skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think some random letter signed on some random day by a bunch of random healthcare professionals upset about police brutality is in any way evidence that so-called "science" is a political tool used by democrats in order to advance particular aims.

And I don't think I need to state the obvious, but maybe I do: an open letter signed by 1200 healthcare professionals does not speak for the entire medical profession, in any way whatsoever. Healthcare is one of the largest employers in the US. And it certainly doesn't speak for scientific objectivity.
If (when) self-driving goes mainstream, most traffic will be self-driving cars driving around each other.
Designing NASA's Helicopter to Fly Autonomously on Mars
> The one exception was vegetarianism: Ethicists were both more likely to say that it was immoral to eat meat, and more likely to be vegetarians themselves.

Being less complicit in something that:

- causes immense, horrific suffering;

- has traditionally been, and still largely is, considered completely normal;

- requires some personal sacrifice to forego;

- happens because, and to the extent that, ordinary people continue to demand it

seems like a pretty big win to me, and a good argument that philosophical contemplation of ethical issues can be worthwhile.

(None of this implies that bioethics as a field is producing any value on net. Personally I'm unimpressed by what I've seen of it.)
That's entirely right - here's an article you might like about your idea in case you haven't read it already. It's lately got me thinking a lot about the difficulties in simple organization.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
So, like Hollywood then?
I couldn't; I believe I originally thought you were suggesting these companies can't be expected to exert political will/make consequential decisions for some bizarre reason
There's a market for taxis. And there's almost certainly a market for taxis with good ride-hailing apps (as well as private cars). But they're mostly a product for business travelers and well-paid professionals in urban areas. But I fully expect the VC-funded 50% or so subsidies to go away.
You are correct that vaccine trials are required to meet a high bar. The reason for that is vaccines are not compulsory, so the process for arriving at them matters a great deal. If the process appears marred, healthy people will not take the vaccine and we all suffer. I don't think we want doctors in vaccine trials taking cues from elective cosmetic surgeries or executions.
You wrote

> driving engagement

I wrote

> boost engagement using whatever industry standard and novel methods it can find

AFAICT the challenge of something like Signal is to have a UX that feels like everything else, while being able to essentially prove by design that they cannot leverage the user's data. E.g., they can't plug the user's data into the kinds of nasty rabbit-hole algos as featured on Youtube.

That's not "whatever novel methods" they can find. It's highly constrained given the privacy guarantees they are after.
data is the new oil, what's the analogy for the data industry's impact on society akin climate change?
"I live in Australia and while I'm excited to see less Facebook use, I see a lot of comments saying things like, "good, Facebook monetized an addiction model and this curbs that". While true, the proposed law that has pushed them to do this is incredibly dangerous."

You're absolutely right and I'm also horrified by the implications, and I would be even more so if the circumstances were more normal. The trouble is that Facebook is anything but a normal player and so is Google. These corporations are not normal given that they've usurped normal business practices when both governments and normal ethical businesses weren't looking and they have deliberately and opportunistically profiteered off the backs of millions—billions—of unsuspecting people who haven't a clue what has happened to their data, let alone their privacy!

This is NOT a normal situation, as these carpetbagger corporations have essentially declared 'war' on us by raiding our data without permission—and no one believes all that malarkey stuff about EULAs actually authorizing them to do so. Instead, they did do by sleight-of-hand and deceit alone, everyone knows that. This means we've little choice but to respond the best we can and in kind—and that means we have to play as dirty as them. We not only have to grovel in the ethical dirt and mud but also play by their rules or they'll retaliate and 'mincemeat' us—no questions asked.

Let's not be fooled: any corporation that can not only rival the two most dreadful corporations in all of history—The Dutch East India Company and the [British] East India Company—in its enormous stock value but also that it make profits even more quickly than they did is more than suspect, for their growth as has far, far exceeded the expectations of any normal lawful business—even the most brilliant of them by orders of magnitude! These companies are either engaged in unethical practices, or they are working in a lawless and unregulated domain, and or it's both of these. I'd contend that it's both.

Moreover, Facebook is now threatening us with blackmail, and without compunction they'll play off users as disposable pawns in this dirty war, as we can clearly see here:

"In response to Australia’s proposed new Media Bargaining law, Facebook will restrict publishers and people in Australia from sharing or viewing Australian and international news content."

It's time we acted, and the Australian Government has taken the first step. I grit my teeth to say it, but it needs our support this time around.
Wow and yet, they can't really build a single profitable product!

Emphasis on single product as they tend to have 5 apps that do the same thing until they kill off the popular ones.
I don't think they mean people worrying about muggings or breaking into the cars. Quote from the article "Worryingly, nearly a quarter didn't feel safe on San Francisco’s roads at all".

