skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm really impressed with how readable and how funny that is, but I'm sure I'm missing at least one of the jokes contained within. In particular, they suggest an extension to their protocol called "SENPAI-MTT (More Than Two)", which I'm sure must be a cleverly chosen backronym, but I can't work out why (or if) it is funny.

My initial thought was that it could be a reference to the Japanese verb meaning "to look"[0], such as mite ita ("was looking") but represented in vowelless chatspeak[1]. More logical, though, would be the verb meaning "to notice"[2], but the imperative would be kizuite kudasai ("please notice!")[2], and that doesn't match "MTT" at all.

[0] http://www.japaneseverbconjugator.com/VerbDetails.asp?txtVer...

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/LearnJapanese/comments/bupbs9/about...

[2] http://www.japaneseverbconjugator.com/VerbDetails.asp?txtVer...
The same goes for race outside of Anglo-American culture. I'm (half-)Asian and think the whole debate is stupid. I don't fit into your racial categories, my skin color is in-between what you seem to think is the "right" color and the "wrong" color, the rest of the physical features you use to tell race apart have just as little variation as between "white" ethnic groups, and everybody interbred anyway.

Interestingly I had the same experience going on a vacation to the Balkans. To an outsider, Croat/Serb/Bosnian are all basically the same - your languages are mutually intelligible, your food is all tasty meat cuts and flatbread, you look more or less the same. But apparently within this region, this is a life-or-death distinction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism_of_small_difference...
Civilization can and must be climate gas neutral. Can be accomplished through massive build-out of geological-time CO2 sequestering, financed with global taxes on greenhouse gas emissions and international agreements to the same effect.

End-state will still have lots of economic processes that require releasing greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, even new or novel ones. But these will be offset by the sequestering paid by their taxation.

Taxes will shift greenhouse gas emissions to no-emission alternatives where that's practical and desirable, probably meaning most of them in the end.
Yeah I'm not a busker myself but I've found "middle America" and more humble populations to be more generous in general. It's not the rich who typically empathize with someone on the street, it's a working class person who's been there.
Fascinating how the absolute richest of the richest employees in the world, Google employees, seem the most oppressed, or "marginalized".

Here's how my "CEO for a day" fantasy would work...

The DEI department is de-solved immediately. All non-work slack channels closed. The new hiring strategy is merit-only, using tests that are as neutral as possible, with transparent salary scales and promotion paths. Equality but not equity.

Anybody having a problem with this policy, stirring up shit, doing walkouts, trying to get colleagues fired and other wildly unprofessional behavior can leave.

Surely many think this is aggressive and that I'm a creepy authoritarian. No, this cleans up the obnoxious 5% that makes everybody's lives miserable, so the outcome is a pleasant, fair and peaceful workplace.

A DEI department is a discrimination machine. Division is their output, because if there is none, it's obsolete.
Hey pal, US identity issues get exported all over the world too. It’s only fair that you import some
I wonder if they are including in that the money they already invested in the Ahrefs SEO tools. It seems to me that their SEO tools were already crawling a lot of content so this may be an extension of that / a new way to monetize the data. I personally know a lot of people who pay for their SEO tools so I imagine they have a decent amount of revenue.
Airlines are not efficient. The carbon footprint per passenger is about the same as driving a car for the same distance.

And airlines have been flying empty planes during the pandemic. That's ridiculously wasteful.
Allowing rabble-rousers to deliver 'talks' about caste discrimination is not going to change the hearts and minds of people who set store by caste affiliations. There will always be people who will be cagey about revealing aspects about themselves, including gay, queer, furries, upper-caste, lower-caste, nudists... the list goes on. People seem to take the aphorism 'bring your real self to work' a bit too literally. We all put a lid on certain aspects of our personalities at work, and endeavors to change that or eradicate that are highly misguided.
What is to stop your camptown filling up with violent folks, criminals, drug addicts, and idiots setting fire to camptown. If camptown is even slightly less safe than going it alone you will see on average less challenging campers leaving and more challenging campers staying until camptown is a den of drugs and crime while the folks that actually need help are as alone as before. Worse for them if space exists in the official camptown this provides moral and legal justification for removing unofficial camptowns even if they aren't safe enough for folks to live in.

1/4 of homeless folks need jail. 1/4 of folks need drug and or mental help before moving on to housing. The remaining half need an actual apartment where they are allowed to keep their things and themselves safe behind a door just like the rest of us rather than a place where they are allowed to shiver in a tent and hope they don't get raped or robbed tonight.

