skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read it as "refusing to get worse". Which implies that your environmnent is getting worse, making you better by comparison.

I'm not sure I agree, but I can understand the sentiment.
Agreed.
After writing my own static site generator in Python, I went back and was impressed with all the options available in Pelican. Lots of things I wished I had built were included.
I'm a manager at a FAANG company who has gone through the hiring process a number of times now. I was at a startup before that where we grew from 30 to 200 people and I was involved in hiring for quite a few positions. I can assure you 100% that there is no quota system anywhere I've ever worked. It is absolutely prohibited. We are not even allowed to post something like "do you come from an under-represented group? we're hiring!". Anything along those lines is a big ol' nope. I suggest even if that email thread was real if the legal department found out about it they'd shut it down very quickly. (FWIW we're not allowed to ask about lots of stuff during an interview either like marital or parental status).

I'll also note that every team I know of at any FAANG company is desperate to find really great candidates. The idea that a team would willingly refuse to hire an excellent <insert group here> candidate to instead fill some kind of diversity quota slot for <other group here> is so bananas to me I can't even comprehend it. It's so wrong I can't even laugh at it. Every manager I know has a backlog of important work a mile long and is desperate to fill open reqs. I've never once seen or heard rumor of anyone from upper management to HR to execs discussing anything even remotely like a "diversity quota". Not even water-cooler gossip.

Whenever I ask for proof of a diversity quota system there is no evidence. When you look at the stats on who is hired (for companies that publish it) to the degree the needle is moving it is moving very slowly. So slowly if there were a quota system it would mean they're very very bad at it. So as far as I can tell from personal experience and my discussions with my peers "diversity quotas" are by-and-large either made up or being run illegally by a small group that gets shut down immediately once legal gets wind of it.

"Diversity quota" could be an attempt to stir up race or gender resentment: 'you didn't get that job because one of "those" people stole it' or some such notion. Having worked at plenty of other software jobs over the years I've met more than my share of developers who were garbage at their jobs but thought they were God's gift to programming. They were also the same people who tended to have complaints about "diversity quotas". I'm sure blaming "those other people" is an attractive way to justify not getting what you think you deserve. It's an old trope but one that keeps being re-used over thousands of years because it works. Just convince people that "those others" are the enemy and have stolen what is rightfully yours and you can justify anything.

It's also a really cheap way to tear down someone else - just dismiss them as a "diversity hire". You need a certain amount of insecurity, cruelty, or hate in your heart to act out like that. I prefer to judge people based on their job performance but YMMV.
Yep, but how do you explain that to a non-tech person (e.g. URL to visit, how long to wait for the build to finish)?
You are looking at how China's economy functions today in a few cities, and not how it functions in the vast majority of the rest of the country. More importantly, while China has mostly or entirely gotten rid of the planned economy, it's success has come in large part because of massive monetary interference by the state in the economy, protectionism, forcing western companies to give up some of their IP to do business there, and of course a good dose of slave labor, like every successful economy in history unfortunately (I am absolutely opposed to this last one, and it is one of the things we have profited most from in Chinas's growth).

Countries that moved from a planned economy to capitalism under the IMF and WB's guidance have generally rushed to privatize their industry, have accepted and dutifully implemented all international IP treaties, have opened up their arms to foreign investors and sold their industries to them, and are almost all in much worse situations than China, with no hope of regaining the lost ground for now.

For India, I will only say one thing - India would not have been an IT powerhouse if it had been under colonial rule. The British wanted cotton and spices and other raw or lightly processed materials from India, and that is what it would have been forced to do - same as the path the American colonies rebelled against. Industrializationa and high-technology was for the mother land, not the colonies, in the horrible economic principle of the 'competitive advantage'.

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Related to poverty, you're right, I probably should have given a definition. Extreme poverty means not having access to one or more of the the basic necessities of life - water, enough food not be malnourished, enough shelter not to die of hypothermia or heat, and access to medical care to survive the most common diseases in your region. If you have only these basic necessities and nothing else, you are still poor, but not living in extreme poverty.

From what I understand, the monetary threshold for these should be somewhere around 15 dollars per day to get out of extreme poverty (note that this 'income' includes begging, access to communal resources etc). There are of course many opinions on this number. However, the 1.9 USD value is pitifully low, and you can easily check that yourself: please think about what you can buy for 3 USD in you region each day, without any kind of borrowing, begging, living off the land, sharing etc (as those are already included in the number). Would you consider yourself to not be in extreme poverty?

Note that if we look at malnourishent, the percentage and number of people who are malnourished has stayed roughly the same since we started collecting data (1981), after increasing steadily up to ~2000.

