skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://archive.is/DFwi7
or food

https://photos.app.goo.gl/nBcrVedkokBM2d1F8
While I certainly understand bad PR (a surprising number of people lack critical thinking skills), what is wrong or biased about hiring for coding positions based on merit-based performance on an objective coding test? Anybody regardless of background or group membership that passes will be hired, meaning it is fair and unbiased, by definition -- that is the diversity program, and if there is some lack of objectivity, that is what needs to be addressed. If that is not the case, then yes, I agree with you, the hiring process would be biased.
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I’m trying to imagine a scenario where he UN could be any less ineffective had a few more EU countries pulled the line but no sorry I can’t.
I find it hilarious that something aimed at writers would choose videos as a way to entice them. Wouldn’t text be more convincing? Sure is for me.
very interesting take, thanks for sharing
The interesting thing is that this situation has finally become critical enough that people are taking action.

> Nearly nine out of 10 executives surveyed for the report said they knew automated software was mistakenly filtering out viable candidates, with some saying they were exploring alternate ways to hire candidates.

This issue has been well known among technically skilled fields, with tricks like aggregating technical experience up into larger numbers by writing it like "X years programming experience including: Framework A, Framework B, Framework C" having become no longer a trick but normal practice well over a decade ago. Everyone knew it was stupid but if your online job form gets 6000 applicants what else can you do? But it's clearly reached a point where the automatic filtering has become an unsustainable mechanism and companies are reacting.

What I find wished they had asked is what alternatives are those companies exploring? Who is building alternative hiring pipelines? or are we seeing a rise in "I hired someone I knew" as an accepted practice?
I do! Let me dig up the links where I described this... Edit - here you go.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27726982 (July 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27284079 (May 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27236708 (May 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26886074 (April 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26244468 (Feb 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26158300 (Feb 2021)

Yes, I used the same tool to find these. Well, not to find them exactly (I use HN Search for that), but to quickly assemble them and follow the links from one comment to the next. One of these years this will all be made available to everyone.
This is how hard line communist (or any totalitarian) government works. There must be no criticism, no sign of weakness, no compromise. The leader is all wise, all powerful and untouchable (unless he´s about to be replaced). They are not presenting themselves as men with flaws and conscience. They are the personification of unlimited power and behave accordingly.
This is the case in Russia (you do not criticize Putin), in China with Xi, in North Korea with Kim.
I also have YT Premium. Those in video promos are so easy to skip. Most creators put them in the same spot every video, some even at the end.

These are mostly regular people trying to earn a living making high quality content. I’m not seeing how you can begrudge them the few seconds of skippable ad copy.
Note particularly:

> However, YouTube retains the top spot for overall time spent - not per user - as it has many more users overall.

The HN title directly implies this, not the real start. It's misleading and needs to be changed.
Two of the "VGA DOS games" screenshots from high resolution Mac version and HD remake, poor quality blog spam?
Daily Notes / #10
Why not? My point is that it should! What percentage of the US population is from South / East Asia? How does it compare to the representation of others? If it's similar or less, and it still somehow doesn't "count," then we have a diversity problem.
In this case the community would be a self-selecting group of people with self control and a value for more thoughtful communication. The resulting content would presumably be different from what you'd get if you just viewed mainstream social media on a restricted schedule.
> from 0.5% in 2011 to -1.0% in 2021

How does negative exposure to China work, a hedge against? Or are these numbers derivatives (growth)?
Definitely. In a _separate_ article, the scientist kills a “puppy-sized” Goliath birdeater spider. In this article, the scientist returns home with bot fly larvae in his arm.
Is note taking piracy?
The predictions of China's demise will continue until they're all written in Chinese.
This seems like she’s been conned into providing a contrarian narrative as an advertisement. I wonder how many women are going to lose their livelihoods in a bid to prove the narrative: that they can beat men in poker.
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That probably works fine until your 30s…

Plus that’s assuming your parents aren’t already old and can afford to feed and house you without seriously harming their own old age plans.
I do on some open source projects on github. Sorry what I meant is not just some open source projects but working products like this driven by volunteers / teams like theirs.
Critiquing the ideologies of the wealthy and powerful is not the same thing as rejecting the benefits of healthcare.

Bezo's achievements are not "mankind's" achievements
> not evil

Nah he's evil and needs to be stripped of any power he has.
I am not sure how to interpret this para:

> In practice, we currently see peaks of above 2000 requests every single second during prime time. That is multiple billions of requests per month, or more than 10 million unique monthly visitors. And all of this before actually serving images.

If I am reading that correctly, 2000r/s does not include images, and makes it unclear if $1500/month does.
Right. Has anyone here done a reasonable background check on the author, Desmond Shum, to verify this is not just a PR stunt? It is perfectly plausible that everything in the article is true... But if the kidnapping isn't real then I wouldn't trust the book either.

