skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Marx literally wrote about this in Das Kapital over a 100 years ago laying out the mechanisms of capitalist consolidation:

The splitting-up of the total social capital into many individual capitals or the repulsion of its fractions from one another, is counteracted by their attraction. This last does not mean that simple concentration of the means of production and of the command over labour, which is identical with accumulation. It is concentration of capitals already formed, destruction of their individual independence, expropriation of capitalist by capitalist, transformation of many small into few large capitals. This process differs from the former in this, that it only presupposes a change in the distribution of capital already on hand, and functioning; its field of action is therefore not limited by the absolute growth of social wealth, by the absolute limits of accumulation. Capital grows in one place to a huge mass in a single hand, because it has in another place been lost by many. This is the centralization proper, as distinct from accumulation and concentration.

The laws of this centralization of capitals, or of the attraction of capital by capital, cannot be developed here. A brief hint at a few facts must suffice. The battle of competition is fought by cheapening of commodities. The cheapness of commodities depends, coeteris pribus, on the productiveness of labour, and this again on the scale of production. Therefore, the larger capitals beat the smaller. It will further be remembered that, with the development of the capitalist mode of production, there is an increase in the minimum amount of individual capital necessary to carry on a business under its normal conditions. The smaller capitals, therefore, crowd into spheres of production which Modern Industry has only sporadically or incompletely got hold of. Here competition rages in direct proportion to the number, and the inverse proportion to the magnitudes, of the antagonistic capitals. It always ends in the ruin of many small capitalists, whose capitals partly pass into the hand of their conquerors, partly vanish. Apart from this, with capitalist production an altogether new force comes into play - the credit system.

In its beginnings, the credit system sneaks in as a modest helper of accumulation and draws by invisible threads the money resources scattered all over the surface of society into the hands of individual or associated capitalists. But soon it becomes a new and formidable weapon in the competitive struggle, and finally it transforms itself into an immense social mechanism for centralization of capitals.
I am going to object to the idea that "Tech" can be racist, it can be functional or nonfunctional, the people who use it can be good or bad the tech is agnostic.

Now this argument is made more interesting in the age of ML and AWS Rekognition in particular, but my understanding is that ML decisions/classifications are made based on training data, if the model had been trained with different data it would've produced different results. Ultimately this ML is just math run at a massive scale with a ton of data points, it isn't intended to show how the world should be rather express according to the math how it actually works, the math the model is objective it doesn't care about feelings or bias or prejudice it just classifies images according to an algorithm based on training data.

Can someone help me understand the counterpoint that technology is inherently ist? I agree it can be used to push ist agendas or perpetuate causes of *ism but technology itself seems like it would be pretty objective and if it is producing uncomfortable or bad results based on it's math either the tech is bad, or it is trying to show us something we may not like.
"Radical Markets" by Weyl and Posner (2018) is a very accessible summary of what you might call "neo-Georgist" thinking.

George's essential political idea was that society is not a struggle between labor (workers) and capital (entrepreneurs, investors, landowners, etc), but between rentiers - paradigmatically landlowners, but in neo-Georgist thought all "owners" - and the "productive" classes (labor and entrepreneurial capital). For George, the general interest can always be identified with capital accumulation. Rentiers stand in the way of capital accumulation, and thus in the way of the general interest.

Many software developers feel the line between entrepreneurial capital and highly remunerated wage work is quite blurry because, for at least two decades, they have seen a significant amount of upward and downward mobility. Who doesn't know someone who started a "lifestyle business", retired early, or cashed out some stock options and played the VC game a bit? Combine this with the obvious dysfunctionality of the Bay Area housing market, VC excess, etc. and Georgism seems entirely natural.

The difficult questions for the neo-Georgists include: Can capital accumulation really be identified with welfare? Given how stagnant labor productivity enhancing technological development has been for two decades, can we really assume institutional changes will boost it? If they can't, doesn't this make the normative questions all the more difficult?
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Hah as if it did improve the service compared to listening to basic product feedback. YouTube recommendations alone seem to cause people to lose hair, and that’s not even touching ads.

