skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmmm; I feel you are making some interesting and valid points, and I would like to engage in a conversation; but I am (genuinely) having trouble articulating/parsing what they are. I don't know if you are trying to be diplomatic if the message may not be politically correct, or are the key points very generalized and lean more toward implication/insinuation; or whether it's a philosophy-textbook-style language and I just lack experience in it to parse generically-sounding words in a specific-context-meaning.

My best effort:

* Who/what is the group you feel is a "commonly discriminated group", that would benefit from "contract first" hiring practices?

* If a company uses a practice that "discriminates against a majority", is that a practically beneficial funnel/sieve/practice for the company? Alternatively, if we are discussing companies which are making a stand / moral decision through hiring practices, I feel that's a very different discussion than what I interpreted original poster to posit as "best hiring practice for everybody in all situations / everybody should do THIS".

* I feel your last sentence is proposing each employer using different criteria in hope that cumulatively they'd create an overlapping and comprehensive venn diagram. My response to that notion would be a) I don't trust either free markets or regulation to make that venn diagram complete and b) that kind of stratification of the market sounds horrible... no matter what, I can only go to specific companies who have specific hiring practices that happen to match me? (I fully understand the irony in that this may in fact be the underlying unspoken reality of the market! my point is that it should be something we move away from, not explicitly design as a goal).

But again, I may be misinterpreting your argument and inadvertently taking discussion in the wrong direction...
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For far too many, people have been "flat out shitty" to them for literally hundreds of years, with treatment vastly worse than losing your Twitter followers. Enslavement, lynchings, enforced segregation, decades of murder at the hands of unaccountable law enforcement, a multi billion dollar industry designed to industrialize their incarceration to the highest level in the world...and as parts of society begin to really try to voice this problem more substantially than ever before, other people who have implicitly benefitted from their system "feel" a little bit awkward that this is all very bewildering to them, and that they in fact are being called out for ignoring a vast system of human rights abuses that's been taking place right under their noses. How on earth can this situation be improved without these people "feeling" a little bit uncomfortable?
This is delusional
Are schlubs necessarily heavy? I see that someone asked that on a the linked site.

And I should say that while fat has often been mocked, thinness as such wasn't a desired character for much of history, being associated with poverty.
China Is What Orwell Feared
It does seem like there might be room out there for things that aren't unicorns, but are sustainable / good products that can operate, even at a profit, with small teams.

I always think of / mention Gumroad when I think of that:

https://sahillavingia.com/reflecting

I worry in the rush to the tip top we lose some good products / services / economic activity that are billion dollar wins... but are still way good ideas.
> they didn't ban US companies in retaliation either

That's probably because they've already been banning American companies for years if they posed any potential thread to Communist control.
Prepared statements from each of the companies respectively:

Alphabet Inc., Sundar Pichai Statement -http://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU05/20200729/110883/HHRG-...

Amazon.com Inc., Jeff Bezos Statement - http://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU05/20200729/110883/HHRG-...

Apple Inc., Tim Cook Statement - http://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU05/20200729/110883/HHRG-...

Facebook Inc., Mark Zuckerberg Statement - http://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU05/20200729/110883/HHRG-...

Interesting to see what they’ve all chosen to say to start off with.
To me this difference in market cap and revenue you illustrate demonstrateS more that AMD has a lot of market to gain while INTC stands to lose ground.

As an investor it would seem that AMD has more potential upside. Add to that they are currently producing better technology at the moment...
Thank you; for me, it's an ethical issue to use something like this. Some old lady who's not tech-savvy would "lose her spot" to me. I'd like to understand why the ecommerce giants can't institute a "fair for all" system.
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The most interesting parts of this to me are the uncommon but generalizable techniques being used

1) the vaccine is delivered nasally
2) chitosan is used as the adjuvant

The two seem linked since chitosan seems to be developed in particular to be safer in the context of a nasal vaccine.

One understandable concern of vaccine opponents is the injection of mercury as a preservative. This has now been eliminated from most vaccines, but vaccines also usually use alum (aluminum), which is also concerning. [1] Chitosan might be a much safer alternative.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4344667/
I've had one such interview go really bad. I am normally a very trusting and confident person, but that interview destroyed me for days. This was for an internship on my first year of uni when I just started learning to code C and C++. The position was for a Junior programmer (which I was).

At some point the interviewer asks which I would choose in a project, C or C++ and reasons why. Basically answered that it depends on the project, but that both languages had their pros and cons, and it all depends. I told him I did not that many projects under my belt at the time.

