skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
edit: you've already been lumped on, no need to reply to more of the same here.

Now that the dust has settled a bit on the memo, I'm curious about this take:

>That employee argued that people, such as people like me, were inherently less competent than others due to aspects of their gestation.

I didn't get that much of a dichotomy from the memo. To me he focused much more on interests than competency or capability, and he went through some effort to indicate that the effect was limited, including this summary at the top:

>Many of these differences are small and there's significant overlap between men and women, so you can’t say anything about an individual given these population level distributions.

Then followed with a little chart showing two distributions with a lot of overlap.

I felt like the story of the memo overtook the memo itself, which seemed to be a ham-fisted attempt at exploring how we prioritize various metrics with diversity and inclusion. It was obviously premature as well, based on his own charts the effects he was discussing wouldn't come into play until we're approaching something much more even than we have today.

Ultimately the way Google handled it seemed rather cowardly. Damore's personal story adds a little complexity to the situation and I really feel that he touched a third rail that might not have been as obvious to him at the time.
It is interesting to see Ant Design used other than my personal projects.
Agreed. Monthly healthcare spend for my family is way more than a fresh iPhone. It's not even a particularly good plan. Good luck shopping around for insurance; It's a total nightmare.
Setup Wars Episode 201 – Ultimate Edition
side note: the star link satellites probably don't have cameras right... otherwise there's your constant eye in the sky with high res as opposed to the geosync ones

train ML on normal fishing routes/paths to take, deviation, detects unexpected ships ooh
US is merely reciprocating the policies of CCP: let them allow US companies to compete fairly in China as well.
There have been plenty of toxic people i've worked with who seem to think their job is to "point out all the unfairness in the world", when really they're just hired to pull stories off a backlog and write code.

I get that there are good whistle blowers. I also have first hand experience (a growing list recently) of people who decide to vilify their coworkers under the guise of "justice" and "taking down the man" when really most people ("evil VPs" included) are just trying to do their best and get through the day. They on the other hand are horrible to work with, and usually very unproductive. When threatened with performance management for their lack of delivery, they then tend to become hostile and see the whole charade as a conspiracy against them, when really no one trusts them or wants to work with them as they are assholes.
The actual title of this article is “Facebook Fired An Employee Who Collected Evidence Of Right-Wing Pages Getting Preferential Treatment”
The ban of an app like TikTok is absolutely unprecedented and is very atypical. This isn't par-for-the-course behavior by the US government, and the outcome of this ban will set a precedent for other apps the US bans on "national security" grounds.
Ironically, political activities or affiliations is a protected class in California.

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/california-employmen...

That's what genuine, old school liberalism looks like, kids.
“Failed state” is a total bogus hyperbole.

American society is and has been one that favors self-reliance over community support. It’s probably religious in nature with the Puritans early on being a good example. Work hard, support your family and good things will come to you.

Just cause you may disagree with that general societal belief doesn’t mean it’s wrong, and definitely doesn’t make it a failed state. Many people do very well here, better than they possibly could do in Europe or Asia. Some people don’t do well and end up worse off than they would be in Europe. That’s what we as a society have chosen, as evidenced by our elections, with Republicans doing very well election after election.
I'm not sure the point of this comment in this context. Congratulations?
Getting there. This is one part of the puzzle: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2007.11965
"If anyone knows who this bitch is throw his info under this tweet" - this is not trying to identify an officer. This was a tweet that was designed to inflame people.

They could have taken the picture to their local police station and made a complaint. They could have sent it to a newspaper. They could have tweeted "This officer is unidentified at a rally." They didn't.
Make the internet a public utility. It's been discussed here before. Maybe search "municipal broadband"
Instagram’s Hashtag Blocking Favors Trump, Hurts Biden
> I'm sorry, but Damore claimed that women were biologically incapable of leadership and programmer roles

If you are so sure of that, you can probably find an actual source written by Damore for everyone to see it with their own eyes?
No, by that reason they should not be protected classes, as race, sex, sexual orientation, etc should be. Same with religion.

Also, why did you just create a throwaway just to make that comment?
The question asked is "has China" and the answer is yes. China has a direct majority stake in technology companies specifically for data collection
It was tolerated in the hope that over time China would open up. But that did not happen. When facts change, time to change your strategy.
If I said women are biologically not as tall as men, does that mean women biologically incapable of being as tall as men? Or does that just mean that given a tall person, it's more likely to be a male?

Maybe a math example?

Let Female ~ N(161.8, sigma), Male ~ N(170.0, sigma)

Let's say someone is Tall if height > 170.0 cm

Then P(Male|Tall) > P(Female|Tall).