But what am I talking about! Google KNOWS scale, I’m sure it’ll come together eventually.
There is a course on this (taught Autumn 2019 at U Wash) that will also soon be published as a book:

https://callingbullshit.org/
This would finally enable a window manager feature I have always wanted: "focus on the window I am looking at".
I think the persons point was assuming you were looking to fill a position with an under-represented group (which is what i inferred too), than hiring someone beyond entry level experience may increase the number of under-represented group at your company, but not in the overall workforce.
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OK, but that doesn't help you when they shut down the server, which I think is what this thread was about? That zoom purchased it as an aquihire to have staff work on zoom, and isn't committed to the platform.
Those protections afford immunity to civil claims related to copyright and infringing content. It does not apply to matters of decency. Many online platforms have booted their bigots and hate speech without any consequences to their ability to continue hosting content.

Please do not conflate civil torts with criminal hate speech
>No, that is ongoing. Here are a collection of studies. (Not complete). The comprehensive studies that will satisfy your criteria are being carried out by several national and international bodies (including WHO). One will need to wait till September end

So in other words, unproven.
It does for gay people, absolutely. Much like it would be progress for me to be released from your cellar. But if we just replace me with you or somebody else, there's still somebody going to be locked in the cellar.

At the margins (the actual margins, not the "I'm marginalized mimimi") of society where the weird people are. And I don't think those margins are getting smaller, or the people inhabiting them are treated better. It's just different people that are the outsiders now, and being gay doesn't necessarily put you there (depends on your location, though).
I think that's entirely fair: Websites should not track users who do not want to be tracked, but websites should decide whether or not to serve clients which aren't to be tracked.
I highly recommend telling pollsters you'll be voting Libertarian, as that will help them get into debates. Someone should be on that stage saying drug laws are wrong.

Edit: vote for whoever you want, I just think the debates will be better with their voice.
Exactly. Corporations don't care about BLM. The individuals in the company might. The people writing the tweets or the press releases very well might care deeply as well. But the corporation as a whole will only care for as long as it's the popular thing to do. They won't do anything that might hurt the bottom line -- like, for instance, voicing support for Hong Kong.
What I mean is - there are 9 "planets", aka bodies. Each has a specific orbit. Astrology isn't "sun was in that sign on that day", that's like saying programming is C#.

Your sign depends on the each of the planet's position towards the earth sky and towards each other. So two people born on the same day in different years will have vastly different horoscopes.
> For example, unless you describe the tests you want them to write, they may not write tests. If they see a possible refactor or optimization, they won't volunteer to do it. One of the frequent side-effects of this is that the project develops more tech debt and slows down with time.

Yet when people try to hire me they generally tend to ask about my hour rate first not what you just mentioned. Because for my hour rate you'll get an application that you can easily hand off to lesser skilled programmers later because the code and architecture is really friendly to build upon. But tech debt that never happens is something that's hard to sell.
iphone 8 with touch id. I'm not saying it's not fast, I'm saying something else.
This does not look like correct analysis - the extradition treaty between the US and Canada[1] states:

Article 1

Each Contracting Party agrees to extradite to the other, in the circumstances and subject to the conditions described in this Treaty, persons found in its territory who have been charged with, or convicted of, any of the offenses covered by Article 2 of this Treaty committed within the territory of the other, or outside thereof under the conditions specified in Article 3(3) of this Treaty.

Article 3(3) states

When the offense for which extradition has been requested has been committed outside the territory of the requesting State, the executive or other appropriate authority of the requested State shall have the power to grant the extradition if the laws of the requested State provide for jurisdiction over such an offense committed in similar circumstances.

[1] http://www.mcnabbassociates.com/Canada%20International%20Ext...
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Have you read Phishing for Phools? The basic idea is that companies innovate in deception as well as efficiency.

This is another way to explain bullshit jobs, obviously someone working to con their customers for their bosses will feel their job is bullshit.

To me this explains most of what is going on. Markets are evolutionary environments for profit making companies. Companies must innovate in production efficiency and product quality. But they must also stay competitive in corrupting regulators, fooling customers and short changing workers.
Last summer I worked at an art gallery. It was my first time working on a shared file server and it was a mess—except for the exhibition files.

There was a main “exhibitions” folder. Inside of that was a folder for every show in the gallery’s history.

