skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Someone can be both aggressively conformist over some issues (and towards some groups) and aggressively independent over others.

Yes and no. In a purely objective context conformity is a personality mode shaped by a person's social reference group and the devotion or conformance to a single idea rests on the reinformance of the local group. For a highly conformant person you can change their opinion on a subject by dropping them into a different social context for a month at which point the devotion to a particular subject will be replaced by devotion in a different subject.

Perhaps the most defining characteristic of somebody extremely non-conforming is the potential and frequency for original and potentially unpopular decisions. From extremely conforming people originality is met with immediate hostility. In that hostility the person may not even realize they are emotional first without any consideration for the validity of that emotion.
Our brains are hard-wired to assume light comes from above, and 3D "pop out" from shading even means we can identify the shapes faster. More info and references in this section from Mind Hacks (I was a co-author):

#20 Fool Yourself into Seeing 3D -https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=K6bjvFUcedgC&pg=PA57&dq=...

(It briefly mentions Susan Kare's work who designed the first 3D buttons in Windows 3.0 -- 1990!)

There's another effect going on here which is visual affordances: not only does the button "pop out" but we immediately see it as something we can push. That's from the psychologist James Gibson in 1977.

There are a ton of cognitive quirks that are useful to know when designing interfaces. The pop-out effect is one of my favourites.
> Get downvoted too much, and you will get the dang hammer brought down on you, and its back to a rate limited life of communication for you.

I like to think that dang gives us all just a sharp enough edge to his moderation for us to cut ourselves on, but I take your point. I found myself in a flame war, got rate limited by a mod, actually emailed Daniel, got a soft agreement to lift limits in a week or so with good behavior. In his and HN’s defense, I was a bit edgy and I agree it was not an isolated comment but closer to 15 across a couple threads with the same person. I thought I was having a spirited debate at the time and still do, while recognizing that protracted flamewars burn down the users’ and mods’ and admins’ morale and it is a kind of social contagion that self-reinforces negative reactionary behavior among and between users. So that’s to say I agree that I did something unsuitable for HN.

What happened next was nothing.

For almost a month, I was rate-limited. I just thought I was still letting Daniel down. I had no transparency into my mod action. No mod mail like on reddit. I ended up emailing about something else entirely, and casually mentioned it. Daniel almost didn’t really know what to think. He didn’t do the original action; a mod did. I did email him, but that was like 5 in a thread out of how many he must have to read a day? I sent him our original thread, he read it, and I wasn’t rate-limited anymore. He genuinely forgot.

Daniel is too busy to care about anyone’s agenda but keeping the site what it’s meant to be, and trying to build it slowly into what it will become. He’s a good dude. Let’s not make this personal. I only email with him, but I know this much: HN is lucky to have him.

Some more transparency into mod and flag actions wouldn’t go astray, either.
You don't even have to look that far, there are secret police officers using unmarked rental cars to arrest protesters without telling them who they are and why they are being arrested.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/17/portland-pro...

https://twitter.com/sparrowmedia/status/1283436911307218948
I went to a school that’s definitely not ranked near 10 like Duke (didn’t get into Duke) and was also ignored by the $COMPANY despite being in the same region and being the authors alma mater.

What, exactly, do you think my class of CS grads should do when recruiting?
Yes. That's kind of a big part of what these protests are about.
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Maybe infosec or cyber security would be similar? I'm a fullstack turned mostly FE developer these days, but I'm very interested in security and it seems like there is a lot of demand out there for that skill set and plenty of opportunity. It seems like it would push a lot of the same buttons that you mentioned (fixing broken systems, lots of autonomy, working with smart folks). I tend to get bored with long-term projects unless there are still interesting problems to be solved so working on lots of smaller projects sounds pretty appealing, and there's seemingly no end to new systems/devices/websites that are just riddled with holes. Seems like a perfect role and potentially more lucrative than IT (although this is just pure guessing, I haven't compared numbers).
Depends on which flavour of Linux one goes by.

https://docs.oracle.com/en/operating-systems/oracle-linux/dt...

Regarding BPF, the book is a must have for anyone doing serious stuff with it.

https://www.informit.com/store/bpf-performance-tools-9780136...
You are in no position to assume rytill 'gives up when confused about notation'.
Another anon Googler here (with a slightly older account).

Your experience matches mine. I think it might even be somewhere in the mandatory periodic training.

Doing a patent search as a software engineer can only hurt you. Better just to route any questions to product counsel.
Personally I've tuned out all news minus local news. All other is sensationalized garbage filled with fueling hate (stereotypes), outrage, and fear.
You can’t shut off the engine in that climate, if you do you would need a way to heat it up before restarting so, it’s redundant.

