skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is an even more easier way to hack. When I got my new phone number, I found out that number was recycled and the previous owner's facebook account was now linked with mine.

From there it was just a few mins before the account came to my control (I was experimenting and seriously believed it wont work). I reached out to the owner through email and informed them to unlink their phone numbers.

I reached out to Facebook through their bug bounty and explained the case. They simply replied they couldn't do anything and it's the phone number provider's fault to recycle.
> primitive people

Well, you are writing already in a forum of relatively selected participance, are not you? Even today if you checked averages, medians and modes (types) there would be (there is) little to be happy about. The context here is about the "milestone setters" we had them then and we have them today. Not all of the progressive instances of the past are strongly seen today - far from it. And in fact,

> all progress we have made in medicine

the current extreme focus on disease and neglect of health which can be perceived nowadays in some areas should suggest that the "primitiveness" you see is really not gone and transversal though history. Of which it is said, "a curse which will force those who ignore it to repeat it" (similarly to gambling as "the tax on those ignorant of mathematics").

Sure, we have this exciting creational power to exploit "today": nonetheless, you have to "cultivate the man" - otherwise, what you will get is "a brute with heightened power at hand".

In that context,

> the words are still used

in my former reply I was literal and brief when I enumerated transliterations («'geo-' 'synchro-' etc)». More than the words, the roots are still used. In all of these tokens we in turn threw in. To have some proper acquaintance with the terms you use should be part of the art - they are your instruments... You can have different priorities, but if you work with wire or pans or blades, it is welcome to spend an adequate degree of consideration of those entities. And you use language. When you look into it, its origins become relevant.
It’s not bloodletting but some things do come out in sweat, I remember reading a paper that demonstrated heavy metals come out in sweat in significant amounts. Perhaps other things do as well.
Biggest boost would be to change your name to an ethnic or predominantly female name. Recruiters had compiled spreadsheets of names correlated with women and URM exported from census data. Also spreadsheets on ethnic fraternities and sororities.
From my understanding, the main punishment for not working as prison labor is losing the small wages you do get (i.e, normally one of the punishments for misbehavior is prohibiting you from working).
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The app is about mental health and breathing. Mental health is important, I do breathing exercises almost daily and this app will help me, and hopefully others, to work on it even more.
Physician assistants prefer 'associate.' Doctors suspect a power grab
Oh like the Windows NT rewrite of Win 95, or the Win 95 rewrite of Windows 3.1.
Language also adapts over decades so that words are computer/IT terms & have no other connotations. Like most of the stuff in this thread. Have a think about that.
And this?

> Which matches the rates at which women indicate tech as their preferred field in high school and middle school.
In my area, 40+ developers basically fall into two groups:

- Burnt out developers who still like their job. These people often have a background in some STEM field, may hold a PhD etc. They can be difficult to work with due to the odd outburst, but their approach to problem solving is pretty constructive.

- Burnt out developers who hate their job. This is the most difficult group of people to work with I've encountered in my career. These people struggle on a daily basis and cannot be properly integrated into a team.

Now, if I became a recruiter, I would be aware that hiring 40+ developers can be a gamble. I know I will probably be one of those guys some day, and I don't see a non trivial approach to solving it. The software industry simply sucks.
oh - Thanks!
This actually has less details than the Guardian article. It just recites the government's argument. It doesn't seem that he incited violence but rather accused Modi of doing so.
> the vast majority know it's best to keep their thoughts to themselves.

If it's really the case that the vast majority of employees are feeling stifled by the company policy, isn't that a situation where forming a trade union could help?

The irony of workers rising up against oppressive supposedly left-wing rule is not lost on me, especially if it were to occur in Google's office in Poland.
I didn't realize that. I was briefly thought to have hemochromatosis, and had been "self-treating" via the Red Cross for years.

It turns out I didn't have hemochromatosis. It was merely a bit high, but knowing that I donated so often (both whole blood and platelets, which you can do more often), there was concern that the "self-treatment" was covering up a real problem.

I had not heard at the time that they wouldn't have wanted my blood. It was over a decade ago, and it's possible that the policy didn't exist then.
I've worked in a predominantly female team and there was discrimination against, well, me.

I've worked in a team with lots of older folks and the younger members weren't taken as seriously as they should have been.

It also happens when a company has lots of outsourced programmers.

I think there is a lot of emphasis on discrimination made by young white men because they simply are the largest demographic in IT and, of course, they don't generally behave as they should because they are immature (as young people tend to be).

The solution, if it is to be accepted widely, is to work on the group dynamics that all groups show.
> So is it simply a standardized comment then? I will have a really bad time convincing my team mates, if that's the case.