The entire argument is that given 1000 people, where 800 are men and 200 are women. Suppose that 1/10 is an exceptional engineer. There are going to be 80 men and 20 men who are exceptional. Suppose we want to only hire exceptional people. Trying to achieve 80 men and 80 women (equality) using the same pool will result in 60 unqualified women being hired. Now whether these incentives will result in the pool being rebalanced is a more nuanced discussion, but from a realist point of view, there is no reason to hire unqualified people.
>HR did not take any of it down.

&

>HR did later revoke open access to some of the specific details he used to make his case (conversations around investigating and escalating user reports).

Aren't these essentially identical aside from the timeline?
> Do countries get to do this to each other whenever they feel like it now

No, but wake me up when the US does this to another free and open country, rather than one that has a history of aggressively doing this to Western countries.
> US is merely reciprocating the policies of CCP

Does this mean the policies of the CCP are superior to US policy to date?
Can't have China influencing the election. That's Russia's job. It's not like these companies are new or doing things that every tech company in the world isn't doing. National security is clearly a pretense that's laughable. If that was the case, we'd see Facebook, etc. banned in many countries.
I get it's a joke but this is already a popular service as many services are inaccessible outside the GFW or extremely throttled.
There has clearly developed a kind of “cancel culture-culture” that people are now turning into their latest grift.
Huge implications if this is true and WeChat has already locked down money transfers. How could you get it out? Bitcoin?
I have heard it is pretty common for them to get 1 or 2% because the banks usually want to win their business.
My initial reaction - I've been trying to get all my Democratic-voting friends to stop paying money to Chick-fil-A. If they want to do it for me, great.

Now, I might think that Chick-fil-A is making a bad business decision, but part of what it means to be in America is that you have the freedom to make bad decisions.

Certainly, as someone who has voted Democrat, is religious, and is not white, I believe that the three of those are of quite different levels of voluntary choice on my behalf and I don't think that laws/social norms that apply to the most involuntary of those should apply without change to the most voluntary of those.
Have had those same exact thoughts that poverty leads to war and other terrible stuff.

The people supporting these extreme coronavirus measures have good intentions but don't seem to understand the law of unintended consequences.
Time to buy a drone before they're sold out.
None of these Chinese companies would have grown to what they are today without intense government-enforced protectionism at home, and until China agrees to compete on a fair playing field I'm perfectly fine with them all being banned outside of their firewall.

Would China ever agree to let Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Snapchat, WhatsApp, Messenger etc. or any new startup operate freely and make money there? It should never have had this one-way economic benefit to begin with.
Im talking across the entire corporate landscape especially in tech and media...and institutionally in academia.
IIRC there is no case law on this, though if you know of any I'd appreciate sharing it.
damn, this is going to make so much money
TikTok is not a national security threat. That’s ridiculous.
Honestly, as bigoted and creepy as the diversity memo is; I found Google's response just as creepy.

It would be one thing if they called the diversity memo out as disruptive and bigoted, but they said it had "wrong opinions." That just reeks of authoritarianism.

I'm more afraid of authoritarianism from a major company than a bigot.
The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989
> stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why we don’t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership.

That's not the same as saying that women are incapable of anything. Your pattern recognition engine has problems.
There's a lot more to shooting movies than cameras. I have a client who has an interesting take on camera cranes. Unfortunately, COVID has pretty much shut down his market for now.
Wait. You think Steve Jobs was an engineer who came up with 300+ inventions? Really now?
Buy a rtlsdr and start by getting some images from weather satellites
A Writer's Lament
China slams ‘clean network’ plan and reminds world of USA's ECHELON snoop-fest
Selling selling food
Anti-China moves appear to have wide bipartisan support
“Intellectual property”. What a joke. Throughout school how many times was I excited by a solution I devised until I realized my same exact approach was already discovered, published, and well known? These problems we are solving first dont entitle is to exclusive right over the solution.

We want to kick down the ladder after we climb it. That’s what this is about.
everything that is wrong with the world right now you just illustrated.
To be clear, the employee in question believes Facebook is giving preferential treatment to conservative-leaning pages. I'm not sure if that alone makes it fair to call them a left-wing activist, but this isn't an example of left-wing privilege either.
> Damore claimed that women were biologically incapable of leadership and programmer roles

No he didn't. You can't just make things up dude.
Certainly: CCP has been able to fool the world for long enough. US policy of hoping that China would open up in the long run has proven to be extremely naive.
I think we are already passed the point of any of this mattering. Increasingly the rhetoric seems to me to just be: what matters isn't who is in the right or what is just or fair. Increasingly the only thing that matters is which side you are on. Are you with us or are you against us? It's just dogma at this point.

