skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The volt is a great car, just wish they made a cool looking one.
Yeah this is the thing I always come back to. UBI is without question needed in a highly autonomous society, but we fail to have proper flow on our already existing systems like Social Security.
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in the present, a few years military service is mandatory for all males, so service doesn't have nearly as much glory

It's been only one year for a decade or so.

In the past, the attitude toward conscripted service (rather than a career choice as a commissioned officer) was ranging from a nuisance to something to be avoided at all costs, depending on the class and region the conscript was from.

Now while it's considered as a nuisance by many, military service is also seen as a type of social elevator by others, particularly in the Caucusus. Drafts from Chechnya and Dagestan are generally oversubscribed and having to pay bribes to be conscripted is not uncommon [1].

There's absolutely nothing like the disturbing hero worship Americans have.

Seconded. Furthermore, the threshold for being considered a hero is very high. Being called a hero just for putting on the uniform is unthinkable.

[1] http://vestnikkavkaza.net/articles/society/34432.html
This makes me happy. I flew from Istanbul, Turkey to San Francisco, CA, USA while the ban was in place. The actual surrendering my laptop didn't bother me much. What did bother me was the humiliation the Turkish Airlines workers had to endure, and how hard I had to work to suppress my desire to complain about the process. Treating a few airlines differently never appealed to me. I "like" "necessary" suffering to be ubiquitous.
I'm reading between the lines a lot, and therefore am probably wrong, but I suspect what happened was one of the two following scenarios:

1. (Less likely) She did a lot of work, but it was not high priority work. It was good engineering but on things that the company did not consider important. She was given this freedom and then, in the company's eyes (fairly or unfairly) considered to have wasted it.

2. (More likely) She had good technical skills and bad social skills. When she was able to go heads-down and crank out PRs and tickets, everyone was happy, but she was socially abrasive and alienated her coworkers. This could be because she is an unpleasant person, or because they are unpleasant people, or it could be an honest misunderstanding or personality conflict, but in every case it detracts from the productivity of everyone, generally.

I suspect (2) played a big part, mostly because I've seen this same dynamic play out at other places before. As a borderline autist, I'm highly sympathetic to people in that position, and generally believe that it's better for everyone involved if management can find a way to work to their strengths. However, drastic differences in interaction style are what they are, and at the end of the day, your employer's priority is their productivity, not your happiness. Sometimes these things happen. They suck. At least we're fortunate enough to work in an industry where we have half a dozen other options for work at any time
My colo has a crash cart with keyboard/video/mouse. I don't know what I'd get out of using the serial port for anything. I think only one of my servers actually has an RS232 port, but I haven't actually looked at the hardware in over a year.

But, maybe most servers do still have RS232.

Nonetheless, rlogin/rcp/etc. are not useful tools for a serial console. I don't even know how you'd use them in such a circumstance. Are you using rlogin/rsh/rcp/rwhatever over RS232 to your servers? How? Why?
Tencent imposes daily gaming limits to curb addiction among minors
Worse, lots of those activists aren't themselves "women in tech" rather they are "women doing <xyz> in companies that identify as 'tech'"
I looked into making a simple dapp with Solidity. They deployment of a dapp on the mainnet is not easy... There are only a few tutorials, and they are not very clear. When you deploy to the mainnet you start playing(wasting) with real wallets, i.e. real money, and the lack of clarity does not help here. For now I gave up in the middle of configuring geth node. This whole scene does not seem to be developer/user-friendly. Perhaps someone can recommend simple dapp/solidity tutorials, and most importantly, clear deployment howtos?
An ethernet chip deals with ethernet, at the link layer. TCP is higher up in the stack and not necessary to process ethernet. A few unique network interfaces are designed to process some aspects of IP, and sometimes TCP, to support specific performance demands. TCP will generally be implemented in software/firmware because it's complex and connection-oriented.
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The ui probably shouldn't lock up though
Doubling down on sexual harassment and other abhorrent behavior is very different from having stuff like women-in-tech awards and women only tech meetups.

Also we have more initiatives than ever trying to get women into tech yet the numbers are at an all time low, shouldn't we admit that we need to change our approach?
Which reflects the existing industry placements + recent graduates, which reflects the university applications, which reflects the high-school graduations, which reflects the typical 50/50 gender split of the general population.

If women are self-excluding, what is causing the hostility in that environment? If they're systemically-excluded, how do we remove it?
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The idea of the ICO is ridiculous to me. It's nothing but a scam: here's why.

I think that there are three ways in which something can have some sort of "value."

(1) The object is scarce and has uses --- e.g., gold.

