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One way you can improve diversity in your workforce is to actively seek out underrepresented communities when you are hiring.

You can't control who is applying to your job postings, but you can control who you reach out to to fill those positions.

If you can find people who don't fit the white male programmer mold and let them know about the jobs you have available, you're making the choice to prioritize diversity and inclusion in your teams.
Do you suppose if that if they had you use your own laptop, you wouldn't have to worry about "working on company hardware" for IP purposes i.e. they couldn't claim your ideas unless you were working on company time.

Clarification: The company owns anything you make on company time or on the company laptop.
Ask HN: How to avoid losing a baby video that “violates YouTube's guidelines”?
Years ago I uploaded to YouTube a 30 minute home video of my kids when they were babies. I wanted to avoid losing the video to a hard drive crash, and also wanted to be able to share it with family members. I never shared it publicly.

Big mistake!

Now years later, YouTube emailed me, and informed me that my home video "violates guidelines". My guess is that a short sequence showing a 6 month old baby naked in a bathtub triggered some kind of porn filter :(.

Of course I appealed, YouTube's decision, but to no avail.

The worst part is that the YouTube UI prevents downloading my video and storing it somewhere else! Four days from now YouTube will delete my home video, and it will be gone forever.

What can I do to avoid losing my video?
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I think AI/Machine learning fits much better at the big big companies like google.

You only need one or 2-3 competiting Neuronal Networks for cancer detection and if you look how expensive it is to train that stuff, not many can actually do it anyway.

But what tripples down are pre learned networks you can easily reuse for your small use cases which are specific and have plenty of data and only need to outperform the existing solution.
I will try to directly start and run the Smalltalk-80 sources file and somehow pre-create the required global objects in the C++ code.
I don't, but it's amusing that this comment has a Russian accent.
> I'm amazed that the contract Star Theory had with Take-Two didn't have a clause prohibiting Take-Two from poaching employees like this.

Please don’t use the word “poached” to describe getting employees to voluntarily join your company by offering better compensation. Unlike animal poaching, employee poaching is actually good for the employees being poached. In the name of preventing “poaching” many Silicon Valley companies in the past engaged in an illegal scheme to fix employee wages.
>I remind myself that it is nothing but a survival instinct and even I was doing this in one way or another.

Astute observation. I mean we all react differently to a cat versus a snake, based on prior experiences or social conditioning. The average person out there with average intelligence ( nothing to be proud of) can evaluate only in black and white and not in shades of grey. Let's cut some slack (but not too much) for these mentally challenged people.
Also, for a lot of those devs a successful launch of KSP2 is going to be a career booster; they don’t want to walk away from it.
That's definitely what I see - I would think it would be easy to find hard data to back that up (although poking around, I haven't been able to find it myself).
B and C were solved by plug-in hybrids; on electricity they would do up to 50 miles (or thereabouts) which is fine for the errands you mentioned, and when more power or range is required the ICE is fired up.

Hybrids and plug-in hybrids have all but died though, now that they're no longer subsidized, and as it turns out they're not actually that good at carbon emissions.
Never give up! Florida just restored voting rights to >1 million felons who had served their time, first by vote, and then by the judiciary when the state government stalled.
As others have pointed out, resources are currently available. Especially in Germany.

Nevertheless, countries who have been successful in reducing the spread also need to find ways to drive R0 below 1 for a long time. This has proven difficult in Germany.

Therefore, it seems that any reasonable false positive rate will still be a net benefit - given that active cases are now very low and it is desirable to catch any infections early.

So yes, this will not help everyone. And yes, it may lead to false positive quarantines - until test results are back.

But it still seems to be a net positive as long as the privacy part is intact.
Having a flash that can fire upward is such a game changer when taking photos I have a hard time understanding why this wasn't an option on point and shoots and even built in flashes on DSLR's for years.

Maybe its about differentiation, but if just a single manufacturer created a model that you could adjust the flash to point upward, people would flock to it after seeing the results.
Chloroquine and its derivatives were given to thousands, if not millions, of people for years. We know and understand the safety profile of this drug well. To think that all of a sudden it became more dangerous was silly and unreasonable.

This study always smelled bad. The media was so quick to champion it everywhere though. Why might that be I wonder? Where are the retractions now? The whole thing is disgusting.

The media in the US is doing everyone a disservice. Because of this less people are going to believe "science" and more people are going to just retreat to their echo chambers and believe whatever they want. I know I'm not going to trust the Lancet or the NEJM ever again. It's all political now.

What a mess.
There’s something specific about sitting still concentration that is particularly painful for me when sleep deprived.

