skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Arrogance has very little to do with thinking you know a lot, or disagreeing with others, and everything to do with failing to follow social protocol. If you let other people speak, pause long enough that they feel like you are giving their words a fair evaluation, and then don't use words that they must interpret as telling them they are wrong you will not be seen as arrogant. This is true even if you rarely or never agree with anyone.

- let people finish their statement: If you don't let someone finish and you interrupt, they will decide that you are just refusing to hear them out rather than disagreeing. It doesn't matter if you can prove mathematically with extensive sources and footnotes, most of the time they won't be able to accept that you understood their point and showed it to be flawed.

- pause long enough after they speak: Again, if you instantly explain why they are wrong, most of the time other people will not be able to handle this. They will decide you didn't actually consider what they said. It doesn't matter what is actually true, and if you somehow do convince them that you are right they will be doubly resistant since you are making them feel stupid on top of everything else. A huge benefit of this and the previous bullet is that you will often find that at first you misinterpreted what the person was saying, so you were about to disagree for no reason.

- don't force them to admit to themselves that they were wrong: if you let people 'save face' they can just get on board and agree with you. If you force them to grapple with being wrong they will be difficult and will hate your guts. It may seem silly, but replying 'I don't think that will work because ...' is going to be the source of turmoil, when saying 'Interesting. Previously we did something similar to that but we had a problem where ...' is going to win the other person over instantly most of the time. Later they will see that they were wrong, but you didn't rub their nose in it and force them to grapple with it in a social setting where they are going to have to feel shame.

Failure to do these things is just what people mean whenever they say someone is arrogant.
Refuse to write tests because they are "below you." I am finding out this is a cultural thing (national, not corporate).
>Iron is the most abundant element on Earth.

No, it's not. I'm pretty sure it's silicon. Iron is relatively rare (but not as rare as platinum or gold of course).

Iron is the most abundant element in the Earth, but not on it. The core is full of iron. But that doesn't help us at all, because we can't get to that. We can only access materials in the crust, and there isn't much iron there.
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That exists. Its currently in beta. I have had access to it for months. You should be able to ask them to turn it on for you.
You really really don't want to compare with the rest of the worlds universal coverage systems to the U.S.. Many places have way more significant wait times for treatment...

Canada: https://torontosun.com/2017/02/16/canada-has-worst-erreferra...

Ireland: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/new-record-of-more-th...

There's more, but lets get real. The U.S. system has it's problems, but at least I can get treatment. That's why it's a difficult subject and why we should be cautious on how to proceed. Perhaps run trials per state or something as well.
I love this, but I feel TypeScript would be very unhappy with such a thing.
For me the experience is the opposite from what yours is. Cities, homes, food, temperament in my experience change completely when you cross a border from Germany to France. There really is no parallel between unification of German states to EU integration. For example do you really feel that someone from Munich is culturally as similar to someone from Venice as to someone from Leipzig?
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One difference I’ve noted between Americans and Europeans (especially the British) is the attitude towards quality of care. Many more Americans expect the “best” care; it’s almost encoded in DNA, like a byproduct of their fiercely independent historical nature. By contrast, the British are more communal and expect the same care that the vast majority of their fellow citizens receive. It doesn’t seem to bother the British that a small % of wealthy people can purchase better care in a mirrored private insurance system. If the American health care system is restructured and the result is 70% universal medicare and 30% supplemental private insurance or fee for service (with better quality providers, expanded diagnostic services, and shorter wait times), is that a real leap forward or will there simply be a different set of political problems created?
This feels like something that is only remotely feasible for contractors or recent grads living with their parents. The interview process is enough of a logistical PITA for most of us. Extending it to a week is comically stupid. Besides, we already have one week trial periods in the USA. It's called at will employment. It would be nice to say take a month and try out 4 companies before making a move, but I can't see how that would ever work for your average senior dev with a job, kids, and a mortgage payment.
Do you guys audit the whole stack then?
The new store is really pretty close to at least one of the old ones. The risk is huge to a company like Apple so from a business POV it makes a ton of sense.
There's no feeling quite like going 'what the hell was the person who wrote this thinking??' and then doing a git blame and making a humbling discovery.
Mars isn't close; it takes months to get there. There's lots of asteroids that cross Earth's orbit. Also, Phobos is in Mars's gravity well.
any decent bot spoofs the UA string randomly to one of the top 10 most frequent UA strings. That's like a number 2 feature after the one the bot was built for.
It happens organically with Airtable. We do custom implementations of it with companies. Most get started by someone because its so easy to get up and going but then reach a point where they need some more expertise and bring us in.
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I assume they'd only combine them on "soft factors" (browser fingerprints, IPs etc) then?

