skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> doesn't think you're fully human based on the color of your skin or your sexuality [. . .] didn't think you should be allowed to exist

Words like "racist" or "transphobic" go well beyond that - what you are describing is someone advocating for outright Nazism and the execution / capital punishment of anyone they don't like. I think most of us would be uncomfortable working with someone who is trying to have us literally killed.

For instance, a doctor who doesn't want to perform a sex change operation or administer hormones to young children, because they think it is harmful to them, would be considered transphobic by many advocates. Even though this position might be considered normal by 50% or more of society it still gets an "-phobic" and advocates would try to have such a person fired, even if they tried to accommodate by e.g. referring patients to another doctor or so on.

Look at the case of Brendan Eich who donated to a referendum that won, it was supported by more than 50% of his state's voters - he was still forced to resign his job and leave despite his record of treating coworkers fairly, giving them benefits despite not being married, etc.

I think when people worry about this they are less worried about the literal Nazis (richard spencer types, who are an incredibly small minority even today) and more about the people who may be 10, 20, 30%, even 40% of society. If you are seeking to attack such a large number of people that's a recipe for trouble.
A fair point, but the actions of the past few years align with that PR statement as well. There are also completely ways for the content team to say better things that would fit that unified front. Or perhaps that would worry investors that the company isn't singularly focused on them, which is 100% a part of this issue as well. The problem is that the company caved to that pressure from Wall Street.

The best companies, with true vision, balance their philosophy with the interests of investors and are okay if not everyone is behind their short term moves. The statement IMO either has its original meaning in my first post, or it means Netflix overvalues its short term stock outlook, and that is affecting content. No matter how you slice it, content at Netflix will continue to suffer so long as that holds true / Netflix continues to make similar statements.
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Ok well I went through a period of intense depression a while back and then I guess I wanted things to vegetate in front of, but normally if I have had a hard day at work I want something that I can still think about and something that won't be renewed seems like something that thinking about isn't worth the time.
Well this is a fun load test. Nice to see things aren't falling over while being on the homepage (Thanks HN!!!!).

It's also a fun load test for my other project, Watch.ly, which doesn't track you but I can see in realtime the traffic to the site and it's peaking at around 100 concurrent sessions.
That might be less to do with your carrier's cellular edge capacity (are you in a densely populated area with lots of people on the same cell station as you?) and more to do with your carrier's intenet edge capacity (3 has lots of customers using a lot of internet)

If it's the former, 5G helps you. If it's the latter, 5G makes zero difference to you.
Possibly you have a bright future in management :)
I think pop culture is actually culpable here. It leads to reinforcing lay people's belief in these techniques, and especially in the US with the jury system, kay people tend to have more influence on the punishment.
Even the title of the bill is so infuriatingly patronizing and un-American. "You want to stay out of jail? Why don't you EARN IT by letting us snoop in on your customers?" Disgusting.
And how do you delete something that appears in the Internet Archive? Are you just hoping that people are lazy and do a cursory check?
Well, we had years of more claims than evidence. Somebody had to do the hard labor for sake of future historians.

I hope someday democracy has recovered to the point where we can centrally plan, and then we can experimentally historical theorys.
One of the best processes I've done for a few different teams is a "tech scrum" which is basically lean coffee but just for my tech team.
tl;dr: "... 626.9 (95% CI 339.3 to 914.4) out of 8,958 fatal MVAs in the 5 workdays after DST transition from 1996 to 2017 were attributable to DST, and thus were preventable.
> If anyone works somewhere that uses this tool, or anything similar to it, you should run far, far away from that company. This is a terrible precedent, and much too much Orwellian for my taste.

Background reports like these, along with drug testing for office jobs that don't deal with heavy machinery, are indicative of companies that have unhealthy views of the employer-employee relationship, especially in a country with at-will employment. Steer clear of them.
I've been wanting to do this for a while. Do you mind sharing how you connect cell phones to your network?
>“I’m going through the struggle of finding a job, which is hard enough here in Wichita without 2,800 others also looking.”

This is why people put up with the high cost of living cities.
Did you have to pay for the background check?

A lot of asset management companies require regular background checks from their service providers and the service providers have to foot the bill.

