skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our engineers analyzed the climate in California over the past 39 years
This general topic reminds me of Jonathan Haidt's TED talk on the moral motivations of liberals and conservatives:

https://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_haidt_on_the_moral_mind
FYI Bastiat wrote before Marx (Bastiat most likely is among the ones Marx talked about when he said "bourgeois economists have said [...]")

There were already mega firms back then (East India Company IIRC ?)
Human society will NEVER provide absolute equal opportunity to everybody. If you want that, please first work on rethinking capitalism.It's not practical and has been tried in the past.

Some of these Asian males may have come out of abject poverty in countries like India - worked all their lives for a chance at better living, were that given the "same" opportunity ?

Please stop this entitled thinking.
We should aim to get all kids high quality education, not social engineering in the job market.
I liked Taleb's point too, especially as it ties in to completely disparate situations like ancient greek urbanism. I think it's early to hang to much theory on these gig-companies though. It's still not clear they'll stick around for the long term. Hardly an economic "mode" yet.

It's a great place to explore the divide though. To the capitalism point though... I think Uber/Lyft dynamics are perfectly capitalistic in a marxist sense. I think that from a ideological-capitalist perspective, a system where drivers transact more directly with passengers would be more capitalist.
The lawsuit makes interesting reading: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4391847-18-CIV-00442...
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You've mentioned you wrote your trading bots in Python, how does one go about doing that? If I write a script that executes buys/sells via an api, I still need to periodically get market data, build candle stick charts (or whatever) and calculate moving averages (or whatever) to then decide to buy and/or sell.

Then to back test, you have to do all that, not with an api, but against and data from a flat file or whatever. I guess you could do it by hand for awhile, but that would certainly become tedious.

It's actually quite complex. Would you recommend anything to read to get started building trading bots?
How? Creating a diverse pool of candidates, and selecting the most meritorious individual from that pool, are two separate stages in the hiring pipeline.

Google's policy as stated in that quote is simply addressing the fact that entrenched network effects (known more popularly as "patriarchy" and "white supremacy") cause minorities – and, by extension, talented minorities – to be underrepresented in the hiring pool. It's entirely possible to enrich the hiring pool by focusing on minority outreach, yet still select from that pool the most meritorious candidate (who may or may not be a minority).

Yesterday there was a comment on another story to the effect of, "I [male] wouldn't introduce myself to a group of two or more women at a professional conference, because I'd be the odd one out." The ultimate loss of networking opportunities for women and minorities which stems from such behavior is what Google's policy (as stated) seeks to correct. Reach out to those women (or minorities) who were denied a professional connection due to their gender/race/etc., so that they are granted a chance to be judged on their merit, alongside others for whom the opportunity to be interviewed came as easily as getting a sunburn or growing a beard.

Granted, it sounds like what happened in the case in TFA was one of explicitly culling the pool to remove otherwise meritorious candidates based solely on their race, which is in conflict with the above policy statement.
Google's "Beyond Corp" initiative [1] discourages trusted networks and VPNs in favor of secure services on public networks. By trusting the network to provide a level of security, you are more likely to be vulnerable to escalation attacks by bad actors that are able to access your private networks. You're also more likely to encourage legitimate users to set up workarounds that result in secure network breaches. Typically they use an Identity aware proxy in front of the service, but services can have a public view as well.

To answer your second question, I work for an open source non-profit software company, and we run some of our jenkins servers, which do continuous integration builds, publicly available so that community contributors and users can see build failures. Google has a number of open source projects that probably have similar goals.

1. https://cloud.google.com/beyondcorp/
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How can all companies be employee owned if you need to invest a lot of capital to start a car factory. Half of the fortune 500 companies are younger then 10 years - starting a company has a high risk on the invested capital.

A company is owned by whomever is risking their money to finance it.

How is capitalism different from early human tribes? They also needed to work and trade. Things have become much more sophisticated but the basic principles remain. People complain about spending too much time for a company and slaving away - but in earlier times they would have spend way more time on the fields plowing while 4 of their 8 kids died.
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> the manager of YouTube's Tech Staffing Management Team, Allison Alogna

So not all of Google, just junior engineers who came in via this manager. Also

> Google had a policy that recruiters were not to hire Level 3 ad Level 4 Software Engineers. However, YouTube recruiters were given permission to hire Level 3 and Level 4 Software Engineers, if they were diversity hires.

and I've been told the general way to get hired at Google as a new graduate is to apply to a general thing, and that you get placed somewhere in Google after you get hired, so it's quite possible that most junior engineers even in YouTube simply don't go through people working for this manager while getting hired.
This is a fantastic idea that I’d guess is one of the selling points of universities and other software foundations.

