skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You seem very passionate about defending alleged harassers. I just wonder what fuels that. Perhaps you think these events are not that bad, or some degree of inappropriate behaviour is ok?
The read was a great journey.
It felt very honest but in that honesty I did not get the impression that there were good guys or bad guys in this story, and am a little taken aback by the strong comments to the contrary here.
At my wedding, we picked a great band and kept the music at a comfortable level, and most of the guests danced the whole time and even the non-dancing guests clustered around the dance floor. I can't prove causation, but I bet the tolerable volume had a lot to do with it.

I'm a musician, and play in wedding bands. I think I've seen enough weddings to suspect that you're probably right about causation.

Something people don't realize about wedding music is that it's not just for dancing. If done well, it can also serve other purposes as well. There will always be a mixed crowd at a wedding, including people who are either unable to fully participate in the socializing for the duration of the party -- e.g., the elderly and children -- or who are shy, or outsiders, whatever. They band can provide them with a focal point and source of entertainment.

At some weddings, the dance floor was taken over by children just tearing around, and at first it would annoy me, but I eventually realized that I was taking pressure off the parents so they could enjoy socializing with one another instead of trying to restrain their kids.

So maybe the real solution is for people to start trying to figure out why the norm for concerts is to have the volume painfully loud. It's possible that guests just might enjoy them more with quieter music.

Self indulgence and ignorance among the performers, including the sound crew if there is one. Everybody believes that their instrument, or their musical style, is the one that needs to be loud. And I freely admit that playing loud is fun.

I've also noticed a sort of ratchet effect. The musicians gradually get tired, and turn up the volume so they don't have to play as hard. Then they get excited and start playing harder. Then they get tired, and turn up the volume. I think that's one explanation for the ever-escalating volume levels.
Opus does something similar in the frequency domain, but much simpler. It just copies codewords (minus energy) from lower bands to higher bands. It also lets you signal the energy of the copied bands (something you wouldn't have access to if reconstructing blindly).

See "band folding" here: https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/celt/demo.html
If you have visa issues... how is your friend's cool startup going to help?

Visa issues even pre-trump were hard.

Does your friend have funding?

Does your friend have market validation?

What will happen to you personally if the startup fails - like so many do?
In a closed system your surplus is someone else's deficit, that's not a hard concept. The problem is seems to be cultural (some cultures consider debt a sin or a divine punishment) and educational (even renowned economists trying to explain macro-economics to the layman resort to false analogies e.g. Comparing the economy of a country with a household economy, when in reality the way these work is the exact opposite).
None of the "good" startups that I know would ever blackball someone for declining an offer after accepting.

I agree with the other commenter - to people reading, this does not apply in many places. Maybe in massive bureaucratic old-school tech firms, but not younger ones like Airbnb etc.
It was followed by the 80s and the 90s.
Damn, and I thought x86 was a bad architectural decision....
I tried Reason out maybe half a year ago. To me, the exceptional thing which the Reason project lacks is a polished developer experience. It feels very much like a hacked together combination of technologies which requires the developer to install several things just to get a working compiler.

I think before I would try Reason again there would need to be some effort put into streamlining setup and managing of the developer environment.

EDIT: Downvoted? Let's hear some feedback and other opinions maybe?
>> "Maybe coal is cheaper"

Many make this claim, but I do not buy it.

Take Australia as an example: relies on coal for around 85% of electricity production [1], also has some of the most expensive electricity in the western world [2] at around 29c / USD Kilowatt hour (that is over 2x the US national average).

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20070709212140/http://www.iea.or...

[2] https://www.ovoenergy.com/guides/energy-guides/average-elect...
Just Released Sip I/O 1.0.0-M2: Next-Generation Sip Server
The UK Conservative Party May Have Broken Electoral and Data Protection Laws
> After that... if you still think money is everything, you have lost sight of the rest of your life.

I think a large part of it is that I've spent the first 25 or so years of my life living hand to mouth. As such I'm probably never going to get used to the idea that you can ever have "enough" money.

What if something happens? Is your stash really big enough to tie you over? What if it isn't? What if ... basically I think that once you're in a money-tight situation for a prolonged period, especially if it was when you were growing up, that leaves a mark that's never going to go away.

As the anecdote attributed to different rich people says: "Yep, my son tips more than I do. He's the son of a millionaire, I'm the son of a <insert poor-ish profession>"

Maybe I hit a double whammy as well.

My girlfriend's parents emigrated to the US from a relatively well-off French background. It's not all roses of course, but to my understanding they were never broke broke. Her grandma, for instance, has an estate that's been in the family for 300 years.

I emigrated to the US from a single-parent background in a postsocialist country. My maternal grandparents went bankrupt when my mum was 15 or so, my dad's grandparents died by the time he was 5. Great grandparents' assets were mostly wiped out during WW2 (partially effect of war, partially socialist redistribution of wealth). So really I have about 4 generations worth of baggage about "Fuck we're broke!".

