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There's Adminer, which is some hundreds of kB in a single file...but that's a feature of the build: after packing eeeeverything into one file, it's supposed to be deployed like that; development happens on many sensible-sized files.

I seriously doubt anyone actually edits files over 10 K lines nowadays, even though a script might pack the result into a much larger one.

(Back When Dinosaurs Reigned The Earth, I've worked on a monolithic script of about 50 K lines, but that was just as convenient as you would imagine)
> It doesn't require manual tracking of object ownership. You just have to say when you're passing ownership and when you aren't […]

Call it whatever you want, but there are languages where you don't have to "pass ownership" manually for every frigging thing.
What is the incentive to drive for one of these services at that price point? Couldn't these people make more money (and not have to replace their car in five years) flipping burgers or the like?

Are drivers misled into believing they will make more? Is the cost per mile intentionally hidden from them?
I’m not sure what I would do differently - what would you have done to address those two problems? Using averages and talking to a representative sample of all drivers seems like a standard approach.
Disgust is a challenging emotion to study because it is so intertwined in the brain. Moral "disgust" activates the same region as the "man eating a can of worms" example in the article. It activates the same facial expression. Even our language fails to separate the emotions at times as dis-gust (i.e., gustatory) can be in reference to disgusting behavior. VS Ramachandran discussed this in a lecture but I can't find a link.

Oddly before opening the article I had assumed it was about how moral "disgust" is positively correlated with left-leaning. But then the study was referring to digestive disgust which appears positively correlated with right-leaning.

Side note, the most disgusted I recall feeling in both senses of the word was hearing a military leader describe a delicious a piece of chocolate cake while simultaneously describing the bombing he ordered on a foreign country. He could describe the cake in great detail but he forgot what country we had bombed the previous day. My right leaning friends didn't see this as a big deal.

As an extra data point, I have eaten worms on a survival trip and was fine with it and I never really liked chocolate cake. So maybe this line of research has merit.
Huh, your comment actually caused me to re-evaluate my thinking a little bit.

Because you're right, in general this is true:

> There were no good ol' days of citizen-statesmen calmly discussing their political differences and coming to reasoned conclusions on policy.

It seems that way sometimes (calm debate and discussion), but US history of course is full of angry, threatening debates with even politicians themselves erupting into actual physical violence sometimes [1].

Still, it feels like there's been a notable shift. Compare one of the 1992 presidential debates [2] to a 2016 presidential debate [3]. The former feels like an actual debate, the latter feels like a segment on a political news show where basically the loudest voice "wins".

Of course, US politics has always been a thin veneer of civility masking some extremely aggressive adversarial acts (e.g. Watergate), but it seems like that mask has now disappeared almost entirely.

I don't know that Twitter is the cause of any of this (as opposed to just a reflection of where we're at), but it does feel like things have certainly shifted nonetheless.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legislative_violence#United_St...

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg9qB_BIjWY

3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=855Am6ovK7s
>Heath care has gotten vastly better over time. Look at 5 year cancer survival rates for example.

No. These rates are affected by more screening procedures. Some nipped a potentially fatal cancer in the bud, others just found and removed something that wouldn't have killed the person.

To first order there is no change in the effectiveness of cancer treatment as compared to 50 years ago.
Deducting business expenses from revenue is not 'avoiding taxes', it's what all businesses do. Businesses are taxed on net profit, not on revenue. This is a feature, not a bug.

They sound confused about profit vs revenue, that $4.8B figure is not really 'profit' if it doesn't account for operating costs and depreciation of the car.

Very few businesses would be profitable if they were taxed on revenue rather than net profit.
If you believe that, why are you lying about the motives of people you disagree with? There are many people who’ve read the memo (yes, the version with citations) and concluded that Damore’s argument included biological determinism.

You can say that’s wrong and the memo was just sloppy, perhaps by citing subsequent clarifications about that not being his intention.

You can say that’s right and attempt to find stronger scientific support than he did.