Maybe they could attract more dollars to their projects by naming them after the main benefactor...
That's for physical goods I guess.

Theres also a counter law for that. In Dutch called heling, English Wikipedia page explains it [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handling_stolen_goods
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I heard it from someone at Google at a public event, but there was no date attached to it. I should have asked.
Just because it is sexist doesn't mean you can't say it. It is not illegal, nor should it be, to be sexist or racist.

Women underperform men in college computer science courses. Hell, you could generalize this to all engineering. Am I sexist? Maybe. Am I speaking the truth, yes.

Now if you don't want to believe raw data, that's your choice.
The simple answer is that dogs are carnivores so they can't be bred and raised economically for slaughter. Therefore any dog meat you eat is from wild dogs. Wild dogs are also tame enough to stay close to humans, which means they are likely to be feeding off a lot of human waste. Any dog meat you eat is likely to be gamey and full of parasites. It's not just a cultural distinction.
I'm surprised that people still view Google as a cool place to work.

It seems to me that ship sailed years ago. They are a giant corporation reliant on one monopoly product to fund everything else.

Employees usually are stuck with some tiny part of a component in a system. The office perks are nice, but are you really going to do interesting work there anymore?
Cryptocurrency by comparison is too easy to trace at an exchange.
As long as everybody is happy to stay off exchanges.
Reeally? Thats all it took?
I'll take the socialist healthcare over the shit I got in the states, thank you. Sure, every system has its own problems and it isn't perfect. But I can get care. My yearly out-of-pocket is less than some folks pay per month for premiums, and definitely less than the average deductible. No more fears of losing a job and therefore losing medical coverage or going broke because of something out of my control.

Have you even tried some of these other healthcare programs by living in such a country?
Agreed on by whom? Did you even read the memo yourself?
Minor point, modern art ended around the 1960s, this describes becoming a contemporary artist.
This isn't too big to fail, it's "a bad egg doesn't ruin the bunch." Whether that's the case here is arguable, but no one is saying they aren't responsible for their actions.
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Yeah lets get rid of laws and regulations, that will fix health care prices!!! /s
If they spend it on their HQ2, let say it is $2B, do they wipe of the $1 Profits this year, ( Paid no tax ), and Net Operating Loss of $1B, which get deducted next year. Assuming they make the same $1B profits next year, that is No Tax again right?

One of the problem I see is that many companies buy Asset like property asset to avoid taxes.
Sounds cool, but can't some combo of Cloudwatch and Cloudtrail do this?
You can do so with SELinux btw. You can remove the right for a program to run the exec syscall.

It's just sad that there is no really good tutorial how to write your own SELinux modules for your own applications. It's easier than it seems and allows some really powerful security measures.
Sorry, but phuby is not useful, was never intended to be and even says so. It's a hilarious prank, if you ask me.
I will tell you my predictions in 10 years.
You are light grey, but this is a huge point. Insurance preimums are almost untennable right now. This will slowly raise them for everyone.
The last thing federal prosecutors want to do is make rich and powerful white people worry. They know which side their bread is buttered on.
Do you really want to work for a company where world-class work might not be that important for your career progress? Do you think a super talented high-achieving person with wrong gender/race should be expected to sacrifice their achievements for "common good" as defined by internal diversity officers? Do you think those diversity hires would be happy staying at junior positions and not pushing beyond their capabilities by non-merit related ways, not exploiting prevailing winds? I think second world countries would love to talk to you about how this turned out.

Obviously, interviews aren't that great indicator of success, especially in a company that tries to hire the best according to their criteria, so the overall medium-term effect might be small, but they do risk losing those people that could knock them out of the ring in the future, and making those people forever negative towards them. But maybe that's already taken into account and weighted in their internal decision tooling and they are fine with that.
Because the moment you admit it, self-appointed "rational" people will use it to deletigimitize you.
Depends - how do you envision this would work? I'd be perhaps more interested as a sender; are you literally saying "send actual beers"?
Because if you don't use Tor browser correctly, you might actually be leaking some of your private data.
> * tax evasion (kindly fuck of with "it's legal so it's avoidance", it's evasion even if it's legal. Spirit of the law)

At its heart, modern tax law separates people into classes and then allocating the burden of maintaining society unequally between those classes.

The spirit of the law that you are defending here is that people should shoulder unequal responsibilities to their society. Although that isn't controversial, it also doesn't automatically have a moral high ground; it could be a better outcome if everyone contributed equally. It just happens that everyone contributing equally flat-out won't work, because most people can't contribute enough.

