skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except it's not, not really - Ford discovered that paying workers a better wage resulted in greater profitability and increased efficiency.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20115607

I'm not sure if this is conspiracy though cause it was buried down pretty quickly
Not yet, so lets not let it get to that point. Fiat is bad enough.
>Rules, bureaucracy, everything that slows you down to make your own thing.

Would you say the same thing about OSHA? Sometimes having additional safeguards in place are a good thing.
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You ever read Upton Sinclair's the jungle? It's a tale as old as time. Just publicly shame the company and ultimately they change or congress passes laws. This is a major reason the media works this way, it's part of American democracy.
Not really. I've spent many hours, days, weeks at a time in the wilderness in the Canadian Rockies and West Coast, with some of the densest population of all 3 of these predators, and it's pretty damn easy to avoid them. No need for guns down here either (maybe in the Arctic, Polar bears are actually aggressive).
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I don't think the person being replied to necessarily meant that, but cultural is often used in this context as a racist term, as in: "Africans will always have many kids, it's their culture", where before the more overtly racist "nature" might have been used.

The implication being that the cultures of (some) people are unchanging and fixed. I think you'd agree with a statement like: Cultures and family values do change all the time, due to a variety of factors like better medical care, and economic empowerment, in reasonably predictable ways.

So it's not unchanging cultural differences between Africa and Europe that drive the different fertility rates, but rather different socio-economic factors that drive a different family culture. Changing the socio-economic factors will change the culture surrounding families, just as much in Africa as it did in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, etc... at various times in the last century and a half.
Faithfully simulating the human brain requires much more processing power than presently available, so potentially yes. That said, we don't know how much of this complexity is actually vital to the functioning of intelligence and consciousness. Similarly, it would take a huge amount of processing to simulate a CPU at the electronic level, but our functional understanding allows us to build emulators at a high level of abstraction. The brain may be an immensely powerful computer running a simple program.
It's not that they literally own a stake. It's that the people in their social circles have a monetary interest so perpetuating boondoggle pork projects results in people around them appreciating them more which results in campaign donations and all sorts of other perks. It's not quite quid-pro-quo, it's just far enough away to maintain plausible deniability.

And of course there's all the people who aren't indirectly connected to politicians but who stand to benefit and the politicians will see that they benefit because votes. Look into the rules for billing hours for state police traffic details during the big dig if you want to see a good example with this. Now imagine that kind of fat in every industry that is related to a project and it's easy to see how costs go crazy.
Fortnite and Minecraft are huge ip though.
There was a log-normal version of the Galton board making the rounds last month:

https://stat.ethz.ch/~stahel/lognormal/bioscience.pdf

It really clarified where a log-normal distribution comes from: the consequence of switching a sum of random variables for a product.
Are you asking for examples where regulations came in without government intervention?

There's some examples from the labor movement in the U.S. that fit this sort of self-organizing regulation, although I don't know much on the subject.

Eventually, many of the privileges became federally codified rights under the Occupational Safety & Health Act signed by Nixon.
Honestly why the hell are trade secrets protected expect for misguised sense of intellectual property that forgets the concept was a contract and not a natural right?

They don't even have the benefit of disclosure which patents were meant to give - to prevent said knowledge being lost. Trade secrets are why we had to investigate Damascus Steel reproduction throughly and still speculate.

They give the useful arts and sciences nothing and yet they get free resources for enforcement.

I believe the proper legal response from the state for breach of trade secrets should be "Wow, sucks to be you!" We really shouldn't be promoting that artificial scarcity and restriction of knowledge.
I hope this one is next: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8

Also, I hope that they adopt flac. Right now they seem to use lossy codecs.
> Make the users do a little every so often.

"Facebook made me look at child porn" is probably a headline Facebook would prefer not to have going around.
> and the quran contain passages encouraging hatred of homosexuals

I challenge you to provide the passage you claim.
If car drivers don't respect you I don't think the solution is to let them have all the road for themselves and put you away from their view. Fighting for the rights of cyclits by segregating them is like trying to fight sexism by having women wear a burka so that they do not provoke men!
Requiring functions to be "total" functions is another way to look at it. I like languages with pattern matching that will generate a compiler error if you don't handle all possible paths.
> they promised your decisions matter; but none of them do, you choose at the end between 3 buttons

At the end of the day your decisions still matter to you. The debate around the ME3 ending has left me with a lot more respect for the ME3 ending over time than after I played through it the first time.

Which of those 3 buttons a player chose often says so much about their combined playthrough of all three games. Linearly in terms of that playthrough so many gamers felt they only had "one choice" at the end, and that is an amazing psychological trick because the statistics BioWare revealed show that among players that did complete the final choice it was an almost even split (and a surprising number of players took the interesting fourth choice of just quitting there and not making a choice).

