skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm convinced that the best thing we as society can do for gender equality right now is to abandon the corporate roles that cater unreasonably much to the stereotypical macho male gender role.

These are roles which in principle require you to abandon your private life and spend all your mental energy on the company.

Why do we even have these roles? Well, according to behavioural psychology males fight for status, and the ultimate sacrifice gives the ultimate status.

No wonder that no sane person wants a role like this.

What is holding these roles in place then? Well, I think the business sector and legislation is largely to blame.

Laws stipulate corporate structures, and business schools teach corporate structure perfectly in tune with the last industrial revolution.

If there is anything we can do to make the work environment more egalitarian, it's to change corporate structures and create roles which aren't unreasonable and/or customized to old-fashion gender roles.
Definitely. In most of Europe things are more normal: it's normal for women to be prime ministers or presidents, it's OK to breastfeed your child in public, and at least among my programmer peers, women are regarded with more respect than men (since there are so few of them in IT).

In Poland, the catholic church and the "conservatives" still work hard at enforcing the old barbaric gender stereotypes, but they get little traction among the educated population.
Switch billing to PayPal, cancel the PayPal subscription.

I did that a week ago, worked great.
You don't get any GPIO though.
A lot of us are just assholes don't worry.

It's for somewhat good reason, but yeah overall I thought it was good.

They mentioned privacy a lot, but I think they could have reaffirmed it more with the 3rd party video doorbells and translation in Safari and such. Opening up about differential privacy and what telemetrics they do collect when you opt-in would have earned more goodwill from me. Earlier in the event they did specify that translation was on-device though.
The London underground was created in 1863 though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground

Though I suppose you would have to look at the state of thr system in the 1980s. NYC may have had more deferred maintenance.
I replied to these concerns at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23611034 [so we don't keep two parallel threads of the same going]
Author here. Please note that the "cheap" in the title refers to the effort needed as well as how sophisticated the tricks are; benchmarking and optimizing your algorithms is still super important! This was discussed quite a bit on the Rust subreddit [1] when it was published.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/fdbszu/cheap_tricks_f...
The NYT's institutional values died when A.G. Sulzberger became publisher at the beginning of 2018.
Am I the only one who is reading this as Scott flexing on NYT and that there's nothing to be sad about?

> After considering my options, I decided on the one you see now. If there’s no blog, there’s no story. Or at least the story will have to include some discussion of NYT’s strategy of doxxing random bloggers for clicks.

So his blog will be offline for a bit but it is clearly not permanent (if everything goes as planned).

Great move and probably will gain him even more clout within the rationalist community.
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No, Hetzner charges you <$2/TB. for that price, they'll be happy to route as much traffic as you want. Never heard that they complain in these cases.

They have worse peering than AWS but the difference in cost to them is certainly not 100x or more.
Any tools to do this with native applications too not just browsers? We have been flooded by this RPA companies the past 2 years and I'd love a way to do this with Python. It is actually a potentially very profitable market since the impact of automation is very visible (people see cursors do stuff for them...).
Ask HN: Will you pay $99 pa for email service?
hey.com is charging that much.

Just curious how many would be fine with paying $99 per annum for email service for which pretty much 99.99% of the population does NOT pay.
Disengaging based on an N=1 is not the type of individual action that improves our society. Our society is built on individual (and collective) attempts to improve, and you putting your money towards journalists you found to be doing a good job is the way we leave the world better than we found it.

I hope you'll consider this, because our society cannot function without quality investigative reporting. I of course agree there are many kinds of people who call themselves journalists many of which don't improve our society. We must fight this battle, as we must fight every battle, because that's the only way things change for the better. Do not let cynicism win.
Great work!

I wasn't able to find anything on deployment in the docs. What does it look like?

I've been looking for a framework with the following requirements:

- Functional-ish language
- Statically typed with Result<T, E> error handling.
- Garbage collected.
- Compile time checked HTML templates, with autoformatter and IDE support (like working with JSX/TSX in VS Code).
- Some kind of SQL DSL that has decent IDE support (like Ecto on Elixir, Diesel on Rust).

This framework checks off more of those than any framework I've seen. I'll definitely be giving it a try.
Not that much higher.
I wouldn't look to FPGAs or Optane to save Intel's bacon. The issue Intel have is that the x86 is their cash cow - since Intel's primary way of selling FPGAs and Optane is bundling it with their CPU. It's all about pricing the full package of products and using their CPU dominance as leverage.
I’ve seen a lot of criticism for the NYT as of late, and, sadly, it’s almost all been warranted upon inspection.

I’m not sure if it’s a case of the top dog getting all the scrutiny, but it’s crazy to me how a company with so many good journalists can seem to have so many bad.

