skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While it depends on context, "bitch" (and the c-word) can be much more taboo words to use than dick/asshole. Like with the n-word, they have historically been used far more frequently in very hateful contexts -- i.e. men saying truly fucked up and mysoginistic things to women, in the same way that racist or homophobic epithets get used. Dick/asshole are much more neutral words from that perspective, rarely used in such hateful contexts -- for example, while I'd recommend you never do either as an employee, if you want to blow up at your female coworker for her bad behavior I think you'd be much better off just calling her a dick or asshole.
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Oh okay I understand that perspective. Thanks.
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It's true - most news and magazine publishing companies are in a place of desperation. The internet has impacted the legacy publishing revenue model so severely that there hasn't been any clear model to pivot to despite two decades of attempts. Many major publishers have folded, many more will fold, and those that survive will eek by on meager subscriber revenue (which isn't as robust or easy to come by as some may think) and increasingly obtrusive programmatic advertising.
We could easily solve the small buisiness problem by making the audit process happen at the government’s expense and probably still make money. We don’t have the government just tell you what you owe (like many other nations) because of the tax prep industry lobbyist and people vested on existing loopholes.

I don’t believe the driving force is protecting small buisinesses from Audits- anecdotal, but small businesses in my family are still audited frequently. I believe it has to do with how unpopular the IRS is with the conservatives for ideological reasons, and they currently control the government. Our president bragged about how dodging taxes was an admirable quality- that kind of attitude is the driving force in american rhetoric, not protecting small buisiness owners.
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Ive worked at places with a Product Manager and Engineering Manager, at the end of the day after adjusting for company “culture”, product etc what makes a difference is the individual
Younger founders almost certainly also spend more energy on things that an older one already knows not to do, or that can be done more efficiently. Many mistakes that cost time and energy can be mooted by experience.
Ask HN: Faster text input methods than keyboard
When I'm "in the zone" writing either prose or code, I find that I frequently am thinking faster than I'm typing. It's frustrating to not be able to type at the speed of thought even though I can hit 100 WPM on QWERTY.

So far, the two fastest alternatives that I've seen are speech recognition and machine stenography (see http://www.openstenoproject.org/), both of which seem to be designed for typing valid English words, not the kinds of complex systems of strangely-spelled, hard-to-pronounce, and symbol-heavy text used in code and documentation.

I don't actually have a problem with the keyboard, but typing out individual characters seems antiquated when better alternatives must exist.
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> you can observe in the whole of Europe taking a train from Sicily to Norway.

This is a wonderful meme!!!! True or not..

For what's it worth, I think governance is even more important that work ethics.

Italy is rich enough, and with 70 years of peace time, can probably work 3-4 days a week and be fine.
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> Industry is crying about a skill shortage

Perhaps they are crying because a skill shortage means they would have to pay more, but instead they would rather the government encourage more people to train as software developers, increasing the supply so that salaries could be lowered.
Good, I assume you have first-hand knowledge of Google's hiring practices.

So, what number of teams can a typical candidate choose from? Compared to the total number of teams hiring? I guess the typical scenario is that a few teams express interest and then you can choose one of them, which is not much different from just "congratulations, this is your new team".

> At Google it's typically trivially simple to switch teams

How simple is trivially simple? Does the new team have to have sufficient budget/a vacancy? What kind of selection process is there if you are not the only one who wants to transfer to that team? What about your old team? What do you do with your responsibilities at the current project? Can you transfer immediately after you've been hired?
Public media and TV in Europe, including the one with the largest budget on the entire planet - German, play and display ads even though are sponsored from compulsory per-household fees.
Funnily enough they don't. Netflix is pretty big in product placement.

https://ben.productplacement.com/
Oh wow. There is an old phrase “rush the growler” in English and I wonder if this word “crowler” is related.

EDIT: Ok yeah, I see it’s “can growler”.
> This "Bohmian mechanics is Many-Worlds in disguise" is simply false [1].

Saying "clearly" a lot does not convince me, and seems to be all that paper does.

> The axiomatic basis is completely different, and this is apparent because with Bohmian mechanics you can easily derive the Born rule, and as a result, it also makes a new prediction that isn't allowed in typical QM, quantum non-equilibrium [2].

