skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Do you disagree with 99.9999%? What do you think the accuracy would be?

I'm unable to come up with a number with a complete lack of evidence that points me towards one. And apparently, neither are you.

>Are you actually arguing some banal argument about taxonomic groupings in the edge cases

Edge case of _what_? We haven't even figured out where the 'edges' are, or even the centers. You've talked about 'objective sense' of 'racial background', so we need to know objectively what you are saying these groups are and define them in a way we know where the edge even is from a factual objective viewpoint. How many races are there anyway, can we list them? Does everyone fit or self-select into a certain list of races, and if not how can we factor that into admissions? What happens during admissions if they're unable to truthfully say what race they think they are?

>They would be correctly identified as their middle eastern ethnicities that they think themselves to be.

You've implied here race is what they 'think themselves to be.' It's not clear to me whether that means they can make up their race, but either you're imposing some races on these people or they are indeed coming up with the race for themselves. Seems to be at odds with your flippant remarks about a circumstance 'where people can make up their race.'

>Please describe the algorithm that makes her non-black.

I never claimed that there was any way to determine 'race', which is such a nebulous concept that it borders on absurd to include it in determining college admission or employment decisions. It's not clear to me that 'black' (in the context of 'race') is objectively defined, but if it is please educated me.

>Please explain why a professor had to resign for "lying" about being black

To determine whether she is lying about being 'black', I would have to know how to define (in context of 'race') 'black.' Is black a race? What determines if someone is black? Is it that they merely consistently say they are black? Is it lying to change your mind about what your race is? Is it lying if you state you are black, while actually being black, but believe you're not telling the truth? If someone looks 'black' but says they are 'white', are they lying? Making hiring and admission decision based on these factors just seems absurd.

The best argument I can find for firing this person is if they were acting maliciously or unprofessionally inconsistent, not because of a racial component. People shouldn't be fired because of their race.

>Please describe the algorithm that makes her non-black.

You're the one who made the claim race had some stochastic parity with self-selection. I personally can't say what 'non-black' even means, neither to you nor from some objective definition. This is a question for yourself, since you've made the assertion 99.9999% parity of DNA with self-selected race (which in one of your early sentences, you did indicate race is self-selected at least for 'middle eastern ethnicities'.)
The point isn’t that it works or not but that is our society so down that we fall for such tactics? And also, that is it really a thing done by people or is it just made up?
No your eyes aren't good enough to know the resolution of minute textures or the polygon count on screen on for games on current gen systems. You see low textures while others don't, it's completely subjective without really numbers and your obvious negative bias plays into it.

I asked for details, and now they are provided you can see they are flawed.

And please, stop pretending that you even played the game past 5 minutes and you know what you are talking about.
Related: China looks to the Western Classics.[1] Apparently if you are looking for a professorship now, you might need to go East to go West.

[1] https://supchina.com/2022/01/13/china-looks-to-the-western-c...
>Why would an attack clip through them just because they rolled?

See, I actually do find that a very intuitive situation, and not because I have a great grasp of i-frames, but because I'm not really thinking of "Why" questions. I'm just focused on the spectacle in front of me, with no regard for the underlying set of rules that produced it.

I might just be atypically disposed to enjoy watching things without needing to understand them.
I didn’t know about these acquisitions, I really hope you’re right.

At the moment, I’m heartbroken because of this. I’ve been using Bandcamp for a very long time now and it has been the single best thing to happen to independent music and musicians in the modern age. For me, one of its best features was the fact that it barely changed in all that time. It seemingly never chased the metrics that drive similar platforms to reinvent themselves constantly, so it’s always been a reliable, predictable partner. It’s the only product like it that I can think of where I can say that I truly believe that our interests are (were) aligned.

Now? It seems like a matter of time until their flashy front-end revamp, their new profit share agreement, a DRM option, a proprietary music player to compete with Spotify. I’m going to hope that their commitment to not changing dramatically holds true, but almost every acquisition starts with an email like this, so I’m not holding my breath.

And one of the worst parts, Bandcamp’s dominance is so thorough and its users so loyal that I’m unaware of a true competitor in their space. I’m not sure what I’d do if they did get progressively crappier.
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Feels embarrassing to always go in the stall when I obviously only need to pee.
> write thousands of articles a year

yeah IMHO that's one of the reasons why this problem exists to start with. Back in the print days, "thousands of articles" was not the main incentive. In the "click count" days, it is. I don't have a solution, I'm just suggesting that this is part of the problem.
It leads to me wanting to kill myself more often and needing to invest more time in therapy, commutes, and recovery. And over half the engineers I've spoken with, who drop their facade, feel the same.

Being stuck in a chair all day with people watching you is not a good life.
Being forced to adhere to arbitrary social convention instead of speaking sincerely and expressing yourself is not a good life.

