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WRT point 1 - Wait what? You can work for not-not-evil employers now and all the ethical blame is on the CEO?

> Corporation: an ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility - Bierce
>So I can't see the idea that AI will be safe by default other than wishful thinking.

I... don't think anyone is arguing that AI is safe in any way? I mean, the pattern matching tools we call AI now are already deployed in very dangerous weapons.

My point is not that AI is going to be safe and warm and fuzzy, or even that it won't be an existential threat. My point is that we're already facing several existential threats that don't require additional technological development to destroy society, and because the existing threats don't require postulating entirely new classes of compute machinery, we should probably focus on them first.

There are still enough nuclear weapons in the world for a global war to end society and most of us. A conflict like we saw in the first half of the 20th century using modern weapons would kill nearly all of us, and we are seeing a global resurgence of early 20th century political ideas. I think this is the biggest danger to the continuation of humanity right now.

We haven't killed ourselves yet... but the danger is still there. we still have apocalyptic weapons aimed and ready to go at a moment's notice. We still face the danger of those weapons becoming cheaper and easier to produce as we advance industrially.
I have friends who are in orthopedics, and they work with lots of physical therapists. They don't do the physical therapy themselves. Similarly, I'm the medical part of a team, and I'm cool with that. I do the parts that other people can't. It's a pretty standard arrangement and most psychiatrists who treat addiction work this way without much issue.
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The people (all people) own all of the bitcoins. Usability and control is delagated by control of the private key.
I think you're conflating multiple factors here, mainly psychiatry and parenting. Child psychiatry is an extreme because the patient is most often not the one making decisions (which they're often not capable of anyway). Much of the time, the patient hasn't even really figured out what their "normal" is before their parents stick them with a professional.

Many parents, especially when looking at-risk demographics, look to psychiatry as an easy fix so that's what the doctors give them. The parents often can't afford to take time to drive their child to a psychiatrist twice a month let alone pay for the sessions. The end result is that psychiatry stuck in a terrible ethical spot, where their duty to treat not just symptoms but causes clashes with the realities where the parents are at the end of their rope. Are doctors stewards of health, responsible for the patient? Or are they professionals that have to meet their clients half way? I don't think there is an easy answer to that question.

Obviously there are many unethical and incompetent psychiatrists but my experience in California (as an adult) stands in stark contrast to all the horror stories I hear about child psychiatry from school administrators. As usual, there is a massive wealth gap and your mileage will vary.
...so, lets see you license, and do you realize that you have waived the 4th and given implied consent for a search
I can guarantee that there are many people who have no past trauma who have addiction. I can't say exactly how common it is (it may be a minority for all I know), but I know for a fact that they are there.
> The problem with the externalities argument is that nobody really knows what they cost.

One asks to what degree do we not know the costs? And these costs aren't ketchup economic prices but actual primary environmental effects. You can't buy your way out of those by having the central bank provide more liquidity.

> A market solution would be based upon true supply and demand and agreement on price in buy / sell transactions.

This is worse because the market not only has no way to price these cost but it is _blind_ to them. That you don't realize this means you think 'free markets' are 'magical'

> A tax representing the "externality" is just a politically made-up number. So it's sort of free market but not really.

FTI: Your free markets don't exist without politics.
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There a difference between best practice architecture and copying code: No one will sue you if you implement things the same way in different projects, but if you copy & paste a large amount of code from one project to another it might be problematic.

An employee also owns the copyright to his/her code (at least in most European countries), the company often just gains the exclusive right to use that code through the contract with the employee (or the law, in some countries). So whether or not it is you intellectual property does not matter that much, what is important is what's actually written in your freelancer contract. If you build a custom software system for a company I'd assume they will not simply let you sell "your" exact code to their competitor afterwards, at least if it's something that has some inherent competitive value (e.g. not simply an off-the-shelf solution like a CRM or website). Most companies make sure this can't happen even when working with a freelancer, so have a close look at your contract (if you have one). If there's no explicit contract it'll depend on the country you're in.
It still has the single best movie soundtrack I've ever heard (and yet the article didn't even mention it, or if it did, not prominently enough for me to notice). I'm a musician (albeit an amateur one); a good sountrack makes or breaks a film, and that definitely made Dune for me. The main theme in particular is unforgettable.
Uploading your CV to a job board is still a good way to show you’re active, recruiters (in house and agency) will get daily alerts to new CVs matching keywords they’ve preset.
It's not greed. Apple is transitioning to a luxury brand. It sucks for people like the author (or myself) that can't or don't want to pay the higher prices that come with any luxury brand.

