skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What I wonder is if despite the general impression that the site has failed it is still meeting the goals set by its owners, and what does goals might be.

I can't imagine that it's meeting any goals at this point. It appears to be mostly on life support.

The site sold for an incredibly small sum of money. I believe it was less than $1 million. Considering what it once was, the sale price was astonishingly low. I think the founders chose the only apparent option that would keep the site alive and save at least a few of the core staff from losing their jobs. I will give them credit, the management team really did care about the site and the users when I worked there, which was from early 2009 to early 2013.

It was the best job I ever had and I loved every minute of the nearly 5 years I spend there. I learned more from that job than any other time in my career and it was really formative for me as an engineer. They had an amazing engineering culture which I haven't found elsewhere. At least sometime in the past they had a really strong drive to create the best place for artists and an incredible team working on making that happen, despite some missteps and controversial decisions. I think what they achieved is remarkable, especially given the small amount of outside investment they took. It was once among the very top sites on the internet, running on a tiny budget with a small team executing really well.

I credit much of the engineering culture to $randomduck and $mccann but there were a lot of brilliant engineers and inspired people working there. I'm happy the site survives in some form but it's sad to see how far it's fallen.
You think it's that easy to replace the existing financial system?
Equality is much higher in europe then the US.

It's the same for lawyers, doctors etc.
No, the productivity pareto principle here is very clear, 20% do 80% of the work. This is unbelievably consistent across human organisations. This percentage applies roughly to many things, including sexual partners at college, money earned, academic success, and health issues.
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Nobody argued that country-of-origin isn't real, or that there aren't physical attributes related to the physical location of one's ancestry.

The Irish used to be a "race" unto themselves. Jewish people still are according to many people (I wonder if an Ethiopian Jew is of the Black race or the Jewish race?). Ukrainians were called their own race in my part of the world, Western Canada, during an immigration wave 100 years ago.

I suppose it's possible that all those old guys had it wrong and used "race" improperly, but we're doing it right now because we use skin tone as a proxy for race instead of other factors.
I haven't gone through any training about specific technologies that was really "worth it". In contrast, conferences and other gatherings seem to help me understand better those technologies I'm just starting with.
Well done, sounds like a great setup you've created for yourself. I'm a manager and looking for a financially viable way out/back. I haven't coded since I left college and and have some small ideas for some side projects, has anyone here hired offshore coders for small projects like an addin for outlook etc?
Exactly. I spent a decade plus in a job where emails came in routinely until 9-10 at night and often the CEO would send out something on the weekend. Even if I wasn't required to respond or the response was short, this is _absolutely_ work. Over and above that, spending a decade being literally unable to get away from work in that way is like arsenic poisoning. It was like "I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm dead." It's insidious and terrible.
Different ethnicities get affected in different proportions by some conditions, such as sickle cell disease https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/sicklecell/data.html. It's a genuine medical question, but of course you're not obliged to answer.
That’s only if you see positions in society as rewards. Then it’s easy to get upset about wealthy and privileged people lining their pockets and filling their board seats with friends and family.

If, on the other hand, you see positions as responsibilities then it’s much more straightforward to evaluate a meritocracy. On the one hand, we could be outraged that the king put his favourite nephew in charge of the army. On the other hand, we ask: is the nephew actually a capable commander? During peace time we can quibble over wealth and privilege but during a war I want the best commander to lead and protect us.

This characterization naturally extends to plenty of less urgent, but no less important positions. Do you care about how wealthy and privileged your heart surgeon is? Or only how skilled they are?
Assuming that at some point in the next 100 years we are able to develop an artificial womb, so women won't have to damage their bodies by giving birth, not only will birth become easier for everyone but it will also be easier to do such modifications with the fertilized egg.
I bet you people were going fast with Teslas on not perfect roads. I have been doing that as well with my BMW, and the huge potholes that I don't always see made lots of damage to my suspension that I didn't have with slower cars.
Why can he expect his roommates to be easy to live with? That doesn’t follow.

Also if you think he would have to shop around and change roommates often to find ones who are easy to live with, you are invalidating the point he was trying to make.
Since he may be in the EU, I wonder if he could appeal the decision using Article 22 of the GDPR "The data subject shall have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning him or her or similarly significantly affects him or her."

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-22-gdpr/
The benefit of switching doesn't outweigh the costs yet. The switch to ssl was largely over google rankings vs greater security. What is going to be the reason people switch?

Many think cost of ip4 addresses but that hasn't panned out with solutions like NAT.
> That doesn't make 10% not bad. But lets exclude expensive cars. How come Tesla is worse than cheap cars then?

