skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The details in the article are irrelevant to ascertain guilt.

We have a legal system in place for a reason. And if she claims rape and files a police report then it's not up to HR or you and me to go play detective
Is it really just a matter of getting people to agree, or do people work more effectively face-to-face?

Google, Apple, Facebook all have the means to afford any possible telecommuting technology, yet they also bus their employees 40 miles south from San Francisco to the office.

I have no doubt that telecommuting works well for some teams and some employees, but does it work well in the general case?

I don't think that encouraging spread out housing in large homes on large pieces of land is going to solve any energy problem. People still need to go out for food, errands, entertainment, etc. And single family homes in general are less water and energy efficient than more high density housing.
> I am one of those misfits (not an evil or unempathetic one i think...), and people like you are just the shitty bullies all over again.

Didn't you misinterpret him? I thought his point was that "tech nerds" were generally thought to be "better" than the cool people or jocks, but now that they themselves have the power, turns out they're just like everyone else. Which seems about right to me.

There are very few people I can think of who've made it big in tech and haven't compromised the "generally accepted" principles of "don't be evil".
That's why you'd want it as an add-on, as opposed to core browser code. It's reasonable for all the silly crap that no one wants to be in the add-on directory. It's not reasonable for them to push the add-on to people that didn't choose to install it. That's the part I'm upset about.
> [Smacks forehead.] That definitely explains why it looked so much like FB comments. That's a neat approach. FB moderation handles spam and blatant trolls.

:)

I'm always hopeful, that users can take over this kind of moderation by up-/down-voting (only up-voting in the case of FB, I guess).

But yeah, the sparseness is a real problem. I'm trying to approach it by promoting to specific communities. But might be a tough road ahead.. :D (As many have pointed out here with approaches that have been tried before.)
Yep, exactly.

I don't think nerds are all good, but I don't think they are all evil because of their childhood experiences either as OP implies. The fact is good and evil people are everywhere.
Makes sense, but I feel FB has more spam measures in place then, say, Disqus.
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Is there a separate word from overfitting to refer to generalization performance in a way that explicitly includes distributional shift? Just curious as I never realized that overfitting was commonly constrained in the way you describe and would like to go back and relabel my knowledge to better distinguish between your definition of overfitting and a more general version.
> I always found the prepper mindset a little curious. It seems to me that any kind of major disaster that would totally knock out reliable access to food and aid for 3-6 months (i.e. something worse than the recent hurricanes, more along the lines of climate-change-driven famine apocalypse) will also probably have knocked it out for far longer than that. What happens when one runs out of one's few months of stockpiles?

I would expect that the world would go through several stages after such a disaster:

1. Disaster happens that destroys normal food production and distribution over much of the world.

2. Widespread violence breaks out as people realize help will not be coming and starting fighting over resources.

3. After a couple of months, the fighting and starvation have greatly reduced the population. Most who have survived are weak and out of ammo for firearms.

4. Those who had 6 month stockpiles and were able to keep them (either by being somewhere away from the violence, or by having sufficient arms to defend them) come out and start working with similarly prepared people to get farming going again in their area. They are in good health and have ammo for firearms and so can deal with any survivors of stage 3 who want to try to steal from them.

I don't think the goal when preparing for this kind of disaster is to live off your stockpile until civilization is back to normal--that would take way more than 6 months. I think it is to live off the stockpile until things stabilize and we have enough regional civilization to enable seriously working on rebuilding.
In this case no. We need both sexes to resolve this issue as it plays very differently from both sides.

We can still argue based on merit but I find it interesting to hear the perspective specifically from a woman.

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I think this is the least tinfoil of theories in this thread. After I read Three Body Problem it's become impossible for me to see the Fermi paradox in any other way. In fact , every other theory about how aliens might be on earth all seem so charming now. As if they haven't read the 'news' about what really happened.

Obviously this isn't the case but I just feel the Cixin Liu layed out this theory so convincingly that, at least for me, it might as well be.
The issue is that people idealized both techies and startups. Put them on pedestal. The trouble is, techies and startups were never movie good guys. They were ... just mix of guys. Some good, some bad and generally normal and all that much different from any body else. A bit arrogant and believing that they are something special, but other groups habe that too.

Now it turned out they could not stay on pedestal, because no real group of people can. They are people, not mystical Madonnas.
I don't think the people OP calls "outcasts"/"misfits"/"downtrodden" means they were ever thought to be better.

