skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like name.com they privacy option is reasonable compared to godaddy
Your comments do a good job of articulating the emotional arguments people use to support affirmative action. But the problem with affirmative action is that it seeks to counter bias by introducing more bias. It's a form of damage control in that it ignores the root causes of the problems it tries to address.

You argue that removing identifying marks unfairly tips the balance toward those who will be better prepared for the job (i.e. those who did not grow up poor). But assuming a particular test is the best measure of one's on-the-job performance, how can changing that test for some (based on things that identify them as "repressed") create any societal good? You're only pushing the problem out in front of you, and you'll eventually meet it again, but in a different form.

The problem is that people grow up poor, and that poverty creates severe disadvantage. Let's fix that problem at the source (there are a lot of NPOs that try to do this - free after-school programs, etc.) and keep hiring standards constant and unbiased.

Poverty can't be solved by changing admissions and hiring standards to avoid rejecting poor-performing people who grew up poor. That approach only creates new problems.
There are great comments on the technology itself, including SQS/PubSub/RabbitMQ, or Celery.

However if you need 1) management, i.e. easy way to look at what went wrong and retry 2) dependencies between jobs, you should look into something like Airflow (instead of building your own): https://airflow.apache.org

It's also a very good example of architecture, in case you decide it's not good for you and you really want to build your own.
It really depends on their charter. People don't park money in a company simply to have the stock value drop or stay the same -- with exception of companies who pay out dividends.

Most companies charters talk about their relationship and obligations to the shareholders -- people don't invest in companies that don't intend on increasing in value.
I haven't commented in over 3 years, but you're the first person I've seen mention Vero Beach on HN in the 8 years I've participated. As a Vero native, your comment resonates.
It would be interesting to look at that data for actually getting the job offer.

Like what was the median % match of requirements for getting the interview.

What was the median % match of requirements for getting an offer.
You're missing two things. First, the history of typography - fonts were not always free to copy and use when there were physical parts involved. Second, fonts are something that take a lot of work to put together, especially when done well. Most people can't devote that kind of effort for free.

That said, open source fonts are definitely on the rise. Many people don't have a problem using a font that isn't quite as refined as the classics, and some enlightened companies are bankrolling development.
Control requires knowledge. I suspect fewer than 1% of people who have BTC understand how it operates.
Lower risk than playing the #10 seed in Rapid for the title?
I forgot to mention estrogen alongside testosterone!
I sond that. Coal should have gone out before nuclear. But that is not entirely Greenpeace's fault. The way CO2 is taxed, and thus priced in, resulted in a situation where caol turned into the second cheapest energy source after the renewables with close to zero recurring cost. Simply making CO2 certificates more expensive would remedy that. it is kind of rediculous that modern gas turbine power plants, with the ability to quick start and being pretty clean nowadays, are more expensive than coal. up to the point where renewables are squezzing these power plants out of the market. Not sure if that was the intentd end result.

I'm not at all saying that nuclear should stay, so.
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I do not have time for friends, as one might expect (unless you count my wife and/or her friends as friends, or "twitter friends"). Which is ok by me, since I am pretty antisocial in the real world. :)
No diff between Reverb and Alex Jones in my book.

My rule is pretty simple about who I follow - anyone using "us VS them" style language and communication techniques gets autoblocked. Complex issues can never be solved by bullying the other side into submission.

I don't care if they are liberal or conservatives, these are panderers and should be called out as such.
The way I see it is you're trying to solve this problem in the wrong place, just like you said, the real issue lies elsewhere and this is precisely where we should direct our efforts to fix it. If fewer women decide to pursue a technical career, then perhaps we should learn why and counteract. By implementing an artificial counter-bias you're merely hiding the real problem by obscuring the data, while the symptoms and root causes remain intact.
The other error was assuming that envy ever goes away. People compete for status, attention and countless other intangibles even when their physical needs are met.
Sia is also very compelling and useful (IMO the most useful): https://www.sia.tech/
Interesting, so do you suggest that the company's morally correct employees leave, and cause a moral evaporative cooling at the company?

If anything, you should be urging your moral friends and coworkers to go to Google.
You could email them and suggest it. Since they don't specify a doctype in the page and browsers are using quirks mode, it should support a target [1] without issue.

