skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That elephant is not in the room yet. It's waiting at the Supercharger station a couple hours out on the highway, and won't be here for a quite some time. While that's changing with the Model 3 and the responses of other auto manufacturers, few people own or can afford a Tesla Model S. The elephant that's currently in the room is gasoline-based mobility.

5400 km in a gasoline-powered vehicle at 20 mpg or 14 liters per 100 km is 756 liters or 167.8 gallons of gasoline, and at 33.7 kWh per gallon, that's 5.655 MWh.

The commutes multiply the energy consumption by more than a factor of 5. You shouldn't feel good about turning off an LED bulb and using a lamp instead if you also enjoy driving to work in your pickup truck.
Yeah LOL i think maybe limiting the dataset to just 1:1 conversations would be better than including group chats as well
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It is not objectively possible.

You can't _really_ tell, in advance, if one candidate or another is better suited. Sure, a "D" student who failed at the white-board is probably not a good choice compared to an "A" student who aced the whiteboard... usually.

But what we're talking about here, at worst, is relatively minor differences in a female vs male candidate, where the underrepresented gender gets a "boost." In other hiring scenarios, the candidate's professional contacts or school pedigree or family connections may give a similar (or even greater) boost.
Honestly not sure what could be on the other end of that hyperlink that would make it suddenly okay to suggest that a portion of your colleagues aren't worthy enough to be there.
Cached version, since it's down:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:9mRe-8...
The Future of Money – ICO Advice from an Investor
If you are writing a Web application, you can always just use the one number and skip the complexity. A lot of work is poured into browser engines to make them render the simple cases as quickly as possible, while allowing for rich styling grammar for use by people writing documents.
We all have a collection of online wallets – PayPal, Stripe, Realex – but we are still dependant on a Withdraw button to send money to our banks. Why?
I once visited a whaling station down there and it was quite cool to see all the "steampunk" tech laying around, though rusting.

Also there was a British (I think) outpost that had canned food on the shelves from the late 1950s, was a bit surreal.
I'm glad someone made a classic fruit cake joke. I haven't heard one in many years. I haven't seen a fruit cake in many years, either.

Jokes about fruit cakes used to be common. I fear the jokes were too successful and killed off the fruit cake.

I love fruit cake. I wish someone would give me a fruit cake as a gift they way we used to get them when I was a kid.
The /only/ reason I still have a hackernews account after abandoning my other accounts is because it's one of the only sites that seems aware of this.

I'm especially fond of the noprocrast feature. I don't know of any other site/app that will kick their users out if they use it for too long.
Because not everything needs to be as incredibly sweet as Danish pastries tend to be?
Not keeping shopping malls at freezing temps would help, too!
This. I went in to tech to get away from these goddamn social people, and now they want to change tech to make themselves feel more comfortable. Why isn't loving the tech enough for you?

This is an emotional, somewhat juvenile, not particularly logical nor progressive response, but it's part of the truth for me.

Why do you want to feel accepted? What does that even mean? Come prepared. Do what you will.

* Of course, it would be nice to be able to show up for work without being creeped on by your bosses or co-workers. Not diminishing that. I've just never understood this wanting for acceptance. Write some C++. Boom. Accepted. You are a wizard. Fuck the mundanes.
If the OS is stable for me I shouldn't need to update.
For MacOS users simply use:
`brew install git`
Then restart terminal instance.
Really well said. This matches my experience as a woman in tech. There is nothing inherently about tech that makes it unenjoyable to woman. It's just an image problem and discomfort being part of a minority. Nothing biological about it. I feel like so many more woman would love this field if they better understood what it is and why it's worth it.
Almost All of FCC’s New Advisory Panel Works for Telecoms
I think that's related to the tipping culture in the US. Employers can pay their employees shit, and almost everyone is happy with that because it makes things cheaper in general.
I'd be ok with all modals going away to be honest.
My machine is used for occasional gaming and nothing else. I would like to update it when I please. If that means it's out of date for a while I don't care, I'll happily click through multiple big red warnings confirming I want this.
Cathedrals and castles were built to be functional. Concrete and stone are strong under compression, but weak under tension. That's why medieval structures were built with lots of straight lines, or sweeping curves.

When I look at a lot of Brutalist buildings (not all, but a lot), I can't help thinking the concrete is mostly a facade, which is covering up a steel structure trying to hold up badly engineered blocks that are jutting out for no reason other than being gimmicky.

They make me think of over-styled hatchbacks with oversize spoilers, air intakes, and such. It's not all functional, but it looks functional. And maybe it's nice inside, but I suspect it's got tacky fake racing seats, bouncy suspension, and a sound system with way too much base.

