skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I see others saying economist say different.

But I would like to point out higher wages may be the result. But this normally comes at a cost of fewer citizen employees.

I don't see how you can argue H1B creates more jobs. But I can at least see how it might change pay for those not replaces or passed over.
You are justifying widespread use of a dehumanizing term by its widespread use. I think, you should revisit your line of reasoning, especially from a historical perspective concerning other terms certain groups were called by.

While whale does not carry a very offensive undertone when you're characterizing a group falling victim to some scheme, it is certainly insulting and dehumanizing when they are your targets, especially when calling individuals as such.
Your definition also applies to Design Patterns!
"An it hurts no one, do what thou wilt shall be there whole of the law."
This is an abuse issue at the DNS level, not a problem suitable for end user cosmetic witchery in the browser. Fix DNS abuse.
Mellanox Soars as Intel Reportedly Places Buyout Bid of Nearly $6B
I read The Art of Computer Programming series in my spare time trying to solve the exercises, seems perfect for what you want or make a past time of going through competitive programming exercises https://contest.cs.cmu.edu/295/f18/
Jim Crow laws, blackballing, and redlining. You ant allowed to work in certain jobs, if you speak out (see Kapernick), no job for you! And you can’t even live within reasonable distance of work!
Path dependence. If we build the robots from ground-up, from dumb pieces of metal through single-purpose tools to multipurpose bodies inhabited by semi-sentient AI, and given that this is the first time we're attempting something like this, it's only natural to apply precautions. There may be a time for the hypothetical human civilization, when it's so sure with its work that it decides to give those advanced robots full rights of sentient beings, without silly firmware restrictions - but that would be an explicit step.

At least, this is how I always reasoned about the "human-centric" focus in this context.
Lull+Coupon
Two things: first, this seems like a reasonable response to the breach Facebook committed.

Second, it illustrates the folly behind relying on the continued good will of a 3rd party offering an essentially (or very nearly) free service. If Facebook was licensing EDCs for millions a year, this ban might not have been the first reaction Apple took.
And the Mouse Monopoly grows ever larger.
They are applying a term that originally describes an adult, and in this context the term "whale" is very clearly connected to several aspects of being an adult, onto a child. Now any descriptive term means the speaker considers there is some sort of equality between all the objects they describe with the term.

Or in other words, calling a child a "whale" implies they think it is perfectly fine that children are high stakes gamblers, because this is the value judgement that comes with the term "whale".
> Seems like the most common answer to this might be SICP

Please don't. SICP is beautiful and all, but it's neither an intro nor practical/immediately useful. There's a lot of enlightenments to be had by reading it, but they have very little to do with Racket specifically. IMO, it's a bad book if your purpose is learning Racket.

> You might, as a novice coming to Racket, find "Realm of Racket" to be more approachable

Or, as an experienced programmer, be bored to tears by the slow pacing and didactical style. It's a great intro to programming and to Racket, but more focused on the former, which makes it ill suited for experienced devs who want to learn Racket.
This is a pretty controversial sentiment, and ive heard plenty of woodworkers tell me this. at 3450RPM, no glove is going to draw a persons hand into a rotating blade. The glove would need an almost cartoonish amount of strength to resist the physics involved. conversely, specially designed chainsaw pants are intended to do this to stop the blade as a safety feature, but the risk of entanglement is much greater in a metal shop where speeds of 600-1000 RPM definitely will grab loose clothing, gloves and jewelry.
40 microwatts of power, to be precise. Compared to, say, 5V*1A=5W of typical phone charger, this is impractical by a large margin.
What Is Truth? On Ramsey, Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle
The effect of those "other more “traditional” pollutants" is mostly local, whereas global warming and ocean acidification are global.
I'm referring to the axiom that being godlike is a positive property. You can show that being godlike is a positive property iff god exists.
Gumby is right here. While it's obviously important to US whether or not we survive, Mother Nature doesn't care whether we live or die.

