skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a read. Almost every single paragraph in the document leaves me speechless. For example, quoting from the document:

"Google likes to claim that it will “never sell your personal information to anyone,” with Google CEO Sundar Pichai deceptively claiming that such a policy is “unequivocal.” But Google leverages intimate user data and personal information to broker billions of daily online ad impressions between publishers and advertisers that target individual users based almost entirely on their personal information. Internal documents confirm that Google knows its users are deceived by its misrepresentations, even as it reaps billions from ads that use personal data to target those users. In Orwellian terms, it’s a beautiful thing for Google, the destruction of words like “sell” and “personal.”"

Or:

"Google presents a public image of caring about privacy, but behind the scenes Google coordinates closely with the Big Tech companies to lobby the government to delay or destroy measures that would actually protect users’ privacy. Of course, effective competition is concerned with both price and quality, and the fact that Google coordinates with its competitors on the quality metric of privacy—one might call it privacy fixing—underscores Google’s selective promotion of privacy concerns only when doing so facilitates its efforts to exclude competition."
Desired state seems like a stretch, but the cynical part of me does wonder sometimes whether having visible homelessness around is seen as inevitable proof that the capitalist system is irredeemable and must be replaced.

A more likely explanation is the way that paternalistic administration of care is anathema to the current way of thinking. That is to say that one should never presuppose how to solve someone else’s problems, but rather one should listen to their lived experiences and give them what they say they need to solve their own problems. This is a good principle to follow in most situations, but like all prescriptive outlooks it fails when exposed to certain edge cases. In this case, the edge case is people who lack the executive function to know how to better their situation, or even to take advantage of situations that will when they’re presented.
On the contrary I think it's a very good meme. This kind of hiring process should be shunned and shamed.

I have never come across this in Europe and I hope I never will, and I certainly don't partake in this circus when I interview people.
Appropriate retention based raises actually require a huge quantity of finesse and genuine ability from line managers and HR.

Even if a company is willing to do so in in good faith, a rarity, a "market price" raise consumes an extraordinary amount of paperwork and HR time and effort.

You take your employee, often parked with a nebulous job title and a role that has morphed entirely from the one they were hired for.

Then you have to define their current role and skill-set exactly, then research the correct band to index that role to in the job market.

For my extremely diverse cross functional team, understanding the market price for the SQL engineer vs the Python engineer in my niche is absurdly complex.

Half the reason they don't do it is because it's just genuinely so much effort to go to. And most of the time the engineer doesn't even appreciate it because they're jumping ship for a change of scenery more than anything.
lol yeah right, more like the opposite.

Didn't they totally ban Trump?
Your thought kind of ignores the common case when there may be two classes of food within one society. I once asked a friend to find out from his Japanese coworkers the best place in Tokyo to go to a fancy place for more high end versions of my favorites curry and gyudon. They were a bit baffled, the reason is that these are the "boring" baloney sandwiches everyone makes at home. It is not the focus of chefs who make fancy restaurants.

Speaking of baloney, I was raised on fried baloney sandwiches on Scwables and have never seen those....must be cultural imperialism? Naw. It's not the most compelling example mainly just because US home recipes are dead simple and Pho seems less so. But home food and restaurant suited food are still different.
159-169, about Google being able to decrypt end-to-end encrypted WA (WhatsApp) communications is terrifying. The fact that Google has known this for over 5 years and made no effort to notify the public is what really got me. What's fucked up is that Google Drive backups are the only ones WA offers, and naturally everyone wants their messages backed up so they turn it on, not knowing the implications.
Geely loosens grip on Volvo Cars days before $23bn IPO
But would it still be a "free market" if governments just go around splitting up companies once they get (too) big?

Not defending the idea of a free market here, I'm leaning pretty far past socialist myself, but I know that the US in general cares deeply about free market philosophy.
The expected outcome could be "allow/convince homeless people to sleep in the shelter rather than on the streets".

Not every non-profit needs to solve every problem, but most of them should work to solve al least one of them; having that problem clearly specified helps in distinguishing efficient use of public money from inefficient use.
Don't like remote work. I like working at office. Like interacting directly with colleagues than through video chat.
Habits I've developed for fast and efficient programming
I think for a lot of people the amount of fucks given is almost zero. Has Apple ever gone after a user in a way to cause others to take caution?
why not post the original blog post as the link instead of an editorialized article that misrepresents the facts?
I'm sure we have different definitions but I think software is taking the place of traditional teachers. You no longer need to have a teacher learn content then run a short course at an adult education centre, some big name teacher can record their content once and distribute it across the internet forever.

It's not the same as AI producing content but people like people so I'm not surprised by that.
They're generally pretty decent IMO. As far as news sites these days go.

