skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I share your frustration, but I've found the landscape to be more complex than most people are willing to give it credit for.

For example, my partner and I disagree on the value of things like "Girls who Code" or "Women in Computer Science" groups. I (male) tend to think "can't hurt seems like a decent idea, I'm sure there are unique challenges faced by people with two X-chromosomes in computer science that I'm not aware of, I'll take people's claims that it's valuable on face value - if smart people are doing it in reasonably large numbers, and I can't see obvious harm, then I'm certainly not going to go out of my way to disparage it."

She, on the other hand, despises those groups. She hates being singled out for her sex, and thinks sex shouldn't even be on the table for discussion. She just wants to work and be respected as an engineer, has never had any problem being respected as an engineer by her peers, and feels insulted every time she's invited to do something "on behalf of people with vaginas," (her words).

Interestingly, she also despises overtly feminine genderization and tends to think people who call themselves "girls" and dress/perform in an overtly feminine way are stupid (and acknowledges that this is unfair)... so I don't know. Is the whole thing targeted at the gendering of engineering rather than the physical sex of programmers? I don't really know. I don't think the people participating in it have a very clear view of that either, judging from the conversations I have with people.

At the end of the day I just try to take encourage everyone to blind themselves as much as possible when evaluating applications, reviewing code (impossible, generally), or assigning grades.

edit:

after thinking about this a little more I should specify that we're both pretty standard-issue silver-spoon white Midwestern liberals, and acknowledge that our personal views/experience on sex in computer science might miss a whole chunk of the spectrum of women's experience in communities where gender and sex are a bigger deal. My community expects women to be good at math and science every bit as much as men; that's not everyone's situation.
I have not been involved in Drupal and do not know this Larry person.

tldr; He was involved in a subculture called Gorean, and has been a master in Master/Slave relationships.
One of his Slaves was a severely autistic woman.
He talks about BSDM being ok between consenting individuals, etc.
I think the reason was to work around too simplistic minifiers and concatenators.
Did we read the same article? You excluded what the current crane operator union was doing to prevent this thing from being used which seemed like the meat of the article to me.
I would like to argue that the fourth amendment implicitly protects against legislation whose only method of enforcement would require unreasonable search.

If you cannot observe any direct effects of an action without searching the person who performed the action, then it cannot be a criminal action, and theres a reasonable argument that this follows from the fourth amendment.
HN doesn't allow to go that deep in comment thread, thus replying there...

> How do you figure? If they're able to pass whatever company's interview and negotiation is no longer a factor it seems more likely that salaries will become more equitable. I'd guess the correlation between negotiating skill and technical skill is small at best.

In 2-tier (technical + negotiation) interview, candidates have to show they're good enough technically first. Then they negotiate their worth. In what you propose, they'd have to negotiate their worth right away. If company isn't willing to pay, why would they hire said person for higher wage?

Even purely technical job interview is sort of haggling. Well, aside from bullshit whiteboard tests which suck left and right.
Amazing. Microsoft running wordpress on the main corporate site.
Ther balance sheet is massive. They've raised over $15B.
Interesting that they are not triggering the voter ring detection.
MongooseIM (and ejabberd) are too big and complex to allow full hot code reloading. Moreover this feature is quite rarely used in any Erlang software.
Paywalled - and can't get around it with the original trick of googling the article.
Mine is 90% pictures of people I don't know! Just photos friends have liked. I don't know why I need to see that.

I once tried to go through all of my friends friends and block them but I got tired after twenty minutes
Mathematics is founded in logic. You cannot use logic to prove logic. Instead, we start with some axioms and build from there using rules that we think we reasonable and intuitive. I vaguely recall learning about a position in philosophy that holds that these axioms and rules come from the way the human mind is structured. If this is true then there is no reason to think that an alien mind would use the same axioms. For example, something that seems entirely fundamental to us might require a very complicated proof in the alien system. If the two systems are pragmatic and useful then they can produce conclusions that correspond to the physical world, and from there we can relate the two.

However, a major plot point in the movie is that time does not exist and that there is no such thing as causality. In the world of Arrival, there is not a lot of reason to believe that mathematics, logic, and science are capable of bringing us to a true understanding of the universe. It wouldn't work to teach human mathematics to the aliens because human mathematics is weird and wrong.
So you think women don't go into plumbing because of cultural norms? Really?

Ok, I wish somebody would study that and find the reasons. The baby argument doesn't hold, though, because it makes a huge difference if it is your own baby.