After a quick search I've only found some of the author's history in finance and which suggests he has the background to write this book. If the kidnapping is indeed real, then the book becomes an interesting read indeed.
It's not a privacy issue for me, more a labor issue. I don't want to make the effort to create an account (and verify my email address) without at least checking out the activity on the site.
A side point, but the author says “MIT’s Technology Review” as if it is somehow connected to MIT.

Actually the name of the rag is “MIT Technology Review”; it’s a private effort that licenses the name from the Alumni association. I guess they pay some cash, and also agree to send every alum a copy of the magazine with an alumni news section bound into the back. I was able to cancel the paper copy but I assume they still do this.

It’s historically been such a terrible magazine (a friend calls it “the magazine of things guaranteed never to happen”) that I’m surprised the Institute hasn’t shut it down. People do get the impression that it is somehow the opinion of MIT (whatever that would mean)
Many positions require a degree to apply for them unless if your working for yourself or a very small business.
"Dogfooding" is the tech industry variant of a much older principle. The original expression "Eating your own dogfood" goes back further having been adopted, and shortened into "dogfooding". While its easy to see it implying a second class "dogfood" that the end users have to put up with, it actually stems from the opposite, that the product is good enough they feed it to their own dogs, or in one telling, willingly eat it themselves as a human. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food
Unix generally has the correct basis for the design.

I agree that a filesystem as we know it in unix-like systems is a set of objects (directories) and files.

Would it not be preferable to retain this simple interface and instead conceive of interaction between programs and threads not as a stream of distinct objects in memory, but rather as a data tree within each program's control which can be exposed as input or output for other programs to map against and write into / consume?
Lost me at:

> For more than three decades, researchers have documented that it desensitizes consumers to violence and spreads rape myths and other lies

Meh. I grew up with internet porn, and the progression of the bad side(s) of it have only made me way less receptive to that type of crap. At this point rape/violence/dominant-sex-focused stuff is just boring, sad, and let's face it... less "engaging".

Sure, there are always gonna be dirt-bag-people behind the scenes involved in some of it, but, there are also a lot of people who are now able to do their _own_ thing on their _own_ terms because of these types of platforms. Take that away, and you've become more part of the problem than the solution. The "product" will always exist, taking away the option to do it on your own terms seems like a regression.
I am tired of "why you should be angry at some rich guy" articles. Partly because the subject is banal, partly because the excuses are so flimsy.

Rich guys want to live longer. Yawn.
Every networked game I've seen uses a reliable transmission layer built on top of UDP. Generally there are packets that work as you describe and are fired out to the server (and/or other players) with 'full' state (typically player position, orientation, speed and maybe a few state bytes... with orientation sent more regularly than position and speed). The remainder of packets are sent reliably.

Each game packet is typically packed (and compressed) with other game packets to maximize bandwidth and acknowledgment data for the reliable packets is also compressed into the data stream. Reliable packets take very little additional bandwidth (assuming your UDP connection is not going to lose many packets in normal use). Players will pull ethernet cables for a second to force packet loss if the unreliable packets give them an advantage (ie to allow them to interpolate through a wall or to not register shot hits).
China has a vast hinterland of rural Chinese, much larger than the Phillipines or Vietnam could supply, and there's less of a language barrier, where not none. Personally I think they'll do better than many are expecting, the biggest threat to their success being their own governance.
Something close to UDP APIs for browsers (QuicTransport + datagram extension) was in development for a while but the proposal ended up getting rejected/withdrawn.
Reads like a small excerpt out of "Designing Data-Intensive Applications" :)
What kills me is that this was a rather pedestrian outcome on a much cheaper 2-core virtual machine back in 2007 or so.

I easily got 3K requests / sec out of my laptop at the same time, and it was not a trivial app!

People's expectations have shifted so much it's absurd. If you look at the TechEmpower benchmarks, ordinary VMs can easily push 100K requests per second, no sweat, even with managed languages.

Trivial stuff like static content being treated as static content (files on the disk!) not as a distributed cache in front of a database can do wonders.

Am I just old and jaded?
I think HN staff must be aware this is a point of contention in the community. It's brought up too regularly for them to not look into it?

It's worth staying optimistic; this is overall a great place.
I didn’t think about that part (apparently my reading comprehension is bad enough that I also used the wrong pronoun for the author). Assuming Main actually saved the writing samples and does the work to match them all against the author’s novels, then she should be able to pin it down. It will be interesting if we get to see what damages she sues for.