In this kind of environment people that are rational either stick to their tribe or learn to keep their mouths shut because it's no longer safe to express a contrarian opinion (just like in China). You see already see this in comments sections throughout western publications and forums where questioning policy or taking the opposite side means you are a bot/stooge/unpatriotic/50 cent warrior, etc, etc, etc.
This is not accurate. There are extremely well enumerated principles in immunology and they can tell you with statisticly significant accuracy what will happen immunologically in your body.

What this article does it takes that small fraction of exceptions and makes it sound like it's the rule.

Think of medicine and side effects.
It's the same idea.
This article is extremely sensational fear-mongering reporting and people eat the stuff up.
Thats how world wars break out.
It’s feels like you are missing the scale.

The people with current industry experience have techniques and knowledge about running a profitable and sustainable business. That doesn’t get you hyper growth. That gets you a solid business.

You get this kind of growth from accidentally finding the magic formula that creates massive growth. You actually want someone that doesn’t know what they are doing because they are more likely to trip over the answer that most people were smart enough to avoid.

You want people that will make mistakes. Successful startups are as much happy accidents as they are talented people performing hard work.
There’s more concentration of media on the right. It’s why Fox News can have the highest ratings in spite of the media being dominated by the left.

You have to look at the long tail of content and the distribution over all content. How many smaller right wing creators are censored vs left wing?
Does inflation account for housing costs?
(different commenter here)

Of the handful of people I know who work at FB, all of them are super smart and motivated. Half of them have expressed a lot of anxiety, stress, and imposter syndrome to me over their reviews. I’ve seen this at other companies when a project is failing but I hear about it at FB from A players who are working on successful projects. It gives me the impression the managers must be brutal - like they just push harder than other companies and make people feel they aren’t good enough to get more output. These are my impressions as an outsider. Does it seem fair to you?
More likely the end of one-sided free markets. There's no suggestion that the US is about to pull the same shit on countries that don't try and hobble US tech companies.
The statement you are making here is not in any way logically equivalent to the quote you have supplied below to support this idea.

Stop lying for political purposes.
HR did not take down the reposts (edited for tone) of the fired employee's claims and arguments, including high-level descriptions of specific escalation incidents. HR did remove access to actual "tasks" (similar to email threads at other companies).
Perhaps you're comparing a multithreaded version with a single threaded version, or a single-host build vs distributed build.

When adding new features to a compiler, you might want to verify that the old and new versions have the same output given the same input. If your compilers produced non-deterministic output, this exercise would not be possible.
If you are doing multiple hops, it’s good to know you can stack tildes to target a specific link in the chain. So if the second ssh connection is hung, you can press ~ ~ . to terminate that ssh connection, and not the first one.
Less extreme, but my first couple years out of college, the company I worked for had a habit of running low on money during the summers. So we would end up with about a week off unpaid each month June - Sept.

It was actually really nice. Kind of miss it. I guess alternately, I could just get a job somewhere with a decent vacation policy.
I wonder if he's actually followed the administrative procedures act; often a lot of Trump proclamations end up being stricken down by the court for not following the proper rules. That's exactly why DACA remains in place; while the president has a lot of power over this area, there are still rules and processes that have to be followed.
There is no evidence of IP theft being established against TikTok and ByteDance.
Presumably they don't seem to have broken US laws as of now.

Do countries take to banning Boeing, if they find problems with PepsiCo?.
> What about lack of affordable childcare?

Ridiculous argument, in 1900 most people had no money and had families up to 10 kids easily - being poor did not prevent them from having kids.
Can China force Tesla to sell its Chinese operations because Teslas data gathering poses a national security risk ?

China can force any company out of the country for any arbitrary reason whatsoever. As far as I know, they are still banning Houston Rockets games because Morey supported Hong Kong in a tweet.
This seems interesting but I’m not sure how to use it....? We have a react app that could really use a plug and play kind of viz library. Is the idea that I could feed my data into this and it would automatically configure viz based on the dataset it sees?
On the bright side banning Chinese apps doesn't have an impact on the intentional users. By that I mean is that there seems to be a lot more app stores than just Play Store, and it's even common for Chinese apps to offer an apk download off their website. People who are unknowingly using Chinese developed apps are probably going to be the most affected because they're not familiar with side-loading applications and are just going to switch to their nation's version of the application which is probably the intention. It is kinda fair because as soon as a major country starts to practice protectionism then the rest have to or else they'll get unfairly exploited.
History Lesson (if you care about migrations):

TLDR; I disagree: Django migrations are the best, and make reusable apps possible!

