skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>and the challenges for moderators, who say they are overwhelmed by the volume of work, which means they often have “just 10 seconds” to make a decision.

Maybe Facebook should just hire more moderators? I know they'd love to totally relegate this to some awesome NLP algorithm but we're not there yet. Facebook makes more than enough money to bring on some more employees (and clean up their guidelines).

EDIT: oops, had two articles from the guardian on FB up and referenced the wrong one.
> the much longer work of child-rearing: who pays for that?

I've been thinking about this, and I have a thought for a stable social system with some historical precedent. Basically, the current educational/career trajectory of most first-worlders (which, in general, I think is a pretty good idea) basically rules out having kids until you've graduated college. Beyond that, most people in their 20s right now don't want to have kids until they're financially stable, which can easily take another 5-10 years. So you have a lot of women who start having children in their 30s, if at all. Basically all research indicates that there are non-negligible risks to both mother and child associated with waiting this long. Genetic defect rates and physical complications from pregnancy are vastly lower in the late teens/early 20s.

So, what if instead, we did kind of a generation-skip thing where (financially stable) grandparents were the ones who actually raised their children's children? This would be a bit of a throw-back to multi-generational households where the elderly (by historical standards) assisted with child rearing. It seems like this would simplify a lot of things economically and career-wise.
No, they use Magic Number among a bunch of various tricks. You can't really call it image recognition, more like 'data-hash comparison.' To train true image recognition would require a LARGE subset of stored illegal pornography.
Besides simplicity, IMO being opinionated matters a lot. People don't like choices when starting to learn the language.
Manipulation, as in intentional leading of someone's behavior.

"The usual poor decision making" is more erratic. Mix up poor education, poor info, weird ideas about causality, etc., and you'll get all sorts of different behavior.

Well planned disinformation, strong persuasive ads, policy that leads to desperation + overly obvious option to get out... These sorts of things would create a lot more focused of a result.
Unfortunately many management schools of thought still take the 8 hour as gospel. I worked at a company where my manager's words were "I expect 8 solid hours from developers". Well I gave him 8 solid hours of my physical body, but I allowed my mind to wander whenever if felt like. In a way I was not officially underemployed but I didn't give them "solid 8 hours" - I made sure time expanded to fill up estimates.
How can a copyright assignment that lasts a year after you're terminated be enforceable? That has to be considered unconscionable.
Because there is competition that have never done anything bad like SF, that offers better products. Would you buy your groceries at Al Capone's, while there's a grandpa's groceries just right next door that offers better, cheaper, and more versatile stuff?
Is this article being intentionally ironic? I agree with the idea that not questioning the 40 hour work week is crazy. However, it seems like the author is substituting 40 hours of butt-in-chair work for 35 hours of the same and 5 hours of more relaxed pontificating work.

I feel like 30 hours is plenty and 20 hours is sufficient for many jobs. That would be a more direct challenging of the 40 hour belief.
From the artist's perspective, it's not much different. They don't make much off streaming.
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How do you square those beliefs about inevitable collapse with the lack of collapse in many advanced countries who have socialist-inspired policies?
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oh no worries dude, we get the same thing as girls too. Girls are marketed overpriced clothing and makeup, but in all honesty the only thing that makes the models attractive in those clothes is their investment in their diet, and long term skin care, and minimalist organic approach to really taking care of your body.

Those things are way expensive than any clothes they are wearing, and require a lifestyle of discipline and long term changes that can take years to get to.

If youre a model in that clothing, you also look just as as good in shorts and a tshirt from target, in act you probably just did an ad campaign with them last week.

Once you figure out investing in your health and your glow as a person is the long term investment, everything else becomes less relevant.

Nonethless, they do want you to believe the clothes are why the model looks so edgy and well tailored but it rarely has anything to do with that.

Take care of your body, take care of your mind. less stuff, and a few high quality investments in minimalist clothing and thats the trick.
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> The first version of something is rarely the best version

Second, actually

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

As another comment mentioned, it's arguably greater if you include subsequent amendments.

The US Constitution has its share of flaws, but it ignores quite a bit to call it a first version.
It's increasing use in science/statistics is probably helpful. I know data scientists, lab scientists, an economist, and people in finance who only know Python and haven't considered learning anything else (including R).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14226889

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14280569
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This is incredibly detailed; in short, CDNs, cookies/authentication , tons of subdomains, and 3rd-party/user-generated content make it a pain to move onto HTTPS.

I was chatting with a non-engineer friend about why it's hard to estimate how long tasks often take, and this seems like a prime illustration: the dependencies are endless.

