skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I _do_ work at Microsoft, and judging by the recent crop of promotions (early September) there was still plenty of opportunity for white males (and everyone else).
While some people pick up the bottle in addiction due to purely genetic affinity, others are using it as an escape. While my existence is hotly debated on hacker news whenever the topic arises, my escape was a struggle in trying to not address the gender incongruence between that which I was assigned at birth, and who I truly was. About a year after quitting alcohol, which is usually the recommended space people should give before making large life decisions, I had concluded two things after soul searching:

1. These feelings were never going to go away.

2. I needed to, and could, do something about it.

So I began transition. It was not easy, and communities like hacker news unfortunately are not typically kind about the subject, which is why I generalized to say it was a real kind of personal work that most will never have to endure.
“12k per year from 1,200 customers paying $10 per year would do it for me”

Unfortunately that is a lot. Getting 1200 customers to pay you any amount requires enormous amounts of marketing, whether its paid or acquiring an audience.
> Why the hell do I need an account to get developer tools in the first place?

Because there is a history of rootkits being embedded into development tools.

https://9to5mac.com/2015/09/20/xcode-ghost-app-store-malware...
New Export Restrictions on Semiconductor Equipment
Assuming you're in the United States, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the EEOC are mere suggestions nowadays. There is no willingness in our DEI-co-opted government to tackle these issues and hold these blatantly illegal and unethical actors accountable.
I have power interruptions from time to time, but fortunately they are not long.

Now, with only an Intel NUC connected to an UPS that could power a big server for a half hour, the NUC might work for a day from the UPS without having to shut down.

Where I live, the "snowpocalypses", which were frequent when I was a child, have disappeared completely. On the other hand, tornadoes, which were completely unknown previously, have started to appear, so they might become a cause of problems in the future.
I wrote a blog post in 2018 about the different dimensions of being a senior engineer and have to say it is a complext and deep topic.

I counted 10+ different aspects: https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/2812
It's basically slavery.
Lose your freedom and be forced to work for basically free.

A lot of "businesses" would straight up collapse without this free labor
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Tech companies made ArriveCan clones over a weekend in criticism of gov spending
Even monkeys are afraid of snakes. The fear of snakes predates humankind.
Why? We'll only replace it if it's actually better. In which case you'll probably love it.

For real, monitors are ugly and take up space and become super expensive quick.

If we actually manage to come up with something better then monitors, then amazing. If we don't, they won't be replaced.
Trying telling someone to kill themselves on Reddit, any accounts tied to your IP will get banned. Sure, that was a mean thing for me to say, but it was towards a troll in Ukrainian threads early in the conflict where people were asking for help on how to evacuate. The troll was telling them to accept the bullets Russia had for them. They weren't banned.
It absolutely engages with the parent comment. The parent comment is trying to argue that discrimination in selecting which candidates to interview isn't a form of bias. This is incorrect as I explain in my comment.
NASA says Dart mission succeeded in shifting asteroid’s orbit
I assume this means you have an MX record at example.com pointing to your/mailbox.org SMTP server? AIUI, a sending MTA will look up the MX record for example.com by preference order and will deliver emails to the first server that accepts the connection.

So it may depend if you can configure your mailbox.org account/server to reject connections from servers trying to send mail to unknown addresses? Then the sending MTA server might "fail over" to the Relay server instead?
I'm not asking for a repeat, I'm asking you to substantiate your claim that "FOSS payroll software also exists". There is next to nothing available and certainly nothing that I would classify as "adequate".

This is just one example --- specialized business software is almost non-existent in open source. And I see no reason to believe this will change any time soon.
I used immersed with quest 2, but the resolution still bothered me a lot more than something like beat saber.

Now that the quest pro is available, I've already pre-ordered it for this use case. I'd love every project I work on to have different "screens" in different environments to put my mind into each project.
Thanks this is really useful.

re Carmack: I saw that somebody else tried on Twitter without success.
They have already started - „ultra” is the new „pro”
> In many ways HN is worse than Reddit because comments get flagged way too easily.

Ive never had that problem, but this is a tech and entrepreneurship forum and not a general form.

>That’s what downvotes are for

If you get enough karma here you can down vote, 500 iirc. They do this so you can't create fake accounts to downvote people multiple times.
Adding gloss to a topic without leaving the realm of truth can be helpful in inciting interest, as you mention. Similarly, Dr. Michael I. Jordan of UC Berkeley describes in no uncertain terms that the phrase "Artificial Intelligence" is misleading in the field of the same name [1]. He basically says our AI thus far is recommendation engines and a self driving car.

Is the glossy, somewhat simplified discussion of quantum mechanics == gravity == anti-god particle also misleading? I'm still trying to wrap my mind around the 10th grade Algebra's imaginary number √-1 .

