skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> citing a reference in the initial military autopsy to a small bullet hole in the back of Allende's skull that he alleges is inconsistent with an AK-47 fired from below the chin through the top of his head.
I agree with your position.

LinkedIn exists for exactly this reason: as a directory of hiring managers you can connect with.

Cold-emailing / cold-calling people for finding roles is a good way to accomplish this, if you craft your pitch right and do your research well on how you can deliver value.

That's basically what branding is about, isn't it? Identifying where and how you can make a difference better than other people, making that your elevator pitch, and broadcasting that to people who need that difference in their lives.

I'm not impressed by the other comments arguing reaching people in positions of impact is next to impossible, at least in tech. There are two high-schoolers right now in the latest batch of YCombinator who literally cold-called Sam Altman for funding, and got it (see https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2017/08/11/2-t...).

This isn't even that crazy a way to connect with people. I once knew a recruiter who was fanatically inventive about connecting with people - he once got a cybersecurity consultant who was perfectly happy with his existing job to switch roles by (1) using the Wayback machine to find copies of the engineer's (taken-down) personal website, where he had his Foursquare link, (2) using the Foursquare API to figure out he enjoyed playing chess at his local club and would frequent a bar, (3) showing up at said bar, striking up a conversation about chess with him, getting him to talk about his job, casually slipping in that he's a recruiter for company X looking for someone exactly like him, and leaving a business card behind.

This is not an endorsement of that guy's method - just a reminder that there are crazier things in life to do than picking up the phone and trying your luck.
Well in that case, let me just clear my schedule to spend all of tomorrow performing an exhaustive fact check of the credibility of this story. /s

It turns out that journalism is hard to do correctly. As an "independent thinker" I'm going to independently decide to not trust a publication with the reputation of the NY Post until it's been corroborated.
Twitter is a social media platform that engages in content management - they have always been moderating content, since day 1, managing identities etc..

AT&T is not in the business of content.

That's a very material distinction.

That says nothing about how/who/what Twitter should or should not be doing in this case, other than to say the moment you dip your toe into content management, it's going to get very complicated, as we now see on a daily basis in the news.
If you add the controllers, how much more does it cost?
Try Pantoprazole.

I had the same issue, and it didn't respond to Inexium (PPI) but cleared up totally with Pantoprazole.
Just for clarification of your point:

In the scenario you describe, how would you be aware of their racism if they didn't discuss it at work?
Apple History Lesson

I was the Apple Forums technical administrator at the time the iPhone 1 came out. All the hardware competitors said in print that Apple couldn't make a phone. Pleasantly surprised at how very, very few bugs/problems were reported on the forums.

Yeah, but no copy and paste initially.

(The forum databases ran on 3 PowerPC minis running MySQL using statement-based replication. Those were later upgraded to Intel minis. We didn't use any endian or isa-specific column types like float, so seamless upgrade.)
That’s the only way Siri understands me, so I didn’t even notice.
Text from the transcript (it's all caps on the site):

PRES. TRUMP: THEY HAVE SPENT THE LAST THREE YEARS, AND I CAN EVEN GO FURTHER THAN THAT THREE YEARS SINCE THE ELECTION BUT WE GO BEFORE THE ELECTION, WORKING TO ERASE YOUR BALLOTS AND OVERTHROW OUR DEMOCRACY. BUT WITH YOUR HELP WE HAVE EXPOSE THE FAR-LEFT'S CORRUPTION AND DEFEATED THEIR SINISTER SCHEMES. LET'S SEE WHAT HAPPENS IN THE COMING MONTHS. LET'S WATCH. LET'S JSUT -- JUST WATCH. VERY DISHONEST PEOPLE. NOW THE DEMOCRATS ARE POLITICIZING THE CORONAVIRUS. CORONAVIRUS. THEY ARE POLITICIZING IT. WE DID ONE OF THE GREAT JOBS -- HOW'S PRESIDENT TRUMP DOING? THEY GO, NOT GOOD. THEY DO NOT HAVE ANY CLUE. THEY CANNOT EVEN COUNT THE VOTES IN IOWA. NO, THEY CAN'T. THEY CAN'T COUNT THEIR VOTES. ONE OF MY PEOPLE CAME UP TO ME AND SAID, MR. PRESIDENT, THEY TRIED TO BEAT YOU ON RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIAN. THAT DID NOT WORK OUT TOO WELL. THEY COULD NOT DO IT. THEY TRIED THE IMPEACHMENT HOAX. THAT WAS ON A PERFECT CONVERSATION. THEY TRIED ANYTHING. THEY TRIED IT OVER AND OVER AGAIN. THEY LOST. IT IS ALL TURNING. THINK OF IT. AND THIS IS THEIR NEW HOAX. WE DID SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN PRETTY AMAZING. WE HAVE 15 PEOPLE IN THIS MASSIVE COUNTRY AND BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT WE WENT EARLY, WE COULD'VE HAD A LOT MORE THAN THAT. WE'RE DOING GREAT. OUR COUNTRY IS DOING SO GREAT. WE ARE SO UNIFIED. WE ARE SO UNIFIED. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS NEVER EVER BEEN UNIFIED LIKE IT IS NOW. THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A MOVEMENT IN THE HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY LIKE WE HAVE NOW. NEVER BEEN

I'm struck by how this is almost a perfect example of the rorschach test that is Trump.

