skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "innocent conversation" is the prior coworker of mine who was reprimanded by HR and put on a PIP for "bullying" a coworker when he tried to hold her accountable for work she was supposed to deliver under his lead.

I was present, as were a handful of other women. None of us were ever followed up with to ask if this was a legitimate accusation. The accuser was given a red carpet to a choice team. The accusee was given additional workload to carry and taken out of a position of authority and placed in a punitive program.

I have seen this happen twice in the last 3 years.

Do not take this as defense of the examples you mention, but as a warning against unintended consequences that simply don't ever show up in the press because they aren't highly visible and won't draw clicks, especially if they go against the status quo. If you need further evidence, look at the speed to which a concrete, evidence backed accusation with respect to google's hiring practices got flagged off the front page, whereas this thread is still much higher ranked after much longer time and fewer votes.
Its not about passing values. Its about how do you pass values. In all the honesty, can you claim they are not simply forced in at least 50% of cases? I would highly doubt that.
(In hindsight) I have had the good fortune of being banned by Taleb in his twitter account. A friend that laid low sometimes forwards me screenshots of his rantings and ravings and... I’m regularly amazed.
Almost anyone working in tech has seen race and gender discrimination in favor of women and minorities at this point. I have personally experienced it.

If we were to apply affirmative action then class would be a better differentiator than race or gender. As it stands now an upper-middle-class Ivy League educated person of the right identities will receive affirmative action over a man that worked his way up from a poor neighborhood in Bangalore. I fail to see how that is just.
That's how it worked for me in DFW and northern New Jersey as well. I also grew up in Florida; mom is still there and has not (to my knowledge) ever experienced anything like this. My sister is in Northern Virginia and has not experienced anything like this outside the military medical system.
Was this before UberX? Checking just now Uber quotes about the same as a taxi for UberX in Paris. The premium Uber (called "Berline" in Paris) is 60% more, so matches your experience.

The rentals I'm referring to are all UberX.

https://www.uber.com/fare-estimate/

https://www.taxifarefinder.com/main.php?city=Paris-France
/etc/hosts travels with you. A LAN DNS server does not. It's a good idea to use both.
Shouldn't the comparison be made against school shootings world wide? Or at least be normalized for overall crime rate or something?
1. "the rich" seems pretty clear an concise. What else would you call them. How is "rich people" any more or less crass?

2. You say it provides a strawman. But then you go on to basically confirm what the article says. And your defense is "that's just how it is"
The AWS issue taking Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket offline is “informational”
Sf. It's also very much about strategy.
Sorry where did you find that exactly? And how is being realistic about Tor's current shortcomings making you lose confidence?

By the way for some context on the work of mentioned there see this paper by Paul Syverson https://www.nrl.navy.mil/itd/chacs/sites/edit-www.nrl.navy.m...
That one is paywalled and was flagged to death, and now this one is a "dupe."
There's actually pretty solid evidence that its over educated men without job prospects that are a major force in driving people Jihad: http://news.mit.edu/2017/why-some-muslim-clerics-become-jiha...
Serious question - why is affirmative action always OK when Asians bear the coast but not OK otherwise?

- Why isn't there affirmative action in the NBA? There are practically no Asian basketball players, they should lower the standards until more Asians get accepted, and there should be a quota.

- Why isn't there affirmative action in the US Presidential Cabinet? There are practically no Asian policymakers

- Why isn't there affirmative action in Hollywood? There are few no Asian actors aside from the classic stereotyped actor nerd/goofball/terrorist/etc
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Because most people do? Because it's a sacred cow that you cannot criticize? Because most of the elites have elite university credentials (almost by definition)?

e.g., see Peter Thiel's criticisms https://techcrunch.com/2011/04/10/peter-thiel-were-in-a-bubb...
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But it definitely requires a hospital.
Some will earn more than the median, some less. At the Uber Black level, it is possible to earn a decent wage in a densely populated urban center.
Have somebody done it for the more general foundations based on category theory? If I understand correctly, Metamath is a set of tools enabling such a formulation, but not the formulation itself. See ML vs. theorem prover implemented in ML.
> Are models of observational type theory exactly elementary toposes?

By design, the answer is no. Toposes are models of intuitionistic bounded ZF. However, in general dependent type theories, including observational type theory, don't have (and don't want!) the powerset axiom.

There has been some recentish work on predicative analogues of toposes, but I'm not sure anything really definitive has emerged. However, I'm not super familiar with this area.

> To me, it still doesn't answer why TT is the most convenient axiomatization though. The internal language. [...] Especially because TT was arrived at from the IMO wrong angle, namely by coming up with a syntax first and its meaning second.

This is a very common misconception about what is going on when doing type theory.

From the point of view of a category theorist, the way to understand type theory is that it is a methodology for giving explicit presentations of free structures, in such a way that the morphisms make no explicit reference to composition.