[1] https://youtu.be/EYIKy_FM9x0?t=864
> Also, probably wont work for services that require a phone number but don't accept VOIP numbers.

I'm running into an increasing number of these, and it's annoying because I use Google Voice as my primary phone number. Using VOIP is important for me because I travel frequently between the US and EU.

Aside from being inconvenient for me, I take blocking VOIP as a red flag that the service might want to misuse my phone number.
Or run a local DNS in your router, so you don't have to set each client device up.

(How would you even add hosts to an iPhone or something?)
In distros, I would say no anecdotally (not sure about latest versions). I frequently find it not installed on things like Ubuntu 18/20 and RHEL-based systems whereas gzip is pretty much universally available on everything from embedded to Windows
While filesystem-integrated RAID makes sense since the filesystem can do filesystem-specific RAID placements (eg zfs), for now the safest RAID experience seems to be filesystem on mdadm on dm-integrity on disk partition, so that the RAID and RAID errors are invisible to the filesystem.
Constant advertising company spyware is what would be horrible about it.

Not being able to use it freely; being constantly monitored for US-centric moral policing for all your personal and private communications.

A lack of privacy for even 1-on-1 communications with friends, family, and colleagues.

Not being able to make a new account when yours gets banned for something stupid.

No API access to your own data without abusive contracts you can’t negotiate.

Having to use the name on your ID at all times, even if you have stalkers or other life safety threats.

Ads. Tons and tons of ads.
Network router with DNS resolver, internal domain, all DHCP clients get registered with a name as a subdomain. mycomputer.networkname.lan - I use pfsense, but lots of others support this.

You could have your own top level domain as well.
My reading of the original article tells me that these initiatives were interfering with this manager's ability to accomplish his team's objectives/provide value to shareholders. Indeed an assertion could be made that these initiatives run counter to fiduciary duty.

If you want to accomplish a goal, hire people you trust, given them clear objectives, and then get out of their way. Don't micromanage them with endless bureaucracy. Do you think that these policies will deter a real racist? Do you think an interview requirement or call asking "Did you consider candidate X?" accomplishes anything? Can you describe what?

Also MSFT is publicly traded not publicly owned. It's still a private company.
Ask HN: How did programmers solve problems before Stack Overflow existed?
Admins admitted to it once and it created enough controversy that they just fully delete stuff now.
What about account verification for Twitter/etc.?
> The most important thing about this is the branding. It's completely disheartening really, that pretty much every content shat out now is ads.

"Now"? Newspapers and magazines were supported by advertising from day one, pretty much.
We banned github.com/automatic1111 a while back because it was being promoted by some sort of spam ring.

We can let that particular link go through if it's the best one on the topic but perhaps there is something else out there?
> I have a Quest (1 and 2 actually, though the 1 is in storage) and I basically never use it anymore because I just can not be bothered to try and log in through its various apps again

Your knowledge and experience does not reflect current reality. Multiple logins haven't been required since the launch of the Quest 2. I didn't have a Quest 1, so I can't comment there.

> You still have to deal with a complicated web of accounts and apps

This is false. Only one account is needed. Sometimes individual apps will require a login, but that's exceedingly rare, or allows you to login with other devices, to the app, outside of the Quest ecosystem. This is not a fault of Meta, it's just the reality of third party credentials. I don't recall the last app I had to

If you buy a headset now, you would make a Meta account that would be used for everything. That's it.

If you had a Facebook account and are ok with continuing with the Facebook account, you're done.

If you had a Facebook account and you want to convert it to a Meta account, you can choose to do this, then you're done.

All three situations above use a single account for all apps, besides those that are meant to be accessible cross platform.
It's a hole in spacetime in the sense that the inside of the Black Hole is completely cutoff from the outside, with the exception of Hawking radiation. A black hole's interior is causally separate from the rest of the universe.
Sounds like the same trend we se in other social media, which is that as soon as there's something new which against the odds has broken through, everyone rushes to copy it - the reason both YouTube and Facebook are pushing shorts so aggressively now.
Why would anyone support a system that explicitly dis-empowers them in preference to other identity groups who themselves are perfectly fine to pursue their own self interest?

After years of this, are the "privileged" getting the picture yet? You are a target for elimination in popular society. Either you take your own side, or no one will. There is a clear zero-sum aspect to this.

The cultural brainwashing that there is virtue in supporting this against your own interests is just Nietzschean slave-morality propaganda. You don't have to apologize for or pathologize being capable, successful and doing what is best for yourself, dare I say even for your own identity group. You can simply reject this nonsense; the emperor truly has no clothes here.

Related: my most recent submission [0] titled "Wikimedia is funding political activism" received over 20 points in 30 minutes, but of course was quickly flagged without discussion. Quite a bit of censorship around these parts regarding these particular topics with huge impact on all of us within the tech industry.