Always wondered if there was some kind of kick back going on that motivated the frequency or if it was a legal requirement.
Agreed that rx is nice, but really only useful if you're writing elisp. 90%+ of people who need to interact with Emacs regexps aren't writing an elisp program - they're using Emacs interactively, or even using another program (busybox, GNU find, etc.) that uses Emacs regexps for historical reasons. For those people the differences in syntax between Emacs regexps and "normal" regex dialects are a pain.
What ever happened to anayomous message boards like 4chan?

We demonize those people but they're the ones not letting their freedom of expression be repressed by future job prospects?
Oh my. Yes. My bad.
For those griping about quality... Emmy wins and nominations would refute your personal bias. Content doesn’t appeal to everyone but critics have been very impressed with some of the content on Netflix.

https://deadline.com/2019/09/2019-emmys-wins-network-shows-s...
Fuck Fama and fuck any company using them. If you're a candidate and a company asks you to submit to one of these, just save them the time and write a giant fuck you on a piece of paper and hand it to them.
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There are many applications for MIDI that don't necessarily involve rendering audio in the browser. Most useful I've found are various patch editors for hardware synthesizers. I've also experimented with using MIDI for camera control applications, where you'd traditionally use some expensive joystick.

Another application is exactly the opposite of what you fear: offload audio rendering of some musical data to a well-optimized software synthesizer or a hardware synthesizer, via MIDI.
That's a very extreme interpretation of "racist" ?
(It's a sliding scale, remember?)
That's wild. I got my first ever background check to volunteer at a high school. The report was three checkboxes indicating "we found nothing wrong"
Yeah yeah, I know, climate change is not real.
That’s not entirely true as one can invoke GPG encryption from the `keybase` command.
Having no online presence can also be viewed suspicious. Pick your poison.
$62 isn't nothing, what are you talking about? What, you heard a bigger number once so it's nothing? Are you a child?
Gaslight much?
Take a class in logic and reasoning at your nearest community college.
Depends, I guess, on what they do with it. Indicators of stress could be a "good thing" in a lot of cases. It might show maturity and broad thinking versus deception. I'm a bit biased in thinking they probably bias towards loyalty and party line vs the real story. In any case, it probably excludes a lot of real talent that won't put up with the bullshit. They are inadvertently creating a very narrow culture that hurts their effectiveness.
it won't delete everything but it will make it harder to find, and it isn't clear that every tweet is available through the Internet Archive.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2018/07...

> I’ve used the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine in my reporting to access long-deleted tweets from Roseanne Barr’s account and to examine the history of suspicious, viral accounts. However, the Wayback Machine’s archives are somewhat random and incomplete, showing only the last few tweets from each moment it crawled the account’s page.
It's basically an algorithmic filter for wokism. A lot of innovative people tend to be unswayed by our strange moral fads. Seems like talent is being left on the table. Good news for startups.
If someone is posting publicly that women are intellectually inferior and shouldn't be allowed to work professional jobs, you think this should have no effect on their job?

You think they are going to leave those beliefs at the door when they go to work? You think women who work for this person are going to be evaluated fairly?

If someone does something in their personal life that shows they would be unable to do their job, it is entirely reasonable to have that affect their employment.
Oh, HR does and laughs at the thought. But we live in a political system where corporations have seemingly unalienable rights above their workers. “Want to afford things? Then succumb to the dictates of corporate America or else.” All the while, these same corporations benefit from unprecedented federal deficit spending at the cost of the individual citizens.
Sounds like a really good solution to the problem described.
Nokia is currently extremely cheap. P/S 0.85 and it includes Bell Labs, and Lucent and Motorola wireless networks assets in the US.

It's really not about owning.
I think I over-rely on my right hand and it causes some strain. "Correct" typing feels very comfortable but also very slow right now. Other than that, I think you're right and it doesn't matter.
What I thought they were going for was that phones would no longer come with cable+charger, instead you could buy the one type of charger + cable that exists.

This would mean one connector for all devices.

If they allow different connectors on phones then lots of different cables will be made, and when a person switches phones then their old cable ends up in the trash.
But then surely the Lua code you write has to be more complex, harder to hold in your head, etc.?
that guide has such a bad reputation for a lot of queer people. the rating isn't a bad rough guide, but it is outright dangerous as a resource to people who are especially trans and gender nonconforming, and queer people traveling with their kids.

if you make it clear that that's your source that's fine, but.... it needs to be more clear.
I don't think the hypothetical people you refer to would be against flagging people for bigoted behavior/speech. In fact, I personally don't see an issue with manually doing a Twitter advanced search to see if someone – especially for a public-facing role – has tweeted outright slurs; I specify "manually" to insinuate that context is important when assessing this.

