skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being able to begin work whenever they want, and more importantly not work whenever they want. Friend calls and want's to meet at 8? Even if you have a rider you can go off the clock in ~15 minutes.
Have I Been Pwned is now used by governments to check for data breaches
Affirmative action is definitely not illegal, regardless of whether it should or shouldn’t be.
I'm not that confident. Browsers blindly accept and execute whatever they receive. The more features that get added, the larger surface there is to exploit. A case in point: WebUSB as mentioned in the article.
Why take out ads when you can just infiltrate /r/the_donald and influence them directly and personally? Like you said, way better ROI.
I read it and presume it's meant to be read as the AI finding "unknown [bugs in the code]" as opposed to "unknown [bugs] in the code"
I think this is a very salient point... it's essentially ad hominem and I'm tempted to fall into this fallacy. Thanks!
Oh man. That is quite a twist to the Google of 2010. But I guess any company that crosses 10,000 people mark will have heavy politics.

Google makes so much money from ads, it doesn’t know what to do. Like Microsoft, so much middle management that from customer pain to engineers, requirements are loaded with a ton of personal agenda and political gain.
If you have no need for the use case of a high speed, low overhead non-GC language (or believe there is no need for such a thing), then Rust is going to be of no interest to you, and you are going to be better served solving your problems with another language - Java, C#, Python etc.

A large number of engineers do desire such a tool, and Rust provides that in a way that provides as little cost as possible over one of those more dynamic languages.
"If you are using either Uber or Lyft, stop. Now. You are contributing directly to the growth of the precariat and the debasement of work. The fact that you use an app to distance yourself from the exploitation of desperate and not very savvy drivers doesn’t change the nature of what you are doing." Yves Smith @yvessmith
> I do not see Mozilla taking any steps toward privacy at all

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=12609... are some concrete steps being taken.

Or the containers work. Or the tracking protection work. If you're not seeing those, it's because you're not looking.
I do feel like Google and co are riding on their reputation a lot - one they built up some years ago with promises of e.g. three meals a day and high pay and only hiring the best and such. I got one recruitment mail which basically said something to the degree of "hi I'm from Google, please apply here". Not convincing.
They cause harm due to overdiagnosis and over treatment.

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/a-skeptical-look-at-screeni...
To put it into perspective, Norwegian parliament has spent ~300 million USD (and counting) on its renovation project..
You can use this sort of thing as a measuring point; when something like this is overlooked and inconvenient, you can tell they're making statements based on their agenda (the trend in the MSM, which is why you can see public trust dropping in them; they're not all stupid, they know it's not consistent). On the other hand, you've got people that make statements based on principle, and even if you still disagree with them, you feel it would still be nice to hang out with them, like they didn't establish their relationship with you by trying to lie to you through selective truths?

The cost of raising agenda above both principle and truth comes at the cost of a massive amount of people and freedoms, and their pretty statements about caring about any group of people don't hold water. (I'm looking at you SJWs and Aryan Supremacists)
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Exactly what I was thinking. It may be a bug, but the AI treats it as another legitimate game rule. I wonder if there are any techniques for it to be able to tell the difference... for example, if it can quantitatively demonstrate that the conditions for a rule are very rare/unlikely.
Pay attention to what people do more than what people say. People vote with their feet. A senior engineer at Google can easily get a high paying job anywhere else.
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The saying is "one bad apple ruins the bunch".
"choose a person not by the content of their character, but by the gender of their identification and the color of their skin"

- The new civil rights movement
Lack of other options is one, I'd guess.
The problem isn't the profit, but that there are a number of people using this as one of their primary income sources. I'm not sure how Uber et. al was originally promoted to drivers, but I've originally seen it as something like "I'm heading home from work, let me turn on my uber app and see if anyone around me needs a ride going in that direction".

Or, "I feel like riding around tonight, no particular place to go, may as well see if I can make a couple bucks by giving others a lift". I know that back when I was around 18 - 22 or so, I would often spend a saturday night just cruising with the radio playing, windows down, and enjoying the ride.
His own statement rests on an assumption "political bias" and "concerns for society" can be disentangled.

I'm not surprised people are accusing them of being dishonest, because the alternative is that they seriously believe that the two aren't the same thing.
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"AI, are you in a simulation?" "Yes" "no I don't mean.. not the simulation I'm running you in, outside of that"
How do you guys recruit and how has that influenced the number of law school graduates by gender assuming you are not a professor?

