skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few years ago i was actually considering making a Smalltalk "dialect" (which i called Gametalk :-P) just for gamedev - some modern engines remind me a lot of Smalltalk in how they work, but they obviously stop at the resource editing level. So i thought that making the entire thing "live" and in itself would be the next obvious step.

(the reason i decided for a dialect is that modern Smalltalks carry a TON of baggage they collected over the decades - sure the language is tiny but they carry more objects than a transatlantic freighter :-P - and i wanted something lean with only the stuff i needed)

I never went beyond the prototyping phase but probably will pick the project up again if i end up getting annoyed by my current language and framework choices :-P.
Saudi Arabia ranked ahead of where I pay taxes (France) on that Heritage list. That’s a surprise but also a reinforcement of the idea that economic freedom does not always strictly align with political freedom.
There is a huge difference between the tracking Facebook does and "a phone call yo ask about your product". Having no tracking at all forced onto you might be the idealistic end goal for users, but it sure is unrealistic. Of course that doesn't prevent you from criticizing the intrusive, overboarding tracking of some social networks or advertisers.
We pay for internet access. When I first used the web in 1993, the internet fee was covered by the tuition I paid, as only universities, government and a relatively small number of corporations were connected. Later, ISPs were formed and we began paying for home access. The "entitlement" we pay for, IMO, is access to a network free from surveillance and advertising, or at least one where we can navigate around that. The 1993 web was full of free content. Few web users paid for anything. (As remains true today.) The beauty of the web is that anyone can set up a website. However no one is entitled to traffic. There used to be this idea of "netiquette". I think it is fair to say that these enormous websites like Facebook with massive traffic are playing by their own rules. They do come across as having a sense of entitlement. It is not their network. It is our network. Most if not all of the "content" they use to draw the traffic they get is user-generated. You pay your fee and you are entitled to access the network but (arguably) that does not include conducting mass surveillance and sustaining a massive advertising campaign that targets people personally.

Tha value of Facebook is in its users, not the people who write the website's PHP and run the servers. It is commonly agreed that writing a Facebook clone is not a difficult task. That value is the users. There is a reason Facebook will never charge a usage fee to anyone.
> It's like blaming the consumer for the ridiculous amount of plastic corporations use for packaging when that's all that's available 99% of the time.

Oh, that's a huge pet peeve of mine. In some places I lived it was impossible to buy produce without plastic bags because the stores force you to use their own bags. Also you have to put different vegetables on different bags. Otherwise you can't buy.

Sure one can argue that I could just boycott all the supermarkets in my city, but those people forget that I also have to fucking eat.
Batteries are more like fuel tanks
Lol he never said mortgage homes. You’re making that up.
Contract killers are responding to demand, but we don't let them legally practice their trade.
I trust that this serious security leak will be vigorously investigated and those responsible will face long jail terms /s
I don't have an autoimmune disease. But a friend of mine had lyme disease => stomach bleeding => allergies to all the foods (when undigested food gets into your bloodstream, your body reacts to it much the same way as it would a virus).

Both then and now, as some of her allergies are starting to fade, the trick was limited experimentation. Get to a known good state. Spend a week exposing yourself to small, then medium amounts of whatever you want to test. Observe your reaction. Repeat for something different the next week. You can test removing stuff from your diet this way too, but it's hard to identify false negatives: "I didn't get better -- does that mean I'm not allergic to this food, or that there are more triggers I still need to remove?"

It's basically the scientific method: form a hypothesis, establish a control, make a modification, observe results. It takes a lot of patience, but if your condition has a big enough impact on your life, is probably worth it. The hardest part is probably getting to a known good state. My friend was able to take an allergy test and err on the side of eliminating foods, to help her get there faster. I don't know what might help you; I'd recommend making a plan with your doctor.
I think that's a rather extreme example.

As support, you often have the knowledge to accurately determine whether a request is truly important, or can be ignored temporarily in lieu of more important issues.

A more accurate example using your particular automotive context would be a customer complaining that they don't know how to change the radio stations.

Feel free to drop everything in the middle of your engine replacement job to teach this person how to use the radio.
I was a long time Gawker reader. Did they push the boundary of taste and decency? Absolutely. But if you want to be fair, let’s compare their worst takes to the worst takes of other rags… or even the “paper of record” which routinely pushed the US into wars of aggression.
If the very last step of the process is that the machine decides if you won or not, it's not a game of skill.

It takes a degree of skill and coordination to pull the lever on the slot machine, yet we don't call them a game of skill because of that.

If you're 100% accurate and you still lose, it's a game of chance.
The morality of gift giving is a good starting point.

Intention matters.

Is it good to give a gift for selfish reasons? no.

Is it good to give a gift to make others jealous? no.