You could easily read this as saying that [COVID] is a hoax.

You could just as easily read this as saying that [the democrats saying he is doing a bad job with COVID] is a hoax.
Reminds me of why I wrote this chrome extension a few years back (uses Keybase for now):

https://lettergram.github.io/AnyCrypt/

Basically, you can encrypt a message over any medium (facebook, twitter, email, etc.). Wasn't super secure by any means, but the media companies wouldn't know what's being shared.

Honestly, I might rework it (not utilizing keybase). I think I can make it decentralized and / or super easy to use. It's already pretty much plug-and-play provided you know the recipients email.
You’re right and I should’ve been more specific. I don’t, however, think it was widely known outside the medical community. “Getting your bell rung” and wandering to the wrong huddle was something laughed about. I doubt people do that now because we’ve come to understand the deleterious effects.

“Punch drunk” (and associated pugilistic dementia) was well known but I suspect most people did not think the long term effects extended beyond boxing (hence the names), where it’s literally one of the aims to cause head trauma (outside of Olympic point-style)
I can fully respect a smug "told ya so" attitude. But this "maybe xyz shouldn't exist" attitude irritates me. I accept there's a risk to using these low-touch services... and that's my decision, no?
My iPhone is on 14.0.1.

They probably killed force touch on the newer models only.
> Honestly, go to Google where you can be authentic and human about things.

With respect, I think James Damore (may have) found that he couldn't be authentic at Google.
The comparison was meant to emphasize that the organization views his creed as gospel, and all his executives practice what he preaches. He wasn't saying he had the scope or influence of Jesus.
Yes I presume you have to report your location, and risk being fired if you aren't truthful.
I like this article, and niche hackery on OSS is a lot of fun—I’m partial to running this sort of thing on old//limited hardware

It does seem funny, tho, that this kind of article spends so much time on ‘planning to play games’. And this sentence seemed goofy:

> I do not play games a lot, but when I do I make sure that they are the right and best ones.
Before the Web: The 1980s Dream of a Free and Borderless Virtual World (Pt.1)
>It's the equivalent of a lawyer telling his client to go drinking and have a fun night out with the district attorney.

No it’s not. The lawyer works for the lawyer’s client, employers don’t work for their employees. Opposite.
Universities, even some individuals universities, have benefitted financially far, far more than the NCAA.
Local storage might be a lifesaver here. Just in case someone forgets to save offer auto recovery. This can be done client side with no server costs.
"Fake news" is a call to criticism. The amount of people bringing up "fake news" and calling for say, CNN, to not be able to report at all is minimal. Comparatively you can't have a conversation about "disinformation" without talking about social media companies' responsibility to delete or hide content.
Rebuttal: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24777115
PRISM – NSA surveillance program did not prevent a single terrorist attack (tutanota.com)
https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/nsa-phone-surveillance-illeg...
I don't see how it would make the device impossible to use while charging. Unless when you hold the phone you bend the bottom of the charging cable.
Tootie, while the battery life is short of AirPods, it is at par with many other earbuds. Since our module is independent of the earrings, we do plan to offer many styles of earrings. That's part of our business model: that the same customer will buy multiple earrings per module. About the weight: that was our big concern as well. But we did make a few that are lighter than some standard dangler style earrings.
We are looking into that as well as other wellness type applications.
The high concept people never appreciate the grief they're causing for the people who have to implement their vision.

The stuff Frank Lloyd Wright didn't know about construction could fill an entire tour. Which I discovered by taking that tour. Boy, did that dude try to ignore physics.
I know I definitely missed that part of the article.
Zazu Launcher
It's nice to know what files you need to build the image. Sort of like importing libraries at the top of a source code file.
In the past I have pointed the HN moderators (contact link is the footer) to threads with sock puppets. Some are easy to recognize, e.g. new users praising a service that got submitted only 10 minutes ago. Sometimes it's harder to find a pattern. Do email the HN moderators if you suspect fraud or unfair practices.
The decline of The Simpsons from brilliant American sitcom into mindless consumerist drivel happens at around season 9 and is well documented as “Zombie Simpsons”: https://deadhomersociety.com/zombiesimpsons/
The Twitter thread has a lot more. There's a person or firm who is doing black-hat content marketing at scale. They either approach freelance bloggers to write articles about their clients (to be submitted to Medium-hosted and similar blogs as if written by unaffiliated users), or create Medium profiles for fake names and write the posts themselves. Posts have appeared in Better Programming, DEV.to, FAUN, freeCodeCamp, HackerNoon, ITNEXT, JS in Plain English, Level Up, Towards Data Science, and other aggregators.

