skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is all speculation and unlikely to be true:

https://lichess.org/forum/general-chess-discussion/who-is-ch...

https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/mmtm7c/why_is_crunch...
Study: Mental health support, not increased policing, needed during pandemic
Fair points, but I would argue you aren't describing decentralized moderation so much as centralized moderation tools being made available to users in a transparent way. Which sounds good to me.
It's interesting how people used to do this back in ~2005 but now don't, however nowdays computers are much much faster and stronger than they were in 2005 so it aught to have become more feasible since a normal laptop should be akin to a small cluster back in those days.
Are we really saying that a story about a world record sized pumpkin is being “censored”? Come on. At a certain point people just have to accept that “nobody cares” != “censorship”.
Was this a poly/open relationship? I've heard women in those arrangements are perceived as easy. Doesn't really make sense when you consider the fact they already have someone and aren't in any rush.
"I was pretty sure my corporate vice president would be more likely to promote people who had hired more of them and thus made his contribution to the annual D&I report look good."

Statements like this carry a lot of weight in this essay: He's "pretty sure" and "assumes" an awful lot. He also seems fairly ineffective at navigating bureaucracy. Taken to extremes, lots of corporate policies can seem a bit overbearing. This essay reads to me like he's reading corporate D&I policies to be maximally inflexible and frustrating in ways that are unlikely to be the case (at least from based on my personal experience working in large corporations + a short stint at MSFT many years ago).
I worked with a guy who had a fancy big one on his desk, In an open plan office. He requested that facilities provide a dedicated 15 amp circuit to his desk just for it. He ended up always having a desk on a wall bit away from the crowd because of it, smart move imo.
Eh, I can kind-of see that. I came into a dual group commercial unit a while back. I do put it in the kitchen. When you add the grinder and knock box, it can be a bit much at over three feet wide... and 150 lbs of boiling water, stainless and copper is not something to "hide" on the counter top. However, with the fact that I save so much money on espresso-based drinks, its a conversation piece (mostly me and it when I make coffee :), and it looks good, I do not see the downside.
On Windows ULONG_PTR is not an unsigned long*, it is a pointer-width unsigned integer.

LONGs and ULONGs are 32-bits on 64-bit Windows, so when porting the API to 64 bits, types that were typedef'd as such on 32-bit, but actually need to be 64-bits wide on 64-bit systems, were replaced with ULONG_PTR.
So many defeatists in this thread. The GP is not recommending indulging in dangerous activities.

Perhaps we shouldn't get out of bed in the morning, we could be injured. There's a non-zero risk that can't be denied. Ammirite?
At this moment in time I think companies can gain a major hiring advantage by simply hiring the best regardless of race/gender. So many large companies are shooting themselves in the foot distorting incentives and saying "no" to people who are the wrong color/gender.
Have you thought about moving to a Lemmy instance? When a platform neglects you with no recourse, that seems like the best option from my POV.
It kinda makes me sad. It’s great that companies want to improve D&I but, assuming everything in that article is true, they’re making a hash of it.

They’ve forgotten Goodhart’s law, and as such they’ve create a metric everyone is trying to game which ends up being counterproductive and unfair to everyone. Let’s not forget it’s equally unfair to promote someone before they are ready and then stack rank them against more experienced colleagues as it is not to promote someone who is ready.
That true to some extent, but it's also a bit like saying that if Facebook screws up we can just make a new Facebook and move everyone there. It's not that simple; there are huge network effects at play here.

Other considerations:

- Obviously from a purely technical perspective, making a new subreddit is easier than coding and deploying a new Facebook

- It's less friction for a user to subscribe to a new subreddit than to sign up for a new website

+ The name of a subreddit can contribute to its popularity quite a bit. The community can make a new subreddit, but not a new /r/StableDiffusion
> The additional drama includes that said open-source author has looked at the leaked code and concluded that it stole some of his open source work in the way it tunes text parameters.

My understanding might be out of date, but as I recall it seemed that the code he thought was stolen from his open-source work actually originated from a third project that's MIT licensed.
ya. I pay about $100 per month over a few apps and if you read the sales pages it's clear they deliberately disable useful features if you don't pay so you are paying to have an "enhanced experience". That alone should suggest they don't really have a value proposition for your life. Maybe that's because they don't want to be sued by promising to sell relationship success. But they keep user statistics secret and I suspect that is because the statistics would tell the truth about what they sell. I have had a bad experience but I don't think HN is the the place to talk about it.
Why wouldn't people learn to spot it when the government does it? And I don't know if your argument follows - people clearly either don't know or don't care about the rise of Facebook false reporting.
Quest Pro Specs and Features
Yeah I'm not denying that in any capacity. I'm only speaking from personal experience. Getting banned on Facebook for opinions is extremely easy compared to Reddit.