[1] - https://html.com/attributes/a-target/

Their email is:

hn@ycombinator.com
This sounds like a good recipe for disaster. There's no buffer room in this plan. You've got 6-12 months to make your company profitable or it either fails or you get into massive debt.
People knowing about OP’s decision, was those in his social circle, makes a profound difference if compounded by others.
> [..] but “bubble” is a misnomer; it’s a magnificent scam, where people paid a lot of money [..]

Oh boy. Oh boy. The cryptocoin ecosystem is still existing. There are thousands of people working on the next generation of decentralised payments. The bubble bursting doesn't change the fact that people are working on making BTC, Eth, and so many other great coins scale. We already saw the bubble burst once before. It may take a year, maybe longer but someday people will be able to use Crypto for day to day payments. And that day another bubble will burst, it's called fiat and it's the original Scam. The kind of scam Wall Street tries to protect by lobbying against decentralisation, by smearing it but they can't kill it.
Many of these approaches for cleaning up nuclear waste from legacy nuclear sites may also be useful for fusion reactors. I talked with one of the people working on building robots for Sellafield and one of their other projects was building a robot to refurbish parts for ITER. Nuclear fusion reactors like ITER will need to go down periodically for maintenance. The amount of time the reactor spends offline is lost money, so maintenance needs to be done as fast as possible. So one of the robots they were working on would go into a pipe, cut it into pieces, put in a new pipe and reweld it within 30 seconds.

Another interesting challenge for robots in ITER is that some may be exposed to such high levels of radiation that the: "designers can forget all the advances in electronics we have witnessed since the 1960s: only a few discrete transistors can be employed, with integrated circuits being forbidden for their sensitivity to radiation."[0]

[0]https://mappingignorance.org/2014/01/29/iter-engineering-cha...
> Apparently answering an anonymous survey is either too much trouble for women to bother with

Comments like this are what put people off. Trying to find out why women or other minorities are not participating is constructive and useful, but not when you frame the problem as their fault.
The article is good, but the comments are even better.
Same here, except it's not friends, it's kids. I spend a fair amount of my work day completely bored by the grind of software development and thinking about my hobbies (which right now is mostly screenprinting and music). But by the time I get home, cook dinner, clean up, and put the kids to bed, it's between 8:30-9:30, which means I have 1-2 free hours to do anything else. Having a creative outlet helps a lot, both because I have an urge to create, and nobody else gets to tell me what to do or how to do it. It's much more rewarding than video games or TV.

Not sure quitting my job is in the cards at the moment, but my son's preschool is closing down for the summer in June, before he starts kindergarten in the fall. I've considered taking the summer off to stay home with him for a few months and just do creative projects.
Time pressure and the position being in flux guaranteed that Fabi would accept the draw. If he had waited a few more moves, Fabi might have decided to play on. While Magnus was on the attack, his king position wasn't secure. If Fabi could have secured his position, he might have chosen to play on, considering he knows Magnus is the favorite to win the tie break.
You are proposing rebuilding the existing feature Google wants to turn off.
> Actually, almost all Fortran code says "implicit none".

... which would render GOD as of undeclared type. Compilers are such 'agnostics'.
I've started doing this, noticed I'm ridiculously more productive in the two hours before work than after.
Perhaps concerns about 'the over-militarization of police' is essentially a concern for situations where an extreme power imbalance exists between police and civilians, creating a much higher risk of totalitarian abuse and oppression by police in situations where the police force in question becomes corrupt or 'bad' in some way. (Disclaimer: I'm not making an anti-LEO argument; quite the contrary, I'm very pro-LEO, and in many cases I see, LEOs are disrespected very unfairly.)

The problem isn't where police are good; the point is to design a system that inherently protects against abuse by the very small percentage of LEOs that do become corrupt and abuse their special powers that civilians do not have. How do we protect against this?

Perhaps the simplest and most robust way to protect against this abuse is simply to limit the magnitude of power imbalance between the government and the people! One could argue that this principle applies to physically defensive equipment as much as it does to computer and information systems, and any other mode of power. Additionally, this notion is encoded into our country's constitution at least in some ways.

Therefore, this leads to the question: Can a civilian buy an MRAP? If so, I think your argument works very well -- especially since they're defensive machines. If a civilian cannot buy one though, I could see the argument against police using them gaining favor.
I gather that gfortran can be built on Android, so presumably it's possible. I see conflicting information on whether or not it's actually possible on iOS. I've personally never seen it.
I think for Apple is was more about it being organic and locally sourced.
How many hours of sleep, nightly?

