skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's even simpler than actual racism: quite a few people believe that they are intrinsically 'better' along some dimension (virtue, way of life, religion, skin color, whatever) and that the 'others' are worth less or are even sub-human on account of this.

Racism is mostly an expression of one of those factors. This perfectly explains why division happens on the basis of an 'in' group and an 'out' group and why the solutions (for want of a better word) aimed at the outgroup start with deportation and end with gas chambers: they're lesser humans or not even humans at all in the eyes of the perpetrators.

The fact that skin color is so easily determined obviously makes it a perfect candidate.
> What about freelancers, for example?

On the CVs that I’ve seen, freelancers looking for a full-time job tend to put freelancing as a single entry with an overall start and end date.

> Are gaps really that much of an issue?

I don’t remember seeing a CV gap cause big problems for a candidate. But I have seen interview panels ask about the gaps. If a CV is a document designed to show a candidate in a good light, it can be interesting to know what they chose to leave out.
> There comes a point where the money just isn't a motivating factor anymore, and companies are struggling to figure out how to work in that environment. This bit from the author hits the nail on the head:

I dunno... maybe for hotshot FAANG jobs?

I mean, I love where I work now, but if some company were to offer me 250k to jump ship, I'd be MIGHTY tempted!
The fact that you would never actually walk away seems very relevant to your original questions.
Military are the ranchers and rest of us are the cattle. Making us believe they work for us is the wisest thing they did. As soon as government stops being able to gather taxes to pay military what it wants, ugly truth comes out.
Personal Improvement Plan. Usually used as either a blunt instrument to goad people into working harder or a sneaky way to fire people. Topped with a sauce of double-speak of course.
In downtown Los Angeles, surface lots are quite valuable because film crews routinely set up base camp in them. They can't set up in a garage.
Off topic: As someone who doesn't even like Star Trek I feel attacked.

While we are off topic, that opening by apenwarr (linked in the article) was epic:

> Recently a security hole in a certain open source Java library resulted in a worldwide emergency kerfuffle as, say, 40% of the possibly hundreds of millions of worldwide deployments of this library needed to be updated in a hurry. (The other 60% also needed to be updated in a hurry, but won't be until they facilitate some ransomware, which is pretty normal for these situations.)
A few months ago
Wonderful, thanks for your contributions!
i have DOH on firefox and jio fiber and it works nicely
In sophomore year at uni, I had been acing two enjoyable & challenging courses. Comp Sci II and Cost Account.

It all just became boring. I felt like I had already conquered whatever I was getting out of the courses. And I guess I lacked any incentive around my GPA or to finish the course through completion.

I was more concerned with Rugby, partying, and trying to build my own software products.

With A’s in both classes, I ended up skipping the comp sci final, and throwing the accounting final in the trash once the professor walked out and after I realized I stood no chance. Both professors emailed me to figure out a solution, I ghosted both of them. I’m pretty sure I failed both classes.

The other A class was art history, which I enjoyed but also faltered in towards the end. The final wasnt as large of a portion of the grade and the test was manageable so I got by.

My foreign language final was a hack at a live presentation that I scripted through Google translate.
> Logic would dictate you'd want to give up all the evidence of bad bat soup as fast as possible.

No logical narrative for PRC is this:

Covid19 never originated in PRC in the first place - Wuhan was merely the first identified cluster, being a large transit hub in the world's most populous country that just happens to have some labs which contributed to PRC's flu monitoring system picking up the novel disease in the first place. The most likely origin is some cave down south, likely (hopefully for PRC) across the border in Laos/Vietnam/Cambodia. And PRC should be praised for identifying and reporting novel virus relatively promptly, even more so for unprecedented locking down and buying the world time, which most countries squandered. That geopolitical adversaries of PRC who failed to contain convid are looking for an escape goat, and there is zero reason for PRC to cooperate by entertaining their conspiracy theories, let alone open up sensitive PRC facilities to inspection because frankly sovereignty violations like that are not "common" for large countries - it's the kind of weapons inspection tier treatment enforced upon losers of wars. PRC already entertained WHO investigation. That's enough. Now go validate PRC conspiracy theory that it was a leak from Fort Detrick, which is just as valid, knowing full well there's about zero chance US would open Fort Detrick to international scrutiny (though it would certainly shut PRC up if US did). Ultimately PRC would never submit to that kind of sovereignty violation doubters deem necessary even if she's innocent due to history and basic geopolitics. It's not going to change enough minds to matter.

