skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People of color don’t have a switch that allows them to turn off the experience of being a person of color. Your comment amounts to a claim that sbilstein is inventing all of the issues he’s faced in life.

If you’re seriously claiming that people of color aren’t treated differently, look at the implicit bias test: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/

It’s a very easily reproducible experiment (you can conduct it on yourself by following the link) that shows that most people respond differently to disadvantaged groups, even if those people are not consciously aware of having bigoted attitudes.

I think that if somebody is telling you they’ve faced discrimination, it shows respect to at least acknowledge the possibility that they are telling the truth and not hallucinating it.
Online, people do not go back and re-read the article to see it changed. The misinformation sticks by anchor bias and lack of ability to correct. This is, I believe, a critical failing in the electronic vs. physical distribution method as it stands, though I'm certain models could be developed for distribution of corrections as first-order material if these organizations truly wished.
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I wondered that as well. 0 tolerance means our entire planet should be condemned as uninhabitable, then. Clearly there must be some level of parts per 10 to the N that is no more dangerous than a walk on the beach.

300 parts per million is probably bad. 1 part per trillion is probably cleaner than a random meadow.
I don't think there is anything strange about that. Slack is a widespread used tool, which introduced a feature that made it very difficult and frustrating to use.
Awkward tension? WTF is this middle school?

Money goes up. Hell flows down. No need to complicate business.
That's years old news.
And now imagine a society in which it would not be decided by self-proclaimed "philantropists" where societal progress is made and which basic human needs (like a roof over the head of every person, or kids having a lunch at school instead of being shamed for parents too poor to pay) are met, but instead the super rich pay their fair share in taxes and society decides democratically.

US billionaires are only philantropic because they don't want to end up either dead or stripped off of all their assets when there is any kind of revolution - no matter if a "real" revolution or an elected one, e.g. if Warren or Sanders win in 2020.
The difference between Amazon and Google is that google controls access to information and in some respects can shape public opinion. When Bezos gets greedy, its through some better product like faster cheaper shipping.
Sonos shutting down local voice option Snips
This sort of story probably fully explains origins of the OP's lament (that AWS billing is so opaque that even internal Amazon teams can't figure it out.) Some AWS middle manager knows that if he orders better billing tools to be implemented, AWS income will drop; not significantly, but ~$700 multiplied by the number of AWS users might make enough of a dent to be noted in his performance report. In order to make this omission more plausible, even internal investigation tools (which would encourage infrastructural improvements that make user-facing tools easier to build) are neglected.
Blockchain for AWS billing. Money streaming, in real-time!
> The whole reason why racism and sexism is bad is because it doesn't look at people as individuals.

No, that's not the reason. Senior/youth discount rates also doesn't look at individuals, and yet they're not generally seen as bad. The inherent moral nature of the discrimination itself is extremely important.
Not at all. There's plenty of people in this thread wondering what "potential" means in "potential threat". This is what that potential means. The FBI has assessed that this app is a potential threat but they haven't found any evidence that Russia's government is actually using it in this way. If the FBI finds out that it's being used as an attack vector, then they will jump in to assist.

Not misleading at all. I don't know why so many people are reading this so wrong, it's not a long letter. The Senate asked the FBI if this app was a threat to US politicians, the FBI said it could be but they don't see it being exploited at this time. If that changes, the FBI will intervene. Pretty simple to understand as long as you read the words that were written.
ClickLock: A Mac menu bar app that locks your screen with just one click
The investigation of executives to fend off shareholder lawsuits is less than a month old...
> The same code might be optimised in different ways by different compilers, though

It's not an optimisation if it changes the result! And if you use non-standard flags that's your problem.
not really. imagine trying to index twitter (internal "social networking"), arxiv (all memos/documents persisted by the company to include insanely asinine stuff like department head site visit schedules, retreat agendas, etc.), wikipedia (dept-specific information silos), and census.gov (budget/other numerical type data), indeed.com (internal opportunities/job postings/transfers)

you also don't have billions of trends/etc. to lean on, nor people's gmail inboxes/web browsing history to scan, so you don't know kathy at accounting only cares about budget memo, and karl at HR only wants department leadership internal job postings, and greg just wants to move out from under his boss ASAP.
Perhaps it's a local thing. If you're around guinea worms, you evolve to be afraid of their signs, maybe? Not everyone is afraid of spiders or snakes, but there's a good evolutionary reason to be, so maybe people who aren't afraid of them are from areas without extremely venomous versions?
Steal Like An Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative is a great book on similar themes. (The sequel Show Your Work! is also good) Also Creating a Life Worth Living had a huge impact on me - it's full of interviews with creative types of all kinds, and talks about how many different ways/styles of structuring your time and life there are, and how to find one that works for you.

