skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ” I know this is a controversial view, but I think employers should not be allowed to run background checks unless important for the role”

You’d be surprised at how many jobs felons can’t have.

Most jobs that need licensing (e.g.,electrician, plumber, even bartender, and many more).

As well as security, jobs which relate to firearms and many more.

EDIT: for clarity, legally - there are many jobs felons are prohibited from being employed as. So employers have the burden to ensure they only hire legally eligible employees (not hire a felon when not allowed). As such, background checks are how they ensure this.
I'm in games, where art and tech crossroad. I 1000% empathize for the fact that art exploits, abuses, and underpays even if they at times may be doing more work than a junior web dev.

It's a bit ironic, because a lot of tech offers partial compensation in stock. Something else that really doesn't happen in games unless you work for like, the 3-4 largest studios. So they should at least understand that your compensation is not all based on labor for time worked.
You don't need to be, but there are some big advantages:

1. You get to test the flaws in an environment where nobody will raise an eyebrow. If you go straight for the production system, it is likely your early attempts will visibly show up in the logs.

2. You get paid to carry out malicious deeds. That's a double win.

It would be kind of silly not to.
Off-topic: Hi from Argentina! If someone in nordvpm is readinng, I get some weird redirect, and the URL I see is https://nordvpn.com/es-/es-/es-/es-/es-/es-/es-/es-/es-/es-/...
'Nerds get excited and furiously try to catch up'? Everyone is acting like reading up on superconductivity and discussing it is this social ill - did I miss something? Did it turn into a ponzi scam?
Why would a listing say 'Remote from anywhere' if it's really USA? Is it just showing 'remote' and only the clickthrough claims where?

True 'remote' from anywhere in the world is tough, not just for working in a team but for taxes and payroll. If it's not a F500 or billion dollar company, you can't really expect them to support working anywhere in the world.
Titles are often trimmed of less important words, automatically, to fit in the required length of 80 or 120 chars iirc

In this case, it looks manual, but preserves the essence of the original
Race and sex shouldnt matter in an university.

Intellectual ability and integrity should.
Better idea #1: a filter for posts w/o salary details regardless of useless "laws"

Better idea #2: Unionize and strike because historically nothing else has ever resulted in enforced universal workers' rights.
It's not AI that came for our art or our souls. We sold our souls and our art, our very culture to the copyright overlords that rule over us. We made a Faustian bargain that allowed the court Jesters to have more power than the king.

Blaming AI for anything is like blaming the dog logo on the front of a Mack truck for causing an accident. Look in the mirror it is you and it is I who have allowed these things to happen long before AI was ever a dream. Reclaim copyright for what it should have been something for a limited time to allow creators to know a profit so they can continue to create but ultimately add to the cultural good of the entire world. Once this is done it won't matter if it's AI because that's simply a tool of a creator.
Beat myself, rather than the author of that generator?
That would create a complex regulations where everyone if fighting over what is "required for the role"

The better, faster and easier solution is a path to quick expungement, this also has the added bonus of offering people an incentive to no re-offend.

IMO once you have completed all active punishment (ie you are no longer on parole or probation) your record should be sealed.

>>If we're so concerned about employers hiring bad employees then state should instead build a centralised database of bad employees and their reason for termination at previous places of work

That would actually be illegal under most state laws as most State's have Anti-Black List laws to prohibit such lists from being created.
Reading this makes me despair for our species.
The history of this makes it hard to convince people to supersede hashes based on the fact that they can be collided. If the legal community had switched to SHA-1 at the point that MD5 was found to be weak for collisions they would have had to consider switching over to SHA-2 10 years later. From their perspective they dodged a bullet.

There ends up being a usability issue here. An MD5 hash is only 128 bits long. So 32 hex digits. A SHA-2 hash is going to be 256 bits. Or 64 hex digits. Manually comparing 64 hex digits is in practice much harder than twice as hard as comparing 32 hex digits. People get lost in the middle. If you chop down your 256 bit hash to 128 bits then due to birthday collisions you can probably brute force a collision anyway (you end up only having to do something like 2^64 operations). So there ends up being a usability argument for specifying that your system has to be able to be secure in the face of collisions. At that point you could then further argue that you will just stick with MD5.
DON'T CLICK. I hope I don't have to reset my yt account again.
cdemyofides. They'll take over you feed. As bad as clicking on anything jrdn PDrsn.
DEI is just an acronym for three different words. There's ways to build diversity without discrimination. Likewise, equity can be worked towards without quotas. I have worked at a company that didn't use DEI as a euphemism for workplace affirmative action on the basis of gender and race. They sponsored after school programs in underserved communities, some employees volunteered their time at maker spaces, and other things like that.

