skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's no way they could plausibly determine this in the time they have had.

Is that so? Do the complaints of numerous other employees not demonstrate some level of toxicity?

Edit -- thanks for helping me earn my karma today. It's delicious the way y'all are so eager to downvote me instead of engaging. It's almost like you think I have an ulterior motive being masked by a veneer of good-faith engagement or something. I wonder where I might have gotten that idea from...
I don't think he claimed he was ok with discriminations by gender. Quite the contrary. He claimed there may be other reasons than discrimination for gender imbalances by profession and that these diversity programs actually introduce a discrimination.
Kaigo Health changing the way patients interact with healthcare
The main principle was, I guess, "yes, we can, and you can't".
In Austria prescriptions are coveres but you pay a flat fee if the price of the prescription is higher than that flat fee.
> not a [...] statement of fact.

He cites quite a few sources under the "Personality differences" section. Care to refute them?

For your convenience, here is the memo in its entirety, links to sources included: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-I...
Yup, I totally agree. As an immigrant, I sure as hell wouldn't fight for either of the countries I'm a citizen of or any other for that matter. The whole idea of fighting for your country is stupid, idiotic, and frankly insane, especially if there is an alternative. It seems to me even natives, especially in Western Europe, are now realizing this. That's great to see. There truly is nothing more disgusting than war, regardless of the motive (even defense). Nothing can bring people lower than war. Nothing is more insane.
In terms of loss of civilians and military personnel though, it does not compare: the Soviet Union accounted for more than 40% of all WW2 deaths (both civilian and military) worldwide - including deaths on the Pacific front.

The Soviet Union lost a total of 26.6 million people, or 13.8% of their 1939 population. Germany suffered tremendously as well of course, with 5.7 million dead, or 8.2% of their 1939 population [0].

This is obviously not a contest, and I'm sure we can all agree that the suffering was tremendous on all sides. However, when it comes to the perception of war in Russia, the fact that the brunt of the Allied war effort in terms of casualties was borne out by the Soviet Union during WW2 (a fact often little known or recognized in Western countries) is especially relevant.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties
Speech is not action.

Free speech means most speech is protected, however there are specific instances of unprotected speech, such as inciting lawlessness or libel/slander. This speech can and is prosecuted, but it is still not action.
Yup, pretty pointless article IMO. Doesn't even provide any actually good reasons why "Gnome is teh best". I'm sure there are probably a few reasons why Gnome is better than <something> for some set of users, this article just fails to list any of them.
>where Senior SREs will publicly question whether or not you are capable of doing your job, based on your gender!

"We put a policy in place that dictates that hiring should be on the basis of something other than capability"

"Oh my god why are employees questioning whether hires were made based on capability or something else?"

Seems pretty reasonable. It is far from the first time this point has been made: https://www.nationalaffairs.com/storage/app/uploads/public/5...
Nobody gets fired for choosing SHA-256. It's the de-facto standard these days, it's the most likely to have hardware acceleration etc... I think it's a pretty conservative choice.

Furthermore I don't think hash performance is very critical for bittorrent, after all it's generally I/O bound.

Could you even exploit length extension with bittorrent? Given that it cuts files in chunks of the same size it sounds pretty hard to sneak extra bytes in there.
The "cloud keyset" is another name for "public key". Usually, public key enables encryption but no decryption, here, the cloud key enables computations on ciphertexts, but not decryption.

Like in public key cryptography, you can give a RSA public key to an adversary, he can use it as much as he want, he will not be able to get any information on the private key (in any practical time). Most importantly, the cloud key is not secret, nor obfuscated: the cloud already knows each bits of it (side channel attacks are not relevant).

The "cloud key" is the public part of the key given to the cloud so that he can perform his operations (circuit, bootstrapping). There are strong security proofs that show that it is impossible to recover the secret key from the cloud key.

In the case of TFHE, if there was a polynomial algorithm that would recover even a single bit of the secret key given the cloud key, this algorithm could be used to break the LWE problem, and also worst case instances of lattice problems (which are much harder than factorization or discrete log for instance).
I would disagree. While he obviously sees the diversity programs as misguided, he stops short of calling for an end to them. To quote:

> Have an open and honest discussion about the costs and benefits of our diversity programs.

I understand that discussions within a business are different than talking with friends around the kitchen table, but I still think that you should go as far as you possibly can to have open discussions about sensitive topics like this. Of course you aren't going to open a dialogue about the benefits of white power, but there is still a lot of ground to cover between that and what people are doing this weekend. I think that the original article fits into that realm of what is acceptable to at least talk about, regardless of whether you disagree or not.
Virtualizing ARM TrustZone [pdf]
It's very frustrating. I know people who cannot tolerate some of the fillers and other additives put into some medicines. They end up trying various generic and non-generic brands until they find one they can use. In most cases, the name brands seem to use better quality ingredients because those are the most likely to be tolerated. It's amazing that the FDA requires an ingredients list on food but not on drugs.

