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I worked on a compliance effort for a large-ish American tech company. Imagine a lot of boxes and arrows diagrams and plausible deniability. I was told we had to "balance risk", which in practice meant all data was available to everyone with no governance strategy. It was impossible to enumerate all the places data might be collected and stored, let alone find the appropriate person to handle the deletion request. We ended up basically handling the "happy path" and pretended the known unknowns didn't exist. This gave everyone enough plausible deniability to say "well the policy is X" with no means, technical or otherwise, of checking compliance.

Even for the behemoth companies that are able to harness AI, it seems like the domains are a) heavily constrained b) fault tolerant. For example, voice assistants - they have very limited capabilities and consumers will accept pretty poor performance. Look at the errors in Google's attempts to automatically answer questions in searches.

Do you have any examples of domains where a FAANG has operationalized AI/ML outside of consumer products?

Anything can go to the supreme court if you try hard enough: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/mandamus

But also yes, the Supreme Court has discretionary appeals jurisdiction over any federal case.

Versioning schematics and manuals is actually a great place for version control in manufacturing.

One of my first projects out of school was a web app where our engineers could document the assembly steps for a given sub-assenbly, then string those sub-assemblies together into a manual for a specific product. The sub-assembly instructions would be revision controlled, and products would be revision controlled. The model was conceptually similar to git submodules.

But compare that to trying to say whether that system is "Democrat" or "Republican". Either party could advocate for that policy, or the inverse policy, and they could change their stance at any time.

>Socialism is a political, social and economic philosophy encompassing a range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production and workers' self-management of enterprises.

> Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.

Both of those definitions encompass a wide range of economic systems, but they are fixed definitions. There's never going to be some inversion where "socialism" suddenly describes the private accumulation of capital.

The situation is similar in Canada - a significant number of people would support the NDP, but they're viewed as a spoiler. In my parent's riding, for instance, 55% of people voted for the two left-wing candidates, so the seat went to the right-winger who got the remaining 45%.

A concerted effort to consolidate votes behind the Liberals gave us Justin Trudeau, a do-nothing neoliberal whose hobbies include brownface and giving indigenous people's land to oil companies.

> I’m not a liberal, conservative, Democrat, Republican, socialist, capitalist. I’m an independent individual, not a category, and I can vote for whoever I think is best.

"Socialist" and "capitalist" aren't party alignments, they have concrete meanings. As an independent individual you no doubt have some preference.

Anecdotally, a lot of people I know who have trouble losing weight drink diet soda. I don't know what mechanism would cause that, but metabolism and satiety are complicated enough that I could believe there's a correlation. I'm lucky that artificial sweeteners taste disgusting to me anyways.

You seem to badly misunderstand what "data engineer" means. IME the role is basically infrastructure up to custom ETL jobs. It is a specialized strain of software engineering.

The protests have been very small, despite the media doing their best to promote them.

If you look at someone like Doug Ford, the extremely conservative, pro-business premier of Ontario, he has consistently advocated for masking and lockdowns as needed. He was tight-fisted with funds for testing, and overly eager to reopen businesses before fall/winter when outdoor dining would be untenable. That set the stage for our current outbreak, but he hasn't done anything on the level of Trump or Rick Scott.

What are personal health metrics but the inverse of personal mortality metrics?

My value is "I want to have enough money to provide for my family". One way of achieving that is by getting a big lump sum payout, at the risk of future employability. The other is switching jobs frequently to stay on top of things and remain employable. I think your tone is a little condescending.

My point is that I overweighted the risk of future employability from staying a few years at a shitty place. Lots of people on HN will tell you that's a death sentence and they would never hire you with a period like that on your resume. But in retrospect I don't think it would have had nearly the impact I imagined.

People can be unhappy about more than one thing.

My point is that the "value experience over comp and comfort" perspective was drilled into me when I was starting out, and it definitely contributed to what I now think was a mistake.

To be clear, I'm not being anti-semitic. Jon Stewart, to me, is emblematic of everything wrong with liberal politics in the United States. He spent 8 years dunking on George W and Republicans for being "stupid" while they consolidated power. He had a massive platform to mobilize liberals and instead they all made jokes about how uncultured Republicans were, while the Republican Party played a ground game that let them redistrict and take control of courts at every level to establish minority rule over the country.

