skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Original title is definitely linkbait and so I would say it warrants some kind of prefix like "H-Day 1967: A ‘thrilling’ mission to get the Swedish to change overnight".

It's a great story worthy of HN for anyone who hasn't already read about it elsewhere; the prefix is enough to let those of us already familiar with the story decide whether we can be bothered to click through to see if this article adds any new insight.
> Amazon is turning into a larger and more ruthless FedEx, yet somehow gets a free pass

They're not getting a free pass. I've been reading about Amazon abuse stories non-stop for ten years in the mainstream media, as it pertains to their treatment of labor in logistics.

We're discussing this right now on HN, and every big story about this sort of thing re Amazon shows up on HN, precisely because they have not been getting a free pass. It's closer to universally understood that Amazon doesn't take good care of its logistics workers (and it may be wider than that based on some past stories). Every time something happens in that segment of Amazon's business, it makes the NY Times and the frontpage of all US media (just as the bottle pissing did, or the building air conditioning story did before that, or the employee cancer story).
> ethically it's hugely problematic to deny people service based on their country

Practically though I worked for a company that saw hundreds of purchases from the Vietnamese IP space of which only two were not fraud. For the rest of the world it was in inverse.
Occam's Razor is not about superficial simplicity but rather about the need of additional assumptions. God existing is a very big assumption, so that theory is the less simple one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor
Firefox's multi-account containers (and/or first-party isolation) would go some way towards helping, in that Facebook's cookies wouldn't be available to tabs not opened in that container. That helps with the "embed an iframe to steal data" case, but not with the "user logged into a site that includes malicious third-party JS" case.

Privacy Badger assumes that third-party scripts used by more than one first party are potential trackers and blocks them by default, except common CDNs which just get cookies blocked. It's pretty usable: doesn't break nearly as much stuff as NoScript et al, and unlike an ad-blocker only blocks ads that track.
Slides from a talk by the author that give a good introduction to the landscape and the previous algorithms: https://platformlab.stanford.edu/Seminar%20Talks/Yatish_Tura...
just saying if you have no excuse for failure you just have to hustle, others blame their failure on others and don't see how others hustle to be successful,
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This assumes Maslov's hierarchy is correct, which there isn't actually any evidence for.
I think this is neither funny nor insightful. Maybe something on the level of Tesla’s April’s Fool prank. But April 1st was 3 weeks ago
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Certainly, where I live in London, Zipcar has arranged with the council to have special bays marked, reserved for them. The council like car-sharing, so are happy - but it is done in a manageable way.
> Would you want to work in a world where all programmers have to be trained, licensed and regulated with the same rigor as surgeons?

Uh, yes...

There are too many terrible developers out there.
Oh, that was a tricky bug! Thank you for report.
FIY: Nginx was sending content-type headers two times, first was application/octet-stream and then text/html. Chrome/Safari was using last one, Firefox - first one.
Is there someone at Facebook that does the same as Lea Kissner?
I've only been asked for this when I applied to a "digital design agency" (i.e. web development) during a moment of madness.

They asked me to write a GAE based web app for something or the other. I told them (politely!) that I'd do it, if they provided me with their diversity policy, specifically with an explanation of how this sort of exercise didn't discriminate against anyone (as noted in the article.) I got a "sure, we can do that" and then never heard from them again. I didn't consider that a loss.
Regardless of the IPC level, 5 CISC instructions for 1 BF instruction sounds exceptional low, it's something that an 200 bytes naive compiler would produce.

An optimizing compiler capable of generating the full gamut of x86 instructions would increase the IPC by at least one order of magnitude, the majority of BF code are boilerplate structures that set up loops, move data around, repeated increments to generate constants etc. Being a very simple language with limited and well defined side effects, it lends itself exceptionally well to reordering.
The first, obvious thing you would notice is performance. A docker container typically starts up in a fraction of a second (whatever process is running inside it might take a few seconds more) while a vagrant VM has to go through a whole boot up process. Docker has a slight overhead on disk I/O, but it's still far better than a typical vagrant setup. A docker container has very little memory overhead beyond what the process is using vs vagrant requiring you to allocate a fixed amount per VM. It's completely reasonable to run dozens of containers simultaneously on a laptop all completely isolated. Doing the same with vagrant would require an enormous amount of memory.

The bigger advantage is the switch in mindset that is much harder to explain or quantify.
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I am very disappointed, I thought this was one of the very rare cases where some one has done an "honest" exit scam where he wasn't trying to blame some one else or trying to talk himself out.

