skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For what it's worth, in my experience tasks from university researchers tend to be more fair. The last few studies I did, we paid an equivalent of $8-10/hour while estimating generously on time (e.g. we did $4/30min, but actual time ranged from 15-20min). People in my lab and another lab I was affiliated with seemed to pay similarly fair wages for both studies and data labeling. We also usually accept everyone's submission, even obviously junk answers. It could be that the people I've worked with are more ethical on this than other researchers, but I don't think that's true.

I don't think the IRB actually enforces a minimum wage, but the feeling of oversight seems to discourage super exploitative behavior. The downside is that high payments means higher requirements - something like 98% acceptance, 500 HITs, Master's qualification, and US location is what I generally see used, and we still get junk answers sometimes (in my last study one person somehow submitted a bunch of HTML forms with empty answers despite required fields, still not sure how they pulled that one off without intentionally doing some sketchy stuff...). This makes the fairly paid tasks inaccessible to most new Turkers, leaving them to pick up the scraps of the $1/hour HITs.
Yep. I just picked one up a couple weeks ago, it's my first non-MBP but seeing as I have a company-provided i7 MBP I didn't feel like I needed another powerhouse machine for side projects and occasional coding for fun. I love that I have no touch bar but I do have Touch ID.

Coming from a 2014 MBP 13 I definitely didn't notice the slower SSD speed -- editing raw camera files in Lightroom is really fast and the display is phenomenal.
I'm really not sure what your point it is. You seem to be saying 'don't say the drug war is discriminatory', even though it is. You then present logic that seems very unsound (as highlighted by the kippah example)

But to answer you:

> ordinary people are the voters who decide elections

Which is why it is so important that the war on drugs is painted for what it is.

Voters today might not grasp it. But those voters will die off. New generations will come in.

> Ordinary people do the wrong thing because they are wrong

Absolutely! That is why it's important to highlight it is wrong. Even if THEY don't see it. Their children likely will. Some of them will.

The truth has strength.

It's like flat earthers. You don't highlight their inconsistencies to teach them. You highlight it because it is the truth. And the truth shines. People pick up on it... eventually. Slowly. Gradually. It's been happening for thousands of years.
Just a thought - is this the generation that never gave up in power and make decision so younger one never has a chance.
> 1) a record of searches and user clicks for the past 20 years

From what I can tell, Google cares a lot more about recency.

When I switch over to a new framework or language, search results are pretty bad for the first week, horrible actually as Google thinks I am still using /other language/. I have to keep appending the language / framework name to my queries.

After a week or so? The results are pure magic. I can search for something sort of describing what I want and Google returns the correct answer. If I search for 'array length' Google is going to tell me how to find the length of an array in whatever language I am currently immersed in!

As much as I try to use Duck Duck Go, Google is just too magic.

But I don't think it is because they have my complete search history.

Also people forget that the creepy stuff Google does is super useful.

For example, whatever framework I am using, Google will start pushing news updates to my Google Now (or whatever it is called on my phone) about new releases to that framework. I get a constant stream of learning resources, valuable blog posts, and best practices delivered to me every morning!

It really is impressive.
Not quite the same, but the FBI has a history of this:

>The Federal Bureau of Investigation had great influence over the production, with J. Edgar Hoover acting as a co-producer of sorts. Hoover even forced LeRoy to re-shoot several scenes he didn't think portrayed the FBI in an appropriate light, and played a pivotal role in the casting for the film. Hoover and LeRoy were personal friends, but Hoover only approved the film after he had a file of "dirt" created on LeRoy.[11][12] Hoover had to approve every frame of the film and also had two special agents with LeRoy for the duration of filming

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_FBI_Story
You'll be back for the trackpad alone.
Yes, yet another wrongly convicted of murder released. Police destroyed records:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/glen-assoun-wrong...
Was in Canada, but if we still had execution...
> It's just not easy to make a better Google

It depends which sense of "better" you mean. It's nearly trivial to make an ethically superior search engine by just not building the spyware bits of Google.

It's difficult to make a search engine that's "better" along the dimensions of speed, profitability, etc.
That’s exactly how restaurants work. What’s different about stores?

As an aside, I eat things at stores all the time. Grocery stores, convenience store, whatever. No one has ever said anything to me and no one cares.

Also I drink all the time at bars and pay at the end. The idea of “tab” is very very old, and it seems to work pretty well.

When I was a kid and my mom took me shoe shopping, I would always wear my shoes out of the store. Most other kids do the same things. And you pay at the end, not before!

Have you considered this is just some personal hang up you have and not representative of other people?

And you’re talking about common sense, but I don’t know where you live, but in America it’s very very common to eat in stores. Parents give their kid a candy bar and eat it. This happens all the time.

