skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a single one of those are H1-B. In the Sergey Brin and Max Levchin, and myself cases, our parents were under special refugee visas that literally took an act of congress to pas (thank you Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society).
Presumably the criteria and outcome are per-capita and per-GDP, otherwise every single ranking would just be of "what countries have the biggest population and the most money", which is not a very useful analysis.

edit; so the ranking is probably more of a "most innovation-oriented economies" [=higher ratio of R&D/IP industries to retail/manufacturing/agro/etc] rather than "countries creating the most innovations"
The original report was https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-employees-angry-aft..., which is also here: http://archive.is/tRiAp
Interesting point of view.
My concerns are not from ML/AI having learned bias.

My concern is ML/AI can be forced with legislation to implement bias.
I assume people with blue ray want to rip at original quality - isn’t that 10s of gig per disk? (I have never bought blue ray so have no idea).

For me the problem was ripping my dvds just took so long, and wasn’t automatable (weirdly my bottom of the line Mac mini struggles with re-encoding ;) )
Would a quality software defined radio (HackRF) and a directional antenna be sufficient?
I used to buy apple videos and remove the DRM. But the tools that did that seem to have lost in there arms-race with apple.

I'm in the same boat. Disks it is, though they are such a pain.

Why can I buy music without DRM but video hasn't followed that path?
I wouldn't read anything into it, except you weren't told no, yet. So be happy about this, but there is still a decent distance from this email to an interview or congrats you're accepted.
Step 1: You don't.
Surprising. Voeovdski also.
> Apple's closed environment not allowing of any apps to be installed in anyone's phone unless app is downloaded from AppStore

Except the enterprise distribution which is what Facebook fucked up by breaking the rules. You have to try really hard to get that revoked, Facebook did and now they're in a tough spot. This is fine.
>Yes. But put ON your tin foil hat for a second.
>I think the West wanted the missile to be taken.

I would love to find out that there is video evidence on tape of this actually occurring. I'm imagining that there were a group of people that planned this, and were sitting in a room watching it (with bowls of popcorn) laughing at them doing it. That means that group of people are also very good at keeping secrets. It's just farcical enough to possibly be true, until you remember actual true stories like the underwater voice line recorder with "Made In The USA" stamped on it that is now on display in the Kremlin (or wherever).
I think cars would be a better analogy.

Something very useful but with negative externalities we did not predict.
Right, the fact that children are affected by all of the mess on the internet is the last line of defense, the last chance to complain, since adults are fair game.

All of us are rational actors who should dicuss EULAs with their lawyers and fully understand and evaluate the consequences of tracking and surveillance.
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You'd have to prove that the A.I. was discriminating based on a "protected class" and not on some other basis. But you have no insight into the A.I. or its training data. Nor do you have a comparable A.I. of your own to run A/B experiments that can prove discrimination. Now what?
I suspect you might be very unpleasantly surprised by how little things would change. Additionally, they were quite honest about what they did:

> 1-68 CAB’s solution was to drop the building using the GMLRS.

It is, of course, quite possible that "drop the building" is insufficiently honest for you. I'm sure the author could have written "explosively annihilated the five-story building under construction, most likely killing any person inside or atop it". Though I confess I'm not sure what this phrasing would add that "drop the building" does not. Perhaps you can enlighten me?

In this case, the intended audience appears to be mainly subject matter experts. So they use the jargon of concrete-penetrating because that appears to be the relevant technical detail that guided the munitions choice.
Back then African people were basically considered evolved apes but definitely not humans, at least not the same concept used for Europeans. They were even kept in zoos in Europe[1]. The USA also extensively used eugenics[2] to try to purify the race, which was a huge inspiration for the Nazis and their "final solution". Social Darwinism[3] at its best.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_zoo

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States

[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Darwinism
Point taken, I have updated my post with the correct spelling.

I am use to typing it that way for the District of Columbia. That is not an excuse, but that is why it is probably misspelled a lot.
I didn’t delete or edit my comment.

I completely understand now what my friends at Uber were saying about the Internet hivemind and especially the HN hivemind.

Journalists routinely manipulate their stories to tell the story they want to tell, and right now it’s “Facebook is evil.” You are entitled to your opinion but nothing I or my coworkers do is evil and we would never engage in anything unethical. In a large company there will always be bad apples but to paint an entire company as somehow being a conspiracy is frankly mind boggling.

