skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"How about 25+ years for defrauding millions of buyers".

Citation needed that it was 25+ years, since, 25 years ago, i don't even believe there were meaningful regulations in the US they would have been violating.
I believe the first meaningful regulations by the EPA were in 2007, and by california in 2001.

See, e.g., https://www.dieselnet.com/standards/us/hd.php#pre04

"How many new cases of asthma, sinus infections, cancers...can be traced to this fraud?"

I'll go with: "Probably a very small number"

The vast majority of car pollution is produced by older cars on the road[1], and that's true even when considering the real emissions numbers of these cars. If you would like to provide objective evidence that this isn't the case, i'd love to see it.

[1] Unfortunately, most people cite the EPA averages, which doesn't help. The average is of all cars on the road (they even say this), and unfortunately, the emissions standards are each orders of magnitude better than the last, so the average is not a good way to see what's up.

IE Every car in california sold since 2004 is at least an LEV.
Cars operating prior to that are basically huge polluters.

Cars that are marked ULEV are 50% better than current average year models (so they started at 1/2 the emissions, and must stay at 1/2 the emissions of each model year to stay a ULEV).

Cars marked SULEV are 90% better (IE 1/10th the emissions), ditto.

You can see that as cars get newer, and emissions standards tougher, using the average to say "what cars on the road produce" is mostly nonsense, but that's what happens!
> All phenomena are quantum.

This sounds rather reductionist. (I am not sure if all "physicists" are prone to making this mistake.) Surely, the French Revolution was not a quantum phenomenon.
It's C++ only, no Polyglot
Engineering issues aside, to evaluate if a super chimney would be energetically viable you need to understand the concept of "Convective available potential energy" or CAPE--https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convective_available_potential.... CAPE has dimensions of energy/mass and a describes how much energy is released by raising a mass of air to some higher elevation.

CAPE is used to forecast storm development, as updrafts can more likely spontaneously form when there is more energy released by the updraft. CAPE values can also be zero or negative, in which case there would be no available energy to sustain an updraft. From my understanding, CAPE is the only factor that would determine if a super chimney could work at a given time.

I have not found a good resource on global CAPE patterns including daily patterns, but it seems very likely that there is any fixed location and fixed elevation that always has a positive CAPE value. It would be an absolute requirement to find such a location for this project to work.

You should also be able to calculate a crude bound on the maximum updraft velocity simply as a conversion of potential energy to kinetic energy. Wikipedia says that exceptionally high CAPE values proceeding extreme thunderstorms are around 5kj/kg, which would accelerate a mass from rest to 100m/s (220mph). Of course this is an extreme value, typical values are more like 1kj/kg, which correspond to a velocity of 44m/s (100mph).

Here is a really good paper on CAPE and atmospheric convection heat engines: http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/1520-0469%281996...
On the other hand Linux is far more popular so I wouldn't be surprised if ZFS on Linux already clocks more hours of usage than on BSD.
That only works for statically visible options. More, it isn't "multiple dispatch. It is a single one, chosen by the compiler. The article shows how to get the right behavior at runtime. Where there are two dispatches in order to get the right behavior.
As I understand it, the license incompability between GPL and CDDL is that CDDL adds a restriction regarding patents, and GPL does not allow for additional restrictions to be added.

So to distribute CDDL licensed code is a breach of BOTH licenses as I see it, ignoring the 'patent peace' requirement of CDDL which would be the case if distributing it as GPL does not sound legal to me (IANAL).

I can certainly understand why Linus has stated that no CDDL code will be mainlined (brought into the Linux kernel tree), it all seems very ambiguous.
It's not mandatory.
Yeah. I was willing to give him a fair hearing until he listed a handful of differences between men and women that he ascribes to biology without any factual support.

And therein lies the unconscious bias against which he is railing. To him, there is no question that men and women, on average, are fundamentally different in ways that affects their ability to and interest in work in tech.

I agree with him that folks shame those his viewpoint into silence. I'm not entirely sure that's a bad thing.
states, companies, religious communities, planets as whole ecosystems can all be construed as "single being"s.
All past ones after searchable
Red Hat has never spent any real resources on btrfs, they've been all about XFS when it comes to enterprise needs.
Wow, I didn't know I could cringe that much in such a short time.
I felt like the attack on "traditional" emotional intelligence in the beginning was contrived and not really thought through.

Yes, it's true that we assume we can approximate the emotional experience of others, but I think a critical piece the author left is the verbal part of emotional intelligence - the words someone says that convey nuances that facial expressions/non verbal cues don't. And I'm not saying what a person says is what they really mean. You need to be cognizant of both to hear the "real message". That's at the heart of emotional intelligence. I feel like the beginning was just a contrived critique made to draw the reader into the meat of the article. Can't we just examine the existing literature and add our own thoughts without suggesting some grand "rewrite"?