If your team doesn't understand the value of things that are essentially standardized comments exposed through the IDE (even if it wasn't for validation, which is also available with IDE integration), you have very bad teammates.
Don't our genes dictate how we interact with the environment? I'm not sure how it could be anything but.

That being said, yes, we can change our environment and see changes in measured intelligence. A person with a head is smarter than one without.

To tie it back to your original point, you're saying the male/female differences in intelligence are purely environmental? As in, if two people with different genetic make ups were brought up in the same environment they'd have the same outcomes?

If we're seeing equality it's likely the result of changing our environment to force this.
Why not use Landlord, a word everyone understands?
Not at all. It still holds. Let's suppose the field were overall 90% women, 10% men. Even then, companies looking to hire the smartest candidates would be disproportionately male -- say, 15% male instead of the average 10% -- as the population male:female ratio increases as you raise the intelligence bar.
A single tactical nuke wouldn't be decisive (do vastly more damage than conventional weapons.) It would be decisive to use 50 of them.

A nuclear bomb with a 1kt or so yield kills people within a radius of about 1km with neutrons; at that radius there is some damage to buildings, but you don't die because the building collapsed. The neutrons do a good job of penetrating walls and armor so it is effective against tanks.

A B-52 can carry about 35 tons of bombs, so it would take about 30 sorties to deliver that much tonnage -- precision bombs like

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GBU-39_Small_Diameter_Bomb

get closer to their targets than the nuke does, so the number of sorties to do an equivalent amount of damage would be a lot less than 30.

You've seen the massive damage to residential districts done by cluster bomb, thermobaric and other rocket artillery. Thermobarics have at least 3x the impact of conventional explosives, so I'd imagine that it's routine for large groups of rocket artillery to do "kilotons" worth of damage.
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While I'm sure the shape of discrimination in your culture is different and not heavily racial, it's unwise to conclude that racial discrimination isn't happening just because you don't see the textbook version of it in front of you. The assumption that a black person can't possibly be local can lead some people to act in a discriminatory way that would produce bad outcomes.

A good example would be some of the pieces out there about what it's like to live in Japan as a black person, like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMpxLmMnS6M - their society is definitely not going to racially discriminate like the US does, but that doesn't mean you won't experience any discrimination or unusual treatment due to your skin color being different.

Also, if people get discriminated against based on their nationality and you just said a black person can't possibly be From Here... it seems like if you combine those two statements that would mean black people would naturally get discriminated against since they're foreigners?
We’re talking about men and women. Approximately 50% each of humankind. Hardly “very specific sub populations”
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> Making such a remark is equivalent of calling someone here a nazi etc. Hardly newsworthy

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> Indeed and better reasoning explained here over guardian [...]

Are you trying to answer from alternate account @amreeksohata, to hustle traffic? Making a comment & replying it as an legitimate answer looks bit confusing & suspicious otherwise.
What are your thoughts on me and all of my friends and family getting together in my home theatre and watching the latest movie that I paid 4 bucks for on something like Amazon or Youtube?

Is everyone there except me stealing? It feels to me a little bit like the N=1 vs N=0 problem of theism - I'm simply an atheist to one more god than you are. Similarly, I simply don't think it's theft to one more person in that context than you might (of course, here I'm assuming you don't think all those people are stealing).
Yep. Read and appreciated that article. And I will say what I have been repeating in these forums for a couple of months now again. It's ironic in this case, because today's hot topic is "the meaning of words".

We keep talking about social media and its problematic effects. Like we don't know how to be social or something anymore.

It's not social media. It's profit/engagement media. The social component is just the hook. The point of it all is basic profit feedback loops (which are far less greedy and evil than we make these utilities out to be--they're just doing what they were instituted to do).

My current brainstorm/crazy idea is that something like "non profit" regulations might be how we coral this nuttiness. It's been semi/mostly effective at corralling religion in America for many years. I'm not sure why we wouldn't benefit from moving the Twitter Day Saints and Instagramists and Tik-Tok-ies and SnapChat Witnesses and Roamin Pathic Twitch into the same "you have your place, you can take care of your own and collect enough funds to operate and some, but if you start looking too much like a business and/or play in politics too much, it's going to get really uncomfortable for you."
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Or retired.
I recently made a move from Seattle to Dallas.

While in Seattle I was consumed by the thought that all of American academia, business, and media was consumed by idpol and other associated confusions. In Seattle, every interaction is permeated by conversations about identity, and friend groups are highly segregated by class, if not race.