That for me heavily suggests that people don't feel safe while driving, due to most likely general chaotic environment of roads there.
Have you sent a traceroute and the results of a chaos query to your ISP, so they can fix whatever routing problem you're encountering? There's nowhere in the continental US that's more than 5-6ms away from a Quad9 server cluster.
Like Uber acquired Lyft? Most companies don't have the money to acquire all their competitors and neither are their competitors able to acquire them.
To clarify, are you disagreeing with their point, or just the examples they used? I'm able to read your comment either way, so I'm not sure.
One more,

British had its long range gunnery using advanced mathematics super secret, and though nobody else can do beyond the horizon accurate artillery fire besides them.

Unknowingly, so were Germans.
Sadly, many places will only accept images in PNG (or heaven forbid, JPEG) format :( SVG export would be cool, though.
Right but it’s still not comparable.

Moving even between counties is not comparable to just spending a few hundred dollars on a phone.
That’s not a fair characterisation of GDPR, nor one borne about by examples.

And 2020 put pause to any Australian brain drain and given how well we’ve handled the pandemic, is likely to be seen significant increases in net migration.
Hi all! We’re really excited to reach 1.0 - we'd love to hear from you on ways we can make distributed computing even easier and more powerful. Please let us know!

Disclosure: I work at Azure on Dapr
There's also that time right-wingers tricked Disney into firing James Gunn over vile things he tweeted decades ago.

Super curious what the “trick” is that you’re referring to. My understanding is that he did indeed write these things and publish them on his Twitter feed. Simply pointing that out isn’t a “trick,” unless I have missed something about the story.
It says in the article that these questions were specifically in reference to driving around San Francisco in a car.
Yeah, my impression is that it's predominantly not used to accurately describe the political leanings of a person or group of people, and it's just a quick modifier that can be used by people to paint the target as an extremist who holds anti-social views.

If I were to wager a guess, I'd guess that the targets of the term 'alt-right' would rarely accept that description of their politics. Whereas 'right' or 'conservative' or 'social conservative' or similar terms would have a high acceptance rate for those that are being called it. 'Alt' has become a pejorative in everyday use (at least in the liberal circles that I run in).
I know YC purchases equity rather than debt with its investments (and that equity stakes are rarely considered "usury" and not always considered "lending"), but it's a little odd to see this comment on a forum hosted by a venture capital firm, whose whole business is about letting people have some money in the hope of profiting from it later on.
I'm nowhere near the T. I'm about an hour west of Boston. And there's essentially no public transit out here. Based on looking at parking, commuter rail use looks extremely low but that shouldn't affect local traffic during the day that much (though some of it may admittedly be people who aren't otherwise in Boston offices).
My sister-in-law withdrew from a US-based doctoral operatic program, and a residency with the Royal Opera, specifically because she realized she could not further her career without granting continuous sexual favors.
Patents outlaw thinking.
If you click on "Specification" in the lower section, it says 2560 (H) × 1440(V). And if you download the manual it also says 2560x1440. So maybe just a typo?
Thank you. Late comment, so you may not see it; but this is exactly what I'm looking for and it worked perfectly when I tested it out.

I feel like the market has room for a simple desktop IM + file transfer client based on Magic Wormhole. Something like this, with a contact list, and a bit more polished.
If your ISP is sending your queries to the US, perhaps you should ask your ISP why they're doing that?

Did you read the applicable law section of the privacy policy? And you honestly don't think that's better than US law?
sounds like poor management. Why do you think the same individuals overseeing the private utilities would do a better job of managing public utilities? Public utilities rot on the vine and get bailed out as well.
> Which is essentially identical to public transportation.

I disagree. It's worse, from a strictly time of transportation point of view, than having your own car, but point-to-point automated transportation with some initial recall latency is still leagues ahead of public transportation.
Discoverability. There is more new music uploaded to Spotify every day than I could listen to in a year[0]. How do I discover the new stuff I like?

Spotify does a terrible job of recommending new music to me - mostly my "Discover Weekly" is a mixtape of my existing playlists, and "Release Radar" is entirely stuff I hate.

I'm not sure how a new band would reach me, but it's not via the methods they're trying now. I haven't been genuinely excited by a "new" band since, oh, Mumford? Bad Shepherds? something like that.

[0] I don't listen to that much music. I would if I got more new stuff, though, I'm sure
Or just block images by default in your email client, which you should probably be doing anyway if privacy is your concern.
I agree with this assessment. I'd also recommend searching Dice and Indeed for something like this.

It's also important to do a bit of research and understand the huge variety of jobs which will come with titles like 'Remote Support' or 'Remote Support Analyst'. An IT Helpdesk job, a Software Application Support job, and a Zappos customer service job might all share the exact same generic title. So do some googling to figure out what is what, make yourself a list of titles that match the jobs you're looking for, then troll the job boards for roles with that title. Based on the post, I would target jobs with titles like "Application Support Analyst". If you search for remote only with no geographic constraints, you will find an absolute ton of jobs.

