skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did't delete all my accounts because I've said something wrong. For the same reason people don't spring clean their home because they're getting rid of murder evidence. It's all about getting rid of the feeling that you and your thoughts from 20 years ago are all over the place. Little pieces of you are everywhere all over the internet.

There's a dread that a user feels when they realize they don't remember what they said or who they were 10 years ago, but the whole internet does.
You can take a sugar pill and something will happen... we're talking about a microdose after all, not a full hit.
Established tech companies are the best.
Around 4. A bit like taking a selfie on a train track, or walking along the edge of a sky scraper - most likely nothing is going to happen, but if, the consequences could be severe.

Turbulences injure people all the time, see [1].

Also, commercial aviation is as incredibly safe as it is because everyone follows the rules. If you start neglecting them because everything is happy and dandy nearly always, you are contributing to the next accident.

It is this creeping "normalisation of deviance" that has to be fought.

Note that generally I agree with the notion that we might exaggerate with safety - I'm all for letting children play, for example. But here we are dealing with potentially deadly consequences, and not only for yourself, but for others.

Let me conclude with a great quote:

> "Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of any carelessness, incapacity or neglect."

— Captain A. G. Lamplugh, British Aviation Insurance Group, London. 1930's

[1] http://avherald.com/h?search_term=turbulence+injures&opt=0&d...
This article doesn't actually list any benchmarks and the link/URL is totally broken for the "Ryzen offers even better single-threaded performance per clock than Intel’s Kaby Lake." - http://single-threaded/
Learning from Terminals to Design the Future of User Interfaces
> Programming is a creative art form based in logic. Every programmer is different and will code differently. It’s the output that matters.

This one is also nice, especially for mid to large software houses. As long as a common denominator is respected, I guess.
That's very interesting. I had always thought of role model as referring to a specific individual, I haven't encountered the idea of collective role models forming "cognitively available success cases" before.
Just a reminder that wccftech.com is notoriously pro-AMD. I would caution against taking their word as proof.

I'm not an AMD hater (actually own AMD stock), just cautious.
Also see discussion of Linus's earlier comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13719368
What is a "maybe implementation" and an "either"?
From the way the article exalts Owen--an HIV+ former dug addict and male prostitute--you'd think he's worthy of the Victoria Cross.

Since the discovery of its aetiology three decades ago, HIV/AIDS has been an almost entirely preventable disease. Gay men and intravenous drug users (who account for almost all new infections in the US and UK) simply acting responsibly for once would have long marked it for eradication--at least in the developed world. That these people continue to infect themselves, even to the present day, is shameful, especially in light of the obscene amounts of money HIV research diverts from worthier causes, such as pediatric cancer or Alzheimer's.

These people are not heroes and deserve to be shamed at least as much as oxygen tank-toting chain smokers who gave themselves Emphysema.
Statistics and machine learning, or you're toast.
Similar project:
https://github.com/rushter/MLAlgorithms
TDP would be for stock clock, but still that is very good.
>The women in tech pipeline is a leaky, toxic pipeline that results in talented women being driven out of the industry.

I'd be very interested to see some evidence of this. How many women leave, at what stage in their career path do they leave, where do they go after they've left, and how do you know that their unfair treatment is responsible?
I think there may be better options than Step Functions(or that can be used from Step Functions) for this particular purpose. Depending on the processing required, passing data further to something like recently announced AWS Batch can solve such problem.
I'd be happy to take a look at your posts before you publish them if you'd like. That goes for anyone, feel free to email me. In return I might send you some of my own.
> But sadly, till date, I've not seen anyone dedicate the time to learn this one skill that would help them in their careers

The first person that tells them is a curiosity, the second a fluke, and the third is on to something. If you're always the first person to tell them, you'll never see them heed your advice.
Very nice project! Learning stuff makes me happy.
Same way you acquire any other service. Pay for it, or know somebody.
I'm not sure what point you're making.

The point Buffett and Munger were making is that the current American system works very well and creates enormous amounts of wealth. Doss the fact that there was slavery for centuries all over the world somehow refute that? I can't see how it does.
"I think you're missing the point."

Ditto. I know exactly what you're saying - tree's take long time to grow, the world is complex and subtly nuanced, once we lose that it's gone, etc. FYI I get all that - or for the purpose of this conversation pretend that I get it and try to look past that and at what I'm saying.

We can either fight change or adapt. Cavemen once complained about demand of caves outstripping supply too. The cost of fighting change is likely far greater than the cost of adapting.

