skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a fair criticism of my point. But you bring up a great point of your own as well - it may be journalists who are chiefly responsible for the growing distrust for the medical establishment.

The same journalists who eagerly proclaim any finding from any single study == "The Science", when we all know that in reality, one study does not science make. The "replication crisis" is a feature of science, not a bug.

Maybe those concerned with misinformation and the decline of public trust in institutions should be a lot more interested in the behaviors of journalists.
I'm wrong alot.
I suppose the EEOC could subpoena emails relating to selection.
Even the low end devices? Doesn’t postscript cost an arm and a leg to license?
Cable TV would like a word with you.
I mean neutral in the political sense, as the opposite of completely corrupt auction driven actions free from any public, economic and national interests.
> media-mononopolies

How can you have more than one media monopoly?
It's trivial if you're doing an opportunistic design, but it's challenging to match the safety and reliability of a hydraulic system while beating the cost.
(I am a black man)

I feel like the statement that the layoffs "were carried out through an Anti-Racist/Anti-Oppression lens" puts a target on the backs of the people who you claim to be helping.

If you're affected by layoffs described this way, you then question whether that was because of who you are.

That then makes it harder for the minorities you claim to be "helping" to stay in the room anywhere else because of bad will generated by some company that wanted the headlines to include their diversity push.

Edit: In summation, do not conflate your layoffs with your "diversity".
It feels like you're trying to flamebait rather than have a discussion about this. I encourage people to read comments on the other related thread [1] that seems to have disappeared from the front page for some reason.

[1] Twilio cutting 11% – Letter from CEO [pdf]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32837250
Twilio is down 50% from their pre covid price. Ouch
unless it changed recently it has never been profitable
The products of science are a public good.

The products of science are personal advancement in the field.

The products of science have monetary value to the people who fund science.

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There are lots of reasons to "do science", but how does a particular person associated to a particular lab decide to do a particular study?

Anyway, it's hard to take any study involving humans (health, diet, economics, psychology) seriously if it's not pre-registered. I think there should be funding specifically for pre-registered studies, but I'm not king of the world. Any journal in those fields should require preregistration, but it should also be funded.
Using the hosted Google Fonts is, downloading and hosting yourself isn't.
I consider myself very ‘liberal’ per American standards (pro abortion, pro lgbt rights, pro racial diversity and acceptance), and this to me screams of woke culture gone wild. Looks like anything can be weaponised.
Correct, but it would be foolish not to warn people BEFORE they peek around the code. GPL (and by extension I assume AGPL) states that even translating the work to a new language still constitutes as copying and therefore the resulting code must be GPL'd.
Reminds me a bit of this true story

https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/102/
These sound like very positive changes!
Would you consider going through past years and pre-emptively disqualifying people for their previous spam PRs as well?
And is it obvious on the website to someone when they're disqualified? Or do they just not get a reward?
The current F-22 looks and acts nothing like the YF-22 that won the competition (despite the YF-23 being much better, but that's another story).

The fact that the B-52 production was not just similar to the prototype, but similar to a complete mockup is a testament to the accuracy of their initial vision. The fact that the US continues to use that design after so many decades is even more amazing.
At that point, why not just get a copy of the series on DVD or Blu-ray? You can rip a copy to a NAS (or a flash drive if you have a smart TV with a USB port) if you would rather have a streaming experience. Copies of the show often show up in good condition at second-hand bookstores. You wouldn't have to worry about ads, the show getting rotated in or out of the cable/streaming service, could resell the copies if you don't want them anymore, and would be paying only for the shows that you want to see
This doesn't actually come as a surprise to you, does it?
In common law countries, there is an extensive body of law about lost, mislaid, and abandoned property and how to deal with them. Lost, mislaid and abandoned are technically distinct classifications. Lost is a wallet on the side of the road. Mislaid is a wallet left on the counter at a store. Abandoned is something that was intentionally thrown away.

Abandoned property is basically finders keepers. Mislaid property should be left and the owner contacted, and the proprietor where it was left notified to help effect that. Lost property where the owner is known must also be returned. Lost or mislaid property might eventually be claimed when the return is impossible, for example, one cannot identify or contact owner after a long period, including perhaps posting public notices. At that point, it becomes considered abandoned.

Specifics vary a bit by jurisdiction, but I don't see it likely ever applying when you know who it came from and it's all on record. No reasonable person abandons cash in the wrong account. It is clearly mislaid. Maybe if they don't respond despite repeated formal contacts via legal channels. Obviously something to consult with a lawyer about over these kind of stakes...
Thanks!

