skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To value diversity of ethnicity or race, you must believe there are intrinsic differences between people which are determined by their ethnicity.

I think that's easily proven false. I value diversity of ethnicity and race because I think it's statistically more likely that it results in diversity of culture, and I think that's the real useful thing to be aiming for.

In the United States "white" isn't a race any more than "black" is. It's a short-hand for a cultural identity that our society foists upon you, and it comes with a mostly shared set of experiences and understanding.

A "black" person (which could be historically from Africa, Asia, South America or elsewhere) will likely face some shared set of experiences, as will a "white" person, or an "asian" person, or a "latino" person. The same could be said for a U.S. citizen or a European.

If you think "white" was used as shorthand for "the largest and most dominant cultural identity in America" as I do, then you think that diversity in that brings different perspectives and cultural norms, and some people find that refreshing and interesting (as well as there being some evidence that it provides many other benefits and detriments to various degrees).

So, do I think skin color is an important determinant of some quality in this discussion? Yes. In the case where you're looking at a mostly homogeneous group based on age and likely cultural identity, I think encouraging differences in both age and that cultural identity are likely to introduce more cultural diversity than some other options, and that's based on sociological and statistical beliefs. You may or may not think that qualifies as racism, but I don't, and part of that is because I don't think the result is based on actual skin color, just skin color in a geographic region (that is, a country with a different cultural and ethnic makeup may not see similar results). That means skin color is little other than a statistical marker for other, more useful attributes in this case.
I didn't scroll all the way to the bottom, but I couldn't help but notice that all the examples given seem to be from MSNBC.
For me the individual housing protection is worse than business.

Primarily because the individual housing protection is what causes the incentive problem where people prevent housing from being built.

Companies would benefit from more plentiful inexpensive housing.

My dream bill would be a prop that requires local communities to build X amount of housing (where X is some large number possibly determined in part by the spread between property tax payment and property FMV) every year.

Failure to meet X means that all property owners see a 10% increase in their property tax.

This happens every year with an upper bound on the property tax being the current tax for the FMV of their property.

This is basically impossible to actually pass, but it's what I would do if I was king of Palo Alto, either build the housing or pay the actual cost of your policy.

Maybe one day SB50 will pass - at least that'd be something.
The dystopian world of software engineering interviews
When people say country, they mean the whole decentralised group of people, and the physical area, and a bunch of other stuff.

When they say nation state, the mean a government.
Are lions and tigers different species?
I’ve seen what you describe in engineers at all levels, mostly evenly distributed. Engineers just tend to be very narrowly focused on technical solutions. That’s a problem both in management and culture in the industry.
I've watched through BSG I think 3 times over the years, and I've come to the conclusion that I don't think she was strictly human, in the normal sense.

I think from day one of her existence, she was a kind of power on the same level as Baltar and Six's angelic alter egos. Watching it the first time when it originally aired, I had thought she was one of the Five (even though part of me thought that was too obvious, and a cop out)... and then the fifth member was revealed and it wasn't her.

Clearly the writers had given her a role beyond merely human or Cylon, something part of the grand scheme of God that Messenger/Head Baltar and Six were part of.
Is the schema (even partially) available publicly?
The whole country has been made criminal by over policing and security theatre. https://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent-eb... comes to mind.
December 2019

“Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microsoft in Cloud“

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-brass-set-202...

The clock is ticking for Google Cloud.

The Google unit, which sells computing services to big companies, is under pressure from top management to pass Amazon or Microsoft—currently first and second, respectively, in cloud market share—or risk losing funding. While the company has invested heavily in the business since last year, Google wants its cloud group to outrank those of one or both of its two main rivals by 2023, said people with knowledge of the matter.
The synchronized contact list feature of other messengers requires them to keep the contract graph stored. We don't have to wonder whether they're logging it; they have to be.
> When they say nation state, the mean a government.

That's not what 'nation state' means at all - a nation state is an international state that is also a nation. So pretty much orthogonal as to whether they're a competent cyber force or not.
Didn't work for me, had to use the google cache version.[1]

1. https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:rkHSE4...
Real estate is one of the most efficient markets. Landlords all over make approximately the same returns as one another, outside of a handful of places where where people are making (or losing) money from speculation.