There's no way that doesn't have an effect on how I think.
My layman's take on this is to take each philosophical school on its own terms and not try to either resolve the differences unless there is an obvious symmetry. Like most americans, I grew up with a fairly pragmatic analytic outlook, and most german phenomenology, for example, just seemed like nonsense to me.

When I just relaxed about the whole thing and took it as a different and perhaps irreconcilable world view, I found myself more open to the insights those thinkers had.
Leaderless Uber Scrambles to Prevent Employee Exodus
Quite the opposite. WINE developers will have to go an extra mile to avoid getting anywhere even remotely close to the proprietary source code, otherwise they may get sued for copyright infringement -- even if they didn't intentionally copied any of the code.
I'll bet you could write an app to do it. My hunch is that the OS provides gradations of volume that aren't available to the regular user interface, and you could override that interface with an app.

There. A startup idea, or at least a nice side project for someone familiar with Android coding.
why does it matter? Google has access to read my email, and if they want (or are pushed to), they can single me out and then go and read them. Sure, 9/10 times it's a bot reading my emails, but there's nothing stopping them from doing it.
Not my story to tell. I'm sure someone else has told it...or will.
There are physical and psychological euphoric and stress-reducing effects that come from cranking up the volume. But I agree with the article that they're best employed more selectively, and not pegging the whole session (and midrange!) at that volume.
I was told that concurrency primitives can be built on top of algebraic data types, so I intend to learn more. I was also told that ReasonML does not yet support algebraic data types. What am I missing?
What? Anyone can be sexually harassed by anyone else, workplace has nothing to do with it. Sexual harassment in the workplace is egregious because the conflict of interests. E.g. my boss harasses me, but if I complain I jeopardize my livelihood.
Past discussions: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=What%20Every%20Programmer%20Sh...
Except that Google Cloud cross zone and cross region (US) prices are much less than AWS.

Ingress	Free
Egress inner-zone	Free
Egress cross-zone in the same region	$0.01
Egress cross-region within the US	$0.01

See: https://blog.elasticbyte.net/comparing-bandwidth-prices-and-...
Good point. Dimensional analysis is a great "space" to traverse to get answers. It's a great grounding for your thinking, in addition to helping you get to within the right order of magnitude.

I suppose I was wondering if there are any good drills, exercises or puzzles to help internalize these skills. Instead of a daily crossword, maybe there's a daily estimation puzzle somewhere.
[I'm stupid they have 2FA, ignore this comment.]

Another huge problem is the lack of two-factor authentication. How can a security-oriented service not offer TOTP or even SMS 2FA.
Will there still be a way to opt-in?

This seems like one of those decisions that is a net negative for functionality in favor of quelling some misguided privacy concerns. Hopefully this doesn't lessen the quality of ads by much.
Jimeoin had a bit years ago where he talked about the three kinds of 'mate' there were. There's the short, clipped 'mate' for when you're pissed off (oh, mate, got a parking ticket). There's the medium 'mate' when you see your friend arrive at the pub (maate, maate, how are ya). And the long 'mate'... for when you're about to ask to borrow something (maaaaaaaaaaayte...) :)
Is it possible to write a guix package that includes code which redefines the package object?
I agree that the web is extremely powerful.

I also think this power is symmetric in who it enables. Unlike land ownership or TV broadcasting entry isn't expensive and the needed tools can easily be smuggled. Anyone can easily gain immensely from this free-flowing font of knowledge and communication.

A potential dictator must take great pains to use gain that huge power in the Internet era and I think you are right that we will see some insanely powerful dictators. However, I think we see fewer than in previous eras though.
Reid Hoffman wrote an essay prompted by this, calling for building an "industry-wide HR function" for VC:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/human-rights-women-entreprene...
I don't understand the negative reactions to this. Emigrating to a new country is hard, being a teenager is hard. She was frustrated with her new culture for not accepting her and with her old culture for putting her in an impossible position and making her an alien in the first place. I felt like this was an honest account of what it feels like to be a refugee.

Maybe she could've done more for her Dad by moving him, but as she seemed (to me) to say, he didn't really want that.
Not knowing for sure, I'd wonder if it's limited by EUV power output. The main challenge has always been, how to produce enough light. Whereas with regular litho, your reticle limit is a function of how expensive the lens is.
anyone with the privilege to login can see the names and relations of all the entities in the database.
> Their OS is now effectively open-source.

Ehh, Panic software had a good post-mortem talking about this potentially happening to them
https://panic.com/blog/stolen-source-code/

My favorite takeaway was, "With every day that passes, that stolen source code is more and more out-of-date."

I remember hearing Windows source code leaks in the past (I see articles from 2000 and 2004) and remember hearing about problems with "clean room" implementations of open source SMB implementations.