Oscar in the article had experience with Pants but preferred Bazel and Bazel certainly has the most usage at this scale.
Thanks for 'breaking it to me', I had no idea /s

Have you considered that part of the fabric of civilized society is...being civil with the people that you interact with, and require cooperation from?

You can hold any opinion of them that you like, but the difference between a competent manager and an incompetent one is how they can translate their personal disdain for their direct reports, in a way that doesn't treat them like cogs, and improves their performance on the things they're responsible for.
This - I recently hired someone for 80$ an hour for a quick Sharepoint Powerblabber fix - one online meeting, he pointed me to the solution in 20 minutes, charged 30 minutes - everyone was happy.

All very professional - answered promptly knew his stuff + the necessary meet and greet in the beginning.
To be honest this whole thing seems overblown to me, Zatko is complaining that the board weren't aware that Twitter had massive security holes. There is one small problem with this accusation. Twitter's board hired famous ethical hacker Mudge to tackle their security issues. Maybe Zatko will eviscerate Mudge's failings under oath, but that doesn't get you very far since Zatko is Mudge*.
Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success are the “Go-To-Market” team.
you just summed up 100% of internet commenting
and IoT...thinkaboutit
On the benefits of humanities in software engineering
It still is, hence the security and rewards of working at businesses like Alphabet, Apple, Amazon, etc. and the same for shareholders/owners too.
Looks like you’re based on London, so first thing is to change resume to CV when speaking to UK based people. Calling it a resume will out then off for timezone, tax and cost issues.

Also, you’re in London so start meeting people - go to tech meet-ups, go to marketing meet-ups and tell people you’re a freelance developer.

Networking is the way to success in the freelance world. Also reach out to old employers and clients and ask if they have work.

(The reason I say marketing meet-ups is that many marketing agencies need dev work doing but don’t want devs on staff - I get freelance work for this)

Also speak to other agencies as offer yourself as overflow resource.
Earth Observation: will it commodify?
Like a good movie, every time I ready this, I enjoy reading it :)
Perhaps the next administration might. The current one is more likely to offer a pat on the back.
I suppose they lose some competitive advantage if being-mass-scale-creepy-stalker is no longer the norm (or, indeed, legal) in the rest of the industry.
I'm not generally a fan of graphql, but yes it's a remarkable feature. The other options (like swagger) take more effort and tend to not be maintained well. But even when they are, it's still not as developer friendly (to the client) as graphql.
The shares can’t lose money (in theory) because with the extended exercise period you can simply not exercise them if they are underwater.

It's not a unique benefit, many companies offer the extended exercise window, but it is very good for employees because otherwise they have 90 days to exercise or abandon the options.

In your mind you are imagining somebody with a few options that are barely in the money. What if somebody who got laid off has worked there for 5 years and is sitting on super valuable options. With no extended window they'd be in a huge pickle where they'd either have to abandon all their options or pay a huge exercise/tax bill right now. But with the extended window they don't.

Neither of us can predict the future of patreons valuation so you shouldn't assume things are going to go badly and thus this benefit will not matter. The whole point of stock options is the option part of it. Maybe it will be worth a lot, maybe it won't, but you'd like to wait and find out and shouldn't have to give that up because you were laid off.
They have been pushing "anti-racism" hard, which sounds nice on the surface but when you dig into critical race theory where its coming from it's a dog whistle for hating white people, basically. Now I know this is super trendy right now but I don't want to get emails from your organization about how woke and bigoted you are. Just sell me the damn SaaS tool we signed up for and keep your politics to yourself. We moved all our business away.
This reminds me of an episode of "Person of Interest" where a teacher tries to spark interest in his students by telling that all their life past and future events are already "encoded" in PI digits.

https://youtu.be/a6bT_DVwo7M
Hacker News seeking freelancer threads can still be great. I’ve found two assignments this way, including recently. Majority I find via recruiters though. Avoid “platforms” they’re all awful
Surprisingly, they've actually solved the issue of keeping the data secure while using it for advertising (at least for display ads). The secret is compartmentalization, which is one of the reasons your web client makes so many damn calls to render a page these days.

I can't find a paper describing the whole process right now, but the broad-strokes flow as it was once described to me is

- a third-party site resolves who you are based on their knowledge of you.