What happens when you increase property taxes is that property values go down to compensate; it's less valuable to own when you have to pay more to do it. So in the short term the property tax increase hits whoever owned the property when the rate change was announced. But then it becomes less profitable to own property in that area, so people invest less in building new housing there, or even in maintaining the existing housing. That tends to constrain supply and cause rents to increase until you're back at equilibrium. The long-term equilibrium is based on the relationship between rents and total costs. Property tax is a cost so in the long-term higher property taxes result in higher rents. (This isn't counting the pathological cases where higher property taxes reduce property values and investment and the government responds by further raising property taxes until the locality is in a death spiral. Naturally rents in dying localities tend to go down.)
Do you need a location in your domain name?
How do I know that you won't rank without a location in your domain name?
I did a test, I looked at Locksmiths in a search on page 3 of Google, no traffic there at all! 8 out of 10 had no Locations in their doman names! Then l.looked on page one of the same search...8 out of ten had Locations in their doman names! I rest my case!
I've personally been through this twice at Google. The company definitely provides a very attentive set of resources to help you find a new position within the company, but I've always been able to find a new project on my own.

That said, the more flexibility you have the easier it is to find a new position. This naturally favors some people over others.

In my most recent case, it ended up being a bit more challenging due to having to balance the constraints of family life versus the opportunities availed by an extremely arduous commute, but I ended up finding a project I enjoy that works with my commute constraints.
I expect we'll all be subjected to both.
Handshake didn’t need the VCs’ money, only their credible early stage project valuation. But Handshake had to accept the investment in order to make the valuation real, but then gave away all the money b/c they didn’t need it.

They hope it can serve as a better model for future ICOs, where a big chunk of the money goes to FOSS groups.
How to set up your own fast, private open source mesh network
In this future, is there nowhere for those of us who just want to some damned trees and nature and quiet and dark where we live? You buy a quiet place where you can see they sky, but it gets expensive so newcomers replace it with what you left originally, so you leave again to a quiet place where you can see the sky, but it gets expensive so newcomers replace it with what you left originally, so this time you wise up and move somewhere with likeminded people who zone it for trees and quiet and dark, but then that gets expensive too, so newcomers rally for zoning reform before tearing it all down again...

Different people value density differently, but apparently my willingness to pay a premium to live somewhere with lower density makes me an evil NIMBY.
If that's an interesting question to you, I'd recommend the book "The Entrepreneurial State"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entrepreneurial_State
The thing is, if they bench too many workers, they will also be ridiculed: https://www.networkworld.com/article/2920903/google-really-k...

In fact, this action is probably part of a conscious effort to move away from "benching".
Even then they are "working" independently. It's not a pipeline that passes the baby from one to the next. That's just plain parallelism. Either way it would do nothing to latency and so would not get the current one done any sooner.
Some of these consumer startups should be financed and built like a movie, not a company. Use off the shelf tooling, experienced staff, and expect the thing to die off in revenues over a couple of years with some residual revenues in maintenance mode.
"Do you get to the Cloud District very often? Oh, what am I saying, of course you don't."
This is a very smart tactic that also, as a side effect, brings the average quality across all engineers at the company up. Smart people with desirable skills would have no problem finding another team within Google to transfer to, while bottom tier performers won’t, thus leaving Google.
The solution would need some massive breakthroughs in reducing latency...and time travel. "We need a decision within 6 seconds...4...2...hey human, watch the inevitable crash!" (This already happened btw)
Words with Friends is not dead I think: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/words-with-friends-2-word-game...
SLAPP LIKE NOW!
A laser printer isn't exactly free. You might be able to find one cheaply or free but you still have to pay for toner.
Mhhh, your nonce discovery process cannot work without the private key.

while (br.left()) {
const ct = br.readBytes(br.readU16(), true);
qqq++;
try {
out.push(key.decrypt(ct, priv));
} catch (e) {
continue;
}
}

What you do is that you bruteforce 1500 items with the private key of the user to find the nonce.
So obviously, the --bare mode cannot work the way you describe.
You haven’t heard about Netflix’s policy....

https://www.slideshare.net/reed2001/culture-1798664

“We’re a team, not a family.”

They “hire, develop, and cut smartly”. It doesn’t seem to have hurt their recruitment.
I've explained above why it cannot work, but I'm still digging on alternative that wouldn't consist on revealing the private key.
Feels very disingenuous to critique grammar, while using bad grammar yourself, and then rebuke the person who calls it out politely.
Why don't they just say 'a government', then? The only other rationale I can think of is that 'nation state' sounds much cooler and cyberpunk.
I will tell you what is my opinion of it. Do server side logging, but you should not use analytics stuff, or read what someone entered into a form without submitting, or tracking ads, or tracking data which is done entirely on the user's computer (e.g. most traditional command-line programs and GUI programs should not use any remote tracking), etc. (You can also program the server to reduce the amount of data logged for HTTP requests with a "DNT:1" header; I have made it to not log the IP address in this case, although timestamps and amount of data transfer are still logged.)
What may help is pondering about object encapsulation, composition and usage patterns. Ie. either be the domain expert, or develop into one by building the domain.

In order to do this, recognize iterations are key and that code must both work today and allow for future evolution.

With clearer goals, one might save time and effort refraining from premature optimization and overzealous refactoring. When direction is unclear, you can comfortably lean on established accomplishments while avoiding regressions.