I think the ME3 ending even before the Extended Cut (and more importantly the final Citadel "cleanup" DLC) was better than a lot of gamers gave it credit for, but the problem with it was that it was a very hard situation to see the forest from your particular gameplay tree.

(Now, Anthem from a story perspective I have a lot less respect for. It's a weird KOTOR B-Plot [almost entirely recycled] with the Star Wars filed off.)
The universe's end is not my end though, so I don't see that it's relevant.
And WindRiver just sent their first pull request[1] to support VxWorks as a target.

Shameless plug - I made a proposal[2] to create Business Applications Working Group to help promote Rust in enterprise software, quant and "normal" finances, taxes, and governance, the areas now completely dominated by COBOL and Java. Rust is a perfect fit for such applications, offering more safety and security, speed and higher levels of abstraction. Hopefully, formal verification will arrive soon as well.

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/61946

[2] https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/proposal-business-applicat...
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There's a difference between people freely choosing what assets are acceptable to back a given currency and having many currencies floating in value against each other, or the government deciding what each currency can be backed against and at what value (the National Banks had to accept each other's currency at par value).
They already have classifiers, of course. It's not like the moderators go through everything posted to FB–you'd need millions of people to do that. What the mods actually do, presumably, is review content reported by users.
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> If minimum wage were $15, they could find another job that paid their basic living expenses.

Why is this necessarily true? Couldn't it be the case that minimum wage were $15 but they still couldn't find any other job?
Note that appearing on this doesn't mean much in terms of real HPC. (The Blue Waters people have notably declined to submit results.) Over half the "systems" are Ethernet, so probably don't have the right order of magnitude latency.
One point of interet is the longevity of the serious systems K Computer and Sequoia, not only in that list but also in the HPCG one: https://www.top500.org/hpcg/lists/2019/06/
Point #2 is some deep wisdom. I am better for having read it.

"Many people leaving the project blame either the project or the people working on it for their departure, rather than recognize that it is normal in life for one's enthusiasm to wane. It does with all things that we once found exciting. This is neither pessimistic nor tragic: one needs always to find new exciting things to do. All things in life change and end, and this includes one's involvement with Wikipedia. "He who kisses the joy as it flies / lives in eternity's sunrise."[1] Enjoy it while you are here, and enjoy what you do after you have gone."
I don't _think_ I'd call it hipster - hipster has a lot more white.

This actually reminds me a LOT of making websites around 2006 - 2012.
We tried to hustle our way into YC after we got rejected
Chipmunk voices? Might make it feel less real
It took a little bit of re-reading because of the peculiar style of the article. But it was an interesting read.
> since the healthy person must devote a large portion of their emotional energy decoding and understanding the current mental state of the ill person, proverbially "walking on eggshells" to avoid a negative situation.

Dealing with mentally ill people is quite challenging, but if one is 'walking on eggshells to avoid ..' one is doing it wrong. The necessary role for the healthy person is to be the healthy person, and not let the ill person's issue distort healthy behavior.
> That one paragraph about organs was enough to ruin my day, and it was just text. I'm surprised such a "rash of videos" wasn't in the news somewhere.

I'm left wondering if it was a clip from a horror movie or something. Shitty to see, but not necessarily newsworthy like "live children chopped up for organs" would be.
If I am understanding - Cloudflare is suggesting that we use IPFS hashes ( https://developers.cloudflare.com/distributed-web/ipfs-gatew... ) - hence the need to update DNS records everytime you deploy... So disregard of IPNS
Government imposed open market sanity saved the domestic oil industry.

I think about this every time someone advocates laissez faire (aka Freedom Markets™, corporatism).

Every game needs referees, a ruling body.
I think you may like Monads for exactly the reasons you described though, I wouldn't focus too much on this particular sentence.

Monads for error handling are very similar to exceptions - they let you write your code in terms of only the happy path, but letting each step fail the entire computation if something unintended happens (with a relevant error). They also have some advantages if you like to be explicit about the "dark path".

1) In traditional imperative programming you have to make a choice between errors as exceptions (implicit) and errors as return values (explicit) - monads let you do both at the same time in a sense --- whether you get implicit or explicit behaviour depends on how you "glue" computations together.

