skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The struggle of living in the US. This really hasn’t been clarified either because nobody, as of yet, has ever been sued for only backing up their media, but for other charges added.

Movie studios seem to know that suing just for making backups of media you purchased comes with substantial risk of practically legalizing it.

It would appear though that anti-circumvention would take precedence.
Some further links:

Video of suspect truck being searched. (https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1578679085269626881)

Satellite photo of whole bridge. (https://nitter.it/pic/orig/enc/bWVkaWEvRmVrcXFPZFdZQUFCWHRCL...)

Satellite photo of damaged section. (https://nitter.it/pic/orig/enc/bWVkaWEvRmVrcXFPY1hnQUVrakoyL...)

Photo of the underside. (https://t.me/riamelitopol/71523)
New research suggests eating early and within a 10-hour window is healthier
> What is the assumption here? Marginalized groups will be hired even if they aren't the better candidate?

If a person making hiring decisions says that the next candidate for such-and-such role should be a person from such-and-such group (a woman, a person of color, etc.), then the criterion of being the better candidate doesn't apply. Or, rather, it gets adjusted such that belonging in the desired group is included in the list of what makes a candidate better.
Companies such as infosys creep me out.
From UUID to Infinite Loops
> there's a recession going on

Unemployment is historically low accros Europe and the USA. You don’t have to keep listing to big tech companies which had brain dead hiring policies for the past three years and are now scrambling to protect the value of their shares.

The employment market is doing fine right now for most of us. Most companies certainly didn’t stop hiring. Most are actually short handed.
I would like the glaciers and iceshelves in the polar regions to stay where they are rather than causing a rise in Ocean levels that in turn displaces hundreds of millions of people.

Scotland's snow cover is an indicator of what's happening in this planet
I have lived in Scotland for the past twenty years. A few years ago, we had by far the worst snow I have ever seen here. I live in a coastal area that usually doesn't get snow, we had 12ft high drifts and everything shut down for a few days (iirc, it was 2018). There has been no noticeable difference in the frequency of snow either (it usually doesn't snow at all now, and is usually worst in late January/February...I don't know what people think Scotland is, we have a ski slope and in the 90s it was often not open in winter because there was no snow, the weather here is fairly temperate).

Attributing one thing to climate change is difficult.
Another influence, especially for the binary numbers bit, was "Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software" by Charles Petzold. I've always loved his explanation of counting in binary.
> What if you're only getting a 5% fraud rate for something cheap

Something cheap turns into a $15 dispute fee.
> If they were against ethnic groups, as the current western propaganda wants us to believe, they would have applied that policy so they'd have less of that "problematic ethnic group"

> They didn't, which mean they are fine having ethnic groups

Or, they just didn't deem the issue relevant enough to spend the resources to deal with it. China is a large country, some of those ethnic groups exist in remote locations, some very difficult to reach- it has been the case numerous times when a natural disaster occurred and aid was slow to reach those regions because of logistical difficulties.

Perhaps it wasn't that they are fine with the ethnic groups, but that they were indifferent and/or deemed them unimportant unless they had sufficient reason to think they warranted the attention/involvement.

Mind that just because they didn't want to lower their numbers, doesn't mean they have no issue with those groups, or that they wouldn't have issues with them if the situation and their perception of them changed.
A good read on this theme is Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance.
Is this a question you will bring up every time discrimination is discussed ?

And does any answer to your question bring anything to what's described in the article or are you really expecting that we condone the discrimination against indian origin and women because of affirmative action also exists ?
Not to that extreme, but there are certainly restaurants that take your food away if you don't finish your meal within, say, half an hour.
Dealing with the exponential increase in data is driving some massive architectural changes. This Univ of Penn research is interesting. Chip companies are currently working a number of strategies. Related: https://semiengineering.com/ic-architectures-shift-as-oems-n...
You're not wrong if you align with categorical imperative views on ethics. If however you see the scaled utilitarianist perspective (disentrenching systemic -isms and gaining more equality), then perhaps you'll conclude it is a more muddy landscape than simply "immoral". FWIW, I don't disagree with you. Consider it's not as simple as we want it to be.
I was a consultant for an American company that also hired dozens of cheap consultants from development countries. Mostly India but also neighbouring countries and some Eastern European countries.

Indians were by far the hardest to work with. They ghosted women systematically which was a nightmare for our project manager. They also lied shamelessly about their qualifications which led to absurd situations.

