skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The internet, even "big tech" platforms with 1000 different ML algorithms for downranking and banning things, is just a different medium than broadcast media altogether, so there's bound to be tension between tech companies and broadcast media, even ignoring the whole ad money thing. There's so much going on at the same time and there's just no presumption that any particular piece of content is authoritative or popular like there is on TV or in a newspaper.

To put it another way, it seems like it's not just about the difference between the framing of the "big story" on the NBC evening news and on TruthS33k3r_42's channel; it seems more about the difference between having or caring about a single story at all, and perhaps just chatting on Discord/forums/Twitter/Messenger about something completely separate.
Not dumber, but easily influenced by lies. Similar to how scammers prey on the elderly.
From my brief look at Coast it reminds me of Compojure. https://github.com/weavejester/compojure
Under this definition, how would you classify geography? Many people could contribute to America's top level countries but are not able to because of immigration policies.
I watched a documentary once that demonstrated how smart chimps are but the main point of it was to demonstrate how they do not pass on much to their offspring. Also it theorised that this is why humans didn't co-opt chimps. You can't communicate with them. A relatively dumb dog is better.

i/o is more important than calculation when it comes to getting things done.
You're not actually supporting your claims, just asking us to share your assumption that "psychological and physiological differences" makes more sense than "discrimination". Look: all you have to do is swap the two explanations and it functions just as strongly as an argument against.

> In practice, the kind of differences in performance and achievement that would be explained by [discrimination] are immediately blamed on [psychological and physiological differences between men and women]. There is an implicit assumption that men and women are [inherently different], which leads to the conflation of equality of opportunity with [disparity of outcome], exaggerating the effects of [inherent differences] and leading to poor allocation of resources in an attempt to correct a "problem" without consideration for part of all of the actual cause.
Ah, right you are. Now I'm really sad.
> Even if this is completely true, it does not absolve the driver of any responsibility, so I don't really see the point of bringing it up.

It does if your only choice is using it or not.

Being responsible is about making choice to reduce risk. If you are required to use a car to sustains the current society and you have no control over the risk of the car, how can you be the one responsible for what it does?

> When this day comes, who the operator is may change, but there is still an operator somewhere deploying and managing these vehicles to hold accountable.

My point is that this "operator" will be the manufacturer.

> If the taxi you're riding in is involved in a collision, you're not responsible.

Thanks for the perfect example to support my case. At one point owning a car will be just like going into a taxi. You wouldn't be responsible for an accident caused by the taxi driver, why would you be if it was a virtual one? Sure if you still had a wheel, but that's certainly not the future we are going toward.
- Because women are discriminated against

- How do you know that?

- Because women told us!!
I wrote a short summary on the situation for my English-speaking friends and would like to share here too.

Introduction

nginx is one of the most popular web-server software, used by hundreds of millions of websites worldwide. It was written by Igor Sysoev in early 2000s, was released and is maintained as an open source software.

At the time of initial release Igor was working for Rambler (a Russian internet company). In 2011 Igor and his partners founded a BVI company Nginx Inc. to provide commercial products and support for the software. The nginx software remained (and still remains) open source. They raised some VC financing and in 2019 were finally acquired by a public company F5 Networks, Inc. for an impressive $670 million.

What has happened?

Today Igor and his partner Maxim Konovalov were arrested in Moscow and are being interrogated. A search is performed in Moscow office of the company. It became public that Rambler filed a lawsuit for breaking its IP rights on nginx.

It might look like a typical IP ownership conflict, but there are details:
a) Worldwide internet infrastructure relies heavily on nginx.
b) People are under arrest, which illustrates a serious intention and may lead to unpleasant consequences.
c) It all happened some months after a successful acquisition, while Rambler was aware of nginx for more than 15 years since the date of the initial nginx release.

What's next?

It is extremely unlikely that Internet will meet any short-term consequences. No, there's no way to turn down nginx remotely, there's no backdoors, etc – so Internet is safe.

No, there is no chance that Russian secret service or someone else will use this situation to introduce some backdoors to nginx server. As any popular open-source software, nginx is developed by hundreds of independent individuals from various countries. The source code is always publicly available, and each developer is highly aware about security.

Long-term consequences are possible, including decline in nginx popularity and development of alternative software. If nginx will be forced to change its licence or shut down, it's very likely that community will instantly make a fork and/or a complete rewrite of this webserver under a new name (which has happened before to MySQL, for instance).

We all hope that this conflict will be resolved, and Igor and Maxim will be safe and sound. All we can do now is spread this information in as straight and clear way.
Here are some snippets from Archivists that are actively talking about this:

>1. Archiving isn't just capturing data or downloading it, it's making it available into the future. Without an intense amount of planning around that, the act of capturing is pointless.

