skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it’s US data, then your experience is my experience and it makes total sense. The trends represents search of “Pinterest” which was word of mouth driven. This was a very word of mouth driven app. Ladies in my life educated their friends, then their mothers, then their aunts, etc. They explained what it was and what “boards” are. But, it’s reached a saturation point now where everyone knows what it is.

The conversation turned to wife-> her mom “did you see my nursery board? I pinned some inspo” and no explanation is needed she already had the app installed and didn’t need to go google “Pinterest”.

Also, the women in my life love it for inspiration that definitely drives purchasing behavior. I can’t speak to whether Pinterest is monetizing that opportunity to its fullest but I certainly feel like it’s established itself as a place to research a future purchase which we all know is a valuable position to be in. I use my wife’s account occasionally to look up ideas for a home renovation or landscaping ideas. It helps. But I feel they’ve made some poor UX choices bordering on dark patterns. And with that, they are probably their own biggest risk. Eventually they will do something to totally alienate and piss off their user base.
Sure, but are they explicitly discriminating against women in hiring teachers in order to increase the percentage of male teachers? Because more and more that's what's going on in tech companies (with the genders reversed).
To some people it comes naturally. Some people need more coaching. I think by having titles and skills like these associated with them it gives managers something to point to for engineers to understand what is expected of them and what areas they can improve on. shrug
To be able to charge the first-gen Apple Pencil? Which of course raises the question about why they made it compatible with the first-gen Pencil instead of the second-gen. (I think it's reasonable that they didn't want to revamp the edges of the iPad, which would have to have been done to enable inductive charging.)
I downvoted you because you said multiple factually incorrect things. As others pointed out, US unions are not the same as "any place else." Many people, like myself, dislike unions not because we're anti-labor but because we're anti-corruption and recognize some of the ridiculous things unions do.

I've known people who worked under the UAW and Teamsters unions. The amount people got paid in US auto plants for menial tasks was outrageous. $15/h+ 15 years ago for the most unskilled roles. Hiring was full of nepotism. You had to know someone to get one of these overpaid jobs. Outsiders were not welcome. The UAW continued to demand above market salaries despite companies declaring bankruptcy. Auto makers responded by moving to Mexico. Great job UAW!

As for Teamsters, their history is full of corruption. Dues payments were a job requirement. No dues, no job. They protected the worst workers from being fired, much like police and teachers unions.
Same as going from Word to Google Doc years back.
One safeguard you can add is to use a different database for the tests with different environmental variable names and db roles. So the unit-tests should never be able to access a non-test db.
Some fair points are made here, and I think running kubernetes the hard way, without a managed service, does introduce a lot of complexity. However, its not that bad when using a managed service such as EKS or GKE
Zero Day Initiative: Model 3 Browser Exploit Discovered
Apple AirPods (2019)
I think the parts you‘re quoting are referring to his actions after he was asked to do a 20th anniversary write-up not for the original story.
This depends on your threat model. Imagine someone looking over your shoulder while you type in your password and TOTP token. Without TOTP, they would be able to log into your account on a different device without having your current device. With TOTP, they would need some way to get the correct token when they login, which is much more difficult and more easily noticed by you.
> Let's start to tease them apart without merely stopping at the clichés.

Yes, please do so. "They are not interested in computers" is a huge cliché. So which non-cliché reasons do you see?
Hydroelectic as well technically. A set of hydroelectric dam failures in China in 1975 killed more people directly from the event (171,000) than is estimated for the direct and future deaths caused from Chernobyl and Fukushima combined.
A lot of the people in Finance are surprisingly superstitious. I had a boss once who would not conduct trades if he saw a totally unrelated bad omen.

The treasury yield curve is a measure of expectations. It's a market marker that is the result of traders and reflects the overall view of the economy.

Having said that, it's also taken on a mythical status where now that it has inverted, people will start planning for a recession which may in turn lead to happening much sooner/if at all. It's a self fulfilling prophecy in a way where the expectation of a recession leads you act in a way that leads to that outcome.
That's pretty standard for the United States. On the flipside, it means the employer isn't required to keep employing you no matter what. Most unions will negotiate it (this is why Police go on paid suspensions instead of being fired, it's part of their CBA), but the vast majority of us aren't members of a union. Furthermore if you're terminated without cause, you're eligible for unemployment.

In practice companies don't fire people left and right, and people don't live in constant fear of being terminated if they're providing value to their employer, or their employer isn't toxic.
Is it just for me or is the scroll on this site horrible broken? Shame because the content looks great.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19292205
When i use the `ncdu` utility for example it does not highlight selected entries when using `putty-256color`. Example: https://i.imgur.com/ZibnkOm.png (left `putty-256color`, right `xterm`). Maybe this is a shortcoming of the `ncdu` utility or an issue with some of my other putty settings. I never tried to pinpoint it as it doesn't really affect most of the terminal work I do.
non-competes are illegal in California.
I suspect that bots that randomly scan IP addresses for vulnerable hosts don't bother trying anything besides 22. I've been running my sshd on port 622 for a long time and I never get fishy connections (while I'd get at least one a week on port 22).

