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Great article! It is very true that NLP is amongst the most lagging divisions within machine learning. Mainly because text content is very unstructured everywhere, let alone working consistently for different languages.

It is fascinating to see how things got better over the last couple of years though!
The questions it prompts are pretty straight forward.

Does Amazon actually pay ~30% better now than their competitors (or anything close to that)? Do they offer dental, vision and healthcare coverage for all employees?

If those things are true, then I think better of Amazon because of it. I would have guessed none of those things were true otherwise. The media and essentially all comments online proclaim that Amazon employees are being tortured horrifically on a daily basis and paid absolute bottom tier wages across the board. Those articles and opinions have, to one degree or another, tilted my opinion of Amazon in a negative manner.

Can anyone here speak to if those positive things are true and or mostly true? I have no idea. I'd think better of Amazon if they were.
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It's a gish gallop. No one has time/energy to verify it all and they're not providing any proof.
Thank you and I too hope so!
What about folks that get words in songs wrong? Quite a few folks would know exactly what song I meant when I said the one with the verse "There's a bathroom on the right" even though that is wrong to the point of idiocy.

That is to say, I think you don't give people good enough credit if you think a bad transcription will preclude many from being able to recognize something.
(I've worked in an FC for over a year. I'm an L1, not a PA or manager.)

Most functions in FCs are "direct": they have rate expectations that are automatically tracked. Every minute you're in a direct function counts toward your rate. You can go to the bathroom whenever you need to, but it'll lower your rate. (Some functions are "indirect", meaning that they don't involve use of any digital tools and so can't be tracked.)

"Time off task" is also automatically tracked. If you go some amount of time without scanning anything -- I think it's five minutes -- that'll show up on your time. Managers know that people have to go to the bathroom and usually won't make a big deal out of it, but if you take an unusually long time in the bathroom you might get written up. TOT writeups are supposed to be automatic but I think managers have some discretion.

I think I was written up for a bathroom break before -- I'm not sure, since my FC isn't very good at delivering feedback -- but I was in there for half an hour, so it was sort of understandable.

There haven't been issues with bathroom breaks where I am, but there's only one floor. The site in the story with associates peeing in bottles apparently had multiple floors, with bathrooms only on the bottom floor. It'd be difficult to take a bathroom break while maintaining the expected rate and low TOT at sites like that.

I think rate expectations are consistent across the network, meaning that managers, or even site leads, can't adjust them to account for things like distance to the bathroom.

In short: you won't get written up for taking a bathroom break, and you can just go to the bathroom when you need to, but you might get written up for low rates or high time off task, and you might end up with low rates or high time off task for going to the bathroom if it's far away or you take a long time.
So just to give you a little background info, the DS I work at runs 24/7 using multiple shifts. The bulk of the work is done by the night shift which usually runs from around 11pm to 5:45am. This is the largest shift with 150+ associates and the one that is under the most time pressure. Packages have to be unloaded from trucks and make their way through the warehouse on a conveyor belt system to be stowed in bags that the delivery drivers pick up in the morning. The main duties consist of unloading the trucks, diverting the packages down different lanes, picking the correct packages off the moving belt and placing them on a rack, and then stowing the packages into their appropriate bags located on shelving units. Each one of these steps is done by a different person. I'm providing some extra info here so you get a feel for how the warehouse runs. Basically anyone leaving their post even for a few minutes will result in packages not being properly sorted/stowed and the conveyor belts getting backed up and potentially jammed.

The policy at our station is that if you need to go to the bathroom when not on break or lunch, you need to tell either a line lead, shift assistant, or the people working next to you so that they can cover your post while you're gone so things don't get backed up or packages don't end up spilling on the ground. That's pretty much it. I've worked the night shift before and drink large amounts of water so I could rarely make it through a shift without using the bathroom one or two times in addition to the times I went while on break and lunch. It was never a problem, we would just cover for each other.
Wow, that is pretty darn nice for an IRC client!
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Ultimately, it is impossible to separate those two entities.
Some of the posts I've seen here pushing serverless or AWS are not far off this.
Congrats Julia (and Kevin)! Amazing company you've built.
No need to justify doing fun things, but I don't see evidence that people get more done there than they do in the real world, which is too uninspiring. I've been around enough burners to know how their social heirarchies work. Sure there are exceptions, but I don't see why we shouldn't recognize something that becomes the rule. Also, the diversity of acceptable opinion there is very narrow - and this is another aspect of many of the burner social heirarchies.
Of course anyone who wants to build art, get inspired, party, etc - should do that and strive for greatness. But the reality is that most people who go to burning man get more done for and because of "the real world" than what they do for or because of burning man. The perception that human interactions at burning man are somehow truer than the ones in every day Life is delusional. It's more of an escape.
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I will not claim that there are not people with shoes that have lasted a long time. I do assert that is more a property of the person than it is of the shoe.