I would love to turn the mirror on all the haters and see how their lives would be if journalists reported manipulated facts on the worst moments of their lives.
This freakonomics episode treats the major parties as a duopoly and gives some insights how the voting system would need to change:

http://freakonomics.com/podcast/politics-industry/

Unfortunately to change the law you need voters who vote for a party that is willing to change it even though it came into power under the current law.
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>as a smart race of human beings, still have to resort to medieval methods of re-warming metal train tracks

Drinking water and eating food to stay alive is so outdated you guys. Groceries don't even have touchscreens.
North American cars generally use 315 MHz for the key fobs AFAIK, seems like a hobbyist with an SDR + directional antenna could help clear this one up.
Their radar doesn't have the angular resolution to do anything other than adaptive cruise control, and while they boast 360˚ camera coverage, whatever stereoscopic data they are getting from those cameras is evidently insufficient to detect a large firetruck parked in the middle of the street.

Now consider MobilEye, a subsidiary of Intel and a major player in the field of camera/radar driver assist technology. Tesla was using MobilEye tech, until MobilEye terminated that relationship because they believed Tesla was being irresponsible with how far they were pushing MobilEye's tech. MobilEye had a financial incentive to see Tesla succeed with a camera/radar only solution, and continues to have a financial incentive to downplay the necessity of LIDAR. But do they? No. Instead you've got MobilEye's CEO Amnon Shashua talking about the virtues of a combined LIDAR/radar and camera/radar solution, while trash talking Elon Musk for being irresponsible.

When you consider who is saying what and what their financial incentives are, it becomes clear that Amnon Shashua is an ethical person and Elon is a car salesman who is making technically unfalsifiable claims about the capabilities of the hardware in Tesla cars to profit from automation hype.
> In a time of political and social conflict I am soothed by daily stories of the mundane

I think this is one of the reasons; instead of accepting hardships exist and dealing with them, some people use social media as a filter for life. As such, since they avoid hardships, they never trained on dealing with hardships. I've spoken about it in my comment history, but I think some people lack perseverance/grit in this regard. A gas station cashier may be less motivated to get out of their job for a better career because they are busy getting entertained on their phone rather while than being bored during dead times.

I still have Facebook mostly for planning things with groups, but have all notifications disabled. Now, I only check it once a week to see plans change or if I was tagged in a picture. I just don't care about the rest.
Why would you replace them with anything? It's a dumb plot device from the 1940s. This line of thought is basically, "What type of DRM should we put in everything?"
As an EMS provider, the parent part trumps the consent part. It's a little different for us, as "emergent care" is certainly different from elective care.

> In 30 states that minor parent can consent for their child, even though they would not be able to consent for the same procedure for themselves!

That's definitely the awkward part!
Why does Facebook need to use native apps for employee shuttle and information portal? They could use a web page or PWA saved to the phone's home screen.
I've greatly enjoyed this thread, thanks to you and parents for taking the time to write it out. Just wanted to add, putting the "250 billion dollars of wealth destroyed" into perspective, that is more or less what Apple's loss of market cap during the last 6 months represents.

Granted, that's to a large degree a speculative reduction in wealth. A similar re-valuation of the global car industry's future prospects would cause more mayhem due to well-established investments in supporting industries. It's fascinating how 250 billion dollars in reduced marked cap means "meh, it was overvalued" in Apple's case, whereas it would be a nasty surprise of historic proportions if it happened to the car industry.
> Have we lost sight of personal responsibility?

Yes. FB have.
Literally came here to post this link. Such a good set of articles that was. Would highly recommend people read the longform story!
For users for whom the developer tools aren't a realistic option, which is the vast majority of them, apple does dictate what you can install on your phone.

For the rest of us, for the low low price of $100 to join the developer program plus $1000 for a Mac, we can get the ability to install software that we can build, which more-or-less precludes sideloading as an option for commercial software.

So, for all practical purposes, yes, Apple does dictate what you can install on their phone. The question is really whether you think that that's a feature or a misfeature.
What open source components does Cloud Firestore use?

Can you point towards papers that describe the algorithms and data structures that Firestore uses? What infrastructure does it rely on to perform reliably?
I understand now. Thanks for that clarification!

I spent a few minutes on 8bitworkshop and honestly, it's kind of exciting to think of coding the APPLE ][ in C.

I think it was the mid 1990s before I saw my first color-coding editor (Metrowerks?). All this for an Apple is just fantastic.
You probably are, if counting per capita of the country. Sweden has a small population and South Korea medium.

South Korea: Samsung, LG, Hyundai, Kia

Sweden: Spotify, Skype (ish), 4G LTE (via Ericsson), Volvo, some medicines via AstraZeneca (ish).

Also both produce various non-consumer products.
Iv'e seen rounds with that feature (explode 1 meter past wall) for carbine use.
I don't expect everyone to pay attention to history but the Stasi was the _EAST_ German _COMMUNIST_ state secret police. They came after the Nazis.

I'm sorry but I can't follow your argument. By now if you work for Facebook you must already know that they are in the surveillance business.

