skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it is fair to not spend time and resources engaging with such ideas, as long as there is a good "decision record" documentation explaining that this subject was already discussed, decisions were made, and there is no point coming back to it. Same as with flat Earth - have some documentation thoroughly debunking the idea and point to it anybody trying to start the conversation again. Tell them they need to first read through all of it. If they are still not convinced after that, they are free to lay out their argument, but it is on them to make the argument strong, which should be, like, really hard, given the plethora of evidence we have that Earth is not flat.

In the examples you gave the "decision record" would be fairly simple - we assume that human rights [1] are a given.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights
> We're currently discussing the people that don't make enough to pay their student loans off.

If we are only discussing just those people, then I think it is a different story. I could get behind a x% of income over y% of years and if it not paid off in the end it is cancelled deal.

However, usually when I see people talking about cancelling student debt they mean wiping the slate clean for everyone even those who just graduated that can pay.

What type of student loan cancellation program are you thinking we should implement?
If I reached out a former colleague for a referral, and they just sent me a link to the careers page, I would be trying to figure out at what point I offended them so deeply. You're not saying that this person is a shoo-in for the role and will be promoted within the year, you're saying that you know what the quality of their work was at the time you worked together.

I can think of people from my first real programming job that I would hire or refer in a heartbeat. I am can also think of a couple who I might just send a link to the careers page.
> suggested he change it to “angry” or “upset” to “make your writing flow better.”

Nope, it suggested to change from this to that so the writer could be Google's avatar on writing what Google wants to get written
Advertisers also don't want to advertise to those "too cheap to pay to avoid ads".

They want to everyone, or the premier tiers. It's a conflict that can never be resolved.
You're genuinely asking about the most extreme and uncharitable interpretation of the GP's post? Your question sounds like "If we should be kind to everyone, what about serial killers?" It is so out-of-place in the picture that's being painted, that I (and I'm sure others) am skeptical of the question. Maybe you can first qualify it by explaining how it is relevant in anything other than an extreme thought experiment?
Google is a large corporation. Large corporations will often enact arcane rulesets to give HR ways to manipulate their labor costs. This really sounds a lot like why this type of approach would be supported.
Anecdotal evidence, but I hear similar complaints from friends, and I think that the "netflixy" feel is going to be the single biggest downfall for the company. Netflix requires all original content must be filmed with a true 4K UHD sensor, and because these productions are all using the same powerful digital camera, these shows are all filmed with cheap low lighting setups, since these powerful new cameras require a lot less light to capture a scene (think of the newer iphone cameras and how they perform much better in low light). Whereas older non-netflix shows filmed on different cameras with much more powerful stage lighting setups.

The result is that all these new netflix-produced shows like Ozarks all look super flat and similar. Most scenes are very poorly lit, which leads to a really poor experience when watching on a laptop or tablet. I don't think all viewers are consciously realizing it, but I think this is why many people are getting "bored" of netflix shows.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90653850/why-netflix-movies-look...
Whether ads are a discount or ad-free is a premium is just a matter of framing.
If you need to wait for someone who is 1% off the population you might be waiting a while.
Thanks for speaking up about this from a perspective not often seen here on HN. It's really pretty weird that someone needs to explain to so many people that media piracy affects actual working people.
How would you characterize 15-25 year old developers?
or that society is pushing women against science in all countries but in developing countries this is countered by the need to get a high paying job. in wealthy countries you can live comfortably with a regular job so women are just expected to do that. no one is encouraging little girls to choose science; there is no need
Your landline provider also has fallible CSRs.

Webmail providers don't even have service, which can be a curse as much as it is a blessing

Anyone can commit megafraud against you by filing a USPS change of address form on your behalf to intercept all your paper correspondence, not to mention the rampant straight up package theft the past few years.

We need a more comprehensive plan than just 'dont use phones'. As long as correspondence has value, someone is going to try and steal it.
Oh yikes, that sounds bad. It is a real search engine though, https://petalsearch.com/
why do you assume burnout by default?
In rare interview, Monkey Island designers tell Ars about long-awaited Return
That is so bad; I always mute my TV when browsing Netflix
My understanding is that Corporate DEI is mostly bottom up, not top down.
2015. A good exercise would be "What's new in CPUs since 2015?" A few I can think of: branch target alignment has returned as a key to achieving peak optimization, after a brief period of irrelevance on x86; x86 user-space monitor/wait/pause have exposed for the first time explicit power controls to user programs.

One thing I would have added to "since the 80s" is the x86 timestamp counter. It really changed the way we get timing information.
46% of the Swedish legislature are female. About the same in Finland and Norway. That's an indication of not only numbers being roughly balanced, but power and influence as well.