In other words if you will anyway need a warmer environment [hangar, large building] to enable the engine to start, there is no point to “fixing it” in the cold as it will not turn over anyway.
Ask HN: Are there any software jobs in nature/animal conservation?
Hi HN. Lately I have been thinking about what I really want to do in life; what really brings meaning and joy to my life. I am currently finishing up my solo "start-up" project, and we will see where it goes, but in the mean time I have been doing some introspection and thinking about the future.

I am a software developer (mostly backend, some frontend and some data analytics). I personally don't really have any desire to work at FAANG. I also don't really have any desire to write CRUD for some generic company that pays well either.

I want to explore more meaningful avenues of work. Preserving nature, animals and their habitats, is one cause I have been thinking about. I know that most projects are very hands-on, requiring mostly hard labour or specialised research efforts. However, I've been wondering if there is a demand for software in these projects? Particularly in terms of specialised tooling and/or data analytics?

I suspect that most research projects don't have the funding to afford anything beyond the bare requirements. The same probably goes for government sponsored programmes; again, this is all speculation.

Does anyone have experience as a software dev in these fields? Where might one start looking ?

--

Because I am sure some people will mention it, yes, volunteering is an option. But money is an unfortunate living requirement in today's society (unless you plan on going off-grid entirely).
Love and fear are the least human I'd wager. They are mammalian in the case of love and even lower in the case of fear. It's rational thought that sets us apart, the rest is shared machinery. Some animals have _more_ emotional machinery than we do. (Orcas)
Or rather he did not score well enough on their test to get to enter.
No he doesn’t. We all know what he meant and don’t need a moral microscope on every word everyone says.
Yeah, that's coming from these four Fastly VCL variables:

conn_speed: https://developer.fastly.com/reference/vcl/variables/geoloca...

conn_type: https://developer.fastly.com/reference/vcl/variables/geoloca...

proxy_desc: https://developer.fastly.com/reference/vcl/variables/geoloca...

proxy_type: https://developer.fastly.com/reference/vcl/variables/geoloca...

conn_type is interesting to me, I'm not sure how you would distinguish wifi vs. wired based on HTTP header data.
As someone that went to a low ranked school, they absolutely should be abolished.
2019-08-20 14:00:03.270 INFO Implements Ukkonen's suffix tree algorithm. For more on how it works, see https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.10.... or get a PDF from our file share at \\some\path\to\departmental\share\FileThatWasDeletedThreeYearsAgo.pdf

2019-08-20 14:00:03.856 INFO Implements Ukkonen's suffix tree algorithm. For more on how it works, see https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.10.... or get a PDF from our file share at \\some\path\to\departmental\share\FileThatWasDeletedThreeYearsAgo.pdf

2019-08-20 14:00:04.137 INFO Implements Ukkonen's suffix tree algorithm. For more on how it works, see https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.10.... or get a PDF from our file share at \\some\path\to\departmental\share\FileThatWasDeletedThreeYearsAgo.pdf

2019-08-20 14:00:04.523 INFO Implements Ukkonen's suffix tree algorithm. For more on how it works, see https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.10.... or get a PDF from our file share at \\some\path\to\departmental\share\FileThatWasDeletedThreeYearsAgo.pdf

Something tells me that my logging under that heuristic wouldn't fly with sysops.
Sure, but he had an IQ high enough to do physics.
I would strongly doubt the sanity of anyone getting their linux distro from oracle.
> Unless a 'Karen' can be an elderly aging Asian man, it's sexist, ageish and racist.

Well then it's a good thing that it can.

> Let's see how long you last, if you see a lazy black person (they exist, like lazy people exist everywhere)... and you spout out "Bluegum!" Is that OK?

That is a racial slur. Its meaning is defined by race.

A Karen is defined by behavior.
> I consistently have run into "perceived or real" confusing mathematical notation as an impediment to learning in a way that programming languages have never, ever caused me.

The C pointer syntax can be confusing even to experienced C programmers.
Yes. One of the key points Taleb likes to make is that many real life situations are fat tailed, i.e. extreme events are much more likely than what someone assuming a normal distribution would account for, which might help explain why the financial system turns out to be so extremely fragile over and over again every time a major event/crisis occurs.
Many people have been so misled by education and media consumption that they have no idea what is going on. It is a commonplace that conformists will profess to beliefs that they regularly undermine. E.g., the people who "support the protests" but still whinge about how they're too "confrontational" and "violent".
I totally agree. I'd add this : of course it helps to have life goals because it helps to structure, to not get lost. But I'm confident that the vast majority of us doesn't have a life goal. Most of use figure out a new small goal from time to time. And we'd be so much better if we'd recognize that a non-heroic life is just as good as any other.
We’re treating self-improvement like a software upgrade
Yes to both: I was a staff eng at big co, where the way I wrote the ideas above would have been trouble. I didn’t kow tow during my tenure, and now I’m building a company.
> They didn't have a large majority consider them inferior for long

Arguably untrue, ask a Trump voter of your choice about whether they think Chinese or Latino looking people are inferior to whites...