He seems to be saying, yeah we always knew they were icky and weird, of course they are evil too!!
> even then sadly Zuckerberg called them Dumb Fucks, a "thank you" would have be nicer I'd think...[2]

Why do you think Zuckerberg telling lies you want to hear would be nicer? That seems counter intuitive to me.
> One might object that "offering customers discounts" is a hypothetical, but the pro-NN arguments are also hypothetical; the fact is we don't really know what will happen.

Large, near-monopolistic corporations, with a shocking disregard for customer service are being given new and exciting opportunities to increase revenue. I guess we will need to wait and see what will happen.
I live in San Jose and commute into downtown SF three days a week (fortunate to have a manager who allows 2 WFH/work from SJ office days a week).

My commute is typically 1.5-1.75 hours each way per day, door to door, and that excludes days when Caltrain has some incident or another.

But right now I pay a third what I'd be paying, at least, to live closer. I get to save a lot more money, which is nice, but the commute is awful when you realize you're basically throwing away 4 hours a day on the commute. I'm not the type that can get work done on the train either; it's hard enough sitting comfortably for an hour when people elbow me because they think they own the middle arm rest and beyond into my space.
Plenty of companies conduct internal beta's. Plenty of companies conduct internal usability studies for new features or anything in their product they have the slightest worry could backfire. I mean they could have included this in the developer unpublished version for some time and just asked for general feedback before releasing it. These concepts are far from unheard of.
Don't you mean "engineer"? ;)
From the original:

'More recently, I’ve seen credible people working on ideas like pharmaceuticals for intelligence augmentation, genetic engineering, and radical life extension leave San Francisco because they found the reaction to their work to be so toxic. “If people live a lot longer it will be disastrous for the environment, so people working on this must be really unethical” was a memorable quote I heard this year.'

Unless the plan is to give a dose (or a prolonged treatment, if that's what it ends up being) to all ~7.6B people for free, that basically puts more wind in the sails of the team that is already ahead--as opposed to grandpa's old-school eugenics that sought to end the race then-and-there for the team that was already behind. Eugenics-lite.
I too miss posts like this, but I'm glad we've at least passed beyond the "unicorn! unicorn!!", "here's how to bother your users incessantly" phase and seem to be on an upward trend in post quality.
And I say thanks to #ARKit. ARKit really changed the game and Google have to accept it.
Because this is not a requirement : https://choosealicense.com/no-license/

Sure, it simplifies things for those who want to have a closer look.
With self driving cars this might become more normal. I wonder how that will affect urban planning and house prices.
The distinction is a legal one, but it's important if you're applying for a job or an apartment. A traffic ticket has very different ramifications than a criminal sentence.

I live in a legal state, and I honestly can't imagine living someplace that still prohibits marijuana use by adults... I use edible marijuana pretty frequently while cooking and reading. As far as I can tell, it's just nice and improves my quality of life, like good food or good sex.

The very idea of criminalization is so asinine that it's hard to wrap my head around.
I have done masters in US and I am on h1b visa I get 30k$ PA working as developer in java technology and my spouse on h4 visa gets 40k $ PA .If h4 visa is revoked is it better to apply for h1b visa or f1 visa.
Hover your mouse over the tab the article is loaded in that is the title.
> It's complicated and a desire for a nice simple solution in the name of justice tends to just lead to other injustices, not actual solutions.

Thank you for stating this idea so perfectly.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/7erct8/i_am_tim_ferri...

This was interesting to read:

5) Silicon Valley also has an insidious infection that is spreading -- a peculiar form of McCarthyism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism) masquerading as liberal open-mindedness. I'm as socially liberal as you get, and I find it nauseating how many topics or dissenting opinions are simply out-of-bounds in Silicon Valley. These days, people with real jobs (unlike me) are risking their careers to even challenge collective delusions in SF. Isn't this supposed to be where people change the world by challenging the consensus reality? By seeing the hidden realities behind the facades? That's the whole reason I traveled west and started over in the Bay Area. Now, more and more, I feel like it's a Russian nesting doll of facades -- Washington DC with fewer neck ties, where people openly lie to one another out of fear of losing their jobs or being publicly crucified. It's weird, unsettling, and, frankly, really dangerous. There's way too much power here for politeness to be sustainable. If no one feels they can say "Hey, I know it makes everyone uncomfortable, but I think there's a leak in the fuel rods in this nuclear submarine..." we're headed for big trouble.
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That is not the "anarchism" that I have read about in the past?! Did the author just appropriate the name for a different kind of political ideology?

