skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't work: https://www.ashedryden.com/blog/codes-of-conduct-101-faq#coc...

> WHY IS THE LANGUAGE SO NEGATIVE/PUNITIVE? THIS'LL TAKE THE FUN/CASUAL ATMOSPHERE OUT OF MY EVENT. THE PEOPLE ATTENDING ARE MY FRIENDS, I'LL VOUCH FOR THEM. ISN'T IT OBVIOUS/COMMON SENSE WHAT'S ACCEPTABLE? WE'RE ALL ADULTS HERE, WHY CAN'T WE SAY "BE EXCELLENT TO EACH OTHER"?

Not everyone understands what is unacceptable behavior, especially when we are talking about a group of people that is mostly homogenous and has very little interaction with people different than they are.

We focus specifically on what isn't allowed and what violating those rules would mean so there is no gray area, no guessing, no pushing boundaries to see what will happen. "Be nice" or "Be an adult" doesn't inform well enough about what is expected if one attendee's idea of niceness or professionalism are vastly different than another's. On top of that, "be excellent to each other" has a poor track record [link, now broken, previously described a real-world situation where people holding grudges tried to weaponize a community's sole "be excellent" rule against each other].

You may have been running an event for a long time and many of the attendees feel they are "like family", but it actually makes the idea of an incident happening at the event even scarier. If someone is new and not part of "the family" will they be believed? Will they be treated like an invading outsider?

Remember that everyone who has harassed or assaulted someone is a parent, sibling, child, or friend to someone else. We don't always know people as well as we think we do.
>they've been busted dozens of times for changing a claim

You keep repeating this claim over and over without any evidence whatsoever that this is happening. Even the cases you've posted have no indication that anything was changed to re-frame a result and yet you keep arguing that they're selectively choosing the question and, on top of that, all of them include an image of the original claim, irrespective of what they chose as the title of their page.
Sure... but I don't know where US citizens will go if they do not have residence in another country. Not everyone getting searched reside outside the US.
So what you're proposing is that we should take the set of countries that have had an airplane terrorist and check 100% of people from those countries, and none of the others? So
because once a British man tried to light his shoes on fire to blow up a plane we should specially check 100% of the 3.8 million British citizens traveling to the US per year, but we should check 0% of those traveling on North Korean passports? Your opinion might be unpopular because it's bad.
So as a practical matter, is it likely border officials will honor the ruling?
Influence: The Power of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini

It was interesting to learn why certain techniques work.
> draw the owl

"The rest of the fucking owl" is a meme about laughably incomplete instructions, in case you didn't catch the reference: https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1272765-how-to-draw-an-owl

"Draw the owl" is a pretty ironic rule, because it's horribly incomplete itself unless you're familiar with that particular meme.

I wonder how many people work at Twilio who have heard "draw the owl," and know it has something to do with being consistent, but has no idea what it means or why it seems to be clear to everyone else?
This sounds pretty advanced! What lab do you work in?
Google “HDHP avoidance of care”, there is a million studies showing those plans are a disaster.
W3C Distributed Tracing Working Group
I have been hearing people talk about google results becoming useless regularly but it never made sense to me until you mentioned the part about adding wiki and reddit to terms which I do all the time to get real information and not paid blog articles by people who just read the box of the product they are reviewing.
I mostly agree. This just makes the attack substantially easier and removes all remote logging of the access. As far as the investigators will see, the victim of the attack performed the malicious behavior. Hopefully the edge firewall in front of the developer logs all outbound connections and who owns the IP at the time and hopefully they are not working from home/remote, or they have a corporate VPN that logs all outbound connections.

If I phish you and you run a script, but multiplexing is disabled, then I have to take a few extra steps on your machine to capture passwords assuming you have passwords set on your ssh keys. It also means I have to initiate a new connection rather than using your existing ssh channels. Depending on the environment and your laptop configuration, this may or may not increase my risk of being detected. This of course highly depends on what level of logging and remote monitoring of your laptop is in place.
But no... When a value is put forward then the inverse value (or competing ones) have to be downplayed or actively discouraged.

Inverse values are unnamed; it would be interesting to know what they are and decide if we agree to let them go.
It’s tiny biotechs – not big – that fear ‘nuclear winter’ from drug pricing bill
Granting one-time access to photos means Facebook can just copy them all and keep them.
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I would argue that any individual deserves most or all rights outlined in the Bill of Rights, regardless of citizenship or geographic location. These are fundamental human rights. I'm aware this is not how the constitution is written, it's just my opinion.
Unfortunately, DDG has a close relationships with the kgb's outlet yandex (and trying not to mention that anywhere unless asked directly), which is absolute showstopper for me
Why doesn't Apple turn on a green light when the camera is in use, just like their laptops do when using the webcam? Or even something like the GPS indicator you see when an app is using your GPS? Seems like a pretty easy fix. Could even do it in software.
> I don’t think it’s silly to suggest that maybe all humans should have the same protections against their rights being violated.