Physical activities that require concentration like surfing or even martial arts training I can get through and even temporarily make that miserable exhausted feeling disappear.
More: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23272222
> enlightened benevolent dictator

These are extremely hard to find, and anyone who thinks of themselves as one is missing at least one of those properties.
Oh, you’re absolutely right about that. I probably wouldn’t be able to pull off my hippie look in my position if I wasn’t a Scandinavian man.

People just don’t automatically attribute me with financial power anymore. On the flip-side, anything “being a dad” related is much better now that people assume I work less.
> culture

except the vast majority of FAANgs work force are immigrants.
> The reality I see, is that all of us are overworked / with a lot of responsibilities.

The bigger the company, the less this is true (although there are also a whole host of smaller companies where this isn't true either). My last 3 companies are not filled with people who are overworked AND have little responsibility. Remote-only has exacerbated the slack.
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> $15M ARR
> That might not sound like a huge number

As a founder, I'd be more than happy to work on it for my entire life
> Antimalarial drugs touted by the White House as possible COVID-19 treatments looked to be not just ineffective, but downright deadly.

Immediately when the long knives came out against HCQ I was cynical. A drug on the market for 60 years (and over the counter in many countries) is “extremely dangerous”?

Or, more likely because it’s out of patent there’s a lot of money interested in exploring other things as a treatment.
This is what Apple car would have looked like if Jobs was still alive.
> Sure. Go to a Ducks Unlimited banquet and tell folks you’re a Democrat and they may contextualize gun control as your agenda. Tell your Bay Area colleagues you’re a Republican and you’ll be contextualized as close minded.

That's just... assuming you more-or-less support the planks/stances/actions of party you've just told them you consider yourself affiliated with. Where's the identity part come in?
Colleges and Universities with good CS departments that graduate a lot of undergrads are also a huge factor (quality and quantity). The students in that country has the most immediate access, and it is also a big draw of talent from other countries.
In 2019 13% of US CS bachelors were awarded to "Nonresident Alien" students, 65% of Masters, and 60% PhD.
Hell ya me too, I like to ride that line between looking tidy and insane
Partly, this could be explained by culture: a democratic culture produced more innovation.

And the best US companies have developed an internal culture that might not be easy to develop.
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Why (!)?

Of course servers are untrusted. If you think you need to see the server source then any trust you have is mistaken.

Same as with HTTPS. If you think you need to trust the MITM, you've already lost
It's Dyson, they reinvent common household items - vacuums, fans, etc - then multiply the price.
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Zipcar isn't profitable because it hasn't really hit critical mass. The zipcar in my street is used maybe only 2 hours per week. It just feels too expensive to use. Also, the fact you can't just park it anywhere when you're done...

I wonder if perhaps some kind of "Pay £100 to have unlimited car use for the month" type scheme might work better?
I like the part where they project the wind tunnel flowlines on the physical model of the car

That looks like science
The problem is that due to the Peter principle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle) the people making the decisions are not competent to make them.
Lack of professionalism and absence of a
professional engineering culture in many
of the places you'd seek to outsource to
save money.

I think the "absence of a professional engineering culture in many of the places" results primarily from the nature of contracting itself. I see this in onshore contracting as well.

Contract-based engineering is nearly always a recipe for technical debt.

The team will nearly always focus on today's problems. Not tomorrow's. Because... why should they? They are judged solely on how well they're solving today's problem. And they likely won't be around in three months or three years to reap the true rewards of reduced technical debt anyway.

Contracted engineers also haven't simply been around your business long enough to truly understand it and anticipate what future needs will even exist.

All other things being roughly equal I'll take a full-time, permanent, offshore engineer over an onshore contractor any day of the week.
I'm not sure you can necessarily call it voluntary if the offer comes paired with "oh and we're bankrupting your current employer".
> child abuse happens literally all the time... I don’t want my kids in someone elses [private conversations] either

93% of the time, the perpetrator knows the child. If you’re seriously worried your children might be victims of abuse, then your first line of defense should be against your own family and friends.

https://www.rainn.org/statistics/perpetrators-sexual-violenc...

