skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Google is following the local laws, like they try to do everywhere.

If only that was true. They routinely fight against government rulings in democratic countries because they can. For example, fines from European Union. They don't simply rollover and pay the fines rather exhaust all measures to try and avoid it.

All the while they will rollover in China because that might hurt their chances of getting into a rather lucrative market.
The point here is to evoke comparison with 1930s Germany, which expanded into neighboring territory and systematically imprisioned minorities. Hopefully China changes direction before it becomes 1940s Germany
"ウランは売らん (uran wa uran)
Translation:
I never sell uranium.
Explanation:
ウラン (uran) means uranium, and the second 売らん (uran) means "never sell"."

While in the West we have Uranus puns.
Agree that it's silly to write off potential gains, but it's also important to recognize that consumer costs of healthcare aren't driven by supply costs. It may be easy for administrative and insurance layers to claim the surplus created by AI.

This is an important factor in how we choose to build products out of AI advances. If your product replaces a part of a service chain that is not either right next to the transaction or in a competitive part of the supply chain, it might only help incumbents aggregate more power and charge more rent. If you can deploy in a way that improves the competitive landscape, you not only distribute gains more but probably keep more leverage as a solution.

This is harder for AI than many technology areas because incumbents tend to have more data and regulatory protection on that data. Health care might be the boss level for that problem.
If you haven't been able to invest the time to do database maintenance tasks in a safe way, at the very least enforce a 4-eyes principle and write up a checklist / script before hacking away in the production database.

I mean I get it, I've made mistakes like this as well knowing I shouldn't have (we had test and prod running on the same server, about 40K people received a test push notification). But the bigger your product gets, the less you can afford to risk losing data.
Don’t forget that the Chinese character for harmony also represents “Japan”
Whataboutism is “X isn’t bad because Y is worse/also bad”.

Parent was saying “X will probably be bad because similar Y was bad in the same dimension (here, overpromising)”.

Maybe not a solid argument, but it isn’t whataboutism.

Edit: Never mind, it looks like I misread the parent's point, and he was saying that it's no big deal to promise something without being sure you can deliver because the Big Three did it with pensions.
You want leverage more than you want technique. Not leverage in the sense that you're going to be cutthroat. You just want to you know what you're worth. If you make 100k, and some other company is willing to offer you 130k, then you can prove you're worth at least that.

The request for a raise isn't a fight: your employment is an agreement. You believe you're worth a certain amount, and some employer has to agree with you. Whatever number you both agree on is your paycheck. If you don't have leverage in the form of proof that you're worth more, it might be too easy to get caught up in emotion. This advice depends on what sort of person you are. I'm pretty shy too, and I don't like asking for things like raises. The point of getting another offers is to help depersonalize things. "Hello sir, I have another offer for this much, but I'm very happy at this company. I can't ignore what's best for me and my family, but I wanted to check if there was something we could do to keep me here."

That approach won't be best for everyone in every situation, but the point (as other posters have noted) is to depersonalize it to the extent that it's just about the money. If your current employer is affronted, you can be prepared to really change jobs. This might mean really waiting to ask until you've gone through an interview, etc.
A lot of humans hate other humans. Training the robots with the same biases as those humans persists the hate and gives it a veneer of objectivity and science. Interpretability of machine learning algorithms is key, otherwise you just have a black box that made some decision for reasons, and then it's hard to demonstrate the bias.
Yes. Once a user goes through the Dropin UI (which involves signing up to their PayPal account), you get a "payment method nonce" which is then used as a parameter when creating a subscription.
It's not worse, but none of them pay anywhere near market wages, which offends some people. I have mixed feelings about all prison labor. I'd prefer we paid a more reasonable wage, but it's nowhere near the top of my list of things I'd change if I were to wake up king one day.
So these kinds of posts keep showing up.

How are interviews for not-software-engineers conducted? ie. how do you interview for a business analyst role, or a sales and marketing role? I have to assume that those roles suffer from the same sorts of issues a SE job does -- that someone can talk a good game but not be able to perform in the role.
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Incidents such as these are rarely a people failure and nearly always a process failure. People will always make mistakes — perhaps seniors will make fewer mistakes than juniors, but no-one makes no mistakes.
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Yes but in this case, virtually everyone agrees with the precise dictionary definition of insurance and uses it in daily conversation all the time. Very few would agree with you that health insurance without underwriting should not be called insurance. Political discourse, everyday conversation, and the law itself still call it insurance.

