skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some speech is action. That's why we have crimes like incitement to riot, fraud, harrassment, criminal threat, and conspiracy to commit murder.

If somebody has an, honest reasonably considered question that they would like to raise after having done at least a modest amount of work to answer themselves, sure, let's talk about it.

But most speech isn't like that. It's persuasion, advocacy, negoiation, action. Indeed, the Google manifestbro was quite clearly advocacy. It wasn't a question. It was a ten-page screed meant to convince. In specific, to convince people to act differently. Those actions will have real-world consequences. It is entirely unshocking that people who would be harmed by those consequences will vigorously object.

Nobody is talking about censorship here: https://xkcd.com/1357/

We are talking about one person saying something and then other people exercising their freedom of speech and freedom of association in response. The guy certainly has the right to claim that women are biologically inferior. But his coworkers have the right to tell him that a) he's wrong, and b) he's an asshole. And Google has the right to say, "Thanks for your service; see you later."

That's freedom. If you don't like it, well, you have the right to say so.
I designed/deployed a decent sized Meraki network about 4 years ago - at the time it was one of the larger full-stack Meraki networks that exists. An 11 site school district with the edge, all idfs, ap's, phones and at a a later point some of their cameras.

Meraki still thinks of themselves a startup, but they have these "uh-oh's" all the time. Random bad firmware that turns off the 5g channel on the MR42's. A DPI "upgrade" that blocked ALL SSL traffic (which at this point is basically all traffic). Their solution was always to try "beta" firmware... in production... in the middle of state-mandated online testing.

I was a huge advocate for them but at some point it's gonna be hard for me to keep recommending them. They're so excited about new features but really fail about 1) fixing bugs and 2) ensuring robustness. The "fail fast fail often" mentality really shouldn't work with critical infrastructure
I haven't read it closely, but it looks to me as if the calculation estimates the expected number of counterexamples rather than the "measure" of them (however you've chosen to define that).
It must be more lucrative, because as this article said, Airbnb is dominated by professional landlords. If it wasn't more lucrative, those profession landlords would still be renting out long term instead of migrating to Airbnb.
Ask HN: Links to serious diversity research
In the light of the whole google/diversity thing happening this weekend, and everyone accusing everyone else that they don't have any data, I'd like to read up on some serious research done around diversity in tech ideally, and if nothing like that exists, then benefits/downsides of diversity in the workplace in general. Can anyone point to books or scientific research that have some hard data for or against homogenous/diverse groups?
That's probably ARC.
ah never knew that. My mistake. I just chose a random "functional" language as an example.
The economic response to this (and I'm not saying I agree...I don't have a horse in this race either way) is that a tourist's willingness to pay for accommodation exceeds a resident's, and so they should get the apartment. And the apartment owner can turn around and capture this surplus by renting out their accommodations to tourists on AirBnB. The market price for housing is artificially low in most municipalities because the market is limited to people within geographical range of the apartment; open that market up globally and you'll find a vacationer who values it more than any resident does, and so the resident can capture the surplus to renting it to the vacationer.

The neat property of this business model is that it's actually viral: the way to avoid getting screwed by AirBnBers next door is to rent your place out on AirBnB too, and then go stay in somebody else's AirBnB.

It can be interesting to try and consider the endgame of various startups' business models, basically what the world would look like if the economic inefficiency they exploit is arbitraged away entirely. YCombinator is a world where everyone is an entrepreneur, but the returns to entrepreneurship aren't much better than having a regular job, and everybody works much harder. Google is "information wants to be free", where everybody has full access to information and the market price of that is zero. Napster was that nobody would produce art or music; Facebook is that all socializing occurs online; Uber/DoorDash/PostMates and other sharing economy startups create a caste society where those without technical skills serve those who do. AirBnB's endgame is the destruction of the concept of residency. If they succeed in their mission and arbitrage away all inefficiencies in the housing market, they effectively institutionalize the digital nomad lifestyle, where everybody can live and work anywhere in the globe, and yet never has a permanent home.

I'll let other people judge whether that's a good or bad thing. To me, most social institutions are pretty arbitrary anyway, and I have confidence I could adapt to whatever world comes next. I'll say that they're riding a really powerful trend that's independent of any one corporation or individual: the Internet has made nearly all markets global, and so the idea of being tied to a particular place is becoming increasingly quaint for many people.
Drug related crimes (gang murders) are an issue. Stay away from certain areas and dont do drugs and you will be ok. Same as in any US state. Other types of crime arent too bad.
Ahh, fighting. The ultimate form of togetherness.
What is a “10x” Programmer?
xara! that's some fringe memories right there.
Pytorch 0.2.0
He did mention that he is not denying diversity is important or that sexism exists. And the biological differences he mentioned are "POSSIBLE non-bias causes of the gender gap in tech".

