skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Ceramic tiles. My family is in the business among the major producers in the world.

I hate the product, as a software engineer it's not stimulating, and I want to stay away from it as long as I can.
The vast majority of mass surveillance tech is programmed in Silicon Valley. These are the most privileged and intelligent programmers out there, they absolutely do have power, or at minimum a choice, to quit and get another well paying moral job.
It is not anyone's duty. You're not obligated by law to do it.

In military, your duty is to obey orders of superior. If you break that, you will get removed.
In business, your duty is to yourself and to business (shareholders) or to superiors. See above. You will get fired or forced to quit.

As a counterexample, medical practitioners have a duty to intervene when it's not endangering their lives, in medical emergencies. (At least in Poland, probably other countries too.)

Do not conflate duty with moral choice or moral obligation. Former is external, later is internal.
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Time has one of those data-collection consent forms that are seemingly impossible to opt out of, before being able to read the article. I refuse to fall for that dark pattern.

Here's a better link: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/01/saudi-women-ca...

"Women in Saudi Arabia will no longer need the permission of a male guardian to travel.."

"Still in place, however, are rules that require male consent for a woman to leave prison, exit a domestic abuse shelter or marry. Women, unlike men, still cannot pass on citizenship to their children and cannot provide consent for their children to marry."
We thought we were going to have healthcare, robots, and flying cars.

Instead we have wasted two generations' worth of intellect on .. advertisements and fast stock trading.

I'm ready for the giant asteroid.
I am not American but to me it is clear that your idea here would increase the inbalance you already got there. Namely the inbalance between private corporations and the state. Many of the problems the US has are not rooted in state action, but in the actions of companies, their lobbyists and politicians that own said companies.

So you want to reduce the only leverage any honest regular hard working citizen has? To do what? Save money?
How about taxing companies properly for starters? You are the second-biggest market in the world after all.

And another thing: if your goals are to decrease unemployment, homelessness and incarceration it is a totally valid strategy to state those goals publicly. The european givernments I lived under always do this and it doesn’t really seem to have the devastating economic consequences typical US-citizen’ always tell me it must have.

It is amazing how ingrained that corporate think is in the US and how unable people are to see that there are other things inbetween full on anarcho-capitalism and soviet style single party oligarchy.
David Spiegelhalter's Cambridge Coincidences
Mycroft.ai has a finite runway – and the raspberry pi is their aircraft carrier
A great read on high frequency trading: Barbarians at the Gate

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2536492
Apple are excellent at figuring out what "the next big thing" is. The fact that none of us know what that could possibly be is kind of exciting to be honest.
The problem with paying people extremely little for "easy" work is that they don't make enough money to live. Pay in Vietnam or wherever is much lower, but so is cost of living. I don't see the point of having people work forty hours weeks when they can't afford an apartment, food, and the other basic necessities of life.

I also don't think that paying off state debt right now is a good idea. Interest rates are pretty much zero or even negative. We should instead borrow as much as possible. For example we could invest trillions into getting rid of fossil fuels in the next twenty years. That would also create many jobs.
LEAVE SIRI ALONE. :3
Improvement doesn't mean making it harder. SAT questions don't get harder every year (ideally). They're just different. It takes effort to come up with something different and novel though. Most places don't.

Maybe that's what the industry needs.. its own SAT. Heck man, that would make interviewing a lot better. You take one brutal test over a few hours, get your score, and then apply to multiple companies. You don't have to do dozens of whiteboard code interviews. Job postings specify score ranges. There's different score components (algos vs system design, like math vs verbal).

I guess there are startups like triplebyte trying to do that, but they're not as independent as the SAT. They make money off hires.
It does, but it doesn't create anything which can be leveraged to improve things further. Might as well just give the people the money directly, with no expectations of deliverables.
A day in the life of an auction inspector
> The system is probably deployed by 90% software engineer

And this is the problem: The ruthlessness of engineers who then will wash their hands in innocence.