And about people living off the land, they are indeed included in the data since 1981, but not in the data since 1800, as often presented.

Edit: and yes, you are right that people living off the land were usually doomed if they got significantly sick. But this is also true of, for example, everyone living on minimum wage in the US today, so I fail to see what's improved.
i couldn’t get through 4 paragraphs. vice comes across as such whiners.
A system cannot deadlock with CAS.

It can live-lock.

I think you’re possibly confusing lock-free and wait-free, which is a stronger guarantee.
Ask HN: Privacy via Containerization for Browsers, Andriod and iOS
would it be better if Andriod, iOS and all Browsers introduce containerization for every web and native apps. This should very well help tackle the cross-tracking of user behavior and they will live in their own contained world, thus reducing their ability to track anything outside of their own running service.
Ask HN: A thought experiment; mandatory age of retirement at 50 vs. UBI
I'm going to guess that spare parts and repairs are a net loss for Apple. It's a cost of doing business.

What they don't want is shody spares and repairs sullying their image.
can i get news with this api?
>complex systems, stochasticity, nonlinearity, feedback loops and higher-order effects ... emergent behavior

Plasma physics & fusion energy (my field) is challenging for exactly these reasons (despite being 95% classical physics). It's very rare that we can do a nice controlled experiment where only a single variable is changed at a time. I joke that it's really a subset of biology, not physics.

> probably more useful to focus on instrumental causality

I partly agree -- we humans do seem to get by on rudimentary reasoning. On the other hand, the issue of back-progagation is quite similar to identifying 'root causes.' There's also an issue of combinatorial explosion of the number of possible sets of variables that interact with each other, coupled with the fact that data becomes exponentially sparse as the dimension of the space grows. The human ability to detect causal relations is really stunning when you realize how tough it is -- I wouldn't want to bet that we can reproduce it by trial and error. Evolution had plenty of time to get it right, but we don't.
I agree about (and am frustrated by) everything you said here, but:

It's not just "the web side of things". Which makes it even more scary.
I’ll believe it when the Applebot starts ramping up

I’ve seen Huawei and the Petal search bot almost as much as bingbot these last few months. Hardly any bot traffic from Apple though.

AppleBot: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204683
There are a bunch in the bay area as well. Here are a handful in Palo Alto:

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.4461675,-122.1651786,3a,86.4...

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.4505849,-122.162804,3a,75y,3...

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.4522447,-122.1576615,3a,75y,...

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.4250195,-122.1482505,3a,75y,...
Also be sure to put the entire park's security and electrical system in the hands of a former postal worker.
I prefer to say "East Asian":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asian_people

Also, see this section, which provides an overview of what "Asian" means in different parts of the world:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_people#Meanings_by_regio...
A Fully Ramped-Up Engineer: The Ugly Truth
It is a recurring theme that whenever Arch proponents mention that they don't like Debian packaging, there is a frustrated reaction to it. But I don't understand what people want to hear; there's clearly a reason why people would choose Debian over Arch, Arch users say packaging is a big part of it, and it seems like nobody can accept that this is right.

I can at least tell you that people don't choose Arch over Debian for the installation experience. :)
> China's emissions are approximately double the US's and growing.

China's population is 1.4 billion compared to 330 million for the US though. Surely you should be comparing this relative to population size (China is four times bigger) and countries with smaller emissions per person should be recognised as doing well?
Wait until the EU commission hears about it. I have a feeling that they’re not going to let this fly.
eponysterical https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=eponysterica...
Telling someone they don’t need health insurance is irresponsible, there’s plenty of things that can go wrong in your 20s, like a car accident. If they decided not to have that while running a startup not only would they potentially lose their first mover advantage, they’d be saddled in crippling medical debt. One’s health should always come first, you don’t appreciate it until you don’t have it.
This is unacceptable in any democracy or a so-called public platform. In Latin America there's many newspapers, compared to the US, there are newspapers that still publish very bloody images in the back-page (drug cartels hits, accidents, etc), others which publish naked girls, others about anarchism, religion, local news/events mostly free. As a citizen you understand the spectrum of what quality journalism is vs the kind of crap that comes in all those publications mentioned before. Government or official journalist groups don't block them, just because the information is mainly false. This is a basic value in a democracy. Problem I see is that online platforms want to fight disinformation as a problem when is not a problem is the way the world operates. Humans have something called intelligence and people can distinguish a quality publication vs another one and even if not, is ok to read all types of things (as long as they are within the law). Problem is that Google and Twitter just publish what fits in their agenda. (Check PragerU case vs Youtube)
I thought CDs had a sampling rate of 44kHz? You need twice as many samples as the frequency you want to represent, after all (to make a wave you need both a positive anda negative sample in the same period). This is the essence of the Nyquist-Shannon a.k.a. the sampling theorem.
Yes, so they eat before dawn and after sunset.
In 2017 Facebook's recovery login form has a bug. At first glance, nothing special. They ask you to enter your phone number, then show you your profile PICTURE and account NAME.

https://www.facebook.com/login/identify/?ctx=recover&ars=fac...

