skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is illegal to discriminate on benefits coverage between women and men, so whether women are using their benefits more is wholly irrelevant. This is like saying that older people should make less because they get sick more--utter nonsense. Benefits coverage at a company is in any case designed to be pooled to reduce the risk.

Whether you actually utilize your benefits should also have no bearing on whether you get promotions or raises, given that those are supposed to be tied to job performance, so I don't understand how that's related to my point.

Similarly, for being on the rotation less. If Google wants to include on-call hours worked in your salary, it has the option to pay explicitly for overtime. The reality, of course, is that Google does not want to do this, because this way they can pay both women and men less.

Finally, I'm not sure why you trust Google's analysis of its own payment structure. Besides the fact that this is literally an instance of "we investigated ourselves, and didn't find anything wrong!", they've been repeatedly found to pay women and men different salaries for the same role when employees release their salaries (something the company officially denies doing). They also have a long history of executives blocking women's career advancement to punish them for reporting sexual harassment.
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Before you call anybody ignorant, maybe stop and think about the last time a tech employer murdered people. That historical factoid is completely irrelevant when discussing solutions for today. Guess what, we don’t need to wear chain mail while riding a horse to work anymore either. Progress!
Sorry but you moved to country to work for company and you didn't have a contract to be paid for your work?
Thanks for the kind wishes.

- It took us 2 months and 3 people to build and launch the product along with all content and SEO work.

- I personally find Monday as the best day for launch and beginning of month.
Not saying it was a raging success, but yes, you could buy MIPS machines with Windows NT installed: http://www.sensi.org/~alec/mips/acer_pica.html
Gary is clearly investing in the person, Chrys Bader, and his mission. Not the idea. It's an early stage app that isn't even publicly launched. They can make changes to it or pivot at any time. These are always fragile and look stupid until they don't, there's an essay about that here.
I'm pretty sure there's more than one alternative.
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I've always wondered how 9000 became "jumbo". Technically anything over 1500 is consider ju!no and there is no standard. The largest I've seen is 16k. I think there are some crc accuracy concerns at larger sizes but 9k still seems quite arbitrary for computer land.
Fucking Laptops
Show HN: Peempoint – search engine to discover the latest sales
Hi all,

This is a side project that involves sellers sharing their sales (via API) to shoppers. Sales are linked based on sellers and tags. You may also subscribe to stores you fancy and get alerted to the latest sales from them.

Let me know what you think: https://www.peempoint.com

Do you think it can help shoppers find everything in one hub?

Thanks.
This reminds me of various Windows applications back in the day (Windows 3.1 and 95) that claimed to fine tune your connection and one of the tricks they used was changing the MTU setting, as far as I can recall. Could anyone share how that worked?
The reality is that pretty much everyone these days facilitates some kind of crime or unethical conduct in one way or another. Either intentionally or unintentionally and either actively through collaboration or passively through inaction. Aaron Swartz was spot on when he wrote about "The intentionality of Evil" - http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/intentionalevil - This has become the biggest problem of our age.

Even a lot of the things that are legal these days are extremely unethical. The system is a mess. Capitalism is destroying society, rewarding bad behavior and punishing good behavior.

All the good companies/projects I worked on over the years (e.g. education) are struggling in this economy while all the evil ones (gambling, finance) are thriving.

Communism is looking better with each passing day. Especially with the level of automation we have today.

Every day, automation is getting better but people are getting worse. The systemic inefficiencies caused by fraud and other unethical behaviors under capitalism has outpaced the inefficiencies of a communist society whereby everyone gets paid the same and each person does as little work as possible.
I know of some numerical instability and a faulty or inefficient implementation of the normal distribution formulas (NORM.INV, I believe). Was a while back when I ran into this, so can't give more details.

That being said, basic financial modelling in Excel is killer.
Anyone willing to put a price on 1 hour and 14 minutes of Reddit downtime? I would guess this cost less than a $1,000,000 USD but more than $100,000.
Those were basic research, not 'we have a bunch of cool tech, let's glue it all together and go do crazy stuff'. If Google would pump money into materials science that would be Bell Labs, if they worked on next level interaction models that should count too, in that sense I think their general AI/ML work; speech recognition; synthesis and image classification work is more in line with what Bell & Xerox were all about than Makani, which is most re-using existing technology in ways that do not make much sense.
California has been in budget crisis for most of the time I have lived here which is one of the reasons for the very recent situation with the surplus. Several years of surplus does not necessarily make the process for dealing with a lack of surplus any less interesting unless you assume that the business cycle has disappeared.
Basically, yeah. It's just a web app. Unless that was supposed to be taken as Socratic and you think it does something more?
This is getting beyond my paygrade, though it in part depends on the OS dispaly system.

