skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a friend who I often chat about job searching with (we're both on the market). They recently had a shockingly bad experiece with a company that prides itself by it's glassdoor rating.

They told me they don't plan on writing a review, because they're worried said company may intuit who wrote they review and blacklist them from future hiring. They insist they must have had an outlier experience.

I can see how this attitude in aggregate, coupled with NDAs laden hush money leads to an inaccurate picture...
And what happens when the train stops unexpectedly between destinations? It becomes a coffin.
I really want to believe that polygraphs are just used as an interrogation tool and not as a substitute for the SSBI. But the FBI gave Nada Nadim Prouty an SCI clearance even though she wasn't even lawfully present in the US, let alone a citizen. She was working for CIA when the next investigation was due, and they didn't have a problem either.
Who has what incentive here? The US has an incentive to damage China'a reputation, but not so much if it takes down Apple and Amazon with it. Apple and Amazon have an incentive to limit or hide information suggesting they're leaking data - is that enough smoke?

Otherwise, if Bloomberg have been misled by a concocted story, who has the ability to generate enough false sources/etc to engineer it? Seems like the scale puts it beyond a solid PR effort from a competitor?
Observation and exploration are part of science, but only when mated with the rest of the scientific method. On its own “observation and exploration” can be equally applied to playing in beach sand. If you’re not forming and testing hypotheses, analyzing data from experiment, and attempting to replicate results, you’re not engaged in science. You can’t pick one or two elements of the scientific method and call it science, anymore than you can claim that buying running shoes and standing at the start of a marathon is racing.
> As AI begins to be applied to problems like driving that affect the real world instead of just information, I’d add:
> Ethical use of AI should not create negative externalities - negative impacts on people other than those making the choice to use it.

I’d go one step further and say that ethical AI should not create any negative externalities to humans period -- not even those that choose to use it.

An example that can be informative here is different than the traditional AI-driving “trolley problem” (i.e. do nothing and kill five people on the crosswalk, or swerve and kill only the passenger), it relates to a more subtle, quotidien challenge faced in autonomous cars: what happens to backseat driving? How will a car that is driven by an AI treat its passengers ethically and insure that it never does them any harm? Even a minor discomfort because, say, an acceleration pattern made them uncomfortable, is an ethical issue if the human has no recourse or if there is systematic prioritization of other goals over the human’s.

One solution is to make cars sensitive to humans’ feelings while they’re being driven, so that the car’s brain has an awareness that, within the right framework, lets it continuously adjust its behavior to serve its passengers better. Essentially, the aim is to make the car empathic, artificially giving it the type of human intuition that can help avoid unintended outcomes big or small. The more that AI systems in general can be sensitive to our human experience, the better I believe.

It is very hard, pragmatically speaking, to always balance the need for easy/cheap AND safe solutions in the real-world. Clearly defined goals and non-goals as well as intermediate steps for measuring against them at least seem to be a good start, since these provide the framework that lets fast feedback mechanisms guide AI to evolve in a way that’s coupled directly with human interest.
I haven't followed the sport closely in a few years, but the economics of cycling mean most riders, men and women alike, are paid poorly relative to athletes in other sports; it's more comparable to sailing than football.

No one is paying to line up alongside the Tour de France route, and the teams are usually sponsored by corporate interests who don't see a huge return on their investment.
Google-style SRE has three critical elements:

1. SRE is involved in the design of the system from a very early stage, oftentimes before any code is written.

2. SRE has veto power over deployment.

3. SRE is an engineering position, focused on automating everything possible to achieve greater reliability.

Facebook is the only organization besides Google that I know of that actually follows this. Most people I know who hire SREs do indeed just hire a glorified ops team, but they're kinda missing the point.
That's speculation. It could be worth just as much, less, or more if fully shredded.

Doesn't matter to Banksy. The gavel fell and the auction was completed before shredding began.
Respecting their neutrality at the start of the war, so they do not become an enemy.
This is a really nice visualisation.

My only comment is that while canvas is certainly effective, if you built it in SVG you would only need to animate the points and not draw the whole thing each time step. Admittedly not a big saving though.
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That sounds kinda nice!
"...government attorneys have issued a similar search warrant..."

Flat lie. Search warrants are issued by courts and signed by judges upon finding probable cause.
What do you mean "confirms"? You thought it was perhaps some frame-shredder installing gnomes who live in the auction house's secret underground tunnels?

