skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason it cannot be discussed is because the us president decided to politicize the issue front and center. That inevitably forces the heavy hand censorship

Flip that around: hundreds of thousands died because it was more important for the media to attack Trump than to report truthfully. We weren’t even supposed to discuss HCQ for example, because Trump suggested it, despite all the mountains of scientific evidence about its effectiveness.
One 3rd party recruiter told me once that this is so they get paid in case the lead bypasses them and applies directly to company. Anyone aware if this is common?
Gooey: Turn almost any Python command line program into a GUI application
Offering roles outside of my experience and current knowledge stack. Lowball salaries.
Awesome. Can you open source this?
You should be really weary of acidosis. It's dangerous.
FYI the person you're responding to hasn't made any claim whatsoever.
the nyt newswire page auto-reloads.

not my version:

https://nytnotifier.com/
Probably annoying as a hiring manager, but one of the best ways for workers wages to rise is by using competing, “leaked” offers against each other.

This is in effect how you gauge what your talents are worth in the labor market. I’m glad offers get leaked for this reason
> a system that kept a civilization together for 1000 years

The fact that most people in a given civilization were Christians does not mean that the particular religious beliefs I was talking about were the ones that kept the civilization together. In fact, as the example I gave of religious wars over "homoousios" vs. "homoiousios" illustrates, those particular beliefs often caused problems that created huge rifts in the civilization.

> someone who has no idea how to keep any society together

If you are referring to me, I have no idea what you are talking about.

> Not only does the work of Aquinas have value

I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree about that, at least as far as the particular beliefs I was referring to are concerned, since that's the particular work of Aquinas that I was discussing.

> no ethical system that we hold dear has a chance of keeping anything going for even three generations, let alone 100

Ethical systems are not the same as the kinds of religious beliefs I was talking about. Ethical systems have practical consequences that can be tested. I agree with you that many people today appear to have ethical systems that don't work well; we know that because they have bad practical consequences.

However, when you talk about keeping things going for 100 generations, we don't have any single ethical system that has done that. Ethical systems have changed many times over the course of human history.
After reading The Age of Surveillance Capitalism and its many examples of how optimistic psychological studies have been misused by the ad industry to make better ads, I can’t help but think about how this may fall into the same category.

The models used in this study probably measure your mental health along one or more axes that start on “perfectly fine” and ends up at “problematic”. Knowing where someone falls (within the range of what’s ethically acceptable to push ads to) could be very profitable to Facebook and Google. Scanning for mental health problems could also provide them with an excuse to get users to hand over their data.
I see this as a propaganda piece.

The unique problem with India is that, a decade ago, it had a small but highly educated, privileged urban population, spread across a handful of cities, who are the most vocal in national media and social media. This was the situation when SV companies made inroads to India.

Then came the mobile revolution and the availability of smartphones coupled with dead cheap internet. The rural population jumped on the bandwagon. Then social media saw a lot of voices being raised against perceived in-sensitivity of liberals (I too agree that there is a disproportionate bias in news, towards one political leaning) or portrayal of India in international arena.

This is when SV started complaining.

And when the population speaks against SM, the elected representatives will act.

Take the most recent case of raids against Twitter. Twitter did a major mistake by labeling a piece of content "mis-information", while there was an active investigation was underway by the highest investigative authority in India on the same content. That is blatantly illegal. It should have said something like "these facts are being investigated" or something like that.

When an investigation is going on, media is not supposed to pass judgements. Twitter fumbled and India govt. took the opportunity.

Now you have Twitter agreeing, in writing, that it will follow the law of the land.

Silicon Valley is pushing limits. India, as a developing country with a mass of gullible rural population and culturally sensitive to perceived dominance of foreign culture, has ample number of politicians who will make use of every opportunity to gather followers.
> What does a police officer being more afraid during a traffic stop of black people have to do with institutional power?

The police officer is institutional power. The organization which issues him a gun is institutional power. The prosecutor who will decline to prosecute him when he murders a black man is institutional power.
The issue isn’t so much that Americans have become less religious, it is that many fewer of them were raised in homes that had at least one religious parent. the experience of practicing a religion, even if you don’t believe it, tends to protect you from the single minded politics as religion thought process
The craziest part is that these internet companies are using that stronghold to optimize for "engagement" (i.e. flamebait) that looks outwardly bland enough so as not to disrupt the "advertising friendliness" that they seek to push. "Wuhan flu" is bad because some people in Wuhan might get angry and boycott your advertisers' products. "White male cis people are all racist Trump supporters!" (which weirdly enough seems to be most often posted by a white male cis person!) is not going to cause that kind of unwanted reaction so they push it. It's pretty much institutionalized trolling, it just doesn't get acknowledged as such.
"mathematics" may end in "s", but that doesn't make it plural. We say "Mathematics is a science" not "Mathematics are sciences" (replace with "art/arts" if you don't belive it's a science). We also say "mathematics is a growing field", not "mathematics are growing fields". Because it's singular, the fact that it ends in "s" doesn't naturally require shortened forms of it to carry the last letter at the end. I get that in the UK people say "maths", but let's not make this out to be like one side is correct and the other is not because mathematics ends in "s". Particularly as "math" was first coined in the U.K. (much of contemporary U.S. English is an older form of contemporary British English).
This is the conclusion i came to as well, but you said it better.
Do you have any tips to share about finding places run by technical minded leadership, before actually getting yourself hired?

