skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think they interviewed mostly people new to the gaming industry who don’t know how to manage their time under pressure,

So everyone who has to work long hours is just incompetent or new, or new and incompetent, and should just do the same amount of work in less time, duh? That's not how these high-pressure workplaces function. Even if you are a significant contributor and you are technically allowed to opt out of overtime, that doesn't mean everyone won't resent you for it, and that management won't interpret as a 'lack of commitment' when promotion or reviews come around. As a corollary, the recent rise 'unlimited time off' policies have been widely criticized because they often inadvertently contribute to implicit pressures to take less time off than before, because of the resentment, hostility and jealously. I've seen some companies rolling out unlimited time off with mandatory minimums which seems healthier, but I'm unsure how successful it has been.

> they expect you to know what to do with little guidance

Even good engineers need guidance, and guidance and training are especially important when you're doubling and tripling your workforce.

> so it’s something they expect employees to take care of because it’s a unique place, maybe similar to how museum staff look after art work.

This is a super weird analogy and makes no sense to me.

> and you will get fired if you’re not competent and pulling your weight

Where does the article say that Epic shouldn't fire incompetent employees? No one is saying that.

> but that’s the industry they’re in, you can’t have a few people putting everyone else’s livelihood at risk

Your response to a toxic work culture is just 'It is what it is, deal with it'? Don't you think we should have discussions about the human impact and damage caused by these intractable competing interests? And there's almost certainly a financial and business cost, it's just not as obvious to measure.

> So it’s not like some sweat shop, it’s more complex than the article makes it sound.

The article covers both sides pretty thoroughly, there's a litany of quotes from Epic PR addressing the claims and recounting their efforts to resolve them. I understand WHY these pressures exist, and it's clear the Epic want to do everything they can to leverage their transient popularity. But that's not to say they shouldn't be criticized or they shouldn't do better.
That’s why I’m very happy with the prosecution of Carlos Ghosn in Japan. Yes, this maybe part of an international power game between the two car vendors executives but if there is charges against him he’s not clean either. In France he would had a fake trial like all influencing people have and be sparred from jail or any real consequences. In Japan he risks jail like everyone regardless of his status.
It's a vague memory that I remember reading somewhere in a news article I couldn't find. Maybe it's a good enough hint for someone to else to find the source?
Rehab- proper rehab with counselling and treatment- is expensive.

Offering work to help pay the cost makes it much more accessible, and there is definitely a theraputic effect to be had from manual labor (exercise) and a regular schedule.

As long as the people there were (a) there voluntarily, (b) could leave at will, and (c) knew what they were getting into, I dont see anything wrong with it.

Of course, if they were not actually getting treatment, or if the work was considered all of the "treatment" they would get, then it's an outright sham and should be sued on malpractice grounds.
I don't really have a good explanation other than we already have words like 'However' and 'But'. It also seems redundant, maybe just start typing your contradictory position without the need for a connecting phrase?

That being said, it may just be me who is annoyed by the phrase. I think it just gets used a lot and I can't help but notice for some reason. I think I've associated the phrase with strawman arguments and my hollow cringe is unfair judgement.
> More relevant ads and targeted offers of course

That just begs the question.
It's opt in. That's the angle. They're betting that advertisers will be willing to pay more to reach people who opt in to be reached.
I attended a bootcamp and I was very successful along with many others In my cohort.

I noticed that many of those who struggler to find jobs were younger.

While there are many factors, I felt that 1 big factor was those who had paid the extremely high fees with their own money really gave it their all to make it work.

I got the impression many of the young students had been paid for by wealthy parents and we're not fully engaged.
“Stapleton, a 12-year veteran of Google who most recently worked in YouTube’s marketing department, says she was told she would lose half of her reports and that a previously approved project was being killed.”

The cancellation of a previously approved project within Google is an absolutely normal and extremely frequent occurrence. It may very plausibly have nothing to do with retaliation against this particular employee. Very hard to say without direct knowledge of events.
I don't think that this kind of thing is the solution, but when I click on a link on HN, in a browser with no blockers installed, and I see this - https://ibb.co/jhDfC5k I can't help but believe the web is broken, and we need some sort of fix.
If it's that prevalent, maybe it's worthy of being talked about.
Is "migrating from Oracle" the Enterprise equivalent of nuclear fusion? We're always 20 years away from production nuclear fusion, Enterprises are always a few quarters away from migrating out of Oracle %list_your_appliance_here%?
> In my opinion, yes, if it leads most readers to misjudge some fundamental properties of the problem as a whole.

Which problem? The general statement of this problem is "models, trained on [somehow] misrepresentative data [or even technically representative data] can draw unintended conclusions that lead to harm". Specifically in this case, the harm was "the model was basically just trained to ignore all women applicants due to bad inference of conditional probabilities".