Choosing to lay in bed, work in the sun, recline on the couch, say hi to your cat, be your most authentic self, is a better life. Personally not dealing with the anxiety and body pain makes me more productive. But maybe everyone is right and we can get more productivity out of people by gutting their personalities and self-appreciation; but if that's the cost, I sincerely do not care. I'd rather everyone enjoy their short lives than spend them colorlessly and regret their choices on their deathbeds.
That's exciting. Getting better performance with more data is trivial, the hard part is getting better performance with less data.
I enjoyed the office. I liked the amenities and eating lunch with people I only sort of knew grew my professional network very well. But it doesn't hold a candle compared to being able to leave in a location that supports my family goals.
And a key there is “never fix software or hardware by depending on humans” because we’re always the weak link.

And in cases like zero trust it may mean things like “make sure it works so well you don’t have people resetting access over the phone” or requiring an in-person replacement of a security token, etc.
_county_ lines? How far does it go?
I found some colleagues and subordinates are actually way easier to help with screen sharing than over the shoulder sharing or pairing.

The situation is much more symmetric.

And I'm one of those managers who kept extra mouthwash and altoids at my desk too...
> Is that a fair description of psyops - the information equivalent of more 'physical' tactics?

Absolutely it is. From a historical perspective, the tactic has known many names: Psychological Warfare, Psychological Operations, Military Information Support Operations, etc. By definition, however, only 37-series (e.g. MOS 37F, MOS 37A) folks trained out at Ft. Bragg are able to conduct PsyOp.

Political groups, private sector companies, etc. certainly conduct influence operations - sometimes at the direction of former PsyOp personnel - but there are legal distinctions and differences. It's one reason I enjoy limiting how much television I watch: advertisements are just watered-down influence operations with the goal of "spend money on X".
Yep, U.S. cities are designed for cars, not humans.
Humans only need a couple of million to live happily ever after. Anything more than that is....well...."infinite".

He's got 7 billion left. That tells me he did not in any way shape or form bleed. He suffered nothing. Hence, no sacrifice was made. He still can live prosperously until forever.
Of all the companies they could have been acquired by we're probably lucky it was Epic.
JS frameworks with a small footprint are suitable for this.
Honestly that's their issue that can be fixed. There's no reason someone with a Google salary needs to be 2 hours commute from the office.
I don't know. It depends on how often and what the expectations are. I think it could be cool as a few times a year thing in different regions/cities just as a meet and greet or mini conference type thing. Maybe a presenter or two, then put some faces to the user names (for people who don't want to be anonymous). Allowing more frequent meet ups to happen organically out of that.
I'm fairly certain that /r/worldnews is gamed by western intelligence and diplomatic agencies. The top stories and top comments on said stories are invariably towing the US State Department line.
> Doesn't really sound like an application, but a website.

"text" here is as in "text/html", not as in "English-language copy".

> In a web app it can happen that you use it for an hour without the backend doing a single thing.

I would submit that this is an extremely rare case. The most involved web apps I interact with (say, Figma) are constantly syncing their state with the server. The simplest (say, TurboTax) save state as I move on to the next screen.

If you do have a case where you can pull that off, then by all means use an SPA. But it's weird to say that something isn't a web app unless it can go long periods of time without server interaction.
Please read my comment again. My office is 1/2 mile from Google HQ, but I do not live at Google HQ. I'm about 13 miles away, but at peak commute times pre-Covid the roads were parking lots, and public transportation options take about 75 minutes each way.
I get that, and I believe that Reuters is better than most, however the issues that I described in my post above also affect larger and long-established news outlets. They are really problems affecting the market as a whole.
I think that "naturally" and "pretty close" in that method are carrying a lot of weight.

It is easy enough to hold up an SLR with a 50mm and see that the size of an object in the viewfinder is essentially equal to what you see with your eye. It's almost like just looking through a piece of flat glass (apart from the slightly shift due to the lens being positioned below the viewfinder.)
In Iraq leadership was killed democracy installed and oil wells secured. Enemy turned into an ally.

In Afganistan the country was occupied, Bin Laden went into hiding and then killed.

Both wars were won and objectives met.
I don't work for Google. I said that my office is near their HQ.
> if you can get good enough devs at a quarter of the cost, the salary will be that rate no matter where you live.

If full remote stays around or gets bigger then this is the end state. Everyone arguing against COL based pay seems to think they'd get to keep there high salary rather then everyone getting payed less.
Just go to a conference once a year if that's what you feel you're missing. To sacrifice a good portion of your life commuting, just for the chance of bumping into an idol figure seems like a net loss.
Remember those Yahoos! Whom Marissa had to fire because those adults could not be trusted to do what they were expected to do and be responsible?

Some had “multiple jobs” and both or more employers were getting the short shrift.