I also love the Easter egg:

"The password to our data center is pickles. I didn’t think anyone would read this far and it seemed like a good place to store it."
In my parallel universe, you're also the one telling your coworkers about your weekend every Monday morning, but I agree with your point. :-)

> Open offices are just stupid. They cause conflict where there shouldn't be.

Yes.

I would kill someone for a walled office, even if there was a high risk of life imprisonment, as long as there was some assurance that the prison cell would have walls.
I'd use what I'm familiar with. That's be asp.net and knockout
If this device is covered by insurances, this could become a potential cash cow.
Which issues did you run into with EF Core? I've been dipping my toes in the water and was on the fence about investing time in their offering after seeing their long-ish roadmap or just switching to Dapper.
Like a lot of products, it's great if it solves a problem that you just happen to have.

I currently have a Fitbit charge 2. I've used Fitbit for a few years now.

For me, it offers otherwise hidden insights into my state of health. We're not all totally self-aware spiritualists who can meditate and smoothie our way to good health. Sometimes I rely on my smart watch informing my sleeping has gotten worse, or my resting heart raise has gone up, to indicate I'm going through a stressful time and need to fix it.

Otherwise, it reminds me when I've been sitting still for a long time. Easy to do when you're 'in the zone'.

There's some other stuff I think is specific to Fitbit. Namely, the community side of things? Where you can join a group where you all compete to have the most steps in a given period. The interface to that is great, I think.
Are you in some way working with those with Parkinson's? You seem highly knowledgeable. I have a relative that I believe is in denial of the disease (Parkinson's + as described by one doctor) and am looking for some insight. Apologies for the out of band comment, just looking for help.
I haven't been seeing it, either. In fact, I dare say it is nearly impossible to find a software shop in my area that isn't knee-deep in some iteration of "Agile" management - usually some form of Scrum.
HR is driven by data. To kill open floor plans, start citing the floor plan as the primary reason for leaving. If that becomes a theme, IMO open floor plans will become cancer. It just takes time.
By the way, I cannot type without bottoming out, and I suspect this is something many people simply cannot learn to do. My hands will just not cooperate. I use Topre switches, which are supposedly quite ideal for practicing this magical voodoo typing technique, and when pressing a key enough to activate it but not bottom out, I have about a 50-50 chance of not activating the key at all. It's not something that's ever going to get better with practice, and frankly, I'm not personally aware of any detrimental effects of my bad bottom-out typing.
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Sorry, missed one:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14382246
I prefer the hybrid approach: common semi-open room, plentiful breakout areas that can double as part-time offices.
"Maybe Facebook should just hire more moderators? I know they'd love to totally relegate this to some awesome NLP algorithm but we're not there yet. Facebook makes more than enough money to bring on some more employees (and clean up their guidelines)."

There are systems that can detect porn pretty reliably. Helping moderators spot any porn more quickly will also let them spot revenge porn more quickly. Any correct or false positives can be fed back into detection systems. It might still take more moderators, though. Facebook needs more anyway given the size of user base and money available for moderation.
Wow letting your mind wander, rebel without a cause here.
This is why I gave up my old IBM Model M for a quieter DAS Model S. I don't really want to type on cheaper mushy keyboards, so this is a nice compromise.
> The password to our data center is pickles. I didn’t think anyone would read this far and it seemed like a good place to store it.

You ought to have more confidence in your writing. BRB stealing all your servers.
T5 is senior software engineer. Some of them have reports, some don't. Some are team leads, some aren't. I'm an "individual contributor" (no reports, not a team lead).
Why? Just use two separate datasets, one of images of adults and children, to learn age, the other of porn and non-porn, to learn what's "nudity" or "sex".
The standard keyboard layout, which every mechanical keyboard I've ever seen (including my beloved model M) is terrible for your wrists. The people using mechanical keyboards are not saving themselves anything.

Get a proper ergonomic keyboard like the microsoft sculpt if you actually care about the health of you hands.

Mechanical keyboards are cool, which is why I own one, and when I had an office why I used one every day. But mechanical keyboards are like the loud exhaust that people put on their cars. Yeah, there is a reason that some cars have loud exhausts, but that isn't why you put that on your honda civic.
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Same issue and conclusion for me. I'm leaving the 40 hour work force in 4 months.
The employment rate in the legal profession as lawyers for law school graduates appears to be about 70% historically for new graduates. Those who went to a top 10-20 school are doing very well and probably those to whom you are referring to in your sample. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/19/business/dealbook/an-expe...
You are correct, yet even though I agree substantively with Krugman even I find his hectoring tone and use of loaded language discomfiting.
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I think that for non-selection for operational sex organs to have a noticeable effect on the population would require hundreds of generations, and would likely get fixed by gene therapy anyway. If instead you are talking about purposely using gene tech to remove traits for sexual reproduction, I don't see that as an immediate concern either.
It seems to be a bad deal specifically for other countries companies which do businesses in the US. If you're incorporated in another country, I feel that patent Trolls can decide the state they want in the US to sue you about US law patent infringement on US territory. To protect itself a foreign company would need a local branch in the right state
> I see the "I don't disagree" bit a lot on here. You mean you agree, then, correct? Then why not just say "I agree!" Is that so hard for you?

