skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 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.

Not to mention, if the other companies also wish to hit their diversity goals, they will be forced to take on weaker hires, since the (already small) pool of adequate hires has been exhausted. In my opinion, diversity hiring is an anti-pattern. Hiring should instead ignore demographics information rather than use it to try and achieve some optimal representational balance. If demographics information are completely ignored in the hiring process (which is impossible if you do on-site hiring), then no one can accuse you of favoring a particular group of people.
A balance sheet and details on why wikipedia say advertising itself in Nigeria Isa good use of charity funds.

Komen style charities aren't charities.
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I will take the opportunity to promote Maxima, which is a very nice open source maths tool with a very long history (started in the 60's, and still being developed). It leverages the bignum support in Common Lisp, and has no problems handling numbers like these.

http://maxima.sourceforge.net/

https://wxmaxima-developers.github.io/wxmaxima/

You can use Maxima's built-in command "factor" on this number as well, although I guess you'll have to be very patient.

I obviously also want to promote my own project, which is different UI on top of Maxima:

https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.dhsdevelopments.Climaxi...
> It's a reasonable orchestration engine.

Could you elaborate, or point me at any reviews of their product. It's closed-source so much harder to learn about without learning from people that have paid for it.
Thanks for the explanation!

If it's not multithreaded, sounds like one thing to try could be just to run an instance per user, but I guess that may not be straightforward to operate.

Oh well, at least we have IPsec.
MLLib I would think - https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/ml-guide.html
Careprost eye drops mediate intraocular pressure lowering by promoting the excretion of the fluid built up inside the eye. The liquid is called aqueous humour, and our eyes constantly secrete and excrete it as well. When the process of excretion is sluggish, the eye of Careprost drops aid. Careprost eye drops https://genericbuddy.com/careprost-3ml-eye-drops function as they contain bimatoprost, an analog of aprostaglandinn-like chemical that has the characteristic of reducing intraocular pressure, including others, by helping to remove the aqueous humor. Therefore, theintraocularr pressure is reduced and there is a dramatic reduction in the risk of optic nerve injury.
Isn't the more appropriate response to respond to the comment rather than downvote it? It doesn't seem to be a personal attack, or some other violation of the community guidelines.
The Physics (and Economics, and Politics) of Wheelchairs on Planes
If you tell your mother you'll have found at least one person who cares whether you're offended or not.

In fact I find posts aboit wikipedia in general insensitive please stop.
>most programming itself are also nothing like advanced mathematics.

This is certainly true. But they do overlap in requiring a heavy amount of abstract reasoning. While "abstract reasoning" is a bit vague, one proxy for this is spatial reasoning which shows strong gender disparities and has implications for science and math ability.

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-44385-0_...
Could Firefox's DoH promote OpenNIC somehow?
Wasm Column on Medium
not that I know anything but it seems like the decision was complex both to create the Alphabet and now to kind of merge it under one CEO.

I think some of the reasons could be they no longer see a risk of anti Monopoly regulation targeting them so they don't need to keep everything so divided. they genuinely want to give Sundar a go. They need a process to gradually fade out The original founders, but also importantly ensure those founders isolate their risk from any future missteps the companies take, and vice versa.

maybe the two co-founders were simply getting in the way.
I am a huge fan of serverless, and AWS as well.

I also find it deeply ironic that their solution to cold starts is to keep the function running 24/7...

Could I include openssh and Apache in my Lambda instance? Maybe run a Minecraft server? :P
I am at a point where I need to read at least 3 paragraphs just to understand what a new AWS service does.
A Reality Check on Quantum Computers
> quiet, neat, and über-efficient

I wish the same could be said for the Tokyo office I work in!
We've abandoned the pursuit of equality for the pursuit of equity.
If they are as a charity collecting money ostensibly needing it for their online encyclopedia they should disclose all this explicitly with dollar amounts.
I’ve heard that you can send the drives back without the enclosure and they have still honored the warranty. https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/am9vdv/easysto...
One the one hand, I'm glad they are using a trusted partner like Mullvad. On the other hand, why would you join a waitlist for a service that requires you to link your account to a US credit card--when you can literally mail cash to Mullvad and be completely anonymous.
It's a money sink right now, but has an obvious path to becoming a juggernaut.
Re 4, aren't Kubeflow and Lyft's recently open-sourced "Flyte" pretty similar?