No matter what, people are going to want gold. It's scarce (assume you can't just produce it) and is essential to modern electronic equipment (besides its appeal as THE famous precious metal).

(2) The government backs it --- e.g., the U.S. dollar

Techno-libertarians are going to lambast me for this one, but governmental backing actually means a lot to a currency. There is a reasonable expectation that the U.S. government, for example, be around tomorrow; if they aren't, we've got bigger problems than what we're going to do with our portraits of dead presidents.

(3) Agreement within a community --- e.g., Chuck E. Cheese's tokens, bitcoins

Now we've reached the most basic level of commerce. I'm not going to explain the social structures behind bartering and tokens, but essentially, everybody in the Chuck E. Cheese's agrees that a token is worth a game (or everybody involved in bitcoin transactions agrees a token has a certain worth).

Being a computer geek, the idea of a digital transaction becomes obviously quite appealing. However, bitcoin (and ether et al.) seem to be a waste to me: just a token that a useless computation has been done on an abused piece of hardware. Perhaps it would be better to get token credit for contribution to medical research or the like.

The altcoins and these bullshit "ICO"s are the next level of dumb. Now, not only do we not have any computing value (as they're 99% perfect clones of bitcoin or ether), we don't even have the ONE thing that bitcoin did right: recognition, which led to some insane valuations in those early, early days.

Today's news story: Invest in our ICO: we're totally not a scam based around fake currency. People totally value what we sell. Yeah, right. People barely accept current coins.
Thanks for looking into it. Like @NegativeLatency said, it would be nice for the UI not to lock up and if it does error, to a) let the user know, b) allow cancelling out or retrying.

I ended up having to Force Quit the app
> Without concrete and public metrics of "merit", it becomes a buzzword for reinforcing the biases (conscious or not) of the evaluators.

I wish we could have discussions like this in the wider community without people going knee-jerk against the idea of it, itself.

I'd be willing to accept that a lot of companies here are nepotistic. I'd even be willing to accept that they cloak their nepotism in the rhetoric of meritocracy. But I have to draw the line at people opposing the idea itself. I have a hard time understanding how anyone could even hold that position. Don't you want the best people, at least in principle?

If people were more nuanced in these things we could hold discussions like "yes, this is a great ideal, but it gets corrupted. The problem is the corruption, not the ideal"
Author's note: as described on the website, macOS doesn't support side button navigation by default. Most other software that enables this functionality only binds the buttons to keyboard shortcuts, which isn't very reliable and fails destructively in some applications (Xcode). SensibleSideButtons instead binds the buttons to fake swipe gestures, which works almost universally and very predictably across the entire OS!
No matter what we're replying to, the commenting guidelines always apply and this one seriously violates them. The discussions never get better, only predictably worse, when we post like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I have a relative who once worked in a city vehicle maintenance facility. They had a truck with a body that had rusted out, and he was told to replace the entire body. He pointed out that a new truck would be cheaper than replacing those parts. He was told to do it anyway - they had a repair budget already, but getting a new truck would require making a case before the city council.

He quit that job.
why does this is to me invisible http://www.vischeck.com/images/ishihara_45.jpg

but I can see the different colours here http://www.vischeck.com/images/oranges_small.jpg ?
Frankly I'd be surprised if she had never been harassed in some way. I know a grand total of zero women a decade into their careers who have literally never experienced some kind of harassment. Without being able to speak for her, I can surmise that maybe she just doesn't feel it needs to define her.
>I’ve been personally invested in this space for a while now — most recently as an engineer for Coinbase

Sorry if this is too bitter and tangential, but ... I'm not so sure I'd name-drop my employer so gratuitously, when they had ~3-4 site outages in two weeks[1], all of them coinciding with a major price drop (to say nothing of the miffed customers that are seeing their money and cryptocurrencies disappear [2]).

[1] https://status.coinbase.com/?again#month

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14523126

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14587941
>Boldly expect acceptance, and my experience has been -- you will receive it.

Thank you for your 2 anecdotes! Perhaps since Susan Fowler [0] followed your advice and did not achieve results, you will give her anecdote the same argumentative weight you give yours.

But there is a troubling trend I want to oppose. People seem to argue that getting vindictively angry and fighting for your rights is wrong, and that its better to sit back and let others like you be oppressed. Fortunately, someone else has written on the subject far more eloquently than I have. [1]

[0] https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-on...