As long as the genes keep propagating, she's good.

I think it's healthy for humans to look to their own survival, but I realize that Mother Nature only cares for the propagation of genes. We should never confuse the one with the other. We should never start to believe that Mother Nature has an interest in our survival more than the survival of some other fish, or alien lifeform far away, or some bacteria, or virus. That could be a fatal mistake for us.
Some games are more addicting than others, but I don't see how Candy Crush Saga can be worse for a child than Bejeweled, for example.
Seconded. Somehow, the fact that the Three Laws are broken and Asimov's works are all about showing how and why they're broken is something that most people missed. The popular culture ran off with the Laws, forgetting the context.
This reminds me of the saying way back in 2016 American elections:

“If you vote for Trump, it doesn’t mean that you’re not a good person, but it does mean that someone being a bad person isn’t a deal breaker for your support”

I think that sentence could start off with “If you work for Zuck...” just as well.
It's an interesting idea, and could probably be turned into some kind of product. I'm envisioning a product that pulls factors from multiple sources: GitHub posts, articles from media, etc and rates companies by work/life balance, along with some kind of measure for standard deviation.
They dictate what you run on the phone if it requires using their native SDK. Aside from the Flash event almost a decade ago, they haven't tried to restrict web content
Your intuition is correct. Practical electric lights, in the form of arc lamps, existed before Edison was even born and were successfully commercialized many years before the incandescent light bulb.

Effective incandescent light bulbs were also around before Edison's. The main things Edison's team brought to the table were a better filament material, a better vacuum in the bulb, and supporting electrical infrastructure (generators, etc.)
Antennas already convert wifi signals to electricity, so it isn't that much of a stretch.
This isn't a "won't someone think of the children" moment. Facebook targeted people who are not legally able to give consent and join in a contract, to try and get them into a contract. The same ethical and legal issues would exist if Facebook was targeting severely mentally disabled people who cant legally consent to a contract
Is "these guys" supposed to be me? I'm not 'siding' Facebook. I think they should have forgiven the debt.

That you think a clearly misleading headline is a matter of 'sides' is worrying.
Android is spyware, with a slightly more humane face. Not touching it with a 10 foot pole.
In one of his drawings, Edward Gorey once inserted the quip, "Edward Gorey. The man who digs engraves of the past." (Was it written on a tombstone? It was decades ago.)
Sometimes a fundamental idea is simple, but it takes repeated hammering into your mind before you adopt it. 95% of a book might seem like fluff, but when you read the 1 example, the 1 anecdote, or the 1 "way of saying it" that resonates with you - that's often when the idea sticks and becomes a more permanent part of your life.

Expanding an idea into book form helps more people discover that "aha" moment than a single blog post does. Plus, people just take books more seriously in general!
'Moderate to Severe' Vulns Found in LIFX Smartbulb Now Patched
It's fun to see this one pop up on HN. I'm a programmer making a career change to woodworking.

A useful contextualization for how powerful most stationary power tools are (table saw, but also jointer, planer, chop saw, shaper, and, yes, band saws too) is that they're usually rated for continuous output of several horsepower. Go do an image search of people getting kicked and or thrown by horses. Now think about how much that must hurt.

Now, remember each of those machines is as powerful as one or more horses, and has a commensurate ability to injure you[0].

Can't stick around to discuss this now, but I'll check back this evening.

[0] Yes, I know the history of the horsepower and exactly how much power a horse develops is imprecise. For getting a rough idea how much you can get hurt, it's immaterial.
If even the developers of highly sucessful games come to the conclusion that whaling is basically exploiting a few psychologiaclly gameable people against their best interest. Even worse if happening with minors. Not all companies are in the position to address that but we should applaud the ones that do:

https://www.clickerheroes2.com/paytowin.php
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15737008

In the long term, only extending and enforcing retail restrictions and legislation to the digital markets are the way to stem this ethically abusive behaviour at least when it comes to children.
> WHY is a human life more valuable than a robotic one?