Secondly, if you're going to worry about the Amazon (not saying we shouldn't worry about it) then why aren't you worried about the lost biodiversity once under Silicon Valley? Or NYC? Or Paris? Or Johannesburg? Or Beijing? It just seems we're getting involved in other people's business when we have a lot to cleanup ourselves.
No, in principle is exactly when it's a lot less trustworthy than the statically-typed one. Because in principle you could execute some code (untested; data-driven; "is_testing?function(x){return true;}:1.5"; etc.) that passes a non-function instead of a function, and this code would be considered valid (until it goes pop at runtime). But a language that checked this property statically would give an error before execution even started.
It seemed quite obvious that the guy wasn't dismissing any of the women's own experiences and only providing his own personal perspective.

Why the rush to assume malice?
I was conflicted when I read "3. Most selective columns to the left":

http://www.unofficialmysqlguide.com/composite-indexes.html#d...

Because I had previously read that it was a myth:

https://use-the-index-luke.com/sql/myth-directory/most-selec...

Both this guide and Use The Index Luke seem to be good resources. Later I realized that maybe the guide had listed this optimization tips in order of importance. After all "1. Leftmost rule" and "2. Ranges to the right" are the ones that affect the most the usability of the index. Then the seemingly opposite viewpoints converge.
Followup - authy's blog post confirmed what I thought: they do encryption of all the user-entered TOTP secrets on the client side and don't store decrypt keys. So anyone who was able to intercept your secret store would still have to decrypt it, which is (hopefully) Quite Difficult.

link: https://www.authy.com/blog/security-notice-authy-response-to...
Swift. For the next 5-10 years.

SQL. For the next 100.

Logic. Forever.
A myth. Sure, there are accidents where everyone perishes with or without seatbelt (and those make the headlines), but there are surprisingly many accidents where some or many people survive.

> "between 1983 and 2000, more than 95 percent of people involved in U.S. plane crashes survived."

http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=2619382&page=1
How about those who commit crimes in general? Those that associate with criminals? Do your feelings differ with respect to the severity (misdemeanor vs felony) or type of crime? Do you believe that the illegal immigrants who have committed crimes in the US have come to the US to commit these crimes? Other than deportation, do you think illegal immigrants who commit crimes should be treated differently than other criminals?
That's kind of an absurd comparison.

If you mean "what if time went on without Europeans in the US", that's a big what if. The indigenous peoples would have carried on in the Bronze Age, and would have been wiped out later by a different collection of foreigners.

The reality is that the US benefited from the culture and know how of Europe without the baggage of supporting useless aristocracy.
Being aware about the Dunning–Kruger effect [1], focus in deliver instead of blindly following brain-dead process religion/s (put your favorite agile/religion here), and learn to identify the best possible talent so you can work with good people ({smart + productive} coworkers makes you grow).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
Thanks to Beeminder I stuck to blogging for a while (my results, such as they are, can be found on my website) even though I wasn't happy, and they are all full of horrible grammar.

The only thing I learned from the project is that I really don't like blogging, I want to build stuff.
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It looks electricity from fusion will appear at same time when fossil fuels disappear always 30 years in future. Why invest in such projects which obviously have theoretical issues and concentrate all states money in solar power science which is mainly engineering problem so we finally cut off price manipulation and wars associated with fossil fuels?
Completely agree.

But cue endless comments of lazy nitpicking whatabout-ism that completely miss your point.
This women think that tech would do itself very good if it stopped to constantly congratulate itself on being best meritocracy in the world and attempted to make itself meritocracy.

To tell it flat out, tech to me seems to be signalintocracy much more then meritocracy. We don't even talk about what merit is - like ever. We don\t know. If you broadcast the right set of signals and are confident, then you go up. If you are humble or fail at whatever signals are in fashion that time, you go down. I remember quite a few dudes (whether in school or work) who were total respected geniuses doing completely difficult things - until I had to do the same thing and it turned out to be easy. It would be also super awesome if the best argued for ideas would win instead of most confidently and aggressively pronounced ideas.

I also think that lack of women in tech has more to do with how strongly little kids learn to associate being boy with anything tech related. It has nothing to do with math abilities, at least here boys who go to engineering and rarely really good in math (compared to pool of people who go to college). However, it is a good job for a boy that wants a job and does not have any special interest or hobby. It is not seen as good job for girl that dont really are.
Linus's transition plan seems to involve truncating SHA-256 to 160-bits. This is bad for several reasons:

- Truncating to 160-bits still has a birthday bound at 80-bits. That would still require a lot more brute force than the 2^63 computations involved to find this collision, but it is much weaker than is generally considered secure

- Post-quantum, this means there will only be 80-bits of preimage resistance

(Also: if he's going to truncate a hash, he use SHA-512, which will be faster on 64-bit platforms)

Do either of these weak security levels impact Git?

Preimage resistance does matter if we're worried about attackers reversing commit hashes back into their contents. Linus doesn't seem to care about this one, but I think he should.

