skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I stopped reading at “slack is a glorified IRC client.”
This statement ignores that mountains of functionality that makes slack a popular choice in big tech.
Workflows are a big one, chat behaving as expected instead of mysteriously strange depending on client, LDAP, SSO, I could go on and on.
@dang: original title without editorialization is "Sir David Amess: Conservative MP stabbed to death"

It's easy to imagine this was an assassination, and it might very well be — counter-terrorism specialists are investigating the murder in order to find out whether it was — but there's no evidence of that as of now.
The empathy gap is real.

And it weirds me out that everything people truly value: community, love, relationships, romance, heritage, adventure, friends, family... none of these factor in. Just money and power; which are ultimately just more responsibilities if you aren't selfish.
The CFTC claims to be helping end-customers by doing this kind of thing, but it is really taking money that could have been distributed off the table. Fining (and perhaps requiring the dismissal of) Tether's corporate officers would likely instill more discipline, but fining the company just hurts the customer.
Imho, the big toxic thing on Facebook wasn't the "news", it was "your friend liked this" and "your friend commented on this". That's where we get inundated with awfulness. My friends don't post/share terrible stuff, but they do occasionally interact with terrible stuff.
> Just as modern architects can source the best-in-class parts from around the world to customize a home for its occupants (windows from Italy! toilets from Japan!),

Good analogy. This stuff doesn't apply to 99% of us.
I do think it's really funny how the weather changes so much on the internet when discussing boys education vs the wage gap but I digress.

The thing that makes it hard to write off is that over a large enough population and across time you would expect it to even out. That doesn't mean that year over year there won't natural swings one way or another but the fact that it's always more women says something interesting about higher education that almost surely we'd want to correct. We don't necessarily know what it says without looking but something is making it so that men aren't pursuing, getting excluded from, or having difficulty getting their doctorates.
Based on the description in the original article:

> Though no private information was clearly visible nor searchable on any of the web pages, the newspaper found that teachers’ Social Security numbers were contained in the HTML source code of the pages involved.

And the layout of that site - I suspect when you clicked through to look at a teacher, it would display the Name + last 4 of their social security number with their teaching credentials. I suspect that if you viewed source on that page, the full SSN was in the retrieved data but the page was just displaying the last 4 digits.

Can't confirm without the Archive site actually pulling live data but it seems to line up.
Only if you have good projects , development and promotion opportunities to give to them . Often it’s just more work of the same kind.
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The CS/CE split is kind of supposed to handle this case.

I feel like students complain a lot about how tough theoretical CS can be. When I was in school, a lot of former CS staple courses were moved into the graduate program and replaced with lighter, more practical courses in undergrad (i.e., compiler theory replace with a comparative programming languages course that touched on JVM bytecode). They event went so far as to split BSCS and BACS by reducing the math requirements even further for the BA degree.
What is the agenda pushing here? This is clearly not a push for change in the actual financial services or banking sector. Is there an attempt to shift power away from "traditional" banks to "untraditional" financial services institutions. The idea of Lyft being a financial services provider has me more concerned than optimistic. I don't want a service intermediary controlling the financial future of the person providing the service. Scary.
Did you decode the encrypted HTML?! I think I saw that on Mr. Robot once.
this is very valuable data for any advertiser to use for targeting
> I think it's a pretty poorly kept open secret

There are lots of book about this. E.g.: https://www.amazon.com/Trouble-Boys-Surprising-Problems-Educ...
In addition to the UX they also lack the functionality and some use the mobile app as a 2FA mechanism for the website site, so to use that I'd have to carry around another android/iphone just to 2FA.
It matters because it contradicts what the newspaper published.

In my opinion, the "html source" means the document as it was sent over the wire before JavaScript modifies the document.
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Yes. America’s problem is that they use the SSN as a secret. Knowing it means you can impersonate someone.

Whereas in Sweden the “person number” is public information and identity is authenticated and authorized in other ways (by showing a driving license or using a “bank id” app etc).

In the nordics how much tax you pay (meaning for most people you can just divide by twelve to determine salary) is also public info. As is how much houses sell for etc.
How not to blow up the production database
I'd be interested to learn more about Mediatek's hostility. I only mention them because I did not see any red flags on their SoC specifications.
The only problem is how to implement it in a way to avoid people gaming it.

You didn't "add features", you made a wish list.

What's your "solution" for online advertising? Ads that are noticeable but unobtrusive? Now all we got to do is get the nerds down in R&D to make it happen. It's a miracle no one has thought of this before.
When men solve the reproduction of humans without female bodies problem male liberation is going to be nuclear in comparison to women's liberation.
Ok. Firstly, whoever did that is one sick creep. Secondly, Why!? What value is added?
> If you don't want to write JavaScript, you probably shouldn't be building interactive applications for the web.

