skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting that so much of their letter is basically them saying "we can't automate enforcement of our rules", yet that hasn't stopped them doing that up until now on platforms like Google Play and YouTube (with obvious terrible results).
That heuristic causes you to miss all the self serving lies that are everywhere. It might make your social life flourish since you trust all of those lies and people like when you trust them, but it will make your head full of lies and falsehoods.

For example, a fat person might say that being fat has nothing to do with how much they eat, I have heard that many times, that doesn't come from a place of hate but you shouldn't trust it anyway. It is however self serving, that is the main thing to look out for.
The thing is, you don't even lose that customer (only a tiny minority care about privacy issues), it's literally free money.
H-1B have no leverage and can get in emergency hire situations. This encourages exploitation. Like a slave they might be lucky and have a good master.
Not the case in Germany. You just can't post the videos to public places.

https://www.dw.com/en/dashcams-in-germany-permissible-in-cou...

Austria is supposedly completely illegal, but unless the police there will stop you for having one, I'd probably risk it. Perhaps courts wouldn't admit it as evidence, but insurance arbitration might, or it might at lease avoid an insurance fight altogether.
Kafka and AsyncAPI Documentation Journey: Seeking Community Guidance
I'm diving deep into the world of Kafka with AsyncAPI! Here's my current list of ideas to document.

1⃣ Idea 1: Kafka Connect and Stream Processing with Kafka and AsyncAPI

2⃣ Idea 2: Building a Real-Time Analytics Pipeline with Kafka and AsyncAPI

3⃣ Idea 3: Kafka Message Validation with AsyncAPI

4⃣ Idea 4: Managing Schema Evolution with AsyncAPI and Kafka Schema Registry

But now, I'm rethinking ideas 1 and 2 - they might not be as impactful. I'm leaning toward ideas 3 and 4.

Do you believe the Kafka community using AsyncAPI would benefit most from ideas 3 and 4, or is there another topic you'd like to see documented instead?
Right now the consulting market is at zero.

18 months ago i was talking to 4 recruiters in parallel, turning down jobs and making companies outbid each other.

Today the only recruiters who will return my calls are the ones who have gotten me jobs in the past and they all said they don’t have anything. One of them talked about an opportunity that might exist in 3 weeks time that he’ll put me in for if it gets the go ahead.
The mental health thing only matters if you are personally vested in your work and care about what you do.

A lot of the overemployed don't. They are trying to walk a fine line and do the absolute minimal required to remain employed at each job. They also care a lot less about being fired from one job since they a fallback.
It's really great in surround sound. It's the first disc I play whenever I have make a change in my "home theater" for the past 20 years. I use it as calibration to make sure things are working well.
I have to admit my admiration for these news outlets who manage to come up with mostly technically true headlines that still don't represent at all the core of the article.

Thanks for saving me a click - that's why I always scan the comments before following a link :)
Some embedded devices use UBlox chipsets, which are Swiss. May be worth looking for one.
SpaceX apparently
It looks like the magnitude on Sunday morning will be around +4.90, so it'll be hard to see with the naked eye unless you can observe from a good dark-sky site.

It will brighten in the following days as it gets closer to the Sun, but we won't be able to appreciate it since it will stay below the horizon until sunrise.
Dislike away, but don't justify your dislike of a specific UX using the language of human rights abuse. An app kind of sucking is not a humanitarian crisis.
Which appears to be true. If these companies respected the privacy of their users, their privacy policies would not contain what they do.

Regardless of current active data collection, I think it’s wise to read these policies as a declaration of intent.
> Instagram isn’t obligated to render text in their app in a way that you’d prefer.

They are if we pass a law saying that they are. Suggesting such a law be passed is just normal democracy.
What about states with all-party consent for recording conversations?
Much Ado About Nil Things: More Go Pitfalls
It's got "europe" in the URL which makes me think it's related to GDPR compliance somehow, especially given the lack of ads on the page.
Economies of scale only apply if you have scale, ie lots of (paying) users. If you're making this fancy thing for only the Israeli security services you won't be able to pay your developers.
just because they're concerned about Android auto collecting too much data doesn't mean they themselves don't using other mechanisms.
As a once H1B holder I can confirm this is actually a common practice not only a FAANGs but pretty much any large and medium size tech corporation in America.

The visa is not the actual problem but the green card promise and process.

It took me 6 years to be "free" and that's considered pretty fast compared to my Indian colleagues many who are still waiting more than a decade later.

