skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does this mean that RabbitMQ must be renamed for the "psychological safety" of students like Coq?
The moment I saw "Don't be evil" as their motto/slogan back in the 90's. I rolled my eyes and said out loud "What a load of shit, I bet they are evil incarnate."
Your ethics are my opportunity.
Sorry, I guess we're supposed to be crabs in a bucket.
Seems like a good time to plug my project https://gitlab.com/mikecardwell/safernode
Strawman...
The alternative to purely profit driven society is not a communist society. It's social democratic where values of freedom rights and wellfare actually matters and are not just axes to grind on.

The US internal anti socialist propoganda is so strong that it makes people believe that this middle ground doesn't exist.
How are the services provided to Alphabet subsidiaries taken into account? I’d bet that the cloud bill for YouTube alone would exceed GCP revenue numbers.

In other words, if GCP is spun out, and Google services keep using it (with realistic pricing) it’s going to have a revenue far exceeding $4bn.
> Sure, but the stock price would tank (note that the current multiple assumes growth), employees would leave due to poor compensation, and starts a downward spiral.

This assertion presumes that it is impossible to propose any form of compensation that's enticing without involving stock. This is not only baseless but also flies in the face of reality, as other tech companies, including other FAANGs, barely offer any stock and still manage to attract top talent.
> I am less sure about the idea of assigning blame in general, especially as I am pretty convinced that free will does not exist.

Of course it doesn't, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't incentivize or disincentivize certain behaviours by assigning blame to the correct source of the behaviour. I case of religion it makes sense to assign blame to religion instead of treating people as cruel, since the way to remove the source of suffering is through removing religion itself, not the cruelty of the person (since the cruelty is likely not present).
Liechtenstein and Monaco are not members of the EU.
It mostly got in the way?

I have one on a 2019 MBP and found it was constantly misfiring as my fingers would hover over the top row of actual keys.

Is it the “touch bar” or “control strip”? MacOS UI refers to it as both.

The system preference is buried under Keyboard, and even there refers to it as both a touch bar and control strip.

I can't program it to do anything useful I'd want to do. I can pick from prechosen keys or actions.

Or I can zero it out as I’ve done (mine shows volume, brightness and Siri which is as minimal as I could make it).

Neat idea, poorly executed.

Wonder if it would have worked better and been better accepted as a strip along the bottom of the screen, rather than an intrusion on the keyboard.
This goes just the same for any 'old money' and landowner group. Late entrants: those born to people not of means today are starting with a huge handicap. And the old money and landowner classes contributed nothing to society, they just inherited their wealth on account of the birth lottery.
A brief history of space missions lost to human errors
I don't know if it's been studied or written but I'd bet solid money that every group / company starts nice, trying to differentiate from old rusty and corrupt only to become what they despised because that's just survival instinct and "efficiency" (short term, lazy).

Same for people, new ones come fresh with ideals only to become sleazy when their spot is secured. It's a balance between knowledge of the old versus naiveness of the new.
I think the products are great, but users are trained to not to pay for them.
It’s not an either/or situation. We both need more regulation and harmonisation regarding tax evasion and tax dodging both inside and outside the EU and less regulation when it comes to starting businesses.
As EU-citizen who recently moved countries in Europe I cannot agree. It took me about 2 months to open a business account for an at this point registered business in the country. The private account was a bit faster, but not until I actually moved there. At the same time it was almost necessary to have an account in the country to prove enough funds to sustain myself to register with authorities. In time and mindshare it easily cost 1000+ EUR. In the end I don’t see how the provided documents help to avoid money laundering.

I opened bank accounts in non-EU and non-European countries before and both times it boiled down to “bring these well defined documents” and it was done in a 30 minutes session to have a bank account next week latest (although both experiences are more than 10 years ago).
Americans have their fair share of nationalistic names.

The original Xbox was codenamed Midway for obvious reasons. :^)
Tanks do work fine in the desert, but if they were rumbling along on tracks they’d quickly attract sand worms and be swallowed. I imagine suspensor propelled tanks would be similar since in the novels force fields will attract worms from far and wide, much more so than just rhythmic noise.
> This is a very important step to improve Europe economy.

Where did you learn your economics?

Everyone knows the less the government steals and spends the better off the people.
Indeed. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Justice#Blindfold
Yes, I'd love it if NPM would mark any package as insecure if it transitively depended on a developer that didn't use 2FA.
Welcome to Jurassic Park
Collusion? Conspiracy theories? Etc.? All are completely irrelevant. Simply because even a proven absence of them creates a false sense of security. It doesn't make us any safer. It doesn't take nefarious off the table.