I feel my bullshit-job detector when interviewing at potential workplaces isn't as good as it could be...
It's been investigated repeatedly and not found effective. Now he's gone, nobody is still pushing it.
AFAIK, the "defund the police" chant was supposed to be in response to American police forces buying army vehicles and gear. That is not a thing in Canada

In the UK they scream “don’t shoot” at unarmed police, whom they call “Feds”. It’s surreal, like they don’t even know what country they’re in.
Yes, I know it is worse there than here.

Reading up on the US history, it seems like 'being' gay was only legalized/protected by the supreme court in the early 2000s. And even, "Fourteen states either have not yet formally repealed their laws against sexual activity among consenting adults or have not revised them to accurately reflect their true scope in the aftermath of Lawrence v. Texas" [1]

> religious minorities are often persecuted.

That sounds just like America to be totally honest.

> Apostasy

In the late 80's the president couldn't answer a reporter if atheists are considered citizens or not. Yes the law is different here, I know that.

But the US has a recent history (last 20 years) of banning gay activities and oppressing minorities through the use of the law.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_the_United_Stat...

Edit: The report you linked shows the US gender gap as quite large, FWIW. The US is not near the top of the list - wayyy above second-to-last, yes, but again, not exactly the top. Below Colombia, Moldova, Bulgaria, etc- a host of countries that I think most Americans would assume are not as good as the US at gender gap - but in fact we are worse according to the report you linked.
I'm not saying it's easy, I'm saying it's an available option in a very limited set of circumstances.
I agree. Fascinating to watch whats happening in Israeli politics too with all kind strange coalitions and so many parties.
If you want to learn some new tech.you could have a look at reasonML and the revery framework for your UI https://github.com/revery-ui/revery
How do you use iCloud Drive to sync arbitrary files between iOS and macOS? Is there a dedicated iCloud Drive app that competes with the Dropbox app?

I don’t think there is. I think the only first party interface for syncing arbitrary files in iCloud Drive is the Files app.
Yeah, its a joke:

"… What about Twitter? I have no idea what Twitter is good for. But if it flips out every tyrant in the Middle East, I'm interested." - Michael Rogers, Founder, Practical Futurist; Futurist-in-Residence, New York Times Company[0]

Best thing that could happen is that these centralized social media platforms keep kicking people off, for them to pursue other tools to use that fit their needs better.

[0] http://web.archive.org/web/20140531073143/http://www.cfr.org...
Did Tailscale introduce any security measures to their Coordination Server? Last I checked the coordination server is basically controlled by them and they could easily just insert any of their own pubkeys and infiltrate your network.

Even supporting WireGuard's Share Secret feature would be a start.

As long as that's not addressed, not a chance in hell I'm going to deploy this.
This is an underrated response. Yes, deciphering signs was an edge, as long as the means to acquire that edge was honest. It was never considered cheating and I think people are conflating the real issue as simply stealing signs when in reality it’s the combination of stealing signs USING CAMERAS

I played HS baseball and we were taught to pay attention to other teams signs and try to decipher the opposing teams tip off signal was. (The sign immediately before the intended sign)
This is because in most cases recruiters chase buzzwords and are not technical in nature at all.

I've had a handful of good experiences with recruiters, this seems to mostly be with recruiters who at one point were engineers or have been hired by FAANG. However, my best experience with a recruiter lead to a job that after about two weeks didn't fit the description of the job at hand. In short, I was under the impression I'd be writing Go and Elixir and within two weeks was writing glue code to hold together a shit-tier ruby app expected to "scale to 9-9's reliability". Other times, I've ascertained I haven't gotten a job after a botched interview and heard "officially" from the recruiter weeks later. Sometimes they're genuinely just idiots or incompetent (which is mostly annoying because it sucks when your time is wasted by someone incompetent). In short, I no longer trust recruiters.
thank you for sharing this, I had the same experience with SteerMouse and hadn't found ExactMouse.
But being a parent doesn’t end when the kid turns 18.
I'm still miffed that private fields are not marked with `private`. Can't remember the reasons though.
For me it's what company does - does it do something useful enough, meaningful for people - and how the team in the company approaches reaching goals - do people in the company have a good, healthy, positive dynamic and attitude.

