skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My skepticism of the starry eyed and incredibly convenient anecdotes of endless diverse and equitable workplaces from you and others has absolutely nothing to do with my own political beliefs. Your insistence that that is what I want despite the fact that I have not even mentioned specific race based diversity quotas says a lot about your beliefs and prejudices though. Keep tilting at the windmills — I’m sure the world in which nobody mentions politics that don’t align with your worldview or the worldview of their employer will be a better one. And of course, under such a regime, nobody will ever be fired for their political beliefs again, after all the only thing separating us from that are those pesky “diversity pundits.”
It depends how you define tech. I work in the telecom sector, which is legacy tech, I always laugh when folks ask me about equity.
Like Thai Qi?
Which part of the world is "this" part of the world you are talking about?
It's worse than you think. His father in law is more involved with Jeff Bezos. Rishi wife is a major shareholder of Infosys actually - over £600 million worth of shares currently.
Also as a developer, I feel its my duty to be a good steward towards people that want to block ads or use classes that will block social media icons using classes from those lists and still look appealing. The client likely doesn't know and neither do the majority of users that haven't enabled such features, but respecting the wishes of those that do I think is the right thing to do. It's in the same class as respecting Save-Data: On or or DNT: 1.
Any hints of where that part of the world is to avoid it? I suppose Czech Republic?
Does that imply ICIJ is acting illegally?
> and there was nowhere in the hardware for malware to hide if things got squirrely and you rebooted

Oh boy, where do I start!
You severely underestimate the state of the art for MSDOS bootloader viruses.

E.g., https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo_(computer_virus...
Not sure if Digital Marketing is considered tech or not, but anyway, here I am.
Notion that supply chains are "old technology" is frankly part of the problem. That combined with the author's point of supply chains being emergent and not designed has made companies invest less and less in understanding and reacting to supply chain issues. It works fine during periods of slow growth and decline as that ensures enough time for supply chains to reach new equilibriums but we pay the price in disruptive situations like the one we see now. Hopefully, it motivates companies to invest in understanding the impact of uncertainties on their supply chains.
I think of reddit in the same way as quora. They are making it too difficult to access content. So I am starting to ignore search links that bring me to either site.
Ask HN: Have you ever worked in a company that has good knowledge management?
What was your experience? does documenting business process with tools like BPMN improve effectiveness etc.
Ask HN: How to instruct builders for future proofing networking in new house?
I've purchased a new construction and have some choices in allowances but limited timeline.

This is my first purchase and I'm not a networking expert by any stretch. My intention is to ask for any changes now that will help ease the difficulty of future upgrades, at least ten years if not longer.

I've asked for the electricians to install flexible 1" conduit from the attic to each room, for future fishline work. They had installed CAT5 throughout most of the rooms, and they've upgraded from to CAT6a at my request. But I have no clue what I'm doing.

Where should I go to learn more? Any basic tips or best practices? They will be foam spraying in a few days so I'm on a bit of a deadline to brush up, not concerned with budget or all the bells and whistles as I am making future upgrades easier or possible.

Thanks !
Hmm - I got into Ham radio nearly 20 years ago as a teenager who loved making electronics. I couldn’t afford to buy the expensive things at the time, now I could probably buy a high-end high power rig and not really feel any financial hit.

But I haven’t because it’s still cool to make all those things, and I’m still struggling to get them to work, but am learning and feeling so amazingly satisfied when they do.

Also, you sort of can make all kinds of amazing SDR things yourself with even modest microcontrollers and DDS ICs. It’s just a hobby like any other, people still spend massive amounts of money and time on classic cars - they’ll never compete with or better a new Hyundai or something to get from A to B, but that’s missing the point.
Ask HN: How to explain common people what online tracking is?
Every now and then, someone in my social circle wonders how they have been talking about some product or service with someone, only to see an ad for it a bit later in their social media feed.

Then they wonder how this happened. Paranoia kicks in like "this phone is listening to us" or "they can read our encrypted chat messages".

I've tried to find ways to explain this topic in simple, layman's terms, but mostly failed by going too much into details and confused them even more.

What's equally important is that I'd like to give them actionable tips so they can protect themselves and their friends & family.

What's your go-to explanation on this topic, and the best (simple) actionable advice on how they can protect themselves?
> It sounds like 10x is the equivalent of putting 2.0 on everything (and also as meaningless)

What do you mean by that ? If I write a cooking book titled, "pizza 2.0" everyone in the world will understand what the 2.0 means.
I dunno if I agree the title is misleading - it's right on the spot for someone like me - I always turn off search suggestions when I install ffx - for the privacy.

So this title is an important warning for folks who want privacy - and I would guess that a higher percentage of ffx users care about that than chrome.
I don't have a startup but I did make a useful little Python library while at my previous job to help ease the pain with using argparse to make CLIs.

