skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A prostitute being given the option to sell her body for money actually makes her life better

It brings her money, no doubt. Does it also bring emotional/mental trauma? What if it was your job to exchange your body for money at a high rate daily/weekly/monthly? Would you be ok with your daughter being a sex worker? What about your wife or your mother?
> As I always tell my candidates, "there are no right or wrong answers in this interview."

Yea, I've heard that one before.

At least at large companies, with complex (and sometimes written) culture, there are right answers to cultural fit questions. This is where it helps to know someone inside the company who can coach you on the specifics of the culture and help you to learn the right answers. At different companies, the culturally "fit" answer to "What do you prefer to do when you see someone else getting nit-picked?" can be very different! At one company, the better answer could be "coach the nit-picker on effective feedback" and at another, the better answer might be "help the nit recipient with their coding skills." Figure out the right answer for the company you're interviewing with and how to defend it in a way the interviewer expects, given your knowledge of their cultural norms.

Maybe I'm being overly pragmatic but as a candidate, your goal is to get the offer and if possible get the offer at their competitor, too. You're already facing a massive power imbalance. More offers translates into more choices and leverage as a candidate.
They are not applying for a job at sendgrid, or as an email implementation strategist.
Economist here!

I missed the vizier training classes though. That's unfortunate -- being able to intentionally shape world events would really satisfy the ego. /s

Truth be told, there is a spectrum of political leanings among economists akin to the spectrum of political leanings among developers. We're not a superclass of reptilian ubermensch and uberfrauen able to worm our ways into the minds of the powerful.

Possibly the main missing point is that the book appears to be uninformed that there are many economic scholars researching inequality, race[1], feminism[2], environmentalism[3], and other progressive areas[4].

Really, there is a broad set of things considered "economics" and I encourage folks to check it out[5].

Remember that all models are wrong, but some are useful. The article's mention of Oi's work highlights this, but the book's takeaway is weird. Rather than a justifiable conclusion of "economists are learning the same as the rest of the world how to manage their leaky abstractions" the book instead treats the reader to FUD.

[1] http://www.columbia.edu/~bo2/bookflyer2015.pdf

[2] http://www.feministeconomics.org/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_economics

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_of_religion

[5] https://www.aeaweb.org/jel/guide/jel.php
> All you really want to know is "is this check good?"

There's no way of knowing whether a cheque is good. The banks can always claw back the money from a fraudulent cheque.

There's some scams around that make use of the fact that people think a cleared cheque is a good cheque and that they money is now theirs. That's wrong, it isn't.
Humans Are Doing the Hard Work That Algorithms Can’t
On mobile (Android), a few times an ad covered half the screen and couldn't be closed... I had to reload the page.
Journalists are qualified in nothing and can't possibly have any weight on the question of whether something will or will not work. That's why they always speak through experts. Why would anyone care what a journalist thinks? Their job is to journal, not tell people what to do.
I'd say that too many people still seem to equate "objective" with "real"/"physical"...

(P.S.: Assuming that a "God's view" of the problem has to exist?)

I'm suspecting that physics might end up in a similar situation than mathematics, where we find out that we can't objectively prove everything - and either we'll have an epistemological breakthrough allowing us to deal with subjectivity in a framework that has still some resemblance to a scientific method, or... we won't.

(Personally, I'm hopeful that the Hard Problem can be "dissolved" - and this "philosophical zombie" concept just seems to me to be misguided, just like the concept of aether was.)
This is a really useful website! Where do you get the data?
> Economics is not a science, economics uses science.

So you decide what is science and what isn't? What is your model of what a science is? As long as you can't answer that, the only thing unscientific is your comment.

> The alternative to economics is politics where political decisions like austerity are not wrapped up in economics and pushed hook line and sinker.

You can use any science to wrap up political decisions. Also, economics is not a normative science like philosophy. Everything economics does is to say: "According to model M, if you do X in situation Y, then Z happens". If politicians turn it into austerity measures or deficit spending, then that' s politics, not economics.

> because leading economist nobel prize winner said so.

Be more specific. Who said what?
> it would be illegal for me to run a website which let sex workers anonymously check a particular client’s phone number to see if someone had previously reported them as violent

I always had a business idea that is very similar to this. It would be a good use for decentralized "blockchain based" (aka no mediator). It would be like LinkedIn, but instead of thumbs ups and high fives saying what an awesome boss you are and how your Excel skills are second to none, it would be the truth about working for/with certain individuals/companies.