Personally, I don't care much about iOS anymore. I moved to Android years ago, and my current Apple devices will probably be the last ones I own.

My next laptop will most likely be a Chrome OS device thanks to Linux support, and in 5 or so years when I need to upgrade my iMac I'm guessing the desktop landscape will be very different with Fuchsia coming up.
Ask HN: Is it legal for a company to restrict an internship to certain races?
I'm a person of color working for a large tech company in San Francisco. I was disgusted to find out that we have a paid internship program that is explicitly only limited to people of certain races.

1) Description on website:
"...is a paid 12-week summer internship program designed for second-year students interested in gaining hands-on and real-life experience in the tech industry."

"Eligibility:
Full-time student identifying as black, Latinx, and/or Native American completing your undergraduate study in 2021 at a university or college."

2) Is this legal? I am familiar with affirmative action, but all examples I have seen describe it as stuff like: "language on job advertisements urging minorities to apply, or a policy that favors African-Americans when all other qualifications among job applicants are equal.". I've never seen a company explicitly say that only certain races are eligible. If someone can point me to some credible sources discussing this specific issue, it would be great.

3) Assuming this is not legal, how do I get them to stop? Based on what I know about the company, this is not the work of an unsupervised employee, but something that was likely approved by upper management. The company has an ethics hotline that guarantees confidentiality and non-retaliation, but I've seen the company break confidentiality and retaliate when they were promised in the past.

I can't file an EEOC complaint because I wasn't discriminated against. The application deadline just ended and they are now interviewing candidates.

I'm afraid that if this ends up being controversial, instead of stopping racial discrimination, they will just hide it better by not putting up an explicit notice. People working here seem morally fine with this sort of discrimination. They don't seem to notice the hypocrisy of saying in huge letters "[Company Name] is where inclusion lives" and then linking to a page that excludes people from a job on the basis of race.
I personally prefer the diesel models, they are more reliable. I've heard horror stories about the gasoline-powered E-series and Chevy Express models.

I wasn't aware they're no longer in production? I just passed on a 2019 Chevy Express 15 passenger (see above). Also, loads of companies buy the base models from Ford and Chevy then outfit them with up to 15 seats and other amenities for use as passenger transport vans.
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That was actually one of the parts I did like. The book's portayal felt like some kind of weird mystical thing, while the weirding modules felt like actual science fiction.
Sheldon Adelson gives $100m to the GOP and Trump signs a bill and gives $38 billion to Israel. Lobbying power has a good ROI whether your a corporation or nation
If this were true then trauma would be endemic among Australian aborigines but not among Lebanese because there are a lot more Aboriginal alcoholics than Lebanese alcoholics, and also more Swedish alcoholics than Lebanese. "Trauma" is probably a way to make sense of experience that is otherwise senselessly random.
I appreciate the context. Didn’t realize we were already at “my dude” level, my good sir. Note that I was careful myself not to attribute malice to your question.

But I do stand by my original request to push you on your “trauma etiquette”, for my own sake and for all the other trauma survivors who are much less comfortable speaking about what happened. If you have experienced abuse and gaslighting then you must know that the typical response when speaking out is more gaslighting. For this reason, actual trauma survivors (as opposed to people playing victim) tend to be hyper vigilant. When speaking to a fellow trauma survivor, you must know that this is one of the issues that will come up, and if you are going to ask an innocent sounding question that could also be easily construed as skeptical as opposed to curious, it behooves you to add an extra word or two to make your intent clear. Literally a phrase like “not saying I don’t believe you, I’m genuinely curious” is enough to differentiate between a good faith question and more abuse.
I don't know what you're doing that it doesn't work. Maybe provide a screenshot so we can troubleshoot?

Or you can clicky the link here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18524102
OEIS is, to me, mind-boggling. When you consider that there is literally an infinite number of possible sequences, it’s amazing how often a completely arcane sequence you stumbled upon somewhere is listed in the OEIS.

Also, it’s helped me solve a few project Euler problems (which often involve framing “well-known” problems into novel forms). Brute-force the first few values and more often than not you’ll find the sequence in OEIS, sometimes with a generating function or pointers to the original problem.
Jewish is also an ethnicity. There are even specific subsets of jews that have different health issues.[1]

To my understanding, Jew refers to both an ethnic group and a religion, so it can be confusing, but the ethnic group definitely can be referred to as a race (which going by most the common dictionary definitions of race generally includes geographic and ethnic grouping. I looked it up prior to my earlier comment to be sure).