Previous justifications for that seem to have revolved around them not doing anything bad with that information. Well here's the thing, using that information to target children with addictive games for money is a bad use of that information. If you work for Facebook you work for people that pay you with that money.
What kind of revenue you make on that? More than just beer money?
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>I wish the US would do a fast track for Venezuelan migrants, or at least i hope we provide aide to Columbia to help with expenses.

It would be great if the US simply left latin America alone and stopped meddling in those countries. Something it's been doing since decades.

Never heard of China/Russia having anything to do with the situation in Venezuela. They may have some role there, but it's not even close to the responsibility US has. This is well documented and researched, and is well known since decades that US destabilizes Venezuela.

That is not to remove blame from Chavez, Maduro, and co., who are despicable but it's surreal to hear that the only hypothetical impact the US could have there is via the sanctions. US has a huge part of responsibility in the chaos there (as in many other parts of the world). And this is true also now, with this attempted coup.

>I wish the US would do a fast track for Venezuelan migrants

Are we talking about the same country that was shutdown for weeks to finance a shameful wall to keep foreigners away?
Wrong title, should be “FB left their offices in disarray by using their enterprise cert to spy on kids”. What utter muppets.
I so regret watching this video, made me sick in the stomach.

It's absolutely insane, and what's worse, the person posting it considers this a positive advertisement of their company.
Guns, Germs, and Steel is essentially pop science by a guy with next to no expertise in many of the areas he bases his theories on like geography.

Germs - Ignores the fact that Europeans were devastated by things like Malaria that many Africans have moderate immunity to thanks to the sickle cell trait

Domesticated animals - Ignores that Europeans have actually used Zebras as work animals and had to domesticate cows from Aurrochs and dogs from wolves

The whole thing is basically Diamond starting off with a conclusion and finding a theory to fit in
> Have we lost sight of personal responsibility? How naive are people? If you are getting something for free from a large corporation you're not getting it out the kindness of their heart. They are making money somehow. That is how the world works.

We can argue about this particular instance, but I think your argument is pretty flawed; it seems to imply that if I agree to a deal with a company, I can't be upset about ANYTHING slipped into the T&C. It really depends on what it is.

Yes, these people expected to trade some information for money, but it isn't naive of them to expect some reasonable limits to what they were collecting.
> The killings were legal till the 60's

That's an astonishing statement. Could you elaborate? The Aboriginal population has been treated heinously since European settlement but that's a, literally, incredible claim.
This isn’t really about eccentric topics as much as expressing personality through personalization.
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This approach moves an `if` statement out of the loop, so there's no need to repeat it.
Failing transformers can cause an incredible amount of RF noise. A couple years ago a failing fluorescent light ballast prevented my garage door opener remote from working until it finally gave out (this was when I discovered it as the cause), and it had enough residual power to maintain the interference for a while even after being turned off.
To me it’s a fallacy that even a highly skilled and knowledgeable person could set their own privacy settings to what they’d actually like. When you have huge forces arrayed against you, an powerful advocate is necessary.
>">"No, what you seem to be trying to do is claim that because the regime that is the result of the Revolution did not deliver on all of its promises when the Revolution started, it is somehow a different regime?"

Maybe you should reread your original where you say "the current Iranian regime." The current regime is the result of policies implemented by the Ayatollah after the revolution and implemented via his appointees on Council of Guardians - the body that oversees Parliament. "Current regime" means exactly that the regime as it exists today. And it is a very different regime than what existed in 1979.

>"They're not exactly 'free' countries, are they now? Authoritarian countries would be a better title for you perhaps?"

Please re-read where you stated the "US supports 75% of dictatorship." It has nothing to do with what's "better for me." Your statement is patently false. Let's not move the goal posts. And just to further illustrate this absurdity, Jordan which is on your "list", is neither authoritarian or dictatorial. It's widely considered to be something of a success story of democracy in the Middle East.
Unless there are any hyper-local slang terms, there should be no communication issues.

An analogy from an American perspective: it would be like someone from NJ speaking with someone from Georgia. Yeah, there might be mild differences - e.g. soda vs pop - but overall it is the same Spanish.

EDIT: I mean "Georgia" the state in USA, and not the country.
Yeah really!

There's plenty of evidence that medicine today has deeply embedded biases. Disparities in Black maternal health outcomes have been thoroughly covered in the literature and even mainstream media.

On the other hand there's plenty of evidence that ML and AI magnify inequality in other areas.

So relying on technology as a magic bullet to solve these societal problems seems ... naive.
Yeah saw this tweet this morning and felt kind of ashamed for falling for the clickbait yesterday:

https://twitter.com/arkmashton/status/1090971061569622016
It'd be cool to see a revival in niche, honest software. The thing about tech conglomerates is while they do a bunch of things efficiently, they also do most of those things badly. If a single person can build something that's useful to herself and to those like her, it seems like it can be enough to make a living.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/01/amazo...
That's not true. This whole story is about Facebook's enterprise signing cert being revoked so they can no longer distribute apps outside the app store. Please stop spreading misinformation.
This is good though, right?