I fully cede I may just be trying to explain why it is that my shoes don't last for more than a couple of seasons. (Excepting, of course, my biking shoes, which have some obvious reasons for lasting longer...)
Two tier healthcare in China is more like the doctors refuse to do anything for you, or the hospital refuses to admit you.

https://qz.com/1206738/the-death-of-a-chinese-flu-patient-re...

The new yorker has a much more in depth diagnosis of health care in China.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/25/under-the-knif...
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> Also, maybe our view is too limited and the AI actually learns even better strategies from competitive self-play. Strategies our human way of improving would miss.

This is generally a good point, but in this specific case we can see that no such strategies showed up. The bots did terrible, obviously bad things (like stacking wards in bad places on top of each other or having a weak support hero take the aegis). More importantly, they didn't win.
The meaning can be close to idolatry, which furthers the notion of love-like declarations as parasitic in western semantics.
I've always found the subtle variations in roman languages to be interesting. At least in those I know. In spanish, you have "te quiero", from the verb "querer", which also means want. And "te amo", from the verb "amar", which has the same root as the french "aimer" or the italian "amare", used, respectively in "je t'aime" and "ti amo". I don't know about italian, but in french, "aimer" has both the meaning of "querer" and "amar" depending how you use it. Then, you have catalan, which uses "estimar" in "t'estimo", which also is used with both meanings and has the same root as the english esteem.
> This idea of consumption being the indicator of health for an economy is troubling to me.

And rightly so. It's basically an indicator of how fast a society is turning resources in trash for profit.
Probably it wasn't always like this, but nowadays I think that's the only metric it represents.
yeah, agreed largely. I still think "private ownership" can mean more directly that the state protects the idea of particular people owning things, e.g. someone or some legal entity "owning" some land. And that could happen legally in a number of ways, not all involving currency or related debt instruments. The state could, in principle, seize the land, but as long as the state allows private entities to control it, it can be said to be "privately owned".

As far as creating currency, as I understand it, it works out to be a lot more effective and efficient for the state to issue that debt-currency (and create demand for it through taxing it back) and thus create markets using it than to directly manage resources through a top-down bureaucracy. (To be simplistic admittedly)
Here is a practical thought experiment that might help you: picture yourself many years from now, on your deathbed; would you have more regrets of having gone down path A or B?
I would be happy to contribute $ towards an improved Z-Wave implementation in HA if its based on an official SDK. I'm pretty sure I know a few others who would do the same if you set up a funding campaign somewhere.
I'm sorry you're getting down voted because I really appreciate this commented.
Usually if the heel wears too quickly the shoe size was chosen one size too small.
Here's the irony: For the last few weeks, my Facebook feed has been plastered with scare stories about certain apps being unsafe for kids. People posting image macros about things like Roblox, getting 50+ responses about how scary it is.

This situation, which imo is a real danger, will get 0 attention outside the tech community.

I really wish I had an answer. Maybe I should make of this or something in order to make people share it.
Yes, couldn't agree more.
Apart from it is also important for women to come ahead and take the ownership and intiative to solve such issues.
That is a better analogy imho.
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You can use a self hosted client like The Lounge which maintains IRC connections on your own server, and then you can view the client via a web browser (so it looks great on a phone, and you can get web push notifications)

It basically acts like any other chat client (e.g. works on multiple devices at the same time)

https://thelounge.chat
https://demo.thelounge.chat
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Want to install a pepe the frog app? You can't. Apple decided it's too sensitive. Want to play a porn game? You can't.

Moral panics come first. User second. Developers third.
Pretty much nothing will happen, unless you have dependents. Whatever will happen might have mattered for you, but you're dead.

Quite a lot of people have died already with not a lot of consequence.
> Working with JSON never takes longer than it should.

This is the key point right here.

JSON is a big reason I love groovy so much. No matter what json you have in groovy, you are a couple lines of code and a couple closures away from doing anything.

I always use json string payloads on HTTP aswell. It vastly simplifies rest service development.

Another thing I love about json is using it with cassandra. So easy to store big maps that hold the state of different things.

Dont even get me started on avro/kafka/etc....
That is true.

But what one of the two points of OP is while you are running a startup, which would fail if you take your attention away, your chance of making it a success would be orders of magnitude higher if you don't have to care about your aged parents medical bills, or home mortgage, etc.
Let's try Prohibition again, it might not fund organized crime, bolster the paramilitary-police-industrial-political complex, destroy nations, elect Kennedy's or get thousands murdered this time around. :unrealistic utopian fingers crosssed:
To be fair, you do have to ultimately trust everyone communicating with you. Trust is pernicious in that way. That is to say, there is nothing guaranteeing that the communication delivered to your server is what was sent by your clients in a completely "open" system.

