skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If advertising can change ads based on FLOC id, then what would prevent content publishers from displaying different versions to different FLOC ids? It could empower deception, outright discrimination, group cancellations and censure. Will the truth be dependent on your FLOC id?
You aren't getting what you want if nobody in those demographics is choosing to get a degree in CS in college. I choose to believe this is a cultural problem (which is why Nigerians are even more overrepresented relative to U.S. population in higher education than Asians, despite being black [1]), but certainly there are many factors that play into it.

[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2015-10-13/it-isn...
> I see this as a propaganda piece.

I tend to agree. I've worked in SV a long time, and a majority of non-US-born coworkers remain Indian. I see no evidence of this changing, so I find it implausible that slate has it's finger on the pulse of tech and is detecting a weakening of the role of Indian programmers, nor have I observed any decline in the quality or usefulness of Indian programmers, which is ultimately what matters.
Some animal rights activists (and philosophers), say the darndest things
... and prudery. Really, you cannot imagine how prudish Facebook's "community standards" are looking from a European point of view.
>However, dismantling the police probably isn't going to undo things that happened several centuries ago.

The First Nations have more recent and direct issues with the police than the founding of Canada: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskatoon_freezing_deaths
You are mistaken.

Connecting them is gluing them.

What you are describing is massaging the data so that the computation yields the result that you want.

I am not saying that Unix pipe got everything right, it did not. And the "everything is text" idea is a compromise that is both brilliant and awkward. It is brilliant because it means that the end-user packaging and compositional packaging of functionality is actually the same, which is generally hard to impossible to achieve, and something people generally get wrong. That is, they create end-user packaging for their components and then wonder why it doesn't compose. Or create compositional packaging and wonder why it's unusable.

But of course you are stuck with the awkwardness that often things don't express so well as text.

Another thing is that filter composition is only applicable to small subset of problems (though a larger one than is often thought), going outside that range quickly leads to "unnatural programs" (see Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming, https://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/book.html).
They're not saying the company name because they don't want you going there directly and applying without them getting their hefty bonus
If you like these programming games, localmotion has one where you schedule taxis to pick up passengers between buildings.

https://www.getlocalmotion.com/code-challenge
Another steps towards human-machine symbiosis.

It is inevitable.
- I am not coding anymore.
- I am putting out the same fires I have been for the last 5 years.
- I no longer learn anything on company time. (New technologies does not equate with improvement)
- I have to devote my own time to growth.

My company's leadership is _entirely_ technical. In fact, engineering leads the whole organization, pretty much. We're still a feature factory.

Working for technical people is not a panacea to bad leadership. It just means they're better at bullshitting engineers to their face.
Check LiteStore as bonus you have api included

https://h3rald.com/litestore/

https://github.com/h3rald/litestore
Such people do exist, like the governor of Florida, who just passed a rule that appears to ban teaching that Florida had slavery and said it was to stop "critical race theory" and the 1619 Project.
He does. Same concerns are arising in Spain as in France. American discourses are introduced through social media and this weird feedback loop some academics have with US universities.

It's still not in mainstream but there's a growing resentment against this phenomena in some intellectual/political circles.
- having calls for the sole purpose of getting my name in their pipeline with no intention to actually help me find a job

- ghosting

- asking for my current salary

- asking for my desired salary for a job that I know very little about

- not sharing the actual salary range for the position we're discussing
Imo complaining about recruiters is really just a kind of humble-brag way to let people know how in demand you are.
Not to humblebrag, but Google recruiters like to email me about vague exciting projects that they don't describe, and of course I just don't reply to them, and this seems to make them really mad to the point they called me at work to complain about it.
> Would a manned Mars mission

I think you mean 'crewed Mars mission'.
I was frustrated with people missing emails/slack messages about GitHub pull requests.

I built a browser extension that shows a notification pop-up and updates the extension badge whenever you get a new pull request. Then I proceeded to convince my colleagues to use it.

For any Googlers out there, this is the same thing as CL Monitor, but for GitHub. I used to maintain CL Monitor back in the days (although I didn't invent it).

You can try it out at https://github.com/fwouts/prmonitor :)
Luckily, that’s not my application area if these ideas right now. :) But it might indeed fail for some of the same structural regularities!
The Soviets would have needed friends if the Allies accepted German's surrender then immediately took control of the German military to destroy the USSR, and Japan was in a natural position to be that friend.

Stalin only agreed to break the non-aggression pact once it became clear that no invasion from the west was coming, which was fairly late in the war (Yalta).
But in that model you would not see a uniform distribution of objects within your field of view. It's observably anisotropic, while we observe the universe to be isotropic.
And how intensely it celebrates violence and is a rule of 'who shouts the loudest' rather than a discourse and exchange as you would expect in European politics and media.
Right, but the point I’m making is being raised without a father is not the (to take your example) paraplegic-level setback some in the red pill camp seem to think it is.

