skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the challenge is that if the rewards were high, Twitter employees (with the advantage of inside information) might be tempted to "tip off" an outsider in exchange for a cut of the reward, rather than just reporting the issue internally.

At the same time, there isn't much of an outside market for algorithmic bias info in the same way there for security vulnerabilities. Probably the biggest effect of this reward will be to pull some grad students who were going to study algorithmic bias anyways towards studying Twitter specifically - after all, there aren't any rewards for studying the algorithmic bias of other companies!
I meant "main":

Github: "Starting next month, all new source code repositories created on GitHub will be named "main" instead of "master" as part of the company's effort to remove unnecessary references to slavery and replace them with more inclusive terms. Teams need tools to help them collaborate and stay productive while remotely working."
I Am Parting with My Crypto Library
But they also have to fix it otherwise they will risk more fines.
Ah yes, that explains why there are 7.6 billion humans now.
For sure, agree!
Yes, and gold and jewelry are worth a lot because people have bid up prices for them. That is how worth is determined on a market.
My experience is that Yarn 2 works great as long as you stick with the `node_modules` linker. It's the "Plug 'n Play" functionality that is great in theory but still rough in practice.
The vast majority of those other workers won’t be flexible enough to be able to just drop and work for Amazon.

This is a problem inherent to neoliberalism, you’re right, I’m just not sure I’d agree that it requires a nation state level shift in politics to make Amazon pay their fare share in taxes and wages.
As a leftie, how would you write without going over already-written stuff? The only way would be to write backwards, right?

I just gravitated toward fast-drying pens for the rare occasion when I do need to write by hand. Like you I have been using a computer for any serious, long writing task since I was 12 or so.
Reading is free. Sell longer tweets to those who want more attention.
> I am increasing convinced that all of the harms of social media can be traced back the ML models used to sort and filter user content.

I don't think so. I think most harms of social media can be traced to how the people who actually pay for or make money off the service perceive value.
For a week's worth of work, for someone skilled enough to be capable of winning this contest, and there is no guarantee for winning? It is nonsense.
Eh. They're allowed to do that as per a literal definition of semver, but they turned it into a completely different tool with completely different usage patterns and use cases. It's one thing to have to make some small tweaks to handle an isolated breaking change in a dependency. It's another matter entirely to have a perfectly good core part of your stack deprecated out of the blue and told that you need to rewrite every line of code that it touches.

I see this as analogous to the Angular 2 situation, except that Google actually did a good job maintaining Angular 1 (retroactively named "Angular.js") for a number of years afterwards and providing a solid migration path. Everyone who had staked their projects and businesses on the future of Angular 1 was understandably annoyed.

All that being said, while I have problems with specifics of their approach, I actually think Yarn made the right call on this. After NPM caught up with v7, it became a bit of a wasted effort to have two redundant projects that were almost drop-in replacements for one another. Yarn staking out a different path at least justifies its continued existence.

What I think could have been better is if they'd put an explicit acknowledgement in the migration docs that Yarn 2 wasn't going to be a good fit for all users of Yarn 1, and a recommendation of NPM 7 as an alternative successor to Yarn 1 for such users. An even nicer gesture would have been if they'd written an alternate migration doc for Yarn 1 -> NPM 7.
> I said, anyone who would tune out The Guardian article as noise because they disagree with the topic is not the target audience of the walkout.

No, you said "There is almost nothing which would change the minds of the people who don’t already understand these as problems." That's far more expansive than a statement about the people that read the Guardian that don't agree ignoring it. It's one thing to say people may not trust one source or how it's presented, it's an entirely different thing to say they are unwilling to consider any source or argument. One is stating the people have a bias around a source and/or topic, the other is painting a large group of people themselves as entirely unreasonable, and to me it seemed your statement was conveying the latter.

If that's not your intent, then we can just chalk this up to some combination of poor expression and poor interpretation and call it a day.
My words were brief but what they imply covers 10 good clear paragraphs. The meaning of which you sidestepped like a greased wad of jello.
Are you doing okay? Seems like an unnecessarily acidic response to this post, which definitely seems like it's intended for C beginners.
I’m not sure why that invalidates the point.
I’m really glad this is going to be a big success. It’s a group of people with skills doing it for the love of the game(s)
The article links to the paper, which answers your question in appendix B (at least for the purposes of this study).

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w29053/w290...