What you’re doing instead is saying that people are either lying about having read it or deliberately misrepresenting its contents. That’s what I said had no value since it’s transparently wrong (it’s hard to come up with point by point criticism for something you haven’t read) and prevents engaging with any of the actual ideas.
In the YouTube organization?
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Since we are supposedly talking about level of bias everyone has by function of being human, the "dishonest apearance of legitimacy" framing does not change much nor adds anything meaningful.
Nassim Taleb explains this in "Skin in the Game" rather well. If you are sick a little bit, don't take drugs prescribed by your doctor. If you come to the doctor with a little coughing, the doctor knows you're likely fine and there is a high chance you won't need any meds BUT if you happen to die the next day, the family of the former patient will find something and might sue you because you - as a doctor - didn't prescribe the needed drugs. Some drugs are known to cause problems 10 years down the line, but this is not the doctors problem because he fixed your primary problem but doesn't really care about second-order/side-effects of the prescribed drugs.
Robin is an author that dabbles in machine learning and farming olives for making olive oil. It's not surprising that his examples aren't robust, but I always enjoy reading about his endeavors because I end up in a rabbit hole on whatever subject he's writing about.
No way. He will suffer no consequences for speaking out. Everybody can speak their mind freely and reason and objectivity will prevail. We've always been at war with Eastasia.
That's some bad advice all around.

If everyone thought like that we wouldn't even have HTTPS because "why would you want to hide your internet traffic?!"

"Hiding in plain sight" doesn't work. At all. The NSA has automatic systems that classify everything you do online and then it issues alerts if enough "signals" are gathered. That also means that the more stuff you do in "plain sight" the better it will know what you're doing, as the data will have very high accuracy rates.
Use i2P, Luke!
Performance systems are always political and if you are unlucky driven by Dogbert in hr who's bonus is based on cutting the pay quanta.
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This specific allegation seems like "reverse discrimination" sure. But as of right now it's just a one sided allegation presented in a lawsuit. I'll be interested in seeing what the evidence bears out.

I have intimate knowledge of the workings of diversity programs at some of the FAANG and big 4 consultancy companies and none of them involve purging white male applicants. Do postmortems occur when the diversity goals aren't met? Well sure, it IS a targeted diversity program after all. Sourcing initiatives have no bearing on whether a candidate meets a manager's hiring bar or not.
React time slicing under the hood
Well... The Chinese are "moving to the Chinese model" too, so idk if it's right to call it chinese. I think the model is the same, and all major economies are going that way. The cultural & legal differences make for different ways of describing and justifying things but.., they don't seem to amount to a huge difference.

Baidu was essentially picked by the CCP, as the Chinese Google. Google was produced by the "free market." The end result is the same. Similar privacy/surveillance implications, similar business models. Similar market share (monopoly). I bet the offices look pretty similar too.

Generally speaking, I am very skeptical of free market ideas applied at the >$1bn level. Corporations that size have political power, inevitably. They also tend to operate in less dynamic & competitive environments. The power differential between them and the employees they are "freely transacting" with are huge. Mostly though, it's the political thing. A mayor of a city is not going to ignore a $5bn going under, or moving away. They have influence on the rules that get made.
And not "Norway Potentially Used NSA Tech..." but "Norway Used NSA Tech for Potentially Illegal Spying".
It's vaguely disturbing to read the CEO of a company that hosts one of the world's largest communications platforms talk about "measuring the health" of conversations and his company's goal to get rid of conversations they deem unhealthy.

The problems Jack talks about (echo chambers, political bias, misinformation campaigns) are serious problems that our society faces as a small group of voices increasingly have the ability to reach millions of real people. However, I think it's unethical to solve it by eliminating speech based on an arbitrary group of people's notion of what is "healthy speech".

I think that Jack forgets that he's talking about real people expressing real thoughts and opinions. Of course he is well within his rights to do whatever he wants with his platforms, but if we want to view this as a problem of ethics, Twitter is directly infringing on private individuals' rights to autonomy of expression and manipulating their view of the world by deciding what they should and should not see. I don't think that is a solution which produces the greatest net good.
It's not clear to me inteleng is objecting to any possible religious connotations, so much as saying that astrobiology's success is far from assured and that much work needs to be done to prevent progress from being derailed.
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There issue is two folds here.