Of course I'm being somewhat hyperbolic, but not by much. Official PRC position is to let science work it out, which will take time, which is to say spend decades years sampling all the bat caves in South Asia and best case find something to clear PRC or worst case implicate PRC through process of elimination. But by then so much time has passed that it would barely be consequential and in all likelihood there's going to be an entire universe of conspiracy theories to cloud any findings. Or the fact that PRC's superior covid response could vindicate it's claim that it was simply best prepared to identify novel virus that did not originate in PRC because in retrospect, the idea that west was best prepared to deal with pandemic is a meme. Or that time will bring clarity to all the covid geopolitics, and conclude lab-leak is just one of many propaganda campaigns in nascent Sino-US cold war. And frankly it'll probably work, because none of this is even wrong and history has tendency to be rewritten.
Easiest option in the book. The only downside I face with this is frequent captcha requests as the IP range (Hetzner/IPv6) is marked suspicious. Probably because it is flagged as a server range vs domestic.
Rails 7 provides a —css=bootstrap option to setup a new project, but this actually relies on node, esbuild and jsbundling. Can we actually have Bootstrap working without depend on nodejs? Yes. We can!
Heh, one of the most successful modern games wouldn't exist if game mechanics could be patented or copyrighted.

Dune 2 -> WarCraft -> WarCraft 3 -> DOTA -> League of Legends.

Come to think of it, the only time Blizzard invented the whole genre was with Diablo. All their other (incredibly successful) games were refinements of prior work by other game developers.
Mailcow dockerized is great if you would like to host yourself, but dont want to spend too much time building or upgrading.
only that it takes a term that once meant "Hitler/Pol Pot" etc. Monsters on truly large and horrifying scales... into something that is watered down to, well, the politics of war.

Much like the word Terrorism. Its an almost worthless term.
How to Start a Home Lab: Part 1 – Proxmox VE
> Then I created an online Monster.com account, listed Bianca as a White woman on the diversity questionnaire, and activated the account.

> All along, my real Monster.com account was open and active

This is from 2012. Even then, I don't remember Monster.com being very good. The most likely explanation is fraudsters or sketchy employers found a fresh account and reached out because fresh accounts have higher callback rates than stale accounts.

She didn't say her name, but it's also possible she experienced discrimination because of that, not her disclosed race.
Depends on how you define works. It does effectively filter the people that can't code, but it also filters a lot of people that can code and just can't or don't care to do it under time or environment pressure.

In the past that was fine, candidate pool was large enough that a heavy-handed filter was okay. That may be changing.
Yes it's happened to me and I have initiated such an internal move to bring people into my team also. It's completely fine to do and in the right circumstances can be beneficial for everyone (old and new teams and the person concerned). In spite of what anyone may think, it's not in your manager's interests to keep you hostage in your current team if you want to leave.

A couple of things I would like to stress for the less experienced folks on here as internal mobility can put people's noses out of joint if not handled well:

1) If you're trying to leave your current team, don't be a problem to your current manager. They will probably need to approve the move and lots of places have a rule where they won't transfer someone who is an underperformer etc because that just shifts a problem around the org. So be a good team member if you want to leave. Do your job and your boss will say "yeah it sucks to lose them, but ....". That's what you're shooting for.

2) If you leave a team, don't be a dick about it. Just like you shouldn't badmouth an ex-partner or ex-company, don't badmouth your ex-team or ex-boss. It's unnecessary, unhelpful, reflects badly on you and doesn't do anything good. Just don't. It wasn't the right place for you? Fine. Your colleagues are still in that team so be nice. If nothing else, you will need to work with these people crossfunctionally in the future.

3) Remember that your boss and the boss of your new prospective team may not have as many options as you think. There are all sorts of BS considerations that go into whether someone can grow or shrink an existing team. Be patient and try to put yourself in their shoes and the process will go smoother.
I've self-hosted email since around 2000, it used to be relatively simple.. Your ISP would assign you a public static IP, and they'd apologize for blocking outgoing port 25 right there in their documentation, and also tell you, the address of their relay server, which you could configure as a "smarthost". Done. Email right there, on my harddisk, in my server, in my home.

Time has a tendency to make some things worse, self-hosting your email was not spared. Some great stuff has been added over the years, DKIM, DMARC and SPF are all quite easy to manage, but the quality of internet providers has nosedived.
Today the generally biggest problem of hosting anything online is that your ISP may not want to provide you with a public routable static IP.
The second problem is even worse, and relates to email in specific, your ISP probably still blocks outgoing port 25, meaning that while your self-hosted server can RECEIVE emails well enough, it won't be able to send anything out. You need the aforementioned "smart host" for this, and your ISP might not provide one anymore, leaving their customer with an "Internet" connection that cannot do Internet related things, such as sending email! This is obviously an outrage, but apparantly there are not legislation defining minimum requirements for internet connections.. Imagine if electricity and water providers were allowed the same freedom.. "What? you want around 50 hz at around 230volt? Sorry sir, that's our premium package, what we deliver is between 23 and 120 hz at whatever the volt we want!" and your water company being "Oh, this definitely _IS_ water, guaranteed 25% of it!"
One of my friends said: "In this market good people can choose where they want to work, but even the bad ones can choose where they don't want to work"
I think you're strictly right there. If they'd obtained sequences then they could have built that tree; but as far as I know they didn't, perhaps because the cost of sequencing was higher back then. That's still more evidence than we have for SARS-CoV-2, though.