Interviewer got somewhat pissed off and kept asking me about specific languages constructs which I was not yet familiar with. In a way felt like he was trying to ambush me and make me feel incompetent. I mentioned to him that I was not yet experienced enough to answer these questions, but was eager to learn. Well he did NOT like that either and ended the interview promptly.

It seems like the guy really did not like me (which is fine), but also wanted to turn this interview into some type of power trip ....

Had this been today, I would have politely declined and left. But I was a young and eager cub. Live and learn!
We’re actually doing worse than ever before, so if you were isolating in April, you should definitely be isolating now.
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Back when it was called NYNEX it certainly was incompetent.

> I read something either published by Google or about Google that basically said that publishers in average can expect to see twice the revenue with targeting than without which made me think if that's all then we should get rid of tracking and figure out how to live on half the money.

I have an apparently minority ("conspiracy") view on telecommunication systems and security services (regardless of the country). Advertising is a convenient pretext: for both state surveillance and advertising, we need to track users, read their email, and end privacy as we know it.

quote:

“The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities.”

― Zbigniew Brzezinski, Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/162691-the-technotronic-era...

In case you don't know who this person is, I suggest reviewing his career. He is, as Donald Rumsfeld would have it, a known known.
How do you manage to prioritize what to learn?

Anything big needs to be worth spending at least a year figuring out if it is worth learning. The little things are those which are necessary to support the big things and are learned because they are necessary and learned when they come up as part of the big thing.

And how do you organize this?

By doing. If I'm not doing it, then it isn't meaningful enough to do. Which means that I don't keep lists of things that I'm not going to do. Just lists of things I need to do to do what I am doing.

I mean I can't do everything that's interesting, but I can always be doing something interesting. Having fewer things means I can be patient and a little patience goes a long way. We're conditioned to give things an hour or maybe half a day and then make long term decisions...or in the case of an iPhone app, maybe five minutes at best. But things worth doing are worth doing over decades and filtering those things probably takes a few months at least.

Or to put it another way, we are conditioned to make Dunning -Kruger decisions. Good luck.
Just out of terrible curiosity, was that PCB used in downhole tools?
Could it get to $200B? Maybe. Is it worth that today? Absolutely not – way too much risk.

Something better could come along from an existing or new competitor, the ad platform may not come together, interest could decline when lifestyles change, they could try a bold new idea that doesn't work out or make other mistakes, etc.
The principle difference here is you are taking it for an autoimmune disease. Where the relative benefits outweigh the risks.

Equating that to using it “off label” for covid, either as a preventative (Like the president did)or treatment post infection, where there is little, if any, evidence of its effectiveness/benefits (but still with the same risks, and possibly more depending on the patient and their history) are two entirely different things.

They are in no way equal
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Dare I say: especially on HN? There's a lot of flagging for anything that may be construed as political. Some of it then gets restored by a mod overriding community moderation.

I have no idea about the amount that gets flagged, but I notice it quite a bit just by going to the front page and seeing something and if I happened to go back to it a minute later, poof, it's gone.
This is just ahistorical garbage. Capitalism is responsible for the incentive structure it set up. Capitalism didn't suddenly spring up after WW2. Stop trying to surgically remove inconvenient facts from Capitalism.

Voluntary transaction has never been at the heart of Capitalism, nor has it ever been a per-requisite, and it is still not the case. To call the choice of the propertyless of accepting a "transaction" or starvation as voluntary is just manipulative language.

> transactions be voluntary doesn’t rule out child labor (in many but not all cases), below minimum wage labor, or labor in unsafe workplaces, insofar as all are voluntary.

How can you write that this sounds like it is a voluntary transaction with a straight face? Free people doesn't voluntary accept those conditions.
The basic premise behind two-pizza teams, at least as given here, is flawed. While it is true that if a task requires limited communication, a small team could complete it quickly, most significant tasks require more than a little communication, in which case, adopting a structure that limits it is counter-productive.

If you have a small team whose members all have a deep understanding of the goal, the strategy for achieving it, where the problems will be, and what trade-offs are possible, then they can achieve a lot with the minimal necessary communication, but you do not get any of that for free just by making small teams - that would just be cargo-culting the issue.
Stories which sole purpose is to advertise stuff...
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The web changed pretty dramatically around 2010, when the iphone and single-page apps took off and VPS became dirt cheap.
I live in Berlin now and Ruby isn't very popular here. It's much more difficult to find Ruby/Rails developers than React developers. The tech industry here is growing but still in its infancy, there aren't a glut of devs who started working with Rails when it was a hot new thing that have an appreciation for it. Javascript and Python are very popular, Ruby not so much.
I posted the exact same crap 6 days ago : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23922252

1p, 0 comments
Not that it matters, but what is the rule for something gaining traction here? It seems totally arbitrary.
They don’t really need to.