You could even have a spinoff that talks about romantic partners. Who is a known cheater, abuser, etc.
Feels a little unnatural.
It seems to me that your comment being downvoted is a perfect illustration of the patriarchy.
And you are not sleeping, or appear to be.
> and with a fair bit of cash on them

Enforce Zelle/Square/CashApp/WePay only rules :)
If you're gonna commit multiple crimes, at least do it for a significant amount of money. This is just not worth it, and trivial to get caught.
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A better question is why are they paid so little. Right now that’s mostly supply and demand.
Reminds me the time we integrated a web survey with giftbit (api driven gift card service). While developing this for our client I had this nagging sense that we needed to rate limit or block multiple submissions by a single email but the client wanted it to ship ASAP and not take the extra time to have some validation flow.

Day 1 - 8 legit surveys each getting $50 amazon card
Day 2 - just over a hundred with 90+ being the same gmail account.
Day 3 - out of credits, campaign over.

Between this and the Voi write up I think it’s important to have a dark mind in the room to avoid stuff like this being so trivial. Some hacks you hear about and the first thought is about how gifted or smart the hack/er was, other times you just think how dumb the developer was. I’ve been on both sides of this and while I’m not proud of it I think the stories like these keep people on their toes.
You'd be surprised

https://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/mental-health/what-is-bar...
Speaking of leading to the “insanely great” promised land, apple’s cofounder was an infamous crier...not sure how that fits into the worldview here.
Gotta love communism.
If anyone's interest is piqued (and who here wouldn't want to twiddle those knobs and sliders?), the excellent (and active) VCV Rack offers an OS software alternative with both free and paid modules available: https://vcvrack.com

It has also recently become available on iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mirack/id1468259834

It is not the same experience as touching real hardware, but it can be a stepping stone without incurring the expense of an actual modular system.
We like to think that, don't we. But the more I think about it, the less true it seems.

We seem to be able to measure every other form of talent. I think those with power vehemently resist measurement because they know it opens them to scrutiny.
I agree with this. A 'happy ending massage' worker "has to" give a 'happy ending' to a customer, and a vet "has to" shove his hand elbow deep up a cows orifice. Somehow we treat the first ones as victims/immorals and the second ones as doing noble work.
Heh, too late for that - but I wonder why I haven't stumbled on any philosophical literature about it before ?
I think a lot of people are pro-sex work when it comes to commenting on the theory of it, but a lot of people would also be remiss if their daughter/wife/mother was a sex worker. On top of that, if you didn't want your daughter being a sex worker, I would go as far as to say you also wouldn't want her hanging out with any known sex workers.
The EU has put forth a picture of itself as a defender of human rights for both EU citizens and global residents.

There are two main streams of human rights policy and action within the European Union. One is to protect the fundamental human rights for EU citizens, and the other is to promote human rights worldwide.

https://europa.eu/european-union/topics/human-rights_en

I don't see how that is compatible with the frequent violations of human rights in China. As an above commenter said: it seems to boil down to money.
As an interviewer, I like these kinds of questions as it shows interest from the candidate. The worst is no questions from the candidate. If a candidate has no decent questions for me, I'll usually and enthusiastically suggest some, starting with "what is most enjoyable and what is the worst thing about this role/department/company?"
Not that Google News is any good. My newsfeed is basically far-left propaganda.

I would almost go as far as to say that this is a good thing for France.
These are good questions, but almost too vague to answer. If you have a few decades of knowledge, it is difficult to pull out which pieces of your approach to your work would be the most helpful to those getting started.

Likewise, presuming what other people do not know often comes off as arrogant, as there is very little in my knowledge base that someone with a couple years of experience couldn't know. The time put into this industry is less about specific tech knowledge or techniques, and more about having seen so many more things.

Situations that feel like new, huge new problem spaces for beginners may be something we can respond to with, "Oh, I did something like this 15 years ago. Here is how I did it then, let us see if we can do something similar, but modernize it with the new capabilities we have these day."

It is difficult to imagine every possible scenario these days and give a general answer that would be meaningful. My best general recommendation is to learn the concepts of deconstruction and reconstruction. Break down everything you do to its core components and concepts, decoupled from the technical solutions. Build your solution up from those principles, thinking of technology as a tool to solve problems, and not thinking of the tech as the solution in and of itself. When you approach problems this way, it is easier to make those connections in the future saying, "This is the same as the problem we solved a few years ago", because you recognize the underlying concepts.
> [capitalism] doesn't come with the death toll

Citation needed
Anecdata here, but I knew a couple of sex workers (one was a stripper, one was an escort) at university. Both of them looked at their options - food service worker, work/study job in the bookstore, and retail employee at the local big box stores and decided that the level of compensation, ability to set one's own hours, ability to choose ones own clients, and relative level of risk was such that being a sex worker was more remunerative and gratifying.

