skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Indians were by far the hardest to work with. They ghosted women systematically which was a nightmare for our project manager.

I recall that Amazon went through the trouble of paying for TV ads proudly stating that they now have in India delivery posts manned exclusively by women, and the ad is comprised of indian delivery women delivering packages to indian men who in turn are giving them all sorts of weird looks.

I recall seeing this ad and thinking to myself: are things in India so bad to the point that this sort of measure and ad passes off as something to be proud about?
> (1) Tool Game: Researching and setting up tools (2) Learning Game: Books, podcasts, courses (3) Maintenance Game: Cleaning up our desktop, desk, house, etc. (4) Process Game: Setting up new processes and following them

This is exactly what I have been doing for so long (~2 years), I get hyped about a new project, delve into the "best" way of solving the problem and encounter 4-5 shiny new things, spend an unreal amount of time scaffolding and using new tech to create a base framework for whatever I am doing, and then when I actually have to solve the problem my productivity stagnates and I procrastinate more.

Even now I am conflicted/lost on what to do, this response is tbh a cry for help from people who have encountered something like this. Any insight would be great.
Earning money.
This is the reason most devs are contractors in London.

I'd be surprised if even 1% of the devs in the UK are contractors in London.
- you have to chose between easy merge and a clean history

I will note that at least with GitHub we’ve been using squash merges for a couples years on a pretty large project and it’s solved this for us.
The devs that want a clean history (like me the project lead). Bisecting is very easy, every commit references a Jira ticket ticket.

People that want to land multiple patches with multiple messages can make multiple pull requests. If you think the changeset is so distinct that I don’t want it to be one commit in a bisect, each changeset deserves its own review.
Chatted with him at a party.. he does have that vapid Hollywood angle down (which Elon aspires to as well it seems).

Who are the other ones? XG Wen, Marin Soljacic? I haven't met them, just that their publicized results in my opinion are
more flash than substance, like Tegmark's. And generally not really taken up by other people.
The loser doesn't always pay for both. In some cases (well, many actually), or at least in cases where party A sues party B and loses, the court decides that it wasn't all clear-cut and party A was right to get a resolution through the court system. In that case both may end up paying their respective legal bills.
Show HN: New version of AutoSpotting with lots of improvements
These are the main changes in this new stable release. Some were previously available in the Open Source trunk code, while others were built over the last couple of weeks:

- Added support for recently launched EC2 instance types, including up to R6a, released in July 2022.

- Significantly lower Spot interruption rates in the default configuration by

1.switching to the EC2 Fleet API in instant mode with the capacity-optimized-prioritized allocation strategy so that we now avoid instance types with a large likelihood of interruption.

2.increasing instance type diversification by relaxing the instance type selection logic. Previously we enforced instance types with at least as much EBS bandwidth, but this is now off by default.

3.Disabling the handling of Rebalancing recommendation events in the default configuration, which have been seen to significantly increase interruption rates.

- Add support for biasing instance types selection to newer instance generations such as C7g, which offer significant performance improvements but with a slight cost increase. This is now turned on by default but can be turned off if lowest cost needs to be prioritised. The way this works is by penalising older generations when doing cost comparisons by 10% of the Spot price for each older generation, while the current generation isn't penalised at all.

- Lower AutoSpotting costs, by considering the on demand price of the initial instance type configured on the group instead of the on-demand price of the Spot instance type that was launched to replace it.

- Fixed handling of Allowed/Disallowed InstanceTypes in the default configuration, which was previously allowing all instance types and ignoring the list of Disallowed instance types.

- Add support AutoScaling Group-based CodeDeploy deployment groups by triggering CodeDeploy deployments on new Spot instance launches so we no longer depends on tag-based deployment groups.

This is a major release and I recommend anyone using AutoSpotting to give it a try. For now this is only available from the AWS Marketplace, but I plan to eventually release this functionality to the Open Source code.
Jesus, that Wiki page...you can tell it was written by a Yank with a fetish for Scotland.

No though, the Scottish population was not nomadic...obviously. Something like 75% of the country is just wasteland. The population lives in dense areas where agriculture was possible (70% of the population live in the central belt).
> 4) Performance evangelists and salesmen will try to convince everyone they need to get a response in 50ms, but for most use cases that's just ridiculous. Most people are fine getting a response in under a second. Just use a CDN for your static assets and your monolith will be fine.

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Disagree with this, performance optimization is a statistical issue and considering only the time spent on a single request is very one-sided. You should also calculate the latency of all requests (how long the user waits in total in the application) over the lifetime of the application. 50 milliseconds and one second have a huge impact on the experience.
> Contradicts with freedom, free will, and bodily autonomy.