When I was a jazz musician in my early 20s, I did a lot of negative self-talk on gigs. "Oh, that was awful! Oh yuk, Argghh that sux. Nooo...Terrible" etc. It made me sound terrible. Self-torture. Then I read a book Effortless Mastery, from which I learnt Never criticize yourself on gigs. The time for that is when you practise. And since then I never do that. I just enjoy myself and play. It really changed my life. And also learning about loving yourself - realizing that it's all too easy to be careful about treating other people well, always being kind, while being extremely mean to yourself. Louise Hay's How to Love Yourself is the book on that subject, I think.
I thought the entire point of Alphabet was the "Other Bets" than Google.

So now the CEO of "Other Bets" is also the CEO of the main bet... so what's even the point of separating the companies other than the tax dodge? oh, right.
Hmm I think bpf today is used in fully trusted environments. Kernel level verification is unnecessary except in untrusted containerized environments or when running untrusted applications, both use cases being relatively rare/specialized.

I think the main benefit of bpf is that it prevents you from shooting yourself in the foot. Running totally untrusted code in the kernel just seems like a recipe for disaster and for that reason it makes sense bpf is still limited to root.
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I take it as a... hmm, not a lie of omission, but more, like, an omission of "trust us"? Not really sure what words would be best suited to describe this.
This is a huge hit to any privacy-conscious user. Being able to host my snips.ai instance locally and not rely on a cloud was a huge win.

While it seems like instances should stay up, the ability to create new intents will close down at the end of Jan.
I'm not sure what you mean by rounding error. The whole point of error diffusion is that any errors are propagated so that they average out. I've coded Floyd-Steinberg many times myself, and the only problem I ever had was when my outputs didn't include 0% and 100% leaving the error to build without correction.
That was the joke -- that and they are in the same city and some of the engineers at MSFT have beers with the AMZN engineers.
They are talking about "supplements"
> Ironically, they could find some focus by no longer being a one size fits all search engine

Or just fixing the search engine that they do have. It really has become shockingly poor.
Not even clicking on this article because I know it's about trypophobia and I'm afraid of seeing the pictures!
We're fighting the wrong battle if we are waiting to see which ways evil devices try to operate and block them instead of demanding evil devices not exist in the first place.
Larry Ellison? From Oracle? I though he did the opposite.
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I don't see how any of that is true. Customers want managed services, why aren't vendors meeting that demand?

For example, why hasn't Datastax rolled out a cloud offering on AWS yet? All this time and they have no solution. Even ScyllaDB just launched a minimal service this year. I would expect a db vendor to be able to wire up some APIs and at least get a basic deployment running instead of complaining about AWS offering it first.
Okay, thank you for adding that feature but does everyone at FM know about it? I contacted support asking when the mobile app would add support for multiple FM accounts (like Gmail has) and was told "No time soon -- it's not even on the roadmap."
In the future, You should do a quick search before naysaying. This crypto lib is free and offers non-negligible performance gains.
This topic fascinates me, but I haven't found a way to productively discuss it on HN.

If you too find it interesting, you may enjoy doing a literature search on the topic.
Sure, but just like with game development - he will be doing similar (if less boring) work for half the pay, while being treated like crap to boot.
Most of why WiFi on aircraft sucks is because airlines went too early. To be fair, they had to guess. The better Ka band satellite experience wasn't ready when most airlines made their initial choice, so most of them went with either Ku band satellite or air to ground cellular. Both have either technical or cost barriers to deliver enough bandwidth.

And, the cost for the hardware, FAA certification, and long aircraft downtimes to get it all installed and working was really high. So they have to recoup all that before upgrading.

JetBlue guessed better with the timing, waiting until it was ready, so their experience is better, and pricing isn't terrible as compared to others.

I feel like Southwest made a decent compromise. They went Ku, but use a separate transponder to give away TV and movies at no charge, and a small slice of bandwidth to give iMessage and whatsApp for free. The paid wifi is slow, but comparitively cheap.