The problem doesn't lie in hiring Indian people though. It's in hiring cheap labour for the sake of it. If you want to get from point A to point B you either hire people who can do it or you don't. If you believe those guys have actually been delivering quality software for a decade with some technology despite being dirt cheap, you are just an idiot.
> especially now with the proxy war between US and Russia

This is not a proxy war between the US and Russia. Ukraine nor Russia started this conflict at the behest or instigation of the US. The US (and NATO, the entire western world really) are supportive of Ukraine but it's important to note that Ukraine is not a puppet of the US and that Putin started this conflict.
Yeah, the motivation if this idea is honorable (if it would just work out to some degree).. but in the end it is a late workaround doomed for he issue to come back in another way (if the experience from 99.9% of issues is transferable here) and not tackling the root cause.
I dunno what other industries are like but I've interviewed quite a few software engineers this year and only had a couple women apply. I don't have much of an opinion on hiring incentives but it seems like focusing on the education system would be more effective.
I don't have any problem with ADTs or abstraction ... In fact I'd say the strength of C++, and why I use it, is precisely that you can create your own abstractions, more so than C.

I'm just saying that using a canned set with "many useful" operations is suboptimal, design by committee is suboptimal, etc.

As opposed to analyzing the ops your app needs and creating custom data structures. i.e. there are many different ADTs for "hash table" or "set"

That might seem obvious, but it's not how software development is being done today. There's a lot of code reuse that leads to suboptimal software; it would actually be better to copy and paste and refine more.
GP’s argument is that that means it has an implicit timezone of UTC.
Wow you are right he did say that. Had to google it to confirm. How is that not racist? And why is racism so prevalent among indians?
So much of recycling is more costly than getting new. I.e. injecting some (trivial) amounts of aluminum back into the extremely efficient aluminum mining/refining system is honestly more trouble than it's worth. Where I live recycled aluminum cans are shipped to a steel recycling plant (something that is worthwhile) to be dumped by the traincarload into each batch to precipitate out the sulfur, then skimmed and sent to a landfill. Useful, efficient and not just theatre.
In all my years working in software, I have only had 2 colleagues with white hair. It is clear there are many older engineers out there that are having a hard time getting a job. Whatever is going on, it's clear there's a system in place to remove the older guys.

Then, breaking news: HR fucking sucks everywhere. That's the whole idea of HR in the first place. It's a legal shield for the company, it has nothing to do with improving people's lives.

All fucking HR surveys have the objective of removing unhappy employees and are not anonymous, talking to HR about a problem is another way in which unsatisfied employees get detected and kicked out of companies. HR fucking sucks.
If all companies try to hire from the same small pool say women in tech. Don't they have to compete with each other? And therefore pay them more than others?

I have been wondering about this, but always too scared to ask it as it comes a cross as an attack.
I assure you it's not an attack but a genuine question.
It’s an example of a surrogate model. It’s an ML model trained on the output of large numerical simulations like the OP, rather doing the simulation itself.

Surrogate models are nice because they can emulate the output of the full fidelity calculation in a fraction of the runtime, but they typically are trained within a range of validity outside of which they cannot reliably extrapolate.
You can’t fix racism/sexism by being racist/sexist.
While 'reverse discrimination' can end up being a concern, the societal reason for it's use is to correct for past legal or defacto discrimination that may have become structural.

Discrimination can have long-lasting or multi-generational effects that can persist. Men may consciously or subconsciously prefer other men, calling it "culture fit". Today's minorities may not have the same wealth distribution, which allows for greater risk taking, due to historical redlining and discrimination for jobs.

So 'reverse discrimination', when applied correctly, can help to break those structural inequities.
A friend of mine went on a vacation approved by execs and when he returned they told him his metrics in the past few weeks were zero (no wonder) and he was placed on a 2-week termination notice right away. Something went badly wrong in our industry.
Many don’t even acknowledge that their policies are discriminatory.

But it’s still a good argument to point out that discriminatory diversity policies are discriminatory. Because that forces those that advocate for them to lay out their justifications and also at what point the policy is no longer needed.

I’m not against affirmative action where it makes sense, but it’s a heavy handed policy and as such needs very good justification and constant re-evaluation.
PayPal claims policy of $2,500 'misinformation' fines was posted in error
Me too, if anything the past 2 months has been busier than the 6 months before.

I think it is a soft recession, and employers aren't looking to cut employees, they are looking to replace them with more cost effective employees.
The fact that they even consider it is worrying, I don’t know who they think they are but this kind of behavior is just unacceptable and IMO not inline with the spirit of democracy. I’ll be deleting my account I don’t even use it all that much anyway.
Moment’s own docs tell you to not use moment
Arch doesn't have "major versions".
This isn't the case. Less people are living there relative to the 1800s, but there are still a lot of people living there because so many people choose to retire there (the Islands are largely populated by the English now). And these places are still tourist destinations.

