skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't under represented people in tech use Stack Overflow and Linked In?

We got a number of women applying for a front end position that we posted recently. None of them met the criteria that we asked for (5 years experience).
I prefer to do it in an open forum. I think he watches comments for "@dang" because I see people do it all the time with a follow-up from him.
"Poaching" is terminology used by recruiters/executives precisely to control the narrative, and justify the kind of employee-hostile decisions that OP is referring to.

It makes sense to reconsider the use of that word given that employers competing on wages and benefits does benefit the employees.
>> Ironically my career and I guess wealth/status has progressed exactly opposite to my looks.

A friend of mine is an engineering consultant (software) and looks shabby. He met me for lunch one day after seeing a client and I said "you went to see them like that?" He said it's part of the uniform. It sends a message about being good enough not to worry about superficial impressions. I'm sure in some cases that's true.
More on the metallic hydrogen investigations: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/science/metallic-hydrogen...

It appears that one can use lasers, diamond vises, and/or numerical simulation to get properties of metallic hydrogen.
For what I understood, is for all browsers. It's not about chrome tracking you if you are in private, but google trying to match your incognito and regular data.

From the article:

> researchers have long raised concern that Google and rivals might augment user profiles by tracking people’s identities across different browsing modes, combining data from private and ordinary internet surfing
People who use WhatsApp -- are you sure it is end to end encrypted or do you think FB are saying that to save face while just reading the messages for insightful keyword trends?

It wouldn't shock me to learn this kind of lying from big tech companies is common.

If Google do it why not Facebook or other big tech companies. At least Apple have shown it in their financial interest to keep your data private. Not so for the ad companies.
Also a wheelbarrow of cash! Can you even get started with less than $3K?
Can anyone explain why there’s a new trend I. Saying a negative, then saying “but” and stating another negative. Like...

“He was a dishonest man. But, he cheated on his wife”

“He had a nut allergy. But, he had a dairy allergy.”

It’s like they’re saying: “he’s a good father. However, he had a dark side.” But they’re really not.

Also, at the beginning they say “it may be unraveling” and begin to show how it never had any legs to stand on. Just confusing communication for an article.
He's very confident
Donald Trump is a gibbering goblin of a human being. This is not the place to white Knight for him.
I'd need a TTY phone and a land line for that to work. This issue is not a $260 issue
Workspace is a project management tool that also gives you proposals and invoices, completing the full-life cycle of a project, from pitching to a client to getting paid. You can also create invoices directly from tasks on Workspace. This way you're always invoicing on time and getting paid on time.
Do any HN coffee drinkers have any recommendations for precise/scientific resources on coffee? I know a lot about brewing coffee in different ways and a cursory amount about the 'what' of what's happening to the beans/grind but would like to develop a more rigorous understanding.
> The most valuable possession people have is time and attention. Producing works of knowledge and culture involves people giving up their time and attention to produce something. If they have done so, they deserve to have ownership of it.

They deserve to be paid (eg, by a University), but they do not deserve ownership in terms of exclusive rights to its use. Can you imagine how far back science would be held if any applications of Newton or Einstein’s work required royalties to their estate? Are suggesting that the fact that they aren’t is tyranny?
True, but not everybody is on trunked systems with channel-hopping. Especially in rural areas, you'll find plenty of systems that are just straight up analog on some VHF or UHF frequency. Generally, if you know the repeater offset and PL tone, you could - in principle - transmit on their system. Now doing so is a pretty Bad Idea for many reasons, but it's definitely technically possible in those places.
I work in this space and online blogs are incredibly sparse. Would love to know as well.

Here's an article I found interesting about air cargo software (my dad learned on this at Swiss Air in the 70s-80s)

https://retool.com/blog/air-travel-software/

Another one about supply chain of bananas. Flexport writes about interesting stuff once in a while:

https://www.flexport.com/blog/supply-chain-of-the-banana/
You do realize the irony in looking for an underrepresented group with a long period of experience, right?
A single Bitcoin miner runs at 1500w on its only setting and sounds like a small aircraft preparing for takeoff.
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A good example of intelligent appliances would be like my Samsung washing machine... It had an error, so I called their support line. They asked me to hold down two buttons simultaneously, then put my phone near the door. It let out a 10s or so digital song, the kind that modems did in the 90s - that gave them an entire diagnostic, age, model etc, and they sent someone around as they knew I couldn't fix it. Pretty amazing stuff.
What I find interesting there's very little open source until DSLR cameras. I know the sensors will always be proprietary. I've always felt limited more so by the firmware.