Nvidia will have to validate and launch all of it’s PCIe4 on Epyc/Ryzen processors, so it’s not like AMD won’t benefit from the Deep Learning hype
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There's a perceptible slide towards culture telling people they need to worry more and more about extrinsic measures of value (e.g. what others think) in lieu of teaching them how to assess things for their intrinsic values, and weigh those along with external perceptions. It's no wonder we can feel like we have little agency at times: we've used outside sources for validation instead of building resilience.

I used to be big into IRC, or in smaller channels. Eventually I noticed a certain persona was overrepresented on IRC: a sort of cynical, sarcastic type that could probably use a bit less time on IRC, but couldn't muster up the will to change.

I see the same thing with social media, and, worse, we've normalized the addictive behavior, and made it easier to stay connected away from computers.

I don't want to be that person.
> in your original comment you were supporting said mob

I did no such thing, please re-read my original post
Though I would very much like to see Starship succeed, it must be understood just how risky a project it is. Just having the rocket be able to work in Earth orbit is a risky proposition, given its novel design and materials challenges. Add to that the many novel challenges returning Starship would entail, refueling in space, landing and taking off from Mars, setting up multi megawatts of solar, mining, methane production, etc.

Consider that Falcon Heavy was something like 5 years late. That was doing something that had been done before, strapping rockets together to make a Heavy version. Starship is many times more ambitious, with any of the challenges I raised above likely to hit multi-year delays.
Presumably Microsoft, having been convicted once already, is not going to be given such benefit of the doubt as to be invited to a hearing; instead, folks may well decide to bring suit against them without bothering to drag them before Congress as a pretext.

Moreover, Microsoft doesn't have a flagship product which they're using to abuse their monopoly position. The other four do: Apple has its app store, Google has its search+ads vertical and its app store, Amazon has its delivery service, and Facebook has its social+ads vertical.
AFAICT Clerky is another example.
Maybe put it on http://longbets.org
I saw this for $499: http://linuxgizmos.com/risc-v-based-polarfire-soc-debuts-on-...

A lot of money, but rather cheaper than SiFive's board.
I haven't. A whole pizza as a meal sounds like a task for teenager.
Just look at their GitHub and if it looks good, dive in at the interview to make sure they actually wrote the code. Isolated take-home tests seem ridiculous to me if the candidate has public code available. You're filtering out anyone who likes to avoid duplicated effort.
For many engineering candidates, we ask them to design the data schema for a calendar. I’m sure my employer and the question are not a secret. We have various follow-ons, like handling the wild number of ways meetings can be periodic, exceptions, and so on.

Nobody has ever asked me how often we need to build calendaring software, because I explain right up front that while this is a “toy” question, our core product functionality schedules people, and nearly every feature from a calendar app has some analogue to things we either do, or are asked to do but haven’t prioritized yet.

I think it’s ok to ask “toy” questions, but I also think that there should be a ready answer to the question “Does this have anything at all to do with the job?”

p.s. We don’t ask a question directly about scheduling, for a simple reason: Almost everybody understands the basic idea of a calendar, so it’s a more “level playing field” for candidates to think about calendars than schedules.
<joke>Sometimes management hires a hitman to get rid of an annoying employee but then forgot about that awkward moment when they don't show up for work</joke>
Not if you are a child and never meet your heroes as a grown-up!
luck of the draw, busy day on the site, time of day ..can be many things.
tumblr was doing fine till it banned adult content :(
50B would be a steal imo. Don't get me wrong, this is still the early days for TikTok, but as a platform, TikTok seems way more compelling and interesting than Instagram at this point. Especially for younger people who are tired of the social behavior that's formed on IG. Even though the user base is primarily younger folks, they're doing a good job of aging up too. Core product value is way easier to deliver than Snap for older people.
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Did you read the article? They are creating a satellite, ERO, set to launch 2026 for an actual mission.
It really depends on where you live.
Choice overload bias affects grocery shopping and app developers
Medicine is not a popularity contest. There's good evidence that it is actually beneficial; insofar as popularity is important, note that Ars is only describing an official position, not a consensus.

Note also that most indications of its benefit are in conjunction with azithromycin and possibly zinc (that's not a no true scotsman, it's the consistent data), which the Ars source disregards.
>2. Bureaucracy - I left yahoo to go to Facebook. At Facebook, if you needed a server, you would go to an internal tool, slide a slider and click a button. At Yahoo, you had to take a proposal to a committee led by a cofounder, and then be repeatedly shot down until you finally persevered.