Much criticism is not even new (Manufactured Consent, Judith Miller).
I do hope AMD does well here as Apple's chips with all their custom silicon, T3 etc, mean the death of booting anything but apple signed OS images on that, forget Linux.

And that's not the future I am willing to buy into.
I am so glad I don't try to squeeze ideology out of every piece of media I encounter. It must be a weary and drab existence
Seeing all this negative press about NYT (their website's weird trackers) and spotting increasingly more propaganda articles in their editorial section in the recent past, I am now going to stop my NYT subscription.

The last thing they deserve is my money.
Why Apple's move from Intel to ARM means we should stop buying Macs
It's called Gell-Mann Amnesia. And the only reason I remember that is because it was mentioned in a short story written by Scott Alexander.
I had to (or it seemed like I had to) go through a web chat queue and beg multiple times to cancel my crosswords subscription (which was the only NYT subscription I’ve ever had, and there’s nothing wrong with the crossroads product, I just wasn’t able to dedicate enough time to it).

Scummy business practices like that make it very difficult for me to recommend any of that company’s products to anyone, even though I’m sure the people actually making the products have little or no influence on the people who control the transaction mechanics.
I don't particularly care about the GUI...

most of my time on my Mac is browser (Chrome), terminal, and Electron apps. Even my IDE is just Electron.

The new Finder and menus look ugly, but frankly, in the age of Electron everything, the OS UX doesn't matter that much, as every app has its own one, reimplemented in JavaScript and React.

Slack still looks like Slack in Big Sur, in Catalina, in Windows 10.
I don't believe Scott would lie like that in that situation. Sure, it's a judgement call on his character; but I really do not think this is a likely thing we'd see from him if your scenario were the case.
What exactly does naming him fully add to the article? Is there any journalistic reason to do it? The only way I could see it possibly being relevant is if Scott is a heavyweight in his field or is famous or well known for some other non blogging reason. But that doesn't appear to be the case if he lives with 10 roommates and is fearful of being fired from his job.
For those who are baffled by this (I think this is right...)

An immigrant visa is one that permits (in principle, perhaps subject to removal of conditions) lawful permanent residency in the U.S.

A green card is a document that proves immigration status as a lawful permanent resident.

You don’t need actually to have received an immigrant visa to be a lawful permanent resident because you can also achieve that through adjustment of status.

A non-immigrant visa is one that does not permit permanent residency.

A non-immigrant visa that permits dual-intent is one that can be held concurrently with an application for an immigrant visa or for adjustment of status to a category of permanent resident.
Offshore software development in 2020 and beyond: An ultimate guide
Have you noticed that the curves are following Gompertz-Model?

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10157283645163015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aHrx68IT7o

There is no constant CV>1 - it all depends on the situation.
> I would probably now go with php

seriously? 2020 and you'd pick php for a greenfield project?

and you mention this here, where we're discussing a project that provides: strong typing, typed safe queries, type safe templates, and more.

interesting.
Arguably the consumers don't realize the value of open email vs "everybody's on Gmail". Almost everyone outside of HN/Slashdot is happy with whatever messenger they get from Facebook.
It is an IDE but it’s just might be different than what you used too, although if you are used to visual component based IDEs like Visual Studio (not code) or Visual Basic it won’t be that unfamiliar.

The whole point of blueprints is that the provide a visual interface to link the underlying classes together in a fairly easy manner you can actually make a game with using blueprints only now you’ll be limited in various ways from not having the exact functionality you want in a given blueprint to having performance issues if you are linking too many blueprints together to perform a relatively simple action but they serve their purpose and that is to detach much of the high level game/level design implementation from the low level code implementation.
Neither we nor the narrative "weavers" can contain or control the truth. If collectively we reject the truth in favor of wickedness and lies, then this is what we can always expect to happen in the future. Insomuch as the old narrative was made up of lies, this also all has an a side that's good and just.

> If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

> II Chronicles 7:13-14

> Jesus saith unto him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."

> John 14:6
Can someone tell this person that this site is probably still on way back machine? And he or she should request it to be removed.
Another +1 for Selenium. I used it to bag tickets for a show I wanted to see. The seller’s site was terrible and apparently had no protection against ticket spinners so all 5,000 tickets sold out in minutes. Fortunately their resale site also had no protection at all so it was easy to write something to reload the page often and put tickets into my shopping cart as soon as they became available. When that happened it notified me and handed back control for me to enter the credit card details (I was too lazy to automate it all). I’m not proud of this brute force approach but if the reseller’s site wasn’t so awful to start with it wouldn’t be necessary.
What Is Viacen Male Enhancement?
(We put those in the title after this was posted.)
One of these things requires 20 minutes and €5.

