skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't write the piece.

Another issue writers run into is that if you aren't using any of the hot catch phrases, no one will read your piece. I wrestle with this fact a lot. I blog at times about such issues. I try to be evenhanded and sympathetic to both sides. I really struggle with titling stuff and my writing gets damn little traffic.

My refusal to use the standard catch phrases, because of their frequently toxic framing, is a barrier to being heard at all. And I sometimes wonder which is worse: Putting out a fucked up message in hopes of some partial solution emerging or simply howling into the void and going entirely unheard.

Making any progress is incredibly challenging.

This piece was published in a major publication. If it didn't use a popular catch phrase, they probably would not have published it at all. Those popular catch phrases are important hooks for titling things and for communicating with the public.

On my own personal blogs, I have the luxury of refusing to use phrases I don't like. You generally don't have that luxury when trying to get published by an organization that needs to hit certain traffic targets to survive and keep their doors open.

The part of this that genuinely is an issue of emotional labor is her desire for her husband to actually be considerate. That is the crux of the issue here.

The article perhaps is not as clear as it could be about that fact.
As I've pointed out before, if you want a metal box building, there are good components for that. Butler Buildings and their competitors make them in the US, and they're everywhere in rural America. You can get insulated walls, windows, and doors. They're not pretty, but they're weathertight and strong.

One of the companies in that industry, General Steel, now offers house kits.[1]
The main problem is that many municipalities don't like houses that look like industrial buildings.

[1] https://gensteel.com/steel-building-kits/houses
As someone who also grew up in the 90s, all the cool kids had these things.
It cost him that much, we don't know what options he chose, labor, did he do the work himself etc. Then, what is the purpose of the house? Had he added, say $3000 more, he might have made so even his kids could grow there. etc etc.
> All you need to know is that men stand to gain more, genetically, by accumulating prestige and power.

I've thought about this too (well, not the genetic part) and I think it's a viable theory. Women's romantic ambitions are not tied anywhere near as tightly to their career success as men's are. I think this is a major contributor to a lower life satisfaction in men, at least.

I had some trouble phrasing the thing about women faring worse in societies. I didn't mean that their wellbeing is worse. I mean that they're disenfranchised and restricted from achieving positions of power.
Thursday Night Football
One of the original Lambda the Ultimate papers was "Lambda: the Ultimate Opcode" that described the hardware design of a computer whose ISA was Lisp itself. The paper is full of strange alien ideas like not having an ALU (Lisp is naturally symbolic; why would we need it?).

Guy Steele and Gerry Sussman also made a working processor from this design, but only fabricated a few prototypes (apparently it was absurdly slow, even by their standards). If you come by Gerry's office he'll gladly show one off to you.

http://repository.readscheme.org/ftp/papers/ai-lab-pubs/AIM-...
This type of feminism and denying gender roles exist is just making people unhappy.
Magit must be why Git was invented.
> - Use CRISPR to create hypoallergenic cats

Shut up and take my money.
The one is Columbus is already open.
Just ask for SAT scores..
Did that just say Super Fast and NFS...
The window limits the value the offset can represent -- minimum and maximum bounds. The window doubles each time you increment it since it's binary / power-of-two (0, 1, 2, 4, 8, …).

Within any given window there are 2^23 possible values. If you imagine those values as an array, the offset is the array index.

So in the example of 3.14, the window is [2, 4] since that's the power-of-two pair that contains the value. The offset is (value - minimum) / (maximum - minimum) = 0.57, which you multiply by 2^23 to get the array index.

Because the window doubles each time it's incremented, as the window gets bigger you lose precision -- in his example, [0, 1] gives 15 decimal places but [2048, 4096] only gives 4 decimal places.
> They looked at what happened to Gaddafi and Saddam, as well as how the new administration is seeking to tear down the Iran deal, and came to the conclusion that the US/West could not be trusted to honor a nuclear disarment deal long term.

I believe that NK was untrustworthy long before the events you cite. They didn't reach a rational conclusion. They always were belligerant, untrustworthy, lying bullies.
Probably a good amount of them. But if you want to hire them, and you don't want to be there, you have to think pretty hard about how you're going to lure them away. Just saying, "The cost of living here is lower!" is a start, but it takes a lot more than that.
>My husband is a good man, and a good feminist ally.

I'm not sure I needed to read anymore than that. It is a sexist view, by someone who I would suspect would argue they aren't sexist. Based purely on my personal experiences, I've found people who hold such a view tend to have a very fundamental incompatibility in world view from myself.
I would like a coffee table book about coffee tables that turns into a coffee table.
I think the correct term (instead of emotional labor) would be „ownership“. It’s the very thing my mother has complained of (well, the lack of it actually) about my father. He didn’t care about most things because he gets easily stressed about owning or being responsible for tasks, so he only initiates and rallies for tasks that he likes doing. Luckily they divorced some years ago.

