skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. It's abusive to the bees. Not just the stress of being moved about(actually those new container trailer transport systems are pretty nifty and smooth)..but the unnatural feast and famine they experience. Not to mention the fact that they can't forage or defecate while moving in the transport containers. Absolutely true that the monoculture of certain cash crops is the culprit. Everything points to an imbalance because farmers have to grow what they can sell to make a living and when so much cheap food is imported, they have to look to niche and cash crops. Example: I sell chive blossoms even though I have plenty of chive herb to sell, but there is no market as it's so much cheaper to buy from outside the country. Almond farmers have several thousands of thousands of acres in droughty California's because that's what brings in $. And the center and state enable this feeble and irrational condition of our country's food system. But here is the kicker, the generations of worker bees that follow these abused and forage deprived traveling bees with a forced eating disorder are born with mutations that it might as well be the reason for colony collapse disorder. Altho I am pretty sure that there are very many reasons. One other reason is that many California natives(California buckeye which is the first to bloom in spring can kill the bees..who will forage for whatever they can find..in the south, yellow jessamine pollen is toxic to honey bees too) are toxic to honeybees which are actually Italian or carniolians or Russian bees...firstly pollinators don't have to be honeybees..we strip all ground covers that don't allow all the wonderful little beings in our delicate ecosystem thrive..pollinators thrive if there is biodiversity. For example, I have an unruly bramble just for my hives because I also have native California buckeye trees..but the boysenberries blooms around the same time and usually the first spring forage. When we introduce an artificial environment, we can't expect the instinct of bees to 'do it's thing' ..my bees aren't native..my habitat has native trees..the solution is to introduce berries and also plant early spring blooming flowers for early forage when they swarm and even before when they are hungry. There is no one blame for this mess but ourselves. If people knew, they'd care about where and how our food is produced.
In-ear headphones always fall out of my left ear. At first I thought it was something to do with the ridges in my ear, because they're quite different between my left and my right ear. Then last year I had an ear infection and the doctor told me that I have a narrow ear canal in my left ear, so I'm guessing that's the reason. Apparently it also means I'm more prone to getting ear infections.

Bose have something for in-ear headphones called StayHear tips. They work really well for me. They look exactly like Earhoox, so maybe if I'd found Earhoox first I could have just used them.
Hello world itcast
itcast is a good school
Liability only shouldn't be expensive. I pay $85 / month on my v6 09 accord coupe for comprehensive.
It has a free version with almost complete functionality, it's definitely usable for learning or as a hobby.

I don't know about any open source alternatives. The closest thing I can think of is Nuke, also commercial, which is a compositing software built around the same principle, and also really well designed.

I've heard that Unreal Engine has some sort of a node-based system, but I'm not a game developer, so I haven't used it and don't know how it compares.

Also Blender has a node editor, and I think it's the closest open source thing to Houdini, but it's not the same thing, and is nowhere near as good, so I would not call them similar.
not in their short sighted world, shortsightedness like this is the major reason why companies stagnate and refuse to innovate, they don't want to touch their cash cow
Very very beautiful. Art and tech at it's best
These events could not have happened without the CEO himself setting an example and establishing an unwritten policy in the company about how to deal with such issues. It is not a matter of one person or team or manager or event. The series of events establish a pattern. The investigation will just be an eye-wash, with a gentle firing of a low level HR executive and some new internal policies that will be disregarded immediately.
yich.

pointing out that we're an audience without legal standing, playing with pitchforks, is not harassment or condoning harassment.
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Fast parallel DNA-based algorithms for molecular computation: discrete logarithm [pdf]
The Us Lags Far Behind Its Peers on “Inclusive” Economic Growth
Previous discussion with some good comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12691963
Not speaking to her case, but it happens. My family moved frequently, which meant hopping schools in different states. As a result, I missed many 'required' math classes, simply due to coincidences of scheduling.