Moving to Dallas completely changed my perspective. Dallas is an actual multicultural utopia. Everywhere I went, people of all kinds were doing stuff together, and not in the soft late 90s ghetto mural of rainbows and people holding hands, I mean just hanging out as if you would with friends from your neighborhood. Funny that in practice, Texas is significantly less class and race divided than Seattle.

I'm happy that latinos reject this stuff. I'm even more happy to know that it hasn't spread throughout the entire US.
> But if you live in a democracy, you have to spend some of your time being informed about things so you know how to vote.

I don’t think you fairly addressed his question at all in this comment, and the reason lies right in that vague word: “things”.

People who live anywhere will always take an interest in information which directly affects them, or that they can profit off of, or which might cause them to incur losses. Generally there are multiple means of attaining this information and the “news” in the mass media sense is just one of them. I don’t for example pay close attention to all legal news, so when I need legal advice which tends to be situational in nature I hire people who do rather than proceeding on my own partially-informed opinions from what I gleaned out of a newspaper which probably missed important details and which is usually written from a biased perspective. This is true for any number of domains I don’t specialize in (almost all of them), and in seeking counsel I gain information along the way that can shape my future actions.

So lets come back to that word, “things”, which things should people be informed of that you get from the news media but are unlikely to receive from anywhere else?
These politics only appeal to ~10% of the population anyway, and they aren't favored by a majority of any ethnicity. This stuff isn't mainstream because voters like it (which is why it never makes its way into any real laws), it's mainstream because the cultural and media elites like it and they don't have to trifle with a democratic process to impose it.

Corporate DEI stuff is also useful to "prove" that an employer isn't racist--current anti-discrimination law puts the burden of proof on employers to show that they didn't discriminate, and since it's not possible to prove a negative, they must instead compete to show that they're among the more 'woke' companies ("look at our DEI propaganda, how could we possibly be guilty of discrimination?").
The challenge I have with this is that performance in "the market" does not correlate so easily with the kind of team composition the GP is talking about. And as someone who has worked for large corporations, these companies rarely seem to suffer that much from dysfunctional teams and rotten eggs in key places.

>"The only sustainable way forward is to let reality teach them. If we try to impose change like this, it'll only lead to more divisions in society."

I'd argue that changing minds does not need to be an objective of legislation. Sometimes there's just a behavior you want to prevent and it doesn't matter if people truly agree with the reason why.
If you're getting a blood donation, you've likely lost a lot of blood that is being made up by the donation. So you lost blood and by extension forever chemicals and are replacing blood and by extension forever chemicals. I bet it's a wash as far as +- chemicals.
> Then came the litany of complaints that HR sponsored events (where HR planned everything to HR's preferences) were not attended enough by the tech support team

At some point we have to start recognizing that forcing employees to attend work parties and lunches and other events by using social shame tactics like this creates a hostile work environment.

Managers who enable this are toxic as hell.
My criticism of Urbit is about its lack of within a node parallelism and lack of between node transactionality.
The TypeScript comparison is on an entirely different axis though, the compiled <-> interpreted one. One of the reasons languages go with the type hinting route is actually to avoid a separate compilation step like TypeScript. That may be totally fine for you (again coming from a statically typed language where this is more or less required), but it’s a hill many are willing to die on. It’s all tradeoffs and design decisions.
About 10 years ago, I consulted for a huge company in St Louis. St Louis’s racial makeup is approximately 50% white and 50% black. In the company’s IT group, the makeup was 50% white males, and 50% Indian. The only African Americans were the security guards.

If companies were serious about DEI goals, they would require their contracted IT consultancies to have a representative racial makeup of the local population.

I’d happily support any company with that DEI goal. Anyone know of one?
Well put. I agree on both points.

CL has a very advanced TDD. You actually develop by executing snippets in REPL and pull them all together in a function (already tested!).
>having to "network" to get a job is much harder after you get older.

hard but I'm not sure about harder than a new grad. contacting someone you worked with years ago is still preferable to cold contacting someone you only have a shallow connection to (same school, maybe you talked for a day at a conference, etc.).

They don't have to be friends, just collogues who can vouch for you.
It is literally stealing money out of my pocket. Even if they don't watch it themselves, they will provide it free of charge or even for a personal fee I will never see to someone else.

The concept that Pirates wouldn't have paid for it anyway is valid. Part of my problem with piracy is that so much bullshit gets consumed that without stealing, those things would be much less part of pop culture and we'd have a lot better stuff to entertain us.