Entities with common means and ends don't have to collude or conspire. Their shared means and ends will force them to gravitate together. Starlings are a great example:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V4f_1_r80RY

For starlings I believe it's call murmuration.

https://www.wonderopolis.org/wonder/what-is-a-murmuration

There's also a more scientific name / area of study, tho' that name escapes me atm.
I think here he is talking about "integrators" - engineers who write in DLisp rules to process documents.
Humans don't scale: we get big egos, we exploit size advantages far in excess of ethics, and we believe our own PR. Humans do not scale. We need to philosophically admit that with greater influence only fictional heroes can remain ethically honest. Self deception typically ruins a wealthy person's honesty; it is natural human nature. Until we recognize this innate fact of human nature, we will continually create large disasters, over and over again.
“Slavery is fine as long as I don’t see it.”
The big difference is that they knew they could make it fast. It is like you are a carpenter and say you have a table in stock which you didn't build yet.

The big difference is she didn't have anything and no viable path to deliver it. A fundamental step had to be made which wasn't there. It is like promising anti gravity flight. If you have a functioning anti gravity Prototyp you can probably make a plane with enough engineering. If you don't it will not happen no matter how much money you pour in.
Memo from your friendly family office in Luxembourg:

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The secretary of Mr. Alexander Lukashenko called. It seems they are quite interested in discussing new business opportunities. The would like to meet as soon as possible.

It seems he is quite busy, so he suggested to meet in a house of a friend: Ilham Aliyev in London. It seems there are some
well know VIPs in the UK that can help facilitate this:

https://newrepublic.com/article/120691/tony-blair-does-pr-re...

Do not forget the call with Mr. Putin on Tuesday morning. He wants to sell his Monaco flat.

PS: We have some old accounts that used to belong to Robert Mugabe but they are a pain to manage. I suggest we close those and take our losses.

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Florida man accused of breaking Mastodon's open-source license
If they are making a Subject Access Request under the GDPR (which they should be), then yes, Tesla should be providing:

* what personal information the organisation holds about them;

* how they are using it;

* who they are sharing it with; and

* where they got their data from.

https://ico.org.uk/your-data-matters/your-right-to-get-copie...
I did not go into details as to what Google misbehaviors were.

But I wonder what "behaving poorly" is. There is legal and illegal stuff.

Companies give jobs to people, not only Google. It is natural, yes, natural, logical, to want to pay less to people. It is also natural that people want to be paid more. A salary is never high enough for an employee. A salary is never low enough for an employer. I do not say this from an ethical point of view, I say how humans act.

Also, with all these regulations, unfortunately, government-company collusion is also there, not only among companies. I wonder if markets were more free than they are if the collusion among companies (given that governments cannot regulate as much) would be as effective. I just wonder, because I am not sure, but I am confident it would be better than what we usually see in the media, which much of it is the consequence of disproportionate power for regulating.

About behaving "poor" each person has her own ethics. Things that look ok to someone can look bad to others. And many look bad to most of us, especially when it is someone else who does it... which is curious. Companies are greedy, when it is not our company. Companies are bad, when it is not our company... our neighbor does not deserve what we deserve, because we are better.

So the only measure by which we should measure companies is by law (even I find some laws absurd, but that is another topic). If some laws and regulations give power to make excuses that favor corruption via favoring friends, then maybe the problem is the capacity to regulate.

I do not think an independent company would work for a government in "unethical" terms (as for many of our mostly accepted definition of unethical, like helping military research or giving surveillance tech to governments) if that government cannot give them something in exchange. We see the pattern? The problem is that exactly. Do not look further.
I’ve been at Google for a little less than OP, and while I’m also considering leaving, my main reason is sort of the opposite:
I’m bored. The whole team is bored. It feels like we’re doing nothing, and have been doing nothing for years. I work under 25 hours a week, and the vast majority of time is spent in useless meetings or reading useless docs. My actual work is maybe 5 hours a week. What are we even getting paid for? No one knows. We just keep working on new projects nobody needs, then a few months later upper management shifts priorities and repeat. Seems like the only reason we have projects is to keep us busy. And oh, we’re always hiring. Apparently we’re understaffed. Some secretly call it a pyramid scheme.
Gallium helps convert CO2 into Carbon and Oxygen
Software is for people, not for software itself.

I want to get things done fast and with less cognitive load, magit allows me to, git doesn't.
No. It should use an efficient and flexible binary format.
To add to that my current struggle: Most stuff is geared towards conda and terrible engineering practices (requirements.txt and not even locked versions). If you want to actually build and deploy something on actual hardware, you are in a world of hurt. And even for training the dependency situation is so ridiculous that most repos come with their own Dockerfile.

I marvel at the cool machine learning demos but I'm kind of sick working on this stuff, tbh.
https://www.aaam.org/annual-conference/instructions-for-full... does not mention the publication of (indexed) proceedings.
Thanks for sharing this valuable information.
> Yeah, git is certainly a low level tool.

