skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Strive to be Earth’s Best Employer

Leaders work every day to create a safer, more productive, higher performing, more diverse, and more just work environment. They lead with empathy, have fun at work, and make it easy for others to have fun. Leaders ask themselves: Are my fellow employees growing? Are they empowered? Are they ready for what’s next? Leaders have a vision for and commitment to their employees’ personal success, whether that be at Amazon or elsewhere.

from: https://www.aboutamazon.com/about-us/leadership-principles
It's just the map image that does not show any of the exposed DBs west of the Mississippi for several of the DB types.
A Discussion of If Sentient AI Will Commit Suicide
Selecting you child's embryo on IQ too reductive for you? I can tell you're a discerning customer!

On top of the standard screening for genetic diseases, we also offer gender, hair and eye colour for an extra $100; for $300 we can tell you which is likely to be the tallest; for $500 which has the best chance to succeed in sports; and for $750 we offer probability of becoming an ivy league graduate.
Slavery is just one aspect. Almost no one in Slavic countries (afaik) complains about slavery affecting them to this day because - in all likelihood - probably somewhat difficult to tell who is descendant of slaves and who isn’t. Isn’t as difficult to tell in the US. And the policy that followed after the end of slavery wasn’t done to help those who had been slaves or were descendants of slaves… the policy tried to make them second or third rate citizens. So, the consequences of those things are still felt to this day and are very real. It’s why so many cities in the US are heavily segregated to this day. (Look at a racial dot map of Chicago)
Similar issue. Just chiming in to say it wasn't just you and I've since left Migadu forever as well.
Automate all the things with GitHub actions, Postman and APIs
Snap! supports user defined blocks, first class functions, lexical closures, eval/apply, and even call-with-current-continuation. See the summary and description I posted in reply to the GP.
Bonus points when they don't even get it right, as in this case. "Someone typed 'nazi', better get that Wikipedia URL on the clipboard, stat!"
> Police have no expectation of privacy when performing their official duties...

True, but that doesn't necessarily mean that we have to escalate to the point of publicly shaming officers. Or at-least maybe we don't always need to, sometimes it's definitely called for.

> At some point you can't just blame "the system" and there needs to be individual accountability.

I don't think any actions by any individual police officer is likely to scale far.
Spoken like someone who has absolutely no idea what he's talking about.
App Bundle has significant advantages:

1. Reduction in APK Size. Not just native libraries, this gives ability for Google to optimize downloads based on screen size, locale etc.

In countries where data still costs $$$, its a significant boost to both end user and developers (Reduce size = increased no of downloads).

2. The amount of developers who lose their private keys is mind boggling. This fixes the issue.

3. Enables dynamic features. End users can download parts of app only when they need it.
> Thus, women who are candidates for promotion are likely to be more motivated and more ambitious than their male counterparts - they've had to fight harder against more obstacles to get to that point.

This is very much the case if promotions are done without considering gender diversity. This can be compensated for by considering gender diversity when looking at applicants. However, that compensation can overshoot. This is especially likely if, for internal promotions, a goal of diversity is set that is too high compared to the total number of women already in the company.

That specific overshoot, caused by having diversity goals that are too ambitious given the number of women in the company, is what my comment was about. I raised the issue because women have raised it to me. Specifically when discussing blanket boardroom diversity quotas that were being considered by politicians in the Netherlands. Such quotas are more likely to cause this specific scenario, because they are made without consideration for the fraction of women working in the company, or even industry.
18:26, with multiple ad breaks, lead in ads, etc. Reminds me of that Rene Ritchie video where he spends 10 minutes telling the "truth" about 8 vs 16GB, where the "truth" (according to him) could be condensed down to "get more if you can afford it or need it".

Ain't no one got time for that.
Not really. I think I said it all already. It's just a written version of "how to be like the best version of me by jeff bezos, ceo".
USA news media has always been biased. They used to be biased toward what would sell more papers, e.g. "Remember the Maine!" They still have that bias to some degree, but the overriding bias now that ownership rules have been scrapped is to report the interests of the five or six rich assholes who own most of our media. Since allied rich assholes control the military-industrial complex, we're constantly told to fear and murder brown people on the other side of the globe. Anyone, like Assange, who offers rational alternatives to that racist fear is sure to be the continual victim of biased reporting.
Do you support 2FA on email accounts? The truth is no one does
Deductions are the real "lever" that the ultra rich use, since you can lobby the feds to implement whatever you want. This is why when tax rates post WWII were "over 90%" in top brackets nobody actually paid those taxes. Ironically, in that period most people who would be subject to that tax just took sabbaticals (of sorts) and reduced their income. Contrary to popular belief, most rich people have a far higher IQ than Hollywood actors.
> so if it's purely racial how could people self-identify as that?