Is it good to give a gift to help force your will on others? no. (this is the one closest to your consent question)

Is it good to give a gift out of a genuine desire to share the joy you received from said gift? yes.

E.g. the decision to have a child is not a trivial moral decision. It is not necessarily a good to decide to bring a child into the world. We see this clearly play out in the data of NYC for example, where less than half of conceived children in some communities make it to term.

Self examination is required to see where the true motivation comes from. If one feels that their life was more a burden than a gift, that person is probably not in a great state to decide to morally have a child.

Unfortunately, many people think that having a child will fix their issues.
Handful of cities driving urban greenhouse gas emissions
> vaccine effectiveness in preventing both infection

Oh man... so you do agree with me it prevents infection...

You are contradicting yourself...

So, its not 95 its 64, it still gives immunity... check mate?
> "Maybe we were just a bit naive," Cornet said.

They likely were, and think of me what you like but I've noticed the same with most Americans I've known. Not sure why that is but apparently there's some good amount of propaganda going on in the USA and people apparently believe it. Meanwhile people have to pay $5000 after an ambulance picks them up. Or $90000 for semi-trivial medical procedures.

I believe asking yourself "is my country really like I believe it is?" is a good food for thought even it's a bit sideways to this here topic at hand.

--

On topic:

I can sympathize with the author. I know what it is to have been a long time in a company; it becomes much more than a workplace. You have friends, you even have people you invite to your Sunday barbecues. It's also very likely that a number of internal processes are going smoother for you because you know whom to ping and what exactly to write in a form so your stuff gets done quicker. You have job stability and unless you are rocking the boat too much your seat is likely 99% safe.

All of those become true stoppers when you start pondering leaving. They pull you back and make you doubt yourself and your idea of switching company.

But unlike a number of commenters here I find nothing hypocritical about the decision to go to Twitter. We don't know how Twitter operates internally; maybe it's still better than Google. Or maybe they are still after FAANG level of wages so are ready to make some ethical compromises for them?

In any case, immediately discounting somebody's opinion on a corporation because they joined another corporation misses a lot of context, is flamey and non-constructive and almost smells like a paid troll, and is something I don't expect HN to condone. But sadly, here we go, it's the top comment here.
Isn’t this ignoring consent? The child had no choice in whether to be conceived; at least one of the parents did :)
Also fair enough :) and to add to your tangent AFAICT though Viking human sacrifices are described it seems like they weren't the common place standard type of sacrifice.

I don't necessarily think that it matters much for the question though. I'm not sure I can find a different benevolent omnipotent (or close enough) deity to make a straight comparison to that doesn't have a current (large) following that would drag the discussion into geopolitical/georeligious territory. If you do know one I'm all up for a substitution.

I don't know with the parent I was replying to, he seems reasonable, but usually religious discussions "never end well" because of the belief involved. Bringing the discussion to a different non-current religion levels the playing field to both sides discussing something they don't believe in. The "fun part" is where the believer in a current deity knows that "obviously Odin doesn't actually exist, there are no Norse gods". Well that's how I feel about their deity, sorry. But I don't mind that they believe in it as long as they leave me be and don't try to convert me or negatively affect me because of their beliefs.
But there's like "doesn't follow their mottos like 'don't be evil'" and then there's "flagrant violations of federal law". No matter how disingenuous the company is, there's got to be some consequences for the latter... Or you would at least expect them to try and be circumspect about it... This just says on paper "we agreed not to compete".
Today I learned... one more thing that emacs can do!
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The key word is POSTPONE.

There are many comments in this thread mistakenly thinking that OP was advocating outright ignoring the ticket forever.
Imagine going around the shop shouting “Hey Siri whats my balance” and hearing 20 answers at the same time. Privacy?
Not a lesson I was expecting to learn today, but here we are. I always thought it was the "reign" version because monarchs can "reign freely".
Me too. I love when people link random blog posts written by grad students and people in industry who are writing for a very specific audience, or even just for themselves.

If there's an article I don't care about, I don't click on it. There are 29 other things to choose from on the front page.
Generally, you can ask for these clauses to be taken out of the contract when negotiating whilst interviewing. They are often just part of a boilerplate. Directly competing products seem like a fair thing to want to restrict, but other stuff with blanket IP assignment can be removed.

I am currently working as a contractor and the interllectual property assignment clause mentions "materials created pursuant to this agreement", but nothing further than that.

If they push back, point out that such clauses are illegal in California and it doesn't seem to have held back the companises in silicon valley too much. You always have the option to walk away if they won't agree.
70% of French power is nuclear, and as far as I'm aware the EU hasn't mentioned nuclear.
Sweeping “Green Deal” promises to revamp EU economy, slash carbon pollution
You might take a look at Cuis as a possible starting point. Its goal is to be a lean dialect of Smalltalk.
I want to second this a lot.