1. Medical liability. Doctors must cover their basics or will get sue.

2. There is no cost relationship between doctors and patients. Doctors and patients work with 3rd party call health insurers. Worst, a lot of people (medicaid recipients) have no skin in the game.

Obama could have fixed item #2 with a universal health care that require (1) doctors to list the price of their services and (2) cover major catastrophic health expenses, such heart issue, cancer, long term care, etc. Prevention care should physical, cold should be out of pocket for the first 5 or 10 visits of the year, then it is covered.

I know some may called foul because poor cannot pay. Paying $20 per visit, at 10 visit, it is $200 out of pocket. They have have skin in the game. This will cut down a lot of abuse.
I have a couple of dislodged discs, which cause the right arm to go numb sometimes.

My GP referred me to one of the top surgeons for spin surgery, especially at the top of the spine, where cutting it up is the most risky.

After prescribing an MRI and given that the numbness is occasional and that the pain is minimal his suggestion for cutting me up was a clear NO!

This gives me a lot of respect and instills trust in an expert who provides me with advise, which runs counter towards his business model.

I hope that the situation clears itself with occasional physical therapy and exercise. But if it gets worse it's fantastic to have one of the foremost experts in the field, who can perform the surgery at your disposal (and adequate insurance to pay for him).

To make a long story short: It seems that my doc very much agrees with Nassim Taleb.
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If you listen to enough of his stuff, you'll realize he is neither of those things (not sure what evidence ever existed of him being sexist), though I can understand why people would think he is transphobic. His original argument against using the non binary gender pronouns is more against legislated coerced speech for people in his position in particular (a professor at an Ontario, Canada university) as opposed to being against transgender people. That being said, he interpreted the laws incorrectly and when confronted with this point, my own impression is he doubled down on his position by saying he won't use the words as it is a neomarxist agenda to coerce people to use these words as opposed to strictly folks who truly feel they are neither male nor female wanting to be labeled appropriately. Ultimately, he did say that if an individual sincerely asked him to use a non standard pronoun, he would.
What year did you make it in??
you might be affected by this: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=773705
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The few people I know who drive like it because if they have no plans on a Thursday - Sunday night or specific windows of time throughout the week they can turn on the app, drive and make some cash. This adds a lot of flexibility and it's less about the money and more about doing something productive and meeting people. I don't know anyone that career drives for a ride service though.
Definitely being misled, read the marketing uber puts out for drivers. Also desperation, the way uber pushes for driver sign ups reminds me of MLM schemes about "running your own company!! Setting your own hours!!!"
> people at XYZ who left to Google and 50% of them returning back after ~1 year

If only it were possible to access the data Linkedin has on employee flows. You could get an idea on which companies are actually enjoyable places to work at versus ones that people are fleeing.
This was my problem with the article. It assumes that people own vehicles for the sole purpose of driving for Uber/Lyft. Costs like maintenance, insurance, and repairs are arguably costs that every car owner has to pay for.
Echoing the other commented, it would be great if the docs had a "why?" link to this.
Billing is not always similar. Many urgent care facilities are outright predatory in pricing, to the extent they begin to look like the payday lenders of medical care. It would be a poverty to consider these kinds of operations part of the solution. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/you-thought-it-wa...
I don’t see why this is hard to believe, according to the article it claims the turn over rate is high.
A supreme court justice was asked the same question. I don't agree with it completely but think it's an interesting opinion.

>Rosen: Why is it good for men—as you said recently, there should be nine women on the Supreme Court …

>Ginsburg: No, I didn’t say there should be. The question was when will there be enough, so there’ll be enough when there are nine.

>For most of our history, except the times the court was less than nine, and the one time there were 10, they were, until Justice O’Connor, all men. And nobody thought anything was unusual about that.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/02/ruth-ba...
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>but today every insurance company asks specifically if this vehicle was ever used in a driving service and will deny claims if it was found to be.

This seems crazy or wrong.

