skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Google said it has a "large team of recruiters who work incredibly hard to increase the hiring of Black+ and other underrepresented talent" at the firm.

Maybe they should "work incredibly hard" at reducing the discrimination and firing after they're hired, too, then.

I always assume there's more to the story when I only hear from one side, but there's no excuse for anyone at Google telling someone their accent is a disability that should be disclosed to other employees. That's so incredibly ignorant that it's impossible for me not to be mad about it.

And with that statement, I have no doubt that she's correct about why she was shouted down in meetings and repeatedly denied promotions and opportunities, and eventually fired.
Interstellar.

Tool's Fear Inoculum.

The Expanse.
I don't think e-ink screens would be good for a baby monitor.
The slow refresh rate would make them a poor choice for monitoring a video stream, and the repeated flashing when changing the image would make them annoying at night.
Absolutely awful, a disgrace to humanity. They burnt people alive to profit from their miserable little scam business. No matter how hard I squint, I just can’t make sense of their actions.

This list is a terrifying glimpse of how the entire world would end up without effective regulation. People like this would glide to the top on a carpet of skeletons and we’d basically have to re-invent government to stop them.
whoever in BMW, who thought this Public shaming "ads" might increase sales should be given salesperson of the year (add in marketing mozart if you wish)

coming soon, near the traffic lights.

"a smart bill board showing your debt and dues pending to the entire fckng world"

"hello there, yes, you on the red honda civic with number plate xxxx, how are things going on in your bed? last night you searched for it and we are here to help"

how the heck did we end up here, this makes targeted ads look like god send, and here I was thinking targeted ads were the worst to happen in tech :( ..
The people doing the “car warranty” phone scam are making more money and didn’t have to do any ML or image recognition R&D. In fact, their profit margin might be better because they don’t pay out ... they have zero post-acquisition costs!

This shows a bug in capitalism: The scammers work less hard to make more money and will go out of business still in denial.
Holy s* this completely flew under my radar. Thanks, I loved that TV show!
As if I needed another reason to not buy a BMW.
> Have an UI mode that's optimized for casual users!

Kdenlive[1] is very good for this and kind of resembles Windows Movie Maker of old. I'm not a movie editor, so Kdenlive is my goto clip editor when all I want to do is something simple without having to think how to do it (I've tried iMovie and Premiere). Very intuitive!

[1] https://kdenlive.org/en/

Open source, KDE, Qt-based project.
AC Catch'Em All – Single Network Request App
>but the FBI has learned something in the last 60 years.

They have learned to entrap people without legally being considered entrapment. Not what I'd consider a good skill for them to have.
I don't think that's the issue here.

The issue is them broadcasting in a Billboard that a BMW nearby doesn't have warranty.
That part of is definitely poor advice, although prices are lower these days.

Get something with at least 61 full sized and weighted keys. None of those light weight organ type keys, they need to feel more like piano keys. Polyphonic - able to play at least 8 notes simultaneously.

That would be the bare minimum IMHO. Getting the full 88 keys will probable ensure the rest but maybe not in some cases.
rock solid lately. also on par with XFCE in terms of resource usage, yet lot and lots more features.
Giant railguns/coilguns for shooting cargo and/or passenger modules into space? This has been done in science fiction at least.
I'm loving my Apple Watch. I wasn't entirely sure yet what to think of the watch as a form factor, given that a phone can do everything it can and more. But there's three interesting aspects that have really added value for me.

1) is health data, in a way a computer or phone just can't do. It tracks things like heartrate that a phone + heartrate strap is too convoluted for, for non-athletes. Plus it's all-day and quite accurate. My phone counts my steps in my pocket for example, but not when I'm at home or in the office. My watch can differentiate when I'm cycling to work with my phone in my jacket and detect exercise, whereas my phone may think I'm in a tram or on a motorised scooter.