If you don't consider them basically equivalent, what would you say are the key differences?
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16407678
On an OpenBSD box that is hardwired:

ping -c 5 70.224.224.253
PING 70.224.224.253 (70.224.224.253): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 70.224.224.253: icmp_seq=0 ttl=235 time=16.018 ms
64 bytes from 70.224.224.253: icmp_seq=1 ttl=235 time=13.120 ms
64 bytes from 70.224.224.253: icmp_seq=2 ttl=235 time=23.026 ms
64 bytes from 70.224.224.253: icmp_seq=3 ttl=235 time=13.656 ms
64 bytes from 70.224.224.253: icmp_seq=4 ttl=235 time=15.517 ms

Orange County, Spectrum cable. I used to get sub-10ms to us-east when I lived in Fairfax County, VA.
Wonder how much that lambda will cost you if it goes into an infinite loop
This feels like a step backwards to me, nevermind how necessary it may be. The magic was paying only for what you use on super bursty workloads.

Now this is like throwing your hands up and saying the users bursts are too big for AWS.
After going through a lot of marketing fluff, I landed on this useful page which explains Metaflow basics: https://docs.metaflow.org/metaflow/basics

Here's my understanding:

- It's a python library for creating & executing DAGs

- Each node is a processing step & the results are stored after each step so you can restart failed workflows from where it failed

- Tight integration with AWS ECS to run the whole DAG on cloud

I don't know why their .org site oddly feels like a paid SaaS tool. Anyway, thank you Netflix for open sourcing Metaflow.
On the other hand, Notion (http://notion.so/) had exactly same bug a few weeks ago in their Markdown editor, and they have fixed it.
We're off topic, but I also read it that way at first. The title could be less ambiguous. Setting the user data as X makes your interpretation much clearer:

> FBI asked Sony for X to sell cocaine

Where X = data on user who used PlayStation network.
I know my account is the one in green, but: you must be new here.
http://archive.is/p5DAW
It's not merely a 'dislike' though.

I've had arachnophobia (spiders). It feels like an intense, paranoid, startling horror which demands visual attention and quick jumping away of the body. If I know there's a spider nearby, I must be able to see it from a safe distance.

I have trypophobia (holes). It feels like my skin is crawling, like I'm being eaten alive from the inside, like my very essence of being is being violated by some cosmic plague, commanding me to look away and get as far away from the holed object as possible -- though without excessive urgency.

I can look at many things I dislike; many things I know for fact are dangerous. I can't look at certain kinds of clusters of holes.
I was with you until you blamed the government unions. That is emphatically not where regulatory happens, even though those unions themselves (in comparison to their beleguared private sector counterparts) are arguably an instance of regulatory capture.
Back in the day, reddit was definitely serving a couple million users with like three staff and on-prem servers.

and yeah, they were down all the time, but that didn't seem to matter to their growth.
The "approach from the direction you want to take styling from" breaks down when you cannot approach from the other direction, or if there are >2 possible insertion points in the middle of a piece of text. I'm going to use Markdown to show the markup in HN, but pretend like it's rich HTML:

A string that ends in *bold!*
//
AB

Only position A is possible in Firefox's "approach from" algorithm; there is no way to tack on non-bold text to the end, short adding it and then re-/unformatting it.

You can then pretty quickly see what goes wrong here:

A string that have *_italic bold_ and bold!*
///
ABC

In Firefox, only positions A and C are possible; there is no way to start editing at B.

I think you could turn any of these into interesting box forms like one of the links in this thread that has two colored boxes, and you could have text somewhere (like between A & B in the second example here) and delete that text, and suddenly not be able to get a cursor back there, short of laying some text down and reformatting it.

Markdown, and other markup/syntax based inputs, make this trivially obvious, to a large degree. (Some ambiguities in the syntax can cause issues, but those seem to be rarer than issues w/ Slacks WYSIWYG editor.)
I see why people love the plugin. One thing that stops me from using Vimium is it doesn't support opening links in a new window. I don't like tabs and use my window manager to, well, manage my windows. Not being able to open links with "f" or "F" in a new window is a deal breaker, unfortunately.
Checked and it behaves the same in Safari as Chrome so it appears this is left over from WebKit and by HN logic since Apple did it it's the right way! (jk)

Yes, I agree it should be fixed. Most WYSIWYG editors do have issues though. Just tried Pages (apple's word processor. abc <b>def</b>. Putting the cursor before after the space before the d I would personally think is more intuitive to insert bold but it inserts plain. As it is there is no way to type bold at the front of the bolded word. You either have to type new text and bold it OR you have to insert after the d, type a new text and an extra d then delete the leading d. Yes you can press Cmd-B then type but of course if the text had more styling applied that would get cumbersome to reapply styling so you're left with the previous solution of inserting new text in the middle and deleting the leading character.
What do you mean, "failure"? Google hasn't been hit with an antitrust lawsuit which makes it an unmitigated success!
"Unfortunately most common desktop players do not allow you to customize the cookies and headers sent with your request." I would have thought to set up a proxy and then to connect VLC to the proxy server.