(And while I don't think you meant the comparison this literally, I'll point out that health insurance companies do cover their costs. In fact, they're generally quite profitable.)
Reddit discussion here: https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/b826h5/created_chess...
hmm... interesting, but why?
I do wonder if the Anasazi didn't have some form of written communication. It hardly makes sense that they could run a large enterprise without writing; and how did they manage to communicate and coordinate everything without it?

Just dealing with trade over a long distance alone, would itself seem to indicate that they developed some form of accounting.
> Also, why having dictionaries at all?

Exactly the opposite of why you think we have them, apparently. In English-speaking countries, dictionaries document existing usage, they don’t try to influence it. No modern dictionary has any opinion on what usage is “correct”, and you can find a lot of extremely non-standard things in the most prestigious dictionaries.
Yep, totally reasonable and a good thing to do. Even if you haven't signed all the confidentiality stuff yet most employers can send you relevant articles, books or point you towards some reading and research that might help. I'd even specifically ask, especially if you are unfamiliar or new to the specific industry vertical, what might be some good resources you can read about to learn more specifics on the industry and client problems they are solving. This way you have some understanding of the business itself which is powerful information to have as your questions will be better aligned when you are there.
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Pompei?
The US system is too soft? Wow, that's not something I hear very often. The US has one of the most regressive, punitive, non-effective prison systems in the western world.
... and a requirements tracker linked to the code.
It's not an either-or thing, where if you allow people to accumulate productive resources, you inevitably get capitalism, and if you don't, you inevitably get socialism.

This is tremendously simplified, but I would say that if you allow people to accumulate productive resources and your economic policies prioritize market efficiency above all else, then you're likely to end up with laissez-faire capitalism.

However, if you have economic policies in place that prioritize widespread ownership (for instance, by incentivizing small-business ownership or cooperatives), that might lead to some short-term market inefficiencies but may promote beneficial long-term effects. For instance, it might help them compete against larger corporations whose only advantage is economies of scale, but which wipe out otherwise healthy small businesses and then enjoy near-monopoly status.
And when I'm cooking, I use French terms to describe what I want. It just makes sense this way because the terms are just more specific than if they were translated, i.e., brunoise, mirepoix, chiffonade, etc.
I didn't even know about CopperheadOS before this post.

I'm not poking at it with a stick, I'm asking questions as an outsider just learning about it.
How would CI help in this case? It isn't even software bug, it's a process issue - they had old code running on one of out of 8 servers. The monitoring was triggered, but no action was taken.
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It seems like it was only in Commodore PET Basic. It would print `MICROSOFT!`

https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/Microsoft#Easter_Egg_.28Micros...
I used it anyway. Sue me.
>And both of these parties have skin in the game.

I think you need to avoid using conspiracy theories. It's a rating system, not a secret government project.

>There have been multiple accounts over the years from business owners detailing the nature of their phone calls with Yelp.

You and I have very very different standards on what constitutes evidence on any subject matter. It's simply not rational to take people are their word when they're so emotionally invested in this subject matter, or what's more likely is they're just being scammed. Small business owners tend to not be the brightest bunch of people. And there is a sizable population of current and former engineers all saying Yelp does not do these things. There has never been evidence of anything the actions people accuse Yelp of taking. It's either scammers or rather, as I've come to see, business owners just being salty they get negative reviews.

Based on how you're thinking about this, you'd think the IRS and the scammers who call people over the phone pretending to be the IRS are one in the same. That's how insane you're being.

>Until their algorithm for rating is open sourced

You seem to be under the impression this would mean anything, but it's an opinion born out of a dearth of knowledge on technical systems and security in general. The code being published isn't necessarily the code being run.

>It is indicative of poor research,

I think you need to really have a big think about what opinions and solutions you think are worth considering.

>victim blaming

What? There are victims here?

>vague goalpost

Now you're just throwing words around.
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The Romans had a history of distrusting kings, for good reason. It's worth noting that the latter kings before the Republic were Etruscan, foreigners, ruling over the Roman people.

Given the reaction of the people after Caesar's assassination, it was not a popular move by the Senate, regardless of the distrust the people had toward kingship in general. I understand the point you're making but personally find it to be a bit of a stretch.
I used to avoid eating meat for ethical reasons for a period of about 12 years. I compensated by eating lots of carbs, and gained about 20Kg. After that I decided to lose weight using protein based diet and now I am much better, close to my ideal weight.