With SARS-1 we had the additional evidence that some wildlife traders had antibodies, presumably from mild infections by related viruses in the animals they handled. There's again no genomic evidence to exclude "reverse zoonosis" there, but the timing seems to make that pretty unlikely.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1140695/
Just try them all...
This is exactly it. I have faced a similar experience, where even though I wanted to contribute more, I was not allowed to. Even though I had actual experience in the domain, I was not the one picked for working on the project, coz someone else needed to lead the project to be promoted.

In the end the project failed, but the guy got promoted. It was just like a play. The script was pre-ordained by the management chain and we all had to play our parts.
> Far easier to swap a battery than swap the entire pack integrated into her costume and sound systems

How do you get to the pack to change the battery if integrated into her costume? Backstage doesn't work on stage unless it's a quick handoff. Cinderella had to step off stage and manipulate her wardrobe to give access. But she stepped off upstage right. So the audience could see if they had been looking there. So I gave her the "follow me" wave and walked from the wings upstage to the wings downstage, where nothing could be seen from the house. I turned to work, and she wasn't there. She didn't see me give the "follow me" sign. She had her back to the audience and was bent over with her dress over her head in an attempt to give access to the transmitter and battery pack which was in a pouch in a harness she wore, basically it was secured in the small of her back. I checked the audience and they somehow hadn't yet noticed what Cinderella was doing (which was probably illegal given her age) and, in a stage whisper, I screamed her name to get her attention, then gave the sign again. She saw and came over, and was apologizing while I replaced the entire transmitter, batteries and all, without messing with the mic and cord. Funny girl, if she knew I doubt she cared about the peep show she gave as much as concern she had upset me somehow (which is absurd)

It's really only the cord that is difficult to replace, the mics and transmitter/battery packs swap faster than trying to muck around with loose batteries. Even so, it's an off stage operation. If it occurs in the middle of a number, I've walked out to hand a wireless mic to a singer.

Any interaction with the stage during a show means a sprint from the sound booth, under the house, and up to the back stage, and then back afterwards. It's nice when there's a small sound crew, but the audio engineer is expected to deal with it regardless.
Why do shopping malls build selfie traps into the walkways now?
Why is everyone's backdrop on Zoom so aesthetic?
Why are brilliant computer scientists spending their best years reinventing banking?
Why are talented artists leaving their easels behind to draw pixel zombies?
I only get annoyed if the first search results for an acronym are inconclusive. MOND is quite distinct
yup, and can you name or give examples of a single act of war since those were defined and outlined that hasn't breached them?
Yes, but, it is trivial to pack bags when young, show up for job, rent a furnished place, and just start living.

If the job doesn't work out, you can just pack and go home.

Worst case, you get to see a new city, meet new people, and have some memories.
My story is a bit different. I started at a company where the engineers hated the customer support team and refused to do any work for them, because they would ask for quite a lot of help. At some point, I finished all of my work early and they kept asking our team for help. I noticed the other teammates wouldn't give them the time day.

But, all of their requests ultimately helped our customers which was good for the company. And, more importantly, it helped some of our best customers that were keeping the lights on. I decided to go ahead and help them complete several of the surprisingly difficult tasks for quite a variety of customers. Several of those customers had threatened to drop us and scratching those itches were all they really needed to feel comfortable with our products.

I half regretted it later on when I was laid off and I asked for recommendations from my fellow team members and manager. They declined. I turned to ask for recommendations from the support team I had helped. They said, "You didn't accomplish anything. Why would we recommend you?"

I said, "Wait, what are you talking about? I helped you with so many customer issues that were show stoppers, when no one else would." I was a bit offended and depressed by this, because I didn't expect it.

