skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The easiest way is don't collect or store user data.

If you have to collect or store data because the space you are in, charge a meaningful amount of money so it is clear that charging users money is the way you plan to make money. And clear that selling data is not the most likely way you will make money.

Complaints about data are complaints about price.

If you are getting complaints about data, then you are better off charging money because money is much better than data. You can always buy data. You can't always sell it.
Every year they have more equity they can just cash out and walk away. Worst case, they lose the property and their credit gets ruined, exactly the same thing that happens to any renters that have to break their lease.
Landlords lose an investment, Renters lose a home and their kids might have to change schools, etc...
So if this is what remained on the cave wall ... it was the plan that killed the whole tribe?
Is there a revocation list functionality?

Take for example the Bush National Guard memo which was put forth as authentic by news organizations, but then on further investigation, was shown to be a forgery?

How would this system handle a case like this?
AI safety seems like one of those topics that trips up even smart people such as Hawkins, because it intuitively seems like it has very obvious solutions. And for each objection raised there's usually a "so you just..." continuation, and an objection to that, until you're talking about things like instrumental convergence and you're in the territory of trying to reason in quite a complex way about the behaviour of systems that don't exist yet, and so the temptation is to dismiss it all as theoretical hand-wringing.

Personally, while I'm not on board with the board with the direst predictions of the super-intelligence pessimist crowd, I have become more and more convinced that goal misalignment is going to be a significant problem, and that while it might not doom the species, it's something that all AI researchers like Hawkins need to start paying close attention to now.
Where I've worked, they will hand out RSA-style tokens that constantly generate new codes if you don't have a phone or don't want to install an app on your personal phone. There are even tokens out there that will totally replace any Authenticator-compatible app since the token is programmable.
You must be some incredible entrepreneur for that EV to be much higher. Strong leetcode skills print money with far less uncertainty than starting a company.
> What is going on is "place" is currently defined to be

Not to belabor this growing thread, but here's the disconnect. I complained the rules were ad hoc and complicated, you replied that they were simple, and when challenged on an edge case your treatment is to add another clause to re-define a term you used in isolation earlier.

That's what "ad hoc and complicated" means.
According to the article, all 6 cases were in women
I understand location tracking as being tracked, i.e. someone knows where I am at any given time. Here it's a binary information. Inside the fence (place of employment) or not. Once you're out, all the employer knows is that you're not at work.

Don't get me wrong, I despise this but it's not tracking strictly speaking.
You can't outlaw profits. If we're talking about corrupt "socialist" nations, they sell out their countries in debt negotions with foreign banks.

Capitalism is not very old in the grand scheme of human history. Most of human history falls under a collectively owned economy.
I feel like there has to be a better way to portray class mobility than statistics like % out earning parents. It seems that (im not an economist) out earning parents is crude because it doesn’t take actually moving classes into consideration. Can one not out earn their parents and still be poor or have not moved classes?
Apple Applogism in the flesh.

I wish I had people apologizing and defending my company. Not sure how Tesla/Apple does it.

Edit-per the reply comment, something more substantiative. op has post purchase Rationalization fallacy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choice-supportive_bias
Doesn't Amazon interview you to make sure you align with their principles? Other companies do similar culture fit tests.
Most of those cases haven't quite been "healthy."

Even then, let's assume they were. COVID is largely avoidable, if you don't mind being avoiding others. Directly getting a vaccine is not.

It's like saying X% of people riding in cars will be in accidents and die. Yeah, maybe, but that doesn't apply to you if you don't ride in a car in the first place.
https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/vaccines/emerge...
there's a reason it's emergency authorization, we don't have long term data yet.
> You are (or should?) always having to think about [ownership] when building APIs.

This isn't strictly true. For instance Swift uses value semantics, which is equivalent to adding an implicit `.copy()` in rust every time most variables are passed around. It obviates a lot of the low-level details, at the cost of performance and control. This is a lot more "python-like" in my opinion, where having to hold these details in your mind is very much against the design priorities of python.

Python wants everything to be implicit, to eliminate tedium wherever possible, and for syntax to barely exist. By contrast Rust favors explicitness, demands a lot ceremony, and is very syntax-heavy. These languages are antithetical in so many ways.

It's fairly subjective, so I would not try to convince you that Rust is more similar to C than Python, but many of the points you brought up apply to virtually every modern mainstream language. It's hard to imagine why Python would come up as a comparison point for Rust unless C and Python were literally the only other languages you had ever programmed with.
I read 'On Intelligence' a while back (Hawkins' earlier book), and it's had a lasting impression on me. What I found most interesting from this book was that:

- Intelligence, in essence, is hierarchal prediction.