It's called bargeparse [1]. The idea is to define an entry point function and use its signature as a means to declare the CLI arguments & options. I was surprised at how well Python's syntax for function arguments works for this... especially the use of pos-only & keyword-only arguments to force a particular style.

[1] https://github.com/shangxiao/bargeparse
I may have talked to you about this, but I feel the same, iOS 7 also absolutely marred the sustained & graphical performance of the OS via the over reliance on increasingly n-dimensional neon or parallax bullshit whereas skeuomorphic design needed a lift but was nominally perfect by way of consistency and hardware demands. I miss Forstall a lot. I even feel their hardware today is designed a bit more sloppily. Idk, people cheered the departure of Ive or Forstall.

Really other than Tim whom I don’t care for — Craig Federighi is cog incarnate. Software has only had one good fucking release on iOS since 7 — that being iOS 12. I can’t even imagine how pernicious the internal influence has been on a normative scale adjusted toward “Apple design and UX of Forstall”
Doing a 10 hour run as the final piece to build my endurance for the 130k Ultra I will do on the 30th.
If not done properly it can kill sea life.
When I was still a Firefox user, I just ended up blocking any domain owned by mozilla. And by 'when I was still a Firefox user' I mean 'until approximately 12 hours ago.' What priorities and values Mozilla has left I don't seem to share.
2019. since then 10000x was achieved, hundreds of thousands of wallets holding hex and 100% uptime with no hicups. ah and no scam. there is a supply centralization but thats designed to make it even more scarce. It might worry people but reality is since this article alot of milionaires were created and the price keeps going up. this is no scam. you have been wronged by your influencers that have robbed you of an opportunity of a lifetime. But hex still has a long way to go, price wise.
And 11 mentions of "digital". Definitely high on buzzwords with no real substance
Pretty sure London or NYC has more non native English speakers than Amsterdam and Copenhagen combined. So I don't get your logic.
Other than being hard to achieve (often being a secondary goal), Julia gives very good reasons why not to strive for this goal: it may influence the language design in undesired ways, e.g. By removing the focus from high-level features to low level system design features
>... I pay for my masters and academic hobbies in other fields with my tech day job.
Sure. But is it harder to understand than Dutch and Danish. No. Right. I also thought the same.
I'm trained in philosophy and social sciences, mostly economics and sociology. I work in management consulting, we do strategic communication and some public affairs.

We do have some tech mandates but my interest in technology is largely personal. My parents are both in tech and their very problem driven compsci dinner talk in the evening greatly influenced me throughout my younger years.

I feel that since tech grew into every corner of society its far less peculiar to have a tech interest than maybe even 15 years ago.
Probably pronunciation is not as important as the ability to find the character on one's own keyboard.

I mean, I probably never pronounced Python or Ruby in the same way a native English speaker does but I can write them and Google them. I have to copy and paste Ć or look for it in my keyboard's hidden characters (easier on my phone.)
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That's easy to fix, at least technically: punish financially all the countries who don't sign this. Just requires willingness to do this.
For some reason, Java developers didn’t like writing SQL, so we introduced Hibernate which “does SQL for you”.

Hibernate creates appallingly bad SQL, so “databases are slow”. Particularly when using a getter on a lazy-loaded relationship. A query might end up taking 1ms per record instead of 10ms for 10k records.

You can rewrite all you want in Hibernate and greatly improve performance, but you often need to introduce Projections, lazy/nonlazy flags, in the end you program Hibernate more than you would have written basic SQL. Ah, also you’re writing JQL not SQL, so you need to learn “how it’s written in JQL”. But every Java developer is happy, because it’s Java. Phew, at least you didn’t write SQL!

- Any storage, even file or memory storage, can perform better on production than Hibernate.

- Devspeed is much faster without Hibernate. Source: I’m a founder, initiated a few apps, one is on prod making money after 2 weeks, the other one is still losing money after 18 months, guess which one uses React-Spring-Hibernate and which one used jQuery-Freemarker-Dropwizard.

- But if you want competent developers, React-Spring-Hibernate makes you look young and cool.

It’s sad, because frameworks are as difficult as the maximum difficulty our developers can handle, and if they’re not, they will add a layer. Conclusion: People have no love for databases because they’ve put too many layers before them. But they are not the problem.
Medical tourism is not convenient or even guaranteed to be a trusting experience. Two things that would be very important for many high ticket medical procedures.
I would think it would take a lot more than a week end to develop the necessary machine learning models capable of accurately predicting future events based on the user's birth day.
‘Fuck Twitter’: Dave Chappelle Addresses Backlash to “Transphobic” Jokes
How did this even 7 points?
If corporation tax is essentially voluntary for big corporations, what difference does it make?
I don’t agree. IMO: In 2021, FTP is a legacy protocol for niche use cases. It’s not suitable for a mainstream product such as Chrome.
I don't think most people buy iPhones because of Apple's draconian control of software distribution, I think they buy them despite of it.