Ok then, I disagree: a replacement is not needed. What is needed is to amend the original law to address shortcomings.

> I really want an answer as to why my insurance doubled in the past few years while all I got was a bunch of bs shoved up my ass, which is all I ever get!

I won't speak to your particular case because there are too many variables at play between individual markets. One problem is that you don't know what would have happened had the market, such as it was, been left alone in 2008. I know I'd have been screwed several times over in that case—my provider tried to rescind coverage on my 2yo son just after the child provisions took effect, and the ACA prevented that.

Additionally, (and I'm assuming you lean right given your argument) its disingenuous for the GOP and GOP voters to pretend that the ACA is problematic on its merits, when they have been doing everything in their power to ensure it fails for the last 9 years. States that refused the medicaid expansion have only themselves to blame for the substantial number of problems in those states. You can't yell "because FREEDOM" and cut your nose off to spite your face, then complain because you got a nosebleed.
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Have you considered other areas in tech like Project Management, where technical skills are an added-benefit?
This is your claim, right?

> The conditions required for the amount of land-based ice to melt [in order for coastal cities to flood] will have meant that the extinction of most (if not all) life on this planet would have occurred long ago.

I suppose your calculations are simply the energy required to melt the additional volume of water required to raise sea level by x meters, and that the increased rate of heat retention due to AGW could not supply the heat required in y years, for some reasonable values of x and y. I'm prepared to stipulate that that is so. (I would set x=2 to flood some major cities, and y = 2100 - 2017 = 83).

Well, melting all that ice is not the concern, although no doubt it will happen in a few thousand years. The concern is that ice which is currently above sea level will slide into the sea, as the NY Times article discusses. Calculating that would require a whole lot of modelling and detailed knowledge, well beyond a fifth grader (whatever that is in your country), or even a lone genius with superb arithmetical skills.
What about longer but still quicker routes than a typical delivery truck? Having a drone means it could do the same pre-programmed route every time. Instead of as-the-crow-flies, have it take a route that's mostly over unpopulated areas but ultimately saves time and money by avoiding traffic, intersections, bridges, etc.
Hey, I have the same keyboard! Do you actually use all the extra G keys or macros? I thought I would but the cognitive load of memorizing what each G key stands for is too much.
That's a plot point at the beginning of Man of Steel. Kal-el (Superman) is the first baby to be normally conceived and born in hundreds of years.
My basic role is analysis and database marketing for a non-profit foundation. I was hired into a new position for them a little over three years ago into a role that was an amalgamation of a bunch of roles from people who had left. They unified these roles into a single role, and split the unrelated work between other people in the organization.

I set the strategy for all of our mailings, run the data, and then analyze the performance. We have 800,000 constituents, and send about 500,000 appeal letters each year, as well as countless emails and other pieces of mail. I've managed to decrease our cost to raise a dollar from about 22 cents to about 6 cents, while improving the overall quality of our appeals, which I'm pretty proud of.

We are a really small organization (<50 employees), so I end up doing a really wide variety of tasks. We have a lot of challenges that larger organizations wouldn't have because of our limited manpower.

Since nobody had really taken a holistic look at their data before me, I spent the first year cleaning up all of their existing data and automating almost every processes I could get my hands on. I used to spend 3 weeks of every month running recurring processes, and I cut that down to about 15 minutes a week.

After that first year my manager left. At this time the Director asked me to come work directly under him because he felt that none of the other managers understood my role well enough to manage me. This allowed me to focus more on the analysis and marketing side of my role.

As time has gone on I've been asked to create more processes for speeding up other people's work. I'm not an application designer, and I recognize that the processes I'm creating are pretty fragile. This wasn't a problem when I was automating my own processes, because if they broke I could fix them. Now there are a bunch of people using processes that only I can fix, which makes it very hard to take a vacation or a sick day. This causes me a lot of stress, which is a key reason why my walks have been trending longer.

I'm basically somewhere in the middle of the graph from the XKCD comic Automation[1]. I'm starting to look for a new job before fixing broken automation steals the time I need to make a resume (or do the part of my job I really enjoy).

So long story short, I basically do anything involving the data or programming for a small-to-mid-size non-profit organization.

[1] https://xkcd.com/1319/
Seriously, $10K/mo for remote engineers in Poland?

