skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One of the biggest concerns around our stance was that it would impact our diversity numbers. Since my post, we've grown our headcount about 110%, while our diversity numbers have remained the same, or even improved on some metrics.

My understanding is that they started off really bad, right? They had 3/4s of their black employees resign before that post and were at 3%. I guess they could have gotten worse, but being proud to be where you were when this whole thing started is a bit awkward.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/technology/coinbase-crypt...

> One by one, they left. Some quit. Others were fired. All were Black. The 15 people worked at Coinbase, the most valuable U.S. cryptocurrency start-up, where they represented roughly three-quarters of the Black employees at the 600-person company. Before leaving in late 2018 and early 2019, at least 11 of them informed the human resources department or their managers about what they said was racist or discriminatory treatment, five people with knowledge of the situation said.

Numbers aside, this thread is really difficult to take seriously due to the (hypocritical) inclusion of this tweet, which seems to undermine the rest of his thesis (that speaking up for things you believe in is a distracting waste of time that is bad for business).

> The biggest lesson I took away from the whole ordeal is that if you believe something is the right path, it's worth speaking up about it, even if it's controversial.

And also like, did anyone actually disagree that being a profit-driven company can be profitable? The tl;dr of this entire thread to me is "putting profits above people and morals was every bit as profitable as I thought it would be: thus, I'm vindicated".

I would expect to see the same thing from Big Tobacco, Big Oil, Big Copyright, etc.... we also see this same argument from companies like Apple and Facebook: "we are making tons of money, and so our actions are not only useful, they were justified".

> While the media reports were mostly negative, and it even spawned some retaliatory and intellectually dishonest hit pieces, the reaction both from employees and people I spoke to in private was overwhelmingly positive.

Finally, the issue I have here is that the vast majority (again: we are talking 97%) of Coinbase employees are not black, which calls into question this entire metric: an "overwhelmingly positive" reaction from the overwhelming majority is... underwhemling.
There's lots of ways to make a profit and some companies have found ways to make user choice and transparency key selling points that endear their customers and keep them coming back. Or at least show some restraint and not engage wholesale in dark patterns, even if only for reputational purposes.

Look at GoDaddy, a near-universally despised company that has managed to become a dominant player by engaging in anti-user practices. But there's plenty of other players that profit in that same space while maintaining really positive relationships with their customers.

So while I'm sympathetic to the viewpoint that for-profit businesses always and only act like for-profit businesses, there's still some room to maneuver. Facebook has clearly chosen to manipulate and data mine every single user to within inches of their lives in what amounts to a scorched earth policy.
Yeah, that's not why they're not being used. More to do with the absolutely massive size that motor powered ships can have.
I have worked with Airflow during the past three years, but recently we adopted Dagster and I have been using it for the past 3 months. I have found it quite joyful to use and the experience has been very positive. Its main advantages compared to Airlfow (IMO):

- A great UI
- It forces you to clearly define inputs, outputs and types.
- Separation of concerns: Between configuration and data, between processing and IO, and between code and deployment options.
- It allows you to define flexible dags which you can configure at runtime, which makes it easiy to run locally or in k8s, or to switch the storage backend depending on the environment.

This blog post by the founder outlines the differences between the two in much more detail: https://dagster.io/blog/dagster-airflow
> The AV1 Image File Format (AVIF) is a powerful, open source, royalty-free file format.

Is "royalty-free" an unequivocal good, or a good with caveats?

I would assume it means you don't have to pay licensing to encode or decode the format. Are there any restrictions?
Did something happen to cause mutual cooperation between most of the planet to be viewed as a bad thing? All these countries have come to an agreement by negotiation instead of economic or martial war.

Why is there such pessimism/paranoia about this deal in this thread?
I just now read that... a lot of details to be worked out, and lot of opportunity for this to fail long before implementation.
That's how it's supposed to work. If you're a team member and don't agree with the proselytizers, you don't add your market power to theirs.
https://archive.is/yRvyC
Thanks for your reply. I guess my question should really have been a statement: “based on this example, I don’t think it’s worth it”. But the info you provided does make it seem worthwhile. Cheers
The TPP included some lunatic overreaches.
Everyone at a university is taking the same test with the same expectations, usually to some national or international standard for that field of study. Each FAANG has their own set of tests that are not standard or internally consistent, even for the same job.

This is the cost of fighting professional standards for the industry as a whole. I'm not necessarily for that, but I don't know what the sensible alternative is to inter-corporate pissing matches and job titles that are practically meaningless. Nobody who knows how to build a house or fix a car is going to spend months playing puzzle games about those topics. They are just going to find an opportunity to do the work they enjoy somewhere else.

