skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>did you compare the non-hire (full time) rates of interns vs fire rates of non-interns?

Not sure I understand the question. IIRC, the way data was setup there was no way to tell why an intern stopped working for the company, because for all interns "reason code" for separation was the same.
I am not a lawyer but intent appears to play a big role. A company that is negligent or incompetent will always face a lesser repercussion than one who acts deliberately.

Now of course this is not to exonerate Equifax whose entire premise rests on safeguarding sensitive information. From the consumer side, the 2 incidents are equally bad.
Not going to happen. As devs we forget that PayPal is THE fastest and most safe way to pay online from a customer's POV. The login is a click or two. You never have to distribute your credit card details.
What? FB's value naturally changes by more that 1% on quite a lot of days each year, without this fine.

Put it another way: if you took all of the daily market cap changes of FB's stock, but added -1% to one of them, could you pick out which one it was?
Doesn't seem great that fines are determined based on how hot/not some firm is politically. I'm pretty sure someone can make a list of 100 companies that deserve more fines than Facebook.
Only $5B? Is that what our privacy is worth worldwide?
I'm curious what else you think is missing in a vegan/vegetarian diet, because calcium is not one of them, and even "omnivores" are recommended to supplement B12 - it's produced by soil bacteria that we would in the past get from fresh vegetables, and that's how animals should get it, too, but even now meat animals are given B12 supplements.
Maybe in their privacy policy
Since we started replying to these points on the Github thread at https://github.com/dotnet/spark/issues/45, I am suggesting to continue the discussion there. As mentioned there, we want to be transparent with the benchmark code and systems we use. We are currently working on arrow support to compare fairly.
That's not only on HN, it's everywhere and should be quite expected as a fact of life.

That's why companies are usually careful about damaging their reputations (just like humans): earning points is much harder.

After customers have written your company off, it'll take much more resources to bring them back.
There's a lot of confusion around data lakes. One source of confusion is that "data lake" versus "data warehouse" is often presented as a choice, where you can have either:

1. A data lake, where all data is stored in its native format (CSV, JSON, ...), in an object store (S3, GCS, ...), with the schema defined on read (Hive, Presto, ...).

2. A data warehouse, where all the data is organized in a highly structured tables (star schema) in a commercial database (Snowflake, Redshift, ...).

This is a false choice! Modern data warehouses, particularly Snowflake and BigQuery, are fully capable of storing semi-structured data.

Furthermore, you do not need to curate your data into a star schema before loading it. The ideal way to set up a modern data warehouse is to establish a "staging" schema that matches the source, and then transform that data into a star schema or data marts using SQL. In this scenario, your "data lake" and "data warehouse" are just two different schemas within the same database.

There are still some scenarios where it makes sense to build a data lake in addition to a data warehouse, primarily future-proofing. I wrote a blog post where I tried to outline these scenarios: https://fivetran.com/blog/when-to-adopt-a-data-lake
Yea, and it might be that this slap on the wrists prevents any real punishment from ever being dealt out - that's what pisses me off, whenever the government goes into a non-prosecution agreement or a fine without admittance of wrong doing... it's actually lowering the potential liabilities outstanding of the company unjustly.
Quite to the contrary, the limitations of functional languages are intended to make code easier to reason about for humans. Making small programs is one thing, but the combinatorial explosion in potential states as you approach large programs and systems of programs make it difficult to near impossible for humans to reason about software. You can only keep so much in your head at any given time.
I use this code (well, the equivalent in astropy) to point a camera at the sun constantly (sunspot movies).
This is why we need GDPR in the US. Make the fine like 5% of global annual profit (not sales). Something that will hurt and make them actually think it's not worth it and actively avoid it rather than just the cost of doing business and a snicker as they walk away.
Same, I recently moved an ML pipeline from PySpark to pure Python because of the debug-ability issue. The data science team, who managed the project, were experts in Python but relatively weak in Scala/Java. There were many issues were an improper data type may blow up pickling in the Java side and return absolutely cryptic errors. It was also difficult to do any sort of integration test and profiling on the code - the start of moving off of Spark originally started as a way to do integration testing and profiling.
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Of the studies noted in my first link, two were funded by charitable nonprofits, three were funded by government agencies, and none were funded by the airline industry.
That’s awesome! I’m inclined to agree with you, that our solution’s suboptimal. We’re using btree_gist, plpgsql (fun), and hstore as extensions, if that tidbit is interesting to you.

Another totally valid complaint of our implementation is that it makes Schema migrations a major pain. I wasn’t around when we made our extension, but if I had been, I probably would have recommended using yours :). I suspect that we did it our way because it was some combination of (1) the most straightforward to migrate our existing data towards (2) it was the easiest to hack together.

