skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No service seems to handle this well. I mostly want the opposite: show only uncensored versions in searches and playlists, but it would also be nice to globally toggle to clean versions if I’m hanging out with a child. It’s frustrating and cluttering to see both versions in the catalogue as if they are separate releases.
This is nice but isn't the problem with Switzerland more about getting a visa and less about the availability of jobs?
What is "xenophobic" about those three images? Turkey is currently undergoing a very public internal war between western secularism and Islamic fundamentalism. Why would a western country want to enter into democratic union with such a country at this stage?

Not every judgment regarding other countries is "xenophobic." Imagine if Alabama or Mississippi were trying to join the U.S. today. Would it be "xenophobic" of Californians to be skeptical of the impact that would have on shared democratic institutions?
I don't see why that fixes the issues I brought up --- if anything, I mention that it really isn't a good way to figure it out.
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Slack acquires HipChat
Targeted political advertisement is immoral. It is nothing more than a way to deceive the electorate by hiding from them part of the truth. That is the problem here. Online ads are targeted and that is problematic when it comes to politics.
What is the 20% subsidy that other companies couldn't also have? Other companies could reinvest all their profits and pay close to no taxes as well, right?
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Slack Acquires Hipchat IP
Regarding point two, I can't really see any argument that an encounter with a police officer is not more likely to go south if the officer is under the misapprehension that one is a potentially dangerous criminal; Police shootings are already not infrequent in the US, and adding the tension of greater perceived danger makes an already volatile situation worse - a sudden movement that might otherwise pass unnoticed is much more threatening from someone who has been misidentified as an armed gunman, for example, and is far more likely to elicit lethal response.
Marqeta has a iirc ~$10k setup fee. I'm hoping that this is much more reasonable.
Don't worry. The Party Formerly Known As European Socialism is about to go tits up. But at least they'll get to go Full Diversity!
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Well we've all thought of it now someone's done it (well lots of people have probably done it, this guy is just the first one to risk telling people he's done it). $91/mo adds up.
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I expect games like this to extend into all areas of society as gender identity politics become mainstream. If there is any advantage to be had by whimsically switching genders, people will do it. And in the end, it's biological females who get the shaft because biological men identifying as women will assert their physiological advantages whenever possible.
Will this be opened up for all stripe customers or will it remain invite only? If so, is there a planned date?
How the could car insurance cost $4500 a year? What are you doing in Canada?
Ask HN: To Mobile App Devs: How do you change your app's UI?
Hello mobile app devs, I have been trying to find out solutions for dynamically changing certain UI elements in my app without releasing a new app version.

For e.g. I want to test whether an onboarding string A is better than onboarding string B. Or show a different menu items to certain users.

How do you guys control the display logic without releasing a new app version?
You're making the mistake of thinking that everything is just a technical challenge that you can throw money at, and that technical superiority is the only trade-off.

Just because an enterprise has funding doesn't mean it's wealthy in other, more scarce things like organizational capital. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if all the client developers at Slack would love to split off into dedicated platform teams and do a rewrite. We as developers love that shit.

But you should try to understand why these enterprises make these trade-offs and why they are still in these positions in spite of how much disposable money you think they have.
When you buy stocks do you want it to keep going up as much as possible or do you want to it stop after a certain point when you had "enough".

CEO are there to implement the wished of people like you and me. If he doesn't do it, it will be someone else.
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I wonder... is there any good solution to this issue from either side? Outside of legitimate gender change (bear with me -- I know some of you don't think this is possible but lets go with the assumption) can you really blame the guy? And as an insurance company what can you do about it? I would say maybe we could have flat rates but then that just incentivizes the "good" class to go to an insurer who values their "goodness".
Define "discrimination"

Is is discrimination to require a fitness test be taken for certain jobs/insurance?
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>You can also write it Go style if you prefer; we started off with exactly that, then moved to a macro, then turned that macro into ?.

Interesting. Does the Rust book (you wrote), explain the difference between the Go style and the current Rust style, and explain how to use the Rust style (well)?

Asking because I've found this Some / None stuff (also there in other languages like F#) a little tricky to understand (although I have not spent a lot of time on it yet).
Pushing boundaries? seriously? General Magic tried to deliver Microsoft Bob 'on a mobile device'.
Does Stripe bypass card networks when processing these cards for Stripe merchants? That would be very cool.
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Did you read the second sentence starting with "In this case.."
It's interesting how people generally consider it acceptable for insurance companies to discriminate based on gender, when that discrimination would probably not be considered OK in other areas. You don't choose your gender, why should you be punished for it? Would people also be OK if insurance companies discriminated based on race? Surely there is some correlation between race and collision risk as well.
> So, while a doctor may order additional tests to "CYA," it's pretty likely that the hospital won't be reimbursed for all of them and will just eat the cost of the tests.