The basic method of categorical logic is to compute a result in a syntax corresponding to a free structure, and then sending it to whichever non-free structure you like by the universal property of that structure. Most people initially find this a bizarre thing to do, since intuitively it seems like any proof that works in a free structure should work in any structure.

Indeed, this is actually true, if we only use the free gadget's universal property. However, if we have a type-theoretic presentation of a free structure, we actually have more information than the universal property: we know properties of the syntax! So we can exploit these properties of the syntax to establish facts which hold everywhere, by means of proofs that wouldn't work in an arbitrary structure.

For example, this is why type theorists devote so much effort on properties like cut-elimination: it ensures the composition of morphisms is automatically unital and associative.

Mike Shulman has written a fantastic set of notes, "Categorical Logic from a Categorical Point of View", which is one of the best explanation of type theory for "normal" mathematicians I've seen.

https://mikeshulman.github.io/catlog/catlog.pdf
I'm not sure what you're arguing. Nobody is claiming that he didn't win the election. My point was just that /r/the_donald has substantially less than 62MB members so his message had to reach other groups of people.

Similarly, arguing about rally sizes may be a fun political argument but ultimately it comes down to 62M votes for Trump and 65M for Clinton, so it's hard to say there was a huge difference in the number of people who supported each candidate.
Can someone say "Security Theater"?

In cases like these I like to take the Freakonomics formula for risk, that outrage factors more into observed risk than actual danger.

We're more worried about Terrorism than Heart Disease, even as we have far more control over the latter.
It sounds like you need some of the pressure that comes with limited time. A part of the high also seems to happen when hacking. It's hard to get the same high if you're building for the next 3 months, as opposed to hacking something in a week or a day.
Any statistic can lie, but this one is even more susceptible considering that vague definition of what constitutes a "medical error". I remember looking at this study when it was first published (there should be a 2016 in the title by the way) and it basically attributed any action by a doctor that resulted in a negative outcome as a medical error. For example, that could include a doctor prescribing a treatment that is successful for 99.9999% of patients, but if it fails for that one patient it would be an error.
I think I just gagged a little in my mouth.
What good are these discriminatory efforts to hire "diverse" people? They are essentially programs to hire technically mediocre people; even the most actually progressive employer is going to think "maybe this woman chose Google because she couldn't be hired on merit elsewhere".
Perhaps Ginsburg's point was that 9 is definitely enough, but she's addressing what the smallest number for "enough" is?
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I’ve found that watching his hour long talks is a better way to get the ideas than reading his books. Which is a pity, because his books could pack quite a punch if they had an editor who could cut the size down by 2/3. Many authors might have the arrogance but Taleb also has the money — he can afford to not listen to an editor :P

That said, while his style can be annoying, I find his ideas to be a breath of fresh air.

Haven’t read SITG fully, but it seems like the book is a natural follow-up to Antifragile, analyzing social setups and human institutions from the viewpoint of whom they render fragile/anti fragile.
Oh, and check out their incredibly diverse board of directors:
https://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/company-officers/GOOG...

/sarcasm
Bitcoin can only be slowed down not stopped other centralized cryptos like Ripple can be shut down.
Yes, more mandatory tipping will make everyone happier.
I've heard it be used by people that are downsplaning basic accounting.
Google sued for allegedly refusing to hire white or Asian men
Worst part:

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I went straight 3 days no sleep and wrote about 20-30 pages (against my supervisor's advice).
Gonna post before reading (mistake alert), but was just reading The Patient's Playbook by Leslie Michelson and it begins by talking about what a clustercuss the US healthcare system is.

You'd think your primary care physician would know what medications you are on, and what specialists you'd seen, but they don't work like that unless you laboriously tell them everything you received when they weren't staring at you. It's inefficient to say the least. And it's borderline negligent too.
Google dumbs everything down because they think everyone is dumb. I have learned to avoid their documentation and attempts to teach the populace.
"investigating increased pocket loss" is a nice way to put it.

it's been 100% packet loss here all day :)
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FYI, the ecoli used in the LTEE experiment reproduce asexually, so defining 'evolution' in this sense is entirely at the discretion of the scientists. For sexually reproducing organisms, speciation occurs when an organism can no longer reproduce with its predecessor, a feat which science still can't prove.
Contrary to the article, Tor is not a private non-profit. It's a publicly supported non-profit.
Does the CIA do any monitoring of people online? I guess given that it's a huge agency they probably do some because of mission creep, but I thought the idea was that the NSA is supposed to be in charge of it.
Honestly it was more like 60 h a week and it's not so bad because that "includes commute", and also the schedule is really flexible (includes working around logging off for social events, for example). It was some of the least stressful years in my life, if for no other reason than I got to sleep in every day (not waking to an alarm ever).
With regard to point (2) I'm pretty sure the $50 Turbotax package is not sufficient for business for taxpayers who are self-employed.
yes it was for UberX
For a similar tool in the somewhat simpler-to-understand ‘word space’, see Travis Hoppe’s ‘Transorthogonal Linquistics’:

https://github.com/thoppe/transorthogonal-linguistics?files=...