Even when you buy a brand new cheap car, like a Dacia, you typically go to your dealership for inspections in the first couple of years. The percentage of owners who do this is certainly lower than for the premium brands, but still much higher than for Tesla if Tesla doesn't have any dealerships that offer the HU+AU inspections (that's what they are called).
Or corrupted governments will decide. Is there a difference nowadays?
as other people pointed out, it's an imprecise proxy. It doesn't have no scientific or empirical basis, but it's very imprecise. The scientific community moved on to using the term "genetic history" which makes more sense.
At lot of the inspectors are a joke, so you have to mess up pretty bad to fail.

I had an inspector come out to verify my generator hookup and interlock switch. He asked a few basic questions, but that was it. He didn't ask nor look at how the legs of the panel were balanced or anything. Later he sent me a letter saying I needed to mark the generator receptacle with the max wattage. Um yeah, that was already on there...

It's all about the permit money.
He can drive his Ford and enjoy his quality Oppo smart phone I guess.
I am sure this is true for many people, but it doesn't resonate with me at all. I usually end up working way more hours (focus working, not browsing HN or Reddit between PRs) than I'm supposed to. It is so easy for me to get sucked into a task and not be able to put it down until I'm done, and then get sucked into the next task even if it it's after-hours. And once I have momentum it is very difficult for me to stop until I feel some sense of completion, even though the task is expected to be spread out across several days. I think it is a sign of workaholism and it's something I am trying to work on.
Since this centers around minimalism, I figured I'd point out, to those that don't yet know of it, that a successor to Gopher exists. It's called Gemini.

https://gemini.circumlunar.space/

You can even get hosting for your Gemini site there.

Some sites are actually going exclusively Gemini, or partially exclusive to Gemini. Proxies to Gemini exist too.
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The alternative is that all of your DNS queries are monitorable by anyone who happens to share a network path or segment with you, because the default behavior of DNS is that it is unencrypted.

DoH is a massive security and privacy improvement as a default, and you have many other options besides CloudFlare if you don’t want to use them. Personally I use NextDNS.
How to solve delayed Google indexing issues
Websites have separate DNS records for ipv6 (AAAA record) and ipv4 (A record). Since ipv6 is not universally supported, the de facto expectation is that if website has ipv6 DNS record, it should also have an ipv4 one for the users who can't talk ipv6.

Your device's network stack first learns if your mobile ISP supports ipv6 or not, and based on that and DNS reply decides how to connect to a given website.
I doubt that it can be taken seriously as a medical question, as some of the American "races" don't cluster genetically. Hispanic is probably the worst offender, but Asian is pretty bad too.
California net neutrality laws survive legal attack from ISPs
One is a developer putting his reputation on the line for a free open-source product he has put hundreds of hours of work into. The other is a faceless trillion dollar advertising company operated mostly via black-box Machine Learning with a very public history of incorrectly censoring users and terminating accounts. I know who I would tend to trust.
I think that’s probably the opinion of many academic focused people about their profession.
University applications probably do for reasons related to equality policies.

I'm sure they have some affirmative action equivalent over there.
Every country has its dynamics to implement discrimination among its people. It is because Humankind is sucking. Generally speaking, let's look at humans' known history for the past 2000 years. We are still missing a system that allocates resources so efficiently to make each of us happy.
The author's main point seems to be that San Francisco is "moving forward with supervised drug consumption and drug dealing in ways that are totally inconsistent with the successful approach used by Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Lisbon, Vienna, and Zurich." The linked article provides details on successful approaches but the author needs to provide more specifics on how San Francisco is not adhering to those approaches.
Sorry, but for QA reasons it's still valuable to track. In the US, medical care is shockingly worse for people who medical staff perceive as one race vs another. Removing the line on the form will not prevent that.
In Germany we learned in school about Hitler's race theory and how ridiculous the whole idea was. But compared to attempts like the one described in the article Nazi Germanys version sounds incredibly well thought out, including rigorous criteria to determine the race of a person (as ridiculous as those were).

Which is by all means not meant as an endorsement of 1930s ideology, more as a "wtf is that, that's backwards in more ways than I'm comfortable with".
Adjustable height air suspension is only in new Teslas, and only specific models. Most cars hitting the 3 year inspection would not have that feature yet. I think older S had a more traditional suspension.
>The atomic bomb was also just the codification of some ideas into a physical machine.