What? In the USA, it’s the customer who eats the cost of the test. 1. The doctor tells you to go do all these tests. 2. Neither the doctor, the testing lab, the hospital, or the insurance company knows which ones will be covered by insurance. 3. You do the tests. 4. Insurance company, months later, says “Surprise, sucker! We won’t cover these tests so you have to pay $N,000!” 5. The lab and doctor says “You signed the paper agreeing to cover the costs. F-you Pay me.”
If you're suggesting cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin or Ethereum would replace fiat, then I have a new cryptocurrency to sell you.
That's not possible. Transactions need to be approved at the POS within a reasonable amount of time. Waiting for a human is to respond is not reasonable.

You could pre-approve the transaction and then confirm it within 2 sec though.
> if these loopholes were all closed, the internet "revolution" would end. All these companies would rapidly shrink to 10% of their current size

That's wrong and impossible to support in fact. You can spot a fraudulent claim like that easily because it wings an arbitrary number that on the surface appears absurd (and as it turns out, is).

Tax Microsoft at the OECD median, their net income for 2018 would be about ~$25 billion. Their tax rate for Q1 was 14%, which is comparable to the effective corporate tax rate in much of Europe.

So you don't like their 14% rate and think it's too low? How would raising that to 18% or 20% change anything fundamentally? It wouldn't. And it certainly wouldn't "rapidly shrink [them] to 10% of their current size." Whether their net income is $23b or $26b or $28b annually, Microsoft remains worth a similar value as to what they are today (ie well over half a trillion dollars).

The same holds true for Facebook, Apple and Google.

Making ridiculous claims without anything supporting them, doesn't make for a very good argument position.
British Columbia will soon support answering “not specified” for gender on identity documents. I wonder how insurance providers will cope with that. Will they demand you tell them a gender? Will they try to infer it? Will they use low-statistical-power actuarial data for the insurance usage rates of “not-specified people”?
Great info, thank you! How do you like the wifi performance with the PC Engines option? My only concern with that option is that the wifi AP will be in our basement and will lead to some of the wifi "blips" I see today.

Do you run any other APs with with it?
I think a better phrase would be self-deterministic, meaning that the action is determined regardless of external influences. However, I will admit, that sounds a lot like free will.
The icing on the cake is that he's not even in an area known for expensive insurance (Toronto)
Change it to "Sex" or add have both "Sex" and "Gender" fields.
If only women had any physiological advantages.
Awesome post, and it's really impressive what you have managed to build with such a small team! Could you go into more detail regarding your problems with Android? Poor performance of touch events seems like the kind of thing that would make RN/Android unsuitable for most teams, so why does it have such widespread adoption?

Any other insights would be great, as I'm planning to start converting my web app to RN in the next months and didn't know Android would be a problem.
Regulatory capture? Nah! lobbying? Hmm, close. Corruption? Yup, that right!
As a society you can make it illegal to discriminate on factors that a person has no control over.
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Hah, that reminds me of the first time I got an iPod - I let it spend a couple of hours loading songs from my computer, and then a day or two later I tried to add a single song from my dad's computer. When I hit "sync", it first deleted everything on the iPod, and then added the one new song >_<
That's correct. Also, anybody can buy&hold AMZN stock long term and not pay regular income tax rates on it. Amazon doesn't get any special tax treatment, and neither do investors in it.
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I'm sure there is a good reason this idea wouldn't work, hoping someone can help poke holes in it:

Why not set a number of H1B visas (say keep the current of 85k), then rather than do a lottery or check qualifications, simply rank salaries offered to applicants (or total yearly compensation) and let the people with the highest offers get the visas.

This way wages won't be depressed, and companies with labor needs they are truly unable to fulfill with traditional methods will get all the people they need.

Viewing money as a crude measure of qualification it seems this would be the most fair method. Also would be the best for the American worker since it would prevent low cost H1B applicants from lowering local wages.
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They’ll just buy your demographic profile from a broker for a pittance and use that.
It'll get better my dude :)
I feel like that would be mocking.

This is pretty great though. Is it a bit of an abuse of the system, sure. But honestly, if he's being charged more for the same record just because he's a man then I approve of him doing this.

