skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It wasn't directly stated as the reason for this choice, but being a heavy user of Cassandra and migrating away from it likely played a factor. It may have been that they had already developed a lot of supporting functions around Cassandra in Java and naturally led to the development of Record Layer in same.
You can't "collect" something that has an artificial limit on production, like lego, beanie babies, disney movies, etc.

If demand warrants the manufacturer will just start pumping out more identical sets, like Lego is doing with their Harry Potter sets.

The only true collectible has to have some sort of natural limiting factor, like made in a specific year, or serial number sequence.
Facebook employees busted leaving 5-star reviews for Portal on Amazon
And what does that have to do with Facebook? If there are very few PoC software engineers, how is it your fault for not hiring enough of them? The article mentions the technical staff is 22% female which seems remarkable.
I'm not sure about HeidiSQL but I've had great luck with MySQL database exports using PHPStorm. I think PHPStorm essentially has DataGrip built-in:
https://www.jetbrains.com/datagrip/

After having trouble with workbench, Using PHPStorm I was able to export a whole database to a file per table in one go and both TSV/CSV are supported. I found my resultant CSV files to be reliably escaped.
Is this for a startup?

A large corporation might tilt more towards someone that does an assigned task on time regardless of how mind-numbing it is, and even when they have to invent the instructions as they go along.
The readme doesn't seem to say - how does one install/run it?
I got involved with the company more than a decade ago and have taken great pride and joy in the company’s success … until the past few months.

few months? Then you haven't been paying attention or are just as bad as them.
Ask HN: How do I get better at dinner conversations?
Recently, I invited my colleagues over for a farewell dinner and inadvertently put myself in the spot, by being asked a lot of inquisitive get-to-know-me better questions such as 1) Who among us did you feel turned out the most different from what you originally expected? 2) What are the top 5 things you'll miss about leaving this place? (Mountain View, if that helps) 3)What are the top 5 things you learnt over the course of the past year? etc.

I had either one-word responses or some very uninteresting answers and knew I was making the conversation stilted and boring. It was pretty awkward, and there came a point when I just wanted to be put out of the misery, and just be a fly in the wall, listening in on the fun conversation that the group would have, minus me.

So, to all the guys who make smalltalk seem effortless, how do you guys do it? Can this be learned? Should this be learned?
Civis Creative Focus: Reach the right people with the right message
Dash Open Podcast Episode 02 – Building Community and Mentorship Around Hackdays
Alright, but the structural problems are upstream of recruiting and promotions. It's simply bad engineering to try to solve the problem downstream rather than at the root.
Indian tourism case study
They were treated as a separate group throughout most of Europe's history, and faced extreme prejudice and suffering because of it. Hardly seems fair to dilute their achievements and experience by lumping them under 'white'.
I think the ethics on this wander close to the ethics of personal drug consumption, or at least smoking. Sure, it's his body and he should have personal autonomy, but there's a possibility (maybe high, maybe low, I don't know) that he could end up sick and reliant on others (medical professionals, family). I know its slightly different in the US what with the lack of socialised medicine, but it seems reasonable for society to place some restrictions on this behavior to deter or limit the potential impact on society at large. Personally, I lean more towards permitting experimentation but there's an argument to be made there.
So you end up with unqualified people in positions just to meet the quota. All of a sudden sterotypes about these people start and anyone from this group starts getting labeled as dumb because they are hiring candidates by appearance rather than qualification. Sounds like a real good idea.
They say that but I have tried this many, many times in the past few years only for Google to just ignore it. It's possible my search query just has no exact matches, but Google thinks it is being helpful by expanding the query. This just ends up wasting the users time because they scan through all the related results looking for the exact match that doesn't exist.
I've switched to DDG and I've hardly looked back. Google's search has been seriously declined in quality. Most search operators [1] are no longer supported. Even those directly in the "tools" menu don't work.

For example if you search "Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyways site:medium.com", and set a custom date range to sometime last year. You'll see results which state this blog post was posted in 2018-October-31 for example, or which every date you prefer because I assume they just fuzzily fit the post date -into- that range. You can make google tell you this blog post is 2+ years old.

The Google.com I found useful in the early 00's even had document qualifiers so I could search for strings, but filter to just PDF's, or HTML, or JPG's. Now I have to pay for these features via a Google App-Engine private search instance. It just feels like having somebody spit in your face. When features were free, but they quietly became pay-to-play without zero warning.

[1] https://bynd.com/news-ideas/google-advanced-search-comprehen...
I use DDG now, and have been for about a year.

I still !g a lot, but I’m alright with that. I wish it were a shortcut to add !g to a query.

