skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reads like an arms wide-open embrace of politically correct language and inoffensiveness, along with a shunning of everything else on the platform.

I'm honestly not sure how much I blame Twitter. It's not their duty to stand up for offensive ideas and they'll undoubtedly be more commercially successful by limiting the discussion to things that result in algorithmically good "conversational health."

It's just a bit disappointing to see us take yet another step away from free expression--particularly in this case because it follows major Democratic senators threatening action if they don't [1].

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/1/16591646/facebook-senate-...
I hold all organizations responsible for their own actions, reguardless of size. Too big to fail is a poor concept, logically, ethically.
It has become all too popular to take the name of science in vain.

He's using his reasoning to restate old ideas, without any science at all.
Diversity is a noble goal not a corrupt one.
If there's anything this guy should be giving financial advice on, it's how to lose money as quickly as possible. Here's his scorecard: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uf32xygxT9O0HhCUxaBg.... He's pretty well known for losing 500k on Apple.

So take any advice with a massive grain of salt.
Aaron Patterson, the author of phuby (https://github.com/tenderlove/phuby) once explained in a talk what's good about embedding a php interpreter in ruby. The gist, as I remember was: Technically speaking, it makes no sense. It will never become anything useful. But you can make it work, and you might learn something useful along the way. IIRC, he found a couple of very interesting (and useful) issues along the way.

So the answer might just be "because I can and I want to".

This is the talk, IIRC: "Yak shaving is best shaving" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY_Pl2x7Fgs
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Bing ?
The problem with some of the unmetered offers is that it's hard to know how much you'll actually be able to use, and for how long (before they oversell), so there's some appeal in paying for actual capacity. But certainly, you will pay a premium for that.
At least you're living in a free country with free healthcare and not some socialist shithole with universal healthcare.
What is the actual economic reason behind all this?

Do women click more on ads and have to be appeased? Is it an attempt to depress the salaries of male hackers?
FOIA request shows Tor is almost 100% funded by the US government
I don’t see a problem with that as long as everyone takes the same test. An individual’s skills are not bound by the race and gender to which they belong.
Not familiar with amazon Lambda, is the analogy

developer toolset : amazon lambda

business toolset: zapier

personal toolset: ifttt

correct here?
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Or simple-sql-parser by the same author which is just a parser.

https://github.com/JakeWheat/simple-sql-parser
I am not sure about Canada but in US you are supposed to deduct expenses for Insurance, parking, licensing, registration as a percent of miles driven for business. So 20k miles driven total with 10k for Uber and 10k for personal means only half of your car expenses is deductible for Uber income.
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Contrary to what many people think, employee discrimination suits are quite difficult to win, as the courts tend to favor corporations. It's not uncommon for a lawsuit that, to a layperson, might seem like a slam-dunk, fail or even get thrown out.

Complicating matters for the plaintiff is that Google has a disproportionate number of white and Asian men in both its overall employment and in leadership positions.
Thanks for pulling the actual numbers - I was too lazy to verify, so figured it best to err on the conservative side (and also depending on how high you go, the AWS prices per TB drop quite a bit).
Plausible deniabilty. Google will claim the illegal activity was due to the management of the recruitment company and not direct orders. And ARS puts illegal in scare quotes. Shameful.
One thing I've never understood - and if I ever become absurdly wealthy I will try these kinds of random absurdities - is how few of the rich use the power they have to create new definitions of art. For instance, sure you can commission paintings and trade them. But how trite and boring.. imagine commissioning your own RISC-V implementation, or a file system, or something similar that millions of people come to rely on. You could do these kinds of things for a few million dollars each. Without any commercial expectation you could do pretty audacious reaches that would occasionally deliver humanitarian value. Maybe I'm a weirdo..
Jordan Peterson describes the archetypal left/right axis as being something like Nurturing Mother/Fear of The Snake. It certainly makes sense as being a fundamental axis given that both are beneficial and both are harmful and a balance has to exist within a population.
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> I hope you say that figuratively. If not, why not recycle them instead?

Nope, burn'm we do, mostly. We live on a farm in the Swedish countryside, the house is warmed using a wood burning stove and a wood-burning cooking stove. Those commercials do just fine to light the things, especially those printed on newsprint. The glossies generally get recycled as those don't burn well and are full of nasty chemicals but the newspaper-like folders get "recycled locally".
> In a statement, Google said that it would “vigorously defend this lawsuit,” adding that it has a “clear policy to hire candidates based on their merit, not their identity. At the same time, we unapologetically try to find a diverse pool of qualified candidates for open roles, as this helps us hire the best people, improve our culture, and build better products.”

This sounds contradictory.
Wait, people trust Microsoft now?? I don't see their pushing of Windows 10 and it's phone-home features as being entirely ethical...
Cheers Daniel. I suppose we could argue this point. But... my reading of Smith is that he is describing the world as it is at his time. A lot of mid-sized agricultural enterprises, in a world transitioning from feudal privilege to private ownership. A smaller (but very interesting) industry, also transitioning from the guild system to a more modern system.