Course I'm a bit annoyed with insurance right now. I made a mistake about 1.5 years ago and was speeding. It was empty highway and I made the stupid decision to go too fast. Got caught.

This is, I paid my fine. I have no accidents, no other tickets. I'm still stuck paying massively increased premiums for years.
Except that didn't actually happen. The German government (not Angela Merkel) contributed money for an environmental project running in Kenya and Ethiopia which the Clinton Foundation was also involved in.
Discriminating based on fitness instead of gender is exactly the sort of thing one should do, if fitness is really what you are worried about.

That way, the occasional woman who is if fit enough can still do the thing that needs doing, and flipping genders on your birth cert doesn't game the system.
Because the tax havens are small countries that don't export much so trade sanctions wouldn't have much effect.
There was a bug that affected a tiny number of iTunes users where iCloud Music Library screwed up their iTunes library. This was all over the media briefly, and about a week later Apple put out a fix.
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I really enjoyed that book. You can always read the final chapter with her summary, but I found it more worthwhile to read the entire book first.
Accidents and multiple tickets crank it way up.
This is a perfect example of "AI gone wrong" even though there was no AI involved.

The costs of insurance are based on actuarial tables, which are really just calculations based on large chunks of historical data, much like an AI. And much like an AI, the result essentially magnifies the biases that already exist in the data (biases that may be accurate or may not be).

The tables, nor the AI, care about ethics or perception. They are simply the result of the inputs given.

Do men really have more tickets and accidents? Maybe. Or maybe they just get caught more.

It just highlights how careful we have to be about biases, real or accidental, as we rely more and more on mathematical models based on data.
This entire comment seems absurd to me, am I missing something?

> You forget the effects of the "full reinvestment" policy. Amazon barely paid any tax at all

Is there anything stopping other companies, Amazon competitors like Wal-Mart or otherwise, from following this same policy? If no, your claim that companies like Amazon are government sponsored holds no water.

> Jeff Bezos DID get enough money out of it to become the richest man on earth, but not through profit. Rather he got "capital gains on his shares", which is the same thing in practice, but a very different thing for the IRS

Except it is not even remotely close to the same thing in practice. Jeff Bezos doesn't have $150B sitting in a bank account somewhere. How do you propose to tax money that he doesn't have access to? The very second he accesses any of it by selling shares, it is taxed. Are you proposing that everyone who has any kind of appreciating investment (so, anybody with a 401k) annually pay taxes out of pocket on the gains? You're going to piss off a lot of ordinary Americans if so.

> People think the internet businesses got successful because it's "just a better way to do business", but it gets a ~20% government subsidy. 30% if hailing from China (for instance, free shipping really is free from China, or I should say, paid by the US taxpayer mostly)

You completely lost me here. Where is this 20% government subsidy for being an "internet business" coming from? As somebody who's helped run an "internet business" I wasn't aware of such a subsidy, was I completely missing out??

And as somebody who currently is working on supply chain logistics involving shipping items to the US from China, I was also unaware that there was a program where the US taxpayer would fund our costs. Can you point me to such a program please? It would help me tremendously.

> Microsoft, selling software "locally" (ie. tax free in the Bahamas) but internationally, and even more so, Yahoo, Facebook, Google, ... selling services "locally" (in Delaware, Ireland and the Bahamas) is a homongous tax loophole.

This is the only part of your comment which seems grounded in reality - big corps absolutely take advantage of fancy accounting and overseas tax havens. What this has to do with "internet businesses" is utterly beyond me.

> As an analysis of the cost structures of these companies will tell you : if these loopholes were all closed, the internet "revolution" would end. All these companies would rapidly shrink to 10% of their current size. This seems absurd to many, but rewriting the financial statements of these companies taking normal tax structures into account will tell you this.

To make such a bold claim, surely you've done such an analysis, or at least have read such an analysis that you can link to?
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If it's not xenophobic, it's at least hypocrisy:

* the UK was one of the biggest proponents for Eastern EU expansion

* the UK did not impose any restriction on labor from the new EU members, which every EU member could do, up to 10 years from the date of the new members joining

* then, surprise-surprise!, when a lot of Poles, especially, moved to the major English speaking country in the EU, the UK decided all of a sudden they're against immigration :)

* the UK, even post-Brexit, but before Erdogan purges, through the voice of Boris Johnson, was pushing for Turkey becoming an EU members

And these ads are from 2016, when public perception of Erdogan wasn't what it was now. The angle was purely: "the Turks are going to swarm us". While the same government was pushing for Turkey in the EU.