IMO Probably the worst PR idea ever, how can you be taken serious after it. They were already late on schedule on their roadmap, investors will be happy to see they spend so much time on fake exit-scamming.
Not so serious answer: Hurray for that? :D

Serious answer: Things would obviously have to be designed differently. This isn't about distribution of "economic power to the hands of the people" or some other Satoshi notion. The thought I have is more along the lines of Folding@Home

http://folding.stanford.edu/
I followed the debate with Jordan Peterson.

That Queen's University talk with everybody chanting idiocy outside was creepy stuff. What the serious breakdown of civilization.
Dockless bikes are working pretty much fine in Oxford, where I live. The city is pretty much the poster child for the idea in the UK, with three firms competing (Ofo, Mobike, Pony). Pavements generally aren't obstructed and the bike companies aren't experiencing a high degree of theft.
I totally get security/privacy vs. usability. I'm not trying to shoot you down btw. I just think we need to openly talk about these trade-offs or rather, make them clear to people who care about them (me).

Signal for example is great when it comes to confidentiality and actually easy enough to use so my mom messages me on signal, not so great when it comes to not leaking metadata. Nobody else I know uses Tox. But I know that when I use Signal it's a trade-off I'm fine with, but I'm aware of it.
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A blockchain is a data structure, it doesn't have processing power.

Miners solve for nonsense problems because that's the simplest kind that you could solve in order to make the proposition work, anything on top of that requires more complexity.

So it's not that it isn't possible, it's just that it would be charity from the point of view of the developers of the software to spend brain cycles on something they don't strictly speaking need to achieve their goals. I'm pretty sure that at some point there will be 'green' crypto currencies, let's call them 'greencoins' that make a play at avoiding the waste of energy that digital currencies are becoming associated with.

The same happened in other industries, I don't see why digital currencies would not be able to follow a similar path.
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No but if an app uses a Facebook login flow with the native Facebook SDK any third party analytics that the app developer has integrated should be able to do the same thing, at least in the case of Objective-C where powerful runtime meta programming exists. I'm not sure about Android, but maybe Java reflections could achieve it too?
Hmmmm. Does this mean that the Irish Dutch triple sandwich tax thing will break and facebroke is now paying US taxes?
Zach, if you're reading this, please make a Brainfuck expansion for TIS-100 [1] and Shenzhen I/O [2], your games are clearly not hard enough already ;)

[1] http://www.zachtronics.com/tis-100/
[2] http://www.zachtronics.com/shenzhen-io/
What makes the attacker different? If there was a possibility to subsidize mining by being paid to do science, why would other miners not take advantage of this also?
This is fantastic. I'm running two Pi 3 Bs with two O-Droids in a docker swarm cluster. The O-Droids feel a bit experimental.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/wWTKOLbiXooyYmkA3

I was disappointed to see that the folks at Raspberry are not interested in upping the specs by much. For my workloads I wanted to get more RAM on each node as my processors were not working all that hard.

I've bought ASUS products with confidence for years and I'm glad they have an offering in this space.
e) 'Black Mirror' was supposed to be a screenplay, not a business plan
Does libhybris work with Allwinner SBCs?

i.e. using ARM's proprietary driver for Mali from Android.

(FOSS drivers might be in development but pragmatically I'd choose something that works)
I don't get it. The whole industry is complaining about not being able to hire developers, yet there seems to be some kind of competition who can come up with the most awkward hiring process.

Requiring homework is a great way to deter the kind of people companies should be most interested in hiring: those who are not actively looking for a new job.

I find this trend especially surprising considering that the U.S. has at-will employment where you can fire anyone anytime (at least that is my understanding, I'm from Germany). Why not get people at a desk quickly and evaluate them on the job?
> What that setup describes is a required implementation of the Chinese firewall

No, it does not. China's firewall is designed to keep broad swaths of information away from its citizens. An EU block would be designed to put Facebook, and only Facebook, at a strikingly material disadvantage on the Continent. The former must be comprehensive, the latter narrow.

In any case, we're describing a technical solution to a legal problem. If someone believes European courts could not get their pound of flesh from Facebook, that is the definition of arrogance.
I actually gave a link to my Stripe account and told the company I was applying to to pay me hourly as a contractor for doing this work. In the end, they took it offensively and denied me.
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Hey, Thanks for checking us out and the inputs. API access is getting ready to launch as I am typing this.
Agree that rater reliability is a very important thing which will matter here, ultimately it converts to dataset quality. Over the period of time, we would show dataset quality in some form using feedbacks from dataset users.
First thing I checked, I've been looking for a small and cheap aarch64 board for hacking around. Do you know of one?

I guess as long as they won't ship more than a couple GB of RAM they won't bother with it.
This doesn't mean Facebook should get a free pass. If anything it should get less of a pass because governments love to use the hands of corporations to do what they do (e.g. Hollywood blacklists of communists back in the day, dipping into Facebook's or Google's data stash with a warrant, etc.).

