skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Conservatives, if they’re in favor of restricting bathroom use based on biological gender, have to decide whether or not they want to enforce this regulation. Enforcing it requires attending to the difference between cis women and transwomen. So clearly they do have the dilemma I described.
Thanks, the second link looked a little promising but then it just does a GitHub search.

A proper documentation would list all possible resources and their descriptions with valid values. There is still nothing for ARM Resources. How CloudFormation can have an excellent documentation and ARM has bits and pieces is a bit weird.

Their QuickStart templates repo is comprehensive but it has no real documentation of the parameters.
Well, I have to agree with OP. If anything, they turn me AWAY from an article that I otherwise may have been interested in.
> breakfast, lunch, dinner

That's great if you're young, but there does come a time in many people's lives when they like to spend at least 2 of those meals with spouses and kids.
Question: Does it matter? There's nothing in the site guidelines preventing someone from talking about their own product or service, and half of HN is basically just that. As long as it caters to HN readers (which a technical documentation site more than does) then why does it matter the reasoning behind the post?

Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft. I was not aware of any "PR push", I stumbled upon the story on the front page.
Announcing Rust 1.15.1
The prices are not really confirmed.
Does it matter? The subject matter seems very relevant to the HN userbase.
"so easy and transparent" Maybe for you, but perhaps not everyone has your experience. Unions have there place, even today.
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> Poor working conditions for one factory and saving the planet as a whole are different concerns.

I think that's contradictory. If you are setting out to save the world, but you can't improve factory conditions for your own workers, how have you shown the capability to save the world?

I'm reminded of having a strong AI agent that's given the condition "save humanity". That condition can be satisfied by having no humans on the planet to save.
My employer bought me a macbook with the touchbar and I've had to retrain my muscle memory to use C-[. It took a couple of weeks for it to feel natural but it wasn't nearly as bad as I expected it to be. I still haven't found a killer app for the touchbar, though.
It's likely that their long term vision will entail a fully-automated production line (similar to Amazon's logistics goals). In fact it's necessary to churn out units fast enough to hit their production goals. Their recent acquisitions in the factory automation (Grohmann Engineering, etc) will ultimately help alleviate these workers complaints, but perhaps at the expense of their jobs...

That said, there's no excuse for treating employees poorly, even if they're "temporary"...whether it's Tesla, Apple, or Amazon.
If you have a need to transfer large amounts of USD-to-CAD or vice versa, have a look into Norbert's Gambit. It'll effectively let you perform the transfer for 0.2%. Probably not worthwhile for small amounts, but if you're converting ~$10k, might be worth the effort.

This site seems to break it down: https://norbertsgambit.com/
What Slobodan Milosevic Taught Me About Donald Trump
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I think I would add "Team of Teams," co-authored by General Stanley A. McChrystal. It blew my mind when I read it a year ago at how relevant it is to working in tech, and was a fascinating read in improving how folks make decisions in complex environments.
> It seems astoundingly likely that a heavy dose of the correct set of sex hormones is precisely what causes these kids to "snap out of it" in the first place.

That sort of treatment used to be common. In general it results in the trans kids getting horribly depressed, often killing themselves.

Doctors with more field experience and who have done more research than me have settled on blockers as a safe and effective treatment with no long-term side effects if they're discontinued. You'll have to provide something more than gut feeling that they can't just be shrugged off.
In case where I work for a given company and it's internal tool, always.
I'm in no way suggesting that people spend all of their time at work or have significant overlap between their work friends and after-work friends. However, it's nice to work with people and not robots. Some people can tolerate sterile work environments devoid of anything but neutrality, and some people can't. I'm not even saying you have to be friends with the people you work with, but being friendly goes a long way. You spend a large portion of your day with these people, so it's not a huge ask for someone to give a crap about them as people.
Throwaway for obvious reasons.

I applied for a position as a software dev there a few years ago through a friend. I hated every single moment of it.

It was like they exported the very worse from Silicon Valley's bullshit start-ups attitude. They just couldn't shut the fuck up about how they were really changing the world (yeah right), how awesome it was to work 60 hours a week for such a great Vision, how sick their (mandatory) team-holidays were, how everything and everyone was so siiiick here, mate.

I did all the rounds up to the one with the VP of Engineering who asked me to code FizzBuzz on a whiteboard (no kidding) and then spent the rest of the hour bragging about how last week he had turned down an "amazing engineer" (his words) because he wasn't "cool enough" to be one of them. You know, he was a bit of a loser, mate.

It really felt like a cult of ego-obsessed people with some narcissistic disorder; even worse, it felt like everyone was lying.