Alas, I have adapted some of my father‘s behavior, but as I‘m truly growing up, it’s getting better. Ownership is empowering, and it must not be connected with guilt. For me (and probably my father), ownership always led to perfectionism and guilt when something did not work out; but screw guilt, and nobody‘s perfect. BTW in German, the terms ownership and responsibility are somewhat conflated into „Verantwortung“, which is easily interpreted as being held accountable.

I‘m sure there are a lot of reasons that can lead to passivity or the lack of ownership in a relationship. IMO it‘s one of the most toxic things that can exist. It can ruin precious years of your life, and turn family life into hell. Take ownership if you don’t already.
How easy is it to build a Swift app that uses the same codebase for Mac, Windows, and Android?

What are the target environments like in non-Apple systems?
I sympathize with your comment about the excessive level of "as-a-service" products out there.

However, I believe we are in a class of IaaS that is justifiably service-based, because there are performance benefits as we grow to being a worldwide service. So eventually it will be about more than just convenience or business model reasons.

The best analogy is a CDN. Fastly is useful even if you understand how to maintain Varnish. We're Fastly for push.
YouTube tightens rules around videos with external links
In the 1950s, society inflicted these expectations on women about how they should maintain their families. Homes should be immaculate, children should be participating in all sorts of activities, etc. Now, we’re embracing the idea that men should carry their share of the domestic labor, but haven’t quite rejected old ideals about what a home should be run like. So we’re in a weird transition state where we’re trying to get men to do work that nobody really needs or wants to do.
So true. My nephew has a small mole on his nose. I never notice it, nobody in my immediate family notices it, but he gets bullied at school over it, to the point he wants it surgically removed. He’s six.
I spent around $7k, came down to around $5 after we got concessions for the damage caused by the van full of drunken homeless people who delivered the stuff.

The guy ahead of me in line spent like $30k on a massive kitchen. It seems strange to spend that much, but if you lack the funds to build a super high quality massive kitchen, IKEA is good enough at bargain prices.
That's an interesting question. I wonder if there's some potential application in collision detection.
Windows isn't supported at all
Perhaps true, but also completely off topic. It makes you look like you're just looking for an excuse to score points, rather than contributing to the conversation we're having.
It looks like currently their estimation is that the West is too weak to oppose them and by taking a bellicose stance they can extract concessions, payments and other benefits. This is basically a blackmail/hostage situation.
...or to pick up furniture at an IKEA location, since they're usually way out in the suburbs and shipping prices are exorbitant.
> I came across this, which documents how cloudscape does this securely - at least they rotate - but looks like read access to memcache+compromise of a single web server is enough to compromise the past hour or two of ssl traffic that goes through cloudflare?

but (depending on how you get in) you can probably also compromise the next few hours, so one extra hour doesn't seem like a huge difference, given that the scenario is somewhat unlikely in the first place.
There pretty much is no such thing as an illegitimate church in the USA. The IRS is too scared to touch that anymore.
John Oliver famously made fun of this on a segment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y1xJAVZxXg
JARED KUSHNER VOTED AS a WOMAN, ACCORDING TO HIS REGISTRATION
There is a large selection of routers or general purpose devices that can be used as routers (for example Rasberry Pi) on which you can easily run standard Linux distributions. You can configure such distribution to install software updates automatically and have a quite secure setup for years.

With these USB modems, although they run Linux & Android, the images are of course proprietary and you fully rely on Huawei for security patches. The patches also don't install automatically, you need to check for them, download and install by yourself.

Most IoT devices have the same problem, so I personally avoid buying them, although they can work behind your home firewall, which can protect against many remote attacks. GSM modem is your gateway to the internet, so you can't put a firewall at front of it.
Its not terribly difficult to use swift on linux, theres a a working group trying make it easier for developers to use swift on the server [0]

[0] https://github.com/swift-server/work-group
Functionality I don't want == Zero functionality. If anything I want to watch costs money to watch, the free stuff might as well not exist.
Yet Another Major Russia Story Falls Apart. Is Skepticism Permissible Yet?
But what if it turns out the family hates it or the job is terrible and soul crushing? Now I'm kinda stuck there for 4 years.
And nothing really new about the idea either at least not if we look to more dense cities instead of the suburban American experience https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakagin_Capsule_Tower
Why not use GetDNS¹?

1. https://getdnsapi.net/
The academic job market is topsy-turvy. Tenured professors should be paid less than adjunct professors. The adjunct professor who takes on future income uncertainty should be paid more to represent that income uncertainty risk. If the job market was functioning correctly and in a perfect world, salaries would be so.
Have you read about the US research projects?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEALAB

Things quickly get challenging with depth.
> you should at least try and do some time in SV / Seattle etc.