I see that woman now are the majority of law graduates [0] which I find doubtful that it is attributable to corporate recruiting tactics.

[0]: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/12/16/business/dealbook/wome...
>This meme is just more deflection and misdirection by the American media.

Oh sure, totally fake news:

>A leak of internal data from the Kremlin-backed Internet Research Agency discovered by The Daily Beast serves as the first confirmation that the Russian troll farm deployed its online agitators on Reddit as part of its campaign to interfere in American politics.

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

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/27/trump-rus...
Presumably for a lot of people the thing they need to work around is not so much friends calling and wanting to meet as their primary jobs with irregular hours.
I think there's no nuanced debate because a lot of the issues in play aren't nuanced.
The crazy thing every time I read something like this,is how out of touch tech companies are.

Isn't technology supposed to enhance our lives? In twitter's case, why cannot it lead to people having more compassionate conversation.

I think there is difference between free speech and hate speech and because of metrics such as MAU's and other's Wall Street imposes on twitter and other tech companies, they are not incentivized to have stronger communities which may be smaller rather than larger communities who are more distant if that makes sense.
I don't understand how this didn't raise red flags from legal/HR.

From the article:

> In a statement, Google said [...] 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[...]"

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.

EDIT: Sorry -- Finding pools in "diverse" areas is fine, but dropping resumes in the bin when they are not "diverse" enough is not.

I hate that "diversity" has been politicized like this and I feel like it's one of the failings of the left's identity politics bent that will come back to bite them.

Getting minorities in your company to win some diversity points is great, but missing the actual benefit to society. The goal should be, for society, to equally encourage minorities to get STEM degrees and jobs so that companies don't have to play this stupid "look how diverse we are!" game.

And it won't happen overnight.

Companies should just hire on merit[1]; be completely blind to their workforce's background. They should enforce this neutrality like they enforce neutrality toward anyone's religion. "I don't care as long as you can do your job". If they are concerned about monoculture, then advertise and advocate in areas that they think will improve that. But just leave hiring to merit.

Eventually diversity will trickle-up. It shouldn't just be up to companies.

EDIT [1]: Yes, merit can be an ambiguous term. And I should have also stated they can hire based on "fit", which is another ambiguous term. But sorry, if your devote beliefs restrict you from using any electronic devices, then no, you aren't getting the web developer job. It's not a good "fit".
Once there's a reply it can't be deleted, only edited to remove the content. After two hours that's not even an option anymore.

Generally, I think it's good policy to be very guarded on the internet and/or change accounts often. There are all kinds of awful people out there, and you can't control who you may come across.
Most people aren't math savvy and the long-term costs of riding for Uber are more 'invisible' than the short-term cash that you'll be getting from driving. Uber/Lyft functions by letting car owners get a quick buck in exchange for the long-term value of the car.

People use payday loans even though they're fairly scammy and financially irresponsible, why would Lyft/Uber be any different?
Meaning the "asian and white" people will become more entrenched in the (I assume) higher levels, with minorities doing the junior work. Or am I missing the point?
Tell your insurance you were driving for hire the next time you're in an accident and see how it goes.
Great advice but how do you know ahead of time whether the medical care is necessary?
The doctor proposed surgery. He just waited and his back healed itself

Isn't that when you should actually go talk to the surgeon?

I've had two occasions when a doctor proposed surgery, I went to the surgeon, and the surgeon said "Let's give it 6 month and see if the gets better", which it did in both cases. And one case where I ignored the doctor, lived in growing discomfort for a couple of years, ended up in the emergency room for emergency surgery and the surgeon going "couldn't you tell something was obviously wrong with you? Why didn't you come a year ago when this would have been trivial fix?"
I look forward to seeing how they are going to deal with the US President's tweets from this point forward.
I've encountered several sites that broken with blocked third-party cookies. Most of the website for one local bank around here and a payment form for a local puppet theater are the ones that come to mind offhand.

Typically, it'll be small sites that are outsourcing part of their site to a third party but don't want to open a separate tab for that which will be affected by this, obviously. If you only browse major sites doing everything in-house you're not going to run into problems.
You can get below $1/month if you use a cheap VPS [1] ...

1. http://www.lowendstock.com/
I downvoted because this comment is cryptic and adds nothing to the conversation. Saying something controversial / conspiratorial is not automatically bad, as long as you provide some logic and evidence. But this is just devoid of value.
You're telling people to go back to sleep, we should be telling you to wake up.
"Do you really want to work for a company where world-class work might not be that important for your career progress?"