That said I'm sure there are a lot of nice people who work there, this is just my experience so take it with a grain of salt. The product is also good, I used it a few times myself.
We do it here are DigitalOcean and it's just awesome. We have people in NYC HQ and remote all over the world (for example I'm working from Turkey). The key is not only over communication, also to care about your remote employees, let them feel like they're really a part of the company, bring them to the HQ, not per year, multiple times, etc.. There are many things but so far DigitalOcean is one of the best companies I've worked remotely (and I'm working remotely for almost 5 years for different companies).
I'm not sure where we disagree. As you say, conservatives think that the difference between cis women and transwomen is very important, as they believe that transwomen are not really women.
You misunderstand. The issue isn't trans people who are good citizens. It's bad actors that have a new loophole.

The mechanism ("no men in the ladies room") has been removed, so there's no longer a mechanism for the assistant manager of a Target to help his female customers relax and have a safe space to take care of things. That safety may now only provided after some sort of leering, proposal, or assault has already taken place.

Also, for the record, I don't think much of this makes sense. If we were objectively worried about safety, we would focus on driving less and slower and locking up swimming pools. Stranger danger is largely overblown. That being said, I've seen particular things where particular men (almost always men) harass particular women (almost always women) and in most cases there's not much the victim can do about it. This is more about concerns along those lines.
Interesting, I thought Toronto would be much lower. Does anyone have any data on cost of living expenses compared to other major US cities?

- A Canadian who wants to go to the states but probably won't for the time being due to political/family/friends factors.
I agree, but most people couldn't care less about that. Most people eat meat, use housing that's displaced huge amounts of land that animals use to inhabit, etc.
Global minimum wage ? You are probably smoking some hard leftist hippie weed.

Of course labor should move to places where people will be happy to take it and thank the employer. Unionisation kills jobs. I can totally see Musk having plan B to move the entire factory to Mexico sooner or later.
Austin city is increasingly expensive to live in. Fortunately, the city is in the middle of land that is open on all sides for a considerable range, and there are very affordable options just outside the city. If planned properly, this can result in relatively easy commutes for little cost of living. The property tax lessens considerably in neighboring cities and counties, as well. The lack of state income tax is also a huge boon. I also disagree that food costs are higher in Austin.
Great article, actually. Typical HN comments on performance optimizations are complaints like "this isn't a real world use case" or things like that. Most of which, they miss that comparing baseline performance metrics against two systems is still genuinely interesting in and of by itself, and acts as a huge learning catalyst to understanding what is going on. I think this article did a great job of making an honest comparison and discussing what is going on, so props to the team! (We did something similar as well, where we compared cached read performance against Redis, and were 50X faster - here: https://github.com/amark/gun/wiki/100000-ops-sec-in-IE6-on-2... ).
I seem to recall I did, and they said that it wasn't a reported side effect they had heard of before. I reported it after my friend reported it, since there was some corroboration at that point, and I mentioned that. I believe this was a number listed on the package, but honestly I don't recall it all that well, as it was quite some time ago.

It's entirely possible I called the pharmaceutical company, and they may not be incentivized to look into every claim...
While I struggle generally to discern what you're trying to say, I'm particularly befuddled by what "MD" refers to here.
Okay I think it needs to be stressed yet again. The freedom to speak isn't the same as the privilege to be heard. You can speak to the air but no one owes you the time to listen. Equally, everyone is free to conduct business but no one is owed customers to make that business profitable. This is something so many faux-centrists miss because in their mind the right to not associate is seen as a moral ill rather than a moral good. They think that all social actions must operate like that of an economy when in practice it's an economy that's shaped by the social actions. To allow groups like Breitbart who knowingly peddle in lies (ex. claims that global warming isn't real and/or significant or that transgender people are disordered/dangerous) is to endorse those lies whether or not you agree with them. There's no gray area when one gives an audience to blatant lies which are being used to shape laws (see FADA). Either you take a stand and oppose the lies and ostracize those who peddle in them or endorse those lies and all their implications. A or not A as Ayn Rand put it.
Nothing on the github? (https://github.com/ngduc/textcal)
It is speculated[1] that the AMD on-chip memory controllers will have ECC support since previous generations have had it.

Do any of the launch motherboards support it? Yes, I'm too lazy to dig out each motherboard and see if it claims ECC support... :)

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/5mnxis/any_confirmatio...
> in fact the reason I originally switched to it in 2011 was because I had enough of me not being able to use the latest software on Ubuntu.

It's funny. My reason for switching to Arch was almost the opposite. I grew tired of having to rebuild the latest software in Gentoo every time I updated and ran into someone on Slashdot who encouraged me to give Arch a try. Sure, there's more prebuilt packages, mirrors, etc for Gentoo these days, but then you're in the same boat as everyone else (waiting for the package to be built).
Ask HN: Those who went the venture capital route with their side project…
How did you come to that decision and how did it go? How was the transition from side business/project to pitching it to investors? How did you find investors to talk with? Do you regret anything?