Yes both are biased but as long as you're not a guy infuriating more than half the Reddit employees, you're not usually banned which is opposite to Facebook as it would ban you no matter if you're a new account or an old account or are even posting an opinion on your wall with no friends.
>Can you actually prove that people are in any way capable of measuring merit, especially for leadership decisions, which is pretty squishy to begin with?

It sounds like you're agreeing with the author here, because he says,

>I fear that when large companies hire and promote people based on group identities, it discourages individuals from cultivating their abilities.

It is only one logical step to go from one to the other. The idea that the promotion process is so random that the introduction of an additional random factor (D&I status is totally uncorrelated to performance) can't make it any worse would nullify anyone's faith in performance incentives.
They mentioned that they have higher resolution in the central part of the display, so perhaps this is a variable pixel density display?
What about prescriptive burns? Or is that part of landscape management?

Seems like figuring out how to do it right would be the best answer, as what happened recently in New Mexico for when it goes wrong: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-mexico-wildfire-prescribed-...
> The speculative claims discussed in this article have no evidence to support them.

Can you highlight which claims that you find to be speculative without evidence? There's a mix of existing theories that are being actively studied in theoretical physics (holographic cosmology), and some claims that the author seems to call out in rhetorical question. I get that either will whoosh over the lay person.
The PokerStars acquisition is speculation and unlikely to be true:

https://lichess.org/forum/general-chess-discussion/who-is-ch...

https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/mmtm7c/why_is_crunch...
I've run into something similar going through these books. For me to be successful in going through these and understanding the importance of each piece, I think I'd need a project per-chapter to help me gel what I've learned.
Imagine getting a job at a call center, but it's work from home. Unfortunately though, your work requires you to be present in the "metaverse", meaning you have to wear stupid goggles that allow your employer and Meta to control everything you see and hear for 8 hours a day. The advantage for the employer is clear: no need to pay for an office, but you also don't have to trust your employees to do their work at home. The advantage for Meta is clear as well: realize a virtually infinite profit margin on virtual clothing and environments in our nightmare late-stage capitalist version of a company store, and bombard you with hyper-targeted advertising. I can't really emphasize enough how much the future imagined by this product sucks. I don't know how somebody can see this and, in good conscience, continue to work there.
Show HN: I built a wrapper around QEMU inspired by Docker
Hello HN!

I wanted a way to run QEMU without the hassle of setting up images and command-line arguments. Docker does it well, so that was the main inspiration. Vagrant also does a lot of things right, but is rather heavy to configure.

So why VMs instead of containers? Because a VM can have a display for the odd GUI app that you don't want to install on the host. It also runs a full kernel, which means it can run Docker containers inside, useful if you want to automatically test an entire Docker Compose deployment and be sure all resources are released when it's done.

You need an easy way to shell into the VM, and SSH is the natural choice. Like Vagrant, Minivirt connects you to the guest SSH server, using the Vagrant well-known key. It's meant to be easy to use: with one command, `miv run alpine 'uname -a'`, Minivirt will create a VM, wait for SSH to be ready (which takes literally two seconds for an Alpine VM on a fast machine), run `uname -a` through SSH, then destroy the VM. It's also possible to create persistent VMs which survive power cycles.

With the QEMU disk image format, QCOW2, you can set up disk image layers. All writes go to the top layer, the others are read-only. This allows for something akin to Docker images built on top of base images. Minivirt is written with this scenario in mind, though it's not fully implemented yet.

I hope you find this little project useful. Let me know what you think!
Apparently you can email him: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/690360?answerId=68...
Even when you sell the car? In Ontario, the licence plate is yours and you take it off if you sell the car and put it on your next car.
I was quite impressed by the price / capability ratio of the Quest 2 and bought one immediately. Truth be told, it has mostly sat on the shelf with only occasional usage. But for $1500, this doesn't seem like a huge upgrade and I can't afford for that to sit on a shelf.
I think what they are talking about is the actual window that pops up as “blender”. You could use SDL before though I don’t think anyone actually did.

I’m sure the little fiddly bits are still done how they always were because it has to work across all the different windowing libs.
I use it at my current job (they've used it for a few years now) and for my personal projects (mostly game jams).

Tbh, idgaf what Evan thinks of me or anyone else. The more you nemesize him, the more people will messianize him. It's best to divorce creators from their products.

I will admit I vehemently disagree with his apparent categorical dismissal of CSS features like custom properties, but discordant opinions are not going to stop me from using my preferred front end development platform.
It’s expensive to be poor.