- Agents' actions are a means to minimize prediction error.

- Suprisal, i.e. information that was not predicted correctly, is the information sent between neurons.

- All neocortical tissue is fairly uniform; the neocortex basically wraps the lower meninges, which act as device drivers for the body.

I have a long-running bet with myself (before GPT long-running, fwiw) that when general models of intelligence do arise, they will be autoregressive unsupervised prediction models.

Btw, this general topic 'A Predictive model of Intelligence', reminds me of the SSC post 'Surfing Uncertainty' (https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/05/book-review-surfing-un...)
There are 7 other vaccines in use simultaneously across major markets. JnJ has little effect on the strategy.
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Not affiliated, just thought it was interesting.
I like Figma and it is a solid product. But one reason why my team will stay on Sketch is the unilateral ability of Figma's developers to change plans at will.
I'd be happy to take the vaccine if I was in a higher risk group and I'll be happy to take the vaccine in a year or two, but right now I just don't think it's right decision for someone like myself.

Given my risk is very low I'm not too worried about COVID, but I am a little worried (perhaps wrongly) about the risk of finding out about some long-term side effect from these vaccines a few months down the road. I suffer from long-term side effects from another drug I took in the past, and at the time I was told there was no risk of long-term side effects and that it was safe to take. Only recently has the labeling been updated to reflect the discovery that permanent side effects can occur in some cases and for me it's too late, but I learnt my lesson to allow others to be the guinea pig for new drugs wherever possible.

It's really quite alarming how little we know about the body, espically considering the certainty of some "experts" about how extremely low the risk of adverse effects are from newly approved vaccines. I'm aware of a number of drugs which are approved and frequently perscribed which we don't even understand the mechanism of action for -- accutane, for example. Of course in this situation, we do know the mechanism of action, but it would still be wrong to assume we know the full surface area of possible side effects which could occur because our model of the human body is so basic.

I'm happy for someone to explain why I'm wrong on this. I'm obviously not an expert, just an average guy trying to assess the relative risk of two very unlikely events.
Yep, those have been in retail stores forever. In the grocery store I worked in it was specifically for making sure there weren't hazards on the floor (like a broken jar that fell from a shelf) that someone could slip on and break their neck. It was required by their insurance.
I think that's not a very charitable take on "anti-vaxers". People are against injecting something new that has not stood the test of time. We have no idea what the actual frequency of this issue is (maybe more reports will come in), or if there are other lurking side effects waiting to be observed as a pattern, or if there are long-term effects. What if news of this spurs others to make the connection with the J&J vaccine and more such cases are reported to the CDC? Or looking at the other vaccines, what if in 30 years we somehow establish a link between mRNA vaccines and cancer?

I'm sure people will be tempted to jump in here and state their case as to why certain long term effects are not possible, and why this is conspiracy theory misinformation. But that's not the point. The reality is that humans regularly fail to understand infrequent or long-term consequences of new innovations, despite the best of intentions and despite the use of the best science available at the time. This has happened repeatedly in the past - see numerous prescription drugs that were recalled, or the use of phthalates in shampoos, or asbestos, or whatever else.

In the case of J&J, consider that this is happening against a backdrop of a continuously changing story about the AstraZeneca vaccine, increasing reports of COVID vaccines affecting menstruation (https://vajenda.substack.com/p/the-covid-19-vaccine-and-mens...), and a rushed emergency use authorization process that bypasses typical methodology for approvals of vaccines. The comparison isn't between the IFR of COVID-19 and the fatality rate associated with this vaccine. It's between the IFR of COVID-19, which is known to be very low, and the unbounded potential of near-term or long-term fatality or other side effects from the vaccine.
In the mainstream, technical debt largely does not matter until the time when you accumulate enough of it to stop you dead on your tracks
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Statute of limitations is a concept of criminal law, since none of the described actions are criminal it wouldn’t apply directly.

I do find it questionable to dig up decades old actions that were apparently dealt with at the time by appropriately unionizing and fixing the situation, and say that means a person should never have even a volunteer job again.
Exactly this - as someone with a non-traditional background (physics) "reversing a binary tree" is as you say completely trivial and I could have "discovered" the answer to the question in slightly slower than real-time in an interview. But people with CS backgrounds don't need to discover it, they have it memorised. These questions aren't testing for original thought or problem-solving ability, they are testing for your skill at memorisation or, to put it more cheekily, regurgitation.

I've worked in the industry for years now and I've probably used more maths from my physics degree than I have of the algorithms that I learn for interview.
It is not stopped. It is paused for a few days while updated training is rolled out.
> I was reprimanded for “acting like an independent agent of a set of principles or ideas or beliefs.”