I think people's main issues with this specific software/practice are:

1. It evaluates Liked tweets – if you believe tweets to have too little context to be accurate signals of how a potential employee would behave, liking a tweet contains even less context.

2. Any service that provides data via widescale scraping and auto classifying can and will eventually be reduced to an "authoritative" score.
Or just ask Facebook about everything they've linked together. Maybe sign up for some sort of FB service, and then create a business model that abuses the access you've been granted to gain the information you're ultimately trying to get. If questioned about it, just blame some rouge employee as a scapegoat for being a bad apple abusing the trust that FB granted.
Looking at this makes me not missing php but somehow it's like back in time.
> HR must not realize that as part of the interview, candidates are also evaluating whether the company is a good place to work at.

In many fields outside software people with no healthcare, student debt, a mortgage and car payments are screwed. As long as the system keeps the people down, they won't have a choice but to take that job, no matter the Orwellian nature
Why would it be wrong to clawback for lack of performance for the years that led up to Boeing’s reckoning? It’s not like it all happened in 2019. Contracts can be changed as business conditions change, or you’re found to be contributing to an environment where you’re flying the business towards the ground.

CEO was overpaid for failing (so much so Boeing had to fish for a $10B credit line), take back some of the comp and distribute it as additional severance to workers impacted by said executive failure.
I don't think so. I think it got removed. Thumps head
To name one thing wrong with this comment: WhatsApp doesn't use Signal. This is just technobabble with sentiment; an attempt to sway, not to communicate.
Also the way I see containerization being implemented (just Dockerfile) instead of relying on deploying the same image essentially kills the reproducibility part.
Yeah starting from Catalina the / is now read-only. Upgrading from an old macOS also kills any previously created files or directories at root that were not shipped with the system. So `/keybase` is gone on Catalina.
I've also laughed at companies trying to pull this thing, but I also realize that this is a huge privilege. There is really only in tech that the tables are somewhat flipped, and applicants can afford to give HR bullies the middle finger.
> If you're not willing to do that

I never said that.

The reason why you should give people the benefit of the doubt is because otherwise the system is horrendously unfair and unbalanced in that 1) those who file false claims have nothing to lose (because the likelihood that they get dragged into court is virtually nil, and in most cases even dragging them to court would most likely lose you more time=money than you can hope to claim in damages) 2) those who have their content unjustly taken down keep losing over and over again.

If it's word against word, then yes both sides' word should have equal weight and consequence. Currently, that is not the case.
Spirit Aerosystems has been a consistent problem for Boeing. Quality problems there are so great that people are flying planes from Kansas to Washington to get their safety and quality check out. Boeing, the union, and the workers all have turned a blind eye to quality and safety, and that’s why people - the CEO and the workers - are entitled to what they have in a contact. That does not cover future employment. the ultimate outcome here was easily predictable by anyone watching Boeing on the last 10 years, and by no means is the problem only at the top.

Boeing is heading towards a government bail out very rapidly.
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I guess my point is, that's why you should be wary about giving them that information; because it will be used, in that manner, probably against you, forever.
Please don't post dross comments like this. It's plain that HN is divided about Assange, as it is divided on every other divisive topic. That's a trivial consequence of the population sample being large enough.
In France, until not so long ago, analysing your hand writing was a commonly accepted form of background test for any large company!
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Thanks. My goal really is to be able to have my fingers above keys and not have to move around as much as I currently do. I am not accustomed to using the correct fingers so end up doing a lot hand moving and contorting which is inefficient and uncomfortable. I'll try correct typing for a while then revert to my old ways because it's faster for now and have work to do.
Ask HN: What can I do at home to grow professionally?
I'm looking to grow as a Software Engineer, and I would love to hear ideas about things one can do outside the office to progress your career.