First names: "We draw racially distinctive first names from two sources. First, we use the
same set of names in Bertrand and Mullainathan (2004), which are in turn drawn from
Massachusetts birth records covering 1974 to 1979. Second, we supplement with names
drawn from administrative records on speeding infractions and arrests provided by the
North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts and covering 2006 to 2018. We pick
the most common names among drivers born between 1974 and 1979 with race- and
gender-specific shares of at least 90%"

Last names: "Last names are drawn from 2010 Decennial Census data. We use the names with
highest race-specific shares that occur at least 10,000 times, picking 26 total for each
race group"
What about the state department?
Glad that open-sourcing .NET Core has worked out for Microsoft and contributors. It's a good example of open sourcing a previously closed-source platform, and I hope that it can serve as a good example for other companies looking to do the same. Though, notably, .NET is not really a product itself, it's more complimentary to Microsoft's other products, Azure, Office, Windows, etc (and products from other companies to be fair).

The conversation style post is interesting. On one hand it seems appropriate to ask the publicly visible maintainers about their experience developing in the open. On the other hand it seems somewhat empty to ask them "Describe the commitment to open source at Microsoft." because, while they do have visibility on the inside of the company which means something, opinions of individual maintainers don't rise to the level of a public statement by the company, and that conflation appears to be intentional. I wish they asked a question like "Describe a favorite or recent community contribution you would like to highlight."
I went through his blog and read some of his posts for context. That reputation doesn't seem entirely unearned.
I agree with this view, because it is ultimately these models which are behind the hyperviral nature of posts now, where they are recommended to people that engage in it, positively or negatively. That whole idea of negative feedback loops is completely independent from explicit human design (these sites were never created to send you things you don't like), and is arguably behind most of what people are complaining about on social media. There are separate features that people debate on (post deletion policies/capabilities, etc) but it is not nearly as widespread as the damage often caused by putting engagement over everything else.
Yes, it's an ad, but not clearly marked. The byline says “Sponsored by Credible”.
Developers, just like almost everyone else, are not paid according to the value they create but according to the market. It doesn’t matter if you create $1M/month, if somebody else is willing to do it for $5000 that’s what you’re getting.
The market is efficient. Good contractors have good clients and work on good jobs. They have B2B business relationships.

It is a two sided market for lemons. The contractors are mostly contacted by lemon customers. Mostly lemon contractors are likely to respond.

What makes homeowners lemon customers besides price sensitivity and non-repeating projects is inexperience.

Construction scheduling is in NP. Professionals subjectively incorporate that into their expectations with experience and the experience is often at the institutional level. Weather delays, materials shortages, slow owner decision making, things hidden behind drywall, bad soil underground, etc etc. The second ’etc’ because any of these things on someone else’s job affects your job.

Nobody who has been around the rodeo actually believes it will be done in time for Christmas. Maybe Memorial Day if you are lucky. But Labor Day just to be safer.
I can't reply to roywiggins for some reason, but it's possible that the solar systems are closer in other dimensions or something like that. Probably not though, because the higher dimensions are so small. I assume the author didn't think about it until it was too late, or they couldn't fix it.
AND it is the only one of the three with a well-thought-out approach to node_modules^1

1. https://pnpm.io/blog/2020/05/27/flat-node-modules-is-not-the...
That sounds scary - a company even more powerful and competitive that could beat Amazon. Imagine what their abuses would be!
Now apply expected value to that figure.
> China does not recognize Human Rights and so it is difficult to say they are "breaking" them.

Whether or not China recognizes human rights doesn’t have any bearing on whether or not they are breaking them.

The international community recognizes human rights at least on some level, and it’s not particularly useful to use China’s perspective as a lens here any more than it would be useful to judge other atrocities throughout history through the eyes of the perpetrators.

Edit: Adding [0] for consideration as some responses seem unaware.

- [0] https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-huma...
Government DeniesBlue Origin’s Challenge to NASA's Lunar Lander Program
For comparison, and to show how much our economy has changed:

The Biggest Employers in 1955

1. General Motors
Employees in 1955: 576,667
Employees today: 204,000 (as of 2010)

The No.1 car company in the US used to be the No.1 car company in the world. In 1955, GM had more than 50% of the American vehicle market and, between direct employees and those at suppliers, it was responsible for more than 3 million US jobs. GM has emerged from bankruptcy, but has fewer than half as many people, and its US market share is only 20%.

2. U.S. Steel
Employees in 1955: 268,142
Employees today: 43,000 (as of 2010)

US Steel was the largest company in its industry worldwide and was among the Fortune 50 in 1955. A large portion of the steel manufacturing business has moved offshore, first to Japan and then China.

3. General Electric
Employees in 1955: 210,151
Employees today: 304,000 (as of 2010)

General Electric is one of the few companies that has grown significantly over the last five decades. It was largely an industrial firm in 1955, and now makes a large amount of its revenue and profits from financial services.

4. Chrysler
Employees in 1955: 167,813
Employees today: 58,000 (as of 2010)

Another car company that benefited from a very limited number of imports. The firm nearly went out of business during the 1980s recession and was rescued by the US government. It moved into Chapter 11 nearly two years ago.

