skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, Rufo is an activist, and he is transparent about his intentions and strategies.

I have a JD and passed the bar. I know that a “protected class” is for all people and all manifestations of a trait, not specific identity groups.

It was plain to me that DEI, HR, and Legal teams were not explaining the law, but rather using their position as experts-with power and good intentions-as a pretext to conduct activism through ambiguity and deniability that look virtuous to them and Orwellian to me. And that it was working, because my managers and teammates were positively convinced that “protected class” means exclusively “minority.”

I went through HR training that said “only a manager can discriminate under the law - anyone can engage in harassment.” This is insane as a statement of law, because harassment _is_ discrimination [1]. But it makes sense when they’re trying to get unwilling ICs to endure pervasive “anti-racist” discrimination that isn’t intended as harassment. Flag the misstatement to Legal and it’s “huh, we don’t know how that happened, we’ll look into it.” (Read: we already signed off on the risks of this wording.) Rinse and repeat every training cycle, where it’s a full rewrite of the module with no continuity.

One of my first questions in trying to make sense of seemingly-insane trainings was “wait, is this that ‘CRT’ thing I heard about that everyone says is just a right-wing bogeyman that doesn’t actually exist?”

And it sure is easier to just call it “CRT” and laugh it off than to argue whether it’s even a thing that happened.

If the corporate activists were transparent like Rufo, they’d say “hey, we think discrimination laws are behind the times, and we can’t just wait around for them to change. We need to combat demographic disparities by shifting our culture in hiring and conflict resolution. Here’s how we expect you to promote that, and we’re prepared to indemnify you and defend these values in court.” I expect many people would get behind that, and I would truly respect their honesty in it.

Instead they try to have it both ways, and polarize people with irreconcilable values into each thinking the company has their back.

If you’re on the receiving end of a discrimination suit and try to say you were following company policy, the lawyers will hang you out to dry: “That wasn’t company policy, it was a peer exercise with no managerial oversight or involvement. That wasn’t a required training, it just had an attendance goal (of 90%) and your manager wasn’t authorized in pushing it. As a ‘safe space,’ it wasn’t even recorded for us to know what went on there. It was led by an external contractor who is obviously not an agent of the company. Of course cis white men are a protected class, and anyone who treats them differently is illegally discriminating.”

[1] “Harassment is a form of employment discrimination” https://www.eeoc.gov/harassment
I worked for a dating company for a while. The moderation team was mostly young people predominantly women.

Fortunately, compared to what the people in the article deal with, it was relatively tame. But it still took its mental toll - having to look at dick pics all day is not healthy.
This is such a powerful question (another version of it, what would you do if you wouldn't have to worry about money). Sometime ago I tried to answer it and realised that I don't know. It sparked anxiety, meaning I've been doing something for such a long time 15+ years now without knowing what really my end goal is and why I am doing that.

Whatever its called, zombie or auto/robo mode, the unintentional living, its freaking scary because in most cases if you remove the work identity from a person, there will be a sad shallow shell of a person left.

On a bright side, its never too late. I started actually putting the money to use to create experiences (hiking in Taiwan, diving in Thailand, paragliding in Turkey). Starting to write and build products (finally learning to code for the sake of building something simple and useful instead of setting up kubernetes).

That kind of existence gave me energy, although I do have melancholic nostalgia about former days of building startups and working in a team to get to an exit. It all seem like a war story I will be telling people in my 50s, how I moved countries without knowing anyone, joined a company that got to $50m ARR, grew to 100 people and became profitable ever since.

The work identity we have is a interesting phenomenon, despite feeling happy in life, I do miss ambitious goals and working in a small team of friends and interesting people to reach the highs of professional achievement.

I suppose in the end everything is about the balance.
Has more to do with their local geography, but any excuse right?
A smarter project is to make a video then merge the frames.
As long as you can't definitively prove it's harmless, I'd rather avoid the stuff if at all possible.

For example there was a time when publicity recommending cigarettes to pregnant women was a thing.
A sample size of 2k people on a subject like this? Not enough. You're going to get wildly different results just based on where you ask.
Just get a USB-C portable monitor (e.g. Asus Zenscreen) and you can use it with any laptop.
Sounds plausible. I assume they could cobble together a strategy where the company limps along zombie-like while interest rates are very low, then when rates go up they lots of companies go bankrupt simultaneously, a crisis is declared and the public takes on the losses. There are some obvious risks, but the middle managers don't have to worry to much and the big shot callers are presumably secure in their ability to influence politicians.

That was pretty much Silicon Valley Bank as I recall. Very high risk business model; turns out the plan when the bomb exploded was to change the regulations so that someone else held the risk.
Probably, the WAF, specifically Cloudflare specials, matches a number of things. And as a lot of it is just regex matching the context of where the match occurs isn't precise.

