skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Minorities are essential within companies to prevent bias in their marketing and product development that can be fatal to business success.

This is far-fetched and based mostly on ideology rather than evidence, not much different from a Soviet socialist explaining why planned economies are essential to the country's success (100 years ago it didn't sounds as absurd as now). It's your right to believe this sort of things, I don't deny you this, but don't insist that this is an objective truth that every reasonable person should believe in. As it goes with this kind of questionable ideas, it should be ok to choose not to believe in them, as I think the parent comment does.

And I agree with the parent comment's view here. Whatever advantage the woke-culture companies may have is easily explained by their increased visibility among woke audience, not by some deep insights. It's just a marketing trick, just like putting AI/Blockchain on your ad increases your visibility among some of tech enthusiasts.

> What's next?

Slippery slope is a fallacy.

> white nationalist groups are growing in numbers […] prior US president, and public celebrities are also regularly publicly expressing race based hate

How does any of this back up the impossibility of blindness to race? (Remember that most of the world is outside of US.)
I’ve been a very early adopter of this tech (Kickstarter backer of Oculus), get zero motion sickness and have a great time working in VR through a virtual desktop. This looks like a few floating screens in front of my face, in a space station and I’m typing on a real Bluetooth keyboard. I think this is the only way companies will be able to keep remote-friendly polices and stay competitive with product. YMMV because I am biased to be for this, but, the way they’ve tuned this Pro model looks like it’s exactly for my use-case.
>they are historically and factually wrong

No, the money part is pretty accurate historically. Almost every field with high income historically attracted far more men than women once it became public knowledge. Job status and money are very disproportionately more important to men.
How did you solve the problem of getting a stable mapping from DNS name to IP address?

For me, that's the big challenge; all I have is home internet on a dynamic IP provided by one of the big cable monopolies in the US.
You're typing this on a piece of technology that presumably you appreciate having access to, have you considered that there were likely many people in the generation before you who assumed something like HN was impossible and that all web tech or personal computing would be purely negative / dystopian? Turns out it's a mixed bag of good and bad. As is the world. There are beautiful things happening right now all over the world and there are horrible things. The happiest people seem to be either really excellent at accepting the horrible things or looking the other way, but in both cases they make sure their eyes are focused on the good as well and not just the bad.
The Varjo Aero and Pimax 8k/12k are ones I'm familiar with.
> for whatever reason Twitter has decided that nobody is allowed to say it's a pipeline problem, and they'll excoriate you if you try. So since most of these initiatives have the primary aim of "keep Twitter happy"

Given that Twitter takes an active role in censoring particular ideas, I think it's worth being careful to distinguish "Twitter has decided this isn't allowed" from "a lot of Twitter users have decided this isn't allowed".
I swapped over to aerc from mu4e, it’s very pleasant to use. I would easily recommend it.
I'm increasingly convinced that Meta isn't betting the farm at all. They just wanted to rebrand away from something that reminds people of election manipulation and teen suicides and toward something that reminds people of the future.

All this VR stuff seems to be an experimental group combined with a marketing budget to cure FB's brand.
Great question, and great observation, too.

It's hard to say. The pace of change is happening so fast, it's hard to predict.

Disclaimer: Massive hand-waving here

But, I think these exotic materials will be stepping stones to other things. I don't think we can get next-gen AI until we can build skeumorphic neural chips with memristor-type arrays with massive densities.

You can't get to nano-tech until you can predicatively arrange atoms. And once you can do that, you can only other exotic materials.

High temperature (or room temperature) super conductors will allow massive magnetic fields for common applications -- not just high-end MRI's that require cooling.

Graphene is so weird it can pretty much do anything.

I think the under-pinning for all these advances is material science. For me, it will be tech that looks like magic.
> how is D different

I don't know Zig yet.

I had an opinion long time ago that nobody should use C anymore; I would suggest C++ at least because it has constructors and templates. D's [Better C](https://dlang.org/spec/betterc.html) would be my go-to at this time.

C++ is getting better but it's still very difficult to get right: It depends mainly on programmer attention e.g. to follow 400+ [guidelines](https://isocpp.github.io/CppCoreGuidelines/CppCoreGuidelines).

Rust is "different" but it has the borrow checker as a safety tool. D's [live functions](https://dlang.org/spec/ob.html) and other [memory safety](https://dlang.org/blog/2022/10/08/dip1000-memory-safety-in-a...) features are closing the gap there.

> major selling point

I am copying slide 59 here: D provides competitive advantage by helping happy programmers produce correct programs pragmatically.

Slide 8 lists what D does not have, which can explain why D has not gained popularity that it deserves. For example, nobody can sell D as "Google's language" or "Apple's language".
Most materials (including steel) have issues with extreme heat. Steel can suffer “invisible” damage, where it becomes structurally weak, but there’s little visual evidence.

