skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Independence is not binary.

Would you agree that the goal over the period from birth to adulthood should be one marked by a gradual increase in independence?

Would you agree that parents should have say in the pace of that increase?
My complete guess is that their system thought you looked like the seller trying to artificially inflate their auction.

A quick Google search says that as of 2021, only 12% of products are sold by auction. They're so obsessed with competing with Amazon with the "buy it now" system that auctions may be an afterthought.
I think you fail to account for cultural differences. The "face scanning for toilet paper" may be unacceptable to you, but if it means no more vandalized public toilets, then there are bound to exist societies which would deem it an OK trade-off. I may be misinformed, but my impression of Chinese culture is that it prefers stability and order, sometimes at the expense of liberty and convenience.

That's not to legitimize the abuse of such means by the state, and I don't want to say that disappearing people from the street is fine, but lets focus on that abuse and camps, not the toilet paper. These are completely separate matters.
By child care I didn't mean child care during church service but cost of child care being prohibitive to have children in the first place.
Well, the inane drumbeat of "It's Morning in America" certainly attracted certain segments of the electorate.
I understand wanting to make better use of the space, but this seems like the wrong move.

Co-location is the entire value of the hybrid model over remote. By forcing 2 employees to use the same desk, you are capping one of their teams to being co-located to 2 days a week.

I personally find value being together (with at least some of the team) 4-5 days a week.

Imo, it would have been a better move to make “hybrid” workers to actually show up to the office or lose their desk. So many employees are just phoning it in.
This is probably still not advisable, but whenever I get one those calls where I happen to be curious enough to answer, I wait for a beat to see if anyone says anything, and if they don't I start screeching, making monkey noises, farting sounds, and it always just hangs up as soon as I start.
Sorry; that’s not quite the point I’m making. The difference I want to emphasise between 2 and 3 is whether the new tool is layered on top of the existing tool, or made by modifying the existing tool. If you want a new approach to storing data, do you make it by writing a new kernel module, or by doing some new thing in userland on top of the filesystem?

All of docker’s features could be built into the Linux kernel. And it would probably be better as a result, and have ancillary benefits to existing Linux programs. But docker was built as a separate userland tool instead.

Building a new thing is usually easier, since you don’t need to dive into the politics of an existing community. But if each new generation of software engineers builds new software by layering on top of the old stuff, then we end up with layers on layers of cruft and our computers run slower and are more buggy as a result.

The POSIX apis aren’t very good in lots of ways. With a lot of complex effort in userland I can make a database with atomic write semantics. But maybe we should just add atomic file operations to Linux instead. In the long run I think it would be safer and result in faster programs in most cases.
If you're doing lots of traveling, the Eurrail pass includes sleeper trains; you still have to pay an extra reservation fee, but comes out cheaper overall.
Makes sense. Otherwise, we'd need to rename "skin cream" and never talk about "nut meats" again.
I liked the fishbowls, but I had a team whose office was just the right size for it - The glass walls kept out the noise well enough, and the view of the rest of the office didn't bother me. I was for a period in the open plan area without an enclosure - That sucked, modulo the Sennheiser headphones we had provided which I blasted music and white noise in.
> but my 5 year old daughter likes it.

The tech is made to be addictive. You shouldn't let children use such a thing IMO.
Yuck. If I just look at my keyboard and mouse, I really do not want that anyone _has_ to use them. I clean them regularly and do not eat at the desk, but still cruft assembles.
> At least one point of those ethicists is to stop people who are naive from doing things with permanent consequences without first checking to see what those consequences would be.

Are the consequences really that permanent? It's pretty easy (in China) to monitor a handful of test subjects with heritable mutations and make sure they don't reproduce.

> At this stage of the science you're more likely to cause harm than cure disease

The potential upside of developing the science is huge, which is essentially what He is doing.
Celebrating Arthur Schopenhauer _ who wrote to be understood
Understanding the MLOps Knot: Metadata Drift
The article makes no mention of charging time, which would lead me to believe it's barely identical and most likely worse than current rates.
Well, looks like we are in 2023 and maybe the rumor made in 2019 will be true.
Where "Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microsoft in Cloud"

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-brass-set-202...
And have completely different incentives and corruption. I don't see how that's better...
There's some other fundamental problem if cops and CPS were pulling these stunts anyway. Maybe some better mechanism for recourse against overreach is needed?
Not a chance. Toilet stalls are in higher demand (during peak hours) than desks.
I should have articulated that differently. What I meant to say was that the mac I had prior to my first Retina MBP (2013) couldn't run 1080p YT videos well. That model was a 2009 13", if memory serves. So I was just comparing the two transitional periods, whereby my Intel mac feels almost as limited as that 2009 machine did.
In most of Europe there is an "undo" button in online banking next to such debits to get the money back no questions asked (for a few weeks after the transaction), as per regulations. US banking should copy this maybe.
The GCL documentation (browsable with an info browser, like Emacs) contains a fairly complete reference of the standard.
They hosted it on GitHub. Not stored the source there. Hosted it.

