skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there is likely a stronger correlation to wealth rather than politics. When people have it really good, they get sort of mentally spoiled by getting everything their way. So, when they encounter something that is not to their liking, the reaction is stronger because they've been able to successfully avoid it for longer. The disgusting thing threatens their on-a-higher-level equilibria and therefore is a stronger threat to them than it would be to a lower class person who has to encounter it more often. Less well-off people who have to get their hands dirty more often build up mental callouses to the grosser aspects of life, like handling compost, cleaning wounds, etc.
Well, you may be right, it is just a matter of interpretation. But when it comes to defence in international relations it is basically a variation of Prisoner's dilemma[1]. It doesn't matter what reasons USA has to develop ABM. Russia, China, NK and everyone else will never choose to disarm when their oponent is arming.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma#In_intern...
A small example is my girlfriend getting charged for a pregnancy test in the emergency room even after she told them she doesn't have a uterus.
Problem is that leaving companies open to lawsuits from individuals, organizations like the NAACP, and even from the DoJ.

Whenever the demographics of a company do not match the demographics makeup of society at large, then the company is legally on the defensive. And the fines can be BIG
> My problem with this Russian thing is that they have failed to actually connect Trump to it in any convincing way but certain media outlets keep making the case that Trump is for the Russians

That doesn't matter. The Russian government interfered, that's a fact. Also a fact, the president is illegally refusing to enact sanctions against Russia passed overwhelmingly by congress in retaliation for this interference. You should be extremely concerned that the president is actively breaking the law every day by refusing to defend the country against a foreign enemy.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/high-ranking-gop-congressma...

> However, if that’s suspicious, then we must question the Hillary campaign meeting with Chinese officials during the campaign as well (among many other countries.)

it is not illegal to speak to foreign governments during a political campaign. You should read up on the difference between accepting stolen materials from foreign governments, allowing foreign governments to spend money on a US poltiical campaign, vs. merely speaking to foreign governments.

Not to mention that the House Intelligence Committee would be all over a Clinton scandal in the election if they could find one. They tried to fabricate the notion that the Russians were actually working for Clinton. That was a better stream of inquiry, they felt, than whatever this "meeting with Chinese officials" that some right wing blog has told you is important (I can't even find any google results for it).
Can’t this be avoided by being taxed as an S-corp?
"Behind western capitalism is a long tapestry of human exploitation punctuated by periods of total war."

Behind numerous cultures is a long tapestry of human exploitation punctuated by periods of total war.

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery
As he says, because they do get screwed in all the other sectors. They do happen to be in the "privileged majority" only in tech, so there they see redressing as a negative, but only there (or rather, here).

The ideal answer is not to completely drop any diversity effort, but on one side (the "revolutionaries") to recognise where they turn into zealotry, and on the other ("the entrenched", of any type) to accept they might have to lose something to gain something.
The refrain I hear is that you can do 20% projects, but you have to do it on top of your 100% project, which isn't contradicted by what you say.
I'd be interested in some examples of land reform done right. Most examples I'm aware of were disasters (Venezuela, for example.)

One thing to keep in consideration about the South African situation is that land reform in South Africa is not new; it's written into the constitution. What's new is that South Africa is dropping the requirement to recompense the owners. This could be a problem, not just for the white South Africans but for black South Africans as well as it could drive the middle and upper class out of the country.
> "3) when provided by a doctor whose track record is demonstrably non-inferior to that of other practitioners"

This is interesting. I think there will always be a somewhat normal distribution of medical skill among doctors so how do we decide whose track record is good enough to preform which procedures? We probably don't need top preforming doctors to implement every procedure but then how do we decide which procedures warrant a top doctors time? And if there is a shortage of qualified specialists in a region or if something is particularly urgent isn’t an under achieving doc better than no doc at all? Maybe. Maybe not. I think there is a lot of gray area here. I guess ideally the hope would be that the distribution of skill among doctors is really narrow so the difference between top docs and bottom docs is not that pronounced. Even still, I think there are some interesting problems around ranking/rating doctors against one another.
If you are a $race $gender, Google will hire you. The diverse candidate pool just means you need to work harder on your resume, interviewing skills, etc - since there's more competition.
Except in the election we just had. Where Donald won.