Mixed race people. My kids would be Asian+ and White+ for example.
Can't wait to have it support team collaborations!!
> Because its not... an ongoing thing available to people in the future

So the debt gets cancelled then banks and institutions restart their vicious cycle of predatory education price and predatory education loans?

What exactly is the goal here?
I submit 'Drewcoo's Dictum' for use in these cases.
Well, all lives matter
Musical Chairs Playing Tetris (Malware)
Eh, I'd keep "that Y-line just didn't survive the last N0,000 years" as the default assumption.

Just out of curiosity do you know if the Neanderthal mitochondrial line survives in humans today?
They need to provide more options for slower shipping.

So many of the items I order don't need fast shipping and I would gladly take slower shipping (and I do any time the option is available to me). Yet, a lot of the time, the slowest shipping available is next day for something that could come 2 weeks from now and it wouldn't make a difference to me.

Basically, they need to expand their no-rush shipping feature. It's a good idea, just not available that often.
> Need to sign a PDF document? Right click and send to iPad where I can use my Apple Pencil.

You can save your signature in the Preview app and then it's available to paste into any PDF.

https://support.apple.com/guide/preview/fill-out-and-sign-pd...
The Untold Story of SQLite with Richard Hipp
I'm curious, if this is a matter of self-identification, why don't people "play the system" by identifying as whatever-moves-the-diversity-needle in order to get themselves ahead?

Why don't "straight white American men" tell HR they identify as "homosexual black Latina women"? Not like the HR is in a position to dispute that, right? Is there a mechanism to avoid this?
> Competing specifically for underrepresented group members with a metrics-driven goal to boost ratios at one specific company above the relevant benchmark? Not obviously good to me.

I've been trying to call this out for years, to no avail.

Trying to boost the diversity metric scores without actually working to remedy the underlying structural problems boils down to a very simple goal: "We need to poach the diverse talent from out competitors, while making sure they fail to poach ours."
They should be punished for misleading people, of course, if we can show that it was done knowingly - which I can imagine it was.
To me it feels like AI-assisted divination. It's like staring into clouds of smoke or a crystal ball until you find something that looks significant, but using a computer algorithm instead.

Divination has been around throughout human history, so it makes sense that it would emerge again through the use of machine learning algorithms.
It’s actually Firebase Auth’s Email Link (completely free compared to magic.link)
> There’s a lot of minorities that are well-, even over-represented - e.g. Asians, Russian immigrants, autists, people without formal education, … I’m guessing it’s one of the most welcoming and meritocratic industries!

How do you get to your conclusion from your statement? Simply having some minority groups overrepresented doesn't mean that the industry is welcoming. It may mean its welcoming to those groups.

And people w/o formal education isn't really a minority group. Any more than PhDs in computer science is a minority group that is overrepresented in the tech industry.

> But those aren’t the “right” minorities, and it’s not politically expedient to point them out.

This isn't about political expedience, but its about understanding the context of the discussion. Either you're new to the US or simply are ignorant to the issues of the post.
Good answer. I've only ever worked on accounting style financial apps, so I've didn't think of those types of cases.
a good example of this is the disabled. any of those same brilliant tech workers could acquire a disability at any time - they come from the same group of people, but we seem quite under-represented. and the developer tools themselves tend not to be accessible (I can find literally nothing online, or even internally, about using Visual Studio with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.)

it's curious, right?
Given you unique position at a FAANG, I am curious about your perspective on this. Do you have trouble sleeping at night knowing that you have penalized qualified non-minority applicants? Or do you not have a spine, and just care about your RSU’s vesting?
Well you would be wrong. Inflation doesn't just happen because people are buying more things. Inflation occurs when more money is brought into the system but the amount of goods remains constant.
So if we can bump up the demand for opiates that would make it ok?
Eh, Google promised to never put ads before user experience in Search. Now the first full screen on mobile is just ads disguised as search results. Do no evil or something.
Update: The FLCCC and BIRD group released an open letter regarding the issues with that trial:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t4aotN326r4mPB9LDs46HI0e4GI...
While open to interpretation I think some of the famous lines in "The Matrix" are actually about debt.

- On modern debt servitude and having debt at the start of adult life
"That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else you were born into bondage. Into a prison that you cannot taste or see or touch. A prison for your mind."

- On Usury and high interest credit.
"What is the matrix? Control... To turn the human body into this" * holds up a battery
All these big corporations use virtue signalling as an alternative to actually being virtuous. They preach equality of opportunity while engaging in the destruction of the free market system; the only system known to humanity which has ever managed to deliver equality of opportunity in the history of the world.
To pile on, here's a copy/paste from when this was asked a few days ago:

Googler, opinions are my own.
Over in payments, we use micros regularly, as documented here: https://developers.google.com/standard-payments/reference/gl...