Don't different countries have different views of rights? What happens when those rights are at odds? For example, Turkish people can't speak ill against their governments [0]. This contrasts with countries that have fewer restrictions on speech, like America.

So I think the main issue is, how can all humans have the same protections if different jurisdictions protect different things?

Or is "protections" here more about procedural rights?

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_301_(Turkish_Penal_C...
I wonder what the next search engine algorithm will be... I've been thinking about up-votes/down-votes. And I could swear Google experimented with Random ranking a few years back, which gave very good results, but it was a bit annoying when you forget to bookmark a site, and not finding it when searching for it again the next day. But I'm thinking random plus voting, so if you find a good site, you upvote it, if you find spam you downvote it. If you want to find that good site again, you just check your upvote history. Random sorting give small interesting web sites a chance to get found. When doing a search you can use sliders to fine-tune the order using popularity (upvote/downvote ratio), last updated, first found, region, and a checkbox to only show links you haven't already clicked on, or haven't already voted on. And there could be an option to discover sites you would probably like, based on which links you have upvoted, and what people that upvote sites simlar to you also up-voted - but you have not yet clicked on. The problem with upvote bots have already been solved by social networks like Facebook, where using like-farms, follower-farms etc are not very effective. You should not be too baised on the votes though, or you would end up with echo-chamber loops like with Spotify and Youtube. The key is randomness! A random brute force-like algorithm is often just as good and sometimes better then a sophisticated system. It would be hard to game/cheat a random algorithm.
> 99% of Debian installations keep using systemd.

Where does this statistic come from? None of my Linux machines report what my installation is or is not using, and I doubt that I'm alone in this.
I agree, I think this is more an argument to be made in court
Looks like it was recently (thankfully) reversed and remanded:
https://ballotpedia.org/Rehaif_v._United_States

Weird quirk with the huntling license, so that second example is a state law?
why are german labour laws very well suited? Tesla had several incidents with injured workers and safety violations
Check out Microsoft Blazor.
Placing it near that airport may be the biggest risk Musk has ever taken.
As much as I love math and logic, sometimes I wish it would go fuck itself with all this "majority" shit. It's really putting a hamper on my ability to have any optimism that things might ever change.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1194373823912538112
Startups are generally taking risks by design. When you are allowed and expected to take risks, your behavior is different than those being risk averse. Most gov't services are infrastructure to a degree. You don't want people gambling with infrastructure.
Sure, I'm thinking about the development lifecycle in terms of what actions data scientists have to take to get a model deployed. Anytime the process has a branch (ie: you need to change this file whenever something elsewhere changes) then I know I'm going to forget to do that.

If we were to use Cortex, we would likely wrap the creation of cortex.yml in a function and call it when we're saving our models. We do something similar right now and store the meta in json files for later deployment. I love tracking config in git too.
The switch itself may not be, but the mechanical effects (hole in case, board space, waterproofing, design testing and as GP said, warranty) makes it expensive.
From what I understand, much of the actual operations of CB / ETS are contracted out to Pearson Education (massive educational publisher).
It's not uncommon for individuals at elite universities to have published research in high school - especially in mathematics.
I also strongly doubt you can simply bootstrap a Netflix caliber development team, no matter how much you spend. I have no doubt that the people who came up with Disney+ had no concept of this.
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Make a bet. 10% ownership stake. If your cofounder is right, then they get a bigger share of the company. Otherwise, you do.
Likewise "nuclear plant phenomenology".
Do iBuyers Like Opendoor and Zillow Make Fair Market Offers?
I'm quite fine with only malicious apps spying on me to begin with. I'm pretty sure Facebook or other large players wouldn't use that kind of trick.

Obviously that might not be enough for everyone, but it's by far the best solution that works with existing hardware. Tomorrows phones might have indicator LEDs or hardware switches, but my current one doesn't.
It’d be interesting to see if Apple added system UI on top of apps that tried to access the camera, displayed by SpringBoard so apps couldn’t draw over it.
No, I don’t think everyone ought to have the right to enter my house at night time either, but my point does not collapse to such absurd suggestions. I was, of course, referring to the phrase “the people” in the text of the fourth amendment. I hope I don’t sound too silly suggesting that the right to not have property searched and seized unreasonably is not something that ought to depend on which country you were born or have gained citizenship in.
GAE is incredible and poorly marketed. Its the only serverless product I know of that allows me to use whatever server framework I want (flask, rails, spring) but be blissfully ignorant of the underlying VMs. I spent a week looking all the other major alternatives out there, and I don't think GAE has any real competitors. Its just a different kind of serverless...in a really good way.

