skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The term "mad skills" comes to mind. I would love to see a breakdown of some of the techniques he used to construct this.
It is the eyeball bubble.

The quintessential examples of this phenomenon are Twitter, and potentially snapchat.

The idea of the "ad bubble" is that you have to have a massive amount of users to make the system work. And if growth stops... Well there goes your company.

The bubble is that ads can't really pay for the ridiculous valuations that some of these companies are getting.
And what do you believe his thesis is?
Very cool stuff... even `ls` works in the shell ;)
This is beautiful. There needs to be a plugin api for this so we can make our own using charts using the built in command line and associated widgets.
Solutions: Have an elevator plane on the building -- shafts and corridors which are all located at one extreme side of the building, rather than the core.

And/or have horizontal transit floors. You don't need horizontal transit at every floor, just sufficiently frequently to accomplish lateral transfers.
"this will help me decide if HN is a community worth investing further time in"

If that is the question, then the answer is "no".
That's something I was thinking about. This thing has to go down occasionally for patches, service, maintenance. 500TB is alot to trust to a single box or two.

I'm building a Ceph cluster right now, about the same size as the one in the article, except with 9x36 drive chassis.
Sure, I get that. But it's been the rule to never show blacks in contexts where we know they existed, and were even common. So a little balance doesn't seem unreasonable.
I recommend to all gender warriors on either side of the debate to read this talk given by Baumeister, which later became a book by Baumeister + Tice. It has a lot of insights into origins of the differences between men and women.

http://www.denisdutton.com/baumeister.htm

One should not discount the additional biased inherent in the discussion, by the way. This is the corporate world and people are talking about selling their time or money. Perhaps one answer to all this is to opt out of the full-time corporate treadmill, start your own business or be self-employed.
And yet I still haven't worked through the text...
Crazy thing is that the starting point for systemd makes more sense on desktops than servers, unless one is redefining servers as cloud loads of containers rather than something sitting in a rack somewhere doing work (not to say that is not the ultimate destinies for containers as well, but there is a layer of isolation involved that lead container "admins" to not really consider the hardware side of things).

Hell, it seems that only as systemd people started talking up nspawn as a way to do containers did the business side sit up and take notice. Before then it was mostly considered a bikesheding runaround between nerds.
I don't think the BBC is doing that bad, but I do notice allot of sites these days do look huge on my 15" MBP, and you have to scroll a tonne to see very little. Though these sites usually work pretty well on my 27" iMac, I feel like no one makes responsive sites anymore.
Is that copy/pasted? The writing is atrocious.
Yes. I think this is exactly it.

If you have lived only in one mode, you have only one reference point to yourelf. "Mental exploring" outside the default comfort zone helps to explore and map the ways you can experience the world and use your mind.
Glad to see some people are getting a kick out of this. I built it a few years back while learning webgl, css3, node.js, redis, and modern (at the time) js tooling. Source over at https://github.com/arscan/encom-boardroom

I didn't build this with any real practical application in mind at the time. But some people have reused components in their own projects over the years, particularly the globe (https://github.com/arscan/encom-globe).
I hate to break your bubble, there, but the concept of an agricultural revolution was also disproved quite a while ago.
This is super cool, I love the from aesthetics (if not the movie).

How do you make you or tapping not zoom again? Is there a HTML meta tag or something? It would improve the usability of the keyboard on mobile.
Agreed. With Jails, dtrace and Linux binary support, it would be a no-brainer for me.
First situation that comes to mind is in a conversation where the coworker has raised the subject in conversation:

"I've been working out a lot the last few months. I managed to lose a lot of weight and I think I look good."

"Yeah, you looks great, that work definitely paid off."

The coworker brought it up, which indicates that they're comfortable talking about it and the comment is a celebration of the coworker's achievement rather than any kind of expression of sexual desire.

And then of course there are professions where the body is directly relevant to the work, like acting, modelling and sports/atheleticism.

All this really depends on context though. In a corporate office where everyone's barely more than strangers, I don't think even the situation above would be appropriate. In a small business where a "coworker" is as much a close friend as a colleague, I think the threshold for what's acceptable is very different.
I wonder how hard hexagonal pixel layout would have been to do on a CRT?

Two ways come to mind. If the basic scan line is kept horizontal, then a small vertical modulation on each scan line could result in a hexagonal layout if you timed it right.

Alternatively, if the grid is tilted (so that the basic scan line is diagonal instead of horizontal), then you just have to offset the odd scan lines by half a pixel from the even scan lines.

I think we are just lucky that we ended up with rectangular screens. Imagine if they had went with circular screens. The scan might then easily have been a spiral starting in the center. That's fairly easy to do. It's just a matter of driving the horizontal and vertical deflectors with sine waves with the right phase difference, with a saw tooth amplitude.