I'm also curious about what the parent's issues are with it.
Perhaps, but VSCode is used for a lot more than just python.
I don't know exactly why, but the friends-and-fans-collab video to "When you grow up, your heart dies" made me tear up quite a bit

https://youtu.be/watch?v=ri9IefTuNzc
I always tell people that it would be against Googles interest to sell your data. Their deception is working exceptionally well and it's not even a lie.

After all there is much more money made in selling your attention repeatedly then there is in selling you data once.
yes, the twitter research showed that right-wing tweets were organically more popular than left wing, and due to that organic popularity were more likely to be shown, but that's true of all popular things on twitter, it's got nothing to do with the content. the headline and article are intentionally misleading.

This is also the second time this article was shared instead of just posting the twitter blog post or the original study, considering we like to use original source material it's odd that this article keeps getting shared.
> A lot of anecdotes in this thread, but it’s important to keep it in perspective

Yet these numbers need to be kept in perspective: they're quit rates for all non-farm jobs. The quit rate for any individual job sector can be much higher than the average rate. So while the average quit rate isn't way higher than the past few years, it certainly seems like the tech sector is seeing a lot of shuffling around.
So is most of his audience. No wait, they're white.
As a BTC holder inflation is great. Prices just go lower. Holiday you were planning will be actually cheaper.
> Microsoft was not a single company, but like 10-15 different little companies, and they competed among themselves as much as they worked together.

This is true for probably most – if not all – companies above a certain size. In my experience it really takes off at about 100 people, and it gets worse from there. My armchair psychology take is at that level you no longer know everyone in the company personally and "cliques" begin to form.
A human decision to ban an individual has no relation to the biases of an algorithm.
I've always thinked of MS as filled with old fashioned managers, caring only about legacy stuff and killing any good initiative MS Research came out with.

I was amazed they'd try something new like cloud. I thought they will stick to the desktop and and MS Office until someone will snatch it from their dead cold hands. But Ballmer went and Nadella came. I still think that the company has a lot of Ballmers hidden in a lot of places, waiting for the opportunity to pull the breaks if they sniff that something interesting might happen.
> Whenever this topic comes up the conversation always centers around money or housing or other brute physical facts

That’s not what the article is about. It’s about bad governing and policing as the primary cause of SF’s homelessness problem.

> He[Michael Shellenberger] blames San Francisco’s woes on a culture of permissive lawlessness and a mistaken view of what constitutes moral policymaking. For example, many on the left believe the lax prosecution of laws is compassionate.

The article also mentioned that this is a problem that’s specific to SF and homelessness in the rest of the country is not as bad.

While I’m as much of a fan of philosophical rants about the decline of human civilization as the next guy, that’s not what the article is about. Also, some comments are unrealistically pessimistic

> The family is the center of a human’s life, and we’ve destroyed it… We look away from our families and attach ourselves to a reactionary “culture” that’s completely…

I see where you’re coming from, but many people’s lives are not like this. The world might be heading this way with all the challenges we’ve faced transitioning society online, but the internet is still very young. We can learn from our mistakes and build healthier social systems.
I do. AMA.
Yes.

Also - who cares about Twitter's bias and who gives a damn whether it's an AI algotrithm or something simple like if/else.

It's (or should be) assumed they make decisions for their own benefit. Fix: easy - don't use Twitter.

Why would anyone want to read about that and especially at the statist Guardian were journos never see a problem for which there should be no government (or globalist)-enforced solution?
In the US? Go ahead, list them?
FWIW Amplosion (paid iOS extension to automatically redirect AMP pages) is quite highly ranked on the app store.

It clearly isn't only techies that dislike it so much that they actually pay to get rid of AMP.
Maybe, learn about: „post viral fatigue“
Because it’s cheaper in the long term, not even considering the social/humanitarian benefits.
If the allegations are true, they knew exactly what was happening and even took steps to make it seem like Google was not in full control of AMP.

Whether front line engineers knew isn't that important. AMP Leadership definitely did.
This might be overly reductive, but I read this as "right" tweets and figures generate more collective user engagement than "left" tweets and figures, though the underlying algorithm(s) is blind to the substance - political or otherwise - of the message.

The proposed change would then introduce conscious political bias to ensure an even representation of the spectrum... but I wonder how we define even? Perhaps we can base it on user's constituencies?
WA?
John Carpenter was recently interviewed on BBC Radio 3, if you’re into this sort of thing:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0010phy

”[John Carpenter and Matthew Sweet] discuss John's iconic scores for Halloween, Escape from New York, Escape from LA, The Fog, Vampires and Village of the Damned.