Bill Maher - I don't follow him as closely, but everything I hear is basically regurgitated reactionary schtick. He says "the things they don't want you to say" which really means punching down at fat people, queers, people of color, etc. He's a relic of the early 2000s when you could attract a sizeable audience just by being a substance-less edgelord. As far as I know he's basically done a 180 politically because liberals used to enjoy that stuff but now it's more popular with right wingers.

The person in the article also discovered Ray Romano, so... he's 3/3 in my book.

One anecdote: I had a very cushy position at a post-IPO startup that was taking off. My initial RSUs had appreciated by 5x by the time I left. Every time they vested I took the money off the table.

My colleagues loved me, I got great performance reviews, but I didn't feel like I was learning or growing. I was severely burnt out after working on a couple projects that exploded due to organizational problems. I went through 3 managers in a year because of reorgs and departures. Ultimately I left that job because I tortured myself - what was I doing, what value did I add? How would I get a job after this when my skills were out of date?

Meanwhile the company's stock has tripled since I left. Even if I had sold every time my stock vested I would be a millionaire by now. I grew up poor, and the security of having that money in the bank would be life-changing. Instead I'm at a new startup where I'm not any happier, but I also don't get a million dollars.

> how there were no “umms or likes” I observed (makes sense, they would be intelligent speakers)

Some of the justices get their questions out ... very ... slowly. I don't know if you can necessarily attribute the lack of 'filler words' to some superior intellect. I'm sure the fact they all went to a few ivy league schools also trained them to speak in a particular manner.

> The guy who discovered Jon Stewart and Bill Maher

So this guy is like a pre-cog for detecting smug assholes? How can we harness this power for good?

Those things are so unrelated, maybe you should just meditate on why your mind went there? They do make pills to change your gender, you know.

> A report claims women in immigration centers are being given unnecessary procedures that can leave them unable to conceive.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/21/unwanted-hys...

> The US has concentration camps for blacks, native americans and immigrants, where they reeducate you to follow a tyrannical political system?

What do you think the school-to-prison pipeline and legal prison labour amount to? Black, brown and native people being forced into slavery and imprisonment. Not to mention ICE detention camps.

> Are they tracked through a social credit system where you can't get a train out of your town if it's bad?

Ever had to get a background check for a job? To rent a house?

The only reason this is so visible in China is because it's foreign to us. We grew up with redlining and ghettos and mandatory minimums, so we don't even realize it's a different implementation of the same system

I have the inverse - I started at a place that has hundreds integration tests that require a database, k8s, the whole shebang. No mocking anywhere.

Tests take an hour to run, are extremely fragile and flakey. Getting your local dev machine set up to run even a subset of the tests is a half day ordeal, and it can change periodically.

If you have external dependencies that don't version their APIs well it may be inevitable that you need to run tests against them. But for developer productivity you should have a fast/non-flakey path to run local unit tests with no network dependencies. It's also great for working on a plane.

This isn't some backseat driver telling DO how to run their event better. This is literally someone who is supposed to be benefited by the event (an open source maintainer) who is saying the event has negative value for them. They have skin in the game, they're doing this for free compared to the DO employees who are being paid to administer the event.

I think Breyer is pretty honest at least that his goal is equity rather than some abstract philosophy. Unfortunately this does tend to lead to balancing tests rather than bright line rules.

Conversely, it could be said Scalia twisted the idea of "originalist" to suit his political ends. Heller in particular is a very consequential ruling that basically invented a new right under the second amendment from whole cloth. When originalists complain about "activist judges" it can seem intellectually dishonest.

There's also a good question about how originalists can even support Marbury v Madison and the concept of judicial supremacy in the first place, since it doesn't originate in any law. Right now they support it because they have durable power in the courts.

Judicial methodology counts for something - see Gorsuch's recent ruling on sex discrimination. My understanding is clerks are generally so used to thinking like the justice they clerked for that they could tease out arguments which would be persuasive. Gorsuch may be socially conservative but he's obviously very susceptible to "originalist" arguments - if you want his vote, you need to speak to the text of the statute.

Realistically this is a nice recognition for the handlers and the program that also has a cute news angle. It's a win-win, if the program has attention and funding the rat keeps getting lunch

Is it Spiro?