Anyways, thank you for sharing your project! I’m excited to use it at home, and maybe in the future at work!
I want to implement a p2p/uncensorable reddit like with orbitdb https://github.com/orbitdb/orbit-db.
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> 3) Storing said passwords and others in plaintext. [2]

in logs.
So we can build a modal version with Elements that supports all features?

But Stripe removed the modal option from Checkout because features?
There’s a place for estimates with reasoning. My intention was not to give the exact answer, which is often no that’s needed, but to help (in some small way) someone who doesn’t know how to get there build the reasoning that might get them enough of an answer.
Let's hope this fine doesn't cover those actions and prevent any real justice from being meted out.
Got you. That's very cool.
You've mostly been posting unsubstantive or off-topic comments. Could you please review the guidelines? We ban accounts that won't use the site as intended.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Let's not act like this sort of cavalier attitude towards user data has changed since the very beginning.

> Zuck: People just submitted it.

> Zuck: I don't know why.

> Zuck: They "trust me"

> Zuck: Dumb fucks
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I'm ashamed to say that up until now, when I saw Facebook (or similar) acting evil I thought about the quote, "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity".

Well, fuck that and fuck me, those people are not idiots, they're criminals.
For small companies remote work allows for a much larger candidate pool. Compared to looking only at local hires it allows you to offer competitive compensation, and hire people with more experience. To have an effective team with remote work requires organizational level changes compared to a local only team
Writing that is intentionally eloquent, clever, intricate, etc. isn't inherently bad and most certainly need not adhere to the gospel of some arbitrary Venture Capitalist in silicon valley.

If your goal is to communicate your company or product; sure, keep it simple. But that's not everyone's goals, irrespective of culture or time period.
Yes, we remember.

And?
> You don't keep your shoes in 2 different piles for lefts and rights; you pair them together.

My toddler actually came up with that very process. Box of left shoes and box of right shoes. It works pretty well for her.
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What crimes would they be jailed for?
Well, yeah, which just goes to show that you're interpreting a work written by a French alchemist in 1929 in an American cultural context where everything is some kind of sales pitch - which is why you're getting the wrong end of the stick.
I'm incredibly curious in hearing your rationalization for accusing me of this 'gatekeeping' ???
yep sums up why this game sucks and why the gaming press sucks
Yeah. Cost of doing business.
If Facebook admits wrongdoing they will lose every lawsuit brought against them going forward, which means they will contest the charges instead of settling. The FTC doesn’t want that, because an actual court case means they might lose, which would be bad for the careers of everyone involved. They’d rather just take the guaranteed W by offering FB a palatable settlement.
Yeah, a good lawsuit at the wrong time will do that to you.

For those who don't know what I am talking about, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_Laboratories,_Inc..... For what this has to do with Linux adoption, read http://www.softpanorama.org/People/Torvalds/Finland_period/a... about how the uncertainty around all of the BSD distributions lead to people jumping onto the Linux bandwagon. This got Linux ahead and it never looked back.
If you're a small business - I get it, it's good to whitelist whatever information you're logging explicitly, but for smaller teams a hard to diagnose issue might lead the team to "log everything so we can sort it out later". Facebook is Facebook, whether this decision was the product of the corporation as a whole, a small dev team, or a highly paid consultant/third party, Facebook is a big enough company that they don't have the "I didn't realize..." excuse anymore.
Does the US have long-term strategic stockpiles of meat?
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1 month of pay is a lot more than a speeding ticket.
They violated a 2011 settlement with the FTC:

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2011/11/faceb...
Ok. Then all those applications will have to wait!
It sounds like Caddy 2 will be open core. I'm not a fan.
I doubt the judge was thinking about politics. Courtrooms aren't the internet, thankfully.
The first time I saw this flow I thought I was getting phished. It really is ridiculous how you get sent to a strange domain name which may or may not have the name of your card issuer in it.
1. Remote work forces are still scary to a lot of people, especially if they've spent their whole careers thinking it's impossible to manage.

2. Some percentage of workers enjoy being on-site, especially at a nice office. Large companies have so many qualified job applicants that they can select only people who want to work on-site. In my experience, it's very hard -- though still possible -- to staff a growing startup with only local workers (unless you make some compromises).

3. Large companies have already built large buildings or signed long leases for office space. It's a lot more expensive for them to transition to remote work.

> If the top companies do not do it, why should the smaller companies?

It seems like you're suggesting small companies should imitate large companies. This doesn't make sense for several reasons.

Large companies with massive reserves of cash can tolerate lots of overhead (office space being one of them).

Further, large companies have fewer employees operating in silos. While a startup might have a single marketing person, a single front-end person, etc., a large company will have many teams for each function.