> I too google the commands I don't use often.

So, spend more time getting the same result is fine for you?
The reflog is awesome! It keeps pointers to commits that have been dropped, rewritten by rebases, stuff like that.

Git is garbage collected, even if a commit is dropped from a branch it won't simply disappear immediately afterwards. The object is still in the git repository and it can still be reached, most easily through the reflog. Only when garbage collection is performed will any unreachable commits be deleted.
I mean, pumpkins are a New World plant, so would be strange if they had been historically used on the British Isles.
> How do you determine so confidently that American (and its derivative) culture has gotten significantly more sensitive, and the notions of abuse and trauma have grown to significantly dangerous levels?

Eh, one grandfather of mine fell off a horse as a child and his arm never grew again, and became useless. My grandmother's siblings both died, one by murder and one by illness. They endured all manner of dangerous and harrowing situations, but I never heard a single word from them about abuse or trauma. They just dealt with hardship and put it behind them. Same with my parents. Deaths of children, estrangement from relatives, persecution of various kinds, they never suggested they'd been traumatized.

Many young people, on the other hand, will tell you in absolute seriousness that they've been traumatized by the speech that they think someone they disagree with would give. Not by a speech that even has been given, but one they imagine that person might give in the future if given that opportunity. They will tell you that it's traumatic just to know that somebody has uttered an opinion with which they disagree -- hearing the opinion is not even required.
The video was playing music and Vimeo took it down due to copyright infringement :(

If I was to do this again I’d do away with the Mac mini and use a raspberry pi plus a Spotify daemon. I still have all the cards I made but no time to figure out the physical stuff anymore.
Business as usual. It ok for me to steal but if you steal from me i'll sue you to death.
>is that it may be argued that the former does not involve harm of others.

You can ask afghan puppy farmers about that, and every single crack/heroin user if it's not harm-full, just decriminalize it, solves a really minor problem.

You can see it with prostitution, it's legal in most of Europe, however it's still in the hand organized crime groups, nothing has changed.
I’d guess GSuite is already a cash cow, just for corporate emails and user management for SMBs.
To a Capitalist, the only possible deal is a profitable one. However, to be profitable, the arangement between participants has to be unfair. It is only through an unfair exchange of goods and services is a profit produced. So it imperative the other parties believe they are getting a fair deal, otherwise they would not participate. So, it is unmentioned while required that the Capitalist control the information of the participants such that they will believe they are getting a fair deal, while the Capitalist is in fact always getting the unfair advantage, or they would not participate. This is the nature of the corruption that is Capitalism.
Something I intend to check on with my doctor, thanks for caring enough to provide references. Who knows, maybe I had covid and didn't even know.
This has nothing to do with slavery.

Most countries allow you to import products of slave labour, even the US only banned this a few years ago.

Many western countries seem to be okay with slavery they can see too, read the thirteenth amendment of the US constitution for an example.
I think it really gets interesting to look at this topic from a cross-cultural comparison angle, because really its the only perspective that allows you to gauge a certain variance, and what might be expected for a society in a liberal democracy.

I am a German person having lived in the US and Canada for some time. And for physical safety interesting observations are that German playgrounds would probably be considered too harmful to get approval in the US, whereas electricity / wiring in houses and especially the 110 V power outlets seem really neglectful to my German eyes, like an accident waiting to happen.

But, German kids survive German playgrounds and American children are not all electrocuted by 110V power outlets.

Another interesting angle to look at this is the legal system. When I first came to the US I was really astonished to see TV ads not only for attorneys, but also for attorneys looking for participants in class-action law suits. So from an economical perspective, civil live can be 'mined' for cases worth pursuing by the attorneyship. I am not ruling out that Germany might have examples with similar dynamics but definitely its not as strong, the compensation payments lower and the possibilities for an attorney to make a huge profit from a case much lower. I think case-law might also make it easier for new classes of 'harm' to surface in courts. After a couple of of occasions, you have precedents whereas in a country with civil law you might have courts refuse a liability if there was no basis for it in the civil law.

Overall, I do think that the notion of psychological harm shouldn't be neglected. Its easy to ridicule it citing cases like "Statue in underpants". Institutions would do best I think, if they established internal processes that would resolve problems gracefully and stop harm early on before having it escalated to the courts.
You're saying because you can quickly flag abusive content on social media, we've become too sensitive to harm? I don't see how one implies the other.
> I have no interest in trying to memorize which hotkey does what, and how to bend yet a new interface to my will

you don't have to, most of the time `git subcommand` counterpart is just `M-x magit-subcommand`
125k calories is about half a chocolate bar. It’s not a lot.
But how? Living in the Netherlands I want me some of that magic. My taxes are through the roof (both as a company and personally).
Have you lived in the GDR? How can you draw this comparison?
This doesn't really seem like a convincing counterargument.