[1] https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham....
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Yes. Voice recognition for arbitrary voices, accents, and lexicons is not as reliable as you imagine, much less in real-time.
Quitting facebook is not enough. I recommend blocking all via hosts file. https://github.com/jmdugan/blocklists/blob/master/corporatio...
I suspect that new car radios aren't nearly as modular as the ones of old. With the new regulations requiring backup cameras, the interface to the camera probably isn't standardized.
Since I've been programming in the Go language for a few months now I've really often compared the compiler's strictness with the C/C++ compiler's default laxity. The Go compiler won't even let you leave in an unused import, and there are a number of other things that in C would maybe generate a warning that won't compile in Go.
Someone already did it for us:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dotepub/?src=...
That's absolutely a problem we need to fix. Thanks for letting us know.
Xi Jinping is pushing massive censorship because he thinks it is good for China, but I think that is a big mistake. History has shown that when you don't have open, public debate on important issues, the government becomes close-minded and makes poor decisions. Yes, democracy is messy, but the alternatives are worse.

Part of the problem here is that China is still running according to Confucianism, which was a wonderfully effective political philosophy for a largely agrarian society, but is quite ill-suited for the modern world. The Chinese need to think out what is the right form of government for the modern industrial world, but to do that they need free discussion, which is just what Xi is making impossible.
An alternative explanation would be that those records weren't kept with any kind of care and the current authorities can't say either way.

The Marshalls are pretty far away from Japan, and so were cut off pretty early. They were also the site of heavy fighting (unlike, say, most of what is now FSM) so it's easy to imagine paperwork preservation wasn't a high priority.
the locals say they met her.. and they even commemorated her local appearance with stamps
...Aaaaaaand this is exactly why you're going to miss the boat here on new forms of innovative currency that represents a flight to quality from more corrupt financial markets.

In a year or so you'll be buying cryptocurrency, especially when the Yield Curve starts dropping and we enter another downturn in the Market.

There is a generation of kids who will only know electronic gold aka cryptocurrency.

See: https://www.mixcloud.com/TheTimFerrissShow/244-the-quiet-mas...
Why can't you find good po' boys outside of New Orleans?
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I last tried Triplebyte in 2015, so indeed, a lot must have changed since then, which is why I didn't want to get into any specific details about my experience at the time, as it's probably no longer representative.

For what it's worth, my issue with the process I went through was the significant workload required for the take-home project I chose.

Some background: I semi-specialize in frontend work because I enjoy building great products and user experiences.

Out of the 4 take home projects you offered at the time, only 1 had anything remotely product-oriented: a _multiplayer_ snake game. The take-home projects were estimated to take at most 3 hours, which seemed about right for the other 3 project options, but definitely not for this one, which involved non-trivial frontend work and realtime networking in the backend, which seemed like more of a whole-weekend kind of deal at the very least. Nevertheless I chose this project because the other projects simply didn't interest me at all, and probably wouldn't have given me any opportunity to showcase any product chops because they didn't involve any non-trivial frontend work.

I was also interviewing outside of Triplebyte at the time, so I didn't have a whole weekend to burn on this project. In the end, I worked on it for the estimated 3 hours and had a decently working & polished frontend but couldn't finish the backend component, so that's what I went to the interview with and was rejected for not being able to finish.

In the end I think this was an issue of project selection/scope. I don't think 3 hours was a very honest estimate for the time commitment required for the project I chose, and any project that takes more than 3 hours feels like too much more time commitment than most would be willing to accept.

My personal recommendation for take-home project selection would be to offer the same project choices you'd offer candidates who take the real-time interview path, but simply expect more polish, better code quality, architecture and testing.

Though take that recommendation with a grain of salt, because you guys have probably put way more thought into this than I have. Nevertheless I'd love to hear how your project selection process has evolved since then.
"But I am saying that in making that decision, HR at those places exhibited incompetence: they left a reasonable developer with significant professional experience in a position to wonder whether continuing to work on that team was rational."

I'm going to strongly disagree with this one, but it's clear you and i will not agree about this.

"More on-point for the thread: I don't think it's reasonable to argue that someone pointing this out is "cynical". :)
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I still believe think it's incredibly cynical to assume and write that the only purpose of a PIP is to formally make up evidence so you can fire someone.
Precisely because i've worked at places where that is very specifically not the intent.
Except ocean-front property. :) But mostly I agree with you.
Two words. Virtue signalling. Thats all that it boils down to.
Fair enough. I can't edit at this time, but noted for the future.
Please read the entire context. I was originally responding to the statement:

>"The government has made pretty clear over the last few months that the reason for the ban was intelligence that jihadist groups had made progress towards developing a laptop bomb."