Those are socially constructed concepts and society decides their metes and bounds.
Like the Extended Phenotype thing explored by Dawkins.
Right? The argument that static/strict typing mostly catches trivial bugs isn't an argument against the value of that language, and yet people seem to think it is!
Sadly, I think our culture is broken.

A customer getting solution by complaining on social media be it HN, Twitter or Facebook. Should destroy all of the face of company and remove any trust anyone have left to them. Any stories heard that someone got solution by complaining on Facebook, Twitter or NH or some secretive other channel should be direct indicator that company is not worth working for and should be driven out of business...

But sadly, such actions are applauded here... Not mocked like they deserved and shown as pure failures of the company to treat their customers equally and well.
> English is such a turd language.

I disagree, but then I would, I'm English. ;)

Tolerance of mispronunciation is one of the great strengths of English.

Even within the UK we have a plethora of different regional pronunciation. Even with the strongest accents only takes a couple of words to pick up what they're saying[1].

It's the same for those comping to English from another language. I've been lucky enough to work with people from all over the world, including India, with various standards of English. With a bit of practice on both ends it all works out.

That doesn't seem happen so much with other languages such as French. Even practicing with tolerant French or Belgian friends, my mangling of words is very hard for them to understand. They're not being difficult either, it's a case of get it exactly right or they can't understand you even with context.

1. If you're thinking Rab C Nesbit or that 19080s Nissan Sunderland advert the Japanese translator[2] you get what I'm talking about.

2. It was an advert for a new Japanese car plant in the UK. The joke being that a Japanese guy is translating a deliberately over the top English regional accent back into "English" for the audience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiK5BWmKSqE
The GMail archive search process. For example searching for an old email based on one or two keywords. I end up having to add a full email address to a large number of searches.

Another ridiculous one that comes to mind is longer-timeframe economic developments, for example in asset prices recently you can find clear opportunities at longer time frames but can and will watch those prices perform counter to your model on lower time frames. Or an economic intervention is put into place but the results won't be seen clearly for 5Y at least.

This ends up forcing special qualitative, probabilistic risk models to work too hard compared to rational decision-making, and humans are in such a case far better at the latter.

While that's kind of a "the way things just are, things take time" situation, I also get the notion that something can be done about it.
Several years ago now I self-published a collection of my own short stories after trying and failing to get published in a known magazine[0]. It was a great exercise in both the patience required to edit, and also the patience in just waiting between long- and short-list emails. Would definitely recommend to anyone who has “that book they want to write” just doing it, even if I do look back now and sigh at every poorly chosen adjective.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B082QT6XW7
Already filed a report, right after it happened.

I got an email a little bit later asking follow-up questions. It seems like something might happen. Or at least I'll be part of a tally of violations.
For what it's worth I'm pretty sure there are systems in place in these countries which actually make it possible. right?

Like, there are insurances and government assistance programs that businesses use to pay for things like parental leave.

US businesses get no such help. So what is often attributed to US business greed is actually political greed, while businesses are just casualties.
The inverse transform:

https://bugfix-66.com/7f0f425d3eee8def16e1102d054fd45394d027...

A video explaining how it works:

https://youtu.be/4n7NPk5lwbI
That's probably more of a Fliewatüüt: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbi,_Tobbi_und_das_Fliewat...
Laws permitting--and I assume any extended notice period would be/should be mutual--companies can put any appropriate terms in their employment contracts. But it's certainly not the norm in the US. I'd expect most common would be two weeks notice and you get paid out for any unused paid time off.

For most people, multiple months notice wouldn't work well. Either you quit without an offer in hand and spend half your remaining time job hunting or you have an offer but your potential new employer won't wait more than a month. I'd certainly think very hard before entering into such an arrangement as it would make getting a new job riskier.
Don't know about CIA conspiracies but I'm sure Saudi Arabians will protest Hijab mandates one day. Freedom is amazing and every human craves it at some level.
I remember consumer devices from the 80s that allowed transmitting audio using mains. They were already outdated by the time I saw them in the 2000s.

Me and some friends tested them and tried transmitting to a neighbours house (connected to the same electrical post) and had no success at all. There was just too much noise, coming from other houses. However with digital technology I'm sure you can get a much better range.
Well I would prefer they send me a bill directly for fire services monthly, like water instead of having it obfuscated in general taxation. I prefer user fees not taxation.

as for schools, to the extent I support their funding (which is more limited than I suspect you do) it is generally ethically justified because I too attended schools paid for by taxation, so in that manner I paying off a debt vs paying for others. Granted it is a debt I did not consent to, and had no option to opt out of but still there is that ethical foundation

None of that exist for what we are talking about here

and I absolutely reject the idea of a "social contract"
Well I'm not going to say pirate movies. But the laws exist to ensure capitalists make money, even if it is at the expense of people's freedoms.
If you’re curious, simply reach out to the Starbucks Workers United org and ask.

https://sbworkersunited.org/

https://sbworkersunited.org/new-page-2

I’m unsure if your comment is genuinely curious; I’ve tried to assume positive intent. Unions are the only way for workers to get purchase against abusive, unchecked capitalism.