One of the key things I’ve realised in the switching is that I actually LIKE a lot of the changes google has made from initial “just show the 10 results” like DDG does today.

I like the news carousel, when I’m searching for a news related article.

I like all the local info on a cafe / store, when I’m searching for it. The google implementation is WAY better than Yelp listings (constantly nagging me to install an app, Yelp seems to satisfy no one, it’s a middle man resource no one needs)

But overall I’m happy using DDG for a first crack, knowing my privacy is valued, and moving onto google when I need to.

It feels like I’m supporting a more private future, now, without hindering myself severely in the process. I’m happy with that compromise. Hopefully one day google will not be necessary.

Again, my one wish. Give me the !g tag in one click, one swipe, what ever. Don’t make me type it into the query box and search again!
This headline is extremely non-specific. Wasn't James Damore also harassed over views on diversity?
Is your idea very unique? There's much more to commercial success than just the idea itself. If your idea is very unique, then you might want to consider patents as a way forward in addition to NDAs. Companies, especially large ones, have minimal interest in stealing startup ideas.
> So, yes, I came out of the closet every morning

This is an unfortunate and juvenile joke in an otherwise great post.
But... it's... just Bing with federated search redirectors? Is that truly competitive? Any of the search companies could implement the same overnight if users were clamoring for it.
Heck, I would like Facebook to start hiring some enrolled tribal members so we can stop seeing accounts closed for having fake names. Just an FYI to any Facebook employee, the last names Good Iron, Yellow Horse, Walking Eagle, and Flute Player are an actual family names. I would welcome some diversity when talking about your customers.
A Jewish friend of mine once told me to pay attention to instances where they were classified as white or not and, dang, was she right. She called it being _selectively_ white. I think this is a good example of that.
How are you going to do this without consuming a lot of carbs?
Can someone explain what ejection is? I'm not familiar with this terminology. How is it different from say, editing your package.json or webpack.mix.js files?
It likely it didn't do anything if a previous study on this was correct[0]. It showed that possibly 96% of people have a pre-existing immunity to CRISPR-Cas9.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18334240
I think you're also missing the fact real estate as an asset class has more value as an investment vehicle v(holder of value) than it does as providing the utility/value it was designed for.

Furthermore, low interest rates has increased the cost of homes as well and increased the amount of money swimming around looking for a home.
Stop assuming that people from underrepresented groups are inherently unqualified.
On what basis are you suggesting I suggested the Atlantic article is made up?

I suggested the more general idea that journalists make up stuff frequently (even in more important and more fact-checking outlets). So my comment was in the line of "don't rule out that possibility".

Also, don't you have it backwards? Isn't the burden of proof of those presenting a story?
> Another is to estimate how busy a place really is based on traffic, in terms of #people, and #seats or #tables available. This could be especially useful for campuses (where is a good place to study?) or cafes. You might need some crowd-based approach to label ground truth, and it's unclear what the incentive would be.

Google Maps does that. Search for a popular cafe on your area and you should see the "Popular times" graph with live data.
I've been looking for something decent in Linux too.
if you can edit yourself to change your genes....can't your children edit themselves to fix whatever you mess up? Or to just revert to normal genes, regardless of what their parents had?
The problem is that neither of these things can truly be prevented without introducing totalitarian state measures.
Yes, highly concerning but not because biological organisms are more complicated, but because biological organisms reproduce. Any "hacking" mistake will reproduce for eternity.
For me (a Hispanic) it's odd to see any race categorization at all, it seems like an obsession for both right and left wings in the US. Why does it matter so much? White and Hispanic is not mutually exclusive in a lot of cases, the same for Black and Hispanic or Native American and Hispanic, in most cases it's difficult to even set a race tag.
Decoded: GNU coreutils
According to this article, Facebook is "still largely white."

According to Facebook, in 2018 46.6% of their US staff identified as white and 41.4% identified as Asian (50.3% percent of US technical staff identify as Asian vs 42.7% who identify as white.)

https://www.facebook.com/careers/diversity-report
Yeah...see neither one of those is going to let me keep my job or secure more funding, so no.

Also, putting something on Github or Arxiv isn't publishing. Peer review or it didn't happen.
The article talks about some scientists doing DNA injections meant to stall aging. I could see that becoming popular if it turned out to work.
I'm in favor of decriminalizing and/or legalizing most drugs as well. To be honest, if something actually worked to modify one's body as well as this guy is imagining crispr to work for $20, medical costs will likely drop substantially.
These must be the same boomers I see mindlessly walking around Best Buy looking for help with their phones.
Should some minority groups be over represented, because they are so minor, that even in a medium sized company with proportional representation, they may be the only member of their minority there?
Not often at all
Presumably they are not going to remove the workarounds until the software has actually had a chance to disseminate? For example the resolvers they list are all new releases and aren't in any current Linux distro. Which means they are saying that in a couple weeks all Linux resolvers could stop resolving some domains unless they adopt an unsupported release of the resolver?