- they send a cookie representing your interests (but anonymized) to Google, where it's collated with similar interest data to figure out what kind of ad someone with your interests should see (but the system doesn't know who you are; you're just "someone with some interests"). So yes, individual sites track your interests on those sites, but they don't hand that data raw to Google; it's valuable to them and (this is key) on this dimension, Google is a competitor in the ad space. These companies don't want to hand Google raw user / interest correlation data because they don't trust Google not to roll it into better advertising products. Your privacy is, ironically, protected by third-party corporate paranoia.

- nonces representing the ads that should be displayed are generated and bounced to the third-party, where they're routed to your client as the data your client should fetch

- your client gets the list of ads to display from the third party's display ads integration, then makes the request for ads from the ads server with the relevant nonce

The third party can't learn more about you because they don't see what ads you got, and Google doesn't know you got those ads; only that someone with a profile like the one the third party sent you got those ads. The only place in the world enough information is consolidated to deanonymize you is on your client.

(Hypothetically, Google could do a timing attack on its own nonce-generator + ad server on a low-traffic site to make an educated guess if they also had your browsing history, but they basically pinky-swear they don't correlate the signal that way and it's warehoused in different places; someone trying to do that correlation would raise red flags because it threatens the privacy guarantees Google relies upon).
Only if you do it "right" - and there are incentives to not do it right. And it's hard to agree on what right means. And what right means will change as preregistration becomes more common and people understand it better.
Show HN: Rentaflop – Render your Blender projects without sacrificing quality
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If you've used Blender, then I'm sure you've experienced the pain of waiting around for your animations to render. You've probably even had to sacrifice the quality of your work to reduce your render times. I've been there too.

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IDEs can go insane with process executions. VisualStudio shells out like crazy when doing builds.

Also, processes are an awesome abstraction - they give security and reliability. Reducing their cost is nice.
Yup IMO this is the most interesting question. While admittedly I haven’t been closely following the layoffs taking place this week; those I have read about talk primarily about downsizing non-engineering headcount.
Why should I use this over something like cloudwatch?
Pretty sure there's an old movie with Keanu Reeves using some sort of power glove to "browse the net", cyberpunk style.

Edit:
Oh yeah it was Johnny Mnemonic
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0113481/
>Please name the goalposts and how they were moved.

Twitter influenced an election. You then implied (in another comment [1], but implicitly here) that it only counts if Twitter influences the election by providing specifically false information.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32834382

>My assertion that Twitter is not influencing elections was not proven wrong by your evidence

It absolutely was. There is no guarantee that that information would have been so widely distributed without Twitter. People do not generally know all of the facts about any candidate; determining which facts get heard and repeated is an important kind of influence.
That ad payments arrive labeled "Google LLC EDI PYMNTS" doesn't tell us that bug bounty payments would not also arrive with that label. In this case, the text probable means "[Google the Company] [Electronic Data Interchange] [Payments]" and I wouldn't expect that to be ads-specific?

(Disclosure: I used to work on ads at Google, but don't know anything internal here)
Oh no, imagine having to provide value to the world instead of being in the business of selling a dollar for 95c. So hard ;*(
over-hiring or not trimming due to the pandemic.
Again: it works perfectly with current Java (the ones everyone has by now), it is documented, they just chose a wrong default.

Don't tell me the sob story about the poor open source project. At some point the users' experience has to count, as well.
If you’re trying to get a decent rate for your services, you’re likely to have better luck relying on things that are somewhat differentiated by you: your network of past satisfied clients, your particular technical and sales skills, your particular location and ability to be on-site for key meetings.

If you’re looking to avoid all the sales work and differentiated value you can bring, then you can jump on the platforms, but then expect to be compared against everyone else on the platform rather than against everyone for whom a trusted associated has vouched for.
My recruiter(in the UK) sends me contracting offers as well. Am I missing something about what a contracting agent does?
You realise that's even worse for Chomsky right? He is an apologist for a genocidal communist regime that also happens to be propped up by the imperialist pig dogs. That's so much worse
Great comment! I agree - but still its good practice to understand and know how to implement it.
Care to direct me to these UK-specific job boards for contracts?
> Even so, this scheme only makes a little sense. A better approach might have been for the government to have set up a USD-based remittance program of its own.

This is just not true. Crypto as foreign remittance has been proven and is working quite well in Argentina.

What you really don't want as a layperson in Latin America, is for really any third party -- but especially government third parties, to have control of your money in any capacity during remittance.
It looks like the 32-bit driver is closed source. The download doesn't contain any source code, despite the text on this page.

https://www.canon-europe.com/support/consumer_products/produ...
Not at all. It just means that there is a larger pool of employees qualified to work in fast food.