The other requires more than half a decade of intense education, internships, tests and further verifications. (Not to mention thousands of Euros in education costs, if not state sponsored)

I cannot think of a larger difference in terms of barrier to entry.
How do you get to that? I’m not saying there won’t be confusion but the plain language of the order says it doesn’t apply to people who have currently valid visas.
It's not enough that the windows are getting bulky. The thickness of the frames is _inconsistent_. Look at the screenshots

- Some of the windows look like they look now (Safari, Maps, ...) [1]

- Settings are skinnier [2]

- Finder is bulkier [2]

I might be a bit autistic in this hurts my eyes.

[1] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/06/apple-introduces-maco...

[2] https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...
I think it's just in general dangerous and disruptive for the entire world to know who you are online. They will find you and threaten you and everyone you love. Sure only 1% of them are actually dangerous but it only takes one bullet or knife in the back from a psychotic person to end everything. Or just someone doing some crazy made up nonsense like pizzagate. The loonies are out there.
I work with both Java and Rust.

Definitely not the same. With Java, you decide what you want to compile with your build script. You don't need to compile entire application as a single unit. If you have to recompile a lot of code when you only make small modification it is likely because did not use many of available ways to just recompile the classes that you modified.

Also, with Java some optimizations are pushed to runtime. JIT has access to all code running even if it wasn't available at compilation time.
> Few of Kafka's works were published during his lifetime ... Kafka instructed his executor and friend Max Brod to destroy his unfinished works ... but Brod ignored these instructions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka
But what you're describing, is not actually Apple's stance. Apple is fine with apps providing their own payment solutions, as long as what those apps are selling is not digital goods. There are plenty of apps for buying clothes, groceries, (physical) books etc. that do not use Apple pay, and do not give Apple a 30% cut of each purchase.
Same here. I was wondering if the New Yorker had a new tech section.
This is exactly why people are losing faith in journalists and the media in general. NYT has been going downhill for a while now so this is not surprising. It's not the doxxing itself, but it's the hypocrisy. I'm willing to bet that the same person would not hesitate to call out anyone else of a differing opinion (especially politically) on how wrong doxxing is.
Scott Alexander is actually his real first and middle name. All he’s asking is for them to not use his real last name. Apparently, that’s beyond them, they simply must do it regardless of the cost to him and of how little relevance it has.
* What if every hospital had an overt political stance and forced doctors to make diagnoses based on those politics?

* What if the hospitals had a financial incentive to sensationalise public health?

* What if independent doctors only got into medicine in the first place to make decisions based on their own partisan politics?

Unfortunately all US media, and most international media, is equally bad and built on bad intentions for varying levels of nefarious purposes.
Thanks for the update, I’ve looking forward to this feature for around 6 months!
Deployment documentation is WIP at the moment and will be released soon.
In the future we want to release a Cloud where the deployment will be as easy as clicking a button and having it online in a few seconds :)
Flirting for Morons
> 1. If done correctly, non-Apple laptops may become significantly less attractive. Just like Android phones.

What are you talking about? Android has about 72% of worldwide market share, so clearly Android phones are not significantly less attractive.

And I am not an Android fanboy, my first two phones were iPhone 1 and iPhone 3GS, and I still consider them very good phones.
I think the problem here is that you are setting up a situation where it is some binary choice between the insane complexity of SPAs and everything that entails and some random 90s style hand rolled PHP file.

There are a whole bunch of options between those two extremes and I can’t for the life of me think why people don’t talk about them more often.

For example, I think the new Hey.com implementation hasn’t received anywhere near the level of recognition that it probably should have.

It’s an entire email application with a single set of screens that power all web, desktop and mobile apps, does so with all the speed of an SPA, has no need for advanced state management, has the ability to push live updates on a per component basis on any screen and does it all in under 40kb of JavaScript.

Seriously go and look at the source code. I’ve only seen a tiny number of people talking about it like in this post https://dev.to/borama/a-few-sneak-peeks-into-hey-com-technol...