(This was in the 80's, well before the current attempts at cross-state standardization.)

In my case, it did not cause me any particular trouble, as I was able to teach myself what I missed. My parents had predicted that this could be an issue, so they made sure I had the resources I needed. But if they had not been proactive, I could have easily graduated HS without ever having taken certain core classes.
> Is this not GPU passthrough through VT-D anymore?

No, this isn't just handing a PCI(e) device through to the guest.

> Is this a virtual GPU that can render like the native GPU?

Yes; it gives the guest a GPU that looks just like the host GPU, but virtualized. The host GPU does the actual rendering on behalf of the guest, securely, using guest memory.

> Would I be able to use a GPU in Linux AND in a Windows VM at the same time?

Given appropriate Windows drivers, yes.
Thanks for sharing! Pretty cool. Liked this one - https://sketchfab.com/models/dec527eccb8f4c29bd6fc4d2dcc0425...
Yes – others have expressed that sentiment.

I added them because I believe that, in aggregate, they demonstrate another dimension of the 'quality' being discussed: journalism has an appreciation of language. Without writers that care, and paid copy editors, that quality may be lost without people ever realising what we had.

Think about any craft you know something about: You might find yourself explaining the details of a really well-crafted specimen to a lay person. Most or all of it may be new to to that person, but they could have maybe recognised and appreciated the overall quality. By teaching people about the many small details that went into the product, you're making it easier for them to seek out quality, and harder on producers to cut corners.

But my examples were probably too superficial and/or even wrong. Only this once I'll use my status as a non-native speaker of English as an excuse :). I'd add a note to the post itself, but the time to edit has unfortunately passed.
I kind of get the impression you just want to bash the java language! :p

I think the whole eco-system (including dependency management with maven) is definitely worth acknowledging the value of.
Late 30s Career Advice Needed
Dear HN,

I need honest advice. I am in my late 30s, in so cal and recently departed my position of 10 years as a Sr Software Dev at an international electronics company.

My resume is diverse-- I've worked as an Architect, Team Lead, Software Developer, Systems Admin. I've done desktop, mobile, web, web services, consumer electronics, semiconductor manufacturing... etc. I was a core contributor to a major Linux distro many many years ago.

My last project--I designed, implemented and was Team Lead for a cross-platform IoT library for Linux, iOS and Android. I worked in half a dozen languages on a daily basis.

I have been out of the job market so long, I don't know how to sell myself, if I'm viable, or how or where I should be looking for work. My talent isn't any particular platform or technology-- I don't have a specialty. My talent is this-- I always focus on doing a good job-- and I pick up any skills needed along the way to do that. I'm an abstract thinker. When I last looked for a job the mantra was "let's hire smart people and see what they can do." Great for my kind-- but now the engineering world seems to be populated with concrete thinkers-- knowledge isn't how things work-- it's facts.

I have no idea where to go from here. Pick a specialty? (what technologies?) Remain a generalist? How and where should I be looking for work?

My finances are such that it is not urgent that I am employed, but I could very much use help putting together a plan :)

Thanks,
Ocean
What is the book you are reading?
>was pretty offended

You were offended by a gift? Just say thanks and give it away or throw it away.

The vast majority of company gifts are useless to many people. Most people can cloth themselves, buy drinks for themselves, buy bags for themselves, etc and have no need for whatever crap the company is getting them as a sign of appreciation.

Unless they demanded you chug the wine in front of them, you really should not have offended yourself this way.
Wherever she started, I'm impressed that her first reaction to QFT was anything other than "I thought this would blow my mind, but, dear God, it's impenetrable!"
Thanks for the heads up! I had not realized that the handle was a common point of failure, and such a thing (if properly repaired ) wouldn't bother me in the least.