Seems like it.
For me, I only look at a review if it states at least one or two non-trivial negative aspects of the product. That alone weeds out a lot of fake reviews.

Most honest reviews are never 100% positive.
I was on my phone when I read and replied to rayiner's comment and I misinterpreted it as advocating for lowering the evidentiary standards in criminal cases.

The comment still doesn't make a lot of sense to me in the context of workplace standards. Frequently claims of sexual harassment DO result in the alleged harasser being dismissed, regardless of whether they're true. So isn't this just an argument for the status quo? And if the evidentiary standard is lowered further, won't it still translate into a larger percentage of rape/harassment claims being fraudulent? Is this really the best way to address the problem of unprosecuted rapes?
The plaintiff is the state. The defendant should not be held responsible for financial costs incurred by the state while gathering evidence.
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No. I don't want multiple anxiety attacks in a day.
I had huge problems with Bear. It repeatedly lost files and text and behaved in several other totally unacceptable ways. Have you ever had this problem with it?
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> Why do you think Zuckerberg telling lies you want to hear would be nicer? That seems counter intuitive to me.

Well I'd hope they wouldn't be lies and he would actually care a bit more about storing and using that data and have more respect for his users. But I think you are saying given his motivations and personality, wouldn't it be better if he is honest about his feelings, then yes, that's certainly preferable.
The fact that there isn't a clear, certain answer suggests that it's at least not what it used to be.

I think the more interesting question is, what changed? Is it simply too much time to put at risk as they scaled? Did they determine that 5 days of focus on just one thing works a lot better?
I didn't suggest they should be ignored, but I'll ask you the reverse question, do you think people should be fired any time some nasty rumors about them gain traction? That's not a society I want to live in.
2^2 = 4?
This has some beautiful and magical synchronicities in it.
Welcome. :-) Another thing.. "3 years after ratification of the 15th Amendment" .. I guess you mean something in the US? I'm not in the USA, Mill wasnt in the US, no-one in the parents of this mentioned the US - why assume..well, not sure what you're assuming, but the talking as if this conversation, topic, site and its users exist entirely in the US seems rather ..strange. It's not just you. Someone else on this very page did the same thing with me today, but in a very snarky way. Maybe this chapter was posted because of something happening in the US, so people in the US are just thinking of their own scene; I don't know.
My experience with the test providers is that often they partner with another company that handles the technology side of things, which is often hack-ish at best. Universities often have the choice of directing their students to authorized test centers with heavily locked down machines (and a nominal testing fee), or try to recreate such an environment with their own equipment and rooms. The difficulty with this is that often the provided tools for locking down a computer lab are woefully out of date, relying on old browsers or software components that are EOL or just quite out of date, which isn't very compatible with the trend towards auto-update software/OSes. It's a bad situation for students and educators alike as they have no professional alternative for their careers and it just ends up being an awkward time of the year for many people.

Some of my most stressful memories from my professional career were simple compatibility issues that got overlooked during a wave of updates, and suddenly a bunch of nursing students or education students have a ticking timer on a certification test where parts of it won't load because X plugin is incompatible with Y part of the test.
Technophob in what sense?
Maybe because the kind of remorse is different, with a different sigma attached? (just a thought)

In other words maybe "I murdered" is a different remorse (or lack of) than "I raped"?
> The money flow for Social Security is taxes ->

No, the money flow for Social Security is payments that were previously made by the recipients. At least, that's how it's supposed to work. It's only because our government has raided the Social Security trust fund for decades that current payments have to be paid from tax revenues.

> How stuff gets produced isn't magic; it's much the same as today's economy.

You didn't include production anywhere in your money flow. Where does it come in?
You are not wrong. Traditional anarchism, does not even attempt to talk about "coercion". In general, "anarchism" is about the dismantling of social hierarchies. It is a central tenant in anarchist ideology that hierarchies are bad. That is why there are various "flavours" of anarchism. Each emphasises some kind of hierarchy.

The piece in the OP has nothing to do with the century long tradition of anarchist thought.
I think this overly broad. I can't just label everyone I don't like a Google employee.
Not really what I was saying, but interpret my post in whatever way most satisfies you personally.
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Read unwinds's reply Mr smartass
I5 through downtown Seattle is absolutely a division between downtown and Capitol Hill, and it's a 10 minute walk from the convention center exit to the next pedestrian building entry. That's a terrible example for your point.
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For loudspeakers it's more complicated than a simple flat on-axis response; the dispersion into the room is critically important. Which in turn means that a flat frequency response curve is the wrong target for headphones designed to mimic good speakers, because a flat loudspeaker is not flat when measured at the ear, which is where headphone drivers are located.