Obviously I don't like Brutalist architecture, so I might be biased. And some of it really looks like abstract modern cathedrals, with sweeping concrete arches that look both functional and efficient. But a lot of it seems to designed to look functional at the expense of actually being functional.
Functions have several functions.

* Functions can be like new words in a language. If there is new concept that is used frequently, it should be named or abbreviated and maybe listed in a index.

* Functions can sometimes be like chapters or sections. They are entry points listed in table of contents (API description)

* Functions are sometimes used like paragraphs. Used only once to make very long section easier to read. Not really functions. Way to structure text.

For paragraph use we might want blocks of code with function like interface. Code editors could collapse and expand them.

let a, b, c = 100
let p = 0

paragraph "Intro to foo" (constant a, modify p) {
let k, l, m, ...

} assert (p < a)
Yes, you need to know the command line switch for each package/installer separately to install in the proper place.

They have a switch to configure it once and have their tool figure out the right argument for each installer by itself, but it's only for paid users (~$96/year)
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For me, I generally try to break in to smaller parts any function where the logic extends over one screen in length.

There are of course always exceptions to this, but having logic take up roughly a single screen size makes it easy to reason about.
Sure, but there's a weird / interesting aspect to these ICOs here as well, in that the valuation of the coin is also what will drive adoption of the providers. Since miners will be paid in coin to validate providers and providers will also be paid in coins, then there needs to be some value associated with it.

The ICO in this case kind of bootstraps the value of the coin in a way that is needed in order to bring on miners and providers. So in a way the value being raised is a bit like capital costs that the network will "spend" to bootstrap and verify the network.

Don't get me wrong, this is a lot of money to raise, but saying this is totally nuts without taking into account that the model is very different (and interesting!) is not giving credit where its due. Will it work? Who knows and certainly most startups fail, but it isn't a foregone conclusion.
>Why would you want to use archaic CLI commands instead of a modern GUI though?

Because on Unix systems, the CLI commands are not archaic and you can move way faster than a GUI using them.

> window management is great on Windows. It's definitely more robust than the Mac OS and more stable than whatever minority Linux desktop you're using

I'm comparing it to Mac. The gestures a mac laptop provides make window management very smooth. The keyboard shortcuts and mouse movements required to replicate this on Windows aren't the same. MacOS remembers my multi-monitor window placement, yet every time I unplug and re-plug in my windows laptop from my monitors, I have to drag all the windows back to their monitors.

>Also, the start screen is better than anything and not messy at all. I can't even organize the equivalent on my Mac the way that I want to

It's a jumbled mess of colours and rectangles. The old school start menu is just as bad - nesting folders upon folders, hunting pixels so you click the right spot. It's just an old school way to manage computing that many people are used to and therefore think is better.
I am glad that people are using algorithms to increase efficiency. But, this seems to only save $5M out of a $120M budget - I was expecting and am hoping for more.

I feel like it would be an awesome project to dissect a large public institutions funding and to discuss ways that algorithms can help reduce costs without reducing the quality of service and agility of the organization.

The site would not allow me to read the full article, so I might have missed something.
I lived through the late 90s dot.com mania and you saw an MBA out of Harvard and a couple techies raise this kind of money on nothing more than a hair brained idea with .com after it. Russ from Silicon Valley with his "radio. on. internet!" is pretty close to the truth.

This is a bubble. Not FileCoin, but ICOs and block chain.

The vast majority of these ICOs are outright scams or unworkable nonsense. I've read some of these white papers but I stopped when they threatened to give me an eye rolling injury. (Can eyes roll so far back they get stuck?) Some of them read like they were generated by a statistical language model to parody CS papers on distributed systems.

FileCoin is actually one of the best I've seen-- the team behind it has actually shipped distributed/decentralized systems that actually work (IPFS). I have to stress this-- in the ICO space a team that has actually shipped something useful is rare and this places them far above the herd. They might actually do something with this money.

I also hope the honest/good ICOs don't get crushed when this inevitably implodes or gets prosecuted by the SEC. There's so much obvious outright fraud in this space I can't imagine the SEC (and FBI, etc.) aren't watching or even briefing prosecutors.

That being said we (ZeroTier) have looked at an ICO but...

(1) Our system has no built-in scarcity that needs a token. We have no use case for a token. It would be a force fit or an invented case, which would make it scammy.

