skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of companies that I've worked for have been completely dominated by internal politics and rivalries, at the expense of delivering a good product to the end-customer. Lately though those 'natural' politics have shifted to virtue signalling at the expense of junior and new employees. The end-product and vision of the customer is even further away.

“Those who traditionally face diminished labor market opportunities are more entrepreneurial and start their own business, or work alternative arrangements at significantly higher rates. The median small business owner is an immigrant who opened a nail salon because they couldn’t seem to get employed with anyone and start with their level of skill.”

Which is exactly what is happening to young white men now - discrimination due to affirmative action and diversity quotas. Which is senseless, because white (and Asian) men have achieved their greater representation in professional roles due to hard work and intelligence (partly hereditary). SAT scores bear that out:

https://i1.wp.com/www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/...

Professional employment often doesn't make sense because you cannot optimise your taxes. If I run my own business I can charge my home/office expenses, phone, overseas business travel, car, computer, broadband, etc. to the company.

"“The scourge of having men with flexible jobs may turn into a real opportunity of fathers with flexible jobs,” he adds."

A father cannot get pregnant, give birth, or breastfeed. Women are naturally more nurturing and fundamentally better suited to taking care of infants. If we want more women in the workforce, we need free childcare, including childcare very close to workplaces.

There are also many studies showing that women find men who are less successful than them less attractive. So I think instead of seeing more woman-dominated families, we will simply see fewer families, and more resentful old men and lonely old women.

The workplace and families have worked successfully for thousands of years and this social experiment, which seems to be enforced by the radical left without public input or widespread agreement, is undertaken at our peril.
Ha! You’re right. Wrong article.
been thinking about doing this for a while
> She's "not technical", which means she's a librarian instead of a software engineer

Funnily enough, librarians are some of the most computer-savvy people I know. I wouldn't be surprised if your mother's "librarian training" of recognizing bad information and tracking down good sources is a big part of what makes her that good at navigating the net.
It's wild that neither this article nor the research paper it's based off of seems to define the absolute dollar value of those quantile cutpoints.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/feds/files/2019017pap...
It is not a claim. It is fact. I know guys at so many federal contractors (all very good at what they do).
Every last one reports to a woman who is still working on her degree and can't do the work. Middle management is the obvious place for diversity hires.
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I scared them a lot initially (run away from exes, read all the things, never press next without reading), told them to Google everything before asking and a little bit of shouting to them. Also did a lot of explaining to them of what the green lock means, incognito, email attachments, etc. (essentially, that they are never safe online).

From my side I made sure all their browsers had ad-blockers. Also tried Ubuntu with them, but they preferred windows.

Few years later, my mom can now boot into Ubuntu if a family computer has a blue screen many times and run a hardware check and tells everyone, "google it!" when they ask her for questions. They also are way more confident now and don't fall for as many shit as before. I mean, they used to copy shortcuts to floppies, thinking they copied the whole program, and got scared of ads that the FBI was watching them, and that they had to pay.

Parents are 60 something, so I guess its never too late to teach them. In contrast however, my younger aunts are unteachable, like bricks, so it really depends on the character as well.
And to solve hunger the best solution is to be able to eat. Yes.
The average wealth is the 84th percentile wealth. If everyone became worth $677k, 84% of people would be better off (inflation aside).
Why do you care a video is embedded?

If it autoplays, fix your web browser. No modern browser autoplays video anymore.
Corrections:

> it's rare for someone to be prosecuted for ransomware.

Because of the choice between prison time with blackmail and other dirty deeds or working on the 3-letter organization. Russian law enforcement agencies are large criminal organizations themselves.

> Malware writers and organized crime rings form a loose network with Kremlin officials.

Those form a very tight network, former also with Lubyanka officials (location of FSB HQ).
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> But sunk cost fallacy is a real thing.

The fallacy is a real thing, but that doesn't mean that it is always applicable. Decisions are based on many factors and most of the time, "We've invested a lot of money into this" isn't the only one on the table, even if it is the only one they are saying out loud.
Oh please. Spare the virtue signaling.

There is nothing noble in pushing for equality of outcome.

No problem of lack of diversity will be solved without dragging down or discriminating against some demographic of society without a full commitment to equality of opportunity.

The myopia involved with being suckered into accepting discrimination against one group to the benefit of another being an acceptable approach demonstrates a lack of commitment to understanding the forces actually at work in the world.

Diversity or lack thereof isn't the problem. Equivalent access to the foundational necessities that facilitate successful integration into, and the ability to further develop and meaningfully contribute to the ends of, society's perpetuation and advancement with minimal accidental systemic compulsion is the problem.

