skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> mother and children live in Canada

When these children grow up - they will pay taxes in Canada.

It looks like a good deal for Canada.
Even if father's income is taxed in Hong Kong only.
I mostly agree about the advantages, but two motors would be arguably simpler from a mechanical standpoint.
Thanks for the feedback entha_saava. GitLab.com is indeed slower than GitHub.com today, and we need to provide a better experience for our users.

Improving frontend performance is a key focus area for us, and while we started this specific initiative recently, we have started prefetching data while our Vue app is loading (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/220511) and will be splitting out page specific assets out of the main bundle (https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/3694).

We have quite a few other initiatives in flight, and will continue to provide updates on progress which you can see here: https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/3273#note_37091...
Erm, the link at the top of this page that we're all commenting on...
What's the problem with background screening companies?
I dealt with a couple of them, and they were dangerously unprofessional.

One was emailing Word documents asking to fill in personal information while the footer of the same email was urging recipients to never share personal information by email.

Another one was asking US-specific questions while I was in Europe.

Their IT is abysmal and their English is barely understandable.

But they endure and manage to sell their services for dozens of years.

A collateral question is, why businesses do these background checks to start with?
I believe that there is a grace period for billing: https://www.macrumors.com/2019/09/12/apple-app-store-subscri...
That's interesting, thanks. It's going to have to wait until I buy a new phone though, since my phone doesn't have anything like this. Which leads to the next problem. I bought my phone because of its crazy long battery life. Going to a Pixel is a significant sacrifice, which again annoys me about the state of Android.
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Huh?

As far as I know most countries already do that more often than you ask for. Everyone had a strong response to the 2009 pandemic, with plans, PPE stockpiles and such. The virus turned out very mild, which lead to heeding to the advice of epidemiologists to be politically costly. But in the USA pandemic preparedness was only effectively disassembled with the 2017 update.
> You're advocating making the equivalent of a small city jobless based on the actions of a very small contingent.

No one has ever advocated that every person at Boeing be fired and that's not what happens in large corporate bankruptcies. So no, that's not what the other poster was advocating.

In general, I've seen people advocating that Boeing's shareholders be wiped out, senior management fired and the company be rebooted with a thorough dedication towards "safety first" as opposed to "short-term profits first".
Think of what you see (with you eyes) as a stage, space, or, in computing terms, a buffer or something like that. What I imagine in my head does not compete for space in this buffer that much -- it's like in a different stage, a different space. I know something I imagine lies in imagination-space not in eye-vision-space. Those two spaces are probably merged somewhere[0] so they can use similar recognition and abstraction engines in the brain, but this information of what comes from which one is maintained (like you can distinguish between senses, between the auditory stage and the visual stage without thinking).

[0]: I believe this explains how, while I can do all this visualization, it's difficult to simultaneously "grasp" both spaces -- it's like both are there, but when I switch to mind space the visual one goes to the background and I can't process it too much.
Maybe this should also reveal why impactful innovations don't occur much in India - where the majority of the population (~97%) is classified as 'untouchables', 'dalits', 'lower caste', 'most backward class', 'backward class', 'other backward class' and treated badly and discriminated - no wonder the large population in India is busy dealing with their socio-economic condition rather than freeing up their mental bandwidth to innovate on socially impactful ideas!
The parent described only a fraction of what vim can do. The notion of text objects and combining them with plugins makes vim much more powerful. Even without plugins mastering vim makes writing code quite natural.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlR5gYd6um0
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I say this as a Java developer, but I hate UIs written in Java. Native UIs are always superior. IntelliJ comes to mind. I used it for many years, and it always felt "different". There were weird inconsistencies in rendering, focus and behavior that were annoying. Same with NetBeans.

On the other hand, I think server side Java is still great.
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> The Coding will always be the easiest part of a Coding Career

The Coding will sometimes be the hardest part of a Coding Career.

Since people are throwing around authoritatively-sounding statements here, anyone interested is cordially invited to use mine.
You think they are intentionally wasting candidates' time in a way that does not benefit them at all?
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Grandop said

> research suggests that interviewers know after 20 seconds whether they'll hire someone.

That’s not first impression, that’s a meaningful ability to see if I hire someone. I can tell you that without seeing code/discussing some previous experience there is zero chance I can form hiring decision for most reasonable candidate (the only 30 second hiring impression I can form is perhaps a negative one).
> I would agree that not everything that is claimed to be racism based is in fact racism based

It's hotly debated topic. Sometimes, statistics clearly show that some system has a racial bias. But often it's misleading because the variable the system is _actually_ selecting might be poverty, not race. The racial bias only appears due to the fact that <race> is disproportionately impoverished.
"This piece originally ran in AdAge."

So, this article is meant for advertisers. Profits over people.
Yes, I'm kinda surprised they didn't use the COVID lockdown period to do proper pilot training.

Most pilots and planes were basically sitting idle anyway. It's good for them to remain somewhat active. And fuel was given away for pretty much free because the overproduction was filling up expensive storage space.