On the other hand a dedicated attacker who really wants to pwn your server will just scan all the ports and figure out what is listening and where. At this point you're better off implementing some form of port knocking if that's a cause for concern.

That being said, running sshd on port 2222 is probably not a good idea because it's not a privileged port.
"We review the number of monthly active users (“MAUs”), which we define as a logged-in Pinterest user who visits our website or opens our mobile application at least once during the 30-day period ending on the date of measurement [...]"
> I don't think the person you're replying to is criticizing the industry though.

No, but the people they are criticizing for criticizing firms hiring at industrt-average proprotions are also criticizing the industry, which is the issue.
Architecting UIs for Change
This is a more reasonable line of argument. Start with this rather than "pay party A in order to balance out harms to party B".
Did they actually manage to pump that much energy in it, or was it that they disturbed the fault enough to cause it give?
> And I gotta say the worst failings here are with the FAA.

The FAA is underfunded to do their job properly. The major consequence of this is that to properly certify the changes from Boeing would have taken a long time. A long time would mean that Airbus would win more contracts compared to Boeing. With a pro-business administration in place, there was significant pressure put on the FAA to complete the certification quickly. They were actively encouraged to outsource safety work back to Boeing's engineers to keep pace on the timeline.
> We define a monthly active user as a logged-in Pinterest user who visits our website or opens our mobile application at least once during the 30-day period ending on the date of measurement.
hah, jynx
Then the whole bus clapped....
Empathy and innovation: Microsoft’s cultural shift led to new products
No, there are millions of users with lightning accessories.
I'm going to expose my ignorance here, but other than stepping through code, how would you use a debugger? Just to get stack traces and variables values at a specific break point?
What would it cost to make this happen?
The huge costs are close to 100% related to policing something extremely difficult to police. And of course these costs are somoene’s profit. The DEA still insists that cannabis should be a schedule I drug, but to them these costs are profit and job security, another example how measuring success via profit corrupts then original purpose of an institution.

Similarly, if we were to outlaw red underwear or parsley, individuals who chose these things would incur similar costs.

Or were you referring to something else?
That took a while to find. Here is a link to the discussion:

https://old.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/av3lhx/were_on_...

And here is the relevant comment, I think:

https://old.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/av3lhx/were_on_...
Cool, very useful tool! I'm going to try it
> and your evidence for this is ....?
If we look at other professions (business, law, medicine), we'd find more discrimination but also more women. So discrimination is unlikely as a sole cause.

> Only when the job became prestigious were they pushed out by men.
I clearly recall the days when programming was thought as the domain of the pimple-faced nerds with the thick glasses, way before the brogrammers and other "cool" nerd types came along. Law and medicine are all more prestigious and by your reasoning would have pushed out women even more. So there's something you're missing, and actively missing it even when reality waves its hand to you.

Just one google query gives something more nuanced, such as this: https://austinstartups.com/the-tech-gender-gap-a-2016-progre...
which rightly points out that the percentage of women was rising in CS as much as in medical and law until around 1985. And if you look at the graphic here https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascp/2018/12/05/booming-enrol... you notice that it's not women leaving the field, it's more men coming to CS while the number of women stays the same until they leave in troves at the following bust cycle.

You keep using evidence from the 50s (i.e., 70 years back) as explanation of today's state of affairs, but the evidence points that the 50s don't tell us anything about why we don't have more women programmers. Instead, ask why women got pushed away by post-bubble insecurity and maybe (and this is interpretation) some stigma that we as CS people have that pushes out women.
You misunderstand.

There are many ways to do OOP from CS point of view, be curious, learn them.
Does the FAA require civilian commercial airliners to have some sort of catch-all (e.g. positive stability if you kill all power and lower a ram-air turbine and assuming your flaps aren't jammed)? I don't know if that would have saved lives on those flights, because it was high enough to crash and low enough to not turn around to the airport or get to safety, but I would think a gliding plane and some base assumptions about the inherent flight characteristics of their plane would give the pilots a few precious seconds to think (like the miracle on the Hudson). Physics-based problems should have physics-based solutions.

If the engine placement and weight distribution caused an inherent problem with the stability of the aircraft, a rule like that might have given Boeing pause, no?
I believe you just described South Korea.
> When computer programming was first invented nearly all programmers were women. Only when the job became prestigious were they pushed out by men.

