skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Am I honestly supposed to believe they achieved this without employing discriminatory hiring practices? The demographics of people applying for jobs in this industry is so far from 50% that I’m extremely skeptical of this. Although with a certain amount of effort I’m sure they simply reduce the number of male applicants. Personally I’d be reluctant to apply somewhere that had this stance on diversity because it seems more likely I’d get crucified for some micro aggression I didn’t commit if I ever pissed anyone off.

I mean I get there’s this whole meme of “reverse discrimination” not existing or being possible because of systemic whatever the fuck, but considering I’ve only been in this industry for six years and I’ve already seen blatant and concrete examples of this behavior that went entirely unpunished, I think it’s ridiculous that people treat you like some kind of fascist for even disagreeing with it. I’m not okay with sacrificing basic principles of equality or human decency in the pursuit of more ideal outcomes.
Feel free to continue to psychologically comfort yourself in a thick blanket of hubris. Whatever you need to do. It won't change anything back here in reality.
What is the figure for New Orleans specifically? Looking at the entire state isn’t terribly informative.
> What we’ve learned from seven years of working to make RC 50% women, trans, and non-binary

> Minimize bias and evaluate everyone on the same admissions criteria

These seem at odds.
Thanks for coming to hackernews to push your anti asylum narrative. Great and relevant contribution to the discussion.
For me, I find this is more about fear/dread. I don't procrastinate on social media when I'm doing something well.

You'll have to find a way past that fear. You can:

1. Be braver - admit you're afraid and do it anyway.

2. Find the root cause of fear. Maybe you've dealt with too many death marches. Maybe you don't feel like you can meet your expectations. Just admitting it can make it go away.

3. Plan it out in a way that nobody can screw it up, not even you.
til! Most of my experience with large, single-repository projects are just plain monoliths. The design goal we strive for tends to be the microservice architecture, assuming that isolation of responsibility leads to more maintainability, better decision making, etc. I can see how, with a well disciplined team, the monorepo could have the best of both worlds.
And they really should, but on the other hand, as a population they pay enough in taxes to the federal government that it's not ridiculous for them to ask for some federal assistance with something like that.

(it's also not ridiculous for a major cultural landmark like New Orleans, but that's a more complicated argument)
What kinds of things do you make?
Do you work with hemp companies?
Outlander (2008)?
Took a quick breeze though the intro and maybe missed it...

Where's the love for IoT DIY/tinkerer gadgets though? i.e. Arduino, Beagle bone, ESP8266/32?
Good - they should make money. If you enjoy the service, you should be paying for it right?
It's nonsense. There was no paid option that affected the use of the second sensor.
>Amsterdam is currently 2 meters below sea level alread

Small parts of Amsterdam are that low. Most of the city is above sea level and the main parts are several to 10s of meters higher.
> Hundreds of millions of dollars is barely a blip on the federal government's budget.

That doesn’t mean that’s how it should be.

When you listen to old radio, you get the impression people actually cared about how money was spent and didn’t casually write off millions of dollars, just because “that’s the budget.” Why are people these days willing to let the government drop millions of dollars so casually?

Take for example this episode of Johnny Dollar: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PXa86HJ49iE (1956). The way the people in this episode are pissed off about their money being wasted, you’d think it was some other country.

When did people become OK with wasting money like this?
A big difference now is the ease of mobility. A catastrophe in equatorial Africa a thousand years ago didn’t result in mass migration to Southern Africa. A catastrophe today will result in massive mobilization from one locale to another. The only example I can think of of mass migration was the steppes peoples but even that wasn’t that quick to happen.
If you believe climate change is going to lead to complete societal collapse, your primary policy remedies are 1) geoengineering, or 2) nuking some combination of India and China (a subset of option 1, but practical with existing tech). However, almost every global warming proponent advocates deindustrializing the west and moving production to vastly less efficient areas overseas.

Why does this discrepancy persist?
Have an undergraduate in physics and masters in applied math. It's odd how development and the occasional bit of analysis is not too fulfilling. Maybe it's the lack of intellectual challenge?
Whatever you want to call a metro area of over a million people with a GDP approaching $80 billion, a few hundred million to protect it seems cheap.
In some cases interviews are so short that you cannot even show any of these evidence
I remember watching a TED talk by Dan Gilbert in which he claimed that there was research showing that tending houseplants improved mood (and extended lifespans, I think?) for elderly nursing home residents, but also that the longevity benefits were reversed after the houseplants were taken away?