John explains how he came to work with the great Ennio Morricone who wrote the score for 'The Thing'. He describes the great pleasure he now gets from writing themes for imaginary films in the 'Lost Themes' series, and the joy that performing his music live has brought him.”
Sure it does. If someone burns down a whole forest, it doesn't really matter if someone else cuts down a single tree.
The bulk of financial support Mozilla gets comes from Google, they stopped being a real competitor in the browser scene years ago. You don't really have a choice when it comes to modern web browsers, maybe Safari is the "safest" / most privacy-aware choice you can make assuming you already bought into the Apple ecosystem. What else is there, the crypto-mining scam that is Brave or the ProGaming WebBrowser / Chinese backdoor aka Opera?

But really, you're better off using something avangard that some nerd came up with during the weekend. At least these hobbiests' browsers can be trusted to be not be evil & greedy.
In Germany salaries are the same as 2 years ago, but grocery prices increased by 13% in the last 12 months alone... So I will work as little as possible, because all the money I earn worth less and less each month.
I wish for dense housing, because I could then buy a house.

However, I also know it won't solve any of those problems it's supposed to solve.
I'd say 3 of those make money. The first one, Android with the Play Store, and GCP with Firebase gaining popularity, should all be bringing in enough money to be self-sustaining.
i know know a few people who were vaccinated who've since caught it so probably both
Brave Browser, based on Chrome, is another alternative that'll let you keep all your Chrome extensions. Makes the move away from Chrome painless.
If the market share wasn’t 3 percent, it would be less so.
Does it "break down" sufficiently that you'd want the result in your tap water?
I think in this case, "something to prove" is the desire to defend their culture
If you know its low effort, I would encourage you to not post it. Or at least make an effort to add some substance to it, perhaps by enumerating the flaws in it?
When Google/YouTube/Twitter/Reddit and the rest undertake censorship that is clearly political, it should be treated as an in-kind political contribution. I don’t see why these actions are exempt from laws around campaign financing and election controls.

Leaving that aside this is yet another clear example of the power big tech wields over society and how they will abuse it due to their internal biases. We need renewed antitrust legislation (+ enforcement) to break up these companies, regulation to treat social media/Internet infrastructure as common carriers/public utilities, and the inclusion of political identity as a protected class under anti-discrimination laws.

We also shouldn’t exempt private organizations from upholding core American values like free speech. The largest platforms are as powerful as the government, and given they are under threat of legislative action on various issues and the current administration admitted to being in contact with tech companies regarding “problematic” content, it is also clear that an abusive party or administration can essentially outsource government-driven censorship to overly powerful private entities.
I just spent 5 months in Thailand and I don't know that I have any concept whatsoever what real Thai food is. I was staying close to Nana station and frequently eating at restaurants that I thought were what Thai people eat, not fancy places, and they were super economical.

My Thai teachers were asking me about how sweet it was, and I reported back "not very". They said - ah-ha - as if I confirmed something they were already sure of. They said that entire section of Bangkok is fake Thai food adopted to foreigners. Really Thai food would be much, much sweeter and it is common for foreigners to complain about it. In fact, the way my teachers describe it, it sounds like the goal is almost always to maximize every flavor attribute simultaneously, as bizarre as that sounds. So it would be delicious to a Thai if it were super spicy, sweet, and salty.
“The design of it was discussed in https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/issues/3133. It wasn't done nefariously. AMP prioritizes the page content and verified elements first over non-AMP content (including non-AMP ads).”

From an older discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25448718
WhatsApp. My bad on that one - edited it.
The question is, do you want it in your tap water? If not, you also don't want it in the environment.
Cyclists are still given the stink eye in England if they even consider cycling on the pavement (I was once physically assaulted as a teen by a 'concerned citizen' for doing such a reckless thing), despite it being completely normal in other European cities.

Before the bike lanes were common, you had to cut your teeth zipping between the cars in the narrow roads, keeping up with traffic speeds, annoying every driver who gave you an inch, terrifying bewildered tourists, and watching your face get smashed by door after door after door.

When the cycle lanes were rolled out, things became much safer between bikes and cars, but now all bikes are herded together and you experience a bike lane traffic as Mr Expensive Latex seems to have no idea how to pull over to let others pass whilst he's busy clicking in his shoes.

It's very safe now. I kind of miss the mad chaos London used to be when cycling, when only the dumb and the brave dared to battle the busses. When you'd get to work pumped with the adrenaline and the knowledge that you survived the journey
If your threat actor is the CIA, or any three-letter agency for that matter, you ought to be bright enough not to trust a company. Companies are inherently focused on profit and growth, nothing bad about that, that's what companies do. However, companies also still operate within political and legal environments which means they have to adhere to the laws of the jursidiction they reside in. A company won't risk going bankrupt or being shut down to save a customer's privacy and anonymity, which it would if it just denied the government its legal processes.

If your threat actor is a nation-state intelligence community you might want to consider using higher level security systems like PGP.