DRY and YAGNI may thus take a backseat to incrementally deductive design.
It's not bizarre among heroin addicts, but death by heroin overdose is a bit bizarre among cofounders of high profile companies, isn't it?
Check the names on the Handshake Whitepaper. One is the co-inventor of Lightning Network and the other is the lead maintainer of bcoin, one of the few credible Bitcoin implementations. They spent over 2yrs working on Handshake. It’s not a bunch of lightweights or scammers.
1,000s of Plastic Surgery Patients Exposed in Data Leak
What does "loveless" mean? Do they dislike or hate each other, or just not feel that spark/whatever anymore? And is mutual, or is it just your friend? Is there an incident that led to this?

As an older person, it'd be tempting to just live as friends and/or give it a while to see if it picks up again. Experience suggests, though, that there's more under all of this and that things will fall apart.

I wish them luck.
Why would Google even take the risk of this PR, vs. just moving these people into R&D inside the Cloud group? I feel like this clickbait headline will frighten markets more than the bloated headcount expense.
Buy 2x 32gb USB drives (2 for redundancy). Probably cost you $15 USD. Chuck your 20gb of images on there, then forget about ‘em?
President Trump's been tweeting crazy conspiracy nut things for years, like having 'extremely credible sources' saying President Obama is from Africa. Clearly tweeting crazy things doesn't disqualify one from becoming President.
I don’t believe that. I’ve been at public companies that reorg mid level with no announcement.
... and that's merely a recent example.
I still use IRC (and NNTP, which I actually only started using it recently). Unfortunately, many people don't use it, but some people do. Please continue to use IRC and NNTP and plain text and so on, which are better than Discord.
Soy and Oat Milk Are Most Sustainable
> there will be pressure to dumb it down, make the questions easier and more trendy, make it more flashy.

You could see this already in their recent GOAT primetime special. Someone did the numbers, it was like 12% of the questions were about Disney properties.
Same ones as before.
So this is a WARN act announcement?
What does it mean for the industry when there's one of these articles on the front page every other week?
> It's even a truism now that computer defence against a well funded nation state is hopeless.

This was arguably true (in the case of targeted attacks) even back then. That some civilian law enforcement agencies (and apparently the Secret Service) were clueless about SIGINT back then, doesn't mean that the same was ever really true for major spy agencies.

Here is 1945's Stuxnet, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)
The authors acknowledge the consequences of this dam for North Sea wildlife would be catastrophic.

“The tide would disappear in a large part of the North Sea, and with it the transport of silt and nutrients. The sea would eventually even become a freshwater lake. That will drastically change the ecosystem and therefore have an impact on the fishing industry as well,” Dr Groeskamp said.

Wow ecocide in Europe for only 500 Billion. Why not just nuke the ozone and get it over with.
NYT helped sell the 2003 Iraq War based on lies. IIRC, NPR and BBC and Fox were also magnifiers of the lies.

Bloomberg pushed a story about Apple/Supermicro that was entirely not true and pushed a conspiracy theory that heavily impacted stock.

None of these "responsible actors" have issued retractions for their stories that were later held to be factually untrue.
There are (IMHO) two scenarios where this doesn't matter: If you're writing a web service then the multi threading (processing) is done by the front end ie Nginx; and for 'scientific' or similar computationally expensive stuff Python is turning into a scripting layer over C libraries. Have a look at numpy to see what I mean.
It's good reading for those who might want to date females as well.
The secret behind WeWork’s success?
Amazon lets people go regularly, I don't get what the issue is.
What they call the Google Cloud Platform encompasses dozens of products: https://cloud.google.com/products
"A Cultural History of Physics" by Karoli Simonyi is a brilliant book on the history of Science and math from antiquity to recent past. Even though the title reads as history of physics, the book touches upon everything from Math to Philosophy as they were all under one umbrella until recent past.

https://www.amazon.com/Cultural-History-Physics-K%C3%A1roly-...
So... Like... What do you do in the interim? Not work, look for teams, and still get paid a shit ton of money? Do you do some training on the side? Work on a side project? How long does it take to find the new team?
1. get web search result

2. insert a bunch of extra stuff (ads, sidebar, wikipedia result, results for maps/youtube/etc., top stories, people also ask, images, discover, ...)

3. remove URLs (replace with tracking links)

4. deliver to user
The author has a good talk at the Long Now Foundation, as well.

http://longnow.org/seminars/02014/mar/24/entrepreneurial-sta...
A lot of subs will auto-ban users that have ever posted in another sub that they consider objectionable.
Considering all the things Google has done in the past year to hurt customer confidence in GCP, this one isn’t that bad at all.