[0] https://twitter.com/echetus/status/1579776106034757633
I agree that discussing that distinction [ed: between needs and wants] can make sense. Since the book does not use the concept of needs as an abstract concepts (“what is a Need”) nor as research device (“What are your needs?”) I did not discuss it. Fittingly, if you Ctrl+F for "want" you will not find it being use as a research concept either (There are a lot of "wants" in regards to researcher activities as in "You want to do X after Y")
instagram.workplace.com redirects to www.workplace.com

Any other legit domains take you to their SSO page. Try walmart.workplace.com
Why? Because your virtual monitors will exist in Meta's dogshit virtual survaillence world.
I have to update, I mean reinstall, it every year!
This is a peeve of mine that I see absolutely everywhere, none of our recent fires hold a candle (so to speak) to what was going on before humans started managing forests. Take a look at this chart from the UN[1], specifically pre-1960.

I guarantee every chart of wildfires you'll see on a major news site will begin after 1960. Typically they want to push the narrative that climate change is causing wildfires when in fact wildfires have everything to do with forest management and nothing to do with climate change. They are of course also ignoring the fact that climate models predict a _wetter_ planet, not a drier one, if current trends continue.

[1] https://www.fao.org/3/ai412e/ai412e09.jpg
Seems like an expensive way for HR to waste money, especially since they're treating it like an enterprise product. For an employee, this would just be a two-hour battery-lifed irritance. For a gamer, it could be probably as cool as owning a PS5, but with less multiplayer joy to be had rfom.

Cheap and capable AR glasses would've been the game changer they should be looking for, in my view.

Not saying some corporates won't lap it up. but this won't drive adoption necessarily. somebody else will end up doing that
If something were to "fall" into a "Black Hole", from the object's perspective, the object would seem to "fall" for an infinite amount of time.
This 100% - especially a social media company that is shedding revenue left and right. What do you do when you are losing revenue? Find new revenue streams. What do you sell to get additional revenue? More personal data. When a giant corporation becomes desperate, they will sell anything they have in any way they can to make up revenue - I can only imagine what they will end up having to do to make up these lost revenue streams... probably not so good.
Agreed. More sterilization also goes against what we should do per the hygiene hypothesis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis, which states that early childhood exposure to germs is necessary for the development of a healthy immune system), especially around children in non-hospitalization situations.
Some manage to find a workaround even when it's illegal. I was reading somewhere that Lund University in Sweden was cancelling the job opening right before the deadline if the most promising candidate wasn't a woman.

There's so much bullshit in this. Universities are not allowed to advertise positions as "women only", but at the same time they are required to reach certain percentage of female "representation" by law.
A lot of athletics is dangerous - I think it's only fair for people to be informed about the risks because often awareness and procedures can mitigate them.

I'm a decently strong climber, and I would never discourage people from trying it. But I think an honest presentation should include the risks
Snowdoges?
How do you know this? OP states that their statement comes from marine biologists.
Not developer tools that are downloaded from apple.com.
If you are not a rockstar, keep a list of zombie companies. These are the ones most likely to hire you, especially when you are over 40 years old.
>If D&I is operating at the wrong end of the pipe, it should be rejected outright because it won't work and will cause pointless problems in the meantime.

So instead of discussing ways of making D&I work, we should throw it away. Sounds like a newbie dev throwing a tantrum over having to build on a system with legacy code.

>the bar was far higher for firing a diverse employee with performance issues, which followed from the DEI objectives.

That statement doesn't simply "follow from DEI objectives." Was that bar for performance standards explicit? implicit? or, like a lot of other replies here, hyperbole?
So he's a narcissist. No one should get to tell someone else how not to be a racist beyond "hey it's expected that to work here you treat everyone equally and with respect". Telling someone they are potentially a racist or anti-x because they don't follow 15 steps provides in a training that you don't have to follow for anyone else is wrong.
Companies like Microsoft want the best people. It's not brick laying, there's no "qualified for the job" tick box. The effects in software are non-linear, and one brilliant hire can create more value than 100 mediocre ones. These companies are actively hurt by having to hire second-best diversity hires, even if they're technically qualified for the job (whatever that means).
This policy sounds like exactly what it should be. This is to make up for things like this (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-29/job-appli...), but having a black sounding name makes you less likely to get an interview.

If society doesn't put some effort into overcoming its biases, those biases will always exist.
And I think we've seen the same Woody Allen movie
I miss the days when people would almost always leave a comment when downvoting. That was back before you could "undown" a fat-finger downvote.
I'm trying to think what "more" is. I guess I missed inline asm, although I'd probably lump it in with "external function". Static mut, technically, but I don't really consider those part of the current rust language; a historical accident which should be read as `UnsafeCell`. Therefore I'm going to lump that in with unsafe functions too, albeit an invisible one.