However for definition sakes. Taking a service that you wouldn't have consumed by paying and using it for free is stealing.
Average intelligence (around 100 points) does not get you hired in any high tech job. It is called "high tech" for a reason, it's not "average work" by any measure.
The Grauniad is a U.K. newspaper. They're criticizing India for something that happens all the time in their own country. A total double standard.
You may very well may be right that terms "allowlist" and "blocklist" are objectively clearer. I'm in favor of the idea of changing language to make things clearer and more effective. But the contention I have is that these changes aren't motivated for the pursuit of clarity. They are motivated by a need for cleansing. "whitelist" and "blacklist" are innocuous terms. They have been around for ages. Used and understood with no controversy by our most prestigious institutions from around the world. Then suddenly, within a matter of two years, the term is high-jacked by upper echelon members of our society. The words are re-defined to take on a new meaning and a new interpretation. Virtually every one of us who used this term are now deemed bad. Oppressors. On the wrong side of history. Racists. Now deemed a fireable offense. No room for debate and discussion. It is for these reasons that I push back. The motivation behind this change is wrong and has the potential to be all consuming of our language and culture, deeming innocuous terms as oppressive when they are not.
As a fellow failed dieter, just trying to find something that will work for me ...

So you switch diets because you stabilize and want more weight loss, OR because they stop working? Curious to hear about the switch.

My personal preference is sugar-free. Successful for 2 years from 2016-2018, and now trying low-sugar (not no sugar) since January 2022, and reasonably successful although not much (just 6 lbs about 3%) to show for it.
Thanks for this. I knew that ‘rounded squares’, which have the circle's constant turning radius immediately change to infinity at the connection points, are an unnatural way to represent such a shape and look bad once you learn to notice them. But didn't know that proper rounding has a mathematical formulation.
It's only less pronounced for American IT professionals defending the US reputation as y'all have more of a contrarían streak. I think if anything Americans online are more prone to criticize their own country than other places specifically because we have decent freedom of speech.
I recently learned that slavery was abolished in response to pearl harbour[0], which isn't quite a century away.

The vestiges of the later slavery are still around too, well, I guess the slavery is too, but now you have to buy their labour from the government, and the government keeps ownership of the slave. Actually, I don't know how that goes for private prisons?

But pressuring people to plea guilty to crime, perceptions of black people as violent criminals, the large US prison population, the police, etc. Those are legacies and continuations of practices from slavery.

A but more reading on history puts today's problems in better context

[0]: https://weeklysift.com/2014/03/31/slavery-lasted-until-pearl...
Why is the US in so much debt? (2013)
Band of Brothers? Succession? Severance?
I came here to post this - fascinating book, which I loved.
It's a political, power game. It simply shows lack of trust and regard for our time, or reflects inexperience and inability to manage. Otherwise the situation would speak for itself and the question wouldn't have been asked.
Certainly, the variance between engineers is huge and can offset experience.

Over time, though, the bad older engineers get managed out of the profession, or leave out of frustration or lack of satisfaction, so you end up having fewer. The selection function for good engineers has had much longer to run on them.

Think of experience as a trend line which pushes everyone to be better relative to what they were. School teaches algorithms, languages, tools, but it doesn't teach things like engineering approaches and how to keep a team productive, which doesn't always mean the most awesome algorithms. School teaches how to get the "correct" answer, experience teaches how to get "good enough" in a short amount of time. You need both!
Russia doing the killing is what was proven to be false… in front of the UN.
Are you that ill-informed? If so, I recommend more news intake from deeper sources. Or don’t accuse people of bullshitting because you watched a special on CNN.
Being told I use too many adjectives, my word choice is too heavy for my audience or that I used too many clauses is useful.

Being passive-aggressively told "blacklist" is a no-no word is not.

If you were really clever, you'd let the user set a "sensitivity" level for the writing from "normal human speak" to "corporate PR approved".
Except that it broke all my fucking scripts that use git
English has such a rich array of word choices for many parental situations, with many subtle variations conveying tone and meaning. MW has roughly 83 synonyms including both noun and verb forms, just for mother. I don't see how choosing any one of them for my particular situation will detract from anyone else's identity or journey: they are free to chose as well. Unless your tool bans 82 of them.
Does this stay on indefinitely? I don’t like using the command line to enable settings that I only need for an hour or so. I often forget to turn them off.

I like that OP’s site turns keeps my machine awake while it’s open, and I can just close the tab when I want my machine to behave normally.
Central bankers are getting alarmed and producing their own shitcoins.

There is a large range of financial literacy among Bitcoin holders. I find the vast majority are more aware of inflation and currency debasement than the average person with a 401k.
I think this completely falls apart because most of the women who give birth identify as mothers, and would be very offended if you told them they couldn't.

I wish there was more pushback against this insanity. I've also seen people want to erase the word "blindspot" from the dictionary... Even though I'm sure no blind person was ever offended by it, because that word typically is used to refer to the limits of people who aren't blind.