I'm curious to know what your current thoughts are behind this. As someone who intentionally has steered clear of both those areas in order to try to optimize financially I sometimes wonder whether I'm missing out on something. Obviously one can learn more from better engineers, but don't the brightest ideas from the brightest engineers wind up being written about online and/or presented at conferences at user groups and broadcast across the Internet? Or does having the opportunity to put time into a name-brand tech company for a while really increase lifelong salary or career prospects sufficiently to recover the money thrown away on rent there? Or is there really sufficient value in serendipitous collaboration/socialization to justify moving to one of these places? Is there some other question I've overlooked?
Moscow Deploys Facial Recognition to Spy on Citizens in Streets
It's also outright wrong. Every single man has to handle all of his emotional labor himself. While not every single man is in a great place, I know many who live happy fulfilling lives, so that means they know fully well how to manage their emotional labor.
If you're young and single or dual income, no kids, the bay area is a fantastic place to make high income and save tons of money. Lots of people in r/financialindependence are tech workers in the valley.

If you're starting your own company and want VC investment, I can think of no better place to be than silicon valley, assuming you make use of the social events, meetups, attend YC demo days, rainbow mansion, etc. The personal networking will lead to more and better deals.

But if you have kids, a spouse that doesn't pull in the astronomical salaries, or are trying to bootstrap a company, stay far, far away.
Well I know at least 8 Google-Sexism posts got flagged to hell (every single one that didn't have flags disabled IIRC), so I'm curious why this one isn't.
...Electron x86 running on Windows-on-ARM.
We get wiser with experience. We get calmer with age (hormonal changes, among other things).
Now they just have to get enhance to work, and it'll be just like the action movies!
The window is an index into a consecutive block of numbers (like a 4K page), and the offset is the offset into that block. [edit: the other poster highlighted the important distinction--that the window doubles in size each time so your fixed offsets into that window become further apart. If you had 1024 offsets into a 1024 window, you get index 0 for 0. index 1 for 1. 2 for 2. etc. But when you double that window, you're now one index for two steps. #1 for 2, #2 for 4, #3 for 6. and then you add that onto the top of the previous window's starting point, which in my example was 0-1023. So add 1023 for the second block. But a diagram would be really helpful at this point.]

Now, I don't see the huge benefit of introducing a whole extra topic (pointer arithmetic) to explaining floating point. But if it works for someone, more power to them!

[edit: Also, since pointers don't normally swell/scale/double like floating point, then even if you explain using the pointer analogy... you then have to NOTE the difference. So I still think it's a really bad analogy to use. Even worse when tons of modern day programmers know almost nothing about system programming and addressing modes.]

Anyway, best of wishes. The guy certainly put a lot of work into writing an article he thought would be helpful.
Not likely a direct cause ;-) but React Native does add to our velocity. We are now definitely hiring if you want to be part of the ongoing React Native success story... Feel free to hit me up: brian at taskrabbit.com
My relationship has this dynamic too for eating meals and other chores. The alternative IME is that I'll make a decision and then she complains about it. At which point we are both stuck with the hassle.
This is my condensed, actionable notes & advice: http://ro.vu/notes/finance/2014/how-to-build-and-maintain-we...
This.
Uber works because the need to get somewhere is time critical and drivers(mostly) are more or less commodity. For more personal, repeat services that are not time sensitive, uber-like middleman service doesn't make sense beyond 1st contact.
Outside of a few very highly specialized fields, I don't know anyone who does that successfully who didn't first get their start and build their network in the valley.

EDIT: To be clear, I do know people that have "done their time" then left and pulled in really nice consulting rates working remotely from rural / flyover america or overseas, albeit often with a lot of travel to customer sites.
What intrigued me most about the article was that it played the whole "adjunct professors get paid like shit because university funding has fallen dramatically." The truth is that this is nothing new: adjuncts have always been paid peanuts and treated poorly. What is new is that universities have realized that they can hire a fleet of adjuncts for cheap, and have them do most of the teaching. It's a cost minimization strategy which leaves them more money for sports programs and hiring more bureaucracy (and more expensive star researchers). Modern universities survive under the auspices of existing to teach and nurture young minds, but they're as much of a big business as any.

Sadly, most of my great professors in college were either adjuncts or associates. I.e., poorly paid.
You can't compare Flash and Unity (let alone Unreal) in terms of approachability. I pretty much learned Flash the day before starting a job once. Try that with Unity.
When considering these different paths, it's also worth considering the kind of temperament one needs to have to be successful in each role.

Founders, from what I understand[1], tend to be high on the Big 5 Personality trait "openness", which has to do with creativity. Executives (and employees to an extent as well) who are successful tend to be high in trait "conscientiousness" which has to do with being hard working and orderly.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P830JMVeKLo
Smarking (YC W15) Is Hiring a Product Manager in SF
You don't have to use GWT webforms-style: you can also use something like GWTReact[1]. It ends up being more verbose than JS or TS, of course, but might be useful if you've got a lot of business logic in Java that you want to be able to use easily in a modern web app.

