jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This is a very poorly reasoned article.

Point 1: "Efficient markets will eliminate discrimination." If this were true, we wouldn't have had slavery and segregation in the U.S. up until just 50 years ago. I have no doubt that if Congress hadn't stretched the boundaries of the Constitution with Civil Rights laws, the south would still be segregated today.

Point 2: "Journalists write about the case just because they want to talk about discrimination." Journalists write about the case because of the unrefuted examples of "bad conduct" presented by Pao. I'd never say "we shouldn't invite women because they kill the buzz" even in front of all male coworkers, because it would cost me reputationally. Having a culture where saying things like that isn't costly might not quite cross the line from "immoral" to "illegal" but that doesn't make it okay. The key failing of this article is the author's failure to recognize the distinction between conduct that's wrong and conduct that's illegal. For obvious reasons, we set the line of legality well beyond the point at which conduct becomes wrong.

Point 3: Pao and her husband are involved in lots of lawsuits. I can't even begin to understand where the author is going with this. In half those examples, Pao's husband is the defendant.

Point 4: "Obtaining child-support is 'cash profit.'" This is literally one of the most ridiculous comments I've read on the internet. My wife and I pay $35,000 per year just for 60 hours of childcare per week. 24/7 nannies run six figures. That's the market value of the service of taking care of a kid. If my wife and I got divorced, she'd get about $13,000 a year in child support, even though I make a lot of money. That's not a profit, it's a huge loss. Heck, she'd sue me to keep from having to take full custody.
Do you think that it would be a good idea to have a fixed amount tax? I'm not talking about a flat tax, I'm talking about making everyone pay the same amount.
If you're an enterprise you're using github's on-premise appliance and aren't affected at all.
it's all A LOT more difficult if you don't live in America.
http://insight-labs.org/?p=1682

Sorry but how would a bored teenager somewhere have control over injecting attacks in traffic passing through the "Great Firewall of China". This really doesn't seem like a typical attack to me but you are right in that I should not be claiming this an obvious attack by a nation-state without the facts.
I've got hopes that Bunnie's Fernvale project will yield some success as alternative to Arduino

http://www.kosagi.com/w/index.php?title=Fernvale_Main_Page
Yes, it does. While at the end everything depends on the student, Stanford offers better connections with companies, a brand name that helps get interviews, and really, just better education. I've watched plenty of Stanford lectures and every professor I watch there is way better than most of mine.

All of this makes a big difference when getting your first couple of jobs. After that, it doesn't matter as much.
Nope! It's an interesting balance. The truth of the situation seems to be: the generator and discriminator provide a "signal" to each other, like two planets orbiting around each other.

If you cut the signal from one, the other will rapidly veer off into infinity, i.e. collapse quickly. Or it will veer off in the other direction, i.e. all progress will stop and the model won't improve.

So it's a constant "signal", you see, where one is dependent on the other in the current state. Therefore I am skeptical of attempts to use previous states of discriminators.

However! One of the counterintuitive aspects of AI is that the strangest-sounding ideas often have a chance of being good ideas. It's also so hard to try new ideas that you have to pick specific ones. So, roll up your sleeves and implement yours; I would personally be delighted to see what the code would look like for "the current generator can fool all previous discriminators".

I really do not mean that in any sort of negative or dismissive way. I really hope that you will come try it, because DL has never been more accessible. And the time is ripe for fresh takes on old ideas; there's a very real chance that you'll stumble across something that works quite well, if you follow your line of thinking.

But for practical purposes, the current theory with generators and discriminators is that they react to their current states. So there's not really any way of testing "can the generator fool all previous discriminators?" because in reality, the generator isn't fooling the discriminator at all -- they simply notice when each other deviates by a small amount, and they make a corresponding "small delta change" in response. Kind of like an ongoing chess game.
You like his style? Dunno, I watched his interview with Jim Keller, it was terrible and I cringed several times (And Keller rolled his eyes mostly).
My impression with this is that it's mostly coming from a few academics that never work on code they haven't written themselves, and that have no understanding of use-cases other than their own...
I don't understand the need to force an universal on everyone, instead of letting systems cohabit. Every time someone says WFH is great someone else can't refrain to say it's hell for them or others. School was great for you, then good for you. Parents that cannot work from home? School is good for them too. That doesn't change the point that it sucks for some others.
MobX is the equivalent for the space of reactive web frameworks, and I agree it's a fantastic model. The cost is that it requires a little "magic", but the benefit is that the entire question of synchronizing state virtually disappears, leaving you to focus on modeling and controlling state (which are still nontrivial)
Could be both. You can use the computer on your lap if you're doing word processing and checking email, or on a desk if you're editing video.
On a piano roll the black and white keys are equally spaced. Two adjacent rows are always a semitone apart.
Presumably my existing MBP 16" is within regulations, but it can get uncomfortably hot in my lap.