A Washington Post article citing an anonymous source is not the government making it "pretty clear." I'm not being disingenuous at all. The US Government making it pretty clear would be via a press briefing or some other such official statement.
Have you tried it first on a private testnet? From my understanding it should work almost exactly the same (but I might be wrong).
It isn't even that it's hard. I mean, it's been done before, many times. But there are processes here with a stack of key control parameters that can and will drift.

Panels will not be consistent - they never are (and you'd be surprised at the variation). Rivets will tumble in feed tubes or get trapped in escapements. Vision systems will get confused by ambient light or reflections at certain times of day. Weld spatter will accumulate on tips, and frequent tip dressing will change weld parameters (timing, pressure, current etc). Adhesives will be effected by temperature, humidity. Batches of sealer might not be consistent. Weld timers will fail. Power supplies will fail. Flow drill screws will deform, go off centre and be a bitch to get right. Laser welder lens will accumulate weld crud. People will mis-load parts. PIA bits will come in below the required quality. Tools will get shimmed wrong. Robots will be badly programmed.

All of this stuff will take time to get right. It isn't impossible, but it is very difficult to get a line performing reliably. Tesla will be integrating a lot of new technologies, and at volumes that they are not used to, in an area with no serious history of car building, in a high wage state. I doubt they can get the people to manage the line and maintain this equipment.
I wish they would do public postmortems.
Misogyny, peddling conspiracy theories and blatant victim blaming are acceptable though? How about sarcasm?
No, it's a self-efficacious view. I never see myself as a victim. There is no burden. And that's where I can't see eye-to-eye with you on your thoughts.

I've gotten tired of the thinkpieces and the people who write them. They're not doing anything but writing sanctimonious bullshit from their ivory tower. I take action. Whether you think leaving a toxic workplace quietly is not an acceptable response, then that's your opinion.
I think a standalone product would probably be a lot more powerful from a security standpoint if possible.
It's not just the word.

A nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missile is visually identical to a launch rocket carrying a peaceful payload to LEO. The neural association between "nuclear missile" and "rocket with nuclear reactor payload" is very strong.

It doesn't matter how many facts you throw at it. In the mind of the public, all launches have the possibility to result in another Apollo 1 or STS-51-L (Challenger) or STS-107 (Columbia). Every "nuke" is the Castle Bravo test. Every reactor is Chernobyl. And the public generally is terrible at risk assessment and actuarial math.

You could actually make the launch safer than an afternoon stroll on a Florida golf course, but no one is going to lie down in front of your golf cart screaming, "lightning strike!" or "angry gator!" or even "cardiac infarction!" or "terrorists!"

People may have no problem at all if you just call it "an NCG power plant" (for neutron-cascade generator) and say the details are classified for security reasons--that "security" being the type associated with a toddler's blanket.
> The only reason BLM would be offensive and cause those reactions is if this statement is offensive to your being -- black people having equal rights as white people.

Yes, that's the obvious response. There is also the other responses: that you can live with white people without fear, resentment, anger, disgust, or despair. Like being able to go onto a bus and not have judgements made on you that you're dangerous or seeing fear flicker in white people's faces, and in turn, put on a blank mask because to get angry will confirm all those fears. (Disclaimer: I'm not black; I people-watch a lot). There's a mirroring effect that happens where you don't know whose fear it is, or whose fear "started" it.

> I would be interesting in hearing more practical examples of how a community would better solve some of these problems (or historical 20th century problems) over a movement, or what that distinction truly is or means. Definitely curious!

I would too. This is the first time I am trying out these ideas outside my circle of friends, so I'm still working out concrete examples and brainstorming with others.

That was why my attempt here started with an empathy-visualization exercise to test the waters.

Here's another test: in my yuppie neighborhood I live in within metro Phoenix (which isn't my first choice, but family circumstances ... ) people get very passionate about homeless people on Next Door. There are vocal people who wants to kick them out and a smaller, but just as vocal group that talks about what it is like to be homeless. Some people want to call the cops. Some people reported a soup kitchen as a homeless hangout. (There _are_ people who case homes, or things like use card skimmers to steal credit cards, or try to arrange for a busted tire in order to corner a woman driving alone; it isn't as if this place was crime-free either).

Using this frame about community, we can ask these questions: are homeless and vagrants a part of this local community or not? Can you see yourself living with them? Or do you feel disgust and fear?

It's best to test for emotional reactions where your personal body and your family -- especially your children -- may actually be under threat. (In the esoteric martial arts, we call this "heart living under the sword": can you _really_ maintain loving-kindness even in face of threat, danger, and aggression?)
> a token that a useless computation has been done

You don't understand the fundamentals of Bitcoin. The computation isn't useless. Go find out why, and perhaps things will make a little more sense.
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They did a public postmortem a couple days ago.