skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This company has to die. It's time. It used to be cool to steal people's information for profit, but no more.

Edit: I'm sorry...it appears theft is still the coolest thing ever.

Edit: Real cowards downvote! They also look for other people's postings and downvote all those too! What a "great" forum for the sharing of "free-thought"!
I wonder if this is actually: "Larry and Sergey resign over cancellation of TGIF"?
Unconscious bias has been debunked.
Headline. Massive block letters at the top of the article. Front-page notice. Put retractions and changes front and center. Make it clear that that's part and parcel of the process of reporting and journalism - that not all mistakes, intentional or otherwise, can be prevented, but that they can at least be corrected transparently. Without that, there is even less reason to trust that their intentions will lead to accurate reporting.
Then at what ratio of armed citizens do the benefits you anticipate kick in? 60%? 80%? Should we all expect to show up to church strapped with a 9mm, just in case?

Can you provide an example of a country where such a high ratio of armed citizenry has worked out well? There should be a positive example we can turn to. The US isn't it by the numbers.
You can argue this prevents people like FCC's Wheeler, but the current administration has several examples refuting this. Is there no way that you can still work in the field without being able to influence policy?
The VSCode Vim plugin supports block mode, but it's a bit buggy at times
heh.. I wish it were only junior devs.
Can some share some insight on why the construction industry hasn't moved to prefab for cookie cutter single family homes ? Does it not reduce labor costs in comparison to the current method of home building ?
Or use a pseudo element with z-index -1
They've done very well from a product perspective as well as dollars and cents. And I think he hasn't absorbed much blame for the culture problems. At least not yet.
And do you think you're more likely to get that from, say, the Washington Post, or Breitbart?
Does there exist evidence of these alleged transgressions?
That's probably the case, but I believe it's a slightly different issue. I'd assume it's harder to break into management as a women because:

1) women entered the field later than men (so the distribution on the experienced end is less)
2) women have a significantly higher societal expectation to be the caretaker. Many pause or stop their careers when they have kids.
3) Indian society is heavily patriarchal

Regardless, I personally think the situation is better in India. It's pretty hard for the US to improve if not enough women enter the field in college. If the bottom of your funnel is weak, all the efforts on managing the middle and end are largely fruitless. We (Americans) need to take a better look at how our education and culture is causing the gap at the university level. I think that some of the approaches Harvey Mudd has taken is something we need to implement across universities.
When people publish data it's typically uploaded to a public repository anyway. Supplementary videos are a thing, but in my field at least they generally stay in the supplementary and aren't the raw data so file sizes are reasonable, while still images are used in the text. Journals are still printed works first, believe it or not.
sorry, long day.

I think it's more I was missing concrete examples - describe the sales team that is having a problem, why can't they send emails on certain events themselves, what was preventing this? Why can't the CRM they have help them? Why can't they use some API to join this up?

I also (and this is from memory) did not quite get why your company (a email sending company) was having its own problems sending emails on certain CRM events? I may have misunderstood that part.

But it does raise an interesting question of "business events" - I feel a central ledger of events in every business would make so many things simpler - an eBPF for business
The exciting thing if you are a hiring manager is that, as long as there is talent that is being passed-over for the wrong reasons, you can beat your competitors in one of the most challenging ares of building a compay by being good at avoiding this error. A friend noted recently that a compounding benefit of hiring a gender-balanced team early is you won't lose female talent you find later when they refuse to join a team of all guys. But you have to be careful too, to not hire someone just because they fit a social profile you want more of on the team. Talented women don't want to be on a team where all of the women there were "tossed a softball". It's not only condescending, but it fosters the bias it intends to combat. Whoever is at fault, it is that there is a gender imbalance is worthy of debate. But addressing it is best viewed as opportunity, not an act of charity, if seen through the right lens.
It's abuse of statistics to fabricate a nonexistent problem. People do it because it works so well and is so easy. Everybody wants to help women and "marginalized groups". So with some superficial, misleading statistics, you can attract attention, money and hiring advantages. Why wouldn't people do it? (I mean campaigning for those parity goals. Why companies chose to try to comply is probably simply PR, and the hope to be able to hire cheaper developers).
Some people might decide to pay but the technology will be there to distribute it for free. At this point it would be sort of like a public good with the free rider problem.
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Metagenomic Analysis of a Blood Stain from French Revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat
I haven't specifically investigated the question of payment processing and adult businesses. I have done some research into this issue wrt marijuana businesses and bank accounts. Marijuana is legal in some US states but still not legal at the federal level (last I checked). They have enormous difficulty getting bank accounts.

