skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Creators are already getting nickel and dimed. One of my big things when I was managing musicians (really my friends whose work I loved) was I continually refused to step into the that thick miasma of profiteering others in the industry practiced.

Many musicians, for example, make less than 50 percent on distribution deals with their labels. I'm leading with this because 5 percent on top of CC payment processors' 30 cents + 2.whatever% is completely unethical from where I'm standing. You can integrate Fosspay [1] with fewer bells and whistles but totally free except for CC processors' cut (exorbitant as that in itself may be).

We need to stop inserting ourselves between creators and their money. It isn't worth whatever valuation we're fetching and it doesn't justify making us rich while creators gratefully accept their pittance.

[1] https://github.com/ddevault/fosspay

EDIT: The word "free" is tossed around so frequently on https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ko-fi-alternative I feel I have to re-check my own reality of what free means. The service is very much not free when the price is being extracted from every purchase a customer makes.
P.S. He hated magical realism - sorry Clive!

The most overrated books almost all emerged simultaneously from a single genre: magic realism.

I can’t stand it.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/05/clive-james-bo...
Hi Luke M Smith, how's it going? I love your channel.
Could Larry and Sergey start a new business? I bet they would enjoy that and likely succeed again.
How Scientific American Ended Up at the Center of a Massive Twitter War
I came across your twitter profile a couple of times, wasn't it called brew before? It was initially something like a patreon clone then became a podcasts app if IIRC and now it looks like you're back to buy me a coffee. Can you talk a little about the journey of what you learned through the different pivots and what you learned along the way? Can you also talk about your experience in YC? Good luck.
Hell, you can experience it first hand as a programmer. I could technically work on any programming job, from databases to JavaScript to game engines to machine learning, just like a lawyer could technically be any type of lawyer.

But it is way, way easier for me to get a job doing the exact same type of programming I've been doing for the last decade, in the same environment, and I get paid way, way more to do that, because my specific experience makes me so much more valuable.
That’s a little like asking why your grandmother isn’t in a list of your cousins
Android Firefox Preview Beta Reaches Another Milestone
Elvis hasn’t been maintained since 2012 :-(
Segment (YC S11) is hiring engineers to join our billing team and help us scale
If you are willing to spend 1M a year and think permanent residence is a draw then you can just go with the EB1 GC and it will cost much less.
Do you have a list of open source committees accessible somewhere?
> I enjoyed that book so much

Book? As I recall, "Nightfall" was a novelette length story, published in the book, "Nightfall and Other Stories". Or are you are referring to the expanded book length version written by Asimov and Robert Silverberg?
This is good for privacy, but can this way of not wiring the microphone directly would also be helpful to do recordings and to send/receive faxes, or does that not work?
Perhaps because the dog would know the agents?
Which antibiotic would this be?
The percentage of undergrad women CS majors didn't change significantly between 2015 and 2016.

It appears to be slightly lower (26% vs. 30%) on the 2016 chart because that chart includes grad students.

However, even if the percentage of undergrad majors had dropped from 2015 to 2016, that by itself wouldn't tell us anything about the retention or graduation rate over time, since we don't know what the breakdown was for 2015 graduates, CS majors declared or dropped in 2016, etc..
Dask is great if you want to distribute your algorithms / data processing at a granular level. Metaflow is a bit more "meta" in a sense that we take your Python function as-is, which may use e.g. Tensorflow and PyTorch, and we execute it as an atomic unit on a container. This is useful, since you can use any existing ML libraries.

I am not familiar with Prefect.
I think it's very likely that they wanted you to question the ethics there. I don't know what your interview was like though.

Googler, opinions are my own.
It’s my understanding that most proper red teams and hacking groups have their own custom payloads that generally won’t be detected by AV. Surely any open source malware will be easily detectable...?

Additionally, I’ve never understood how packers don’t get detected by AV. Normal software isn’t typically extremely high entropy, is it?
Interesting - does the Apple Watch Nike sport band (with holes) inspire the same revulsion from you?
Eventually, but the founder/CEO/CTO is still going to be core to the sales process.
>> If the percentage of female computer science graduates (as a strong proxy for the available candidate population) is 18%

Perhaps employers can expand the search to those with degrees in statistics, mathematics, physics, econometrics?

What I've seen time and time again is that when people dont want to hire, they come up with excuse after excuse. When they really want to hire [a VP's brother-in-low, or whatever], even the flimsiest of cases suddenly get made for the hire.

I'd say, we should look think bigger.
What about their AI botnets that have infiltrated every internet connected digital device, and report back any red flags?