Since the unique IDs between the different platforms would differ for the same user (as there's no way to coordinate without 3rd party cookies)
The article provided some good examples of times when code readability can be increased without a bulky switch statement. However, there are times when I find the switch statement most closely communicates the idea of what needs to occur to some developer in the future.
Not sure why people are claiming this as malicious. If Apple thought making life inconvenient for linux users was a good idea, this is about the least effective possible way to do that. And it's unclear why Apple would want to do that in the first place.

Seems far more likely that Apple was facing some sort of automated attacks on this particular subdomain (with linux UAs), and a beleaguered admin used this as a quick fix.

Or, even more probably, it's a misconfiguration.
That's why I suggested orbit, where the supply could be parceled out (or its true extent even kept secret) so as not to crash the market.
> Can't we all agree that ads should be readily identifiable as such?

By human users for sure. Scripts are a whole other question.
Unfortunately, anonymizing the data is not what's being demanded. People want to completely delete their data, which presents a harder problem from a modelling perspective.

Also, worth noting that FB has 2 primary users: you and advertisers. The second class of users is very interested in having your data. Unfortunately, FB seems to favor them bc they are the user who's paying them.
You mean identifiable to bots? Since they're already visually identifiable to humans, who don't see the invisible 'sponsored'.
Ask HN: Are There Other Ethical Ad Networks Like CodeFund?
CodeFund looks like it's typically for Publishers that run open-source projects. Since my site doesn't really fall in that category, I was wondering if there are other ethical ad networks like CodeFund out there.
In 2014, the Institute of Medicine released a thorough analysis on graduate medical education that argued there was no doctor shortage, and that we didn’t really need to invest more in new physicians.

The system isn’t undermanned, it said: It’s inefficient. We rely too heavily on physicians and not enough on midlevel practitioners, like physician assistants and nurse practitioners, especially because evidence supports they are just as effective in primary care settings. We don’t account for advances in technology, like telehealth and new drugs and devices that lessen the burden on physician visits to maintain health.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/08/upshot/a-doctor-shortage-...
I'm not sure it is that big of a deal, but I read elsewhere that the stand is capable of supporting engines with up to 150,000 pounds of thrust. This is significantly more than any engine currently flying. The GE90 used on the 777-300ER is rated up to 115,000 pounds.
I think their current statement is "this is dumb and we're ignoring it".
Yes there is. And it's obvious.
Yes, designed to expand in order to stop, not designed to expand in order to harm.

I do feel for the teacher; the situation is not ideal and I wouldn't want to have to shoot someone I'm supposed to take care of either.

I think it's good that this teacher sounds like someone who doesn't want to use his gun (not "trigger-happy"), I just hope in the unlikely situation where he would have to use it, that quality doesn't prevent him from stopping a threat before more harm is done.
What exactly does it mean to "maintain a Work Hard, Play Hard policy"? Besides being required verbiage on every company's 'Culture' and 'Career' webpages, of course. In the Seattle web startup community, it seems to mean Drink Hard, but I don't think that's what he means here.

Is it just an empty phrase that means nothing, so the speaker and listener can both nod and think they agree perfectly, when in fact they have no common conception of this idea at all?
Bush said he was "very wary" of passing a law.

https://owlcation.com/humanities/Dread-Scotts-What-is-the-Pr...
Isn't this basically a convoluted way to end up with a dictionary or command pattern?
Really interesting article, but not hacker news.
> In order to preserve the usefulness of those models and the hundreds of millions in R&D spent to develop them, you have to carefully understand exactly what products and algos will be affected by just deleting a single record.

Indeed, that sounds like a hard problem.

So the question becomes "how much of the hundreds of millions in R&D are being allocated to solve the record-deletion problem?". I'd like to see spending reports, new research publications from Facebook (e. g. retroactive record-deletion, attempts to build models that are robust to deletion, attempts to build k-anonymity into models from the start).

> I know there are more nuances here, but I think there are some challenges Facebook has in implementing this, and business wise it's a drain on resources that will hurt them.