I personally I believe Hadoop took off at Yahoo because it was a way of getting computing resources that did not need to go through the committees. Big Data? Map Reduce? Less important than simply getting a machine to do things on even if it was just the gateway node (the game of trying gateway nodes till one wasn't at 100% cpu was always fun).
It's very similar to Zulip, but all threads are anonymous and feel more light-weight.
This is Professor George Church one of the world experts today in biology and DNA, and age 65.

Consider he may have a better handle on risks, especially long term survival risks (check out the long term survivor risks that surfaced with SARs), than most people. Also he's been a Harvard Professor since forever, so I imagine he has quite a nice house.
Haha SAFe when you want the worst of all worlds around how to setup software development teams.

More seriously SAFe is trying to solve a real problem but to actually solve it involves much deeper organizational change because of Conway's law then most people are comfortable with.
I love that the given translations for SOAP and REST are backronyms for French translations of the words (SAVON and REPOS).
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What activity could possibly be less laggy on your phone?

I can't stand using my iPhone or my iPad for anything other than very basic features since they're so slow and limited compared to how quickly I can get things done on one of my real computers.

Selecting text or placing the cursor on a phone is an exercise in frustration. Browsing the web too - I have to contend with every other website treating my phone like a 2nd class citizen and some sites like Reddit or Twitch try so hard to force you to use their app. On Google I have to either use desktop mode and zoom in after each search or I have to put up with shitty AMP results.

I basically associate ARM with shitty locked-down operating systems that don't have my best interests in mind.
Only people familiar with semver maybe, but the rest of the world lives on just fine. This is also what release notes are for, to clarify why the major version update. Every project has its own standards, semver is not a law just a sane suggestion.
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Would RSS be in a better place now if Google Reader had never existed?

Interesting to think that an attack vector against an open standard is creating the objectively best implementation and then shutting down after killing competition and consolidation.
Yes - I think I got that impression the second time I had a look at the article - the first run through I really only referenced the Sedaris reaction. Thanks for sharing, it's well written.
Did you just linearize squaring?
If you refuse to tag a 1.0.0 and follow semver it means any change could be a breaking change. This has an impact on consumers of the software. As a consumer, I quite often value stability.
We as in every American.

Categorically though, you are conflating two issues. Any violent riot (yes, that is what it is) will end up in hospitalizations and arrests. Spinning it as a secret state action against people just doing their thing is not genuine.

Imagine a scenario where 2A supporters violently protested outside of the ATF headquarters in Washington DC, brandishing firearms and attempting to attack the building and people in it. Imagine yourself as you are now with your present opinion, would you be supportive of or against the protesters?

I’m speaking more generally in the benign everyday sharing of innocuous opinions online that spiral wildly out of control.
this is years of work. taking on the big guys in the industry. wish us luck.
Thanks. I reread the history and see that’s new information now. My fault for misremembering.
> I'm not sure why you're being downvoted

For calling HCQ a "$10 solution to a $10,000,000,000,000 problem". It's not.
wow great news. I used it all the time back in the day!
Keillor fine by me also.
Eh? Airbus has always been a large contractor for ESA; they make a lot of ESA probes and are a stakeholder in Arianespace, which makes the launchers. This is pretty normal for them.
> Photoshop 3.0.5: 8.9 MB Photoshop 21.2.1: 2.76 GB

> Now that is some bloat.

Yeah, but you're roughly 310 times more productive now.
These ppl who say tech is a bubble need to give it a rest. They have been saying since 2009 that Amazon, Tesla, Facebook, Uber, AirBNB, Instagram, etc. are a bubble, and have wrong ever since as valuations keep rising. The pandemic has only made apps more valuable, due to physical stores being closed and unemployed people having more free time to use apps. They, these bubble forecasters, were only right in the 80s (video game and PC bubble) and late 90s (dotcom and communications bubble) but this time really is different. A reason is, an individual's daily time on social media and apps can be divided into arbitrarily tiny slices or overlapping slices, so this allows many huge companies to make money, as opposed to the finite constraints of hardware companies faced in the past (you cannot spend an hour simultaneously playing on a Sony, Sega and Nintendo system; you have to choose one or split it up). So imagine if someone has 1 hour/day uninterrupted to spend on apps and social networking, so this can be at home, or during lunch, etc. A person who uses that hour on multiple social networks and apps gets exposed to each network/app's ads, so now rather than seeing only an Instagram ad or Facebook ad, now sees a TikTk ad, a Snapchat ad, etc. Many people keep 5+ social networks open at once and get exposed to all their respective ads. It is sorta like watching TV and listening to the radio at the same time and getting both the TV and radio ads.