Granted, in 2 out of 3 companies I've worked at full time DEI was indeed essentially a euphemism for illegal hiring practices like percentage quotas and reserving segments of headcount on the basis of protected class. Always remember: a bonus for one particular protected class is the same as penalty for everyone who isn't a member. When a company allocates 20 "extra" headcount for diverse employees on top of the 80 normal headcount, it's the same as starting with 100 headcount and prohibiting non-diverse candidates from 20 of those 100.
>Somehow this idea that you keep getting paid for literally the same thing over and over again for work you did once is the absurdity

meanwhile, most tech is moving towards subscriptions?

Art is getting paid "non-greedily". People buy a song or art piece, and then people 10 years later buy a song or art piece. That's not one person paying twice for the same song, it's two people buying the same thing.

If people still value that art for that price later, I don't see how this is a "greedy" thing. is art magically supposed to turn open source CC0 after 5 years? Tech sure doesnt work like that.
Genetic algorithms figured out GI the first time, but it took a while.
distributed cognition is a really bizarre thing that we need to learn more about

turns out problem solving and intelligence don't have to be localized at all and even not having them localized doesn't necessarily hinder the ability for it to handle complex problems either
eyrie ˈɪəri',ˈʌɪr'i,ˈɛːri' noun

a large nest of an eagle or other bird of prey, built high in a tree or on a cliff.

a high or inaccessible place from which someone can observe what is below them.
as in "his 40th floor eyrie in the tallest office building in Portland"
I enjoyed this post

> Find people who understand things better than you and read what they have to say.

How though? As author points out where hopelessly blind to our own wrong mental models & perceived reality
Britain's Economy Is 'Not Working.' Here Are 2 Key Reasons.
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Yeah, I got about 3 paragraphs into it, then did a search for a11y, then just closed the page.
> In this particular case, one easy way to avoid legal problems is to remove protected attributes from the final hiring decision, and only consider them at the candidate selection phase. This has been found to be legal, though the moral aspect is more grey, IMO.

Absolutely not. Using protected class as a factor at the selection phase is still illegal, too.

Can I just tell my recruiter, "only consider Catholic candidates at the selection phase." And when someone accuses me of discrimination I say, "Hey, those Catholics still had to pass the onsite interview loop. We only used religion as a factor in the candidate selection phase."

It's still illegal. You cannot use discrimination on the basis of protected class at any stage, outside of narrow exemptions like Bona Fide Occupational Qualifications [1] (yes, you can discriminate on the basis of race to cast an actor for instance).

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bona_fide_occupational_quali...
That doesn't say how they determine "users in Germany". Dial IP into some service and look at geo location? Sort of pointless if VPN is used?
Patch production, sure, but naturally you would leave them in the pen testing environment for some time in order to collect data. No data and you’re just guessing. That’s fine for amateur hour, but not business.
I am a felon working in IT.
My pay is much less than others working in the industry, but I am grateful for the opportunity to work for an employer rather than scrounging for work behind a LLC or something.

There are a lot of small companies out there that don't do background checks, and some slightly larger companies who will overlook your past.
>You’d be surprised at how many jobs felons canr have.

How is that relevant?
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I live in Chicago(land --- across Austin from Austin and Augusta). What is statistically the worst block of the entire city?
I continue to be super confused by this. The blog post says, as you quote:

> we made it clear that customers can serve video and other large files using the CDN so long as that content is hosted by a Cloudflare service like Stream, Images, or R2.

But when I click through to the specific CDN terms it still says:

> Unless you are an Enterprise customer, Cloudflare offers specific Paid Services (e.g., the Developer Platform, Images, and Stream) that you must use in order to serve video and other large files via the CDN.

A plain reading of this would still make me think putting the CDN in front of video files on R2 was forbidden. It is now clear that you can use (the very expensive) Stream to serve video, sure.
Mozilla claiming to be the champions of privacy (among other virtues) makes this arguably worse than Google, Microsoft, et al. because they're at least upfront about their telemetry.
I wonder if anyone has gamed this system yet. Accidentally click "gay latino" to get through the HR filters. AFAIK HR won't send that metric down to the interviewers. So if you crush the interview loop then HR's hands may be tied.
How will you contact for help if devices are banned?
It was a pretty low level product near the bottom of our infrastructure tier and we built everything on top of it. It worked well for our specific use case, but apparently not a general enough need to succeed on its own. It's not like we took their product, added a new skin and sold it as our own.
It should have been phrased, "DEI policies often discriminate on the basis of...". While not 100% of DEI programs are carrying our gender and racial discrimination, a very sizable percentage of them are. The majority, in my experience.
Could you link to some examples (on youtube or the like) of what you have in mind? I know my baroque keyboard-solo literature okay, but beyond that it gets a bit hazy.
> How though? As author points out where hopelessly blind to our own wrong mental models & perceived reality