Don't think I'd want 7º over that.
I am completely on board with normal cryptocurrencies, smart contracts and what have you. With NFT art I just get the feeling that people are trying too hard to find "the next big thing" in the space, and they have latched onto this for some strange reason. Might be nothing more than that it makes for a good story. I guess now I know how nocoiners feel about any kind of cryptocurrency..

But it does make sense, in a way, to explore the complete opposite of the (almost) perfect fungibility of normal cryptocurrency, even if only in a "what if we flip one of our basic assumptions on its head" kind of way.
Property taxes aren't like income taxes -- the tax rate is incredibly variable and set at at the local level when cities make their budgets. So if the city doesn't need more revenue, the tax rate can just be adjusted down to keep property tax payments the same. But if the city does need more revenue, hopefully it's because more public services are being provided, in which case, it's entirely fair that the people who live there and benefit from the increased services pay for them.
Please don't take HN threads further into ideological and nationalistic flamewar, let alone, god help us, both at the same time.

Also, would you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

You needn't use your real name, of course, but for HN to be a community, users need some identity for other users to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=community%20identity%20by:dang...
I think the big value add is time proximity and lack of language barrier. Moreover, the large majority of high-level technical talent remains in the West (and the west coast of the west-most country of the West, at that), although that gap is closing.
I didn't mean to criticise, I actually appreciate the spirit of the comment I replied to. But I do think- and wanted to point out- that waving it off as "stupid politics" is maybe a form of self-deception, when you live in a country that hugely profits from the situation.
I'm glad there is finally some standardization. The previous "Standards in Arm space" articles[1] are good illustration why this was needed.

The LBBR spec seems nice, the article does mention that its for some hyperscale datacenter stuff but to me it seems like it could work well for sbcs too, but I don't know if I'm missing something.

[1] https://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2020/10/12/standards-in-ar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_countries_and_territo...
Unreal how competitive the virtue signaling is on HN, when the reality is that every major tech company is falling over itself to hire anyone who isn’t A) Male and B) either white or Asian/Indian.

What planet do you live on?
This is a fun talking point, but the reality is more complex. The fact that jobs and multi-state payouts are leveraged to ensure programs have political staying power does not mean that the whole shebang is just a corporate / political handout.

It just seems to be what people say when these programs fail, but I don't hear this said about programs that have succeeded.
This reminds me of the interview with Ballmer about the iPhone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcUicfqelC8

"Right now we [Microsoft] are selling millions and millions and millions of phones per year, Apple is selling 0 phones per year. In 6 months they [Apple] will have, by far, the most expensive phone in the market place."
"merely a crippled Linux-distro". i am sorry you have been misinformed. please check out its security model.
Is this covered under DMCA? (Even though information is flying at your face, you not allowed to interpret it?)
I don't know much about Mexican culture but in south Asia, specially the rural areas, if you give someone money for a job or favor that they don't want the Monet they will often find creative ways to give it back. In my case I found my 500 "taka" bill back in my pocket even though I remember giving it to him (forcefully) and he grudgingly took it.

I have no problem believing the authenticity of the story. Some cultures behave in certain ways (when it comes to money) that is very hard for western society to understand.
> And the way to address this problem is to put all of your sensitive stuff into one third party whom we trust more, for purposes of our conversation we can just call them "the monopolist".

You're missing the point. Giving out your password to a number of sites is as secure as the least secure of those sites. Giving it to a single third party still poses its problems, but is a much safer bet statistically.
To complete your metaphor, the village government would've had to have provided all of the building materials, which would've all turned out to be highly flammable.

So yes, prosecute the crackers, but Gawker is to be faulted for poor practices here as well.
@JimboOmega - Of interest? - http://www.clearspring.com/about/careers/senior-ui-javascrip...
>If you take an action — write a blog post, publish a photo, launch a website — you want your action to spread to as many people as possible.