Edit: to remove unrelated rant.
Sure, it's not an easy way. But basically I can think of four things to do:

1. Complain on the internet. This is easy but utterly ineffectual.

2. Alter your buying behavior. Unless you are the purchasing director for a multinational conglomerate, also utterly ineffectual.

3. Do something stupid like trying to blow up a containership. Also ineffectual, will land you in jail and will almost certainly kill some innocent people.

4. Contact your local representatives and get them to do soemthing about it.
This will be easier if you are part of a larger group. Then your group and your representative(s) can contact someone higher up and so on.

Yes this particular problem and many others relating to ship operations thrives because there is little direct control and everyone is from 20 different jurisdictions, but perhaps some of those jurisdictions can team up and tax those that don't follow their rules or whatever. I am not an expert in this but some people are and the most I can do is let my representatives know that I care about this stuff.
Maybe I actually should go and do that.
Yes, I am aiming for production grade online serving + many more query frontends and data types.
One of the worst things that could have happened to Facebook is the whole Cambridge Analytica thing; now they can always just hide behind the veneer of "we disable scripting/API access to x degree because something something hand waiving black magic user safety third party developers and do you want another scandal like we had with CA" even when they may be completely different situations
> Focus on what, exactly?

Focus on building a successful profitable company.

Surely you just pretend to not know this?
It's not that anyone thinks it is appropriate - they know it is inappropriate. It's more that they don't care, and are willing to do whatever it takes to leverage the power of institutions (such as companies, universities, and government agencies) to fulfill their personal political and ideological goals. This is a well-known strategy for activism, particularly on the left, and even has a name - "long march through the institutions" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_march_through_the_institu...). Some call it "entryism" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entryism). As we've seen in American tech companies, once a foothold is gained, these motivated activists immediately start to loudly push for the aggressive exclusion of opposing views, and cancellation of all who belong to a different political group. Signaling consequences for opposition leads to self-censorship from others, which in turn helps further cement the perceived institutional consensus around the activists' platform. This strategy is ultimately effective, both because institutional takeover can build silently and become visible suddenly, and because company leaders are often too timid in exercising their power to shut down or fire such disruptive employees.
That onion has clearly sprouted a lot, so perhaps it's a seed onion? It's not uncommon to buy small seed onions and plant them so they'll get bigger (although I personally don't see the point, and would grow small bunching onions instead). In this case it's probably just an old onion that sat in a bag too long and sprouted, so they decided to plant it.
What the law did was reconcile treatment of knowingly exposing someone to HIV with knowingly exposing them to another disease. If the law should take exposing someone to a disease more seriously, it should be for a broad category of diseases based on their actual attributes.

It just seems unhinged that in CA prior to that change, and in some places today, person A with well-managed or undetectable HIV can commit a felony for not disclosing that, where person B with literally anything else (e.g. drug resistant TB, ebola, whatever) cannot.

And frankly, why should we only think in terms of "communicable diseases"? My understanding is in many cases where companies have exposed whole populations to pollutants that had real health impacts, the legal remediation is civil lawsuits, not charging the company with a felony.

I live in the Bay Area. A while back I followed the story of a person with an active measles infection who traveled into SF. The DPH traced all their steps, published where they went at what times, which train car they were in, etc, but were fastidious to not reveal who this person was. Even though they risked exposing an indeterminate number of people, they were still expected to have a right to privacy. Today we have people claiming that anyone seeking to know their covid vaccination status is infringing on their rights to privacy about a health concern. Claiming that people with HIV should be _felons_ if they don't disclose their status, regardless of whether they're capable of transmitting, seems hard to justify.
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That's US only right? So it won't affect most users?
I just want profiles in Firefox to be as prominent a feature as it is in Google Chrome.
Right. It’s a shame that the CB mission went from decentralizing and empowering individuals with BTC to scamming and gambling on shittokens in just a few years.
>They can claim a terms of service issue and ban you from their service but they cannot stop you from developing software.

They can stop you from developing software for their platform or using their API or brand, which is what Facebook has done. They haven't demanded the developer of Unfollow Everything cease developing software altogether, only that they cease developing software for Facebook.

Also, Facebook is nowhere near unique in having similar terms for developers.
https://archive.is/xkptW
Because to do that, I have to make another copy into the memory of my computer.
> there's tons of other cryto startups.