About 25% of the US Senate and House of Representatives are women. That looks bad. But it is about the same in technical roles in US companies. The percentage of women in leadership roles in tech companies is much lower.

Work remains to be done.
> most of the staff is white males

I'm a computer programmer. Since about the late 90's, virtually all of my coworkers have been Indians. Yet I keep hearing from the DEI group that white males are overrepresented (and that this is bad). I never hear from the DEI group that Indians (or asians) are overrepresented (and whether this is also good or bad).
I have some links in the post! Here are some more good accounts:
https://twitter.com/advadnoun
https://twitter.com/RiversHaveWings
https://twitter.com/danielrussruss
Sounds believable, but how many people successfully transition into those?
FOMO vs resolution would have been brilliant, and grandfathering in is a great way to keep people around (even if you do something like bump them up in cost later, but still cheaper than everyone new).
They'd do a lot better if it was pitched as giving people the freedom to dress and act as they desired as long as they weren't hurting anyone else, rather than trying to act like biology wasn't a thing.

I have zero problems with people dressing however they like, having whatever affectations they want and having sex with whoever is willing. I might not always find it tasteful, but that cuts both ways I'm sure so we can agree to be civil. The buck stops when you try to shame me for not calling a man a woman. Using pronouns should be a kindness like holding the door open for a disabled person, not something that sends emotional children into a socially supported temper tantrum when absent.
No, please see the context/comment chain that this comment exists in. We're talking about hiring in tech. The average person doesn't apply to, get hired for, or succeed in, tech positions. Most tech positions require a higher degree because most tech (programming, computer science, hardware engineering, etc) requires or directly benefits from that higher degree. Those that hold those higher degrees have an above average intelligence. Those with the highest intelligence usually having the most success in the technical part of the tech workforce. Tech prefers the higher side of the intelligence distribution, because it's hard.
Agreed, I was just trying give an example of why using proprietor would create confusion.
It's interesting how you choose "highway" and not "railway" even though the eminent domain would be the same.
People like turning a blind eye to what they feel uncomfortable accepting. That the world we live in is being increasingly influenced by just a few profit-maximizing entities.
“every other liberal democracy”

In every liberal democracy. India is not one of those. They have elections, but those are necessary, not sufficient conditions for a meaningful state of democracy to exist.
This is of course entirely possible, but would be extremely unusual. I personally haven't ever met a black Russian.
The author has been living and teaching in France for years now. He reads and speaks many languages besides French and English.
Return on CI/CD Is Larger Than the Business Outcome
Be careful with the word crusade
In longrunning/high-availability applications, this sort of thing is necessary in order to avoid restarting and losing uptime or state. E.G. per nasa:

> The Remote Agent software, running on a custom port of Harlequin Common Lisp, flew aboard Deep Space 1 (DS1), the first mission of NASA's New Millennium program. Remote Agent controlled DS1 for two days in May of 1999. During that time we were able to debug and fix a race condition that had not shown up during ground testing. (Debugging a program running on a $100M piece of hardware that is 100 million miles away is an interesting experience. Having a read-eval-print loop running on the spacecraft proved invaluable in finding and fixing the problem

(from https://flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html)
Blood letting then. Is that the same?
I believe there are one or two conditions that actually require it in modern medicine, but I forget the names.
> What you say gets invalidated because you used the wrong password.

This entire discourse is so full of straw men it's hard to believe you have actually had real conversations with these people.

There is so much effort during these conversations toward "calling in" vs "calling out" that I am very confused how a conversation could ever get to the point you describe. You'd have to be really callous, and completely unwilling to meet your conversation partner on an even field, to elicit such reactions.

And no, Twitter pile-ons don't count as evidence for your argument -- Twitter is very, very far from an accurate cross-section of "real life".
Can someone explain to me why Tesla didn't bootstrap itself with cameras/LIDAR, then remove the LIDAR? I mean teaching an AI depth perception and the ability to model objects by vision, without including training data from LIDAR just seems kind of silly.
I’m sorry you don’t have any real friends to get your socialization in, but forcing your coworkers to be your pretend friends is not the answer.
Lisp is so cool, I wish every language could do these kinds of gymnastics. Thank you for sharing.
Got hired at a place that apparently only hired anything except white men. Unless they were non cis.

Apparently an exception was made in my case because they were absolutely desperate for someone qualified to do the work.

Company meetings were mostly just complaining about straight white males. Figuring out ways to force the males to do extra work to make up for… I don’t even know.
Mocking their own customers constantly based on same.

Most toxic bigoted place I’ve ever been. That’s when I became aware of how dangerous woke culture was.