You've contradicted yourself: a quantum non-equilibrium condition would be one that did not follow the Born rule. Excluding quantum non-equilibrium requires an additional rule and looks to be much the same problem as deriving the Born rule under MWI. Were quantum non-equilibrium to be observed, that would be major evidence that our current understanding of QM is wrong; however, by the same token, our non-observation of it must count as evidence against a theory that predicts it.
I can recommend The Mind is Flat https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Flat-Illusion-Mental-Improvised-... which is more high level, but still seems compatible with this theory.
You are right, I had forgotten about that one. Do they actually provide results for various CPUs in human-readable form anywhere, or is it only a toolset for generating the benchmarks and collecting the results locally (plus PDF extraction to process the Intel SDM)?
The words of the statement matter in specificity. You can parse HTML with a powerful regular expression, but it's not a good tool for the job. That said, I find it a wonderful tool to extract specific portions of an HTML document.

If you actually just care about retrieving a few specific bits of data within a page, I've found parsing libraries (including ones that allow for CSS selectors) to be just as brittle to changes as regular expression extraction, and not all that much easier to use, given a good grasp of both technologies.

That said, if you need to alter an HTML document in some non-trivial way, parsing is probably the way to go.
Have you tried using an XML parser instead?
this is awesome. looking forward to a couple years a of fun and easy prototyping before this inevitably gets bought and shut down by some giant
For examples of the consequences of big data and ML, check out mathematician Cathy O'Neill's book "Weapons of Math Destruction". She posits that the problematic systems share three key features: they are opaque, unregulated and difficult to contest, and at the same time scalable, thereby amplifying any inherent biases to affect increasingly larger populations.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapons_of_Math_Destruction
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His book "On intelligence" is already extremely good on explaining the basic principles of how neocortex works. I still find this book one of the most influential reads ever, and have been following Numenta work ever since.

It's been a bit frustrating that after 15 years they still didn't make headlines with something more practical and groundbreaking, so I'm a bit excited to hear what will be unveiled at this conference tomorrow.
Maybe I lack relevant local knowledge (I am not a US citizen) but seems like this describes a situation where a government agency had discretion to perhaps do something legal but immoral back in 2016. Did they, in fact? That is, did the IRS tell Vanguard it owes a large new tax bill on a "transfer pricing" rationale?

The UK's GAAR has this trick called a "double reasonableness test" which it uses to get rid of some types of tax _avoidance_ and that seems like an appropriate legal rule here if, in fact, the IRS does abuse this discretion.

The double reasonableness test asks this:

Could any reasonable person (not you, the jury member, judge or whatever, but some other reasonable person you're capable of imagining) think that this way of doing things was reasonable ?

Only if the answer is "No", which it will be only for the most extraordinarily tortured ways of avoiding tax, then this method of avoiding tax is prohibited. You don't go to jail or anything, your avoidance trick just doesn't work and you owe the taxes as usual.
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According to the New York Times latest earnings call, subscriptions account for 2/3 of their revenue. So ballpark roughly 50% more than the current subscription price would be necessary to maintain revenue at the same subscriber count sans other revenue streams.
> If high-skill talent is rare their wages should rise. I do not see that happening. Well, at least not here in Germany. Industry is crying about a skill shortage but the corresponding wages are stagnant.

Businesses resist increasing pay, because that eats into their margins.

Even in capitalist America, SWE pay stagnated until fairly recently. Employers actively fought against increasing SWE pay, even as their shortage was getting worse. They kept wages artificially low, and successfully lobbied the government to fill their openings with cheap H-1B employees - the H-1B quota back then was over twice its current level.

That was a short-term victory, and long-term loss for the industry. If more engineers made $150,000 in SV back in 2005, there wouldn't be such a shortage today.

Eventually this flimsy dam broke, and now we're seeing pay more in line with where it should be according to the supply/demand curve. Arguably it's still not quite there, even in SV, where engineers with their "outrageous" pay still can't afford a home.

So in Germany, apparently employers are still in the "resist and whine to the government" phase. I bet they're begging for the government (i.e. taxpayer) to fund skill-building programs, import more high-skilled workers from 3rd-world countries... the usual stack of solutions.

I'd also suspect higher taxes have something to do with it. Why should I stretch myself paying $120k to an engineer, if he's only going to get $65k out of it? I don't know too much about the taxes in Germany, but I've seen this problem in other foreign locations where we were recruiting: increasing pay did not result in more or better candidates, and all the best candidates were just trying to get to the US any way they can.
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A truth table doesn't necessarily get you to the right answer. There are 3 doors I could pick, 3 doors Monty could pick, and 3 doors the prize could be behind. If I make a truth table of all 27 possible combinations, there are 12 combinations where Monty doesn't choose the same door as the contestant or the prize. Of these 12 options, exactly 6 have the contestant choosing the right door and 6 have the contestant choosing the wrong door.