From a television point of view, I don't think it really matters which of these you use, as long as the cameras and the displays use the same scan pattern.

From a computer point of view, though, it would have been a lot more painful if CRTs used a spiral scan. For most graphics applications we'd still need to manipulate rectangular areas, and that would be quite annoying in a coordinate system based on a spiral scan.
What do you do about runtime environments that may diverge from the static environment? For example, your code may typecheck in the browser you tested, but it has to run in other browsers which have differences in their APIs. How would you gracefully handle that without dynamic types?
All hand built, including the globe. I split that out into it's own library over at https://github.com/arscan/encom-globe

* edit: I did leverage quite a few great libraries, namely three.js... just none that are charting specific
No, I thought "CEO" when I read "high paying, high status". Most leaders of companies are men, right?
I believe my non native speaker friend means that UBI does not address fundamental flaws in valuation in a Capitalistic system.
Flaws thar would amount to concentration of wealth via advertising conglomerates , although I may be way off the mark.
Why? Evolutionary psychology (even if true) is completely unenlightening.

Anyone can be an evolutionary psychologist!:

"Men do [thing] because they evolved to."

"Women think [this] because women who didn't did not pass on their genes."
- Don't put up with jerks.

- it's not all about you. Make sure that you piblically represent your team, not yourself.

- politics isn't above you. Learn how to be effective with your peers. At the director levels even your friends can become your competition.

- appreciate that your decisions impact people around you and the company.

- study budgeting. Know where the money goes.

- when tough times come, know where you will cut. If the place is toxic, learn how to stockpile cash or human fodder.
The SAT was shown to be a flawed test in that it is racially, gender, and income-level biased. I'd be interested to look into the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery with a keen eye to bias. I have to say that anything designed by/for the armed services makes me suspicious of bias for obvious reasons. I will see if I can find any studies on this-- would be good to know.

Found something about gender bias on this test:

"However, many widely used standardized
test scores - ranging from the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT)
to the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) and
beyond - also reflect substantial differences based on gender. Minority
females suffer a double jeopardy as they often score lower than both
white females and males of their own racial or ethnic group. Nonetheless,
the law regarding both gender issues and combined gender and race
issues is largely undeveloped. Only one lawsuit, Sharif v New York State
Education Department, " has been brought to challenge any use of a standardized
test on the grounds of gender bias. Legal scholars have only
recently begun to devote attention to this issue and have focused on
Sharif. 2 Virtually no attention has been focused on the particular issues
raised in connection with minority girls and women."

This is from a paper published in 2013 in Berkeley's Journal of Gender, Law, and Science.
http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti...
http://www.samsung.com/au/consumer/mobile-phone/wearables/ge...

Was pretty cool to be able to leave your phone at home and still have full 3g coverage, especially when out running/cycling/surfing. Opera mini browser was sufficient for looking things up on the go.

Like others have mentioned, Tizen is a hot mess though. In the end the lack of a spotify app was the main pain point for me. Apple will do well to fill that gap.
Sure, let me google that for you...

Quit being weird and pretending males and females are the same.
This document conveys its message poorly and comes across as far less neutral than I think it's intending to be.

It raises some valid points, but it kind of feels like an extremely hamfisted interpretation of a recent blog post by Scott Alexander: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/01/gender-imbalances-are-m...

I don't think Google's official response to it is very good either, though.
I think I saw that article on a Minbari news site, right next to "The 11 Most Meditative Vacation Spots in the Earth Alliance".
> The corporate culture in SV is pretty far to the left (all things being considered)

I'd disagree there. To attach a couple of names to it, I wouldn't say the corporate culture here is Bernie. I'd say it's Hillary. [1] And if you think Hillary is pretty far to the left then I have an ICO I just gotta tell you about.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/07/silicon-valley-shows-its-p...
Oh good to know. I need to read up more on this. Thanks!
The article doesn't seem to address the question of if there is a tech bubble. How does assigning an acronym for the top companies indicates a bubble? Yes, 7 out of top ten valuable companies are tech companies, but they are dominant players of large and highly profitable markets.
Am I delusional?
What animals also do this ?
My wife’s German cousin had a low-speed fall off his bike and only avoided life-altering injury because he was wearing a helmet. Even with the helmet, he had fairly serious head trauma and it was touch-and-go. Without the helmet, everyone is pretty certain he would not have survived the fall.
Not Google, but there are tech companies out there that set hiring quotas significantly higher than what the CS schools are producing [~20% female for the past 10 years].

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/04/why-is-...