Then I asked myself a simple question "What if...?" Facebook has around 2 billion monthly active users in 2017. This was roughly about 1/4 of the human population. "What if...I make a BOT to create RANDOM phone numbers and it starts making requests to Facebook's servers to reap their user phones, profile photos and names from their database?" Their users are so many that I will always hit a number sooner or later if there is no protection system against automated requests.

Guess what? I start to reap phone number after phone number of their users and Facebook had no proper protection against automated bots requests :-)

Carefully considered synchronized bots attack on Facebook servers and soon you will have the phones, picture and names at least of 1/6 of the earth population. How much will this information cost?

But I was moral enough (and dumb) to provide them with information about this SECURITY bug on the proper channel and Facebook technical support. 'That would at least bring me a few thousand dollars' I thought naively then. After all, information about this bug was sent to them according to all their rules for "Bug Bounty", I have not retrieved information about their users except to verify this security breach... I even sent them Python program code with which they can see for themselves how it retrieve phones from their database.

Not only did they not pay me a penny for bounty reward - they didn't tell anyone about this security breach in 2017 - they quietly fixed their "login form" so that this bug can no longer be used and exploit.

This happens when you try to be moral and there are crooks in front of you.
evidently under this theory the important thing is what the company wants.

on edit: /not supporting viewpoint, just identifying it.
There's no political process. In GNOME if you want to do strange things with moving and reparenting windows from other processes then you write a GNOME extension. Same with KDE and kwin scripts. No touching of Wayland necessary. Fundamentally it doesn't seem that different from writing Arcan WMs. If all that's not enough then you write a new Wayland compositor with the policy you want, maybe using wlroots to save time. Overall that really hasn't changed much from writing X WMs, I don't get what the concern here is. At worst, it is a change that can be adapted to just like those changes you describe in DWM.

>you are much more locked down

Is this not what a policy is? The window manager locking down clients and enforcing that they can only do certain things? I'm aware that Arcan got wayland support recently and that actually gives me more hope that we're not headed towards an apocalypse of protocol incompatibilities.
Feedback wanted: Two-factor-authentication for teams using online phone numbers
Hi,

I wanted to get feedback on a service idea that we're already using internally:

https://zd2blvtm6jfh.landen.co/

We have a number of shared accounts in our team that don't offer individual accounts for users and the passwords for these are shared with a password manager for teams.

Enabling two factor authentication for these shared accounts has been problematic for us - especially for phone number based 2FA - because that usually involved using my phone number and forwarding the OTP manually on Slack.

I just wanted to check whether there is anyone else out there who uses shared accounts and has ran into similar problems, or whether we are alone with this problem =)
For those of you who are pro CoC I would be genuinely interested in your perspective if the laws were written as vaguely and subjectively as most CoC are? It is my opinion and from what I’ve seen the majority of enforcement actions occur in the least fair way possible and have more in common with dictatorship kangaroo courts than those we are accustomed to in the western world.
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افضل خدمات التصليح و الصيانة على الاطلاق الى عملاء صيانة اريستون من المنزل او من اى مكان اخر غير ذلك
This gets rid of workers, especially experienced workers.

Other countries won't do likewise. This gives them an advantage. They pull way ahead in economic power.

Because goods and services are traded across borders, the more-restricted economy sinks quickly. To put it another way, if your share of the work is smaller, your share of the benefits will be smaller.
> The cognitive dissonance is overwhelming. Your body says you're actively dying but your conscious brain can - must - override it and let the pain flow freely. You observe it, rather than obstruct it.

I have been doing this my entire life to every injury I have ever had, from small to big. As soon as something started to hurt me I did that movement so much until the pain vanished. I never let my body rust. Being active, healthy exercise, body stretches, feeling the blood rush through your veins and the sweat drop off your face is the best way to deal with any problems in life. It helps with mental and physical issues.
Neat video! Thanks for posting it.
I'm sure he was only making minimum wage. /s
TFA isn’t a big revelation, or a great angle.