Shayne Miel has observed that its results for the space from ‘sociology’ to ‘mathematics’ closely match an earlier XKCD comic:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/gensim/a8PF8CInRKk/6XWcp87WB
That violates that "Equal Opportunity" clause if you exclusively reach out only to certain groups
Sounds like excluding people who get offended at every little comment is a better way of dealing with things.
My blog making fun of Taleb used to have higher page rank than his personal website. However, Taleb is totally correct about this, and his Antifragile book is very good (though he still needs an editor).

Most of modern medical science is quackery and pharma companies trying to milk the populace for profit. Trauma surgery is quite good, and antibiotics and vaccines are important. Other than that, I'm pretty sure going to the gym and the salad section of the grocery is much more important than going to the doctor.
Woah! So about +$30 for a bottle of vodka?

I assume that this is just for ethanol to drink, right? Bio-ethanol as fuel wouldn't work if it weren't separated. How do they keep the ethanol-as-fuel out of ethanol-as-commestable apart? Also - at that tax-level - do they attempt to keep people from home-distillary?
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Or do it like it was 1999. Host it yourself. I had a $20 DO, I've downgraded it to the $5/month plan. My next goal is to move that shut down the VM sometimes this year and host it on a raspberry pi myself.
No. An individual who is the sole director, sole shareholder, and provides all of the services in an S-Corp will have any distributions classified as compensation subject to payroll taxes. There is a lot of established law on this subject.
The relationship between Education and Prosperity is funny one. Argentina and Egypt are good examples of societies that got educated but did not see economic returns. (source: nntaleb).

A prosperous country gets more educated but an educated country may not always prosper.
Yes, I agree. Perhaps I was not clear that this is what I meant.
> It's all anecdotal, so I guess we can all take each other's stories with a grain of salt

That's fine, but LeifCarrotson presented an anecdote like it was a universal truth of health care in the US. That's bullshit and that's what I have a problem with.

> long waits and impenetrable bureaucracy has been my experience, as well. My wife is currently trying to get treatment and she's had to wait months to see various doctors and specialists. We live in a metro area in the US.

So, is this some effect of your insurance coverage? Does she require referrals for specialists?
Yeah that seems odd. What's an extra hour if it's your own car with your own gas on your time? On the flipside, would have it been possible to work out an arrangement for you to move an hour or two closer? The whole thing seems like a wasted opportunity over an hour drive.
k-means is just garbage, but hierarchical clustering can be good. The problem with hierarchical clustering is that you can produce whatever set of clusters you're biased towards by fiddling with the linkage function and the cut criterion.
That seems like a reasonable definition, not a lie.

>could include a doctor prescribing a treatment that is successful for 99.9999% of patients

Sure it could, but that is an edge case that would account for a negligible number of deaths in relation to the sum total.
> 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.

Fairly sure that the parameters of driving for Uber/Lyft preclude every single aspect of what makes that activity enjoyable for an 18-22 year old.
The data they use in the study, don’t match the data gathered by the community.

There is a clear upward-trend since the 60’s.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_...
Duplicity is the name of the game in Enterprisey software. Whether you're a startup struggling to add the features that a client requested, that sales said "Of course we can!" to, and that are utterly foreign to your product ("Why the hell did they ask for voice recognition in this vacation hour tracker?"), or a hugecorp like Oracle with a do-nothing platform that is essentially re-written on site to customer specifications, the time-honored practice of "managing customer expectations" is the name of the game in this market.

Falling behind? Ship half a feature, lie about it or explain how it's going to be working in the next release (and when that doesn't happen, blame the customer's requests for churn, or the height of the tide, it doesn't matter). In danger of actually completing a contract? Trod hard on the bugs, you don't want that money pump to stop. Larry Ellison needs a new dock for his yacht? Time to increment the product's version field and let a thousand consultants bloom. Ka-ching, baby.

My experience with the space, both as a developer of Enterprisey software at several start-ups and as a customer, was that this corner of the industry is ethically sick, and I won't have anything to do with it.
Thank, we think so too :)
This article came to mind this morning when I made my second visit to the orthopaedics department at a local hospital. The department schedules all patients for pre-appointment x-rays. That is, before the patient is even seen, before the doctor can determine if an x-ray would even be useful. On my first visit, I missed my x-ray appointment. The doctor I saw that day later said that was no problem. According to him, an x-ray wasn't necessary given my symptoms. I was scheduled for an expensive, unnecessary x-ray for no reason, basically. On today's visit I simply declined the x-ray, and the doctor I saw today was fine with that because he also did not recommend that any imaging be done.
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