Salary range is more a function of the market (yes, there are companies which seem to under- or even overpay), tech stack is changeable if needed, team size's flexible - if it's too big, it splits into parts.

The most annoying thing... is that you often don't know what was not good from the company standpoint.
FWIW, OBD Bluetooth dongles cost around 10-20 bucks on ebay. Really useful to read out error codes.
> Unsubstantiated claim

YouTube among others censored so much content surrounding SARS-CoV-2 (rightly or wrongly, I’ll remain neutral here), Apple and Google’s app stores straight up rejected apps for unofficial COVID info, including quite absurd cases like xscreensaver being rejected for including 3D renderings of the virus, or maybe just the word covid.[1] You really didn’t pay much attention if you’re unaware of these pretty extreme editorial decisions hotly debated last year.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25384689

Edit:

> seemingly unrelated segue

The censored worldwide part is related.

(Also removed a swipe in my edit, it didn’t add anything.)
What is ZIO and should you learn it?
If you don't pay the rent-seeking Apple tax, there are severe restrictions for iOS:

• You can only install on a very limited number of devices, and the HW IDs are kept by Apple, so installing from a different Mac won't help. It's tied to your developer ID, indefinitely. They don't mention that in the “On-device testing” bullet point.

• Your app install will only work for a week. After that, you have to reinstall because some certificate timed out.

Nota bene, this is for local installs, no AppStore involved. Yet they bully you into paying rent just so you can run your own app on your own devices.
> - “confidentially” telling me what other offers a candidate has because then I know they are also leaking my offers to my competitors

The only problem here is that they're claiming confidentiality which is obviously not true. Workers and their agents should be playing offers off each other.
Text Scanner – Image to Text Converter
Convert an image into editable text in just one tap!
Text Scanner by Dinno brings you the following exciting features,

* Scan images in gallery and extract text.
* Take images from camera instantly and convert to text.
* Save as PDF.
* Edit text.
* Access scan history.
I am not, but I went to a public high school with a similar atmosphere as what I hear TJ is like. At least at my school, if you decided to do a lottery for students from across the city and set 3.5 as a threshold for lottery entrance, the competitiveness of my school in national competitions would have suffered severely. Anecdotally, the people I knew with 3.5-3.6 middle school GPAs were just uncompetitive when doing team tryouts and olympiads and also got lower grades in AP courses compared to straight A students. When college admissions came around they made it into much less prestigious and less competitive schools compared to the straight A students.

Anyone can play bridge or watch a rock concert. Not everyone can make the AIME and do math at a college sophomore level when they're a HS freshman. Schools like TJ and my high school should cater to the latter, not the former. The entire point of these schools is to _reward achivement above and beyond the norm_. Yeah, a student with a 3.5 can probably make it through TJ or any other competitive high school's courseload, but the point of these schools is that you put all the best of the best in the same place and network effects happen and push them to even higher levels of achievement _outside the classroom_. By admitting less competitive students (even if the application process isn't perfect) you prevent those levels of achievement from even happening at all.
226.2Hz flicker. that’s pretty low frequency… surprising it’s not in the KHz.
Science favours nothing. Positivism has failed as a philosophy, and the only thing we can decide from logic is that it cannot comprehensively describe the origins of existence.

I'm sorry, but past disproving myths which most people always understood were figurative (Genesis et al), science is not in a place to comment on the fundamentals of religion.
Google Workspace is still around $10/month for unlimited. 50TB here and counting, uploaded a few more TBs just this week. Incredible value proposition! Only some limits on traffic, 750GB/day ingress. Works very well with rclone.

Legally that price is supposed to be for 1TB storage but the quota is still not being technically enforced, at least for me with a grandfathered gsuite account. Not sure about new accounts, it seems something may have changed couple of weeks ago with new ToS.
Measured in grams like the 10^-38, there would still be lots of zeros first, so not 38 significant figures.

Besides, relative measurements are often easier than absolute ones, so even if you could determine that the masses of two objects of ~1g differed by 10^-38g, that wouldn't necessarily tell you the absolute masses to anywhere near that accuracy.
I got tired of the terrible split screen markdown note taking apps. So built myself bangle.io [1] , a WYSIWYG note taking web app that is completely local and saves notes directly in markdown format in your hard drive.