This is a common thing. Because our society draws lines and has bias, its fairly common for modelling failures to exist along those lines. Indeed, sometimes the failures are mostly harmless and immediately obvious, but often they aren't. And people building models should be made aware of those failure scenarios, and be especially aware of failure scenarios that affect underrepresented groups, because those groups are the most likely for the model to fail on if you aren't actively looking for them.

And this stuff is pervasive. Facial recognition tech is much worse at noticing the faces of darker skinned people [1]. Some of this is because the people building the common models (eigenfaces etc.) didn't use diverse skin tones, but some of it goes back further, white balance in film was tuned for lighter skin tones until the 90s[2]. Some of that has likely persisted into modern film and camera technology, unfortunately. People working with data need to understand their data. And that means understanding how bias infests their data.

> fundamental properties of the problem as a whole

You've yet to state the "whole problem" or the fundamental properties that people might misjudge. So I'm unclear what they are.

[1]: Arguably an advantage now.

[2]: https://petapixel.com/2015/09/19/heres-a-look-at-how-color-f...
> What established practices/precedent does the state have that "it could warrantlessly get cell phone location data to find anyone, anytime, at any place as long as it was less than six hours old"?

There's precedent allowing use of such data without a warrant where there is an immediate need, but probably no clear boundary in precedent: taking a broad interpretation of authority which clearly exists in some form until courts have drawn a clear demarcation is not at all unusual.

> That seems like precisely the information that should require a warrant, no?

No, I think the set of legitimate warrantless access to such data (the exigent circumstances the court refers to) would be a subset of the set of less-than-six-hour-old data, so the limitation the State appl d is in the right direction though still very much too broad; if it only allowed historical but not current data, then it would be precisely the information that should require a warrant rather than a far-too-broad line around legitimate warrantless access.
There's a very inexpensive treatment for many people with MetS -- weight loss: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2898932/
Yeah, could this be an example of the law of truly large numbers?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_truly_large_numbers
Or maybe we'll see the rise of people who go into the business of shopping for you...
If I need to advise someone how to come up with $200, he isn't capable of a 6 figure job. If I have to hold someone's hand to set up programming tools on a laptop, he isn't capable of a 6 figure programming job.
Two points. One is that you have to look at the trends over the years, not just quarterly ups and downs, and there Tesla is doing remarkably well.

But by far the more important point is that the EV revolution is finally taking off. Thanks to Tesla's example and plunging battery prices (down %35 in the last year alone), a whole bunch of EV's are going to come on the market in the next few years. And sticker price for the larger ones is predicted to match ICE's around 2023, and keep falling after that.

This is going to turn the auto industry upside down, and be a huge step in saving the environment. So don't focus so much on Tesla, look at the larger trends.
Have you considered increasing your exposure to sunlight? It should help with the lowering of blood pressure through an increase in nitric oxide levels among other things.

Linking an article to with a brief overview, but there are many studies that can be found online.

[1] https://www.outsideonline.com/2380751/sunscreen-sun-exposure...
Mark Zuckerberg debuts his own 'Tech and Society' podcast
Brave got to where it is because Brendan Eich is the face of it.

Everything I've seen about the browser seems tied to him, and generally his interactions with people seem testy and confrontational.

It's ironic that Google owns the browser and ad network. Brave wants to change that by creating a new browser and ad network. But until they can make brave less tied to him it'll be hard.
My Billion Dollar Mistake – Product Habits
Haskell (a compiled lanaguage) has done hot code reloading with ghci for a long time. Facebook actually deploys in production by reloading. https://simonmar.github.io/posts/2017-10-17-hotswapping-hask...
>I think the privacy crowd drawn to Brave couldn't care less what the (current) digital advertising industry wants.

Why would I use Brave over a modified Firefox install?
A common feature of our modern society is that bad actors will take illegal actions and rarely/never face repercussions. This emboldens them to further do more illegal things. Meanwhile, the courts take months or years to reach decisions (especially regarding technology) and in the passing time the practice becomes normalized [1] or already the damage is done. Perhaps in that time new technological paradigms create fuzzier muddier waters and the same crimes "can" continue "legally" while the courts decide, yet again.

It is a flaw in our current system. It is most obvious at the federal level, where the President and many Republicans routinely break laws in obvious manners, while the courts fight it out for years.

[1] Some of our laws are based on what is 'normal'. So after some years of a practice taking place clearly illegally, it can become to be seen as 'normal' by society and therefore legalized de facto. For example "cruel and unusual punishment" does not outlaw the death penalty because it already exists and is sufficiently common to not count as unusual.
Not just kids. I'm a past-middle-aged man, and it's not terribly hard to see me doing that sort of thing, if this stuff becomes difficult enough to avoid.
You are right but this shouldn’t be triggered by bad events.
I was surprised too, but then I remembered that we live in a bubble. Privacy is only a highly-emphasized topic in niche places like HN. Most people couldn't care less about this, despite knowing the high level rhetoric.
Even Google has its limits on how much it's willing to tolerate crybullies.
When I was first exposed to Medium (which was before I started coding), the coolaborative notes and highlights really felt like what I would want a literature github to be.