Grew up thinking to treat everyone as equals. Now I’m (nasty words) for that.

Fixed their technical issues and left fast as I could.
It's pretty amazing how useful working with the military has been in changing my views of a lot of groups/demographics. I probably would have assumed nurses = female almost entirely, but there were a lot of nurses who were male, both the specialty types and more generalist nurses.

(Also, I grew up in a suburb where it was basically "different white ethnicities", with the exception of some black students from nearby poor areas bused in as part of our special education program (since we were rich and had lots of resources comparatively.). I then went to school at MIT which is basically white/asian predominately (although a fair number of international students.). Then Bay Area which is again basically white/asian in tech occupations. In the military, especially outside combat arms, there's genuine racial and geographic diversity across a lot of roles; good and bad people of every type. IMO, a useful experience.)
Blood letting, huh?
For 2) corporations themselves may not be doing it with that in mind but when management consultants like McKinsey etc began pushing for this stuff I absolutely believe it was a consideration.
Ideas are cheap, and Urbit isn't just an idea any longer. It's a working system that's been built by dozens of people over the years, and it's only picking up steam.

In Ron Garrett's words:

> The mere fact that Urbit is still a thing, that it has not yet collapsed under the weight of its own intentionally induced baggage, is worrisome to me. Something is keeping that project alive, and it's not technical merit. I don't see a lot of viable options other than some kind of fanaticism.

Looks like he and his ilk are just wrong and having a hard time believing that. It's alive because an increasing number of people want it to be, and no amount of theorizing can deny the reality of actual growth — which, in case everyone forgot, is what the OP is showing.
Fun thought experiment.

Clear violation of private REAL property. I think a lot think INTELLECTUAL property is rent seeking.
If it's any consolation to you, I've almost certainly never seen a movie with you in it.
Oh yeah, freedom of speech flourished under Congress rule /s

Who was the only prime minister to invoke emergency?
Not OP, but I found this: https://help.netflix.com/en/node/124925
> The challenge I have with this is that performance in "the market" does not correlate so easily with the kind of team composition

But clearly, hiring nominally asserts that it seeks the strongest applications. So it's contradicting itself with DEI discrimination.
The terms 'guestlist' and 'shitlist' would perhaps be more accurate in terms of what those two forms of security access control are really about. Using a guestlist to control access is more secure (as you can background check everyone on the guestlist), but limits traffic; conversely allowing anyone in except those known troublemakers on the shitlist gets more traffic but means undesirables might slip in and become nuisances.

On the other hand, all that nonsense about 'master' was ridiculous. Master's degrees, the master boot record, come on let that one go.
... it's not on PoS yet and it was delayed again. It's been delayed since 2016 or so (I can't remember the first time they announced it was just around the corner).

There's also no guarantee that the PoW chain won't simply continue in yet another fork because profits.
Claim 1:

> Of course many of those in this very thread that argue against those who say “bad things” about Musk are being engaged by his paid mouthpieces.

Claim 2

> More the fool you, though, if you naïvely believe that the ultra-wealthy don’t manage their public image!

In one you claim that people in this thread are doing it. In the other you claim that it is a thing which is done. These are two different claims.

You think people who disagree with you are fools, because you think misleading others is wisdom. I think you can escape, because I think you know that Putin is a moron. Do you agree that it was stupid of him to spread misinformation, ultimately resulting in deception prospering so much so that he lost sight of the truth, leading to ruin? If it was stupid for Putin, then why can't it be stupid for others? Look, you point to Pharaoh. He is dead, his empire is dead, and his fancy pyramid didn't help him. You point to politicians - Hitler killed himself. You point to Scientology - do you think them clever and wise, that they have the truth; I don't. Why are you pointing at idiots? Why are you pointing at dead men? Why do you think they are so clever?

If you had evidence that people were being paid, you wouldn't need to point to unwise dead men! Get out of the pit. Where is the oppression you claim? Where are the people being paid? Where is your evidence? Show me a check. Show me a paystub! Show me an account name which can be hired through an online service. Show me that I'm wrong that your beliefs are not rooted in your preconception that it is wise to mislead. I confess that I believe that it isn't absurd to be corrected. Criticize me! Point out my flaws! I will be better for it.

I am not talking about claim 2. I am talking about claim 1.

Also, from the Hacker News site guidelines:

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.

> Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
I agree with your comment but you're arguing a different point entirely.

You even call Netflix the easy option which is all I'm saying.
It's fewer total subscribers. The real number is the entirety of the miss (predicted 2.5m higher subscriber numbers - 700k loss to Russia + 200k actual drop = 2m less than expected).