This is quite frankly an abomination.
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold.
That's exactlty why suxh a talk would have been a good idea...
That information is also in the original linked article, stated almost identically:

> Gupta, the senior manager at Google News who had invited Soundararajan to speak on the matter, thus put in her papers on Wednesday.
I don't know why companies court these kinds of social issues talks. The topic is incredibly interesting, don't get me wrong, but not even close to Google's line of business that it would serve professional development goals in any way worth the cost of the controversy it'd generate.
I wish there was an easier way to find them. In my experience, it was former colleagues who recruited me. At the time I didn't have any sense of how business model might affect the work environment, all I knew was that my colleagues really liked their new jobs, but in retrospect it clearly makes a difference.

That doesn't mean it's all roses. My last company brought in a terrible middle-manager who was at least part of the reason I left.

If I were searching in the market right now, I'd probably apply to a bunch of different companies and ask some variation of the following questions:

1. Are you privately-owned (and plan to stay that way)?

2. Are you profitable?

There's obviously a bunch of other questions that are important to job satisfaction (is the work relevant to the companies revenue goals, work/life balance, etc.) but those two questions determine whether the company has at least the economic independence to make the right decisions over the long-term.
Thank you. This is pretty much the comment that I was going to write but you saved me the time.

There are judges in Seattle that appear to disagree with the notion that serious violent criminals should be punished with serious jail time. However, what I can't figure out is, why doesn't the Seattle Times name the judges that are releasing violent criminals? It's just a nameless "judiciary" or "the judge". Why no interest in holding them accountable?

City Prosecutor Pete Holmes was voted out for not prosecuting but the judges are getting a pass because nobody knows who they are. (Yes I should look this up myself - I've resolved to do something - but the journalists could help.)
> So nice to see electronics made somewhere other than China. Hope we can see this done more often.

Indeed. Is there an online store that specializes in products not made in China? Or at least allows me to filter products by country of design and manufacture? I'd give anything to have that filter on Amazon. It would get rid of most of the scams and shoddy products that end up in landfills shortly after purchase.

I really don't mind paying a premium for products built elsewhere. I'd rather pay extra for quality than buy another cheap Chinese knockoff.
Because I think in that situation the people who are unhappy either quit or get fired. Plus that was generally the default pre-COVID and people dealt with it more or less OK.

And yes, where I choose to work I do value my happiness more than the happiness of others.
Sympathetic to WHOM?

Your side, your feelings, your way of thinking.
So, with the same reasoning reddit should be banned? (specifically the radicalizing part)
How does one get the CEO’s address to send a letter to? is it the company address?( He says letters many times not email)

Also how does one get the CEO’s email?
Enough of my artist friends who pay closer attention to their analytics than I do have done tests and seen much lower engagement on offsite links that I take this as how things work but I can’t give you any particular links, sorry.
Yes, I think airlines should go extinct. They're inherently unsustainable.

The problem is, I don't have any say in the matter, while corporations have a lot of power, and rich people depend on airlines.

So, it's unlikely that the beneficiaries of an unsustainable industry will voluntarily decide to drive it to extinction.
Musk seems like that's his entire personality. Burn bridges - buy new ones....
Not quite. Noise and heat can also be issues. I love my nearly silent computer
The vast, vast majority of South Asians working in tech jobs in the USA will say that caste based discrimination isn't a real problem here. While it may be true, also remember that you are talking to the cream of the crop of Indian society. The same category of people living in India (say techies in Bangalore) would say that such discrimination isn't a huge problem over there either, but they are also the ones who have benefited from the system their entire lives. Talk to the people cleaning their toilets and it'll be a very different story.
Hmm I don't get any results for any searches...

"No results found for test"
Not a chef, but I cook nearly every meal, whether home or at my SO's. A gas stove is a world of difference compared to cooking with an electric one.

One major pain point is that the number settings on electric barely provide insight as to what level of heat you're cooking with, and there seems to be a lack of consistency between one electric stove to another. Whereas with gas, you can just eye the flames and know what you're dealing with without resorting to the knob settings, regardless of which stove you're using.

Another thing that comes to mind is that with a gas burner the pot/pan is above an open flame, so if you need to go from high to low heat, you can do that in an instant. With electric, the pot/pan is resting on a heated surface that gradually cools down and can really ruin whatever's cooking.
It's missing quotes.

> they'll be notified "you are their crush"
It's exactly as if the OS was created by Google. Google is a company whose entire business model is centered around collecting as much data as possible on as many people as possible for their own financial gain regardless of what those people want or the harms that it causes. They will do anything if it makes them money. What else would you expect from them?
I have always loved this method of debugging because printing messages outputs a chronological summary spanning the entire execution, and only relevant information is included.
That's not a particularly interesting perspective or at least, not one you should assume hasn't occurred to people affected or not affected by this issue.
Gitlab is open core, GitHub is closed source (2016)
You think determining the existence of probable cause under the law — and enacting arrests accordingly — is a low-skilled job task?
I'll make the analogy clear: systemically oppressed people should just pull themselves up by their bootstraps and stop complaining (because it just makes it worse for themselves).