Who else would it be?
What about scanning it not for advertising? Like, say, ML training (as speculated elsewhere in this thread)? Seems like that statement could’ve been much stronger if Google actually meant that.
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That one tabloid that showed those fake, grossed out "images" of Hillary during the last election cycle. Not linking the image because your requested no links allowed. These were displayed by the millions at grocery store checkouts across America for months leading up to the election. They portrayed a sick, ill woman who looked like she was dying. Completely fake photo.

Next: Why did you ask for a specific 'incident' when I clearly described that the problem is a general, societal problem that arises in specific instances every single time someone looks at a photo that they think is real but isn't? I could also cite a specific instance from earlier today when I saw a stack of magazines at the store and felt like a slob in my normal clothes and non-digital face and existence. Happens billions of times a day.

Edit: Since I really prefer to provide citations, I have since Googled for my example to provide context for other readers. Rest assured I wrote out my initial comment first.

https://qz.com/1369399/david-peckers-national-enquirer-ami-t...
How do you optimise a delivery route with specific window times for each drop off using a linear model? How do you schedule shifts for employees to satisfy business requirements without also violating their contracts? How do you fill a truck with the right combinations of goods so that it maximises the space used, but also doesn't unbalance the container, and can still be unloaded at each drop off using first in last out? How do you maximise operating capacity at a factory when each time you change what you are building requires stop start time and you need to produce a range of products consistently, while also meeting customer delivery windows, and you don't have unlimited storage for inventory and limited staff with specific skills that only work certain hours or days of the week? How does a retailer layout their warehouses so when the orders for stores are picked it minimises the labour costs for not only picking the orders, but also putting stock on the shelves at the stores? How much should they order for each item, and how often do you deliver to stores? You can probably guess I work in Supply Chain.
What you need to keep in mind is that micro services have a huge fixed cost but the marginal cost of adding a new one is small.

In other words: Creating or migrating to a micro service architecture is very expensive but once it’s in place, adding a new micro service is trivial. In Zalando the goal is that you can do so within half an hour, that is take an idea, implement it and deploy it to production.

This leads to architectural decisions no sane person would make at a smaller company. For example let’s say you get data from an external company via SFTP and you make it internally available, so what do you do?

1. You create a micro service that polls the SFTP of the supplier for new files and sticks them into an S3 bucket
2. You create a micro service that takes the files from S3, parses, transforms into JSON and publishes events to Kafka.
3. You create a micro service that takes those events enriches them with some other data and republishes new events.
...

Especially when you use Kubernetes, you also start thinking about infrastructure completely differently. Why use multiple threads or processes for example, when you can just run multiple instances of your application very cheaply and temporarily run further instances to handle background tasks?
I learned this from a linguistic typology course a few years back, and that professor didn't use slides, so I had to do some digging on my own, and this paper seems to cover all the bases, with a nice literature review to boot:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.0114...
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Hanssen never took a polygraph; Ames took many and passed them all. If there's even a single spy who was caught because of the polygraph, neither the US nor any other government using them has said so.
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It's definitely exponential. Would be great to see a chart for active websites over the years. Knowing that 75% are parked domains shows more how much people are buying domains only as a precaution.
The need for microservices has little to do with company size, they have to be the right tool for the job. People mistakenly use them for scalability, or to partition work between teams.

I'm in a small engineering org, and I split out a bunch of security critical code from an unsecure monolith and moved that into a microservice, running in a very tightly controlled and audited environment. A tiny part of my runtime needed different security from the rest of it, and a microservice was the easiest way to accomplish it. Now, I've traded a security problem for a latency problem, as everything that used to be handled internally is now an RPC - though this is an easy problem to solve.
2008: I never thought I'd be walking around with a full Unix machine in my pocket.