Harman has done some really interesting research on this - https://www.innerfidelity.com/content/headphone-target-respo...
REST and SOAP are in fact the exact opposite.

SOAP was designed to be a "fit all cases" solution. and that turned out to be an over complicated over engineered solution that pretty much everybody hated.

REST grew organically from people using HTTP and liking it and thinking "hey I could actually make an API from http calls and that would be pretty neat". Sure it's not great for a lot of cases, but it gets the job done and is the natural way to query a server with a browser. So I f I can make a website and the API at the same time, then that's that much less work for me.

This is exactly the same type of rant we get about node.js, electron or Python. When people chose these technologies they know it's crap. Writing a server in an interpreted, dynamically typed language is pretty dumb. Running a desktop app as a local web service rendering in an embedded browser is somewhat less than ideal. And using one of the least efficient language for data processing is somewhat counter intuitive...

The point is: people like working with these. Get over it.
I don’t think they are all evil, but I think the cause for at least some evil is shaped by those experiences. Especially on a young impressionable mind.
>> Tracking the product back to it's actual origin of manufacturer.

>> Where, exactly, was the factory? The lot number and date of manufacturer? Official model and revision number?

Check out Amazon Transparency:

https://www.amazon.com/b?node=15466573011
> The business model of giving free service until people are hooked, and then monetizing the service by selling data has been a big part of the problem.

The way this was phased made me realize that by offering a free service funded by VC money, it squeezes the competition forcing them to reduce quality or go out of business. The monopolistic behavior to eliminate competition then increasing prices is not something that I saw before in many tech companies.
> people like you are just the shitty bullies

Personal attacks aren't allowed on HN, no matter who you're talking to or how wrong they are. We ban accounts that post like this, so please don't do this again. Instead, read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the spirit of the site to heart and you'll be fine.

Edit: I'm sorry to see that you've posted several other uncivil and/or unsubstantive comments to HN recently too. Really, please don't do that.
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Amazon is a lot more than a tech company. Supply chain workers are probably most of their employees. Google would be a better comparison. They have ~60,000.
Lol perhaps I am horribly triggered and reading incorrectly... but the 2 lines you wrote seem clear as day to me -

Techies are "misfits". Being a "misfit" "creates the perfect foundation for personalities with something to prove and little to no empathy to stop them from doing it.".

i.e being a misfit = higher chance of being an evil person.
Yes. Even if it mentions some "non-trivial" positive aspects, it still helps.
>an analogous group of women that behave this way as well

Not by action perhaps, but by inaction certainly. Sadly, there exist women who deny this behaviour or engage in the victim blame. I say this as a woman, I've experienced women saying in private that another woman "deserved" it. It's not a simple issue but I believe it is related to cognitive dissonance and finding a way to justify the prejudice a person has experienced in her or his own life. The patriarchy affects us all.
I am angry at you for showing me that projection of reality.
I don't understand what makes this a "study". What were you studying?
For sure and no problem! And I think you make some fine arguments. In cases like what we're discussing, though, we need to remember the focus of the site: intellectual curiosity. Knowing what HN is trying to be and what it is not trying to be is critical.

Keeping intellectual curiosity as the top priority has surprisingly strong consequences if you think about it. It means, for example, that any social benefits are side effects—welcome side effects, but not the purpose of the site.
> You can't call the poll biased just because the subject it is polling about is complicated.

My point is the poll may reveal a preference for the status quo, not for the substance of the policy.

Risk aversion is natural of course. But when the status quo gets changed, what you thought was public support for your position may vanish.

> You really think your version of this is less biased?

Of course not. I attempted to make it equally biased for the anti-NN position.

> IIRC other countries have already tried this and observed its effects

Yeah... US Rep Ro Khanna (from my district!) had probably the most viral message on this topic:

https://twitter.com/RoKhanna/status/923701871092441088/

But this particular case is terrible for the pro-NN proponents. It turns out people actually LIKE zero-rated services, and the "it crowds out startups" argument doesn't land at all.
> I have seen an article where someone was literally quoted as saying "A woman should be able to walk naked down the street and be safe from rape." Is it okay for men to wander the streets naked?

It (was) fairly okay in San Francisco. There was even a hubbub about how nudist men were taking over a shiny new parklet a few years back. The city passed an ordinance, but I don't think any of them were too worried about getting raped.

(Note: You moved the goalpost from "safe from rape" to "is it okay".)
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