Additionally, the manufacturing standards can really vary. If the active ingredient is measured in micrograms and the FDA allows 10% variance, then you can be really screwed if the generic manufacturer is sloppy, while the name brand is manufacturing to tighter than FDA specs. A 10% difference could be the difference between one dose and the next higher dose. Seen this too.
Health insurance plans have varying coverage for drugs (and those plans can vary a lot state to state), so that's going to depend on the plan. Decent plans typically pay everything but a very small charge. Average plans often have limits to routine prescription drug coverage in a given year.

A medication I took last year cost around $90-$100 or so. The insurance covered all but $10 of that.
We're working on a module for popular e-commerce platforms that will unify referral / customer loyalty and membership rewards!
How is this different from existing tools such as Flyway or Liquibase?
Shaving becomes a habit after while so it requires little discipline. I would go as far as to say the braking the habit of not shaving requires discipline.
Thanks for responding and clarifying some points. I agree that from what I've heard Germany doesn't suffer the same kind of problems the US does in regards to the dealer experience.

Not to pile on here, but I think this is one of the things that many Europeans underestimate with regards to Tesla in the US market. If Tesla can continue to sidestep the traditional dealer franchise network, and their lobbying efforts, while scaling, I think this could be one of their biggest advantages going against the established auto companies. Unless you've been subjected to it first hand I think it's difficult to understand just how awful the US dealer experience is. From what I've heard the transparency of the Tesla buying experience is a consistent selling point.
Interesting that you bring this up.

I'm Indian and a lot of Indian Hindus I know hold some messed up beliefs. Some of them work at top tech companies as well.

Yet, people don't seem to have a problem working with them. But they do with a guy who rails against diversity.

Why does a brown Hindu man who dislikes muslims, believes in matching horoscopes before getting married, and whose grandparents practiced and benefited from the caste system and who, if you get him drunk enough, might espouse for honor killings and homophobia get a pass?

Why are these "diverse opinions" valued and others are not?
Voluntary response bias is definitely possible. People who feel the most wronged are more likely to respond to the survey.
Does anyone have a clue on what Christopher “Moot” Poole is doing at Google?
Its been a few years now since he joined Google. When discussing this in other circle we came to the conclusion that he poses a rare set of skills and experience, Google might have hired him just so nobody else wouldnt be able to tap into his potential.

Might he be working on a Google+ for obscure communities? How to moderate anonymous users and handle the culture that comes with anonymity?

Please post whatever info you have or theory you know of.
And that's a point of view with some merit. However, Apple's strategy at the moment (and it's obviously been going this way for a long time) appears to be somewhat predicated on being a fashion brand. And that's OK, but fashions change. They've been doing a pretty good job so far, but let's say they become unfashionable, whilst already having alienated a market sector that values a laptop as a tool first and an accessory second.

Owning Apple has become a social signal. The problem is these things lose their power when a large number of people are sending the same signal.

Don't get me wrong: I'm not above buying expensive fashion items, but it doesn't change the fact that to me a laptop is primarily a tool. The reason I switched to Apple 6 years ago is because it was a better tool for what I wanted to work with (audio), but I got suckered in by the power, stability and battery life, and found I could run Windows as much as I needed it using Parallels... so most things have moved to OSX.

The thing is, 6 years is a long time and that situation is changing. Apple are no longer releasing laptops that have scaled in capability to meet the demands of my workload because of their increasing focus on, well, being a fashion item I suppose.

So, anyway, in the next year or two I'll probably be looking for a high-specced Linux laptop to replace my Macbook Pro, which doesn't sound like a heck of a lot of fun to me.
Just because nothing could be cultured doesn't mean there was nothing there - some organisms can't be easily cultured. The real test would be to run the soil through a DNA sequencer.
>>There is STILL a serious need for reservations and affirmative action in my country, but man does it screw with people.

I come from the same country.

Reservation policy has denied hordes and hordes of exceptionally smart, hardworking and merit people their rightful chance of doing good in life. It continues to. This has been one of the key reasons for mass exodus of these people to foreign lands. The damage is irreversible. Those people are lost for ever. And worst, they do so well outside India that more and more smart people are incentivized to leave the country for the better.

The damage to the Indian economy and the STEM ecosystem in India in general is incalculable.

Also by and large, at least from the past few decades(of economic boom and social progress) these reservation policies have no meaning at all.
There will never be a total WW2-like conflict so for the majority of people it is just a nice mind exercise.