As a former recruiter, I think it's worth noting that job hunting in this way is absolutely a numbers game. When I was looking for IT work with little/no experience, I would generally get my first interview after ~50 applications. My point is that you shouldn't get your hopes up with each application, and you shouldn't feel let down if you don't hear back on a given job. If you go in knowing it will be a bit of grind, it will be much easier on you. Set yourself a goal of 2-3 applications a day, and get that many done, every single day. Given the huge number of fully remote roles out there, I'm confident that you would be hard pressed to apply for 100 of them without getting an offer.

With that in mind, get your resume all set, write out a couple of cover letter (your writing is solid, so this will help. But don't write an original letter for each application.) and then apply for everything that looks like a fit. Ignore experience requirements for roles that aren't "senior" or "manager" roles.

Best of luck!
I'm not sure I'd call this pedantry, just maybe a different angle or focus than the one you have in mind. Is that fair?
>Am I alone in thinking Facebook shouldn't be obligated or expect to act as an editor, fact checker, and moral censor just because stuff a powerful crowd doesn't like naturally trends on engagement driven algorithms?

That's fine if there's competition. There isn't. Not even the incredibly vast resources of google could make a dent in facebook's network externality advantage from being the first mover. Not even google with their expertise, market power and a massive spend.

So it's facebook's algos or bust. That is a natural monopoly. You don't need to be fancy about definitions, you can't get your facebook like thing elsewhere. Monopoly is the exact time you need regulation - even from a libertarian perspective it's classic "market failure" of the same kind as water & electricity distribution, national parks, national defence.

So what is the approrpriate regulation for this new monopoly? Australia is trying something and the first attempt might utterly garbage, (especially from boomer politicians). Facebook are trying to fight the very idea of doing something with everything they have so it isn't repeated the world over.

It's worth remembering that even parler, while catering to the exact demographic, coudn't unseat facebook as the organisational venue for the Jan 6 riots. The capital storming was organised on facebook. They also censored the new york post story about Hunter Biden's corruption so that could not be shared, so they are censoring, whether you agree with that decision or not.

Engagment algorithms are horrible, vile, hostile, vicious things. Backed by monopoly power they are so very much worse. I'm inclined to think that no news at all on facebook would be a step forward.

But I take the point about google's aglos, which is a different problem. Perhaps regulating search so it cannot use any personal information and the same search terms produce the same results for everyone at a particular time would be the right way to go there.
You need it for places that will only take images.
We’re still in beta, yo! We’ll get there. :)

Currently I’m using an instance of Prisma studio in production as an admin interface for the database.
There are some routes in government (that don't involve crapita or their ilk) for getting access to good people where there's a need to pay more than standard civil service rates. If you want to bring top-level talent in house, rather than rely on expensive day-rate contractors, rigid pay-scale models start to get in the way very quickly, and hinder the ability to do anything.

It would definitely seem reasonable to shield a high-tech risk-taking organisation from overtly political attacks that ultimately jeapordise its mission - even the need to accept and handle FOI requests, correctly applying an existing exemption, will introduce more friction on an R&D-heavy, tech first organisation. If the programme managers are expected to spend a day a week checking FOIs to ensure the exemption claimed is accurate and valid, this just detracts from the mission.

It's strange this is the aspect people hare focused most on - one easy way to avoid the issue would be to set it up within the MOD as a defence research facility (as DARPA was). Making it more civilian focused may give better outcomes, but you raise a good point that if this initiative is held back by inability to pay market rate (and performance bonuses), it may end up worse in the long run.
No, but if you treat your employees as "resources" and commodities, then you can't be surprised when they don't have "passion" for the job and try to extract as much money from you with as little work as possible. This isn't rocket science, yet startups and startup "gurus" continually miss this.
RMB?
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Because that's a combination of features that less than a hundred-thousandth of a percent of users have ever expressed an interest in. And we don't have infinite resources.
To borrow from that other thread today, the Just a Job crowd outcompetes the Really Care crowd at every level.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26170052

I've noticed this in our politics in Australia. No one wants to lead anymore and put up a stake, except on easy wins or moral issues. COVID handling has been almost entirely abdicated to the states.
> pays well, and the learning curve is a bit lower

I've done development and testing, and I would characterize QA as "same job, less pay". In both roles you struggle with vague requirements, lots of edge cases, and unrealistic deadlines. It is surprisingly difficult to get out of the QA pigeonhole. People assume the job is easier, and that you're not as capable as a developer.
I don't think you can separate people who really care about their job vs. people who really care about the company they work for and the mission it's on. Part of the problem could be that you loved the job but not the mission of the company, in which case there is almost no outcome that leads to a happy ending. In other words if the company has a worthy mission it almost doesn't matter what the job is.
> Do you do things with git beside the trivial operations (add/commit/etc.)? Like rebasing/merging and such across commits that introduce or remove submodules?