[1]: https://bangle.io
It has to be "bizarre" or I won't click on it, is that the deal?
That's actually hilarious. Do you have a youtube or other video link?
Though Ive seen many people do this, and for the ones I kept in touch with, there were no repercussions. Caveat that this is in a dense area of high tech jobs so it would be difficult for a manager to have enough contacts to effect damage. Plus, those managers were pretty busy.
A simple solution to the problem of recruiters always wanting to speak over the telephone is to set up a premium rate phone number and have them call you through that. You can sit at home on the sofa and chat with people about their hot new gig while the dollars roll in.
I agree but this proves difficult to pull off practically, at least in the US, because you need to find a provider that will support your choice. Without that you lose access to essentially all standard medicine.
Hah I came here to say the exact same thing. I've found that if you just save their number and ignore all their calls, they'll follow up each call with an email :P
I'm worried the Floc fingerprint will be used to censure content from certain parts of the public. Will sites define lists of undesirables? Floc discrimination made easy? It can be used like the yellow badges.
She did disappear, but if her kids were all doing fine, and the kids each had 9 siblings to turn of in case of trouble, I think she did her parental duty, and so why should she not follow her calling?

It sounds like she considered it for five years, most likely in communication with her children, and then decided to go ahead with the plan. Of the many things one could decide to do at age 60, this one doesn't sound too bad.
> Why would it be? It's a commercial service.

Open source is a good way to get community buy in, because it improves transparency and reduces lock-in. There are lots of open source commercial services, including the Tailscale client service.
Yep. My office one does that. I first it was a joke, but it actually is indeed a brilliant scheme to avoid misclicks.

And as you seldom unselect, it's Huffman coding for the win ;-)
Yes, function composition is one kind of glue, and it's good that we have it. But it's only one kind of glue, and often not particularly useful (see the part of the post about algorithm DSLs).

As John Hughes put it in Why Functional Programming Matters, we need more kinds of glue.

See https://blog.metaobject.com/2019/02/why-architecture-oriente...

As to Design Patterns: the Smalltalk version of the Design Patterns book is a small booklet, most of the patterns just go away. As to the video: tried to watch, got to the "it's functions, functions functions and again functions" slide. For OO, it would be "it's objects, objects, objects and again, objects". Sadly, most FP-centered critiques of OO are at this level, or even worse. :-/

Overall, you're going to have more patterns in FP because its model of computation is less powerful. (See Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming https://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/book.html for a definition of relative power ).
I didn't say it's plural, I said it's the abbreviated form. Math and maths are both abbreviations of mathematics.
On iOS too.
This is gonna sound strange.

High self-criticism is what I admire about US.

In my country, the check and balances and freedom of speech are not strong enough. People are somewhat reserve about criticizing their own countries. And you can pretty much guess what is happening...
Another one: 136 billion kg is the mass of a block of water with a footprint of a square kilometer and a height of 136 meters. Put this way, it does not sound that much anymore, in my opinion.
It sounds like you'd want it if you have machines on your local network that you want to use when you're not at home. (Or you have some other machines somewhere else.)

If you just have mobile devices and always take them with you, or don't care about accessing a desktop computer when you're away, it's maybe not that interesting?
Cute, but somewhat ignores picking lisp; which just puts everything in parenthetical lists. :D
Social Media signaling and amplification might produce some momentary storm area 51 or storm the capital madness but it hasnt produced any Mandela or Gandhi or Lenin type pressure on govts that is going to cause collapse. Lots of fools will get thrown in jail or thrown of the networks.

Its more of a nuissance than a danger imho. The herd has the attention span and power of fruit flies and the powers that be on all sides know it.
> and various other surprising things.

This makes me curious. What other things?
Belief that your mind can be moved is a dogmatic belief, if you hold it, seeing as our current scientific understanding of the brain precludes it. That isn't to say a machine cannot be conscious, or that a different type of consciousness cannot exist.
You can host your own coordination server, right?
Ask HN: What is the SQLite of nosql databases?
I am looking for a simple, file-based nosql database. So basically the sqlite of nosql databases.
Re parsing: there's work being done on Wuffs which is meant for decoding data formats safely and efficiently. It's a new language, but it's one that compiles into C code.

It's a Google project, and I wouldn't be surprised if it eventually makes its way into Chrome.

https://github.com/google/wuffs
Relatedly, perhaps the most impactful performance optimization I let some of the science side know about on my team is to declare columns as categorical in this same basic instance. The memory and speed gain is impressive.
Oh god, this sounds so much like an IT Crowd episode.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRMBWxfA2OM

Anyway, the Taboo aspect is interesting. It's funny to see that in Pakistan they have troubles with shopping underwear, if I recall correctly the guy who created Victoria's Secret had similar issues(which made him create the company in first lace).

Take a ticket to Istanbul, an ancients city in a muslim-majority country and you would be surprised to see that underwear is not a taboo there. Yes, the current islamist government banned women in bikini to be on billboards but even in conservative neighbourhoods things like bra are traditionally sold using the words like "hats for twins", waving the bra and announcing their amazing price.

It's even a theme in local sitcoms, for example? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUh1eJtzIeQ

You can even find sexy underwear in the catalogues of discount supermarket chains with islamic affiliations.