I can give Facebook the benefit of the doubt and suppose that they're trying to figure out how to transition smoothly without destroying their models. But I'd also like to see a hard timeline when they promise to roll out user.delete.all.data() anyways (business value be damned).

The real test of whether a company really "takes your privacy seriously" is whether they ever reach a point where privacy becomes a priority, i. e. whether there are decisions to do the right thing even when it could be bad for the bottom line (under the current business model).
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If people can't afford paying, then it follows that they can't afford being advertised at in order to stimulate their consumption beyond what they actually need. If the answer to that is that people are of course in their right to ignore advertisements (as if that is possible), then by extension blocking them outright is morally defensible as well, and we are right back to where we are now.

Either that, or on-line advertising is not nearly as effective as advertisers think it is, and they are just subsidising the whole shebang while the Facebooks and Googles profit.

As for journalism: yes, that is tricky. Personally, I'm subscribed to one national quality newspaper (NRC in the Netherlands) as my main source of news and research journalism, and just today I've set up an annual subscription for €12 with the Guardian, which I visit occasionally as it is one of the few reliable British sources for news on the whole Brexit ordeal.

Ideally, I would pay a monthly flat fee that I can distribute at the end of each month to participating websites I've visited, but such a system would have to be fair to both the consumers and the publishing websites. If it just ends up a system with yet another FAANG-like Silicon Valley middleman that takes a 30% cut I'm not interested.
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Method dispatch is arguably a form of pattern matching: pattern matching on the type signature of the argument tuple. (With eql specializers, on the object/numeric identities of the arguments, not only types).
These companies, have systematically penetrated it, completely skewing it in their favor to monetize from us.

Whilst these overlords have undoubtedly helped develop the technological capabilities of the internet as we know it, the internet is no longer free and our human experience on it is manipulated and monetized.

An insidious Trojan horse into our lives and habits.

Fuck them and everyone who helps them.
No, I meant across different properties of different publishers. I assume that's still only possible with browser fingerprinting, IPs etc.

So blocking third-party cookies is a good start to avoid tracking across different publishers (which is the big no-no for me, the fact that a single publisher knows what i read of his is not such a big issue and not that different to what has always been done by just crawling the ht_access logs...)
Anyone with a background at Facebook definitely needs to be spoken with regarding their integrity. Obviously only a small subset of FB employees make the shitty decisions we see in the news, but it's very concerning to me that engineers still go to work there. There are at 2 or 3 other BigCos that pay comparably, and many others that pay a level down that don't require you to be complicit in unethical behavior of this scale.
> A Facebook page that I'm following paying money to reach me is an ad according to Facebook. To me, that's extortion.

How would you fix that? The only thing I can think of would be a chronological feed where everybody sees every post.
I have a pal who made a Unicorn. He got a nice condo out of it! His next one was a non-unicorn and he made vastly more when he sold it, as he had most of the equity.
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At our company we are planning to start machine learning implementation for time series data. What would be the recommendations for any good books to start with.
Interesting technique https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff%27s_device
Fun fact: There's an optimization technique for OO languages called polymorphic inline caching that boils down to... a switch statement that speeds up method dispatch by branching directly to a method implementation for one of a few common types. If the object is none of those types, it falls through to a more conventional method lookup.
Indirectly, yes - they did. All of this information can be deduced from the browser in Browserling that was referenced as working example to reproduce the error. There are many actionable data that can be deduced given what was provided to Apple.

While there are many others, the site below [0] could have been used from the Browserline instance in question to deduce header information which would have included the OS as you've requested. Someone in Apple Support could likely figure this out given that information and ability to reproduce.

[0] https://httpbin.org/#/Request_inspection/get_headers
If you are maintaining a JVM runtime for ARM or writing JNI stuff then it looks to me you are doing just that.

Otherwise you completely lost me there.
We could choose to cease to have preferences, limiting what there is to target.
Another compelling argument for the same position:

https://toddmotto.com/deprecating-the-switch-statement-for-o...
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> at least I can get treatment

I’m assuming that you realise the singular first person in that statement is very much that: singular.

> Let’s get real

The New York Times sees “real” as under a Rawlsian veil: they imagine being any citizen. You seemingly disagree with that approach.
Anyone have any good counter arguments to articles like this? That there is a use case that makes sense?

I’ve been trying to find one and can’t, but it hasn’t stopped major corporations like IBM, who I would expect to jump on the hype train, but even AWS is embracing it to a degree with their latest announcements.
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I was hoping for something like choosing where to get the funds from. Defense budget, taxes, etc.