Like poor people can’t buy bulk, real countries with limited budgets can’t spend freely for a 100-year project. It will be well worth it in the end, but you have to pay it all now.
How dare people enjoy espresso-based beverages, why can't they just drink my preferred way of making coffee?

Starbucks got people hooked on lattes and cappuccinos, wanting to make your own at home instead of spending $7+ a day on Starbucks isn't unreasonable.
BTRFS is also a native copy on write filesystem that verifies a configurable checksum and supports snapshots.

The snapshots are not automatic, but short of that it is pretty feature complete
I was in the Colorado Springs area following a very bad fire about a decade ago, a fire hot enough to scorch the soil and cause issues with regrowth later.

This was followed by a very wet fall, causing massive amounts of runoff, erosion, and mudslides, blocking culverts and drainages, flooding roads, etc. It started with a fire, but the damage and follow on effects continued long after it was extinguished.
It is a nice-to-have feature. But languages like Python and C#, Java and many others have survived without it.

C++ has std::variant. Not that ergonomic but usable enough if you wrap it a bit for your own use cases.
I have the same setup and I can see it fine.
I've always wanted a vintage commercial espresso machine as they're the closest I'd likely get to owning a steam engine, but that's not a great justification in a home appliance. Instead we have a much more reasonable Breville Barista Express which is a machine right at the sweet spot of quality for the price, just before diminishing returns kick in.
I was expecting this post, asking the best ways to match HTML tags with regular expressions.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open...

Sadly the page is currently locked, likely as a conspiracy to avoid it overtaking the OP.
If you're sitting down (which I imagine is the enterprise-y use case?) you can just leave it plugged in
WeakVim: Neovim for Dummies
These practices are explicitly against federal law. When are judges going to start enforcing the law?

> It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer -

(1) to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of such individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin; or

(2) to limit, segregate, or classify his employees or applicants for employment in any way which would deprive or tend to deprive any individual of employment opportunities or otherwise adversely affect his status as an employee, because of such individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

edit: not letting me reply down chain. source is Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
If I may suggest some further feedback, I think mentoring is very important at a senior level. Perhaps this could be covered in a chapter in the existing communication section, unless of course I missed something!

I think learning to identify how engineers could improve, and being able to successfully help them, is a big level-up. Departments will want to trust their seniors to do this proactively - rather than say, just when questions come up - as this helps foster a healthy team with everyone growing.

One other point comes to mind on impact - as this is often seen as a key differentiator for senior engineers. It's good to see the section on improving processes in your book, as this is a nice way to add a lot of value. Another way to make an impact is keeping a close eye on product delivery and cycle time, and identifying any problems. For example, is work getting released often, or is it getting stuck in 'nearly done'? Are there frequent blockers to builds or deployments? How is cycle time looking recently, and are there any lurking issues where work is getting blocked frequently? How do we work around this current setback - is there a short term solution to keep things moving while we work on a proper fix? Are we currently on track for delivery?

Managing complexity is another area which can be tough to navigate as a new senior.

Just some thoughts which came to mind, as we all see things from a different perspective.

Overall, I really like the focus of the book. We need more of this stuff and this will help a lot of people, so kudos on the release!
important tool for landscape management
Looking for a boundary in a continuous space is kinda pointless. All this behavior exists on the rockstar-incompetent spectrum.

Is a rockstar who works 39 hours a week stealing 1 hour from the employer? Is a junior who spins wheels but produces nothing tangible in 50 hours killing it?

This is all moralizing language around eternal behavior. The marginal value of the employee just is. Imagining a platonic employee to compare against is pointless.
I’m surprised there was no mention of explicit compiler support for separate address spaces. See, for example, here:

https://clang.llvm.org/docs/LanguageExtensions.html

Look for “Memory references to specified segments”
Depends on local laws https://www.sallymorinlaw.com/bicycle-accidents/riding-your-...

My point though wasn't really about the legalities of cycling - this is a business and technology site. It was about the disadvantage very large companies have because they need to follow the law very carefully. Probably should have written that.
Is there a way to run a little web server on our phones? It's a device that's always on, and usually on Wi-Fi
confessed is an interesting word choice? the bartender was being somehow deceptive about how they present their interpretation of quantum mechanics normally?
And that technical distinction doesn't matter right up until the moment it does, which is why we're here today. While the distinction is obvious to most HN users, I would bet that it isn't to many Discord users. When Discord users create a 'server', I would bet that many of them do not understand how few rights they have, specifically because they are being purposely mislead by Discord.
It's deceitful for discord to use that language because it implies some level of independence.

A VPS service like AWS goes out of their way to specify that it is a "virtual server". the product they provide is analagous to real server hardware and largely interchangable with other server hosts.
For forget you can get preemptively banned from many subs simply by posting in a “wrong think” sub the mods don’t like.

