skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google says they want to hire a diverse collection of employees, so that the solutions they build in the future aren't one-dimensional, possessing only the stereotypical white male's mindset and approach.

The fact that they stated this very desire proves that they believe that women are different than men, and that women might theoretically approach a problem or solution differently than a man.

But if someone writes a manifesto which points out that, "Hey, maybe men and women are different, with different traits and mindsets (when considered across the whole average)", suddenly that person is sexist.

Google wants to have their cake and eat it too. They want to pretend there are no tangible difference between the way males and females work and think, but they also want a diverse culture that can benefit from the different ways how males and females work and think.
Linus seems to have a different take on OSS than most OSS warriors. I don't think he sees proprietary software as 'evil' or OSS as morally superior. I get the impression he just thinks OSS will be better in quality. Depending on the contributors, which is why he doesn't want or need endless numbers of average devs contributing to his baby.

I think his point about Tridgell's actions with BK reverse engineering were right, and El Reg was playing the OSS warrior card. It looks to me like Tridgell was trying to create a way to steal BK metadata - BK specifically required you to have a license to get that data.

OSS warriors annoy me as much as SJWs do, and seem just as narrow minded.
Most people don't understand central banking, yet they use the existing monetary system just fine. Mainstream acceptance doesn't require universal knowledge - merely trust.
>> There's a good chance that those guys didn't even have their phones on.

Nevermind the fact that it was defcon, I'm a regular presenter at conferences and meetups, and literally #1 on my last-minute checklist is to text my wife that I'm now unreachable and silence my phone.
I find it hilarious that at the end of the post it says "Contact me securely" and goes on to give a PGP fingerprint. All while being served up via http...
The Invisible Poems Hidden in One of the World's Oldest Libraries
Indeed, even when using fossil fuel as the energy source for both a gas-powered and an electric car, the well to wheel efficiency is 14-33% vs 42%, respectivly.

Source (2013): http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~pu4i-aok/cooldata2/hybridcar/hyb... (it also claims a 42% efficiency for diesels on highways)
Mathieu's Newsletter.

Want it shorter and easier for people to pronounce? Mat's Newsletter.

It worked for Craig's List. And it has the benefit of allowing you to do whatever you want with it, even pivot it. If you give it an overly specific name, this makes it harder to let it develop organically in whatever direction happens to work best.
> The speeds were good and the apps work but are kind of boring

... isn't the point of a VPN do just do its job and stay out of sight? Why is 'boring' even remotely relevant to the VPN equation?
That's because he doesn't understand the sentiment people are conveying when they say "Chrome clone". Very few mean "Firefox is literally becoming the same as Chrome". They mean that Mozilla has begun following the same design philosophy as Google:

1) limit the ability to change the browser behavior and interface

2) over-simplify the default interface
As demand drops, the producers who have the lowest cost will win out over the more expensive options and the market share of those expensive suppliers will drop to zero. I believe that's the basis for predicting the failure of the pipeline.
Someone needs to link this to FB's ELF platform (An End-To-End, Lightweight and Flexible Platform for Game Research). That was specifically made for RTS games like SC.
Sure, the UX might get slightly worse (early on at least) for some users but we are talking about programming related services. I do not think that having to use a well defined and popular standard protocol with the client of their choice in order to create a pull request or an issue would make contributing to a project difficult for a computer scientist.

Instead, I would argue that not having the ability to just send a mail/post to a mailing list/newsgroup by using my favourite SMTP/NNTP client without creating any form of account in a property service and without clicking buttons in a slow js-ridden web interface in order to create an issue or post a pull request is a bad UX.

> copy the URL, pull it down, make changes, push and click a button for a pull request

All of these (except clicking a button for a pull request) are possible just with git, they are not really github nor centralised-only features.

> Until that happens the idea of decentralizing things is just going to remain a pipedream.

I find sending an email and using NNTP with the client of my choice a lot easier than using a forum and a lot easier than using the github issue/pull request interface. Thus I would argue that this happened many years ago.
> Entropy increases monotonically from left to right, but intuitively, the “complexity” seems highest in the middle picture: the one with all the tendrils of milk.

Complexity only increases from the perspective of the observer. If you shift the frame of reference to individual particles, you have more local complexity throughout the system when the cream is completely mixed into the coffee (the third stage); even if there are less interesting aspects to the overall system from the perspective of the outside observer.

This indicates that complexity is not the term we are looking for to describe the law/phenomenon, as complexity is a factor of reference.

> But today, in between, the universe contains interesting structures such as galaxies and brains and hot-dog-shaped novelty vehicles.

I find Sophistication, "interesting", occurrence of novelty, or distinct structures to be a more accurate way to describe the three glasses of coffee & cream. Novelty is also a factor in intelligence, as is coherence.
This is still my favorite Stallman video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I25UeVXrEHQ
Not all private cars will go away, but a significant fraction of car use cases will move to self driving services (especially the ones that involve drinking).

