skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From someone who's been dealing with cancer for the last 6 years, I hate when people compare it to a fight/war/battle with winners and losers. What exactly am I fighting? My cells? How exactly am I going to war? by sitting in a chair eating a sandwich while getting a chemo infusion?

In my mind, this was always just a disease to manage. Being diagnosed at 33 with no family history or no genetic markers the only thing I could point to was some random mutation that reprogrammed my cells. Modern medicine as this point is serving it's purpose -> buying me more time. I personally don't have any illusions of grandeur that I'll be "cured" but I'm thankful the extra time that I've been blessed with and just try to make the most of it everyday. That's all you can really do with or without cancer.
I am also a former Google employee. I also had a GCard, and it is exactly as easy to get one as described.

Google is the exception here, IMO. Every other employer I have had has generally required the employee to front the cash for expenses, and used something like Expensify to get reimbursed. There are some exceptions, such as hotels or airfare, which I've booked through corporate booking systems; these only let you see "approved" flights/hotels, and once booked, is charged direct to the company.
I mean one one thing your missing (but probably also the person you're replying to) is that in the actual lawsuit he alleges racial discrimination with some credibility.

But also disability discrimination with regards to his kid.

Anyways, here's the brief he filed (unfortunately pro se) https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wawd.269265...
It's not readily apparent to my that those two abilities should be distinct. It seems plenty likely that they would be at least highly correlated. While you're point about the visual cortex may be relevant, I don't think that's the whole story.

My understanding is that different IQ tests will rely on different kinds of questions (i.e. not all involve visual shapes; some involve word/logic puzzles). The point the scores for all IQ tests correlate very highly (and thus suggest that there exists some common factor).
I thought it was like Babel. Turns out it was way more than that.
Your point is actually very much backed up by science and Iris Bohnet devotes an entire chapter to it in her book "What Works." Arguably one of the easiest ways to reduce gender pay disparity is to give both women and men the _exact_ same amount of parental leave for the birth of a child. She actually argues we should go one step further and require new parents to take the leave because even men who are employed by companies with generous parental leave are under a tremendous amount of social pressure to return to work quickly and often do not use all of the time available to them even when they would have liked to stay home and spend more time with their family.
It seems like your addiction is believing that you're above average intelligence. A common trait of the narrow minded.
> One Amazon employee said when her father was dying, her boss told “you are the problem” and prevented her from visiting the father. Another Amazon employee saw his unborn child died during pregnancy when he was under oppression by his manager. There are a lot of cases like that. Amazon is built on blood.

Holyshit. This sounds like modern day slavery. Isn’t this bordering on crime against humanity?
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PC Pursuit from Telenet. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telenet I woke up super early many days so I could explore far-flung BBS’s before school.

And I was 1:377/7 on Fidonet. Good times.
I've seen this chart and yet it's always fascinating.

A dental X-ray is like eating 50 bananas, and half of what you would get over the course of a normal day.
Could one not irradiate the whole body and replace the destroyed marrow with some from a compatible donor in order to fight this?
It looks like it could be a variant of this squashed down to fit in the connector of a cable.
https://github.com/spacehuhn/wifi_ducky

If it is, then the computer doesn't connect to a router at all. The USB cable could make itself available as a network that you remotely connect to then execute commands. The cable then types out your commands as it imitates a USB keyboard. Have you ever seen a device or PC that randomly trusts a USB keyboard you plug into it?
I guess even some sort of "signed device protocol" will not work. An attacker can just create a device that guesses the device identifier (or whatever is used to create the signature). Then, the attacker device can just keep guessing until it gets it right. Chances are, some serial number or similar will be used for this, so continuous guessing is feasible.

Will the solution to this, then, be to have some sort of "smart card enabled device"? For example, assuming TOFU, you manually accept all device's public keys (and all devices, including cables and stuff will have one of these). Then, the computer will have to verify all actions done by those devices by sending a challenge for each action. But this seems impractical and inefficient...

Perhaps physical security is the only way for this...
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Can you provide a link for divergent aptitude tests? I'm afraid my search results all have to do with some young-adult fiction novel (called Divergent).

How much do such tests correlate with things like (for example) creative achievement?
But using more than 100% of his memory kind of takes away from it. I guess those defunct processes could be swapped to disk, but who keeps more than twice their RAM in swap space...
Tesla does. Stick a usb stick in my model 3 and it uses the storage to record off the cameras. They just added a mode to record video when the car is “threatened” while parked.
Would it still be fair to say that Redis typically is used for things like caching, messaging etc (and it's amazing for that), but not as a primary data store? Or did I miss something?
Who cares if the boss has substance abuse issues or Cluster B personality disorders? These considerations don't put bread on the table!
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> The fact that it was called out as "Scottish" but not "wild" made me think this wasn't going to be a particularly good dish.