Honestly, what you’re saying sounds a little crazy.
Strategically, why do we need Alabama? Why do we need to tolerate that theocracy existing under the union anymore?
This is false. See the game theory explained by Andy Jennings, who did his math PhD thesis on voting methods and co-founded the Center for Election Science.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtKAScORevQ

Here's a more technical explanation by Warren Smith, a Princeton math PhD whose work was the centerpiece of the book "Gaming the Vote".

http://scorevoting.net/TarrIrv.html

Finally, see real world data from a century of IRV in Australia.

http://scorevoting.net/AustralianPol
> Isn't it a fact that software engineering is inherently creative?

Yes, absolutely. If you can create a simple, clean, extensible abstraction that hundreds of other engineers use to avoid recreating and testing functionality this could be considered 10x due to the leverage.
Guess so
More realistically, if the company is cutting little bits here and there (soda, coffee, etc.) then it usually means tough times ahead. If a ~$1k monthly expense will make or break the budget, it's time to jump ship.
Is it an innocent blunder that the editor wrote "Counties with higher lynching rates" rather than "Counties that had higher lynching rates"? I don't think so.
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One could argue we need far fewer soldiers. Not really interested in debating that.
I say this as an opponent of the death penalty, there is nothing intrinsically difficult about killing someone, and I would guess that the ways a person can legally be killed have grown smaller and smaller over time by opponents of the practice. This is identical to the strategy used by anti-abortion advocates who chip away at access and timing and so on, and it's ethically questionable IMO.
What’s an “arts background”? I don’t think the majority of artists have any consistent background.
Declining to answer probably wouldn't have helped her cause, but I doubt anything she said would have stopped them from refusing. Hopefully now she at least has evidence of bias or misconduct that will serve as ammunition for her appeal against the ruling. I just wish she'd taken a stand against their absurd questions and stood up for the principle.

Then again, I still let the TSA and customs perform intrusive searches and ask intrusive questions (that have no bearing on safety) when I travel, because I want to get on with my life. For example, when I return to the US (as a natural born US citizen), immigration will ask me what the purpose of my trip was, where I went, etc. They have no legitimate reason for this, I legally don't have to answer any of the questions, and they cannot refuse me re-entry (assuming they accept the validity of my passport), yet I play their game because at the end of a 10-hour flight and a 2-hour queue, I don't feel like sitting in a cell for 72 hours while they process me.
This is not universally true. I'm sure its true for food banks where That $1 you spent on tuna could have purchased $4 worth of tuna if put in the hands of non-profit employee whose only job is to buy food as cheaply as possible is true, but in a lot of rural areas they don't have the people to purchase this stuff or the time. They take what is given to them and put in on the shelves for the folks to take. Heck, many of the food banks around here cannot even process credit cards.

So, like all charity interactions, know the folks you are actually dealing with and what their needs and abilities are.
How is autocomplete a sign of bias...Take an average voter...not very plugged in..he types in "hillary clinton e" and gets no autocomplete suggestions...he thinks Hillary Clinton didn't do anything wrong with her e-mail server? Do you seriously believe this?

Curious....Did you get any results for "hillary clinton e-mails"?
All these comments about how rare £50 notes are really make me want one.
Like I said, I'm not sure. The vast majority of people I know who have an Air or MBP have an older model without Touch ID. They might appreciate it if it is there, but they won't miss it in its absence. The only two people I know who've ever owned one that had it both returned it because they otherwise hated the device.

For me personally, Touch ID makes sense on a phone, because I can do it with a single hand. For a laptop, I'm going to have my fingers on the home row anyway, and typing in even a complicated password is fast.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/06/executi...

> In June of that year, officials in Georgia discovered a work-around: a small-time businessman in London named Mehdi Alavi, who sold wholesale drugs through a company called Dream Pharma, would ship sodium thiopental to them. Georgia bought some from him, and then Arkansas did too. With Hospira offline, Alavi had the U.S. execution market cornered. Arizona bought sodium thiopental from him in late September and used it the next month to execute a convicted murderer named Jeffrey Landrigan. California placed an order as well.

> Maya Foa, an anti-death-penalty advocate based in London, saw Dream Pharma mentioned in court documents related to Landrigan’s execution and decided to pay a visit. At the company’s address, she found a small building with peeling white paint and a placard that read elgone driving academy. Inside she found two desks and, in the back of the room, a single cabinet. That was it: Dream Pharma. Alavi imported execution drugs from elsewhere in Europe and shipped them to the United States, using that cupboard in a driving school as his base of operations.

...