(disclosure: I have provided financial and technical support)

Edit: @savanaly

The author of the comment I replied to has a most recent Ask HN asking why not smaller government and more privatization. Their comment language and format, when viewed for only a moment, is easy to distill as not genuinely curious, but as condescending: “what could these workers possibly ask for that they’d deserve from Starbucks?”

I’m happy to act as Google and stick the result in a reply for them (this is what they’re asking for), but I’m also going to politely call out their disingenuous behavior.
If they’ve deregistered the company, presumably they drained the accounts too.
"And earlier this year, Shanti chose to be euthanised, a procedure which is legal in Belgium, and died on May 7 after two psychiatrists approved her request."
When I have a bunch of friends over for coffee, we like to play "Moroccan Roulette" by tossing a chunk of hash into the automatic coffee machine's bean grinder hopper.

Probably a good thing I work at home and not in an office.
It's both, and you can find the answer on Wikipedia. [1]

> During a swipe, the MetroCard is read, re-written to, then check-read to verify correct encoding... Each MetroCard stored value card is assigned a unique, permanent ten-digit serial number when it is manufactured. The value is stored magnetically on the card itself, while the card's transaction history is held centrally in the Automated Fare Collection (AFC) Database... Whenever the card is swiped at a turnstile, the value of the card is read, the new value is written, the customer is let through, and then the central database is updated with the new transaction as soon as possible. Cards are not validated in real time against the database when swiped to pay the fare.

There's also an old NYT article [2]:

> But since the main computer communicates regularly with both the turnstiles and the booth computers, false cards have so far all been invalidated after they have been used once... Some hackers believe that because the turnstiles, the token booth computers and the mainframe computer, respectively, upload and download information at six-minute intervals, the length of time that a passenger can transfer without paying may actually be 18 minutes more than the advertised two hours, if the timing is right... ''I believe that, fundamentally, a system as complicated as the Metrocard cannot be absolutely secure,'' he said. ''What we have to make sure is that the hack won't scale. If a few people ride for free, that's no big deal.''

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetroCard#Technology

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/11/nyregion/what-galls-a-hac...
Could be that she tried 11 at different times, not that it’s been all 11 at one time for years.
Trolling implies agency. Repeating bland climate change denial isn’t really something people with strong agency do.
> “Hundreds of thousands of adults [are] lining up to see characters and situations that had been created to entertain the 12-year-old boys – and it was always boys – of 50 years ago. I didn’t really think that superheroes were adult fare. I think that this was a misunderstanding born of what happened in the 1980s – to which I must put my hand up to a considerable share of the blame, though it was not intentional – when things like Watchmen were first appearing. There were an awful lot of headlines saying ‘Comics Have Grown Up’. I tend to think that, no, comics hadn’t grown up. There were a few titles that were more adult than people were used to. But the majority of comics titles were pretty much the same as they’d ever been. It wasn’t comics growing up. I think it was more comics meeting the emotional age of the audience coming the other way.”

> He thinks that’s not just infantile but dangerous. “I said round about 2011 that I thought that it had serious and worrying implications for the future if millions of adults were queueing up to see Batman movies. Because that kind of infantilisation – that urge towards simpler times, simpler realities – that can very often be a precursor to fascism.” He points out that when Trump was elected in 2016, and “when we ourselves took a bit of a strange detour in our politics”, many of the biggest films were superhero movies.
When I worked with a large team for 2 years, including going over to run a week long training program .. I found just a general disinclination for efficiency, automation or time saving... which cynically wouldn't surprise you when you consider they are running a quantity/body shop.

The craziest conversation I had was trying to convince a guy who came in every morning and ran a script that he could put it on a timer/scheduler/cron/anything to just run the report so it was in his inbox every morning. It's not that he was incapable technically, or did not understand it. It was as if I was asking him to violate a religious oath. "Thou shall not reduce billable hours."
His workflow remained - login to desktop, open IDE, open script, modify date, save, execute script, open FTP app, login to server, download file to desktop, open email app, create new email, attach file, email file to onshore. Solid 30min++ of work if you do it right.
What Is a Lagrange Point?
To expand on that, I'd say it's a thing that does everything and depending on context, that's a good thing because the compromises and the intended use work out (e.g. Swiss army knives) or a bad thing because they result in a product that sucks at everything (e.g. Jira).
Yes, in the same way you could leave fake fingerprints and DNA at a crime scene.