Physicists creating nuclear weapons. Chemists creating chemical weapons. Software Engineers creating an Orwellian surveillance wet dream. These people need to get the Perillos of Athens treatment, so they and those who come after them can learn that ethics is a thing in their profession.
Unless a is a function that returns itself
The real moral gap is between the very rich and everyone else:

https://phys.org/news/2019-03-rich-parents-unethical.html
"He was part of particularly deadly politics"

Haha. Human nature never changes.
Funny - one of our teammates used to do this at a previous company. We built in a similar function for remote workers with a Slack integration. It sends a little message with pre-formatted responses that indicates you'd like to talk on Tandem.
How to become poor in 11 steps
Enough with the culture of winners. Instead learn how to become poor in 11https://fieretlibre.com/2019/08/02/11-steps-to-become-poor/ steps!
Specially for people who unchecked the "Send data to Apple for product improvement" checkbox.
If Norway didn't have such valuable natural resources, I suspect the "don't work so hard" approach would leave it with starving people...
I personally find it more akin to sculpting or drawing. I have this kind of “holistic” approach to development where I have a rough yet clear idea of what I set to do, so I start with the rough lines then brush it up with increasing detail, chiselling away the unneeded parts, redrawing details over my initial sketch while keeping its overall spirit, yet correcting the details and relative positions I obviously could not get right the first time.

I call it “holistic” because instead of focusing on details and interfaces first, the possible problems kind of serendipitously find obvious solutions, progressively emerging from a bigger whole as I move forward. It feels like dropping a Rubik’s Cube from chest height and have it solve itself by the time it hits the ground.

See how the picture “emerges” in this timelapse[0]. The overall thing is always present and things get increasingly precise as the drawer progresses, adjusting details from the overall design. What you don’t see is the timeline is the artist zooming in and out every other second to make sure the emerging details fit in the overall piece, like you’d zoom in and out of a fractal where everything influences the rest at every level (but note that this does not mean coupling! See how the boat gets scrapped at some fairly advanced point and mostly redrawn to be a better fit in the overall composition). The good thing is you can basically stop at anytime and still have a working system, one that will be very easy to improve over time.

This is also how I approach an existing codebase, looking at the overall composition, and will often resort to a parallel implementation of my own, however rough yet capturing its essence, to understand it better. Refactoring the original piece is made much easier then, and depending on its quality, possibly incrementally rewritten in a Ship of Theseus way to gradually eat the original away and make it converge towards a future-proof system.

[0] https://youtu.be/r53KhZCWreQ
Also, we have largely increased the average space per person. So even if people move into cities with higher densities, this might be largely compensated by larger living spaces per person everywhere else (including the City).
Mutually assured destruction. Everyone has something they do not want others to be aware of.
Needs Flash player,of course. If you're on Windows, Edge is an easy way to run the site without installing shit you'll regret later.
20-30% of the population in the developed world now produces all the food and housing for the rest of the population. With a 5% increase you could easily create an end to homelessness and malnutrition surely (particularly malnutrition since its most likely a misallocation of resources problem)
+1 on this. It's pretty easy to ignore ethics when you're being paid orders of magnitude above the median national salary (I would imagine, anyway!). A course is unlikely to change that.

I'm not sure this is typical but at a UK University a few years back, a mandatory course was Social, Legal and Ethical Aspects of Computing. Make of that what you will!
'appearing' being the word.

They won't stop extracting oil until there is no oil left.
But I mean, surely it's not that unusual to have English as the language set to everything, to live in an English speaking country, and yet either have a foreign name yourself or just be friends with someone who does. And it's not that Siri/Google Assistant don't recognize those names period - they would, had they been set to the language those names originate from. But if you're set to English then forget it. And yes, I understand this is a difficult problem to solve, but I had I not known anything about internal workings of technology and was just a regular customer, I would absolutely consider the ability to call someone "basic functionality".
A moral duty is still a duty even if you are not obligated by law to do it.
Edit: Most definitions of duty definitely include moral and lawful duty.
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>>because of repeated public outrage at the abuses their lack engendered.

I recommend anyone who holds this view to read at least one book written by Thomas Sowell.

Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsafe_at_Any_Speed#Criticisms...

Repeated public outrage: cars are becoming less safe.

Economist: There is a tradeoff between safety and affordability, and making cars safer means less poor people can actually afford to buy them. In turn, this makes transportation even harder for them, which in turn means they will have fewer chances to improve their lives.

Repeated public outrage: lack of minimum wage will cause more exploitation.