Might not the perception of the average client and not oneself be more important in determining the intentions of whoever wrote that menu? I imagine that if you're going to put one adjective in your dish name, "Scottish" might elicit a better perception in more clients than "Wild".

I agree with your perception, though. From a client's point of view, "Wild" should be better.
It's the inverse of the ubiquitous "why do you want to work for us?" interview question. "Because you give money to your employees and I require money for food and housing" is somehow never what they're looking for.
What is "bloom on the target"? Thanks!
I went the other way. I started programming in assembly for the 8080, Z80, and MSDOS.

When I hit later multi-user operating systems Like UNIX, Linux and Windows I discovered that I wasn't able to access the bare-metal like I was used-to previously.

That's when I started using slightly higher-level languages like C, etc.

My suggestion: Pick a fairly simple 8-bit CPU like the 8080/Z80 to start with. Find a CP/M emulator. CP/M has several different assemblers ranging from the simple ASM to a macro-assembler MAC to a relocatable macro-assembler M80.

You will find lots of small programs on the CP/M archive sites to pull apart, play with or re-write.

Then progress to 16-bit assembly under MSDOS. Once again, there are plenty of websites with ASM files to look at, analyse and rewrite.

After that, you should have a good idea yourself as where you should need to go next.
> If your manager is from India, he probably sucks. He is insecure, has zero empathy, leadership skills or any skills.

Racism! Seriously? We going there?
Interesting use of the instruments.

Aside from the clear compassion and helpfulness, I wonder how much of it was thanks to careful training versus a creative use of the available tools?
Software engineer pay at tech companies in the US tends to be $150k for junior engineers to $300k+ for senior engineers.
AI Predictions from Yann LeCun, Hilary Mason, Andrew Ng, and Rumman Chowdhury
Considering the system is essentially a constellation of fixed-wing drones with added drag from tethers, how can it be so much more efficient than a single fixed-wing drone?
Nextdoor Acquires Trove
This study is missing one important factor, a baseline. The author should have provided an androgynous named account to see how that fared.
so... that could be useful to penetrate secure facilities, like nuclear weapons bunkers/reactors. A worker is sent a cable as a "gift" or has one substituted in by mail intercept for an actual order. Attacker waits outside in a van and controls things over wifi.
That hardware solution sans wifi could offer some interesting security solutions such as trusted bridge between any computer and your mobile phone. Can't wait to see this torn down and hacked.
I would argue that reducing more than a billion people who don’t even speak the same language, eat the same food, listen to the same music, worship the same gods... to a single stereotype is the sweaty face of ingorance, no matter how you try to dress it up or defend it. The fact that “arguments” such as yours always seem to be devoid of a grounding in reality and exist as appeals to emotion or common sense speaks for itself too. In short, ignorance and heuristics combine to produce bullshit every time.
meta: never heard of scmp.com, but I really liked their website and flow! felt very clean. just a tad to much scroll jacking tho
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6043938/
The point isn't to take things to court.

The point is to take things public.

The court of public opinion is a hugely effective weapon, if you have the documented evidence to back it up.

And if they threaten you about wiretapping laws or whatever, well that just makes the company look even worse in the court of public opinion.

If you will notice, nobody at Uber was stupid enough to threaten Susan Fowler for documenting the stuff that happened to her.
> He touched down on Norfolk Island after being in the air for twenty-three hours and five minutes.

How is that possible? The Cessna 188 has a cruise speed around 110 mph (at 75% power) and a range of 370 miles. That implies a bit over 3 hours of time aloft. Stall speed is 60 mph. I'm not understanding how you get to 23 hours of flight time.
My perspective has been to be able to "speak the language". You may not be able to rebuild your engine, perform surgery, build your own PC, etc. But know enough that you can have a meaningful conversation with the experts.
This was answered non-facetiously after discovery: https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04935
> Welcome to life in practically any large US corporation

This is a common refrain, especially on HN. But it is a bit misplaced:

Small companies are just as bad and often worse.

All you have to do is look around at the average small company where nepotism is the default (doesn't matter how good you are, the owner's son will be the next CEO) and where many owners see staff as personal servants.

Some of the things I've seen in the past year with friends & acquaintances who work at small companies:

- An office admin being told to arrange the owner's wedding (without pay).

- A nail salon worker being told to go pick up the owner's dry cleaning since there weren't any customers in at the moment.

- The owner of a small hotel telling staff they were all working on Saturday to cater a party at her house. (If you say no, you are fired.)

- A company owner taking $40,000 out of the company bank account to pay for his family vacation to Croatia and then missing payroll that month. It ended up being two weeks late.

Many small business owners treat their business (and by extension their staff) as their personal fief and property.