Any recommendations on what particular sub-model to keep an eye out for?
They were gaslighting her. This is how incompetent people do cover ups. Well maybe they were not so incompetent but had never faced anyone clever enough to see through the bullshit.
Not saying uber is right or wrong but part of the problem is there aren't any sane rules of what is and isn't sexual harassment - there is mostly just vague case law and public opinion so things are treated 'case by case'. I was told by a HR department that if someone overheard you and misconstrued what you said it still could be harassment even if they don't report to the person talking. No one could agree what was and wasn't harassment when people in the meeting posed several real-life scenarios. I tried to basically explain the ridiculousness and lack of clarity of what they were saying but felt the extreme discomfort in the room and stopped.

You basically have the option of abstaining entirely from any comment or remark that could resemble anything sexual to anyone within physical or digital earshot or be at risk to an uncertain and unwritten standard. Treat everyone as formless blobs of raceless genderless biological matter or else. This is a impossible when when jobs become the majority of people's lives and part of their identity. Sex is a crucial part of human identity and denying it's existence generally isn't healthy behavior or even practical.
My Tag Heuer watch[1]. Extremely well made and beautifully designed and crafted. Had mine for 13 years (daily wear) and it still looks fantastic.

[1] - https://storage.googleapis.com/attachments.outofpawn.com/att...
Why is that impressive? QFT was developed by humans. Humans are therefore capable of studying it, even if doing so requires substantial effort.
Sure! Take a look: https://getkirby.com/docs/panel/blueprints
Oberon/F on the 68K Macs was the sweetest IDE I've ever used.
Logitech MX510 and MX518 Mice:

https://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Performance-Optical-Gaming-M...

For some reason, these mice are awesome for me. Neither are made any more, and I will cry when mine finally die.
Meh. Overpriced bagless vacuum. The bag variety will almost always perform better, be easier/cheaper to maintain, and filter the air better. Something like a miele provides much more value than a Dyson.
A big problem with schools in the US is that grades carry so much weight. Taking a class which you don't have an immediate aptitude for is frowned upon.

Kids should be allowed to take more risks to learn different things.
I find that progression of mathematical maturity highly unlikely. It is possible and I won't discount it, but compressing 4+ years of study into 1.5 is not something that more than a few people can do.
I guess having taken a compilers class a decade ago has given me a Dunning-Kruger sense of optimism but the explanation sounds kind of like bullshit to me. So what if LLVM doesn't have the type information? There's no type information at all in the machine code… optimize stuff yourself before you hand it to LLVM?
That article doesn't support anything about her being a pariah.
This seems a reason so stupid to reject somebody that either a) they didn't like you but didn't want to tell you the real reason, but didn't care enough to think about a plausibly sounding fake one; or b) you dodged a major bullet as these people had seriously messed up priorities. I'd bet on a) but can't exclude b) completely of course.
I think what the parent is implying is that it would be career suicide for anyone to make such serious accusations unless they have considerable evidence to back them up.

I mean let's face it: Susan doesn't stand to gain much from publicly accusing her former employer of harboring and shielding sexual harassers, but she has a lot to lose. Heck, she probably has hurt her employment prospects quite a bit, since many future employers will label her as a "troublemaker" and refuse to hire her.

My guess: Susan has hard evidence that she can use if Uber comes after her with a defamation lawsuit. Otherwise Uber management wouldn't bother with this investigation (not to mention publicly announce that there is an investigation).
Are earth computers not a product of evolution? It could be hypothesized that silicon-based or other "artificial" form of life is the next generation and organic life is only a temporary step in evolution.
> money that likely was already taxed one or more times

That describes all money everywhere, to a great degree. Think of it this way: The money you have, unless you printed it, came from someone else. And unless that someone else printed it, the 'same' money came from somebody before them. Unless you print it, all money comes from someone and circulates endlessly.

A lot of macroeconomics is based around this circulation of money. Think of this: When I buy dinner at your restaurant, I'm out $25 from my microeconomic perspective. But from the _macro_economic perspective, from the perspective of the national economy, no money is lost at all - it merely shifts from my pocket to yours. (This ignores some other significant issues, of course.)