This was used in a court case in the UK where the defence claimed the police had tampered with a recording - editing together separate recordings into a single one to make their case. An academic 'expert' analysed the recording and corroborated the claimed recording times and the accused were found guilty.
Right you are paid X currency for X labor.

How is paying employees to sit at home not working anything other than charity/
Prices and lead time for solar power projects. Right now, solar power is a no-brainer for pretty much everyone in the industrialized world. No one does not invest into solar because they're stubborn or stupid. The pipeline is simply sold-out.

It's similar for wind power, but somewhat distorted by the very long time it takes to build a wind farm (from planning to first watt-hour). Notably, noone can put a wind turbine on their roof.
>because of an immigration system that keeps foreigners from immigrating for work

Okay so let me dispel this myth. I don't know when it started, how, and where, but Japan is not that hard to immigrate into if you have a job or are a student enrolled in a Japanese school. The biggest issue is probably the language and the fact that most jobs are in Japanese, but if you speak Japanese (or can find an English-speaking job) then it's not that hard to immigrate into Japan. Work visas are pretty easy to obtain. Permanent residency is relatively easy to obtain too, and even better, citizenship is even easier to obtain (although you have to renounce your former citizenship). With that in mind, the US are objectively harder to immigrate into compared to Japan, on paper at least.

Which brings me to...

>and in part because of lots of systemic racism

I think the main issue of Japan is just cultural and the language itself. A lot of what can come across as racism is just a misunderstanding of societal expectations and behavior. Language barriers are really hard to overcome and Japanese is one of the hardest language to learn if you come from an English speaking background (or most European languages, really). The fact that most people in Japan don't speak English well, and that they are a culture that is significantly different from a lot of the west doesn't help.

And yes, there is still quite a bit of sexism and racism (although I'd argue the latter is more from a position of "unknown" rather than actual hatred/disdain). Stuff is improving fortunately, but it takes time.

This said, I don't think racism and xenophobia as a whole, or the country's own immigration policies, are what are keeping Japan so non-diverse.

source: Live and work in Japan, speak Japanese. This is obviously just my opinion.
Show HN: BlockTalk – Banter about what your friends are doing on Web3
Hey HN,

I’m Kamil and one of the two people working on BlockTalk. BlockTalk is going into public beta today! (We're also on Product Hunt, come check us out!)

We previously posted about this project under the name “WalletWatch” in a Show HN about 3 weeks ago, and have since integrated your feedback to make it better [1]

[problem]
As we were trying to see how our friends were using crypto, we noticed that other products were either too complex or only let us passively view what our friends were doing.

[solution]
BlockTalk is a social network centered around Ethereum transactions. You can easily see, understand, like, and comment on the Ethereum transactions of anyone on the platform. We don’t ask for your email or password, and instead authenticate by asking users to sign a transaction with their Ethereum wallet; we ask for usernames to give a more familiar and user-friendly experience for people that haven’t purchased ENS or other crypto domain names. At the moment, we’re storing user data in Firestore instead of on-chain because the current decentralized channels are too expensive or slow. This also has the added benefit of making the app completely free to use.

[what’s changed]
Since our last post, we improved the UI/UX, made transactions more understandable, made the app compatible with all viewports, and now don’t require you to create an account to get a feel for the app.

[ask]
We’d love any feedback you all have! My e-mail is kamil@fwd.exchange if you want to contact us about anything related to the project :)

P.S. here's a very old demo of a prototype from a while back [2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32880016

[2] https://youtu.be/xhajqKq4G9Y
I can tell you believe this, and I do think it seems possible to me the west over plays it’s hand. Especially the genocide label, but your evidence isn’t exactly strong. You make it sound like Adrian Zenz is a cultist when as far as I can tell he’s just a passionate critic. As to the photos being deepfaked, I only look at a handful. One did look a bit suspicious, none of the others did, and none of them have that vanilla this person isn’t real type look. I also see the fact that China restricts travel to the region as compelling evidence of foul play even if when they occasionally do take people on tours they don’t find anything. Like you do know the Nazis produced lovely videos of concentration camps full have happy people just living out the war or whatever, China is hiding something.

My fairly uninformed guess (and tell me if this seems right to you) is that what’s going on is merely on the level of what the US did to American Indians what with the boarding schools and the forced removal of their children with maybe a touch of forced labor on the side for spice.

But it’s always worth remembering on this subject, only one of these countries tries to have the state capacity to squash dissent so yes I am a bit more skeptical of what their mouth pieces have to tell the world
One of my favourite things about HN is that a mod would never say something like this.
I think gov. should have the least power possible in any matter related to health.