One of the teams I work with today is about 90% Indian, most from great schools like CMU, many overqualified for the job they do, all trapped in the green card promise making 1/3 of what they could be making somewhere else.
The person you’re replying to didn’t mention performance at all, so I’m not sure what you’re trying to imply.
There are actually even more arcane requirements like placing a job ad in a Sunday newspaper with a certain distribution. The ads have bizarre keywords that make it borderline impossible to determine the real job. Those regulations are controlled by the DOL.
> “…more privacy friendly Google alternatives are available and super easy to use […] No need to leak data to Google.”

For the unaware, what about Google Fonts is a privacy leak?
There is truth in that Europe isn’t buying directly from Russia. However plenty are buying from countries are buying refined oil products from India (and possibly others) where the source is Russian crude oil.

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2023/5/16/eu-to-curb-indi...

If the US was like Saudi Arabia where they exported half of their oil, and could supply most of the world at competitive prices, Russia would have really felt the Sanctions.

But right now Russia doesn’t feel the Sanctions. They’re more isolated and Putin’s propaganda has somewhat worked at making the general population anti-west and support the Ukraine invasion.
There is a psychological study, where two group of people are asked to do some task for pay. Afterward they have to rate how engaging was the task they have to do. The group who are paid well reported that the work was boring. While the group who are paid little reported that the task was fun and challenging.
The task was the same for both groups, but the first one justifies it by having compensation. While the second one by making the task fun or more cynically by deluding themselves that it has some kind of value.
Because this is in America.
Things have changed in India. In these top companies, engineers get as much as 1/3rd of the pay here. That’s relatively much better given the cost of living in India.
I have a system known only to me for assigning passwords based on things like the color of the company's logo and the number of vowels in their name. I have a complex and unique password for every site, I don't have to "remember" them because I can recreate them on the fly. This works really well imo, the main hiccup is companies that force you to change your password every x days and don't let you reuse old passwords.
This is not true.

The infotainment may use Android, and the salesman may help you set it up but this is definitely not the red flag you think it is
"Return home" is awfully convenient phrasing to gloss over the fact that to many of the people caught in this system, the US IS their home in practical terms and "returning home" to their country of origin is more like uprooting your entire life within a few weeks and restarting it in a foreign land.

Especially with Chinese and Indian H1Bs, the wait for permanent residency can be so long that they may have spent over a decade in the US with no meaningful connection to their country of origin, with all their friends and immediate family here.
> I want to work with people from my town, not people from halfway across the world.

And I want to work with the brightest people from all over the world. I guess we are at an impasse and are best off leaving subjective preferences out...
Most dashcams are for resolving liability with authorities or insurance, not for publication.
You'll have a blast drawing your self-hosted diagram using the self-hosted and open source Excalidraw. Here's how I did it.
If you are looking for someone to blame for you not getting your dream job, blame it on employers instead of the government. Companies like Verizon and Wells Fargo almost never hire anyone on a visa. Go work for those companies. Oh wait, they do hire foreigners with a green card. Are you going to find a company that only hires US-born citizens like the requirement for the US President?

Many countries offer work visas (for many good reasons), although they are often used in unintended ways. It is very much a stretch to say these programs shouldn't exist at all because they "take away" jobs.

Also, if half of the people you work with are on H1B, very likely you are not in a midwest "town" with 3,000 population, but rather a decent metropolitan area with a large immigration population, and the company you work is of decent size. I wouldn't be surprised if even half of the Americans in your company relocated from a different "town".

Finally, I like working with people that are productive and easy to communicate, instead of looking at which country they come from or their visa status. If anything that's my boss's concern.

Therefore, if you want to actually see any change, maybe (1) become the CEO of your company, fire all H1B and only hire US citizens (2) join a different company (3) start your own company, or at least (4) call your senator and advocate for anti-immigration bills, or sue USCIS, instead of posting these useless and borderline racist comments on HN.
They are a YCombinator Company.

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/flexport

The takeaway for me is "Yes, YC has a nice forum, but they're not a reputable organization."
14 minute coffee break with 1 minute ChatGPT?
As general advice this is exagerated. You can match it yes, but quadrupling you need to be bringing something very special to the table.

Unless you mean the arbitrage of doing this from different countries with more favourable tax/COL?
They don't have to admit it because nobody is against it anymore. Everyone just has a different idea of what should and should not be allowed, even what should and should not be legal.
> dual intent visa.

the gov't doesn't intent this visa to be dual purpose. It is a job visa first and foremost, and the path to PR is at best a secondary concern for the gov't.
Rust is a systems programming language though.
I’m not American and don’t live in America (I presume by “America” you mean the United States?), but shouldn’t it be “… refuse to improve their English”?
So we need to redesign the internet before our cars will be safer?
I haven't till he did a second time in a matter of minutes.