They don't list it, but presumably the same applies to the Authoritative servers. I run a pretty vanilla NSD install and it fails several tests. NLNETLABS (the authors/maintainers of nsd/unbound) is listed as a supporter, but they don't mention anything about this on their site nor does their documentation mention anything about settings to control these features.

If this will actually have the consequences they describe it was terribly mismanaged.
[edited for typos] I am 100% for actual opportunity for all people, but sadly diversity and inclusion has become a code word today for tribalism/identifying people who have "progressive" political views and subscribe to it as a religion. When you have double standards and don't walk the walk it takes away the moral high ground. I've seen too many of the vocal Diversity and Inclusion types go after women, minorities etc. who truly grew up with every disadvantage because they do not have the correct political/ progressive pseudo religious beliefs. And when they go after these individuals, they try to destroy their career, their reputation, character etc.. Actions speak louder than words and for these types there is a big disconnect between the two.
If you are interested in our CEO's take on the Mongo SSPL, we published this blog a few months ago.

https://www.scylladb.com/2018/10/22/the-dark-side-of-mongodb...
That's a different concern.

Racket supports both immutable and mutable cons cells.
Convenient or not - you decide.

Oh, been watching too much YouTube.

In both Racket and Scheme it is usually a good idea to program in a functional style - i.e. not to mutate pairs.

The compiler and runtime system can in some situations handle immutable pairs more efficiently than mutable pairs. So if mutable pairs are seldomly used, it makes sense to make immutable pairs the default.

The rationale why Racket made the shift is described here:

http://blog.racket-lang.org/2007/11/getting-rid-of-set-car-a...

In short: the Racket community sees the immutable default as a plus.
If degree marketability is the sole point of higher education then let's stop calling them universities and start calling them what we intend them to be, trade schools.

I'd hate to think that the ideal American higher education system is one where only the idle rich get to study what they want or are interested in.
If the goal is diversity then I'm not sure "white" makes sense. If the goal is to be culturally diverse, then yes jewish people tend to have different experiences and culture than other "whites".
You would have better luck with the Christmas lego sets. Those really are only printed for 2 seasons (at least so far, Lego could always change it of course).
This story has already been debunked on a previous HN post. McDonald's lost the trademark to Supermac which they registered but never used. Trademark law requires you to show proof of usage. That name was in use by their Irish competitor but never by McDonald's. The term "Big Mac" was not involved in the dispute.
What's the difference between going onto blind (a non-work-sponsored app as I understand) reading dumb/offensive internet opinions and going on to 4chan and reading dumb/offensive internet opinions?

Was she required to use this app for her job?
It makes me sad to see how white those teams pictures are.

Let me be clear, I do not think it is the fault of those companies nor their duty to fill their jobs with anyone but the most qualified for the job. Also, let me be clear this is referring to the US-based companies. The fault lies in those communities where non-whites mostly reside not having the proper vision by their leaders getting children ready for the future. The pictures grossly make that obvious.

Being a non-white tech leader that came from one of those communities I know what it takes to rise above it all. It is not an easy path.
Even steroids aren't illegal, you just need to get a doctor to prescribe them.
https://www.npmjs.com/package/dont-create-react-app
If this becomes cheap enough for a person to effectively do for $20, I imagine the cost of resulting medical care would end up proportionally cheap.
I see much of the same thing. All of my neighbors who bought homes before turning 35 grew up in Atherton and presumably had help from their parents (or at the least, didn't have any student debt).
There's always the interviewing apologists out in force whenever someone brings up how broken the process is; this post is no exception.
The way to fix structural problems is look at the funnels way before these people get to the company.

It's at the preschool, primary school and university level.

Why are we somehow pretending 100% of responsibility rests on the employer?
Sounds like this might just be more reliable than a tally counter [1] :) the future is here

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tally_counter
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30 years ago, it was legitimately hard to separate some pieces, and so teeth were often the way to get leverage. I share your sadness at the bite marks in my old legos, and was dismayed even at the time that they happened.