Additionally cloudflare doesn't know what is safe for a given site, so it has to be a little conservative. The sites that can handle malicious input, or are tech sites that expect things that are SQL or commands that may contain directory traversal, these are in the minority.

Essentially these are false positives, which are typically viewed as more acceptable than false negatives as those would allow attacks through.

These things are configurable by the site owners, but the issue here is that the site owners are not shown the code of the rules, so have to guess from the names and descriptions whether something is safe to disable, meaning everyone just leaves everything enabled. Usually reporting this to a site owner with the cloudflare trace id is sufficient to enable the site owner to disable a rule that is causing false positives, as the site owner can use the cloudflare dashboard to search the trace id.

I do not work there any longer (left 3 years ago), but did write significant parts of the firewall and also manage the firewall, WAF, and DDoS protection teams.
The way Tachiyomi worked is that it used specially written extensions to automatically connect to different web sites that provide access to manga and download from them. I mean simply saying it worked kinda like web browser except if you had to download search engines yourself. And in that comparison any legal threats against it looked very dumb. Like someone said "If Warner Bros sued Google Chrome because it gives access to piracy sites". With last update they even completely removed direct access to download these extensions and instead you have to manually provide link to third-party repo with them. I really thought that big change would safe Tachiyomi from any legal trouble for a long time
Slang and snowclones and memes often are detached from their originally meaning.

"So long, and thanks for all the X", "grok", "long time no see", "catch 22" etc are all expressions that are commonly used by people who may not be familiar with their origin.
Polyfuturism
LNG ships are paying the big bucks in the auctions.
Ask HN: Which companies prefer to hire former Founders?
Throwaway as Im still in the process of handover.

Ive been a founder of a VC backed fintech (payments + financing) startup for the past 5 years. We scaled rev to low 7 figures, processing $xxm of payments annually, though ultimately it was a failure from the investor perspective (who are understanding & supportive). It has a lot of social value as a service and a great team, so we will keep it running, though it wont be able to sustain some salaries (including mine) so Im handing over to a co-founder.

Prior to this startup I was head of Product at a small payments company, engineering background. Im applying for remote roles as a senior/director PM and not seeing much response (0/29 applications). Ive tried tailoring my resume to focus only on product (remove "founder" title etc) and adding relevant buzzwords but don't seem to get through to an initial callback.

I spotted that there are companies that explicitly value founder experience (Eg Supabase) and assume these are probably a good bet. I was wondering does the HN community know of any others?

Any help much appreciated!
this is very impressive.

the only one bit that is in my muscle memory from using Jupyter is 'A' (add above), 'B' (add below) and 'D-D' (delete) shortcuts.

kudos for adding polars support!
It communicated exactly that GP was explaining the same concept to their girlfriend ( in less technical words).
It doesn't take that long but you can't just press a button and be done.

Look at James Hoffman on Youtube he demonstrates "the right way" to do it.
I always feel the turnstyle makes a website feel a bit condescending - you need to test MY connection before I get to your crappy site?

Is there a reason it needs to be visible whilst performing checks? or is it just security theatre?
I think the approach was chosen partly for its lack of moving/digital/energy-needing parts.
I felt same for Switzerland, but then it ranked the most expensive countries and I understood what went wrong.
As another Québécois I could immediately tell. That's exactly how it sounds, and I think it's a somewhat common expression.
The ultimate language will be TPL (the programming language)
It was also a terrific Future Sound of London album (that still sounds great!)
I've been part of an open source project for well over 2 years now. We use Slack for community management (3k users). It's pretty clear to me that Slack was never really meant to replace forums:

- Lots of the previously answered questions are lost

- Search is not great and is limited to Slack. We have many non-slack users searching through Google.

- It's noisy with random chatter

- It's harder for us to keep track of questions to answer.

I think Slack is great for really small communities or for new products that need quick feedback but not for large community management.
Both forums and discord are really bad for finding quick answers. You enter a 40 page thread with post on post of speculation and "try this" - if you have more than 100 active users you need a voting system like Reddit or Stack Overflow. Otherwise the best content gets drowned out by the bad content.
Occam's razor: who is more likely to know about black holes, an 18th century English bumpkin, or a spacefaring visitor from another galaxy?
BBC iPlayer is only HD on an Apple TV.