In that case, a cable that visibly melts or breaks, can be better.

Elevators have all kinds of passive braking systems. They might get stuck, but they only fall in movies.
Exactly. False lessons drawn both from Munich and from Cuba. It’s not about whether to “appease” or “not appease”. It’s about understanding your opponent’s motives and allowing him to save face.

Kennedy and McNamara knew that, because they both had experienced death and destruction firsthand in WW2. Our generation, on the other hand, only knows flame wars on Reddit. Hence the convenient, black and white rhetoric.
Both facts that, on average, women are less interested in things (and more interested in people) and also women, on average, are less interested in money, have a solid backing in research. They're not factually wrong.

The field of software business changed rapidly in the 80s. It shifted from a fairly boring and low-paying thing, into an unpleasant and high-pressure field where fortunes were made, even for regular employees (the stock options lottery). Salaries also went way up. It was only natural that men became much more interested in it at that point, and women's interest waned (they're far less inclined to kill themselves in a pointless job to get that $500k salary).
FWIW my kids still play on the Quest pretty much every day. Gorilla Tag is apparently the bees knees.

I only get on like once every couple of weeks however. Mostly just playing through stuff I bought off of Humble Bundles or trying not to suck at Beat Saber.
This is a sad reality and it pains me to read this
To be fair I had the same problem with Immersed (the fatigue) but luckily that's a hardware problem and not a software problem. In time I think the headsets will get good enough that it's not a problem for most people.
Why would be sideloading an "unmaintained library" be a security issue for Windows ?

To put it simply, it doesn't really matter what libraries you ship, they _cannot_ cause _new_ security issues in the operating system, by simple definition of user space.

And Windows malware can definitely infect Linux. That was not my claim.
I've seen a lot of companies have a jobs section on their websites that talk about what great places they are to work, and the kinds of skills they are looking for along with an email address for people submit resumes.

But I myself wouldn't submit anything to a company this way unless someone at the company suggested it.

And I suspect that people who send their resumes this way are either junior developers looking for job, or developers who are desperate for a new job. So I'm not sure how many diamonds you might get.
Hey Google,

Good luck getting major customers onboard with GCP, no seriously. AWS right now is a clear choice over GCP in terms of company reputation alone. If you go to build a platform on AWS, you can be sure that the product will still exist in a decade (barring some world catastrophe), and that can't be said for GCP.

I get that those are entirely different divisions but overall company reputation matters a ton.
I notice that you only use the word “group” above and not “people” or some older word acknowledging that that’s what these groups are made of.

Why judge people by the groups that were born into when we could be judging them as individuals instead?
> Meta figures out that headsets are not the way

What is "the way"? Headsets are a necessary R&D bridge into glasses.
If you're looking for selfhosted ngrok functionality you may also be interested in https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling
Data Race Patterns in Go: https://eng.uber.com/data-race-patterns-in-go/
Then remove yourself from that live and start reconnecting to higher values.

Seems like you are stuck in the consumerism / professional world.

Reconnect to the people around you, nature, the things you love etc and just start to dial down those things that are filling you with dread. It's not going to get any better, but the things that matter are still there underneath all that nonsense that you are being sold.
I remember reading about the enertia house, which had an interesting system.

They used certain trees inside the house that would phase change at room temperature so would keep the temperature comfortable naturally.

I think using a phase change is much better than just straight heating or cooling

https://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/05/17/a-home-that-heats...
Or stick a level 4 haproxy at a cheap no bandwidth fee vps provider.
When visiting this link does anyone else just get a blank white page in Firefox?
It sounds wonderful, but doesn’t sound (to borrow the author’s phrase) ‘turnkey’.

And certainly not on a Raspberry Pi running Linux - it sounds like a day of frustration, trial-and-error, and many many google searches!

I would pay good money for (let’s say) a Pi with all of the hard work done - just plug it in to your router and it’s already serving pages online.

Edit: also, dyn.org doesn’t seem to exist?
Who's "WE" in your view? There was not top-down effort to get Asians to excel in the US, it was due to their own desires and efforts.

I think it also explicitly proves the point that companies in the US are not racist. If they cared so much to only promote whites, why do they promote Asians?
I can't even imagine what it must be like to live in this kind of contrived world.
These poor tactics of rhetoric do not justify racism. I don’t believe this was an intellectually honest response.
ULONG_PTR was introduced with 64-bit Windows (for example, the 32-bit version of USER32 does not have GetWindowLongPtr); the first version of that to be released to users was a separate edition of Windows XP in 2002. At that point C99 was three years old.