There's also JSweet[2], which compiles Java to TypeScript. I believe it can automatically convert TypeScript definitions into Java, so it's a good way to write Java that calls existing JS libraries.

Granted, writing Java to run in the browser probably isn't the best solution for most people. But there are certain situations where it makes sense, and it doing so doesn't mean you're condemned to write an application that feels like crufty legacy garbage.

[1] https://github.com/GWTReact/gwt-react-examples
[2] http://www.jsweet.org/
Best simple explanation I've seen so far.

I highly recommend Fabien's Game Engine Black Book. I'm halfway through it, and it's really fun. I've only been a software dev for 6 years, so looking at how things could be hacked around in the 90s to squeeze every drop of performance out of very constrained devices is fascinating.
I think the key is some underlying and rare technology. In this case it is LIDAR. Google itself was Page Rank. Oracle was SQL. Microsoft was Basic.
I wonder if a similar comic showing that more women in western countries murder their infant children than men (mostly due to postpartum depression but factually accurate) would be regarded as valid if similar explanations were provided as above.
You're implicitly making a common mistake confusing value creation and value capture.

Yes, it is true that developers writing the software for Google's search engine and Gmail and other products, particularly the early developers who were writing core functionality before it even existed yet, are creating value. But are/were they capturing the full value created? In general, no. To the extent they "captured value" only came in the form of salary/benefits/etc. So they captured some, to be sure.

In highly successful companies who create hugely successful products that create tons of value, the actual capture of that value is absolutely not shared equally. This is in part because the risk was not shared equally.

Just as in successful companies, unsuccessful companies that ship a product that does not do well or fails completely, the developers who created it still captured a salary along the way. The investors and others who put in money or time and energy for little or not pay (in exchange for equity) were the ones with the most risk.

Bottom line... everyone involved in company-building and product-building create value along the way but value capture is generally concentrated for very good reasons.
Apple Face ID already has a few issues
It's not just reducing RTT latency; it's also reducing the number of bignum crypto operations the server needs to perform, which carry a significant computational cost.
You are half right, and half wrong.

The average startups are not paying engineers anywhere close to 250k.

But I can assure you that every one of the big 5 tech companies pays those numbers (as do the "hot" unicorns that are on a similar "tier" as Google, ect) .

The moral of the story is, don't work for a startup. Go big or go home. Sell out and work for one of the companies with the actual money.

Because at those companies, those numbers are real.

And the thing that people need to realize is that those "top" companies have a whole lot of people working for them. The numbers don't back up the common argument that is made about how "you have to be in the very top 1 percent of engineers to work at Google, FB, or Amazon".
In this context, wealth doesn’t necessarily have to start out as financial wealth. You came from an educated family, so even if your parents were materially poor, they created an environment that ensured you would be on an upward trajectory compared to them. This is a common story among educated immigrants from poor countries.

But then there are those who are both materially and educationally impoverished - those whose families struggled despite having been in the US for generations. Not sure it makes sense to conflate them with people like you.
Considering how they phrased it and the fact that no phone has the FSF's RYF certification I would tend to think it's because it's currently impossible.

That they took the time to add a note about RYF certification and that they will continue to keep the FSF up to date on this shows that they do care about this. I honestly don't think there's any more you could ask of them.
Great app. Good luck!
0.5 salary (generous for someone remote working in a different timezone without a large personal network, imho) with 95% savings is the same as 48% savings with 1x salary, not to mention greater growth potential. You're example doesn't seem all that different from working in the valley a few years, then cashing out to retire in SE Asia.
I'd sure like to believe you're right. While I have every reason to believe the allies would prevail, I'm also wary of overly optimistic timelines.

Let's hope it doesn't come to that.
I've lived here for ~20. I was raised here. I've never paid less than 40% of my income on rent, and I've only worked in tech.
The MCCLIM community is somewhat active, but very small...
I don't think the poster would consider Kansas City a "hotspot". I think he's referring to San Francisco/Silicon Valley, and New York.
I do not think any US company can just deny a legal warrant from the FBI. They can challenge it (as Apple publicly did awhile ago though for a domestic matter rather than FISA). Not sure what more Apple themselves can do, you may want to speak with your representatives if you do not want companies to be obliged to serve data under these orders.
I hear that the scariest place to be in life is comfortable. Getting out of your comfort zone is the only way to grow.
Spanish government sows discord in Catalan referendum
Those numbers are still reasonable for the South Bay, which has just as much opportunity, or the East Bay where you could commute in to SF. Or for someone more frugal than the GP. I get what you're saying, but it's still possible to work.