I definitely couldn’t keep myself from wondering what kind of people run their PR, when they released a post late last year, saying that unless GCP hits the financial target $X by 2023, its funding will be noticeably cut. That was literally a release of a self-fulfilling prophecy in the wild.
Mac OS 9 Hacked Support For The Mac Mini G4
Nice to see them use the .apple TLD.
> which makes it impossible to build signal on anything other than ubuntu.

I've never had a problem on Arch or Manjaro
Mac OS 9 came out in 1999, and had an official funeral in 2002. The Mac Mini came out in 2004, and the official lowest supported OS is Mac OS X 10.3 Panther which came out in 2003. From my research, there were multiple efforts over the years to back port an OS released 5 years prior to the release of the target hardware. Finally someone did it, and after testing it out it really just works.
Hence why public funding for candidates is so important.
Nonsense. What they should really be doing is cutting the fat and corruption from the inept MTA...but that's never going to happen.

Compared to any other developed nation, subways in NYC are an embarrassing joke.
If you're patient you can use vinegar, hydrogen peroxide, and salt. You still create a copper salt that you need to dispose of properly. http://quinndunki.com/blondihacks/?p=835
Are they trying to ensure that Google Cloud fails? I feel like all this does is just spook potential customers.
What are the Vegas odds that they blow the whole thing up if they don't end up #1?
Schrödinger's Cat: A model of quantum collapse induced by gravity
> Since then, with the advent of the likes of Stuxnet, the NSA's ubiquitous surveillance apartus, and the Great Firewall of China, we've been taught a hard lesson that governments are perfectly capable of developing technology expertise or contracting it out, if need be.

Unfortunately it can still be both at the same time. The NSA can hire some smart hackers at the same time as OPM gets breached and legislators pass laws putting all of everybody's data into the hands of the likes of Equifax which then also gets breached.
Wow ecocide in Europe for only 500 billion. It's hard to imagine a dumber idea.
The Father of ETFs Gives an Update on Bitcoin ETF
Google has recently had a leak about potentially cutting cloud. Afaik Amazon hasn't.
I think your argument risks being an example of how Thiel might argue that we educate ourselves into complacency. The discoverers of antibiotics had no reason to believe there would exist a treatment to cover such a broad spectrum of diseases; it's only in retrospect that we understand the mechanisms within which we say "we have found the low hanging fruit". Fleming's mode of inquiry and curiosity led him to discover a new branch of tools, but the article contends that our focus on specialization has taught us to bury ourselves in complexity and accept feeling relatively helpless.
mistakes != agenda
Sell your company to Zynga at the peak of your popularity is the play
In addition to all of the very dystopian examples given in this post, there are other non-technical, super-dystopian things that have been popping up as "trends" in the tech industry.

Ever heard of top-grading? It's the most oppressive interview technique of all time. A series of grueling multi-person interviews. A retrospective of all work experiences since high school. You also have to get multiple prior employers as references. Apparently top-grading is used to weed out "liars". Imagine what kind of place optimizes to find liars; maybe one with a problem with a lot lying? I've heard Twitter uses this technique (or did last year when my friend interviewed with them).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topgrading
Yeah. It's been juuust beyond reach, but within five years to mass adoption, for a century now.
Isn’t it more of business problem that someone is hoping to stand out and become successful by selling on Amazon or any of the big platforms without creating an “unfair advantage”?

I don’t mean by gaming the system or doing something unethical, I mean in the classic business sense of creating a differentiator or in MBA speak thinking about Porter’s Five Forces.
I remember that era. I remember reading what, at the time, I considered to be fringe ideas. I couldn't find a fault in their reasoning but it wasn't like the New York Times was taking them seriously so I always took it with a grain of salt.

Stuxnet changed the way I looked at the world. I always wondered "how the fuck is everything not burning?" Afterwards I concluded that it takes someone to actually set the match and before someone does the press doesn't see it as legitimate and they certainly don't go back into their archives and try to figure out who actually warned them that these types of attacks were possible ten years prior. I've actually dated an award winning journalist and this was one of the first things she told me about journalism that blew my mind. It's unlike science. It's present-focussed to a degree that I find unfathomable.

Imagine fifteen years from now when a update server at Tesla or Microsoft gets hacked do you think the press is going to go back to Bruce Schneier and talk about his book Click Here to Kill Everybody? No. They're going to talk about how shocking this event is just like they did in 2008 during the financial crisis despite the fact that the June 2005 Economist cover had "after the fall" as its cover with a literal brick with "housing prices" stamped onto it.

This is one of the reasons I don't just blindly hold index funds. It's fairly simple to identify unsustainable trends and dodge them or to identify truly transformative technologies and buy into them.
It'd be interesting to study. My intuition is that over the long term it'd cut in the opposite direction--smart people will move on while bottom tier will linger as long as possible.