skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course, those are two completely different statements, as I'm sure you know:

> you don't see women in engineering and leadership positions is due to them being biologically incapable.

> I’m simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why we don’t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership.

And having read the full document (or even just the bits I quoted in my comment above), you surely also know that he was very explicitly not imputing population-level averages onto individuals. Damore's critics have been very openly lying about the contents of the document; there's no charitable way to interpret their claims.

To be quite clear, I don't think Damore is a hero (his politics are more conservative than mine and I don't think he handled the fallout particularly well), but he was clearly fired for claims he very explicitly didn't make[^1], and his critics are just doubling-down on what can't be described as anything other than trivially-verifiable lies.

[^1]: Even Google's legal team knew that they couldn't get him on those bases and instead they argued that criticizing Google's hiring practices implied that some of his coworkers weren't the best candidates for the job thus creating a hostile workplace. Of course, criticizing Google's hiring practices was absolutely pedestrian at Google at the time, although the argument was that Google's hiring practices were biased toward whites, men, etc. This is pretty obviously just pretense to fire him for ideological transgressions.
Here is the data for credit card delinquencies from the Fed: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DRCCLACBS
I got stuck in this trap for a bit at my last job. I was called a "manager" and expected to do all of the managerial bits, but only had 2 others on my team that were very junior. Yet I was still expected to take on a full IC load, yet also deal with all the upwards reporting stuff, and I had to "find the resources" for all the forced work that was being put on us, and there was tons of it- datacenter moves, all kinds of transparent changes that were happening beneath us but still needed someone to "check out" on the weekends to ensure things weren't broken, etc. And of course any outage that happened, my name was front and center, but big successes, it was in there... somewhere. This was during covid, and headcount was always "about to be approved" but Covid. But this. But that...

Never again will I fall into that trap.
Some neighborhoods (where opinion-makers live) are getting fast shipping, for the rest of us Amazon seems to have the worst logistics network

https://www.rather-be-shopping.com/blog/amazon-no-longer-off...

In the same time frame every other retailer thinks they can win me over through service, AMZN increasingly thinks I will keep subscribing to Prime since I've subscribed to Prime since 2006.

As it is you'll hear Jim Cramer and David Brooks talk about how fast Amazon shipping is and you'll never see it be a joke on a sitcom that Amazon deliveries are late, but for the rest of us it is quicker to wait to the weekend and drive to the store. I wonder if my Congressman thinks I get shipping from AMZN as fast as he gets in D.C.
Mitchell very much seems to be losing his reality distortion field
I think the factor of financial literacy is overstated. I think the biggest factor is self control and addiction, mirroring a lot of other issues we see, EG obesity.

As an example, I have a friend who is really struggling with credit card debt, but they are in no way financially illiterate. They have an accounting degree and work in finance.

It is extremely sad to watch them suffer because they know exactly what's going on, but they can't control their spending habits. I think this is a more common situation than the alternative.
What do unions have to do with small government? A union contract is an agreement between two private parties.
How to talk to GPT-3 through Siri
After getting frustrated with Siri's inability to answer pretty basic questions with actual answers instead of "I searched the web for you", I figured out how to get GPT-3 integrated pretty seamlessly with Siri. Sharing it here in case it's useful for anyone else!

You can see the short writeup with instructions here:
https://alexkolchinski.com/2023/02/03/how-to-talk-to-gpt-3-t...

The Siri shortcut is here:
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/b10d3d361a3f48428a2ed8fe729...
(You'll need to add your OpenAI API key to the shortcut and update your Siri accessibility settings to get it to work smoothly – see the above-linked blog post for more detailed instructions.)
AUR is one of those "at your own risk" repos where I always check the pkgbuild and comments of a package first before installing something new. I don't know why I should hesitate to trust the default repos though since they're curated by the same people making the distro I use. Either I trust them or I use another distro.
That's definitely a challenge, but I don't think the task of comment ranking is hopeless if using sufficient author reputation signals. That's especially true if ranking is personalized.
Valve is probably one of the least likely of companies to sue someone for doing something cool with their stuff.
> If UBI is made conditional on "good behavior" or "social score", it is going to further amplify the social "dark forest".