They had other options. They chose sex work knowing the risks, knowing they could quit if they wanted to, and knowing their alternatives.

I'm aware that not every sex worker enters sex work that way, but it's equally wrong to say that all sex workers do sex work because they have no other options.
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Given the context, I would classify you as insincere.
> So you decide what is science and what isn't? What is your model of what a science is? As long as you can't answer that, the only thing unscientific is your comment.

1. a branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of facts or truths systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws: the mathematical sciences.

Please list a set of economic truths. Any set will be good enough as long as it can make reliable predictions that can be tested in the real world.

> You can use any science to wrap up political decisions.

You could, but the point is not to. Or if you want to then make sure that the science is predictive.

> Be more specific. Who said what?

When you are talking about the general facts that economics is often prescriptive but at the same time can be shown to be unpredictive which proves that it is not fit for this task. Yet economists and their political allies continue to argue that it is. Maybe it's better than simply political arguments and maybe the justification for supporting the orthodoxy is in line with that. That you're scared of the political outcome and so economics is a safer option.
If it came from the bottle, wouldn't it be in 100% of the samples?
Fascinating --
Californians, please stay in your containment zone. /s

As someone who once lived there, It is the only place I take pains to leave out. The perception of Californians to the rest of the country is quite poor. This genuinely suprised me at first, but now I tend to agree. Even the deep south was less racist and hateful, although they now bear the brunt of jokes about such topics, rather than seeing much needed support and education. People need to rediscover our beautiful country and remember the USA is not a monoculture.

In the end, californians, like anyone else, are welcome where ever they may go if they leave what they left behind, and embrace what they have chosen as their new home. However, if you want to make my town like what you knew from cali, in looks, laws or attitude: stay home. The world is here to welcome you, not bend to you.
There is already arxiv.org and biorxiv.org (and probably some more that I am not aware of) and they are gaining poplarity (some fields are faster in adoption than others).

These prerint-servers are great for publishing your papers as-is, without peer review. But scientfic standards also require people to let other independent researchers do a peer-review where they criticise your paper and then ask for further experiments/analyses/elaborations/corrections to strengthen the point you want to make with your paper. Traditional journals are usually pretty good at fetching people to do the (gratis) peer review for them. As far as I know something like this does not exist for papers on preprint servers. But at least you can leave comments under the preprints and thereby offer criticism or ask questions.
My 2015 Vw E-up takes about 15 minutes to add 75% state of charge using the mcdonalds charger, so it's actually a bit too fast to eat there. I guess a leaf or e-golf with bigger batteries might do it.

My model x would have to stay there quite a bit longer but it's idiotic to charge a tesla on these 50 kW chargers as the superchargers are much cheaper (if not free) and are usually situated next to better quality food outlets.

I haven't eaten at mcdonalds in 20 year or so anyway, they only serve garbage food, but I've used their chargers for the e-up :)
Aircraft position can be derived from ADS-B.

I don't think the attack could realistically cause a plane to land off-runway in normal ILS conditions, but it coul certainly shut down the airport.
This is an interesting idea. However, I feel like this could be better addressed by using an addressable chip like the ws2811. These can be chained for quite the distance and you will not get the inherent flickering that comes with the multiplexing approach. They even come in a standard LED form factor with one additional leg for data. This can all be controlled with a single digital pin on an arduino using a library like fastLED.
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> Cultural changes and evolves, of course, but it's really hard to uproot a norm or more once it's settled in, even if it's one that causes you personal pain.

I don’t know if I believe this in general. Certainly we are happy to utterly change our lifestyles whenever a convenient new technology comes about. How much have smart phones or social media changed us culturally in the spans of a couple decades? If culture can change quickly over convenience, surely actual pain would drive it to change even faster. It seems that those “hard to change” cultural aspects are actually _useful_ in some way, and therefore they survive.
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The PIN isn’t protected by the Secure Enclave. The PIN is what protects it. The SE protects cryptographic keys.
The issue isn't about how the US regulates free market activities. It is about how the US uses it's power and influence to undermine the sovereign decisions of other nations that might be detrimental to US trade.

Things like protectionism, how a country may choose to do trade (e.g the currency they trade in E.g petrodollar), the rights to a countries natural resources (E.g nationalisation). These tools are effective for underdeveloped countries that don't have the market and production efficiencies to compete on a global stage or the money to subsidise nationally important yet expensive businesses like farming.