There's a few projects like Magic Lantern.
Did everyone forget what just happened with the pandemic? There are no rights anymore.
For blackhat seo the site below is interesting to poke through every once in a while. I would highly recommend never using any tactic posted, but interesting to see people trying to game google's algorithms. A good chunk of it is mildly technical but understandable by most.

https://www.blackhatworld.com/
West's hands are not clean, perhaps even more blatantly smeared on doing state sponsored disruption of infrastructure: Remember stuxnet and the problems they created in Venezuelas national oil company.

In the case of China/Huawei the hostile posturing has been largely coming from US/West and not from China. I see much anti China rhetoric emenating from US, but comparatively less the other way round.
What is the black share of involvement in crime, violent and nonviolent, in Minneapolis compared to whites?

Probably significantly higher, just like in every city across America.

This is quite simple to understand, but at this point the NYTimes is just propaganda so they can't be bothered to contextualize the figures.
> Having worked as a consultant, I'm repulsed by the idea that I'd need my company's permission to leave and go work for a client

For a large consultancy with many clients, I agree.

But when a significant portion of your employer's income is a single client:

Are you comfortable with that single client of your employer having a strong incentive to make your job redundant so they can try to hire you under worse terms (as you suddenly lost your job)?

You don't need your company's permission, you're unemployed.

I guess what I'm thinking is something more along the lines of not hiring employees immediately after making them redundant through your own actions?
It is safe to assume that lawful access is possible on all major commercial platforms. In theory I don't see an issue with this if it is controlled by warrants and judicial process/oversight. Unfortunately the US did away with this with the Patriot Act and the CCP and Russia don't even have such a concept as mass surveillance is the law.
The thing is though, if you trace all of this back it does end up coming from a very real place. For hundreds of years the governments have been completely willing to let people be poisoned and die. They did practically nothing about DuPont dumping PFAS into rivers for decades, they continue to do nothing about PM2.5 emissions in the predominantly black communities in Louisiana causing massive COPD and asthma rates... So yeah, it's all very valid that people feel this way about something that they don't fully understand.

The only way to get through to people is to address this - that the governments and supercorps have absolutely abused their power before and will again, but this time that outrage is misplaced entirely.
Check out our (web based) product at https://ag5.com . We’ve built it with VisualWorks Smalltalk among other tools.

Every year we ask ourselves if we should be using such an niche tool but somehow almost every new employee at our company gets hooked on smalltalk. So it now has become our secret superpower.
I’m Chicago, this one is much clearer and interesting scanner:

https://crimeisdown.com/audio
I don't see it as a religious exception, rather the opposite: Because of my existing convictions, I find Christ's teachings about loving one another and helping others to be compatible with my views.

I get what you mean though, and I wonder too if it would have made any difference good or bad. I think with some folks, maybe it would.
ZigZag seems like something very abstract and mathematical. CubeWeaver is just a spreadsheet with drop-down filters if you like.
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Well poaching is a illegal act, none of the behavior above is illegal.
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Titles are the copy that are the most critical to driving eyeballs to your content. I suppose "mysterious company ... may be unraveling" sounds like an engaging mystery for the reader to enjoy.
In Chicago, try this one. Much. Nicer because you can put different channels on each headphone and manage multiple feeds more easily:

https://crimeisdown.com/audio
But you argued as if you were always trustworthy of these Journals before but from now on, you plan to be skeptical. Your future intentions are similar but for the wrong reasons.

One should always be skeptical of research and have dicsussions on the reported data and to what extent and in what context it makes sense. The media outlets summarizing the research papers very often fail to do that so as to skip the details and keep the readers happy because they assume "readers just want to know the superficial abstract knowledge, they can't possibly be interested in the critical analysis of the figures and the numbers so let's exclude that".
It's amazing how this impacts even schools - I refused to sign off for my kid's class post pictures on Instagram (owned by FB), so they just ask her to stay out of the group pictures.

I mean, they have a locally hosted hub for photos - called memberhub (it's primitive, but functional), but the teacher & school insist that I need to authorize them to post to Instagram if she's in the group pics.

My kids are understanding but feel left out. It sucks. I'm not so paranoid about digital photos, but I draw the line at them getting fed into a facial recognition AI.
With a precise and clear enough description you could throw it at a python interpreter and run it.