In the UK the points regularly freeze at even just a couple of degrees below zero, and the trains are just cancelled.
I was having trouble figuring out what UltraViolet did (even after reading the faq).. They seem to a rights management for video but didn't store them?

From there faq:
UltraViolet is a free, cloud-based digital rights library for the movies and TV shows that you purchase or redeem at participating retailers. When you buy a movie or TV show that comes with an UltraViolet right from a retailer that you have linked to your UltraViolet Library, it's automatically added to your UltraViolet Library and you have options to stream it over the Internet and/or download it for offline viewing to a variety of devices.
Maybe they would think twice about continuing to burn the most productive years of their only life at this company if they knew what people thought of them.
> It's added complexity to fix a different problem (untrustworthy virtualization).

How do you fix the "untrustworthy virtualization" problem then?
>The NY Times and other resources currently considered "credible"

Yea, but...

>The NY Times in particular has unfortunately been burning through that hard-earned credibility capital at an alarming rate

Ah, never mind you got it.

>More recently they have taken the bait proffered by Trump

How this isn't being observed by more people is stunning. 100% of the time, NYT, CNN, MSNBC, WaPo are running what they think is an effective awareness and information campaign - and is in reality going to cause scandal fatigue and hurt their credibility. Everyone complains about his Twitter... stop airing every single one of his tweets. In another two years, the country won't be on fire, and statistically Trump has a good chance at re-election.

All the media pearl clutching, faux-rage, and surface depth "activism" aren't helping... well, it's not helping them anyhow.
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I have, and I miss it every day I commute by bicycle. There's a span along one of my routes where you have to make a left turn across 5 lanes of traffic. The Dutch would faint, I think.
I mean, doesn't it depend on what they are collecting? If it turns out that Nielson slipped something into their T&C that says they can turn on a listening device and listen to conversations in the house, it would be just as troublesome.

There are limits to what is reasonable in these sorts of deals, and if you are asking for something that most people would think is unreasonable, you better make it very clear when someone is signing up. You can't bury it in the T&C.
What would be really cool would be a hidden social network app that can pull data from existing facebook/twitter/etc social data stores with various high and low tactics of stenography and obfuscated data. It could have side benefits like completely scrambling the tracking information on someone on the aggregator size, use useful stuff like image storage and video storage.

Of course that would get routinely disrupted by the base providers, since that is direct intrusion into their precious data silos.

But it would be cool.

Because I'm not super interested in outright encryption of all my thoughts and activity. That actually broadcasts you/marks you. At this point I have a lot of trackers that have SOME information on me.

So I'd like a lot of obfuscation and noise inserted around what companies know about "me".
Actually that's pretty much the way the original comment (4 levels above yours) reads:

"I'd rather have the company tell me it's all about the baseline (i.e. screw people over) and be honest about it -- than pretend that it cares"
jaredhanson who maintains passport-google-oauth2 seems unfortunately MIA since October, and it seems he's the only one that can update that package. Google says they are degrading services already (starting Jan 28), so some sites could start seeing problems already. The fixes to the passport-google-oauth2 are nontrivial and require a fork (not just a configuration change). Fortunately, there's a lot of discussion on this PR: https://github.com/jaredhanson/passport-google-oauth2/pull/5...

At the bottom of the PR discussion, there is a link to a fork that somebody created here: https://github.com/passport-next/passport-google-oauth2 As far as I can tell, the only way to continue using node + google oauth right now is to switch to using that hard-to-find fork. That's what I've done with https://cocalc.com.
Access to a modem, a piece of hardware that cost hundreds of dollars, and obviously also required a machine that cost thousands. Unless you attended a university, which was also more exclusive in the early 80s than now.
A grocery store has a lot of florescent lights. More opportunities for failure.
Siri works well enough for me that I can perfectly dictate a text message without taking my eyes off the road. That's just one data point and I know others have diverging experiences, but it seems likely that voice control with improve enough that this could soon be a feasible way of controlling a car's secondary systems too.
Agreed, though
" [...] showing the xenophobic parts of the world, that, yes, immigrants into one's country is a good thing!"

We actually don't need a colombian experiment to know this. It's all over the history books.
I think the smaller example Matthew Flatt used in a talk about the expander is a better example. From the old expander's conception (many many years ago) only 2 people commited any changes and one of those only committed smaller instrumentation changes.

Since the rewrite (that was about 1.5 to 2x slower) less than a year ago 6 people had made commits.

What one could hope for would be some chez scheme interoperability for the really speed demanding parts.