This is a classic American argument.
Opposing things that everybody is against isn't political. The fact that this topic is being labeled as politics is proof that some people are OK with it.
Apparently, GPT4chan is more truthful than GPTJ and GPT3 in the TruthfulQA benchmark.
I am European, know about the caste system and won't be able to tell.
> I was very unpleasantly surprised by the negligence of the moderators who allowed several projects from Ukraine to use the contest platform for unworthy political statements and posting spam links to resources unrelated to the contest.

Author shows astounding lack of empathy to the people being killed just for being of different nationality than the author. Naturally author also doesn't understand that other people do have such an empathy.

I really can't identify any specific point in time when most of the Russians have become the Russian Nazists like that author. They openly support and celebrate destruction of Ukraine and genocide and ethnic cleansing of Ukrainians, and they do it based on their perception of themselves as "master nation". In many respects it is like Germany back then - the 192x chaos resulting from the lost war and empire crash gradually transformed into full blown nazism by 1939 and the same way the chaos of 199x in Russia (i left in 2000) resulting from the lost war (Afghanistan and Cold War) and empire crash gradually transformed into full blown nazism by 2022. Even the Reichstag fire which gave Hitler such a power has exact historic parallel - FSB blowing up civilian apartment buildings across Russia in September 1999 which brought Putin into such a power.
They might be cheap, but I have never seen a box fan fail, and I have a few in service for many years.

Consider that they are designed for cooling in a window application, which means they must be able to survive operation 35C in direct sunlight. As an air filter, mine operates at 22C in shade. That easily makes up for the temperature differential due to load conditions.
Elon Musk spoke in public. I interceded in crimes. Police fight crime.

“It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, if he wins, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”

-- Theodore Roosevelt
Why do you doubt this?

This policy only came into play after leadership was called out.
I contacted the Light Phone CEO about APN settings for the phone on a LinkedIn comment and he told me to get in touch with support and reference the message but Support refused to do escalate even with the CEO's direction. Must have been more of a "look good" maneuver than anything else.
Wait, you're against the civil rights act?
Your parent was speaking to people who think that caste matters, the Indian Archie Bunkers I suppose.
This thread is on an article about how removing gas stoves affects Chinese and Korean restaurants.
Do you think there is workplace discrimination taking place against Dalits, and if so, how would you like to see it addressed?
Crypto like cryptography or crypto like cryptocurrency?
It’s Maslows hierarchy of human needs: some employees are treated well enough they have capacity to care about other issues and how their work affects the world.

Ideally all employees would have the time and capacity for that care.
Phantom braking includes self-driving/cruise and ADAS, e.g. "What is phantom braking"

> Phantom braking is a term used to describe when an advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) – or a self-driving system – applies the brakes for no good reason

(AEB is part of ADAS)
Can we maybe not have daolf's editorial/opinion as the title? The page title is just "Yep", which granted, says nothing.. but so does linking to a search homepage. Maybe the last blog post is a better url/title [Investor money vs. public interest: did Google fail to build a non-evil platform?](https://medium.com/swlh/investor-money-vs-public-interest-di...)
Reddit does a lot to kill the hate while remaining objective. So no.
Which store!?
To my knowledge it's a global issue but the US brings a lot of skilled immigrants from India and is a lot more proactive in addressing workplace discrimination. I'm only aware of the US and Canadian issues with Dalit caste discrimination - maybe someone else can help shed light on other areas? I'm sure that the UK has enough ethnic Indian residents that it's had to deal with it as well?
There's a collectivist, political, external-locus-of-control assumption to your point. Not everybody thinks of the world in those terms. A lot of minorities are too busy making money to worry about representation or group rights. You can make a lot of noise, or you can spend that time developing skills and a track record that will get people to pay you a lot of money.

A lot of industries are based on the idea of "I don't care if people think they're superior to me as long as they pay me." The savvier ones even exploit this: "I'll get people to think they're superior to others because they pay me" (see: Apple, Rolls Royce, DeBeers, BMW, Louis Vitton, and every other luxury brand). American society is uniquely suited to this sort of mercenary economic climbing, because it brings together lots of people who have no knowledge of each others' previous social hierarchies anyway.
> The new hiring strategy is merit-only, using tests that are as neutral as possible, with transparent salary scales and promotion paths. Equality but not equity.