There are ways to fix this, I think. And I make no claims that common chat systems have fixed this. Just pointing out that having your own IRCd server is not at all solving it.
On iOS I am extremely happy with Palaver. There’s a ZNC plugin to send you notifications when you are mentioned, if that is something you need or want.

It’s not free, but I think it was around the $2 mark and definitely worth the money.
> the biggest drinkers were in European countries. The average Romanian man drank the equivalent of 8.2 bottles of beer a day in 2016, the most in the world.

Tuberculosis is more common in Eastern Europe. Poor, homeless or incarcerated people often get it. Those segments are more likely to abuse alcohol. Not sure on the direct causation part. It weakens the immune system perhaps.
"the air inside Steve blazed about 5,500 degrees Fahrenheit (3,000 degrees Celsius)" 3000 degrees?!:o
Is that temperature a typo?
>And even then, you need to trust the machine.

At the end of the day, it even goes further than that -- you have to trust the people who build the machines.

Ken Thompson said it best in his Turing Award talk: https://www.archive.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p7...
I tried to implement an IRC client in about 2004 and no popular server was implementing RFC 2812, which was released in 2000. I realise that's a long time ago but things move slowly in the IRC world, so I would be surprised if things had changed a lot since then.
I got the regrets of an useless but effective great paywall of NYT.
They wouldn't offer a bonus. They'd offer entry into a drawing for an Amazon gift card. But I haven't heard of any such program either, nor of any attempt to get us to run PR for them, other than occasionally sending out emails asking us to review Amazon on Glassdoor.

(IME, most FC associates never check their Amazon email accounts, so they wouldn't see that.)
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6 months ago made the move, and it's been great. Was working in an international corporation in the US but was looking to move to China, finally one day they had an open position in Shenzhen, I applied and easily got an offer. After that getting the work visa was not a problem.
I trained in a major US West Coast city and had plenty of Chinese colleagues and friends in the neighborhood doing business with Chinese hospitals.

It's much worse than that. More like massively overworked doctors seeing patients in a room where the door is held open by the line of people outside, desparate family members pressing their life savings into doctors' hands, and, if the outcome is bad, hunting the doctors down to kill them.

Stories of clinic rooms separated only by mucus-covered meat-locker curtains. Bribes to get pathology cases read by US pathologists. Dual-appointed Chinese professors in the US, directing trials in China that would never happen in the US.

I never had a discussion with anyone encouraging me to go to China, no one told my about the miracles of Chinese medicine. Horror stories, every, single, time.
> I only have a finite amount of time on the weekends and after work..

No mortal being have unlimited time at their disposal. Very few have the fortitude and discipline and above all, guts, to use it for realizing what ever "dream" that they have.

We all have responsibilities. But some does not hide behind them.
> ...we've made this change to make sure we can improve the Docker for Mac and Windows experience for users moving forward.

Such obvious run-of-the-mill marketing BS. Moving forward, I'll give Docker a wide berth.
Wow, just read that bit about "HtDP and Colleagues". What a pretentious bit of writing with no actual arguments. The strawman they propose is just one argument, and is not the one I would reach for when arguing against Racket in CS1. I am open to being persuaded about these silly language wars, but the argument there is completely uncompelling. I hope they have the real back-and-forth laid out somewhere else.
You would have loved s-expressions in a typical lisp setup, then. :)

And you have also obviously never fallen victim to slightly off spec JSON parsers and folks that took advantage of them. Trailing commas? Definitely useful. Until they break a system. (Oddly, I have been stricken lately by how much people hate the extra parens of lisp, but nobody bats an eye at the pointless commas of every other language...)
It has less to do with China but more to do with the Author being so far from the home. Tomorrow her Mom might need her more and the government can only help that much. These are all the choices people make in life..
You dont need dai- to declare your love in Japanese, unless you are an immature teenager.
The semantic equivalent and literal equivalent of the English "I love you" are not the same in many languages. Cultural colors the semantics of nominally equivalent expressions -- don't think of it as a synonym.

There are some languages, for example, that have a literal translation of "I love you" but the semantically equivalent expression, when translated to English, is "you are precious to me". It would be awkward to express the English semantics via literal translation, as it has different connotations. The meaning is more important than the literal expression.
I wonder - what do people who used to code in Smalltalk think of "modern" languages. Like Golang, Rust, etc.