Also internal and external emotional intelligence are very different, I feel like somewhere the author conflated the two without making a clear distinction although maybe I just didn't read it deeply enough.

That said, the discussion on emotional granularity is very interesting and I will definitely be reading more into it.
Computer Fraud and Abuse Act?

To clarify, I know it would be inappropriate for direct federal regulation of the industry - it's too fast-moving and, like any guild (which is what it is, essentially) is subject to being politicised. I'm proposing something far simpler, such as: "if someone dies from software or SSNs get leaked, and the system was not signed-off by a state-licensed SE, then the company responsible is subject to extra damages for negligence" - and state-licensing should be under the purview of a non-profit board (with a bias towards governance from academia instead of industry). I think that would work.
I disagree.

FreeBSD is just as easy to administer as Linux. Solaris I find to be a bit more challenging. I can appreciate your commentary, but I challenge you to prove me wrong. Just for some color I've ran the Gambit of Unix and Linux systems in my career with FreeBSD being one of the easiest and most consistent out of the box technologies. Solaris had already been quite the opposite. I guess you could say AIX is a close second to Solaris, but I think that's a bit of a grey area considering how opinionated that operating system is.

To be clear I'm not a FreeBSD zealot. I'm for what works. Right now what works is the emerging container based solutions albeit not relevant to this discussion.
We are talking about cars, where over a million people die every year. We have already accepted a huge death bill for convenience is ok.
The intellectual contortion required to get from the premise to the conclusion is actually quite impressive.

> On average, men and women biologically differ in many ways. These differences aren’t just socially constructed because:

> They’re universal across human cultures

Except the gender ratio in science/engineering is anything but universal across cultures. 70% of science/engineering students in Iran are women: https://www.forbes.com/sites/amyguttman/2015/12/09/set-to-ta.... Indeed, in many parts of the world that are not known for being "liberal" with regard to gender equality, women make up a significantly higher percentage of the scientific workforce than in the U.S.: http://www.catalyst.org/knowledge/women-science-technology-e... (44% in Latin America, 40% in Eastern Europe, 37% in the Arab states).

In the Soviet Union, a majority of engineers were women; after the fall that proportion went way down (from 60% to 40%):
http://www.asee.org/public/conferences/20/papers/6985/downlo....

> Openness directed towards feelings and aesthetics rather than ideas. Women generally also have a stronger interest in people rather than things, relative to men (also interpreted as empathizing vs. systemizing).

If this were true, shouldn't women's interest in CS be going up now that the web is all about feelings/aesthetics/social? Programming, in my view, is actually in the middle in the "people versus things" spectrum. It's much more about people than, say, math. And of course, 45% of math majors are women, so I'm not sure how that fits into the author's theory.

> Women on average are more cooperative

Maybe, but does the degree of that effect explain the observed differences in representation? Tech is actually very cooperative. Compare, for example, litigation, which is all about confrontation and acrimony. But a third (and growing) of all litigators are women!
As has been mentioned elsewhere in the thread, you need to be careful about accessibility and screen reader access.
If there is no problem why are you thinking? The existence of the problem suggests that there is something wrong. Although I don't like the "what's wrong" question it perfectly makes sense.
Conscious? Yes (possibly). Alive? No.
Sounds complex and expensive.
How many years of life did he take with his offense? My suspicion is that it was quite a bit more than 100 years.
>One theory is that Canonical has essentially forced Oracle to decide whether it wants to crack down on inclusion of CDDL-licensed code being shipped with Ubuntu's stock kernel

Huh? Are Canonical is shipping ZFS in their kernel now ? I thought they just distributed it as a separate module.
> > looking for a '16 or '17 model

> You were looking for an used car then

Yes exactly (new/current ones are, at least '18 models). What I'm complaining about is that there were more or less a decade now that we taxed the hell out of CO2, leading to every car being a diesel (with known results).
Somehow I don’t see a guy who says that women “in general” aren’t as technically capable giving similar weighting’s to a woman who went to a women’s college to a man who went elsewhere.
Thanks for the fantastic post!

My rare earth worries are based on this DOE report:

https://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/edg/news/documents/criti...

It actually calls out dysprosium as the biggest problem, with neodymium, terbium, europium, yttrium, and indium as the next biggest worries.

This is fairly old though, I read it back in 2010. I've read about a number of breakthroughs on higher strength-to-weight magnetic materials and I'm sure solar has responded to this report accordingly as well. It's comforting to know that things seem to have worked out seven years later!