> Since Hospira had been the only FDA-approved supplier of sodium thiopental, states that had imported it had done so illegally. Prisons had become, in effect, drug smugglers, and while the FDA may have been willing to look the other way, the DEA was not. In March 2011, agents seized Georgia’s supply of sodium thiopental. In April, they seized Tennessee’s, Kentucky’s, South Carolina’s, and Alabama’s.
Good habits I learned from my ex-bosses
The associated copy is identical to what it might be if canceling cut you off immediately. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that the marketeers would lie, since that's their job ("well we didn't outright say it'd be immediate" yeah sure but you did more than just imply it, too, and even implying is a lie if you intend to mislead, which you 100% for sure do).

[EDIT] the first link you click to start the process is "End membership and benefits", for instance, and it just keeps that tone up for the rest of it. "By cancelling, you will no longer be eligible for your unclaimed Prime exclusive offers. Click here to see your offers." The cancel button reads "End my benefits", at the bottom of a list of all the stuff that comes with Prime. That's just saying you're losing all the stuff right now. If, when I hit this button, that doesn't happen, they were lying, period.

[UPDATE] can confirm, they're a bunch of lying liars.
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I would think efforts like this are less about completeness and more about creating a media event around the fact that ICE uses AWS to do harm to people.
The argument is that the issue with Boeing isn’t that they had a flaw with the 737 Max, but that their entire culture has moved away from a safety focused engineering one.

If that is indeed the case, it’s unlikely the 737 Max’s flaw is the last one (in fact, we know it isn’t, and that the FAA discovered something else, which is why it was sent back to Boeing).
Yeah, but not by that much, not even close.
In a lot of ways I want better search than Google. It's increasingly for the masses, power users are increasingly unhappy.
I don't understand your objection. I asked a question. I didn't pick a methodology for comparison, so you can choose your own.
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You are of course right. While I stand by my assertion that they have tried to cowtow to China in order to get into the market, their services are blocked and China has resisted letting them back in. Their efforts are likely dead or stalled with the death of Dragonfly. In any case, major memory malfunction on my part, apologies.
She's not asking for the dietary inputs of prisoners on death row. She's asking for the process the state uses for executions. How does that have any bearing on individual prisoners' privacy?

What she's asking for is public, and perhaps asking "why" might be allowed. But preventing access in any way to public information unacceptable.
I expect the compiler would optimize the tail recursion into a loop, so the likely worst case is not that you blow the stack but that you spin for a while.
According to Craig Venter, early detection is what we need to eliminate cancer:

https://youtu.be/iUqgTYbkHP8?t=15m37s

The reason most people die from pancreatic cancer, for example, is because we almost always detect it in a late stage.
I wonder if thats just the food banks playing cultural norms to their advantage. All being said and done, and equal value cash donation would probably be better for them, as the article outlined, but the real result of asking for cash would probably be less donations overall. I can't speak for everyone, but for me there's something fundamentally more satisfying donating a thing rather than money.
>Some people have suggested that the 1969 movie Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice was the origin of Alice and Bob. While it is possible—even likely—that Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman might have been familiar with the movie, there is no evidence to indicate that the movie influenced their naming decision. More likely, since Alice and Bob are common English names that start with A and B, the names were chosen without much forethought.

If their speculation, that the names are arbitrary, is true, why make so much out of it?

Compare with Smith and Jones, popular in philosophy.

Would also have been nice for the website to have supported https.
No. The answer to the problem may be to get a 3-month contract, with option for them to hire you at the end of it. But work for free? No.
There's absolutely nothing stopping states from reinstituting the firing squad: https://www.npr.org/2018/11/05/664548834/tennessee-death-row...

The reason why states can't source drugs to use them for killing is because, surprise, the corporations that manufacture them refuse to sell them for that purpose.
In an economic system, a product will be sold at the highest price possible, so if advertising it as using recycled materials nets you higher profit, than you will do that. So even if non-recycled is more expensive to produce, it will be cheaper if people are not willing to pay as much for it.
Honest question. How religious people in these states reconcile these two contrasting ideas, the first one being believing in the bible and thus in the 10 Commandments, and the second being allowing people to be executed under their administration?
Are you proposing we get rid of Alabama? How would that work?
The dangers of conditional consistency guarantees
Yeah and maybe Uncle Chang steals everything. "Maybe"
The author might be missing the main reason people donate canned food.

It isn't just cash vs goods, they also want to feel like they have made a personal contribution. I loved eating canned corn as a kid, same thing for canned string beans (don't judge!).

I, and others like me, want to feel like they are doing that personal act. Be it donating kids clothing that has been out grown, or our favorite type of canned goods.