(2) We have existing investors who are justifiably nervous about taking on an unknown liability of the "potential criminal violation of securities laws" sort. So am I for that matter.
It wouldn't have been the primary. The Newton had an on screen keyboard like products today. Innovation is only innovation if it works, and the Newton had a lot of amazing things going on, some of which the iPhone doesn't even attempt. The emphasis on handwriting recognition killed the product (along with a healthy does of hatred from Steve Jobs).
Canned Emails – a minimal site with prewritten emails
Also most of political history.
What's your definition of a "Full Stack Developer", I'd like to have the opinions of people here ?

Reading on Wikipedia, it seems, for someone living on Linux, knowing a full LAMP is... trivial. Configuring a debian box is like riding a bicycle. Once you have some good apache confs in your personal library, configuring apache is a breeze. Configuring MySQL (|mariadb) might need some googling if you want to do it right. Writing some php or python is just like writing software. Maybe adding on top of that some iptables and ssl certs.

I'm hoping for some discussion. I know there are more complicated architectures.
I'm not aware of any regulated exchanges that currently have Bitcoin futures contracts, but even if you could find one the volatility + leverage would make for a very interesting ride down (assuming you're not immediately stopped out).
Probably some awful CGI VB6 or C app.

I've had to maintain some of those.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface
It's also phenomenally useful for non designers too. I mean okay, is it the most pretty framework? Of course not.

But it's got a consistent look and feel to all components, and that look is a mile above anything I could design from scratch.

So in the same way you use it to build professional looking websites with limited HTML/CSS knowledge, I use it to build sites with very limited design knowledge and no sense of aesthetics.
Funding Conditions for Tech Startups Soar to a New Record
I'm working on a team for a platform built on open-source
software which actively replaced a previous IBM solution, and there are more services from other vendors being phased out in favor of internally developed tooling.

Seems like a good long-term investment, in an era where people are constantly criticizing CEOs for short-term cash-grabs. Why shackle yourself to a vendor if you plan to be around for awhile.
Democratic Party and Republican Party in the US are coalitions of different types of people. We are talking about discussing politics when people strongly disagree being pointless. Presumably, supporters of different center parties in Europe don't disagree that much
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ryzen-Se...

"AMD was also able to confirm this issue is not present with AMD Epyc or AMD ThreadRipper processors".
> It just dilutes the extremity of what the Nazi's did.

conversely, does the (sometimes aggressive) privileging of ww2 wrongs not "dilute" what others have faced? even in modern or near-modern times?

it also seems such a bizarre point of view that something was "relatively common" (and i'm not sure this phrasing is helpful) therefore it's /less/ of a tragedy for that fact.
https://blog.templatetoaster.com/bootstrap-4/

The thing I'm most excited about is the flexbox grid.
It's fascinating to me to watch different online cultures debate this and watch each culture cherry-pick the studies that best support their position. Do you believe in gender differences in personality and aptitude? You can find dozens of papers to support that position. Do you believe such differences do not exist? You can find dozens of papers to support that as well. There is a deluge of research on this topic going back decades--even centuries depending on your filters.

It's like the old nature vs nurture debate. I grew up with academics constantly bringing up the questions of blank slates versus inherent human nature in my schooling. Then I started hanging out with young Ph.Ds in a wide variety of sciences. I learned from them that the debate itself is generally regarded as nonsense by many modern academics. Anyone who has deeply immersed themselves in the research knows that there is a vastly complex web of interactions between genetics and environment that is impossible to untangle with our current tools and methodologies. Anyone who tells you otherwise is merely exposing their Dunning–Kruger.

That's how I feel about this gender-differences debate flaming up all week on HN. I completely understand the passions it raises on both sides, but everyone is talking past each other because no one is understands this subject well enough to be humbled by its incredible complexity and how much we still don't know about it.
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I believe Jobs was an "editor" too. He would direct talents into improvements and pick choices. He didn't just sell something made, he was the guy who asked for it. There was many ways to design a mp3 player, some good that amazing people could have made, but only a few that became iconic like the ipod.