Almost all taxation occurs when the money changes hands. I don't see why massive estate transactions should be exempted.

> death taxes suck

Well all taxes suck, but so does my electricity bill and everything else I pay for. I have no problem paying my share of the national bills; I'd be ashamed to try to shift my share onto others.
Are people legitimately needing clarification on this?
A lot of good can happen, from a pleasant meal with wine to a fantastic night that the participants will never forget.
"What should the news flash say?"

"Has There Been a Nuclear Incident in the Arctic?" ~ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13683110
Load balancers are particularly useful when it comes to cloud applications because they let you keep your routing logic server-side, meaning that you can make adjustments quickly without needing to release a new client version.

Your load balancer definitely shouldn't be a bottleneck - you can deploy multiple LBs to handle the traffic and provide redundancy, though you need to use other methods to balance between them (DNSRR, anycast, etc).
ThinkPad keyboards, with built-in mouse on home row. I like the layout, spacing, and short throw of the keys so much that I have a USB version for my desk, attached to a docking station.
Dyson vaccum cleaner
This sort of rhetoric does not advance any cause.
Saying that silicon life is less likely than carbon based life and that general AI is inevitable in the same breath would be a contradiction. I know you didn't mention AI yourself but there are plenty here on HN that would espouse those views.
The OP explains in a later comment that, he used a floppy-disk based licensing system in the early days of this software.
I get where you are coming from but here is no such thing as perfectly objective account or opinion. Whatever second-hand experience you gather will be colored by agenda and biases of the people conveying those messages to you.

Given that, I would be more comfortable with having a _relatively_ reliable source that I can vet via reputation and prior experience. It still doesn't mean I would just take that as a ground truth. But it's a significant difference between that and just having a bunch of anonymous eyewitness accounts.

Taking anything anybody says online seriously IS where fake news come from.
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I can still buy the M510 and I agree they are awesome (I have like 6 of them)
This reminds me of the Neptune example above. Sorry, I'm not going to play the game.
It was meant to be dark commentary. I don't judge people who subjugate themselves to toxic work environments too harshly. I think they are usually behaving optimally given their livelihood/personal wealth is on the line.

FWIW, I think it was brave of Ms. Fowler to write this (most probably stay silent for fear of retribution).
You are assuming that these allegations are true. The allegations mention a wealth of tangible evidence, but no such evidence is presented.

It may well still be true, but assuming that it is true is, at this point, premature and probably itself biased.
Why "if she doesn't sue"? Assuming she is giving an honest accounting, and has the evidence to back it, why shouldn't she be compensated for shedding the light on the shitty practices of the company that shielded her, and a number of other folks that need to be held accountable for their abuse.
>Outside of truly unique skills, it's basically true - engineers are interchangeable with sufficient time to ramp up.

That qualification at the end makes it false.

If I have to give someone 1 year to learn all of the minute details of the behavior of TCP across the various operating systems clients use, the behavior of packet re-ordering in LAG algorithms, convergence times of BGP, etc, then they are most definitely not interchangeable with someone who does know these things.

Any manager who thinks this way is incompetent and will impose massive opportunity costs on the company by not fighting for raises for existing good employees under the guise that they can be easily replaced.
I think you are looking at it too narrowly. Drinking has an important social function in many cultures, western culture among them but by no means alone. Having good social interaction between coworkers is important. Of course, one has to be cognizant of the fact that not everybody drinks and not to exclude people that are not - by making sure drinking is not the only way people can interact socially. But having a round of beers once in a while with coworkers, among other things, is not that bad.

Of course, all that is about social drinking, not getting completely shitfaced to the point one loses control. That is never good.
Why would silane be such an important factor in silicon based life?
I have 3 of these, a Proteus core and a g900, and still have a soft spot for the 518.
You want to make it sound like it's vague what sexual harassment really is.