(I don’t have it in me right now to track down the first developer releases of 64-bit SDKs or the first C99 draft to have uintptr_t, sorry.)
> 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?

The person simply couldn't do the job and was profoundly incompetent, and the response was to that was to repeatedly be told to spend more time training them. My friend had previously successfully terminated a white employee who was under-performing but turned out to be more competent than this one.
Why do you think Meta will be the only one making hardware?

There are plenty of head mounted displays that don't have any smarts built in.
Presumably you responded to the wrong comment by mistake, but if not what argument are you referring to? All I see is a simple question that most certainly doesn't say anything about anyone's character. It is true that any possible answer to the question won't tell us much in the grand scheme of things, but that shouldn't stop someone from having a little curiosity now and again. Curiosity is the spice of life, as they say.
Have you seen the inside of a chicken factory? I’d imagine it’s a similar operation for salmon or tilapia farming.

Here’s a link.[1] I’d rather have a person doing the work.

[1] https://youtu.be/FFYti5PHxE8
It's just one of those things that gets repeated so much that people just start to believe it.
This is Coinbase's Entire Suite of Products
> any emails sent from andy et al would be " @meta ," not " @fb"

Right! The reasonings does not make any sense, especially the above. Why would FB change its email addresses to Meta? Their stock ticker is still FB.
How long do you plan to hold onto their data? Are you going to continue contact to ensure they're still interested? Are you burdening them to tell you repeatedly over the months down the road that they are still interested (or not)? Kinda like a newsletter they have to sign up for?

You are basically describing a head hunting operation. Connect with a head hunter and let them do the vetting, instead of wasting so many people's time for a job that is going to be 20 levels away.

You have the gig, or you don't. Or you're a headhunter for a single job that maybe might be available some time way out in the future. That would be a waste of everyone's time.
It's sad really. No matter how good this tech is I will never buy it. Because, just like iPhones, they lead humanity down a dark path.
Cloudflare Tunnel is a solid service. Self-hosted options are also available: https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33139827
In my experience, Okcupid's match percentage was a very good estimate for how good of a match you were with someone. So there was that.

Plus, the whole OKCupid experience wasn't a game of deception to trick you into buying subscriptions or IAP.
Congrats Jan!! :)
I found that book to be nauseatingly ham-fisted and this quote is a great example. It really beats you over the head with the theme, but also begs the question would people actually put up with that?
I have, it's called js.
I'm so tired of this crap where we pretend discrimination isn't discrimination if we jump through a bunch of hoops. Yes asians being told they can't come to interviews because they're too asian is racism and it does impact their chances of seeking employment because how you do on any given interview is going to be to a degree random. You could get a coding test you've never seen before or one you practiced the night before.

The whole song and dance about applying racism at the interview selection stage isn't about not being racist, it's that there isn't court precedent that specifically makes that illegal, but there is for other more direct techniques like racial quotas.
I've always referenced this as one of the subtle points of genius for how Java did lambdas:

by requiring captured variables to be final it removes a lot of ambiguity around what a variable name refers to. I like that local variables can only be changed locally. If you do want crosstalk between the inner and outer scopes you have to be more explicit and introduce a reference to talk through.

I love python, but I basically avoid this construction and use a single element list if I need it. I can never remember exactly how it works.
I kind of agree with OP. Lot of the D&I initiatives are CYA from lawsuits and we have built regulations so that D&I are instituted permanently by law.

I hope SCOTUS strikes all of this down.
Similar problems exists with Wikipedia and StackOverflow moderators.
IMO people who become moderators just enjoy exercising their (often unchecked) power in these online communities.
> They’re so efficient and work well at low temps now.

Can someone provide me model numbers for these heat pumps that “work well” at low temperatures? I’ve been through more than a few over the decades and currently have a Trane from last year and yep, still doesn’t hold up very well once the temperature hits freezing. Don’t get me wrong, I like heat pumps, but my eyes roll into the back of my skull when I hear over and over again that they’re “so efficient now” at low temperatures.
ddns tools like noip.
You might find this paper interesting- it's focused on adapting fisheries management to climate change, but some of the core principles of fisheries management are touched [1]. Check out some of the figures.

There are some paradoxical concepts in fisheries management, not least is that the Maximum Sustinable Yield often supports aligned interests between fisherman (who want to profit/eat) and fish populations (who want to persist). Overfishing is a tragedy of the commons; managing those fisheries properly can produce MORE fish in the ocean even if yields go up. Not always, but this stuff is not cut and dry and the dynamics of population growth and extraction in these animals have to be understood.

[1] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aao1378
Perhaps showing my age, but that is still how I would do it. It's dead simple.
> Have you considered why the best explanations that the field of physics can offer are all interpretations?