If she is willing to lie she could still say somebody else signed the nda and forwarded her the information to post. I wouldn’t do that personally, but I also wouldn’t think unkindly of somebody who did.
Have you ever tried cloning the repo and building it? It is easier than you think..
You want c64 prices? 1984: $199

https://christmas.musetechnical.com/ShowCatalogPage/1984-Sea...

https://christmas.musetechnical.com/ShowCatalogPage/1984-Sea...

http://www.wishbookweb.com/FB/1984_Mongomery_Ward_Christmas_...

and so on
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> Bezos inadvertently reveals an abiding fear of oblivion.

This is a universal human fear for the entire recorded history of everything and is one of the fundamental drives behind everything people do. The author is clearly familiar with the Pharoahs, did he think that at some point between then and today that the fear of death stopped being a motivator? Did the author feel like it also applying to Jeff Bezos is some sort of big tell? Is the next piece going to be "man admits to requiring oxygen?"
You’ll actually find similar gender disparities in China and India. Maybe not as pronounced as the USA, but it’s still there. Somehow there is something going on throughout the industry that crosses cultural boundaries.
Well, have a look at

http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/interlisp_...

Then follow up with "The Interlisp Programming Environment"

https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/co/1981/04/01667317/1...

"Graphical Programming in Interlisp-D"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlN0hHLZL8c

"Eric Bier Demonstrates Cedar"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_dt7NG38V4

Cedar was the very first graphical workstation for something like .NET and Java would later kind of try to become.
Really? Power costs vary greatly. Does your statement apply only where you live perhaps?
facebook is "dark web"[0], everything in my gmail folders is "dark web", anything that john q. public can't see on the internet is literally "dark web"/"dark net" - that is, greater than 90% of all content behind a URI/URL is "dark" - unsearchable.

That the media and politicians use it as a negative connotation speaks volumes. "Dark whatever" != illegal content.

[0] facebook by virtue of their php lineage and gatekeeping have made (and kept) most of the content behind their own walls; unsearchable on any search engine - ironically, this includes their own. contrast this to something like reddit or stackexchange, which will gladly show up in search results.
Again, you're using the term 'speech' to describe fake news, to frame the discussion. Why is that term not used when people commit fraud or scams?

Also the word 'outlaw'. What if tech companies don't amplify the fake news of both creators and repeaters?

As far as the law is concerned a narrow and carefully crafted law can written, a repeater does not get in trouble unless it can be proven without a doubt that they knew it was fake news yet chose to spread it. As far as who decides it(in the legal system), we already have a system that works fairly decently, the court system. Maybe just civil sanctions, like a $500 fine. The accused will have a chance to explain to the court and the public their rationale behind what they wrote/said.

We already have libel and other laws that restrict free speech. E.g https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_advertising#United_State...

This law wouldn't affect opinions in the slightest. Saying "x gender should stay home", "y race people are terrible" would still not violate law.

Again, this is something that I just threw together, I am sure there are many smarter people than me who can refine it so we can protect true free speech while restricting fake news.
It's a bit less, er, cloudish and self-service than I usually think of cloud as being, but these folks do use VMware:

https://expedient.com/services/cloud/
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> Taiwan didn’t start as a US backed dictatorship.

Sure because they weren't US backed but they still were a dictatorship...

Truman publicly signaled the US had no intention of defending Taiwan or SK, but public sentiment changed in the US after Kim il-sung invaded.

> One can easily say that China traded Taiwan (which it surely would have been able to take back without USA backing) for North Korea (which probably would have been folded into the ROK without Chinese intervention).

Korea was also the Japanese invasion point into China in WW2, which made it sensitive for the US to mobilize in.
Nowhere in this site is encryption mentioned, and that probably makes it a non-starter - Cryptographic data integrity is a must for modern RPC, if not also confidentiality.
What about this makes him a narcissist? Seems a random thing to throw into the mix.

Just because people do things differently to you and make different decisions to the ones you would, doesn't automatically make them bad or a narcissist.

You spend your time commenting on websites, moaning about people doing things differently to you. You could spend the same time volunteering to help society in all manner of things.

Not paying your fair share of tax to help society as a whole and not spending your spare time to help society, are not that much different.
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I think downvote could be more valuable if it required a comment explaining why it as downvoted. I sometimes find I read comments that have been downvoted, and I'm wondering why, potentially the downvoter had a good reason I wasn't understanding.
I thought the definition was fairly clear and agreed upon?
The 1-7 list you mention definitely deserves it’s own blogpost and how to implement these. I’m currently not using any of these except 1, and probably don’t need the rest for a while but I do want to know what I should do when I need it. For example: what and how should things be cached? When and how to denormalize, why is it needed? Why append-only and how? Never ‘sharded’ before, no idea how that works. Heard some things of everything async/in the background, but how would that work practically?
Many games do simulate/animate/synchronize doors with their own custom systems because doors are way more complex and problematic than 99% of other in-game objects.
> Bezo's achievements are not "mankind's" achievements

Why not? If we made it to Mars on Musk's ship... I'd be happy to declare it both his and our win.
I've actually been considering this over the last week. I've been a user since the beginning, but I find that I am maybe clicking on one or two links from the first two pages. Seems the value of the content is feeling very bland these days. Which is surprising seeing as we are in such an amazing time technologically. Where has the quality interesting content gone?
Umm, perhaps it was being downvoted when the person commented? You know how HN works right? You know that votes fluctuate?