Though things could get fun if AI can enable more flexible declarative programming.
Do/did these works hold up a mirror to society? Or are they heavily fictionalized so as to color the world with the idealizations and prejudices of the author that they aren't really recognizable.
Yes, you can get it in dead-tree.
I think this plays into the current social unrest as well. People have been trying to separate the looters and protestors, but they seem to completely ignore the extreme inequality that exists throughout the US, especially in this period of high unemployment.

People at the bottom have it bad, very bad. Being ignorant of that problem is just going to make it worse. Lashing out at fancy retailers in fancy neighbourhoods makes a lot of sense as a way of sending a message to rich people, whether you like it or not.
Off topic - anyone recognize the artists on stage in the last photograph? I'm pretty sure that's Jonathan Coulton in the middle, so I suspect it's from JoCoCruise, but I don't recognize the others.
I have pointed out the weakness of the correlation between viral transmission vectors and BTLE radio signals these apps are relying on a few times before here on HN. I've pointed to the failure of deployment % reaching anywhere near the required density (and we are talking order of magnitude off here, not 'just missing a few %') where citizens had free choice. We've already seen many authorities requesting 'more control' and lambasting Google/Apple for being too restrictive.

But on HN, any criticism of this tech is met with a swift unsubstantiated down-vote.
In the specific story the OP linked to (about college students) that's true. But I don't think that automatically means working class people are not demanding similar spaces for themselves. Can you be sure they aren't?
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Reward doesn’t have to take the form of intellectual property. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prizes_as_an_alternative_to_...

Intellectual property benefits publishers, not creators.
> Want to avoid sending your kids to formal schooling, sell things out of the back of your truck, or avoid working a full-time job?

For better or for worse I'd say these have always qualified as 'weird'. Homeschooling is probably less weird now that it would have been when I was a kid. Selling things out of the back of the truck and/or (men) not working a full time job falls pretty short of society's expectations of adult behavior.
> compared to their performance

That one part is key. Acqui-hires are justified because the teams display high performance, not low cost. If the truth is that they happen for the second reason, expect a lot of fighting back against it once the word gets out.
A lot of people on this forum have been aware with the issues in social science and medical research for a long time, it's only under real stress that it's become an issue that will get wide coverage.

The next fiasco-in-the-making to watch is the 'evidence-based' criminal justice reform sure to come to a lot more American cities soon.
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I've seen something similar with my fitness. I've gone from competitive powerlifter to very obese to moderately fit, and the ways in which it changes the way almost everyone interacts with you, all the time, is just insane - from the quite subtle (being more deferential, more pleasant, slightly more generous with their time) to not subtle at all ("you're so smart! You look so shy; I wouldn't have guessed you're so smart until you started speaking.")
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> So by your logic then, WhatsApp provides privacy?

By your logic by my logic then Zoom provides privacy if you pay them. This is obviously the opposite of what I said. The most private solution is end to end encrypted and doesn't require a credit card and doesn't collect metadata etc.

> Privacy is full of tradeoffs. Security isnt.

Everything is full of trade offs. How can privacy be full of trade offs and security not when privacy is a subset of security?
Sadly, not for all use cases, in particular not for large meetings (>50 people) with video.
Great analysis of study's flaws: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUD_wvkNhnk

If you dig into Surgisphere, you will see they have significant consulting engagements with Johnson and Johnson. Not saying that's necessarily bad, but so much bad science about Covid and HCQ seems geared towards promoting high-priced treatments like Remdesivir, and not low-cost preventative measures like making sure you're not D deficient. All these studies need to be evaluated based on who's funding them or the political agenda behind them.

HCQ seems like it's been targeted for destruction. Every study I've read on it shows you shouldn't use it in late stages of disease. Fair enough, but the theory of its effectiveness (as a Zinc ionophore) hasn't been studied properly, although there is a good amount of anecdotal evidence it works well if taken very early (with Zinc).

These garbage studies are dangerous and should be called out loudly.
One thing I don't see mentioned frequently is that old-style DSLRs are TOUGH. This means that the cost per year of ownership is not as high as it seems at first glance. So if DSLRs have any advantages for you at all (for me, I like to have a lens with a good zoom) then it's worth considering getting one, even if you continue to mostly use your phone camera.
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And here I thought we were talking about logic minimization for combinational elements. This stuff goes back to the 80's but it wouldn't be surprising if there are new mathematical insights some day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espresso_heuristic_logic_minim...
No, it really can't and everyone needs to stop pushing this corporate narrative. This is another one of those feel-good gestures that doesn't really result in any real progress.

