skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I once interned at a law firm which represented a public sector union. My takeaway is that unions want to get rid of problem employees as much as the employer.

That can make it awkward for a union representative at a disciplinary hearing who is counseling a troublesome employee. Sometimes the lawyer might tell the employee something like, "I can get you off this time but they're gunning for you, so you're better off resigning and taking severance." Which is true as far as it goes, but the lawyer and the union leader are actually thinking, "this guy is an asshole and we need to get rid of him without looking like we sold him down the river."

Long story short: when the employer and union have a good working relationship, a union has no trouble showing a problematic employee the door.

The real issue that I saw repeatedly is that employers will often try to unfairly fire employees, either to circumvent contract rules or because of incompetent or malicious supervisors. They'll even go so far as to concoct complaints out of thin air. In such a hostile environment, when a legitimately problematic employee is under review the union has to take extra care to ensure the legitimacy of the problem. Furthermore, it's more difficult organizationally (i.e. maintaining the trust of union members) to usher a bad employee out the door when N previous employees were screwed by the employer. (Because the details of misbehavior often need to remain private for legal or practical reasons, it's difficult for both employer and union to be transparent with rank-and-file about why an employee needed to go.)

The moral of the story is to maintain a good working relationship. It's ridiculous that employers can't always do that, but I think it speaks to systematic problems in continuity of leadership of large public and private employers. Every successive leader (CEO, Police Chief, whatever) spends a substantial amount of his time attempting to unwind transactions executed by the previous leader, rather than moving forward. That ultimately leads to inconsistent, unfair, and often egregiously improper management practices.
2) Key signature

Since the server side doesn't store the key of the user, I would like a way to still be able to tell the user if their password is wrong. I need a way to generate something that can be stored on the server, that the user can sent when generating the initial key, and then can resend when logging in, that the server can reply true/false if the master key/password is correct.

My initial thought was to simply hash the master key and store that. I was going to use SHA-256 but since I might use that to get the AES key, I had to revisit it. Would simply generating a low-entropy/length hash from say MD5, and storing that, be a good option? I'm not worried about collisions, since the chance the user gets a collision for their own password is extremely low.
There is another element beyond explaining clearly, and that is that people tend to remember and relate to tangible examples better than abstractions. Metaphors are great memory devices even for people who are not dumb or uneducated.
"No-one wants to sit in front of a computer screen for 12 hours per day."

"640K ought to be enough for anybody."
Tell me about it. Whenever I hand in an invoice from one of those US services, I get strange looks from the accounting desk - even the receipts of established, large US companies barely pass as legitimate invoice, often featuring little more than a date, email and amount due.
This reminds me of a presentation[0] from Microsoft at CPPCon about using the same giant ancient Office codebase on iOS and Android as on Windows.

0. https://cppcon.org/bonus-talk-cxx-in-ms-office-2014/
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> Why are hospitals doing the opposite to offering the best care possible to all citizens? Are they for-profit in the US?

Contrary to sibling comments, no, they generally are not. Most (58.5%) US hospitals are private nonprofits, and another 20.2% are public. Only 21.3% are private, for-profit. [0]

[0] https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-management-ad...
The same opinion repeated by lots of western economists every year, so you are not the first one. China's economy and culture is different, which lots of western couldn't understand, but still try to use western prospect to interpret it. Like asset bubble, the western don't know the mortgage in China is at least 20% for first property, and the second one would be 50% or even higher. And also in Chinese culture, most people would not get finance for the vehicle, and the saving rate is significant higher than US.
Hasn't the topic of the article already been "litigated to death" and been the subject of many flame wars?

In what manner is that twitter link "off-topic" in the context of this article?

Has the twitter link ever been discussed here rather than killed?

I, for one, found it quite surprising. Based on news coverage and personal interactions with Googlers, I had no idea people were writing such things without reprimand from HR. In fact, I'd go so far as to say this link is the most substantive and thought-provoking comment in the entire thread.
Right in time. And not just the design is broken but also the code.

Lately I've been fascinated by
that all new apps and services I've started to use are all broken.

A first surprise was Instagram has no iPad app just mobile; Pinterest doesn’t let you upgrade your profile pic on web just inside the app; the Dribbble app doesn’t let you update your profile nor upload posts; Pinterest can’t take a https url in your profile just www; when adding a photo on Behance the photos from the iPad folder are doubled; and so on.

My first thought was: we live in the era of design, there are billion dollar companies, yet the experience they offer sucks.