The statistics for children are in the paragraph after the first graph.
Same reason as with Windows probably...
In general "checks and balances" never work particularly well. Very few presidential democracies last more than 50 years. Once you have two branches of government that can both claim a democratic mandate but have different ideologies in a conflict you get a cycle of constitutional hardball then eventually one says "I have a democratic mandate to do this and you can't stop me" and the system fails. The US managed to avoid this for so long first, because of the good example of George Washinton in establishing norms to start with. Then we had parties that were highly partisan but non-ideological and mostly fighting over graft until the progressive era. Well, there was the brief era of ideological polarization between the Democrats and Republicans around the 1860 election but we all know how that turned out. From the progressive era through Nixon's "southern strategy" we had an era of unusually low partisanship with ideologically mixed parties. But since then the parties have been diverging and nowadays all the conservatives are in the Republican party and all the liberals are in the Democrat party. And hardball tactics like filibustering all the opposing bills in the senate has started.

https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/graph/png/Filibust...

We're in a pretty bad place and I'm not sure how we get out of it.
Put another way, the converse hypothesis "programming jobs are not easy to move around and most of them can not be done remotely" resisted falsification, increasing our confidence in its truth.
And sports can be more than just athletics. I watch "SpeedGaming" and "Global Speedrun Association" competitions, and these have announcers, tournaments, ratings, and even sponsors.
It's so easy a caveman can do it!
>Unlike animal poaching, employee poaching is actually good for the employees being poached.

That depends on their negotiation positions. "We're effectively killing your employer, you can join us for 10% less salary or take your luck on the job market." This situation was more akin to a mass prisoner's dilemma than standard poaching.
I am a pro photographer and love the G7X. Its my goto travel camera although there are some limitations, it produces excellent images. If you want a compact travel camera, this is a great choice. And no, I dont use it for video, which is why most of the users like it, I like it for the speed, optics and the technical controls.
Personally, I believe that there is a Conservation of Weirdness going on. Certain things are outside of the statistical norm (or mode, or whatever terminology you choose), with varying degrees of acceptability. What is acceptable now might not have been acceptable then, but something else will have become unacceptable in its place.

The current acceptability is a factor in determining how many Weirdo Points you accumulate for your various abnormalities.
I used to be big on viewfinders... until I had to get reading glasses. Even though my cameras with VFs have diopters, I find myself just looking over my regular glasses and touching the screen to focus and shoot.
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How is that different from rot13?
> to describe getting employees to voluntarily join your company by offering better compensation

Huh? They withdrew the contract from their current employer, making them redundant, then offered them a job.

I'm not sure abusing your position of power as sole "client" to bankrupt my employer to hire me counts as "offering better compensation".

If not poaching, perhaps coercing, compelling, forcing?
> that dude who makes low production quality lightsaber fight videos in his garden (can't remember his name)

His online handle is Airsoftfatty, and his story is actually kinda tragic. iDubbz visited him and made a "documentary" of sorts about him, it's a fascinating watch [1].

[1] Full Force: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfwPL-bd_mk
No, it's not.

It's been adopted as a core part of the broader conservative movement for a long time. Conservatives were at one point of sort of red headed stepchild in the mainstream, "Chamber of Commerce" or Eisenhower GOP. I grew up on a farm listening to Rush Limbaugh all summer in the 90s, they talked about it constantly. Reagan was the big hero, Goldwater and to a lesser extent Nixon were the minor heroes of the past. As the WW2 generation started retiring and dying, the next cohorts of GOP folks were more conservative than traditional republican.

At the same time, alot of the old-style conservative democrats started shifting as the old political machines started breaking down. The stereotype union, Irish, Italian and Polish guys (cops, construction, etc), fed a steady diet of talk radio in the truck, started going more republican.
> Doc has a whim to try drinking a beer milkshake

Yeah, I had that same whim one time back about twenty five years ago... Let's just say that the idea of a beer milkshake is much better than the reality.
Is that a rhetorical question?

There is no reason to have police that don't follow the Peelian principles.
Of course, in this case they’ve set up the counter move easily:

“So what you’re saying is that Zoom is fine protecting pedophiles from law enforcement, as long as you profit?”

This is why you shouldn’t play such dumb games as a company, there is only downsides from a PR perspective.
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This makes me wonder, are there are any other elements in the periodic table which seem to be missing their allotropes or was N the only one?
Did you look at the site at all? He clearly advertises a 48 hour average turnaround time.
There are many project management tools out there..whats unique with this one?
It would be cool if i can directly send invoices to clients using your product.
Fantastic analysis of the Lancet study's flaws: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUD_wvkNhnk
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People can be discriminated against for all kinds of reasons and lack of great reasons. So I think you bring up a good point, and additionally it can also be generalized to be aware if we are doing enough to be inclusive of everyone.
No. Blackmail maybe.
You have to give a phone call your complete attention - you can't do anything else while doing it. You need to be somewhere relatively quiet to do it. It blocks both people for the duration of the call. Some people have accents that are hard to understand. It's easier to make a mistake when reading something out or writing it down. There's no record of the phone call being made and the food ordered. Lots of reasons.
China’s Virus Apps May Outlast the Outbreak, Stirring Privacy Fears
So they suspect that Surgisphere has manufactured or falsified the data?
It seems super weird that "certification" means "works to our spec with $distros at the time of release" instead of "we have an arrangement with $company that will ensure that $distro will always be fully supported."
Agreed, uBlock origin has become a necessity since the web has turned to toxic sludge.