>2. We don't need all of Yahoo Groups. We need a subset of Yahoo Groups. Choosing what, exactly, is worth keeping is called appraisal in the archives world - not like monetary appraisal but cultural appraisal.

>3. We also don't need all of Yahoo Groups because hoarding data long-term is terrible for the environment. Digital preservation is also terrible for the environment. So we should be extremely judicious about what digital content we choose to attempt to retain permanently.

>4. It's an incredible violation of privacy and doesn't align with the ethics of the archives profession to collect all that data without permission from the people involved, especially in the case of private groups. People should also have the right to be forgotten.

>It’s also part of a long-term pattern of IA (and this dude in particular) deciding to “archive” things that people have not given consent for—and, in some cases, have explicitly asked not to be preserved.
There’s another gendered element here: IA tends to get tons of accolades and funding, and is largely seen as a group of do-gooder dudes just trying to preserve the internet. Meanwhile they routinely ignore or denigrate the work of librarians and archivists trained in digital preservation—professions that are overwhelmingly gendered as female.

>Plus Jason Scott is generally a dick to anyone who brings up any ethical qualms about their work (and he has a stupid hat in his avatar.)
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You're talking right past the comment you're replying to. "Why not medicine? Why not Law?" is straightforwardly explained by the original theory (higher status/stability), yet you're bringing them up as if they're counter examples.
You can hit 60fps without too much difficulty with GHC's default GC. You just have to take some care about allocations and working set (maybe do some work to move stuff into compact regions or off-heap via FFI) and maybe write some critical path stuff in C.

And the new latency-optimized GC landing in GHC 8.10 will help as well.

No different than gamedev on the JVM or other GCed runtimes.
It's good that the article mentions poverty and interest in STEM, but they plotted the participation in STEM against Gender Equality instead of say, affordability to survive on minimum wage. They are literally quoting a study on the effects of basically poverty of a country, and then decide to plot against gender gap? Seems like they are trying to sell a narrative instead of understanding the issue fully.

It also seems odd the amount of information they glance over to create their narrative.

In the article, there's a video that mentions a ton of facts.

Among the facts: Women make up 18% of CS engineers. 1:4 computing jobs are held by women. I'm no math genius, but this actually seems to dispel the myth of women just aren't hired in tech. I mean, if they are 18% of CS engineering graduates, you'd expect them to hold slightly < 1:5 computing jobs, not 1:4.
> In fact, medicine isn't even an undergraduate major (although some universities will offer a 'pre-med' major, but not many).

This is a US-centric view - most people do in fact study medicine right out of school. It is interesting though that the definition of what constitutes a field vary quite greaty around the globe.
You're right there are a bunch of software development jobs out there! Certainly enough that any skilled developer can find one.

That being said, for me as a manager, I like to hire people who demonstrate the ability to repeatedly ship products. It helps if they've owned that product from conception, through delivery all the way to support. That's a skill that is in great demand and I've never been disappointed when hiring someone with a great project portfolio on Github.
If you take this "burner" to your home or place of work it would be trivial to identify the owner.
Measuring gate width also stopped being relevant. Densities continue to increase, and significantly so, despite gate-width staying relatively constant.

A 45nm process:

i7-880, 45nm
774 million transistors
296 mm2

A "14nm" process:

i7-6700k, 14nm
1.75 billion transistors
122 mm²

That's still a huge increase in density. It no longer means what it used to, but the spirit of the definition is still very much alive.
They can do it to anyone.

Putting the words “Privacy“ and “Google” in the same sentence is a permanent oxymoron in my view.
The problem is the recruiters - how much justice would it be for someone to start a recruiting agency and say to applicants, 'oh you have recruiting experience? yeah...well, we're looking people with a different skillset.'
Just turn of mobile data. and wifi.
> Ban non-geographically targeted political ads.

This actually sounds like a good idea. Ads about issues pertaining a whole region should be seen by the whole region.

> Create a public repository of all political ads.

Doesn't this exist already? https://www.facebook.com/ads/library/

> The only proper solution, of course, is breaking up Facebook into, at the very least, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.

Not saying this wouldn't be good, but how would this help with the whole content moderation debacle? It looks to me like Twitter, YouTube, etc has the same issue. This specific problem doesn't sound like something that would be magically fixed if there was more competition, though I might be wrong.
Or perhaps more importantly, if Robinhood fails do you actually get to keep the shares like with a traditional broker or do "your" fractional shares disappear with the company?
> I guess everyone who ever had the means to create an endowment for a school is a criminal, then.

Yes. That money should have been fairly balanced to the education system before it ever entered the robber baron's hands.
Could you share why 10.9 is so appealing to you? I am not a Mac user so very curious.
> Also I swear they have regional accents to their calls.