2018: I never thought I'd be walking around with a full Symbolics Lisp Machine in my pocket.
This article is a bit lacking in the visual imagery department (that picture in the article is super old) - here's a youtube link from Norsepower (the article says they're the manufacturer):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUCShEXkpL8
He blames “impatient strategic moves.” If they’re done hastily, are they even strategic?
SuperMicro is also embroiled in an accounting scandal that arguably is more important to investors.
And many states prohibit polygraphs for all private-sector employers.
I believe you're trying to make a point about something, but all I can see are (rethorical?) questions.
That was a trick Dave Fotland used in the '80s to make his Go program, "Many Faces of Go", faster. He donated some key code from his evaluation function to SPEC and they used it as one of the parts in the SPEC integer CPU benchmarks. CPU makers tweaked CPUs to do well on those benchmarks, and hence on his code.
Apple has always and will still market themselves as "family-friendly", recently they announced that they will not produce any adult content for their original content lineup.[1]

[1]: https://9to5mac.com/2018/09/22/apple-tv-adult-content-origin...
Beyond Earth: A Chronicle of Deep Space Exploration
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"The Birth and Death of Javascript" becomes more and more real

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
> Do we assume he twisted each blade 90 degrees before installing in the frame?

Well, since we see it being shredded, I'd say "yes", if you remove your qualification word "before", or clarify meaning by inserting the proper word after "installing". I can't tell if you mean "before installing them" meaning "the blades" or "before installing the painting".

They might get installed in a "safe" way so that they won't shred if the motor somehow turns on without the blades first being armed. Or maybe they are intentionally installed that way and a shaped roller pushes them against the blades, even if they are laid flat.

In short: who cares -- it shredded. I don't care if the full mechanism or method is shown. It clearly worked, at least partially.
Not to be disagreeable (because I think I agree with your main point, even though I've never used Clojure, or any similar language, in anything but toy programs), but we were writing million line pojects in C++ long before Java came out ;-)

There were really 2 main points to java (as I understand it). The first was to have a statically typed language that had a relatively fast runtime that could easily be ported to many platforms. Indeed, the killer application for Java, IMHO, was the idea of implementing that run time in hardware (and it's a shame that Sun never really pushed that angle very hard).

The other main point of Java was to codify a set of "best practices" as a kind of "defence against the bad programmers". The intent was to reduce the difficulties of hiring programmers by making the programming language less expressive (compared to C++, for instance). IMHO, this largely failed as programmers are creative and will always find ways to be expressive. So on one had we got C++ template crack and on the other hand we had abstract factory factories.

Basically, though, I don't think there was ever a real intent to allow Java (the language) to make it easy to scale development to larger teams, or larger code bases. The success that Java had in getting into large enterprises just meant that the normal Java user was interested in that, because it's the environment that they were working in.

The idea is attractive to enterprise people because they already have a lot of people and they want to get a lot done in a short period of time. Most managers (and many influential programmers) do not understand the loss of productivity that accompanies communication overhead from having larger teams. The large code bases are the necessary result of programmers trying to isolate themselves from the hundreds or even thousands of other programmers that they are working with. By building complex boundaries, they can reduce the communication complexity at the cost of increasing the program complexity. This is usually a good trade off if you are stuck having to work with an insane number of people.

BTW, in case you think that it is only non-technical people who fall into this trap, I will provocatively mention 2 words: micro services. The way micro services are usually designed and implemented, they are usually the very definition of premature subsystem decomposition. This premature decomposition is chosen so as to allow a few people to "lock in" design decisions and reduce the need to communicate with a whole bunch of people who might ruin their architectural vision. Basically, same problem, same result. Technical people (who didn't live through the CORBA years) drink it up like the yummy, yummy cool aide it is, though ;-)
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Upvoted for realism, but I want to respond to this:

> It's like how we're both capable of pitching Tor as the emancipator of the sanctioned journalist trying to publish the truth in the face of mortal danger. Yet 99% of Tor traffic to my websites is malicious despite our feel-good hypotheticals.

Of course. That's the reality of freedom on the radical edges — bad actors need it more than pro-social actors. Many of us choose to support radical freedom(s) anyway because the capacity for anyone to act* freely is judged to outweigh the negative effects from bad actors.

*browse, post, etc.
The native people warred like everyone else. That does not forgive the wide scale genocide the white people committed. They wouldn't have been a "warring nation on America's doorstep" without previous wars against them, so that's hardly a fair justification for more war.
17 sources who may all be drawing from the same source, or at least (inadvertently) confirming each other (e.g. source 2 has heard vague information from source 4 and 6, and reports that to Bloomberg, source 5 has then heard vague information from source 2 and 4, and reports that to Bloomberg). Without more information, I'm not sure we can really say it's more than one source (Bloomberg).
Would you be open to recent grads?
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that's quite a presumption
Plenty that had solid tops?

https://www.dhresource.com/0x0s/f2-albu-g5-M01-4D-13-rBVaJFl...
Maybe I'm missing the point. This article, to me, read very much like "how to draw an owl: step 1 draw two circles, step 2 draw the rest of the owl"
Facebook's mobile app is utterly massive and it still runs mostly okay even on weak devices.