Yeah, the fundamentals and much of the source code will probably stick around for many, many years. But this has happened before and I don't see why this is any more of a big deal.
Yeah but it used "deep learning" so its going straight to the front page, no matter of the result...
For Binary Capital’s investors, a public apology may fall short
Way to get better C++: write code that everyone could understand.
It's not about who reads it, it's about who has access. If a system has access to read my email as plain text, it means anyone who owns or can get access to that system can read my email.

Some one wrote fread, it could've been john, and john absolutely could be reading your email. Look at the what happened with ubers god mode.

That said the value of gmail for me exceeds the risk of people I care about reading my email getting access or having access. However my(and probably your) subjective view on the value of your emails is absolutely subjective.
I've found that side projects are successful when they number < 2. :3 Maybe I'll go plant a seed with the android team at my company.
> I have made many mistakes over the course of my career, some of which were brought to light this week.

> It is outrageous and unethical for any person to leverage a position of power in exchange for sexual gain, it is clear to me now that that is exactly what I've done.

Those read to me like admissions of guilt. I'd expect lawyers to strongly advise against writing such things.
Indigestion can kill a culture, hence a rate limited.
Yup. It's the Windows Shared Source Kit, which is already mostly public. Many of the big security firms and government agencies already have licences to the full source code anyway.

The only thing this really gains anyone is it possible some non-public debug symbols might have been left in some builds. Not earth shattering.
Yahoo didn't kill Tumblr but Verizon surely will
I think your parent was being humorous.

But I do agree with the sentiment that anti-nuclear environmentalists fell victim to perfect is the enemy of good, and unintentionally stuck us with the dirtiest option.
Any actor that gets powerful enough to influence the government will seek to influence the government to its advantage, such as passing new regulations to prevent competition. If the government is too weak to be of any use the powerful corporate actor, then that corporation is now a de-facto government, and the "government" is merely a rubber stamping government by name only.
Mpengine X86 Emulator Heap Corruption in VFS API
Right, it's a common technology and it's always been a pain. With React everything is well-defined and typesafe (either through PropTypes, Typescript, or Flow) and the IDE support is fantastic.

That's my whole contention -- Vue is just a better iteration of the same old painful experience. React actually solves the problems I have.
For what it's worth, I didn't mean to cast doubt on her character. It was more along the lines of "Maybe we should wait to see how this plays out." I'm also rather upset that my comment indirectly made HN a less welcoming place for founders. I've written extensively about the fact that HN has become less founder-friendly and they've had to flee to places like Bookface just to get some support. The idea that I contributed to that isn't a happy thought.
> In React, you need to use the setState() to trigger rendering updates as you modify the state. In Vue, you simply assign things to this and, if necessary, the component's automatically rerendered. You do need to provide an initial state (data) for safety.

Hoo boy. "Simply" assign directly to `this`! This may come down to preference for/against functional tools, but on this point Vue loses big for me. Seems way less testable...
2FA has been out for almost 6 months.
Maybe the mother did not help keep the image of their father in perspective. It would be great to know how mother coped.
What then, is your interpretation of the latest statement by Caldbeck: https://www.axios.com/justin-caldbeck-takes-indefinite-leave...

Do you expect this is voluntary scape-goating as a distraction for worse things? If so, what are these worse things. To me, the statement read as sincere.
Having peeked at TFA:

It's not terrible. I'd be curious to see what similar metrics would look like for past presidents; I take it as a data point. Can I see ways they could skew this? absolutely. Does it look pretty bad regardless? Yup.
"Not Seeking Employment Education or Training"

Economics term, growing subset of mostly disconnected young men across NA / EU.
The "defendant" has already admitted to the accusations and stepped down.
One thing to remember about earplugs is to not overuse them. Earplugs lock moisture inside the ear and that in turn can cause infections and/or highly increased earwax discharge.
"I wrote a fuzzer for the unsandboxed x86 emulator in Windows Defender and found arbitrary read/write" https://twitter.com/taviso/status/878314575149506561

Also, here's a recent HN discussion about the last major Windows Defender RCE: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14296959
Uber Made an Unusual Legal Pledge to the Head of Its Driverless Car Project
If Wall Street could sell you [1] for parts, they would.

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1) I could have said "surplus-ed people" or something more specific, but I didn't want to imply that I believe these people have any less value than others. They are just the unfortunate ones at the end of the stick, at this moment.

But, seriously, if the law allowed Wall Street to chop up and sell not just decommissioned material capital (e.g. all those manufacturing machines and lines boxed and sent to China), but also the surplus-ed / terminated employees, I have no doubt they would.

We need finance and management to make our society work. We shouldn't need to sell our souls (or, our hearts, kidneys, etc.) for it. But that seems to be what we are coming to. Witness recent Republican statements that only "people who have led good lives" (that being demonstrated and defined by their affluence) deserve health care insurance.

