skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are indeed many questions. But a lot of people have spent a lot of time thinking about these things. The answers are out there...

Yet conspicuously absent in your post is a link to where those answers are. I suspect that because as soon as you link to one you've actually drawn a line in the ground. Instead of codes of conduct which sort of fuzzily describe that one exists "out there."

And once you start talking about where lines are really drawn, it becomes easy see how little agreement there actually is. Even among people that are more-or-less on the same page regarding which problems "we" care to solve.
Stop being part of the problem and you can stop self-assigning to the group that is causing the problem?

Shame only works inasmuch as you believe folks have a point. It doesn't work on the guiltless or the guileless.
I see it as a variation of the Broken Window Fallacy. In both cases economic activity has been created (America will have to build it's own supply chains internally), but in both cases it's the opportunity cost that gets overlooked.

Everything at every step of the supply chain will be more expensive. The combination of more expensive goods and a fixed amount of capital means less stuff gets made. And the amount of stuff being made is practically the definition of economic strength.

So in the same manner as the window repair person in the fallacy getting work, local jobs get created in the short term, but at a net negative to the overall system. Ultimately, it's better for everyone if things are efficient (with the GIANT caveat that those economic gains benefit everyone who is in that economy, which clearly hasn't happened in the US since around Reagan's tenure).

To answer your question directly, as just a job creation tactic, I don't think it will work in the medium-to-long term in either India or the US.
No, because of the above point about diversity.

That point does not apply to lending or crime prediction. There is no collective decisionmaking on the part of parolees or borrowers.

Do you have any objection to using your same solutions, but with the opposite direction, in this areas? E.g., if google should try and hire more blacks (due to them overperforming), should BofA try to lend less money to them (because they underperform)?

Similarly, since we know diversity harms group cohesion, should companies which value group cohesion avoid it?

You are being intentionally facetious. I know you're a smart person, that you're very probably aware of what diversity arguments are about, and this reply is thoughtless in a disrespectful way. I'm only spelling it out to avoid downvoters: the idea is that different approaches and attitudes are informed by race, culture, background and gender in ways that are difficult to measure in the interview process.

I don't know why you find this disrespectful. Could you clarify?

I'm simply asking, concretely, how "race, culture, background and gender" inform different approaches and attitudes to detecting systematic failures in a sensor network? Or similarly, how does this inform different approaches to querying a dataset consisting of a normalized SQL schema together with a collection of very large structured files?

I'm being facetious because I consider this idea to be patently ridiculous. In most of my jobs I've been the only person of my race present, and it's literally never affected any professional task.

That's also why I'm asking for specifics, rather than vague allusions to some study you kind of remember reading.

I do of course know what the real argument is about. Diversity is a sacred value and all the arguments you've brought up are actually just post-hoc justifications for a behavior you virtuous. I'm just arguing that there is little more than that.
Here's a list of the terrorist attacks in the UK over the past 40-odd years. You can see that up until the early 2000's, the vast, vast majority of them were perpetrated by the IRA, and the sheer number was much greater than those by Islamic extremists in current times.

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

Also, here's a list of plane hijackings by Cuban sympathizers from the 50's and 60's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Cuba%E2%80%93United_St...

My point is not that Islamist extremist terrorism is not A BAD THING that we should do our best to eliminate. It's more that we should resist the temptation to label it as a unique existential threat that justifies discrimination against an entire religion. History tells us that we've been down this path scores of times before, we've been wrong every time, and we've lived to regret our prejudice.
The only thing that matters to me is, is Amazon still not making a profit?
Uttar Pradesh Association of Dead People
> It should be made clear that this functionality is not equivalent to the Postgres JSON support

I found that pretty clear by way of it being SQLite :P
Of course not in the long term but it's worth thinking that losing entire classes of jobs containing millions of people in a decade might have seriously detrimental effects for some time.
Not raw oyesters?
FreeBSD is pretty common in some market segments, especially infrastructure appliances and devices. It's an easy choice for NAS controllers, internet core routers, email gateways, firewalls, messaging platforms, CDNs. Not to forget the humongous chunk of FreeBSD that is in OSX.

If you think it has a small market share, you're looking at the wrong market.
"Nobody knows how to issue this command or knows if this command works on their drive off the top of their heads."

Sure they do.

You overwrite the drive with a known large file and then check the checksum of it.

It doesn't matter what kind of mumbo-jumbo the SSD is doing - it doesn't have phantom-double-capacity hiding in there ... if the (drive sized file) you wrote checksums out, you're done.