When their "Confidential Digital Source" says to raid grandma's house, the FBI humans go in with guns, and grandma is dead. Oopsie.
Here's a link to an article by the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/aug/08/why-are.... It was published in 2017. The third paragraph points out that 20% of Google engineers are women, and they further go on to claim that statistic is roughly matched among big tech companies. I work for a large employer (30K+ employees), and 4 of the 5 software developer managers I interact with on a daily basis are women. I work on a team of 8 developers. We have one female developer. Two of our sibling teams of about the same size have three female developers between them.
I’m not at the stage where our family has a nice one. Kids don’t care if quality is bad :)

It is fun having a >100” screen with a laser projector. I haven’t seen any of the new ones in person, but plan to get one some day.
Have you considered contacting the airport / TSA?
That's not what we were finding in our bill. Maybe it's the way we provisioned the VMs or something. But we don't have this issue with Azure. We can see the daily cost associated with the disks.
So stop implementing WYSIWYG if its a buggy piece of crap across the board.
I don’t understand your argument at all.

First, we aren’t talking about the whole US — California is literally in the title of the article. And it’s explicitly calling out SF and the Bay Area for most of the article (Scott Weiner, from SF, is the impetuous).

The idea that normalizing car theft is a good thing is indefensible. You’re advocating for harming others, as well as creating a lawless society. To attempt to say this presents a solution is to ignore how we got to this place, recognizing there are plenty of other ways to address these issues.

My point about Japan was not that it’s the same as the US, but rather cultural changes affect rates of criminal behavior. It’s one potential avenue that’s ignored in public debate in the US that costs no money but has great baring on our collective future.
That’s a really bad excuse, and probably not true. If he didn’t want to be distracted, he could have simply not looked at twitter. Musk’s offer was obviously sincere, and if Unsworth found it unhelpful, the adult response is to politely decline.

If you instead go to the media and pick a fight by using inflammatory claims and insults, you should not be surprised if someone hits back harder. To then go crying to the courts about defamation over a fight you started is just being an opportunistic weasel.
After Brin’s affairs came to light, Page was so pissed off, he didn’t talk to him for many months. They might not be best friends at this point.
Isn't this the case for most businesses

Yes. If it's a business (as opposed to, say, a hobby), success lies in being good at the administrative side. Even something that's kinda both like Linux: every interview I've read with Linus T in the last decade or two he makes it very clear he spends virtually all of his time managing administrative tasks.
RIP D.C. Fontana, the Legendary Writer Who Helped Star Trek Soar
There is a similar push for "women in statistics", "women in mathematics", etc.
I actually think that is fine; private messages and private channels should not have public logs, but public channels should have public logs in plaintext. However, I think IRC is better than Discord, and it is possible in IRC to have server-side logging if the server software implements this (as far as I know, mine is the only one that does), without altering the protocol. But making logs with a special client is also possible (also without altering the protocol) and seems to be much more common in my experience.
Instead of getting economists and statisticians involved, why not just encourage companies to fund the educations of demographics of workers they're trying to recruit?

Not only is there a financial incentive (if you get people new to the field, you can pay them less until they get a new job or sufficient raises, and this is a benefit for both parties due to the lessened educational cost), it also creates loyalty out of almost nothing.

If not university classes or a bootcamp-like setup, apprenticeships would probably work amazingly for the purpose.
They must. We all just handed over our passorts and paperwork. It was really, really unexpected when one of the guys was told they could not enter. Root cause was the DUI in the US. Very much threw a wet blanket on what is a great trip.

The guy who had the issue never camped with us again, even on the US side. Not fun.
It’s in San Jose.
How to force this option for the whole organization/workspace?
It is a curious phenomenon.

https://womenintheworld.com/2018/02/27/study-finds-women-in-...
The burden on the state for a search warrant is also hilariously bad/low; basically they can say whatever fantasies they like in a warrant application to a court and they will almost always get rubber stamped.

The idea that you need probable cause for a search warrant in the USA is only plausible to someone who hasn’t read very many of them that bear a judge’s signature. Doubly so when computers of any kind are involved.

Whenever you see the phrase “based on my training and experience”, a colossal steaming heap is almost always about to immediately follow.

“Only disclosed upon a valid warrant” is no privacy protection whatsoever.
Is the pipeline in other degrees any better? And more importantly, why is it even a suggestions to look for other degrees when searching for candiate just to fill out diversity quota?

Just to be clear, I am not saying there is anything wrong with looking for candidates from those areas, companies should, and already did source candidates from more than CS degrees. But the company should do that because those candidates were qualified, not because they have to hire to sastify a demographic composition requirements for the company
Ask HN: What is best site to get customer feedback?
I am preparing to get some user feedback on my site, and have the following options:
https://www.usertesting.com/
https://userbob.com/
https://www.ubdi.com/individuals/how-it-works
https://www.prolific.co/

Has anyone used any of the above services? If so, I appreciate your feedback.