For some this will mean their optimum is less car ownership, and for others no car ownership.

The trend will be amplified in areas with limited parking and high costs of living.

Also, you can always rent a car to go to the trailhead, just like you do on vacation.

None of this is dependent on electric or even self driving cars, as it is all already happening today with ride services and ICE cars, but self driving cars shift the economics considerably away from private car ownership.
This comment is a nice example of how the "I'm a rational person and only features matter"-mindset actually works against its stated goal.

With any VPN provider, there are certain crucial features where you have to trust them, "no logging" being the most prominent.

Since you're unable to get to the actual truth (until it's too late), you're left with trying to get a sense of the provider's character: are they supporting open source projects in the privacy space? Do they advocate for causes you believe in (by, for example, participating in the net neutrality blackout)? Do they take pride in their work ("show source" may be helpful here)? Do they have humour?

None of these are definitive. But in my experience, it's actually pretty hard for people who aren't members of a certain community to emulate it convincingly.
Great to know it's on the roadmap. Once a GC is in place, WASM seems like the universal platform of the future for computing. Fast startup, efficient, and the same everywhere. We were supposed to get a world of hundreds or thousands of cores for each application, but reality is most everything is moving towards small single threaded in the cloud like serverless.
Jeff Deist, the author of this article is a crypto white nationalist. You can pick up a hint of this from the article above,

"He understands that globalism is not liberalism, that identity and culture matter"

A quote from another article,

"Jeff Deist, President of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, a right-libertarian think tank for promoting Rothbardian anarcho-capitalism and the Austrian School of economics, said of the Alt-right that he found their writings "interesting...and somewhat refreshing".[20] In 2017, Deist concluded a speech at the Mises Institute titled 'For a New Libertarian' with the words, "In other words, blood and soil and God and nation still matter to people. Libertarians ignore this at the risk of irrelevance."[21]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleolibertarianism#United_Sta...

Note that "blood and soil" refers to the nazi phrase "blut and boden".
Any more reading on the Instart Logic tech detecting dev tools and hiding itself? I can't find much online.
Yes and absolutely not. He should have stuck with the problems of ideological rigidity and shame-silencing and said absolutely nothing about differences between any groups of people.
One reason might be that if you download pirated content you have to do so over VPN. Otherwise your ISP will likely reach out and let you know you are doing something illegal
No, you probably can't.
This article is talking about wifi passwords...
In such case the density would probably be large enough to efficiently match e.g. 4 people to a car.

Commutes are predictable (people do the same exact trip at roughly the same time) so easy to optimize.

You can therefore pack more people in the same fleet during peak times than during non-peak times.

The second obvious step is to create additional fleet made from half-buses like the 12 seater for peak traffic, a better Chariot.
Or Amazon may have added the tags as the writer was copying the URLs.

Honestly, it doesn't seem like something to fault the writer for.
By your metric, nobody has won the popular vote in 2012, 2008, 2004, 2000, 96, 92, 88, 84, 80, etc. either.
The paper: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1616361
Exactly. As someone who grew up in northern Utah it is hard to imagine owning an electric car right now. But most people don't live in northern Utah. Now that I live in DC, I would love an electric car since most of my gas money is spent hanging out in traffic anyways. Big cities, where most of the population lives, is where EVs will really make their debut.
There are a few problems yet to be solved. First, the battery system in a Tesla Model S has a carbon footprint from manufacturing that equals driving a midsized gasoline powered car for 8 years. If that doesn't change, then there is no net carbon reductions
Second, battery energy density needs to get dramatically better. Current Li-Ion batteries are about 6 times the energy density of a lead-acid battery of 40 years ago. They need to get 20 times better to equal a hydrocarbon fuel. Third, the increase in electricity demand has to come from somewhere. It isn't viable to replace all electricity generation with wind/solar, without MASSIVE storage investment. Hydroelectric and nuclear will be needed at large scale to cover this demand if coal and gas are not used.
While everyone talks about these technologies getting better at the same rate computers did, they haven't thus far. They might, but the laws of thermodynamics are a steep slope.
I don't keep up on EV development, but has the concept of battery exchange as an alternative to mobile charging stations made any progress? Seems like a big factor in the amount of time spent refilling vs recharging their vehicles.
does not matter, happily 'stuck' using 12.x series :D
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For about 15-20 years, really, though I can see why it would feel longer.
"Sure businesses could install chargers in their parking lots but we have a LONG way to go for that"

Why's that? I've seen hotels in Spain with dedicated Tesla parking/charging stations. Gas stations will be retrofitted with charging/swapping options. Tesla/other may partner with other businesses to install charging stations on the street.

