skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When a corp is hiring "all diverse" as google likes to put it, you do lose something. You lose your time and effort in getting a job because corps that are doing quotas will interview you despite to intention to hire. They do it because their interview stats and demographics are scrutinized by the government and they need their interview demographics to look good on paper.

As for BLM anyone can see the riots, looting, arson, and destruction that has affected places like Portland, Seattle, Kenosha. The riots have cost over two billion dollars in damages. Those are not damages to the government. Those are damages to ordinary people and business owners. Housing values go down, police protection is eroded, and some people were beaten or lost their lives.
But then people want to go to US not Canada...

And Canada is.... Canada.
Immigration has been limited for many years, and both parties support limits, it’s not a new idea that came from Trump. Personally I support open borders. I do believe it would reduce wages for some locals, but overall the dramatic increase in net welfare would be well worth it. There’s no need to bring up Trump - this view is so far from the Overton window that current political figures are barely relevant.
Not much difference if you are from Kazakhstan or most of the xUSSR.
> economy shifted to more creative and free-spirited arrangements

Is that the new euphemism for the gig economy?

Let's be honest, while in terms of income the economy has shifted to more so-called creative work, it hasn't done so in terms of open positions.

The contemporary narrative is that the Prussian education system is antiquated, or at least merely served the needs of capitalists.[1] People forget what it was trying to achieve--churn out a mass of men that were literate, punctual, and could take direction, characteristics that men as a class neither then nor now are particularly adept at as compared to women. And have those goals really changed? Unless you're some black turtle neck wearing genius artist with millionaire patrons, you're expected to be more literate, more punctual (at all hours of the day), and more responsive to the needs of others (manager, client, w'ever) than ever before, whether you're a high-salary Silicon Valley programmer or a low-wage service worker. Whatever increased creativity demanded of workers as compared to assembly line workers of yore is literally imaginary. Nobody cares about your creativity building tree forts, at least not to the exclusion of those other requirements. You're still expected to learn how to be on time and in place and ready to take direction. That's what schools needed to inculcate in the 19th century, and it's still what's needed of them; it's just that now we need them to teach additional skills.

[1] It did have a veneer of Protestant Christian ethics, but that was just the sales pitch. The sales pitch isn't the product; not now, not ever. People keep confusing those things when examining history even when they're savvy enough not to make the equivocation in their day-to-day lives.
No worries, the interest on the debt is being paid with more debt. You're off the hook!
I think you may have overlooked the other side of those cables in your examples. While one side of the cable was FireWire or USB, the interface on the device was propriety. And that was true for over a decade worth of iPods, iPhones, and iPads.
iOS allows key repeat from external keyboards, but not from the onscreen keyboard. In theory a third-party keyboard should be able to implement that, although I can’t say I’ve seen any examples of it.
Have you tied immunotherapy? It's become much easier in the USA recently with the arrival of allergy drops. see Wyndly Health https://www.wyndly.com
Interesting - good point. Potential theories to explain all or part:

(1) there’s more new accounts than old, typically

(2) the lifespan of an account arguing politics on the internet is short - it’s too futile and frustrating

(3) good-faith sock puppet accounts (don’t want a non-anonymous record of political beliefs)

(4) bad faith sock puppet accounts (trolls, meanie-heads)

(5) confirmation bias - once you see it, you notice all the new accounts, even if the effect is smaller than you perceive

(6) new accounts are likely to be less HN-technical folks, as the site grows past its original audience, and they’re more likely to comment on non-tech posts in general

(7) the Russians?
I'm not an originalist, but the reason is that the Constitution is meant to be a precedent-setting document with legal implications. The Post is no such thing.
Iphone was not the first mobile device with internet, not by a long shot.
I knew this happens, and I upvoted. Learning details about something I knew about is useful.

What makes you think upvotes imply people don’t know this sort of thing exists?
>The Biden campaign has records to that time indicating no such meeting took place.

This isn't true. They made the specific denial that according to his official schedules from the time, the meeting never happened. And then later quietly also said they "would not rule out the possibility that the former VP had some kind of informal interaction with Pozharskyi, which wouldn’t appear on Biden’s official schedule". [0]

[0] https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/14/biden-campaign-lash...
I don't know about Cisco specifically, but large companies are plagued with bureaucracy which bogs down engineers from doing what they want to do.

Imagine only the salespeople can set tasks. They set shortsighted tasks which leave no time to actually improve the software fundamentals - always adding new features and abandoning half-baked projects.

This is the way most large companies work their software teams in my experience.
The story I recall was when they lost NewEgg API access

https://camelcamelcamel.com/blog/newegg-data-is-unavailable
I have no issue with it. Though I may just go ahead and start working on a punch-list style life-extensionist work. Even if it is nothing more than a fun exercise.