Or maybe they were placed in these positions by men and when they were free to select it as a career, they didn't. In the early days of computing, personal interest wasn't a driving factor in selecting it as a career because it was still so new. I really think your example demonstrates the opposite of what you think it does.
>This has nothing to do with Bitcoin blockchain or Bitcoin itself. It's all about the speculation markets.

Really? Nothing to do with Bitcoin? Really?
It seems like most van conversions are optimized to be inconspicuous. It's no schoolie, but a shuttle bus is certainly more eye-catching than an Econoline. Do you have issues blending in or getting additional (unwanted) attention?
Minor correction -- it's only made visible if a trusted user vouches for the comment. "Dead" comments cannot be voted on or replied to.
Addressed in the DF posts. The new pencil requires a flat sided device and wireless charging rig which the Mini doesn’t have, probably due to cost issues. There’s also the matter of product differentiation.
For a few months when things were very hectic (birth of our second child, recent job change, learning 2 new programming languages, volunteer planning a local BarCamp, wife’s birthday, wedding anniversary, and probably other things I’ve forgotten) I put EVERYTHING on my calendar, including sleep time, eat time, family time, study time, etc. Every minute of my day was captured on my calendar. It helped me timebox things and get stuff done during a hectic, busy time, but it’s a useful technique even if you’re not experiencing an especially hectic and busy time.
Thanks. I know what SEO is, the word "scraping" confused me, because it usually refers to people scraping the pages of various services.
> has awesome support for concurrency

so does rust.

> Rust - replacement C/C++ as the low-level programming language of the future for people who want to write pretty code.

It's not just that, it also replaces say python or ruby on the serverside.

> write pretty code.

Yeah, no, it's for people who want to be productive in a low level language.
I left when the writing was on the wall; it took another 4 years for them to pull the plug on the rest of the (UK) group, because the slow-erosion strategy wasn't working quickly enough; but they were given a pretty fair treatment, by all accounts.

Oracle is a massive company, even with trade unions here in Europe. They will not screw you over, as long as you agree that their first and foremost priority is their bank account and act accordingly.
Carbon Engineering gets $68M for ‘negative emissions’ carbon capture tech
I think its some weird wordpress script for emojis (wp-emoji-release.min.js), since I'm finding articles on taking it out of your own sites that mention render-blocking
> But in this case, the certification process was seen as too expensive.

Not just that, but also pilots would need new training if it were a new type certificate. This was a huge marketing advantage for Boeing because their end customers could avoid the cost of re-training their pilots on a new airplane.
Because you don't want to go meet drug dealers in an alley.
What about this then? https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=p...

It maps closely to Instagram's steady rise, and Snapchat's slow demise.
It’s happy and well, being the main source of rendering in most of my live apps.
Mueller Just Filed His Report. What Happens Next?
What does it say about Bitcoin or cryptocurrency?

To me it shows that:
1) Anyone can start an exchange (unregulated market)
2) Some exchanges are shady and untrustworthy

It's not that "most transactions are fake volume". Its that if you aggregate the data, you include a lot of bad data.
Some people want to improve their skills, others don't.
> The CS graduation ratio is just as bad.

If the industry were either actually or even merely perceived as systematically unfavorable to women, a natural consequence would be women being less likely to pursue education focussed on the field in preference to other fields that were less unfavorable.
Building megasocieties didn’t require divine intervention, study says
The problem is that "being 100% in the right" doesn't seem to be their goal, not even a secondary one.
Once you add the "reset password using phone number" feature, as many sites do, you go from multi-factor to SINGLE factor for MANY websites.

And that's a factor you don't have complete control over and once you lose, you lose forever.

The best part? Right, you can lose your phone number if you lose your phone, because T-Mobile allows one to reset their account via SMS.

You can lose your phone number if you misstep just once. My mom got one of those scam calls from people pretending to be customer service. They asked her to read off the numbers from an SMS to verify her identity, and she did.

She got lucky because the account is in my name. Otherwise, the scammers would have had complete control over all lines. They'd have transferred it to themselves, amd used that to take over ALL other accounts.

And that has happened many thousands of times:

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gy8bxy/t-mobile-t...
Cars don't poop.
RIP Mrdocs (1963–2019)
From my Latin American perspective, I'd say it's due to way less disposable income in emerging markets and less of a consumerism mindset.

America has the benefit of decades of intense consumerist propaganda to fend off the evil reds, while the biggest emerging markets are often very vocally against "Capitalism" (even if they would all love to own iPhones)
>The FAA is underfunded to do their job properly.

That's not an excuse to rubber stamp a design.
How does it manage to rank so well? I'm not a user of it but whenever it appears in searches it feels like endless popups and walled content that tries to make you sign up. I would have thought Google would discourage links like this.
SSR for the purposes of SEO can be achieved in a simpler way, without complicating your whole app to support SSR.