The airlines that went with AirCell/GoGo are the worst of the lot. Nothing for free, and the pricing is outrageous given the experience.
Most airlines should be about ready to upgrade all the old stuff soon, so the experience should improve. Low orbit tech would help even more.
I quite deliberately didn't ask for expert, just higher level than 'for dummies'. Something to help people get started, to progress a little.

Libraries in the past had a lot of books on science and technology that was actually relevant to the times and places. You could go to a library in a medium sized town and the reference section would contain a lot of works of practical utility. I know they were there because I borrowed them. I didn't borrow them a hundred years ago but some of the books on loudspeaker design, acoustics, electronics, etc., that I referred to in my early teens fifty years ago had been published a couple of decades earlier and were sufficiently good to still be relevant. Let's say between 50 and 80 years ago then. If I look for books of a similar standard in modern libraries they are simply not present.

I agree that not every little branch library can have or did have a large collection of such books but the central library serving a town of, say a hundred thousand people should surely have more than a couple of dozen tatty "Excel for Dummies" style books.

I understand that libraries will get books on demand but there really is no substitute for actually dipping into a book to discover if it is worth reading and of a level that is comprehensible.

If I am to do all this online then what is the library actually for?

Perhaps my view is biased because I come from a town that for at least a century made its money from a work force of engineers, technicians, and mechanics, who could read and write and wanted to advance in their crafts.
> I'm not sure how long these sort of antitrust cases take to litigate

They typically take years, often over a decade. I'm talking about the entire process, not just the litigation (which is the easiest and fastest part). With Microsoft, it took 19 years from start to end.
Where did IRC go?
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As a tall while Caucasian I think you need you have a problem with the environment, not a racial one. I live in Eastern Europe and we don't really know what racism is because we have no history of problems in the past; I had direct reports that were Latino and Latina, Europeans (Caucasians), black (African): they were friends more than subordinates. In Bucharest my South African colleague, the Brazilian one and the Chinese lady are cool and they attract attention in a positive way, they have absolutely no issues living here. I think the problem is the US with the long history of treating poorly other races, not with your race.
This is a fantastic resource of fictional companies for any modern day or near-future RPG campaign. I'm currently running Shadowrun, and can always use new corporations.
Ballmer tried to save Microsoft by killing the Internet, creating the opening for Google to become the industry leader
If you can’t disconnect on the ground I don’t see why spending a few hundred bucks to fly to a distant destination should be your lifeline to disconnecting. A plane ride was never intended to provide you with this service.

Everyone has different ways to spend their leisure time and that can include connecting. I wouldn’t want to impose my own beliefs on someone else by telling airlines not to give away WiFi.

And if you want to disconnect, there are plenty of ways to do so on the ground. You could go to a nice restaurant and leave your phone in the car. You could take a walk in the park with your phone at home. Or you could just not use Instagram or Facebook.

As it stands, few airlines will just give you WiFi for free anyway, but there have been times when its availability has saved my ass.
This one
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2015/03/19/the-prettiest-crime-...
Google's Firebase has had some absolute horror stories, especially when Firebase found out they were under-billing some people and then "adjusted" their bill to be more accurate, causing massive charges.

Just two stories on HN I've seen about it:

2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14356409

2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17661391

I have nothing against GCP or Firebase, just countering the "this seems to be unique to Amazon" comment.
Sundar seems set on track to cause a large part of the google workforce to question the ethics of their work, unless I've mis-read the headlines (entirely possible) since he's taken the reigns.
I spent a while looking at OCaml, but I'd like to use more than one cpu and not have to deal with four standard libraries...
Thomas Kurian is the CEO of Google Cloud.
> Role model nonsense is even more absurd

As someone who moved from a post-socialist country to USA, I would like you to know there's a lot more to role model nonsense than meets the eye. And to environment in general.

My perspective on life, career, and success is completely than my girlfriend's. I grew up surrounded assuming that the only way to make more than $50k/year is to be a crook. She grew up in Palo Alto, making $X00k/year to her sounds like just a default. Successful people start the next ebay.

It took me years to overcome that. Without anyone discriminating against me at all. It was just me discriminating against myself by [subconsciously] thinking certain things just aren't possible.