I'm very fuzzy on the details, but in retrospect, it sounds like a bit of a cruel experiment to conduct.
The Netherlands has always been sinking. They just don't seem to care and just keep making more of it. Here's their latest plans - https://www.thestructuralengineer.info/news-center/news/item...
Refused visas for conference presentations is kind of an old story; I can recall incidents from back in the Bush II era. My guess (uninformed) is that the concerns are about the distinction between visiting for tourism and coming here to perform work, especially since the advice I've seen given at some events is to avoid any mention of the conference when entering the country.
What strikes me most about this article is how the author only sees these comments as personal slights and not as the social hooks they are (probably mostly) intended to be. It's a common way to strike up a conversation by latching on to an interesting fact and instead of responding with humor or grace.

Saying a "school in New England" might solve the temporary problem of awkwardness, but it really throws away a chance to connect with people or to stand out positively for something rightfully earned. This is a lack of deft social skills and being uncomfortable in your own skin.
Sorry but this is getting silly. You dont get to claim scientific basis without being able to demonstrate your conclusions. This is speculation not actually scientifically demonstrated.
I'll coin a term for you which describes exactly _why_ people build _everything_ on _any_ technology. Buzzword masturbation.
what if he had the opportunity, just in a different sport that didn't damage people?

Soccer players the world over come from poor backgrounds to earn riches playing sport. Soccer has its flaws, but its not on the same level of dangerous. A fairly simple switch from American Football to What-the-rest-of-the-world-calls Football.

You could buy a different season ticket and be part of that change...
Cool clone, but we all know that Giana Sisters is the original game.
Do some cities have more alleys, vacant lots, river banks etc. than others? Most of us wouldn't notice if people are pooping down by the river.
> 2) nuking some combination of India and China

No one is advocating for #2 or anything like it because it's a completely incompetent and reprehensible idea.
Good for him. However, the wind has already turned eastward. Given the insanity in US immigration policy and xenophobia among the public, talents are going back to their original countries in flocks. Check out top 20 most valuable startups in the world - used to be 100% American and now half[ref] are foreign owned.

edit ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unicorn_startup_compan...
That’s true, but this is from the readme

> VSP (VARIABLE SCREEN POSITIONING)

> This port relies on the VSP-technique for scrolling. If you experience crashes while playing the game, this is most likely the issue. You may find out if your computer is prone to crashing by running VSP Lab.

I don’t know anything about the C64, but it sounds like scrolling the screen in this case wasn’t easy at all, if it required a technique that outright crashes on some C64s.
> moving production to vastly less efficient areas overseas

As a staunch, lifelong environmentalist, I am astounded to hear such advocacy attributed to my milieu: this is the first I am hearing of it.

How did you come to this belief about the climate-concern platform?

Edit: the closest sentiment I could find in the OP was this:

> Examples include withdrawing
from coastlines, shutting down vulnerable industrial facilities, or giving up expectations for certain types of consumption. The third area can be called “restoration.” It involves people and communities rediscovering attitudes and approaches to life and organisation that our hydrocarbon-fuelled civilisation eroded. Examples include re-wilding landscapes, so they provide more ecological benefits and require less management, changing diets back to match the seasons, rediscovering non-electronically powered forms of play, and increased community-level productivity and support.
Hmmm, I think you're into something aside from the shitty jab. Tenacity definitely plays an important role in success. This person had to deal with a system that judged him unfairly and that probably helped him to built resilience for other situations where his ventures received the same scrutiny and rejections.
I think you're covered by the parent's "besides learning to code" caveat. That's a real smooth career transition, I did it as well as a ton of friends who had the same background. ML is a particularly good fit because physics majors just LOL at the "difficult" math that trips everyone else up.
Mass migration over time though. Not civilization ending.

You should be more concerned about a meteor or giant vulcanic eruption than catastrophic climate change.
Better than letting human society collapse though. If that’s what you really believe will happen.
Your first sentence is a logical fallacy (your second clause does not follow from the first) and casually introduces the topic of intentional murder and genocide of billions of people. You're the first to bring that suggestion up, but you attribute the idea to non-existent 'others'. Your next sentence is also a logical fallacy and AFAIK is simply untrue: "almost every...decentralizing the west"? I've never heard of any such proposals. This is no way to have any kind of reasonable discussion.
How is this not scary?
Dealing with climate change is a really important thing. It’s also a thing that scratches the itch of authoritarians and moralizers. (Right cause for the wrong reasons.) I suspect that’s why conservation and population control get so much more attention than say nuclear power or genetic engineering of agriculture.
Evidence please.
> I did not mean to imply that you can attach a clock on a photon.