His entire argument seems to be that we should stop denying biological differences exist too. And a non 50% representation is not conclusive proof of sexism in society.
The study looked at modes of everyday travel to work and was looking specifically at which mode had health benefits. Cycling was the only one that gave significant benefits.

Your argument about not cycling in high summer is the same one people use for not cycling when it has snowed 1-2m outside. It's a bit silly. Just because there are 1-2 months of the year where cycling is difficult, does not mean the other 10-11 months of the year should also not be considered.
My opinion (not "theory") is that teams are not interchangeable. Companies are not interchangeable. Industries are not interchangeable. What works for one team may not work for another. What works for a 10 man startup is not going to work for a 200,000 person company. What works for a web app company is not going to work for a video game company. But, Agile and Scrum have been shoehorned into every tech company I can see no matter how inappropriate it may be for that particular team, company or industry.

Your question prompted me to consider a thought experiment. Let's assume that management techniques are completely ineffective and the deciding factor in whether a project ships and is successful or not lies entirely with the programmers and designers. Now, let's take it one step further and say that most management techniques actually reduce the likelihood a product ships and is successful. Do you think that would stop management from trying to exert control over something that is completely out of their control? Do you think that would stop management from thinking that their input is actually making things better when in fact their input is making things worse? Managers are ultimately responsible for producing results, but they have no direct control over those results. Most humans, when put in that situation, will try to do something, anything, to make it feel like they have some control over the situation. Even if it makes that situation worse. Finally,what if what I have described above isn't actually a thought exercise, but a fairly good description of what is happening in the real world right now. Would we be able to tell?

Food for thought.
Its a colony.
>re: travel and entertainment is not one of life's necessities

neither are steak, chicken, lobster, toilet paper, SUVs, TVs, rockets to space, streaming movies, fireworks...

and yet the production and consumption of these things carry personal and societal risks.

who are we to judge, unfortunately?

>re: have not received any value from a large corporation?

I think what the poster is saying there is that he receives value from smaller individual landlords and from large corporations-

-but that they would prefer if it went to individual landlords because they might be a better steward to the community than a corporation
I can see that. There was (and is) a plethora of object systems, which could be seen as a double (triple?) edged sword. It provided choice, with many alternate features and methods (no pun intended), but perhaps at the expense of developer clarity - which one best serves my needs? Will I end up in a dead end? What are most others using? What serious problems might I be adopting? The "third edge" though, is a positive, though took time to arrive: the TclOO that was finally developed was informed by the technical and social impacts of years of experience with various OO systems, and indeed emerged mature and well-formed because of that. In fact, it was initially developed to only be an underpinning for other flavours of OO sugar to be bolted on top, in support of existing systems like [incr tcl] and Snit. It ended up being received as system good enough to use directly, in it's own right.
I think the other person with which you are speaking is communicating clearly enough without your help on what the definition of words are supposed to mean.
It is definitely not irony.

If you have evidence that harm never once originated from people saying words, I'd love to see it. Otherwise, I think you're making an assertion that you'd like to be true.

Discussions have effects. That's why we have them.
The canned list processing functions can be implemented with a for loop.
Agree, there was no data loss, but those who relied on US-Standard solely with no bit replication were dead in the water for the duration of the outage.
S3 has had a data loss too sadly, a console UI bug lead to the wrong files getting deleted if I recall correctly. Yet another reason for frontend web tech to improve.
Just wait 10 years until we all have 1000 core CPUS...
chroma's summary above does a much better job understanding the manifesto than that medium post imo (cf https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14938457 ). Yonatan just hones in on that one botched idea and then berates the author for the rest of the post.
I think the market for shared accommodations will never be very big and the presence of an owner/tenant can keep neighbor-affecting bad behavior in check.
I don't think so.

Perfectionism is about meeting an premeditated ideal. Striving for an elegant solution involves approaching a problem with an open mind, and making compromises.

Elegance minimizes and co-opts cruft. Perfectionism's anxiety refuses to admit that cruft is an unavoidable and often necessary part of life, and is usually too expensive to entirely eliminate.
We fixed the syntax problems if you like C better than Tcl.

http://mcvoy.com/lm/L/L.html

Type checked, C like, structs, perlisms like if (buf =~ /re/), compiles to tcl byte codes so that L can call tcl and tcl can call L, open source, liberal license.
>"The issue has since been remediated and is no longer occurring."

I would think that if you lost your data, unless they have restored your deleted data the "issue" is still very much occurring for you as a customer.

Wouldn't remediation be that they have recovered your lost data?
I doubt we ever will know. But we certainly won't know until we eliminate the effects of the enormous confounding variable of our centuries of sexism.
Because, in most cases, it wouldn't work. Most pages using scroll-jacking create and/or show certain layers upon scroll. The content isn't there before.