I have no words
"or (at your option) any later version" is probably the most insidious line in any license anywhere ever - as arguably the GPLv3 is incompatible with the GPLv2 without that.

And we're seeing that the GPLv3 didn't "solve" the problems it was meant to solve and now we have multiplications of "open source" licenses designed to protect business models.
That was my first thought as well. However, both vaccines with this issue are viral vector vaccines. Might be coincidence of course, but it gives me pause.
Technically no, the client does not have to send the exact location to its server at all times to determine if the device is within the fence.
Perhaps you're mistaking seller vs manufacturer?

If the former, I already said:

> Ideally, the seller should list the price + tax if it is physically sold in a store. This should be fixed (along with the tips culture in US).
Nono, lots of differences. In a ponzi scheme, the early investors get paid by the new investors and the company doesnt have any real business other than gathering new investors
Yes. When I read 'I was unemployeable' I thought it meant: companies wont hire me. But actually it meant: I cannot stand working for companies (anymore?).
Young people shouldn't be getting the vaccine period. There is no reason to give every single person who will have children in the future an experimental vaccine for a virus they are at no serious risk from. The long tail risk on that is absolutely insane.
We've now got a known risk that's quantifiable, but hasn't been quantified. You can estimate the risk based on the current information, but now that it's a known risk, I would expect to have more complete information in a few weeks.

If this turns out to be about what it looks like now, unpause and go forward. If it turns out to be much more significant, all the better for having stopped; maybe restrict this vaccine to populations at higher risk of COVID or lower risk of blood clots (if that risk can be determined). Both mRNA vaccines and modified adenovirus vaccines are new types of vaccines not used before on a wide scale; pausing to get clarity on a major negative side effect is warranted.
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> Not sure why people are opposed to measures that increase privacy?

Because small increased of privacy should not result in huge usability decrease.
I don’t think national rivalries and all that will be around much longer. Borders are getting increasingly meaningless. People just want the freedom to make a good honest living anywhere on earth. Anything that gets in the way is doomed to fail. I believe this will happen in my lifetime.
Why does this sound familiar, as if I’ve heard it echoed many times by freedom loving people.
It doesn't. The authors don't seem to know the difference between an RFID tag and a microchip.
It's never been about quality. It's about control.
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Even better: lets seed Mars with life and leave an actual mysterious buried or maybe orbiting artifact for future intelligences to find should any evolve there.

Then the Martian equivalent of Giorgio Tsoukalos, the Ancient Aliens guy with the crazy hair, would be right.
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HN is heavily moderated. Try turning on showdead in your profile and reading the trash that dang and co. delete from here. I doubt you'll come away with the conclusion that it should all be left up.

This includes things like removing duplicate links and changing upvoted stories from tertiary sources to primary ones. Is it "censorship?" Yes. Does it make the site better? Yes.
The answer is yes, "as determined by the experts" that made the recommendation after looking at the data on this and also the data from what has happened in the UK/EU with the AZ vaccine which uses a very similar method. Are the experts correct here - no one knows at this exact second. It will take time and future studies to see if they made the correct call. One point that people are missing in the reported data is that this type of blood clot is not the usual kind where the normal treatment that I doctor would follow would fix it. The pause here is about getting the information out to the doctors and the public that says "Hey Public, if you get J&J and feel this way X,Y,Z with in X weeks of getting it go to the doctor. Hey Doctor, if someone comes in in X time of getting the J&J and feels this way X,Y,Z be aware that it could not be the NORMAL thing you think and look for XXX and treat it this different way to make sure you have a good outcome."
>The best advice I can offer, about two decades into my career, is to stop chasing the shiny marketing material. They'll burn you out and replace you without blinking.

That hit hard! Thanks for putting that in words!
French tacos are only "tacos" in their name; the two foodstuff have basically nothing in common.
Hello, author here. I found this the analogy between voting and machine learning to be an interesting one, as voting is essentially a classification task. Popular votes are bagging, representative democracy is stacking -- it's pretty cool!
As long as there aren't too many variables keeping state, imperative should be fine.
*Unlimited draft files

For solo people using Figma this shouldn't affect them too much, but naturally those are likely fewer than teams/collaborators.
Ok nice to hear. I'm going to give your app a try :)
Lets say these side effects only happen in certain populations.

If that is the case we could then target this vaccine to the rest and have it be much safer while giving out the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccines to this group.