Not looking for amazing success stories, just some good discussion.

Maybe your story isn't about a side project, that's fine too. I only used that as an example since that's where I'm at.

I'm in the middle of deciding if I should try to go the c-corp route and eventually raise money (vs. keeping it small for as long as possible with an LLC). I kind of want to try a c-corp just to say I've tried.

I know nothing about this topic, so any educational advice would be great.
An Hermès bag is a tiny slice of dead cow with some cheap metal and string to hold it together. Yet the bags go for thousands of dollars.

Any luxury product can be reduced to absurdity this way, but it's not very useful in understanding the culture that produces and values them.
Are you suggesting that my dissenting opinions are not welcome on HN because you do not agree with them? I am only pointing out that the demands like these make it more attractive for the management to move to countries where they are welcomed!
Can you explain more precisely what do you mean by that? Are you trying to say that companies with >150 people are somehow incorrect?
> You don’t need elaborate Git release rituals. Ceremony such as tagging releases gets to feel like a waste of time once you are releasing many times per day.

What happens when you ship bugged code and need to roll back?
The extra legalese is usually a CYA. They can reserve the right to remove "offensive" content without necessarily exercising that right.
Robot union API would be a great project for a future YC application. ;-)
As I've mentioned in these forums before, I've personally had Wikipedia reject the New York Times as a source (re prevalence of a condition, for a medical article) not because the rejecting editor who camped on that article knew better or had any other source, but because it wasn't a scientific journal. At least in this case they're on much more solid ground.
That risk exists irregardless of the formation of a union. Automation of mundane physical tasks is just that much cheaper than manual labor over the long run.
Yeah, Tesla is here to make money above all else, and they're gonna do as much time theft as they can, likely putting Amazon, Walmart & McDonalds to shame.

Shit must be real bad over there if they are attempting to unionize, if you notice the only places that still have a union in the US in spite of union busting are where the employer has made it an absolute living nightmare to work, hence the union to back the workers up.
I'm old enough to remember what it was like trying to use the Internet on a 300 baud modem. Pictures? Yay right! People born in the mid-70's like me are in the remarkable position to be old enough to remember the old world yet young enough to fully embrace the new.
Is it still on that floating rock when there's nobody to see it?

"If a tree falls in a forest"
Do you have a family and rent your own place or do you share accommodation? That is a huge factor. I have single friends who pay $600 rent as opposed to me paying $3000.
I know I wouldn't want to work somewhere that frowned upon
getting drunk at the office and having sex with my co-
workers in the office stairwells.

Truly, what is the point of working there if you can't have workplace 'friends with zenefits'.
I mean things like: "Is there a REPL? I bet you're wondering how we deal with the console: what's the equivalent of bundle exec rails c". "What's the equivalent of an ActiveRecord migration". And so forth.

We want to build the Rails blog tutorial, but in Elixir+Phoenix, and specifically for Rails users.

Definitely, please send me an email: zack@zackburt.com if you'd like to be involved in the project.
Austin also has no income tax. I'm sure a large bay salary incurs a large CA income tax payment. I'd factor that in right on the top, too. Certainly a consideration I have as a Texas resident.
What's the difference between "serverless" and "cloud"?
Glad that the soundness bug was caught so quickly, and that the new version has been put out so quickly. Thanks Rust team!
>In the case of web standards, the null hypothesis is "no new API"

Thanks to Apple's bone-headed decision to not support Vulkan, this is what it has come down for me when it comes to graphical APIs. For me it's either "no new graphical APIs, keep being forced to use OpenGL" or "drop macOS/iOS support".
Yes. Urban areas are typically more expensive than rural areas. Maybe if urban residents stopped subsidizing unsustainable rural living, this price gap would shrink.
yes exactly. the unions can be on the cloud.
The TV show Moonshiners has been dealing with accelerated aging processes recently. The method used by a pair of the moonshiners was to highly electrically charge charred wood immersed in the alcohol.

At least according to the show, the two "inventors" had a patent on their method. They were allegedly getting two years of aging in two days.
Ha, not cynical at all. I think we all like to know how a service might be monetized.

We are a company. The charities will never be charged for Thankuu and neither are there intentions of charging users for the current service. i.e. 100% free. If we scale, I can see additional ways of users gaining more new customers (beyond referrals) via Thankuu in return for their donations, so at that point we would charge users a fee for these extra services.
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Yeah, a lot of dollars-and-cents comparisons kind of ignore lifestyle concerns.
IBM SDK for Java performance optimizations article
We're getting screwed here in Canada.
You can use the schema to figure out the valid values and descriptions for some of the values, so that might help. I agree that a technical reference would probably help since reading the schema isn't fun.