If so then hooray for Poland, but most engineers in Germany make less than that.
You can certainly save some money on cargo-only risks. Sure, the thing can't be allowed to crash onto a village, but you can take some controlled risks like flying in worse weather or using worse takeoff/landing strips than you'd chance with human pilots.
Kinda random - anyone have experience scaling GraphQL APIs? It seems super difficult since you're basically giving clients the ability to arbitrarily query your data.
I was using a Model M when working in an open office in China. No one really cared, because the guy in the cubicle next to me had a sunflower/watermelon seed habit. Damn, no one should be de-shelling seeds in an open office! Or in the afternoon we would have fruit, and pear day everyone would be smacking and slurping (Chinese pears are much more watery than western pears, I hate pear day!), or everyone talking/arguing/whatever. Turns out my keyboard wasn't weird in what was already a high noise environment.

I had to invest in a pair of Bose noise cancellation headphone a long time ago.
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They haven't collapsed yet. See also, Spain, Greece, Italy...
They've basically all been downvoted to death.

HN submissions are open, nothing stops them writing a blog post and submitting that.

The similarity of the posts makes it seem like a coordinated effort by those involved. A circle jerk of marketing bullshit, if you will.
I'd imagine this will lead to defendant-friendly patent laws becoming one of the selling points that states use to try to lure tech companies to relocate.
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I've just started learning Haskell (and am currently about three-quarters of the way through the LYAH book). The single thing that has helped me the most was having spent a bit of time learning and programming in Elm last year. This gave me the opportunity to learn some of the foundational concepts and language characteristics that exist in both languages like immutability, higher-order functions, algebraic data types, programming without null, etc., all in a much more approachable environment.
Ask HN: Make for SQL scripts?
I have been searching for a better way to execute a chain of SQL scripts than a simple bash script, but without the complexity of a full blown workflow manager like Luigi or Airflow - which are really fine solutions for robust ETL processes, but overkill for some interactive analyses.

Ideally, I would like to define a "makefile" in something clean like YAML, and call a routine that reads it as a DAG and executes scripts in order of dependency with appropriate parallelism.

Snakemake [1] is one option, but as its geared towards processes that read and write files, some operations that don't emit data (like calling psql on an SQL script file), require some hacks.

Is there a _simple_ workflow manager that fits this category? We are mostly a Python shop, but languages such as Go are also in use.

[1] https://snakemake.readthedocs.io
Pirates already do the same thing.
The stasi informal informers where there to monitor attitudes of people, not prevent crimes and either way the system wasn't particularly effective.
Overall in East-Germany, people were not very afraid of police ('friend and helper'). Police didn't randomly shoot people.

I'd say the US is a better example of a police state than the GDR.
Train your A.I on the cloud if you don't have powerful GPU/CPU
I don't think it's realistic to put the masses in their own offices at any productivity level if it means you need more Silicon Valley or San Francisco square feet.

But an office and the opportunity to live somewhere I can spend less than 50% of my income on a reasonable apartment, I'd take that offer in a heartbeat.
Yeah, I further encourage not selling anything to people in that court's area of influence except maybe through a specific corporation designed to do just that. Make sure it constantly transfers its money out, too. Reason being there's a lot of money to be made selling in Texas, Austin is a tech hub, and University of Texas does some of the best work w/ top-notch researchers. So, can't leave entirely missing the benefits but certainly hedge against the risks.
Officially, it stores 8 hours of data in five minute intervals and you have to read it with an NFC device, so automatic alarms are a no-go.

If you want to hack, it is possible to turn the Libre to have automatic alerts. I did it, it's not perfect, but if you have nightly hypos which you don't notice, this can be helpful:

https://github.com/pimpimmi/LibreAlarm/wiki

http://www.freestylesticker.com/product/freestyle-libre-cgm-...

If you're in Europe, I have one modded Sony Smartwatch 3 which I can sell :)
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I agree. My most productive environment was either 2 or 4 person offices. The weakness was the common space.

IMO a dorm suite like layout would be great... have a pod of offices supporting 20 people with a shared common area.
…and what is wrong with referring to what you have said before?
it is infuriating when the topmost comment on that article is about overpopulation FUD while the comments have gotten closed, so I am unable to retort.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/14/opinion/overpopulation-is-...

There is absolutely no hard evidence that world overpopulation should be seen as a serious concern, because we do not know the actual food production capacity limit of the earth, and clearly we are already wasting quite a bit of whatever's there (such as eating meats instead of plants).
The larger idea behind very focused practice of specific skills is called "deliberate practice". Professor/MacArthur Fellow Angela Duckworth has done great work behind this (see her book, "Grit").