> Well, not quotas. You can’t say quotas. At least not in the United States. In some European countries, like Norway, real, actual quotas—for example, a rule saying that 40 percent of a public company’s board members must be female—have worked well; qualified women have been found and the Earth has continued turning. However, in the U.S., hiring quotas are illegal. “We never use the word quota at Intel,” says Danielle Brown, the company’s chief diversity and inclusion officer. Rather, Intel set extremely firm hiring goals. For 2015, it wanted 40 percent of hires to be female or underrepresented minorities.

> But since it began linking bonuses to diversity hiring, Intel has met or exceeded its goals. In 2015, 43 percent of new hires were women and underrepresented minorities, three percentage points above its target. Last year, it upped its goal to 45 percent of new hires, and met it.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/diversity/diversity-...

> US female new hires 35%
Great story. I wonder how spiritual/ religious Chris is. I understand being alone in nature and the desire for solitude but Chris's life style probably has a strong spiritual component. I am going to have to read the book.
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I can't find much information about those caves, but I bet the wind isn't constant.

It's worth exploring chimneys, and indeed people are. It's not worth exploring chimneys which generate airflow 24/7 without a heat source because they magically suppress adiabatic cooling of the air within.
I've seen them work ok in an office building with ~15 floors and 6 elevators until lunch time, when the extra traffic made them take far longer than it seemed they should have.

I'm guessing those didn't detect if no one got in the car and they still went to all their scheduled floors.
Eric Sandeen works for Red Hat on XFS, at the least. Mike and Adam are elsewhere according to their LinkedIn profiles - dunno who else was working on it at SGI.
So what you are saying is that there should be safe spaces for conservatives to express themselves? That conservatives should be welcomed for their diversity? That conservstives should be given a participation trophy and honored for their special snowflake ideas?
Could that be mitigated by redesigning the chassis for slightly less density in order to fit massive rubber standoffs/grommets?
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IDK, doesn't really bother me anymore, not since some pretty good Chrome extensions came out, e.g. Georgify, which makes HN 1000% easier to read. + I built my own minimal front end to HN with just the info I'm interested in ( https://news.adriel.co.nz/ )
The SPLC is not a reliable source, but I think what they have to say about Charles Murray checks out.
Ad bubble? Why is it a bubble? Ads are not going away only platforms change. It’s the company’s ability to serve the new platform that matters. Are you saying the number of ads on the internet as a whole is a bubble and that is going to fall off at some point?
> this is much more complex than we thought it was.
> it seems the deeper one dives into any topic the more difficult it is to, as the article says, "draw the lines". Has anybody experienced an intellectual exploration to the contrary?

This is the very tension between Platonism with its emphasis on unity and Aristotelianism which sees complex diversity everywhere. How can we get these two systems to work together? How can we have both unity and diversity?

And now you know where the word "university" comes from.

(Who says all those history and philosophy classes were a waste of time? Besides me, I mean.)
> Even if your the only person on a closed smooth track, you can get a pretty bad TBI injury if you crash.

Yeah, or in my experience on the W&OD bike trail (largely just people on bikes), you can easily hit a rock or a deer and go sideways. It's more likely to break a collar bone than hit your head, but it's probably smart to have a helmet on.
Much faster. I am typically riding at 20–30km/hr when commuting, and my bike only has two gears. If I had more, I know that I’d increase my average speed a few km/hr.
It matters a lot! The fact that ObjC, Java, and JS have dynamic type system is what enables iOS, Android, and web browsers to be revved independently from the apps that use them. This is a key feature that languages without dynamic types cannot provide.
Windows 95/98/ME/NT40/2000/XP/2003/2008/Vista/7/8/8.1/10

That is an impressive compatibility list which probably few software today could claim. Whenever I come across "real" Asm resources on the Internet (as opposed to the deluge of content from who can barely read, much less write Asm), IMHO as an Asm user myself, it's always worth reading and bookmarking, since such content is quite rare.

This also reminds me of RosAsm, another interesting Asm-IDE with its own assembler and slightly-unconventional (but still far more pleasant to use than e.g. AT&T) syntax, along with other surprising features like a disassembler:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/RosAsm

The author, René Tournois, was known for fierce flamewars in opposition to Randall Hyde and his not-a-real-assembler HLA and a failed attempt to involve ReactOS, and developed a bit of a cult-like following as a result. Unfortunately the original pages are no longer around, but mirrors exist and archive.org doesn't forget either:

http://techemporium.bananabo.xyz/mirrors/rosasm/

http://sebastien.kirche.free.fr/rosasm_mirror/reviews/User%2...

A review of RosAsm:

https://maartens.home.xs4all.nl/computing/BitsAndPieces/BAP0...