Yes, often (I'm a stickler for clean histories on my projects). The trick is to only work with submodule refs during any sort of complex series of commands, then update the submodules once all of the ref munging is done.

If you have a ref conflict or something (rare IME, unless you're running git commands haphazardly, without understanding them), the error message tells you exactly which ref it couldn't check out and why - in which case, simply cd in and fix it manually.

If you need to move submodules around, `git submodule --deinit` it first, then re-add it.

If you need to remove one, deinit it then make sure it's purged from .gitmodules.

> Do you never encounter friction when e.g. removing submodules?

Nope, though admittedly the commands need some polish here. Worst case, remove the directory in the working tree, remove the entry from .gitmodules, delete .git/module/x/y/z/, then add -A the now-deleted worktree path and your .gitmodules.

> Do you never run into the errors people complain about?

Not since I sat down and read through the concepts section on the official Git docs, which outline what e.g. objects, trees, commits, tags and refs were, no.

Git submodules are up there on the list of the most misunderstood (but entirely useful) features ever, in my opinion.
I think that exact job of documentation editor must exist somewhere. But definitely technical writing jobs exist. A lot are not remote but I think you can always ask about that even if it doesn't say that. The pandemic may have made them more flexible.

https://www.indeed.com/q-Technical-Writer-Editor-jobs.html

https://www.flexjobs.com/jobs/technical-writing

https://www.upwork.com/freelance-jobs/technical-editing/

https://www.fiverr.com/search/gigs?query=writing%2Bproof%2Br...

You can also contact agencies like Toptal and Robert Half.

If you want a different type of job then you need to have evidence or a convincing story that you have literally done that job before, either as an intern or through training/education or as projects on your own. But the fact that you have literally done proofreading and documentation editing in a technical context and there is a record on Github seems to be concrete proof that should be possible to leverage into getting paid work doing the same thing.
Don’t be ridiculous, it’s not like Apple’s forcing anyone to publish software on the App Store. Or buy any of their hardware products, for that matter...

People and organisations do it because it’s highly profitable, and it’s highly profitable because it’s a trusted and curated platform (unlike the competition).

Pretending this is anything like the mafia is childish.
Like nearly any wrong idea, scientific racism is probably partially correct.
Surveillance Capitalism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_capitalism
It says in the article that these questions were specifically in reference to driving around San Francisco in a car, not general safety.
Thanks for the feedback! I will add a section.
To help Perl, just blog
Yep this is true. California (and if we are being honest, liberal) types will do anything and everything to avoid any kind of conflict. I can't stand it.

Israelis are straight to the point without the typical American BS. I have been on a conference call with Israelis and Americans and every 15 seconds the Israelis would go on mute to complain how stupid the Americans sounded. They were speaking a lot but effectively saying nothing of value.

Say what you mean, mean what you say.
Academic corruption 2: Emasculated culture
Deep dive into AWS Lambda security: Function isolation
Yes it is. It took me less than 5 seconds to Google and find cases of it being enforced: https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2014-20

The attitude of "they don't catch every criminal, therefore it isn't being enforced" that people take towards financial crimes is silly.

40% of murderers get away with it but no one goes around trying to claim that "murder but by illegal but it certainly isn't enforced".

Over 60% of rapists get away with it. 70% of robbery. 80% of theft. 87% of burglary.

Just because financial crimes (maybe) have a slightly higher rate of "getting away with it" is no reason to make the disingenuous claim that it isn't enforced.
Indeed, do not let perfect be the enemy of better. The best way to improve transportation in SF is to tell everyone in a car to fuck right off, and run a bus both ways down every street every 3 minutes. No rails required.
Google to Launch Two New Startup Accelerator Programs for Canadian Businesses
It really depends on if you are the person who can sign a contract or influence a vendor decision.
In the source code it says "I have discovered truly marvelous weights for this, which this header file is too small to contain"
easy, you just display both prices with a fat title 'Hurry up! Price will be 25% higher in 12 minutes"

If this doesn't exist already, it will soon.
We did just turn up a third Zurich location two weeks ago, in Equinix ZRH4, so our presence there is pretty robust; on par with New York, London, Singapore, San Jose, and Los Angeles.
Semiconductors and the U.S.-China Innovation Race
Why is the only documentation in epub format?
Poe’s Law hard at work here.
It’s already being dealt with. The current arrangement is the solution.
Cool, if you wanna get downtown from the Mission.

SF hasn't had good public transit since at least the 50s. https://www.streetcar.org/end-of-the-b-geary-60-years-ago/
>As I said - condescending - and now we can see that your answer was in bad faith.

Lol I stopped reading here