It means new subscribers are now outnumbered by cancelling subscribers for the first time.
That's the expectation perhaps, but that's not what "job" means.
true, when i was a teen we used sms now they're probably on snap. not sure what the solution is
Whistle blowing is legally protected. So if you do it keep a lawyer on hand so you can sue them latter when they retaliate.
I don't think it is. I don't know if the peculiarities of x86 were considered when Microsoft's engineers decided to do SEH the way it is, but there is no hard reason why they couldn't decide to make it table based.
With respect to HIV, there is an alternative to get non-contaminated blood.

With respect to PFAS, which is a general societal/environmental issue it's likely that all donated blood has roughly the same PFAS levels, so recipient either gets blood with PFAS or no blood at all; and the "new" blood might have slightly more or less PFAS than the recipients current blood, but the recipient already has a comparable level of PFAS anyway.
Well, there usually is some kind of evidence, but it's generally anecdotal, people reporting instances of obvious sexism that they observed.
> "every statement is atomic"

Statement-level atomicity doesn't mean that you cannot get race conditions like the one that I described - it just means that the statement succeeds or fails as a whole.

It's quite clear that you can get those race conditions in both Oracle and SQL Server's MERGE (same with the new Postgres implementation). Last I checked neither SQL Server nor Oracle address the fact that MERGE pretty much doesn't do what many of its users imagine it can do. (There is a narrow theoretical sense in which it does meet expectations provided serializable isolation level is used, but in practice that isn't worth much to users.)

> anyway my experience has been that adding the lock hints "fixes" the problem with pk violations during concurrent upserts and it seemed to be commonly known and widely used afaict

That's not my impression:

https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/3074/use-caution-with...
> do you think that's the solution?

I don't think it is and I don't think they'll actually do much about it, but at least they're saying they're opposed to it.
"Even as a software engineer, yeah you can do without it currently because of how good the job market is but playing the social media game right can offer a huge career boost"

I do not believe that something offering a potential upside means you are forced to use it - eating less carbs offers many potential upsides but that doesn't mean that people do it.
I think the best part about Lutron Caseta is that it still solves my problems without the internet connected hub. The internet connection only adds additional features, and nothing else breaks if that goes down.

Ex. I used a lutron caseta smart switch with and a pico remote to add three way switching for my kitchen and dining room. Where they used to only have one inconveniently located switch.
It's a minor thing but Netflix is also most annoying to use from many services now because they are strict on device approval. For instance most home projectors do not support Netflix. I was close to cancelling Netflix because it just does not want to work on my projector and it really is bloody annoying to use the workarounds.
Pulsetic
I really like the way the handle their change log on github:https://github.com/algorithmsbooks/optimization

It's interesting just to go through their comments.
> For most tests, the risks associated with a false positive outweigh the benefits of marginally earlier detection.

If these tests aren't run, then I am not sure if it would be "marginally earlier", it might be much later or even never that the problem is discovered.
Note that this is similar to the (patented) drone net system from HIRo lab. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvdKNBSWPyU
Perhaps parent meant private, as in keeping your age private as it wouldn't make sense to be anonymous if your expecting to be paid :-)
By “environment” I don’t mean the local community, but the general social, political and economic mechanics on the nation scale and planet scale. I.e. how the human world you’re living in works and evolves, which in turn has local repercussions.
I haven't significantly changed with my KDE config in an year or maybe more. It has all features I need, many which I need to install a 3rd party app on windows, and is faster than windows.

I think that's as 'boring' as it gets.
On the whole, the weaker the gender roles in society the lower women's representation are in STEM [1]. I'm nearly 30 and there was ample messaging to try and get girls into technology when I was in elementary school decades ago. I disagree that society is implanting ideas in girls that they're not capable of succeeding in tech. This is a disparity that persists despite ample efforts to try and encourage girls to go into tech.

1. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/the-more...
I wouldn't mind getting an iPad CAD program that wasn't:

a) a subscription

b) scalping, in the sense that most I've seen are toys or pretty much only let you manage a single project

There seems to be a huge gap between "let's view 3D models people designed else where" and "let's design insanely detailed stuff". All I want to do are mildly complex 3D printed enclosures, and all the decent apps are completely over the top.
After conducting an interview, before I had a chance to write my review (which was customary, while it was fresh), I was sat down by someone more senior than me who said, explicitly "we are hiring this person." There was a "wink wink" dynamic to it. This person was pretty inexperienced, but a woman. This never happened with any of the male candidates. We hired her.

Unrelated, it turned out to be a horrible fit for her, because she went way out on a limb to move to the area and take the job, and the company shut down a few months later. She was now in an expensive city with no contacts or prospects.