IMHO things like this are what make up the more interesting parts of the Internet.
This looks quite cool. Let me know if you'd like any feedback on the API.
I can't speak to anything related to interviewing because I don't do interviews. Part of the reason I don't do interviews is because I have very low confidence in my ability to quickly tell who is good. Most of my colleagues that I respect the most (I work at Google) didn't make a strong impression on me when I first met them, or even within a few days. I feel like it takes days or weeks for me to get a sense of how much I like someone's work. So I definitely feel unsatisfied with the interviewing approach in general, but I don't have any practical ideas about how to improve it. "Work with someone for days or weeks first" isn't practical.

I get your point that there still could be biases if you can recognize a musician's sound. I should have been more clear about what I meant by "perfect". What I meant is just that this intervention (adding screens to auditions) almost certainly didn't create any bias, it only removed it. It may not have removed 100% of it, but it didn't combat the bias by introducing a counter-bias.

Can you recognize a coder's work by their style? Definitely to some extent. One aspect of working on a shared code-base with a whole bunch of engineers is that uniformity of style is a significant plus (makes code easier to read when it's consistent), so many of the differences that might show a "personal flare" are removed. But still, there is plenty that could belie a person's coding style.

I think there are way too many programmers out there, however, for this to be an issue in interviews. Estimates say there are something like 2-4 million software engineers in the US. Compare this with orchestral musicians: it looks like about 60 orchestras in the US work 40+ weeks per year; if we estimate 100 players per orchestra this is 6,000 full-time orchestra spots in the USA (you might have better numbers on this). If you specialize this by instrument, it might be more like 240 full-time orchestral oboists in the whole country. It seems much more likely that you could recognize a specific person with those odds.

(By the way, I'm a musician too. :) Though not in the orchestral world, and not full-time. I'm a singer (small ensembles mainly), though I did a lot of collaborations with orchestras as a boy growing up in Boychoir).
It wasn't clear to me: is the idea that you install the hardware housing with a more invasive surgery upfront and then could swap out the hardware more easily down the road? Would a second surgery be required for that?
In the context of there being measurable differences between the sets of males and females, 99% is binary enough.
> how long will it take for ZFS to mount it?

What? How long would it take, roughly? Genuinely curious.
Well, they kinda replaced it with Alphabet's "Do the right thing", which is equally meaningless and similarly hilarious when compared with their actual conduct.
My (admittedly limted) experience with ZFS has been bad. I know it's supposed to be great but that is not what I have experienced. Multi-hour outages. Having to have Oracle help resolve problems. This was a few year ago now, maybe it's better these days. I was not the administrator, just a user, but we had ZFS issues at least quarterly on a ~20TB shared filesystem on a Linux cluster.
Peter Thiel would loves anti-diversity.

Whoever wrote this should go to Palantir
This is a good point: better get people on bikes at all, then convince them that using protective gear is better than not using protective gear.

Lots of people roller-blade. When they start, they don’t usually start with all the pads and guards…but most experienced bladers have them.

Even in cycling, lots of people don’t wear cycling gloves (I can’t entirely blame them; I have a funny hand tan…), but in the event of an accident, they can save your palms from being shredded.
Of course it's mandatory ... unless you don't care about silly little things like bonuses and promotions.
You either fail at reading comprehension or you are being dishonest.

Nowhere does the author say we "shouldn't support women becoming software engineers". His argument is simply that women are, on average, less inclined to become software engineers because of innate psychological differences, which explains the unbalanced gender ratio in tech. He suggests we should stop all forms of "positive" discrimination in the form of employment quotas that are aimed to correct the gender imbalance, and instead select individuals based on their merit.
It makes a difference whether you're speaking pragmatically or philosophically. Since we live in a practical universe, there are facts of science that are so well established that there is no reason to doubt them. And many facts that aren't as well established.
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> systemd isn't that bad, even if it did want to constantly kill my tmux server session ::shakes-fist::

You can disable this in logind.conf

> Desktop Linux seems stale or abandoned all over the place. … But overall I feel like 10 years ago things were more exciting and would change all the time with new features and functionality.

Sometimes it feels a bit like that. On the other hand a lot of things work a lot better than 10 years ago. Maybe we simply reached a point where you basically have what you need most of the time and new features are either not necessary, minor refinements instead of big jumps or more specialized so you don't notice them. Then the Linux desktop still has this fragmentation problem where a lot of work is duplicated unnecessarily and the problem of breaking libraries/frameworks where applications without the manpower to keep up simply degrade or outright die.

> Maybe it's the overall slowing down of the PC market. The people who should have grown into maintaining all this are doing something else. Like when the Mule messed up the Seldon Plan, smart phones have wrecked the Free Software plan. Everyone is too busy looking at Instagram or playing Candy Crush to write Free Software nowadays.

Yeah the catastrophic failure of a true free software ecosystem on the smart phone while starting so promising may have pushed the moral down. The desktop may also feel a bit boring for many now. It basically does the job and you now have things like the web, smart phones or incredibly cheap and capable embedded devices which may seem more interesting to them.