Where in your analysis do you talk about how these other crypto startups have (1) easier onboarding/KYC than COIN, (2) access to more coins to trade (3) better tooling (4) better fees (5) etc. etc. ?
wow, that should indeed be highlighted!

https://support.mozilla.org/kb/navigate-web-faster-firefox-s...
It's still not as efficient since you're breaking on base 10 digit boundaries, not base 2, the most efficient encoding will be base 3, but alas we don't have ternary computers.
Anyone who denies the existence of the 10x programmer has either simply not encountered one, or is blinded by their own ego. In my 20 years in industry, I can think of maybe 10 engineers I've directly worked with who were an order of magnitude above all their peers in terms of both code volume AND quality.

These are people who will implement a feature with clean code, well commented, well thought-out and meeting the exact need, correctly structured, in the time that the entire rest of the engineering team would still be scratching their head and debating what to do. One guy years ago who refactored the entire backend at a startup in 2 days, then asked "OK, what can I work on now?" Another guy who wrote an IPC system we needed, which I'd expected would take us 6 weeks, and he did it over the weekend (and it worked perfectly). Another who debugged and patched a critical infrastructure problem in a very complex system, in about 2 days... and would do this time and again, just cranking out features and fixes, week after week.

* "Oh, but their code must have been rushed!" It was fast but not rushed. Some of the best code I've seen.

* "Oh, but they didn't consider user requirements." They did.

* "Oh, they must have been insufferable to work with!" For the most part, super friendly and great teammates.

And so on.

So, sorry if it offends, but some people are just much better developers than everyone else around them (including, possibly yourself). I was much happier after I realized and accepted this fact!
Whilst technically correct, I still object. Many if not most things aren't political in a meaningful way, but surely you can make them political.

This is how you get "water is racist" and the entire movement of social justice becomes a thing of ridicule. The strategy harms, it doesn't help.
It's not necessarily spoofing. During the outage you could still open the FB app, at least on Android, and it would show you cached content. By default it opens links in the FB Browser, which was probably still working during the outage. So it shouldn't go to zero.

Example in-app browser UA, pulled from my server logs just now: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 11; Pixel 3 XL Build/RQ3A.210905.001; wv) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/93.0.4577.82 Mobile Safari/537.36 [FB_IAB/FB4A;FBAV/337.0.0.32.118;]
The point of attending a University is that at the end of it, the University confers upon you a degree that asserts your knowledge in the relevant field of study. That degree is valid forever; the University doesn't later get to take it back if you're actually a buffoon. You receive the credential, it has value, and its conferral is guaranteed as long as you complete the requirements of the degree.

By contrast, interviews are extremely condensed and an interview doesn't guarantee you a job in the same way that completing degree requirements guarantees a degree. Employers also have the option of firing you later.
Only invest stocks in your country because of politics
How has the diversity of talent changed in this one year?
I seem to recall, though I can't find it: Steve Jobs (while working at NeXt) talking about Apple and the different people vying for control of the company.

He said (and I'm paraphrasing of course) that there are people who really want to push computing forward, and there are people who want to be like Sony and make an integrated commodity. He said that there's a marriage between the two that could be had "but sadly the Sony guys are winning".

I'm not an apologist for Jobs, I don't really care for the man enough to love _or_ hate him the way most seem to, but I believe he was as much a product of the company values as anyone else was.

I'm considered to be very hard nosed and pushing the direction of my company forward and often I clash with people, and granted, I'm not at the top of the company, but the people around me still shape my mentality a lot.
> Without food, you can’t survive, therefore everything is implicitly about food.

This, but unironically.
https://archive.is/Vaits
It would be 1680x1050. If you don't care about Retina it's enough resolution.
All this assumes the headphones are linear devices... which clearly isn't the case!

None of these tools seem to do anything but rudimentary nonlinear correction... Even simple things like measuring and cancelling harmonics nobody seems to do...
That’s not blackmail, that’s the cost of access to those countries markets. Much like you could ignore GDPR if you never intended to touch the European market.

You can’t claim blackmail because a club charges you a cover to enter the door
How about this: Every economic interaction (which includes employment) is political. Would you agree with this?
I didn’t know about this extension but now I do. Thanks FB lawyers.
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These countries were not the problem cases. If you compare it with Ireland however :

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation_tax_in_the_Repub...

"Ireland's "headline" corporation tax rate is 12.5%, however, foreign multinationals pay an aggregate § Effective tax rate (ETR) of 2.2–4.5% on global profits "shifted" to Ireland, via Ireland's global network of bilateral tax treaties."
https://archive.is/iD2pI
Unplug, Unfriend, Unfollow, Unwind: Is That Sacrilege?
For the sibling comment - minutes, the original timer was apparently shaped like a tomato https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique
Not gone, but that's the direction we're heading (hopefully).