Besides, I would say that teaching people how to use version control is good. But there are lots of non-GitHub solutions. Prefer those for students! Teach them the fundamentals.
That would be incentivised with this system, no? Employees would fight the other off the stool constantly, to get their share of sitting.
I am sitting in a sparsely populated open plan and it’s nice because it nearly fixes the noise/overstimulation problems as well as walls would.
Wow 11 years ago. i switched to an electric car recently and still frequently smell exhaust fumes from cars that are running rich or burning motor oil. I might be alive to see the end of internal combustion engines in cities which seems inevitable now.
Yeah, that's "amazing" for those employees with very common conditions like plantar fasciitis.
Really tough to imagine micro-optimizations like this having any visible effect at all on costs for a company Google's size (except by way of employee frustration)

You have to wonder what's going on inside those executive conference rooms
It's tragic for how little those people think or know in the first place. Do they think Dairy Queen is a drag show?
I never bothered but it's definitely easy at google to expense your internet and I remember hearing about someone successfully expensing some amount of their electricity
I think he's saying they don't have interesting problems to work on.
I had low-wall cubicles at one job and thought it was great. Could still see the eyes and noses of my coworkers around me, and it was easy making conversation or asking for help.
Well if you get a cube by the window, there's always a chance of seeing some merry squirrels.
> Over 50 percent of Black children in the U.S. will experience a child welfare investigation before their eighteenth birthday (nearly double the rate of white children). Nearly 10 percent of Black children will be removed from their parents and placed into foster care (double the rate of white children)

While the numbers above sound horrendous (and they really are!) I wish they normalized the data to only consider poor households. That would give a much better picture of how much of the existing system is biased against a given race vs being biased against poor people in general.
It seems like the general sentiment from people assigned to Bay View campus hate it, and the campus is an example of form over function as an actual office for doing work.
How, exactly, would you ensure they don't reproduce?
Time for new elevator music :)
I play much more World of Warcraft than I should but I'm not sure what kind of data mining you're referring to. I don't think Blizzard allows anything that can read the memory of the game while you're playing it. Are you maybe referring to the raid logs that people use? Those are just addons that write the raid combat log to an external file, and then someone in the raid runs a program that reads the log file and uploads it to www.warcraftlogs.com
The major journals have absolutely no accountability. In any other market, if the product doesn't work or harms someone the company goes out of business or the maker is sued. Not so in journals. So, why do we accept it? Because there's no other way for the layman to determine what makes a good professor, because by definition, they are smarter than us (or at least they're supposed to be), and so we (the general public) are not able to tell if they are good at what they do or not.

So - the answer we have is peer review, which is just the foxes guarding the hen house. There's no other solution that's been proposed that makes any sense in a self reinforcing market manner. Having some post-docs suddenly become concerned about this and hire a bunch of undergraduates to start using to comb excel with spreadsheets will be useful until everyone loses interest. The price of a can of Coca-Cola isn't useful until people lose interest - it's market priced by millions of customers at every minute of every day.

Until there's a solution to this problem that makes sense this will keep happening over and over again.
Maybe send unicast replies at a high rate to the transmitter so as to crash it or at least show down it’s stream so you can take over?
They seem to have gone from firing people to making people want to quit.
Rearranging desk chairs on the titanic
There's a lot of those types of things in this. Why write a python script to receive the packets, when he just talked about using wireshark?
That's some Brazil level of dystopian already:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS5WLkb_Cxk
How is WFH miserable and if it is, it’s your home, can’t you make it more comfortable?
This is being downvoted but I don't understand why. Obviously cow milk is the reference, it's the only one without adjectives. Even "goat" gets an adjective. If this is a concern for dairies, they can add "Real Cow" to the label.
Those days are still very much here, there is just a lot more noise from the opposite end of the computing world.
> It isn't just paypal though, it is literally every traditional banking institution out there. People get locked out of their accounts (or even better, funds withdrawn by the government), all the time. I've had it happen to me.