Even if I (coincidentally) have a side project relevant to a job opening, I make a point to mention it in my cover letter, and most interviewers still say they haven't looked at it (if they've read the cover letter at all).
And I see 20 year olds downgrading their Ryzen powered workstation to the same experience I was having putting DG/UX xterm sessions on IBM X Windows terminals in 1995.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DG/UX

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

One wonders why they have bothered to pay for such hardware in first place.

Then I remember about Electron and Docker.
With negative externalities, being an asshole is the dominant strategy and we see this principle play out here very clearly.
Isn't it already the case at many companies? I thought that was what the magical umbrella term "culture fit" was for.

At my 2 previous jobs, I was explicitly asked during interview what my position was on "diversity" and "equity". To this day, I still don't know what that had to do with me writing code.
> vaccines that do not provide sterilizing immunity

And those vaccines are which?, does the study allege any of the current vaccines does not provide immunity?, is so please put the quote and the study for that.

Otherwise this is a hypothetical... if x then y... when x is false in reality...
I would never sign a contract where I yield copyright of my side projects though
He reminds me of Scott Adams, Creator of the Dilbert Cartoons started with PacBell way back and got a lot of early inspiration from that experience. Maybe this guy should consider becoming a full time cartoonist as well instead of going to work for another "evil tech giant" ?
> "Using your wolves example, people can move to locations that are more developed and have the infrastructure for more food distribution."

This assumes that people can move to such locations. We live in a society where most "developed" nations will on one day happily accept and try to help refugees from terrible situations, and on another day will shoot those same refugees at the border and call them "invaders".

And then there's the simple issue of many such people in dire need of leaving their current home simply being unable to at all. Undertaking the travel necessary to attempt to reach a "more developed" nation would be a death sentence in and of itself for some (for varying reasons).
While I dont mind some tracking and telemetry, platforms have abused that trust and track everything they can now. I'm all for going scorched earth policy.

Similar to how if an app sends just one spam notification, it's an uninstall and a 2 star rating.
>In Pharo, everything is an object. This purity and uniformity in the system and language design makes Pharo clean and comfortable to learn.

Does this mean Python and JS meet the same definition and are as "clean and comfortable"?
The USA is special in that there is no national law against the commercial exploitation of personal information. There is some state level legislation, but that can't help very much for this sort of thing.
I remember once seeing how a Swiss farmer passed a hose in a spiral through a haystack. The water that passed through it was heated up to 60C.
I think this is more of a thing for college students who are getting their first job.

IME I've heard a lot more people interested in side projects than the other commenters. But I'm also a lot younger, and heard this usually in different universities.

Once you actually get a job, you put that on your resume and it's better than a side project.
Whataboutism is tiresome. Two wrongs do not make a right.
Android 12 Beta 3 has a wild new way to handle auto-rotation
> He's rejoined and left the industry multiple times. [...] Jackson could also do with some self-reflection.

Changing your mind about something is a sign of open-mindedness, not lack of self-reflection
Indeed, there is a low tax burden but also little freedom of expression.

That is why I included RSF's press freedom index also.

Hmm. Perhaps the Heritage index was not relevant.
> advised people to mortgage their homes and borrow as much as they could to buy Bitcoin at the literal top of the market (to the day).

Do you have a source for that? Because it's a pretty serious accusation to make.
> I’ve never heard the sun thing, interesting - any idea why that might be?

Since skin is the largest organ with the most surface area, you don't want to wound it. That's why large burns are so serious, and often fatal. If you have herpes, a serious sunburn could trigger a herpes attack for example.

When I was a kid it was normal to get blistering sunburns - I'm glad we're over that. But decades later, whenever I'm near a dermatologist, I ask them to check my upper body and head because of that. Several recent outdoorsy Presidents have had facial lesions removed.

A very freckled friend of mine maintains a photo gallery of his skin for year-over-year comparisons of changes since a doctor could spend all day examining thousands of freckles.
The headline is unnecessarily sensationalist. A mature forest is never a carbon sink. Trees can only store so much carbon before there is no more room for them to grow.

Obviously, burning a forest is still bad from the CO2-in-atmosphere point of view. Not because you have destroyed a carbon sink but because you released carbon from an existing carbon reservoir.
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You should look into Casey Muratori's quest[1] against Windows terminal slowness on github and youtube. There were some heated exchanges there and some proof of concept software created to demonstrate both how slow Windows Terminal is, and how fast a GPU enabled terminal can be.

[1] The latest video for it is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99dKzubvpKE
> Modern car fuel contains ethanol (10% in the EU).