And if you're paranoid, do it a few times with different (drive-sized-files). Quick and easy and faster than googling anything.
Small correction: duplicates are not really "votes", but some managers at Apple do see them as speaking to impact of a bug, and almost everyone takes impact into account when scheduling the resources on fixing bugs. So if you want your bug fixed:
1. Do everything you can to show your bug clearly and reproducibly. No-one is going to spend much time on a bug they can't see.
2. Keep your bug report focused on the problem in front of you, don't stray off on tangents. That give the best chance that your bug gets fixed, rather than dismissed based on the tangents.
3. Include some sort of impact statement for your customers/organization. If this is causing lots of people serious problems, then Apple managers (and the screeners before that) are more likely to care about it more than some other problem that only causes a minor irritation for a few people. So don't just aim for a "+1", tell them how many people you DIRECTLY represent.

But some engineering managers don't care about duplicates, they relay on other things (sometimes only their own judgement) to decide impact and its relation to priority. But very few of us ever know which person is going to make those decisions, and what their priorities are, so it is better to always file your bugs (even if they get duped), and include impact in your filing.

If you want to make life easier for the screeners (who do most of the duping), then look things up on https://openradar.appspot.com, and reference a bug that already does a great job of deciding the problem there. But then include YOUR impact information.
Piper is not built on top of Mercurial.
Seems like it scores the pruning algorithm and adjusts it as well.
Here is a chord graph we did at NetIn that visualizes this: https://netin.co/#filters
Wow, this is the first I've heard of photos being taken at a register. Do you mind sharing what store this was, or if it was triggered by the purchase of a specific item?

I realize this request to reveal where you shopped, or what item you bought, is in response to your objection to being tracked, so I understand if you'd rather not say :)
The 21st century John Henry will be an Amazon order picker who goes up against a robot in a head-to-head order picking competition.

It will not end well.
My understanding is that you're overestimating the cost to manufacture the "smart" crap. The basic hardware is so inexpensive that they don't really lose much to just cram some extra crappy software (crappy software that is extra, or software which is extra crappy, your pick) onto the hardware that already has to go into the TV.
Inspector makes it practically impossible to prove wrong. You literally cannot get the font, positioning, kerning, or spacing wrong with the replaced text.
The bulk of the new hires were most likely low skill, low income people working at their fulfillment centers
https://www.healthaliciousness.com/articles/high-copper-food...
I found this article too basic to be actionable.

Here is a thorough reference on the subject from Artech:
https://www.amazon.com/Essentials-Microwave-Grounding-Artech...

A related classic is:
High Speed Digital Design: A Handbook of Black Magic,
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0133957241
Oh man, tough luck on losing your cat. My baby's reaching 4 and I can't imagine being without her. Best wishes to you.
I hadn't heard about Amazon. That's good to know.
"The statement seems redundant to you and I"

As long as we're on the subject of pedantry, and with your kind leave, may I humbly point out that the above statement should read "The statement seems redundant to you and me"? If in doubt, drop the words "you and" then see how the sentence works:

"The statement seems redundant to I"

vs

"The statement seems redundant to me"

http://www.betterwritingskills.com/tip-w026.html
While knowing a particular technology is useful, there are other prerequisites to remote work.

In particular, you need to be able to work independently, and employers have to be confident of that as well. If you have no work experience that demonstrates the ability to work independently you are unlikely to get remote work.
TLDR: Eli Whitney is introduced during "black history month" in US schools - thus he's assumed by many students to be black.
> A medical doctor or psychiatrist isn't going to be on standby rushing waiting for a student to become sucicidal.

It actually is and is what they are for. Psychiatrists
do clinics etc but occasionally end up absent if a call comes through. It's a bit easier if a big hospital for a big city is near the uni however.
I dont understand how you can get a 40 inch 4k TV for $350 but a 32 inch 4k display is $900.

Seems the 32 inch space prices are way too high.
>>And who to blame for this? Human greed which led to corruption and crony capitalism? There are always funds for everything in India like roads/bridges/housing for poor, but the roads built don't last for a year and the poor doesn't enjoy the housing, rather it's the middle men(dalal).

That's at the first level. If you think of it a little deeply, its actually scarcity. Either reduce the population or increase abundance.

>>Come on, I mean what was the population in Bangalore in Nehruvian times and now? The growth comes with lots of challenges, it's just that there was no plan by any politician to scale the city needs as per the growth. 7 years back when i visited Bangalore, it was the pleasant city with lots of trees, and now half of them are gone to accommodate metro and other things.

My friend its not really outsiders. But something called as regulation and adherence to planning. All these regulations that we hate here in India we love it in the west when they say they want parks and broad roads while planning layouts.

Its not like Bangalore saw growth only after IT. We were there long before. And it was attractive destination for jobs decades before IT happened. Bangalore was home to every single industry back then. BAL's, HAL's, ITIs of the world.

But its just that after 90's people wanted everything in a instance order be damned.

Like I said why think, plan and make. When you can just copy, rush through and import.
They just rolled out a new annual review process (starting this month) and changed rules around switching teams and such.

