skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
transwomen's individual lives differ drastically

good on you that you are in STEM

I was in STEM but being transgender excluded me.

Trans people are treated like freaks. As far as I know, I don't exist. I am fine with this.

but it irks me when ppl humble brag
so, a google users googles

"cheap smartwatches"

sees a SERP with

"The Best Cheap Smartwatches For Sale on Amazon in 2019 - Good, Cheap and Fast"

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.goo...

comes to a page like
https://www.goodcheapandfast.com/articles/best-smartwatches

which is really slow for the first time mobile user according to PSI https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?hl=e...

where the headline is
"The Best Cheap Smartwatches For Sale on Amazon in 2019"

and then a text blob that nobody reads (when was the last time you googled something and really really read the paragraphs of text? i mean stuff you googled and not hacker news comments. and don't tell me your read the paragraphs of text on stack overflow answers)

knows nothing else what this site is (search users dont know your story, and dont reach your startpage (i.e.v what does the startpage of stack overflow lookn like?)).

then two list items with again textblobs, where the headlines link to amazon. giving the users no incentive to use your site more or google your brand in the future again.

if it looks like spam, uses words like spam and offers content nobody reads on a first user slow page, it probably is not a good search user experience.

please stop doing SEO, start thinking about the search user.

note: i wrote a book about it

https://www.fullstackoptimization.com/b/understanding-seo

reviews on amazon: https://www.amazon.de/Understanding-SEO-Systematic-Approach-...

and .com https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-SEO-Systematic-Approach...

disclaimer: i don't know how googles algorithms work, and i so do not care
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Fairness in opportunities, which you just disqualified by assuming the best Dr need to be a MALE and GENTICALY PREDETERMINED SMART.

My (short) experience working in health care suggest both are very bad qualifications for a health professional.
Being opt-in and getting compensated are the two things I've seen people want from usage of their data. No one should have an issue with this since it does both.
I find the same issue, on several occasions I've done some wireshark / tcpdumps on Outlook (desktop) traffic and it was quite shall we say 'messy', additionally as we notice emails sent via Office365 at times go missing or just never arrive (with no NDR), a couple of us started inspecting headers of Office365 sent emails and found them to be bouncing around internal Microsoft servers with broken certificates and NTP so out of sync that exchange online (or whatever component does this for their system) moved on to another server until it got to one that was working.
This is taking the stance that the governement is the source of society, while I tend to think the governement is the consequence of society.

But it probably goes both way, and I don't see a good reason to not do both: acting as micro and macro citizen.
I can't speak for Microsoft, but I could imagine some type of negotiation on pricing based on several criteria. When businesses purchase licensing for such things, there is always a negotiation phase that starts around 60% discount and goes up or down based on many factors.
Even one removes the direct connection between money and politics, the current problems will take a different form: indirection. One kind of indirection we already see today: revolving doors

So, where is the root problem of all these? It is collusion of power(politics), media(intellectuals, think tanks), money(capitalists, wealthy bankers). These powerful classes constitute 0.5% of any society, but these classes are colluding in order to advance their own interests. Yes, we have elections. What happens then? It is another fight between one group of colluders and another group of colluders. In many cases, the powerful classes bet on the both sides.

How can one ban collusion? Look at office politics in any large organization. Think of banning collusions at work place.
Also add on the fact that in Seattle the tipped minimum wage is 12/hr, where you only need to serve 20 dollars an hour worth of food in order to be making above minimum wage with tips should you also be busing your own tables.
What do we call an engineer who worked on this atrocity?

Unemployable.

I’d even go as far as blacklist anyone who continued working at Facebook after Cambridge Analytica.
Component manufacturing drives Apple’s US job creation
Isn't this exactly what restaurants all over the country do? Tips count as wages, and then the employer pays on top of that to make up the difference.
That only proves that users click on tailored ads, not that they necessarily want them. Perhaps many users would rather ads be unrelated to their interests, so that they would be easier to ignore. Perhaps there is an unwanted psychological burden associated with going to a website for a specific purpose, and being distracted by something that is somewhat related to their general interests, such that it becomes more difficult to use that website purposefully.

So consumers want a free lunch. It may not be logical from a site owner's perspective, but it makes sense to consumers.
In the hardware spec list it says:

"Smart Card Reader: Yes (OpenPGP-compatible)"

The same list says it doesn't have NFC, so I'm just wondering what sort of interface this is going to be, so what sort of cards can be used... Anyone have any idea?