I think it's difficult, but mentorship comes to mind. For me, a really good tutor when I was at university helped me see the flaws in my mental models.
Me too, only a few people in the company knew the terms of the agreement, apparently it was the only code escrow agreement that company made and it was protected under NDA. I don't think we paid a premium for it, but signed a longer term licensing agreement.
> Companies hit by wave of suits over job ads lacking pay info

> A batch of proposed class actions filed in Washington state against major companies such as adidas AG, Home Depot Inc., and Marriott International Inc., will help employers gauge the litigation risk they face under a recent nationwide wave of pay transparency laws requiring salary ranges in job ads.

The wheels are starting to turn. I think there are more class actions happening than individual cases but IANAL.

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/adidas-home...
I think you could even make the argument that nobody breaks their registry because nobody wants to mess with something so user-unfriendly. Even the developers making applications tend stick all their config in .ini files because files are easier for everyone to work with.
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Best site I've seen all year.
Good post I'm quite certain this is correct:

> Meaning that if you go from 4 priorities to 3, you can get, say, 10 percent more done; but if you go from 4 to 1, you get 400 percent more done.

But unless you can afford a butler or work at a company that gives you a very high level of institutional support, mono-focus seems impossible in our current world. I'd love to completely deprioritize the following roles, but they don't seem to want to detach themselves from me: tech support geek for wifi and computer issues, bookkeeper and tax preparer working hand-in-hand with my accountant, occasionally car expert for buying and maintaining vehicles, real estate expert for evaluating house purchases based on market conditions and my families needs, health care plan decider, and on and on and on. Each one of these areas if filled with multi-armed bandit problems (How much research should you put into evaluating a new home purchase where you live, or looking for a better city to live in?). It's a lot.
Wow, a felony? I know in a number of states you can get a misdemeanor for bad speeding, but a felony without harm, or endangering or dui or anything likd that sohnds extremely heavy. Which state is that?
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Exactly what about my comment makes you think I believe that anyone will?
I would say the system understands MD5 being broken, but more of usability issue the system is leaving a backdoor to keep itself safe, comes to mind how the system got threatened about Epstein and went over and under in order to keep him free, society should be worried about legal system having backdoors
Skiena is great, and is very different from CLRS --- I actually enjoyed reading through Skiena, where CLRS is a reference (and I'd just use the Internet instead of CLRS at this point).
Simon was a polymath: PhD in political science, Nobel Prize-winner in economics, Turing award winner, leading scholar in AI, business management (iirc), etc.

Who are today's Herbert Simons? I don't mean people who match his fields of study exactly, but polymaths who are leading scholars across different fields.
If you need that your work isn't safe.
>In other words, even if we accept copyright as legitimate, they sure as hell shouldn't still be getting paid for some late 80s album.

Why not? The fact is that even if the album is free, there will be people paying spotify $10/month to listen to it on demand. How is it fair that Spotify can profit from it for decades to come because they offer convenience, over the artist who made the music 10 years earlier and now relinquishes their art not even a quarter into a typical career?

Copyright is abusrd now, but it's not a bad concept. I think the original copyright law of 14 + 14 worked well enough. Life expectancy increased so I'd increase it to 14 + 14 + 14 (or 10 years after the death of the original author, whatever comes first). You fund an artist for their typical career length (if they choose to extend twice) and once they are (near) retired the song is free to work off of. In the meantime you simply negotiate if you want to use their work.
> I ask because I've found `async/await` to just be an irritating overhead

Then what you want are coroutines[1], which are strictly more flexible than async/await. Languages like Lua and Squirrel have coroutines. I and plenty of other people thing it's tragic that Python and Javascripts added async/await instead, but I assume the reason wasn't to make them easier to reason about, but rather to make them easier to implement without hacks in existing language interpreters not designed around them. Though Stackless Python is a CPython fork that adds real coroutines, also available as the greenlet module in standard CPython [2], amazing that it works.

[1] Real coroutines, not what Python calls "coroutines with async syntax". See also nearby comment about coroutines vs coop multitasking https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38859828

[2] https://greenlet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
> Why is it needed? Who decides, and what if they are wrong?

https://chinapower.csis.org/china-demographics-challenges/
Linux: Ext4 data corruption in 6.1.64-1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38589389 - Dec 2023 (136 comments)
>In a case like that it may be worth the cost of the legal fight to get it expunged.