I think pretty much every company has employees who would say that there are definitely people who get promotions and bonuses for reasons that are not related to "world-class" work.
On the other side Google’s getting shamed for not being diverse enough. I’m sure many recruiters and hiring managers’ bonuses are tried to how many diverse candidates are hired.
Is there any insurance company that offers on-demand insurance add-on policies? What would be great is if it could be integrated into Uber/Lyft's app and automatically kick in a per mile insurance rate only while you have a passenger.
My guess it that for more senior roles they do not have the luxury to be so selective.
Look, I don't think we really disagree on anything fundamental here. Of course you should judge people as individuals. Of course looking at past performance is probably better, and fairer, than anything else. I'm completely with you on that. The only thing I'm saying is, there are logically plausible situations, in which you might want to use generic group attributes. Especially in cases where you have no prior knowledge - e.g. everything you say is great, but how do I look at past history when judging college grads with no work experience?

I mean, let's take an extreme case and see if we can at least agree on that. One of the things that some economists often claim about capitalism is that it helps with diversity, since if for example everyone is refusing to hire black people because of racial discrimination (think 1930s), then an employer will come along and offer to hire black people for cheaper, and will therefore outcompete other companies, who will have to also hire black people at slightly higher wages, etc.

If we were in such a (1930s-like) world where every employer refuses to hire black people, and we were deciding who to hire, and our normal practice would be only to hire people with 2 years' worth of job experience. We would never hire a black person, because none of them would fit our requirements. In such a world, wouldn't it make sense, from a purely self-interested economic perspective, to change the requirements for black people to compensate for the screwed-up biased world we find ourselves in?

If not, then is the classic economic argument wrong?
Here is a 37 page federal indictment of employees of the Internet Research Agency who were deeply involved in Russian-produced propaganda in the 2016 election. This is neither a "meme" nor is it a creation of any "media" source. Worth a read:

https://www.justice.gov/file/1035477/download
> Taking a goyacc file like this and porting it to another YACC is a lower effort than starting from scratch. In such a way, this project delivers not just "a PHP parser with xx% coverage in Go", but a shortcut to writing PHP parsers in any language with a decent YACC.

There's already a yacc file for PHP's parser, part of the PHP runtime: https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/master/Zend/zend_languag...
I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, yes, it's a pity to see a cultural artifact like a language fade away. I get that. But on the other hand, having the world Balkanized into thousands of mutually incomprehensible linguistic ghettoes is a bad thing, because it makes it harder to get things done on large scales. Things would just be easier if we spoke a manageable handful of languages.
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> Instead it seems Russia's aim was to provoke and divide Americans on the internet and, as a result, in the physical world too.

What I really don't understand about the "Russia wants to divide us!" talk is, if this is such a grave concern, why do we give a free pass to identical speech originating from domestic actors? Isn't that also dividing us as a country? BLM, #NotMyPresident, pro/anti-gun rhetoric, etc. -- we have plenty of this kind of stuff floating around already, and in the case of BLM, "the resistance", etc. it's all seen as a good thing, or at worst, "starting a dialogue on X." If spreading these kind of messages online is sowing discord in our country, why aren't we going after domestic organizations as well?
My request to the courageous recruiter: please don't settle.
A friend of mine who wasn't even 30 years old had a serious brain tumour where they said "ouh, if we'd had done a MRI scan some years ago, it would have been much easier to fix."

So that is why it might be a okay'ish idea to do a MRI scan of the brain every 5 years or so? Depending where you live they are actually cheap and can be paid out of pocket.
I've never understood why Microsoft adds support for new crypto protocols but turns them off by default.
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13M people tracked over 300 years to build massive human family tree
3 problems.

1. This is at subsidised Uber pricing, where Uber is loosing money at an alarming rate.

2. This means driving for Uber is terrible economicly.

3. This also implies that even getting to driverless cars, Uber will only save 3.37 per hour, not making the business model viable, I would think.
couldn't agree more. i uninstalled the app from my phone a week or 2 ago, and have been reading books and doing duolingo. it's MUCH harder to keep doing both of those things, instead of going to the twitter website. thankfully, the muni in SF sucks so god damn much that getting signal on your train is out of the question, making reading books the best option for constant distraction.
Well, it was funded that way.

https://signal.org/blog/signal-foundation/
Journalists Argue Russian Interference Has Been Exaggerated
They do cause harm. People find all kinds of lumps and shadows when they get an MRI done. So now they have this thing, no-one knows what it is, and the patient has to decide whether to just live with it or have a biopsy to find out what it is. The biopsy carries a risk of harm. And then you get the results of the biopsy. But that's not always clear. Maybe they find cancer. So, is it a rapid cancer that will kill you if left untreated? Or is it a slow growing cancer that's just going to sit there not doing much until you're 93? The treatment can be harsh and cause harm.