Wow, thanks! I've been writing production apps in Vue and React for large companies for years now, but good to know I can stop. /s

I have nothing against JS; I have problems with complexity on teams of varying skill levels and tenure. If you're a JS shop, it's great. But if you're an agency of Rails developers building CRUD apps for B2B, you shouldn't feel forced to write a bunch of JS just to get some values updating on the frontend in realtime.
This will work because the goggles and associated services are freely given away. Who would spend so much of their own money when they can have it for free with ads?
/sarcasm
Please don't select "Inspect Element" or "View source". You're committing a crime.
Probably paid in USDT.
One thing the article didn't mention, that at least I think plays a factor, is for whatever reason, no matter how long their properties sit vacant and empty, commercial landlords never seem to lower their lease rates.

For some esoteric reason I don't fully understand that likely is some combination of taxes, capital gains and market pricing, commercial landlords seem to think its more advantageous to let properties sit empty for years, than in it is to lower their rates to see them occupied.

Where I live in Vancouver there are busy commercial neighborhoods that have had literally dozens of storefronts sit empty for years because no one can afford the leases and the landlords won't lower their rates.

It just seems to me, an admittedly unsophisticated commercial real estate neophyte, that the market for commercial real-estate seems to be fundamentally detached from market forces, likely due to the creation of taxation and regulation regime that provides incentives for commercial landlords to hold vacant properties rather than lower rates and if we as a society want to fix this, we need to look frameworks that are in place that make it a better deal for commercial landlords to sit on vacant properties than react to market forces and lower rates.
> I haven't seen anyone defending Tether in a really long time

Check out comments in this discussion by bpodgursky and vmception, for example. Similar comments come out in every Tether article on HN.
A "Steam for blockchain & NFT games" is not a terrible startup idea. Furthermore, since all digital assets between different games share a ledger, they could retain their value across games ;)
I tip my virtual hat to you on that. I need to somehow aggregate all those tweets into topics / chapters so I can dive deep in each area. Has anyone curated those tweets into something that can be read in a single go? If not I might have to do that myself ;)
You are confusing statistical significance with practical significance. A difference of 0.00000001% can be statistically significant with enough data, but it will never be practically significant.
Do you have any theories on the root cause, or better yet, any ideas on changes that schools could make to better serve under-peforming boys?
I never learned to type properly. I don’t think it hinders my development speed or anything. Typing is a very small part of the time programmers spend while working.
Tether isn’t some new innovation that is it’s own animal. We know what to compare it to. The right comparison isn’t “the US Dollar.”

The right comparison is money market funds - they are very highly regulated. If a money market fund said “we are backed by very highly rated short term debt,” but they weren’t, that is 100pct a scam that has huge fines.

Just because Tether is in the crypto world doesn’t mean it’s now a magical novel currency. Still just a money market fund in a slightly different form.
What you're describing is precisely what I mean: "something that would do the very basics".

Sure, I could cook one of those up, probably in less than 10 hours. But that's all it would do, and all I'd have done is learnt a few things. If I stopped right there, that's the only outcome: me learning some stuff.

Presumably at some point, the learning needs to be applied to something that is actually useful?
You are talking about statistical significance, he was talking about societal significance. They are not the same thing.
> The question you are trying to ask is "why do my coworkers listen to the GOP establishment (who are telling lies), instead of Democratic leadership and the scientific establishment (who are telling the truth)"?

And you assume I'm a Democrat, which is not the case. I'm a Republican who has rejected what the party has done over the past year.

Rejecting the Republicans doesn't mean accepting the Democrats. It just means rejecting the crap that comes out of our party (at least until the Republicans figure out how to start telling the truth again on simple matters).

There are fewer-and-fewer Republicans who are willing to tell the truth on various matters. But they still exist. There's a fundamental issue with our party where telling the "hard truths" gets you run out (see Liz Cheney), and where telling the "easy lies" gets you lots of support (see Ted Cruz's "COVID19 will disappear when Democrats get elected").

I'll support the few Republicans who have managed to stay sane in this difficult juncture of our party. But the number continues to dwindle, and I fear that the party won't have any good leaders left in a few short years.

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What's your plan, moving forward, to restore the Republican party to sanity? Because frankly, I'm not seeing any. There needs to be someone out there pushing for smaller government and balancing the budget, but if it includes all this anti-mask / anti-vax insanity (which historically was a crappy left-wing thing) I dunno, its not worth it to me.

There wasn't any fiscal responsibility in 2016 when tax cuts were announced: there weren't any budget cuts coinciding with those tax cuts. So what am I, the lone Republican who is feeling increasingly isolated from my party, to do?