Now they have excellent orange lever pieces that work even better, and are included in nearly every Large set. (I wish I had them as a kid.) . I also discovered that the pointed end of a cheap spudger also works, but not as well.
Sure but "I want to be more muscular" usually won't get you a prescription.
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I'm interested in the http://seastar.io/ networking library that the Scylla guys built. Looks like it runs on DPDK and might be a nice way to do user mode networking. Anyone tried using it in other projects?
Self experimentation has a long history within medical science so I don't think it's too alarming.
>A communications degree will allow you to build awareness of how to communicate information to diverse audiences effectively, with specific business goals in mind. Strong communication skills are invaluable in order to provide meaning and resonance to the companies’ aims, and to present the company and its services or products in the best (and clearest) possible way to consumers, clients and colleagues.

https://www.topuniversities.com/student-info/careers-advice/...

I don't know, maybe he is doing what a communications degree'd individual should be and he just vastly underpaid? Or the degree is overpriced?

Why are we blaming the 18 year old in this scenario?? Isn't this why parents are helicoptering their kids nowadays so that a simple choice like this doesn't doom them during their formative years?
In this case, solving the problem downstream does tackle the problem at the root.

A lot of people in engineering went down that path because they were inspired by someone when they were younger. If there were more women and minorities in engineering, then other (young) women and minorities would be able to see them as role models and follow suit.
Generally-speaking if we're hiring someone to work in React or, say, Kotlin for Android, they need to know at least a bit about the framework they're working with. The process would be different for co-op positions/new hires directly out of school, and obviously we'd tweak it for a clearly awesome developer who is in the process of retooling.
That New York Times article is interesting, if it is indeed illegal to target propaganda to American citizens it seems that VOA did so in violation of law and only stopped when caught doing so.

That leads me to one of three conclusions:

1: Someone working for VOA felt that it was not illegal for them to do this making Business Insiders interpretation of the law at least plausible if not correct.

2: VOA knowingly used Facebook to target Americans with illegal propaganda.

3: Workers implementing VOA advertising were unable to understand that if you select "United States" as a target in Facebook's geo-targeting tool[0], that advertising indeed will be shown in the US.

Three seems the least likely to me personally given the historical context and since being skeptical of news releases is likely good practice anyway I'm not convinced that you shouldn't be.

To quote the same article:

Weston R. Sager, a lawyer with firm Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell who has written about anti-propaganda laws, said that it was disturbing to see government-funded news agencies targeting Facebook ads at Americans, no matter their content.

“I’m concerned that we’re seeing the beginning of government efforts to try to influence public opinion in the United States through the B.B.G. and its affiliate entities,” Mr. Sager said. “It’s one thing to read a tweet by Donald Trump. It’s another to receive a very polished news story from an organization that holds itself out as objective and fact-based.”

[0]https://www.facebook.com/business/help/202297959811696
Yes, it is quite eye-opening.
I could actually see an argument being made for the government to pay for the bill, if they're allowed to heavily monitor your health, stats, etc.

Imagine all the data we're just throwing away with people biohacking. That data, properly done by 3rd party non-biohackers, could be invaluable long term. Sure, it wouldn't be as valuable as a massive double blind trial (or w/e), but we're basically talking about "mad scientists" doing experiments in their basements.. I imagine lots can still be learned, if we simply watch.
That doesn't seem like the assumption OP was making. OP was making an assumption that people are racist though.
My mom threw away all of our Legos when we left home for college (along with our 1980s Transformers, Star Wars toys, etc.) :-(
I really love using HeidiSQL as well, but I have the same issue. If I'm running large SQL files, I'm either using workbench or the CLI app.
Most of the time people use the word “caucasian” because it seems somehow more “technical” or “scientific” than saying “white people”. It’s an unfortunate word, for sure.
Depends on the person hiring and how much flexibility they have (and how skilled the hiring department is at getting past any corporate pre-filtering from HR)
This looks setup pretty compelling, but it would still be nice to have an easy to use abstraction on top of it:

https://dev.to/lineup-ninja/deploying-hasura-on-aws-with-far...
I doubt there's any other programming language here that did such a tremendous job over the last decade on improving developer experience, language speed and syntax with consistency.
ps. i was writing my first sites with php3.
Not necessarily.

The important thing is that the demand curve slopes down but doesn't go to 0 that quickly. With Amazon you have the entire US (and other countries) as potential buyers and for popular items there will often be some buyers.

Also, you don't need much appreciation to make money. If MSRP is $50 and you get $80, and paid $35 wholesale you still make a good return after fees.

I just picked this one out because it went up a ton, plenty of others go up less but are still good.
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There are hundreds, if not thousands of posts and comments on this very website about under qualified individuals working various positions in tech. This community preaches looking past impostor syndrome and recognizing that most people are technically underqualified, and that is the job of the company/superiors to nurture talent.

All of a sudden we don't want to extend this same treatment to people who face structural problems that inhibit participation?