I've been using Django since before they introduced migrations and it was hell! Django only had "sync_db" then which would create your tables initially, but then you were on your own to write and run SQL manually for any model changes. This became especially annoying when using 3rd party apps, because if those apps changed the schema, you'd have to manually update your database for the 3rd party changes.

Then came along django-south which was a reusable app which provided migrations and solved all of the above problems. It became almost the standard approach, and third party apps often provided south migrations.

South became so popular, and was such a big improvement to the development workflow, that it's codebase was merged into Django (after making some significant API improvements) to become Django migrations. I can still remember having to covert all the files in the migrations directory from South to Django migrations.

Now we have a defacto standard of migrations work, and they allow easy use of customer SQL. Seriously, if you hate python based migrations as much as the author does, write custom SQL but put it in a Django migration so you get all the benefits of being able to rollback migrations etc.

Summary:
when writing all of your own code for a single project then there is only minor benefits from migrations. But they are still worth it! In fact, I write lots raw SQL in my migrations, eg for constraints, triggers, notify, and just modifying my data. If I run SQL, it goes in a migration.

But migrations shine the brightest for reusable first and third party apps, which lets admit, we all use in most projects. This allows a single reusable app to be used for all projects regardless of database. Also, as a consumer of a reusable app, I can let migrations do their thing, and not worry if an update will break my database.
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As the FB employee in this thread commented - this person vilified others and was fired for that, not his attempts to "bring down the man".

Large scale platforms like this are hard to manage. I can see many cases where people doing their best can be misconstrued as an evil conspiracy.

Eg.

- Users and companies with large fan bases are open to brigading. Previously companies have been taken off the platform suddenly because of militant FB groups.

- A new rule is instituted "anyone with more than X followers get Tier-1 support in reviewing and reinstating their account following a take down."

- Engineer on some team mildly close to the team who runs the takedown/reinstatement systems sees that a Right Wing commentator is getting Tier-1 support and fast turn around reinstatement.

- Said engineer tries to vilify the people who wrote the policy and those who are carrying it out, tries to go public with a conspiracy that "FB is prioritizing reinstating Right Wing users". Instead they've really just lost the trust of their peers, failed to understand the space properly, and now brought their employer into disrepute - they should be fired.

This stuff happens all the time, and is usually just chalked up to "its a hard problem to get right, and we're trying to get better every day". When people over react and make out like Zuck is pulling strings to rule the universe i have a hard time understanding when he sleeps.
China never forced US companies to sell their investments in China at firesale prices. This is not a proportionate response.
I think to some degree what is being argued is that a genuinely sincere concern along this line relies on assumptions perpetuate social inequality and continued oppression of humans. It is similar to a constant suspicion of men around children perpetuates continued discomfort of men to be strong, loving, present father figures to their children whom they genuinely care for, and from this a concern based on assumptions harms the family structure overall.
Reminds me of every unreasonable product manager I've encountered.
And this is where credibility matters. Do other countries believe that this is true, or do they believe that Trump is doing this because TikTok is full of teens & comedians that have made him look foolish?
GPT-3D rolls off the tongue nicely
So, they didn't remove the post, just access to things he specifically cited (for everybody?) ? I don't mean to split hairs here but could you perhaps elaborate on why they would do that?

Edit: Or at least your opinion on why they would do that.
I might get downvoted for this but I think it's a very real possibility. Withdraw the embassy from Beijing, recognize Taiwan and force a embargo of all Taiwanese/Korean and Japanese semiconductor supplies and components to Mainland China.

Then sit back and let China then make the first move. Might not work, but at this point I wouldn't put it past somebody in the White House having already gamed it.

There has never been a case in human history where one group of people voluntarily gave up their wealth, status and privilege to another group of people. Wealth transfer always leads to violence.
If by xenophobia you mean spine, sure you have one. What do you think will happen next? What’s the message that we, the rest if the world, can take from this?
apparently "huge" businesses/franchisees don't either : https://moneywise.com/a/these-restaurant-chains-are-closing-...
More importantly, China has acted unilaterally in the past to inflict pain on western companies in preference of domestic firms. What’s new is the US doing it back.

Tesla was one of the first US companies to operate with the level of autonomy they have in China. Perhaps there is some retribution from the CCP, but such is the consequence of doing business with a totalitarian state.
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I don't think the issue is chat bubble blindness. I think the issue is material design floating action button blindness.
I'm not a anything "apologist", but it seems like you can make the case you want without exaggerating for effect.
What about beloved, famous, and rich actor Robin Williams who hung himself?