This is true. Personally, it's hard to imagine the public supporting a UBI scheme that extends to ex-convicts, let alone the imprisoned. Ditto undocumented immigrants.
Thank you! I think that's a great attitude and a key to the long-term success.
America's Egg Shortage Is About to Get a Whole Lot Worse
Eh, it's pretty nuanced. Certification, rigor, and lots of other things that software folks associate with "real" engineering aren't actually that different between software and traditional engineering projects.

I recommend checking out Hillel Wayne's series where he interviews what he calls "crossovers", people that worked both in software and in traditional engineering: https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/we-are-not-special/
It is ridiculous. It's pretty much newspeak. Like calling installing applications "sideloading" when you're not using some megacorp's walled garden. Also, I'd say "HTML" not "HTTP". What's HTTP(/3) these days is not what HTTP(1.1) was in the past.
Trust me. Nobody is jealous of that stuff :)
Lots of people don't know about labor boards so I think they get away with it most of the time. In ten years across seven restaurants in the restaurant industry that was the only time I was paid time and a half for overtime, lots of places do cash overtime instead. Even the chains have stolen labor from me, did a month at Applebee's and the manager would "save me time" by clocking me out 15 - 20 minutes early at the end of the night (it took seconds to clock out). Illegal immigrants in particular know that they are unlikely to get their last pay in the restaurant industry, they aren't likely to sue or contact the authorities, they also get screwed on workers comp claims when they get injured. We talk a lot about unfairness for waitstaff but that's paradise compared to the back of the house. It's absolutely commonplace and likely happening at any restaurant you go to.

In PA they have to pay double whatever is collected, so they wrote a similar check to the labor board, that's how they are funded and I think it's revenue positive.
I guess that the rest of the users in the list aren't him / her, or the user accounts that belong to this person are also anonymous?
The blame game started.

Without these pacifists we surely would have won.
Yep, that's been my experience as well. AWS (and Amazon as a whole) are bad for the people that work there, but as for their service offerings, it would take GCP and Azure combined to get even close.
"Several dozen engineers gave the request LGTM approval"

I'm picturing a caricature of a software engineer drooling onto his keyboard with excitement as he slams his greasy fingers onto the "L", "G", "T" and "M" keys. Please, Sergey, notice me senpai.
AWS Glacier Deep Archive. It's about $1/TB/month. Retrieve is more expensive, about $90/TB all in.

You can use rclone as one simple tool.
That you would even brook doubt is an offense to my people.
Sure they would. They may be known but known to a niche group of people which may limit their success. Carmack is a self proclaimed hermit but he's been in the public eye for decades (through conventions, speeches, etc) and willingly pushes back against corporate bureaucracies (against Jobs, Zuckerberg, Gates, etc). That type of public persona adds a lot of clout and opens many more doors, genius or not. A genius hermit who doesn't rock the boat or is fine with the status quo might have a different path.
sorry my comment wasn't directed at you( i was using generic you) specifically. I was just comparing it to dieting using willpower as the means.

Doesn't apply to 100% of people, you obviously had good success with it.
99% is just a spy balloon. These have been used for decades. They haven't shot it down because they want to observer its capabilities. How long can it stay up? What's its maneuverability? What are they are interested in looking at? How is it communicating back home? In war its very useful to observe the enemies capabilities, especially before escalation.
Show HN: Glidesort, a new stable sort in Rust up to ~4x faster for random data
Hi all, I've talked about glidesort a few times on HN already, but it's finally ready for release. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. An academic paper on glidesort that goes into a lot more detail than the readme is upcoming, but is not ready yet.