2) is gamification of exercise. Closing rings, notifications, nudges, vibrations, competitions. It all demands attention and lets you 'jump in' from the wrist much easier, than an app on a phone. It's been a great extrinsic motivational tool to jump-start a change in behaviour for a few months, that can then turn into a long-term intrinsic habit.

3) freedom from the phone. You can open digital locks with the watch, pay with the watch, listen to music or podcasts, get directions on maps, make calls, send (dictated) messages, keep an eye on your mail and calendar etc. I can reliable leave my phone at home, or just leave it in my jacket when I'm visiting friends. Notifications can be set to only allow priority ones in certain settings. It's the first time in 10 years that I'm moving away from having a phone available and in-vision all the time. The Watch doesn't induce mindless scrolling and consumption in a way a phone does, and can be configured to only demand your attention for things you want it to (e.g. certain notifications).

It's definitely not quite where I'd like it to be. Things like battery life, looks, software etc, there's much to gain still. But as a form factor I'm pretty convinced I will be using this for many years to come, and getting upgrades when they become available.

First time series 6 user by the way.
As noizejoy pointed out [0]:

> That site’s history with HN [1] isn’t exactly confidence inspiring.

Unfortunately, guardicore.com's "reputation" [2] isn't much better!

Of all the articles on this topic linked in this thread, the one from ThreatPost [3] is probably the "most reputable" as far as I'm concerned.

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[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25524954

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=srnnews.com

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=guardicore.com

[3]: https://threatpost.com/please_read_me-ransomware-mysql-serve...
Not sure why you're being down-voted, the M2 and the M5 are among the best driver-focused cars being made right now (a dying breed, those driver-focused cars, but that's another discussion), but that still shouldn't excuse BMW for dick moves like this one (I consider it a dick move).
Invisible Geniuses: Could the Knowledge Frontier Advance Faster?
It is technically a sequel to Half Life 2 so I'd say there was some hype to it.
This game is genuinely hard! You are really getting it from all sides at once. Can't seem to get past Level 3. Any strategy tips would be welcome ;)
is it really well written?

“can you help me?”

“only if you complete this task that makes you look like a bad ass”

repeated 8 times
Customisable is great and all, but at the expense of 100x the performance, is it worth it? There's likely no need for the majority of the customisation in webpack, but removing it isn't an option either. The real issue is that webpack has gotten to the position it has now and nobody has stopped and asked "why"!
I keep seeing sums like £50k and £100k per flat for cladding. How is that possible? Isn't that multiple times what a new roof would cost on a house? Or a substantial extension.
Honeywell Acquires Sparta Systems for $1.3B
> and become arguably the greatest basketball player of all time.

LeBron is definitely the best of his era but he's not touching Jordan in terms of greatest player of all time, even if he does pull off two more championships. During the 90s, Jordan was as close to a demi-god in the sports world as you could get.
For me, Final Fantasy VII: Remake.
2.0 engine in the new C63 AMG for gods sake

This sounds bad until you realise that over the past 20 years manufacturers switched from cast iron to full aluminium blocks, which have over twice the thermal conductivity.

There's no need for 4.0+ displacements anymore, because they were only there because of the low (tolerable) power density of iron block engines.

Sure, turbos etc. sound like a hack and a hack they are, but the era of V8 rumble is gone for good.

All this will be replaced by electric anyway.
The merge tracking that was tacked onto svn just isn’t reliable. Adding it as metadata isn’t a good enough solution. Shared medium/long lived branches such as version maintenance branches or shared dev branches invariably get merges “both ways” meaning the information of what’s merged where is sprinkled everywhere.

But I’d go even further and say: svn isn’t even a good choice for a basic feature branch workflow. Not that it’s impossible, but the added “convenience” of svn is much smaller than the gains of git.