Better comparison would perhaps be care of the elderly, which involves cleaning up shit but also has a social component.
Then Uber should raise their rates - as it is, they take a greater cut of the fare than Lyft, charge less than Lyft, and don't offer tipping (which is always optional). This is a worse deal for the drivers overall from what drivers on both Uber and Lyft tell me, which is why I don't understand the tipping argument for when it comes to specifically using Uber or Lyft.
Quitting means forfeiting options.
Ask HN: What are some small-scale investments where having coding skills helps?
I recently began investing in Bitcoin, and find that knowing something about programming, and information security in general, helps you handle your Bitcoin securely.

What are some other investments where a person who knows how to code will be much more likely to maintain and grow their assets than a person who doesn't?
Are you claiming that Module-2 is memory safe?

What about:

MODULE Boom

VAR Foo : POINTER TO INTEGER;

BEGIN
Foo^ = 123;
END Boom.
The "O" in TOR stands for "Onion". The name comes from having many layers with traffic routing between them. Each node only knows enough to go to the next node. You'd have to control the entire chain to track a packet from source (TOR client on end user's machine) to target (i.e. TOR-exit).

It's definitely possible but with an increased number of hops it becomes harder and harder.
How the Tech Press Forces a Narrative on Companies It Covers (2015)
Scientists Use Spinach to Build New Blood Vessels for the Heart
Then putting it under a brand that for so long has been associated with (and pushed on, and designed for) internal enterprise documents or other sensitive/personal docs might not've been the best move?

I don't know that there's a "social docs" brand, to figure out what it would call itself; but if MS exerted the minimal effort to understand its audience (which is required of any tech company that sells to domain experts who are more occupied with their work than what the workspace is configured to do), it wouldn't take them long to figure out how to pitch things to those users to accomplish whatever it is they're trying to do.
Authorea fully supports LaTeX and MathML with a WYSIWYG interface like GDocs, Paper, or Word.

https://www.authorea.com/product
Care to elaborate on why? The initial condition here is founders having full voting rights. In a free marketplace, they're free to sell shares without (or with little) voting rights as they wish. If investors aren't happy with it (which doesn't seem to be the case), they're free to not invest.

You seem to be stating that there's a moral imperative that founders voluntarily give away voting rights to investors.
NXDOMAIN hijacking is closely related, but Paxfire had another service (at least in 2011, when fewer searches were done over SSL) that was sending all traffic directed to the major search engines through its proxy servers.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/07/widespread-search-hija...
Faraday Future pulls plug on Vallejo electric car factory
The title is "How to set up a VPN in 10 minutes for free" although it doesn't tell you how to "set up" a VPN, just how to configure your browser to use one, or to buy a service or device (router) to connect to a VPN.

If you actually are looking to set up your own VPN, I recommend this guide on Digital Ocean[1] If privacy is your main concern for using a VPN, and you are technically inclined, then it would make sense to be in control of the server acting as your VPN.

[1] https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-...
This is arguably a story about a disruptive hardware play that's being hampered by legal troubles.
Can we flag paywall listings?
hugged to death?
"It's not like we can just flip a switch"
By coincidence for another project, I was trying to mine Wikipedia. It is better to try and parse the html than mess about with the text. The wikidata stuff can be quite inconsistent also in what it returns.
I've never seen a language with such a variety of built-in data types (e.g. coordinates, tags, email, url, issues). There's support for IPv4 numbers as a base type (tuples) but I can't tell if there's support for IPv6, which shows the trouble with this approach for the language maintainers.
Indeed Gajim is quite stuck in the past, and I regret to say this as it hurts me, since I used to be a hardcore fan.

Conversations indeed is very decent.
Zulip: open source group chat
And your hypothesis is that insufficient breast milk production affects the mortality rates more so than modern medicine?
"Shouldn't" and "doesn't" are worlds apart.

I think most people hate tipping because they hate when people ask for tips. But a formal tipping system might reduce the number of Uber drivers who already ask for tips.
I guess technically it could be an API or a permissions issue. But yeah, not UX
For companies which require decent tech talent to build, I have been wondering if the seed stage has become a market for lemons.

The amounts offered at the seed stage aren't even enough to cover a year's salary/RSUs/other comp for someone with a bit of skill.

The time it takes to raise the seed round isn't time spent building a business. And with that time reallocated, someone technical can probably just save the money at a job or do consulting on the side while doing their startup.

I'd love to raise money for my startup, but every time I look at the numbers, the numbers just don't add up. If I go spend time fundraising, it may or may not work out. I'll definitely be out a bunch of time, and if I succeed I'll be out a bunch of equity. But the amount I get paid for that equity is problematic, especially considering I'll be expected to work below market for a while on my startup.

So instead investors simply don't get the opportunity to invest in what what, in my obviously biased opinion, is one of the few startups that could make their portfolio work.
I understand your point. However, that doesn't take into account defense in depth which says that more than a single control should be in place.
I don't know if I ever started reading the book, or if I never gave it a chance, because I was so put off by Singer's utilitarianism.

