skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"We believe in work/life balance"
...or the closely related...
"We reward quality, not just last minute heroics.

Yeah, right. I'm at employer #12 right now (30+ years in the business) and this has never been true. I've been at startups and big companies, I've built products and services, I've been on the good side and the bad side of this, but it has never been true. Cases where people are rewarded for doing the right thing and avoiding crises are rare. Far more often the rewards go to the people who grind out tons of feature code regardless of quality, and/or to those who pull all-nighters to debug those avoidable problems after they've already bitten a user.

If you're the kind of developer who wants to do The Right Thing, and you want to be rewarded for it, find a company and/or manager who has demonstrably done that. Do as much of it as you can, but don't rely on it to drive raises/promotions. Make sure you also do enough of the "move fast" BS so that you don't get written off before people even think to look at quality or team contributions to decide between you and the person in the next cube.
One of the big challenges with software to detect lies is getting good training data. I would be suspicious of anything that wasn't trained using actual data from the particular domain that it was going to be used in. So maybe the best that can be said for this effort is that for the first few years they should ideally report scores that are actually just random (but not tell the actual border agents this, obviously) until they get enough data to train a reasonable classifier. I wouldn't be surprised if this is what is actually being done.
I understand that you want to unite workers in solidarity (which I think is a good thing!) but I'm not sure if you're hearing that men and women experience issues with bad bosses in very different ways, and the channels through which they can respond are also divergent.

The author of the original post believes that MS under Nadella is starting to turn itself around, but he was rebuffed by the people who would know best who have told him that the entrenched culture of sexism hasn't made as much progress as one would hope. And then the comment you have responded to calls out that quote as especially true.

Your response is to invalidate their experiences by claiming that hey, everybody is going through some stuff. But if you cannot recognise that maybe some less-privileged groups have it worse in some ways, you will find it difficult to find allies among them.
This was a story when it started because it did remind people of the last big financial crisis. But after investigating the underlying reasons, it's just not that interesting. That's why the media "snoozes". This time it's not a crisis.
> If someone across the street (or across an ocean) is selling the same product for less money it's perfectly fine to buy it from them instead.

The people across the ocean in this instance are working obscene hours under deplorable conditions. When you take your business to these overseas firms you are effectively telling your local workers "these are the conditions I think you ought to be working under."

Except it's even worse because you don't have the stones to say it to their face.
Perot was right. He knew what the deal was. He warned us. Did we listen? No, we have good old Bill Clinton to “thank”.

Thanks a lot Bill for selling out blue collar workers in America and those around the globe who followed your “leadership”.
My guess would be without an actual nuke installed. Make sure the machinery all does the right motions.
Microsoft learned to tell compelling stories
I'd love for him to use a Mac with two monitors and wrestle with his dock constantly switching from one to the other with no way to lock the dock and keep sane window setups.
It's also being used as a solvent to make high quality cannabis concentrates and extracts in place of butane or alcohol that's more commonly used now. I haven't tried them, but I know the CO2 extracted products are being used more in edibles as toxic solvents aren't used in the extraction process.
Pulumi: Modern Infrastructure as Code
The domain didn't even have an MX record defined until recently, let alone DKIM and SPIF. I'm surprised Gmail ever delivered emails from that domain to anywhere other than spam.
How is this real?

> Travelers who are deemed dangerous can be denied entry, though in most cases they would never know if the avatar test had contributed to such a decision.

Jesus fuck. Denied entry because the clowns who thought this face[0] is a good idea inadvertently screwed up somewhere else. Slaves to the algorithm. Disgusting. Takes diffusion of responsibility to a whole new level.

> iBorderCtrl
Why? Seriously. Clowns confirmed.

> A study produced by the researchers in Manchester tested iBorderCtrl on 32 people [...] 75 percent accuracy [...] unbalanced in terms of ethnicity and gender.

I’d bet a decent lunch that these dummies tested it on themselves. It’s like QA-ing my own stuff. That one path I implemented works fine. What do you mean there are other ways?

I’ll add a dessert to said lunch if the accuracy of a representative sample is better than a dice roll.

> this face [0]

> An EU research program has pumped some 4.5 million euros into the project

Kewl. I can think of many ways this could be spent more productively. Like setting it aflame and frying up some bacon.

[0] https://theintercept.imgix.net/wp-uploads/sites/1/2019/07/gu...
Bill was doing a fantastic job here, but it is a bit too sad to see how most of the executives in the mail show much less concern for the company's and customer's goals, and more concerns on who should own the problem. I think this is a bit too common in any corporate environment.
This criticism of solar power is mostly propaganda from the fossil fuel industry.

There are 5+ types of solar panels. Cadmium-Telluride solar cells, the ones criticized for toxic components, only make up about 5% of all solar panels produced.