Diversity is just the "bread and circuses" perversion that slows down any meaningful attempt at the former due to some mistaken impression that undoing an injustice must involve a new injustice being committed.

Two wrongs a right does not make.
It is slow, but it works fine. It even detects using xterm with 209x75, with ASCII character set, and allows overriding them if the auto-detection doesn't work (I don't know what other possibilities are supported; maybe PC character set with DOS ANSI.SYS? and presumably also shellinabox, which I have not tried). They support both by telephone and internet; I didn't know they still did that. Also, the menu does not resemble the picture in the web page.
From what I remember of the 56kpbs days it def took longer than 7 minutes to d/l 1.44mb
Opening more polling place will increase the number of voters, but I'm afraid won't increase the quality: new stream of voters will be as prone to demagoguery and rhetorics as existing ones.
The problem is I am on Mac ecosystem, which means I don't have much of a choice ( I doubt Apple will ever switch to AMD ) . And since most of my casual gaming are done on mobile, ( I am quite old and don't have time like I used to spent hours on UO or WoW ), none of these upgrade means anything to me. So my interest is in Servers where most of my time are spent now in Web Development.
You mean audio from from two sources at once? I didn't realize that was a feature. That's wild but I'm not going to install and use an app for just that feature.

My headphones will sometimes automatically switch between sources when it recognizes I'm using another device. Like when I'm listening to music on my PC, if I start browsing my phone I'll start heading audio from it instead.
Piracy exactly is theft. You prefer being called a pirate to being called a thief. You realize pirates are thieves right?

Is called piracy because it's theft.
The veteran one is the only one deliberately biasing things away from neutral. And shouldn't neutral total bias be the goal?

Fighting bias with bias is not as good as fixing root causes, but it works in more places.
Maybe iPhones and flagship androids are considered luxury items, but is the $40 Tracphone from 7-11 really a luxury item?

Or maybe it’s that anyone without a contact number and internet connection is at a huge disadvantage in our society in 2019?
Their design for 10nm and the implementation didn't line up. Whatever their (still undisclosed) problems were, the entire node was fundamentally flawed.

It might have been hubris at having been at the cutting edge of fab tech for so long. It could have just been the fruits of pushing the envelope - sometimes what you predict will happen when you put theory to application proves false.

It has warped their business heavily for 4+ years now, but in the same way AMD had to "get their act together" with their processor design after Bulldozer failed spectacularly in practice and took ~7 years to fix it companies at these scales cannot turn on a dime - Intel had their roadmap planned a decade in advance, and to have it so thoroughly trashed starting around ~2015-2016 will require until at least 2021 to correct in all likelihood.
Mobile is the foot rub. (Autocorrect of "mobile is the future" I saw once.)
I have 9900k binned for 5.1Ghz all core. Absolutely brilliant CPU. I wish there was 16 core version though.
What makes Samsung phones consumer hostile? Their ridiculous prices? Because I wouldn't call that hostile, rather simply overpriced. And I would agree that they are.

However, I still have every galaxy note I have ever owned, working, and in great condition (Note 2, 5, and now 8). My dad is actually using the 5. All of them got upgraded at least once to a newer Android OS and they are still solid devices.

Granted, other than Note, I've only owned a Startosphere for the hw keyboard, so I can't compare it to others, but even after I realized that the Note 8 was crazy expensive and made me double think what my next phone will be, I worry if the longevity can be matched.
That is true, but people in the 90th, and 95th and sometimes the 99th percentiles still complain about how oppressed they are because billionaires exist.
FYI: die Linke is what remained of the former DDR ruling party. Today they are "THE left party" in Germany The MLPD is...well weird but they have wealthy supporters so they've been there quite a while now.

> Is it because they weren't able to defend themselves?

No, it's because they did not run a state. Running a state is the whole thing. Sure protecting your borders is one thing but: economy, law, diplomacy, etc. you know, all the stuff you do as a country if you exist long enough.

What the anarchists did (and yes, I think there is a huge difference if you are an anarchist or someone who calls himself socialist) is something that already works on small scale in several projects or small regions. If this works out on a country-scale remains unproven yet.
Not only is this shifting the goal posts, it’s also whataboutism.

This is a distraction from the problem of wealth concentration and lack of mobility in the United States by saying: Yeah, well, you’re richer than the Haitians, so quit whining. Being part of the largest economy in the world, I would certainly hope the poorest in my country, would be better off than the those in the least developed country in the Western Hemisphere.
Intel was ahead, and hit the wall first. Apple & AMD are not ahead, they're just catching up. I don't want to understate how big a problem that could be for Intel, of course. But they're also doing it on low margin parts, and Intel continues to make bank with their data center parts.