Cars will leave while you're hiking to recharge. National Parks may well install charging stations and have regular, automated shuttles running the most popular routes.

Plus you're talking about a very specific case to suggest this being an issue for "large portions of America".
How developing a writing habit could help your business
Personal experience making the same command line util in python and swift 3 that was parsing code with the same C library (sourcekit) and then doing a bunch of string manipulation after that.

Optimized swift 3 & python were the same speed, with %80 of the time being spent in the C library. I would expect swift would at least be 2x faster in that %20 portion that wasn't sourcekit library.
Sorry, not trying to be a d*ck here but I don't get the point.

You said you don't like the NodeJS eco system as you need to install thousands of packages to get your work done whereas on the other hand, your find CRA which uses tons of NodeJS packages to get the work done.

Secondly, code splitting, Babel, bundling has nothing to do with CRA, they are just standalone packages which works well together.

Third, "What’s more, updates are great. It’s just a yarn install away.", Isn't this something which NPM does as well?

Syntax - Again, nothing to do with ReactJS, it's babel which comes with polyfills.

So am just curious here to understand that how exactly CRA changed your mind where 90% of what you are doing is pure JS and has nothing to do with ReactJS?
Legality will open the gates for a generation of researchers associating use with health outcomes, without legal gray areas. The sooner we find out and verify adverse and beneficial effects, the better for medical (and non-medical) users.
8 words is enough without a KDF. If you know 7 of the 8 words and there is a KDF, you might not be able to figure out which word is wrong or missing. But if there is no KDF you may be able to forget up to even 3 words.

Being able to brute Force your own password is a good thing if you can at least depend on knowing most of it.
From the article:

> Before vitamin B3 was introduced into the mother’s diet, embryos were either lost through miscarriage or the offspring were born with a range of severe birth defects. After the dietary change, both the miscarriages and birth defects were completely prevented, with all the offspring born perfectly healthy.

Sorry for breaking the "be civil" rule, but this is in-fucking-possible. There are many problems that can produce a miscarriage and birth defects, like a wrong number of chromosomes.

Is this published in a serious peer review journal?

I hope that something simple like this can prevent many problems (not all the problems), but this article looks overhyped and probably gives false hopes for the people with other problems.
Have you considered hacking together your own? Rails is built on top of other components (Thor for command line).

I just started hacking together my own and I would say the hardest part (for me) is file generation.
Moving to a new state, how to job search before arrival
My family is moving to a new state in a few months(South Carolina), what are the best ways to search for a job before moving?

If there are others who have been in a similar situation any advice would be appreciated. I'm wondering if I should be applying for jobs now or if waiting until I move would make the search/hiring process smoother.

The area isn't as tech oriented as my current state but it does have many jobs from my searches. If I apply to positions now should I be letting them know about the hiring timeframe?
I question the utility of average here. If I have a single gigabit user, I can dwarf a whole lot of 2-3 megabit connections. Good that we're ahead, but medians would be helpful here to give a better picture. Hopefully Akamai dealt with this somehow in their methodology.
I think most people just use a string extension to allow

str.substring(with: 7..<11)

or something similar.
I appreciate the questions!
I think Netflix is quite successfully moving away from trying to hold on to old content, to being the platform for accessing the up and coming, with some hits along the way.

If you remember Blockbuster - there were tons of old movies, and yet the real business model was in providing the new.

Netflix started off with providing the old, and has quickly shifted towards providing the new, including creating a bunch of it themselves.

I think the real longterm move for Netflix is to incorporate RottenTomatoes and IMBD into their business.

There is simply too much stuff, and if you can't compete on providing content that's been advertised somewhere else as 'good' (what Disney/Hollywood blockbusters do), then you need to do that yourself.

The way to do that is through the people, the only real cost will be in moderating it.

I shouldn't have to randomly watch 20 minutes of random series to see if I like it - Netflix is going to need to be in the business of providing intelligent suggestions, while educating the casual viewer on who's up and coming etc. You know, internet forums reinvented.

My 2 cents :)
I never said anything about picking "the most green". The columns are labelled and described in detail on a separate page.
A sensible thing for human-AI matches is to enforce a maximum number of actions per second and/or actions over period of time, which would be in line with a standard human player.
I don't think I understand this comment, nor do I think I want to try to understand it.
Well that's interesting. Do new affiliate links push the old one(s) out? Do they stack?
So clunky! :D — With 2000 commits per day, I don't think they need more people. I can't even imagine trying to fit that amount of source code change into any management style, let alone one that has little or no gatekeeping. Making the barrier to entry higher is probably only one step to prevent the project from self-immolation.
This is a ridiculous assessment. What is the cost of adapting to it? If that is cheaper than avoiding it, let alone fixing it, then it is the better answer.
He doesn't rate Vyper above PIA:

Vyper: 8,2,0

PIA: 9,4,0

The stars are identified as being from his personal experience and he discusses the rationale behind them.
Inspect -> delete <head>, delete #main-nav.