[edit] They have the Librem Key - https://puri.sm/products/librem-key/ - but that requires a full sized USB port, which I assume this phone wont have.
You'd also be doing injustice to his saying. A (liberal) democracy gives every one the same opportunity. This isn't the case with so called meritocracy.
Perl could've been readable - nothing in the language prevents you from writing readable code. The problem was two-fold, imho:

1) regex was treated like the primary way to do things - even when it wasn't necessarily called for - at the expense of readability (and Perl supported it so well)

2) sysadmins

The two combined together (and possibly the fact that it was the early days of commercial internet service) led to the idea that anything done in Perl was destined to look like "line noise" to actual SWEs.

/just how I saw it...
Thanks for writeup.
Yes PostgreSQL is an incredible database except for it’s Mat Views, IMO this is their biggest weakness vs Oracle, SQL Server mat views are also poor with umpteen restrictions.
With PG any view can be a Mat View, problwm is they don’t have incremental refresh or auto refresh.
So not v useful, I roll my own, using custom tables and transaction id’s, not too difficult since all are auto generated but would be nice if Postgres added incremental refresh.
I think this their most urgent missing capability that should be top of the list for v12.
There was a book [1] written about the myth that there are ethical consumers. Basically, no matter what people _say_ convenience, cost and other factors win out on the whole. I heard about the book in a recent Planet Money episode [2].

[1] https://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/management/bu...

[2] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/01/18/686665609/epis...
You should also publish CAA records, to whitelist exactly what providers are allowed to issue on behalf of your domain.
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If you're not providing and handling benefits, you need to pay a higher salary. But maybe still lower than you'd pay a normal contractor? Rule of thumb for contractors is generally 2x equivalent W2 salary, right? I assume that multiple doesn't hold up for remote employees who are classed as contractors legally but don't have all the business development expenses of a normal contractor.
> Lumping climate change skeptics in with creationists is a bit much.

They are serving the same political interests with their advocacy, using similar dishonest techniques, and are often even literally the same people. They effectively have lumped themselves together.
I agree, we should!
I could see that.

Not the issue in my case though.. I don't use any extensions on my mobile browsers.
I'm not sure it matters about whom a false story is printed. The point is that it was false. It was rushed to print without getting the whole story.

Obviously, in the era of internet journalism it's important to get stories out as fast as possible, but (it seems to me) the incentive for getting out stories quickly that are likely to trigger outrage is pretty high.

This particular example is rather salient because it is recent,the evidence of false reporting is fairly clear, and because the cost to the victims of this journalistic malfeasance is fairly high.
Capital Research Center is a right-wing think tank that, unsurprisingly, has a biased take on the paper. From the original article: https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/07/health/millennials-conservati...

> "At that particular time [in the paper], however, young people were especially unlikely to identify as Republicans or conservatives because of the short-term effects of the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal. If we exclude the 1970s from the analysis, it looks by my reading of the tables and figures as if the political attitudes of the young have remained fairly stable over time, and in some respects they have liberalized somewhat," Hopkins said about the new paper.

The idea that millennials are opposed to the ACA is a particularly misleading take. I suspect if you dig into why millennials claim to oppose the ACA, it'll largely be because the ACA is perceived as not liberal enough relative to universal health care systems.
Those enterprise code signing certificates and provisioning profiles probably won't have much life left if Apple is awake at the wheel.

Seems like a risky game to play, likely staking their appstore developer account at the same time. High stakes.
I don't have specific advice regarding the score, but I do suggest any advice provided here be taken with a grain of salt. Not because of the community (I like to think we're all well-intending here, it isn't about that) but because we're simply strangers, and we don't know enough about you to provide an accurate answer.

Find a good mental health professional who will take the time and care to understand you, and show them the same thoughts you've shared here.

You shouldn't have to change your vernacular with a mindful professional. There's plenty of leads they can follow here -- And if you want effective answers about your feelings, that's who should be doing it! A true professional dedicated to figuring these things out with you.
And that's a sensationalist title, since it's not spying, it's consensual informed monitoring.
Change "startup culture" to "corporate culture"
But will it yet allow private facial recognition? If so that’s a loophole. Oh, we don’t do FR ourselves, we contract that out!

FR isn’t bad in and of itself. What is needed is regulation governing that data.
> At a minimum I'm going to be tipping in cash.

Do the right thing. Take a stand for human decency and make a compromise by closing your instacart account now. Absorb the inconvenience and do your own shopping. And make sure to tell instacart to (insert profanity of choice) if you can while closing your account. That behaviour is low down and dirty. Shady craigs list used car dealer level stuff.

I just walked three blocks in the rain to the local grocery store to pick up stuff to make dinner and food for tomorrow. Not like I was jumping for joy and made a dash for the door. I didn't want to, but I did. That's life.
Seems like it got paywalled. I was about to post the link, and found that somebody did earlier. When I checked it again, it looks like it is now "exclusive content".