Plus, the people who own and run small businesses aren't going to listen to ideas for feedback and improvement any more than big company managers. They always fall back on -- well, I've succeeded so far doing it my way.
Me too! My gf's kids think it's weird, but I don't like to have greasy fingers.
You'd think, but SC2 shows that plenty of people are ready to blame someone else when they lose in 1v1. Ketroc (unconventional Master level Terran, lots of ravens) must upload videos in which his opponent accuses him of cheating about once a week on average. Some will threaten to report him, others still manage to at once accuse him of cheating, claim they're winning not losing and then threaten to report for cheating when inevitably they're crushed.

Back in the day a lot of cheat accusations came from people who really were cheating themselves (games modified to reveal territory and units which should be hidden to you), today who knows why they do it.
I assumed that ...

> Light has a spectrum, and thus a color, regardless of where the light came from. And can be so bright as to appear to the eye white, or so dim as to appear dark gray (rods vs cones), also regardless.

was no longer the conversation with the 5-year-old. I would call those two sentences ‘confused’ for pretty much any audience, but obviously a conversation with a 5-year-old isn’t going to get too deep into the weeds about definitions.

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> getting to actionable "you have to start with at least the basics" implies an ability to successfully execute that approach.

Fair enough. But someone who doesn’t have the background to more or less properly explain the basics should expect some criticism when they completely ignore them.

> My experience is that it requires vastly greater effort, and domain expertise, than is currently considered non-insane, just for the associated content creation.

There are plenty of people with a solid basic understanding of whatever subject you might point to. The problem is more that folks making materials for beginners are (often) not part of that group, and in many cases should be leaving the job to someone with more expertise.

I don’t think someone has to be a cutting edge researcher (or tenured professor) in order to do a good job explaining the basics about scientific topics. They should at least read the introductory material aimed at scientists though.

> [1:1 instruction] via AR/VR avatars

I am not holding my breath. I expect videos, readings, interactive diagrams, better programming environments, ... will more likely be helpful than future-VR-Clippy.

But it’s hard to substitute for human interaction with someone competent.

> we're just often less than transparent about reporting our actual collective goals

Well the first goal is more or less babysitting so that parents can go to work. But this doesn’t sound too inspiring.
For ferry flights over the ocean, they'll install extra fuel tanks in space normally used for passengers or cargo.
Ask HN: Can My Landlord Give Everyone the Same Key?
In California, are there any rules that say a property owner/manager must give all tenants a unique key? I ask because lately there’s been an old lady at my complex that keeps mistakenly trying to come into my room. How is my property owner/manager not liable for any damages (if they occur) when they give everyone the same key?
Would a high voltage loop, for breaking components, be a good solution to an attack like this? Like, fry the electronic components to verify it's just plain metal on the insides?
From “The Nine Billion Names of God“ by [edit, wrong: Isaac Asimov].

Almost made me cry the first time I read those last lines.
> Khan made me single parent.

I've been downvoted here before for "victim blaming", but I'm going to say this anyway because someone has to.

It's your responsibility to be in control of your life. There is no grand order of things that will take care of you. There will always be things working against you. Entropy, competition, environmental hazards, psychopaths, etc, are everpresent.

You need to have the confidence to walk away from situations that aren't in line with what you want, and not just throw up your hands and say - I guess this is my life now.
Doable with an ESP chip, monitoring for open WiFi network and connects to whatever is available. Then you could have it await further instructions from a C&C.

That wouldn't need further actions from the victim.
Themselves meaning the ground observer as that was the point of view GP was speaking about.
Workers are pretty neat. I've been using them as a mechanism for serving private Wasabi/Backblaze B2 buckets publicly, ideally so I can host project assets with more predictable costs. This is a very practical and useful case for workers, IMO -- it stops unintended outbound egress from origins, and gives better routing -- both B2 and Wasabi peer with CloudFlare to waive any applicable egress fees. So I basically pay a flat $5/month + B2/Wasabi storage costs (approx $5/mo/TB) and zero egress, more or less.

Overall it's worked pretty well; it's also useful for doing things like setting up fully 'virtual' domains when using an object store, e.g. set a CNAME for 'foo.bar.com' to 'example.com' and then write a worker that just intercepts every `foo.bar.com` request and routes appropriately. This has worked surprisingly nicely. For example, I host one of my recent projects under https://riscv.ls0f.pw/ but this subdomain doesn't really "exist" beyond being a CNAME for example.com; it's just routed directly to a B2 bucket subpath, in the background.

At the moment I'm working on a mechanism of automating my worker deployments using GitHub Actions and seeing how writing them in OCaml/BuckleScript goes (a much more tedious process), but overall it's pretty neat and useful for writing quick routing glue and whatnot.

If anyone from the CloudFlare team is reading this, probably the most important feature I'm looking forward to is resource bindings for cryptographic keys, to be used with the WebCrypto API, so plaintext keys are not visible directly in the worker source code. Is there any ETA on when this might be GA? In my case it's the most important feature currently missing, and it's really crucial for a lot of practical use cases.