(ignoring the obvious rallies, where Donald filled the stands, and H did not - even after she spent $1.2B )
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We did that and she lost a lot of weight, and had to gain it back. We loved keto though. It's like the easiest diet to follow, for us at least
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But governments have shown they cannot be trusted to do this. One of the big arguments on favor of allowing mass surveillance was that it was only to be used for foreign intelligence purposes, which quickly got expanded to domestic terrorism purposes and today data gathered from dragnet programs is accessable and used in the investigation and sometimes even prosecution of normal domestic crimes in both the US and UK.
An Executive's Guide to AI by McKinsey and Company
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Really interesting and helpful advice, thanks. Saved it to a personal wiki for stuff like this.

I use a kitchen timer, too, which has minutes and seconds (e.g., digital).

Some tasks with too much inertia/resistence I ask: "Can I work on this for 5 minutes? 2 minutes? 15 seconds?"

That will build momentum and show that it's often not as hard as it seems when you're on the other side of history.
True -- getting it to work within your infrastructure is only part of the issue. Updating and maintenance would still be an issue.
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Absolutely false, I pay nothing extra to drive for Uber and my personal insurance knows exactly what I'm doing:

https://www.intact.ca/on/en/personal-insurance/vehicle/car/u...

The relevant quote that applies to me: "When Uber drivers are using their vehicle for personal use, Intact Insurance, Novex, Jevco and belairdirect customers are protected as usual under their personal auto insurance policy at no additional cost."

And yes, the policies are the same price or cheaper than the competitors that don't have ridesharing included. They make up the money by attracting customers like me and by getting paid premiums by Uber for the commerical portion of the coverage.
Because if it's not secret, it's public information and not intelligence anymore?
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Twitter is a reflection of society. Twitter can't fix society, only censor its speech, which never works.

Congress needs to look at extending First Amendment protections for users of social media such as Twitter, Facebook, and Google.
I used to think that was an inflated figure and that they didn't account for the fact that the people in the hospital were sick already and attributing their death to a missed pill is a bit like saying it was the straw that broke the camel's back.

Then I used our local hospital a couple of times and I'm not so sure. I had thought you would need to be a conscientious person to be a nurse, but apparently it is not the case.

It doesn't help that the hospital has this IT system that is no doubt fully HIPPA compliant, but absurdly restrictive in actual use. Nurses couldn't get notes from the previous nurse because of permissions issues pretty much every time. They wouldn't even know the notes were there unless we reminded them, there was no indication that they were not seeing the full picture.
>For starters radiotherapy is often used to control symptoms.

I believe this falls under palliative care, if it is only to control symptoms.
> You can't have it both ways. You're either based solely on merit, or on merit and how non-male and non-white they are. Which is discrimination.

Actually yes, you can. There are 2 steps in recruiting:

1. Find people who want to apply
2. Have them go through a hiring process to select which one you make an offer

You can seek diversity in step 1 and be completely merit-based on step 2.

If your step 1. is mostly ask your (currently overwhelming white male) engineers for referrals, of course you'll get a bunch of white dudes. You have to find other channels.

Diversity shouldn't be excluding people who happen to be part of the current majority, but enlarging your pool of candidates.

Also, the whole idea of hiring "merit-based" is a bit naive because you're not hiring people on a single objective metric. There are a bunch of metrics, most of them judged subjectively: technical abilities, adaptability, communication abilities, person easy to work with, and the list goes on.

So while Google definitely screwed up by trying to take the easy path to a more diverse workforce, you can seek diversity without excluding white dudes.
According to this well-known lawyer it is not only illegal but in breach of the constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&js=y&prev...
I've felt Uber was a scan from day one. About a year after they expanded out of San Francisco, I had the opportunity to socially meet Travis Kalanick. That ended any speculation I had that Uber was NOT a fraud. All he ever wanted to do was run up a valuation and cash out, any way possible. Then it grew like wild, and he became an Uber Corrupt Asshole. That is the person I met socially.
> recent college grads, no managers, tech leads

I've just completed an onsite at Google MV and this stood out to me, too. This is Google's famed incredibly tough bar to pass? Out of six companies that I interviewed with in the area, Google's interview was the easiest.

I was also shocked at the lack of social skills from the interviewers. Most seemed to be 40-year-old college grads who had never left the Google campus. One interviewer arrived 20 minutes late, badmouthed the company and apologized in advance because I would probably get rejected.

It really lowered my opinion from "wow this is famous Google I'll be with superstars" to "oh maybe I'll tolerate it for childcare benefits and comp but with an expectation to shift offices in a few years".
I have a very big problem with the use of dragnets to get convictions in court by circumventing people's rights.