At this point private corporations 'helping' the government is exactly the worrying part because the government at least has some decorum and is keeping up some pretenses and you have to really be in the wrong place, at the wrong time and have an ethnicity that somewhat matches the supposed crime.

Meanwhile with corporations it's starting to look like a free for all between machine learning, big data, hidden internal Terms of Service kangaroo courts and so on. You can get blacklisted, flagged, (shadow)banned and not even know it. And then government or other corporation buys that Big Data DB and real fun starts.

If the government actually wants to capitalize on the data it has there is a lot of instant red tape applied. You can't just get arrested, told you're a terrorist and put in jail for 10 years with 0 process, 0 appeal and 0 documents (well, except with Gitmo but it's a special case).

Meanwhile the corporations can turn you into a functional half-leper in the modern increasingly online society and deny you business arbitrarily (or even secretly) as hell because their deep learning said so (and what they feed in there, what comes out, who made it and how - you don't get to know that), they don't care enough to admit a mistake and the most appeal opportunity you get is customer support ran by lobotomy patients. There's 0 recourse to being shadowbanned, hellbanned, blacklisted, whatever, sometimes even 0 contact option other than making a new account (which breaks their ToS in itself) and unlike the government that has watchful eyes on it from all sides for abuses you'll be told it's "a private business so they can do anything" or that you deserved it because it's a Cool and Good Company.

There was a story that some Palestinian guy got arrested because Facebook translated his "good morning" in some Arabic dialect into "attack them"[0]. If it wasn't the Israeli police arresting him but instead Facebook doing some deep mind big data crap and covertly flagging him as a potential terrorist then he might have found out 5 or 10 years from now that he can't get a plane ticket because some airline or other secretly sourced Facebook's DB and he has no way to even find out where that flagging came from because corporations are free to be secretive in their decision making.

Government also follows some logic (simplistic, biased, populist, racist or reductionist - sure, but still), while corporations can just spit out a verdict with 0 explanations with a link to 20 page ToS written in pseudo-lawyer pseudo-English and say that a video making fun of a mass shooter is suitable for advertisers and one of eating a carrot in a silly hat or swinging a banana around (it's not an euphemism, I mean an actual banana) is not[1].

[0] - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/24/facebook-...

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uIn_3704pk
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Hey, thanks for input. We will certainly work on improving that section.
Reads like a press release from Google's PR department trying to differentiate themselves from Facebook.

If you care about user privacy, you don't deliberately build a panopticon.
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I'm not sure if that's completely true for prime factorization. There are numbers that are larger, yet easier to factorize.

For example, I think that a power of two, like 1024, is much faster to factorize than, let's say, 1001 (71113). (I'm not quite sure this example is true)

Here's a more detailed description: https://mathoverflow.net/questions/249266/classes-of-numbers...
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>"digital design agency" ... during a moment of madness

Yeah you dodged a bullet there. Digital design agencies are almost always sweatshops.
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I always use credit cards for online payments(Ireland), I rightly/wrongly perceived them as having better fraud protection. It has happened a few times where my credit card has been hit for unapproved transactions, majority of the time it was picked up before I noticed and I received a call from the bank, recently I noticed it before the bank did, gave them a call and the €500 was returned to the card in two days.

Out of interest why are debit cards more secure?
If you're one of the people that fancies exercising your rights to the max: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/nightmare-letter-subject-acce...
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Hey, If its a free plan, data stays open to public. But for paid [for larger & enterprise datasets] plans, DataTurks doesn't have any ownership of data, and we don't keep any copies.
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This occurs on eBay as well. (Note how many gift cards sell for well over their merchant-limited value... in cash or equivalent.)
Quite good performance from that antenna for it's size and cost yes. I wonder what tools they used to design it?
I seldom see cars driving on the pavement.
If you click on "Learn more", you are redirected to http://anditsg.one/. Or directly to the youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5_bwFf_byo
Nope, you're being clever.
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What you want from a hiring process is to be as objective as possible. For fresh engineers, the industry has settled on basic coding right from fizz-buzz to reverse a linked list and beyond.

For more senior roles, majority still rely on pedigree (previous employer, resume etc), and those who try to be more objective hand out a take-home which ends up frustrating both sides. Candidates have to spend a lot of time and effort and the hiring manager/devs have to setup/run/review.

This is where the industry needs to make the process easy, and operationally objective and efficient for the initial screen: An hour or 2 spent by candidate on a take home problem, which can be reviewed in under 5-10 minutes by the hiring manager. (This disparity in time is because the ratio of interviewed to screened is roughly that.)