The issue isn't that you can't attach a clock to a photon in a practical sense. The issue is that even in principle, the concept of "the clock of a photon" is not well-defined. For it to be well-defined, there would need to be an inertial frame in which a photon was at rest. But that is impossible.
I have no idea of who espouses option no. 2. No sane person thinks that.

One important issue I do not see, is population stabilization in places where growth is unsustainable.
The sumo comparison is quite apt, and also present in rugby, at least in scrum situations. OTOH, in rugby passing forward is prohibited. Not so in ultimate or football, where passing forward is a defining characteristic of the game.
To be clear, KaiOS was not rebranded; it was forked, closed sourced and further developed -- mostly to work with touch-less, feature phones. Mozilla is neither maintaining nor associated with it in any way.
Tiny plastic pieces are now being detected in the air
So? At this rate they will need another $14B soon.
Is ending up as a SWE prestigious?
I think most programs admit and accept the physical risks of physical sports. Brain trauma is less understood than something like a knee injury, but that's exactly why these studies need to continue to gather data. We can continue to improve safety during play, detection of damage, and treatment after injury.

Anecdotally, most youth leagues I see for contact sports have changed their rules to better protect the players. I would be against any legislation doing the same for adults who are informed of the risk.

What other actions would you propose?
Painless Puppeteer Debugging
There is intermediate possibility, the pilot does not have to be on the plane. We already fly drones remotely.
While it’s not originally made to be a malicious tool or intended for malicious use, it’s definitely still a tool a malicious “hacker” in the commonly used sense of the word could use.

It’s still a damn handy HTTP proxy for MITM to decrypt SSL traffic, for example. This allows one to closely inspect how a site’s authentication mechanism is implemented, among other things. I still use it today occasionally to try and understand how a given API or site feature is working/implemented based on the raw HTTP requests. You can also use it to try and replay HTTP requests with modified payloads too, as another example. There’s loads of hacking related activities Fiddler can be handy for!

Fiddler’s entire purpose is arguably to intercept, modify and replay HTTP/HTTPS traffic. Many debugging tools like this can also be used nefariously. If I needed to try and poke for vulnerabilities, a debugging proxy like Fiddler is absolutely something I would put in my toolkit. There’s no shortage of tutorials on google for using Fiddler to try and hack websites either.
> Poorer families have less structure

What? Citation needed.

I totally grant your conclusion that there are big obstacles to academic success for kids growing up in poverty, but, if what you mean what I think you mean, that's a wrong basis for that conclusion.
It gives you an immutable record of what happened, which becomes more useful as anti-cheating measures improve
Usually little tools for my own use. Lots of times they're things that already have good alternatives, but I wanted to see what I'd come up with - weather script, a show-me-my-router's-IP script, bash version of the mark/jump utility I've seen for zsh and fish shell. I got into making autoclickers for a while and signed up for a bunch of browser-based idle games, just to see if I could manage to control an autoclicker with Perl.

For me it seems to be more about seeing if I can do something I haven't done before, or if I can make something that I personally like, than trying to make something that anybody else would find particularly useful.
Blockchain is that software that doesn't let anyone cheat in a P2P architecture. If you have another option please tell.
Corruption. Our political-economic systems favor a tiny fabulously wealthy minority who care not a whit for the long term survival of the planet, so long as they get to enjoy the narcotic high of lording over their fellow human beings during their short lives.
That cannot be the logical follow-through. A collapsing society can do its best to recover - a nuked and destroyed, murdered wasteland cannot.

Climate-precipitated societal collapse is surely preferable to all over a large-scale nuclear war that is suggested to have been unilaterally invoked, tantamount to murder of billions and multiple genocides. That kind of 'solution' has no place in reasonable discourse about climate change mitigation or adaptation.
I think their inference is that by proposing higher (pollution kerbing) standards for already industrialized nations versus developing economies, one is virtually doing just that.
The pseudonym thing seems like a good idea even when not concerned about leaking demographic information, as people often have different associations with names.

Sometimes there's an article on the issue (example [1]), but just in general, "Bob Hart" might have a slightly different feeling from "Alexander Montgomery".

[1]: https://www.success.com/10-ways-your-name-affects-your-life/
> Send this address to your opponent for invitation:

How?

> Transfer tokens to this address or fund this address from the main faucet.

How?
“A simple, free and powerful way to manage your team's recurring checklists and procedures“ https://www.process.st/ Paid features include 3rd party integrations. (Disclaimer: neither a customer nor employee of the company.)
There is one and only one skill besides having good aesthetics i look for in a designer. The ability to think.
There's not a lot of great data from that time period, but another potential example is the bronze age collapse which was in part caused by a mass migration of "the sea peoples" into the great empires of the time.