It’s not even an outlier experience, either. Even among high achievers. Consider that ~50% of African American NBA players and ~20% of white NBA players come from a single parent household. [0]

0: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.86...
Yes they do it, but that's clearly against the rules of their religion. You can only decide that a religion is not true while not practicing that religion, because curiously they all have the same virtue-associated principle of never reaching that conclusion.
Does the rise of robotic technology make people healthier?
Ask HN: What are the risks of 2FA?
For the longest time I've had a password system that worked for me. I knew all of it's risks and how to mitigate them.

Now, apps and websites force 2FA on me in the name of better security.

But I don't 100% understand these systems, and I feel like I can't be the only one.

Mostly, I'm scared of losing access to things that are important for my business.

Some random questions:

- if I use an authenticator app, like Google Authenticator, how does that even work? What happens if Google decides to close my account? How do I backup these apps?

- if I use SMS authentication, what happens if I lose my phone number? Ie through an error of the phone company, or myself.

- in general: are there any 2FA systems that are as clear and easy to understand as my old system (keepass + backups + long, always different passwords for every service)?
The statement "we do not advantage our apps over those of any developer or competitor" is not about a policy, and is false even if you aren't only doing something "during an event"; eve more to the point: it is even still a lie if you have only done it as some kind of mistake, and even if everyone involved was fired over that mistake. It might be OK that it happened, but it did happen, and you need to explain it and justify the situation... you can't claim it simply doesn't happen and still be considered "honest".
I've often found that the thing that made me take a new job was the change that I wanted and failed to make in the old. In fact, often enough I misjudged the new org in the interview and they had the same problems but I ended up being the force for the change that I wanted to see.

For some odd reason, it always seems like getting that inertia is easier at the next job than the current one.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27490265 <-- yy054

The "gibberish" is GZIP compressed data. "yy054" is a simple filter I wrote to extract a GZIP file from stdin, i.e., discard leading and trailing garabage. As far as I can tell, the compressed file "ee.txt" is not chunked transfer encoded. If it was chunked we would first extract the GZIP, then decompress and finally process the chunks (e.g., filter out the chunk sizes with the filter submitted in the OP).

In this case all we need to do is extract the GZIP file "ee.txt" from stdin, then decompress it:

printf "GET /ee.txt\r\nHost: stuff-storage.sfo3.digitaloceanspaces.com\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n"|openssl s_client -connect 138.68.34.161:443 -quiet|yy054|gzip -dc > 1.htm
firefox ./1.htm

Hope this helps. Apologies I initially guessed wrong on here doc. I was not sure what was meant by "gibberish". Looks like the here doc is working fine.
Mixing up Java and Javascript in 2021 for one thing.

Though I leave my little Java experience (just some side tasks, no career in it) on the CV as a honey pot that allows me to identify stupid recruiters earlier. If they contact me because of it, I know they're just chasing buzzwords and don't care about actual experience.
> it hasnt produced any Mandela or Gandhi or Lenin type pressure on govts that is going to cause collapse.

Yeah, right. Except that Trump, Johnson, Modi, Bolsonaro, Duterte etc. etc. are increasingly looking like they just might be the new Mandela, Gandhi and Lenin. Isn't democracy great?
From the abstract, it appears the conclusion is yes: "...A 10% increase in robots per 1000 workers is associated with an approximately 1.5% reduction in physical tasks supplied by low-skilled workers."
I'm not, and after checking the website of multiple driving schools in my country, I guess this is a fairly deep cultural difference - they all mention that you can always let the other driver go first by courtesy, and that adaptation to the situation overrides the base ruleset.
They call to see if you have a pulse and to ask how much compensation you are looking for. To them that's all that matters.
I'm interested in "how much less sleep" and two copies of the gene as compared to one.

Wonder what you would get if you were homozygous for both short sleep genes. Both of them seem to shave off about two hours, but my guess is that they wouldn't perfectly "stack" and you'd end up needing five hours.
I'm frustrated and need encouraging advice
This downward trend has long been in the works.

The current government came into power riding on a wave of popularity, largely driven by their "IT cells". Now comfortably in power, they are probably dismantling the path, to avoid others who might try to follow.

The government is not just in a stand-off with big-tech companies. It continues to view its own citizens as adversaries with frequent internet shutdowns [1].

[1] https://internetshutdowns.in/
Pakistan is still sentencing people to death for blasphemy, with mobs murdering lawyers who dare to defend the accused.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashid_Rehman
AFAIK premium rate numbers no longer exist in the US.
Large nordic hotel booking system under ransomware attack
A quick How To guide with links to source, for those of you with baseball teams who are behind the times:

https://youtu.be/PmlRbfSavbI
An interesting improvement over naive operation I thought long ago: idle elevators should go to 1/2 maximum floor! You easily cut average wait times in 1/2!