And the second: what the hell those designers and developers do out there? Is everybody in a bubble in the valley?
after having some trouble with the equivalent of chargebacks

Would you share more details about this, if you can?
Female serial killer, the 'comely' Belle Gunness, loved her suitors to death
Cathy Newman (the journalist) is putting all her efforts to make that interview interesting and to present Jordan Peterson views. That is why she is trying to make it controversial and tries to present most likely misinterpretations of Peterson's position.

These misinterpretations allow Peterson clearly state what his position is and what it is not.

I think Cathy Newman did a good job with that interview. She could do it even better if she was a little bit less aggressive with interrupting Peterson. She still had to interrupt him though in order to maintain good interview pace (but interrupt a little bit less).

Note that most likely Cathy Newman finds Peterson's views on that topic - interesting. That is why she invited him to do that interview and promote his book.
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If each core really is the size of a paper towel roll, then this seems like a solid step toward me eventually owning a nuclear-powered car.
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Tether is a foreign company, so the raid has to be from international authorities... but boy that raid story will rival Silk Road or Megaupload stories.
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In Thinking, Fast and Slow, David Kahneman writes about "peak-end rule" - people tend to rate experiences by their peak level of emotion during the experience, and by the way experiences end.

My takeaway is if you want people to remember an experience positively, what matters is a high peak of pleasure, and to have a good end.

These are places where clever metaphors can help.
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The reverse side of the incumbent and established having unlimited rights to protect their quality of life is that the young have none.

The young are also feeling overwhelmed by the cost of living, and are starting to question whether tenure really confers a special moral status that makes the most superficial elements of your quality of life (perception of crowding, architectural taste, ease of parking) more important than the fundamentals of ours (access to employment, housing cost burden, ability to start families).

Socioeconomic vulnerability justifies additional protection, sure, but any community against any change? Come on.

I know, I know, kids these days are entitled. It would be fine to arrange housing as a delayed-gratification, wait-your-turn sort of thing. But the economic cards are stacked in my favor about as well as they can be, and I don't see any such path. So excuse me, but I'm going to fight for a world in which my generation plausibly gets jobs and shelter at the same time.
Cathy Newman allowed Peterson to answer to all of her intentional misinterpretations.

Peterson clearly enjoyed that intellectually challenging interview.
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That's um... neither how stats nor reasoning works :(
In fiat money systems, banks create new money when they make a loan. If you take a loan from a non bank entity, they clearly can't make new fiat money, so money supply stays fixed. My question is, should these loans be interest free? Because if they are not, there is an obvious systemic issue of economic musical chairs...

Or is the idea these contracts live within the broader fiat systems? I suppose you can use a crypto currency with a growing money supply.
In defense of your average rural dweller, things really do move a lot more slowly in rural areas in comparison to metropolises. There's less diversity as well. So, you know, please take it easy on us dumb hicks out in the sticks. We're less connected, sure, but we're getting there.
It's similar to the term "free speech". It has a constitutional meaning but people give it a colloquial meaning as well... which adds to confusion when you start talking about legal stuff.
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Kaiser Wilhelm was out of power by 1920.
I guess that depends on your filter bubble. I know many more people who use LibreOffice compared to Google Docs. Most people I know don't trust the cloud with their important documents.
See also, pants and buck.

I think it's a story of PostgreSQL vs Mongo - do you start out with conservative correctness and slowly expand your feature set, or do you advertise a lot of (poorly imolemented) features, and with the large userbase slowly increase your quality.
But is that a chicken or the egg? Apple never developed the channels because of their focus on privacy when they could have easily done so.
Ah, ok. Thanks for the explanation.
In Japan they just call them 'thermal plants' or 'thermal generators' or something like that. Still, in Japan you have people who follow around US aircraft carriers and submarines to sample their wake for any signs of radioactive discharge.
So, his point seems to be that because finding the truth is complicated, it's okay to bullshit your way into hypotheses because they might turn out to be true.

But at what cost? The article is pretty much justifying p-hacking and selective data usage, but for every time that leads to an unexpected breakthrough discovery, there will be a thousand other times where it leads to bad science, and stands in the way of discovering the truth. Just because Galileo did it in the days without experimental standards and with very few researchers in total, doesn't mean it's necessary or desirable in today's world.

The author also seems to be ignoring the fact that 99% of the time, the intention of the bullshitter is not to boldly go forth into unchartered territory in the absence of necessary data. It is to create a picture of reality convenient to themselves, with no regard to actual observation or to the other consequences of assuming the bullshit to be true.
The 3 part tariff sounds like a familiar pricing model to car leases
Cenk, oh wow - cool! thanks for being with us and please let us know if any questions or feature requests.
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I believe this article has great advice for everyone in tech, and really gets at the core of some of the problems that are widespread in the industry.