The most straightforward tactic I'm going for is this: point out Republican flaws, and remind people that I am coming in from a conservative, pro-market perspective. That's my political ideology, by and large.
Last I checked, conducting organizing activities was something you cannot be fired for under employment law. What am I missing here?
VAERS data has been massively misconstrued and reported completely out of context by anti-vaxxers with an agenda and often profit motive for doing so. Here's a good thread about VAERS data and how it's being misused: https://twitter.com/dhmontgomery/status/1432419761703596033

All VAERS does is say a person got sick or died after taking a vaccine. It's unverified. It doesn't say if the person was already sick. It doesn't try to ascribe cause. From their own definition: "information on unverified reports of adverse events (illnesses, health problems and/or symptoms) following immunization with US-licensed vaccines." When 200M people get a vaccine, there are going to be some coincidences.

The slide you reference is a perfect example of misuse of VAERS. Of course deaths following (not necessarily because of) vaccinations are going to be higher than previous years when you're vaccinating 200 million people at once, many of them old and sick. Just use common sense. Creating a dramatic chart to compare deaths following vaccinations during a global pandemic and vaccination drive vs. previous normal years is nonsense, and just proves that the author of the slide is an extremely biased source. It's pure emotion-tugging sophistry aimed at a non-expert audience who doesn't understand the data.

Here's an actual source on the safety of the vaccine: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2110475

VAERS has been completely warped to fit an agenda - often promulgated at the top by snake-oil salesmen who make money from eyeballs or bogus supplements, or by state actors trying to sow discord. https://www.webmd.com/brain/autism/news/20110111/mmr-doctor-...

700k people, 1 in 500, are dead from covid in this country. Even if all 700 of those deaths in VAAERS were from the vaccine, and VAERS was 40x underreported, (which in no way am I conceding either) that's still several orders of magnitude less than the risk from the virus itself. And that's not even considering long covid, another item anti-vaxxers always ignore. https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/91270

Are other pathologists reporting similar findings? In the article you posted it says they don't agree with him. Why are you picking one voice out of the entire global pathology community to amplify and believe?

Personally I'd rather stick to the overwhelming consensus of the world's top scientists and virologists, and 96% of doctors, on the matter. https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/press-releases/ama-sur...

If there was really some big coverup involving life and death issues, I have faith a significant enough number of true experts would come forward to make the mainstream media, or even fox news, instead of just a few random sketchy websites.
> Young people can die from COVID but they won't die from COVID vaccine shots.

The actual numbers seem to be that otherwise healthy teenage boys are more likely to die from the vaccine than from COVID - to be clear, both numbers are very low. Trustworthy stats are hard to come by in any case given that everyone is pushing an agenda.
Elementary schooling has no bearing on the likelihood of someone making it into a doctoral program?
I'm honestly not sure what your point is. The cloud provider literally charges a fixed cost irrespective of the number of nodes for managed kubernetes. Sure they may need to deal with scaling issues and costs but that's not the concern of a user who pays a flat fee.
I don’t buy in “the dealing with two IDEs is not an option”, many people use many IDEs depending on what they do. I find myself jumping between PyCharm, VSCode and Visual Studio all the time at work. At home, I will have PyCharm running permanently as the core programming environment for the colour-science projects and VSCode also in the background for everything else.
I could stick a GtkTextView into a GtkWindow and run it inside GtkApplication, sure.

That's not what I mean, and I don't think it's what the author of TFA means, by "write a text editor".
Most of the issues you highlighted are done from an abundance of caution and cause no harm, like pushing masking outdoors. Meanwhile, the other side pushes an agenda that actively encourages more infections, hospitalizations, and deaths.

The pushing of vaccinating children is misunderstood. Yes, children generally do very well with COVID. But the vaccine is effective at slowing the spread. When children are vaccinated, it doesn't just protect them, but protects all the adults they interact with.

> pushed policies which forced infected elderly people back into nursing homes where they subsequently infected others

[citation needed] as I haven't heard of this.

> keeps on treating SARS2 as if it is possible to get rid of the disease by vaccinating the entire population while it has become clear that a) vaccinated people can still catch the disease and spread it to others and b) it will be around for a long time, just like influenza is still with us.

The claim that "vaccinated people can still catch the disease and spread it to others" is misleading because it carries the implication that the vaccine does nothing. It's akin to claiming we don't need seat belts in cars because you can still die in a car crash. A literal interpretation of the sentence is technically correct, but it's still a fact that vaccines significantly reduce the likelihood of symptoms, hospitalization, and death, and also shorten the duration in which you are contagious.

> it will be around for a long time, just like influenza is still with us.