If Apple sold two iPhones, one that allowed only apps from the App Store, and one that allowed apps from anywhere, I'm pretty sure most people would buy an iPhone that allowed 3rd party apps.

The current state makes me a bit sad. I've been a long term Apple user, and I'm pretty sure my next phone is going to be some Android, because as much as I like the quality of Apple's products, I just no longer want to accept Apple's restrictions.
I believe an unmentioned benefit of CBDC’s to the issuing nation is that they will allow for a form of economical imperialism.

Provided a nations populace has access to the internet and smartphones once the national currency shows signs of hyper inflation (like Lebanon at the moment) they can effectively switch to a more stable alternative hence strengthening the hegemony of the nation issuing the CBDC.
I mean, VAT is not a tax on revenue, it's a tax on added value. In essence it's a form of profit taxing already.

If you buy $10 of flower (including VAT) and turn it into $15 of bread (including VAT), you effectively only pay value added tax on $5. If you're generating no real margins and just have a lot of volume, you're effectively also paying no real VAT.

The difficulty is with cross-border transactions.
How so? I’m on FF 91 (not dev ed) and can load from a self-built zip file just fine
Breaking points in history are still breaking points.
Probably Slovenia.
But since they do require that now indirectly I have an idea....

Lets have a law that requires all large services to expose all account settings though an API(?!)

Basically, 1) you [as usual] get to set up the terms of service that your users must stick to, 2) you get to pick what account options you want to offer to the user. i.e. do you want to receive email notifications yes/no, do you want to upload an avatar yes/no, what url/email/phone number do you want to display on your profile etc 3) You do not own these settings and shall provide an API for the user to change them.

You could extend the concept with things like allowing the download of a contact list with the contacts who have this enabled and the information they chose to share. Or say offer TOS updates though the API.

But the initial goal should be for browsers to offer a uniform settings page for all websites you have accounts for.

Remember that unsolicited email check box just above that for to the terms of service? If you use the site all the time you might want to opt in but who wants to dig though a website looking for it? Maybe in hind sight targeted advertisement is just what you wanted? Maybe a feed of updated settings would be useful.

Or maybe you just want to delete your accounts in a convenient way.
Nothing new under the sun, except what we invent. Like the crazy idea that this virus warranted exceptional, catastrophic measures.
Malta is riddled with corruption and has no real banking options. It also has a very different legal system than IE/UK/US.
Maybe have a part of the store dedicated to pre-release/experimental versions and have interested users beta test and review these. Then based on early feedback the app graduates or not to the general public.
I can sorta kinda dream up a reason for solar rules to exist. Not good ones, mind.

But can anyone take Devil’s advocate here and explain why a state might want to limit or prohibit rainwater collection? I’m struggling.

Surely it can’t just be financially motivated, right?
Not everyone at tech company is a software engineer or makes that type of money.
The statistic from the NYT is estimated and you're missing the overall point.

What % of children are admitted to Stanford? A sliver. What % of Stanford undergraduates make it to a "big law" firm? A small percentage.

The speculative point is that US men from UMC households who were admitted to elite schools and who subsequently went on to competitive jobs have higher Adderall abuse rates than you might expect. No, you can't find statistics on it. And to make the matter more difficult, they'll lie to your face about the subject.

This conjecture isn't even controversial, this notion is echoed throughout the broader culture. For example, see the following article from the New Yorker -- a magazine that caters to the families of these types:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/04/27/brain-gain . The article begins with the sentence, "A young man I’ll call Alex recently graduated from Harvard."
That might soften it too much.
But without highway overpasses where will all the homeless and drug addicts go?
I quote from the link [1] you posted:

> To be clear, the respective blockchains will confirm blocks as normal and are not controlled by Binance. For the faster service, the exchange is accepting a reduced number of confirmations as sufficient to alter wallet balances within its own systems.

Binance and Coinbase on their own nodes can choose a lower number of blocks for confirmation but the network may reject it later, if that's the case they will have to put the transaction in another block to be mined.
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No, it just matters if countries are willing to implement consequences for non-membership. And that's frankly a pretty trivial thing from a political and technical perspective, so I'm assuming it'll come. Various countries already have lists, e.g. the EU has lists for 'non-cooperative third-countries', which can be used by member states to add witholding taxes for transactions with these countries in-particular as a preemtive measure to reduce aggressive tax avoidance.