2) Monads are more explicit about when a dark path exists in the sense that they will have a different type signature and often different syntax (at least in haskell/c#/scala and other languages that support explicit monad-based notation)

I'm not a huge fan of Monads for error handling in languages like Javascript without explicit support for them though, mostly as they just don't read very well.
Yeah, in my book this is more of an attempt by a consortium of powerful companies to get a favorable regulatory regime for money transmitting. "Crypto" is only there to confuse regulators into making an exception.
It's both Republican and Democrat calling for this holt and testimony.
https://www.nationalmortgagenews.com/news/maxine-waters-call...
MISRA is just a set of regulations. C++ can be fine for safety critical systems, if it's done correctly. You just have to do it right and enforce the standards.
What does the dust in your home mean for your health?
Everything is our prey tho..
Currently we have a surplus of actual jobs, it's just that a large number of them pay sub-living wages. If those were forced to pay more - even if it meant some of them disappeared - many more people would have the opportunity to climb out of poverty.

Edit: I may have misspoken when I said "surplus". What I was referring to is the very low unemployment rate we currently have, despite large numbers of people - with "jobs" - continuing to live in near-poverty.
I think perhaps people feel that you are minimizing the horror and repulsiveness of the content by saying that these moderators have a better job than working at a fast food restaurant.

My wife, who has worked in a busy McDonald's for 5 years, says this sort of moderation is far, far worse than anything she had to deal with. And she's had to deal with human waste, violence, and direct verbal abuse from customers.

Your point about making the working environment better is a valid one, but think it is overshadowed by your assertion that the horrific content is acceptable to "many people".

Your views do resonate with some people on Reddit though. I remember saying that I didn't like the pained yelps, limping, and whining of Dogmeat in Fallout 4, and I was attacked and ridiculed for that. I know I wouldn't last more than a minute at this Facebook moderation job, it would scar me for life. I don't think that means I'm "wrong", any more than your views are "right".
This is a great podcast. I started listening to it recently but finished around 75% of the episodes mostly in the gym! Recommended it to some of my colleagues who are hooked on it as well.
JavaScript does not make it easy. I'm having the same issue as I move towards more functional code in a large React codebase. I'm wanting to adopt more of these patterns but the JS language makes it difficult.

Specifically, JavaScript's lack of infix operators, pattern matching, type classes, and `do` notation make the code harder to read.
I've looked at moving to the snap before but last I heard there's no way to import your current profile? And netflix doesn't work? If those two things are fixed I'd happily change over!
> . This includes the verses about valuing the word of a woman at half that of a man, verses ordering the smiting of the necks of disbelievers (if you wonder why so jihadists behead so often, it's because of that), and verses encouraging marital rape.

If you take them out of context, you can understand any text the way you want. Fortunately, these "controversial" verses weren't seen as such in Islamic history overall, and groups that deviated (the Kharijites for example) were intellectually obliterated, and were known not to be able to defend their incorrect views.

This is not limited to religious texts. Any person with an agenda will find whatever means to achieve said agenda. Twisting words not to mean what they do, making up lies, and so on. We see it all the time today, and throughout history.
<strong> is a semantic tag. https://html.com/tags/strong/

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True. But for practical purposes, some degree of conflict avoidance is often an important survival skill.
It makes me aware of a curious dichotomy about content moderation on Facebook. On one hand, they have publicly committed to stem the flow of "Fake News", whatever that means, on their platform. Now on the other hand, we have this article about the suffering of contractors who's task is to block content that is too real. I guess this places Facebook's platform into a category with theme parks like Disney Land, where they aim at maintaining a precarious balance somewhere between the fake and the real.
There's an entertaining LindyBeige video on the subject:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrZ5IE-1GJ4
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An object moving faster than anything previously known? I'm sure the Unidentified Swimming Object enthusiasts at the time had a field day with that sighting.
Guns in the wilderness are like guns in everyday life. A real inconvenience 99.9% of the time. The rest of the time, they aren't inconvenient.

Actually I compare guns to bicycle helmets. I only consider using either one of them in very specific and uncommon situations.
isn't this why stuff like grammerly was created?
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I’ll answer for them.

Yes, they were saying that knowing all those BSD/non-GNU options front their BSD days stuck in their mind and are quite useful when working on a Mac today.

It’s better than having to mentally switch between Linux/macOS arguments in your head like many of us have to (like me)!
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For me and with projects that I have worked on, I take the estimate, double it, and then move it up a time unit. So 1 day becomes 2 weeks. 3 weeks becomes 6 months. 1 hour becomes 2 days. 1 year becomes 2 decades.

Is this overkill? Oh heck yes. But it seems to really put a fire into me to make sure that these things run smoother.
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The SRP is a bit fuzzy when it comes to algorithms, though. What counts as "one thing"? Bob Martin covers this in Clean Code. "If a function does only those steps which are one level of abstraction below the stated name of the function, then the function is doing one thing." SRP falls out of that, as noted by Jeff Atwood(https://blog.codinghorror.com/curlys-law-do-one-thing/).