When you have more decisions being made across larger teams, you have more decisions made by committee, and in-person meetings seem like the most efficient way to move forward.
Sadly the comment section on nytimes.com is absolutely appalling...
Are there really that many people willing to have electrodes implanted in their brain just to... type on their phone!?
Another factor that no one has mentioned is that this approach seems to require invasive brain surgery. This is likely not a large risk for someone suffering from locked-in syndrome, but would be for someone who wants to improve their typing speed.

As such, most early use cases would be restricted to people with few alternatives, such as medical cases.
5% of FB revenue (55B) is $2.75B which is less than the proposed FTC fine of 5B.

Making it be 5% of profit and not revenue would make it hurt even less.
>What is point of letting them claim innocence?

It changes the evidentiary basis of future claims on related grounds. The admission opens them up to other legal risks outside of the current dispute.

Maybe European regulators want to slap them for the same fact pattern (same facts, different jurisdiction). Maybe a class action is put together (same facts, different plaintiffs). Maybe they have an HR suit for unlawful termination from one of their security guys claiming he was fired for disclosing a vulnerability (related facts).

Etc.
In the late 20th-century, as tape parts and live electronics became more common in avant-garde classical music, various novel conventions arose to represent the electronic part on the score. This was not so people could duplicate the electronic parts themselves – they had often been painstakingly created in centers like IRCAM over months, and so they were provided to performers on a tape or as a collection of software. But the representation of the electronic part on the score helped the human performers playing their traditionally-noted parts keep in time with the electronics.
Any new pandemic can come mainly from two possible sources:

- mutation of an existing pathogen affecting humans
- mutation of an existing animal pathogen so that it can start infecting humans

The first is more likely with inadequate treatment and lack of containment, the latter is more likely if there's more exposure of humans to the animal virus. With 130 million pigs infected with this disease there's quite a lot of exposure.
This is a perfectly rationale terrible explanation - it absolutely makes sense, but there's a real problem if we allow decision making like this to be accepted at large. Some cases might be lost, but companies that violate our privacy should actually pay for it.
>They were "dark" because they were fundamentally anti-enlightenment

This is a gross mischaracterization reinforced by the enduring and destructive Jacobin propaganda of the French revolution. We are deeply indebted to the intellectual impetus of those "dark ages": https://pastebin.com/8ZgDV5mt
What I find fascinating is that a good number of people discussing this could probably have equally interesting discussions on Java or algorithms,which won't be same on your average history forum...
I don't fully understand.

> As each participant recited hundreds of sentences, the electrodes recorded the firing patterns of neurons in the motor cortex. The researchers associated those patterns with the subtle movements of the patient’s lips, tongue, larynx and jaw that occur during natural speech. The team then translated those movements into spoken sentences.

So this means the audio example is speech synthesized from data gemerated while the person was actually reading out loud, right?

Why does the text under the headline claim "no muscle movement needed", which would imply audible speech synthesized from mere thoughts?
Everytime there happens something despicable by cult of peace, Al Jazeera either in suggestive way or in appoligetic way; surprisingly venture out with their PsyOps shock absorber mode. Is it extension of medieval obsession to uphold tribalist bias? Exhibition of contents nowadays fetch less, as people at large started 'reading between the lines', than literally reading. Notre Dame without humanity died, Sri Lanka - exposed some people are not human under human hide-skin.
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I actually really like some of them, trying the different formats. They subvert my expectations.

https://imgflip.com/i/2zdiup
https://imgflip.com/i/2zdj93
https://imgflip.com/i/2zdjtg
https://imgflip.com/i/2zdjvn

They remind me of the anti-joke Louis CK's daughter came up with:

> > Who didn't let the Gorilla into the ballet?
> Just the people who are in charge of that decision.
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The article mixes up actual biographic details concerning Tolkien with a plot summary of the new film about Tolkien that is about to be released. Some of the film details were pure artistic license, which is perhaps why the Tolkien estate has distanced itself from the film, as reported in the Guardian [0] (which also lists some of the film's inaccuracies).

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/23/tolkien-estate...
I think PayPal might be the Kleenex of online payment providers
How does that make it not matter? My savings in the stock market do the same thing, but if I got a fine/bill that was 1% of my net worth, it would still be a huge deal.
How is this different than Mobius [1]?

[1] https://github.com/Microsoft/Mobius
Per another comment [1]

"This technology uses an electrode array referred to as ECoG, which needs to be surgically placed on the surface of the brain. Current technology does not make it possible to have the signal quality from non-invasive methods."

[1] : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19742479
Or couldn't they provide data augmentation on the same samples to give the effect of a more diverse (and more populous) training set?

Using the blog's skin cancer example, couldn't the labelled images be augmented by altering the skin tones and adding these new examples to the training set?