Problem is, it's also energy inefficient. If you get a passenger at floor 1 or 0, you've wasted a lot of movement. On-demand movement wastes minimally.

So I've learned of a tradeoff between energy and waiting time -- not just elevator speed, but in algorithms.

It's fun to consider a minimal energy solution (it takes a very long time to get anywhere ;) ).
The part where you live to fulfill their needs does, though.
Oh good. Maybe they can come back to India and develop the indigenous software industry.
If your considering writing your application in something like C, C++, Rust or Go, then I would these days consider wrapping it in a Flutter / Dart CLI that consumed it via FFI. Reach out if you want to discuss.
A request for a synchronous form of communication is a request for your time. People should earn it first.
> They're not saying the company name because they don't want you going there directly and applying without them getting their hefty bonus

Of course, but I'm not sure why that is my problem. Does the company want good people, or just the best they can afford after recruiter fees? If the recruiter can talk the talk, I'll hang with them vs going direct, and they will get the commission. If not, they won't get the placement anyway. They would be better off telling me the company and making a case for themselves why I should work with them (dealing with salary negotiation etc) vs hiding details and ending up up with me bailing early on the opportunity. The typical approach is short-sighted imo.
I'd like to take your comment a step further, if you don't mind

> I stopped watching baseball when this scandal was uncovered.

Do you really think that this is the only scandal that's going on right now? Or that it started with this particular instance? There's probably so much going on behind the scenes since decades now that the sport has likely never been fair or clean. And this is not just baseball, it's with every sport up to and including the Olympics

I guess I'm just trying to understand why people watch sports in the first place. Because for the vast majority, it is almost ALWAYS because it's an exhibition game and/or entertainment and the notion of fair play is the last thing on their minds..
Or, as a counterpoint, no they don't. 18 year olds are adults.
I'm not sure how you got that from reading the article. "As an example, exercise and daily caffeine intake emerged as strong predictors of mood for one participant, but for another, it was sleep and stress that were more predictive, while in a third subject, the top predictors were brain function and cognitive responses to rewards."
Jews were so lucky that German industrialists stood behind them, otherwise "the Nazis" would almost completely eradicate them.
It's certainly not a threat to governments but it can be a threat to individuals. Some of the looting/mob attacks were coordinated on social media and the mobbing phenomenon is real and can have real world consequences. Of course governments aren't going to fall because the world isn't 1789 anymore. Just burning down a building isn't going to change the government because authority is not tied to buildings. Neither can you break into a bank, burn records of debts, and have your debts wiped clean. But that doesn't mean that you can't organize a mob to attack a courthouse in Portland or harass a judge; while this isn't going to overturn any verdicts, it will cause real damage to people and property.
There are a few SFW creators on OF, but they are a clear minority.
Hopefully they come up with something better than a # prefix for identifying private fields. It seems like a small thing, but it looks clunky and arbitrary. Even _ would be better, but best of all would be adding a keyword or something instead of using a glyph.
This.

It’s literally just a matter of reordering variables, adding or removing a pair of parentheses, and removing the “return svg.node” call.

People love to complain about free open-source documentation. Especially for d3 it seems.

Shout out to Mike Bostock for all his awesome work.
It's not just height, it's the positioning at the end of aisles too, and the large 'sales' stickers to draw attention. IIRC they would request an all-or-nothing for your product line, so if it was something like dog food or sauces where you might have multiple variations you had to pay the fee per SKU to be featured, you didn't get to pick and choose. They decided.

Similarly at least one large pharmacy chain supposedly made a significant chunk of profit from charging for catalogue placement.

I don't know about shelf height specifically though, I do know this is an important factor in sales but not sure if there is ongoing 'rent' to pay. There would be a lot of indirect negotiation around wholesale rates that would influence these decisions too.
Calls++

The initial intro and description can be handled via email or text. If not, well that is a red flag right away.
"We have got the bitcoins and are now transferring them to the bandits. We expect that the bandits soon will decrypt the files.", yet they are really struggling to decrypt the files.
In an office building near me, the security person at reception enters a destination floor and tells you which elevator to step into. There are no controls outside or in the elevator (other than emergency stuff).
Pretending to be the hiring manager / sending their reachout through the hiring manager's email.
> What's nice about rational agency is that it makes cooperation without hierarchy possible

And economic liberalism is the belief system that it works for the greater good.
Speaking as a such a boss, the idea of doing ‘bad things’ to somebody in the name of team retention seems rather counterproductive!

If somebody’s made up their mind to leave, the best you can do is ensure it’s as amicable as possible, then a thorough exit interview to understand where you went wrong and try to fix those issues to course correct & retain others.
For me, it's reducing me down to a set of "$X years experience with the $Y language/framework/tool" dot points.