Each of these was named starting with the year of the show + another number indicating whether it was the first show of the year, or the second, etc.

There was a somewhat standard structure for what you would find inside of each of these (contracts, artists bios, press photos, etc), but it didn’t really matter because there were few enough files that it was easy to browse.

After a couple of weeks, I went home and organized my projects and documents according to the same pattern. I find things faster now.

The keys are this:
(1) broad top-level categories (“exhibitions”)
(2) dated folders
(3) shallow structure inside dated folders (files in root or one folder deep)

This pattern makes it easy to know where to put things, and Easy to browse. Find the category you want, then the date range you want. Now you’re only have a few folder names to read. Browsing the files inside of there might take a little while if there’s a lot, but usually there won’t be. And you can relax because if the file exists, it’s gotta be in here.

(Or maybe one other place—sometimes files don’t make it out of “Downloads,” and sometimes I have to check both “Art” and “Design” before I find the project I’m looking for. But that’s ok, because dated folders makes that easy to do.)

Others will suggest giving up and relying on search. Search is great, but it only works for files you know (or remember!) exist. Build a simpLe browsable structure and you can find things you’ve forgotten about, or tell collaborators where to look for things they want.
I'm not sure what kind of conclusion we can take from that dataset. It is only 10 papers and it doesn't take into account the average number of citations for the non-retracted articles in each journal.
Hah, frankly a real joke compared to mine.
I am well aware of the benefits of visualisation which is why this is so disturbing.
Driving a car into a crowd is not self-defense, it is mass homicide and mentally training yourself to make that a "valid option" can be extremely dangerous.
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It's not just WordPress config they're after. My logs are filled with thousands of 404s for hundreds of different paths all containing a file called ".env"

I don't even have PHP installed, so I have Nginx set to 444 on anything with php in the name. I suppose I should add env to the list, but seriously a $5 DO droplet handles this without much effort.
I just got a "real" camera a few years ago and I find it much better than any of our phone cameras. The thing is the phones have gotten a lot better and are no longer "good enough" but are actually nice. Big lenses and large sensors are still a lot better, but you often can't tell if pictures never go beyond your phone or social media posts.
There are probably a few tweets - like that one - which are justifiable as not being partisan or political. The rest of them... not so much, and this goes back pretty much to the day Trump was elected.
Don’t forget that it’s not just “programmers” that are building a product. You’d need designers and product managers in the mix too, and you’re probably not going to offshore those people to Vietnam or Ukraine. It’s pretty hard to have those people in one country and your “programmers” in another since they need to be in such close contact with each other. Personally, I communicate much more with designers and product managers than I do with other engineers on my team.

But also, you don’t want to hire “programmers,” you want to hire engineers—people who are capable of making large systems work together.
Scratch (https://scratch.mit.edu) on millions of Raspberry Pis.
Well, Mazda is going in the opposite direction.

More and bigger screens are certainly the way of the future for most cars/SUVs, but I'd advocate strongly for a large set of ergonomic, reassignable hard controls. The best thing about the Tesla Model 3 controls is the configurable control gadget on the steering wheel (though I wish they'd used better materials -- feels absurdly cheap in a $50k car).
I didn't mean to get metaphysical. In my experience interviewing for software dev jobs, the interviews are usually conducted by the IT/software dev staff and the hiring manager, not the entire company staff. HR may or may not get involved, but usually they aren't making a hiring decision. The company may gladly hire a 50-something manager, or accountant, but the group of developers interviewing someone my age will have a bias against an older programmer, regardless of policy or whom they might agree to hire in some other role.

The company (and the law) have rules about discrimination and fairness, but when a group of 20-somethings interviews an older programmer those rules may not matter. Fixing age discrimination probably shouldn't focus on laws and company policies, no company has a policy condoning age discrimination that we need to fix. It's the software dev culture that equates age and experience with "not a good fit," for whatever reason. I have my own theories what those reasons amount to but regardless of why I think it happens, it clearly does.
It’s true. Occasionally I’ll dress like people from other parts of the country) think Texas, or what have you, or in Texas dress like a surfer). People look at you funny. People think all kinds of things. Like passive aggressive things: look you up and down, block your way, etc. on the positive side sometimes you get complements.
A great piece of advertising and art history, I wonder what would be the equivalent against today's online ads[1]. Ad blockers are great but don't quite cut it the same way in terms of creativity and wit. On the other hand, digital ads became incredibly more nefarious than billboards.