Seriously though, if I was bin Salman for example I would make something like this a personal priority.
No problem, I would do that.
The flexibility at least is a play to strengths in one of the few areas where men were at a disadvantage athletically. Women on average are more flexible and their lower spines retain more juvenile flexible as it is useful for a shift in center of mass with pregnancy.
Upper body strength was the male answer for "what can they do which is more impressive if they are higher mass and worse at physical flexibility"? The why may have something to do with performance peaks attracting more attention for a sport (I would have expected at least a niche for upper body strength events for women and flexibility for men) but that could also be a chicken and egg thing with culture.

There certainly is sexist baggage involving women being considered more "ornamental" though.
Disagreed, I would go in the other direction.

Close the borders, and deport all communists and illegal aliens immediately.

Trump, get it done!
Whatever it takes to get rid of a tyrant. The guy has repeatedly shown that he has no appreciation for the institutions, the unity of the nation, democracy or the election process itself. He will do whatever he can to stay in power. We should make sure he does not succeed.
It is probably just title bait as you said. An 8 time rejection seems extreme to me, usually it gets harder after a rejection by a consular officer, not easier, so my own speculative, possibly needless guess (having gone through my fair share of these across many countries including the US) is that his initial applications failed for bureaucratic reasons (like a missing document), not because it was a consular decision (i.e. the consular refused him and stated a reason for denial).
There are some interesting gadgets out there that anchor the Airpod to the ear. But the trouble with One Size Fits All solutions is that often One Size Fits No one. Especially in the case of jewelry, it is very easy to end up making something gimmicky. Still, I do agree with what you are saying: perhaps.
What I find frustrating about our immigration system is that some people are held to such a higher bar than others.

I know of colleagues who are made to submit hundred page applications to be admitted under talent-related visa programs.

In the meantime, we wave in (or just look the other way) for people who happen to come from countries next door, or because they came in illegally and had a kid.

It makes you think less of the US as an equitable place.

It would be more intellectually honest to have a global lottery. No country-based quotas, no grandfathering in.

Unless the truth is that because of our geography, you simply have to give up and say that we are forever going to have to treat some countries and people differently.

That's systemic racism if I ever saw it.
What is hacker culture, and what does it have to do with this RegretsReporter thing from Mozilla?
Your job in that role is often to ensure your engineers do exactly what they are told. Often it's not to set tasks yourself.
Imagine a computer without internet. It's way less useful. Everything that matters is online now. Pottering wants to get rid of /home on Linux for example. You can even do all that stuff online by SSHing a much better computer.
Surprise! The Great Barrier Reef is Not Dying from Global Warming
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/08/16/surprise-great-barrie...

Coral expert debunks Great Barrier Reef myths
https://www.oversixty.com.au/news/news/coral-expert-debunks-...
> And well authoritarians have no sense of irony - what they think is "ironic" is presenting their true self when it unacceptable and passing it off as a joke.

(squints) I think you've actually uncovered a true case of irony here. How would you know that the dictator considers their propoganda ironic? The fact that people read it and still laugh it off is the true irony.
> Yuan migrated to the USA from China in the 80s. He had heard Bill Gates speak about the internet

The same Bill Gates who neglected to mention the Internet in "The Road Ahead", published 1995?
Here's my take:

I don't like this Tell HN. It's too non-specific.

If you want to make a point about threads, then link to the threads in question. Don't make me play Where's Waldo, asking me to hunt thru all the submissions, so I can try to figure out which threads you're upset about.
Twitter and Facebook are not natural monopolies in the same way that Ma Bell was. I'm failing to see the similar dynamics you allude to.

Is there a network effect? Sure. Did MySpace, Friendster, AOL, CompuServe etc have those first mover advantages as well? Where are they now?
Strive not too long with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and gaze not too long into the abyss lest the abyss gaze back at you.
Following the pattern's analogy--I wasn't aware traditional circuit breakers were selective as to the device producing the load causing them to trip. I'd like to see evidence in this circuit breaker pattern itself being a pure implementation without bias towards a particular group or individual.
When I grow up, I want to be Kyle.
I think the portability of web technologies make them super appealing to new developers, which is what I think the appeal of languages like Java were a decade (or more!) ago. I think web tech has all of those advantages plus the ability to get started so much more quickly (it takes so little effort to get a simple website online).

I started writing some Swift recently and built a small app, and it kinda shocked me how simple it can be to get such great interface performance from so little code. I kinda wonder if there's some sort of middle ground, like web assembly with a more standardized starting point, base language, and set of UI components.
>the constitution has remained static. Nothing has changed.