The author is still overly vague here; it's not that the algorithm has multiple logical parts, it's that it has those plus the kitchen sink.
Here, test it. If you test it multiple time you get slightly
different results. Both seem to be similar. You would have to ask the author why they went with the regex solution to know why they chose that one. Knowing Javascript, there's probably a pitfall we are not thinking about.

http://jsben.ch/uFK8t
Several comments here are along the lines of "I haven't done much monadic error handling but here's why it's bad."

That's silly because the benefits of this type of programming can't be grokked until you use it on real projects.. it's honest-to-goodness not enough to look at small examples and judge whether it's worthwhile or not.

There's a lot of this realization going around actually - for example Rust's main raison d'être is basically: "look - we _can_ write safe c/c++, some of us can even nail it perfect every time in small examples, but in large apps it's inevitable that we'll all make mistakes"

Here's two issues with try/catch in real-world apps:

1. You aren't forced to write it. It's simply possible to forget that a function might fail (e.g. when that failure is defined as a side-effect). This is even worse when there's no type system forcing you to think about it. We all make this mistake!

2. You can't easily distinguish between expected errors and unexpected errors - and even where you can, dealing with that becomes a big mess.

Unexpected errors (like "out of memory", "computer is quitting", "electricity is gone") - _should_ crash and burn and stop the app (unless you explicitly have a way to recover from it - in which case it's actually an _expected_ error). Letting the app continue on where there's undefined behavior is dangerous.

Expected errors (like "user not found", "wrong password", perhaps even "network down") need to be dealt with. Every single time. Even in a function where it might not happen 99.999% of the time - that one rare time where it happens is especially hard to duplicate and fix.

That said, I agree with the comments that say it's a bit awkward in JS, and much less effective without a type system forcing the right constraints. I like using FP-TS[0] with typescript for extra help at "transpile" time, but Sanctuary[1] (based on FantasyLand[2]) with the runtime checking turned on is pretty incredible too.

With _some_ type system making sure that we're following the rules, monadic error handling is definitely more elegant and safer than try/catch.

[0] https://gcanti.github.io/fp-ts/modules/
[1] https://sanctuary.js.org/
[2] https://github.com/fantasyland/fantasy-land
Guesstimate [1] (cited in this paper in footnote 6 and previously discussed on HN [2]) is a really nice implementation of some of these ideas.

Has anyone come across other good implementations?

As a side note, I've been doing more probabilistic programming with pymc3 recently, and it's pretty incredible how leaky the abstractions can be. I'm not saying there's a way to do better, just that at present there's a huge gap between the beautiful vision of "the inference button" and the current tools.

[1] https://www.getguesstimate.com/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18785371
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This is awesome, and really needs to be done. What I would really like, however, is to have a downloadable version available. The videos are not safe forever on YouTube, nor does YouTube even represent the best streaming quality on the internet.

Having good quality music videos playable on my own media server is something what I've been wanting for at least 15 years.
lmfao, absolutely gosu!

+1 openvms

i remember the good old days of setting up vms clusters and good old dcl. we had easily 96 node clusters, alphas and vax hw, if my memory serves me correctly.
Ask HN: Anybody have examples of remote working agreements?
Ask HN: Anybody have examples of remote working agreements where companies outline rules & expectations for remote engineers?
I watched this documentary about the world leading company in sorting all kind of waste. I'm afraid it's only available in German: https://youtu.be/6g1KNlXPbDo
Coyotes have killed three of my calves in the last ten years. I shoot them on sight.
Again, I don't disagree with you at all that it's dangerous and tiring. The alternative is concentration camps. It's already happening to brown people. Who's next? Who will be left to stand up for you?
Is there a reason why this method would not support Snow Leopard?
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The engineers would just make the filtering AI better.

End result: engineers paid $250k, moderators unemployed making $0k.
Then perhaps they need better classifiers? I don’t remember seeing any papers from FB about that, so it does not seem like a priority for them. Or just make the existing bad classifiers more aggressive and shift the moderator’s effort to reviewing good content.
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You said:

> If they took the time to have “relaxation” rooms, i doubt its as bad as the story makes it out to be.

The article said:

> Facebook contractors are required to use a browser extension to report every time they use the restroom, but during a recent illness, Lola quickly took all her allotted breaks. She had previously been written up for going to the bathroom too many times, she said, and so she felt afraid to get up from her desk. A manager saw that she was not feeling well, and brought a trash can to her desk so she could vomit in it. So she did.
C, D, and C++ on the other hand... And the naming of JavaScript had certainly never caused any confusion. Let's face it, programming languages have weird names.
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Why not? Just bootstrap but on another architecture?