Ireland is not joining this agreement for no reason, they're doing it because non-membership will hurt them more in the end.
Quite a few extensions have source available; you could survey the code and build it locally and load it from zip (Firefox) or crx (Chromium)
What’s the correct term?
What does the legal system (common law vs continental) have to do with the parent comment?
I mainly work with graphics programming and while it can be a bit opaque I feel that this is nowhere near the problem it was just ten years ago. Modern graphics debuggers such as RenderDoc give an amazing view of what is going on and on consoles (using nSight, PIX or Razor GPU) you can also debug things by connecting a replay, modifying shaders on the fly, etc.

Having originally learned graphics programming before such tools existed I really can't get over how magic this feels.
In the SF bay area, I know there is a desalination plant in Newark. They gave tours of it once a year.
Yes, I did exactly that, but people shouldn't have to choose between leaving their home and not participating in killing innocent people around the world.
Does it have a Linq equivalent?
Google Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:0y1WfMX...
Perhaps it could be used as a semi-fair language benchmarker. I would like to see the benchmark game where every implementation is through this language.
And then you have otherwise smart people believing taxation is not theft.

Calling people dumb because you don't agree with them...isn't that one of those logical fallacy things?
Here is one example I know of https://timsherratt.org
Conveniently, ISO8601 also sorts ascii-betically - so sorting in the file system sorts by date/time too
Prove? Ehhhh, probably not, but maybe. Provides support for the idea that a true UBI (meaning an actual living wage substitute) will not be generally beneficial to society until we have much higher levels of automation all up and down the production stack, but especially the service sector.

I don't think it really shows us anything about a flat subsidy to everyone though.
I think it's that this comes off as being unnecessarily caustic:

>Now we can easily claim it could have been silver or copper, no real proof required.

Nobody is claiming anything has been proved. It's just a theory.
No, something on Balkans
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I work in IT but I love biotech. It was (still is) my dream.
Got into IT due to circumstances.
Some day I am gonna FIRE and invent cool weird plants.
To be fair, we in the UK often talk about the government giving us a golden shower as well. We do phrase it "slightly" differently though :-/
I once wrote a web front-end for a DOS-era web application that was used at over 2,000 locations by hundreds of thousands of people. It was virtually identical to the original layout and functionality, but it had basic-yet-functional HTML look to it. Think Google search.

On the 1st of April it would instead switch to a "DOS skin" using the fixedsys font and the original colour theme and box-drawing character layout. Virtually identical to the original, except that some things were centred and you could scroll with a mouse.

I thought it was hilarious.

Management... not so much.
You can't believe that some of us think governments generate negative value? Not sure what to say; can't really have a reasonable discussion with someone that refuses to believe your opinions are real.
You think being a major retirement destination has anything to do with that?
What you call regressive others call progressive.
Silence means lack of interest. If they wanted to hire you, it would be in their best interest to make an offer quickly.
Lets flag it, no free ads on HN
I’ve been offered stock as a contractor for reducing my rate, researching it it seems fairly common.
What a great time for recreating 90's computing nostalgia.

Remember when they used to sell these things in stores?

https://www.amazon.com/After-Dark-Screen-Saver-4-0/dp/B0009H...

https://forum.winworldpc.com/discussion/11461/software-spotl...
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Found these interesting sets of tutorials in the internet.
“was prohibited from ruling over land, so the land was commissioned as a ship”
And to protest they go use their product instead.
Most of who? Most people in the world are not native english speakers.
I've never understood that quote... Is he rising in defense of Texas, or is he saying Texas is his personal hell?
If a lot of it in diverted it might disrupt the ecosystem of ponds and streams that existed.
The fact of the matter is 99% of the people that call hex a scam have no idea what they're talking about. The reality is not everyone is meant to succeed in this world.
Please use the username and password specified in my profile.

It is less of a login and more of a captcha-like device to keep out agressive crawlers, which have been a problem.

I do plan to improve on it so that it is not so opaque.
My grandfather (a linguist) introduced me to Pierce at a young age, only now am I starting to read Pierce's work and beginning to understand why he was so excited to share it with me. He was especially fascinated by the recurring theme of triples on which Pierce's philosophy was based; I'm glad to see them explored in this article. Mind, heart, and hand.
The costs of licensing and managing the business are often beyond the reach of the average citizen, but just a paltry sum for the rich.
Like this? https://github.com/kristopolous/BOOTSTRA.386
What is a Software Framework (and why should you care)?
The judge, Davenport, sounds like an insane person.
You must work for some dipshit companies. Having worked with the government it’s like the most bureaucratic business you can imagine then multiple the bureaucracy by 5x.

That’s why cities like SF are attempting to redesign trash cans and spending $20k on each prototype.
Are you aware that your posts in the last few days strike other people as hypocritical?

You draw attention to what you regard as logical errors in the arguments of others, but you do not observe the formalities that norms of logical argument require when problems are pointed out with your arguments.

If you do not accept the requirement that your own arguments be coherent, then the more that you learn about logic, the less rational you will become.