No, it wasn't. It was the product of the entire industrial capacity of the United States. The amount of Deuterium required for a fission bomb took years of labor by hundreds of thousands of people to produce. The "ideas" were worthless without the physical infrastructure and industrial capacity to carry out the construction.

Software, on the other hand, requires nothing more than really really smart people and a $200 laptop.
This sort of statistical information helps organizations understand how they’re serving the community.
Other sources seem to write it the other way around : headlights but also wishbones.

But nobody seems to quote the TUV directly or link to the actual report
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IPv6 is a 'tragedy of the commons' issue just like recycling: you get no benefits to you individually from addressing the issue.

However the day the issue is solved, and ee can forget IPv4, a myriad issues dissapear - routing, port forwarding, P2P software for torrents and calls, multiplayer games, etc.
Is anything in coreutils setuid? That’s the only possible drawback I have in mind.
But some do. Its easier to ask for race than it is to ask for genetic makeup.
Some big nation should decide to switch off IPv4 over a course of maybe a month and maybe we will start seeing servers deploying IPv6 then.
I spent a lot of time shrinking down a site of mine last year. It bulked up a little bit later but is still only 22k even with images and mobile friendliness :)

https://gtmetrix.com/reports/concise-encoding.org/IbSyhS6i/
I've found as well that once I get really going on a tough problem, it may consume my life for the next several days in a row, it'll be all I do or think about. I wish I knew how people turn it off after a few hours a day and think about anything else.
I go for Douglas Adams references across the board, which I think may be tied with Tolkien as the global leader for this sort of thing.
So basically if Google added IPv6 support into its ranking algorithm we would get adoption virtually overnight.
That’s why I prefer the term “moving the goalposts”
> What exactly is "Black"? Does one Spanish great-grandfather disqualify you from that category?

Interestingly you might get a very different answer to that question in Brazil than you would in the USA. I saw an interview with a Brazilian footballer that looked black to Americans sounding surprised when asked by an interviewer asked how racism affected him. His answer was, paraphrasing from memory, “what are you talking about I’m not black.”

Meanwhile race in the USA is of major political importance. It matters for college admissions, government loans and contracts, and so on. By and large it’s on the honor system. So far at least there haven’t been many white presenting Americans identifying as black or mixed race when their DNA test shows 4% African ancestry.
It's the suspension bit that's worrying. When the excessively complex transmission fails you have the vehicle towed to the shop, but the suspension is a safety issue (and you do wonder - if 10 % showed up at the inspection with problems how many owners had their suspension fixed because the car handled funny).
This is a great ortholinear keyboard.
I plan to do that myself... "one day". But I will re-invent the wheel: I'll write my own RISC-V keyboard firmware using assembly (probably using gas or fasm, yes, fasm...).
How does one prove that they did not receive the violation notifications? Regardless, is it that hard for Google to actually list out the specific violations in the termination notice and provide a direct, responsive way to address them?
If Tesla has no dealerships that offer HU+AU inspections, almost 100% of all Teslas will go to the TÜV without prior inspection by a dealership. But even owners of brand new Dacias will typically let the dealership take care of it.

That's why the numbers are not really comparable.
> But precision medicine only works if scientists have studied people who are similar to you. If your genes are rare or unusual compared to those researchers have examined in the past, you could end up getting the wrong treatment. Since the vast majority of genetics studies are done on people of European ancestry, members of other racial groups may lose out on the benefits of precision medicine entirely.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/medicine-is-getting-mor...
I think it used to be back in the day, but many normal apps use tons of permissions so people skipped over them. Google revamped their UI to only show a select bunch of them at some point. Perhaps in this step they managed to mess up and miss a bunch of permissions that these apps use.

You can't get a permission that's not in your app manifest without root access.

Seeing as the app appears to install apps silently, it probably manages to exploit devices with outdated security to elevate its system permissions. Altering the installed binary and system permission table are probably the easiest way to use the standard Android API to install software in the background, because doing so programmatically is a pain.
this is fundemental to American politics

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo153451...
It is for reporting and analysis.

"Why are 2/3 of our maths grads white men?"

"Hmmm, don't know. What were our applicant demographics?. Ooh, they are only 60% white men. Lets dig..." etc etc.

If you don't have the data you cannot identify where in the pipeline an anomaly starts
There is a discussion here:

https://discourse.julialang.org/t/rust-julia-comparison-post...

So far, a bug fix improves it 4700 min -> 150 min, changing the type stored -> 20 min, further optimisations -> 15 min.
> Wait, if my phone is IPv6, then what does it mean that a site 'supports' v6? I can get on HN just fine.