Furthermore, the UK could just veto Turkey indefinitely. Absolutely every EU member must agree to accession of a new members.
Amazon continues its streak of profitability
I’ve heard horror stories as recently as two weeks ago.
A food wholesaler and a restaurant are two entirely different businesses.
> inferior-in-nearly-aspect Palm

worse is better https://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html

x86 was worse than RISC, Linux worse than BSD, Windows worse than MacOS, etc

Palm got the the things right that mattered to adoption (price, simplicity, data syncing) even if you think Newtown was technically superior. Focusing on technical superiority is a common trap.
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Working in confined spaces is easier for the average sized woman than for the average sized man.
Is it gender discrimination to charge one gender more than another for the same service?

And if so, and more broadly, is there a problem with changing gender identification to gain a preferential price or service?
Someone should probably mention that calling the source biased is just circumstantial ad hominem, which is even lower on the pyramid than responding to tone.
Let's see if he'll keep the identification when he next applies for a job or a home loan?
The editor is similar to CodePen, with the biggest difference being you can easily add what you've built to any website. I haven't ever used GTM but I think the "make changes without re-deploying" approach is conceptually similar.
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Is paying different amounts based on measured risk factor really discrimination in the way you intend it?
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Of course they do. They also know that migrant workers have a positive impact on our economy. They also know the unelected bureaucrats are elected and held to account. And they also knew that there would be issues around Northern Ireland's border that wouldn't be easy to resolve. And they also knew that... I'm bored now but you get the picture.
My "learning style" is a consequence of my attention span (I've got ADD). I tend to start thinking about tangents even (or especially) during the more interesting lectures. After 30mins I'm often hopelessly lost. Books (or video lectures for that matter) let me rewind when I "snap back" after those tangents.

My main point being: maybe learning styles don't exist in the traditional sense, but external factors (ADD being just one of them) can lead to another type of "learning styles" that manifest in effectively the same way.
You think Police Departments won't knock down the threshold just for justification to knock down some perp's door? They've done far worse to get the results they want.
Well, over the many-thousand-year geological record, we've seen exactly one global industrialization, and also exactly one climate shift of this nature, and against all odds they're happening at essentially the exact same time. Even if we only consider that fact, while these two dramatic and extremely rare events could be unrelated, we have awfully good reason to think they're connected.
I actually think CSS Grid solves your #2. A lot of people who don't use grids were probably overwhelmed by all the grid libraries out there and the complexity and overhead of them. I made my own grids, if you could call them that, and then Flexbox showed up and everything became amazing and easier. Then CSS Grid showed up and said "You think Flexbox makes amazingly easy responsive layouts? Hold my beer."
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Minimum coverage is fairly comprehensive, and they love to charge the hell out of younger folks.
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Mmmm, I think that’s unfortunately both technically correct and not that helpful.

Both major parties in the UK are commited to a policy that has around 50% support from the electorate. Because there are long-term issues that make the massive sudden support for an alternative party unlikely, this means that roughly half of the population is left without an effective democratic method of expressing opposition to that policy.
There's some truth to that I suppose. But, TBH, this comment was mind bending to me. May I remind you that it is possible to eat with friends even though there's no business preparing your food? :)
Pretty soon we'll have a direct image of a black hole!

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I know you’re trying to do a reductio ad absurdam here, but insurance companies already do discriminate based on race. In fact, it would be irresponsible for medical insurance providers, in particular, to not discriminate (that is, have different premiums) based on race.

Black people have more heart attacks, white people are more likely to develop Seasonal Affective Disorder in the same geographic region, etc. It’s nothing to do with predicting behaviour, it’s just differing physiologies, causing different levels of risk of certain physiological conditions irrespective of the choices we make or how we’re raised.

As well, different races respond better or worse to different drugs. There might be a cheap way to treat hispanic people for a condition but only an expensive way to treat any other race. In that situation, if there was actuarial data saying that Hispanic person A and non-Hispanic person B had an equal chance of developing that condition, it would make sense for person B’s premiums to be higher, no?

If you can predict, per person, not only the chance of an event causing a condition requiring an insurance-covered response; but also predict, per person, the size of the total insurance pay-out from a given event, then people who will need more expensive treatments for the same condition will need higher premiums. It’s like flood insurance: insuring a house closer to the coast costs more, but insuring a larger house also costs more. Because the pay-out will have to be higher to fix a larger house, even though the flood was the same. Same damage—more expensive solution required.
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