If I buy a vehicle used as an Uber/Lyft vehicle and that's on record somewhere, but I've never been an Uber/Lyft driver, I will get my claims denied?
There is no illegal spying. There cannot by definition be illegal spying, as if you are caught, it is retroactively made legal. Go back to sleep.
That doesn't make sense. Reviewing by motivation + results already delivers you the best people, which is the best for the business.

Why use some random group dimension? It is absolutely vague because that is only relevant when talking about averages of the whole group, but the point of fairness and equal opportunity is to treat people like individuals and judge them accordingly. Instead of using some strange GPA proxy for job performance across a giant group, just use the actual job performance (history) of the individual and see if they're good for your business.

You cannot use generic group attributes to judge a single person. It sounds "good" but never works out and is the cause of the most of the mess in the first place.
As this article references another article heavily, wouldn't it be better to use that one?

https://www.thedailybeast.com/russians-used-reddit-and-tumbl...

That said, I don't really see how Reddit was "dragged" into this whole mess. Out of all the social media sites, Reddit is the least protected and filled with most of the opinionated folks, if not outright trolls. But it seems not being a "mainstream" social media site has helped.
A few remarks:

In the "Doing bad digital humanities with color vectors", if you consider colors as 3D vectors, which they do, you'll see that summing enough uniformly sampled vectors always gives medium browns, because that's the color in the middle of the colorspace. Instead, you should model colors in a polar space and sum vectors in that space. This will prevent going inside the sphere and losing color saturation.

It's explained quite well here in the Interpolation section: http://www.inference.vc/high-dimensional-gaussian-distributi...

If you want to understand contemporary use of words embeddings in ML, a nice simple model is explained, with full code, here:
https://blog.keras.io/using-pre-trained-word-embeddings-in-a...

The original model comes from Kim 2014, https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.5882 It's a very neat use of CNNs for language processing, instead of the more popular RNNs/LSTMs. CNNs have the advantage of training much faster.
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Original sin is a heinous concept, and so are blood feuds, and this sounds like both. If your father was a violent degenerate and arsonist, would you comfortable paying society back for a portion of his crimes? It seems like that is what you are asking of people as 'better than nothing'. I'm not being hyperbolic either, your logic, applied to criminal law would condemn me to suffer due to the actions of a person I have ever met once.
all of what you said is true, and that's why i (asian male) will always run my own business, no matter what the perceived opportunity cost may be, because it's nothing but a mirage.

counting on the white establishment, political right OR political left to give us any kind of a leg up or break is foolish in the extreme. this google episode is a perfect example of why. because we are merely 5% of the US population, we are treated as naive pawns by two sides in a larger game of ideological chess.

i contribute financially to asian-interest causes i deem worthy, but i'm under no illusion of this changing in my lifetime. the american social fabric is configured heavily against us and will be for at least one more generation, likely another 2.
court will just look at distribution of google employees, see that white asian is not the minority and conclude no discrimination occurs
You're referring to the concept of "intersectionality" which is very well accepted in the literature etc.
Algorithmia also just launched its own smart contract for ML model validation. Two's a trend ;)

Trustless Machine Learning Contracts: Evaluating and Exchanging Machine Learning Models on the Ethereum Blockchain

https://blog.algorithmia.com/trustless-machine-learning-cont...
> if you have terminal cancer

Maybe you meant "if you have treatable cancer"

If it's truly terminal, not much a doctor can do for you other than palliative care, which generally shouldn't require a hospital.
True, but it's also a very biased view with events that take place in most of large companies (you can find these reports for Amazon, Apple, etc. etc.) And yet others seem to get a free pass while Google is targeted by wrath of HN. Why?
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They should solve the problems, instead of hiding the symptoms. They need to encourage women to enter tech field. This could be done at school level. They could ensure that women don't face harrasement at work. They could help women find jobs after a gap due to childbirth.

Find why women don't take admissions in STEM as much as men do. If there isn't any human-made reason, then let it be. Don't force equal numbers down the throat of deserving candidates.

What is currently going on in the world isn't going to solve the problem of race/gender based problems.