End result is everyone still getting their vaccine fast but less side effects (and possibly deaths due to worst case side effects). This is why we need more data or the time to study the data in this case most likely
Faster Python with Go shared objects
* Files can now have an unlimited number of editors, up from 2

* The number of those files is now capped at 3 with 3 pages each, down from unlimited

* Draft files (of which you can have an unlimited number) can no longer have any editors besides you
Why doesn't this issue apply to Sketch?
I agree with this. Colemak is a skill. Qwerty is a skill. Switching between the two is a separate skill. But all 3 can be learned.
This is unfortunately the case for all content moderation online. May it be Apple, Youtube, Facebook, or any other large platform. People only get to see the very small fraction that slips through, but have no clue about the immense amount of bad content that does get caught and removed quickly.

It's also worth noting that there's almost a game of natural selection going on, with these scams evolving and adapting constantly to slip through the automated systems. So it's a never ending war with no end in sight.
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A little off topic, but given its popularity I gave Figma an honest try for my last UI design. I tried to like it, I wanted to like it.

But after 15+ years of using Illustrator, I felt so constrained. It felt like 15% of the feature set of Illustrator.

I wonder who the target is? People who work on teams probably get more out of it. Or if you design front ends by dragging and dropping predesigned elements from libraries like Material?
I don't think it is just the French. I have Polish friends that aren't into it either. I think most of Europe isn't really into peanut butter.
So they aren't hiring people ho currently have a job? Every job I've had since starting my career explicitly would not allow this.
I type Dvorak and simply use the default Vim key bindings. Vim defaults are weird with Dvorak, but significantly more intuitive than what the situation is with Colemak. Here's the Vim and Dvorak inspired custom keymap I use on my programmable keyboard: https://github.com/1MachineElf/qmk_firmware/tree/_sb4dv/keyb...
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> up there with hand-coding machine learning techniques

A toy implementation of machine learning algorithms (e.g. backprop on an arbitrary neural network) on the CPU, is pretty simple as well.
After thinking about this statement a bit, I must also admit the possibility that it did not originate in a lab yet finding evidence that it did not is still very difficult. That said, I still think that CCP's default strategy to cover up everything and shroud the truth is now hurting it more than if they were just honest and straightforward about what really happened.
Is Brain Drain not a problem anywhere on the planet? Well, other than US that is obviously. At least in Canada new cycle seems to circle back to how we are subsidizing industries in the US with our young professionals who are educated here but chose to relocate to the US for far better pay at least once every three months.

There is no fix for brain drain. So long as US is awash in cash and can pay 2-3x what anybody else can pay there will always be people moving there for work from everywhere in the world.
All of those places have something in common. They all fell from relative affluence or comfort. In South Africa, white people no longer had job guarantees. Iraq had a total collapse of it's society. And the USA has also had a decline or stagnation in middle class incomes.
Also a veteran of the Cub Scout sleepover at Battleship Cove. An awesome memory.
C'est la vie. The disconnect between college and industry has always existed I think.

My guess is that what students really want is a lecture in how to get a job, not how to be useful in a job. OJT and fakeittillyoumakeit would then become the order of the day.

I wonder sometimes why I don't hear more about apprenticeships by the nation-state sized companies. Bring in likely 17 year olds and train them in whatever specialized way you like.

Perhaps some of all this interview nonsense could be avoided by commonly recognized software equivalents of a PE cert, but I suppose you'd simply slide into subtle quizzes about programming languages and the like.
Whether it's .0000000001 or .001 chance of dying it's a non-zero chance of dying.

So where does one draw the line?

What level of shutting something down is justifiable in the name of safety?

Who is allowed to make that subjective decision?

It's a slippery slope.

It's arguable that we should wear masks FOREVER because they reduce death rates for every respiratory disease.

This feeling. Of why are shutting down because of these few lives.

Is exactly how people have felt about shutting down the whole economy over the small-ish fatality rate of Coronvirus.

There's just different levels of risk tolerance.

Who is the more moral person?
Keep in mind that if you're travelling internationally you'll still have to abide by local rules on what vaccinated people can and cannot do. In Canada, for instance, you have to take PCR tests before and after your flight, self quarantine for 14 days with an additional PCR test on day 10. The first three days of your quarantine will be spent in a government-approved hotel booked for CDN 2000 (~1600 USD). They don't care about whether you've already recovered from covid (it might exempt you from the hotel stay, but not the self-quarantine), or whether you've tested negative, or whether you're fully vaccinated.
I feel this. I had a hard time getting a job after mine shut down a decade ago because after running a startup you're quite literally a jack of all trades and many big corp jobs seem to aim for more specialization. DevOps seems to be the place to fit at a larger org after all that.

I've since learned to just stick with smaller companies and I'm much happier.
The towns small enough to only need one shipment are easy, just thaw some mRNA in the nearest big city and someone drives it out the morning of the vaccine clinic.

The big enough cities to need many shipments can handle these logistic.