I don’t think the “D” in dvcs is important. As you point out, most people use git with a blessed central repo because that’s what we want.
The local council should face criminal consequences for these decisions.
Expert Guide to IntelliJ License Server
First, it's cool that someone is trying to make a BASIC shell. What I was pointing to is that most same-era computers used BASIC as their shell.
Depends what the bilboard says. If it says "Hey, BMW EG16WHJ - your warranty is expired!" then yeah, that's probably not ok. But if they detect that a BMW with an expired warranty is stopped near the bilboard and just say "hey, is your BMW warranty expired? Renew today!" then it would be very hard to make an argument against it.
Covid-19 Apps Are Terrible–They Didn't Have to Be
Yeah it is strangely easy to look at. Smooth and readable.
For context, I started playing piano when I was a kid with a mix of classes and self-learn, tried to pick up guitar a few years ago and I'm now learning clarinet with a teacher.

With this experience, I can say that self-learning an instrument is the most inefficient way to learn it, specially if you haven't already learned another instrument before. Don't bother comparing it to self-learning programming because it's a whole different world:

- If you don't know basic music theory (notes, rhythms, basic chords, etc) you'll have a hard time understanding any method or any other resource of any kind. A teacher will usually teach you those concepts as you go along and help you understand them. You can self-learn music theory but it's not the fastest way.

- As a beginner, your ear is not trained to the instrument. If you haven't played an instrument before, your ear won't be trained at all. You will sound bad and you won't know why. Having a teacher hear you and tell you what's going wrong will help you advance faster and also train your ear so you detect those issues.

- Technique. This is one of the things that's the hardest to learn by yourself. You can read books and watch videos and still nothing beats having direct feedback from someone who knows the technique. You might struggle days by yourself for days to play some passage, then your teacher comes along and tells you how to do it in five minutes. And yeah, that teacher will probably make you do boring exercises, but let me tell you something: those exercises are necessary. I didn't do enough exercises when I learned piano, and I feel that lack of technique and agility now. On the other hand, now my clarinet teacher insists on technical exercise along with practicing pieces and those exercises are already paying off, in the sense that I can pick up pieces faster. Technique is necessary, if you don't do it at the beginning you'll hit a wall later on, you'll need to practice technique anyways and it'll be worse because you will have picked up bad habits.

- Repertoire. As a beginner in an instrument, knowing which pieces you can play is really hard. A good teacher will know pieces and will give you pieces that you like, that are up to your level and it a lot of cases they will actually help you improve with certain aspects.

If you are serious about wanting to learn an instrument (as in 'I want to dedicate time and effort to this', not necessarily being professional or anything), the best option is to get a teacher. It's more expensive, of course, but tends to be more rewarding and efficient. Even if you only take a few months of classes when you're starting, it will give you a lot more tools to continue improving than if you were doing it by yourself.

Also, there are no shortcuts. I've seen a lot of people who wanted to learn piano, and instead of starting with the basics they just took a song way above their level and tried to play it. After a year, the song still sounds bad, and they haven't actually learned anything that helps them playing another piece. Playing music is amazing, but be patient and don't be discouraged when it takes time.
This might be how law enforcement agencies break into the iPhone
Phoenix LiveView
> The attraction "has been plagued by downtime problems from day one" and has been cited as "one of the most unreliable in the entire theme park industry" due to its frequent downtime.
I suspect far more than a few hundred people are aiming to become Pope let alone immigrate to Vatican City. Only a few can make it.
The situation you’re describing is one where trained professionals use one and only one UI.

Web sites aren’t like that. They’re used by a vast number of people of differing technical ability, and different sites do incredibly different things.

I’m not saying a keyboard UI is never right. I’m saying that it isn’t universally right.
Yes, we’re in the midst of some ghastly thrashing that seems unrecoverable. A paranoid person might think that what we are doing to ourselves is being encouraged by some sort of outside force that has a lot to gain if the US implodes. But that can’t be, can it? No, no. Not possible.
Can anyone provide some context here? What distinguishes this from any other courses? Is this a well-known course?
> "a smart bill board showing your debt and dues pending to the entire fckng world"

The "showing debt" thing I think already happens in China, too lazy to search for the exact reference right now but I remember reading something of the sorts not too long ago. Creepy as hell.