The societal collapse so great that we forgot and had to reinvent writing after it had existed for millennia.
> …I could see the fun and value in an immutable and distributed record of a board game.

Blockchains are mutation-resistant, but not immutable. For example, here's the cost of performing one-hour "51% attack" on various PoW-based blockchains: https://www.crypto51.app/

Because of the relatively small audience that would dedicate their computers to running this vendor's blockchain 24/7, the cost of brute-force attacking this game's blockchain would likely be much lower than any of those. That assumes the software running on each node was unhackable, which would potentially make it much easier to alter or destroy.

> Cheating would be very hard…

At best, a distributed solution doesn't make cheating more difficult. Depending on how it's implemented, a distributed solution can make cheating and other abuse much easier (the idea of community managers banning bad actors isn't a thing, etc.).
POTUS is FOR high-skilled immigration, despite the "xenophobia" claims in this thread. Republicans in general support visas for high-skilled immigration while Democrats support more broad-based immigration.
> > imagine some nice dirt-loving wasps have built nests in all of your pitot tubes

> All of them? And I didn't notice any of them during preflight? And none of them were there on the previous flight? And I didn't notice that the airspeed was not alive on the takeoff roll? Not going to happen.

You underestimate the abilities of people to fuck things up. Birgenair Flight 301 - one tube blocked by mud dauber wasp, leading to crash. [0] Later that year was the crash of Aeroperú Flight 603 - the static ports were covered with tape, which was never realized by the pilots. [1] (They continued flying as if their altitude and airspeed readings were accurate)

> > or they've iced over

> Again, pretty freakin' unlikely on takeoff flying out of Addis Ababa. And this is another thing a pilot can rule out by looking out of the window. If you're not in clouds, you're not picking up ice.

> Also, there are OAT (outside air temperature) sensors.

Not applicable in this instance, sure. But "are there clouds around" isn't something I'd expect the flight computer to be able to reliably detect, and that's what would have to make the decision here.

> > your engines to have failed

> Another thing that would be pretty apparent to the pilots.

I'd agree that it SHOULD be.

> No matter how you slice it, Boeing screwed the pooch bigly.

Yep. But there's still more complexity here than people seem to want to acknowledge.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birgenair_Flight_301

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroper%C3%BA_Flight_603
A new internet - decentralized to prevent all the walled gardens
> it's a terrible way to distribute wealth. But it is a way that currently exists. Do we take it away without a replacement?

I think that's a false choice. Without the massive cost sports programs, it's possible (not a given--there's an argument to be made that sports programs attract more money than they spend) that many freed-up resources could be dedicated to helping underprivileged people achieve academic and career success.

Also, there's a strong possibility that wealth-redistribution-via-sports-programs (which I'm not convinced is statistically significant, but whatever) is offset or surpassed by the severe health problems faced by redistribution-beneficiaries who end up with brain injuries.
A Better Way to Die?
It’s a legit strategy. I’ve heard it called a “honeypot”
That is like a description of life on earth as well.

Life on earth has so far been successful in sustaining its presence on this small planet for almost 4B years right now...
Poll: Church membership in US plummets over past 20 years
Yes, when it comes to this sort of sensitive information, there is such a thing as an internal leak. We've had PCI-compliance to ensure companies handle credit card information properly. Then we have GDPR and similar laws for personally identifying information.

Access to account credentials for a large social media platform definitely falls into the sensitive & personally-identifying category.
3 links. One is pure opinion saying social media is important, another saying it's not, and one is a survey saying that having social media can help or hurt your application, which explicitly contradicts it's own reporting. That adds up to nothing.
Well, it's a learning center, not hiring, so I imagine they probably can get away with things that employers could not get away with.
What I've seen in most companies is that when a test goes bad (imagine 10k unit tests, and 1 hits stripe's api sandbox which just went down) the bad test affects everybody who's busy working on their respective feature branches. Everybody wonders how their feature branch broke the stripe integration and you have hundreds of developers trying to diagnose and fix the same broken test.

Our solution allows the someone to know the test failed because its flaking out immediately as soon as it flakes, and provides a 1 click option to instantly disable that test across all feature branches so that everybody else can continue working undisturbed.

Without something like this, you have to:
1) Create a new feature branch
2) Commented out the broken test
3) Wait for it to pass CI
4) Gain approvals as needed
5) Merge the PR back to the master line
6) Message everybody to let them know the test was removed and they should rebase

The process above is sort of the industry standard and this means a giant loss in productivity for everybody on your team and is especially painful for monolith codebases.

Companies where I've worked easily hemorrhage $1m per year on this problem in terms of developer productivity losses if you consider the number of hours wasted per year.