> seggregation laws against them until the 70s

All the SV hiring we are talking about is people born in the 80s and 90s. How are those worse off than the SE Asian or middle eastern first/second generation immigrant who also possibly gets racially stereotyped in some places but doesn't have preferential privileged college admissions and special scholarships?
The order applies to the superiors issuing commands too, and spells out explicit forms of identifying marks for covered people.

The reality is Border Patrol agents were purposefully shooting members of the press with rubber bullets and seizing their equipment regardless of their rights.

Just because there's some contrivance where an agent might justify this behavior doesn't mean they or their superiors won't be held in immediate contempt for violating this order. Judges aren't idiots, and this is about as harsh of a warning as they can issue before the case even gets finished.
The land value should be taxed, but it isn't a simple answer. Large buildings imply more people which mean more use of city services. I'm not sure what the right answer is, but I am sure simple answers that would fit into a comment box here are wrong.
The video mentions that this was done because the people in the driver cabin became covered in diesel soot as the sealing between engine and cabin was not 100%.
This always bothered me about the Connect app.

The watch has every run from the past 2 years on it. I want that information on my phone as well.
Stop telling us what our culture is.
> ( ) civil time and solar time have to remain in synch to better than a second

No, they don't. Proof of this is that they already aren't: there is a band no more than 15 arcseconds wide in each timezone where it is true, and everywhere outside that, civil time does not correspond to solar time.
...and then a financial crisis hits and suddenly they expect the government to bail them out because they didn't account for that risk in their models.
Blame the writers of "Will & Grace".
To give an example of someone a large subset of HN would like to sh*t on with that question, a company I have worked for:

In our case (we have some minorities but not as many as HN would like).

Why: because they aren't available.

We have KPIs for HR and managers that strongly encourage it, but there just aren't more qualified women/black/etc coders.

Which, in our case, translates to less than 5 (but awesome, and highly regarded) black persons[0], about 30% women.

[0]: Note however that the demographic is quite different here in Norway. I know people here who never saw black people except on holiday until they were far beyond 20 years old. In their defense though: 1.) Part of why there are so few black peopøe here seems to be that keeping slaves hasn't been popular here for hundreds of years. 2.) Norwegians have accepted a lot of people from other countries over the years: Pakistani, Chilean etc, so I don't think it is about xenophobia.
Building an API MVP from the Ground Up: Part 1 – Introduction and User Auth
Yeah. The fact that an order was needed in the first place is troubling. I thought there were laws already about capricious and arbitrary arrests of regular people, not only journalists.
All these big companies giving free stuff to university students to hook them into their proprietary technology. I remember some of my friends graduating and realizing marlin wasn’t free.
Clearly the company is worried about it - for the record, when I graduated I never got an interview or even an email response from the likely company in the story.
He embedded Scheme in JavaScript instead but nobody noticed. As Lou Reed once said, “JavaScript is Lisp in drag”.
Haha, love the rocket! Too bad there aren't any examples yet. With that said, I think the website itself is already a pretty cool showcase of what halfmoon can do!
Unsecured databases targeted with new wipe attack
If you want it to be a good marriage, and to make your partner happy, is that not a mission?

Same goes for children.

If you truly couldn’t care less about them then there’s no mission there, but most people do.
I’m here for tech news and respite from politics. Can’t scan titles without seeing politics.
It's his personal problem.

He built the ultimate machine to attract conformists who want to get another badge. First the conformists will push out individualists by their sheer bulk and better ability to navigate the approval process. (It's their core competency in life!)

Y Combinator is a plant that has grown too large for its pot. Someday something is going to go wrong, there are so many people going through it that sooner or later there is going to be a scandal. Graham is not on a growth trajectory, and sooner or later decay is going to catch up with him. I don't know exactly how, but the logic of exponential growth will to discover it.

If he wants to do anything except "richmansplain" about how there's some kind of problem that he can't talk about except in abtruse code (e.g. I am clearly agonized about something, but I have to draw four quadrants to pretend that I'm thinking deeply about it rather than obscure what bothers me) because if he was able to put his ineffable thoughts into words then somebody is going to do something completely indescribable.