It is possible to be non-religious or practice another religion and be ethnically Jewish, and it's possible to be another ethnicity and convert to Judaism.

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_genetics_of_Jews
Facebook imo has contributed more positive than negative. It's easy to quickly judge FB as an evil company because of the media recently, but, just for starters, here are a few things FB has done well:

- Connected people from all around the world
- Empowered small businesses
- Is very pro-charity (e.g. "birthday" charity donations)
- Allowed people to organize themselves online (groups)
Is trauma not endemic among Australian aborigines?
If telling people in America that "improving diet and exercise help manage your diabetes" doesn't get rid of our diabetes epidemic why would it get rid of Africa and Asia's?
Corporate growth is a major culpit. Corporate growth means that corporations open up more HQs and offices and create more jobs in major urban centers.
By taking market share away from small regional businesses, corporations are destroying jobs in regional towns and creating jobs in big cities instead.
People are increastly forced to move to big cities to find jobs. As more people move to big cities, demand for real estate in those cities goes up.
Big cities struggle to increase the supply of real estate due to limited space.

By moving to big cities, value-creating workers are increasingly forced to compete against wealthy owners of capital for the limited supply of real estate.
Wealthy owners of capital don't need to work for their money, so they're willing to spend a lot more to buy houses that they don't even need; this drives up house
prices for everyone else.
What needs changing is term limits. One should not be able to spend 40 years in Congress or the Senate.
I think I’d rather live under something like this than the opaque, private fico system.
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For a long time, microfluidics researchers we're telling similar stories in academic journals.

But the field seem to have some problem in crossing over to "disruptive" commercial products. Not sure why.
Like increase NIH funding for basic science?
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I'm sceptical about it too.

Sometimes I look across the landscape of web tech and it feels like it's all by and for people who make the same kinds of apps over and over and over and are trying to optimize that process up the wazoo.

Though it's also possible I just haven't run into the kinds of problems that need these techs.

Something I'm a huge believer in is that there's tremendous value in us all using the same tools, even if they're not the ideal tools for any of our individual needs. We are at least all speaking the same "language". For that reason I'm hesitant to go adopting TypeScript and whatnot.
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I’m sure there are some of them out there. The world is a big place. My point is, the vast majority of serious cases can be traced to developmental trauma.
> the vast majority of serious cases can be traced to developmental trauma.

Citation needed.
I used Rust for my toy project and I liked the concept of borrowing. For me personally it felt a little bit like crossing of C++ and Python - all static typing and, curly brackets and semicolons (I honestly like it) and growing number of packages available through cargo (which seems somewhat similar to pip, however still not very popular). All in all my toy project is not super complicated (although I think domain problem is quite interesting) but I found Rust fit for the purpose and quite enjoyable to use. I'm running on Linux only so I had no problems with cross-compilation (as some mentioned they had).
What was sundered and undone, shall be whole, the two made one!
Banking apps may be more convenient than their web counterparts, because they eliminate the need for a token device for small payments or checking the balance. Depends on the bank, of course.
I am not sure, but if my memory serves me right somewhere in the amd64 specification there was something specifically forbidding the use of the uppermost 16 bit to implement tagged pointers, and this is one of the reasons why tagged-pointer-based runtimes haven't been spawning up like mushrooms after the amd64 ISA was implemented.
>> never learned healthy self-soothing rituals.
Can you talk more about the rituals you learned ?
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I try to get all my friends to use it. Since a lot like to use WhatsApp anyway it usually isn't too hard. But Signal doesn't have a push from a big company like WA does. Generally it is my friends from India that I can't move, because all of their communication is done with WA anyway. But it doesn't seem unreasonable to me that such a stronghold could happen for Signal too. But it needs to be spread by word of mouth.
If you don’t know what a food is you can just go with them and then you’ll know after
I think there might be an incentive for money eyed businessmen to keep prices for these kind of products low. The more people have a verified decease, the more you can sell specific (expensive) cures to. As opposed to not knowing the treatment they need or people just living with the symptoms because they can't even afford a diagnose. Making people healthy doesn't bring you money. Keeping sick people alive (albiet in better health than before) does.
>> The consequences of our reaction, our actions (and lack of actions in other places) will be felt for generations

>That's basically my point.

I was replying more specifically to the claim that the terrorists have "won". By any measure of their stated goals, that simply isn't the case. They didn't want us to be inconvenienced, they wanted us to at least completely withdraw our military from the middle east. Beyond that, they'd love for a total collapse of society... Instead, we have been more heavily militarily entrenched than before ever since.
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You can't:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography
A lot of the kids we've dealt with parents are typically incarcerated, dead, or no longer have custody of their children.