I don't think any of this represents a short-term problem for Intel, other than the general downturn in processor sales because fewer people will need to upgrade. But I think it represents a very serious long-term threat.

They have some really cool technical advances, like 3D xpoint. But I'm concerned that they do so badly on embedded and custom integration from a long-term perspective.
> Can't speak to your case, but the reality is that most SW engineering principles are opinions and not facts - even simple ones like whether we should expend effort on making code more readable.

Winner winner, chicken dinner.

Some of these things COULD one day be facts, but essentially no one has done the research to determine the fact form of the opinion.

"In code of type X maintained like Y, structure Z has been identified to cause a higher defect rate and increased lifetime maintenance costs compared to ZZ" could be a true fact, but seldom do we have any results from rigorous study.

Consistency certainly appears very useful, so appealing to some authorities opinion just to get a consistent outcome is probably a reasonable thing to do in many cases. Unfortunately, many people argue for these opinions by first confusing them for facts and defending them as such.

We'd often be better off-- in matters of code style or similar-- if teams were more ready to use and accept arguments of the form "that as far as anyone knows option X is at least as good, objectively speaking, as anything other option and for consistency sake we might as well adopt it since {our industry, our team's most prolific reviewer, our existing codebase, etc.} prefers it".
Ask HN: Dentist looking to switch to software engineering. Any tips?
I'm a 34-year-old dentist that is looking to completely switch careers to software. It is not because of the pay, it's just that I don't enjoy my job and I've always been fascinated with computers. I have saved up for two years' worth of living expenses and some extra savings to pay for schools or bootcamps. What do you recommend? Any books, schools, bootcamps?
Thanks.
Correct. Going fully under would be general anesthesia, as opposed to deep sedation, which the paper describes. Propofol can be used for both purposes.
My family went on a car trip that went from the Midwest to California and back. Compared to Oklahoma, California's fuel is about twice as expensive.

I'm going to guess that Cali's 1-minute cost is more around $1.
Is the "little tutorial" available somewhere? I'd be interested in working through it.
the horrible contortions listed on the linked page are required for the pathological "some of the targets that are built together got deleted, but the primary one did not" case, which in my experience Does Not Happen (or when it does, it is a symptom of deeply suspect practices -- like shitting where you ea^W^W^W^Wkeeping build artifacts and sources in the same directory, or relying on manually deleting artifacts to force a rebuild instead of getting the bloody dependencies right in the first place, etc.)
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I'll keep HT on because I use NoScript and I encourage others to do the same.
That's a complete non-sequitur. Your question was:

> Which exact voting rights are missing at the moment?

And the answer, as reported in various places, is that the right to vote is for all intents and purposes non-existent for people in certain areas. Voter disenfranchisement is a real and documented thing. Polling places are shutting down, which puts an undue burden on people who don't have the luxury of taking the day off or getting out of work early.

You might appreciate a tech example: if Facebook doesn't actually remove all of your data, just "deactivating your account" while keeping the data stored on their servers, do you really have the option to opt out of Facebook?
> Given all of this, it's very difficult to interpret this "feature" in a favorable light.

What would you rather they do? They ask for permission for a specific feature and when denied, the feature is turned off. When you try to turn on the feature, it requests access for that feature. It sounds like it works exactly as it should.
I like the palette on the demo!
> Wake up to drink sweet brew every morning, imagine the untold amount of violence that went into that cup

I feel like there was a missed opportunity to transition to Boston Tea Party and American Revolution
I have one constantly pushing 5.1Ghz (disabled speedstep etc. been stable for months). I bought it because there was no comparable AMD cpu and as far as I know AMD is still behind. Why do you think it is not a proper answer?
Isn't scenario 1 equivalent to

3: Alice has 0 seashells. Bob has 1 seashell. Bob owes Alice a seashell.

Once all the accounts are settled by Bob paying Alice the seashell he owes her, it becomes scenario 1, so this seems a better match for scenario 1 than scenario 2 does.
I don't think I've seen anyone simulate the full Starlink constellation including the ~7500 VLEO satellites. For your amusement, here it is: https://youtu.be/bKj4GDNhH0Q

No-one can say that SpaceX lacks ambition.
+1 I have a few hobby apps on the app store that gave had a few thousand downloads. Not a huge sample but generally speaking it's N+ that has the vast majority of users. My apps are fairly standard or are games - most API levels since M seem to basically cover everything I need 99% of the time.

I have no interest AT ALL in the manufacturer of the device.