Economist: Minimum wage destroys job opportunities for low skilled workers, who are already heavily marginalized in society. And once they are out of the job market, it becomes even harder for them to return to it.
For music check out Rick Beato and "The Beato Book" on youtube. However, it's pretty advanced stuff ultimately.
I graduated from a Canadian engineering undergraduate program in software engineering, and I have my Iron Ring. The ethics in the more established branches engineering (chemical, electrical, mechanical) are definitely not pretend, and are more rigorous. Software engineering is considerably newer so the codifying the ethics there are definitely a work in progress. One thing that I will say is that the engineering ethics case studies that I remember reading mostly related to duty of care to the public vs. the employer’s interests. I don’t remember an engineering ethics case study that had government or a branch of it pitted against the public good.

In addition, the engineering association is less inclined to protect ethical engineers after they’ve done the right thing as opposed to going after unethical engineers after they’ve been caught. On this issue, I personally think they have work to do, but the organization might consider that sort of action outside their mandate.
Wait, isn't the correct analogy for the stock market that there is an (almost) infinite amount of registers, but each of them can only clear a customer at the first second of each minute?
while i don't disagree with ethics courses (for everyone!), it's a bit like telling individuals to recycle more in order to solve climate change. until meaningful regulations are put in place to punish companies for ethics & privacy violations (something more than a slap on the wrist as is currently common), and until heads of companies and management are held accountable, companies will just keep moving forward and replace any workers who refuse to go along..
Developers always have to power to just not implement the feature.

If you choose to work on such features, remember it's a choice you have made. You may come to the conclusion that your personal gains outweigh the damage you create to other people but it's still your responsibility. You can't delegate that away to sleep better at night.
Clojure: Functions Across Languages
Was not there an option to teach Siri?
Or am I imagining things?
Show HN: Sight-Check – an app that checks your eyesight
Yes, Celtic. The Celts were mostly on mainland Europe at that time. You can find more details in that most scholarly work, Asterix the Gaul
Silicon Valley, where developers live in trailer parks? (San Jose for example.)

Silicon Valley, where the ethos is to get rich quick by accepting personal degradation and eschewing morality?
Car manufacturing. This is the biggest industry here in Germany. The Diesel engine cheating scands in the last year's didn't improve much on their public image. In this industry, you shall like loud and powerful engines, luxury and expensive cars, the Blockchain... I hat all of that. I quit any job interview when I learn that the company makes b2b consulting for automobile related stuff.
Out of curiosity, had you done an undergraduate research project / thesis before getting into an MSc program? Also, what do you mean by a professional Masters? I'm still learning the jargon of academia. I'm sort of following a similar path, through dipping in and out of an undergrad CS degree now that I've sort of become disenchant with web dev. 27 now, but hoping to worm my way into deep learning in the Geospatial field or just some aspect of geo-spatial hopefully with some aspect of the work being field work or generally outside. I'm interested in having something sort of official like contributions to papers, and I'd like to put the deep intellectual interests and obsession with ideas to use. I used to have these with regard to frontend dev, but after re-inventing the same problem so many times, that's getting a little boring.
I think we should all totally disregard Thiel as a lunatic. It's not as if he has been right in any of his choices so far
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Maybe mad is a strong word, but, it isn't just $100m, That's one investment by one company. It's billions of dollars across the world to gain arbitrary milliseconds.

Restructuring financial markets, to use periodic auctions for example or by adding speed bumps rather than continuous trading would probably do away with an entire wasteful industry and benefit the actually relevant parties in the financial system, people who have money, and people who need money, at the cost of the unnecessary middlemen.
> have one of Germany's best departments of philosophy.

So what? Philosophy has barely anything to do with ethics. You can study philosophers that can argue for complete opposite sides of the same point at hand, so it does not give you any indication as to what is right or wrong.