I turned vegetarian in the mid-nineties because my first girlfriend was vegetarian. It coincided with media focusing on unnecessarily long animal transports in the EU, and I quickly realized I didn't want to take any part in factory farming. My wife turned vegetarian after meeting me, and we're both vegan since 2007. I joke that vegetarianism and veganism is transferred from partner to partner. Both our kids have been vegan their whole lives.

I came in contact with Singer's ideas in articles, and was both put off by the utilitarian ideas as I couldn't see them coexist with ideas of inviolable human and animal rights, and also that he used mentally disabled children as an example of the absurdity of using mental capacity as a measure of whether you can be used to make food and clothes. I agree, of course, that you shouldn't use human children or animals, it was just that the examples and arguments didn't speak to me at all.

Do you remember what it was by Singer that spoke to you?
Wow, $60M for 3 hours of work must be a new record (I know prep takes longer than that, but still).
I worked through the book while I was in school as a way to prepare myself for a C-programming heavy course (OS) that I was scheduled to take later in the semester. I liked the book - its quite intense but you do end up learning quite a bit. I also picked up interesting tidbits on Lisp so that's quite welcoming.

One thing that you might be interested in knowing about is that this book uses a few libraries which means you don't end up writing everything from scratch. For example, in the chapter on parsing, the grammar is implemented using a library called MPC (https://github.com/orangeduck/mpc) written by the author himself.

I didn't quite reach till the very end so didn't have a chance to implement Macros (the author does mention them in Chapter 16), so if that's something you can very keen on implementing then you might have to look someplace else.
The Access/Filemaker thing is frequently an "actual" problem at the enterprise level, because in large-enough companies, the concern isn't just "does it get the job done" but also:

• Is the data being backed up? Is that backup process actually correct (i.e. if the backing data-store is a file on a SAN, and we perform filesystem-level snapshots of that SAN, can all the data actually be restored from such a snapshot, or will it be partially corrupt?)

• For that matter, is there a documented process for restoring from such a backup, such that whoever's on the ops shift could do it if need be?

• Is the backing store transparent/auditable, esp. for compliance to our privacy policy—i.e., can we write an indexing agent to determine whether any Personally Identifiable Information is being stored, without needing to ask the software's ISV for their format spec?

• Can the backing store be locked down with ACLs such that getting access to the app's connection to its backing store as an unprivileged user, doesn't let them grab our entire database, or execute arbitrary storage changes (e.g. DROP TABLE)?

• Can audit-trail logic be installed in the backing store (rather than in the app layer by the ISV), so that we will know if some contractor takes a copy of the data home with them?

When your software speaks to a formal DBMS, all these questions have easy answers. When it manages its own little proprietary DB/file-format thing, they're up in the air.
Airport attendants
I would love to have an app like this. My bank has online tools that do this but they're very shoddy and annoying to use. If there was an app that had integration into my bank so it could import & categorize all my purchases, I would definitely use it. Would I pay for it, not sure.
That's just not true. You don't get any of Rust's threading guarantees at the kernel level because a gigantic portion of your code is `unsafe` anyway, and has to be. (See Redox).

And 'some of the errors that are commonly handled by the OS' might be theoretically impossible to express in Rust, but they can still happen, so they still need to be handled.
The 41% number is certainly not true, the real number is likely far higher. The analysis is based on incomplete data.
MediCat DVD
3-5 years seems to be pretty typical for a filesystem to go from merely available to being battle tested enough to use without thinking about it. Bugs could destroy people's data (and the cloud won't necessarily help if the bugs corrupt data rather than erase it). What's the hurry?
That's the thing I keep forgetting to do whilst trying to "build wealth" - become CEO of Google in its earliest days. Why do I keep forgetting that?
You are in a city where Lyft is not available. Does Uber have serious competition in Toronto? Here in California, there is zero downside to using Lyft instead of Uber, so a switch is much easier.

The only reason I have Uber on my phone is for trips to Ottawa.
iOS has always used case-sensitive HFS, while macs usually need case-insensitive HFS. Since it looks like APFS will drop support for the case-insensitive file system mode, it makes sense to do the forced upgrade on the system that already uses a case-sensitive file system (= iOS).

Plus, it's more straightforward recovering from a broken FS upgrade on iOS since many customers will have iCloud backups enabled, or at least their data stored on iCloud drive, while a mac filled to the brim with all sorts of strange applications and files spread all over the filesystem, likely never been backed up properly, is a tougher call.
Well no, because vim isn't an email client. It is a text editor, and good email clients can use it to edit emails.
"I'm not saying there's no regulatory capture, I am saying that an angry citizen calling their congressman is a very different kind of problem then cozy relations between industries and the agencies that regulate them."