Followed closely by "how much are you currently earning?"
by "the main chain had a successful hard fork" I mean a hard fork where the side that won the common usage of the unadorned name "bitcoin" was the hard side of the fork.
You sure it's a free market of ideas ? What do you make of intellectual property ? Content zoning ? Media consolidation ?

On social media : what do you make of algorithmically selected content ? Thought bubbles ?
This is a theme that will apply in a variety of different areas, well beyond Silicon Valley. There was a sense in the late couple of decades that India will become a faithful follower of US practices (if not policies) with its easily accessible population for everything from movies to ecommerce, food chains to apparel brands and more. The implied sense was that the rapidly growing middle-class would want to mimic (or at least, consume) American lifestyle and values. This did hold when the numbers were small. When this number becomes a few hundred million it is absolutely unsurprising that this mass of users will have their own views and not blindly adopt what others say.
Clearly the changing political landscape has a role to play, but then the cause and effect are usually reversed. The reasons why the political landscape changed, why the current party came to power, are the more fundamental reasons why things are changing.

As India finds its own voice, as a substantial economy, market and an independent identity lots of companies and countries will have to rebevaluate heir views. Good or bad, who knows, but the change is inevitable.
I don't know what point you are trying to make. Yes, I know that the laws are worse in Pakistan than the US.

But the US still also has the death penalty and in fact uses it to kill people who are mentally ill and unable to defend themselves. I'm not sure what this all proves.

Yes, America is ahead of Pakistan on laws. But are we really that great, so great that we wonder why other countries haven't caught up?

It looks like blasphemy was at least illegal in some states into the 2000s as well. Not the death penalty, sure, but still illegal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_law_in_the_United_St...

I'm not trying to say that America isn't more advanced with regards to its laws. We are. But we're not soooo advanced to the point where it makes sense to look down on other countries and wonder why they haven't "caught up yet" when we ourselves were and are doing horrible acts against minorities, even bound up by law.
> Twitter did a major mistake by labeling ....

They did not, Twitter has brandished its political leaning.

They pay very little to no taxes, it might be flexing or testing the waters to prevent a global tax as proposed in the G7.

Twitter in particular has double standards dealing with India vis-a-vis EU.
You can also just import it from d3-scale.
Yes, I'm also very peeved by "maths". And a million other things. Calling Universities "Uni". Horned-Rim glasses. A whole slew of grammatical oddities.

I guess that's why I ended up on this site.
The entire concept of how the files app works and integrates indirectly with everything on iOS is effectively a stand-in replacement--maybe a better one for some use cases, for sure, but that seems besides the point--to Dropbox. This is because iOS ostensibly doesn't really want to have a file system, and so the concept of storing things into the Files app--which is the interface for and is largely backed by iCloud Drive, which is 100% a competitor to Dropbox--is about as weirdly indirect as storing something into Dropbox. I would thereby think that, in fact, a number of people looking for Dropbox's functionality--to share files between apps on their phone and store them in the cloud--might get tempted to use Files instead to accomplish that exact same core use case.
> create the company in first lace

Haha, interesting typo.
Which bit is rubish? You haven't refuted my points with anything of substance. He's a public figure, if he wants privacy he shouldn't have run in national elections. He had an injunction on the McIntyre child, that sounds like disownment to me. "I love you, child, but nobody can know about you" He has no contact with any of his children apart from the new one, that's a deadbeat dad. We do not know how many children he has. Does he?
> Not that there is anything wrong with American political thought being exported.

I strongly disagree. The vitriol, demonizations, oversimplifications, "every issue has exactly two sides - ours and theirs" limitations of the space of thought, virtue signaling, bullshit / distraction issues, puritanism, etc... There is much wrong with exporting these. These things are happening especially on social media.
Weirdly, I tried ear plugs for sleeping a while back and I woke up feeling like a new person. It was amazing. Only stopped when I had kids. For anyone else reading maybe try earplugs.

Blackout blinds helped too.
“In my experience the best founders develop a fighter mentality.”
Sorting Out Utah Alcohol Laws Could Leave You Tipsy (2002)
Have you ever mentioned your first programs were written in C# then got .NET roles on your inbox forever?
I think you get to burnout pretty quivk with overwork and no worthwhile ouput, but you can also get there with overwork and good output over a long enough period, too.
India is arguably faithfully following the US here, because Modi's populism has more than a few parallels to Trump.
Totally, but that is something I'm not sure we should ever expect.

1) they got crap requirements from the company to begin with

2) even if they got great requirements, if they could talk about them all fluently, they would probably be a developer themselves and not a recruiter.
This seemed like an interesting take https://twitter.com/indiequest1/status/1402947985923846149
Post an Ask HN :P