It seems to me that some of the anomalous results discussed in the article are actually the result of poor model design or poor pre-processing data choices. We can't just throw anything to any ol' machine learning model and expect it to be magic
We'll take the everyone-worrying out of the title above.
The rewrite, while simpler and arguably clearer, also seems more boring to me. It doesn't engage my imagination.

In any case, the original doesn't set off my "bullshit detectors". Such an aggressive way of commenting on a piece of writing! Not everyone must or should write like Hemingway -- not even Hemingway!
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Yes and no. You need to be able to sight read it, so it has to be similar to the current system, but without the baggage.
This idea that conservative societys are somehow stable are utter nonsense. Just wishing upon a thing does not make it real.
If you crave stability and you enact policys that your guts tell you will create temporary stability, that might even be detrimental to longterm stability.
Conservative societys have a long tradition of freezing the sciences, which when frozzen, stop producing a food surplus, resulting in humanity sliding back into social instability and wars.
At the core of a lot of conservative believes, about there work for stability is nearly the same sort of myth, as there is in the left ideologies about there care for human equality and freedom.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/FB/key-statistics?p=FB
$55 Billion in revenue and EBITDA 29.23B and they get a $5 Billion fine for doing a lot of scummy, but profitable stuff.

The best part for FB? Two years from now FB will say to FTC, "you already fined us once...the largest fine ever blah blah blah"
this is a really large frustration of mine...they often don't predict what i'll type next, and i accidentally select an option then i'm hitting back to delete some large phrase it selected... argh, this and auto correct... so much time spent hitting delete... I feel like this is something trying to be too 'intelligent' for it's own good
Any time Apple Pay is available, I use it.

As a user, I wouldn't want it to be hidden far below the other fields since I might not notice the button and start to fill out the fields unnecessarily.
Url changed from https://9to5mac.com/2019/04/23/macbook-keyboard-repair-progr..., which points to this.
It’s an absolute nonsense opinion, because there are obviously cultural beliefs that have an impact on work performance, particularly over a lifetime — eg, beliefs in honesty, hard work, and obtaining education. Different cultures place different values on these things, and it leads to different outcomes — even just looking at the impact of cultural drift over time, among a single people.

I also find it absolutely abhorrent to claim there is no ethical difference in whether or not groups of humans cut the clitorises off young girls or own slaves, as you’ve done here. That’s what it means to say you don’t believe some cultures are better: that it’s just fine to mutilate children and own other humans, because hey, that’s just a cultural belief.

You’re so woke, your brain broke.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19694207
Honestly, for a few thousand Euros, if it worked really well (and was a well supported product software wise, with open APIs) ... I might do it - And I do think that while it wouldn't be everyone, significantly many people willing to do it could be found.
Great—so potentially subject to even less security/privacy controls compared to other places they could've stored it.
other discussion, spot 1 on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19742270
Sounds like you're still significantly involved with the docs, then. Are you currently working on transitioning away those responsibilities?
Someone in another time and place may well find complex word choice and sentence structure easiest to understand in written form, and is wary of writing that uses plain language because it can be used to hide bad reasoning behind simple-sounding words and sentence structure.

For you, and the culture you’re in, what you say is true. It is far from universal.
I've wondered the same thing. Guitar tablature is a more intuitive notation for me to understand than piano, by far, so I wonder if there is an alternative for piano that feels as simple.

There are some[0], but not quite as radical as I would expect, they still seem to use the same basic look and feel.

[0] http://musicnotation.org/systems/
I may be a bit paranoid but I don't think I'd ever buy something like Echo... Every single command,ask nad sneeze can be sent back to the mothership to analyse...I,'ve already got google for that,no need one more...
you think it's a good strategy to arrive at a magic number of items? if you have 9 items, stop there, instead most articles on the web will bullshit one more and do a headline 10 x ...

I find it annoying.
The second half of his post is not a critique of how the point to which he responds was communicated, but of the point itself. He's saying that the message "people shouldn't write like that" is problematic and flawed, not that it itself shouldn't have been written like it was.

As to your second point, that any speech at all might offend someone so there's no point in drawing attention to that fact, on the contrary, the commenter is actually making a very concrete point. He is talking about a very specific thing, that this prescriptivism about writing style alienates and turns away a lot of people that could otherwise make valuable contributions. It's not a general statement that any statement might offend somebody, but a highly targeted examination of the consequences of such speech policing.
If you read carefully, the rewrite leaves out a lot of the content. For example, the original text claims that "all the Gothic buildings without exception reflect a serenity and expansiveness and a nobility without equal". That claim simply isn't reproduced in the rewrite. Nor, to take another example, is that claim that certain monuments were built "in the enthusiasm of a powerful inspiration of ideal and faith".