> it may currently still be best to use a framework or library to present these, or to use a custom input of your own. Another option is to use separate date and time inputs, each of which is more widely supported than datetime-local

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/in...
There is a more general law that has nothing to do political leaning that was coined by someone who's community generally disproves your point.

moot, creator of 4chan, has a talk or blog post (can't find it now) detailing this exact dynamic. There are plenty of times moot banned discussion of a certain topic (not even politically relevant), those users would get mad and start their own chan. That chan would eventually be a community of people who just post about how they hate 4chan and continue to be contrarian until they died. Community building is hard and you can't build a platform around being anti-the-other-platform. I think it's fashionable to call these "new platforms" right wing, but this is not a new trend and its something common you would see in the phpBB days of the forum, except instead of the new platform being "right wing", it was that the old platform was fascist because the moderator was an asshole. That said, 4chan is a platform you can clearly point that started out non-partisan. Before Trump 4chan was pro-occupy Wall Street. The community, on its own, became more right wing without overtly advertising itself as such. Over time however it's clear that /pol/ is a far right platform and there was no need for it to splinter off from everything. The lack of robust right wing communities online has more to do with community building rather than self-censorship. A rightwing community has to be exclusionary from the start, and it's hard to bootstrap a community that must ostracize a portion early members.

It's my view, that globally in the western world, that conservatism is actually just a very loud minority position. The loudest conservative folks tend to act the most anti-social and ultimately tend to get ostracized. This ostracism as a result of their anti-social behavior leads to some persecution complex that they are being pushed out when in reality they just hold a minority position. The "no racism" rules are required because when said person gets banned for calling someone a n*gger who was just posting an image of a birdhouse, they tend to be the most pedantic about rules. Most normal people just don't want to deal with that.
In my 20 years of industry at both small and large tech companies, I couldn't disagree more with you. I'd also appreciate if you toned down the insults.
Chatting carries the risk of hiring for the "talking about X" skill rather than "X" skill.
Usually when turning in it's either a document already created in google clasroom, so you just click a button and it turns in, or it's found via the list of "recently opened documents."

I don't think she knows the difference between those document types other than she can type into one but not the others. A PDF and a read-only google text document are essentially the same thing as far as she is concerned.
All that can be concluded from VAERS is that some number of people reported these effects after claiming to take the vaccine. It does not imply causation nor can we infer correlation. This is why clinical trials were done before the vaccines received an EUA.
Your job is to support and maintain the policies of your employer. That’s inherently political.
Android Pay (when I used it) was distinctly different. As long as it was unlocked (eg. hadn't been taken off your wrist) you could press a button to quick-launch the NFC payment app. Since I wasn't using the shortcuts for anything else, it worked quite well for me.
If it's a lot fewer crashes, and phantom braking happens rarely, that would be pretty strong evidence. After some brief looking around the internet, I didn't really find any good evidence, or any weak evidence, it seems like we don't really know. I wouldn't be surprised if some of these systems perform far better than others and the general lack of data and transparency makes it hard to figure out whether they are better than human, or not, or it's a mix.
~10 years ago when I still had Facebook for campus events I remember installing this extension and loving it. Glad to see it still exists.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kill-news-feed/hjo...
> When I last interviewed they sent out a huge pile of PDFs that said "think out loud" and "explain your thought process"

I hated those type of interviews when I used to interview (as an interviewee) for programming positions. I am the kind of person that cannot multitask at all: I sometimes even have to close my eyes when I am thinking something before saying it.

Nowadays I am on the other side being the interviewer for programming positions. I make it really clear at the beginning of the coding part: Feel free to shut up and think, focus on writing the code you'll write, and we will talk about it once you have finished.
It's fine to say "how tall of a building do you want to ban?" But time and again it derails things if you say "How tall is a tall building?"
Vlad Tepes knew how to deal with spammers like you.
I can barely stand reading any quotes from that man. So blatanly two faced.

>Is that something a company focused on profits over people would do?

This is like BP patting themselves on the back for barely cleaning up an oil spill they themselves caused, and saying "see, we aren't evil, we did the bare minimum necessary to get some puff pieces in the press for us"
Nonsense.

Silence means just that, silence. It could mean anything: I don't know. I don't care. I might care but don't have time to look into it. I care but it's not in my top 10 issues.

None of these options support the status quo.