Most conventional solar panels are made from Silicon. Silicon is produced by refining sand. It's not toxic and makes up objects that we use every day (i.e. windows or cups).
So you don't end up with a Brexit situation on your hands.
Is this apparently anti-social behavior evenly distributed among a bumbling, apologetic population or concentrated in a few selfish sociopaths?

Traffic cams could answer this question…
What in the WE is Virtual Coworking ? Does it elevate my consciousness with Blockchain sped up by IOT devices powered by 5G which funnel data through Kafka to backend instances that have been clustered up the wazoo with Kubernetes !
In fairness, Dropbox's primary interface on desktops is "my files are there" and nothing else. I can understand why they'd spend most of their UX effort concentrating on platforms where it's not as transparent.
I'm not sure it matters why I'm in the minority in my commute. And if I am in the minority in some populations, I might not be in others. It would seem that quite a few people that live in my neighborhood use the same transportation options that I am, although this is obviously anec-data.

I disagree with your last statement. BART is 4 miles from oyster point, so you would have to take a shuttle. I'm going to assume that is at least 20 minutes more, if I'm being generous. So, for me, that would equate to about a 90 minute commute each way, at a minimum, where as a commute to Market street via BART would be about a 50 minute minimum. 80 minutes per day is not a trivial amount of time for me.

Overall, I'm not sure what the argument here is. That a lot of people take BART? That we should be ok with more commute time?
It is just silly. HN is becoming more and more a platform where discussions are gamed by the companies that are being discussed.

What's the point of having them when Gitlab employees downvote anything that does not say "Gitlab gooood!", Google employees downvote anything that is not positive about Google and Facebook employees downvote non-positives about facebook.
>I'm sorry but you are just wrong.

>The past few years has made it pretty clear (although there were certainly reports even before then) that women have faced, and continue to face abuse and discrimination to a degree that men don't.

Do you have anything to add besides "you are wrong" and (paraphrasing) "women are right"?

The point GP makes about an old boys club that attacks men and women equally rings painfully true to me also.
navigation/gps? workout app? whats the difference between a workout app on my iphone compared to a dedicated device (e.g. garmin edge) in terms of safety?
> I'm smarter than most of the other kids, this crap they teach us bores me...

> If it makes a mistake, it's because I screwed it up. Not because it doesn't like me...

> My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for.

These quotes are too individualistic to be "commie".
It’s possible, but it’s important to note Kyle Bass has been short China for a very long time and has been spreading FUD (true or not) since 2008.
This is pretty cool. I've written a calendar generator with a listview for events; doesn't seem like it'll be so hard to add tags.
> Visual Studio I'll slightly disagree on. I resent it.

I agree. Visual Studio has a tendency to make me actively angry.
>I had great trouble finding results which were not advice for business owners.

This, so much. There are so many search queries nowadays that have been SEO'd to hell, and there are just pages upon pages of crappy 4 paragraph articles on B2B company blogs just parroting the same information over and over again.
Is there a descriptive article or blog post about FSP? Something "deeper" than the website, but not extremely complicated or too long to read?
I think any argument taken to an extreme loses rationality.

On one hand, if more people can understand programming, then we increase the pool of programmers, and that's great. On the other hand, if more people can understand each other's programming, that's also great.

At the end of the day, what matters is that we have the largest possible ecosystem that also allows developers to transcend their geographical / ethnic background.

...and if that's the goal, then maybe it makes most sense for us to favor a unified ascii char set? A few language keywords aren't that big of a price for us all to stay on the same page.
It's actually 2003:

Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 10:05 AM
Helium's Public Network Visualization and Blockchain Dashboard
Awesome, thank you very much
That's a political choice we've made in the US, not an inevitable consequence of globalization.
Usually you call them tools. They turn your screw at the command of their superior in whichever way they are told to. They provide great leverage for a weak upper management.
The hieroglyphs are beyond me. It's literally making up your own alphabet not to mind language. Might be the ultimate sign of the over indulgence of developers/designers. Each gets their own perfect world which we must spend the time decrypting
This article is recklessly ill-informed about color blindness. It is not remotely true that red and green are the only commonly confused colors among people with the common forms of colorblindness.

For more detail, see for this link for example. https://www.color-blindness.com/2009/01/19/colorblind-colors...

If you are using only hue to differentiate colors, you're making a mistake. Use text, a pattern, hover text, anything else.
Some referendums (most?) are advisory rather than directly legally binding. The intention of the lawmaker in situations like these could be e.g “there is a huge economic gain from driving on the same side as Norway, Sweden and Denmark, but if there is a massive opposition perhaps we can’t do it.”
People are also prone to prefer the status quo , something which should perhaps be accounted for in decisions that will affect people many generations into the future.
When I joined Twitter I thought, "Oh cool, I'll follow the celebrities and journalists I like, and they'll talk about cool stuff that's coming out, maybe crack a few jokes, and it will be fun"

I left when I realized that most of them just use twitter to vent about politics.
I very rarely use Windows now (at the time this happened I was working with it M-F doing support) - I’m not convinced it’s any better now is it? I downloaded an “IETester” image from Microsoft to confirm behaviour of a clients site from a Windows PC - it literally spent more time installing updates and rebooting than I did either downloading the entire vm image file or actually testing the thing I wanted to test.