For ever other threat actor, this ruling is a great win for privacy. As long as your threat actor is your ISP, (anti-) social media as I've begun to call it, or your employer, ProtonMail (or Proton services) are really at the forefront of digital privacy.

Again, if you're up against the government, use PGP to communicate securely.
wdym
Exactly. Fix the problem, then ask for permission to do so afterwards.

If you can honestly say, "we fixed the problem and didn't hurt anything with our temporary fix" then the permission people who come along afterwards to fine you are going to have to think seriously about suspending the fine that your solution drew. Don't do anything criminal, but accrue a bit of civil liability: it will either be a cost of business, or will be forgiven.

As for contracts: If I am obligated to return the containers, but I dump them for a few weeks on a disused airstrip, I'm still going to, eventually, fulfill my contract, when the port allows me to.

No excuses. Fix problems, don't brainstorm reasons not to fix then.
The Netherlands has some of the best bike infrastructure in the world. It’s not really fair to compare Barcelona to them negatively.

Should Barcelona learn from the Netherlands? Yes.

Should Barcelona be blamed for not being as good as The Netherlands? No.
What tech stack do you use now?
Agreed! GCP should be broken up as well. It is incredibly unfair to third party services that Google is both supplying the platform and the competing services. This is probably a bigger problem on AWS though.
When did Firefox stop being competitive? They're keeping up with standards better than Apple (ElementInternals just shipped in v93) and it's fast. None of my 'normal' friends have complained about Firefox since switching to it.

Mozilla's relationship with Google also isn't set in stone. Yahoo was the main sponsor for a while.
That is one of the most astute explanations of the phenomenon that I have heard so far.
Could be, I can't remote-sense feelings but never heard of a non-techie complaining about it. It might have become annoying when sharing though, I think they later made it harder to find the non-amp link(The AMP link looks weird, as if you are sharing the wrong URL).

Anyway, the AMP experience was a fresh breath in the world of 10-20 seconds webpage loading times. You see the lightning icon, tap it and the content instantly comes. Swipe right and left to go through the other results and everything is displayed instantly, top notch experience - especially when Googling for stuff from the news websites.
Say Mozilla’s market share was 25, it wasn’t necessary to be beholden to Google.
> Is most of humanity suffering from schizophrenia then?

This question has been asked before. Look into the 1976 book “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind” by Julian Jaynes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origin_of_Consciousness_in...
If I'm trying to get away from Google, why should I switch to a Chromium derivative that also depends on the Chrome Web Store for add-on distribution?
So that's kinda like my option 3. I kinda agree, although if "asking" includes an option of denying the request, then I think it's perfectly fine to ask those people who have more free time to do more work when needed.

Note that where I live, things like this will usually be compensated 1:1 (sometimes better).
Tesco suffering outage, customers unable to amend their grocery deliveries
There are too many left-wing activists since being right-leaning is stigmatized (case in point, big tech) while being left-leaning is seen as boosting one's social/career path (the new komsomol).

Moreover, the left discourse is not engaging to anybody outside of this circle. No memes.

Of course they have trouble getting legitimate attention. Way too many activists reposting boring non-news, too little audience.

Now, I admit that most right-wing activists are crackpots, but they seem to understand pain points of society and act on these.
Those are refs. Not commits. GitHub removes access to the old commits of a branch when the branch is force-pushed (say, after a rebase). I'm interested in comparing the branch in its current state against it's previous state.
At work we are replacing a huge app which had a C# UI with a micro service based app with a React UI.

While the backed is nice, that React UI feels like crap compared to the old UI. The only reason we are using an React UI being that "it's modern".
Not every app should be an web app.
I'm confused by why you'd point out that historically parents were more ambivalent, if not to excuse Jefferson having enslaved his own offspring (which was not actually happening to everyone all the time).
? The specific claim made by the headline is about algorithmic bias. I do not recall an algorithmic banning of Donald Trump.
The marketshare on desktop is more like 8%, up to 60% depending on the country.
Tuning Power Consumption on FreeBSD Laptops and Intel 6th Gen and Later
FWIW your theory 3 (the first one, "people avoided changing jobs during the pandemic") was verbally confirmed by Google HR in a recent internal conversation known as TGIF. It was also mentioned that if attrition rates for 2020 and 2021 were averaged, it wasn't abnormally high.
I'm using firefox too, and yea it works great - but that doesn't mean its the "anti-chrome" / anti-google browser. The executives running Mozilla live in the shadow of Google's interests, and long ago have forgotten that their job is to make a damn good browser. Now they're too encumbered by the politics of the game, politics (and game) which Google are in full control of.
Google foresaw possibility of probe of Jedi Blue advertising deal with Facebook
Vaccination usually means less intense disease, and less issues. 95% of hospital admissions are unvaccinated people (clinical and ICU)
Taking the warts off C, with Andrew Kelley, creator of the Zig language