[1]: One example, close perhaps in intent, would be https://add-art.org.
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I fear that this would normalize the data collection process even more.

We're like a metaphorical frog slowly being boiled alive.
But that's the thing. Through better tracking, they usually just improve the targeting for advertisers - improving the product itself is almost an afterthought compared to that objective.

To "improve the product" you don't need more than a few thousand session recordings of how people use your product.
Likely, but it could also be someone who wanted to express their honest opinion without "ruining" their normal account. I didn't get to see the comment, so I can't really offer any commentary on it beyond that.
>It is not an all-out, miracle cure but it definitely helps.

The studies that the right wing news media and Trump were referring to back in March showed a one hundred percent cure rate.
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Sadly, some of us are aware of the mess found in lower impact journals. It doesn't help with the trust issue. At all.
On the national stage, Democrats have to run someone who can appeal to people in Mississippi as well as New York.

The more important thing is why this article is about a city in the suburbs of New York City. The Westchester County Board of Legislators has 16 Democrats and 1 Republican. Why can’t Democrats make any progress even in places where they have total control and don’t need to compromise? Westchester County can’t change federal drug laws, but they have total control over their own police force and how they’re trained and what they focus their efforts on.
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It's already happened in the wake of the events related to the unfortunate death of George Floyd. Police in minneapolis have admitted the use of contact tracing technology to locate protesters.
Anybody who was already paying attention doesn't need a study to condemn his actions, and the Trump cult doesn't give credence to scientific studies.

As far as his chances of winning - I personally did see had a fair shot in 2016, because the issues he was talking about mattered to a lot of people that had been disempowered over the past 8 years. I personally believe in LGBT rights, but it was obvious that there was going to be a horrid backlash from the gloating of projecting a rainbow on the White House. But since being elected Trump has addressed very little of what he campaigned on - the swamp has been further packed, and he's basically golfing and shitposting instead of leading. At this point he's coasting on favorable propaganda from Faux news, and the middle of the country will have that illusion shattered as we blow past 200k deaths.
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In the web world you are pretty much relearning new APIs, frameworks, approaches and what not every second year.
I don't think zoom provides e2e encryption. iirc zoom decrypts all messages at their server before encrypting it again and forwarding it to the destination.
> Given this, why can't we strive for a similar system on the virtual world as well?

1. Encryption is an indispensable part of pretty much everyone's life. I can't imagine there's many people in our society that go more than a few days without using it.

2. If encryption can be broken by the police, it can be broken by other actors. Full stop.

2.1. It is been shown impossible for our government to keep a secret like a master key.

2.2. Math
You're erroneously conflating two different uses of the same word. It means both things, but control-freak SJWs don't get to sanitize every meaning of every word.
If 20 times as much people as necessary are forced into a useless 14 day quarantine that is not a net profit.
The framework he uses is actually 996 bytes minzipped :D (disclaimer : I'm the creator of https://concrete.style)
I think the OP doesn't mean it's idiotic for Google to respect a user's wish not be tracked. I believe he's referring to lawyers not understanding separation of browser and web services.

I was really hoping this would be a lawsuit about Google collection of information period, rather than a quibble like this. Please too remember that Boies etc are the same scumbags (and that's the correct term) who defended Theranos, harassing those who informed the government.
Physical switches since they are moving parts, have a high failure rate. Apollo 11 they broke an important switch donning their spacesuits. In Apollo 14 the Landers abort switch was falsely triggering so they had to hack the computer to ignore it.

Most of the cars I’ve owned have been recalled/needed to have some switch replaced in the first year or two of ownership. Jury is still out on touchscreen, but they seem to have lower mortality (it could be a simple numbers game, several dozen switches vs 1 touchscreen).
Zero unemployment would be bad because it would imply there’s no churn of people leaving one job for another. Back last year when unemployment was 3.5% most of that is people choosing to leave a job to find a new one.