And Germany has a pretty poor record so far in terms of privacy protections/provisions, so I am not sure there is any indication that post-WW2 or post-RDA experiences have had much impact.
Meh, the short term price fluctuations are almost pure noise. Faster trading just incase the frequency of the noise. Increasing frequency only works if the feedback loops are stable.
OP asked for anything besides PDF.
What sort of benefits has it brought to software and hardware?

edit: honest question :)
For writing breakthrough papers, age is not a major factor:

https://news.northeastern.edu/2016/11/03/new-study-success-c...
I personally think ethical behaviour needs to be rewarded and unethical behaviour needs to be punished so that the cost-benefit analysis fits what we all want to see in the world. Otherwise, we get what we don’t want.
For those unfamiliar with the Salton Sea, see https://what-if.xkcd.com/152/
> We really need mandatory ethics courses in CS.

This is almost never going to happen because ethics=morals and there's no more middle ground to define what is right or wrong nowadays. You can see that already in every societal issue that divides people. Ethics courses would fall in the same pitfall: what is right or wrong depends on your system of values, and there's not much homogeneity in that realm now.
> The parent meant inflation adjusted

AU$80 in 2000 -> AU$128.38 in 2019

> Stop buying from EB Games then

Steam:
Buy Call of Duty: WWII - Digital Deluxe.
Released almost 2 years ago.
99,99€ = AU$163.42
(I'm in Europe at the moment. Anyone got an Australian price on this to prove me wrong?)
Yes, actually. 98% agree on man-made climate change. 2% (not many) don't.

The higher the expertise of the climatologist the more likely they are to agree as well. Or, only the incompetent ones disagree.

https://web.archive.org/web/20151106083011/http://tigger.uic...

https://skepticalscience.com/global-warming-scientific-conse...
Isn't this what philosophy in government and economics are? I took a Critical Theory course in college. We read Kant, Hagel, Marx, Marcuse and Adorno, and that's what their writing is all about— what all this we call "progress" is even progressing towards and what that means for the world, for individuals, etc.

I feel like the United States has just forsaken philosophy, especially as it relates to economics, in favour of their Chicago School theories of free markets. Now that the markets have been let to run free, and they're running towards nothing good in particular, perhaps it's time to just look back at all the literature written elsewhere on these matters.
Have to agree.

Catering to HFT shops was already in 100 microsecond latency a few years ago using commodity hardware and software (cannot speak of Goldman Sachs but another one of similar ilk, can't imagine GS were much far away if not even better)
It still surprises me that so many people either don't care or are ok with this. Then there are those that do care but still use this stuff which absolutely baffles me, especially on hacker news.

People I work with have to do various types of training on handling lots of private data and the risks of what happens when that data is not handled properly or worse and yet they give away so much without a care in the world. Infact I talk with 2 people that agree with me in trying to keep as much of your online activity private as possible. They both use Facebook after criticising how bad the company is.
Still, it is always appropriate to add a disclosure that you're affiliated with the project you're linking to.
The feature will get assigned to someone else, be implemented and you will be fined in performance review if not outright fired for not doing your job.
If you do other things on that project making it better, you're still complicit.
Your only bet is switching projects if you want to stay at the company, which would be harder most of the time. (Because sociopaths rule.)

There are more effective ways to fight it, they're not by refusing orders. You're not deciding someone's life here nor playing God and decisions get reversed with damage being mitigated if any.
I think it's a reaction to the published lists of people who are under something like 35.

NB Regarding the "fumbling through" feeling, I'm 53 and I think one of the comforting things about getting older is realising that it's not just you but that, in general, everyone is pretty much making life up as they go along :-)
You're right, but there are plenty of false positives. I regularly hear Assistant's 'ding' in the middle of an unrelated conversation.
I don't really understand why people turn on notifications. The one feature I would like (and I can sort of doing for some applications) is just to give me a list of notifications that have happened when I explicitly look for them. Like you say, I don't need real time notifications for anything, really -- I just eventually need to know that something has happened. It would be nice to have that in an organised list rather than spread around a bunch of different applications.
Not a reply about resume, but a general thought - Seeing these insanely talented people post their profiles and explain their skills is certainly disheartening to a junior like me.
Accurately priced securities 100ms faster (which have had any profit opportunity already arbitraged). Grea.t.
It's important to make money but,how much you're paid for your work is an exceptionally bad way to measure that work's value in our society.

Tim O'Reilly said "Create more value than you capture." I would argue that hft is the definition of people capturing value that they didn't create.
I've been seeing yours on reddit lately, very nice stuff!
The race is on to develop new strategies for storing nuclear waste