I'd say avoiding meat could have some health risks.
Because a very noisy section in the back insists that there's no cliff. It's only the few in the front rows that see the cliff, the rest are too busy with their spitballs.
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I grew up in a rural area and now live in one of the most densely populated neighbourhoods of the most densely populated cities in earth. I strongly prefer the latter even though I still love visiting nature for relaxation. You know what runs the countryside? All the people who built houses there.
That last anecdote gave us the verb baragouiner (which means speaking unintelligibly) that came from Bara and Gwinn which respectively means bread and wine.

The Bretons, unable to speak French, were only communicating in their own language and sometimes thought as being German. Terrible combo on the Eastern Front
Not sure what's trivial about China putting millions of Muslims into "re-education" camps. Should we wait until they start killing them en masse to say something?
Even though bad faith criticism and complaints can be useful, I find there is a still an insurmountable problem sometimes: it can be too time- and energy-consuming to handle the sheer quantity and/or intensity.

Sometimes, especially at "political moments" (like elections in a project I was involved in recently - and I wasn't even a candidate), it can feel like being overwhelmed by a tidal wave.

If I only have 1 spare hour per day for a project, there is neither time nor emotional energy to handle emails that are so full of demanding questions that it would take 3 hours to process carefully and reply carefully. And if you don't reply carefully, they send you more, writing longer and getting more obsessive (and sometimes personal) as if they sense you'll engage them in a long conversation, so being careful in the first place is a net win.

Even if it only took 1 hour, that's still used up all the time I was going to use on other productive things, the "real work".

I am in awe of maintainers who seem to reply to an onslaught of demanding questioners, and somehow satisfy them.

For me, these are relevant:

"Assholes are Killing Your Project" (Donnie Berkholz)
https://www.slideshare.net/dberkholz/assholes-are-killing-yo...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZSli7QW4rg
Nevertheless, it's probably true. It's wishful thinking to hope that morality can be put on any firmer ground than "what humans intuitively feel, as a consequence of millions of years of ultimately self-centred evolution". The moment your more-perfect moral framework disagrees with intuition, it will be discarded.
That's a nice idea! Auto-selection of the login button (like password managers auto-fill fields) is also an idea that has been suggested.
It's worse.

If you have insurance, the price tag will be X, and they will pay for some part (most?) of it.

If you don't have insurance, the price tag can easily be 100X and it's your responsibility.

If you have insurance, but you happened to pick up that can of pepsi from the left aisle (out of network) instead of the right aisle (in network), they won't cover it, and you're stuck with the 100X price. You won't know that before you buy the can of pepsi, of course.

If you try to ask your insurance if they cover the specific can of pepsi from the left aisle, they may or may not tell you. They may or may not give you the right answer, and if they tell you it's covered but then refuse to cover it, it's your problem (and again, the price will be 100X).
But doesn’t this directly follow the latin computare?
You and I don't have the same level of cooking, I guess; I've never used any of those terms.
Sounds like you're pulling stuff from out of your ass, the truth here is corrective vs punitive, corrective leads to a lot less recidivism, unlike punitive. All you have to look at is recidivism rates in the US vs northern European countries that have corrective prison systems in place. Norway has a 20% recidivism rate compared to the US's 67.8% withing 3 years, and 76.6% within 5 years.
I totally agree, if feasible those steps should be done!

I was just trying to explain that many business like the one I'm at don't do business in tech (mine sells wholesale clothing), with 6 people in the tech dep, so understandably there's certain limitations on how far best practices can go. While I would usually consider it a mistake, if you thought you were just making a quick, what should be read only query, and it happens to hit some random edgecase-bug and crash a db... Edit, continuing - Sure you should have tested that on the test DB first, but I'd be kinda understanding of how that happened.

Depends on the business too, if you're a startup-tech company then yea, get your -stuff- together! It's just a lot of business only need their website and some order management, their focus isn't on the tech side of things.
In China, the rush to riches sees a region turned to ruins
Maybe I was using the wrong terminology, but when I said "CI" I meant that to include automated, atomic deployments.

In the last 16 years I've worked in software the last 10 or so of that has not included manually copying files to production
Considering that housing and food is "free", the Finnish prisoner pay of around 5 € per hour is actually quite close to market wage, if not even above...

(There's no legal minimum wage in the country, though collective agreements have legally binding minimum wage clauses in branches of business where they are applicable.)
It's only good if it goes naturally. You know how it happens - somebody occasionally swears and in a minute everybody in the room is swearing, even baby doll - alike girls. When forced swearing brings more emotional strain that it resolves.
Yes! I think that’s the right way to measure whether you’ve solved self-driving cars: if it has similar (possibly worse) failure rates to humans in each environment where humans are expected to operate.