Do I have to pay for BritBox to watch programmes in UHD?
Ma la smetti di postare spam?
I wonder if anyone thought that it seemed a bit far fetched for 100 postmasters to all steal money. Then when it was 200, it must seem doubly far fetched. Once 500 postmasters were caught "stealing" money, wouldn't someone wonder how they managed to hire 500 dishonest people. Typically when you catch one person you always wonder how many got away with it, so they catch 500 then there must be 5000 or 50 000 postmasters that were stealing without getting caught. How many post offices are there really in the UK?
That's shit. But where can we go now for general discussions if privacy is dead on reddit? I assume Discord's worse at this and is logging every conversation.
The future we wish for is often subpar in reality. Thanks monopolies.
Could you please elaborate on this? I seriously do not understand what you are implying.
It's mind boggling to wrap your head around the sheer scale of modern shipping and logistics. I've seen visualizations before, but does anyone recommend any tools to visualize these shipping routes? Makes me want to fire up Factorio again.
That makes me wonder about the ethics of perhaps having pedophiles and psychopaths put their “competitive advantage” to use in these respective occupations.
I'm not blaming anti-fascists. We need more anti-fascist people in the world not less.

I'm blaming lunatics who happen to also be anti-fascists (or claim to be) that are turning non-fascist people fascists.
Yep, that latency thing was a huge deal to Quake(World) players back in the day. ISDN really did give a big (some would say unfair) advantage over "dialup lamers", and gaming was probably one of the main reasons for investing (or maybe more commonly, begging your parents to invest) in ISDN.

Another advantage I don’t think the article mentioned was, of course, the ability for others in the household to use the regular phone while you were online, removing a common source of intra-family conflicts. In the end, though, consumer ISDN remained a transitionary technology and most people skipped straight to DSL or cable.
I use the noprocrast feature on HN. It's enough to keep me focused. I wish more sites implemented this. I might need software to do the same for reddit and other social media platforms. Not that I need it, but it does remind me how much time I've spent.
Vaguely related question for the gurus: are all Windows (/ Linux) laptops still hopelessly behind Macbooks in terms of speed? (since Apple announced the M1 and followups I mean)

I’m trying to figure out if a laptop like this one is worth the lower cpu speed
I'll chime in to say that I have started deploying podman over Docker where it's frictionless at $job as well. I'd say half (or more) of my new container deploys are podman.

At home I use only podman because my tinkering doesn't affect anyone but me.
Is it correct to say that a shell runs inside the terminal? Or that it runs (as any process does) alongside it and happens to have its input and output connected up to the terminal?
I get that you don’t like pedantry, but this seems an important conceptual distinction that I (as someone who doesn’t know much about the internals of OSs) wouldn’t want to get wrong.
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Just imagine how my urologist feels. He needs to look at actual dicks all day.
You misread the question.
The 787 is an innovative aircraft, but its existence is a comedy of errors. It was never competition for the A380 though. The problem is that Boeing bit off more than they could chew when they tried to innovate in three areas: concept, design, and execution. They outsourced the latter two and provided insufficient oversight.

Concept: Lithium-ion batteries are great tech.

Design: Boeing outsourced the electrical system design work to Thales, and the first production airliner designed around lithium-ion batteries seemed like a great idea until they started catching fire.

Execution: Relying heavily on sub-contractors to build big chunks of the 787 was a great idea to save money, until the subs couldn't maintain the pace Boeing wanted for the price Boeing was willing to pay. So Boeing bought the South Carolina facility.

And Boeing keeps insisting on learning the hard way. Last year the FAA halted deliveries of the 787 for a few months due to quality issues.
Other than perhaps the manufacturer from the OUI, no.
My understanding is that 130W is a proprietary extension of USB C, the spec only goes to 100W.
For me it was the feeling of "being on the internet" that made ISDN so special. My computer had a fixed IP address, a name in DNS and the router at work had of course dial-out, so I could telnet into it from anywhere on the planet, authenticated with the same Kerberos tickets that got me in at work.
is it not too narrow? 28" with the wide side vertical leaves a lot of empty space in the desk...two of these side by side maybe better
> Once you know speed of light is the maximum possible speed

But he didn't postulate this at all. He simply postulated (as per Newton) that light is made of particles with mass, which could thus be affected by gravity. Since they are moving at a finite speed, the light particles would be slowed down by gravity, and eventually completely stopped.

He further proposed, based on this model, that the mass of an object could potentially be determined by determining how much slower the particles were moving.

This doesn't work. Light doesn't really get slowed down by gravity, and you definitely don't have any slow light that was created from stars trillions of miles away.

It's a cool idea, but doesn't work with how light actually propagates.
I've been the software engineering game for the last 8+ and this is the best lesson I've learned in the past two years, been facing lot of health issues due to my workoholic nature and ignoring my physical health. Somehow my mental health has been good due to the support systems I have in my life and I'm super grateful for that.