And, then they responded that if you can list us a few of the things you think you did for us we'll think about it. I listed a dozen in fairly extensive detail. They did apologize and agreed to recommended me but it was done so grudgingly. It was a very strong lesson to me that the other engineers there already understood well. But, I was hard working, naïve and socially awkward. And, in the end I almost walked away with nothing to show for it.
Using a tracepath does point to Airtel. So, I'm assuming it is atleast using Airtel to route my traffic.
This may fix the reason I left Firefox. Keyword searches don’t work in the search bar, only the address bar. So when I wanted go to back to Google from DDG, I was forced into an omnibar situation. This wasn’t the first feature cut that ran me off, it was the last. If I have to use an omnibar going forward, I may as will be using my native browser so I set up my keywords in Edge.
If you want to use this as a toy, sure. But please don’t rely on it for messages you want to actually get delivered: These gateways frequently drop messages for random reasons, or block your IP if you send more than a few messages at a time.
Also, in countries other than the US, expect the gateways to be long gone, or completely unreliable.
Hollywood is such a strange industry. You've got a small economy about presentation such that even discussing the internals of the economy must be presented carefully. This makes it very resilient, the tools needed to maintain it are already in built by default, it's staffed by actors and story crafter's after all. But this makes it fragile, because since the industry internals must be presented, the industry can be easily transformed with PR, and someone found a way to hack it.

Does this all end in a class action suit? Maybe. But what it actually ends in is a dead entertainment industry. There's only so many meaningless platitudes people are willing to pay for, there's only so many no-nos until people feel like it's too sterile to be culturally dominant. It might feel like it's booming now, but the industry is in a no win situation where the reputation of it declines one way or another, and in the process the content itself, what people actually pay for, becomes less compelling.
While it does not yet exist as an end to end solution, BlindTLS[0] is a technique which perfectly fits the description of a "poor man's vpn". You pay the vpn provider for a tiny fraction of the traffic, and you can safely route the rest directly through your own ISP. This should work around most censorship techniques or geographic blocking. It doesn't promise privacy though.

[0] https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3473604.3474564
It’s rarely worthwhile to spend a human being’s time just avoiding garbage, and Rust is a better fit for those cases. If we can tolerate garbage, the JVM has more productive languages and better GC throughput (Go wins only on latency, with more shorter pauses).
There's something much worse than Leetcode.
Take home unpaid long projects that end up in rejection or lowball offers.
The overwhelming majority of apps can be turned into websites instead, unshackled by store regulations. Devs should vote with their feet if app store costs outweigh the benefits
Definitely not. Total comp of senior engineers at Microsoft in Seattle is nowhere near this. (I am one of those at this point in time)
i've tried this for a high volume site, but since all events are stored in normal RDBMS, it gets slower [1][2]. it works well for low-traffic site though.

[1] https://github.com/mikecao/umami/issues/592

[2] https://github.com/mikecao/umami/discussions/909
Author doesn't make a distinction between those earlier in their careers vs those much further along.

For "senior" devs, I think there are two additional things just as important as the mentioned three: good compensation & minimal BS.

The techno-utopian perspective tends to fade away with time (and acquiring of a significant other), replaced with pragmatism and realism which brings these two elements much more into focus with time.
ELI5 plz: has Google put a neural network in Chromium? Does that mean they are mining all your activity within browser to build a better profile of you?
> You're confusing approval of the booster for teenagers, which skipped that panel, with approval of the vaccine for kids, which did not.

Pediatrics covers teens.

You clearly value a political process higher than the scientific method when you don’t distrust a vaccine approval entity that cut scientific advisory committees, cut required steps from the process, ignore extremely elevated myocarditis cases amongst boys etc

In what seem politically instead of scientifically motivated you invent hypothesis such as “ Viruses, including the one that causes Covid, are an even greater risk of heart disease, including a more severe form called MIS-C that has resulted in amputations.” which the best science indicate is wrong for covid.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.23.21268276v...

You are both severely overestimating how much myocarditis covid gives and underestimating how irregular the vaxx myocarditis numbers are. These seem designed to fit your motivated reasoning that the mitigations worked as desired.

> This would be low if it happened without mitigations (or the first half year of that being before the disease had spread to most of America). It happened when mitigations severe enough to reduce flu deaths a hundredfold were in place. Do you not understand that?

According to this nature article by end of 2020 1/3 of all Americans had covid, so you are severely overestimating the effectiveness of the mitigations.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03914-4

You said "Covid still hundreds of times more lethal for children than the flu", so that means you claim we should expect 20k+ deaths without mitigations.

Again, we had 400 pediatric deaths amongst the unvaccinated 73 million US kids over 1.5 years.

Where do you get your excess mitigated pediatric deaths from in a population when 1/3 already had the virus by end of 2020, way before mid 2021 that the 400 deaths cover?
Apple Doesn’t Care About “Gaming”
Works on Firefox for me, in boring old Ubuntu. Maybe font issues?
Weird world you live in! I see endless employers post job postings with specific reqs, and presume engineers cannot learn new languages or skills.

Oh no! You don't code in lang $x, but know 12 other languages? Clearly, you're not a fit for this job!