I think a lot of the stress in 2010 was because China was limiting exports and it became clear that the USA was at a strategic disadvantage because of vulnerability to Chinese actions. Glad that Obama took it so seriously by supporting funding to develop those new technologies.
The two positions in the debate are that sex differences are 100% environmental and 0% biological vs. <100% environmental and >0% biological. Nobody believes that they are 100% biological.
Devils advocate: Do you know what the average time is to read the entire thing is? If it's 7.5 minutes, then one possible explanation is that your audience is split (50/50). Median time would be a much better indicator.
You really think they will be bankrupted or even come close? Should Germany allow that?
I think your tone is a little smug but completely agree. To be frank I empathize with the writer of the article a bit. He worked very hard to achieve his position, and with that hard work comes a belief that the system he achieved in was inherently fair. It's difficult to call the situations we benefit from unfair - it's important for our self-worth that we value our accomplishments.

But the key is that the author's achievements in this unfair world are no less impressive. They still achieved great things given their lot in life, yet they should still be willing to acknowledge the many advantages they've had every step of the way. They're slight in many cases, true. But they exist and we are all aware of them.

It's a shame the author of the email feels that these policies are based on a political agenda rather than an idealogical one.

EDIT: I think it's also important to note that since this is an idealogical decision, I think it's totally within Google's power to make broad and impactful policies like this. They aren't beholden to all idealogical viewpoints within their company. They should attempt to respect political differences, but I don't think that this issue is political in any way. It's an issue of how you see the world you live in. Is it a fair world that needs no correction (or should not be corrected for some reason) or is it world that needs to be steered in a different course. Google is within their power to choose an idealogical direction for the company on such an issue, and it's up to the employee to decide if that matches with their worldview.

I may not have used entirely the correct terminology for political opinion vs. ideology (I would defer to a sociologist for this), but I think the point that remains is that Google is not aligning themselves with a viewpoint on governmental policy, but instead adjusting the way their corporate environment works to better match the company's view of how the "world works". Every company has to have such a thing due to the immense amount of power we grant large corporations in this country (imo of course).

EDIT 2: I would further encourage the parent poster to not get too reactionary themselves about the issue. Mainly people on the so-called "other side" believe that they are being demonized for a political opinion, when in reality they are being criticized for something that we believe is a very flawed way of looking at the world. Take care not to address them as much as an enemy, but as someone who has seen very different parts of the world than you. Give them a guided tour, not a lecture with snark. I empathize with your intense emotions - I myself get very emotional about this due to events in my personal life - but if you let them dominate the conversation, then people will just try and claim that you're being "too emotional" further reinforcing their flawed reasoning.
It is one thing to debated the veracity of a view, it is another to declare that that view should not be debated. For every point there is a counterpoint; every argument a counterargument. Arguing that the reasoning is flawed is not sufficient to ban it from discussion.
> Females are obviously a minority in the Engineering teams, but interestingly enough, there are a few older female Engineers I know who came from Eastern Europe after spending 10-15 years doing Engineering there, and said they never had an issue with sexism until they came to the U.S.

Re: Eastern Europe.

You can thank communist regimes for more female workers in technology.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/women-in-tech-why-bulgaria-and-...
My understanding is that the primary benefit of Delaware incorporation is that it has the most well established case law of any state, not that its courts necessarily have any particular bias toward businesses over individuals (although this may very well also be the case).
> internal meme network

i really want to believe that at Google there is a massive distributed cluster dedicated solely to facilitating meme throughput
Fun fact: /usr exists because Thompson and Ritchie ran out of disk space on the root disk of their PDP-11 [1] in the early 1970s.

/usr was originally where the user's files (everything but the OS) lived, but when they ran out of space they decided to just move OS stuff into it.

The whole "/bin is available on boot until /usr is mounted" story, which a classic form of post-rationalization, though it was presumably a useful distinction for a while.

[1] http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074...
That is exactly the tweet I had in mind. Does it not seem reasonable to you for someone not to want to work on a team where their coworkers think they're less biologically suited to the work, and to hope that HR agrees that they shouldn't be expected to work with such coworkers?
Luck....
Here's an article that provides some factual support for the author's viewpoint, with commentary (this was featured on HN a few weeks ago):
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/rabble-rouser/201707/wh...
Yeah, exactly. Set the example. If you take ownership, your team will take ownership.
The question then I would like to pose is : Are these innate tendencies genetic or are they due to social conditioning?
I wonder how this works with people who have gotten legal name changes, or people who regularly go by a non-legal name or a pseudonym.
EH actually has their own supplier now. At least that's what it says in this forum: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/CDXC/community/
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That may or may not be the case (I would dispute it) but the rules here expressly place political discussions as off-topic. From what I have seen, banning accounts seems to be a last resort for people who post almost exclusively political attacks; one has to be fairly intent on making oneself unpleasant to raise attention. I tend to agree with you that there can be value to political debate, but we must abide by the rules of the forum.
I get that question when I'm thinking about what to have for lunch.