These people are criminals who should have their day in court, but I don't understand how that is supposed to justify financial mass surveillance.

Instead of complaining about money laundering, why doesn't the EU send their goons to render Putin & co and put them on trial if they're so bad? (Oh yeah, it's because that's not something they actually want to do)

E: HN throttled my reply to belter so I'll just put it here.

Corrupt oligarchs wasting their money on London real estate still injects money into the economy, and is likely to transfer those "dirty" funds to developers owned by more pleasant people than Lukashenko. Those people will presumably use them for nicer purposes than propping up their dictatorships.
BCG vaccine shows effectiveness against Covid-19 in trial in India
In the EU at least, GDPR got this covered:

https://ico.org.uk/your-data-matters/your-right-to-data-port...
One way to view it is that someone writes a package that their expected usage is as a build tool. It uses a library that has a input validation vulnerability. Since they view their tool as build tooling they mark their package as not impacted. Npm audit no longer shows the vulnerability.

Someone uses that build tool in a production system in a way the maintainer never even considered.

Npm audit shows nothing to that end user. They are vulnerable.

People will say they misused the tool. But either way, shit gets compromised and it is something could have been prevented if you take the stance that the end user was paying attention to audit findings.

And yes, many corporations and govt agencies take audit findings seriously. Hiding this because a maintainer said not impacted is scary IMO
> avoiding working entirely for large companies. Managing human rot at scale is an unsolved problem

Isn’t it, then, solved? The scalable way is liberalism = the ability to change employers and swap companies when they rot. It comes at the loss of having to dismantle mature companies frequently, but it is one way to solve rot. Like you change window frames when they rot.
I just read something last night that stated "passion without competence is useless." We all hear about pursuing your passions, but we also all probably know at least one person passionate about something they're no good at (someone who can't carry a tune with a passion for singing, for example).
The project described in the paper is https://simdjson.org/.
Wasn't that the beginning of the end of FAANG's reputation?

Having your company put billions into the bank every year because they "don't know what to do with it" while you're not even a millionaire is disheartening.

I mean, if they were still paying us all handsomely like stock brokers then I bet popular opinion would be on their side.
>Decriminalizing drugs will not mean that somebody will have a right to give you drugs.

Then nobody will loose any revenue right? Because that was the parent's argument.

>It will mean that an incredible amount of money spent on policing can be used on education of what drugs are and what they do to you

Ah yes the education argument...it never works, you cannot throw money at such a problem.
But they make the policies of the EU possible.

How may EU citizens, especially EU elites, hide there money in those places?
I’ve never seen those characters before. Have you got any more recommended references on that subject?
this has a few diagrams https://historyindoors.co.uk/britains-dark-past-the-atrociti...

some are telling
Get a google job straight of of college and it seems you can retire very comfortably in your mid 30s
It was interesting to see the update rate of background tabs.
> The status quo is likely to always be some sort of local maxima/minima.

No, that's still not true.
Pretty much what should be expected by applying GPT-3 to code or whatever.
Already discussing in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28952502
Interesting points. Many eastern philosophies assert that the experiences are purely at the level of mind.

As per them, so long as the mind can segregate experiences as desirable and undesirable, it will continue to crave the desirable ones and reject undesirable ones.

If all the recent experiences are desirable, then there will be further segregation within the desirable ones till the undesirable bucket is again full (and vice versa).

This gels well with anecdotal experiences of craving for something like financial independence only to feel once some one gets it that it is either not sufficient or craving for the opposite happens.

So if we go by these theories, the center will never be reached. The pendulum shall just swing-by from one end to the other with the middle being really short lived.
Yes a Airport in Berlin and a Bus-station that is 15x more expensive then predicted from 3m to 43m. ;)
> Would be curious if they live up to their own marketing.

Do people really think that companies like Apple et al (who have a huge number of people following them eager to rip into them at ever opportunity) could get away with a "marketing story" like that? Like, really, Apple just making all that up and _not one single person_ whistleblowing on it if it were a lie?
I first heard about this from the pizza effect Wikipedia page:

> The creation of jack-o'-lanterns from turnips (rutabaga) was a Halloween custom in Ireland and parts of Great Britain. Irish immigrants brought this tradition with them to the United States, and adapted it to use native pumpkins instead of turnips. In time, pumpkins came to be used instead of turnips to create jack-o'-lanterns in Ireland and Great Britain. [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_effect#Ireland

EDIT: There’s also more information in the article Wikipedia cites [1]

[1]: https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/food-and-drink/hal...
How to train your classifier – deep learning training objectives