Having a balanced life is my biggest goal right now as other carrer related things are mostly on auto pilot mode. I have a system set for that.
Retrospective questions would also be really great. Why did the lights not turn off downstairs this night? Or other questions involving history.
Hey I'm guessing by Calibre CLI you mean to do something like manage your book collection, but if all you want to do is convert books, Calibre does come with a CLI called `ebook-convert`. It works with many file formats like epub, pdf, azw3, mobi and more.

Example:
`ebook-convert file.epub file.azw3`
This is just way out of touch. How do you think Elon raised funds for buying Twitter? PE is the only way to fundraise outside of going public.
Because Occam's razor works but has to work with the actual mechanics of how stuff is formed and processes evolve and not necessarily just by observing the end result
I've tried several times over the last few years and it always messes up somewhere, usually with networking. I stopped trying.
It's working fine once it's archived tho, see e.g.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240114085417/https://posthog.c...
Funny stuff.

> Again, remember, I have other work and responsibilities, so I can't do a great deal of work myself, even if I wanted to.
For those who want to IoT-ify their washing machine, I've had great success with a power meter like a TP-Link HS110.

It's connected to a power strip with a switch so that it can be turned off when not in use (which BTW would also be a solution for the owner of the LG machine).

Due to the ability to read it out with Python it sends me an Email when the washing is done and I can also track the power consumption in Grafana. It also shows a "finished X minutes ago" message on some HA-like always-on tablet dashboard.
“There is a right view and a wrong view” there you go again. No, there is your own right way and wrong way. Those ways are not the same as mine per se. Stop trying to conform my world view to yours. I would highly recommend you read “The Heart of the Buddha’s Teachings” by Thich Nhat Hanh.
Reminds me of the "self consuming script pattern".
Seen in this super user answer.

https://superuser.com/a/440059

It embeds an awk (or any interpreter) script, and uses sed to cut out the script between tags in $0.

I agree with other comments that this kind of thing can get messy, but sometimes it makes a lot of sense and let's you share a single file.
Whereas communism is great for the environment! Aral Sea anyone?
You should probably sort the store/city selector dropdown alphabetically.
What happens after 20K books? I am at about 13K books, and I haven't run into any issues yet. I make extensive use of virtual libraries in Calibre, and tags for organization.
Everything you learned from dmt you would get from 5 minutes a day mindfulness meditation. And arguably more given all the other various benefits. I'm not against psychedelics, I quite enjoy them. But in my quest I have found that you don't always need them and the regular practice of meditation to be much more rewarding.
I wonder if there's a sort of "Ruby on Rails" clone in assembly?
That sounds like a cool idea, but perhaps not that useful
I've got that for rebasing: https://github.com/efrecon/docker-rebase
I believe it's freeing to try, fail, and eventually exclude life paths and gain a new focus and understanding of what's next.

I don't know anything about your project, please ignore if I'm off the mark. But is it possible you spend time building something without validating it's a solution people actually need and pay for? It's very difficult to do because you have to face feedback technology doesn't provide. On the other hand, few people focus on validation first. At least I don't, because it's quite tedious and I don't typically work on side projects with the intention to make money.
It's probably just retrying constantly because it is being blocked by the pihole. It's probably just trying to send a few kb.
Exactly and LLMs dont have emotions, audiovisual experience, human experience or any experience at all.

For humans its impossible to create same art as someone elses. For LLMs its impossible to create anything else than copy of art thats in its database.

Even if you model yourself on someones work and try to replicate it the results will be different. Its not that artists want to always create work different from each other its actually impossible for them.

Saying that art is “just” recombination of prior art is extremely dehumanising. Its like saying are ideas are just recombination of the ideas before… ok so general theory of relativity is just recombination of caveman thinking about fire and finding out how to create it?
My exact thought. They call Switzerland expensive but depending on what remote work means you pay less taxes than in nearly any other country making the slightly higher prices irrelevant.

The main reason I can't simply move anywhere i want to is because I would effectively earn less in most cases while increasing burocracy overhead for entrepreneurship.
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Before ADSL was available and affordable, I did have ISDN at my place.
It was charged by the minute, so I could not leave the data always on.
I set up an always on Linux box at my apartment with a PCI ISDN adapter. A voice mail application answered calls on one of the 4 ISDN phone numbers.

I modified this voice mail application to accept a PIN code to open PPP on the other B-channel to the ISP and read back the dynamic assigned IP on the phone. This was something I could not do with a single analog phone line and a modem.

This was not the reason to get the ISDN, but this was the first time I could remotely access my systems at home at will. Not that I needed to that much, but I could.
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Totally agree. This type of development would appear naturally if it weren’t illegal. There’s no middle housing in America because it’s not allowed by law.