With marijuana businesses, the issue is that the bank could potentially lose access to the federal system for knowingly issuing a bank account to a business that is violating federal law. This would basically shut the bank down, from what I gather.

My assumption is there is likely a similar mechanism in place poisoning the entire payment system for adult content. If I wanted to work on the issue, I would dig until I found the root cause, which is very likely legal/regulatory and very likely at the federal level in the US. Then put resources into addressing the actual root cause instead of fussing at the payment processors.
bootlicker
That hasn't been our experience with Cargo. It's always been fast.

As a colleague of mine pointed out, the lockfile makes the solving a non-issue in practice anyway.
> you cannot expect to make things better than they are at the input of your pipe segment

Not in the short-run. But the reason working on the pipeline is valuable is that discrimination includes negative feedback loops. When people who would be entering the pipeline look for role models and success stories and don't find any, they're discouraged from trying. So while there are of course diminishing returns in investing in a dry pipe, if one is interested in changing the status quo, it's valuable to keep the investment a bit above the break-even point to encourage flow upstream (flow that, one must remember, will take half a decade or so to show up as a pipeline increase, depending on how long you measure the pipe to be).
Maybe the simplest possible program for teaching another keyboard configuration
Now Google is going to be more evil than ever before, Larry was a good man based on what I read. He always respected every single employee even the juniors.
Wonderful.

Wikipedia sorely needs a page listing quantitative metrics of comestible qualia.

Inspired by those two, I went on a hunt for a cheese metric but the search results got rapidly unpleasant ("Why does it smell like Swiss cheese behind my ears?" was what made me finally close the tab.)
I actually like that; it reminds me to cleanup after myself :-)
> there is absolute truth out there—even if we can never know for sure in this lifetime

Yes, it does seem strange that they would be opposed. Are you sure they understood your main statement the way I quoted it above?
The bias was introduced to unbiased algorithm because people found it biased, that's why it's unbiased bias now.
I wonder if there exists a single person happy with the current state of affairs other then the one who designed it
You can claim 'separation of church and state' and say that the ad department isn't telling the journalists what they can and can't say, but journalists don't work in a vacuum and editors and executives won't run pieces that they know will cause them to lose sponsors.

Citation needed.

Primarily because I've worked in a number of newsrooms, and there was most certainly a separation between editorial and advertising. Sales people weren't even allowed in the same wing or on the same floors as the reporters.

Contrary to your tinfoil hat suppositions, the reporting and advertising departments aren't all buddy-buddy. In all the years I worked in newsrooms with 15-200 people, I never once knew, spoke to, or could even name someone in the advertising department.

I will admit that's not true for very small outlets under 15 reporters, but that simply happens because you share a bathroom, lunchroom, hallway, parking lot, etc... with everyone on staff.
Dear Larry and Sergey,

Thank you for creating Google.

Nobody could prove that without it the web would have been a better place. You couldn’t have known what’s to come when you were raising hundreds of thousands of dollars as two students in 1998. Maybe your leadership has been one of the least evil among the possibilities in the evil world we live in.

However, we know what is it like to lose control of your company, and how it could inspire dystopian novels under your leadership now. There’re many lessons for all the entrepreneurs to take from your story.

I sincerely hope that you would prioritize the greater benefit rather than the Google’s benefit as years pass.

Sincerely,
A Non-Googler, one of the 7.7 billion
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> I will probably go against the grain here but my inner tinfoil hat is telling me that the recent marijuana legalization is actually secretly run by the military industrial complex in order to silence dissent. Kind of the 'lithium in the water supply' thing.

That's specious reasoning; consider that California had passed the compassion act in 1996, with the explicit intention of allowing this drug to be used for severe and chronic pain inlieu of harder narcotics (opioids). When the counties realized this was a cash cow, laws got relaxed and it was easier than ever to get high grade legally produced MJ, to the point where it was more accessible than alcohol or tobacco when I was growing up. The costs reflected that.

MJ legalization is and continues primarily be one of a money grab via taxes, in 2007 I went to CO on a school trip and I predicted that given the amount of illegal street deals MJ would have to be legalized at the recreational level, they were losing way too much tax revenue. In 2011 Amendment 64 was created, and in Nov of 2012 it was passed.

These trends and evidence is inline with basic projections of cause and effect from a local/state tax (or as its called in CO: revenue) matter and nothing less.

Japan did put lithium in their water in Aomori prefecture, and it had less than conclusive results on the general population to prevent suicide:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3863886/

Anecdote: Colorado has experienced a population boom since 2012, not a reduction in population, so I don't see the correlation.