FYI, I'm a woman. It's my policy to generally not correct people who misgender me on HN, but in this case I will note it and suggest that perhaps your powers of observation aren't the best.

Someone mentioned existential dread, which also really has nothing to do with anything "on topic." I commented on that about finding it sort of funny. Lots of people felt some need to reply to my comment when most of my comments get very little engagement.

I wish my more serious comments got more meaty engagement. This whole thing strikes me as a ridiculous overeaction.
I don't know why the Whitehouse thought this would fly to begin with.

They basically said "Do X or there will be consequences". Every crappy compliance course I have ever sat though points out that behavior as a form of coercion. The Whitehouse clearly knew they weren't supposed to be doing this.
> How would one flatten the effect of mood on a either-or ranking system? Is it possible?

I suppose the system should ask for every movie watched how they'd rank given a particular mood ? So it's "is A better than B when you want something with deep thinking to watch, is A better than B when you want something easy to follow ?" but it has its own can of worms: sometimes I want to watch something with deep thinking even though I am in the mood to unwind...

All in all, I think it's a waste of time to catalogue our own tastes and try to build a personal recommendation system. I hope/think/want to believe thank knowing ourselves gives better reward.
You need business with them to browse the internet and now to even buy a car. There is a word for this.
I’m in the industry too and would like to see it resume. But this small reversal is not why we feel poor. That’s not a programmer specific issue.

The causes of that are things we can band together with people across many industries to fight. Like breaking the power of the land-owning gerontocracy.
Shadow profiles are

- collected by FB

- without even the pretense of consent

- sold to the highest bidder
The only war against freedom of expression is the constant threat of no longer allowing private organizations their freedom of speech by letting them publish what they want.

Society doesn’t have a censorship problem, we have an entitlement problem. People now apparently think they’re entitled to someone else’s platform, when they’re not.
That does not sound like a safe assumption to me at all. If someone will pay for that data, I am quite sure it is happening.
Or just getting rid of H1B all together and nurture that talent in-country.
It's pretty clear: they're not.
Accessibility is one obvious counter-example of where a specific UX “kind of sucking” can in fact be a humanitarian crisis, albeit one that disproportionately affects disabled persons. Fortunately we have laws on the books for that and people have sued and won.
refuse improve their English
I would be embarrassed too if I was trying to act like slacc can hand out a 64 so I understand why you are defensive
That's caused by a lack of diversity. If they were from different countries, they would behave differently.
Same, though about 3 years here. My company (financial services) officially supports Python and Julia internally.
There's a thread on /g/, as you can expect it's very... creative.
>You can keep a physical password book. [...] If you keep it at home in a fairly safe location,

But people are often away from home and want to log into websites and apps from their smartphone. A physical password book sitting at home is useless for that very common scenario. That "login from anywhere" is the typical motivation of gp's comment: "How can I keep passwords on 2 computers, an iPhone and iPad all in sync?"
They (Discord team) seem to not know what Free Software means too.

Some time ago I asked them whether they planned to ever become Free Software so it could be actually safe and have a community around it, and after a couple of messages they went (not verbatim, but in spirit) "oh, open source? lolno", missing the point entirely in multiple ways.

Taking into account their massive teen-focused PR campaign - which is a particularly social phase of human growth and FOMO reigns supreme, their predecessor OpenFeint's demise including a privacy lawsuit, the amounts of data and metadata implicitly and explicitly collected, it's at least _likely enough to distrust it_. The doors in the back are bound to be giving that sweet personal data to whomever has a big enough money stick, and/or other non-trustable agencies.
One giant reason that the
Police of Zürich did not purchase Tesla's for their electric fleet was this. Although I assume the audis they have now also would be able to record passanger audio it can be removed.
> we don’t care where you’re from if you’re great at what you do.

Yes, that’s true but isn’t what is happening here. They’re not bringing in H1Bs for their talent, they’re firing US workers so they bring in H1Bs to do the same job, but cheaper.

Break up ALL big tech.
Yocto is fine, basically the "traditional" way of doing embedded systems (e.g pSOS or vxworks style) .

However, I found great joy in using Nix for more modern development t of higher-end embedded devices.

If your target platform is powerful enough to accommodate NixOS, you might want to give it a try.
That's a fun list.

Of over 100 I have only heard of 1/3: 35 in total.

I have only ever been into and eaten anything from half of those.

So fully 2/3 of the list I've never even heard of. Interesting.
Just a random question, but would most of your service not become obsolete when OpenAI releases their advertised image understanding capabilities for GPT-4?