Yes even though I had Bill Gates, James Watt, Edison, Tesla, and Oprah Winfrey as role models growing up. That was nice to dream but surely not achievable.
I saw this going differently, in my mind. In my mind, when I started reading this comment, you were the envious one.

When I finished reading the comment, you still are, but with layers and ironies. Much less healthy layers.
How China steals American technology and a timeline of recent events
The article says to not rely on proxies like college degrees, so I was aiming more along those lines. As far as I can tell (I admit I skimmed it) they advocate hiring for skills over pedigree.

There's a pipeline problem if you are only taking a specific output and society is not producing it. As an individual company then you can either broaden what you accept (and I don't think this will lower quality, but it will make hiring harder), or take charge and extend the pipeline in your own backyard through training or probationary periods to trial someone.

FTA:
> As you can see, broadening your pipeline isn’t a magic pill, and as long as demand for software engineers continues to grow, it’s still going to be really hard, systemic changes to our society notwithstanding. If we do make these changes, however, the tech industry as a whole can accelerate its path toward gender parity and potentially get there within a decade.

There's probably a feedback loop here where if they can broaden their intake, it will help accelerate societal change. The largest companies will have the most trouble, because they have the most seats to fill, but they also have the resources to try something different to fix this if they really want to.

On your last point, I think having a hard target like 50% can be damaging since it is demoralising to look at the gap and it might all feel like too much to deal with. I'd personally prefer to work towards 'a bit better than last year' with some achievable (non-startup) growth rates.
To be fair, Europeans have been trying for awhile now to ruin the internet. No one is surprised when the EU announces entitled internet regulation anymore.
This whole thing is ignorant to the point of being offensive.

> Role model nonsense is even more absurd, because it already assumes things like women can't have men role models. You need to have the sexist mindset in the first place for this to even be a problem.

I have felt this very acutely and it's offensive to assume I'm sexist just because I don't see people like me at the higher levels of the org, and struggle to figure out how to balance my identity with what the org wants as a result.

Women can have male role models, but it's not the same - there are behavioral expectations of men and women that are just different. A woman can't simply "act like a man" and get the same response, and saying that's a perfectly fine solution is quite ignorant. In any case you shouldn't have to give up your identity when that has nothing to do with what actually gets the work done.

When you enter a new workplace and realize that there is nobody like you there - especially in the higher ranks - you are fighting a very difficult battle. You aren't sure what behaviors get rewarded and which get you attacked. You get left out of the little friend groups and other opportunities for connection, and you feel like an outsider.

It's not about envy at all. It's about feeling seen, about feeling accepted and like you belong in the workplace. It's about getting the group that can do the best job, and that often means a diverse team, not a homogenous one.
I don't think I have it to the degree that it's a "phobia", but I find a lot of trypophobia images really creepy/gross/frightening. Basically the same reaction I have to arthopods.

I also have had a history, prior to being exposed to the concept of trypophobia, of body-horror nightmares where lots of tiny holes open up in my skin around my joints, so yeah, it's probably one of those common fears.
The "west" comes from the perspective of the 13 original colonies. Everything else was called "the west" at one point.
Thomas Kurian [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kurian
Trypophobia is presumably an abnormal, overly-aggressive version of the disease-avoidance mechanism, though; there's no evolutionary reason to be unsettled by holes on inorganic objects, or even most kinds of holes on organic ones. Presumably, almost everyone has some level of the underlying mechanism; go look at a picture of a smallpox victim and see how you feel about it.
DataStax made a major deal with Google instead:

https://www.datastax.com/platform/google-cloud-platform
It's still increasing your dependence on AWS systems and software.

(The upsell price may be free for now, but who knows maybe they add a premium version or enterprise features in the future)

I imagine that the tool will be used for recommending more amazon services in the future, and this is possibly a poor POC of more to come.
That’s not true at all! A good GM understands throughput and may get bonuses based on that.

The retailer I worked at in the 90s also tracked the ring rate and time per customer for cashiers, and made scheduling and hour decisions based on performance.
I've always loved the "torn-page" look of some of the AWS Blog screenshots - is there a tool to provide this functionality that I don't know about?
> Can someone please explain why it is well deserved?'

GOOG went from 550 to 1300 under Sundar's term as CEO.
I followed the linked threads and I don't see where it says telemetry is off by default. I just see people saying that it _should_ be off by default. Am I missing something?