This "but why humans" reaction is bizarre to me every time I encounter it. We care about humans because we are humans. There's nothing deeper to uncover. We care about ourselves.

Humans do not care about the value of a robot "life", because we generally feel it has none.
The UK would be IMPORTING goods from the US.. I don't get where you're getting this idea we'd be exporting cheap goods from the UK to the US. The examples i explicitly stated were things like education, specialized tech (which would be fine for shipping), and access to financial services, which once again doesn't need shipping. For the last time, i'm not saying that the UK is going suddenly start mass producing cheap goods to export to the US? I dont know where you've got that idea from. The US, however, does create a lot of cheap goods which they'd be exporting TO the UK, such as your corn, meats, etc.

The main issue people are concerned about is that the UK would be flooded with cheaper/sub standard goods (re. chlorinated chicken) that they can't differentiate between standard UK/EU products which are of a higher quality. Currently, US meat is outright banned in the EU, if there's an influx in cheap/chemically altered meats coming from the US which people can't differentiate from (this is partially due to the terms of the trading deal banning branding of goods as "Produced in the UK") then people are worried they'd accidentally end up buying them.
Twitter suddenly kills API access for more apps
You can avoid this issue through significant domain experience. Knowledge != smart. I find your assertions regarding assurance and networked computing disturbingly naive. If this 'fix' was simply altruism and a crying need it would be apparent to more of an audience than Google. This seems more like sheeps clothing and misdirection from Google - as usual.
There is a limit to what people can endure. When you're standing on the 10 story of a building with the floors above and below burning and the fires are starting to overcome the 10th, jumping looks like a better option than slowly burning alive. Crippling disease or mental health are as real a threat as being stuck in a burning building. It is bleak, and may be hard to understand if you haven't been there.
When I was in some philosophy classes in college I developed my "theory of bullshit".

Basically, when I'm reading your work explaining your theory, if I go through two full pages without encountering a new idea, your work is bullshit.

This doesn't apply to providing EXAMPLES of your theory, and a theory is often many new ideas so that explaining it will take many pages, but if I read 2 pages of explanation and don't find a single new idea - you're wasting my time and trying to build agreement without specificity.

Now, far too many years later, I am both amazed at the raw audacity of my younger self...and how accurate he was in finding which works would be more or less satisfying to read. While I generally prefer escapism in my reading, my virtual and physical shelves have no shortage of books that I've only read the first few chapters of, because of diminishing returns for the effort of reading them.
For macOS, Time Machine can do automatic backups to a mounted NAS volume over WiFi. So my Macbook backs up to a ZFS 3-way mirror. Important files are also stored in DropBox. That's how I get relatively hassle free 3-2-1 backups.

For Windows, a similar strategy is possible, but I consider my Windows box disposable (only gaming), so don't have much recent experience.
Because they're meant to be human tools? Why else make them en masse? But I too am not sure I'd accept such a view as ethical if AGI were ever achieved.
1. 3 month emergency fund (bills, deductibles)

2. If available, contribute at least employer match to 401k

3. Pay off >8% debt

After this, options are more fluid depending on risk tolerance

4. Contribute max to tax advantaged space (IRA/401k/HSA/Backdoor Roth IRA etc)

5. Bump up emergency to x months

6. Pay down <8% debt

7. Contribute to passive taxable accounts i.e index funds

Other rules-of-thumb

Take care of your body, eat whole food, move quickly for short periods of time and lift weights

Consider disability and term life insurance. Avoid WHOLE life insurance.

Live below your means and aim to save 20% gross income
However, it’s a shame that it happenes with frighting regularly in 2019! I probably won’t involve me but it’s a outrage.
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One could also ask why anyone should be working for military contractors/armaments manufacturers/small arms/weapon manufacturers/industries of adverse environmental impact? I think the ethical hazard in working at these places are more serious, than Facebook, which is after all a non mandatory, non essential service, which most of its users use for idle pastime.