(Sometimes)
I noticed that as well. I find it interesting that the alt-right has started to embrace so much of modern feminist/liberal terminology and tacitly accepted so many of the premises.

The modern alt-right conservative: "I don't believe in safe spaces, but please stop bullying me!"
Agreed, it is a common trap of people who are 'smart' to assume their own reasoning is valid even without external confirmation. I appreciated that they included sources for their reasoning but I expect that if that was posted to the politics list inside Google it was probably sliced and diced several times. It apparently generated quite a bit of conversation there and my guess is a couple of 'centithreads' at least. It would be interesting to see the full discussion.

There were two very interesting discussions with similar sorts of intellectual gymnastics when I was there, one involved whether or not getting rid of bottled water helped the environment and the other how the phrase 'free tibet' was such a trigger for Chinese nationals.
SUSE has succeeded in shipping atomic OS updates and rollbacks by default both for enterprise and community versions of Linux several years ago. Facebook is using it, and the usage is growing. [1] And there are any number of examples of production usage of Btrfs at scale if you go look for them. [2] And the good and bad are fairly well understood, it is in fact getting better and will continue to get better.[3] And Red Hat isn't waiting. [4]

[1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-btrfs/msg67885.html
[2] https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-btrfs/msg67308.html
[3] https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-btrfs/msg67940.html

[4] https://stratis-storage.github.io/StratisSoftwareDesign.pdf

What you're going to find in storage is that there are multiple valid approaches, no clear one size fits all winner, and people will choose based on the tools they're familiar with, the company they trust, and their use case. I pick Btrfs over ZFS pretty much based on equivalent trust and better flexibility for my use case, but then I'm much more familiar with Btrfs tools and where the bodies are buried than I am with ZFS. I don't need to go around impugning other projects to justify what I use.
I am the author of the article and it may seem wrong to you but it is the way things unfolded. Once interconnections were faster than the transistors, at the beginning of the 2000's that fact was reverted, now transistors are much faster than interconnection. It is the reason behind many other development, like multi-core devices. Since transistors are faster than interconnections, it is reasonable to make many units working fast than a big unit working slower because of the interconnections.

The tristate buffers were abandoned on the FPGA market, followed by the ASIC market.
I don't really understand why this is getting so much attention. It's just some guy's opinion.
According to the Software Freedom Conservancy

...redistributing a binary work incorporating CDDLv1'd and GPLv2'd copyrighted portions constitutes copyright infringement in both directions... [https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2016/feb/25/zfs-and-linux/]

so it seems that Oracle could in fact sue.
Test it and I think you will understand. Simultaneously real-time typing for all involved...
Let's have a look at the meat of that excerpt:

> It was like someone put on a blindfold, drank a fifth of whiskey, spun around 100 times, got kicked in the face by a mule (the person who designed this definitely has a mule living with them inside their house) and then just started puking numbers and letters onto the boarding pass at random (yes, I realize that a human didn't lay this out, if a human had, judging by the train-wreck of design, they would have surely used papyrus). There was nothing given size or color importance over anything else, it was a mess.

Notice that only the last sentence attempted to actually critique the current design. Every single word before that was absolutely useless.

So no, if you actually read it properly, the excerpt doesn't even present a weak argument for why boarding passes should be redesigned.

Small anecdote: in my 15 years of flying using 5+ international carriers, I have never once had trouble getting the most important information from my boarding pass (gate and seat numbers).
So, would you also agree that the existence of climate change should still be up for debate, even though there is overwhelming scientific evidence in one direction?

NB: I do not know what the scientific consensus is on cognitive differences between men and women.
How is it different from a cms?
It's not mandatory. However, when I was at Google several years ago, it showed up on my calendar, it was not optional, my manager said that I was expected to attend, and I attended. But it's not mandatory.
Everybody should be ignoring this "test" by someone who obviously has no idea what conftest is or does :)
You don't need data for the boarding pass on the Wallet App on iOS. Once added, it's done.
I live in the Netherlands, bike everywhere I go (almost). 99.9999% of the people on the street don't wear helmets, not when commuting, not when on a recreational drive.

The most serious bicycle accident I ever saw did involve someone's head, but not a way where any helmet would have helped (his steering tube broke and sliced off half his face). I've fallen a few times, at high speeds too (rounding a corner that hasn't been de-iced ended with my hip getting closely aquatinted to the asphalt), reflexes seem to have taken care of protecting my head. I think they might offer some protecting in high speed accidents where even your body does not have time to turn your head away from the ground, but I think in those cases the chances of breaking your neck are just as high.