Just as a thought experiment, it's interesting that I think nothing of forking and maintaining a codebase for personal use, but I can't imagine participating in the writing of stories in the same way. Literature seems to maintain the primacy of the 'maintainer', but if I think about the evolution of storytelling generally, this doesn't seem to have always been the case
There are alternatives to just having a huge number of lines. Western music notation already has one: the grand staff has a gap in the middle. Simply put a gap with a single ledger line between each octave and you get a system that looks an awful lot like the current system. It's like spreading two octaves over a grand staff, but with a more modest gap in the middle.

So you can still have sight-reading. You also get fully arbitrary sight-transposition, which today is only possible for the very most elite musicians.
>Like, if someone treads dog poo into my house on their shoes, it doesn't really matter if they did it by mistake, or spent ages walking around town trying to find some dog poo to step in before coming to my house; the effect is that there is now dog poo on my carpet.

Have to disagree with this; I am much more forgiving of accidental harm than intentional harm. And speaking of dogs, pretty sure my dog understands this as well, since there's barking if he thinks I did something on purpose but accidentally stepping on him doesn't elicit the same response.
> how to passively measure feedback from users in realtime in offline locations.

How about: just don't do that?
According to the article, Eich will pay you in a "cryptocurrency" which cannot be exchanged for cash.

> Brave will give users a 70 percent cut of its advertising revenue, which Eich estimates could work out to about $5 a month. Brave will pay users with its own bitcoin-style "cryptocurrency” called Basic Attention Tokens or BAT, which has traded for as little as 12 cents and as much as 46 cents over the past 12 months, according to CoinMarketCap. Today, there’s no way for users who receive BAT for viewing ads to swap their digital currency for dollars, but Eich says Brave will partner with cryptocurrency exchanges to make that possible.
Facebook was evil because it was a "walled garden". And after Cambridge Analytica it's evil because "it wasn't a walled garden."
If there was real concern about cost (there isn't), then we would be working to minimize the number of incarcerated.
HTTP/3 – lowdown on the fast new UDP-based protocol
The reality is that if you care about your personal data you'll make that enclave, otherwise don't act surprise if you see your personal pictures of your children in semi-nude positions, as plenty of parents do it, exchanged on dark web pedophile sites and years later after arrests were made FBI knocking on your door asking you why you did those pictures for. At best that situation is nuisance and at worse you go to jail.
Also I said "something like TrueCrypt", not specifically TrueCrypt. In this situation TrueCrypt is the most recognizable brand name so stop barking at the wrong tree.
What cashiers are doing this? I haven't encountered them.
How is the battery life of Brave comapred to Chrome with an ad-blocker?

How about the more privacy-respecting Firefox with an ad-blocker?
HTTP: Brief History of HTTP
Yeah this idea of tracking time is blue collar thinking. Are CEOs doing this? Usually at companies where they are logging everyone’s time and scrutinising it, the CEO, exec team and perhaps managers are exempt from needing to log their time.

But as programmers (and related creative jobs like BA, UX, Graphics, Architect etc) I think it is also folly to track time to the minute. As long as you can track what has been delivered by the team over the last X weeks in production, you’ve got a fair idea if they are worth the money. Whether I took 2 or 4 hours to fix a bug, well if you trust me not to have popped to the beach and claimed it took 4 there is no business for a company to track it, and there is no need for me to personally track it either.

Instead you want yourself to be passionate about becoming great at your craft as a pragmatist. A good balance about knowing the ide way to do things, the quick and the slow way and how to choose wisely. These are the sorts of people you want to employ.

A personal standard is I won’t take a job where they track my time. And I don’t track my own time for work or side projects.
You could say the same about Apple and Steve Jobs. Please post legitimate criticisms for Brave/BAT. Your comment reads like a hit piece.
I really, REALLY like these 3 "levels". They map to programming language perfectly (as we'd expect), syntax is encoding, semantics is the logic we think we're going to get (hypothesis, remember it's computer "science"), and the effectiveness is what actually happens. We love computers because they almost always do what we want them to do, but people like to forget that nothing is perfect.

All communication, regardless of with whom or what, is lossy.
I believe Tesla doesn’t count the cash from a car sale until it is in the customers’ hands.[0] I remember reading that there were a lot of cars mid-shipment to the EU at the end of that quarter.