Fragmentation simply doesn't feel like an issue, at least to me.
You can't make them safe, any more than you can give them a car and make them safe on, say, a freeway. I think a better attitude is to teach them that the internet is a dangerous place, and they should 'drive' defensively.

Get them the simplest device possible. A cheap iPad is great. Preconfigure it to be even simpler (maybe using parental controls), and tell them not to mess with anything. Keep notes for yourself, and be prepared to restore from factory defaults every once in a while when things go weird.

Install as many layers of ad-blocking as possible, whether DNS blacklists, browser filters, etc. Some sites/apps won't function correctly, but rather than try to open holes, just say, 'Sorry, that doesn't work.' Trust me, your folks will just move on to something that does (maybe with your suggestions), and is likely safer.

Buy them a few subscriptions to reputable news sources (a good discussion itself) so they don't have an excuse that they can't pay for decent journalism and so have to pick it up from a Facebook/Youtube algorithm.

If you're up for it, be explicit and direct about them asking you for advice. For example, teach them how to forward an email to you -- or a screenshot or image from another camera -- so you can give them an idea of whether its safe or not.

If they're willing, teach them to use a password manager that creates/saves random passwords. If you can't, at least make sure their important accounts (email, bank, etc.) are adequately secured. I've (mostly) convinced my mom to write down all her passwords on pieces of paper, which are stored in an envelope in a known place in her apartment. It's not perfect, but way better than discovering every password is 'hello123'.

Try to teach them a little about the technology. I don't mean system architecture or code, but the basics of how online economics work (e.g., advertising vs personal data) and what algorithms are (use the analogy of meal recipes). If you discover accessible journalism that is critical of problematic technology (like privacy issues with Facebook), share it with them. I've done this a lot with older/non-tech folks and I've ever met someone who couldn't understand at least the basics.

Don't be afraid to tell them that you feel some technology is bad for them. You'll discover it's actually a relief for them to hear, as mostly what they're going to hear is that all technology is great, and much less about being critical about tech.

Finally, don't push them into any more tech than they truly need. Most non-tech people aren't that interested in exploring tech; they probably aren't going to be the folks downloading apps or plugins and trying random websites just for fun. If they're comfortable walking into their bank and dealing with their accounts in person, let them continue to do that. Even if it costs a little, they're actually better off than you (or someone else) convincing them online banking is 'better.' Don't digitize their lives without a really good reason.

(I'm saying all of the above with the experience of being online for 40+ years, and helping other folks over that whole time. Sadly, it's gotten more difficult.)
You talking about the Update they released some days ago? Or those who are several months old?

Apple released a new one for the newest vulnerability so they didn’t have to reduce the performance of macOS by ~30%.
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If you can manage it, get them set up with a security key for their Gmail and Facebook accounts. You can do this unilaterally for them if it would be overwhelming.

They won't need to use the keys if they stay on the same device all the time, but it will have a big impact on anyone trying to steal their passwords. Instructions here: https://techsolidarity.org/resources/security_key_gmail.htm.
And yet they still have the lion's share of the market. And the money to eventually recover from this as if nothing happened.

Tell me when they have really fallen. Still very far from it.
It probably is worse, because by definition no measure can include hidden wealth.

Hiding wealth is not quite as easy as it once was. Thanks to financial transparency legislation and the pressure the US has mounted on the international banking system, simply dumping money in to a Swiss bank account isn't as effective as it once was.

I'm frankly surprised that such measures were successful in countries that are run largely by and for the wealthy, and they are one of the developments that keeps my customary pessimism about the way the world is heading in check.

Still, the ultra wealthy still have the resources to hire some very smart and creative people to hide their wealth in other ways.
This happened in the PDX area, so... Yeah.
I've asked this question to people that live in china, which is very anecdotal.

In the modern age, it's impossible to keep information out. Any chinese person that left the country has had access to this information, and could have disseminated with virtually no effort.
> For instance, the analog to digital conversion for the game paddles would normally cost at least $25, but is done on the Apple with a single inexpensive timer chip.

I discovered this back in the day when I modified a breakout clone to use keyboard input instead of a paddle (joystick) which I didn't own: The game ran much much much faster, and because I had never ran it using a paddle I didn't realize for quite a while that it wasn't supposed to run that fast, and I thought I was just bad at the game.
He’s basically claiming that latest iOS has higher market share than latest Android version (which may be true), and from that concludes that the rest of the android versions in the market somehow don’t count, so iOS is biggest.

Android has its issues, but “math” like this isn’t the answer. This is drivel, really.

Also: See Wintel for fragmentation. Everywhere in nature and tech diversity is good. But somehow not for mobile phone OSes.