If this change allowed the surplussed cashiers to move on to bigger and better things, more power to them.

But, Wall Street doesn't give a shit about them, except to the extent they will no longer be "cutting into" Wall Street's profits.

I'm for progress, but I'm for shared progress. Investment in people and their abilities.

I find it hard to welcome these signs of technical progress, when they seem to be inevitably accompanied by societal disinvestment in the people they supplant.
I was about to do the same. I think this and their playability issues could have been caught very early on with simple A/B testing.
I agree website bloat is a big problem, but I'm too excited to hear someone talking seriously about latency to care.

For years all I've wanted is, say, 6Mbps & 5ms ping, but nearly everyone seems to focus on bandwidth.

It might lead to more ads on webpages. But it would also dramatically improve VPN and all "realtime" apps, i.e. VoIP, Skype, remote desktop, sometimes ssh, etc.
Do Your VPs Have a Mentor Budget?
yea totally agree. its not hard to make something fast on the web. its just usually that its way easier to throw the kitchen sink at the problem.
Backblaze lost over 13TB of my data
How 8 students helped Byju Raveendran build his multi-crore edtech business
The "top marginal rate" means very little by itself. What matters is the effective rate which takes into account the credits/deductions that are allowed, the other lower tax rates, etc. For example, the top 10% paid 49% of taxes in 1980 and paid 70% in 2014. (http://www.ntu.org/foundation/page/who-pays-income-taxes)
Yeah, so the reason VR works is that it controls the entire scene. The light being projected towards your eyes is from a consistent focal plane -- the light comes from a flat surface located exactly N inches away from your eyes. That means you can focus sharply on it.

AR is a very different beast. In the real world, your focus is usually several feet away, or sometimes across the room. Your focus also changes almost instantly. Yet AR still needs to project light toward your eye from exactly N inches away.

You can simulate this: Find some glasses and put some black tape over part of the lens. You'll notice the tape doesn't appear sharp and crisp. It's a blur.

(Or just close one eye and put a finger close to your other, and look out in the distance.)

I'm not sure AR has any hope of rendering text in a readable way. It'd be like writing some letters on your finger, then putting it up to your eye while looking out in the distance. Even if the letters glow, so that they're a light source, you still can't read it at all.
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I just mentioned they should be able to hold onto 0-day discoveries for 15-30 days before confidential disclosure.

Terrorists WILL do a lot of damage (as demonstrated) with these exploits... the NSA might ... the world, and in particular US interests are far better served with secure systems all around.
Perhaps they do. I don't know. In the abstract, I agree, it happening in those fields would be just as bad. However, I work in tech and anticipate continuing to work in tech for many years. Many of my friends work in tech. I am, somewhat but not entirely regrettably, selfish and I do care more about things that affect me more directly. If people in real estate make advances on their subordinates, that is bad, but I don't have to worry about any of my friends being the ones having advances made on. I don't have to worry about avoiding the person in question for fear of being the subordinate being harassed. I don't have to worry that they'll end up being the client contact on a pentest.

People here are largely in the tech industry. Is it any wonder that they care more about things happening in the tech industry than elsewhere? Is it a problem that should be fixed that they do?
Silicon Valley is toxic until sexism, agism, racism, and homophobia are largely eliminated. Only then will it be a model for the world tech hubs to follow.
Top 10% made 20% of all income in 1980, they now make 50% of all income. So, going up to 70% is actually a drop in their tax rates.

Further, the top marginal tax rate has little to do with the top 10% of all incomes.

PS: Yes, in theory they where a bad idea. However, in practice they seem to have been a net benefit. Either though reducing the rent seeking behavior of capital, or alternatively because the middle class's spending is mass producible. (You can scale iPhones, you can't scale 50,000+$ watches because they are not intended to be scaled.)
There are earbuds with an analog volume control slider (not up/down buttons) built into the cord.
Just to chime in, that made my day. Utterly brilliant.
Probably easier to hack any other mail provider than hack into Google and own it so badly as to being able to read emails in plaintext.
Haven't tried it, but there seem to be apps doing this.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=opotech.finevo...
Five building blocks of a data-driven culture
This is the first time I've ever heard a person worry about the quality of the ads that are served to them.
Well, extended exposure to 85 dB will cause hearing loss. I think a good techno club will not be louder than 100 dB.

But my point was that many environments we consider "safe", "normal", or "enjoyable" are actually dangerous to our hearing, so we have to enter them with an understanding that we are trading temporary enjoyment for long-term health.
On Windows save yourself a bunch of headaches and just use visual studio. On Linux either gcc or clang will get the job done. The biggest headache in the C++ ecosystem is by far building large cross platform projects. All the existing build tools suck.

https://giantfublog.wordpress.com/2016/10/15/portability-in-...