Greta Thunberg and Extinction Rebellion were here earlier this year in Denver, eco-centric protests have and will continue to be a thing so no one is being docile, if anything most are appreciating how we must protect Nature and stop things like fracking now where prior to legalization it went on unfettered and was a significant Industry in the state. Now potable water for Ag and residential development use is scarce and fracking is partly to blame.

Anecdote 2: California still suffered raids from the DEA up until as late as 2012; I launched my startup in fintech to service the Industrial Hemp Industry in part because I was on campus during 'Operation Sudden Fall' in 2008. It was terrifying to see a University get occupied by the armed goons of the State.
After having read [that Quiet book](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiet:_The_Power_of_Introverts...) I think it's fascinating that "high profile, exuberant" are conflated with "innovation-driven leadership".

To be clear - I'm not criticizing this particular post or person (whoisjuan, anyways? :) ), but I think it's worth noting these little hints that outgoing and extroverted are thought to be synonymous with "good leadership" (in the US, at least)
> There is no technical reason why some releases should bump a major version number and others should not; the amount of new features or breaking changes will fluctuate from release to release

Then why have three parts to the version? You could just have the cycle version based on the schedule and a patch/fix subversion.
>Someone else in the comments was speculating 10 to 14

Probably my comment, but I wasn't speculating... my understanding of a normal tech acquisition formula, but I specifically acknowledge this one was likely different because it was < 6 months old and no prior funding/investments.
It means we're getting closer to break 1024-bit RSA, as they basically broke a 795-bit RSA modulus.

Most systems and applications currently uses at least 2048-bit keys and are still considered secure.

If someone still uses RSA under 2048-bit, I'd urge them to upgrade their keys or switch to Elliptic Curve if the application can handle it.
I find it stunning that of all of the communities it seems to be HN that has jumped on this idea the most. Surely people entrenched in the startup world understand the value of pivoting and dropping products that aren't working.
For all the people who keep saying there's no application for blockchain: here's one. Namecoin was a bad implementation, but the concept is sound.

Letting companies control domain names serves no purpose. They don't prevent domain squatters, they've censored on behalf of governments in the past, and now they're allowed to gouge nonprofits on .org domains.

A decentralized domain name system wouldn't solve all these problems, but at least we wouldn't be paying rent-seeking middle-men to provide terrible service.
> even self-hating.

Lol yeah, and my team. :)
In case anyone's interested, here's the Chromium bug(s) that's one of the main reasons the WYSIWYG editor has such issues in Chrome(/Electron):

- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=102937...

- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=608393

- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=608162

The gist of it is that they "canonicalize" the DOM selection when you have two adjacent inline elements, so that it can only ever be at the ending edge of the first inline element. Which makes certain selection states impossible. And on top of that, they don't draw the cursor in the right spot when doing the canonicalization. So for instance, it might look like your cursor is here:

<b>one</b>|two

But it's actually here:

<b>one|</b>two

Drawn in the wrong place. And impossible to put it at the beginning of "two" at all! It's crazy!

I don't know how much the take "starring" into account, but it can't hurt to star them in the hopes they're fixed sooner.

---

Edit: If you want to see the craziness in action, check out this sandbox:

https://codesandbox.io/s/amazing-breeze-6elsy

1. Try to put your cursor at the end of the word "one"

2. Try to type a character at the start of the word "two"
Kitty Hawk: Returned Deposits, Battery Fires and a Boeing Shakeup
It's all about the money. People care about professions because "female" professions tend to be paid less than "male" ones.
But it is not granted to an app but to chrome. I guess it is a bit dangerous.

For the Yi issue, it problem as it is new. But I guess after awhile it should be ok. You really want to know these permission s and explicitly approve it.
I think "I'm feeling lucky" button on the home page is unbiased.
Alphabet Management Change Announcement – December 03
Google co-founders step down as execs of parent Alphabet
But now the main site seems to be bullet proof. There was a time where weekly there would be a new official link. I'm not sure what changed structurally with hosting tbp
Top post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21696954
With such politically charged issues, it's always a problem of people wanting to believe something is possible (and mandatory to pursue) banging their heads against what is true and actually possible.

If the percentage of female computer science graduates (as a strong proxy for the available candidate population) is 18% (Google for the facts and stats), how is every company to hit an idealistic goal of 50% representation?

A while back, I did rough envelope calculations that if one of the major FAANG companies hit their diversity goal, there would be none left for any of the rest of them. Look at these percentages and you can see unsentimentally that this must be true.