In our area sexual abuse is one of the main issues, usually these kids live with relatives(after the conviction) who are usually the most well off in the family. They still by in large get the short end of the stick even though the relatives/guardians try to work with psychiatrists, but we've heard how that goes. That's often how they end up with us, they (the relatives/guardians) bring their troubled kids to us for actual help, not just medication.

But hey I don't mind, we do better work (at least in our area), bring 'em all. Gets more kids off of substance abuse, gets them connected to people who care about them, and more times than not equips them to help their families and community by in large. And we don't even get paid (all voluntary), and that's how I prefer it.
Probably a special chipset or driver that is not freely available.
Here's the robots.txt file for hackerfactor.com:

User-agent: ia_archiver
Allow: /
User-agent: ScoutJet
Disallow: /blog
User-Agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
Disallow: /blog/index.php?/archives/2018/
Disallow: /blog/index.php?/archives/2017/
Disallow: /blog/index.php?/archives/2016/
Disallow: /blog/index.php?/archives/2015/
Disallow: /blog/index.php?/archives/2014/
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Disallow: /blog/index.php?/archives/2000/
#Disallow: /blog/index.php?/categories/
User-agent: *
Disallow: /blog
Disallow: /badbot-a2d0ac98abcaf3cafd9eff83b3cffa98fec7a390a6c5b9

I'm not 100% certain about that ? in there, but I think you can do this instead:

Disallow: /blog/index.php?/archives/*/
Personally, I’m not convinced that the win was beyond the ability of any human to find. Previous generations of players spent much more time studying the endgame (as opposed to endless openening preparation), and I can see Fischer or Capa, or maybe Botvinnik, finding it over the board.
To add just one thing to this (which covers most bases I think), it really depends who you're pairing with.

I've had really great times with a buddy at work, paired up, complementing eachother's skillsets, getting things done, and having a great day at work.

And I've worked with far less agreeable personalities who're always right about everything, in your face, and just plain not enjoyable to be around for any extended period of time.

That's probably the biggest takeaway from pair programming for me. With someone good? Have a wonderful time accomplishing a lot. With someone bad? Have a stressful time... maybe accomplish something.
For good or bad, any move in this space is going to draw inevitable comparisons to theranos. Yes this current example is based on a proof of concept, but at some point any research has to hit the product phase, and that is especially when theranos blowback will produce both criticism and scrutiny.
Rap can be as diverse in terms of subject matter and style as any other musical genre.

If you want some more "nerd" or parody rap here's some MC Frontalot[0] and Optimus Rhyme[1] that HN might enjoy.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nigRT2KmCE

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTLwiccIOxI
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> And near zero public blowback. It's confusing.

It seems like there should be a market opportunity for an above-median school that charges below-median tuition by just charging everyone the same amount, and then picking up slews of high quality middle class students.

I suspect what's preventing it is the state universities. The states with large middle class populations also generally have above-median state schools with below-median tuition for in-state students, so the market is already served and the public universities out-compete the private ones without an existing endowment because they're subsidized with public money.

It's also quite unfortunate because it locks everyone into the university of their own state, so they don't really have to compete with each other and the students in a state with a poor quality state university get the shaft.

What the states could do to improve this is to separate "in-state tuition" from the state university -- if you qualify for in-state tuition then you get that much money toward your tuition no matter which school you attend. It would probably devastate the state universities (because they wouldn't be competitive if people had that choice), but if the replacement would be better and cost less...
I think the idea is that by writing less buggy code with two people you save in refactoring, bug squashing, and fire management down the road.

Similar to testing I suppose.

No idea how the math works out in the end, I assume it'd be highly variable based on the product being built and the people involved.
> I learned at this company by digging the code base and understanding our customer's problems.

Under this logic your'e stuck with your current employer forever. Resumes and interviews are all about what you learned at your previous jobs, so if you don't want to make use of that anywhere else, then you might as well shred your resume and forget about ever getting hired ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

I bet your company goes around hiring experienced people and in fact I would bet that codebase was written by someone who had worked in authentication before, probably somewhere else. So unless it's not illegal (like company secrets) nothing to worry about.
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Ok, yeah, their marketing speak fooled me. I thought they were more like Spark, BEAM, etc.

I still think the "Kafka or /tmp" framing of the article is a straw man, though. There's plenty of options in between depending on the requirements.