There are some concepts -- and I very barely grasp this -- such as Display Postscript, not in present use AFAIU, which might offer such capabilities within the windowing system.

That is, with DPS the display itself would have awareness of both the underlying text and the formatting directives.

Whether that's even remotely similar to existing graphical systems, I've no idea.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_PostScript
High Court freezes €52m worth of Bitcoin seized by CAB
I think you’re saying that the smallest bucket of packets are all packets that would have been combined with a larger packet of that had been an option... but that doesn’t make sense. That class of packets includes TCP SYN, ACK, RST, and 128 bytes could fit an entire instant message on many protocols.
The other side of this is "Oh good, now I can get my health outcomes managed by the same people and with the same level of customer service/personal touch as my Department of Motor Vehicles and will have literally no alternative but to take it." Arguing the worst case of either system and representing it as the most common case is rarely productive.
old.reddit.com still works!
Having seen a documentary a few years ago about the 787 and the absolute shitshow that was and still is, I'm now convinced Boeing has been building their planes like an AMC Gremlin for at least 2 decades.
Airliners are very much regulated already. If you want to set a personal standard above and beyond the regulation, there might not be a market for you. Supposing it could be worked out, do you plan to review the safety record of all your potential rides, or just go by headlines?
If you never listen to pop music it’s really easy to see when Spotify is bullshitting you. It makes me a little mad, I’m pretty sure some DJs went to jail (at least got fired) for this sort of thing.

Overall the suggestions are good when they’re actually derived from what you listen to, but stuff like this really bothers me. Last night I saw some of it creeping into the discover lists which makes me wonder if the good recommendations are coming to an end. There’s certainly money in it for them in the short term.
Beneath all the feel-good marketing, this app seems like it's going to be a marketplace for self-help professionals.

I'm not making any kind of value judgement here, this could certainly be a good thing and I will take your advice and wait to see the app for myself.

If I'm not wrong about this, can you comment on what you know about the process for vetting the quality and/or credentials of the professionals who will be featured/promoted on the platform?

There are already tons of self-help scammers out there who are just looking to take money from desperate people.. How does this platform avoid becoming an enabler for quick-fix scams, while supporting credible programs?
You are free to believe whatever you want. But your competitors are meanwhile out there shipping 8 MW installations (and bigger ones are in test) and I really don't see how Makani will ever compete with that in a way that offsets all of its drawbacks. Flying the mass of the generators, tethers, complex launch and recovery system, power transmission over exposed cables, frequent maintenance, lightning sensitive, hard to keep mechanically safe in a storm, puny little rotors, what's not to like?
Europe reveals its ambitious tech blueprint to take on Silicon Valley and China
They're meant to prevent already sick people from spreading particulate when they cough or sneeze.
Yeah that’s why GM has been doing so well.
Generally cynically it means "because they aren't biased towards my politics and assumptions it is political" regardless of the facts on the ground in a field.

Really the closest to "molding" I have seen is more indirect from is a toxic culture of petty academic knife fights with obvious ulterior motives for trying to gin up scandals to get rid of competition for tenure. Like trying to oust a community college professor years later because he made Super Columbine Massacre RPG as a teenager as a satirical art game.
Hmmm, how about the problem bug you can't have "[" or "]" in the directory name of media files?

eg: /home/user/stuff/foo [192kb]

Worked fine with VLC 2.x, but VLC 3.x won't find the files in the directory.

It was really annoying having to go and manually rename lots of directories, recreate .m3u files to match, etc. Wasted hours on it. :(
Incorporated outside of Sweden is the key here. It seems people are downvoting me because they dont want to hear the truth...but other commenters keep making my point quite nicely.

Incorporating outside of Sweden allows big companies to enjoy tax benefits and then hire Engineers from Sweden at an average of 50,000USD to 68,0000USD (these numbers can easily be found on Google).

They get lower taxes, a cheap labor pool, and the company isn't limited through draconian taxes and regulations, it only has to deal with it at a satellite office. It's a win-win.

Now show me a company that's large, started in Sweden, and is still in Sweden many years later.
Do you use the actual site or do you use Reddit with an app?