Small orgs are like small towns, everyone knows who’s up to what. Large orgs are like cities…
The deeper I get into software engineering the more I want to cut myself off from the internet entirely when I retire. Realistically, I doubt you can do it 100%, but I wonder how far you can go without using any internet.
Reduction in Force.
Very cool. I didn't know those were a thing.
Tried ngrx?
Even an auth system can be handled in various other ways - for example, auth tokens can be handed out as valid for 48 hours but normally cycled every 24 - in case of auth failure those who already have a token can keep working for up to two days.

But that may not fit the risk profile, and you may need additional considerations - and perhaps even different levels of authentication.
This is why I moved out of the city into a big house with a backyard and home office. And it's cheaper than the apartment.
Reduction in Force. It's a term commonly used when companies are undergoing a large scale employee trimming. I don't think that google would do call it that. Probably just managers encouraged to increase the % of people who go on PIPs.
That's one of the issues with the idea of flexibility/choice/etc. If most people have different preferences, your's are not necessarily really an option.
Reduction in Force - way to lower overall employee headcount.
The MiG-21 Lancer came out of a modernization program in the mid 90’s to the very early 2000’s. The airframes themselves were also relatively new with some of them being delivered in 1990 just prior to the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Israel (IAI, Elta and Elbit) modernized for Romania them they have modern avionics, new engines new everything but the MiG-21 was the most problematic of the bunch (the Lancer program was a modernization program for all the Romanian MiGs).
I love Neal Stephenson but definitely need to read more of his books... will pick up The Diamond Age next, thank you
All the people do not support the DPR and LPR or separation from Ukraine certainly don't want to separate from Ukraine, I'll give you that much.
In a 'well designed system', any given node has limited access to the other nodes and user data.

If a node is compromised, that shouldn't turn into full access to everything. Specifics would vary depending on your application, but while most user facing servers might need to be able to validate a login token, few would need to be able to issue a login token or access billing details.

If you compromise the node that has billing details or access to them, then you'll have them, but if you compromise a different node, you won't. That's better than compromise any host and get access to the 'private' network where there's no auth or encryption, which is kind of traditional.
megolomania is a good explanation, self-deception without needing PSYOPS !
Octa Advanced Server Access Client - Patch
And it can go further - things like “I can look at any record in the database” and “I can run any sql query against it but only get a max of C results per hour” or similar to prevent exfiltration without preventing work against the dataset.
git-lfs with appropriate file types set to use it.
I don't think I agree. But I'm curious, in your opinion, how long is long enough to be able to say if WFH has had an impact on the company's bottom line?
California legislators propose new slate of Covid-19 vaccine laws
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The idea is not really that sources must be public, it is rather a response to the very common retractions of the form "turns out our sources lied to us and the whole story was based on one source, also in the future you won't have a way to know whether we will use this source again."
What if instead of writing “secure” in the subject, I just don’t send the email and instead use Signal or WhatsApp where all the text is encrypted end to end?

It’s not clear why it’s desirable to keep bolting things onto email in an attempt to somehow make it eventually match the security profile that we can already get by just using other existing options.
Is it just me or is patio11 becoming more and more full of himself? I used to enjoy his writing a lot, but after joining Stripe it seems that something has changed. "I work for the Internet at Stripe" he says without further explanation. Unless "Internet at Stripe" is some internal Stripe group (then please explain what that is), he should have just written that he works at Stripe, full stop.

Otherwise anyone could say they work "for the internet" just because the service is mostly accessed via the internet, but we don't, because seeing it like that is kind of silly.

I wish he could tone those sentiments down a bit in the future, as otherwise the posts tend to be informative and interesting.
Yeah, but then you will get burned out from farming some day. It's what you make of it. Lot of stress in farming when your goal is profit instead of a hobby garden.

My $0.02: people are at least 60% of what makes your day job good or bad, given adequate compensation that is. Maybe try companies that are not in tech but need your talent? Go where you're celebrated, not tolerated and all that. Good boss+Coworkers+environment+pay = doesn't matter that much what you're actually doing.

Also, I was like you and others in my 20's. New career, new country, new state. Maybe become a hermit in antarctica? You get the sentiment, but I no longer feel that way, I started accepting wherever you go, not a whole lot changes that matters. Alwayd gotta take in the good with the bad. The grass is greener on the other side, but maybe unlike the current grass it is itchy when you try to walk or picnic on it.
He wrote a lot, and on many different topics. If we have to blacklist and unperson writers for any single violation of modern belief, might as well go ahead and toss everything written before 1960 into the fire.
Employers need to think of more incentives for those who have to go back to the office, especially full-time. Here's an easy one: get rid of open offices, give people their own offices. Or at least set up cubicles or cubes so people have more privacy. Basically anything to chip away at the antemorbum state of work layouts.
Newspapers aren't a community though. I think the Ask HN section is the closest there is to a community, but the majority will hang out on the front page or even Show HN.