You can certainly create a different truth table that arrives at the correct answer, but the truth table approach does not help ensure you get to the right answer like the Bayesian approach does.
> I think what you mean is that you have no way to get the service without the ads, so you're willing to put up with the ads to get the service. Which is the whole point.

Well, that's what I mean. You often can't get the service without ads, as competitors show the same amount of ads.

Hell, these days you can't do anything, be it on-line or in meatspace, without being exposed to a steady stream of ads. There is no choice for ad-free life, unless you take the word "choice" so literally you accept moving to some remote location and living off land as a viable option for regular people.
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The feedback typically comes from people who think they are smarter than the engineers

I know exactly the kind of feedback of which you speak. I once hired a tester to test a 2D game with Asteroids movement mechanics. His feedback: "Where are the brakes? It doesn't go where I point it." Well, that's sort of the point of the Asteroids movement mechanic, and my tester didn't even bother to understand the point.

Nerds tend to accept good solid feedback when a good reason is given;

In my experience, not always. I've had a number of experiences where I explain my background as a fellow programmer, and I'm doing my level best at explaining in depth how I perceive a design as a user and why I'm reacting, and all too often, instead of getting clarifying questions or a reflection-back, I immediately get the start of some 'splainin. Conclusion jumped to after no iterations, and apparently after only a simple pattern-match. One time, I'd started explaining my reactions as a user, then got back a reply about the codebase. There were lots of changes to the UX, yet the major "plusses" for the change were from the POV of the programmer, and as a user, I'm left wondering, "What's in it for me?"

Really smart nerds do strike a balance, but egos should be considered a flaw, and worked around as any other flaw.

Most nerds never get past the point of only considering the egos of others to be a flaw.
Ask HN: What are some good books that explain political/economic systems?
I'd like to learn about capitalism, communism, socialism and all other variants of ruling that existed in the recent history. About their pros and cons, it doesn't have to be all from the same book. Anyway I'm asking here because on a few sub-reddits about books no one replied.
No. Any airplanes you want to keep need to be off the ground either way.

Not all of these planes were airworthy, of course, but that in itself is a bit of a problem, IMO.
Surely you realize this is incorrect, considering that the Times makes on the order of $200 million/year in online ad revenue.
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I wouldn’t be surprised if the security theatre before boarding and advertisement brainwash after getting to the seats would start to provoke fury sprees among some at least passengers.
I tried to watch this closely.

I'm aware that some parts where planned carefully to increase the chances of him getting approved.

But still there are massive holes in the attacks against him. So big that even if is Trumps favourite candidate (and therefore I have reason to dislike him) it still ends up with nothing except what seems to be baseless accusations.

It cannot be like this, that someone can come out of nowhere 30 years later without a single piece of evidence - except a testimony from a peeson who is clearly trying to hurt him - and we are supposed to believe it.

And as it turns out they cannot prove the thing they originally accused him for - then immediately they try to "prove" he is a witch in two other ways:

- he drank too much back in the days

- he was angry when he defended himself

I say witch hunt is a good word.

He was declared a witch by certain people and from there on the only thing that mattered was to pin him for something.
I would say it really depends by what we measure "produces" and "more" as. Are we talking dollars, weight, or quantity of items? If think if we looked at the specific items, we'd find that there are a lot of items, often highly toxic items, produced in that region. Take the example of Bangladesh, so much dye work that we've intentionally shipped away so we can wipe our hands clean of the environmental damage. In reality all that really happened was we shifted the problem to someone else.
It's also possible to have a flat universe (no curvature), where a straight line can return to the same point. An example is a torus (donut shape). You can see this by noticing that a torus can be projected onto a flat sheet (or created from one) without messing with any relative scales or angles, while the surface of a sphere cannot. (For a sphere, you need Mercator or some other projection which does not conserve an honest representation of relative sizes - e.g. Greenland vs. Africa in Mercator.)
Why do you think news consumers are different than YouTube consumers?
Right, I read the paper and saw the examples, but I meant more an example of if/how this information is surfaced in the results as collected at uops.info.

Anyways, it is all there, using your SHLD example:

http://uops.info/html-instr/SHLD-1633.html

You can see the varying latencies on Nehalem for op1->op1 versus op2->op1.

Great work!
If you have trade secrets, it is incumbent on you to appropriately review the privacy policies and settings of tools before you run them on a machine with sensitive info.
Well of course you don't regret majoring in philosophy, because your outcome is good (you are employed). I wonder what the other folks who had much more difficulty getting jobs would recommend.