I think the actual site, Reddit.com, is the one with more outages.
> a 1950s workaround for not having enough primary storage to keep all programs and data live at all times

Even today you don't have enough primary storage to keep your data. And even then it would require a structure when data outlives the process / application.

Most times there are no best solution, but only tradeoffs. Anyone who has done a bit of systems work knows this. And Hierarchical file system was a Ok-ish trade-off to make. Perfect is enemy of good.

> MASSIVE mistake: individual resources are neither typed nor tagged.

It comes with its own set of tradeoffs. I am a huge proponent of static typing when it comes to PLs. But in a system where multiple actors operate on shared resources, it is easy to get illusioned into a false sense of correctness. Also it imposes some extra complexity in the programming model. I am no experienced systems engineer. But someone here can address it better.

> .... entertain the cowboys who built and used it ....

You are going beyond HN standards to justify your anger against a particular methodology or people that embrace it in programming.

The universally accepted point is that Unix succeeded due to political factors (low cost and easy modification compared to proprietary counterparts), simplicity of the API, and being arguably better than others despite lacking some features people love to lament these days. But in many cases, that simplicity is a desirable thing to have. It is nice to objectively point out faults in systems. But what you did is totally dismissing some people's contributions.

It is easy to see some hyped thing and think that's the Next Big Thing(TM) after reading two fanboys preaching on Reddit, while being totally ignorant of tradeoffs.
> Doing a PhD isn't training to get a tenure track job, and going into industry or teaching or whatever else you want in life is not a failure.

Would you say the equivalent to someone who spends six years trying to break into acting and gives up after that with very little to show for it? An Anthro Ph.D. is necessary for teaching Anthro. There are a very small number of other jobs in "industry" for which having one would be helpful but most of the people with those jobs got them through on the job training, not spending 4-10% of their lives studying. And a Ph.D. will not help you get a teaching job any more than a B.A. will.

You may not think that doing something other than academia after a Ph.D. is failure but career academics disagree and if you're doing a Ph.D. you're going to be surrounded by career academics for four years.

Doing a Ph.D. in Anthropology is like spending six years of your life trying to break into acting, or trying to go pro as a video gamer. Almost everyone will fail to get what they wanted after expending enormous time and effort to do so.

I am currently studying myself. I don't value studying and I despise credentialism. I value learning. I don't see why people should be lied to about there being jobs when they don't exist. I don't support pyramid schemes. I don't think encouraging people to do something as damaging to their mental health as doing a Ph.D. in Anthro is moral when the cost is so high and the chance of a good outcome is negligible.
> Using a rebase to update from master will cause conflicts for anyone else working on the PR branch.

The best way to handle that is to run git stash save, git fetch origin, then run git rebase @{u} to rebase your local branch on top of the new upstream branch. Then run git stash pop to apply any uncommitted changes.

> Doing a typical “git pull” in this situation will lead to merge conflicts

This is why I never use git pull, and always run git fetch instead. This allows me decide whether I want to merge the upstream changes, rebase on top of them, or just run git reset --hard to just use the upstream branch as is.

> Once you rebase, that commit hash will no longer point to anything.

Unless git gc deleted the dangling commits (along associated trees and boobs), the hash value will still show the commit. In fact, it's possible to show a diff from that commit to the corresponding commit in the rebased branch.
Wait for augmented reality glasses to become a thing
For later reader: I've figured out I need to use the Display Port, not the HDMI port, to get true crisp 4K. Now the LGs are sharp too. :)
> Let me ask you this: wouldn't make more sense to publish a rfc for a more strict JOSE

It would, I agree 100%. Less options and less standards we have - the better. I support your notion here.
What performance issues? The DOM executes in the browser at near assembly speed. Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22321333
Eloquent Javascript is indeed a good and quick read!
What does it sense that changes >=30 times a second?
> I think they're the major company with the fewest 9s of uptime.

I think this possibly shows that they have a good understanding of what's most important to their users. If they were to ensure the application was highly available (think six 9s), then they would be sacrificing resources elsewhere in order to achieve this. They could recognize that an outage will not be a "life or death" event for their users and have decided the trade-off was worth it.

Counterpoint: Or, they could just be lazy (or incapable) and haven't tried to solve for higher availability. This is not likely.
> destroying the very fabric of our society.

I'm like 99% certain that phrase has been said in one form or another throughout every single generation.

Wasn't there an article about how magazines were deemed bad when they first made an appearance and people would bury their heads in them?