But Google has gotten so unbelievably bad that even uBlock origin can't protect against the onslaught of SEO spam and downright crappy results. I'm wasting hours every week, sorting through Google's atrocious output.
z-base-32 isn't going to magically disappear off the face of the earth. Anyway, here's a 32-byte secret key as hex. Still easier to type in than to drive to a data center. GPG is just horribly verbose, and the old school RSA keys are huge in comparison.

fd3223ec 20f55ae7 6fddc979 d41e2276 25255516 b08f5cd4 3d66d676 a054d2bb
tinfig.com, huh? Hmm... this sounds familiar.
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This is very true: and it's also the Tesla strategy. Which is a problem for Dyson because there's already an expensive premium product in the market.
What makes it even worse is that social media companies are now so paranoid about being labelled spreaders of misinformation, they are relying on sources who could easily be wrong about something as well (like in this case).

I guess this way at least they can point the responsibility somewhere else, and say it's not their fault.
Anyone watching this would agree the question here isn't whether or not Zuck has a principle around it but rather whether that principle is 'good' for the future. Their perspectives here are clearly different.
Not exactly what you're looking for, but I do something similar with https://pilotmoon.com/popclip/
And? Who says that Pygame is the only way of implementing this?
Why speculate? Enterprise outsources all the time. Their products aren’t great but they offer a certain passable quality level (and to say that quality isn’t affected when you start dramatically messing with price is insane).

Part of my team was already very affordable contractors in America. The company found a way to get even cheaper in India. I don’t think it’s as simple as cost, as in this case I think the company literally looked at the product and concluded ‘we don’t need this level of quality’. I understand I’m implying the quality will drop due to outsourcing, but it has nothing to do with a prejudice towards off shore work. If you drop prices dramatically the logic behind it is that you are prepared for a quality drop as quality is not the prime concern.

Every year, I spend more and more money on things I value. Sometimes it’s just a stupid upgrade on a chair, monitor, clothes, etc. If I fundamentally don’t find the value in a good mechanical keyboard, every year I will try to reduce my investment in it. That doesn’t mean I’m looking for a bad cheap keyboard, but that I’m okay with something passable since I see no value in a better one. I see more value in getting away with a passable one.

Is there a trillion dollars of untapped savings? Yes, for those seeking it, for those with different values.
> Why might that be I wonder? Where are the retractions now? The whole thing is disgusting.

It’s going to take a long time to recover from what the media has done here. HCQ isn’t even allowed as a treatment in a lot of places, or require hospitalization (funny for a drug on the market for 60 years and over the counter in some places).

Other countries are ramping up production and we’re still dealing with the yet another casualty of culture war.
You don't make money by being smart. You make money by taking on risk, being smart, executing well, and getting lucky among 100 other things.

If you think intelligence alone can get you there, you're about to be in a world of pain down the road.
Ask HN: What's one simple thing you do every day that has changed your life?
I ask myself two things in the morning and at night:

If today were the last day of your life, would you want to be doing what you're doing?

If I live every day the same way I did today, what kind of future would that create?
This covid19 caused by 5g kinda took in France too.
When telcos only were allowed to start preparing to deploy on the second of april...

At least it was easy for skeptics to debunk this one and tell their friend to stop listening to "enlightened" people over the internet. Until the next one, more vague and thus more convincing.
I didn't know there was a specific term for this concept. Thanks!
And people have also stupidly convinced themselves that what they need is a petrol powered 4WD SUV that can climb mountains, ford rivers, carry groceries and commute to work. It must also be capable of doing the weekly cross country road trip, apparently. This can all be yours for 84 payments of $500/month.

No one wants EVs because of the same stupid question that gets asked and answered repeatedly, "this would be great, but what do I do when the battery runs out?"
Could the working culture also affect the average salary?

For example, an average US employee will on average work 30% more hours per year than a German employee [1].

Working in the Netherlands, I also know that a lot of engineers will deliberately choose to work part time (e.g. 30h/week) even if it ends up with a lower annual income.

[1] https://data.oecd.org/emp/hours-worked.htm