5. Standard Oil Of New Jersey
Employees in 1955: 155,000
Employees today: 102,700 (as of 2010)

Standard Oil of New Jersey was part of the original Standard Oil trust created by John Rockefeller. The company was merged into what eventually became Exxon Mobil.

Also Read: Apple’s Downfall: Android Sales

6. Amoco
Employees in 1955: 135,784
Employees today: N/A

Another piece of the Rockefeller trust, the company was merged into BP America and is now part of BP plc.

7. CBS
Employees in 1955: 117,143
Employees today: 25,580 (as of 2010)

The dominant force in both national radio and TV, the company also owned several large stations. As media has broken into more forms of delivery, including cable and Internet, CBS has grown smaller.

8. AT&T Technologies
Employees in 1955: 98,141
Employees today: N/A

This division of AT&T handled the telephone company’s R&D was was spun out of AT&T completely in 1984.

9. Goodyear Tire & Rubber
Employees in 1955: 95,727
Employees today: 69,000 (as of 2010)

The largest tire company in the world in 1955, Goodyear had large plants around the world. As competition from Japanese companies grew, the company went through several restructurings including a move into energy.

10. Firestone Tire & Rubber
Employees in 1955: 90,000
Employees today: N/A

The second largest tire company in the world in 1955, Firestone was at one point the exclusive supplier to Ford. The company was sold to Bridgestone of Japan in 1988.

* From: https://247wallst.com/investing/2010/09/21/americas-biggest-...

NOTE: The above link was produced in 2010. In 2010, Amazon wasn't even in the top 10 of employers in the United States. And since 2010, some of the employers above have shrunk in size further.
Lol ops.

If you're a beginner, tell your lead to switch to rust. Strncpy wont help you.
I have something simpler than yours, with a small Proxmox server as my NAS (no ZFS) and backups stored to a second disk. Occassionally I will backup the contents of that machine to external drives.

In the future I plan on doing something similar to what you have, with a powerful ZFS server and my current server accessing the main server using a read-only interface as a second backup. It does take work to maintain, and I don't look forward to the day when I have a full server failure and need to scramble to replace the unit, restore from backups, and all that. Ideally I would have a pair of servers to handle that eventuality... and down the rabbit hole we go.

Ultimately, I guess this all is a tradeoff - I know many engineers who swear on their cloud services, and they simply don't have the time and experience to maintain dedicated servers. While Synology devices and FreeNAS make things simpler, that's for a best-case scenario as you need the technical knowledge to deal with the issues that will eventually pop up. Honestly the cloud is what I recommend for all but the most technical folk, with the addition of external disks off-site for the most critical files.
Yeah, somehow I never get catcalled or followed around by lesbians, it's almost like being a creep and being attracted to women aren't inextricably linked?
Because programming is meta-applicable (programmers write software that writes software and this recurses indefinitely, whereas good luck building a new type of bridge that can build bridges, let alone recursively) you'd naively expect this to top out really quickly.

But instead you can get a good job doing things the machine could certainly do, and do better, but doesn't yet because nobody yet taught a machine how. It's unclear how long that will last, but it may well be enough that everybody reading HN has retired before it's over. At the beginning of my career printf("This %p is %d a %s bad %n idea\n") didn't produce a compile error. In 2020 the C++ Standard Library specification still didn't say that the equivalent mistake was a compile error (but in 2021 they retrospectively fixed the 2020 standard to say it is), and I'd say this is now the middle of my career.

Progress has been slow is what I'm suggesting.
Computers do seem to encourage constant revision of small snippets. It's the same with art. You'll see artists with their fingers on CTRL-Z and re-drawing each line a dozen times until they're happy, line by line. I'm guilty of that too. Yet, I also find that just finishing a whole piece first before revising it is more efficient, because you can put a higher focus on the bigger picture. Programming IDEs have the same problem, they keep distracting you away from the bigger picture to fix all your tiny little typos first, when you'll probably have deleted that code already by the time your code is really ready to test.
Noted. I haven't really looked into these bridges quite yet, but it is probably worth looking into sometime.

I'll have to look into how well the bridges work; I don't know if I'd be too excited if all the cross-platform messages just showed up as a bot message with the user's name prepended to the message? Plus, it seems like it would be yet another thing to pay attention to for moderation/administration purposes (make sure something doesn't break, make sure nothing nefarious isn't going on in each server, etc).

I will bring it up to the other admins/mods of the discord, though.
Not exactly personal, but sourcing good leads is very important to me, and I don't know of any good sales automation pipeline to assist with this, nor any that are actually worth the price, as they all have comically expensive rates compared to how many contacts you get access to.
I type so much faster than I write by hand, that it’s actually detrimental since my writing falls too far behind my train of thought. Also have to concentrate more on writing vs. typing , which means in a note-taking context I also start losing stuff and not paying enough attention because I’m trying to catch up.