Here's a semi-random example from a chapter on wager labour:

"When an independent workman, such as a weaver or shoemaker, has got more stock than what is sufficient to purchase the materials of his own work, and to maintain himself till he can dispose of it, he naturally employs one or more journeymen with the surplus, in order to make a profit by their work. Increase this surplus, and he will naturally increase the number of his journeymen."

or the famous one:

“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities, but of their advantages”

It seems to me that he is talking about a world that is not really capitalist, in a marxian sense.

Smith does spend a lot of time on wager labour, he does talk about freedom (nonexistent under feudalism) to pursue their own interests and the market forces which create opportunities. But... the economy he is describing is of small scale industry, landlord-tenant dynamics... I don't think Marx would have called this capitalism.

Also, what he regards as "monopoly" (bad) is a much lower bar than we use today. Where he describes larger scale structures like corporations (I think he means guilds and regulators), joint-stock companies (rare then), and such it is usually in a negative light, associated with monopoly or what we'd call "regulatory capture" today.

All of this is arguable. Smith was a long time ago, the world was different, and we can't really know if he'd consider modern capitalism good. But, I do think that what marx was describing and SMith was advocating are two completely different things. We happen to call both capitalism (depending on whether we're for or against it). I think they're tangental or even somewhat contradictory.

I agree with your more important point. Read Smith. It's a great opportunity to read accessible and interesting texts that are important to modern thought, and still easily relevant. Don't try read Marx, only heartbreak will follow. Read Darwin too, for the same reason.
Apparently all the large technical companies do this. I had this happen after I did 2 phone interviews with one of the big silicon valley tech companies after their recruiters called me for 3 years. They had a position they were interested in me for specifically but were waiting for the manager to get back from leave. Said they'd call when she was back. Didn't hear anything. Months later got a call asking how it went and if I was still interested. Told them I'd never heard anything and was still interested. Never heard back again. I've had friends say Twitter is the worst at this, followed by Google, then Facebook. Amazon, too. It's the nature of using so many different recruiters. My friends have said that the companies all seem to treat potential candidates badly and you only get the job if you pro-actively call back again and again and again.
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The main issues with strong nationalism is: i) it encourages rhetoric blaming the other, which encourages escalating conflict and, historically war, and ii) it does not map to realities on the ground. Europe has been a continuosly shifting map of principalities, empires, kingdoms, nations, cultures, languages and ethnicities for thousands of years, and trying to draw a hard border to create an indivisible homogenous ethnic state does not end well, for the latest from a long list of examples, see Yugoslavia. Similarly in reality Russia is not this kind of nation, but the core of an empire, with many ethnic and cultural groups within its borders, and substantial minorities in neighbouring states. America is a country of immigration which has never had a homogenous ethnicity or culture. In none of these places can this kind of ethnic-cultural-nationalist state be created.
And I'm asking if they believe that one criteria weighs more heavily than all the others.

That's putting aside the question of whether the US is really the worst prison system in the world, ie, granting that point for the sake of argument, though I strongly disagree with it. If I had to go to prison somewhere, the US would rank below a few but above most countries.
Upvoted just because of your tech stack.
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Why bother all those steps. Just claim that even though you look like a white male, you self-identify as a Hispanic lesbian, and if they reject you it's discriminatory.
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I mean, if it's the same memo in thinking of, it wasn't a "diversity memo" he was fired over, it was a manifesto that has been reviewed and agreed on as sufficient cause for his dismissal several times now.

In it, he argued that women were essentially worse at logical tasks than men, and further that this made them poor engineers.

That's not a diversity memo, that's a sexist screed.
Am I the only one that finds it insane this wasn't a feature earlier? They seemed to just rest on the idea that their optimization algorithms did everything right, even though they acted incredibly prematurely. They also seem slow in rolling it out since I've been hoping to see some of the known features actually show up in my account, requesting them, etc. and still nothing.
Diabetes is ‘five separate diseases’
This project states that it was "inspired by" Nikita's parser, but to me that raises even more questions about its existence.

nikic/PHP-Parser is feature-complete/mature/stable and developed by one of the most knowledgeable members of the PHP internals core development team. It is the library powering many PHP dev tools; static analysis included.

I can see that creating a tool like this is an excellent learning experience, but I don't see why anyone else should care.
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> what to call it instead of communism

Authoritarian is the most valid label. It has a mixed market economy, which the government claim is the necessary first stage in their long term goal of socialism.
Hardly need to read the rest of an article with a headline that includes, "the Rich," as fairly clear what it's about.

An acquaintance recently (2011) wrote a book about the world of art theft. (https://www.amazon.ca/Hot-Art-Chasing-Thieves-Detectives/dp/...) The point I remember him making was that the stolen art was often used as collateral for black market transactions, owing to the opacity of the market in general.

It's an asset class like any other. Depending on what it is, it will have different liquidity, volatility, and portability properties. The notional value can be used as collateral in other transactions, with no real transparency on rehypothecation. New appraisals can mark it in support of other calculations, and you can insure it. It can be a bit of a financial black box.