I don't know how much of that is a result of the article though.
Wow. That's an enormous number of people. There are 54 countries with smaller populations.

Still, this is nothing to sneeze at. It looks like Amazon is now the 8th largest employer in the US [1]. Walmart is number 2, after the Federal government.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_employers_in_t...
That's true, I'm currently using them. But of course Google comes with their own set of privacy concerns as well.
I think Facebook is the ultimate realization of the American concept of "friendship" (maybe not your specific case) contrasted to the German version of friendship. In Germany, to call someone your friend, it is a great honor, it means something, it is an investment. Here in the states, "everyone is friends!" Yet it feels so superficial. Now we can just check in on them a couple times a day on their posts without the huge investment. It's perfectly American.

Also I am sad to see your thought is being down-voted.
A Brief History of 'What Time Is the Super Bowl?'
Ah, the good old "chop off your leg so your foot will stop hurting" method that my dad would propose when I was a kid.
This is my suspicion as well. It's also why the "top of the line" TVs from a display specification perspective also have "SMART" baked in as well.

That said, is this LG issue because it has smart stuff or because it lacks appropriate shielding? The article kind of hints that it's a lack shielding.
Easy to defend, they have to prove you created said file consciously if the device was ever in the possession of someone else other than police.
If they are likely to break the law to tamper with evidence, you've already lost.
Yeah, so as usual... Eat kale. Eat beans.
Honestly, even as a former Bernie supporter, I don't know if political analysis that indicated it can still be called reliable. I've heard his team produced data showing Bernie would win versus Trump, but most polls also thought it was a sure victory for Clinton. While 538 pointed out there was just a "normal polling error"[1] between Clinton and Trump (and I haven't dug as much into the post election analysis due to being distracted by more urgent matters) it seems like the polling clearly missed support for Trump.

I think he would have done a good job at picking up votes from the "disaffected" crowd that voted Trump over Clinton as a protest, but there's certainly the possibility that he would be lose votes for being too far left.

At this point, I certainly still wish Bernie won, seeing as Trump is president regardless, but I don't think there's necessarily a solid counterfactual that he would've beaten Trump. Either way, I think some of the blame can certainly be placed on Democrats pushing more of the same when people were clearly calling for a change.

[1] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trump-is-just-a-normal-...
I hear these kinds of statistics all the time and they are appalling, but I need to understand how they are measured in order to think about the best ways to fix the problem.

There are a lot of people in the US that have plenty of income, but little to no wealth. In other words, their expenses match up with their income. They rent a nice house, have a large loan on their car, some credit card debt, etc. There are a lot of reasonably well off people that have a negative net worth. Would anyone living paycheck to paycheck be considered as having zero wealth? That's half of America [0]. With only 20K in my 401k, I have more wealth than half of the country by that metric.

Also, since we don't have a wealth tax, nobody has to report their personal assets, so how are these numbers calculated?

On the flip side, if you try to measure inequality of income, instead of wealth, some of the wealthiest people on earth can have years of enormous losses that hardly affect their quality of life but would put them on the bottom of the income scale.

[0]http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/05/my-secre...
I keep foregoing Amazon stock because I always think it can't keep up this pace... Say what you will about employee relations, but the sheer growth power of this business is exceptionally impressive when you look at its steady, high growth-rate even after it became the market leader in retail.
Your caveat is key in my opinion. The amount of wealth in America is inarguably larger than ever before, but many aren't benefiting from it. The real problem is wealth inequality.

So the question is: what can we do to redistribute wealth in our political climate without a revolution? UBI would never pass here, but protectionism MIGHT works as a band-aid.
My second favorite quote from the Kingkiller Chronicles:

>First is the door of sleep. Sleep offers us a retreat from the world and all its pain. Sleep marks passing time, giving us distance from the things that have hurt us.

Full quote: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/156661-perhaps-the-greatest...
It is highly likely that even if your relative is very sick, the odds of him/her dying due to general anesthesia are pretty low. The amount of people for whom GA itself is "extremely dangerous" is extremely small.
Anesthesiologists optimize. Their job is to counsel you on what they think is best, to lower the odds of complication. We often have to put people under who are very, very sick due to surgical constraints. A crushing majority of the time, nothing bad happens. It's all a question of lowering the probability.
Zuck: "Facebook is not and has never been part of any program to give the US or any other government direct access to our servers." Oh, well, but they seem to be hooked in there anyway:
http://web.archive.org/web/20150826205104/https://bosnadev.c...
You should probably find and share the number of jobs lost by Macys, Sears, etc, before making that assertion, otherwise, it is difficult to have any reasonable confidence in what you say.
The Imposter Syndrome – Desk of van Schneider
Looks like someone needs to do some editing.