EDIT: And what about privacy? What if some of my screenshots potentially contain NSFW/NSFWL text/imagery?
This is actually really easy. Most C/C++ code is pretty slow. Beating perfectly optimized C/C++ code by a notable margin is basically impossible (all relatively fast languages in the limit tend to converge to theoretical peak CPU performance), but real world code isn't perfectly optimized. The better question is on a performance vs effort graph who wins. Julia has a ton of major advantages here. The base language actually gives you fast implementations of common data structures (e.g. Dictionaries and BitSets) and BLAS/LAPACK wrappers to do linear algebra efficiently while still having your code look like math. The package manager makes it basically trivial to add packages for more complicated problems (no need to mess around with makefiles). the REPL makes it really easy to interactively tweak your algorithms and gives you easy ways to introspect the compilation process (@code_native and friends). Another major advantage is that Julia has macros that make it really easy to make local changes to a block of code's semantics that are compiler flags in C/C++. For example, consider `@fastmath`. In C/C++ you can only opt in to fastmath on a per-compilation unit level, so most projects that have one part that require IEEE handling of nonfinite numbers or require associativity in one part of the program will globally opt out of the non IEEE transforms. In julia, you just write `@fastmath` before a function (or for loop or single line) and you get the optimization.
I mean, I feel a sane reading of the C Standard means reading "undefined" as "unspecified by the standard, but dependent on the trust and common sense of the compiler authors" -- which, you know, I don't know that that's any worse than "dependent on the trust and common sense of the npm package author" or "dependent on the trust and common sense of the rust cargo maintainer". Like, yes theoretically the compiler can do anything, but tangibly, coherently, most compilers deal with most UB in a sane way.
I guess it’s not a good time to be a white male. I’m not one but it’s hard to ignore when in plain slight.
81% of organisations witnessing a shortage of skilled tech workers
Read this thread and then answer:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37444386

Is there a shortage of skilled tech workers in the USA ?
It is true.

You posting that link over and over doesn’t obviate the fact that we look around collectively and see H1Bs getting paid at the bottom of the band.
Reproducible Builds in August 2023
No. That's the opposite of what I said.
I think there should be a statutory penalty for possession or transmission of personal information. There's such a penalty for copyrighted music recordings. It creates an incentive for lawyers to act as bounty hunters on behalf of victims, for a cut of the settlement.
Sometimes I cheer myself up with the thought that, hey, there hasn't been an x-ray radiant supernova nearby today.

("nearby today" relatively, of course.)

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edit to add: wow you sure touched a nerve, eh? I dunno what nerve exactly, but I agree with your sib comment about how it would be great if your meatier comments got such engagement.

FWIW in my personal estimation doing something (or not) about asteroid detection and mitigation (if possible) is one of the measures of the maturity of a civilization (that lives on the congealed scum on the surface of a blob of magma orbiting a puddle of hydrogen in a region of space filled with rocks!)

It's wild that just a couple of centuries ago (less!) the very idea of rocks falling out of the sky was unthinkable (like UFOs or bigfoot.)
This isn't a case where people thought the wrong things and it made them vote wrong. It caused them to spread diseases to other people and kill them.

I'm honestly shocked that people think this is a case where the government should not step in. I think they should have been much more aggressive.

This judgment and the comments here just baffle me. The scientific consensus is that countries that took a much more proactive, aggressive approach were far more successful in preventing people from dying. And this isn't like a seatbelt issue where people just put themselves at risk.

The fact that people are defending the spread of false information that contributed to people literally dying in favor of a hypothetical tyranny problem just leaves me feeling completely lost.
yes! I've always wondered why it isn't more popular. very relaxing, great music, perfect atmosphere
He's trying to defend immigrants without understanding that that BS political correctness means immigrants get exploited to hell and back while pretending "to care for immigration".

Companies largely don't care about the environment or immigration. They care about the right branding while maximizing profits and they have no qualms exploiting people. Or laying then off if they don't toe the line (RTO being a grand example)
Why are our keyboard not wireless?
What performance numbers are you seeing on pods with Ceph PVs? e.g., what does `rados bench` give?
A strong password will help a lot, but the password iteration value may reduce protection for some people.

One of the most unfortunate things with the LastPass breach last year was that lots of accounts had the number of PBKDF2 iterations set to a low value (typically 1000). A low number of iterations makes brute forcing the master password easier.

This value would have been set when the user's account was created, and for older accounts it wouldn't have been increased unless users changed the setting manually.

LastPass is now setting it a lot higher by default, but that doesn't help the vaults leaked in the breach.

https://support.lastpass.com/s/document-item?language=en_US&...