The fundamental difference with all these Internet-centric companies is they have no useful support channel, nobody that will talk to you, you're just arbitrarily blocked with no recourse, your money is stolen, end of story.

Traditional banks have branches where you can at least go talk to people. For example in the last year I've been helping an elder relative manage their banking and that has led to the account being blocked a handful of times (somewhat sensibly, as I can see how some of it could've been perceived as unusual activity). But they have a branch with actual humans (no AI bots) so I go in and explain and provide paperwork and all is fixed. By now I'm on first-name basis with one of their support agents so I can just call them directly, they know and remember me and all the circumstances of the account and have the authority to fix things.
X-Terminals were a thing before SUN, but SUN had very nice ThinClients called SunRay that could "HotDesk". Your session was tied to a smartcard, as soon as you plugged that in, your session appeared on that workplace. Pull the Smartcard, go somewhere else, plug it in, there was your session. Very cool and almost instant, as opposed to the supposed "alternative" our windows guys suggested, which was smartcard login to an rdesktop server, which took ages. The wire protocol wasn't really X11, but rather something VNC-like. The server software however could talk to either X11 or windows (with some horrible adapter software).

Edit: links:

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

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

Edit3: ancient demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m-nzjdOj1w
Seriously, the company has billions but can't afford to give everyone a desk? Why would employees accept that?
Spotify's new AI DJ is a talking, curated list of your musical tastes
Have you thought about updating Mermaid's official docs directly with examples like this?
Super neat. Congratulations, OP.
Agreed but property tax should not be based on the current value of the home.

Property prices are insane.

It's both unfair that the guy in the expensive home pays a huge amount in taxes as it is also unfair that the other guys property taxes are locked in to when property prices were less insane.
$300/year to the state of Delaware works out to less than a dollar a day. The LLC is a pass-through entity (single member), so federal taxes will be handled with my personal tax filing. The lack of profits keeps my bookkeeping and taxes simple, if/when it become profitable enough that income tax categorization becomes a disadvantage, well, that will be good problem to have.
I promise you that every human can lose weight for free. People absolutely can "just eat less" they just choose not to.

Let me give you an example of something that humans really can't do. "Humans can't breathe unassisted underwater". See the difference?
>But you are still missing the point. You can't just act immediately. You need to lay the groundwork for acting. This group needs the ability to act in numerous states before they know which states to actually attack.

You are the one missing the point.

This is exactly why people find allegations of 2am ballet dumps and the like highly suspect and worthy of looking into.

On some level it doesn't matter whether there's the possibility of fraud or not because the appearance of that possibility delegitimatizes the system and the system only works because people think it's legitimate.
I'm not holding my breath. I've seen too many "breakthrough's" in the lasts 10 years but nothing in the market
There are so many other options besides a football size open space (hello, facebook) and corpo cubicles. For example, each agile team could perfectly fit in a small room + shared areas. And put a couple extra desks for monads like managers.
If you want to make a short Amazon link manually the only thing you need is the /dp/ID. So in this case, https://amazon.com/dp/B00005NZJA
Maybe so, but please don't fulminate on Hacker News. We're trying for something else here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Open or not, the important factor is how much free space you have around you. I claim that a crowded cubicle setup will be worse than a spacious open office. Granted, SPACIOUS open offices are really rare - the largest motivator is to crowd as many people in as possible. You know what the icing on the cake is? Open office workspaces are almost always crowded into a building that was made for cubicles or a warehouse or whatever. There's never enough parking, never enough toilets. The asshole business owners always play the "well, we're a growing company so you'll have to live with this for now" card.

When the company I work for was new, we had big desks in a huge office space, so we were spread out. It was awesome! Like you easily had 8ft of desk to yourself and a cabinet and lots of space to breathe.
Obviously the governments of the various nations would have to agree to enforce the sanctions such that there is no refuge available.

Sounds unlikely (understatement of the day?).

Basically, representatives from each nation would need to convene to establish a framework for cooperation and then that would need to be ratified in each nation and rigorously enforced.

I think as the technology is used to manipulate people and others see the dangers in allowing this manipulation then the likelihood of reaching a global consensus improves to the point where it can become a reality. Getting everyone on the same page before the hazards are revealed will be difficult or impossible due to the cultural differences and the wide disparity in technical know-how from one country to another.
> I'd work from a toilet stall for a Google L6 comp band

For maybe a quarter, until your brain adapts. Once you have your needs met, there's diminishing returns. You can still be miserable while getting a fat check.
The lack of desire is intentional.