Later edit: Found a quick reference (among many others, I guess): "Chinese debtors shamed with broadcast of names and faces on giant screens on May 1 holiday" [1]

[1] https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2144690/chin...
It's about time for their next album. Got any recommendation? So far, I've found Ratatat are in their own league, nobody comes close to that very specific feeling and genre.
There's one more category: wise people that know there's big chance bad people will go to power.
The headline is a bit of clickbait. I read the whole rant on Twitter, and the story with the Baltimore accent was a comment told to her by a colleague, used as an example of the discriminatory behaviour she faced, but it was NOT a reason for her firing.
This, times 100. Other commenters in this thread recommend apps like simply piano. That is bad advice. I have a tutor 30 mins per week and made my progress exponential. All the popular apps are just video games with high scores etc. No feedback on posture, fingering, tempo and lots of other stuff.

Please, please, find a tutor and be amazed about what he or she can make you accomplish.
If there were corroboration of her story in the article and not just hearsay from Twitter I would feel more sympathetic. This is the same company that also allegedly squashes conservative voices internally. I guess it seems like google is trying hard to be woke and this allegation is definitely not woke so my initial reaction is skepticism.

Edit: after re-reading the story I think the thing that bothers me the most, not just about this but about employment in general, is employers encouraging self—identification of disabilities so they can meet their 7% quota. I think that’s a regulation that just wasn’t well thought out.
This had to cross a line because it was British, but then it couldn't be funny because it was German.
This is great. Thank you for sharing this. I just did a comparison test on the same network with AirDrop! And SnapDrop is a lot faster. Kudos.
I also like visidata (https://www.visidata.org/) for viewing structured files. Doesn't produce a webpage however.
US ranks 43rd in world sequencing to check for virus variants like 1 found in UK
For those interested in the Munsell system:

Landa & Fairchild 2005, "Charting Color from the Eye of the Beholder", http://markfairchild.org/PDFs/PAP21.pdf

* * *

Nickerson 1940 "History of the Munsell Color System and Its Scientific Application" https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSA.30.000575

1943 OSA Munsell renotations report: https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSA.33.000385

Nickerson 1976 "History of the Munsell Color System, Company, and Foundation" (3 parts) https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1520-6378.1976.tb00003.x https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1520-6378.1976.tb00017.x ahttps://doi.org/10.1111/j.1520-6378.1976.tb00028.x

Nickerson 1983 obituary for Alex Munsell, https://munsell.com/color-blog/alexander-ector-orr-munsell/

Kuehni, "The early development of the Munsell system" https://doi.org/10.1002/col.10002
https://archive.vn/78pGv
I might be a bit biased because my first car was a used M3 e36 back in the 90s. My wife just bought the M5 last year, admittedly one of the best driving experiences in recent years.
Lol at trying to shame BMW drivers.

Do they do any market research on how their products are used?
Imposing variety on the student can also contribute to making them a better musician.

I found it fascinating and refreshing to see Brad Paisley (country star) playing Hot for Teacher by Van Halen.
And I thought EA was bad...
Have you tried Syncthing?
The moon might be a better bet. It's a lot closer with plenty of rocks and very little top soil.
You do not get to decide what HN is for. Glad to see your comment downvoted and flagged.
I just got Disney+ to enjoy while I’m off and as someone who had to try 3 times to get through the latest Star Wars movie: the mandalorian is good.
If you want to further the point provide a counterexample, otherwise it will just sound condescending

But I'm all ears on how alien civilizations will engage in costly missions to completely wipe civilizations out of their reach
Every so often my mouse or track pad bonks out. Less and less as time goes on, but happens.

In those cases, I might want or need to use the web for some reason before I get a new one (to locate or purchase a new one if nothing else). I definitely have appreciated sites that take keyboard navigation into consideration at those times.

The keyboard is a common UI mechanism. Why not try to design the site to increase access via diversity of mechanisms instead of dismissing them due to low use rates?