It still seems to be in the Google cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:5DULGd...
This happened right after Onavo was blocked - it's opt-in and with compensation only thanks to that.
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I wonder if replacing amazon links with a google-shortened link to the same would improve SEO.
> At the time Google was the unsung hero defending our rights. Now Google won't let you subscribe to podcasts in their app unless you turn on location history storage, like those two things are actually mutually exclusive.

Okay, so you don't like how their podcast app works, but how does this violate your rights?
Are "contractors" covered by employee wage law?
I mean, sure, but they have all the same problems as threads for most / application-level developers. They're indeed quite different when you get into calling out to C or other kinds of FFI, but relatively few developers need to do so directly. For everyone else, they come with very nearly exactly the same semantics as threads.
Who is surprised? This is Facebook’s DNA.
When I was in jail they referred to me as a "client" which I thought was rather odd.
What’s more, this article is made by employees from Washington state, where they don’t even have a separate tipped minimum wage.
> it's consensual informed monitoring.

Which is complicated both legally and ethically when it's deliberately targeting teens.
The fact that Facebook tried to hide their involvement by using intermediaries like “uTest” says something though, right?
> I'm not part of the problem by treating people equally,

If you (think) treat people equally, you are part of the problem. When one group is more vocal than the other, you have to amplify the other group. If not, you're just keeping the current bias in place.
> It's really really hard to rank post 2014 era just because you want it to work.

You can blame grey-hat and black-hat SEO for that. It's also why the quality of Google Search more generally has tanked, especially for non-trivial searches: it seems that Google is desperately trying to always play it safe and give zero incentive to potential spammers, even if this screws some users over in the short term. Bing and DDG are a lot better these days if you're looking for something highly specific, weird or uncommon, while Google is surprisingly fine for common, even trivial/mindless searches.
Looking at the results, it seems quite obvious that most western countries have had significant success in curbing corruption. To just cynically dismiss these efforts would seem to both unhelpful (because why bother?) and just factually wrong.

I live in one of the top 20 countries, and have experience in countries in the lower half. The difference is like night and day. Imagine having to “tip” the EMT to take you to a hospital when you’ve been in a car accident. I had a local friend in Asian country who pretended to be unconscious in such a situation because they didn’t have any money on them.
Sounds like what a lot of IRL spying is.
umm..so no more iPhones????
The space you're competing in:

- Consumer product and tech reviews, vs heavyweights like "Wirecutter, Consumer Reports, Cook's Illustrated and Crutchfield" as you mention, and also TechRadar, TomsGuide, Lifewire, etc

- That's not as difficult as credit card or insurance industries, but there are sophisticated players. Do you truly believe your page on "best video doorbells" is a better result than ConsumerReports.org's?

Your site:

- Has 121 backlinks from different domains (great). But Wirecutter has 20,000+

- Has links from big press, which is cool, but topically relevant linking sites is important as well

- Is thin on review pages. See your wireless earbuds page: https://www.goodcheapandfast.com/articles/best-wireless-earb... vs the #1 organic ranking site for "best cheap wireless earbuds" (4,000 searches/mo): https://www.techradar.com/deals/the-best-cheap-wireless-head... (very important)

- Doesn't have many links to individual pages, so you're not seeing page level link signals, mainly just to the home page (very important)

- Is young, and while that's only one small part of it, is still part of it

Google broadly ranks on:

- Matching intent of query to the best page that serves the goal of the user, and is constantly testing - this does not mean they always reward long blog posts, as it depends on the intent of the query

- Topical authority and relevance - combination of keyword usage, topic coverage, etc

- Seems to reward topically relevant sites more than generalist sites, see the About.com split into different entities case study (though not always)

- Quality of backlinks at the page level, and also the domain level

- Relevancy of backlinks at page and domain level

- Quantity of backlinks at page and domain level

- Other link factors like referring link anchor text, placement on referring page, etc

- On-page optimizations (title tag, keyword usage in content, internal links, headers)

- Tons more, but the above cover ~40-90% of the factors, depending on query, industry, competition, intent, etc

Congrats on the press and growth!

If you truly want to optimize for organic, look at what competitors are doing, page by page, and model off them, with your own unique angle. Content & links, content & links, and repeat.
I wish they implemented the feature sooner. AVIF, an image format based on the new AV1 video codec with even better compression is already on the horizon.
> startup culture...

> Amazon
> Facebook

I don’t think amazon and Facebook are startups
Some of the highlights from Will Strafach, who did the actual app research for TechCrunch:

#1 "they didn't even bother to change the function names, the selector names, or even the "ONV" class prefix. it's literally all just Onavo code with a different UI."

