheaded senior generals to run all arms of the armed forces, then the USA will face an adversary equipped with all manner of remote unmanned weapons, in the air ground and the sea that will cost less than 1% of what they destroy.
It is clear now that fighter drones can defeat piloted aircraft with their 8-9G limit. This is a radidly advancing field and the future is clear - autonomous drones that can hunt/kill without an OK from a pilot/management. The control loop can be jammed as well as being hopelessly slow in reaction speed. Advanced drones that react in 1/100 th of a second that have 30+ G acceleration can not be remote controlled.