They also mention encrypted servers. Can VLC make these authentication with your own keys?
Yep the worst flights I've been on are the cross country ones where I know my battery is low, there's no in seat AC outlet, and there's no wifi. Six hours of just staring at the seat in front of me, joy.
I don't like to complain about it, but since you raised it...

I was shocked by how quickly this was downvoted. It went to -4 in minutes! I didn't even think anything I said there was particularly controversial. I think it's pretty well established that social change is hard.
Merck’s NotPetya attack: Was it an act of war?
> but there's also the risk that reduced spending would cause reduced donations.

Reduced spending and reduced donations would be a good outcome for Wikipedia readers (especially in the long term). Lower running costs allows putting more current revenue towards that endowment, and means the future is a bit more sustainable in less favorable economic cycles.

Donations also don't exist in a vacuum; the best use of donors' limited money is probably not WMF burning a pile of it.

I'd encourage, for example, https://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities in place of WMF giving.
Addendum - You can mix and match what steps of the DAG run on the cloud.
CSD data calls are perfectly possible in GSM - your carrier can disallow them though. However, you usually feed and receive data to/from the modem in a different way than via its audio interface ;) Other than that, you're right. It's possible to come up with a way to pass data through GSM codec, but it definitely won't be a regular FAX connection then.
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That could be true, but communication has to be a point of evaluation for most jobs.
Disagree -- that's more confusing because the English use of parentheses is to encapsulate something that can be removed, so your version is equivalent to

> FBI asked Sony for to sell cocaine

I would instead group as follows

> FBI asked Sony for data on (user who used PlayStation network to sell cocaine)
Sorry, I meant committers. I'm asking since the link you posted talks about open source events and has some job postings. I was looking for actual contributions by Amazon employees.
It's not an admission of failure. Two businessmen created one of the most successful, influencial businesses ever and are passing the torch. They're rich AF and probably want to retire.
Not exactly what you were asking for, but I really like Soulver [1]. It's a natural-language-ish calculator. The interface is similar to a REPL where you can name/recall and evaluate. The only downside is it's a bit pricey at $30.

[1] https://soulver.app
While not exactly one item, Sapiens looks at history from the perspective of human shared fictions and is a good read https://www.amazon.com/product-reviews/B00ICN066A
Latinx is a term that USA whites prefer to use when referring to hispanic people or people from a country south of the USA.

It eliminates the misogyny that english-language-only whites read into romance languages.

Surveys show that only 2% of the people referred to as "Latinx" prefer that term. So the whole phenomenon is crazy to think about.

https://medium.com/@ThinkNowTweets/progressive-latino-pollst...
This would seem to be Exhibit A on why otherwise innocuous data collection by companies can come back to harm you.
I have trouble understanding why people get so worked up about it. I don't know what you people use your phones for, but all of my activities are incredibly boring. And the idea that my personal activity or data would be worth the effort to my employer, enough that they actually implement whatever they'd have to implement to snoop on me, is laughable.

I also don't freak out if there's a window open in my bedroom when I'm changing. The chances are small anyone wants to take a peek, and if they do it's not much skin off my back.

So, maybe there are just different kinds of people? The kind that irrationally think everyone is interested in snooping on them, and the kind who have more important things to worry about.
Small nitpick, finding/generating primes is already very efficient/easy, e.g. if you want a 1000-digit prime, then in that range about one in every 2300 is prime (by standard heuristics based on the prime number theorem), so if you try a few thousand random numbers and test them for primality (which is fast too), you'll have found a prime with high probability -- and this is even without trying to avoid obviously non-prime numbers like multiples of 2 or 3.

What is hard is factoring, i.e. finding the precise two primes p and q that were multiplied to result in pq. (In fact RSA relies on being able to pick two random primes easily, but which are hard to recover from their product.)
I saw a similar surreal thing in San Fransisco. I was in the back left seat of a Lyft when I saw a man who appeared to be homeless walk up to a parked car on the side of the road. The traffic light was red so we were stopped with several cars in front of and behind us. The man peered into the windows, picked up his skateboard and bashed the back left side window of the car. He started pull out a non-descript black suitcase. The hole wasn’t big enough, so he had to bash the window more. I’m stunned as he’s doing this and I said aloud “Is he breaking into that car?”. “...Yeah he is.” - The Lyft driver cautiously replied. He got on his skateboard and casually skated away with the black suitcase. What can you do when that happens? The cops don’t accept picture text messages yet. Can you just shoot these burglars on sight or do they have to be on your private property for that?
Germans Keep on Saving Their Money–Even When It Hurts
I would also add - dependency management (certain degree of reproducibility) as a first class feature leveraging conda.
Not the same thing but related for those who enjoy using/abusing dns for fun and profit:

https://github.com/yarrick/iodine

Allows exfiltrating data using dns.
Concert promoters turn away from facial recognition tech
I noticed this as well and updated my comment. Also, I don't think either of those examples work. It makes more sense to talk about an "order of operations"; unfortunately parenthesis in English are not used to specify an order of operations. In this case, the order of operations is ambiguous in the title.
having babies when you are an elderly woman (which is the age of 35 according to obstetricians) becomes more difficult with each passing year.
If it's an actual comment tree and not a single level that also mixes in multiple conversations, then it works. Otherwise, it's like trying to use something like Facebook for a discussion platform.