(Disclosure: I work at hackerrank, and build the take-home equivalent of a coding test.)
We have dockless bikes in Bristol, and we've had similar issues. The biggest issue I've found is that most services require you give up use once you park, meaning that you could use one to get lunch and then come back to see that the bike you used is gone, with no bike nearby.

There are definitely solutions out there to these problems, but I think the space is still relatively new for companies to have these problems fully addressed. I don't share the sentiment or the entitlement of the article, though. Rather than addressing the problems, they're largely complaining about vehicles that don't really have a choice but to be parked for a long period of time (i.e. lorries running deliveries).
> an unreasonably high goal post

I wouldn't say unreasonably high for 10% for a single man offering that much money. I would even say that it is rather very risky.

Besides, claiming a platform is "a toxic wasteland" puts that platform on par with the ones like 4chan, and that does seem to require 20% toxicity to me, maybe even higher. For it to get more strict like 3-5%, the claim should be lighter, something like "slightly toxic". It is nice of him to empathise and assume that the claims are probably exaggerated, and to set the threshold to something in between.

> No one wants your paltry prize money, Ted.

Lastly, I definitely would enjoy an extra 10K, but I don't really think I can beat that requirement, since I don't think Stack Overflow is even slightly toxic.
I don't want to name names but one YC company I interviewed at left me with the distinct impression that they talked a big game, just to get me to work on one of their (apparently) "strictly-hiring-related toy projects" as homework. Homework, "sure", except it: 1) integrated with a real system, 2) mirrored something they actually did, and 3) they would only agree to proceed if I signed an IP/work contract and accepted their (sorry, too small) payment of USD450 for the (not insignificant) project.

I pushed back at the contract, and asked them to ask their lawyer if that was really necessary. When they insisted on a contract for the homework project I pulled out of the process. It just felt so wrong.

The worst part, is not that they would seek some way to freelance a small part of their system, nor that they would actually use ideas from hiring interviews in their product -- but that (it seems) they would so blatantly lie to someone they professed to want to hire that this was homework, when in fact it was not. Even worse was the feeling of disrespect that they wanted to freelance part of their system for USD450, trying to abuse the hiring process/ talking a big game about offers, to unfairly lowball the price. Like they are a well funded, established, largish YC alum, at least they can afford to pay market. Anyway, everytime I see "XXXX is hiring a YYYY in ZZZZ" on here from them, I'm reminded. Feels good to vent.

Just sad. Anyway, I'm not going to name names because this is unwise to do that in a public forum.

Anyway, I only added the above anecdote after writing the following comment.

This is why Triplebyte is so good. You do a single technical interview ( after a quick online quiz ), then get fast tracked to final interviews at various YC / silicon valley startups.

Sure, maybe not everyone wants to work for a smallish startup. But some of their clients are 200+ people. So...it's not all the same.
But there's other systems for that; what you're describing are 'bumps' that have been in forums and such for forever now, and I'm sure that e.g. an upvote system (or sort by +1 reactions) would replace that system.

I think it could be done on a per repository basis, like, basic behaviour rules just like at forums and other such communities. It's then up to the maintainer / moderators / whatever to allow or disallow +1-style comments, and what the 'punishment' would be. They could then also tweak a setting that auto hides comments if they're shorter than X characters.
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Typically servers are only under a reasonable workload for load 30% of the day. Resulting in that hardware being unused (wasted) the other 70%.
What's the purpose of parenting and education if it's not making the best person possible out of a child?
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I often hear this, and for the sake of discussion I tried to find some numbers. I could mainly find presentation notes[1], and half page (quite similarly structured) posts, even from the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority[2]

Does anyone have a link to the research behind these releases? I don't doubt the effect of raising acidity and temperature, but would like to see a comparison to the aftermath of oil spills, radiation leaks etc. throughout the Pacific.

[1] https://archive.epa.gov/climatechange/kids/expeditions/temp-...

[2] http://www.gbrmpa.gov.au/managing-the-reef/threats-to-the-re...
One needs to be careful with high standards.

You go higher and higher and before you know it you're peeing in bottles to reach your productivity goals.
The really, really, really awesome thing about GDPR is that you can't deny service because someone wants to opt out of sharing their data. You actually have to keep their account active and make it work somehow. If you can't, then you are libel for a really huge penalty. I can't add enough smileys to that, so you will just have to imagine them.
I don't understand this development. In Germany, we've basically got full employment in the IT sector. Why would anyone waste their time with this? Just apply for the Job next door.

As an employer, hiring someone new is always a leap of faith. Might work out, might not. If it doesn't, dont feel bad to fire people again.
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She ain't doing a very good job.
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