Alternatively, I could buy some FB or Google ads to my landing page and try and setup a hangouts call with every person that enters their email address. Any feedback on this?
I believe hacker hostels like the one represented on SV are a thing of the past. Prevalent in the late 90s and early 2000s. Several folded around 2010 and my buddies around San Jose say they haven’t heard of any in 5-6 years. Interested to hear other people’s input as well. Have wondered myself.
Isn't your time more valuable working than training?

I did a bootcamp full time M-F for 3 months, there was an instructor and two assistants, and there were a handful of us capable of being productive.... that's a lot of time you spend to get a few of us.
I think that’s quite extreme, but ok. Would you feel better if I bullet pointed a list of reasons I feel it’s scary? Or is that also unsubstantive because it’s about a country?
Well, there is the case of the parrot trained to alert its drug-trafficking owners when the police were nearby.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/parrot-dru...
I agree completely. I switched to ERC back in the day because it was the best way to get vi keybindings in my IRC sessions.
Who the fuck is Sundar? No last name?
Just do the needful.
Sucks to be Google, a shell of what it once was. So evil now.
Not necessarily "charities" but organizations I have donated to in the past include:

ACLU - for the work they do on civil liberties cases.

EFF - for the work they do defending electronic / digital rights.

Free Software Foundation - because I support Free Software.

Libertarian Party - to promote Liberty.

NRA - because I strongly support the Second Amendment and am a gun owner.

Gun Owners of America - because I strongly support the Second Amendment and am a gun owner.

Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership - because I strongly support the Second Amendment and am a gun owner.

Citizens Committee For The Right To Keep and Bear Arms -because I strongly support the Second Amendment and am a gun owner.

Second Amendment Foundation - because I strongly support the Second Amendment and am a gun owner.

Grassroots NC - because I strongly support the Second Amendment and am a gun owner

UNC Public Television - historically mostly because of Doctor Who, but they provide tons of great content.

NPR - I don't always agree with the slant of some of their reporting, but it counter-balances other competing biased sources.

Wikipedia - Just because.
I’m not sure I believe that. I was terrified of spiders since I was a little kid. I couldn’t touch the pages of the nature picture books my parents bought me before I could read. Neither of my parents were afraid of spiders, but they freaked my young self out. It’s gotten better now and I can coexist with them, but I would still freak out if a spider were on me. Thinking about it is increasing my pulse as I write this.
Just give me what I search for, no filters, no bullshit.
Not really. I've seen that kind of imagery on the internet and even the worst ones give me bearly noticeable uneasiness.

I want to try to recreate that first thing that triggered me. Maybe physical object will work stronger than images or some specific proportions between hole size, distance, shading, randomness.

It wasn't even revulsion. Just a feeling it's dangerous or somehow evil. Despite full knowledge it's not because I just made it with perfectly safe ingredients that don't react to create something worse.
Would you like to explain what is correct, then?
Unfortunately, I don't see anyone pushing to improve boys' reading skills.
No, that’s not the one. This was definitely shopped to depict occupied holes in a person.
Lesson on HN: This comment got a whole bunch of upvotes, and a few hours later, super downvoted. I think we've learned something unfortunate about what the global community here wants to see happen :(
There is no explanation of how you use my email address before providing it. If this is a free service then I assume that I am the product. There is no privacy policy. Conventional wisdom would say that only a fool would enter their address to that form. I could check the copyright or the whois and try to track down some semblance of trustworthiness but on its face this is too suspicious to trust with contact information.
Available next year it seems. Will be on the lookout.
Google kept deprecating its use of the phrase "don't be evil" and now almost a footnote in its code of conduct.
It’s from Facebook’s Red Team, which attacks Facebook and tries to move laterally like a real, motivated, and persistent attacker. They build some nice tooling, sometimes more advanced and well thought than what attackers actually use to stay under the radar and accomplish their objectives. This one is one of the many.
I was a user of GCP. Documentation lied to me back in January and cost me over $1000 of my personal money. I got assigned a support case, and had absolutely no reply until April, when I had confirmation that there was indeed a bug in the system from Google engineers, and that they planned to fix it. In the meantime, I switched off of GCP. Their only consolation was a coupon that insisted that I keep on using GCP, which would have eaten through my money again.

I somehow got CC'd to an internal Google system, Buganizer, which has done nothing but leak a bunch of internal communications, including some small code patches to GCP infrastructure itself.

My support request has not been updated, but Buganizer has let me know that they supposedly updated the documentation mid-November to fix it, but the rephrased advice still was not correct based on my interpretation of the issue. The bug is still open.
Tags are immutable, the tag would still point to the original commit. There's no uncertainty at all.
The difference here is that Page and Brin have always been willing to give up the CEO seat i.e. day to day operations.