I did become friends with people in my geographical region who read HN. It is a unifying aspect - non-American who reads HN.
Seems like people are eager to frame this as "see?! I told you remote would never last!" But when you look at the details, it's actually the opposite.

Every Googler I know who wanted to go full-time remote was allowed to do so.

Those who didn't choose to do that STILL don't have to be in the office every day; just a few days a week. Which I think is the right balance for most people.

The only people who should be unhappy here are the ones who wanted everyone in the office 5 days a week. It's a win for everyone else.
I actually LOL'd at this. Epic
That is a ton of effort that went into a free service.
What is your plan for huemint?
Isn't this kind of risky though? Do you ever get bad produce or damaged goods?
That sounds a lot like the Indie Hackers meetups.
“Anti-gay marriage” isn’t the same as “not pushing for gay marriage.” Both are evil and unfair to the LGBT community, to be clear, but I find it pretty disingenuous to “both sides” that issue in the late 2000’s, especially as democrat states one after the other were legalizing it.
Doubtful they'll have a da vinci robotic control system in their home on their residential Comcast internet connection.
> In CA you're no longer allowed to throw food waste in the trash bin, it must be composted

How strictly is that enforced? And is it applied without exceptions? For example I compost but if I have something oily I'm going to compost it because oily soil isn't great.
Getting the company to enter into a contract under false pretenses is fraud. "intent to deceive" is alone enough. This isn't some kind of gotcha where your technically ok if you do X and Y. Intent matters!

Two parties entered a contract with the understand you would live in location A if you don't that's fraud objectively.

https://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/what-is-contr...

https://www.findlaw.com/smallbusiness/business-laws-and-regu...

https://www.upcounsel.com/intent-to-deceive-contract-law#:~:....
I don't know the boundary of the SF Bay Area region. It is based on some US designation. Once you leave the region around an office you become a part of some general state-wide designation.

This has some failure cases, with some weird places being included in regions like NYC while some other places where people really do commute to NYC (though it is extremely far) are excluded. I don't actually know anybody who has been impacted by this, but clever Googlers made a pretty compete map of all of counties in the US and their pay region once the tool for getting salary information for proposed moves was available.
I mean.. yes? Except not even that, really, because the actual modern structure of American democracy is really closer to 100-150 years old (ie. somewhere between the country being broken in half and the 17th amendment introducing elected senators). But in the grand scheme of "humans having governments" it's pretty short either way, honestly pretty proportional to 2 years vs. "humans having megacorporations".
Thanks! SVCB looks like an interesting development.

We saw with the rollout of CAA that it's actually kind of challenging to add new DNS RRs because a lot of DNS implementations are hard-coded to block ones they don't understand, even though the DNS standards tell them not to do that. So I'm a bit worried that a lot of DNS services will have a hard time with SVCB records for a long while.

I guess having SVCB queries get dropped (or return false negatives or spurious errors) would be catastrophic for the ability to negotiate via ECH, since then the client won't know the key, but not catastrophic for the ability to negotiate a TLS session at all (since you can still fall back to CNAME and A/AAAA records in this case).
Would be cool if for the website versions it could generate a dark mode scheme.
SPAs are old though. Their popularity is modern, but I was making SPAs in 2005 - and it most definitely was a concern of HTML5 and CSS3; it was a concern even before, during the DHTML days. You're right it wasn't the primary concern - that's backwards compatibility, after the XHTML blunder - but that doesn't mean HTML5/CSS3 wasn't made with SPAs in mind.
Grab some granola bars from the snack counter, bring them into the stall, drop them into the toilet so your coworkers won't think anything's amiss
If anything, the pandemic has highlighted our dependence on blue collar workers, even if you snidely leave them out of the definition of “performers”.
Is the second one wayfair? It echoes what all my friends there are saying.
Yes. I've tried to use it several times in designs and it doesn't really have many practical uses. Companies are trying to use it in "head spreader" films, pads , etc. The issue is that it's only one atom thick, it has amazing thermal conductivity through the film, but very low cross section of material to do the thermal transfer because it's so thin. It has thermal conductivity of an order of magnitude less in Z, so stacking it doesn't buy anything. It has some limited use in some very specific applications, but it's not terribly useful.
That's a lot of interfaces to create and maintain. The principle value of backend/MPA frameworks like Rails & Django is that they give you nearly all these interfaces for free in a neat package, which ends up being "good enough" for many use cases below Google-scale.
Yeah the market is super fragmented but enormous. Even huge players like Tableau have a small slice of the market. It's really wild-west feeling and no one is confident they know what they're doing when it comes to implementation/ops.