The spirit of the law is unfair. That is an unfortunate reality of taxes - in a sense they can't reduce the total unfairness in the world, only shift it to people who can better deal with the burden. That people should ignore the detail of the law and voluntarily subject themselves to an unfair burden is not clear-cut. The clear cut part of this is that the law should be clear, pass through the usual channels and be enforced with due process - ie, as written or as commonly interpreted by the courts.

If you want to call it tax evasion, someone is going to have to change the law so it is actual tax evasion. Until then, it is legal so it is avoidance.
That is not what the memo said. did you not read it or is this what you think the writer meant even if he did not actually write that but you have some kind of mind reading abilities?
How did you apply to get transferred abroad? Did your HR department have a path or information about this?
Whataboutism is the mightiest endorsement of a justice system.

Again, they are clearly talking about forced labor in the prison system, you can't meaningfully analyze the other parts of their comment separately from that.
To top it off being trans-sexual and trans-racial should get your placed into the most-victimised hiring pool.
> About 1 atom per cm³ and enough photons to read by.

Do you have a citation (or better yet, a calculation) for this? I’ve been searching for about 10 minutes and and it doesn’t quite make sense.

The full moon typically casts about 0.05 - 0.1 lx.[1] With perseverence and some eye strain, I think I could read by that on a particularly clear night. This isn’t a perfect heuristic, but it seems reasonable to start with as a baseline.

Per this calculation[2], 1 lx is approximatly equal to 5 x 10^15 photons per second per square meter. The best moonlight you can typically expect from a full moon is approximately a tenth of this luminosity.

Then per the notes here[3], there are only something like 450 photons per cubic cm in space on average, which seems reasonable for a first approximation of diffused light in interstellar space. That’s vastly lower than 0.1 lx, and that’s before considering that the majority of those photons aren’t actually visible light.

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1. https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article-abstract/58/1/1.31...

2. https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/174314/calcu...

3. https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/196366/does-the-...
The article sounds like if the opening of the China-Western worlds relationship was something thought in these terms. But I have the feeling it was more the result of economical reciprocal interests among many actors.
> racist anti-trans bullshit.

Where do you see that? It's a simple optimization algorithm - if this is what it takes to get hired, people will do it, and it looks comical from outside.
You have the wrong idea. A better example of what you're calling "free market" would be dentistry or something like Lasik surgery. You can shop around and figure out the prices because they are very much apparent since you pay out of pocket for the majority of the former and completely for the later.

Would Medicaid/Medicare be "free market"? Why bother shopping around when someone else picks up the tab?

Insurance companies mostly reflect the costs of the hospital. If the hospital charges you $50 for a bottle of Asprin, so be it. ICD10 and Meaningful Use were designed for billing not really for health care. Those were federal mandates not "free market"

Pre-existing conditions is a lot more tricky than you think. The political ploy is to think of a poor person with a serious illness being turned away by insurance because they don't want to deal with them. When in reality it can be you're obease or someone who just did not take care of themselves period. You can imagine a group pre-existing conditions patients could bankrupt a insurance company. What if to be "fair" you were charged the same as a person with a pre-exiting condition. Say someone that smoked 2 packs a day for 30 years?

ACA was just a big initiative to add more insurance companies to the mix. Now it is mandatory you pay insurance companies.
> We have qualified women driven away from the profession because of all the unwanted attention and hurdles that come along wit being a minority at work.

This should be treated at the harassment/legal level. Not at the interview level.

We should not lower the bar for females or "diversity" hires. I'm sorry, but with all this diversity encouragement bullshit, every black or female engineer I see, I automatically assume they aren't as smart as their male counterparts and were offered a job simply because of their gender or ethnicity. A large portion of silicon valley makes this same assumption.
This is indeed a hidden problem in most of these conversations: you see in several fields an overabundance of good looking women, who have been hired by men for equality but over their probably (statistically on average) more qualified but less attractive sistren.
Schools are safer than they were in the 90s
Where does OP every say that he thinks Google is going to stop hiring white men?

There's an obvious case of discrimination and OP said he no longer views Google as a dream job.
> Do you seriously think that Google is going to stop hiring white men?

What kind of question is that? Maybe you should rethink it. Why would being discriminated against like this make me feel better if maybe some other white man gets a job? What are we fungible?
> None of those problems are hard to workaround:

Sure, there are very few problems that cannot be solved by throwing some time and sweat on them. However, when I do need to solve something, I prefer to not be sidetracked by sub-problems. Smooth sailing and all that.