How fucking convoluted is Windows that every single update that can only install via a reboot, then suddenly produces more such updates?

How on earth does anyone still use this on a daily basis?
Archived copy without geo-restrictions:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120227011332/https://blog.seat...
>My application was to use the sCO2 to solubilize organometallic precursors to deposit thin films on particles in a fluidized bed, and one of the best reasons for sCO2 was that the only likely contamination would be carbon (sCO2 is sometimes used to form carbides intentionally).

I understand some of these words.

Kidding aside, what was the goal of this endeavor? What is the end product?
well, it's a conspiracy theory so it's half-baked by definition. the point would be voter suppression to affect the outcome of the election, of course.
A lot of the Futhark demos you see are rather basic algorithms like matrix multiplication, and the documentation for Futhark does say that it is not well-suited to complex kernels, so that to me puts a big limiting factor on how useful it could be to invest in it.

I really like technologies like this and Sycl which aim to greatly simplify the process of writing GPU code. The important thing is that it can handle what you'd throw at it as if you were writing directly in Metal, Cuda, OpenCL, and I don't think that is the case (yet?) with Futhark.
I have had some amazing relationships with amazing women, and looking back, I didn't always understand at the time the exact cause of the breakup, but knew it was my fault.

Now I understand that it was always my immaturity and selfishness that was causing it.

I still have a lot of Love for all those women who put up with me while I was growing (and continue to).

Some will never speak to me again though ...
> Apparently you've never used Visual Studio. It is amazing.

I've used it heavily for years, and I disagree with this assessment. I avoid it whenever I have the option.
I have 2 1920x1200 and there is no reasonable upgrade except maybe something like 40" 4K (and not in retina/high dpi mode). 2560x1600 would be ok, but it's too expensive.
Almost everybody experiences bullying at some point in their life. That makes them feel they understand the problem. But it's the dose that makes the poison. Some people and groups are at the receiving end of so much of it that to say "we all have been bullied" really belittles what the targeted groups receive.
My golly - the havoc that beast would wreak if applied to all officials! It would almost be worth unleashing on the public, if perfected from the top down. Though it never seems to work that way. I'm already lucidly envisioning future politicians murmuring very nervously through federally issued mandatory truth helmets.
This was my takeaway too. Too much talking about doing at big corporate companies, and not enough actual doing. Drives me up a wall.
Ha, for once this kind of insanity is happening in Europe instead of the US.
All of the issues people that Direct Democracy has, or people perceive it to have. And presumably, since he said legally, there are rules they have to follow to not agree with the election.

That being said, like you I am curious for more details! It does seem a little strange on the face of it.
My favorite was an issue which plagued Chrome for a while. When you need a scrollbar to jump down a very long page: 1) wiggle the page with two fingers to make the scrollbar appear, 2) switch from two fingers to one finger and grab the scrollbar handle, 3) just kidding, they automatically hid the scrollbar before you had time to grab the handle.

edit: the issue is still there :(
Lucky you. I'm noticing an increasingly shrinking ability for them to their intended job lately. Sigh
So many UI issues like this could be fixed if we just brought back the bloody scroll bar!

All those hidden scrollbars result in undiscoverable UI elements. They would only need to be a few pixels in width and it wouls be easy to tell that things are scrollable.
Super critical co2 is also used for caffeine extraction in coffee, and its safer solvent for cannabis extracts and concentrates. I would never buy cbd products unless they are lab tested with a GC for contaminates and extracted with co2.
> Manchester Metropolitan University

As a Brit, I can confirm that this is most certainly not a well respected institution; the UK has some of the best universities in the world, but this is not one of them.
You could sell, or even better lease it out
https://web.archive.org/web/20120227011332/https://blog.seat...
They were remarkably clever to realize that they needed to switch before building motorways for several decades. The costs weren’t astronomical but today they would have been.
There used to be a program at Microsoft where employees who were "destined to do great things" would be pulled out, given special training, and then have their careers accelerated.

On one hand, it is sort of a good idea if you can truly pick the "winners" (and some of the people who went through the program did amazing things!) but, well, in hindsight I think everyone reading this can see how internal biases would be reflected in who got picked for the program.