GCP on there other hand has standardized on unit + nano. They use this for money and time. So unit would 1 second or 1 dollar, then the nano field allows more precision. You can see an example here with the unitPrice field: https://cloud.google.com/billing/v1/how-tos/catalog-api#gett...

Copy/paste the GCP doc portion that is relevant here:

> [UNITS] is the whole units of the amount. For example if currencyCode is "USD", then 1 unit is one US dollar.

> [NANOS] is the number of nano (10^-9) units of the amount. The value must be between -999,999,999 and +999,999,999 inclusive. If units is positive, nanos must be positive or zero. If units is zero, nanos can be positive, zero, or negative. If units is negative, nanos must be negative or zero. For example $-1.75 is represented as units=-1 and nanos=-750,000,000.
Portland resident here, been pissed off with half of my deliveries for a birthday party this weekend getting delayed to next week then saw this article and went OH that's why. Definitely not ground to a halt, but the effects are felt and if it keeps up I'd definitely take my business elsewehre.
There's no difference between this and synthesizer music which sounded shockingly alien when it first came out. My uncle tells me about people going to Pink Floyd or Tangerine Dream concerts and it was virtually a religious experience to hear music so utterly otherworldly. Techno music had similar effects when it first hit the scene with pioneers like Kraftwerk or the Detroit and Chicago Techno artists.

It also came with the criticism/fear that "machines are replacing people as musicians" which was bullshit. We just got a new set of musical instruments based on electronics that musicians could play and that led to an explosion of new musical genres.

Photography was initially derided as "not art" or "machines replacing human artists" too. It was neither. It was just a new way to make pictures that spawned new art forms.

This is just another new set of artistic tools. It will spawn new art forms with their own rules and sense of technique, aesthetics, and style.

It's art if the artist is art-ing.
Perhaps they found better jobs with more accommodating employers, maybe it's not so great working at a company like Google? Good for them!
Copilot transitions programmers from writing code to reading auto-generated code. And the feeling is that reading code is 10x harder than reading it? Seems like a rich source of problems.

(However, I'm still definitely going to try this out once I get off the waitlist.)
I agree that accidents of history led us to where we are now. The four parts of the UK are regarded as nations in a loose sense, but not as nation-states.
> people without formal education

That's an odd way to write, "modern educations for gifted people so fancy that their brand comes from their status at the world's biggest corporations instead of universities, but have nothing in common with the experiences of a typical person who did not receive a formal education.
Co-pilot fixes the wrong problem.

It should be a tool capable of one-shot learning.

I.e., I'm in the middle of a refactoring operation and have to do lots of repetitive work; the tool should help me by understanding what I'm trying to do after I give it 1 example.
Django CMS 3.9.0 has been released
Blaming another country for your own corruption is just another form of propaganda.
> No, there is actually cancelling debt. There is also forcing someone else to pay, but that’s a different thing.

How are these different things?

-Money was disbursed to the university. That money came from somewhere!

-If the loan gets canceled and the student does not pay it back, those who contributed the disbursed the money are the ones being forced to pay.
I moved my custom email domain from gmail to NameCheap’s Private Email about a year ago. I wanted to free myself from the possibility that Google might arbitrarily ban me one day, as we’ve seen happen to people for various Google products for no reason and with no appeal.

Biggest mistake of my life.

Just as you say, I have no idea if my emails get through. The number of times I’ve had people tell me they found my email in a spam folder or just not at all is unacceptable. And you’re right, this is most prominent on outlook and gmail users but not exclusive to them.

How would you like your accountant or lawyer to miss your emails? It happens to me all the time now. These are not emails with cat pics.

I’m scared to move back, fearing an IMAP migration will cause me to lose a year of emails sent and received.

I don’t know what to do.
Actual salt is rarely used on the roads in the USA anymore. Majority use magnesium chloride now. Don’t know about the rest of the world.

Lots of reasons, pros and cons. I work in automotive and hate it.
Wouldn't a follow-up to the infected people at the party be in order? Sure, the attendees were infected but how crippling was the disease?
Tech Tent: What future for humanoid robots?
Economic security?
I struggle to grasp how this kind of libertarian vision of the world can possibly be maintained by anyone who actually observes how the world works.

No, markets don't self-regulate. Companies won't stop working with Amazon across the board, and those that do will be replaced by companies willing to work for less, because they're full of people willing to work for less.

We know that's how this works. We know that people and organizations alike (since they're run by people) under this system don't have libertarian principles, let alone the will power to stand up for them.

Most people do not, in fact, feel the sense of righteous indignation needed to make such decisions, nor the ability to freely disassociate from sources of income, because they'll quite literally end up out in the street if they do, so they go along with anything, and rightly so, because survival comes first.

The only force that has the ability to stop powerful corporations from exploiting people in this way (hiring those willing to work under terrible conditions, for terrible pay, etc.) is the state, with its monopoly on violence, by quite literally threatening the executives of the corporations with death or prison time for not complying.