Doesn't shock me that it's mostly GitHub search since most of our docs are hosted on GH:

https://github.com/aspnet/Docs

https://github.com/dotnet/docs

You can always add a request to the docs UserVoice: https://msdocs.uservoice.com/forums/364242-general-site-feed...

Azure also has its own docs UserVoice:
https://feedback.azure.com/forums/217534-documentation
I keep hearing from engineers who can't donate that I should do something like sell a box with an Octave CD in it or a piece of paper that says it's a license but not actually do much beyond that, maybe only a vague promise to give priority support.

It's a donation in all but in name so that the accounting department will approve it.
I think some of the data you'd want to gather for this is

- what initial job offers look like, by demographic class, and what they get negotiated to

- offers revoked after attempted negotiation (yes, this is a thing that happens)

- long-term job prospects (negotiations for internal raises and promotions, layoffs / retention, etc.)

Hired has visibility into the first two, but I doubt they have much visibility into the last one, and I think that's the most relevant one for the effect of leaving the industry that you're interested in.
It would be nice if this could be applied to places where I don't have a bank account and just need say, $500USD converted into another country's currency. My bank here allows me to withdraw twice from foreign bank ATMs but I have a feeling they are messing with exchange rates and I'm still stuck with a bad deal. I won't even bother with real exchanges in the States or in the other country. Everything just feels like highway robbery.
> It would be sensible to sacrifice the well-being of a small group in order to save the whole

Why then we don't revert to capturing slaves in poor countries and have them "save the whole" (like, recycle garbage by manual labour) while working 18 hr/day?

We can surely sacrifice their well-being in order to save the world for us, can't we?
fair enough. they do identify and locate Toronto on the map, so technically it does contain a bit of Canada.
Contact info is in my profile. Thanks, looking forward to hearing from you!
> So here are some facts and trivia that are not so well-known or published that I collected by talking to Parse engineers that now work at Facebook. As I am unsure about whether they were allowed to share this information, I will not mention them by name.

It's both lessons learned by Parse engineers and us, so I think the intended ambiguity is okay.
Nevermind the travel ban, hire remotely
All the time on everything. That's how a sustaining economy works. Every one gets a piece by inserting themselves in the pie.

But the same time the idea is that everyone in the chain is delivering value or else they wouldn't be there because someone else will provide something better by ruthlessly removing said intermediary out when it is no longer efficient.

If you have a better way of selling houses between people without the need for that 9-12% you would be doing it now or you would have done it by now.

Literally the definition of a founder. You find opportunities to exploit.
What is interesting is looking at the actual growth rate of salaries in software engineering. For all the talk about not being able to find qualified people, the salary growth seems stagnant.
You are not only pointing that out. You are defending it in an emotive way.

Just sayin'. ;-)
It seems like your interpretation of my words is deficient.
I like the idea of Octave Gold. I would totally buy something like that.
I think you're skipping an important step in your model.

The probability of being black given that you work at Google is low. That doesn't imply that the probability of being hired at Google given that you're a black software engineer is low. (There may be a relatively low number of black software engineers in the industry. In fact, I believe that there are.)

(In the short term,) Google can't conjure up black software engineers if none exist.

If we steer talented minorities who might be able to choose between being an MD or an SWE into medicine because of a perception that they won't be hired as SWEs, we will perpetuate the lack of minority SWEs. (NB: The percentage of practicing doctors who are black is around 4% from a quick Google search. That doesn't mean we should discourage black college students from medicine, either!)

[1] = https://consumer.healthday.com/general-health-information-16...
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Medical doctor.
MD=medical doctor
It's really hard to compare real world adjusted incomes because each government/country has varied outlooks on social benefits and safety nets. In the US salaries are high, but the government doesn't give you anything in terms of cheap educational, access to cheap healthcare etc.

I'd be curious to see if there's a way to factor in a global compensation number that includes all factors like stock, education cost and so on.

Completely anecdotal, but my experience with Hired wasn't great. Didn't have many good companies to choose from, the "hiring advocate" wasn't very helpful.
Will there be a way to download documentation from Docs for offline use?
I think the recent crime/safety reputation its gotten is keeping people (like me) away. I wouldn't move to Detroit even if they paid me $150k, I just don't feel like the risk is worth it.
I wonder how typical it is for total comp to be so stock-heavy, though, outside of the handful of Googles and Apples of the world.
Are there any good, cheap laboratory wines that can pass blind taste tests?
To be fair, MS didn't really communicate clearly to their downstream vendors that the OS was getting "locked down" and they didn't wait long enough for the driver manufacturers to catch up to the new standards.

That said, it was ironic that people complained about security in a Windows release.