I will be giving a talk on glidesort tomorrow at FOSDEM 2023 in the Rust Devroom at 16:10, you can seek me out there as well. In other news, I am leaving academia soon, so if you have interesting (Rust) jobs the coming months feel free to approach me.
I started running a pretty popular forum back in the late 90s and I was shocked when I noticed this behavior. The name of the forum itself was shorter than typing "google" yet most sessions started with someone typing the name of the forum into google and following the first link.
Chinese spy balloon changes course, floating over central United States-Pentagon
Well, I'm allowed to talk about it publicly but I still would like to default to undersharing. It was a little over five years. Long enough.

My spouse and I got married very quickly after meeting and yes the impact on one's life is real, but so is the upside and I find few online that talk about it. The upside is real. You see the extremes of humanity and it clarifies the importance of ethics in life.
I'm similar. My approach is "guidance and bumper guards, not rules and restrictions."

I don't meter or numerically limit screen time, but I make sure my kids understand they should have a healthy balance between activities (guidance) and if I feel like they've been e.g. watching TV all morning, I'll tell them to turn it off and pick a different activity (bumper guards).

I only really have three rules:

1. I don't negotiate with terrorists. If you throw a fit, I will help you calm down, but any negotiation for whatever it is you wanted immediately ends, settled in my favor.

2. Everyone sleeps in their own beds. I'll make exceptions for exceptional circumstances (severe illness etc) but I haven't had to yet.

3. Family dinner is at the table with all devices off while the whole family is there.

I've never felt like this served me poorly, and (so far...) none of my kids have some problems I've noticed or heard of family members or friends having with their kids (kid is 5 and won't sleep alone, kid throws fits in the supermarket for toys or snacks, etc). I obviously don't know that has a causal relationship with my parenting style, but like everyone else, I like to think it does.
Don't forget stylometry; though AI actually looks like a promising tool to help with it.
Peldi (Balsamiq) did this well, but in reality it was all pretend. He pretended like had this massive groundswell of people who loved his app but it was an incredibly well-executed PR campaign and he deserves mad props for it. He didn't make it clear at the time, but eventually it came out. Of course, people did love his app but he engineered that incredibly well.

So if being open makes sense for PR, do it, but learn from people who have done it successfully.
Why do you ask? I would consider the evidence first and then form an opinion.
Because inflation affects products which you have to buy to survive, like food, electricity and gas.

And if you only look at gas its 90% vs 2020. A lot of people need their car to get to work.
Ask HN: Cloudflare R2/workers “no egress fees”, what use cases get you banned?
I had thought Cloudflare R2 was just simple “no egress fees” and you could serve whatever you want.

But it seems this is not correct?

Anyone got clear information on what types of uses of Cloudflare R2 and Cloudflare Workers will get your account banned?
at this point Google is more of a brochure than a search engine

"here are some ads that match your search query"
At least it’s not ‘codes’. That one sets my teeth on edge.
Wealthfront cash has a 4% checking+savings account (the distinction is no longer necessary, as iirc the monthly withdrawal limit has been done away with a few years ago).

Have you tried Primus? A bank offering a better percentage than RRP seems a bit sketchy and temporary, but maybe I'm missing something.
>> Just how much can a skilled JS dev get paid?

Midwestern state, large health care company - between $150-$200K (this is FTE status with benefits)

You can also be a contractor (hourly, no benefits) and squeeze a bit more out and just jump around from company to company. Senior JS devs are in seriously high demand right now. I get around 5-6 emails a day from recruiters looking for Senior JS devs.
If you are really interested in programming, C# is not a bad way to go. You could do desktop, web, or mobile apps. Work in the Cloud. Learn data access. There's a lot more to know that just C# syntax though, and many possible paths.

I recently watched a video describing a decent learning path:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnjly9iBHso

And Tim Corey has a lot of good, free, videos on YouTube. But like he says, you really have to sit down a practice. You can't just watch videos all day long. It's one thing to watch an NBA game to see how basketball is played, but it's another thing when you get on the court and do it yourself.