Having said that, it has some serious shortcomings: baked in monitoring (at least for Python) is much worse than, say, Datadog + Sentry. Additionally, Google doesn't have any great relational serverless databases (which is what I personally want for a regular webapp) -- they do have some solid non-relational databases. Also, no secret store...its very tricky to securely store secrets inside GAE.

To me, the perfect platform for a webapp is GAE + Aurora + some undiscovered secrets store.
‘Make Ebola a thing of the past’: First vaccine against deadly virus approved
Ohh yeah :D
Can you explain the metaphor "hiding the umbrella"? Google didn't turn up any obvious meaning.

If I had to guess, it's a reference to the joke about turning in your expense report, after being told they won't reimburse you for the umbrella you lost, and so you overstaet expenses enough to cover the umbrella's cost. But that never made sense to me, since they demand receipts anyway...
> What do you mean by "seen out", exactly?

Committing a crime of moral turpitude as a non-immigrant (and even some green card holders) makes you eligible for deportation. [1]

[1] https://www.alllaw.com/articles/nolo/us-immigration/legal-re...
Indeed! Voters want great gov't services but also hate paying taxes. These are often contradictory. Sometimes you get what you pay for and can't vote for a magic lunch. People complain about how slow the DMV is, but if you ask them if they want their car registration fees increased to reduce waits, most will say "no".
They're offering better quality for a higher price. I don't understand why that's "scummy". It's the most honest way to price something.

You could just watch it in regular quality - it's not that bad. Either you feel UHD is worth the extra $3/month (honestly a pittance compared to the price of a UHD TV) or you do not.
I like something from the Netflix culture slide deck (circa 2009). It says that company values are not what's written in a doc like this, or on a plaque on the wall. Those are what the company would like the values to be. Company values are what really happens, day in and day out.

Hopefully the two align; in many cases they don't.
You're right; right on multiple levels...heh

Language is used to convey meaning. The difference between my wife and Google is that Google tries to interpret language in the lowest common denominator which leaves all people who try to use language properly feeling like they need to learn a new one just to be understood by their search engine.

...maybe that's not so different.
Yes, of course it’s all relative, but that cuts both ways, because we also have other streaming plans to compare prices with.
supply chain, labor?

I mean we used to build factories on the river for that reason. Made a royal mess, but easy to ship things in and out.
Well, there is no green light to turn on at the moment.
Yep we've been watching it in the Netherlands for the last couple of weeks. Been working pretty well to be honest...
Except that most automotive talent is clustered in the south of Germany (greater Stuttgart and greater Munich), not in Berlin.

If you do a quick job search, those places have the most jobs in Auto and also the highest wages.
IIRC The app used to have a feature that allowed you to swipe to the right to quickly bring up the camera. I wonder if this bug is a remnant of that feature.
It's already pretty well established as law. There's not really any room to argue.
Hello! Former engineering director for DisneyLife here. Most of the team wasn't allowed to move to Disney+ and have since moved on. The DisneyLife journey would make a great book, but doesn't really fit into a HN comment.

FWIW, DisneyLife was built by a team smaller than most YC startups. The core technology for DRM/streaming was licensed by another company. When BAM was purchased, the entire product got outsourced. The auth was a central service that we didn't own but were required to use. When I left, we had autoplay of next episodes.
If I had my way, I'd have each applicant stripped, x-rayed, confined to an acoustically isolated faraday cage, and sit down for an examination generated and marked by an AI system.

I've seen too many enabled people trying to game the system.
Data Sources (Analytics, DBs etc) -> Stitch (stitchdata.com) -> Redshift -> Periscope (periscopedata.com)

This setup has worked pretty well for us so far. I've learned of a few tools from this thread that might help us to better manage data sets and views - specifically DBT and Dataform.
Indeed: that and many other things are prior art in this space. And there is a lot of prior art for what we're working on—this is not meant as an academic research project! :)
My theory is that companies tend to not have an actual process, or that if they do it still ends up in the bin of human biases that their process can't quantify.

There are probably obvious things like "crash and burned on a whiteboard problem path-finding" or "requested more than was allocated for the position" (would be nice if possible compensation ranges were required in the posting); but past the obvious disqualifications (which candidates should get feedback on) there's that 'fits with the (a) team' phase. Having an 'exit value', even if generic / approved by legal, would be helpful for everyone including internal company metrics that might drive a better posting if the job isn't fulfilled.
New ideas are cheap.

Choosing which ones to act on, and acting on them effectively is what's hard.
They're so user hostile that they don't even allow you to copy and paste pictures. You MUST save them, giving them access.

Honestly, I have no idea how one company can be so horrible. It's like they read the site about Dark Patterns and asked themselves: What if we combined them ALL?
Its OSS, but it is definitely not free software.