Collision resistance absolutely matters for the commit signing case, and once again Linus is downplaying this. He starts off talking about how they're not doing that, then halfway through adding a "oh wait but some people do that", then trying to downplay it again by talking about how an attacker would need to influence the original commit.

Of course, this happens all the time: it's called a pull request. Linus insists that prior proper source code review will prevent an attacker who sends you a malicious pull request from being able to pull off a chosen prefix collision. I have doubts about that, especially in any repos containing binary blobs (and especially if those binary blobs are executables)

Linus just doesn't take this stuff seriously. I really wish he would, though.
> I'll bet $1000 ...

This isn't evidence.

> 'the war on drugs' is very real

I'm not sure what that means. Certainly it's a real policy and there are real problems with drugs that should be addressed. The policy hasn't seemed effective, and has caused great harm to very large numbers of people - as is often the case, the poor and defenseless.
Is it? I have nothing to sell, but I can't see anything wrong with planting a seed or two here and there :) To me it comes down to motivation, why are you pushing so hard? Is it only for your own gain or do you have a bigger perspective. I'm sick and tired of half-baked ideas being pushed in the name of awesome profits; but anything with substance that's shared openly is all good.

https://github.com/codr4life/lifoo
While I agree generally with what you've written here, my only issue with it is that writing it up takes about as long as building the thing, and I'm pretty lazy.

Also, if someone, somewhere, has written up nearly ever common solution, how do I know which ones are novel enough to put the effort in to publishing. Most of things I build aren't novel or new in any way, I'm fairly sure.
The myth and reputation surrounding The Factory has made it a popular point of reference for a lot of artists, many of whom identify their own studios or creative spaces as spiritual successors.

An equally interesting, albeit different space would be The Haçienda (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ha%C3%A7ienda).

And if anyone is after some bite-sized Warhol, you may enjoy this Twitter feed, sampling from Warhol's diaries - https://twitter.com/WarholLives
That's why I asked "If". Apparently, based on the existence of this thread, there's interest in that. :)

It may also expedite the creation of useful products. Why would we consider there is inevitably a tradeoff?

There's a lot we just don't know.
You're making the standard arguments in favor of affirmative action. Those are reasonable arguments. But the counter-arguments are valid, as well:

1. You are suggesting applying explicit, intentional action: "self-correction" as you said. This is meant to counter presumed implicit, unintentional action. The big difference is that the former is noticeable and measurable, while the latter is inferred indirectly. As a result, it is hard to know how much correction to apply. Over-correction has the obvious dangers and downsides.

2. Aside from having the right amount of correction, the intentional action will, by itself, strengthen the problem in that it makes us take gender into the hiring process more strongly. When what we want is to reduce the effect of gender. (Compare this, to, say, the screens that solved the gender problem in orchestras - they had no such risk or downside.) Now, you might argue that we need to make things worse in the short term for a long-term gain, and that's reasonable, but highly debatable.

3. As other posters mentioned, explicit action also has direct effects: women will know that they were preferred based on their gender. Yes, this is meant to counter implicit, unconscious bias, but you never know when the former exists, while the latter is right in front of you, so you can't ignore it. This can increase the existing self-confidence problem that many studies point to.
My personal opinion (and I freely admit that I'm not entirely"normal") is this: People are, implicitly or explicitly, looking for value in their interactions.

If I read something that you've written and literally the only thing I get from it is that you've created something you want to sell me, then I will feel that you have taken my time and attention and given me nothing of value in return.

The corollary to this is simple: Provide value.

Don't just plug something, but share experience or knowledge that I will find useful, or at the very least interesting. I need to read what you wrote and think "Huh - that was useful", or "Huh, that was interesting."

Just my $0.02 - I hope you (and others) found it interesting and possibly useful.
If we are to solve this, we need data and the plural of anecdotes is not data. Sure when we can point to individuals who are inappropriate and some proof can be provided for their actions, we can and should act on this, but that won't get more women to become CS majors.
Yes. And it was her, her ... calculus of status.
And 65W for the Ryzen 7 1700, which is an absolute feat for 8 cores
> Does anyone know why hash algorithms keep using such small state sizes, leaving us vulnerable to this same issue?

Because small internal state is not actually the issue. SHA-1 was broken with 2^63 work, not 2^80 work. That discrepancy is why SHA-1 was deemed broken back in 2005, not because people regularly do 2^80 work.
I can't ask them, because I don't personally know any women who are multimillionaires (except Jessica Livingston, who already does more than nearly anyone on this front). I do personally know a number of men who are multi-millionaires (even a few billionaires). All of them invest in tech; for most of them, I do not know their criteria for choosing what to invest in, but I would guess they try to avoid gender and racial bias...but, what we do not see and understand we can't necessarily address.
1. Post stuff for people to view. Pay attention to what is popular, and what isn't
2. Read stuff aloud before posting
3. Read widely, and pay attention to writing you like.