This is doable, I think. It's kind of the case now, and all it would take is a momentary parliamentary majority to enshrine it. But, it's honestly hard to see a consistent legal/theoretical justification for it, if all the data is sitting on a government server.

Are you saying that a court/prosecutor should not be able to demand someone's emails? What if they could be used to exonerate?

Somehow, I just think that once these datasets exist (they do) we will eventually get used to them.
Why do you think they only store the filtered data?
I can't speak to most of the following, but I just escaped California for Texas and I'm fairly familiar with the numbers.

Per a recent news article (don't have it handy, but it was on HN so someone will probably post it), moving from SF -> Austin, holding salary constant, is a de-facto raise of $66,000 per year due to lowered cost of living.

And this is in _Austin_ which, I'm led to believe, has a very high cost of living relative to Texas. If you're somewhere else in Texas making $150k, your de-facto raise relative to California is even higher

Meanwhile, working at Google or another name brand company in SF, your total compensation is going to be anywhere from $200k to $300k. Working at a regular tech company in SF, depending on seniority, it's going to be $100k-$180k. Without giving specific numbers, I was making around $150k as a software engi with 6 years experience in SF, and I took about a 10% pay cut when I moved to Texas.

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In short, if you're making $150k/yr in Texas, anywhere, you are doing better in terms of overall life (money after adjusted for stress/QoL), and if you're making $150k/yr in Texas outside of Austin, you are probably making more money in absolute terms than the typical Google employee. Please, do yourself a favour and stay in Texas

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Edit: To add, a major part of why I moved out of California was because the politics was omnipresent and unavoidable. I have so many horror stories, things I would not believe to be true if I didn't witness them first-hand. And this is at regular normal tech companies. Companies that don't have the budget to spend on politics. Companies that risk their existence by spending money on things outside of their core business (read: the software they're building).

If you're like me, and you just want to do the job you're good at, do it right, and make a good wage, then California is not for you. It's not avoidable, it will drive you crazy. Maybe California will sort itself out five, ten years from now, but right now people are silently leaving in droves over it.

Please, for the love of reasonableness and moderation, stay in Texas and help us keep this place focused on the craft, instead of getting distracted by orthogonal social issues
I'm curious as to how they measure hours worked, to come up with the per-hour figure. The brief of the study doesn't mention it at all.
> No, I'm still confused. What is the problem with being a taxi driver for life and expecting a good wage?

No, I'm still confused. What is the problem with being an elevator operator for life and expecting a good wage?
Thanks, I enjoyed it too. Why is "black swan" so popular here on HN though?
I don't see it as eliminating speech; I see it as first getting metrics into how much of Twitter's usage is positive - because it's human (and the media's) nature to focus on the negative - and second to promote and encourage the "good" kind of communication, instead of trying to censor and stifle the "bad" kind. Carrot vs stick.
Yeah, to clarify, the review is more implying naivety than straightforward advocacy. As in, the review believes Rand is "calling for an aristocracy of talents". But in the real modern world, this is a naive viewpoint, and "the impulse toward aristocracy always emerges now in the form of dictatorship."
>Shouldn't a distinction be made between asserting this for a population vs. for an individual? Yes, for a population it results in overdiagnosis and over treatment.

We get overdiagnosis and overtreatment of the population precisely because it is done at an individual level.
Allegedly from their home country, they purchased $100k of ads (google it) and spent most of it after the election was over.

Compared to amount of direct foreign investment into the left wing party. That spent the $1.2B of donations.
You are entirely correct that despite immigrants being the largest source of diversity in tech, all diversity and inclusion programs in tech misclassify immigrants into US demographic categories from the EEO-1 Instruction Booklet [2] that underpins all diversity and inclusion programs.

For instance all of the following are categorized as white Americans; my German colleague, my French colleague of Iranian descent, my Iranian colleague, my white american colleague from Colorado, and my Iraqi colleague.

Silicon Valley recruits outliers from around the world. Applying US demographics to an industry where ⅔ [1] of the workers are immigrants does not make sense.

[1] https://jointventure.org/images/stories/pdf/index2018.pdf

[2] https://www.eeoc.gov/employers/eeo1survey/2007instructions.c...
This is an amazing experiment which took an amusing detour through scientific denialism via Phyllis Schlafly's son.