Overgeneralization, is what I see there.

Actually, "avoiding success at all costs" motto is great.

I think that quote from Adam Chlipala (author or Ur and Ur/Web) is quite appropriate:

"I also want to emphasize that I'm not trying to maximize adoption of Ur/Web. Rather, I'm trying to maximize the effectiveness of people who do choose to use it. This means that I'm completely happy if basic features of Ur/Web mean that 90% of programmers will never be able to use it."

http://www.impredicative.com/pipermail/ur/2010-December/0003...

I think that author is wrong.

You don't have to have superfans.
Alas, I stand corrected. Thanks. At the same time, the author does have a good point that very slow algorithms are fundamentally better for security, but I'm glad you pointed this difference out. Classic case of me not thinking things all the way through.
That article actually states that salting is a real security practice, is a necessity, and that it's been in UNIX since 1976,
The article says the banana equivalent dose concept was intended to ridicule people who were afraid of nuclear power plant accidents. Such accidents would expose people to radioactive iodine, which, in the article itself says: "The combination of bioaccumulation and the greater penetrating power of ionizing Gamma radiation makes radioactive Iodine significantly more hazardous to humans than equivalent amounts of Potassium-40".

So no, being in the vicinity of a nuclear accident at dose X of Gamma + Beta radiation in the form of iodine that is going to be absorbed into the thyroid (leading to continued further exposure) cannot be meaningfully compared to the same dose of just Beta radiation from potassium that is passed through the body and excreted.
I think he meant his father's cheerful calmness. He probably made the world seem easy. His father probably never complained, so his sons just didn't know what problems he might have had.
Try https://github.com/hudak/sql-parser

It's out of date - only goes as far as 1.5, but at the very least you can import the 1.6.1 source as one big commit.
I like basic income in principle, but I just don't see how it wouldn't (1) discourage people from joining the workforce (2) the prices of goods and services will still adapt to reflect supply and demand unless we can also increase things like housing, access to education, and healthcare.
Great article. Fun to read about both Scheme and Assembly at the same time since I'm currently taking class on each (6.004, 6.945 @ MIT). It's great to get theory from both ends of the abstraction spectrum.
Chrome saves its VRAM when using WebGL, but it does not protect the hardware accelerated website rendering. thats why one could read out VRAM with chrome content as well.
And anyways, the monopolist doesn't corner the market directly; they use inside information to buy cheap, and have excess capital to take advantage of market opportunities. How many old west movies are premised on some rich guy trying to buy up all the land in town because they know the railroad is coming through?

In what way does that apply to SF?
Is this made with Blockly ( https://developers.google.com/blockly/ ) or a copy of it? There's already many sites using blockly to learn to code, the example linked looks much like a copy of Google's Maze example https://blockly-games.appspot.com/maze?lang=en
so, Keen worked to model - it connected experts in getting money from people (psychics) with people having surplus money to get.

In a less snarky vein, if that's what people want to pay for, perhaps enabling that market in an honest way is what people should do? I know a guy that funded his telecom startup by selling custom prompts for phone sex lines.
Those are great exploits, but they don't show how to escape from a container at all.
Money issues:

I agree get a Credit card. There are 4 primary choices:

1) American Express - charges an annual fee, but provides benefits, which are typically of value to travels. Accepted at most places.

2&3) Visa / MasterCard. Pretty much the same as each other. These are sponsored by various financial institutions. Benefits and cost vary radically, shop around. I typically use Visa as it seems everyone accepts it.

4) Discover - easiest of the 4 to get, but not as universally accepted.

Bank:
There are 3 types of banks:
Your standard traditional bank, insured by either the FDIC or a state agency (up 250K per account). These are for profit operations.

Credit unions - usually non profit. They are usually regional or concept regional (people who work for company XYZZY). You can often join the concept ones if you donate a trivial amount of money to 'Friends of XYZZY'. These are also insured (up 250K per account) by a variety of either US government or state agencies. Since they are non profit they often have your best interest at heart. Less services than a bank. Most schools have a credit union. If you can join it before you travel to the US all the better.

Non insured bank or credit union - just avoid. They offer the world and then go belly up.

Money xfer - I assume you need to move money. I use transferwise as it only costs me 1% to change money. Most US banks are expensive to change money.