There are some, like I believe most Apple product pages, where scroll-jacking is used to create a one-slide-at-a-time-effect where it may work. But even on those, individual slides often undergo transformations upon scroll revealing information you'd otherwise not see.
How did those early employees make out financially? If it's personal, no problem, no need to answer. Always interesting to know how early employees end up doing from a specific startup or overall.
Kenya election: The men of violence making a fresh start
Supposedly the rot started after the disappearance of Etan Patz in 1979, the first missing kid to have his picture on milk cartons. That's when parents started becoming more restrictive of their children's freedom.
It’s a good point that Python is smart enough not to build a mutable list on the right-hand side when not needed (e.g. for "x = [1, 2]" it will and for "y, z = [1, 2]" it will not). A right-hand tuple however is still a separate type, and if you disassemble the original cases you can see that "[] = []" is more wasteful than "[] = ()".

>>> import dis
>>>
>>> @dis.dis
... def f():
... a, b = 1, 2
... (a, b) = [2, 3]
... (a,) = [4]
... a, = [5]
... [] = []
... [] = ()
...
3 0 LOAD_CONST 6 ((1, 2))
3 UNPACK_SEQUENCE 2
6 STORE_FAST 0 (a)
9 STORE_FAST 1 (b)

4 12 LOAD_CONST 2 (2)
15 LOAD_CONST 3 (3)
18 ROT_TWO
19 STORE_FAST 0 (a)
22 STORE_FAST 1 (b)

5 25 LOAD_CONST 4 (4)
28 STORE_FAST 0 (a)

6 31 LOAD_CONST 5 (5)
34 STORE_FAST 0 (a)

7 37 BUILD_LIST 0
40 UNPACK_SEQUENCE 0

8 43 LOAD_CONST 7 (())
46 UNPACK_SEQUENCE 0
49 LOAD_CONST 0 (None)
52 RETURN_VALUE
> Because it further reduces the number of homes available for people to actually live (which is why we have zoning laws), which inflates rent/housing prices.

The argument that zoning laws reduce housing costs is backwards.

The only reason people want to convert long-term housing to short-term rentals is bad zoning that has led to a shortage (and thus high prices) of short-term rentals.

The solution to that, as is the solution to high housing costs in general, is to build more housing.

Which is the thing zoning laws stand in the way of.
Sounds nice - but I'd love to know what the cost of the system was and the annual upkeep/maintence repair expense, energy costs etc compared to regular trash pick up...can one make a compelling case that these should be more widely used?
He said its hard to explain it to people expecting rational reasons.
When was that? Do you have the post mortem for it?
postmodernism marxism and nature of proof don't sound like political issues.
Fun to see Event Source show up here. I feel like WebSockets are all the craze, but Event Source seems to be a really simple alternative that uses only HTTP.
That has not been my experience. Extended stay hotels do offer kitchens, but they are almost universally still studio units. Outside of the condominiums available in true vacation-only destinations (Maui, Vail, etc.) rental accommodation seems to be built to meet the needs of business travelers, and family travel is largely ignored.

AirBNB clearly identified a market under-served by the existing hotel industry.
We have a type of universal healthcare but its so mismanaged that its going to blow into pieces sooner or later. Most have private insurance that is on the expensive side of things given the local economy. For example, I pay $700 a month for 3 people and its not even that great.
You're right: it's extremely lucrative for the incumbents.
Maybe, anti scraping is already a multi million dollar industry with active development from startups and bigger names like Akamai.

There are plenty of websites that want scrapers to disappear.
It doesn't have to directly target people to be called a weapon.
What does your last paragraph mean? Facebook already has more mobile users than web, no? And their mobile revenue is what is giving them most of their valuation.

Or do you mean from the get go FB is something people are used to just from phones? If so my apologies. That does make some sense and could be true. Probably is for a lot of growing nations and economies like Africa and Asia.
I suspect London will be the first there, simply because of the level of existing surveillance
Does anyone familiar with their marketing language know how many "nines" they had on their resiliency number ?
Factually incorrect, there was no data loss, availability was affected, however; https://aws.amazon.com/message/41926/
Centralization decreases frequency of failure but increases its cost. A really large scale nasty incident with a major cloud provider like Amazon could be a national state of emergency.
That's like saying it's time for Microsoft to merge Windows and Windows mobile. ;)
Geniuses stand on the shoulders of giants and look further ahead, while I look at giants and assume a fetal position and cower in fear. Sigh !
Not surprised to see this, I've run into many issues with Meraki devices over the past 2+ years.

Their support team is amateur at best; at one point I had 6 Meraki engineers working on a DHCP problem (yeah...DHCP) and their recommendation after several weeks of troubleshooting - do a factory reset.