I agree with your comments but this is a bad example. The Facebook app is horrible to use on high end devices. The mobile website is much more performant and has most of the core functionality.

The app is actually worse in one way - they chose to use the iOS WebView that doesn’t support the native ad blocking framework. So when you click on an external page, it’s usually horrible - bacause modern web.
Wayback Machine director outlines the scale of everyone's favorite archive
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Ah, thanks for giving some context. Since I work in an industry that has our main problems being LP & MIP, I can see no reason to not use a general purpose language like Python or Julia to talk to an industrial solver like Gurobi. However, if I worked for a firm that did all sorts of optimization work (I'm jealous of anyone who does this), I might have to determine how best to formulate the problem and maybe MiniZinc is helpful there.
> There are ~40k words in English.

The Second Edition of the OED had 171k+ full entries for words in current use, 47k+ for obsolete words, and ~ 9500 sub-entries.

And there have been a number of supplements since.

40k is low by a significant multiple.
Time of use is definitely coming.

What I noticed when looking at this stuff is 'green building' codes are really about green washing natural gas and expensive toxic high R value insulation. Last thing I saw before I stopped researching was an article where and industry shill was crowing that they'd closed the loophole that allowed builders and home owners to use solar energy to offset insulation requirements.

The loophole was centered around, instead of spending $50,000 to install thick foam insulation with it's attendant issues with mold. Install $20k worth of solar panels, a heat pump and thermal mass inside the house.
Kind of similar to how my own system works (by identifying insiders and what they discuss):

https://projectpiglet.com/

It is totally legal to get information ahead of the market, especially if it's "public". It is not legal to trade if it's non-public information as it relates to securities. In this case, it's also legal to get information from a paid source (think a paid news source - WSJ), it's not legal if they are bribing.

In this case, the journalist is just selling the story to bloomberg who is then distributing the news (potentially) slightly ahead of it's public release (this is no different than a paid journal).
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> That’s why SRE is a Big Lie – because it enables people to say they’re doing a thing that could help their organization succeed, and their dev and ops engineers to have a better career and life while doing so – but not really do it.

People doing things wrong doesn't make the thing they're trying to do a lie. If you ask an organization enough questions before you take a job there, you can quickly tell if they're spinning their wheels or if they're serious. Most medium to large size companies are not serious about this stuff unless they're one of a handful of multi-billion-dollar tech startups.

If a company hasn't hired another company to teach them how to implement these new kinds of teams, they're probably not serious about it.
The quality of those benefits (if you could even claim them) was rather lacking, though.
> would find routine polygraphs stressful

What I would find intolerable is the persistence of the practice despite polygraphs being bullshit. I can't work for higher-ups that I don't respect, because I'm constitutionally unable to conceal my contempt. And it would be impossible to respect higher-ups that required regular polygraphs.
The biggest problem that most of the publishers still do not accept LaTeX submissions. Especially if you want to publish a book.
You realize all those fields were birthed out of philosophy right? Once something becomes more known, it graduates from philosophy. Some questions look to be staying longer than others but generally I think you'll keep seeing fields be birthed, though over the timeline of centuries.
Phrased a different way, the argument is that the benefit of the freedom for those incorrectly assessed to be bad actors outweighs the cost of the freedom for those correctly judged to be bad actors.
As if double to int/ptr was js-specific.
Typically, if there's no exchange of value from the person with insider knowledge to the person making a trade, it's not insider trading. Generally speaking, I can go golf with my CEO buddy and he can mention what's going to happen in the next quarterly report without me ending up in jail. Matt Levine was in the banking industry and now frequently writes about insider trading.

One might question journalistic integrity and incentives, but there is some good that can come from this sort of reporting. It helps in price discovery. In the below link, someone does additional research and short sells companies he believes are fraudulently reporting numbers to great success.

Having insider information doesn't necessarily mean it's insider trading.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/gaining-by-betting-a...
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Maybe saying some of that can't be formulated as LP/MIP?