At least tell me the estimated cost for the choices available...
Nice write-up. I have a very similar setup, only I didn't delve into the netflow montioring/traffic shaping because it seemed a bit overkill for my needs.

Have you given any thought about what you might do with respect to Shorewall, given the this news?
I've tried to suggest that there are difficulties with separating the person from a personal biographical essay in a way that there aren't in separating the author from an abstract art work.

I don't suppose you feel like engaging with my suggestion with something more than this blunt, unsupported rejection?

If you merely mean that when discussing such a piece we can remain generally calm and give room in the discussion for things other than the author's arrogance, then I agree.
It's a spectrum so you are on it pretty much by definition. It just depends on the degree. I also have a lot of autistic traits but I also have extrovert traits and I am also shy. We should stop labelling people on one dimension.
I hate the blockchain hype. I think most uses can be solved by a simple database hosted by a trusted authority. Yet, just reading the first two samples, I already disagree with them.

Re the 1st one: it's true only if the transporter doesn't risk anything if the sensor is tampered with. As soon as you introduce strong fines and/or consequences if a validating authority randomly checks your goods and discover some tampering, the system is a bit more likely to be trusted. But of course, in such a case, you might as well just host the temperature log with the validating authority (like it's done for Concrete, or in the Auto industry).

The second one is even more compelling: of course the trust chain stops when the trust chains stops ! But if every luxury Louis Vuitton handbag is tracked and you know precisely whether it's been sold or whether it's supposed to be sitting on a shop shelf somewhere, you have zero risk of double sell (or at least, within the same limits as a bitcoin double-spend).
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That opens the door to a genetic signature for man made and modified creatures in a not much far away future. Would be important to clear biological invasions or "tainted" species if you can check for it.
> If the public isn't as outraged as you expect them to be, that's because they don't think Facebook's data collection is a big deal, not because they're somehow unaware.

No, the public who's aware isn't outraged because they don't think there's anything they can do to stop this. Resignation is very different from thinking it's "[not] a big deal."
I just created my own chrome extension, and an html file for the new tab page:

https://github.com/codemac/config/tree/master/chrome

Currently, I have a cronjob that greps my todo files in org mode, and puts the currently scheduled task below a picture of General Sherman.
>>Many places have way more significant wait times for treatment...

Canadian here - yep, there are sometimes wait times, especially for specialists, especially if it's something that is unpleasant but not urgently life threatening. That sucks. I'd still take that over some percentage of the population just not having access to care, or having a huge number of medical bankruptcies.

As for the ER - it even says in the article you link, that's largely people who could have gone to their primary care physician. Those are the people waiting. If you go in with a stroke, you're not waiting. I've (luckily) never been to the ER for a life-threatening situation, but I have for injuries where I needed urgent care, and got excellent treatment - and yes, once I had to wait for the guy ahead of me who had a stroke. I'm ok with that.
So here's a different idea. I wish EU would legislate that all 3rd party ads in electronic media need a machine-readable tag constructed in a way that is trivially readable (e.g. <div class='ad'> instead of requiring training a ML model on rendered page to recognize; metadata or a red pixel in the corner on video streams, etc.), and denotes the exact area taken by the ad, or otherwise facilitate its removal. Coupled with GDPR, this would end ad-tracking bullshit by fiat (at least for Europe).

(By 3rd party ads I mean all ads that are advertising anything not directly sold or provided by the owner of the service showing that ad. That's to resolve the immediate objection of whether telling people about new features is an ad or not.)

Man can dream.

EDIT: But this man would also vote for the person pushing for such legislation.
I guess my issues involve having working nose and eyes for detecting the human shit on the sidewalk?
Not a big fan, I get a lot of applications from bootcamp graduates and some of them make it to the interview and none of them have passed the interview, so far. But I'm still open-minded about it. I think (and hope) the model will improve over time.
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What do you think can be improved in Android? Unlike iOS, Android is actually running in diverse hardware. All iOS devices are Arm, where as Android will run on x86. That alone makes it more of a hassle.
Yes that seems to be it! Thank you. Always good to not be alone when experiencing such problems.
C++ also has auto now.
I barely noticed it back in the day too. I had a friend who was into piracy quite a bit more who complained about getting the wrong movie or getting the wrong mp3s.

I don't know if I ran into that issue, but I wasn't really downloading a lot of mainstream stuff compared to him either.