Also, art is and always has been a path to social mobility. Hence the parties where young people go to meet older wealthy ones. The real business of art is brokering relationships and transactions, with the art as a pretext. If you have money and fewer relationships, you can go buy art in any major city as a short cut to local society. If you want access to partners and the kind of social networks that provide opportunities for your future family, it's surprisingly accessible. Gallery owners perform a kind of social gate keeping role without a lot of the insular baggage that comes from establishment networks.
These relationships and transactions are culture.

The idea that someone can just make money, participate in culture by buying art, then move easily between social classes seems offensive to some people, but that's really how it works.

It also provides a perfect straw man for people who go on about "the rich."
Way back in 1957, the National Review took on Ayn Rand's book. The main gist of their overall critical review (https://www.nationalreview.com/2005/01/big-sister-watching-y...) is that a "dictatorship of the technocrats" that they saw the book advocating in the end probably does not look that much different than a dictatorship from the left side of the political spectrum or other similar ilk. From my viewpoint, in the end, some Large Figure ends up ruling, power corrupts, and the result is largely the same -- if any philosophy is so absolutist that disagreement is more than just disagreement, it is a Sin, this tends to be the net result.

There are positive points to be taken from many political philosophies (including libertarians and communists alike), my personal outlook is to never attach too dogmatically to one side though. :)

Capitalism and basic freedoms are indeed separate entities, but I do think it remains an open question whether China can become a knowledge / innovation powerhouse, while at the same time heading backwards on basic freedoms as they seem to be now. This is more the key that I see has been historically linked together. Controlled societies may be just fine for the nuts and bolts portion of capitalism, but one can point to countless examples in history where suppressed / tightly controlled knowledge ended up holding societies back, severely suppressing innovation.
But Uber is neither, and has a clear, repeated history of disrespecting any hard or expensive to follow laws.
Do you mean like directly within-window advertisements in addition to the already-pervasive product placement?
I think it's time: let's make a php implementation on the Blockchain
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I think the article is not about being right about something but more about the concept that s/he learned about it in a virtual (extremely limited) environment.

IF s/he was confident about the prognosis, making really money in the marketplace would have given leverage x-fold higher than a bet between friends would allow.
More like, “what happens when the patient does not directly feel the financial bill and the doctor tries to charge/do unnecessary things to make more money”.

This is a direct result of the laws and regulations distorting the market.
Embedding an interpreter in another language can certainly be useful, but this is just a parser.
I've witnessed this at least twice in my career. Both cases by "women", the "diversity-promoting" manager actually meant "mid twenties attractive female".

It makes me sick that people need to tip-toe on these issues and add the obligatory "not-sexist" appology to an obviously not-sexist text.
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60 FPS. Looks ok to me but have to zoom to fill the screen with the canvas.
Author of go-kit microservices framework, which has several nice examples with which to get up and running

https://gokit.io/examples/

Another interesting recent project is Truss which allows you to autogen go-kit handlers from protobuf definitions

https://github.com/TuneLab/truss/blob/master/TUTORIAL.md
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It appears it was more than one. Possibly it was two.
Isn't Social Darwinism just the outcome of arguing that "laissez-faire capitalism solves everything by weeding out the weak"?

It has nothing at all to do with socialism and the Darwinism rather references Darwin's evolutionary concepts in a "survival of the fittest" way.

Afaik it's nothing anybody would label themselves as.
You should not have left a one star review on your competition. That's a surefire way to land in hot water if they report you.
Yes, it really is common to hate companies that make your life needlessly hard, or act in poor faith as general practice.

Uber, Microsoft, Enron, Blackwater, Comcast, Oracle, all get plenty of hate, even from non techies.
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Today, Twitter is a planetary-scale hate machine. By which I don't mean "people post hateful things on Twitter." I mean literally generates hate, as in, put a bunch of people with diverse perspectives on Twitter and by the end of the day they hate each other more than when they started. Common ground might have existed, but they won't find it, because Twitter, like any arms dealer, works better when they fight. It even benefits from collateral damage, when they hurt people they didn't specifically intend to hurt.

Through its core design—short messages, retweets, engagement metrics—Twitter incapacitates the safeguards necessary for civil discussion. It eliminates context, encourages us to present each other out of context, prevents us from explaining ourselves, rewards the most incendiary messages and most impulsive reactions, drives us to take sides and build walls.

If Twitter is going to foster healthy conversation, it will have to change fundamentally. It won't be a matter of tuning some filters and tweaking some ranking algorithms. A big part of it will involve making us the customer,
not the product (Zeynep Tufekci: https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/965937392942305280).
I never read Rand as advocating a dictatorship of anyone. Of course you could argue that this is naive and that power vacuums invite someone to seize power.

I sometimes compare Rand to Marx. Both were very astute critics -- Marx of capitalism and Rand of socialism/communism. Unfortunately neither had practical ideas of what to do about it. Both advocated some version of "put certain ideas into practice and then (magic happens here) and then the evil state withers away." The magic is what doesn't happen. We're now able to see that the real world endpoint of communism is mafia rule and that the real world endpoint of capitalism is techno-feudalism.
Cut it out with the racist anti-trans bullshit.