Further, please don't stereotype commenters here. It's not a good look. We come from all backgrounds, all with different levels of education and life experience.
I think the problem with the unix model is that there isn't a rich enough array of types -- everything is just a stream of bytes and the closest thing you have to lists and records are strings with spaces and newlines. It was revolutionary in the 70s but compared to what you can do with something like powershell (which has its own issues) it's just not a rich or easy to use model anymore.
The Federal Bank is only independent from the US Government in a very symbolic way. The system only exists as set out in US Legislation, the President of the US appoints all the board members and designates which is the chair, they all have to be confirmed by the US Senate, etc. etc.

The "private ownership" in that member banks hold stock is also largely symbolic, given that they can't sell the stock and the stock doesn't give them any control, voting rights, etc.
As an outsider, I certainly assumed (and expected) that the magazine is published by MIT.

I really don’t understand why a reputable institution would sell their name that way, unless strapped for cash.
Whoops, missed the snark the first time though.
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Nah, Android, macOS and Windows are doing just fine, it is the classical UNIX desktop that cannot get their act together.

The existing issues aren't technical, rather political, like the WinRT crusade that ended up bombing and now we have plenty of GUI toolkits to chose from on Windows.

Swift, Java, Kotlin and the .NET languages are more than high level enough.
The comment (and what people expect of a "Swiss product") was about the local/nationak law environment which certainly always holds true (for better or worse). "Created by Swiss people" as a feature would be a rather meaningless in the modern world.
> Sure because they weren't US backed but they still were a dictatorship...

Definitely. A lot of sentiment against mainlanders in Taiwan was created by the KMT’s rule as much as by the communists.

Truman’s hand was called as soon as North Korea invaded South Korea while UN troops were still stationed there. There would have been no way that the USA was going to stay out of that conflict.
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Defamation isn't the worst of it. There's an ocean of normalcy between wokeness and alt-right, people forget that. It's ok to have different opinions on equity vs equality, on social norms, etc. You're not a racist bigot for not supporting every woke cause, despite what they claim. Yet having the wrong opinions will easily get you fired if you cross some woke activist on twitter or at your workplace / university. This isn't something a lawsuit or a thousand lawsuits can fix. It's the new repressive culture we're heading towards.
However it worked and I learned something amazing! Clickbait seems to be a reality of this era.

I would have been a bit concerned about what other parasites or tropical deceases might have caught a ride beside the fly.
(begin rant) My issue with base64 is that + and / are terrible character for the alphabet and that the final padding = can be omitted so that base64 strings cannot be safely concatenated (as whitespace is ignored)
I think it's for fear of appeal to genetics, which has historically been used to justify violations of human rights.
Isn't there more to the story though? For decades IOUs were made to social security because there was a large surplus, that if untouched, would have gained interest providing for a lot more runway and wiggle room for social security well into the future.
Ice Lake Server is still made on the 2nd variant of the 10-nm Intel process (the 1st being that used in the pathetic Cannon Lake).

Because of that, it is much less efficient than Tiger Lake, which is made on the 3rd variant of 10-nm Intel process. Tiger Lake is still less efficient than the CPUs made with the TSMC 7-nm process, like Zen 3.

Sapphire Rapids will be made with the 4th variant of the 10-nm Intel process, the same as Alder Lake, now renamed as "Intel 7".

So Sapphire Rapids is 2 generations above the current Ice Lake Server and it should be much more efficient. We still have to see how Alder Lake will behave, but there is a chance that "Intel 7" might be more efficient than the now old 7-nm TSMC process.

However, when Sapphire Rapids will become available next year, AMD will probably soon launch Zen 4, using the 5-nm TSMC process, so it might become again better than Intel.
I'm going to tell you, my grandfather and grandmother, simple people growing up on farmland seemed to harbor no such feelings of dread, accepted their death with dignity, in fact always saw it as a vital part of life (probably not unrelated to their lived experience as farmers, and when they died, they did so without much grief or terror.

What they definitely didn't do was build a Ziggurat to cryofreeze their corpses in or put their heads in jars. I don't think the kind of ego that is required to engage in these immortality ventures is that common, that's just yet another thing that Bezos et al tell themselves
> Lucky for him

But unlucky for us.