It means that the phone doesn't have to talk through a network-translation box, which may add latency. For some things (gaming?) this may be important, while for others it may not be.

Further, the price of each IPv4 address is going up, and so having your hosts on IPv6 may allow for the lowering of your costs, which you can pass onto your customers or add to your margin.

About a year ago they were US$ 30/IPv4, and they now seem to be in the $50 range:

* https://auctions.ipv4.global

* https://auctions.ipv4.global/prior-sales
I'm not a big fan of Prolog, but its descendents like Datalog or Answer-Set Programming are excellent. Datalog in particular I find much nicer than SQL as a database language. All the "normal forms" are basically how you'd model things in Datalog anyway.
Every generation does have this fear. I was sure outsourcing would seriously damage Silicon Valley…in 1990.
I believe this, and similar things in job applications, is mostly so they can generate stats that would reveal if there was discrimination going on.

It feels weird because you're providing the information to the people who are being held accountable, and the idea is to get to a place where the information they are asking you for doesn't matter, but life is complicated.
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Get a Nissan Leaf.
Have spent a lot of my life doing manual labor, and still slightly in that boat now but do have a proper office job (receptionist). it was incredible for me to experience my first office job and realize this general fact. Not only was my body not sore everyday, but my day was suddenly largely my own, my "labor" was suddenly not defined necessarily by constant action. I dont even really have to think as much as I did working in a kitchen, say.

Its just important to realize that this relationship with labor is a privilege, because trust me, its not "everyone". If that privilege is obtained because you provide something more "skilled", ok, I guess I understand that. There is still an instinctual level where it still feels unjust to me. But thats just my emotions, I understand economics trumps them.
+1 on these tools opening up people's imagination of what's possible. They're the experts in their domain, and having these tools allow them to project what they know onto a system that makes them more productive and efficient.

If you don't mind answering, what were the kinds of apps or processes that business/ops folks you worked with made?
It depends on the age. At 20 something I could easily pull 16 hours of straight hard coding. Now? Forget about it.
This article is IMO very exaggerating issues there (please note that Google store shows that the app targets only Android >= 8.0, this has a huge impact for what's to follow)

List of perms from the article:
> Collect and send users’ application list and localization to its perpetrators, so they can leverage the information to perform attacks targeted towards individuals in specific countries that use specific mobile applications, instead of massive untargeted attack campaigns that would risk exposing them,

Yeah okay, giving access to the internet to an app enables the app to know what is the country of the user. Even knowing the language of the app know that. I'm sorry, but seriously, what are we supposed to do against that?

> Disable the keylock and any associated password security,

Listed on play store

> Download third-party applications under the shape of alleged updates

This doesn't allow to download apps silently. Every time you install or update a new app, this makes a huge annoying confusing popup, where you need to know where to click, and there are three such places! I even hate Google for how complicated it is. Criticizing Android for this is stupid.

> Freely perform activities even when the app is shut off,

I honestly don't know what they are talking about, that's pretty much always the case for all apps, there is no permission for that...? This is of course an issue wrt power drain, and Android is taking new counter measures against that power drain regularly. But that's just a power drain nothing else.

> Overlay other mobile applications’ interface using a critical permission called SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW for which Google specifies “Very few apps should use this permission; these windows are intended for system-level interaction with the user.”

This has indeed be very controversial. There are many great features that can be built with this. But the handling of this at Google has precisely been that apps need to be whitelisted manually Google-side to be allowed this permission, or go through a super complicated menu to enable it.

Overall, I have a very hard time believing this malware is anything but a PoC made by the anti-virus seller itself.

Edit:

One thing I forgot to mention. Many permissions in Android (like in iPhone) are DYNAMIC. Which means that user NEED to EXPLICITLY approve the usage of those permissions.

Google Play Store lists only the permissions that are granted without user's explicit approval.
I completely agree with you. Where is the proof?
> For await and yield, we’d need special syntax – e.g.:
> value |> await // awaiting a Promise

As much as await is nice and helps code to look cleaner - it should be noted that this example is one of the reasons why language designers have to be careful when adding syntax to support "special cases".

It makes every change down the road just a little bit harder / more complicated.
Computers have successfully been used to time 5K and marathons for decades.

Race is what you define it to be, such as in this ambiguous title. Whether we should have a concept of "race" is another matter.
That's because the hours don't get personally affected by their classification. I suspect it would suddenly be a big deal if the minimum wage for day vs. night work was different.

And anyways, is 4am morning or night? You'll get different answers in a city compared to on a farm, for example.