Can you imagine the next time the topic of gender or bamboo ceiling pay comes up, we can just hug it out... right? No. Real laws need to be enacted to enforce good social policies, with real consequences to bear for those who break it. Even more relevant today, there are reports of police 'throwing' down their riot shields to join protestors, only to shoot them with rubber bullets a half hour later. Don't be fooled by kumbaya moments, solidarity and collective bargaining is the answer. And that will lead us to enact laws that will benefit the people, as history has shown us again and again.

Let's form a tech union already.
what's your point, exactly? men are way more likely to apply for jobs when they don't meet the requirements than women are, generally.

if you're legitimately using years of experience as a /hard/ cutoff, you're selecting for a very interesting signal that i would argue does not really optimize for candidate quality.

of course, your tech stack may warrant that requirement - i don't care - but this idea that "there are no qualified women/underrepresented groups" conveniently feeds onto itself - underrepresented groups see themselves as less likely to get the job, so don't apply, so don't build up resumes, probably leading to them exiting tech, etc.

at the end of the day, any true improvements to the system are going to make white men uncomfortable. yes, looking for candidates in particular fora associated with women/minorities/etc is positively boosting their chances vis-a-vis white men who aren't on those lists. that's the way it is going to have to be.
Rust is a pretty obscure language, when compared to Java, C#, C/C++, Javascript, Python, etc.

Rust is a lot better known because of internet fame, which didn't really exist to this magnitude until well after the dotcom crash.

My point is, Python's popularity took off in recent years, basically the last 10 years: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=python%2Cjava, primarily due to data science, machine learning, science in general.

Around until 2005 at least, it was known as a friendly scripting language with a few web frameworks which were not that popular (Django was first released in 2005), as the language that was starting to be adopted by distributions for scripting tools (the first Ubuntu version was launched in 2004 and was one of the first distros to use it extensively). It wasn't really present for development work in most cases, DevOps was the domain of bash/Perl (for older stuff) or Ruby (for newer stuff).

People tend to forget how obscure Python was before 2000, compared to the mainstream language it is today. And I say that as someone who likes Python ;-)
The Olympus E-M1X and teh E-M1.3 will take 8-16 full resolution pictures at 60fps and process them together. There are two options, one for macro photography, where the pictures are taken with different focus settings for increasing DOF and the other is high-res modus, where the pictures are taken with a minimal sensor shift and combined for higher resolution and have less noise. This even works hand-held.
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Why did Bijan keep driving away from the officers? The officers definitely should have to wear body cams

Very weird case
The two most common things that come to mind are social events and extracurricular work meetings associated with awareness of other areas of business. It’s such a big company that employees really are encouraged to take time away from their scheduled responsibilities to learn about what other people are doing.

The social events are sponsored by leadership which sometimes provides funding but team members are encouraged to be the driving force as a leadership building opportunity. Usually these are just things like potlucks or games at the office which require almost no spending or travel but there are also recreation days to entertainment locations outside the office.

Some of the events require a bit more effort for me to participate because I commute 45 miles to work one way where most people live close to the office.

The company is so big and diverse that I honestly don’t even notice race there. The thing that sticks out most for me are accents of employees where English is not their birth language, which requires more effort to parse during long phone meetings.

What I have noticed about this company is don’t be shy about meeting people. People are always nice and eager to meet. For some reason I am really shy in the corporate world and this is really hard for me. I find that I don’t want to be seen as pushy, superior, or impatient. I find that quite humility I learned from the military dominates all my social engagements around new people in the office to my limitation. I find that so strange because in the military I have been a platoon sergeant and managed large numbers of people in a high confrontation environment.
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There's lots of stuff in the literature about playing games with ZKPs. Shameless plug: I've been writing a framework for writing card games (or any game that could potentially be emulated with cards, e.g. flipping coins or rolling dice): https://github.com/rmartinho/pbmx
Would you describe this as Poaching:

- Finding a small zoo

- Deliberately bankrupting them

- Buying their animals cheap and slaughtering them

In my mind Poaching equates to using illegal or unethical means to hunt animals. Bankrupting a zoo to rid the animals of their protection feels like that to me.
It has nothing to do with inciting violence and everything to do with silencing the opposition.