That is presuming they could afford that cost. The effective purposes of the system are to keep the lucrative private prison industry flush and to maintain what Karl Marx called an "army of surplus labor" to keep wages low.
This article really resonates with me. I’ve spent the last two months creating a personal/portfolio website, developing an interactive resume ai, creating an open source web scraping utility, and researching tech non stop.

I would say I’ve been 80% exploring and 20% exploiting/doing. Everyday I come across tech that could help me build something even more efficiently. Examples include plasmic.app, directus.io, and tools for SEO combined with ideas of automation.

But I also am left with the feeling that I need to switch gears and do 80% doing and focus on just that one project. It’s just hard finding an ideal project/saas idea to commit to because it’s a common theme that we fail much more than we succeed. But as the author pointed out, that’s just another person’s mental model. I really need to find out myself.
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Yeah, me too. Wrote a bit about it here:

https://blog.sapico.me/posts/how-i-backup-my-servers/

I'm basically backing up to: /backups/type/{day-of-month} and backups/type/latest every day.
I'm not really a dev so I've made an art of going through all the minutiae of changing the terrible default GUI back to windows xp or so which makes it a decent consistent experience (mostly open shell + 7+ Taskbar Tweaker + manually recreate quicklaunch + remove all pinned apps)

Then I spend some time disabling ALL of the updates as they generally do more harm than good

Then I make sure to install directory opus...

Then windows isn't too bad especially when I have no choice but to use it for my work (whereas all of my colleagues have constant problems with borked updates and inconsistent interfaces)

to be fair, I bought a laptop with windows 8 ten years ago and I immediately formatted it and manually installed windows 7 on it though it was a tad tough to find drivers as it was a cheapo consumer laptop)
I don't know one sysadmin that likes how the registry does things. INI files for configuration are vastly easier to understand and edit. Use the registry for permissions and keep your tooling.
Sounds like https://www.he360.com/products/rfgeo-radio-frequency-signal-... might be a better fit in this use case.
You are describing one of the most impactful achievements that humanity is making strides towards. 100% of devices having fast connectivity anywhere on the planet is a literal superpower.

We need to fix our browsing habits. Saying you dread the day when anyone anywhere can call for help because your poor impulse control might interrupt your disconnect is just ridiculous.
There is hope that things will change for folks like you who have “paid your debt”, this was on NPR today. It sounds like your best bet is to be incarcerated adjacent jobs, maybe the Innocence project has tech work? Something like that to build recent relevant experience.

https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace/
Black people commit and are convicted of commiting significantly crime more than white people per capita. Whether this is due to racism, economics, or whatever is irrelevant, but when you can't check specifically for criminal records race becomes an excellent proxy. ~4% of white men will go to jail at some point in their life vs about 28% of black men. https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/Llgsfp.pdf

That said, sex is also an excellent proxy since men commit far more crime than women. I wonder if women are more likely to get hired when criminal background checks are forbidden?
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You are entitled to your own personal opinion. Backup software must support append only. Otherwise it's a glorified version of rsync(rclone).
If this wouldn't have been the most effective "download and open this zip" phishing campaign in history.....
Still remember at 14 scrounging $$ together to buy a 2nd hand copy of a Modula-2 compiler for my Atari ST and then eagerly combing through the manual as my parents drove me home from the city. Really was a different era. Like a lot of other people who have posted here who probably came of age like me in the 80s, I went from BASIC to Pascal to Modula-2 and only picked up C later. Wirth's creations were so much a part of how I ended up in this industry. The world of software really owes him a lot.
I think it will be limited by market simply because a software change has the lowest possible barrier.

It's a good point about the SIM tray, although I wonder if that's less complicated than a port change.
You definitely can, except for museums which are less common. :)

And stores of a kind clumping together is a suburban phenomenon, not an urban one. You're not usually going to find two hardware stores next to each other in a big city, or two UPS stores. Even fast food, which is almost always "clumped" in the suburbs, gets pretty evenly distributed in cities. A McDonald's will just be on a random corner, not as part of a row next to Burger King and KFC.
When I'd jog along the East River, I always threw the island a glance to see where it was at. At points during low tide, you could see most of what was left (as seen in some of the pictures on the blog). At other times, only the antenna would be visible.

Fun fact - there were / are around 36 to 42 small islands around the various boroughs of NYC. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_smaller_islands_in_New...