What specific proposals do you have to ensure that this happens? Which perfectly neutral, bias-free tests would you employ? How would you ensure that the humans delivering the tests or screening candidates were neutral and perfectly bias-free?

Also, would you be doing all this yourself as the CEO? If so, seems like an inefficient use of your time.

Perhaps you'd employ some staff to ensure this gets carried out at the scale of Google. These folks would be assigned to creating the sense of fairness, merit, and justice you describe at scale, so that everyone felt included in the same way. You could even put them in their own department. Hmm...
Ahrefs is the biggest reason why Google results are so bad nowadays.

While they call it SEO, this site gives you the very metrics which every so called SEOer uses to game Google search results (and it's very good tbh).

I hope they are ready to face the seo monster they have created and yep can't be gamed as easily.
“Works on contingency? No, money down!”
Bob's crush, though, works at the ice cream store on the corner.
> Having an entirely flat stovetop is very relaxing.

That sounds like an induction stovetop (which is electric). Those are nice and becoming more common, but they cost more. The majority of electric stove top ranges are like this:

https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/corroded-kitchen-electric-...

Not exactly flat.
Totally agree. Print statements are windows to the programs internal state. They can be activated during specific times, under certain conditions, can group together information and values.... The name "print statement" does not do them justice , that is the problem i think, they are a conduit, a channel of symbols for peeking into the program
They didn’t. They said he was a drunk but never imprisoned him.
> “A DEI department is a discrimination machine. Division is their output, because if there is none, it's obsolete.”

By the same logic SRE is responsible for breaking my software because if the site is always reliable then they’re obsolete.
Funny — I made a Cineplex account recently and had the same uneasy suspicion. 2FA is mandatory and via phone only — and they send a code EVERY time you login, despite cookies or whatever. It’s jarring. I left thinking okay they made a deal with someone to distribute phone numbers.
Yeah what is 3. This smells like never used induction before.
They didn't, the Mac version of CE is a port of the PC port, shows the Gearbox logo on startup.
A senior manager of Google News? Someone would actually claim that distinction, one of Google's worst run properties?
Maybe they should have talks from sector experts about improving their products first.
> At what point in life will money stop mattering compared to other aspects?

Like, always?

What's the point of making a boatload of money if you are extremely unhappy at work? I can tell you now that I've met many people who would work long hours for good money, only to spend the couple hours left of every day drinking.
I mean yes? Why would anybody want to live in SF?
> With electric, the pot/pan is resting on a heated surface that gradually cools down and can really ruin whatever's cooking.

Sounds like you need to try an induction cooktop?
> If the author is fool enough to not use the language features that exist since C++17 to validate template code, surely.

To be sure the fact the diagnostics aren't required does not forbid them from being provided, but it does mean you'd need to know whether you've been provided with such diagnostics and how effective they actually are. Unless the answer is "I have diagnostics and they are 100% effective" you're in the same situation.

> I also don't find debugging Rust macros that fun

Which kind? I don't find debugging the declarative macros too hard, they are after all just expanding what you wrote according to some simple rules, and you can ask the compiler to show that expansion to you.

Procedural macros present unlimited potential for exciting debugging because now you're essentially modifying the compiler at runtime. A C++ pre-processor macro can cause some nasty problems but it's not going to run a different compiler... [Technically Mara's nightly-crimes only runs the same compiler with different flags, but it could run a different one if she'd needed to do that]
Printmaking has been an activity of mine for decades so I found this article particularly interesting. Of course a great number of printmaking methods have been employed over centuries. Classics include block printing, etching, engraving, lithography, monotype. My preferred method has been screenprinting which like the other techniques has many variations. All told I imagine there are about as many ways to make prints as there are computer languages. ;-)

The author writes about using the Risograph which I knew nothing about before reading the article. The idea of using heat to transfer a toner-like material sounded rather familiar. It reminded me of the "solid-ink" printer made by Tektronix a long time ago. I owned one of those printers and used it for quite a few years. It worked by melting blocks of dye-containing resin and spraying the molten "ink" onto the stock. It produced some pretty interesting prints, but alas the problem was lack of archival performance. Seems the dyes used were subject to fairly rapid fading. In terms of the intended purposes of the Tek printer that was acceptable. After all it was nominally a business tool, definitely not sold for artistic creation.

It's probably worth mentioning that the paper printouts of ordinary laser printers can be used as a kind of lithographic "plate". That works because the plastic-matrix printed areas are inherently oil wettable. So dampening the paper and using an oil-based printing ink to coat the laser-printed areas allows producing a limited number of prints from the laser-printed matrix. The result is a low-medium resolution print that with the right image can be quite attractive. Anyway laser printing is another heat-based process printmakers have exploited.

Always fun to learn about a printmaking technique I didn't know about before!