Sometimes people are simply forced to take jobs that are not adequately compensated.
Choza Del Mundo
wow, you would think saying that would be against some discrimination law but they'll probably get away with it.
Modern printers usually work one of two ways: You can feed them directly a typical printer language (PostScript, PCL or PDF), or you work with CUPS PPD files. Both are userspace.

It would be easiest to see if there's a PPD for closely related printer* - most manufacturers reuse components and/or evolve them incrementally - and start modifying stuff from there. There's a decent chance it would already work for basic functionality, and that you'll be able to improve it by trial and error. If you are lucky, you may be able to get a decent driver without even needing to bother with USB sniffing.

* e.g. A similar Canon printer by model name.
For those wondering:

> How do you make money?

> When you add your project dependencies, StackAid is treated as an implicit direct dependency. StackAid is on equal footing, but unlike those dependencies, StackAid's allocation is capped at 7.5%. In the example above, StackAid would receive $1.50/mo.
Amazing. When the crypto world get bored of minting apes and such maybe they'll try to actually bother to try making bitcoin into something that can be used day-by-day. I don't think they will though. I think it'll remain only a speculative asset whose price jumps erratically to-and-fro until people get bored and move on to the next shiny thing.
Well, no, they don't have to because Bing Is Not Google.
Anyone who actually believes that, I've got an array of bridges to sell you. People doing layoffs will say anything they can to make the fact that they just laid people off seem better, more fair, whatever. This is just the latest attempt at that. It looks as ridiculous as every other attempt throughout history.
What do you mean by 5-star? 5 on netflix? imdb?
Unfortunately, the situation sounds right in line with a rich individual engaging a trusted attorney up to be their neutral PoA/executor/trustee (as opposed to one of their heirs). So the attorney would likely make the case that they thought this is what the client wanted. The potential to go south only occurs after death/incapacitation where the attorney can drag out the estate/trust because they're taking administration fees.

Please go ahead and report it. I just don't think the interpretation will be so clear cut.
The one in Poland is fun. You can bar someone from working in the same field for quite some time but you must pay them 70-80% (I don't quite remember how much but something like that) of their annual salary during that time. Which means that most of the people proposing this kind of deal are clueless ans greedy businessmen who think they found a perfect leash for their employees but what's actually happening is that they find out far too late that it's binding them and not the employee.
Physicists Struggle to Unite Around Future Plans
Adding STOOR's SHS series to that list, it was absolutely insane. All live on hardware and mixing over the internet in 2 locations.

Speedy J and Luke Slater https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVbQrn5BoA4
I have history on Upwork, and pretty good one. But I haven't used it in 6 years, and my rate then was around $60/h and it's double that now. But I keep hearing how terrible and underpaid it is in here, hence this post.
So, to my knowledge io_uring is a complete seccomp bypass (for all functionality it implements). Docker allows io_uring because "so far it isn't that big of a deal" (paraphrasing from Github issue 2 years ago). Given that io_uring now provides file IO and process execution... isn't it about time that someone starts thinking about the security implications? Are we going to just have a universal seccomp bypass for anyone who uses io_uring? How're the audit hooks coming along? Or LSM hooks?

edit: K I've reached my HN rate limit again, thanks Dang.

Anyway, here's a source for the Docker seccomp filter since someone replied inquiring.

https://github.com/thaJeztah/docker/blob/master/profiles/sec...
Opt-in code execution is not a meaningful security mechanism because users do not have the expertise or information to answer a prompt like "Do you want to allow this web page to run code?"
Why would a business even have a "hiring goal?" Shouldn't you have business goals, and then look at those business goals and determine if hiring will contribute to them? Having an isolated "hiring goal" seems as pointless as having a "printer buying goal".
Could you expand on 3?
Someone else mentioned in another thread that it's for resiliency. I guess if you're carrying 70,000 lbs of ordnance you don't want an engine failure messing with your thrust too much during critical flight phases.
For anyone else who got stuck for 40 minutes on the first paragraph with the "what am I looking at" image, see it compared to this later one. What we're seeing is the front of the wheel.
https://images-stag.jazelc.com/uploads/theautopian-m2en/Scre...
https://images-stag.jazelc.com/uploads/theautopian-m2en/Scre...
SEO garbage is destroying the internet and google's complicity or indifference is forcing even legitimate content creators to turn their pages into mountains of meaningless duck speak that makes you feel like you're having an anuerism just long enough for the visit to count as a view rather than a bounce.
It’s here: please welcome Arduino IDE 2.0