I don't know too much about the program, and I don't even remember now what is was called, but engineers who'd been there longer would talk about it sometimes.
those are some interesting theories. the big secret gov't project is probably like stranger things then. they need the power to drill a hole into the upside down!
Yes, I imagine an email doesn't undergo the same editorial scrutiny that a published work does. Also, I'm sure Bill is just as "techie" as the rest of us, despite how he refers to the Control Panel.
Subtle Bots Supporting Turkey Propaganda
> of so much of it

... but how do you know? How could anybody know that?
yes sorry. i meant a more naive, count-based vector representation instead of BERT embedding
There are a few documentaries, e.g.:
https://youtu.be/vxCNeK97_C8
I think NYTimes.com is a good example. Theres a hamburger menu that expands to the whole screen when on mobile or tablet; its a sidebar on desktop. The whole arrangement of articles becomes linear on mobile; it isnt on desktop. It looks like someone figured out how it should look at every state, and then developed a way to gracefully switch between them -- not that it was a mobile UI that someone decided to enlarge on desktop.

This is why we have media queries in CSS!
i mean you're probably right, it's a wild theory. but, maybe their leadership is made up of hard right conservatives that are willing to do what it takes to keep power (political, not electrical power...ha)
You almost always get nothing unless your startup IPOs, which historically is about ~0.01% of all seed-funded startups.

Even if the company sells privately, which does happen quite often, there's a liquidation preference so that investors usually get all of the money, leaving nothing for founders or employees.

Someone posted an excellent example of it today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21358531
Just think a bunch of people were paid money to sit around and discuss this, someone was paid to write this and advertisers are paying to have spots next to it. All about a debate as to whether 'colony' is more offensive than 'settlement'.
Adding icons to color coded information helps with identification, but it is not a good source of notification. If the status icons are a field of green blobs with white checkmarks and there is one red blob with a white X, it is much less likely to be noticed by people with red-green colorblindness. I tend to use blue instead of green, because it is at the opposite end of the human-visible spectrum from red.

I also try to make the visual weight of the notification proportional to its meaning. The correctness of a single field in a form is relatively unimportant. An error in a single field is much more important. In the given example I would either get rid of the check marks or make the icon green with no background to reduce its visual weight.
The formulas for computation of contrast are not influenced by non-normal eyesight considerations, it's only the acceptance thresholds that are affected. The computation of lightness in particular is based on weighting for average sensitivity to RGB. I've been dissatisfied with their formula for a long time, even though I have normal vision myself.
How is 6GB not enough for MSVC? Are you compiling a web browser or something?
Thermal Imaging Survey: DIY vs. Professional
Yep. And on the kibana side, they support metrics now too.

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/7.4/timelion.html
Windows always mostly cared about capturing the user with lock-in, not about usability.
Well, in some situations ... not all situations, but some situations ... your statement actually ends up explaining how good a service job is.

If it is hard to find work in a “better field” that could be because there are few options.

Or it could be because the service job is much better than could be expected based on skill set, education level, etc.

In NYC most (not all) people who work as a waiter could get a job as a plumber’s apprentice.

This statement isn’t random. I know at least one plumber who regularly asks me if I know anyone who wants work, I’ve discussed their needs in an entry level employee, and as far as I can tell the only problem versus a food service job is being asked to wake up early and work a consistent 40 hour work week.

So if someone chooses to be a bartender instead, is it because their options “suck” or is it because bar tending is a pretty good gig?
Pretty sure Bay Area Traffic is only negligibly affected by big trucks. It’s, in my experience because they have these ridiculous bottleneck merges (a two lane merge, plus that ridiculous diamond lane, merging into a single lane on the destination highway. It’s like a Venturi. Then there are “exit only” signs designating a lane that isn’t exit only. The 101 south just before the 85 has this problem: you think it’s exit only but it isn’t.

Just some bad highway design. Also places like the Embarcadero interchange at the 101 in Palo Alto has existing traffic fighting with entering traffic within 200 meters of space. HOV lanes make it even worse because you end up squeezing all the lanes and you create incentives for HOV drivers to merge all the way to the left as quickly as possible which further delays the main lanes since people are getting slowed down from the lane changes. Then, when HOV drivers have to exit, again they have to merge all the way right again. There is a bottleneck squeeze and the lateral squeeze happening as well. Houston traffic by comparison is “bad” but far better than the Silicon Valley version despite Silicon Valley having a smaller population and fewer cars.
In some cases they are, but as the people across the ocean have gotten richer (much much richer) their working conditions have improved dramatically. Success!
I'm try to respectfully decline them, but if they try to passive aggressively guilt me, I teeter on the cusp of countering by attacking back and trying to crack their self esteem.

I haven't done it yet and wouldn't be proud of myself, but it would feel good.
is there a reason not to have a setting "i m not the majority" somewhere?
By listening
What do you think makes up most of the cost of a cell phone plan?

Labor.
I hope they eventually look into cooperatives for sewer/water/energy. They’re a great way to manage larger projects on a consensual basis.