ps: think about Next too, that's again a Jobs only venture. He assembled the team, designed the goals, drove the people. He's not "just a salesman", he brings value into the formula. Not to say that people like Tesla weren't screwed though.
Um, you may want to look at your home page on an iPhone.
The 8th Circuit ruled on the case but not on the right to record police in public. On 8/2/16 the lower federal court only found that the plaintiff "has no constitutional right to videotape any public proceedings he wishes to." She also cited a 2004 8th Circuit case holding that “Neither the public nor the media has a First Amendment right to videotape, photograph, or make audio recordings of government proceedings that are by law open to the public." This is far different from the right to record outside in a traditionally public forum (street or park) and only applies to the jurisdiction of the federal trial court not the full 8th Circuit. Akins is now seeking an en banc review or motion for rehearing of the 7/25/27 8th Circuit ruling which basically dealt with affirming the lower court's decision to grant summary judgment to the defendants and also affirming the denial by the trial court judge of the motion for her to recuse herself from the case. The First, Third, Fifth, Seventh, Ninth and Eleventh Circuits have all ruled that the right to record police officers performing their official duties in a public palace is clearly established which will negate a claim of qualified immunity by police.
Psychologist: Most of Us Are So Stuck in Our Routines We Don't Even Notice Them
Ah, Netochka Nezvonova. I remember being supremely attracted to her in high school. By all accounts, she was either insane or just a troll, but there was something alluring about her, like the article mentioned.

A large part of why I ended up where I did in life has to do with that early-2000s internet culture. I never realized how seeing sites like these could bring so much nostalgia.
Any specific mouse you recommend?
The question to ask is - do these policies counter balance existing prejudices and biases in tech? As a woman in tech, I say they do. You may disagree but I think this discussion requires a lot of input and studies that analyze this topic.

The article in question here - though the title appears to imply differently - gives an anecdotal example of unconscious discrimination against a woman during the hiring process that changed the authors perspective on things.
If you prepend "facebook.com/l.php?u=" to a wsj link, it will let you read the full article. Like so:

http://facebook.com/l.php?u=https://www.wsj.com/articles/how...
Stephen Pinker did this number crunching (in fastidious detail) in "The Better Angels of our Nature". I forget what the result was, though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Better_Angels_of_Our_Natur...
What Happened to Google's Effort to Scan Millions of University Library Books?
From the TCSEC (1983-1990's) for security certification, a covert channel analysis was required to determine if information leaks was present in an otherwise secure architecture. It always involves a resource two processes share. Here's the basic definitions you use to assess this:

1. It's a storage channel when one process can write to it and another can read it. The temporary storage folders that are world-writable was one example. Another was TCP/IP headers. Memory that wasn't zeroed after use is another.

2. It's a timing channel when it can affect how long a process containing secrets takes to do something and that timing is visible to a process wanting the secrets. Network jitter, hard disk arms, caches, and Intel HT have all been used as timing channels. If it could be visibly timed & noise canceled out enough, then speculative and OoO execution might be another. Worth looking into.

These aren't adding tools, though. They've always been there. People just don't do covert, channel analyses. They even call requirements like that "bureaucratic, red tape with no value for security." Then, rediscover them piece by piece later while still ignoring the prior work. ;)
I just meant that if a thread was killed because there's already an active discussion for it, I would've expected to be redirected to the active thread (rather than a blank page). Thanks for the tip!
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You are missing the fact that private workplace is not a free speech forum. It's just a private place of business. You can do what you want but employment is at will. By all means, you should be free to discuss whatever you like, but a company is perfectly free to fire you so you have more time to continue your discussions elsewhere
I mean what would motivate you (or a corporation) to put those hard drives that are there with no use to work while you wait for new clients or something, is like renting disk space, I don't know why it doesn't click on HN.
Why Is the 1997 Honda Accord the Most Stolen Car in the U.S?
> I am glad that people are using algorithms to increase efficiency. But, this seems to only save $5M out of a $120M budget - I was expecting and am hoping for more.

There is only so much efficiency you can squeeze out with an algorithm. But, think scale. This is only in Boston. What if this team offered up the algorithm to all schools and other public transit authorities in the country? Think how many miles driven (less miles = less wear and tear, less opportunity for accidents to occur) and dollars would be saved.

Want to do it as a for profit taking a cut of the savings? Cool. Want to do it as a non-profit funded by the DOE out of a grant? That'd work to. It appears there are hundreds of millions of dollars in savings to be realized out there from this, which is awesome.
It's definitely not a separate issue, it's fundementally linked. Voter registration is separate and not tied to any electronic ID, so you saying it's a solved problem isn't true.
You can do it on Kraken.com
It's just as good as any fruitcake passed around at Christmas. It never gets opened. It stays perfectly preserved. When you receive the fruitcake at Christmas, you leave it wrapped, and gift it to someone else next Christmas. Only a finite number of fruitcakes need be manufactured. Thus resources are conserved. Only a finite number of fruitcakes ever had to be purchased. Again, resources and economics. It's economical because when you receive the fruitcake as a gift, you have a free gift to give someone next year without spending money. It can be passed around almost indefinitely Best if used by August 9, 2047.