I've built a business off of writing: https://lsathacks.com/explaantions/

I got started by writing a travel blog during a yearlong trip. I posted each entry to Facebook. When an entry got a lot of comments/views, I could tell it was better. I also got confidence that I was writing well.

As I kept writing, I always made sure to show my work. And I found that reading aloud helped me find awkwards parts.

Finally, I got started during a time when I was reading lots of blogs and novels. Good reading will help your writing.

That's about it. Practice, tempered by feedback and observing the work of others.
I guess. Mostly, I've just been nerdsniped by the claim you made that the timing of the bet could invalidate it's claim. It's a 10-year bet, so Buffett has in fact maximized his exposure to the phenomenon you describe.
Not an economist, but...

I don't think that there is any doubt that slavery provided a great deal of the early economic growth in the American south. (Weirdly, I was just reading an article that suggested that slavery itself did not catch on in the Virginia colony until like 60 years after it was founded because slaves cost more than indentured servants, but didn't live any longer.)

However, if you combine the fact that the southern economy was based on labor intensive agriculture (indigo, tobacco, and cotton) with the presence of cheap slave labor prevented the southern economy from industrializing, which limited its growth during and after the industrial revolution.

An amusing note from the chapter: between 1620 and 1660 (?), the Virginia government continually re-passed laws requiring everyone to plant at least two acres of corn. Apparently, most didn't want to take the minimal time away from their tobacco crops, in spite of the fact that they were frequently starving.
No, every engineer should not blog. It is hard enough to find the right information when you have to shift through clickbait and the signal-to-noise ratio is abysmal.

If I was interested in assessing someone's caliber, I'd rather look at their Github than their blog. Anyone can write a blog post, not everyone can write good code.

Blog if you have some insight into technology that hasn't been already elucidated or if you disagree with what's out there.

Having said that, I plan to start my own blog at some point. What will I be writing about? I'll start with reviews of technical books. Why? Because I have read a couple since the beginning of the year that I was unhappy with and had to return, but bought them in the first place because other people said good things about them. Hopefully if someone in the future considers them they will come across my view and take it into consideration.
Not that rare: Here's just some, mostly from 2016 and 2015:

http://avherald.com/h?search_term=turbulence+injures&opt=0&d...

Otherwise, totally agree: compared to total number of flights (there's maybe 1000 B737 and A320 in the air at any moment), rare (though potential consequences could be grave.)

And, as you say, it's the negligence of basic safety protocol that's worrying.
It's not actually going on land they own, but near it. The argument is that it's an environmental risk to their land, not that in infringes their property rights.
> Do you know how much Martha Stewart went to prison over? $45,763

That's just one example, and probably not a representative one, being a high-profile case. Sometimes they are made examples of.

> Risk v. reward skews heavily towards risk. ... I just don't see any evidence pointing to the prosecution of it being lax.

I don't see much evidence either way except for the SEC's billions in fines which someone cited above, which necessarily mean that it's happening in large volumes.
Bishop is good but reads a little too much like a literature review sometimes. That may or may not be a problem depending on what you are looking for.
nice one :-)
Super-Resolution Using Coordinate-Based Neural Networks
You have me at a loss- I'd say there are certainly alternatives. If I had to guess, I'd say most go that way, but that's purely a guess.

Good point though - neither of them tried to self-learn in high school.
> "environmental movement" could be an artifact of computing. The mindset that there is a knowable and optimum equilibrium for complex systems is something I find increasingly puzzling

There's a split in environmentalism between the "deep green" who want nature to be left alone and tend to have a spiritualist approach, versus the "bright green" technocratic management of ecosystems. But the deep greens definitely came first, starting with opposition to nuclear testing, the dumping of nuclear waste at sea, whaling, pollution of rivers and acid rain, and the effects of pesticides (Silent Spring was published in 1962)
I don't understand, what was wrong exactly?
You're just a loser listening to a bunch of bunk. Trump is about business. Business is about winning. Trump likes winners. Losers suck. Winners make America great. Trump is a winner, Trump is for America, so America will be great again.

Clinton and her gang accurately tagged the collection of treasonous fascists, racists and conservative losers surrounding Trump as deplorable. Unfortunately for everyone, she was incapable of understanding how and why Trump appealed to otherwise reasonably intelligent people.
I solved that problem by getting married in my musician phase :)
I can name a handful of role models in the computing field that were important for my development: Joel Spolsky, Jeff Atwood, Patrick McKenzie, Dan Luu, Steve Yegge. However not until about 2 years ago was there a single women I could think of.

More current role models would include Jess Frazelle, Julia Evans, Sara Chipps, who are all incredibly brilliant, influential, successful people who have achieved really amazing things and I hope will continue in the field and be role models of a future generation.