But how many people are prepared to fight a war against propoganda? To defend freedom of speech? To defend opposite political views and opinions? It is scary but in the 1st and 2nd world you can still lose friends and even your job if you openly express your political views. People are afraid to express their views and it bothers me more than anything else.
Ways like described in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14954802. No one should be surprised about the outcome of handling a nuanced, difficult, and highly culturally relevant topic so callously.
I struggle to learn the new features as fast as they release them. Feel I am always a lagging behind.
As long as they also have the same piece size.
Sure, but you have to challenge the "insane" focused competition to attain that power, and you'll likely lose to their ambition and drive.
> "It's a workplace and the author of the memo, just called into question the "biological" ability of women to be engineers."

That's totally wrong, what the memo called into question is the "biological" driven desire for woman to become engineers. It's never put into question in that memo, that when they do choose to be enginners they aren't as competent as their peers.
OT, but how did the brand name Glucophage get approved? I don't see how calling a drug "glucose eater" is anything but misleading.
California has explicit legislation forbidding employer interference in employee political activity: http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection....

Of course the punishment for violating this is a fine of no more than $5k, per http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection....

That said, it _may_ open the door for a civil lawsuit per http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection....

Whether any of that applies in this situation is entirely unclear to me, because it hinges on the definitions of "engaging or participating in politics" and so forth. You'd probably need to talk to a competent labor lawyer in California for anything resembling clarity here.
Author here. As derefr said with Clojure semantics you can not create cycles.
Well, you obviously don't jump into a volcano just because the app tells you to. Unless you're going full Dice Man with it.
> the fact that these two groups are so over-represented implies that... Jews and Asians tend towards smarter rather than dumber,

But when white people are over-represented, it implies privilege and racism, never intelligence.
Have you read the memo? He does not do that. He talks plenty about averages, and explicitly mentions that averages don't apply to individuals.

Here is some news for you: The AVERAGE woman is not interested in technology as much as the AVERAGE man. If you think reality is sexist, so be it.

Does that mean that every woman is average? No. There are plenty of women interested in technology doing great work.

So why do you expect that there should be as many women working in technology as men? Why is it even a (US) problem?
Tolkien's map and the messed-up mountains of Middle-Earth
So its come down to banning dissent, firing people who say what they feel or believe. There is only one issue here and that is people must have the right to express an opinion without being punished so bear in mind this quote "Monsieur l’abbé, je déteste ce que vous écrivez, mais je donnerai ma vie pour que vous puissiez continuer à écrire." And remember that they first burn the books then they burn the people
> Minimalism is an ostentatious luxury.

Care to explain? I've seen this line of thought a lot, but don't understand at all. Maybe minimalism attracts people who have grown up wealthy and realize that money doesn't solve all problems, but that's different. It's a luxury in the metaphorical sense that not having to worry about money is a luxury, but I don't think that is the same as or as ostentatious as purchasing luxury items.
A carbon tax is the single best possible carbon policy. If implemented well, it

- simultaneously provide the mosts efficient incentives to reduce carbon emissions by shifting the cost onto exactly the people who are offending.

- and provides the funds to compensate the victims of climate change (every human), plus spare change for fundamental research into new Green tech which too unproven to be viable as a startup (would nuclear power ever have been created from scratch by the market?).

It also makes sense to tax SOx, NOx, and other air pollutants for exactly the same reason. However, the time scale and magnitude of those problems are nowhere near as dire.
For an article titled 'decapitating millipedes', there was not much in the article on that specific topic.
AMD Confirms “Linux Performance Marginality Problem”
> 3 out of 50 people actually serious about solving a given problem

That seems high.
I don't think you are at fault. We abuse acronyms.
In homomorphic encryption, the cloud performs operations on encrypted data, and gets only an encrypted result. He does not have any information on the decrypted result.

That's the difference between FHE and IO or multilinear maps. The second ones are almost all broken, mostly because of the attacks you mention. FHE, on the other hand, has semantic security.
Jordan Peterson also argued that "Now only rich women get married." [1] Someone who has no idea what a dowry is has no business trying to teach anthropology. Peterson gets attention for being an obnoxious know-it-all but he just repeats well known ideas in psychology and ethology; when it comes to anthropology Peterson does not have a clue.

[1] This quote is in one of Peterson's many digressive rants somewhere in the first seven lectures of the 2017 Maps of Meaning course: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL22J3VaeABQAT-0aSPq-O... I gave up on it after realizing he was just basically making shit up as he went along when it came to his ideas about anthropology.
Or maybe the willingness to fight leads to more conflicts?
You realize that not only Russia marched through Europe but also UK/USA but unless fighting Hitler was a bad idea I hardly see a problem with this fact, now do you?
Probably, he was majority-welcome, but minority animosity from just a few of a sea of similar faces feels quite threatening.
> hardware acceleration

Ah, that would explain a lot. (Not in this particular case, but why it seems to be the default choice in many settings).