Here's some articles. (Note how old these are. This isn't new advice).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/15g8LGyBzYvMHpq6qNh...

> The first problem she uncovers is that detailed but general scans, such as a full body MRI or CT scan, can frequently bring to light small abnormalities which have no implications for health at all. They are the equivalent of tiny moles, freckles or scars on the outside of our body. Yet if they are picked up on a scan, then they can cause worry and further, much more invasive, testing – usually for no reason.

> The second problem that she uncovers is that even for some very specific tests, such as ultrasound of the arteries to assess the risk of stroke, the treatment available to rectify any small issues found carries very high risks to the patient. In the case of the ultrasound of the Carotid arteries in the neck, surgery to help clear any blockages would not be advised unless the patient had already had a stroke, or mini-stroke, making a test on an otherwise healthy person pointless.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/...

> An American patient who had a whole body scan described how it threw up an early warning of lung cancer. He had a lung biopsy after a nodule was detected but it turned out to be a healed scar, posing no threat. However, the investigation involved four days in hospital, a painful procedure, several weeks of recuperation - and a $47,000 (£25,000) bill at the end.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7150583.stm

> "Full body MOTs" may often find benign abnormalities - so-called false positives - while missing real problems, said Professor Nicholas Wald, a specialist in preventive medicine.
For onsite positions it really helps to say where you are based
A lot of the unconscious bias studies are failing to replicate.
Ecactly the kind of divisionist thought refrenced by OP.

Most people actually do want basically the same things. Polarizing them helps nobody.
Agreed. The Russia meddling controversy is the Democrat's "birther" movement, ameliorated only by the fact that there appears to be some truth to it, albeit with grossly overstated effects. It's a bogeyman that represents one half of the US population's inability to face the reality of who won the election and how they did it. Trump's supporters have been around and hateful since long before 2016.
It's the modern day equivalent of being a longshoreman.
My wife professionally interacts with a lot of top level surgeons -- the ones that have institutes named after or created for. They universally say it is all about risk management and risk mitigation. Trauma and neuro and cardiac surgeons of today are likely to be able to fix amazing number of issues just to have patients become gravely ill from secondary infections/non-top-notch care after the surgeries.
MRIs on healthy, asymptomatic individuals are not "safe," they cause harm due to overdiagnosis and overtreatment. I know TFA was a long read but it explains it, CTRL-F "turtle" to get to the part about tumors specifically. Here's a similar explanation: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/a-skeptical-look-at-screeni...
It would be interesting to know if a lot of people are just doing things wrong that they can correct. The price of the car seems like a critical decision based on insurance and depreciation.
I visited the worldnews subreddit at times. The pro-Russian tilt with plenty of links to RT.com was fairly obvious. I thought about writing the moderators, but with it so obvious, I personally assumed that there was somebody on the moderation team protecting the Russian submissions.
Why is it a long-form post more suited to Livejournal or blog post and in no way written to work on Twitter?

That in itself is indicative of the problem.
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The fact that affirmative-action policies of any kind are technically discriminatory but legally ethical continues to confuse people
Maybe because you might have had grandparents "in service" - certainly made me feel uneasy when I considered working in Malysia a few years back.
Oh man! The irony of this. Diversity hiring doesn’t help anyone. What if you had gotten the job and your peers thought you were only there because of being Black. They don’t take your technical arguments and code seriously?
yes, indeed. Discourse would be a good place to ask questions. We can't answer all questions, especially long "did I design my domain indexes correctly", but we strive to help and answer questions about Elastic.
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Yeah, which is sad to observe with increasing probability in what should be one of our industry's flagship. It's double sad as there is literally nowhere else to go as a regular employee with high ideals; our industry could have done better.
Do it right and it works well, do it wrong and you get Zimbabwe.

Everyone is worried land appropriation in South Africa is going to kill agricultural productivity like it did in Zimbabwe, where the farms were seized and given to individuals that had no business being farmers.
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I asked this question on IRC and they said that it likely wouldn't go away. There may be a couple reasons, backwards compatibility for one, the other may be that when the type is existentially quantified the compiler has to search for a matching implementation, that search can take time. We want stuff using std to compile fast.