Also the distraction to rearrange paragraphs or look at word count sounds totally artificial - have the discipline to just plow through the typing and revise later, and for gods sake learn to use your word processor and turn off the damn word count function.

Which is to say - nice, cute article but - do what you’re faster and more effective at.
I’m not sure why everyone continually romanticizes brick and mortar retail. Its terribly inefficient, and wasteful of time, energy, space etc.

Think of all the Walmart, Dicks, Big Lots parking lots and strip malls that could be converted into better space. Think of how much waste there is when you have to pack, unpack, stage and repack merchandise.

Amazon’s distribution is a superior business model which is why it is popular. I’d also reckon that the carbon footprint per package is lower if you account for the driving that is required for more traditional shopping.

I’d rather see more competition using a similar business model than a return to concrete strip malls full of big box retailers.
Have you tried Go? I do my web apps in Go and all I need in my computer is the `go` binary installed. Nothing else. I use plain JS, CSS and HTML; which seems enough if combined with the Go templating system.
>In your apparent lack of experience

You can and should avoid personal attacks and assumptions about my experience. You have failed to provide evidence to support your ancedotes.

>I know people just like that, even if you refuse to acknowledge their existence, and I don't pretend to have the answers.

I am not refusing to acknowledge the existence of that cohort. You are moving the goalposts: saying that if we can not find a solution for those people specifically, then we can not address the structural deficiencies that lead to the movement of more people into homelessness. The data shows "the streets (or prison)" is not "the endgame" for the 86% that actually benefit from supportive housing.
I'm increasingly put out by Amazon and am trying to stop the habit of shopping there. I like books, and Amazon was founded on books, but the way they ship books now (typically loose in a soft envelope or mostly empty box) means that >50% of the books I've ordered recently have arrived damaged and had to be returned. They used to shrinkwrap books to a cardboard plate inside the box.

There are other problems:
1) Search is just terrible. Often I have to search in Google to find the product I'm looking for at Amazon. The "other people bought/looked at these items" functionality which partially made up for bad search has been pushed out in favor of sponsored products (i.e. ads).

2) Shipping is only fast and cheap if you get Prime, which basically means paying for your shipping in advance and buying constantly at Amazon to amortize your initial investment.

3) Because Amazon no longer actually controls its own catalog, duplicate listings, misleading listings, merged listings that amalgamate multiple different editions of the same book, etc. abound. e.g. search for "Norton Anthology of English Literature". Instead of a neatly sorted list by volume/edition/condition, you get a whole mess of duplicate/overlapping listings, and also misleading garbage like this (shows 3 books but you only get 1 of them): https://www.amazon.com/Norton-Anthology-English-Literature-P....

I'm shifting towards just using Amazon as a 'wishlist' shopping cart and then finding the actual thing to buy elsewhere.
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So did the dawn of Yarn make package management for nodeJS better for everyone or do we now just have another packagemanger to choose from and take into account when we publish packages?
Respectfully: no, the authors did not. The method used can be found in the published paper, which is linked from the submitted article.

edit: clarify a pronoun
Nice to see your focus on women's health. The amount of women with recurrent/embedded UTIs and other issues close to the vagina is enormous.

I was quite surprised to find out there are thousands of women suffering decade long issues with no help or just enormous, health devastating doses of antibiotics (multi-year long therapies).

There's been so many approaches over the years (I watched the d-mannose just explode in sales when previously there was none available) but they do not seem to work completely.

There are also small research groups trying to figure out what's happening but there's still no widely accepted therapies. For example, doctors from most EU contries would never prescribe the amount of antibiotics required for multi-year therapies.

It was also quite surprising to me, as a male, when I got my first UTI, they gave me quite a lot of antibiotics, but then when my wife complains about it, she gets silly advice (get pregnant, drink multivitamins, it's probably not UTI [until she starts having kidney infections or urinates blood]).
Take the unverified stories from all parties with a huge grain of salt.

The incentives to misrepresent the truth and lie/exaggerate/downplay are there for every party involved.
Yea, what a mistake choosing the most popular and appropriate tool for the job
Spoilers ahead

It was such a letdown, the book starts great, and then the explanation turns out to be magical Alien proton computers? Yikes. It was so promising.

I eventually read the whole trilogy, I have very mixed feelings about it. It had some pretty cool ideas but it's hard to get past all the giant plot holes and outlandish fantasy. I guess you have to be in the mood to constantly brush off the bad parts (and boy there are many) and plunge forward.
We would see genetic evidence of that, but it's missing. So cultural diffusion is most likely.