Granted you can just create a new account to route around it but still…
Let’s hope it’ll be more useful than Siri.
It's wonderfully ironic that a post about overcomplicating coffee ends up with a bunch of coffee nerds on HN arguing about equipment.
Friends don't let friends download Xcode from the App Store.
What is Hyperautomation?
For now. Facebook didn't demand my phone number and a scan of my drivers license when I first signed up either.
rec-def: Minesweeper case study
I wonder how the Meta Quest Pro will stack up against Simula One? [1]

On the one hand, the Simula One is even more expensive. On the other hand, it can be used as a standalone computer, not tethered to an online Metaverse.

[1] https://simulavr.com/blog/vr-comparison/
Beyond Zoom you mean? It might do. Being autistic I tend to see meetings as an organised exchange to information rather than a body language thing, but I can see what you mean.
Id read the Matt Levine article
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-09-29/uk-pen...

The hedge is because they moved to stocks because of low yields on bonds.
Feels almost like parody.
the best soccer players look at the game, others look (more) at the ball
I suspect the comment you're replying to is also thinking of other posts, but if so, yes that makes it confusing too. You're response is no less accurate.

Personally I do tire from the <insert pet gripe about X company in the announcement> and general pessimism around HN. I'd much rather hear about what folks think of the specific thing and less about the ongoing conversation about topics surrounding the company. So I kinda get that sentiment.
This is a real thing.

It is hard for anyone that is not "diverse" to get promoted at the highest levels of Microsoft. Almost all CVP promotions are "diverse" now in a way that is pretty overt.

I am a huge proponent of D&I, but it is hard not to feel discriminated against and feel like there isn't much of a career trajectory for me.
Show HN: Record and play back your pipes (debugging)
If it's like previous Oculi, you can just use a $20 USB-C cable from Amazon. But those tend to be shorter length
> I've always wondered if online dating selects HARD (relatively to in-person invites) for looks.

I think it does, since it's the primary determinant of selection. I also find that in-person personality can be more attractive, unlike profiles where you have fewer dimensions to go on. Likewise, I do think certain types of people do better online and some do better offline.
No and no. Err, no. :-p

IMHO learning Rust is the most effective way of learning Rust...

This is half tongue in cheek but really, this book is not even my fav when it comes to learning about type checking and type inference, simply and quickly (see my other comment in this post).

Also I feel like the really different thing about rust when comparing to other strictly typed languages is actually the borrow checker. Honestly i have no idea how it's implemented, or if this book will help you build one. Maybe someone in here may know.
I suspect it has to do with APFS doing snapshots to be able to rollback an installation and those snapshots being gigantic.
To touch on your last point, yes. Prison jobs should be treated basically the same as a real world job, where practicable.

You interview for a job, you get paid a fair market rate, you get reasonable paid time off and sick time.

On the flip side of that, you also need to pay for your own lodging and food. Also at fair market rate (accounting for prison quality generally being lower means lower rent, I wager).

You could offer nicer accommodations that prisoners can upgrade to, for a higher monthly rent. And maybe the food line has different meal options. If you want to splurge one day to celebrate, you could order a steak or lobster, or something.
> Imagine you work under a black executive at Microsoft. Does a graph like this one make you more or less likely to think they got to where they are because of their accomplishments?

And then they show a graph where only 5.6% of the execs are black (up from 3.7%). It's a pitiful number.

Yes, it's still more likely they got there because of their accomplishments, bigot.

> From 2021 to 2022, I worked as a manager in Microsoft’s AI Platform division.

Wow. A whole year. In large companies that's barely enough time to understand all the unspoken lines of communication, let alone pass judgment on a company's culture.
I got very useful answers when I scheduled an appointment. YMMV.
> The only way to really prevent it is to allowlist specific numbers you know will call the number and send "Number disconnected" signals for the rest.

That's my tactics via an app.
I mean, a lot of the hiring issues are really symptoms of other issues earlier in the progress, and thus most (not all) of the fixes at that stage will not actually address the true issue and may even cause other problems.

To fill a position, you need candidates. To have candidates, you need students of that discipline. There are numerous issues that could skew the demographics of the students (some are problematic, but some may be natural/acceptable!).

And of course this applies to domestic workers. Global workers and importing talent via visas have different benefits and issues.

All that said, in my experience most DEI company policies are more about not getting sued and avoiding bad press. They create policies, but many of them are ignored or just turned into a spineless checklist. As an example, the article didn't seem to address why the Microsoft metrics are meaningful, or what the targets are and their justifications. There's no systems thinking approach to explaining why or how the metrics/policies are beneficial, rather it's assumed.