The politicians pushing voter ID are well aware of the demographics of that 10%, and have little interest in addressing their access challenges because of them.
Aside from all the other glaring issues with this model with respect to workers' wellbeing, do they even consider how it affects people who need specific ergonomic or accessibility accommodations? Like, my own desk has a ton of stuff I need just to get through a day of computer use: split keyboard, clamp-on keyboard tray, vertical mouse, trackball. Am I supposed to just haul all that crap in, set it up, tear it down, and haul it back home every day?

I doubt the storage situation helps much either; I know someone who works for another company that recently switched to this and he can't even fit basic work tools like a headset into his locker.
Anonymous accusations are a fine way to harass and intimidate anyone you disagree with or have a grudge against. As the article points out, it's a fine tool for oppression.

A fundamental right we have in the US is the right to face our accusers, for good reason. Here's the text of it:

> Sixth Amendment

> In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.
I don't know much about the marketing potential for .dev vs others, but I think .dev is one of the safest TLDs in terms of registry management and longevity. It makes sense for Google to keep their TLDs priced reasonably to keep the web accessible and there are some big anchor domains on .dev; web.dev, pages,dev, etc..
I already wrote twice that there could be a different chat mechanism, so there is no need to keep telling me that there could be more than one chat mechanism. Please read before posting. To illustrate my point, I also uploaded a similar looking chat that is visually reversed in my sibling comment. At first and even second glance, when people don't carefully read first, it may not be easy to see.
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When did they drop “don’t be evil”?
No, nor would I be sadder. Most of them do present their names in kanji, and it makes absolutely no difference at all to how the e-mail/chat support errand will progress.
> you have the lowest pilot qualification who can even solo

First, that's not true. Student pilots can fly solo, and there is also a sport pilot rating with is in some sense "lower" than a PPL. So the PPL is actually right in the middle of the primary rating hierarchy.

But more importantly, your characterization of a PPL as the "lowest pilot qualification" implies a pretty profound misunderstanding of how pilot ratings work and in particular how they relate to operational knowledge. It is possible to fly a jet with a PPL, and it is possible to get an ATP without ever flying anything beyond a Piper Arrow. There are also all kinds of orthogonal ratings like an instrument rating, seaplane rating, multi-engine rating, and instructor rating. And absolutely none of those things have anything to do with flying jets. For that you have "type ratings" [1], which are more or less orthogonal to all of the others.

> You only have PPL

That is also not true. I have additional ratings beyond the PPL, I just haven't mentioned them because they are not relevant. What is relevant is that I actually fly airplanes, and so in general I probably understand the process of flying an airplane better than someone who does not fly airplanes, and I have actually written and deployed software in mission-critical situations, and so in general I probably understand mission-critical software and its attendant risks better than someone who has not.

> They even shut down the airline for a period

No, "they" did not shut down the airline. A single individual, Bret Payton, shut it down.

> If you knew more you'd be embarrassed but what you're saying here.

Could be. But at least I know the difference between "but" and "about".

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_rating
Probably never. Sadly the folks at HN have proved over the years that they don't really care about making this site's ui functional. There's no reason I should have to permanently zoom in on this site or make custom CSS just to do work that they should have done years ago. I can do it, but that's not the point. Is the gain in "retro styling" really worth the drop in UX? Do the people at HN truly believe that it's perfect and everyone who doesn't like it is just wrong? Or is it just laziness, (i.e. it works and our core users aren't leaving the platform over it, so it's not worth working on).

I'd love to be proved wrong though.
> It all stems from the fact that we misinterpreted the rules and had no ability to appeal in the short period allotted.

Those running this have dropped the ball at various places here, that's clear. I was thinking maybe a preliminary step can be added to the contest to sanity check review a project (and thus allow for addressing cases like yours.)

But regardless, I hope this has turned out to be a fairly generous silver lining for you and your team. The site looks great. Next step, get investors and get those tourist up in the air. /g
An article also/mostly on communication. It forgets the other side.

> In most areas ... it is possible to write clearly and precisely

It is also true that the need for precision will sometimes collide with plain clarity (or with simplistic form).

And that high "precision" means the direction of Russell's Principia Mathematica - too costly for both the writer and the reader.

And that some degree of openness in the content is a natural part of the exposed model...