There, now I can read it.
Or, to that point, if she's ever been in a commercial airplane. /s
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, Mammals Took to the Skies
It'd be cool to see National Parks add charging stations. Nearby, any site handling RVs would have some base infrastructure to add charging to their repertoire.
ha good catch.
I think you're right. And if so I agree with Linus. I don't get the entitlement of OSS people. They want to play in someone else's sandpit but enforce their own rules. If you don't like the way the project is run then fork it, go make your own or find another one.
Optical illusion?
Change happens at the margins. For reasons that you and parent comments mentioned, we're not going to go to 100% electric anytime soon. But I think we will see a lot more city dwellers willing to go car-less, and a lot more suburban/rural families willing to go down from multiple cars to just one. That'll still be enough to shake out the less competitive oil companies.
https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-335080A1.p...

https://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/201...

https://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/201...
> 57 is lightning fast. Like, almost uncomfortably so on my machine.

I thought you were overstating it but I just tried it out and you're right, it's crazy fast.
Err, no. Payable immediately doesn't mean somebody has to hand you a wad of cash.
It isn't just malware installing plugins, it is the plugins increasing the attack surface for people trying to use the browser to install malware.
Even many dense urban areas in the U.S. have quite low broadband penetration, so it can't be chalked up entirely to low-density areas like small towns and rural areas. According to Fivethirtyeight [1], only 28% of adults within the D.C. city limits have home internet faster than dialup. And Manhattan, pretty much the most urbanized locale in the country, is only a bit higher, at 36%. Many low-density exurban areas are actually higher than that, so something other than density is responsible.

[1] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/lots-of-people-in-citie...
Keep in mind that it's not within Google's incentives to facilitate ad-blocking and prevention of tracking. After all, that's where the lion's share of their revenue comes from. However, Mozilla is free to actively support such efforts.
Useful as a general tool for identifying visitors? No.

Useful as a spearphishing tool for getting to specific people? Absolutely.

What do you figure as the likelihood that there are people in positions of power or influence right now who are using pseudonymous email addresses from third party providers? I'd peg it at near 100%,though I'm not in a position to identify specific ones.
There is an interesting line of research into catalysts that use electricity to create stuff like methanol, acetic acid, etc from CO2 and water. Often when you see people comment on this they automatically assume synthetic methanol --> green washed automotive fuel --> yay and I can keep my F150 pickup. But more seriously, pure low weight hydrocarbons --> chemical feed stocks.
Its the two girls one cup for geeks.

Stallman is as they say, a very special guy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S76pHIYx3ik
Does it matter? Ask a woman you know, preferably one in tech, to read the memo and tell you how she feels.

The women in tech that I've asked felt somewhere between offended and furious and, more importantly, would not feel comfortable working with someone who wrote such a memo and distributed it to his colleagues.
Par for the course for recruiters, actually.
This just really doesn't make sense for a lot of research. Most science isn't this kind of "Does chemical X do Y?"- these kind of clinical trials and safety reviews are not really what most scientists are engaged in. There could be some centralized system (do you know that clinicaltrials.gov already exists and does this for pharmaceutical research?) for safety and efficacy experiments, but most science goes more like "let's figure out how the heck this thing works!" and are an investigation involving hundreds of constantly changing mini-experiments that'd be impossible and counterproductive to predict beforehand.
The author is comparing electric cars to gasoline powered cars. The idea is that the cost of paying to use someone else’s electric car—even with a markup added—would be less than your current gas car’s cost per mile.

The per-mile cost also includes the capital outlay for the car itself. In other words, it might not make sense for you to pay $40,000 for a new electric car, but it could make sense for three people to split that, and drive each persons per-mile cost down.

All of this is in reference to how fast the switch over could happen, and is why it might be much faster than any of us anticipate.
How often do you end up at Google though; a few years back I tried DDG for a couple of months but ended up basically always doing !g and so went back to Google.

Might be time for another go?
Not my field, but consider law as a codification of custom. If a community practices "nonsensical disclaimers", adapts that practice to stakeholder concerns, establishes that practice as socially viable and worthwhile, and proliferates it as custom, then I suggest that yes, the law may well change.

Even in the short term, "nonsensical disclaimers" might impact 5-factor fair use decisions.

And consider the scientific community. Massive ignorance of, and disregard for, the letter of copyright law. There is instead a different social norm, built on acknowledgement. Are those "nonsensical disclaimers"?

Even when creation of law is corrupt, and especially when enforcement of law is corrupt, societal norms do matter.

Perhaps one might usefully examine the youtube copying and "nonsensical disclaimers" as a semi-aware form of civil disobedience?