I was going to include a list of things that I've done/I'm doing, but I rather get fresh ideas and not bias the conversation.
I went through a HireRight background check recently and I didn’t see anything related to social media? Maybe it’s something the company needs to explicitly ask for?
Yes that's on the todo list. Thanks for bumping up the priority...
I do work with people who don't think I should be allowed to exist. But they're required to be polite to me at work, and to use my pronouns, and as long as they do that no lines have been crossed.
If you live in a country that assigns points to how good of a citizen you are where this point system determines if you get credit, or housing, or a job, then yes, this is normal.
They can just ping their banking app on your phone and estimate your geolocation via ip address. No network provider level snooping needed.
Ask HN: What tech other than web dev can I learn to get completely remote work?
Apologies for brining in a personal situation, I am a developer from India with Crohn's disease, things got really bad lately and I lost my job. My doctors say I need a proctocolectomy. Reading experiences of others who have undergone this surgery it would be quite difficult to hold a office job even after recovery as roads here are really risky. Since ostomy supplies required for day to day life are not covered under insurance in India (approx 350 USD/month) I cannot rely on freelance gigs alone.

My present skills are Java and Spring Boot backend development, I am learning React & Google Cloud.

Could you please give me some advice on technologies / programming languages / skills other than front end dev that I can learn to increase my odds of getting completely remote work.

I can invest upto $1000 this year to learn new technologies / skills and am willing to work without pay for a couple of months once I am back in the job market, to find a completely remote job / contract.
> Do you literally block (aka drop) mail from SES IPs? That's awful for your users.

My good friend has worked on the email system for a mid-range consumer ISP for about the past 10 or so years. He told me 93% of all email they receive is spam. And they have a 60PB NAS for their mail store. So for every 1PB of storage they had to discard ~14PB of junk. And that’s just the stuff they summarily dismiss. Then some of the remaining 7% they accept makes it to your Junk folder.
Yes.

...it is not
possible to be confident that the source code examined by HCSEC is precisely
that used to build the binaries running in the UK networks.

-- https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
This is a poor and confusing title imo.
Oooooooh I’ve been meaning to write a similar tool but you already did it so that’s perfect! Quick question: is it possible to specify a date to delete tweets before or do I need to calculate the number of days? Also what happens if the number of tweets is greater than 3200?
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For what it's worth, backdoors have been discovered in Ericsson switches, see [1], it's fascinating reading. It's unclear who put them there. Wikipedia [2] alleges that the US embassy in Athens was behind the telephone intercepts. Naturally, Wikipedia is n o t a reliable source in such matters.

I used to work in telecoms myself about 20 years ago, and at least at the time, much of infrastructure was insanely insecure -- I could have backdoored much of the internet's backbone as a lone programmer had I wanted to: our software was used by most big telcos. Not once was our code audited (at least openly). I very much hope that security is taken more seriously now.

[1] V. Prevelakis, D. Spinellis, The Athens Affair.
https://web.archive.org/web/20070704193410/http://www.spectr... The pdf is also available through Spinellis' Google Scholar page.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_wiretapping_case_2004%E2...
Interesting!

Related: ngrok

Are you keeping the server closed source?
In 1950, the U.S. Released a Bioweapon in San Francisco
I volunteer to ask the stupid questions sometimes to make it ok for others to. It has really helped, and as a bonus, no one really thinks I’m stupid.
In fairness I don’t use social media (well, other than posting here from time to time), so it’s difficult for me to identify with folks who spend a considerable (IMHO) amount of time recording their activities and thoughts on third party systems which have dubious, at best, privacy policies. My naive understanding of these platforms is for you to make yourself discoverable.

Can someone help me understand why after spending time over years recording yourself it is now a surprise companies are using that data?
No apologies necessary, just trying to clarify - that was an unintentional implication.

I do not even want the UK to use 100% US gear, never mind think they strategically should use 100% US gear. My argument is only that becoming reliant (whether defined as a critical 1% of the network or the entire 100% of the network) upon the US is not analogous to the same level of reliance upon the CCP - at least from the perspective of the UK.
Hi! My real name is Myfronds Callmeh Mahhname. Of course I can provide my national id for identity check, dear facebook. It's issued by proud nation of Djibouti.

Problem is, however, if you actually use facebook, it is trivial to get your real identity from your vanilla friend network, not to mention that one of them is bound to fuck up and tag you in their selfie.
For some people the very process of having to go through a polygraph can set off other triggers