Here's a summary I found surrounding the issue.
https://arstechnica.com/features/2008/06/conservapedias-evol...
And all of this would have precisely zero effect if Democrats managed to put up a candidate who isn't terrible enough to lose to Trump. US elections isn't the only ones they were trying to influence. In France, they went all in on Marine Le Pen, even the domestic media in Russia was singing her praises and vilifying Macron almost constantly. Guess what, she lost terribly in the end. No propaganda in the world would have lead her to win, just because the other guy was a much better candidate.
Twitter might have its quirks. But the truth is that the content on the internet been supplanted by these mega-malls, called Google, Facebook and Twitter and Reddit and VK, and such. And these mega-malls want to be everything to everyone. And at the same time they are aiming for the lowest common denominator just to attract more and more people to its platforms. So, of course the quality of content and discussions will go down. These platforms control the digital ad market. Real journalists can barely survive. Fake news proliferate. Internet is becoming increasingly similar to the strip malls you see everywhere around you, and they have all the same offerings of choices (McDonald's, Subway, Verizon store, etc). Here's a good read: https://www.medgadget.com/2018/03/google-serfdom-publishing-...
> Having skin in the game means reading the Code of Hammurabi. And, because I’ve got skin in the game, I didn’t trust other people’s translations. I took time out to learn the ancient Babylonian script myself. Turns out the translations were pretty accurate after all.

I actually laughed out loud. The thing about Taleb that gets said often is if he just shut the hell up after The Black Swan he would be hailed as a genius.
It reminds me even more of the 'Woman Engineer' scene in Silicon Valley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dek5HtNdIHY
> For example, the semantics of NULL is a big mess: why does adding the number 13 to a NULL value, 13+NULL, return NULL, but summing the same two values, SUM(13, NULL), returns 13?

Because aggregate functions explicitly ignore NULLs. All aggregate functions do that including those like `AVG()` and `COUNT()`.

Like, I understand the complaint, but aggregate functions don't work like operators. Operators work on data in the same row or result set. Aggregates work on data in the same column, even if it's a column created by the query. If you understand the relational model, then semantically they're not the same operation even though they might both involve addition.

This complaint is like saying, "When I take an int and add 2 or multiply by 2 I get a new int. Why when add 2 to a string does it give me a the same string with a 2 at the end, but when I multiply a string by 2 it gives me the same string twice?" The answer is that you have to understand the semantics of operator overloading. Operator overloading isn't bad, but it does mean that you have to understand the underlying data type and operator models. You don't get to cheat just because you know what the operator does in one area.

> SQL also has no means of abstraction, i.e. defining parameterizable queries.

That's hardly a unique failing of a language. JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Python, shell, PHP, ASP, etc. All of them are vulnerable to code injection because there's essentially no way for a program to validate itself when it's interpretive and allowed to be dynamic.

With SQL people decided that validating the dynamically generated code is the job of your data store provider since that's done client site (i.e., web server) and only the client knows enough to correctly build the query. Since you essentially already need a data store provider anyways, even if that provider is ODBC or one that you roll yourself, it's really not a significant problem if you have any idea what you're doing to write parameterized queries.

Even if you do logically separate data and code, you still have to have a way to define it as such in whatever language your program is written in. In other words, a fictional SQL language which completely separates data from code would behave identically in practice to current SQL and current parameterized queries. We're not really gaining anything here.

The real problem with SQL is that the relational model is particularly poor with serializing hierarchical structures, and objects are inherently hierarchical.
Twitter upped its character limit recently; next up they should make what I feel is a relatively simple change and turn multi-tweet posts into neatly formatted multi-paragraphed but single-post-seeming articles.
They were the first to do it in the 2000's, but now isn't every SV company doing that already?
Speaking of easy, I spent many an hour playing that Qbert version on Atari and a decent number of quarters spent on the arcade version.

The atari version even on the hard setting was almost fatally dumbed down to be mindless. The enemies were just way dumber than in the arcade version. The game really didn't even feel like Qbert.

With just a little practice, one could play on a single life for as long as desired. Similar to Asteroids on Atari.
And yet this article was flagged off the front page within 20 minutes of reaching it. Meanwhile we’re on our fourth “Google discriminated against white guys” identipost on the fp in 24 hours. That doesn’t exactly reek of “Left Wing echo chamber” now does it?
Solution -> never show a scan to a doctor who will over-react to an incidentaloma
We just spent $250 million on a garage for our members of parliament so I don't think another $33 millions is such a big issue.
Iatrogenics / Iatrogenesis

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