Just pre-render the page in headless chromium / puppeteer when a search engine bot requests it and return the resulting html.
I would argue that the problem with the MacBook line currently is that there's not enough segmentation. The 13" non-Touchbar MacBook Pro and the new Air are confusingly similar, the 12" MacBook seems like it was supposed to have replaced the Air but is now just hanging around shuffling its feet awkwardly, the old non-retina Air is also still hanging around just so they can say they have a laptop for $999, etc.

The iPad lineup to me doesn't seem particularly confusing at all, other than perhaps the naming. There's pretty clear differentiation across the products and price points. I'll be honest, I think some of your questions are deliberately overstated; I think Apple expects "non-tech people" aren't ripping their hair out over the difference between Lighting and USB-C, because they look at the charging cable that came with their new iThing and can pretty easily figure out which end goes into the iThing and which end goes into the wall socket. Most people don't connect their iPads to their MacBooks. Most people shrug at the weird naming. These are mostly tech pundit problems. I would love it if the MacBook lineup could be as clear and non-stupid as the iPad lineup again.

I think it's appropriate to ask whether this would've happened under Steve.

There are certainly things Apple has done in the last five years that make me ask that question, from the Touchbar to the butterfly keyboard to the way iOS's text editing controls, especially with external keyboards, are still shit compared to the Mac after nearly a decade. "But the Air is thicker!" is...just not one of them.
Or best use Monero for any (ideally legal) purchases you don't want public.
What about the idiotic policy of requiring you to use an E-mail address as your user ID?

Apple is going BACKWARD on this amateur-hour practice, now requiring your Apple ID not only to be an E-mail address... but a WORKING one.

Stupid: https://goldmanosi.blogspot.com/2012/06/forcing-people-to-us...
Of course. If a man and a women apply for the same primary school teacher position with the same skill level, they will hire the man.
>There has been extensive research on vaccines in the major scientific literature,

You should probably look into said "research" and see who actually funded it. Finding research that was not directly funded by a pharmaceutical is quite rare.
How the car industry hid the truth about diesel emissions
I think this is a major enough event in the news that something like this should be allowed.
I've started heavily using Nomad recently and it's a real joy. Adding things in is just so easy because it doesn't do much and (mostly) everything is very well defined. I cannot suggest it highly enough.

An example is I setup a log pipeline recently spanning multiple data centers with full mTLS. It wasn't that hard and thanks to Vault all the certs are refreshed at regular intervals all over the place. Pretty great!
> they couldn't stretch the landing gear and keep the type certification.

They couldn't stretch the main gear because then it could not have properly retracted into the fuselage. They were able to extend the nose gear a few inches and still allow it to retract.
Just read their patch notes, Discord is like that

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/discord/id985746746?mt=8

>- GIFV autoplay now supported. Is it pronounced GIF-Vh or GIF-Vee? Don't get me started on how to pronounce the G.

>- Added a fancy, in-line upload progress indicator for attachments. No more wondering if your images got lost in the void. We brought the void to you.

>- Fixed a bug where fresh app installs messed with invite codes. Step into a new server from your freshly-installed app like leaving that first footprint the morning after a snowstorm. cronch

>- Add, delete, and edit emojis directly from mobile. Organize your memes like a well-kept spice rack.

etc.
The story looks different (albeit short of YoY +60%) if you look at Trends for Image Search: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all_2008&geo=U...
It's not just white men it's also Asian men.

And you raise a good point. The acceptability of "learn to code" when it was directed at laid off coal miners, but sudden shift to unacceptability when it was directed at journalists is extremely hypocritical. White male coal miners who went to a boot camp would have their resumes rejected on the basis of their race and gender. The same would happen to many journalists, but a substantially larger portion of journalists belong to demographics from which we do give a chance at interviewing when they come from boot camps.
> It would be nice if they open sourced it.

King was notorious for running popup ads and app-store redirects for years. I don't think this is in their DNA.
Where it has been an issue in the past is iOS upgrades- part of the reason that older iPads 'slow down' is the baseline RAM starts to be consumed as the OS gets more resource hungry.

Also with the new multitasking features added in recent releases, additional memory becomes a bigger feature add.
Why do people pay so much for Berkshire Hathaway shares, despite their declared intention not to pay dividends?

I trust that they still want to increase their enterprise value.
Here’s my favorite success story about Rust on lambda: https://andre.arko.net/2018/10/25/parsing-logs-230x-faster-w...

This is before they offered official support though. Here’s the announcement for that, which links to resources: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/rust-runtime-for-aws...
This is pretty slow though right? Those speed penalties will impact your google search ranking.