This would have been the ideal moment to teach 737 pilots to properly handle the Max aircraft without needing MCAS.
Apple PR team out in force possibly
The loudest minorities have owned media outlets and been major political contributors. Dictators and plutocrats both have the same need to control the narrative and mute counter-narratives that challenge their authority.

When most people complain about social media they use their previous relationship to media as a benchmark for normality but centrally controlled media never really existed and is no longer strictly possible. Cheap media is always going to be attractive to cranks. Years ago it was pamphlets, AM radio, tabloids and cable news, now it's social media and email campaigns (yes, they still exist). Our relationship to media keeps changing and people learn to deal with the political discourse, disinformation and outright crankery being amplified by these platforms the same way they learned not to pick up an issue of the National Enquirer and tune out the nuts on AM radio.
Isn't this an extreme case though?
Facebook's userbase is a mirror of human society if you want to fix Facebook fix society first.
This is extremely common in many countries. Even in the US, there are many families that simply omit reporting income earned abroad. Sure, it's technically illegal, but it's not like the Chinese government is going to help enforce US tax laws.

Same is true for Chinese families in New Zealand and Australia as well. ...and it's not restricted to Chinese people either - obviously.

It's the curse of high tax jurisdictions.
> We’re a pioneer in artificial intelligence technology to remove hateful content at scale.

This is everything wrong with social media in a nutshell. This isn't a problem that can be solved with artificial intelligence. You need human beings enforcing human standards of decency.

Keep in mind, that Facebook's 'artifical intelligence' algorithms automatically created lots of white supremacy groups and promote white supremacy content, and allowed advertising targetted at white supremacists.

Throwing more AI at a problem created and exacerbated by ai isn't going to solve it.
Also, I regularly play the advocatus diaboli to ensure we are thinking through a particular position. Not necessarily because I believe it, but because if we can address the relevant concerns we'll have a more robust system. But having the position opposite of your own, be labeled yours, since you happened to bring it up, can be pretty annoying.
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Agreed. If the author had 40 years experience I would pay attention but 2 years experience is nothing. Maybe it should be sold as "what to expect in the first 2 years of your career".
Better example: ‘Google does not benefit from stealing user data.’ :P

Jordan doesn’t even play ball anymore. :3
I say “are you serious” probably way too often and it almost always triggers Siri.
How would one do this? If you have a ML model with outputs classifying credit risk, and outputs classifying race, it's easy to learn coefficients that are bad at classifying race but still take race into account in classifying credit risk.

That is, what's your loss function and how does it prevent race from being considered in the credit decision?
If you can use Multistrap then all you need is a linux kernel and you can build a full Debian system for your Linux chip.
Personally, I avoid signing up for things all the time that have auto billing after trials. I try out a ton of services and the overhead of tracking them all on a calendar is just not worth it. A simple pop up could make everybody happy if it was indeed user friendly: “would you like to begin your subscription automatically after the trial?”

Also, in terms of consent and automated systems generally, explicit opt in is really the only way to go. Humans just can’t deal with the mental overhead of the hundreds of “contracts” their “services” require now
There's also a Firefox version of Unpinterested.

It's great. Adds '-site:pinterest.*' to every image search.
It does work in the real world. It is a risk that is covered by insurers and reinsurers as well as capital market investors. The World Bank’s pandemic bond paid-out in response to the Covid-19 event as it was designed to (that bond was criticized for its effectiveness, but had nothing to do with the actual cover it provided and its mechanics).

‘Excess’ or ‘Extreme’ mortality risk is a risk that life insurers accumulate and naturally seek reinsurance for. There is a market for it.
you have more experience than i do, so your call on deciding whether you have a superset on this content. all i can offer is, if you do choose to check it out and decide it is not for you, I will honor your refund request.

Good luck! I am certainly always on the side of developers working on themselves.
Perhaps I am naive. It seems they do benefit from hate, in that negative emotions drive more engagement.

IF they truly didnt want to benefit from hate, they would find a way to not always rate negative engagement (arguing) as "engaging".
I was hoping to see some kind of commitment to return any profits from ads which are later decided to be hate speech, or close to hate speech, to worthy causes.

In fact it doesn't really address the "Facebook profits from hate" point other than perhaps implying that they spend more money on preventing it than they gain from it.
The last non-dupe thread was 6 months ago, IIRC that was an allowable timeframe for reposting?
>What Apple is doing here is moving the purchase decision forward, to the point where the user knows practically nothing about the product. How can you make an informed decision if all you've seen are a couple of screenshots and some vague list of features on the App store page?

No, what they're doing is they turn:

"I tried this app and I want to keep it, so I click before/after trial ends to be charged with the subscription"

into:

"I tried this app and I don't want it, so I click to cancel the trial anytime before it ends, not to be charged for a subscription".

In other words, they don't forbid trials.