And by practice, you don't need to come up with an idea for an app. Just create a project to test the one skill you are trying to learn. Want to understand foreach? Create a project for it. Want to understand switch statements? Create a new project just for that.

Good luck!
Hi - yes. Very beginner friendly. Most people so far are beginners and or saw the book decades ago. No learner left behind! Since it's on discord we can all help clarify things as well :). Sebgnotes@gmail.com and let me know!
It's a herring; a distraction signal for which the CCP can garner analysis of the United States decision response calculus. If US were to attack the balloon, it would set a jurisdictional precedent bringing into question many considerations of the disputed Taiwanese and South China Sea airspace, perhaps even geo-sync satellites.

Nobody's talking about the spy sats that are further up, balloon is just a caricature to drum up support for either side, humiliate one party, etc.

War never changes.
There are other alkaloids in coffee that may be affecting you.
What a waste it would be to think you are pursuing a different path only to discover you spent a year reinventing something that you could have learned by reading papers for a few days.
I wonder how many people have decided that rather than move to Mastodon, Post, Cohost, or any of the other social networks, they don’t really need a Twitter-like service in their lives. How many people are fed up with Twitter and deciding to just drop it rather than move?
To the extent that the government wastes money, why should we believe that's due to a union and not unrelated issues such as outside politics?
Not only wrong, but dangerous, because nails are often used to fasten structural elements of houses, and incorrect but hard-to-detect flaws like this could result in collapse.

Similarly, if ChatGPT gives you an answer high in truthiness but low in accuracy, it could negatively impact you, whether loss in credibility if you repeat nonsense in front of someone knowledgable, or even worse if you use the incorrect knowledge to try to solve a real world problem.
Trust me, everything exits for a reason, to solve (maybe specific problem). It's nonsensical to want it to die for "no reason".
My mom was an accountant and she looked flabbergasted when I told her her $2k/month timeshare was costing her $24k/year, sucking up almost all of her social security.
I use Ecosia: https://www.ecosia.org/. The quality of the results is similar, if not better than those of Google Search. Also, DDG as a second resort.
Do you have a source you can share for this?
I don't really bother hiding anything.

Anyone who wishes me harm, can figure out who I am, fairly easily. I own a home, and I'm not sure if people know how much that exposes folks.

I want people to know who I am. I don't think that I have much bad about me (although a number of folks think I'm a stuffy old boomer -they're probably right).

It also helps me to behave better. I was not always a stuffy old boomer, and I behaved ... not like an adult ... on the Internet.

I'm big on Responsibility and Accountability. I'd like to see more of it in others (but am frequently disappointed). I find that it's best for me to act like I'd like others to act; whether or not they do, is not my business.

I was told "We teach people how to treat us."
The FF JS engine is too slow. I like to check my Screeps account every now and then and even Chrome on my phone is faster than FF on my 2700x desktop.

I just tried it last week. :/
I work on internal web applications at a company who sells a physical product (read: not a tech company). I started the job when I was in my late 20s and my title was "Senior Something-or-other". Around the time I started, I told that to someone who works outside IT and their immediate response was, "You don't look very senior."

Yeah, tell me about it.
He appealed and it was affirmed by an actual moderator that it was against the TOS. He was allowed back on the platform after deleting the tweet as the linked thread explains.

So yes, he was banned for violating the TOS.
I think this is how Starbucks manages their ~120k US employees. They keep a max of around 8-12 direct reports per manager as their policy.
Cloudflare support is complete garbage.

We upgraded to Enterprise, and had some issues because CF's documentation was not clear (literally a blog post), and their support took many days to even respond and then their response made it clear they hadn't even read the ticket.

I'd move everything into AWS in a second if moving DNS wasn't such a pain.