Nobody has claimed otherwise.

The problem is that your last two arguments are somehow being used as reasons to not vaccinate, which I don't understand. It essentially boils down to "The vaccine isn't 100% effective, so why bother?". The goal is not to eliminate hospitalizations and death, but to significantly reduce them, which the vaccines do.
I've been actively moving all my projects from rollup to esbuild where possible. You have to do a bit more plumbing to get a lot of the niceties provided by the rollup/webpack ecosystem, but the resulting simplicity, speed, and size of esbuild make it worth it.
Anecdote: facebook is the only social network where I am listed under my actual name. Until some highly adopted internet address book exists, the only option for many old friends to contact me is FB at this point.
My neighborhood's official presence is only on Facebook, apparently. I don't actively use Facebook, so I have no access to my group of neighbors.
Yes, agreed. And animals literally take O2 out and put CO2 into the atmosphere. There's, more or less a balance there. However, we as humans, have been dumping excessive amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere as part of our industry, wildly throwing that balance off; if we find a way to further our industry by taking CO2 out... then I can imagine the balance swinging wildly in the opposite direction.
We've started to treat anything that even sounds like PII as if it were high level radioactive waste. We have a single unified model for our problem domain with special attributes on those properties which are PII-sensitive.

Any time our model is to be exposed to an unsecure context, it is reflected for these PII attributes and mapped into a special redacted variant of the same model.

For purposes of troubleshooting, the redacted model properties receive the sensitive data as a hash after it has been passed through salted SHA256. This allows for us to correlate sensitive things like SSNs between multiple log entries for the same work item, but unable to correlate across different work items.
Just give us accesible hardware kill switches on the side and I'm sold
I'd be interested to know what the statistics are on teacher gender these days. When I was in school (80s), I had a male teacher for 3rd, 4th, and half of 6th grade. It remained pretty evenly split in secondary school, too. But right now I'd be hard pressed to identify more than one male teacher at my kids' elementary school.
The top comment is still 100% on the money. That there are desktop apps at all is 100% because the fantastic, easy to write for, powerful, well used, well known cross-platform web platform has made it possible & not misery-inducing to target a laundry list of pernickety not fun native platforms.

Flash was an not-integrated experience within the page, something not really debuggable or visible to the host platform. Electron on the other hand is super easy to break out a debugger on. We haven't seen good examples, but this should also permit some pretty advanced extending, modifying, altering Electron apps on the fly. Something, again, that I think of as extremely not Flash's forte: Flash always felt like a proprietary dump truck of pixel-pushing loaded itself on screen, without the beauty & elegance of the hypertext document.

It's also epic to me how much Slack's poor implementation drives hatred of Electron. I definitely want to see better web-app delivery mechanisms emerge, that free each app from having to distribute an embedded version of Chrome, but by far the most serious complaint to me is the cpu usage, and that's not Chrome's fault. It's just a shitty poorly built app. We can build apps like shit on Native too. Slack is a juggernaut of terribleness, and that this horror happens to have been done with Electron justifies far more hatred than is reasonable. VS Code for compare is not a massive resource hog, because the app developers decided to care about the product & make it work well.

In my view, a lot of people want to be very upset at the web, and Slack provides an endless supply of fuel on that particular fire.
Yes I was referring to this when I meant the `Whatsapp police`. I actually tried to dig up the article to backup my claims, but was at a loss, since I didn't bookmark it.

So in this case we have Whatsapp users essentially snitching on each other and getting posts flagged for the purposes of law enforcement, and having those message unencrypted. Whilst this is largely helpful, there is the potential for false positives (e.g a meme about ISIS getting flagged as 'extremist' and 'violent')

It's a tricky one, because although the feature may help save lives and such, I am just uncomfortable with it, since the E2E encryption is slightly broken because of this mechanism in place.
Devil's advocate question: I don't really remember my railroad history in the US, but I do know that railroads are so mediocre as to be barely usable these days.

Does that have anything to do with weakening the railroad industry at a critical moment just before the automobile industry popped up and ate their lunch?

Could we be risking a similar problem here with the successors to Facebook's social media, Google's internet search algos, and Amazon's shopping experience?
In their defense, they probably thought this whole Tether thing would have imploded by now, and they needed to be ready to make their getaway.
Well, there would be some extra drag, for one.
I fail to see why hacker news cares so deeply about this, considering that men continue to dominate the fields of Math, computer and physical sciences, and engineering, as confirmed by the first table in the article: https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Grad1.png?x91...

Why is an overall difference of 17% of major concern, but a 99.2% difference in the other direction between men and women in math/computer science isn't?
And the rest of that list? And as an aggregate? If you're going to pick / choose to ignore the obvious point, why even reply?