Here at Brazil, ethanol is produced from sugarcane. And sugarcane farming is actually illegal in the Amazon. The President tried to make it legal, but fortunately his decree was suspended by the Judiciary [1].

I don't doubt there may exist a few illegal sugarcane farms in the Amazon, but given how huge sugarcane farming is in southeastern Brazil, I don't think any Amazon sugarcane would significantly contribute to Brazilian ethanol production.

> Soy culture is used to create a cheap protein feedstock for the meat industry.

Soy is more of an issue for Amazon than sugarcane. But, just as you said, it is used to feed cattle, and the main issue resides in the cattle. Cattleman in Amazon usually adopt the extensive breeding system, so lots of area are required to breed cattle.

[1] https://www.conjur.com.br/2020-abr-21/juiza-suspende-decreto...
Streak (YC S11) is hiring a TypeScript/React expert who likes shipping (remote)
Agreed, yet if most companies business practices were actually investigated properly, in every single location across the globe where they operate, it is quite clear certain locations would have already closed doors if the videos were followed to the letter.
From a different angle: why do almost all people who assume power change the way they communicate? Alternatively, why do candid people not attain power?

The answer is probably that being candid makes you vulnerable. This is a guy who would systematically attack management for their decisions. Yet he failed to connect the dots between his actions and theirs.

In the real world you'll frequently find situations where there is no unequivocally good answer, but a decision needs to be made. In new companies leadership has more blind trust from employees that they can rely on. In mature companies where staff frequently challenge decisions it is easier for management to just present a smaller target and give non answers.
It sounds like you’re saying to not trust reason without evidence. For example, it’s reasonable to believe climate change exists because the news reports that climate scientists overwhelmingly state that it exists. With that knowledge, I may reason that the likelihood of that claim being wrong is little. Do I need to actually read all of their research to believe that?
> I think your premise is wrong and you're vastly overestimating the value of work done outside of your job.

For purposes of impressing the interviewer or getting the job, yes. For purposes of actually doing the job, I would say formal education and previous work experience are often overrated, and side-projects are underrated. Most of the skills relevant for my job I learned from tinkering, side-projects, and hobbies, whereas I rarely use the knowledge from my PhD (besides meta-stuff like how to organise and how to learn new skills). But the recruiters look at the PhD, not the hobbies. And I know many cases where it played out similar to this. (At lease that's my experience, mainly in Germany.)
I have used this method to determine all the foods I am only mildly sensitive to as I have gotten older (30s).

It’s so random finding out that popcorn activates cold sores, pizza without a large (high pH) salad causes indigestion, etc.
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I was walking with my French girl, I told her that I know these woods like the back of my hand. She said she knew them like the inside of her pocket.
I mean, I feel like as a proponent of free speech, I can stand by a paper's right to publish bad (even dangerous) takes, but I have trouble defending Gawker's right to publish a sex tape of a non-notable college student as free speech.
> you will usually have a contract forbidding you from having side activities

In my experience (Europe), the company is only concerned with paid side projects. Regardless, those who expect open source contributions outside your work are out of touch with reality. That's a great filter for me.

I once asked a colleague who was a product managers: "Why is there a side project expectation from developers, and not PMs? What could a PM even do in their free time"? He answered: "Well, a PM could have a side business!". "So, do you have a side business?" - I asked. "No..." - he replied, as I watched his sad face.
> the volume control only slightly correlates with the actual volume that comes from the headphones.

Which makes concrete regulations about volume levels nonsensical however well-intentioned.
Yeah but he was pretty liberal with his conclusions he claimed were derived from data. It's pretty easy to see flaws in his arguments like how he inflated the behavioral differences between genders, and his inability to thoroughly consider differences being caused by societal factors (nature vs. nurture).

I think the main issue with his memo is the implication that diversity efforts were, at the time, problematic. The truth is, with such low diversity numbers even with the diversity programs, it's likely that any subpar candidates admitted probably equaled the subpar candidates admitted into Google at large. The numbers for gender diversity are even more skewed when viewed through the lens of the engineering department (which is the one relevant to the memo), which is unfortunately not available from the google diversity site like it used to be.

You can see the diversity breakdown for yourself here: https://diversity.google/annual-report/representation/

You can also see a longer analysis Damore's liberal assumptions here:
https://www.wired.com/story/the-pernicious-science-of-james-...
> SQL lets you do "a + b".

When it's about actually adding 2 integers - sure. But when it's about the relational algebra - does it? Can you actually just write ⟖ instead of RIGHT OUTER JOIN when querying a real database?

Also, I don't really understand why is it supposed to be hard to do in a text editor.
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In online gambling the games are never (or virtually never) rigged. Online slots also almost always pay out 96% or more. You make less money in the long runig you do not let your players win, but I assume small places like bars do not like that volatility.