ETA: I found your lwn comment. I forgot entirely about unsafe traits and I would say those are entirely different from my two categories. So, three things.
Get a VPN from a reputable ISP, or to a VPS. As a bonus, it's much easier to host mail as you can customize reverse DNS. You also get a "clean" IP, IPv6 regardless of your current ISP, and a static IP.

It's also possible to host a static website on IPFS and point DNS records to cloudfare or another public gateway to let them handle the web server part.
An unstated benefit of real monitors is that you can stop looking at the monitors.
> I'd go as far as protecting the directory to only allow access from local network, and use wireguard to reach the machine.

Or, you know, only allow access from the attached hardware and reach the machine the old-fashioned way: By walking.

Regarding costs, it's useful to know the cost of a watt: For my electric rates, the equation runs:

$0.11/Watt-month = $0.162/kWh x 730 hours/month / 1000 kilowatts/watt

So at least in my area the 25W server would not quite cost more than $3/month.
It would be great if someone could package several virtual services into one app. Virtual cc number, virtual email address, virtual phone number all with one click. That way I can sign up for some in-store membership with working info, get the discount, and never worry about my info being compromised.
I really am in need of a terminal email client that can handle multiple inboxes with vi keybinds out the box. This looks promising
OP handed it over based on a deal that Stability did not hold up their end of.
For places with high car ownership, you can use electric cars as the battery storage. Just need lithium iron phosphate batteries to be standard in EVs. Telsa is using them in some of their models in China.
Ask HN: How to solicit resumes when not actively hiring
We currently have a list of open job positions that are not open. The idea is to keep some resumes coming in as we might find a diamond. But showing these positions as open doesn't sit well with me.

What's a good way, or a good example to encourage people to apply if they think they'd be an asset to our team even if we have no real open positions that fit them?
Ask HN: Tips on Finding Hackathons?
Where do you look for hackathons? I've seen some on DevPost and HackerEarth, but are there any other websites that collect hackathons from various websites?
Ever heard of “intranet”? Local network urls are not available outside company network.
BAYC Creator Yuga Labs Faces Investigation from the SEC
BTRFS is pretty stable nowadays.
>They mention an increase of from 3% to 5% of membership of senior black leaders.

So now instead of those 3% being seen as having earned their position, all 5% will be seen as having been given an unfair advantage. So now it's not only unfair to the people excluded based on skin color but it's unfair to those who benefitted strictly because of the perception they now have to deal with as having not really earned their position the same as everyone else. It puts them on equal footing with the bosses nephew, who nobody respects.

It's 2022 - maybe we can stop trying to defend race-based favoritism and discrimination?
Everything, the content and the voices are generated by AI. check my other comments for how we did that.
At just 5.6% they are not doing enough! Capitalism has made "unwanted" people the outliers and capitalism can fix it!

One way to improve hiring could by legislating that for-profit companies should do away with drug tests and background verification. Systemic & instituitional racism means a lot of people of the wrong race/color are simply ineligible to be hired just because they have drug charges or they have a record because once took a loaf of bread from Kroger.

Billion-dollar corporations can afford to hire them, mix them with existing teams, have them learn on the job from the best people in the industry and turn them to be a productive person of the society. In the short term, yes it can cause pain and loss of productivity, but in the long-term, as the society we all can come ahead!
Fungi Collected in Shropshire and Other Neighbourhoods (1860–1902)
Not sure if tar is this way but I think some programs change their buffering behavior based on whether they detect a tty which can further change things
Really interested in responses to this. I think some may have tried it once and gave up immediately, I doubt there are many using it on a regular basis for working.
Yeah I have to see what Apple comes out with. I'd be really interested if they had a good VR monitor setup. Could really change how I wfh.
We need permitting reform for geothermal power
You could either ask your coworkers or you would look through encyclopedia sized books with api documentation.
Spot on. I wonder if daughters of Barrack Obama will get preferrential treatment as diversity hires. As women of color, they definitely should, according to many companies' policies.
Linux with GUI is only available on MacOS 13 and higher, I guess.

GitHub has a fair few projects which can do Linux VMs with command-line access to the guest.
Oooh. Would this let me access the VR software that facebook has to threaten their employees to use?
There is also a network effect for data. A dating site with few users doesn't collect much data, so can't train an ML algorithm to do a good job of showing you interesting matches.
For many users filesystem speed of your home directory is completely irrelevant unless you run on a Raspberry Pi using SD cards. You just don't notice it.

Of course if you haver server handling let's say video files things will be very different. And there are some users who process huge amounts of data.

I run 2 lvm snapshots (daily and weekly) on my home partition for years. Write performance is abysmal if you measure it, but you don't note it in daily development work.
Free Text to JSON-LD with OpenAI GPT-3
Redhat is the main force that created systemd. And so their heavy-handedness into Wayland isn't surprising.