I believe the Bill of Rights and the rest of the amendments would disagree with you. That's supposed to be the beauty of the US Constitution is that it was designed to be able to be updated.
Microsoft remote desktop seems to work pretty well over cellular on my iPad
Are you going to send all your money to people more disadvantaged than you? There's no reason they shouldn't have your money beside greed.
Ah, the lovely Kira! Theirs was all chains though, no?
Jetpack Sighted Again Above Los Angeles, This Time at 6k Feet
Thanks for bringing this up, I've been wondering lately whether this is an avenue I could explore but it seems others are ahead of me! I already make my own sauerkraut but I'm going to try making kimchi, and I'll get hold of some of the probiotics too.

I found these articles on the subject with my first search and they're already opening my eyes:

- Loss of normal microbial diversity may be culprit behind chronic sinusitis https://www.news-medical.net/news/20120913/Loss-of-normal-mi...

- The Best Probiotic For Sinus Infections https://lactobacto.com/2018/11/05/the-best-probiotic-for-sin...

This article titled "New ways to flush out sinus infections" I found because of another comment but the doctor here also mentions bacterial balance:

> Current research in my field suggests this may be caused by the disruption of the natural bacterial habitat of the sinuses by the antibiotics, which is why more doctors are utilizing probiotics

https://www.bcm.edu/news/new-ways-to-flush-sinus-infection

Edit: formatting
That's fair, I guess I don't mean twitter specifically, and the shortness of communication is one of the things I don't like.

I mean that there was a time when you might dream about a place on the internet where the communication mode I'm describing here (aside from the rage-creating "tweaks" like enforced shortness), where people were freely capable of communicating and interacting with people well outside of their social strata would be normal.

Twitter, with it's flaws, is that place. I routinely interact with politicians in my state on twitter. I have no idea where to do that outside of that space.

But the problem is that they're going to destroy it because of this stupid, short-sighted idea that they should be in control of what people on the platform are saying.
(purge?)

I only use private teams for friends and colleagues but I use the encrypted cloud storage and have lots of git repos.

I wasn’t even aware of public teams but between HN, Twitter, and Discord I don’t need more distraction.

I’d even gladly pay a monthly subscription if it would guarantee the continued existence.
> Let's be honest, the only people screaming for censorship are firmly on the left.

This year the president has sued to stop publication of two books because they embarrassed him, one from John Bolton and another from Mary Trump.

This year police in cities across the country have opened fire on journalists.

These are legal and physical attacks, on journalists and publishers, coming from government officials. Social media moderation policies are interesting and important. But if you see censorship and attacks on free speech only coming from one side, you should probably diversify your media diet.
That news is now being hosted directly by the house judiciary committee on a .gov site. I don't think they did a very good job of preventing the spread, nor do I think this would have happened had they just kept their hands off.

https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1316485994548547586
as usual I'm just a little ahead;

> Who's doing exciting/ambitious desktop OS work? While mobile gets all the attention, we still spend a lot of time in front of our computers, and it feels like the host environment could be doing a lot more heavy lifting (particularly as a meta tool for thought) than it is.

https://mobile.twitter.com/patrickc/status/13164754712033607...

you be the judge based on follow-up replies!
You see the difference between this argument and what you wrote above though?

Perhaps I'm reading your original post too strongly, so please correct me if so.

In the first post you compare the number of valid DNA chains to the space of all possible chains, you mention the number of different proteins in the human body, and you draw an analogy to a random sequence of bits forming a valid program.

None of these talk to the probability of a reproducing molecule arising through physical processes, nor do they talk to the probability of DNA as a descendant of that original reproducing molecule (or potentially multiple original molecules).

I get that you understand the gaps in our knowledge of how these systems came to be; my point is that your original argument is misleading in the exact same way you claim the argument

"Billion of years passed since the Big Bang. If some chemical process can create life it's very likely that somewhere it did."

is a

"kind of hand-wavey statement [that] seems to convince most people. Universe is hella-old, and really big. Ergo, incredibly rare stuff has happened basically infinitely many times. Life everywhere, etc."

(this was a reply to a different post, but I think it holds to the comment you originally replied to).

In fact, I find the argument that "things reproduce, and have been reproducing for a long time in a large environment, so we expect to see complexity in those things" much more reasonable than "most random arrangments of this molecule are useless, and we can see lots of useful arrangements, therefore time and randomness can't explain them".
It's not obvious to me your point here after reading the Wiki article on the book

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Ahead_(Gates_book)#Co...
It doesn’t matter how you vote. Money in politics will win every time. Blaming the voters is victim blaming. This is just late stage capitalism at its finest.

https://www.vox.com/2014/4/18/5624310/martin-gilens-testing-...
Ask HN: Which lesser known companies have excellent development practices?
Are there any smaller / more obscure companies you think have excellent engineering practices that help engineers really improve their skills? Have you found hiring from those companies to yield great colleagues?
I think there may be some overlap with Amazon Systems Manager too.
> Plus the russian collusion investigation, which is highly problematic (spying on your political opponents in the middle of an election campaign, based on some implausible allegations).