The actual wilder parts, like the Cairngorms, were never populated because you can't survive there. The clearances happened in areas that are still populated today, and had some degree of arable/pastoral activity.
This is ridiculous. The complexity of manually washing a spoon, even with all those steps added, isn't even in the same ballpark as manufacturing it. You need all of the same kind of steps to manufacture the spoon (including piping water to the factory and cleaning it with soap or whatever), and the other ones are orders of magnitude more complex. And just because you added more words and used some technical terms it doesn't show any more complexity.
> Usually we flash the double V for Victory sign and say “Peace out!” when that’s the case. It’s fun.

Sounds like a good way to burn bridges. If I'd show up to work one day and tell them to suck it up for the next few months of planned projects, I do know what kind of reference my boss would provide to future employers.

It's not about loyalty or something, but so long as there isn't anything egregious, it does seem reasonable to me that both sides can expect a notice periods.
For CK, the advice for becoming familiar with it was to start out in Ireland. It's more isolated, so fewer moving parts.
Yeah I did two similar projects — the first just setting up the emulator.

But when I wrote an e-ink calendar that looked like the old Mac OS, I made a simplified version of the "enclosure" I had done for the earlier emulator.

So they look similar but differ in function (and scale, the e-ink display is smallish so had to scale down the compact Mac accordingly).
Diversity is only for white people.

Look at the diversity on the board of Mitsubishi:

https://www.mitsubishicorp.com/jp/en/about/bmembers/
This is Life in the Metaverse
Quite honestly, if anything, I think we (and I truly mean nearly everyone here) in the EU have far more than necessary to have a decent life and doing anything more "business savy" would not have any positive effect on our lives at all. Yes, maybe we could make a little bit more money by being more business crazy, but what's the point if you get nothing you actually desire in return?
> I have a few years of experience working mostly on the frontend with React and am getting more and more frustrated with all the added layers of complexity needed to work with most common frontend frameworks.

It's complicated because you (or your team) are using very, very low level tools, which were made for large teams, working at large companies with complex architectures adapted to fit more people working on the problem, with large budgets where all of this can be afforded. In fact, you might need to use those low level tools in most of those environments. I'm talking about React, GraphQL, SPA architecture, microservices built with microframeworks (some times in pretty low level languages for the Web such as Go, etc...)

Try Rails, Laravel or, if you want to stay in the JavaScript world: Adonis.js. Pick a modern "sprinkles" library for the parts you need interactivity such as htmx, unpolyor alpinejs (or Hotwire if using Rails). And boom... Everything is simple again. Just not trendy and fashion.
What are your thoughts on Dr. Seyfried and cancer as a metabolic disease?
The Hummingbird Clock: date videos by background mains hum
If you grow along with your kid everyone benefits. For me this is the greatest gift life has offered me.
Good luck “looking on the bright side” when you’ve had less than four hours sleep every night for the past week.

Some kids are just angels and sleep like champs, others fight every inch of the way and wake up constantly. As a result, different parents come up with wildly different “truths of parenting”.
Anecdotal comment inbound, but you sound like you could benefit from a bit of hope: it really should get better, and soon. I have kids similarly distanced in age, the years you mentioned were the hardest so far and by far, even without a pandemic in the mix. That said, after they both were above age ~7 and able exist with a small bit of independence, things became easier. Like, an order of magnitude easier on my subjective and invented scale. Sleep improved, activities became fun again... in fact, I'm a bit sad when I can't convince one or the other to join me to do even simple things like picking up groceries.

Hang in there. Good luck.
The pool is not of a fixed size, and there's no evidence of women being paid a premium to fulfil a quota.

Conversely, there's plenty of evidence of both individual and systematic discrimination against women candidates and women "thought leaders" in tech.
Bad analogy. That’s like suggesting we give racers in the next race an advantage because of what happened in the current race, which creates obvious unfair outcomes.
Don't get ahead of yourself there. Racial preferences are very common around the world. It becomes part of self-worth to value one's cohort above those that are seen as opressive. Such as the ubiquitous western culture in media.

Anyway, the melting pot of the USA has created a dialog about race that may be missing or very small elsewhere. Witness the apparent race-tone-deaf attitudes in Japanese mainstream, where being Japanese is so obviously superior to everyone else its baked into plots and dialog without apparently even noticing.
I always keep an eye out, and haven't yet found an alternative to PP. My situation is that I sell a hardware gadget, and run my business from a passive web page. PP lets me create forms that link to their website, so they actually handle the transaction themselves. Most of the other services seem to start with: "Here's a sample of the code that you need to have running on your server."

This liberates me from running a web server, having my own URL, or doing any kind of coding. I love coding, and do it all the time by day, but it would add a layer of complexity to my business that I don't need.

PP has worked fine for me, but they always say that you should have a backup.
Comparisons without numbers are just poetry.
I thought CK2 was generally considered an incest simulator to breed the best ruler.
porc is french, generally english meat animals turn french when you kill them to eat them - no joke.
> I think the author is mixing chargebacks with PayPal disputes/claims as PayPal also takes a fee for chargebacks.