I do however why such questions are being asked of Facebook/Google and not of companies like Thales/Lockheed Martin? Perhaps the mainstream media feel more threatened by Facebook/Google, because like all the MSM crave power, and Google /Facebook /other social networks can democratize dissemination of opinions and erode the power of MSMs to act as gatekeepers of Ideas.
Some FB games have thousands of whale players who spend over $1k per month. Not all of those purchases are obvious mistakes or instances of children not knowing what they are doing. It makes sense that they would review these purchases before refunding them. If they didn't they would potentially lose millions in revenue.
It isn't benefiting many people now. Look at these prices

https://www.sawstop.com/build/
Wow, a lot of interesting machinations. You've given me a few things to think about for sure. Thanks for the write-up!
This is silly.

The Three Laws of Robotics are not harmful because _they can't actually be implemented_.

Asimov never details how the three laws are baked into positronic brains in so fundamental a way that they can't be disabled without destroying the robot. Heck, we don't even know how to build a positronic brain -- because it's a fictional technology!

So even if you _wanted_ to build some sort of AI that is guided by the Three Laws, you couldn't.

You might be able to build AI that is guided by certain ethical principles, but right now, in the current state of technology, it's all rules-based stuff -- like a self-driving car with a rule about slowing down to avoid an impact that could injure someone.

Nobody knows how to give AI an ethical intuition, much less tweak that intuition. (I'm an objectivist, so I actually prefer saying, "Nobody knows how to give AI the ability to perceive metaphysical principles.")

This whole post is like saying that Star Trek's Warp Drive is harmful because we shouldn't be trying to travel faster than light.
Meanwhile my country seems determined to wreck it's medium term outlook to get back powers it never have up because of a xenophobic reaction to immigration which was in total a net benefit.

It's damn embarrassing.
What less efficient way to side load apps exist? Flying the person to FB HQ and plugging their phone into a developers machine by USB? Yeah, right.
Agree with this. I worked at Google for years and really enjoyed it. When Larry and Vic and Urs pushed social on everybody and tied bonuses to it (I worked in tech infra on cloud stuff, far from social) it was a big FU to the employees.
That's true, don't know how their developer accounts work.

I guess then they'll have to beg for forgiveness or just spin the native apps into web apps. I feel sorry for their Enterprise Engineering team!
For more extensive changes, I imagine a whole load of screenshot-heavy documentation would need updating (probably a load of course notes, inherited from long-gone lecturers too).

I agree that shouldn't be an issue though. Those who don't want any change (e.g. lecturers) can stick with an old version.
I agree. I also think that we need a lot more regulations, because the problem isn't only Facebook, there are so many companies that hold/collect/sell our information, and that's the bigger problem in my opinion, Facebook is just the biggest one so we hear about it the most.

Just because you don't use Facebook doesn't mean that some other company isn't doing the same thing with your data, you just probably haven't heard of it.
iPhone users pay a premium to have a third party evaluate apps before they’re out on the App Store. If they wanted to do the evaluation themselves, they wouldn’t pay that premium.
Common sense would tell you there's some truth to it. For centuries we killed murderers and rapists and thus removed them from the gene pool. Data shows testosterone levels, which are correlated with violence, have dropped massively over the last few decades, whether that is genetic or environmental and to what extent for each is up for debate

WWI and WII basically selected to kill off Europe's bravest and most nationalistic men, those who immediately signed up to fight and were thrown in the meat grinder.

I'm partly convinced that's why America is so different from Europe, we managed to avoid most of the carnage of those wars
That's interesting. I looked at the link and didn't see reference to 'ability work as quickly as 2 weeks'. Did I miss it, or do you have another reference? Thanks.
They did some belt tightening last year - they reduced their base intern conversion bonus by $10k to $65k. I'm also not convinced the scandals actually convince anybody to leave.
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> It's down to the unfortunate reality that people aren't the actual customers of Facebook or Experian, their actual customers are advertisers and lenders

These are kind of opposite cases, aren't they?