But “Economic parity with whites” doesn’t mean sh﹡t when a racial group (edit: not even a racial group) is discriminated in college admissions, corporate leadership roles, etc., which are some of the most vital external decisions for upward mobility. (These are very widely documented so don’t ask me for citations. You can easily find hundred-comment-strong threads on these topics within this very site.) If anything it means the group has managed to “succeed” despite all the racial/cultural roadblocks, and the efforts they put in are not proportionally repaid.

“Individuals who are in the process of achieving upward mobility” — that’s the actual myth. More like work as hard as you can, we’ll randomly select three out of ten to put into the pool of potential upward mobility with all fifty of that other group.

I know some people prefer equality of outcome and don’t feel the slightest shame about pushing down hardworking folks based on their ancestries if that’s what it takes to achieve a semblance of equality and diversity. I can’t have a productive conversation with those people. Actually, you know what, I’ve hardly ever seen anyone convincing anyone on this or any other divisive topic, so here’s my opinion, I don’t care what anyone thinks about it, and I’m not gonna further comment on this.
Yep, internationalization in Zola is WIP: https://github.com/getzola/zola/pull/1148
Exactly. I feel that if we brought up metrics from before Covid and after that there would be a sharp increase in amount of meeting hours, in part due to unrestricted number of potential meetings. Having hard data could allow companies to make some changes and improvements.
> We are all free to vote with our money what we want. We collectively choose not to, on average.

While I agree with this on principle, to me it looks like it gives the collective us an agency which I would argue isn't really there in that not enough people consider it as a factor.

I think that many people don't really care. As another commenter said, people seem to care more about "specs" (like in the commenter's example with people preferring Samsung phones because of the bigger screens) and about having the latest phone.

This makes me wonder what percentage of people actually have to repair their phones, and of those, how many would have opted to do it themselves with off-brand components.

While I understand the philosophical concerns around repairability and mostly like my laptops to be repairable, I also get the feeling that for phones it only now may become important, if at all, because of their usable life.

My previous phone was a Galaxy S5, with a user replaceable battery. A new Samsung battery from a reputable store (not Amazon) costed 50-60 €. A battery replacement for the iphone costs 70 € at an authorised shop (I'm in Paris, France). I know I could have used an "alternative brand" battery in the GS5, but after a terrible experience with such a battery for a camera, I wouldn't go through that again.

Now I understand that this or that model may have design issues which would have random components fail prematurely. But I doubt that replacing the component with an off-brand one would be that great. I'd consider that model a lemon and avoid it. Even if it would be simple, I'd hate to have to replace my phone's [x] every two weeks.
Asia is all the way from Middle East to Japan.

If someone thinks arabs are not 'Asian' is just as dim witted as an Asian saying: Bah! america-shamerica Non-whites are not American.
> I suspect they are doing feature transfer learning

Would you mind to elaborate on this?
> I think you’ll find that’s strictly an American definition of “Asian”.

Well, yes, American media are going to use the American definition of "Asian". This is an article on Vox, not the BBC.

> In the UK “Asian” definitely includes people from the Indian sub-continent.

It is my understanding that the UK term isn't more inclusive, it just refers to subcontinentals instead of orientals, since for historical reasons that's who's present in England.

> Also your claims about genetic similarities and differences between races will need some supporting evidence as they sounds very much like personal opinion.

Don't be ridiculous. Yes, Indians are much more closely related to whites than Asians are. You don't need to support basic well-known facts.

Recall that Indians were usually "white" under US law (there are some exceptions) until pressure from Indian activists in the Nixon administration got them reclassified.
It’s mostly for convenience of buying alcohol in the US with Android Pay without carrying your plastic DL.
Yep: Most do so today with "camera scanner" and related apps. ClipDrop takes this workflow up a notch or two.
Because, legally, they are pretty similar - both are a breach of EULA, both are not an expected use. I would wager that in the not too distant future, legislation and social attitudes will view repairing damaged electronics as theft. Right to repair will ironically likely be the mechanism through which this happens - mfgs are using it to create closed ecosystems with no participants - see apples programme for independent repair shops getting “genuine” parts - it’s so onerous that unless something has changed, recently, they have literally not one taker, meaning every indy repair shop is now theoretically breaking the law. They just have to tighten the noose a little more, and it’s job done.
From the article:

mDL apps will have the option of both requiring user authentication before releasing data and then immediately placing the phone in lockdown mode, to ensure that if the verifier takes the device they cannot easily get information from it.
You can still pick and choose, native threads aren't going away, just like today you can make several tasks map to a single threaded.
Asian people don’t make an “Asian Lives Matter” because they’re not regularly targeted by police. They do however tend to lead efforts against affirmative action programs because they tend to reduce the number of Asian Americans who qualify for things. Painting this as an issue of other minorities being whiny is not a very nice characterization.