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Can you name one company where management owns most of the shares? (Maybe you can, but I’m curious to see what exemple will you come up with.)
That sounds like Valley Medical here in Si Valley. Ostensibly, they have to "accept everyone" but realistically, they put people on buses and send them elsewhere. Also, there are many specialties with zero appointments available and no waiting list... they require calling up at a certain time like getting Yosemite campgrounds. So much for capitalism and the miracles of being "better" than socialism.
This may sound obvious, but have you considered part-time work? If you look out for it, there's a good chance you might find software companies supporting it. Compensation might not be as stellar though, but at least it's a guaranteed income and you still have some time for your side project.
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My issue with this thought experiment is that I'm not convinced that one's thoughts at one's deathbed have a lot of value.

Being lucid at one's deathbed is already a positive situation that might simply not happen under some circumstances.
This might be a far shot, but any landlords here who have leased to Sonder? I read through their About Page and Lease page but still am not clear on exactly what they look for, or what the catch is.

Also, crazy how under the radar they have been, really curious to see how they built up traction over these years without any mainstream buzz
Of course, JSON has its own share of issues too, largely as a result of it trying to be as simple as possible. Many JSON parsers support nonstandard features such as comments and trailing commas, and in the process, create mutually incompatible "dialects". XML might be verbose and complicated, but I think JSON unfortunately is a bit too far in the other direction.
India is one of the hardest countries to do business in. On top of that, many businesspeople (not to mention the government) are dishonest and will happily run with your money. The "guanxi" situation outlined above very much applies in India.

I'd be curious to see how someone educated on American entrepreneurship performs.
I hope someone from NTSB reads this. This is an incredibly damaging bit of info, if true.
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"FC Ambassador" is Amazon jargon. An FC is a fulfillment center, and an ambassador is an L1 associate who's gone through training for coaching new hires... or something like that. They don't really have added responsibilities where I am. I've heard the role is a bigger deal in distribution centers.
Interesting. Last IIRC, Stanford ITS used tinyfugue (tf) MUD which is sorta like IRC.
India is going to surpass China in the next century.

Might need some anti-corruption startups to make that happen outside of cricket...
Not that I know anything but a thought experiment: How many Googlers have access to production data?
> I also want to welcome things like gRPC/Protobuffs over HTTP/2 which introduce really fast comms between clients and servers, sacrificing the visibility of the stream's contents.

Protobufs and similar serialization protocols are great for complex data. It is worth pointing out that we've had ASN.1 for a while and it's pretty fast too, at least for limited subsets of OIDs/types, in certain encodings, though XER or JER would probably not compete with BER.

HTTP/2 is a complex protocol designed to fix problems with the way people build websites today. A lot of its features does not make sense/is not needed for simple message passing.

e.g., some HTTP/2 implementations will probably see HPACK DoS bugs/vulns because HPACK is stateful, whereas if HTTP/2 wouldn't have HPACK that problem would not have existed, but the reason why HTTP/2 has HPACK is because people bloat headers with tons of stuff.

IRC works and works well for its use case. Apart from newline-delimited strings - netstrings and TLV are other examples of formats that can build great, simple and introspectable/open formats.

I'd venture a guess and say that an RFC1459 PRIVMSG message parses faster than a protobuf message carrying the same information - due to parsing an RFC1459 PRIVMSG message is so simple. Of course, if you want arbitrarily sized messages, or messages with an arbitrary number of nested messages inside it you need more complexity.
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"Mainly because text content is very unstructured everywhere"

Encoded into this somewhat unstructured data is the very thing NLP is after: the meaning.

If you cannot teach a machine a language by talking to it with "unstructured" language, how are you supposed to make it both understand it, grok it, and speak it?

We have no trouble teaching small kids about history and math using untructured language.

Language is maybe unstructured, but the internets has lots of it, so to me, the state of NLP today is a dissapointment. I'm convinced though that general AI will be achieved through NLP. I mean, most of what I know I have either been told or I have read it somewhere. And my parent's didn't use annotated data much.
>In Germany it's a stereotype that all doctors or health work related people have to wear them

that's interesting. where I live, most health professionals wear crocs. they're quite comfortable, light, and super easy to wash since you can just plop them in a sink.
Completely agree here. OTOH it's understandable that China is pretty paranoid about foreign press. As laid out, our reporting on China is pretty one sided and agenda-driven sometimes. which ironically enough, only fosters our paranoia and conspiracy theories about these issues. And on it goes...

Tiananmen square was a rare exception in that regard since a lot of foreign press was already in Beijing during that time, but we still have a very incomplete picture, not only regarding the wildly varying figures regarding the death toll.
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Sounds really cool. Best of luck! :)