Honestly, I just think for the most part people are afraid of change and would rather things continue the way they have. I try to remind myself of this every once in a while, and it helps me stay optimistic.
https://adsbexchange.com/data/

Setup a reliable feeder sending data to ADSBexchange.com and get a REST API key that would cost you $100,000+ a month from FlightAware or FlightRadar24. Non-commercial enthusiast use only. And please be kind to API, no sending 10,000 requests a second.

https://tar1090.adsbexchange.com/

All this data at your finger tips, are you hackers or not!

Let's make something useful and fun!
Isn't this level of quid pro quo corruption punishable? Or does nobody even care anymore?
And yet, on average, nudges work.
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 69
"Krebs appears to have form in outing people who do not agree with him. Back in 2014, he posted the CV of an individual who had written what he characterised as a bad review of a book he authored."

When British security researcher Marcus Hutchins asked whether doxxing a person for this was going a bit too far, his response was: "Dox people? Hardly. I think it helps to add context. The guy is a convicted cybercrook who's in jail. Of course he hates me."

Ouch. This is sad. I used to have a lot of respect for the guy.
Oh yes, throw out OIDC and let's go back to SAML.

While I understand that complexity in standards might be bad because they allow you to shoot yourself in the foot, I am definitely not going to stop using JWKs with JWT/JWS, those formats are actually quite simple and have allowed us to deploy authenticating proxies essentially everywhere instead of network based access control (which was always kind of broken), with slow key rotation included (thanks keycloak)

Libraries should require the user to use pinned algos. Period.
Assuming it's a major route, there are probably carriers with Boeing-less fleets on it.
A slightly more charitable interpretation: DoD hired a bunch of loonies to keep Harry Reid happy and they used the opportunity to evaluate whether public information about UFOs could be used to compromise actual SAP research projects (imagine if the conclusions of the report had been, “yeah this particular set of sightings could easily be explained by this hypothetical near future technology” and the tech described was an actual black project). Which actually isn’t a terrible idea from a counter intelligence perspective, though they definitely over paid for the product. Ultimately that’s on Harry Reid’s shoulders, though.
I don't think the Ethernet Frame Overhead graph is correct. Surely the overhead is proportionally higher, per amount of data, for smaller packets. That graph shows that the overhead is just proportional to the amount of data sent, irrespective of the packet size, which can't be right.
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If you had a proper contract, talking to a lawyer should fix your payment issue.

As others have pointed it out they were not your friends in the first place.

I’m lucky as I have managed to gain a true friend through work, but it takes a lot of time spent together, I’m not sure if it is even possible remotely.

If you are remote ppl can also use you as a scapegoat for issues they have that you are not even remotely responsible for.

I’m sorry you had this experience.
Looks like link was not parsed in your post so here is a clickable link (to save you from copy-paste): https://helpwise.io
To me, it feels like outages are much less frequent than they were 7-10 years ago. It used to be a couple times a month. I don't remember the last time I saw one of their snoo error pages.
well the biggest problem is that commited usage discount is not replaceable with the cheaper e2 choices.
btw. when we commited our usage to n1, e2 was not available.
You wouldn't Base64 a password (2015)
When I went on safari to Madikwe, north of Johanessburg the local families were always light heartedly teasing me, because I was British.

One example being on a tour there was a scrapped Land Rover Defender at the side of the trail that had broken down a while ago. They said "never drive anything British, if you want to survive in the bush".

Land Rover quality aside, a bloody war should warrant a bit more than teasing.
Anecdotal, but old.reddit.com (besides search) seems to always work during these outages. I'm guessing they're always knocking out the AJAX and search machines for some reason
Also through “sponge logs” which inherit their amusing name from the medical industry.
This needs to be its own post. Lol.
> Yes, text configuration files are dumb because they require N parser/script editors times M configurable programs.

No, they don't. It's N editors + M parsers (where M=programs) I suppose if you want really smart editors that are also developed completely independently, such that each require it's own
parser, its N+M parsers plus N editors.

> Furthermore, what people really want is universal progmatic and CLI access to configuration

I'm fairly certain most people don't want anything CLI anything.
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> Life would be so much simpler if the MTU had simply grown over time in proportion to link speeds.

The problem is that the world went wireless, so maximum link speeds grew a lot but minimum link speeds are still relatively low. A single 64kB packet tying up a link for multiple milliseconds—unconditionally delaying everything else in the queue by at least that much—is not what we want.
>besides search

Surely you're not attempting to imply that the search on old reddit worked in the first place?