In any case, it just goes to show that many groups have been 'the other' that people blame for problems.
deg F,

windows: en-ca
chrome: EN-US
Physically in Canada
I assume this slipped through because the required certifications don't include rigorous requirements for electromagnetic interference on unlicensed bands? Or was this supposed to be caught in required testing?
The first thing I do when installing a fresh Windows 10 build is download Chocolatey [0] and use that to install a list [1] of programs that I find extremely useful or can't live without. After that I set up Cmder [2] as my default PowerShell and Bash terminal, install Nylas [3] as my default mail program, install Caprine [4] which I use constantly throughout the day to communicate with friends and family, and then I turn on the Windows Subsystem for Linux [5] for my native Bash terminal.

Somewhat related to this topic, I recently found this list of tips and tricks [6] for Windows 10 that I found pretty useful, even as a lifelong (by choice!) Windows user.

[0]: https://chocolatey.org

[1]: My Chocolatey install command is `cinst pscx firefox googlechrome 7zip vlc curl paint.net gimp cmder vim fiddler inkscape greenshot autohotkey nimbletext ffmpeg linqpad5 nugetpackageexplorer ilspy nvm yarn sudo visualstudiocode jq gow lockhunter openssh -y`

[2]: http://cmder.net/

[3]: https://nylas.com/

[4]: https://github.com/sindresorhus/caprine/

[5]: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/install_gui...

[6]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/3f48kd/windows_1...
I cannot imagine a sound hiring process to get 110k people in the door. Even if you assume a 1 to 10 ratio between interview-to-hire (that is low), it's a 1.1M interviews. Must be fun.
We Are All Immigrants
>"I thought it would be difficult. Turns out it's not so hard, and it's the fear of reduced social contact (or dopamine withdrawal more likely) that was stopping me."

Agreed. People fear they will socially ostracized if the leave Facebook. My experience has been the opposite. I found that FB is a good excuse to be socially lazy. Going to actual social events and meeting new people and having spontaneous conversations is far more gratifying and important. It's easy to delude yourself that you are getting your "social fix" via your FB feed and sending and accepting "friend requests."

There was a time when if you were in a public place waiting for a friend, you would strike up a conversation with a person next to you. Now if you are in say a bar waiting for your friend to show up most people are more likely to use that time to look FB on their phones, rather than interact with unknown people around them. I find this kind of sad.
The article does a fine job of completely failing at answering the question. And how on earth could one believe that? As I remember it, Whitney's machine was responsible for a greater importation of slave labor. Picking it was far less labor intensive than getting the seeds out. But once a machine was made to eliminate the labor-intensive part, one now needs more slave labor to pick it.

So even if Whitney were black, I don't think I'd rank him up there with Fredrick Douglas or MLK, Jr. for doing good things for black people. The fact that Whitney was white makes it even more mystifying...and somewhat moronic.
It's not simply an e-commerce giant, it's a logistics giant.

Hundreds of warehouses, hundreds of delivery stations, thousands of shipping containers, dozens of planes (plus an airport soon), a container ship is rumoured. That 341k number probably doesn't even count the independent contractors (both through Flex and through Amazon Logistics) handling deliveries.

The tens of thousands of software developers are there to (among other things) optimize the efficiency of those workers, make them achieve more with less effort via technology.
Because the Advisory Council serves in name only and is a prop to grant legitimacy.
Does your design contain a Trojan?
The linked "Blue Feed, Red Feed" from WSJ is impressive and scary.

http://graphics.wsj.com/blue-feed-red-feed/
No, Docker is not built for security.
I do use Docker sometimes to isolate processes, but not for serious security.
> Maybe, but don't forget to factor in the relative quality of the jobs that are being replaced.

Retail vs Warehouse? I don't think it's much different in quality.

A ton of Retail is Warehouse anyway, just inside a store with customers vs a building with robots.
You don't have to agree with 'KirinDave's comment, but to express that disagreement on HN, you have basically two options:

1. You can write a civil rebuttal that uses evidence to dismantle the point he's trying to make.

2. You can downvote him.

What you should not do is write a comment like this, where you vent emotionally without providing anything for anyone to grasp onto or respond to. Those kinds of comments get flagged (by clicking the timestamp on the comment, revealing the "Flag" button).
I'm starting to think that Trump made this move partly to get his left-wing opponents to lose credibility with people in the center by doing something with (if you're generous or disinterested) plausible justification.

That is, it's clear to me that people calling this "racist" might even be correct, but it may not matter if it seems like they're calling middle America racist. That looks a lot like being understanding towards Iraqis ("I know you're not all terrorists") while being bigoted towards Americans ("You're clearly all racist!"). Anyway, once that meme (doesn't really like Americans) is implanted, then Trump takes a hit today but get some "marketing" wins in the long run when it comes to other issues coming up (Supreme Court appointments, ACA changes, etc.)