Also am forced to use the global api token because constantly get rate limited using permission-scoped api tokens -- this is from a simple Terraform plan (first thing in the morning) and after them increasing my rate limit to the max.
Listen to Your Key: Towards Acoustics-Based Physical Key Inference
Link to paper (pdf): https://soundaryaramesh.github.io/papers/spikey_hotmobile.pd...
You mean coffee breaks and job security are baked into the language?
Do you remember, I think it was 2020, when there was a big "hack" and tons of blue check accounts started posting fraud links?

Two important take-aways from that:

1) The attackers just pulled the old "Hey, I'm from IT service desk and need your password."

2) Apparently every engineer had god mode in production

I can't imagine what scary monsters are in that codebase.
Security isn't going anywhere anytime soon. If you think about the timelessness of war - how those creating weapons always seem to profit, it's kind of like that. Basically an internet defense soldier, and the demand right now is pretty much sky high. Places seem desperate enough in this space to actually train people unlike the software space.
Yep. I used to live and work in the area, and always used to drive through "Catch Me Eye"
I once saw a google search ad result for a malware version of GNU Cash. It was extremely easy to miss. The website was identical except the Windows download was replaced with malware instead of linking to Sourceforge. The malware installer was signed with a key from a random Taiwanese electronics company (likely stolen). I emailed DigiCert and got the cert revoked. None of the scanners on VirusTotal flagged the installer. A GNU Cash malware wouldn't need to do any typical malware behavior (crypto mining, ransomware) because they could just send off your bank account credentials. Within half an hour of uploading to VirusTotal the website was replaced with a placeholder blog.
But far away the least amount of money to spend. Surely you can see that?

it throws off your entire thesis. If in your dystopian future, after the necessities of life are taken care of and yo have no money how will any percent of GDP be spent in the metaverse
The overabundance of unhealthy but relatively cheap food that makes people fat and the abundance of large unsecured credit at high interest is actually a pretty good comparison.
I agree with this. Most people that abuse credit card debt know the ins and outs of every bylaw on credit cards, they just… need the money and don’t care about their credit rating.
The frustrating part for me about that sub was the litany of (what seemed to me to be) painfully obvious questions, with no real interesting ethical conundrum worth discussing.
Having worked on projects for both mobile platforms with small teams, I find that cross platform UI frameworks only really make sense for somewhat simplistic apps. The more involved the app in question is, the more these frameworks incur overhead with the extra surface area for bugs to occur on which is multiplied by the number of supported platforms.

The story on desktop is a little better but the same principle applies to some degree.
I've spent more than $20k on Amazon over the years total, and the one and only time I had to return something (for a low-dollar item), they totally screwed me on it.

That was the straw that broke the camel's back for me.
> Im not sure where this incredible fear of CCs comes from. It literally doesn’t matter what the APR is unless you’re irresponsible.

That's exactly where the fear comes from. Credit cards are really a test of financial self control, and a lot of people have really poor self control. Many people also don't seem to truly understand how interest works, they just see easy access to money in exchange for a monthly payment that they can afford.

Credit card companies have also intentionally targeted people with poor financial literacy. When I was high school and college (late 90s/early 2000s) it was really common for companies to set up booths on college campuses offering credit to kids who had little or no understanding of what they were signing up for and no source of income. I think regulations were eventually passed after some public outrage in response to news stories about college kids wracking up five figures of CC debt with no means to pay it off.
That probably won't stop lawyers who could claim that the owners knew their Kia had weak security and still parked it in an unsafe area with the door left unlocked.
I didn't try Primus, only the other two.
Elon Musk Cuts Off the Best Tool for Finding Your Twitter Followers on Mastadon
Failure of financial literacy is not because eduction has a lack of funding. The subject isn't even being taught, at least not when I was in school.
It's no more than a greyhound ticket from anywhere in the US to Roxham Road.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/the-national-roxham-road-immi...
If you're in an insulin resistance any% speedrun?

Followed by diabetes, and death.