They're 100% still in control of direction and people will always treat them as the boss (esp voting power), but the dynamic will not have nearly as much friction.
the moment they abuse their control, everyone else will stop their dependence on it. that means they have a responsibility to keep this balance or lose control of it.

They're already abusing their control, all other countries are helpless.

legacy systems are mainly an issues for hospitals, and if necessary, the governments (who pays for these hospitals anyway) would afford a switch. the US is more vulnerable for something like this since their hospitals are private.

I guarantee you it'd take more than a decade to switch from ICANN.

the US performs coups in third-world countries struggling with stability. they have never attempted a coup in a well organized country with strong ties.

This is ahistorical.

both of these are building their own as we speak. for the very reason we're having this argument.

Russia isn't building a genuine alternative, and China, while they already have a genuine alternative, would be committing suicide to deprecate any service controlled by ICANN.
Wow. Thank you! 4+ years of using slack and this is one of a genuinely useful things I just learned.
Hi there sorry about that - to clarify, there _is_ a paid upgrade (the core product is, and always will be, free). To be clear, we in no way sell your information to 3rd parties.

I apologize there is no privacy policy in place at the moment. I will get that in place ASAP.

EDIT: You can find our privacy policy here: https://adventurekeep.com/privacy
Oh yeah, Internet Archive. Good call. I need to add them to my list. They do, indeed, do super valuable work.
Yes because colos never have a problem with reliability and most companies have better managed infrastructure than AWS/Azure/GCP.

How many companies need higher reliability than you get from any of the cloud vendors if you architect your site to across multiple AZ’s or multiple regions?

And “running your setup” means duplicating functionality on VMs where you could use managed offerings - the absolutely most expensive and least reliable way of using cloud providers and it costs more in time and resources to manage.

And you are ignoring how much money you can save by not needing as many infrastructure people.

Heck, half the time you can get away with having a much cheaper shared services/managed service provider.

Are all of the companies big and small who are using cloud vendors proprietary solutions delusional?
This is known as the Gender-equality paradox
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-equality_paradox
Normal phones can record phone calls, right? I assume that this wouldn't make anything possible that isn't already possible. But, again, I really don't know what I'm talking about here, this is just my understanding from what I've read.
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Slack used to care about user choice, such as providing a IRC gateway. All of those customizable features have been walked back in favor of “its not us, it’s you” mentality.
Voltus | Full Stack/Backend | NY/Remote | Full-Time

We are a team of engineers and energy experts working to get our customers paid for using less energy. Our customers are energy consumers (factories, skyscrapers, warehouses, steel mills...) who will commit to curtailing their demand on a signal from us. We aggregate those "curtailable" buildings into virtual power plants that we sell to utilities and other buyers in wholesale energy markets, splitting the revenue with our customers. Our virtual power plants are cleaner and cheaper than the coal and oil plants they replace.

Along the way we have to solve some hard problems:

- trade energy in an international patchwork of wholesale power markets
- convince a wide variety of factory foreman and building managers to cease their operations when they would really rather not
- make hundreds of commercial and industrial buildings behave like a single, reliable generator in every way

We're currently hiring for full-stack and backend roles--check our posts for more info. https://www.voltus.co/join-us
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They are building what they want. More power to them for making a tool that works for them first and not chasing every flight of fancy. I respect that philosophy because it's given me more of what I actually want and use in a platform than anything since Python. It's not for everybody but for those of us who really like it this is a relief from all the overcomplicated snake oil that's been shoved down our throats for the last 20 years.
> That code have conduct I linked tries to explain how evil is defined

You don't need to define evil for us. Small children know evil when they see it. People are quite capable of gleaning a person's or group of people's intent from their actions.

When you start needing to define what evil is, you've lost the debate entirely.
There was a piece on PBS Newshour recently about older workers (largely skilled blue collar) staying on longer with verious incentive because employers couldn't find skilled replacements.

What stuck me as ridiculous was some owner who said something about having invested 30 years in these guys. He hadn't invested shit as far as I could see. He has a handfull of employees that had invested in their own skills. If he had invested in his employees he have a new generation ready or almost ready to step up as one retired.
Does it need to be HTML? SVG is easy to generate programmatically, and doesn't need to be converted.
Complete lunacy. I've done 5,000 miles in 5 days (with meetings! and some sleep, i think) which will continue to satisfy me as the peak level of crazy i wish to indulge in.

These fellers pegged the meter.
End-to-End Encryption: A Problem
I'm actually surprised accessibility movements haven't standardized an HTML tag or a meta attribute that specifies that the site has certain phobia-inducing images. It would allow people with certain phobias to avoid seeing such images (e.g. images could be auto-blanked, text blurred).
Reminds me of one of my favorite scifi short stories - Finis. I won't spoil it here, but it's definitely worth a read.