It's much simpler to pull an usb key from the drawer or PXE boot, as you mentioned, and go on on solving the damaged system, than to start downloading and preparing a live distro somewhere.
So... it would be impossible to halve medical costs? People, in general, are pretty dumb. Sick people, in general, are more so.
you missed the biggest factor in explaining the balanced gender distribution - more women are qualified for and apply for corporate law jobs.

the vast majority of software engineering jobs have pleasant working environments than a typical corporate law job - "unwanted attention and hurdles" doesn't work as an explanation.
Go ahead, try and come back tell us how effective/easy that is. I dare you.
Nice idea, but how realistic is it? Most patients are not scientifically-literate, some are flat out incapacitated.

For all the stories about heartless insurance companies denying to pay for things, perhaps they should actually be more strict. As in, refuse to pay for anything unless there is 1) rock-solid (i.e. double-blind, placebo-controlled) evidence that it helps 2) for a specific, objectively verifiable indication 3) when provided by a doctor whose track record is demonstrably non-inferior to that of other practitioners. But for all three of those things, no $.

I would be interested in buying insurance like that.
> I think it diminishes the accomplishments of genuinely great minority/female employees to have this policy.

This view is contradicted by the weight of evidence for unconscious bias in hiring.

[Edit] Although obviously I don't know exactly what their policy was... maybe they were hiring badly, but the evidence suggests that people (of both sexes) discount the abilities of people in gender-incongruous roles.

> I would prefer identity to be neutralized somehow during the hiring process. The best person for the job, no matter your sex, colour, creed, disability.

I agree with this (disclaimer: this is what my startup does) but my reasoning is that quotas and other active methods (a) generate resentment, even though they have been shown to raise the bar not lower it, and (b) require a lot of study to determine the 'correct' targets... and even then it's a gamble... so are clumsy and expensive to get right.

It's a complicated topic though, not well suited to sweeping statements.
>and there’s a difference between merely being stressed and a systemic stress response that would affect the sperm production (which, by the way, doesn’t occur just during sex but before).

According to the way the research was described, this mechanism acts outside of the genetic code, so it isn’t a matter of when sperm is produced. These particles can latch on to the gamete long after the gamete is produced. For example they can be present along the lining or interstitial fluids in the epididymis, where sperm passes through from the testes during reproduction.
You forgot "...and never have anything go wrong".
You should look up the definition of "free market". We do not have a free market in healthcare.
> I showed up for my intake appointment and the young, rushed doctor said they wouldn't enroll me as an official member

"Intake appointment"? "Official member"? What kind of system is this?
> How can all companies be employee owned if you need to invest a lot of capital to start a car factory.

Equity isn't the only form of capital investment.

> How is capitalism different from early human tribes?

Well, lots of ways, including the thing that actually defines capitalism, the particular model of property rights.

> They also needed to work and trade.

Which is broadly true of every human society, regardless of politico-economic system; such systems differ in the (for instance) distribution of the accumulated benefits of trade, not in it's practical necessity.

> Things have become much more sophisticated but the basic principles remain.

The basic principles that remain the same are not the features that distinguish politico-economic systems from each other.

> People complain about spending too much time for a company and slaving away - but in earlier times they would have spend way more time on the fields plowing while 4 of their 8 kids died.

Yes, technology has improved since ancient times, and, in the domain of politico-economic systems even most critics of capitalism would agree that it represents positive progress from feudalism and other earlier politico-economic sysyems.
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It actually would. No need for sarcasm on that comment.
Planet Money #823 talks about this.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/02/09/584555705/epis...
After recently getting a cancer diagnosis and going through surgery and chemotherapy, the best advice I can give is: ask lots of questions and you are your own best advocate.

As with any profession, there are some great doctors who are truly looking out for your best interests and will pursue any direction you want. There are others who simply want to "follow the standard practice", even if what they know as "standard" is 35 years old. There are others who just want to get through as many procedures as possible and "see what sticks" when it comes to a diagnosis.

Asking questions helps you better understand which of these you're working with, and what actions you need to take on your own.

Finally, EMR sounds great, but in my experience it just doesn't work. Find a PCP who is part of a hospital system with specialists using the same computer system. This means they can all see each other's notes & test results. A lot of the time, even doctors in the same building are basically "private practice", or part of some other partnership that is not part of the hospital you are at.
50 Shades of Go: Traps, Gotchas, and Common Mistakes for New Golang Devs [0] might serve as a nice supplement to this article.

[0] http://devs.cloudimmunity.com/gotchas-and-common-mistakes-in...
Where can a person who only dabbles in Lisp read about the meaningful differences between R5/6/7 Schemes?
An immortal existence among a cohort readily choosing immortality reminds me L’enfer, c’est les autres.
I don't know if the new DRM that is applied to the books as they are on the device has been cracked, but there are links to download books to a computer (on the "Manage Your Content and Devices" Amazon page), and those can be unlocked by a Calibre plugin.