From there, they use dozens of fake Reddit and HN accounts to submit, comment on, and artificially boost their own posts. They also submit some unrelated cover posts. You can see some of these on HN here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

They have sockpuppet Reddit accounts doing the same thing across 10s of subreddits.

Here's the set of clients I know of (https://twitter.com/troyd/status/1316020415995674624):

AccessiBe

ClimaCell

Imperva

Loadmill

Rookout Labs

WhiteSource (AKA SecureCoding dot com)

Testcraft

I have no idea what they thought they were buying, but what they were receiving was black-hat content marketing at large scale. There may be other clients I don't know of.

Here's some Medium profiles of authors, where you'll see those companies get plugged over and over. I expect some of these will be removed by the authors soon:

https://medium.com/@AntonLawrence

https://medium.com/@Justin_Parsons

https://medium.com/@geeostan8

https://medium.com/@Dickson_Mwendia

https://medium.com/@arinoman

https://medium.com/@oyetoketoby80

https://medium.com/@mrsaeeddev

https://medium.com/@ginomessmer

https://medium.com/@diptokmk47

https://medium.com/@sajjadheydari74

https://medium.com/@ngwaifoong92

https://medium.com/@SeanHig

https://medium.com/@henson.casper

https://hackernoon.com/u/ari-noman

https://hackernoon.com/u/diptokmk47

There's probably others I'm missing. If you run a blog and one of these companies is mentioned in a post that doesn't disclose an affiliation, it may well be fake. I contacted many of the publishers above. To quote Quincy of freeCodeCamp in https://twitter.com/ossia/status/1316216151802667008 after he researched this: "Stay vigilant, friends."
This comprehensive, developer focused eco system has been promised again and again. The challenge is that those metaphors take a long time to create and are fragile. A new need arises or the paradigm shifts and all that equity evaporates.

In the early 2000's there were promises that we were on the verge of graphical programming. Environments where anyone could stitch programs together visually. They turned out to be more trouble than they were worth. Anything sufficiently complicated needed a proficient software engineer. That engineer inevitably did away with cumbersome graphical tool preferring to just write the code. The tasks that non-software engineers were able to work were of questionable value to begin with.

Personally I prefer the patchwork. Emerging from the java, .NET bubble was a breath of fresh air for me. I considered the IDE to be constraining. It did 90% of what I needed but I also needed to do the other 10%. Simplicity always trumps completeness and composition is always better.
Do you have any plans to let affiliates sell these? I would love to offer this product to my audience.
Trust me, I know. But even here we run into issues, such as projects over the local storage limit, and the fact that (well, until COVID...sigh), a non-trivial number of students were in computer labs that contained programs like deep freeze making anything local storage based headache inducing as a means of support.
If you're building images from go binaries you can do that without Bazel using github.com/google/ko :)
Large corporations can buy legislation. The reason you don't want companies to get too big is because they get undue influence on the system that regulates them.
Data Science as a Product
Valley is full of bro’s talking about how they are the Jobs and the nerd they found is the Wozniak. Why not go up to an even more successful founder?
State Chart XML (Scxml): State Machine Notation for Control Abstraction
Hostile work environment
Who made the landing page, did you make it yourself or hired someone?
I wouldn't, and that would be much more insidious if I was some race they weren't particularly fond of.
Ah ok, when Trump says a negative article about him is "fake news" it's criticism, but when "disinformation" comes out about Biden it's a call for censorship?

Am I insane for seeing the dissonance here?
Our earrings make a statement in size as well as literally :)

WThe audio module can be worn with tiny stud earrings, but then the audio module shows. It still retains many of its advantages, except the tech is obvious in that case.
The distinction here is that Google employees are not legally banned from speaking as a private citizen about the company they work for. They just won't be employees of Google for much longer after Google finds out.

I don't like that any more than you do. Corporations have far too much power in the US, and way more control over the lives of ordinary citizens than they should. But, there's nothing against the rules here. And, that's the way big corporations like it.

Note that Google employees are still free to donate money or otherwise assist organizations calling for Google to be broken up. While Google may not like this, it's highly unlikely they'll ever find out about it.
Very well deserved, Jens is an awesome person.
One thing about resumes is different companies often like different things. Possibly something that is useful is if you build a digital resume, then have print options that are optimized for different things (even specific optimizations for specific large companies ). This way you can generate whatever Resume you like targeted to different things. For small/mid type companies where I have interviewed 100s, I like extra detail, and I'll look at links if initial content looks promising.
it's something like... magical realism + hard sci-fi? not gonna attempt a portmanteau but ideas welcome
All correct! That's pretty much it!