[0] I believe other auto manufacturers count the cash earlier in the delivery process, like when sold to a dealer, correct?
Even worse is the dissonance that comes when you consider that the author is treating this like a celebration of pop-culture that he loves, while in-universe this is the result of incredibly poor and culturally oppressed people desperately memorizing a dead guy's favorite stuff to try and get all the wealth he stumbled into and then hoarded until his death.
Let's hope it's not uranium-ore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinkolobwe
Eh, a capitalist system is going to reflect the moral framework of the participants. The participant here is the stock market, and its moral framework is based on economic growth and profit for shareholders. In that regard this was a good outcome and, as a result, is rewarded.
Congratulations on your progress!

Interested why you decided against metformin. Lots of people without DM or Metabolic syndrome are taking it for its apparent life extension effects (mostly unproven this far in humans). For diabetes, there's pretty solid evidence.

I work in this space tangentially and I had not heard of berberine before. What are you hoping to achieve with this supplement?
Facebook earned about $172 billion since 2013. Do you think facebook would have earned $167 billion while behaving legally?

What about ethically?

How much do you think Facebook would have earned if it acted responsibly?

Once you add punitive damages, I don't understand how you could possibly think $5 billion is anything less than an order of magnitude off.
I cared a lot about privacy from my younger teen years 20 years ago while non of my friends did. If you dont understand anything about the data its all noise to you.
Yeah, it turns out that, for tons of product categories, the value is in controlling the customer relationship, not in merely offering goods for sale. Who woulda thought?

The way you get around this, by the way, is by doing the hard work of establishing a brand that customers are willing to pay for. Even then, a certain segment of the market is going to go for low-price. Nothing you can do about that.
No. Maybe if it was a reddit post.
So, how do you, for example, rule out “some C causes both A and B“, if you may not even know of the existence of C?

More importantly, the only way to really show causation is by positing a mechanism.
Just an FYI to people trying to view this article, the usual tricks like facebook outlinking, using outline.com and setting google as a referrer didn't work to circumvent the paywall. But I did manage to view the article by changing my user-agent to Safari - iOS. Dunno why it works but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

EDIT: I take it back. This briefly worked, but doesn't anymore. I have no idea what changed. Sorry peeps.
the way the auth works is to send an email to the gouv.fr address to get the user to click a verification link. this should be fairly trustworthy (ignoring the bug here where verification mail got sent to the attacker’s address :|)
I know your joking, but I wish people would just stop beating this dead horse.
I will assert the opposite, based on decades of living in both major metros and backwater towns. Your biased comment just drives the point home.
>The web desperately needs a new financial model

I don’t agree that the web needs any financial model at all. Content creators want a financial model and advertisers wants to continue to be in business, but neither of those desires indicates a “need” for a single financial model for the web.
Adoption is a lot of work, money, time and vetting, especially if you don't want a child with physical issues, to look like the parents or to go international.

Fertility treatments can be paid by health insurance and there is no 'parent vetting' process to delay things. Often fertility issues are one sided, so at least the children will be half of the couple.
> Screens instead of the glass doors sounds quite interesting.

I have to say, I hate this idea almost as much as the cameras.
It's faster, more secure, and uses less battery among other things.

You can read a lot more detail within the research section of their site [1].

My previous browser setup was Firefox Dev Edition with uBlock origin, but Brave is just a better browser all-round now so I've completely switched.

I particularly like where the sync-chain stuff is going [2].

[1] https://brave.com/research

[2] https://github.com/brave/sync
Training worm brains to recognize digits
AMD EPYC-Powered EC2 Instances – T3a
JavaScript is very safe. You probably have it enabled in your web browser. Meaning a overflow/out of bounds could give any website control of your PC. In this regard JavaScript is very strongly typed. It's also relative fast, fast to write, and easy to understand. It has a relative small memory footprint, and the payload (JS text file) is small compared to for example a statically linked binary. So if you are willing to give up some performance in order to write safe and easily maintainable code fast, then JavaScript is good, if performance is priority you are better off with a systems language. If you are targeting tiny 1$ CPU's you still need to write in assembly (or maybe C). which however doesn't make sense for a satellite that you only make 1-2 copies of, besides reducing weight.
Does this include the FBI/Fusion centers?
I'm not confident from this comment that we're using the same definition of "enclave", and, to be clear, I'm using the one that applies to this actual article.

Your comment was also extraordinarily creepy in a way totally uncalled for on this thread.
> Stone building were replaced by mud huts, and I don't know about you, but not having running water in your town, or paved roads to the next town or port seem like huge drawbacks to life quality.

I read somewhere that skeletal remains show people got taller after the end of the Roman empire. And then started getting shorter through the Renaissance right up till the agricultural revolution in the early 20th century.
The expected value with your numbers is $580. You are only pricing the case of the $700 repair, not the 30% chance you get a fully functional machine.
A quick duckduckgo for those unaware:

"Arbeit macht frei" is a German phrase meaning "work sets you free". The slogan is known for appearing on the entrance of Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps.
Does that work on mobile (only place I'm using Brave)?