But the same libertarian-minded people who think the market self-regulates also stand against using state power to control the corporations by force.

So here we are. The Profit Motive destroying everything, and a fervent group of people fortunate enough to have the wealth to make independent decisions to disassociate with parties that provide their income lecturing those who don't have that luxury about how they too should make such decisions.
> Six hundred billion dollars per year, and growing in "unpaid taxes".

I foolishly tried to file my own taxes in 2018. Used the IRS's free online calculator. According to the letter I got recently, when I put $11k into some tax-advantaged retirement account, it resulted in me not counting that $11k as income, but I actually put it in the wrong account, so that $11k should have counted as income on which I owed taxes.

To put it lightly, I am _extremely unsympathetic_ to the IRS complaining about "unpaid taxes" when... i mean, literally everything about the system is broken.

There are 1000 things I'd rather spend the $80k/yr my wife and I have taken from me, under threats of violence, by the many agencies who think they have a right to our income.

I'm struggling to understand the arrogance that's just dripping through this entire piece.

People in America are struggling right now, it's been a difficult two years. The heads of the "revenue collection agencies", complaining about how their job is difficult?

Cry me a river.
If you're going to throw around rhetoric like that you better have a negative carbon footprint.
I always personally thought descriptions of Grendel were very much that of a silverback gorilla. Fangs, Fur, Loping gait, strength. Its a pretty good image.
>This same construct should apply at scale.

Why? Is this just an assertion that there is no difference between big and small things, and that a single mistake is the same as building your business model on mistakes?
Presumably for the same reasons that collective bargaining is broken in most US industries; lack of trust between employees, unions, companies, government together with the pervasive belief that only individual success matters.

Briefly: lack of solidarity.
Plan9/9front has a "desktop" too. And it's regarded as Unix 2.0.

Acme is an editor/terminal on steroids.
I would put dimensionality more in the purview of physics than pure math, and at that point it might be more reverse engineering than poetry. Fine structure constant, quantum phase, angles, e, pi are all dimensionless.
Saying "We do have plenty of representation of some minorities" is not a refutation of "we have a diversity problem in tech".

In fact, it is exactly these kinds of attitudes that directly contribute to perpetuating the diversity problem in tech.

And if you think you "have to dance around [a] topic to be PC", then chances are, what you're struggling with is either internalized bias (racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, etc)—or the fact that you're just a bigot yourself who's upset that their bigotry is no longer socially acceptable.
Cartels are illegal, but industry associations are not. It's a fine line, but it can certainly be walked.
Now you’re paying for salt transportation again.
The problem with using neural networks in market microstructure is the latency at inference time. Market makers and HFTs need to compute decisions on the order of microseconds. That’s not feasible with large, deep networks.

With specialized hardware you can get close. But you’re still talking about a mid-single digit number of microseconds on inference alone. The competitor using linear models can get down to hundreds of nanoseconds. If you’re in FPGA world, that kind of latency advantage is worth way more than a 30% accuracy improvement from using a complex ML model.
The Fair Tax? Is that a massive regressive tax on consumption?
https://gizmodo.com/an-occult-history-of-the-television-set-...

The spiritualist movement and similar late 19th / early 20th century occultism can easily be re-interpreted as oblique science fiction... or vice versa.

The whole industrial revolution is at least culturally and historically inseparable from the occult revival in the sense that all that "natural philosophy" stuff was the primordial soup of ideas from which modern science emerged. Methodological scientific empiricism is the gold that was left in the crucible, and it yields magic that actually works.

... now back to writing obscure runes in an alien language to instruct the daemons in the ether ...
What are the statistics of Copilot based on a validation set? How often does it get code right?

I want to see hard statistics, not 4 hand-picked examples.
I’m not on digital ocean and I don’t know anyone who is. I’m on the receiving end using office 365. Problems I see are for mail coming from shared hosts and isps.

IMHO there’s never a reason for Microsoft or Google to drop mail silently if it’s deliverable. Let me decide if I want to do that, but don’t force it on me.

Google is awful too. Accounts locked for “suspicious activity” stop accepting incoming mail. I’ve seen people lose a day of email over a weekend before noticing ta false positive account lock.

What it really comes down to for me is that I don’t think either of them could act that negligently in a fairer market with better competition.
Great book. One of the chapters is named "The US government almost never lost nuclear weapons" if I remember correctly. A glimpse into the author's sense of humor.
I analyzed 50 startups and wrote case studies explaining how I'd grow them
> Competing specifically for underrepresented group members with a metrics-driven goal to boost ratios at one specific company above the relevant benchmark? Not obviously good to me.

This depends on other factors. For example, are there high numbers of qualified underrepresented candidates that often get no job offers and are left to leave the industry? If so, this can help absorb those qualified candidates.

But if it is just simply shuffling the deck then I agree with your take.