- What I would say has roughly similar results is a cozy relationship between regulated industry and regulator versus a cozy relationship between regulated industry and congressmen they finance - and even patient groups they finance, advertising strategies they follow, etc.,etc. I mean "Cui bono" comes up strongly here.

Your argument seems like an elaborate summary of the tree of the forest of health care corruption-in-a-broad-sense. I'm sure you can find a few more "trees" I didn't know about in this discussion but it seems like your approach still follows the path of ignoring this metaphorical forest for its trees.
Swift implements - like Gajim discussed above - a very old and outdated UX, and thus cannot be relevant these days.

I speak harsh words, and I am sorry for this, but I was expecting much from Swift at its birth, but that was not delivered over time.
Why would doing it at the same time as major changes to every other part of the software be better?

Seriously, for a major change in the underlying system, surely it's better to do that along with as few other fundamental changes as possible?
Nobody's work involves that.
Not just that, also rather large fetch (AJAX) requests to get all of the JavaScript, or so it seems: https://urlscan.io/result/36f1ada1-a7d1-4b4f-8e65-8269135e10... (gotta be a new record for initial page load size)
This is a 14 day old troll account. I would recommend against expending much effort to persuade a troll, or taking it seriously at all.

That being said, you're correct, but the troll is offering ridiculous arguments because it is trying to spread FUD, not because it is genuinely trying to elucidate the issues.
In all fairness to Dragonfly, Apple themselves just today released an entirely new file systems that was a complete rewrite as well.

With the advent of SSD and NVME, how you achieve maximum performance and ensure long term "disk" endurance has radically changed in recent years. You're no long write data to a physical platter anymore. Which radically changes huge fundamental assumptions in how legacy file systems were created 30-40 years ago.

So don't view a rewrite as a bad thing. It's Dragonfly being proactive and keeping up with the times.
> Because it is inherently unjust to discriminate against people because of characteristics that have no bearing on the job, such as their race and their gender. If you don't accept this premise I don't think we can have a productive discussion because it's the basic principle I'm basing my argument on.

Is it ok to discriminate based on one's personal characteristics?

I'm pretty sure woman who is technically good as well as good negotiator gets equal salary as man with same abilities. Women (and men) who are bad negotiators are discriminated because of their personal characteristics, not because of their gender.

Or are you saying that certain skills should not be valued in job market, because they're less prevalent in one of the genders' iconic image?
You should never trust an exit node.

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/06/25/can-you-trust-to...
Most of this is good input for managers but the first answer from Adele complaining about "getting disorganized braindumps or single line descriptions from stakeholders rather than the thoughtful, detailed specs they’ve promised" seems misguided and counterproductive. It's simply unrealistic to expect customers and customer proxies (product owners / business analysts) to supply detailed specs. Their minds don't work that way and complaining about it just leads to frustration on both sides. Instead take the disorganized braindump as a starting point for the real requirements analysis process. If the stakeholders were capable of writing thoughtful, detailed specs on their own then they wouldn't need you and could just outsource the engineering work to the lowest offshore bidder.
Elon Musk launches Neuralink, a venture to merge the human brain with AI
It'd be super valuable to see case studies of mixed teams avoiding a common problem in which Techies have the upper hand because they are the mediators of whatever system is actually getting built.

Techies have something of an ultimate veto ("it wouldn't make sense to build it that way") that can really impact everything from brainstorming to product design.
Well, until your behavior is the cause for a massive lawsuit, anyway.
They are a privacy minded search engine, it's quite possible such a survey would underestimate their share.
Happy Netflix user but the quality especially of old-ish series is beyond infuriating.

I have untouched-DVD rips from Star Trek Voyager. Single episodes run around 2 GB of data, while the same Netflix episodes are ~200MB.

Not only does Netflix not carry the bonus stuff, but the quality is seriously braindead - weird moire effects in the intro, for example, and it just looks pixelated.

In fact, the "scene rips" tend to look better than what Netflix offers! And it's certainly not due to low network quality, I've got a 100/20 connection and stuff like Shadowhunters is clear HD.
If a kid says the magician cut their assistant in half they are not lying, insane, or telling the truth.

What someone observes, what someone thinks they observed, what they remember, what they say happened, and what actually happened are generally all different things.
I remember reading somewhere that there is funding/support from China. I can't find any support for that.

I stumbled upon this site in my search though http://red.reb4.me/
I don't know if I would call it a "moral" imperative, but it's a basic tenet of good corporate governance that the board, which represents the shareholders, should be able to prevent the management from harming the company or the shareholder's interests.

In the case of Uber, the CEO could run the company into the ground, and nobody would be able to prevent that.

A trend toward worse corporate governance could harm the entire economy eventually.
Facebook (non-paywalled): https://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=https://www.wsj.com/article...