How would HN or reddit look like if every reply to a post also had a single level nested thread that actually consisted of multiple subthreads of conversations with everything at the same level of nesting? It would be much more difficult to follow different subtopics of interest since it would be impossible to filter out posts that aren't pertinent to it.
I think Nadella is a clear case of MS getting lucky. They picked a leader from their own ranks that transformed the company in a few short years. Given the names that were circulating for that role at the time, I don't think they could have done better. It's current valuation would not have happened ever under Balmer. Not even close. That's why he was pushed out. MS was down a path of slow decline and now they are not. There are plenty of big tech companies that technically still exist but are shadows of their former glory. E.g. HP, Oracle, IBM to name a few. MS was on a track of joining that list of has-beens.

Google is in a much better shape than MS just a few short years ago when they replaced Balmer (certainly financially). But yet I'm calling out that now is a good moment to prevent Google from going down that path any further. Sundar is in my view simply not the type of leader Google needs to prevent that.
This. Unless you are a big, important account, do not put anything you value on any of Google's platforms. There is a small, but non-zero, chance they'll randomly destroy it and ghost you.
As a 501(c)(3), it would be illegal for the Wikimedia Foundation to be purchased by any of the tech-giants -- or any other for-profit company, for that matter. In addition, all the content is under freely available licenses.

The most realistic but still bleak scenario I can think of is Wikipedia becoming infested with ads. Anything more extreme, we'd see a fork become popular.
Let me give you an example.

"Amazon EMR has been adding Spark runtime improvements since EMR 5.24, and discussed them in Optimizing Spark Performance. EMR 5.28 features several new improvements."

Have these improvements been contributed back to Spark? When I take a look at the improvements themselves, it looks like all Amazon did was upgrade Spark from 2.3 to 2.4.
It still has some warez you can't get else where, specifically some fiction books not on Libgen. The gap is closing though.
Better late than never I guess. It's pretty sad how little Craigslist has done to keep up with the times.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-spacex-starlink-airforce/...
It doesn't even make sense with the data being presented.

> After we burn through our reserves, it seems likely that the next step for the WMF will be going into debt to support continued runaway spending

Um, the graph shows that the reserves are increasing every year. Money in exceeds money out year after year.

As a grad student I made a total $1,300 per month, but ten years later I'm spending that on just housing costs. So what?
Google's cofounders remain in control of the company
. . . because if they had the necessary hardware, and expertise, they'd totally be dumb enough to leak evidence.
Used it all the time, and even more with now the Matrix bridge. The future bis bright please get off slack.
I disagree with your premise, since our current situation is that different students in the same major _already_ end up in different levels of aptitude by the end of their studies. Some far exceed that of the typical student.

Preserve the ability for those with this level of prior experience or aptitude to thrive, while providing support for those who do not have this head start but could either (a) Catch up, given the right initial environment and ramp up, or (b) never catch up to the most well equipped students, but will still be proper graduates of the program.
Akira: Production
Because they have limited resources and have to support existing customers? And they were doing the right thing by contributing everything back to the open source community and weren't expecting Amazon to offer a service?
So much this. I don’t mind running interviews, but I don’t think I’m particularly good at running them, especially in the “making the candidate feel comfortable” angle. With engineering having such an outsized proportion of introverts and, for the lack of a better term, oddballs, we could take a better look at who _should_ be interviewing.
Just tried 'gi' with Firefox Vimium, seems like it will not set focus to inputs not currently in viewport.
My parents had an LP of Mom Always Liked You Best, and we listened to it countless times when I was growing up in the 80s and 90s. I just played it for my 13-year-old, who found it exactly as hilarious and relatable as I did. (Even when I was a kid I had no idea who Frank Gorshin was; the pop cultural references were old back then when I listened to it!)

Highly recommend listening to them.
Do you think the numbers would change appreciably if the entire hiring process was boiled down to a multiple-choice exam, with no humans besides the applicant involved, which chose who gets hired based on the first applicant to pass it?
Why doesn't amazon just let you know?
Looks like the Amazon Mechanical Turk workers are out in full force to downvote.