Lately I've been meeting many "hustlers" who are swearing up and down I only need 6 hours, or even less, which I thought would be obviously absurd, but this stupid meme keeps cropping up. The 80s sales gurus were teaching us this in highschool with their pep talks, and now the new-rich millenials are devouring it and sending it straight down the line on their instagrams.
Presumably because Dragonfly hasn't launched yet. They are trying to prevent Google from making the same mistake that Apple and so many others have before it makes that mistake.
I'm fairly anti-China and loved Taiwan, can't wait to go back, loved it, loved the Taiwanese people.

Good for you on making a decision like that.

But... Just so long as you know that someone did take your job there. And they're almost certainly happy to do anything asked. That's something I think many idealistic users here aren't understanding.
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In Defense of the Cloud Connection
Sadly most interventions that western governments keep making in the name of the little guy keep benefiting the megacorps, whether by unintended side effects or from flaws in the policy-writing process (ie, countless small political-favours, lobbying, etc).

Thomas Sowell wrote a great book about this:

https://www.amazon.com/Wealth-Poverty-Politics-Thomas-Sowell...

There have been countless policies since the 1950s intended to offset wealth disparity that have backfired and hurt the poor. For example, the rent control and other "tenant friendly" laws in Toronto and NYC in the 1970s resulted in decrepit urban ghettos littered with arsoned apartment buildings, because the only way a landlord could "renovate" was burn down their own building. Just look at pictures of Harlem in late 1970/1980s...

It also created a massive disincentive to invest in new low-income property, as the developers knew they'd make less money targeting the poor. So development went towards upper/middle class housing (resulting in an even worse lack of low-income housing in NYC and to a lesser extant Toronto by the 1990s).

Modern rent control laws have attempted to factor these "unintended side-effects" but there are a hundred similar examples in that book. It keeps happening and happening with every clever scheme concoted to help the poor.

The only winners of the massive growth in the US gov since the 1970s were consistently large firms, who had their competition wiped out or huge barriers of entry created in their markets in the name of 'progress'. And countless well-meaning socially conscious economic policies usually works for a small group while hurting a much larger group in the process, or works at the beginning then as the side-effects build up it becomes a net-negative...where it would have been better off to let the market function as is.
It's one adapter.

And you can permanently attach it to your headphones.
Google Play Services and the App Store are fundamentally different, since on iOS the equivalent functionality is part of the operating system. The App Store is nothing more than a wrapper around the system installation service: there’s no APIs it provides to developers.
Its back down to what it was at last September, six times higher than it was the September before that, fifteen times higher than it was the September before that.. i think I'll hodl.
How could it possibly give them "full control over their own money" if bad actors outside of their control can mess things up for them?
One of my gotos has been 'Can I avoid writing code in the first place?'

Zero code has zero bugs, and zero maintenance cost.
The only people not motivated solely by money are those who used the very tactics that are in question to amass enough not to care... Or simply have no stake in it, Or have a stake in a competing company.

I can assure you if google employees revolt on a number of projects and that drops the stock price in half over the course of 3 weeks PEOPLE WILL CARE... Even the ones that today you say don't care.
> If I'm listening to a podcast on my phone, I'm going to have my phone on me. I'm not going to walk away from it because then I couldn't control the playback.

Every set of wireless headphones I’ve owned have let me control play/pause/skip from them, which makes up 95% of the playback controls I ever use. The last 5% I can do from my watch. Roaming about the house listening to stuff without a care where my phone is seems totally normal to me these days. I would never go back to wires now I’ve lived with the benefits of wireless.

FTR I was equally skeptic before I bought some cheap $10 Bluetooth earbuds to try running without wires tugging with every stride, and found myself wanting to use them all the time in spite of their awful sound quality so I bit the bullet and got some decent ones
>IMO we should be most mindful of our work and moneymaking since we spend most of our waking life doing these things.

Not if you whip up an aggregator site in a week that makes money on autopilot
C11 still looks like (and still is) C, despite the new features. In contrast, to say that the new Fortran is the same 'thing' as the old Fortran is disingenuous. For example, the old Fortran did not support recursion (which fact I consider a feature rather than a "bug").
Chevy Volt was going to save Detroit. Now its workers are losing jobs
You seem to have zero friends.
Because nationalism (offerring opportunities to aliens is bad!)
You must sign apps if you want them to run on nonjaibroken devices. What you are doing in this case is signing it with your development certificate.
The primary function of the lawn is decoration, though, and most people seem to prefer green grass.
Grew up poor. "Easy" as well as, "do what it takes" do have very different meanings.