Snap! is designed to allow students write code in the same way they might in Scratch, but then move them on to exploring CS concepts. It's also somewhat more extensible, including allowing people to make blocks pseudo-natively in JS. (We don't really expect students to do this, but it's a great way for instructors to build tools for assignments or just experiment with ideas not yet in the language.)
Nice framework for thinking about it, thanks. Totally agree.

For me, the biggest benefit is that I want to be able to refactor the internals of my code and have the tests (which map to business requirements, not implementation details) still pass.

It's also because a lot of the code I work with is inherently concurrent, and in my estimation, you're getting a lot more test coverage with the detroit model because a lot of your threading cases are simply covered if you use real objects and test it black-box style.
Temporal is the fork of Cadence by the original creators.It is still open source under MIT license.

I'm former creator and tech lead of Cadence and currently tech lead of Temporal.
Have you spent much time looking at hearing aid designs?

I think you'll find a lot of embodied wisdom on how to discreetly route audio into the ear canal.
Big Tech making themselves look really bad with this.
Would Google be happy if one of their employee made a statement which triggered a Title VII civil rights lawsuit? Is support of BLM a political statement or one based on race? If it’s a political statement, then opposing it, isn’t a potential Title VII violation as political preference isn’t a protected class? But if it’s a racial issue, could someone make a case the opposing it is a Title VII violation?

I have no idea what the answer is, and wouldn’t want my employees engaged in such a discussion as it could potentially come back as a lawsuit.

In that same context, I wouldn’t want James Damore writing his memo. Equally, the reason he was writing his memo was possibly because there were other conversations happening around race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. If those conversations were encouraging the advancement of the disadvantaged members of one of those classes, you could argue that is a violation of Title VII.
Thanks for the reply, I really appreciate it. Unfortunately, that is not acceptable for what I had in mind.
Semi-related:
State Chart XML (SCXML): State Machine Notation for Control Abstraction

https://www.w3.org/TR/scxml/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24783057
According to [1], the Church is estimated to own over 170 million acres worldwide. Assuming that property is distributed evenly by land area, let's estimate that the Catholic church owns ~3.5 million acres in the United States and ~1.75 million in Europe (minus Russia). The value ranges from something like $100 million for an acre in NYC to $1,000/acre in Wyoming so even if you price each acre as Wyoming uninhabited wilderness they'd have $3.5 billion in assets. Considering how big churches, hospitals, and schools are and where they're built, I'd assume their assets average closer to $10k or $100k per acre, putting their wealth in the United States alone at $35 to 350 billion. In Europe, the numbers are probably even more skewed towards the higher end.

As long as the global average per acre is $500 or more, they've got at least a trillion in wealth. Unlike the corporation, the Church is more decentralized and structured such that most of the revenue moving through that property (donations, tithes, salaries, maintenance, etc.) doesn't show up on the books.

[1] https://archive.curbed.com/2017/10/18/16483194/catholic-chur...
It doesn't matter, the claim "Let's be honest, the only people screaming for censorship are firmly on the left." is demonstrably false.
> ban is a political act

What is political about objective science?
Normally they're pretty trivial like you said. This one is extensive: 20+ sockpuppet HN and Reddit accounts and dozens of fake blog posts submitted to many of the largest Medium-style blogs. It's an entire propaganda network just devoted to content marketing.
Keeping people informed about their product is a way to describe the job of every spammer.
I was on the fence about the backlash, but ultimately what sealed the deal for me is his response to the situation.

As presumed-CEO and leader, he needs to have the confidence of his organization, and also the ability to address controversial difficult topics. He failed on that.

He finally did the right thing by stepping down. He would have always carried the weight of the mismanagement of the response to the employee-criticism, and that is what killed him ultimately.

A CEO position isn't a reward, it's a service position, and I believe that no one is entitled to it. (Ditto many forms of leadership) So to complain about how unfair it was to him, perhaps we should think about how unfair it was to the employees of the organization who had to deal with situation instead.
And the thing is every thing James said was correct. And he advocated for policies that would help everyone and eliminate the disparate impact on minorities by doing things like flex time or letting people move to part time for a little bit after a major life event (like having a child).
Thanks you for that suggestion! I initially went with the idea of what would Apple name a Task manager and it would be Tasks. Little did I realise it hurts my search-ability. Will work on that next, stay safe!
Ahh, dang it. You're correct of course. How in the world did I mess that up?
Paper Map Shows the Extent of the Entire Internet in 1973
damn that’s cool i would definitely invest in your company unfortunately i don’t have a significant other to buy these for otherwise i definitely would
I'll give it 18 months until we are all shocked how bad we let things get economically.
Unless it's something they specifically signed up for, robo-calling all your constituents absolutely is spam.
Risk Management and Psychology