But to me the past few years of SPAs are starting to look more and more like a mistake to me where they became the rule when they should have probably been the exception.
I tend to agree with this. Facebook also silently acquired the very amibitious UK startup called https://www.scape.io/ whose mission was VPS = Visual Positioning System. Their SDK/APIs allowed to build AR app easily, but now they're part of FB. That makes me think that its AR which is here at play.
This is the correct take. It's not so much about a worry of violence but the far more prolonged concern of never being able to have a normal job and provide for your family again.
Nailed it. With Steve Jobs his own passion and enthusiasm really shone through, whereas now we're seeing a rehearsed, scripted presentation. I don't think they're necessarily wrong to take this route, and I think with Apple's much bigger reach it's probably a fairly wise and safe bet, but it does sadden me a bit that we don't get Steve's showmanship anymore.
Most of the reported news is N=1 events. If the news reported averages instead, it wouldn't sell
It may prevent the same reporter from destroying someone else's life. There are consequences to hurting another human being's life and privacy.
Anonymity cuts both ways. You can keep your personal details secret for a while. It's becoming more and more difficult the more well known you become. On the other hand anonymous people are able to continue making threats, call for violence or otherwise making your life more difficult basically forever without consequences.

There are many problems with the way the Internet works. Having anonymous people with nothing to lose broadcasting political opinions and threats is one of them. This creates anonymous angry mob which is very successful at silencing interesting authors and ruining lives of those who have even slightly controversial thoughts.

I don't know what the solution is. It's not clear to me more anonymity is going to solve anything. I believe the world would be a better place if you had to work to have your opinion heard. Do something interesting, work in certain industry for a few years, achieve something, live through something. Just because you are able to make an account on a website doesn't make what you have to say in any way interesting or worthwhile.
NowThis and that entire network of brands collaborating on radical politics. There has to be way to make this more obvious to people.

I've watched VICE and NowThis alone radicalize perfectly decent people. I knew someone for over 10 years who was always highly observant, emotional but self-aware, would drop what he was doing to sit in my car with me in a dark parking lot and let me go through the wild ride of emotions I have about my ex. He knew we wouldn't ever be a thing. I sat with him one evening in a dark parking lot and let him go through his emotions on us just not falling into place, the existential crisis of seeing something desired within reach and being able to touch but not keep it. He's the person who taught me every second is independent from the next, that a bad feeling toward someone can be isolated, compartmentalized, only exist in a moment in the front of our minds. That if we're aware of that independence, we can turn off an emotion so quickly we hardly notice the effort. And today, I could be thoroughly enraged by someone's comment online, turn off my screen and be in a great mood before I even realize the transition occurred.

A few years back, he started watching the VICE documentaries at work during his free time. And then he started watching the clips and cuts made by Buzzfeed and channels like NowThis. Then he started sharing them on social media. And the clips got more and more incendiary. It's like VICE news could do a 30-minute special on LGBT in Brazil, but he'd watch and re-watch the few seconds of Bolsonaro saying gays are bad and that's just his view. And then he'd repost the clips. And then he started posting them on people's timelines to make sure their friends saw the clips and his comments too. And it eventually spiraled out into him posting clips of Nazi propaganda and these detailed comparisons to the Trump administration. And then he got verbally abusive toward his family.

My last conversation with him was me asking why he posted what read like a manifesto that white people, Nazis/KKK, cisgender people should be put into training programs and if they refused or didn't show rapid progress then they deserved to be dropped off somewhere remote and left there. I thought he was joking, but he said he was serious. He ranted for almost an hour at me, even after I closed Facebook. I got 13 or so message notifications on my phone.

Just to clarify, his posts on Facebook and Twitter included his belief that 'cisnormativity' is a product of 'white mafias', that we're all accomplices and own a blood libel for the deaths of the poor around the world, that ISIS wasn't homophobic and only executed cishomos, that he'd force cishomos to have sexual intercourse with trans people even if it didn't fix them. Just insane, insane shit.

These sites are the gateway drugs to violence. For all the talk about violent video games and movies, these indie (corporate) 'news' channels are the real danger.
If they current pcs cant run electron, they likely can't run latest office either. It's probably still the age of win7 there, might be 32bit as well. With ancient Acrobat reader as well.

This has everything to do with security. They are one click away from getting whole department pwned.
All Journalists Are Bastards

(In precisely the same sense as All Cops Are Bastards, namely that they have a job which purports to be in the public interest, but which is highly distorted by a bunch of societal factors and mostly winds up serving powerful interests. Any given interaction with a journalist/cop has a chance of going badly, and if it does go badly you can be damn sure that you're going to the one that suffers, while the cop/journalist gets away with it.)
As a male I've also noticed a pressure to move upwards from a 'regular' dev to e.g. tech lead or architect, but that said, I've been fortunate to have spent a lot of time working for a company where that was mainly people's own ambitions; they got rid of or raised the wage ceiling for 'regular' developers at some point.
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I pretty much did this.

Don't forget, there are tons of other amazing German authors, just to name a few: Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Schiller, Goethe...

I think German literature is to this day still probably the best in the world.

I also find Math in German way easier and more beautiful than in English. If "clean code" was a thing for languages, German grammar would seem to me to be one of the cleanest.