aviraldg

Very off-topic, but the 'humans write “laws”' phrasing made me think of using LLMs to unit test real laws. Have them come up with test cases to see if the phrasing is as intended or has loopholes. Wonder if anyone's tried doing something like this (probably not, I imagine this is too much tech for government)

> https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/336478/is-it-rea...

I've mainly seen it used this way in business contexts

What's the problem with Namecheap (I have my domains there right now)?

Reminds me of one of my favourite ads, Nissin's 'Samurai Noodles "The Originator"': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNbb9qixsRQ

Can't wait for someone to integrate this into a shell. Does anyone know if such a project exists?

Do you mean mSBC?

Forcing Apple to do the right thing the next time.

Please stop assuming everyone shares your values and beliefs. Personally, I think that while there is some mismanagement at Facebook (that can be fixed) most of the issues brought up can probably be expected from anyone in this problem space at this scale. Facebook has allowed me to discover a lot of opportunities and connect with some long lost friends, so I would say the cost is worth it.

This is equivalent to saying: "paid labour may never be cost-competitive enough to replace slavery".

Sure, "traditional meat" is cheaper. But that's because it involves the torture and murder of animals.

I am so glad this exists, and take every opportunity to encourage friends and family to switch to it and avoid alternatives from companies with exploitative and unfair business models (like Adobe.)

Presumably the verification that these false matches are not problematic is manual?

That's not good enough given how our media currently works. Imagine articles published when information about such a check leaks that say "celebrity X's phone checked by police for suspected CSAM." While that is the truth ("suspected") no one cares about that nuance and such a person would get cancelled very quickly, even if there was no evidence of wrongdoing.

As soon as ad supported free services start shutting down because of ad blocking and lowered clickthrough rates on ads because of targeting being blocked, most people will probably start changing their minds. (The alternative being maintaining 10-20+ paid subscriptions.) For now, all this change means is that users who are opted-in to tracking are subsidising those who aren't.

+1.The fact that most current tech unions are more about $POLITICAL_ISSUE_OF_THE_DAY (e.g. forcing the company to stop working with organization X) instead of just workers' rights and compensation is what turns me off of them. I believe they would be more successful if they split into goal-specific unions: most workers would have no issues joining the "real" union, and those who have specific opinions on political issues could join unions for related issues.

Link should be updated to https://progressive.international/wire/2021-07-09-bezos-dyst... (The current article mentions that is where it was originally published)

One of the changes due to WFH that I'm happiest about is how all meetings are now online, which makes my inability* to find the right time to take a turn speaking in a conversation less of a problem (since it's possible to "raise a hand" in most online meeting apps, or just drop a message in chat.) Better still, most meetings can be converted to emails, so this situation doesn't arise in the first place. I don't think most people realise how much anxiety this kind of stuff causes "introverts".

* Also shared by most people with ADHD.

Yeah, I was surprised USA was able to come up with a COVID vaccine too, given the recent reports of government corruption, armed insurrection and police brutality.

I worked at Amazon India (Retail, not AWS) for about two years straight out of college and experienced pretty much none of the issues described in OP (maybe with the exception of the delayed vesting*) I had the opportunity to work with some pretty smart people (whom I'm still in touch with), on great projects, with manageable oncall, and a good manager who didn't micromanage. In my time there, not a single person in my 40-50+ org was fired. If anything, the problem at Amazon India is that there are too few senior engineers, as most leave for better opportunities in Seattle or at other companies (since better/more important teams and projects tend to be located in Seattle.)

* Something the original post fails to mention is that this difference is made up for by a fixed joining bonus that is roughly equal in value (or at least it was, for me.)

The amusing bit about the controversy on this thread is that almost no one would agree to automatically add a footer to their messages that specifies their race, but that's sort of what this does and some people are actively advocating for it.

I agree that this is a dark pattern, but I also empathise with whoever first implemented this. Negative reviews are often just "this doesn't work", no further information. That's not actionable at all as a developer, and even if you somehow do fix the underlying issue, it's pretty difficult (or impossible) to get people to update their reviews.

A better headline would be "Facebook wants to inform users about the fact that scraping publicly available information is easy (and there's nothing wrong about that.)" Of course, that wouldn't get Vice as many clicks.

Don't publish information you don't want to be part of some database publicly on the internet. I wish schools had some sort of tech literacy class where they explained this stuff to people…

Not looking forward to a future where the US sabotages its best tech companies and we all end up working for Alibaba, Tencent or Baidu (or founding startups with the aim of being acquired by them.)

> disproportionately harm trans people and be used to emotionally manipulate all of us

I see this claim frequently being made in such contexts, but it's never explained. Spotify playing music that matches your mood hurts trans people?

One source of health information Facebook might have is the Oculus Move app (which tracks exercise in VR)

> There is no need to "pass data to the GPU" because data is never on CPU memory, so there is nothing to pass from there. All network and file I/O goes directly to the GPU.

This is very interesting - do you have a link that explains how it works / is implemented?

Does this include Yahoo Answers Japan (which I believe is still quite active)?

(Somewhat) related self-promotion: I've found that converting from HTML(+YAML) to PDF is one of the best ways to create a resume. It's very easy to come up with a good design, you can separate data (YAML) and presentation (HTML and CSS), and also export different views over the underlying data with simple filters (e.g. when generating a resume to apply to a job, only include the experiences that are relevant)

The code is pretty terrible, but you can see an example (my resume) here:

* Data - https://github.com/aviraldg/aviraldg.github.io/blob/master/_...

* HTML - https://github.com/aviraldg/aviraldg.github.io/blob/master/r...

Isn't Katakana (for words that would normally be written with Hiragana or Kanji) also used sometimes to indicate emphasis? https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/5314/31389

Why was this flagged? It's simply the abstract for the article, useful for people to read (to determine if they're actually interested in reading more) before clicking through.

I vouched for this after I noticed it had already been posted (but was flagged/dead) after I posted it as well (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26652224). Not sure why this was flagged (maybe because the poster is a new user?)

The video provides a good overview about the issues surrounding bias in ML, and I think it motivates a discussion that would be useful to have on HN, given the number of people who work on such systems that regularly visit this site.

See my other comment - subsidize it directly, if you can make it work with subscription models; I don't care. It's just that from what I've seen so far, this is harder to do with subscription models and so often not done at all.

As for why you should do this: the opportunities created this way are good for everyone in the long term. See: all the companies started and being led by people from developing nations, in developed ones.