I have dozens of stories...don't even get me started.
Do you disagree? Would it help for me to show you the probability is strictly non-zero?
How Marijuana Can Help Save a Cancer Patient’s Life
It was.

Apparently, lots of people either haven't read the "manifesto", or have but have read into it something not explicitly stated by the author.

I think some critics have claimed that the things explicitly stated by the author implictly mean something bad, but they haven't actually made the effort of showing that conclusion is supported by anything the author wrote.
Damn. Groups were a part of FB in 2005. I now remember knowing this but had completely forgotten I'd read that fact before. I'm surprised you're the first comment to mention groups being there early on.
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>>It's quite possible it is Homeland Security gathering information on illegal immigrants

How would it do that using this plane?
False equivalence.

Unlike with personal electronics, real estate typically does not exist in a bubble and affects lives of other people living nearby.

Both you and your neighbours would be affected by noise or lack of trash disposal.

If the people in the flat upstairs would flood their flat, the flats below would be flooded and damaged too.

If your neighbours don't like what their neighbourhood is becoming - they have the same right to decide what it should be as you do.

"Do as I wish" has limits in human communities.
Really? I've read several screeds arguing against women in the workforce in the past few years.
Well yeah, Psychology is an almost empirical science, EQ 2.0 is a hands-on approach. When you read it, you may acquire skills that otherwise a Psychologist might teach you.

As you might guess, I read the book. I went through some difficult experiences in my life, that made it at some point really difficult to make new friends, feel happy or reasonably successful at work. That book helped me a lot. It's not answering all questions to life, rather it gives you a set of tools. You can decide by yourself whether you want to use some of them and which.

Anyways, this book falls into the category business books / self-help. I assume they are competing with Psychologists except it's not so stigmatizing maybe. Maybe... if you tell someone in the face which exercise you are doing from this book, the person will probably think you are completely insane... ;) But yeah, it's great that non-Psychologists are allowed to write such books.
I think the idea that people 'believe' that segregated cycle lanes are needed vs the last 30+ years of promoting Vehicular Cycling with little to no growth in cycling, and achieving double digit yearly growth once they started building segregated cycle lanes shows that it is an evidence based solution.

Cycling is consistently the fastest way to get from A to B in a city. Cycle infra makes other traffic faster and protects pedestrians. The economic benefits are huge as well and proven.

So I still do not understand why you think the idea that given a choice, investing in BRT is a better solution.
This is a good read for those concerned about pollution, and it's very important to remember that climate change is not the only environmental threat around. Chemical pollution is a bad situation. I was disappointed with a lack of a practical call to action: it's mostly a TED-style exhortation for the "government to do something", along with "chemical plants are bad". There are surely environmental laws, programs, and other regulatory procedures that could help this pollution. Was DuPont breaking the law? Should they have been? How about getting some quotes from the EPA or environmental lawyers? Ranting about "Jazzfest sponsored by Shell" isn't going to inform a citizen or government official about what steps to take next.

Additionally, the second paragraph of the article contains a misleading statement about the risk of cancer in Reserve -- "800 times the national average". The data [1] is still shocking and generally backs up the article: there is a lot of chloroprene being dumped in the air in John the Baptist Parish, and the cancer risk there is the highest in the nation. But the 800x metric is only a summation of specifically enumerated, mostly chemical "point sources". If you sort by total cancer risk (most notably including emissions from cars and trucks), some of the tracts in the parish are only 2-4x the cancer risk of tracts in Manhattan and San Francisco.

[1] https://www.epa.gov/national-air-toxics-assessment/2011-nati...
Postmodernism is a political issue, or at least, it is involved in critical theory which influences politics. Marxism is a critique of political economy. I didn't mean to group the last item in with "political issues", though the point that he is misinformed still stands.
Airmule is people?
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This was a great read, I enjoyed it very much – thanks for sharing!

It's also the first time I see this site. I've read a couple more articles on it and it looks nice, I like it. The writing is good and the material is interesting, and it's ad free on purpose. I pitched in a few dollars while I consider whether to subscribe. Again, thanks for sharing this nugget of gold!

Edit: fixed fat finger typos.
But not the gender distribution of people who are qualified to work in the field. If we want gender parity in employment, we need gender parity in graduating classes. Trying to have one without the other is a ridiculous endeavor.
>The manifesto argues that women are genetically inferior and that most women developers shouldn't have their job.

Are we reading the same manifesto? The one I read argues that men and women are different. Pros and cons. Strengths and weaknesses.

I think you are the one holding a binary view while conflating different and inferior?
I wouldn't take his comments at face value. This is essentially political posturing to his voter base. Self-driving cars have barely made any inroads whatsoever into the country, and he's picked this non-issue to essentially signal that he supports employment for the masses.