Adam Smith effectively said that trade is good because it frees up the utility of your worker to do work of a greater economic benefit and that it made greater sense to buy from a supplier nation that can produce the same product more efficiently.

Those countries with inefficient and unproductive economies don't have the high skill economically more valuable jobs so for them trade isn't an opportunity for growth because it just undermines their local economy by taking away local jobs.
That glass ceiling limit seems to be at the CEO level, in the case of Elizabeth Holmes and other various "confident phonies" that get posted here on HN every few weeks. So, there doesn't seem to be a practical limit to how far overconfidence can get you in your career.
I don't believe you
Maybe this one?

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1910836
I know Google is not the one asking to take those down but they are actualy the ones that made the algorithm , but taking those videos down is based on DMCA law witch is a US law pushed internationally by the big US companies.

What feels to me as hypocrisy is when US citizens accuse Europe of targeting this big US corporations with some laws where similar laws were pushed before by US, So is illegal for me to make a video clip with scenes from different movies but it should be legal for a big US company to compile snippets of text and images and put them on their page.

In my experience it happened to find the answer in that snippet and not visit the website and in other case the smaller snippet you see under the results was not to be found on the web-page that was linked
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There are many problems with your argument, but I’d like to focus on the fact that your understanding of the definition of The Patriarchy is wrong.

From Wikipedia[0]:

> Patriarchy is a social system in which men hold primary power and predominate in roles of political leadership, moral authority, social privilege and control of property.

How many female presidents have we had here in the USA? What percentage of Fortune 500 CEOs are women?

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriarchy
He already brought that point up:

> - Finally, the Journals have the temerity to charge the same universities who produce their product millions of pounds a year in journal subscriptions and Open Access fees.

Yes, this is about universities. But the same paywalls affect regular people as well.

It is absolutely rediculus that publishing a paper costs more than I earn a month as a scientist.
While it probably isn't the main concern, different species produce lumber with different properties. The loss of Elm trees in the uk removed a timber that was very useful for boatbuilding, for example (thought that is a bit of a niche concern).
The FSF is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) charity; if it would institute policies to benefit a single for-profit entity, the inevitable IRS audit would be excruciatingly painful and possily result in jail time for directors.
Economist here!

Economics is definitely not a science. It is a social science -- it can use the methodological tools of science to investigate and support theories applied in situations where the whole may behave predictably but individuals typically won't.

We certainly test hypotheses, strategize, and theorize. But, contrary to physics or biology, there probably will never be a set of iron-clad rules and facts that can be derived.

When I went through graduate school, the elephant in the room was "where did preferences come from?" Preferences are used as the basis of analysis in microeconomics, and macroeconomics tries to base itself on top of micro. The answers of the day were unsatisfying -- neuroscience has made great strides, but we still only see the observation without knowing the underlying system itself.
How? who is affected negatively ? creators,publishers, the people in the short term or in the long term?
Having grounding in nature doesn't mean that it ought to be kept around though. Lots of harmful stuff is grounded in nature, and lots of amazing and good things have no grounding in nature. We have to examine everything and decide if it's worth keeping around regardless of the source.
Not in a useful way, I don't think.

If that was the case and if it was a real problem, newspapers and magazines wouldn't want to be displayed at news agents either.
I could nave a few in SV where this would undoubtably raise suspicion. Many of the hottest companies are well known for being successful dispite (because of?) their challanging working environments.

At first you would wonder why anyone would bother when the pay is often similar, but talented people seek a challenge. Many of the most tempermental composers always had a line of the best musicians waiting to suffer near-abuse just to have a crack at attempting something amazingly difficult that they respect.
IANAL but this is in their user agreement [0]:

1.9 Unauthorized use, tampering and hacking.

You must not tamper with, attempt to gain unauthorized access to, modify, hack, repair, any Voi material or hardware, source-codes, information, including the Voi App, Website and Scooter, for any purposes. The Voi App, Website and the Scooter may only be used for the purposes pursuant to this Agreement.

If that's valid in court, that's another matter.

It looks like the Sweden Penal Code has a definition of data breach and jail time [1]

0 - https://www.voiscooters.com/voi-user-agreement-12rr/

1 - https://iclg.com/practice-areas/cybersecurity-laws-and-regul...

EDIT: Not discussing the technical details of this post because they are quite boring, to be honest. That's Web Security 101 and, given so many previous incidents, far from surprising that these companies aren't handling it well.
It depends whether you consider privacy a "right" (for which noone should pay) or a "privilege".