I agree with some of the other posters that something has gone awry with UI testing and design. A lot of it is good, but there's these huge holes that pop up all the time. Usually it feels like something that's a trend that's being applied inappropriately... Other times obvious considerations seem completely ignored.

In general I think there's problems with UI trying to be too clever and novel, or too "fresh" without focusing critically on functionally. I'm all for clever, novel, and fresh, as long as it's actually driven by function and not using the UI to implicitly assert some kind of status of taste or ability.
Yeah, that’s pretty much why I didn’t include it.

I haven’t really seen YCrCb used except anywhere for in compression, so didn’t think of including it (an neither do most papers related to perceptual color spaces).
I think they're objecting to the increasing size, not the design element entirely.
Google employs 100k people. It's entirely possible some of them are assholes on completely different parts of the political spectrum.

(But yeah, it's clickbait.)
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That's something a Tory government will fight to prevent from happening.
It wouldn’t be very strong but you could use the evaluation rules that are used for move ordering (the ones that don’t require prior searching) https://www.chessprogramming.org/Move_Ordering
One more interesting and substantial difference between Oklab and XYB is that XYB includes biases before the nonlinearity, i.e., one can consider the M1 matrix as a homogeneous matrix. These biases make the receptive model (more) linear close to zero, and the non-linearity ramps up when one goes further into high intensity. The idea there is to model the spontaneous opsin isomerization in the receptors. I believe sRGB approximated this by gluing a small linear ramp into the nonlinearity with if-then-logic.
This is from last year, and is largely anecdotal, but it seems to reflect popular beliefs in the UK:

https://www.petrolprices.com/news/bmw-drivers-the-most-disli...
For me it was the opposite, but I guess it really depends on your use case. I was heavily into a typescript based custom server side rendered setup and I would need massive refactoring to be able to use vue 3 (vue class based components). The SSR story in Vue 3 is still very much up in the air. I switched to next.js with mobx and for me React seems to live up to it's hype more than I expected.
the irony being that if it were a disability they couldn't fire her for it
The Tech That Was Fixed in 2020 and the Tech That Still Needs Fixing
PHP7 (coming from earlier versions comparatively)
It includes video as well but jitsi.meet works quite well. A dedicated audio chat server like Mumble/Murmur will probably beat any such solution in performance though.
Teslas fit just fine into European cities, they are no larger than BMWs or a VW Passat, not to mention the humongous SUV "tanks" that seem to be so popular.

Tesla isn't that popular in Europe simply because most are not insane enough to spend 80kEUR for Model S - for that price one can easily have a Porsche or some other real luxury or sports car.

And Model 3 is very overpriced for what it is. 55k EUR? For a compact car with mediocre range? Seriously? You can have a Porsche Cayenne for that price. Or two compacts like Renault Clio or even VW Golf.

That is really only for die hard fans of the brand. Nobody else buys it here. Also, the network of charging stations is much less developed in Europe than in the US and most are paid (and pretty expensive at that!).

Status symbols are cool but most people don't have Silicon Valley salaries here.
google has fired a number of insufferably political people on both sides of the aisle. a left leaning one quite recently was news here in fact. but because one insufferable dude was a right leaning autist instead of a left leaning one we gotta hear about bias fooooreverrrrrr
You might look at the Suzuki method; their melodies draw from both folk and classical traditions.
Well, I spent 5 minutes laboriously building a query for the whole thing to hang on me when I reached the ORDER BY clause.

I actually don't see how this is better than a cheat sheet with SQL keywords and autocompletion of tables/fields.
>> Self-learning is, overall, a boondoggle. You want a teacher.

“I play the guitar. I taught myself how to play the guitar, which was a bad decision because I didn’t know how to play it, so I was a [bad] teacher. I would never have went to me.”
The original Chinese version is poorly written. The English translator, Ken Liu, did an excellent job polishing it up.
Where I live, Tesla has supplanted Porsche as the "compensating for something" car brand.