But your boss stating he wants to have sex with you, I think that's quite a clear-cut case.
Yamaha KX88 keyboard. It was super heavy but excellent key "action". My SY08 is close but still not the same.
I'm surprised at how often limitations of LaTeX are taken as limitations of TeX.
> Poor people leaving a city increases the quality of life for (richer) people that remain?

That's true, but not what I meant: by changing the group you measure the metric over, you change the value of the metric.
Verbal testimony IS a kind of evidence.
She's staked her reputation (and, at this point, probably her career as well) on not lying about the harassment. She says she has both documentary evidence and other female Uber employees to back up her claims.

"Guilty until proven innocent" is how our courts work, and rightly so. But, as a layperson, there's nothing wrong in assessing the evidence and saying: "the chance these claims are false is vanishingly small, given all the publicly available information about the author of the blog post, Uber's culture, the heavily-documented problems faced by female developers in SF and elsewhere, and the very very low proportion of these sorts of claims that turn out to be false".
When I first started playing with Tilt Brush, I had an idea that "VR Comics" (or at least, 3D comics drawn via VR) would be an interesting concept.

I'm no artist, but I did manage to whip something up to test the concept: https://twitter.com/Zikes/status/769433398217629696
Is this issue really one that needs to be addressed in the context of this topic? It's not like what she described is remotely one of those cases. Just because the line is blurry, doesn't mean that every case is a shade of gray.
> People lost faith in media after their support for Iraq war.

These criticisms toward the media and 'it's not like it used to be' allegations have been going on for generations.
Was the first thing I thought about when I read this article.
Longtime friend was there in 2011 iirc when they were still "Ubercab" and was cut bc he was "not a culture fit". Aka quiet Russian hacker types not wanted in the frat brotherhood.
Yeah, I have a mid-2011 Macbook Air that I've been using heavily since day one, and it still performs like a champ. I've never owned a non-Mac laptop that I didn't want or need to replace within two years.
One datapoint: the autoimmune protocol diet worked wonders for my wife. The first time she got graves she was on the mediation and hospitalized due to weak liver. When it came back she wanted to try something different. Tried a few different diets, but only getting worse for a few months. Tried AIP and felt better after 1-2 weeks. She's been healthy for over a year now.
I just got one of these for Christmas, and it's honestly one of the most beautiful and intuitive devices I've ever used. It's such a creative and inspiring tool.
I don't see one mistake as a meaningful sample. Of course the Washington Post makes some mistakes.
That's great! It sounds like you have worked at places that follow the rules.

Please don't use your personal observations to discount the growing collection of evidence that this sort of thing is happening at tech companies around the world, and not just in the bay area.
>I'm glad to hear this has gotten the CEOs attention. I read her account and was absolutely horrified at how she, and other women, we're (are?) treated at Uber.

We have heard a story given by one person, uncorroborated by others, and without any of the supposed abundant evidence. It may well be a true account, but it is premature and wrong to assume it is true right now.
Cool, thanks Google.
The Palm Generator
Any idea how the 3rd generation compares?
It won't copy stdout to stderr; it'll move stdout to stderr. Stdout will be empty after the redirect, so no, thos won't work :)
Honey bees are a small but visible part of the problem. There are a lot of other bee species that are affected and have been basically killed off in large areas. Other species are less appreciated as they don't make harvestable honey, but they do (?did) provide a lot of pollination.

Side note: I recommend bee hives. Nice and relaxing to watch, whilst simultaneously feeling very lazy. It makes mowing the lawn more exciting too, though they actually don't seem to care.
Agreed and well said. Normally I would just upvote you, but I think it's important for others to see that many agree with you.
My Amiga 2000. I love it with all my heart. It'll still be going strong when your modern doohickeys become totally useless due to planned-obselescence. It'll outlive me.
Hey, Justin Vernon and I both agree with you. Best small-scale synth ever.
This is the nuclear version of "who farted?"