#2 "the Root Certificate they have users install so that they can access any TLS-encrypted traffic they'd like."

My editorializing - I have been suspicious of Facebook getting the "submarine" treatment (1) but the insane scuminess of #1 above, which essentially is a big fuck you to Apple, pretty well supports the recent view that FB will essentially break any rule that serves to further their own ends.

via https://twitter.com/chronic/status/1090394419902197761

(1) http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
That's mostly a theoretical concern. The 1% tends to play off half of the proles against the other half.

Alternatively, they introduce an involatile shared fiction into the public conscious, that justifies their position - such as the divine right of kings, or the sanctity of the feudal contract.
Some people like to be in control, that's ok.
Tipping bundles a simple service task to the in most jobs needless component of giving the customer the illusion of attention. If you're a waitress by choice and tipping works for you, that's fine too, but it simply doesn't scale to a large scale gig based economy. Being able to extract that amount of tips is a skill, that not everybody has. If venues could, they probably would take money for customer facing service job opportunities to work there for tips to exploit that skill, which would be the more honest free market model in my opinion.
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Indirect, but the light comes from a west-facing window that I've since covered in tinfoil heh.
Ah, but where's Elon Musk's submarine?
I don't know what the issue is exactly. I worked for two years at an insurance company using c#. It was a good group of people. I decided to join a startup. I worked through the process of growing the technical side of that company from 0 to 150,000 paid accounts. At almost the 10 year mark, I was let go due to financial difficulties. The company that I worked for, which still exists, is now run by one person - the original founder - in conjunction with a partner company that now manages the stack and handles sales. It is a bit of an odd story to tell and evolved into what it is today because of the pressures of trying to keep a company alive, I guess. I went from being a programmer to being the CTO during this time. I wasn't managing a team other than an intern once in a while so I was responsible for administering the servers (AWS) just as I was responsible for furthering development. It all fell to me for the most part. We did have another programmer for the first couple years, but they left. It was pretty taxing to be honest.

When I am asked how many people I managed I can only honestly say two interns and am then told my skills are not enough.

When I am asked to take home a programming assignment or whiteboard something the end result is that my skills aren't good enough.

It is a mystery to me because I built a system that currently processes 80 to 150 million emails a month. It encrypts them, it stores them, it makes them searchable. There is even functionality to encrypt outgoing emails as well! To be fair the core component was already built prior to me joining the company: the PKI api. But as needs grew I built around that. I built the web interface (not the design: I'm not a god). I wrote code to process incoming/outgoing email. I created an ES cluster that scales itself (probably not very well and search is astonishingly slow, but the customers don't seem to mind given the low price tag). I programmed in php, perl, ruby, javascript, and then eventually heavily used golang for its concurrency. The system is not perfect nor am I.

I too thought that people would be super interested in working with me, but I haven't found that to be the case at all. I guess am not good at networking so here I am. If you want to see what I have built in my own time recently, the url is in my description. It is a tragic example of my design skills and the code is all my own. Interestingly - or not so - it is entirely written in golang (+ gopherjs).
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I harbor serious doubts that most of the 'volunteers' here know exactly what it is they're providing -- the sign-up sheet probably didn't say "we will know very specifically your porn-watching habits" e.g.
Except when it doesn't work.
If there was an option to import chrome passwords into Firefox I couldn't find it.

> Read: Do I have reason to migrate out of it?

No, but I suggest you try it out for a day or two, see what you think.
Huge as in huge, or huge as in huge for a niche language?
Why do they even have a “tip” field is beyond me, you already paid for delivery, what do you tip for??!!! And on top they ask you for a tip amount before the service is even performed. Tip is to reward for extra work that server did, what extra work is there in food delivery service? And how do you measure it before you even got the food??
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It didn't produce any result?
This is a massive overreach. I would be pretty shocked if the people involved in this "research program" truly understood just how much access to their private data they were granting Facebook.
I know. Perl was all that at the time. daunting! modern! no compiler OMG! text transformation on the code itself! it was the bee knees.

All that Go delivers today, over the medium, is very similar to what perl also delivered yesteryear, on top of yesteryear medium. But also like perl, it is being born from a bunch of old unix system engineers :)
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You missed the key part.

This is why it was open sourced, as a balance between control leverage and adoption.
This really probably doesn't add up to fraud. There's a difference between being scummy and crime. This should be illegal of course, but it really probably isn't. Restaurants illegally take tips from their employees all the time, which would be a fraud against customers in the same way as this case. However, they don't get into trouble for fraud against customers, but wage theft. That of course doesn't apply to Instacart.