Why do we place the blame and assign malice of intent to those who have little control over the constraints? If we put actual performance metrics and pay on the line for achieving these physically unattainable goals, everyone would be fired.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin Give Sundar Pichai Control of Alphabet and Google
I feel like a step towards a solution to this problem (which I likewise observe), is to document these idiosyncrasies in the code. My rule of thumb is that when I write or read weird code that's necessarily weird (to avoid idiosyncrasies in downstream/upstream systems), I try to add a very concise clarifying comment that acknowledges the code as weird, and points in the direction of both the problem we're avoiding and some potential solutions to make the code less weird in the future.

For example, when reading an old codebase, if I invest 20 minutes in determining why the code differs from the documentation, I add a comment saying `NOTE(gen220): the code does not match the comment. The reason appears to be X. We might resolve this with Y or Z`. That, or update one of either the code or the comment, whichever makes the most sense in the situation.

That way, a new team member (or myself, but 2 years older) won't have to stumble in the same places, and are empowered to take a stab at fixing the problem, which has been documented for them.

Personally, when my idiosyncrasies are so-documented, I feel much safer handing things off.
I downvoted you, for a number of reasons.

1) There is no collective 'we'

2) there is no collectively defined 'filth'

3) 'your filth' seems like a personal attack.

I hope they figure out how to include everyone in their service, rather than a discriminatorily chosen group of people at their payment processors' whims.

Meanwhile payment processors are okay with 'filth' at every other level of their businesses -- don't paint them as wholesome, they're just legally cautious.

Also, for the sake of this discussion, let's re-evaluate what adult content is; it's not just pornography.
Tennessee Williams, The Art of Theater No. 5 (1981)
Here's my $700 surprise bill story. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

* An example CloudFormation from a Re:Invent (AWS conference) session silently failed to tear down some resources.

* Not trusting CloudFormation, I looked through each (known service, region) manually to make sure resources had been torn down. This failed to identify the running resources because a tutorial div opened in regions with no running resources and remained open if you switched to a region with running resources, hiding them.

* Not trusting my manual service tour, I kept a close eye on my daily costs until I saw several days pass with $0 spend. This failed because free tier credits were hiding substantial service usage.

* Not trusting any of the above, I had billing alerts set as a catch-all. They correctly triggered on an unrelated usage surge, but with such high latency that I incorrectly attributed their failure to reset to high latency rather than to a genuine underlying charge.

Bam, $700 charge next month. Amazon was quick to refund half of it. I was eventually able to get them to refund the other half by making waves in the support system of a high-spend business account.

At the last re:invent session I went to, I surveyed a table of 6 people. After sharing my $700 figure, 3 of the 6 came forward with even bigger numbers, 1 of the 6 with a smaller number, and the remaining person was a newbie.
Not to worry, those are regulated by the banks, who won't provide financial services to any business selling anything that they think mimics illegal drugs.
Elon Musk to Testify as Diver's Slander Trial Gets Under Way
That's great! I've been using a JavaScript hack to avoid it for a while. The current editor has so many not well thought through corner cases!
I believe both Sundar's note and Damore's original memo were in the context of people hired by Google.
Even if there were equal numbers of women and men starting out in engineering, but women never 'recycle', then the flows would be different. That's all.

I capitalize Engineer as an occupation, like Doctor Smith. Yeah, probably don't want to capitalize it as an adjective.
Sacred scripture lives and evolves, is never fixed
Does not work here. Maybe it is your DNS that auto-corrects / redirects the URL?
AFAIK, Julia has a garbage collector. I envision the thing more like a rust split into two variants. One with GC and mandatory typing, one without.
Maybe it'll get acquired by Google soon?
I think what they learned in the intervening 15 years is that there are very strong structural forces pushing corporations towards the "traditional company" form that everybody hates, and that even as CEO, even as controlling shareholders, they were powerless to stop them.

At least, that's what I learned, having worked at Google during the period where "Don't be evil" was still taken seriously, engineers could still propose & develop their own projects, the public still liked them, and Larry was just beginning to take the reins.
They have factorized another challenge number [1]. It doesn't have any surprising impact. As computational power grows, it becomes easier and easier to factorize semi-primes (ignoring quantum computers). So either we have to use larger semi-primes in RSA, or use a different kind of algorithm like elliptic curves.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_numbers
Thanks for the clarification. Sorry about sounding cynical, that was not the intend. I have just seen a lot of BS over the years and I super careful trying to understand what is behind that smokescreen.
Good luck with the venture!
Messy handwriting reveals mystery translator: Queen Elizabeth I
It would be really interesting to see a how-to writeup so that other people can obtain the same levels of privacy without having to go through the steps of learning everything the hard way like you did. Also, it would probably help your privacy if there were other people doing the same thing.