What the article says is that PayPal allows payers to request a refund, which is not a chargeback and is free to the vendor. Stripe does not have a dispute or refund process other than chargebacks and they charge vendors $15 for each according to the article.
Had to scroll down too far to see this comment, HN being HN I guess.
You fix the issue of Women / Minorities in STEM and leadership in primary schools if you wait until adulthood to shoe horn a equity solution using discriminatory policies you end up making everything worse

I wish people would understand that.
Marc Battyani on Using Lisp for High-Performance Computing and FPGA Development
I use a mix of apps but these days use mostly Deneba artWORKS, which is essentially an enhanced UltraPaint or a cutdown Canvas 3.x depending on your point of view. Their plugins can all be shared. I have another blog post about that. https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2021/04/25/mixing-external-t...
For the usage? I guess it is natural now, like left and right.

For the names? The little stick figure is leaning forward or backward in reading order.
It’s a good thing we have an infinite amount of aluminium to mine then or the system would be unsustainable in the medium term and it would be completely brain dead to do that.
I’m vaccinated, but my son and his wife chose to not vaccinate my granddaughters. I was happy that they made that decision.

In some cases the vaccine made sense, particularly for folks over 50 and with chronic health conditions, but if you are a healthy <40 year old I don’t see a risk to reward benefit in it.

I definitely don’t see any benefit to doing it to healthy children.
what global problem? I think the way to fix a problem is to discriminate individuals just becaise we wish the composition of hires is different.
ok, yeah, as long as you pay more than the remaining working time. but an employee has to watch out how that affects unemployment benefits.
That's what I do once in a while... it works.
You can install it using AltStore (though without my screen size and scaling modifications) it was hat floats your boat.
Tell HN: gotestfmt is moving
If you're a Go developer and are using gotestfmt, you need to update your references to its new location.
It could be argued it’s a proxy war between NATO and some… unknown world power, with Russia as a proxy. Although I don’t think Chinese would be able to pull it off.
While that is a good path (the one I took BTW), an exit path could also mean transitioning to a different moderately-lucrative career. Or perhaps even the same career in a different business. I know quite a few people who avoid 90% of tech-industry BS by doing fairly basic kinds of automation and web stuff for other kinds of companies, local governments, or non-profits. They don't make anywhere near unicorn money, of course, but they're still well above median and generally seem happier than other people I know who are still in The Grind. If you already have some savings from those intense years, you can let them compound while the easier job takes care of current expenses.
What to Do in Moments of Internet Addiction
Why does it need "Create, edit, and follow private playlists" permissions? I don't really like that.
“These notifications are incredibly annoying but have become necessary to do business online to comply with data protection regulations like GDPR.”

Incorrect. bleepingcomputer.com is required to show the banner because they want to spy on us, and the GDPR demands that they ask permission to do so. If they were more ethical, they could “do business” without having to annoy us with the banner.
I'm increasingly encountering banners that (a) get past my banner-blocker, and (b) pop up a sequence of different banners; i.e. I dismiss the first banner (accept, reject, doesn't matter because I use cookie controls); and another one pops up - sometimes waiting for me to scroll 10% or so of the way through the article before it appears.

I think they believe that "human interaction" (like a click) somehow gets them around browser protections. I think they are wrong, at least as far as my browser (Firefox) is concerned.
I think it's biggest problem is that it is not intuitive at all for people who use it for not a long of time. (and I'm saying it as someone using git for more then 10 years :))
> Clunky, it is not.

I want to roll back an accidental commit of an extra file to the previous, uncommitted state. Or even simpler, undo a commit to restore the exact state just before it happened.
As a matter of fact, Opera has been blocking cookie dialogs for a long time already. Possibly only Opera for Android though.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/opera-for-android-adds-support...

It is a difficult problem though as there is no standard for cookie dialogs, everyone has their own implementation.

And if you don't do it properly you may only block the visuals and be stuck with an invisible element that covers the screen and makes it non-clickable.
+1 for Adonis. I've been using it for some time, together with unpoly + alpinejs and it's a real pleasure. I'm really productive with this stack. In fact, their docs site is built using these tools: https://github.com/adonisjs/docs.adonisjs.com/blob/develop/p...
> "You know the thing where you see something on Facebook, start reading it or composing a reply, and then you lose it?"

No, actually. I've never used Facebook, or Twitter. It's like having an automatic +10 on your roll for mental stability and anti-depression. I'd highly recommend it.

Facebooked and Twitterized... it means silo-ized (locked into partisan rabbit holes) and dumbed-down (incapable of comprehending concepts that require more than a few sentences to explain).