The lack of humanities seems to be mainly due to competitive factors and employers reducing risk. Assuming all other factors are equal, if you had only one spot to hire an entry-level software engineer, who would you take the risk on? The CS major or the philosophy major?
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>Ferraris should be plastered by LCDs

Why are you so certain that Ferrari doesn't remarket their buyers?
If a company holds some information internally, and an unauthorised third party surreptitiously obtains that information, wouldn't you call that stealing?
Maybe if you have money you get caught but not convicted? Thinking about banks laundering money for drug cartels
1. You can use this to your advantage. You can set a lower bid online freelance work. As long as you can get paid in US$ and convert it, you will be making more money than if you moved.

2. Can't help you there.

3. This is a problem pretty much all over. Everyone has a different opinion about it,but I believe globalization has caused a dramatic increase in competition, which creates stress, leading people to act irrational and short sighted. Cooler heads will prevail.

I'm not trying to convince you to stay, just to use what resources you do have.
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It's not about criminal convictions. In theory it's just a civil case with a criminal case to follow. Which is why SEC fines are often less than the net befit. But, the actual number of criminal cases is rather low.

EX: "In June 2009, the SEC sued Angelo Mozilo, former CEO of mortgage lender Countrywide Financial, and two other former officers, charging that they misled investors about the quality of Countrywide's loans while knowing the company was fueling its growth by letting its underwriting guidelines deteriorate and originating a growing number of risky subprime loans. In October 2010, the SEC settled the lawsuit and Mozilo was required to pay a fraction of the $521.5 million he had earned, just $67.5 million in penalties" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_major_SEC_enforcement_...
I found this dropbox link to Ring's marketing video for Police Departments to use their smart video cameras for mass surveillance. This was made before Amazon acquired them. At the end of the demo the CEO states that their facial recognition search feature will be available soon.

This software is made in Ukraine and the hardware is manufactured in China. There was no private company contract bid - Ring is just giving this to cops for free and offering customers a discount for letting their video surveillance from their home / doorbell be shared with the police in this portal.

over 50+ local police departments are now partners.

There is no encryption. There is no 2FA. There is no legal protection for privacy of citizens face's caught in these cameras and added to their facial recognition algorithms.

Ring Ukraine is hiring aggressively, they grew from 10 engineers to 500 in two years. It's one of the top image processing R&D labs in Eastern Europe. Based on their job descriptions.... the facial recognition search being deployed in the police portals of Ring is pretty advanced.

for more on Ring Ukraine www.ring-ukraine.com

I got this ring marketing video from officer.com / a website for police industry news.
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> Whatever happened to 'innocent until proved guilty'

If Person A accuses Person B of something, "innocent until proven guilty" doesn't really get you anywhere. If you say Person B is innocent, that means you're saying Person A is guilty—of bearing false witness.
Silicon Valley is not a geographical area, it is the tech industry within a geographical area.

The tech industry wages have been going up, but the wages of the people around our industry have been stagnant. Sensationalist title.
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original article with link to marketing video dropbox https://www.officer.com/command-hq/technology/computers-soft...
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The author of this article sounds insufferable to work with. Sounds like the google team all couldn't stand working with him, so while they didn't specifically fire him, they orchestrated to force him out so he would resign. After reading his self-indulgent, whiny, bitter grandstanding tirade, can't say I blame them.

Also shows a complete lack of introspection or self awareness that he'd post and promote this drivel and think it makes him look GOOD! Lol. Career suicide imo. If I was considering hiring him and googled him and came across this writing, I'd nope out so fast.
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Could you please discuss more about what the point of your comment is?

To me it seems like you're implying that studying ethics is pointless because you or others didn't get anything out of their talk. Is that what you actually meant?
I don't think you can simply get an email to feedback@slack.com without subscribing to an email stream.
Not to mention that the blanket assertion that 'columnar' structure is similar across cortex is simply not accurate. Humans seem to have ~180 distinct cortical regions [0], and when we start digging into the actual cytoarchitecture they all start to look different. Yes it is possible to try to shove them all into the '6 layer' model, but if we weren't imposing an extremely strong prior for 6 onto these cell populations we would think that they were all radically different, not uniformly the same as many computationalists and theorists would like to believe.

0. Glasser and Van Essen https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4990127/
I reviewed the site. Really nice work. You can sell additional features like the live monitoring tool. Heroku add-ons style. Good luck.
As a lead developer, I frown upon every instance of regex used. If it's shorter then, say, 20 characters, it may be allowed. Longer then that will result in a negative advice and binding advice to refactor. You implement a language lexer & parser, or use plain string functions.
I don't have a good way to measure that, but if you have one let me know.

I can say that after all this, I was climbing hard 5.10s and easy 5.11s, and I'm 40, and I haven't been able to climb stuff like that since I was about 22.