Example: say an SDC never had collisions except when a cop is directing traffic, and in that case it floors it full speed to the cop. I would not consider that to have solved self driving cars, even though dealing with a cop directing traffic is so rare that its accident rate is lower.
Suffering economically will likely lead to far more suffering for various Chinese people, and the end result has a good chance of being a civil war. Is this worth preventing their influence from growing? Who benefits from it?
The major, implemented, commercial use cases for AI have so far been anti-human:

- Youtube's deep learning recommendation engine. Thanks to Guillaume Chaslot for publicly stating what I suspected was going on at Google https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/19/technology/youtube-conspi...

- Google, Facebook, etc use of machine learning for advertising optimization.

- Presumable widespread use of facial recognition cameras in China (an area I don't know a lot about.)

How are we supposed to expect the leaders in AI to perform ethically in the future, or today, when their first foray in to machine learning commercialization has been sloppy and ethics-free?
> it does allow you to compile to C

no, there is not any fully featured or official way to do that at the moment.
I'm very unconvinced the term is inappropriate here. China appears to be engaged in multiple "ethnic cleansings" and has been for a while.

I think a part of the reason why this may be making a bit more news lately is that while, broadly speaking, nobody really cares what happens to the people "over there" (for any value of "over there"), as China is becoming more powerful, the concern that "maybe we'll be next" is becoming a bit more pressing for more people. Allowing these actions to go unopposed is becoming more dangerous for people around China.
Not just inaccurate, but heavily misleading as well.

"Older version", for example, is only true because they pushed a new version after getting caught that stripped out the nasty code.
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That's a stereotyped characterization of why people go to prison that HN should be wise enough not to propagate.
Seems to be letting "us" off a little lightly. At least in the US the passengers (or I guess the passengers sitting in half of the bus seats) voted for the bus driver who said the problem was all a hoax.
I found it interesting, while watching Historia Civilis, that Julius Caesar was not the first powerful general of his time to float the idea of becoming the King. Pompey, seemed to be Caesar's role model, and had a very similar trajectory as a great general amassing power and love of the people, and trying to assume a role of king. Apparently Caesar was more successful in the endeavor.

I'd never heard this before, and someone please correct me if I misinterpreted anything. I don't have any references to point to. But I got the impression that there were several others before Caesar, but he was just a beast when it came to strategy.

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You haven’t explained what’s actually wrong with their argument.

Language is a human cultural phenomenon, it’s not math or programming. Who are you to say whether it’s right or wrong?

There is a certain variety of English that a certain social class of people have decided is “standard”, but why does that make it objectively correct?
First time I've seen JSON for Modern C++ https://nlohmann.github.io/json/ Anyone have an use likes/dislikes?
Or, rather:

PIC A(2)X(integer01)
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> and it receives access to something very much like a file, but the app isn't even permitted to know whether that's a file on the local device or an on-demand download/upload by another app

... and which is also completely unsuitable for content that implicitly depends on multiple files, e.g. locally stored HTML files: For the case where an app is launched because you wanted to view a particular file, you'll only get access to that "something very much like a file" for that exact file only, but you (respectively your browser) cannot access any other associated files that might be required (images, style sheets, scripts and whatnot) that way, and neither would navigation among separate files stored locally work.
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Thanks for the recommendation, this sounds very interesting.
This is a ridiculous comparison. China is not expanding and does not systematically imprison minorities (and as you know the holocaust is in another league altogether).

The point of my previous comment is also to avoid such comparisons that are unhelpful, to say the least. Don't overuse those terms (holocaust, nazi, etc)
>Or you could compile anecdotes into actual data,

So we should believe the IRS does actually call people and ask for their information? Because if you think listening to these types of posts are the equivalent of massaging anecdotes into actual "data", that's the conclusion you're going to come to on either subject matter.

Or we could realize the fundamental ego-stroking absurdities of these posts, take into account there's no evidence, take into account that no employees former or current say that Yelp is involved with nefarious business practices, and take into account the business' own statements on this matter, and come to the very rational conclusion that these posts aren't based on any actual actions taken by Yelp.
They most likely used quipu for this I think.
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> Knight did not design these types of messages to be system alerts, and Knight personnel generally did not review them when they were received

So they received these 90mins before they were executed, and as it so happens in many organizations, automated emails fly back and forth without anyone paying attention.

Also.. running a new trading code, and NOT have someone looking at it LIVE on the kick-off, that is simply irresponsible and reckless.
I am just amazed, provided I am reading this right, that anyone can simply with a bit of code overwrite any user password on the site.

you would think there would different levels of user accounts and perhaps two level authentication for any change regardless of how it is invoked