Lets be honest, nothing redhat gives out is actually free.
This subject and the utter vagueness of the values presented here require me to bring up Bryan Cantrill's talk, 'Principles of Technology Leadership'.[1] He gives Amazon a lambasting over their core principles, and Uber even moreso.

It's both funny and sobering to examine how what seems like a useful and valuable foundation ends up being flimsy and easy to ignore when made vague enough.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QMGAtxUlAc
Isn't the issue in Israel that you must have a local importer and dealer?
Not education, you mean accreditation.
We train models as kubernetes cronjobs defined by a minimal properties file per model defining number of cps/gpus/mem. They will start with a given image (ex pytorch or tf) based on where in the repository these files are placed, and will then run a user specified bash file to start the job.

Data scientists have a similar docker image running in kubernetes which includes all of these images as conda environments for experimenting in prod-like environments. Spark is used to fetch data for the most part.

Models report a finished state over Kafka after getting persisted to buckets in Google cloud, then gets mirrored over to a ceph cluster connected to our serving kubernetes cluster.

We have an in house Golang server binding to c++ for serving pytorch neural nets persisted with the torch.jit API (I can really recommend this for hassle-free model serving). We also have some Java apps for serving normal ALS or Annoy based models.

Our traffic is not as wild as many here, but we're serving around 10M user requests a day.

We also do a merging of results from several models' results, and join them together with a separate "meta-model" that estimates which model the user has had a preference for recently, to weight those up.

There's probably a lot of details left out here, especially about the serving part, since we have various services in front of the models enriching data and presenting it to the user, but it's the gist of it.
How about more like your country gets more strikes the more airplane terrorists you've had? So Britain has 1 strike, but Saudi Arabia has probably 20+ strikes. So you are 20x more likely to be searched if you are Saudi Arabian than British.

And if you are from a country that has never had an airplane terrorist, like North Korea, why should you be screened? Maybe you should be profiled for other things, but not terrorism.
Until their batteries degraded and were no longer able to provide sufficient current to operate the device at peak performance. Batteries are consumables. It’s a combination of the never ending march of software bloat and the degraded performance characteristics of the years-old battery due to physics.
That is what i do, it has also help me decrease the usage of fb and insta.
What has worked fairly well so far:

Models:

- Models are structured as python packages, each model inherits a base class

- base class has define how to train, and how to predict (as well as a few other more specific things)

- ML engineer can override model serialization methods, default is just pickle

Infra:

- Code is checked in to github, Docker container built each merge into master

- Use Sagemaker BYO container to train models, each job gets a job_id that represents the state produced by that job (code + data used)

Inference / deployment:

- Deploy model as http endpoints (SageMaker or internal) using job_id

- Have a service that centralizes all score requests, finds correct current endpoint for a model, emits score events to kinesis, track health of model endpoints

- A/B test either in scoring service or in product depending on requirements

- deploy prediction jobs using a job_id and a data source (usually sql) that can be configured to output data to S3 or our data warehouse

So far this has been pretty solid for us. The tradeoff has been theres a step between notebook and production for ML engineers which can slow them down, but it forces code review and increases the number of tests checked in.
I can't help but imagine monsters coming out at night and killing the homeless. I think most people would in fact consider that a bad thing.
Is this going to end up having applications for integrated circuit manufacturing?
You don't need to pay a Netflix salary to build streaming video. I predict Netflix salaries will begin to erode over time.
At my company, they are cultural principles that make us different from other companies, that bleed into our hiring practice and day-to-day work.

For example, "we are egolessly mission driven" is one of our values: this helps us recruit the right people (drawing people want to work at a mission-oriented company; turning away people who just want a random job), as well as helping us notice and nudge employees who might be (accidentally) engaging in political maneuvering.

"we focus ruthlessly on the most important thing" helps us filter recruits out who don't want to take work seriously, helps make our Slack channels much quieter / less spammy than most companies, and helps employees self-improve along the axis of protecting their focus time.

Stating explicitly what you care about, and talking about these things a lot, is a huge aspect of how a company defines its culture as it grows beyond ~ 10 people or so.
I added the title, but I wouldnt do it justice, Scalia gives a fantastic overview of what the militia is in the first few minutes.
Also the Guardian isn’t owned by a Google competitor - it’s owned by the Scott Trust, an organisation set up specifically to maintain the paper’s editorial independence.

They have viewpoints which include a distrust of very powerful global corporations, and one you may or may not agree with - but it’s nowhere near ‘fake news’.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Trust_Limited
4gb from linode is $20/month. Not bad if you can actually get use.

If you want to just test it, why not use a VritualBox VM or similar?
Money creation in the modern economy [pdf]