Its actually true they do this. Two noted ornithologist's describes it in one of their books on crows:

As ornithologist John M. Marzluff and author Tony Angell noted in their 2005 book In the Company of Crows and Ravens, the calls these birds use "vary regionally, like human dialects that can vary from valley to valley." And there's more: If a crow changes its social group, the bird will try to fit in by talking like the popular guys. "When crows join a new flock," Marzluff and Angell wrote, "they learn the flock's dialect by mimicking the calls of dominant flock members."
Rock and Roll while coding: yes! Electronica, synth, chill, film soundtrack: yes!

Bach? No! Bach stops me in my tracks and I'm forced to devote my attention. Mozart? I'm apparently allergic to bad performances because unless the performance is perfect, the music... fails.

Beethoven? Yes! Not sure why, though.
Nobody is denying the statistics.
If Edward Snowden is to be believed then you can only be sure your phone is truly off when the battery is out.
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> You use the word "simple," but it sounds like you mean something more like "familiar."

Guilty as charged. I needed to hear that :)
But Robinhood will next year according to the announcement: Starting early next year, we’ll support Dividend Reinvestment Plan (DRIP) and Recurring Investments. Automatically reinvest cash dividends back into your stocks and ETFs, and schedule recurring investments
Fractional shares are common when using DRIPs (Dividend ReInvestment Plans) which basically just use all dividend proceeds to purchase more shares instead of paying out in cash. Since then entire amount is used, you always get a fractional share since it would be very rare to get a dividend that is an exact multiple of the market price.

My understanding is that the way this works is that the broker will generally already have an inventory of all of the stocks that are regularly traded through them and simply carve up your fractional allocation from this inventory. When you purchase shares through a broker they can simply sell you the shares directly out of their inventory if they can match the market price. They will even get a small incentive to do this since it produces order flow (volume) without hitting the exchange directly.

This also helps with order clearing (the T+3 rule for ownership transfer). Since the broker is selling out of their inventory, it is virtually guaranteed that your order will clear. When transferring shares between institutions, it's possible that this process will fail and you will be notified that your order wasn't able to be fulfilled. It's rare, but can happen.

While purchasing fractional shares outright is somewhat new, the concept itself has been around for a while and I've had DRIPs at multiple different brokers. I was even able to get fractional shares of high priced preferred stocks going for $1,000+ market per share.

Anyways, that's my experience.
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This isn’t really a new thing, DRIPs have had this forever, but nice to see it available especially when looking at purchases like AMZN where maybe you can only afford purchase 2.75 shares or something.
Once a year, the furries gather in Chicago.

It's quite a sight.
Nothing better than this kind of explanations to get convinced to try something, genuine passion seeps through your words.

You might just have fixed a couple of problems with your tool, thanks!
The essays at the top of recipes are about creating "romance", and often are intended for people as much as (or more than) SEO. They are intended to create empathy from the recipe reader toward the writer and establish certain bonafides, most of which are inconsequential to the recipe itself but help separate one recipe website and/or one recipe author/collector/distributor from another. It's actually something that goes way back in recipe books, where a lot of classic, well respected recipe books for centuries have always put the work into an introduction chapter describing the author, what their passions are, how they approach recipes. It helps sell recipe books and helps aspiring and/or home chefs see things like "oh, this author is just like me" or "if this person can make this recipe, so can I". It's just that on the internet when you are looking for one specific recipe that "introduction chapter" starts to have to move into every single recipe because people aren't going to pick up your website or blog like a book, they are going to go straight to a single page. Though even that isn't entirely unique in the world of cookbooks: there are also old traditions of narrative recipe books that treat the cookbook as a diary of sorts laying out the author's discovery and interest in every single recipe. Sometimes people want a story to go with your dry lists of ingredients and otherwise boring step-by-step directions.

It emphasizes the art in cooking, that it isn't just boring "food chemistry", but that it is a way for people to connect to each other. Even if it didn't help with SEO, there are probably lots of recipe bloggers that would do it anyway because it shows passion, love for the art, narrative hooks for the reader to explore who they are, their creativity, and/or their other interests outside of just their kitchen.
Yes, exactly? Why wouldn't I rather hire someone who is usually available at anytime vs. someone who needs to leave at 5pm every day, constantly taking days off to deal with issues with their kids or their school, constantly bringing germs into the office and so on?
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If I believed in god, I'd say that mathematics is indeed a gift from the all-powerful.
I've hired tons of developers with 15+ years of experience! A lot of them have amazing OSS contributions. Some don't but all can talk in depth about projects they've delivered.

Hiring based on open source contribution isn't the only signal one can look at, it's just a very strong one (the strongest in my experience).