To me, a bit of work, perhaps gain a new skill?

Not only easy, but fun, cheap, all that.

What is hard is having to spend or do work just because of a business model. I really dislike all of that. It is visceral.
Those barefoot lego landmines are assholes.
Discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18475164.
> Can a civilian buy an MRAP? If so, I think your argument works very well

Yes you can if you found one for sale (not sure what that market looks like). Civilians can also buy decommissioned tanks, Two ton trucks, humvees, etc.
Thanks for the great link! That is an awesome post, those lag spikes are horrible.
3.5 Audio jacks are standard, just like the USB charging cable is a standard. Not using 3.5 audio jacks, leads to tremendous amounts of industrial waste in the form of old head phones with proprietary connectors.

I think it would be better if cellphones had both 3.5mm jacks and Bluetooth.
Again, value doesn't have to be monetary. Shareholders has the right to expect return on their investment, yes. If the company delivers on their ambitions and values then that is the shareholders reward.
a Starting-Strength or Greyskull LP program only takes about 30-45 mins. Faster if you've been doing it for years...
niagara, NY is an s-show of touristy crap. Your ripley's believe it or not, etc.. like another Gatlinburg type of thing.

It is the prime example of how to ruin a world-level nature scenic destination via privatization, greedy, and commercialism.
It's very well possible though, so jumping to "organized crime" is also a stretch
You are not required to use macOS to do this. There are third party solutions, such as Cydia Impactor, that are cross platform and do this for you.
God, that is hideous.
Even assuming that there is some small enough set of great schools to use them for that signaling as Google traditionally did -- I do not think that's a rational assumption, but that's another discussion -- then at least in the USA you should also know the candidate's parents' financial situation and whether their parents went to the same elite schools.

For starters, because it's a lot easier to "get in" if you have no trouble paying for it, and you have your "legacy admissions."

If you really think XYZ is that great, you should really want to hire the people who fought to get in, fought to succeed, and did.
This cannot be overstated. I've been working on a professional thesis of sorts, a capstone if you will, for YEARS.

I'm on a sabbatical now and in the past month I feel like I've gotten more done on the capstone than in the past 3 years.

In September I was so burned out that when my client abruptly ended our contract (meh, it happens) I didn't look for a new one. I've been coasting on my cash cushion for two months now. It was a little scary at first but in my downtime I sold a bunch of short-term high paying gigs that begin in the new year.

I'm SO. GLAD. I. DID. THIS.

Here's my 20/20 hindsight. Fuck working in your spare time and getting little to nothing done on your side projects and taking time away from your family and your health. Figure out how to make as much money as possible and spend as little as possible so that you can take a few months off at some point. Maybe you can game your employers leave policy, maybe do some contracting on the side, maybe don't buy that new car or house and instead put that money into a sabbatical fund. I don't know what will work for you. We all have very different lives and options.

I wish I could have back most of that "spare time" I wasted getting little to nothing done.

Also, read Deep Work by Cal Newport. If I can't change your mind on how to approach this, maybe he will. Maybe you'll understand why you're not getting anywhere with your side thing and realize it's not you, it's your situation. Once you understand that, you can know what to do to rectify the situation. Seriously, this has been a game changer for me.

Oh, and don't be surprised if for the first month of your sabbatical you get absolutely nothing done. That's because you're burned out and you didn't take care of yourself for all those years. That's the price you're going to have to pay before you can sprint again. Knowledge workers are like athletes. Rest and recovery is as important as exercise.
But they make some terrible compromises. The crossover-type have less boot space than my old UK Ford Focus hatchback, same with the rear seats down. A real station wagon has gallons of space. It's all cosmetic style without a huge amount of substance, and you pay a premium for it as well!

I'll grant that they have good riding position and front visibility. But rear visibility is truly dire. The Qashqai I test drove had a rear camera (actually 360°) with front display just so you could reverse without hitting something due to the poor visibility.

Ride quality is reasonable. Fuel economy as well, though still not as good as a lower, smaller body.

But in no way does it compete with a minivan. I'd go for a Ford Transit Connect or VW Caddy if I actually wanted some space. And the dimensions aren't much different to the SUV!