When I was in college and had very little money to spare, I still donated canned goods because I wanted to help out. If I had been given an envelop and a form to fill out my CC details or drop cash in, I likely would have done nothing. And I suspect many other people are the same way. And honestly, back then as a poor college kid, spur of the moment I could go into my pantry and grab a couple of cans I got on sale last week. It'd be harder to donate money that has to be spent on future needs, which are much less certain than needs that have already been met[1].

Charities, and all human organizations for that matter, have to work within the bounds of human psychology, and humans are rarely creatures of optimal habits.

[1] I wonder how much of canned goods is new purchases versus existing purchases? I personally have gone out and bought canned goods specifically for a food drive. If the majority of donated canned goods are from existing supplies, than the article's entire point is invalid.
That reminds me of the time that the free bagels weren’t delivered to a few floors of my office once on accident. It was an absolute riot on Slack (ok I’m exaggerating but I’m serious when the complaints had >100 reactions). God forbid the people walk to another floor.
The state is using illegal drugs, administered without the care or advice of a doctor, to kill its citizens and you think it should remain secret for the sake of the privacy of the condemned? I can’t even.
I have, and they're great! But limited. The real issue is the size of the dependency stack for scientific computing; I need to use a lot of monolithic, project-wide libraries (read: minimal python installs of many gigabytes), far beyond Lambda limitations.

The solution is pretty obviously to split up my own monolithic architecture so that subcomponents can run in limited environments, allowing some steps in my pipeline DAG to be implemented on Lambda; this is the direction I'm moving in (it also has certain development advantages). That said, leaving my own monolith behind requires some careful planning. For one thing, reproducibility is easier if you only need to track a single code version; it's more work to have a fully-reproducible infrastructure (something I'm working on with versioned containers, detailed file-generation metadata, and automated build/test processes). It's also sometimes necessary to hot-fix things in production: this is science, so the APIs I pull data from are not versioned and are subject to breaking changes during production with nothing more than a short email thread to announce them (I get hundreds of emails a day from both major collaborations I'm in (LIGO and IceCube), so tracking these changes is its own hell). This means being able to develop and fix things extremely quickly is paramount, which is also easier on a properly-factored monolith unless you have a proper microservices architecture and deployment system. We also get crazy demands for new features during production from other collaborators and scientists that make my software development friends gasp. And nobody understands anything I do because documentation isn't prioritized, so I have to do all this in a way that's maintainable and extensible by one person. (Seriously, I need to fight to document and properly refactor/maintain my code sometimes because people don't want to allocate time for these tasks.)

This is all hard fundamentally because scientific software development is a garbage fire of overworked developers and misaligned incentives (you don't get credit for code no matter how many man hours it saves/science it enables; only papers count). It's like we're running in constant do-or-die startup mode, with MVPs developed by 22 year-olds who just learned python for the first time used as mission-critical undocumented abandonware after they finish their PhDs. All of our code has 1/3 the manpower it should, so we're all prioritizing ruthlessly with varying degrees of success. Some people have done really amazing, inspiring work using best-practices devops and the rest, and it's slowly getting better in many spots, but the systemics of the dev environment means that unless you're a 10x person, your scientific code is going to be pretty rough around the edges.

All this is to say that Lambda is great but not exactly what I can use at the moment, though my plan is to support it once I've Balkanized my code a bit :)

[edit: typo]
speaking of cherry picking, I wouldn't use autocomplete suggestions as a source for bias. Has anyone on this thread claimed bias in the search results?
No. But it's also illegal for them to do that, and it's disgusting that the elected officials of the government continue to allow it to do so.

Of course it's also only able to do it because for-profit companies are being paid for their assistance. I would argue that makes them criminals (knowingly aiding a criminal attack), and as such they should be charged with those crimes. The US government basically pleads sovereign immunity to violations of its own criminal attacks on US citizens, so charging the companies that assists them with those crimes, and also removing their profit motive, would hopefully kill off the NSA, ICE, and the DHS's continuous violations of the constitution.
The very first passenger flight of the A320 was said to have been brought down by a software issue* and was effectively grounded by its launch being delayed. It isn't exactly the same situation, but its close enough to draw some parallels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_296

* - official reports blamed the pilot, but the pilot blamed the new software in the plane. Airbus was also accused of tampering with evidence to blame the pilot. These are also some parallels to Boeing's involvement in the initial MAX crash...
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i would be willing to throw up to $50 for this
It sucks to have no banking service but since I barely have coin to spend anyway I adapted well. What I feel after accomodating lifestyle changes is liberation both in being out of the financial and the societal consumption values systems. I wish I could never use banking again, only pure dirty cash bills but it's nigh impossible to truly eschew the convenience and access of an international online purchase mediated by family and a credit card.
Did you reply in the right place? Not seeing how this is a reply to GP.