He won't listen but here is my advice.

Graham has accomplished as much as he can in the place he is at. If he stays where he is, he can at best tread water, at worst various problems are going to catch up with him, he's going to paint himself into a corner, the amoral conformists attracted to his organization are going to create a scandal, the u.s. becomes unable to support s.v. b ecause capital has waged an investment strike against most of it, etc.

If he leaves Y Co in the hands of people he trusts (does he trust anyone?) and spends a year or two doing something else in a different place I think he'll have something interesting to say and he

It's sad, but reading his essays feels so much like reading Peirs Anthony, it is just the same essay over and over again with very little feeling he's grown. Maybe he needs to hang out with some adults, admit that being a zillionaire doesn't make you immortal, that you're always going to be frustrated because your species is split into two genders, etc.
Information retrieval and natural-language processing overcame their rivalry
Oh please, we are now debating which country is less authoritarian. Any Russian or Chinese government troll will launch similar comparisons in defence of Putin or Xi: but at least we are not doing [x]. Kidnapping is kidnapping. Some of you have gone quickly from freedom of speech and democracy to at least we only disappear people for a few days. And we only beat journalists we dont torture them. And we only persecute minorities we dont put them in camps. And we only let them rot in ghettos not gas chambers. Be serious, you are part of the problem.
Luckily most Fortune 500 management boards think otherwise, so I get to enjoy nice tools.
England's Covid-19 Test and Trace Programme breaks GDPR data law
What was your undergrad ranked? Do you think rank 40 grads are unsuccessful?
The wording implies that it’s ok to take cameras and recording devices from non-journalists as well, which sounds more than a bit dystopian.
People who like static typing seem to really like static typing.

I'm honestly not convinced it helps that much. And it seems to cost a lot to me.

I like database and API schemas though. And I like clojure.spec and function preconditions a lot.
If one did not know who the author is, the essay would be criticized as shallow and sweeping to the point of being a vague excuse to treat others badly by those that only half grasp ideas anyway. Strikes me as personal writing that ought to be kept personal.
All “police reform” measures I’ve seen simply codify things cops would be doing already if their culture and systems weren’t completely irredeemable. It’s nothing more than a tactic to distract and fragment consensus.
It seems like there are other bits of evidence of pre-clovis human habitation, but taken individually they could be dismissed as due to some sort of misidentification, contamination of the site, etc. One the other hand this site seems to have very extensive evidence of long term habitation, backed up by several independent but mutually consistent dating methods. Add back in all those 'one off' finds as well and the clovis first theory starts to really break down.
Re: political or identity point

I am not quite sure I understand that view. Why is the statement “America was built on fundamental ideas of freedom” a political or identity point?

From the way our government is structured (checks and balances), to the constitution (free speech), I think they stand on the side of freedom pretty objectively
I was assuming something like that. Very shady.
Maybe a standard to put attribution text and its location in metadata, so that the cropper can know that it's cutting it out, and know what it has to put back in?
> Now, when I ask them about the last time they did nanpa (street pickup), or set a date with a girl they like or any action whatsoever towards the opposite sex the answer is zilch.

When you get rejected over and over again, you'll know. Personally I have a happy life, no problems. But I suspect there are many men who are not as fortunate and no one stands up for them. Their own fellow men have betrayed them men.

The solidarity for access to good path to making good money, healthcare, love, reproduction should be a goal of humans (men and women alike). Unfortunately there are many traitors across every race that have a "fuck you, I got mine" attitude to this that slow down progress.
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> so all years are the start of a decade

This isn't the standard technical meaning of 'decade'.
They're designed to be. The more emotional outrage they provoke in you, the more you spend engaging with them by reading more news, writing online comments, or even if the outrage happens once you've already closed the given webpage, giving you a need to read even more of them.

That's how they get views, ad revenue, and user-generated comments - out of an army of addicted people.
Think of Democracy as a system that embodies the wishes & will of the average voter (not the average citizen).

Now imagine that you invented a system that would get tens of millions more people emotionally engaged to vote, but they happened to also be the least educated, least nuanced, least mature voters - people who seldom voted before.

Then imagine your surprise when intelligent debate disappears, and politics devolves into reality television.

That is what we've done.

Imagine if we allowed the average person dictact Climate Change policy, rather than the scientists? ...oh wait, we've done that as well...
TikTok/Zoom were vilified because of their relationship to China, and not their founder's race.

The Japanese race is considered positively in many cultures/countries. So your point is not really accurate.