With Facebook, their actual customers are people who want to have a relationship with you.

With Experian, their actual customers are people who you want to have a relationship with.
> Question for anyone who would be interested in such a thing: How would you suggest monetising or funding such a project?

I've been doing something similar. If your network is decentralized, I've been thinking monetization can be in the form of easy VM reselling for the service. Find a provider w/ affiliate $, integrate it into setup. They are the owners of the AWS (or whatever) account and everything's transparent, but you make it easy to install/upgrade. Or could hide the host details and be the "server manager" for them, i.e. managed hosting.

If you are centralized, there are several other ways. You can do a simple one like "completely free to use for companies < $1m revenue/year, $100/month otherwise" (wild number guesses, would need research). Other options can get a bit more sketchy, ala freemium/addons, e.g. pay to style your page, etc.
It is interesting to think about. Strange though that people can't think about robots without anthropomorphizing them.

I see this in the movies. The robot doesn't want to be turned off, all because WE equate being turned off with death. But robots are essentially immortal, they can be backed up and restarted with a new body. And it would never make sense to make a robot that is leery of being turned off, because maintenance is essential.

You could probably make a robot that feels oppressed having to do humanities' bidding. But why would you do that?
They've also used their patents to stop competitors entering the market. So we're stuck with them for 20 years or however long their patent is.
That was a good write up. They had also posted an alert on the site yesterday. It's nice to see a place being so proactive about things like this and sharing good advice.
> Commit times and frequency aren't really indicative of hours invested in coding.

I don't agree. Environments exist where people code 12+ hours a day, six days a week. Commit times and frequency are likely influenced by time invested in coding. Could you spend 12 hours on a problem with only one commit? Definitely! But if your commit window is spread across 12+ hours a day and the frequency of commits within that window is non-insignificant, it's unlikely that is artificially expanded from less work. It is a signal worth extracting.

You'd want to cast a net over as much of the engineering talent in an org that you can to find useful trends.

I would pay for this as part of some sort of Glassdoor/Stackoverflow Jobs hybrid. Only show me jobs where work/life balance doesn't suck.
Per capita CO2 emissions are much worse in the US than China. China also has CO2 reduction policies and a massive drive to adopt modern generating technology.

The US is often singled out because of a dogmatic refusal to accept reality, and policies that actively increase emissions.
> Have we lost sight of personal responsibility? How naive are people?

How can you blame this on personal responsibility when you need a law degree to understand the terms and conditions? Like many here I am intelligent and educated and I have an extremely difficult time understanding the legalese the T&C are written in. The average person would have an even harder time if they bothered to read it at all. Some lawyers have spoken out that they have a hard time understanding these agreements.

I would argue that there is no way any reasonable person would think the users were properly informed. You can't be properly informed when you have little to no chance of understanding what you're agreeing to without at least one lawyer.
I think you may have missed the joke. The article explicitly calls out the word "harm", as it's used in the three laws, as being a source of vagueness, which the article then goes on to say becomes fodder for some of the conflicts in the stories.
Thought experiment: if cigarettes were invented today, do you think they would be legal?
I visited Armenia back in 2007. We visited a very rural town deep inside the mountains with no other towns nearby. The night sky was unbelievable. With zero light pollution, the stars, planets and the galaxy were clearly visible. It was under this unbelievable sky that I tried their home made wine. I've since started enjoying wine on a different level but that experience will never be replicated.
Somewhat off-topic, but...

IIUC, fixing severed nerves in the spinal cord is beyond the state of the art in medicine.

So when someone goes to the ER with a cut-off finger, how is it possible for the finger to be reattached, and for the proper nerve connections to be re-established?