The thought exercise of thinking of yourself as something other than an engineer/technologist was eye opening. I got very nervous just thinking about it, and I really do have well rounded interests, other skills, and am not locked into a 24/7 work lifestyle.

Apparently I've let being a software engineer become a core part of who I am as a human being, and I think it's very worth my time to consider how that happened and whether it's healthy for me. I don't believe I judge others for not being engineers, why would I judge myself so strongly for just thinking about it?
Johnny, looking forward!
Did you look at Raspbian Lite? You could then install your choice of windowing system on top.
Sincerely curious why you think a squashfs of the app contents (without any additional operating system bits) running under seccomp and apparmor is a hack? What do you think is the ideal solution?
I apologize if I made it seem like I was blaming the victim; I was genuinely interested in learning how one would know the reason they were rejected. I've often been rejected and wondered why.

I don't at all find it hard to believe some interviewers would be biased against older candidates, especially for junior roles. However, given the person who posted seemed to have such a wealth of knowledge and experience, I was very surprised that they wouldn't have a very easy time finding a job even if places that refuse to hire older workers exist.
Surely it's not that surprising that a single label can't describe all opinions people may have?
I thought that I was, but I misunderstood your comment :)
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It still uses pacman.

I can't confirm this, but it feels like Arch linux has surged in popularity over the last ~3-4 years. I ditched Debian for Arch in 2016 and haven't looked back.
Could you send the subtitles to me too? That would be really interesting! (and if your teacher is non-English-speaker, a translation to Chinese would be amazing if you have that).
Perhaps we have multiple definitions of "conservative" in circulation. The definition with which I'm most familiar does not include a propensity for dogmatism
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'I like Private Internet Access'

Ironically, 50% of the time, I get access denied on Hacker News whenever I am on PIA (london)
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As mentioned above, I believe the closest is Inkscape.
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If you select Mexico from the dropdown menu, the whole form just disappears, no feedback, no info, nada. That's cold.

They should be more inclusive if they want to find that VR "golden thread". But this, this is not the way to do it.

Why even include countries that are not eligible on the dropdown? Maybe just a case of bad UX I guess.
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I think you're the one who needs an eye opener.

America does not have a monopoly on talent or knowledge. Stop counting on being born in the right place and blaming other people who work harder than you.
The Case Against Education
Tethers today traded $3.8B, $1.6B is their market cap. https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/ so it's even more unreal.
I see the same sort of thing in the "study", all over the place.
I dunno, if you just go by the dictionary definition[1]:

disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.

[1] http://www.dictionary.com/browse/conservative
> Why is m a string/key matching function? Why can’t we use more well-defined math function, e.g. Euclidean distance, cosine function?...

Isn't the purpose of a search index (aka inverted index) to compute the cosine similarity efficiently? Is this not possible to do for latent space dense vectors? Or am I missing something?
I think it depends on the country. Here in Denmark, everybody has a credit card – actually a "Visa/Dankort" – where our own type of card (Dankort) is combined with a regular Visa CC. However, those under 18 either have a Visa Electron or MasterCard, which are debit.
Doesn't seem like this would be as anonymous as something like PIA....assuming you can trust pia.

Still thanks for the idea, going to look into it more.
FYI, this piece is from Jann Horn - known for the recent intel cpu bug disclosure at Google project zero.
I'm not saying nobody wants to use VR in their day job. Hell, I'd love to! But I also don't want to wear an HMD (as they currently exist) because they're big and clunky and sweaty.
I wonder why a HK incorporated company based their Privacy Policy on EU GDPR principals? Gives non-EU users the same rights as EU users (right to be forgotten, correction, etc).

Enforcement would have to come from an EU user though; and with the EUR20m fine I imagine a single breach puts AirHelp under.

Aggregated data could be traded under this agreement (they can use legitimate interest as their legal basis for processing under GDPR so long as there is some form of anonymising aggregation). For example stats shared with airports about the types of people visiting them at different times of year, etc and what other products they buy. E.g. Hey JFK, 10% of your fliers shopped at X in the 30 days before they visited, but 12% did after, proving that X's ad campaign must have worked. From that perspective it's a pretty massive panel.
You may be interested in eevee's story:
https://eev.ee/blog/2015/06/09/i-quit-the-tech-industry/

My partner left finance to work in medicine. She makes a lot less money and likes it a lot better. I dunno where you live, but becoming a physician assistant can be a pretty good gig: much less school, pretty good salaries, pretty defined hours, very little debt.