I'll add that not all developers with 15+ years of experience can ship software. Many have let their skills deteriorate or never pushed themselves to learn new things. It's yet another reason a strong personal portfolio is a good signal.
I'll be honest: if you have one person who spends 8 hours a day practicing a talent, and another who spends 10 or 12 hours a day practicing their talent, which is going to be better at that skill? Having lots of open source code to read demonstrates in public the prospect's talent for writing code, has examples of their collaboration with others, etc, but also simply means they spend more time writing code and getting good at it, on a broader variety of projects, with a greater diversity of collaborators.

Yes, it's unfair, and if we're just arguing on a sense of lofty idealism, I agree that you shouldn't have to sacrifice your off-hours. But the truth of it is, people who don't code in their spare time aren't as good at it, and people who do are not only more skilled, but are easier to evaluate.
How did you jump to the wild conclusion that I was calling for outlawing bitcoin? That's pretty paranoid and presumptuous of you -- I must have touched a nerve. And your "whataboutism" example of conventional fraud certainly doesn't justify Bitcoin fraud.

There are already laws on the books against fraud. My point is that Bitcoin investors are idiots, and that CMU shouldn't be teaching their students to run Ponzai schemes and break existing laws by taking advantage of idiots. I'm not calling for outlawing idiocy. They got what they deserved.
It's not clear to me what app or service provided / recorded the user locations that were turned over?

Does this have to do with Pixel phones? Or the Google Maps record of a person's device location (which goes across many device types and doesn't even require smartphone)?
It's just another form of tribalism, picking teams, and blindly supporting your chosen team.

Religion is the same, pick a team and throw critical thinking out the window.

Supporting police vs. the criminals, there's an implicit dichotomy: who do you support? if you're not with us, you're against us. You don't support the criminal team, do you? Go blue! Blue lives matter!

Employment: which company is your team? You must be employed, now go choose one, and let your employer even define talking points for defending its poor behavior at family gatherings. [0]

Politics: Red or Blue, pick one and always vote your color no matter what the consequences.

Once people are engaging in teams, they're largely no longer thinking critically about the substance anymore. It's no longer relevant, the priority is being aligned with their peers.

It's quite dangerous, like mob mentality.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/krisholt/2019/12/02/facebook-ma...
I'm totally in agreement that that would be discriminatory. And no doubt hiring managers are sadly looking for quantity and crazy amounts of open source wizardry. But I have a slightly alternative take that might be helpful for folks struggling with this problem of "Job interviews want open source, and I just can't contribute."

I've been on both sides of this table quite a bit as an employee and as someone who hires a lot for like 20 years.

As an employer, what I like to look for when I ask for a GitHub profile is not that I'm seeing an insane prolific coder who will only spend time at work and on my business or "bleeds code". What I'm looking for is a signal that this person has the wherewithal to communicate code to a larger audience. Can they make their PR readable to someone else? Can they ship a project no matter how small that would make sense to an outsider? Can they teach other devs? Can they find things to abstract that someone else would find useful?

As for time, can I show you a couple projects of mine: https://github.com/n8/bust_rails_etags and https://github.com/n8/nectarine

Remove the boilerplate and they are both ~30 lines of code. https://github.com/n8/bust_rails_etags/blob/master/lib/bust_... and https://github.com/n8/nectarine/blob/master/lib/nectarine.rb

Neither are very popular or show off any code wizardry. These things aren't impressive in the least. You might even argue they are dumb and useless. Fine! But both projects have been great conversation pieces when I'm talking to folks trying to hire me.

I'm showing (at least trying to show) those same things I'm looking for as a boss: I look for things to abstract, I take the time to communicate with clarity, I teach other devs, etc.

And as for an organization who says: "Absolutely NO public code of yours on Github or you're fired." First, who are these orgs? There should be a shitlist of companies who wipe out their employees Github profiles. But... this seems to be a lot more rare of a case, and I've worked in a lot of places.

Yes, there's plenty worried about their IP being leaked, but there's plenty of code to write that teaches a concept that isn't near a company's IP. But if you're really worried about upsetting a boss, I would take a crack at talking to someone (a boss, hr person, etc.) who has the authority to take a peak at putting out a project or two like I describe. Since these aren't mind blowing things, but tiny little utilities or ways of showing off a non-proprietary concept, it's very likely you'll be met with yesses. Even that talk of convincing your boss to "YES" about publishing something sounds like a great story to share with a future employer ;)

So I agree, there are folks using open source poorly as a signal, but for those out there with the complaint that "My organization won't let me. Or I don't have time to contribute the amazing things I know I can contribute.", the hurdle isn't as big as you think. A lot of us employers aren't looking for amazing, gigantic, magic contributions to the world. Just a couple handfuls of code to show how you think and communicate with others.