Or you can look at the maths but I doubt you would want to do that... Anytime you dumb something down, something is lost. If you try to build back from something that's dumbed down then you get a mess.
Thanks. I had done some reading on things like electro-stunning, and it seems like we're still in the awkward stage where it's generally recognized as better by all the major players, but there's still no reliable way to identify it when you're shopping. I'll ask the next time I go to the hippie grocery store, too.
Which is why doctors and lawyers, two of the historically most highly paid and high status jobs, now graduate more women than men.

Or wait a second, I guess it isn't public knowledge doctors make a lot of money.
I've begun IF and have found it helpful for losing weight.

What works for me is one meal a day being dinner with a workout an hour or so after I finish eating. I may also workout before dinner, after I finish work.

I use an apple watch to track my active calories burned and between monitoring what I eat and how active I am, I can control how much weight I can lose on a per day level. It's pretty cool! If I burn ~3500 calories total (2k passive, 1500 active) I can lose up to 1 lb a day. I'd bet I average ~.3 lbs a day of loss and the best part is it stays off!

The timing is critical for me more so than anything else.

I eat dinner around 7 and workout an hour after I finish eating. Usually I run 2-3 miles.

If I get hungry later at night, as I tend to stay up late, I'll have some soup with some bread, olive oil, and spices which I find filling and hits that craving for intense flavors I seem to get.

I'm a horrible sleeper and I have no doubt that if and when I focus on improving my sleeping habits in the same way I'd only see more progress in my weight loss journey
> I think it is feasible for a dating site to figure that out, given enough data.

I've worked on the developer-side of this; I assure you, it's not. It's hard enough to predict if people will exchange messages with any reasonable precision + recall.

> It's a pretty damn strong signal when a user matches with someone, exchanges phone numbers, then deactivates their account. The ML algorithms will be trained to do everything possible to avoid that outcome.

Yeah, any dating site that does this is doomed to irrelevance.

If it were as easy to make a successful dating site by just optimizing for that signal, you should really do it. Match will acquire you for millions - billions, and the core code is relatively simple. You could get it running in under a week. Get some VC funding, do a gradual roll out onto a few colleges, you'll be a multi-millionaire by Spring.
Saudi Arabia Lures Executives to Neom with Million-Dollar Salaries, Zero Taxes
This is good advice, plainly written. Thanks for the resource!
does this work? -> OnionShare 2.6 – Released → (October 9, 2022) : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33155721

FYI: Tor Browser (Bundle) 11.5.4 – (All Platforms) release is due, probably within a few hours

Help people in Iran reconnect to Signal – a request to our community : https://www.signal.org/blog/run-a-proxy/

Also, what DNS are they using, is DoH or DoT able to be used?
"People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first" can now be amended to "people will be more willing to listen to your ideas if you synthesize a podcast of Joe Rogan and Steve Jobs talking about it."

I don't think anything being said is new wisdom or truth. We've heard these same things said elsewhere. However, because we spliced together the voices of Joe and Steve, you'll get a different level of engagement from a different set of communities. It's already hard enough to separate form and substance on the internet. I'm not sure what this adds.
> Look at schools that focus on diverse groups you're targeting.

I believe that Pursuit.org (started by StackExchange) is like that.

NOTE: I am not connected with Pursuit. I did consider working with them, but they weren't interested in my specialty.

Also, a couple of felon-assistance outfits have been mentioned on HN. If you really want diversity, that's a good bet.
> The theme here is that the cultures that arise around products, methods, and inventions often grow to exclude discussion of their fatal flaws, and instead find elaborate ways to paper over them -- to find more and more clever ways to pretend they don't exist.

While it may seem that way in hindsight, I am not sure this is a valid way of finding good projects. I am sure that the designers of the iPhone were nervous people would not accept a phone without a physical keyboard, but they found a way to make it useful and preferable, and today no phones have physical keyboards.

In my opinion, "papering" over issues is often how we build new exciting things. All technologies have shortcomings, but finding ways to integrate those shortcomings with human behavior or even making them strengths can lead to really interesting products. Sometimes it fails, and that is okay. I'd still rather have people trying though!
Ah that makes more sense. Also very sad. Hopefully as fiber becomes more prevalent that will become less common.
oh, you're right. Weird, wonder why I thought it was off heap. No wonder that service has higher memory usage than I was expecting. LOL
You can use something like dynamic dns updaters[0]. They run on the box and when they detect that your ISP has changed your IP will update the DNS records accordingly.

[0] https://github.com/timothymiller/cloudflare-ddns
Perfect, so you have no problem with Microsoft having this policy! Problem solved.
Almost by hand. You may have a template image, but it is mostly a manual work to fit the code into that template. As an actual demonstration recent submissions from Don Yang have a file called `spoiler.html` that shows this exact procedure.