Actually this whole thing is not even about auto-renewal or not, it's about apps using their subscription methods/apis. Tomorrow they might chose to forbid auto-renewal across the board just as well, but they will still insist apps use their subscription method.
What is misleading. I just read the article again and these 3 messages captures the gist of the conversation quite well.
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AFAIK the theory says littering does have an effect on bank robbery: If people see litter, you instill a mentality where caring for the neighbourhood is worthless. From that 'each for his' , 'dog eat dog' world view, the step to big crimes is smaller.

Now I have no idea if the theory is correct.
They benefit from engagement. Turns out hate is a large part of engagement. Writing an article to say it isn't so does not make it true.
Yes, I was clearly looking in the wrong places. I can see the Permobil F3 listed in it's base spec for ~£10,000 over here.
unfortunately/fortunately that's what I'm taking away from this article, because the main site won't let me scroll.
Tech social media confuses "free expression" with "amplified expression".

If you're going to leave hate-filled posts by a world leader up on your platform, but it's also okay to restrict amplification of those posts.

Twitter understands this and has begun restricting amplification in various ways. Will Facebook next do the same? This post suggests that they will not.
> Importantly, Facebook helped people to get accurate, authoritative health information.

Surely the author experienced some form of cognitive dissonance while typing this out.
There's been a number of stories of companies putting FB ad buys on hold on the front page recently[1], and a recurring HN response has invariably been "this will accomplish nothing". I'd like to point out that this is a 180 from Zuckerberg's "arbiter of truth" position from before the advertiser boycotts:

> they don’t want to see hateful content, our advertisers don’t want to see it, and we don’t want to see it. There is no incentive for us to do anything but remove it.

[1] e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23646852
I see where you are coming from but the distinction is important because a lot of times these discussions are followed up by discussion about voting for certain political parties with suggestions of one political party banning/censoring more than other political parties. If one doesn't focus on the exact points of change where it's possible, complaining against the "big government" is going to be a very slow process to bring change.
lol, don't let your own bias or own Pakistani government cloud your vision with lies ;)

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan_and_state-sponsored_t...

- https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2018/01/05/w...

- https://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/double-gam...
The full quote is actually worse:

Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard

Zuck: Just ask.

Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS

[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?

Zuck: People just submitted it.

Zuck: I don't know why.

Zuck: They "trust me"

Zuck: Dumb fucks
Yes it does. People love to post rage and hate inducing posts because they get replies and likes, and Facebook serves more ads.
The sentiment in the mainland is more or less get out and leave the us the land
>The great argument I wanted to make is that if there is a finite supply of a drug, only enough for 20% of the sick, selecting which 20% gets it doesn't cause more people to die.

This is what is done in patient outcome rankings for exotic therapies and surgeries that are a skill-based premium or are exceptionally expensive.

My perspective is, most small molecule therapeutics are already prioritized for production and trials based on synthesizability. So if some corporation really did find a viable treatment for COVID, I doubt scarcity would be the issue unless it fundamentally fails some medicinal chemistry principles for ease-of-synthesis. This is given how primed the global supply chain is to pump out a real treatment. Think of these checks as "code smell" checks, except in the early stages of drug development. Lead optimization is essentially the entire field of optimizing for desired properties, which is what would most likely be done to an extent if a molecule was prohibitively difficult to synthesize.

Btw, there's actually a LaunchHN on the frontpage that's right in the middle of tackling this kind of problem.
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Because stock prices reflect future earnings, not past earnings.

Basically, people buying TSLA stock believe future sales will be larger than Toyota.
There is no risk of a brain drain. There are plenty of well educated mainlanders who will be happy to take jobs in HK.
It would be an even better deal if the father worked in Canada and paid Canadian taxes.

Besides, you are assuming that the children of this tax evader aren't going to figure out some other method of avoiding Canadian taxes - like doing literally exactly the same thing.
There's a fantastic free tool called RansomWhere by Objective-See that I use to monitor the rapid creation of encrypted files on my Mac. It notifies me from time to time during installation processes that something possibly malicious is going on.

Link: https://objective-see.com/products/ransomwhere.html
Yet the models exist and are routinely used to evaluate and price that risk.
Of course they do: if they claim China is threatening them with prison for political reasons, they absolutely can claim asylum based on political persecution.
One out of every 142 passwords is '123456'
aaaand it's gone
There was a discussion in my problem validation platform regarding 'saving offer notifications'[1] for later use. If that is implemented, perhaps we could have snooze feature for any notification on it.

[1]https://needgap.com/problems/77-saving-offer-notifications-o...
Having read many programming books, I find at a professional level, you just want to get straight to the juicy stuff with real life examples. For that, Goal kicker is hands down my go to for that. While you're at it, also download the NodeJS ebook from there too. They're free.

https://books.goalkicker.com/JavaScriptBook/
and
https://books.goalkicker.com/NodeJSBook/
Preact would be the lighter React. Hyperapp is more comparable to Elm.
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