For tipping I recommend you get a book. The opinions on it are all over the place.
EU legal system will not allow a company to trade infringement for a fine.

If they had to do something, they will get a fine and they will be forced to do it anyway by the court.

If they don't comply with court orders they will be fined separately with an accumulating sum until they do.
I can confirm this happens in the UK.
Autoconf can use a cache file to speed up tests: https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.60/h...
Any idea on the extra security measures? In Turkey for example, when you change your SIM card the 2FA from the banks will stop working and you need to call your bank to re-activate it. That of course seems like a measure to prevent SIM cloning but maybe there are some security protections against spoofing. In many places SMS is a popular way to do payments and 2FA for high security applications.
@dang duplicate https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26729989
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> This video is fantastic, especially if you've never really understood how Unicode worked before.

Can you people really learn things on videos? My brain sort of shuts down on audiovisual material, I can only really watch and understand light movies. For more complicated material, I can only learn it by reading. There's so much essential back and forth that is impossible on a video. With a text, you have everything already in front of you and your eyes and mind can wander freely. Maybe it's just me, but I really can't stand the fixed, inflexible rhythm that is imposed by listening to speech.
I've been working like this, 16 hours a week for the past year. About 3 hours of that is meetings, and the rest is straight up coding. I don't make a lot of money, but I've never been happier with a job. I honestly don't feel less productive than when I worked full time. I spend the rest of my energy working on a project I intend to turn into a saas business.

I think this kind of thing, where your job doesn't dominate your life should be the future. It's just so much more humane.
I’ve also (a decade ago) called my own number (a cell line) and it gave me my voice mail as if I had just “speed dialed” “1”
Internal polls of NYT employees show less than 10% conservatives.
I think it also depends on the country because we didn't seem to have it when we were just a German company but when other countries became involved I think we had to implement legal requirements for them.
>If the President of the United States is saying something, it is my right and duty to hear exactly what that is, verbatim, so I can appropriately participate in our democracy.

Sure, you do have that right, it is only that it is not the responsibility of Twitter or Facebook to be the avenue through which the President communicates.

Twitter and Facebook have, in my opinion, already bent over backwards trying to let the President say what he wished. The events yesterday basically forced them to make a policy decision: Protect the free speech of a person dangerous to our democracy, who will no longer be in power in a few weeks, or simply wash their hands of him? I am sure it is not too difficult to make a choice given the options.

And in addition to all of this, why in God's name, if I did support your belief in a private corporation's obligaiton to run a private enterprise as a public institution, would I try to protect the President when he has done everything he can to cause __the exact__ incidents that Twitter and Facebook are explicitly denouncing his statements for inciting & supporting?
Cars are cheap and tax is non-existent here, 50 GBP (which is actually the rental cost here as well, but of course the wages are lower) represents 1/15 of the price of the median vehicle.
Lots of knowledge (I’d say most) was handed out to modern us as a result of what today would be called plagiarists. It’s true, there was no grant system in the European Middle Ages and I guess the smart folk in Baghdad were also not that interested in being original or being seen as inventors/creators.
I've moved a bunch of static sites to S3 (or Google equivalent) and CloudFlare. One article was hit by HN and (for fun) I spent the time massaging the CloudFlare rules to almost fully handle via cache and try get the response time as low as possible.
Oh, just like a hotel except you pay $200+/nite and you're not told you're being livestreamed.

Oh I thought we were just listing obvious options. I assume your point is that $25 is cheap but it's not to everyone.
I think part of the problem here is that universities have repurposed the word "plagiarism" to include forms of cheating which it doesn't naturally cover.

For example, if a student pays someone else to write an essay, nowadays that gets classified as plagiarism. But it's hard to see it as a theft of ideas, any more than it's theft if I buy something from a shop.
It’s a good tourist attraction, to be entirely fair, it’s just that the extended royal family quickly descends into situations like these. You could also make the argument that profits from royal-owned land – which is handed over to Parliament in return for a fixed salary – saves each UK citizen over £2 in taxes per year [1].

[1] https://youtu.be/bhyYgnhhKFw
>They'll need a payment method to begin with,

Cryptocurrency, Visa/Master Card Gift Cards, "Free" Hosting (things like GitHub Pages), Free Cloud Storage Accounts....
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