Obama might be a political opponent of Trump’s (despite not being on the ballot that year); but is the FBI not supposed to investigate these things? The Russian interference / collusion was real and lead to multiple charges and convictions

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_charges_brought_in_...
This comment is indicative of the absolute sea change that has happened over the last four years with how we treat speech and journalism.

Gone are the days when if you read a story and thought it was BS, you ignored it and moved on. Or when a politician says something dumb, that's obviously untrue or a distortion, you just laughed and said "what an idiot".

Today, these things are "disinformation" and are "an attack on our democracy". This is a severe escalation, and I think what it's priming us all to do is reject Free Speech as a principle wholesale and replace it with an "official" narrative that is approved ahead of time (approved by who exactly, that remains to be seen).

All politicians spread "disinformation". That's the nature of politics: framing the facts of a story, or distorting them, to support your preferred narrative to get elected. Same goes for all partisan journalism, and the same goes for "mainstream" outlets that still have their own narrative they like to push for their own reasons. Somehow we're still so shell-shocked from 2016 that we've escalated every little bit of political tomfoolery to be a literal attack on the democratic institution itself. It's just bizarre.
Yes. And furthermore to your point regarding emulation...if it was required to get to quantum level accuracy it might not be possible, at least according to Sandberg in his brain emulation opinion.

And even furthermore, things like the microbiome's influence on the brain are not yet well understood.
As long as you use melatonin sublingually it should do the same thing right down to the 4hr nap, only .3-1mg is needed.
I think if they really don't want you, you should just stop trying so hard to get in. Especially these days when the American dream isn't quite what it used to be anymore. There are always opportunities elsewhere.
We spent this wonderful afternoon with a team from one of the top audio companies in the world. Their team lead, a man in his 40s, happily wore our earring! It was our teal statement earring which is very unisex.
It is my experience that most people who advocate for open borders do so primarily out of human-rights considerations, yet do not adequately reckon (if even at all) with the national security implications of these policies. The unfortunate fact is that there are hostile nations and organizations whose leaders would happily take every advantage that they can get.

Contemporary events in Syria/Iraq and Ukraine come to mind.
If anything I feel like it'll discourage sales on prime day. A lot of the non-amazon discounts are lackluster when you compare to what the price was a month ago
Graveyard Shift
Bravo and 100% true.
I used to play this app when I was bored: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hackedapp

It had a cool keyboard that would only show words that are syntactically valid for the cursor position.

It probably would need some alterations for a real language, but it's a lot better than just a qwerty keyboard
Nurture your beliefs and track your knowledge development
That’s great. if you’re big they’ll block a couple of articles, but Twitter inexplicably killed our twitter account with 30k followers, an account we had since 2012, with absolutely zero recourse. (we publish original and non political articles on foodtech and agtech and are the site of record for the agrifood tech industry).
Dropbox goes “virtual first” by turning offices into studios
Even if it's not strange to you, are you not atleast bothered that it's so common and accepted, as you seem to suggest? You come across as being totally ok with that...an attitude I don't understand
They're not 'refuting claims you never made'. They're simply responding to your comment by making their own points. Which is a completely standard way to carry discussion forward.
There was Visual Basic and FileMaker. That said I think non-trivial problems require a dense UI. And visual density can be daunting. Text and language are a hack but their the least bad I've seen so far.
You're right, it's the same synchronisation/consistency problem at a different scale, which I honestly find pretty mindblowing. However there is one major difference. When you add fault tolerance requirements (which you typically do in distributed databases and web applications, but don't always in multithreaded applications) then it changes the approaches and algorithms.
I've used CCC for a long time, but especially in the pandemic I've discovered it's been most useful for simply finding out when something comes back in stock.

Whether toilet paper, a webcam, or whatever random thing that's been out of stock for a month -- set a CCC alert at some fairly high price and it'll e-mail you when it's back (below that price) -- even if the price you set is higher than it's ever been before.

I'm actually really surprised they haven't bothered to make that functionality explicit -- since it's not obvious that it will work -- and it's so valuable especially now.

(Confusingly, sometimes Amazon pages for out-of-stock items include a button to notify when something is back in stock, but most don't. They just say "we don't know if or when this will be in stock.")

I've become so reliant on CCC it really bugs me I can't use it (or an equivalent) on other sites -- e.g. Target, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Nike, J. Crew, whatever.
Necessary but not sufficient?
That was the time to experiment! I am sure you are glad you took the fashion risk. Who are we without our stories and adventures!