> Could you even exploit length extension with bittorrent?

No Idea. I was just responding to a general point.
Wow, what's with the hate ? Get a l(w)ife ...
Good Job OP ! Don't let people bring you down. You'll improve with time I'm sure.
Berlin, Germany | The ADEX GmbH (DMP, Big Data)| Senior Big Data Engineer | ONSITE | https://short.sg/j/1180960

At ADEX we're working on a real Big Data scale. We analyze and segment daily billions of requests in a YARN/Hadoop cluster of more than 60 machines. In the next phase of development, we are planning to re-design more parts of our Big Data systems to make them work in real-time. This will involve the usage of some cutting-edge technologies and also the challenge to extend the on-premise cluster to the cloud.

We are therefore seeking a Senior Data Engineer who can design and implement new features of the Big Data DMP (new automated analyses, data aggregation or summarizing). As part of our interdisciplinary, international team you will work on Apache Spark to solve real Big Data problems and optimize our processes. Besides designing and building our new architecture you will convert new business requirements into data processes as well as help maintain our Big Data systems. You will be a mentor to our Data Engineer as well as another Data Engineer we are currently looking for.

We are around 30 people in the company, half of the team works on tech positions. 15 employees are male, the other 15 female. The ADEX is based in Berlin with a small customer support team based in Hamburg. We are pretty flexible and chilled, and very tech- and product-focused. We work in a cutting-edge industry, so we encourage our employees to try new technologies, go to meet-ups, workshops and conferences. We are not afraid of trying and failing because we strongly believe in learning from mistakes.

If you have any questions, please get in touch: elena@theadex.com
I find kinda funny how many of those themes are displaying captures of a themed up Unity rather than Shell.
> There is a market force pushing software companies into leftist positions

Yes, if you oppose or even voice disagreement you lose your job.

I expect Googles behaviour in this instance was illegal.
If anything this #googlememo has proven, then that even if someone asks for an open debate and dares to ask the wrong questions, then he or she gets shut down to silence, shamed, defaced and hated. This is a dangerous development of our world right now. People who want to ask questions, think for themselves and challenge ideas, willing to admit mistakes and be open to thaught better in an open conversation will not stop to think this way when they get shut down and receive the aggression they currently get. This is causing a huge division in society and will lead to future violence if we do not stop this BS. The current extreme left is not only alienating the far right but everyone from centre left to right.
Yeah, I keep forgetting about Hardware acceleration…
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Ask HN: What do I do with my unpaid internship?
Hi HN,

Context: I'm an experienced web and iOS developer, from a third world country. I've been freelancing for over three years now, and since I've taken up iOS development - it's been difficult to find work in that domain.

So, I ended up combing through Angel List, and found a startup that was hiring for iOS. It was based outside of my country, in a first world nation, and ended up interviewing with them. What they mentioned was an 8-week unpaid internship, which I wasn't okay with. This was similar to spec work from clients, and I'm aware of how toxic it is both to the industry and to myself.

But without much options, since the startup claimed that there is a full-time opportunity at the end of the internship, I decided I'll take it up, although reducing the term to 6-weeks instead. I'm in a place where leaving the country is my priority, so this seemed like a possible solution at the time.

Problem: 3 weeks in, and I feel no drive to continue working for no money, I could instead work on my pet projects. I brought this up to the founders, and they said that bringing that up was already a flag because I was enquiring about finances. I know I'm being played for work here. But There are 3 more weeks left before which they could potentially make an offer, which I presume is largely going to be based on equity from what I've gathered so far. Now, I'm not interested in that at the moment. I need the money to pay my bills, and I've burned 3 weeks already.

I have signed a contract with the company for 6 weeks, but have no drive to continue work with them.

I've learned a lesson here. But should I wait it out for 6 weeks before I get out, or what kind of consequences will there be if I choose to get out before that?

Any advice is appreciated.

P.S: If you're a company looking to hire interns, and not pay them/pay them in equity -- Please don't.
So people don't like working with some people. That's surprising because?
An interface on linux has only one ip address.

The "localhost" interface will either designate the ipv4 127.0.0.1 interface or the ipv6 ::1 interface. That's the realm of undefined behavior and system specifics.

This whole IETF draft looks like a mess. They should reserve the names localhost4 and localhost6.
Grab's Migration from Redis
That's a really far fetched conspiracy theory. Personally I am happy that Europeans are not too exited to start more wars.
Are there any studies for why men leave engineering? For a point of comparison.
Yawn. Let me know when I can plug a camera into my wife's Fedora / Gnome 3 computer and be able to download the photos. This hasn't worked properly for years and years.
That video was 21 years ago but is more relevant than ever.