EDIT: also, another really useful feature (for me), but admittedly maybe niche, would be "atomic-compare-and-update worker script", i.e. I want to submit a JavaScript file to the API and only update the worker iff the new source code is not equal to the existing source code. The reasoning here is that I currently download the worker script and 'diff' it against the new one as a test, and only upload if they're actually different. I could simply re-upload every time but I'm not sure if this invalidates any 'hot' worker instances that are already running. Perhaps the upload API can simply be extended with new return codes to indicate this...
> fosters my negative perspective.

I learned pretty quick that STEM was a meritocracy.

You either solved-problems and adapted to working in a office - or you made excuses, passed blame and were eventually pushed out because of it. This was discrimination against an attitude, not discrimination based on sex.

Sexism/racism is like a synonym for sin in the 21st century.
Instead of trying to understand the humanity and nuance of workplace interactions, we assume malice and scream "sinner" at individuals without merit. It's a lazy catch-all, its based on assumption and literally just fosters a culture of silent disagreements. It's regressive, it's primary school all over again, except we're 30 and bitter.

> but your comment amounts to monstrous callousness of exactly the sort that fosters my negative perspective.

Yeah yeah "your comment is offensive to me so please don't contribute to my 'tolerant' and 'inclusive' world-view".

Ugh.
Your words are offensive, your thoughts are offensive, your existence is offensive. There does this line of thinking end?

I'm so apathetic to how immature discourse is getting.
Outrage culture needs to die in a fire.
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For reference-- that's $318,160 more than Jeff Bezos' salary. That's insane.

How is a union able to pay that much to their leader on the one hand, yet completely unable to help defend this Amazon employee against an abusive manager?

If journalists focused on developer unions for even a fraction of the time they spend criticizing Amazon, I'd bet we'd have some blogs that sound just as damning as the one the author has written.
Why would you need to run wasm in a serviceworker? I thought wasm was most practical as bytecode in a client for things like games and such.
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Gender quota != diversity of perspective
So they have to be close by.
Yep. I’m a Canadian, got one while visiting family in the US. I did at the time work for the Toronto Public Library, but that wasn’t a consideration for them. :)
My understanding is that 5g is range limited, so those of us who are in non-urban areas are not going to see any benefit, and are likely to see reductions in service as 4g is de-emphasized (judging by Verizon in this area).
Signed up over a decade ago with Australian Red Cross blood service. Haven't heard anything but it's good knowing that if the call ever comes, I personally might save someone's life. (Donating O- helps in a more general way.)
My bad, I should have clarified. When a laser hits a target in this context, the target material ablates and burns. This kicks up “dust” and other fine particulates as well as water, and this causes more bloom. It’s also a good defense against lasers of a low enough energy to exploit this, and use ablative armor that is designed to produce clouds designed to be especially opaque to the laser. You can work around this by using phased arrays and other tricks to manipulate the wavelength of the laser light in response to feedback of the target conditions. Adaptive optics are another way of combatting this issue, as well as bloom and divergence through the atmosphere.
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Is that not also true of the plane's projection onto the Earth's surface?
IBM has a ridiculous number of employees. So does Google and Microsoft. They are all behemoths.

I have heard pretty horrible stories from x-amazonians as well.
I'm not sure if this questions qualifies to be posted here on HN.
Perhaps, but it could start a fire. You might consider plugging into a power supply and measuring if there is any current draw.
Don’t forget to check out some of the amazing reading rooms while there! :) I’d love to go back!
Perhaps calling it a “battle” or naming cancer the “enemy” gives some a cathartic way to cope with it. Gives one energy so to speak. My parents died of cancer and I have lost several friends to it, and none of them used this terminology, but I imagine I will if it comes to it.
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I submitted my new blog post, but I realized that I dropped a word in the title. I deleted the submission, but now I can't resubmit it. How can I post it again?
USA's 'Laser M16/M4', now almost 20 years old:

http://www.defensereview.com/352003/TIS1.pdf
https://www.techzim.co.zw/2019/02/exclusive-breaking-news-it...

Doesn’t add much beyond what you’ve mentioned, but if the observations are true, it sounds like an acquisition is in progress. Maybe announced at RSA in early March?

Total funding was $182.1 million (over 10 years), so interested to see what the acquisition deal is.
Title gore... What this really is, is a Simulated path of an unmanned bicycle with a rolling start.
You can write non-JavaScript languages to do all the same tasks. It gives you more choice. That’s a good thing.
I have this adapter, works well with a router two levels above.
The Dollop did a fun episode on this:
http://thedollop.libsyn.com/332-the-divorce-colony-live-at-s...

As a North Dakotan, it gave me lots of fun things to prod my Southern cousins with.
That’s a great idea, and also strikes me as damn funny.