Personally, I worked at a series of toxic startups and needed two years away to not loath programming. I regret nothing about leaving tech the first time, and after returning, my biggest regret is waiting so long to start my own company. Closely followed by tolerating so many shitty bosses. It helped me to have friends that did things besides work; workaholics are very common in sfbay. Dunno if that helps, but good luck.
Microwaves could be as bad for the environment as cars
Massive robot-powered drones
Improving refugee integration through data-driven algorithmic assignment
> For a vehicle that is on a one-way trip to Mars, and where the reactor will be brought online after it's out of Earth's orbit, this isn't a problem.

Polluting the new homeland from the start, eh?
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> people of color face longer prison sentences for the same crimes

Yep. And yet the same effect exists for men (vs. women) and is about six times as strong. Yet our society is "obviously" sexist against women.

https://www.law.umich.edu/newsandinfo/features/Pages/starr_g...

'After controlling for the arrest offense, criminal history, and other prior characteristics, "men receive 63% longer sentences on average than women do," and "[w]omen are…twice as likely to avoid incarceration if convicted." This gender gap is about six times as large as the racial disparity that Prof. Starr found in another recent paper.'
Reader Mode in Safari works well on this.
Let me rephrase. If you'd force Facebook to allow "free speech" (you want to force someone to let you do something on their property and you call that free?), you'd break Facebook owners' constitutional rights to private property.

Not having "free speech" on Facebook isn't because the constitution doesn't apply to companies, it's because Facebook is like someone's house - private property - first amendment doesn't apply in my grandma's house as well.

They still have to oblige to your right of privacy etc, as I said, in Europe, you could sue (FB can't even use the photo tagging feature in EU because it'd be against the laws).

The constitution is just a basic law, it applies to corporations as well, it just doesn't speak about them much.

BTW, I don't really think you guys in the US should believe that your government will or will not do something because of something like the constitution - remember NSA? Remember Kim Dotcom?
Contrary to your comment, yes, they generally are; they're just using Hollywood accounting and referring to their profits as "excess earnings".

"A study published in the May issue of Health Affairs revealed that in 2013, seven of the top ten most profitable hospitals in the United States were nonprofit hospitals, with each earning over $163 million in profits from patient care."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2016/05/08/very-profit...

(Forbes, yuck, I know. This Washington Post link covers the same story: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/0...)

That article links to a CBS "investigation" into the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, which claims to be a nonprofit but made $948 million from 2011 to 2012, pays its CEO $6 million a year, gets a private chef, chauffeur, and a jet for additional compensation, and has a dozen other administrators each making over a million dollars a year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zikgppxCFnA

Claiming themselves to be a nonprofit saves them about $200 million in state and federal taxes. So, they're just an "accidentally profitable" nonprofit.

But yeah, sure, let's just keep taking the health care industry at its word when it says it's not profitable.

edit: more, because why use a scalpel when a hammer will work just as well?

"Many nonprofit hospitals calculate their charitable care by using something known as “charge master” pricing; exorbitant, non-negotiated prices which are inflated many times higher than what private insurance or Medicare would pay. This allows facilities to overstate their provision of “charity care,” calculated as revenue loss by the hospital in exchange for their lucrative tax exemptions. In a patient evaluated with chest pain, the allowable for Medicare is $3600; however, in an uninsured patient, the hospital may “write-off” an inflated $25,600 in uncompensated costs, which is 8 times higher than actual cost of care provided."

http://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2017/04/25/the-fairy-tale-...

"But even many hospitals that showed losses on patient care had positive margins overall. The study found that median net income per adjusted discharge from all activities—including investments, charitable contributions and space rental—was $353 for all hospitals and $178 for hospitals with 50 or fewer beds."

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20160502/NEWS/160509...

"Non-profit is instead simply a tax status, and specifically, it exempts hospitals from paying real estate and other taxes in exchange for contributing a fixed portion of their revenues to ‘community benefit’ rather than paying dividends to shareholders. ... Cleveland Clinic, one of the largest health systems in the country, was held up as an example of a wildly profitable non-profit in a recent article in Politico."

https://www.acsh.org/news/2017/07/19/non-profit-hospitals-ca...

(read that one, it's a good breakdown of the accounting that hospitals use to maintain their nonprofit status while behaving in every other way like any other for-profit business.)
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There's lecture notes available from an MIT open course just on pricing that I found helpful. Below are all of the lecture notes [1], and the summary lecture note [2].

[1] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15-81...

[2] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15-81...