skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody should have to defend themselves against false accusations that they're not even a real person. This issue is simpler than the thread here makes it sound.

I agree that there's probably an unpleasant subtext behind this guy's decision to wreck Naomi Wu's career. All I'm saying is, we don't have to reach that issue to see how reckless what he did was.
The opioid epidemic is huge. Legal Cannabis is helping in some places, but it's still illegal at the federal level.
A public review site is public. You don't need to buy it to gain honest feedback.
I do not see how that would work. Do you imply loan is getting foreclosed at some point and bank takes collateral from the offshore bank? In that case US subsidiary will pay full-rate income tax on the foreclosed amount..
Where money is domiciled is orthogonal to what currency or bank the money is held in.

Similarly, the ability to borrow against assets which are domiciled in a different country is pretty much how international banking works, not a loophole.

The US created this quagmire by choosing (unlike all other modern countries) to tax profits in all territories. Then they combined this with only taxing the profits when they're repatriated.

This legislative own-goal is the root of the problem, it seems to me.
European unbundling rules mostly don't apply to cable or fiber, which are the dominant modes of broadband access in the U.S.: http://www.oecd.org/sti/broadband/2-7.pdf.

> There are still problems - e.g. BT is often accused of milking OpenReach rather than investing in the network.

The caveat is perhaps the opposite of what you suggest. Unbundling works okay in the U.K. because BT OpenReach has been allowed to be quite profitable. (Their profits as a percentage of revenue are between TWC and Comcast.) Unbundling in the U.S. failed, in contrast, because the FCC set wholesale rates so low there was basically no incentive to invest in DSL networks.

It's my theory that stuff that works in other countries fails in the U.S. because everyone is so ideological. In the U.K., the privatization of BT was preceded by tons of economic studies analyzing how to balance broadband availability and price against the need to make investing in broadband a profitable endeavor. In the U.S. it's entirely ideological. Pro-business free marketers on one side versus people who see broadband as a social justice issue, economics be damned. We lurch form one mode to the other based on who happens to be in power.
“Zombie Star” Continues exploding for 2 years, may have created antimatter
Stuff that you normally don't think of as flammable -- like hunks of structural metal -- burn quite nicely in the presence of liquid oxygen. So stuff that burns well, burns REALLY WELL in the presence of LOX.
:( We also need to fix attitudes, habits, behaviors, etc. Maybe we can get everyone into military formation.

Education is very very demanding. Plus, the more people get educated, the more competition we have, meaning the more intense things become. There needs to be another route.
Even if true, why would this be a bigger problem in a stack ranking system? Surely they wouldn’t promote more people in total just because they had some other, more reasonable system? They’d still favour men if they are anti-women.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15648080 and others.
As the article reports it was a Block 5 Merlin (aka the last Merlin upgrade). I don't believe qualification has started yet on Raptor but that would seem to be the logical next engine to qualify after the Block 5s.

That it exploded is oddly a good thing according to friends at JPL. They say that when ever there is a catastrophic failure like this it forces a deep review and root cause analysis which invariably adds additional understanding and depth to the design. Knowing what can cause an engine to blow up, and knowing you have designed around it, is a good thing.
As a non-USian, is the Homeland Security (Newspeak!) under the Justice Dept, at least?
I would like to know the exact intention of Youtube Kids. Is it truly an opportunity for the company to provide a safe place for kids? If so, how exactly are they filtering the contents?

I know, i know, it's free, don't use it, be a parent, blah blah blah. But it is a service being touted as being "kid-safe", are we not allowed to question?
Faster bulk loading in Postgres with copy
It's getting to be like sunglasses, where you get your choice of branding and labels but it all costs too much and comes from the same place. These days I just stick to the cheap yellow stuff that comes in big cans.
> Local jails have been overrun with people locked up and in need of treatment

Why. Do. People. End. Up. In. Jail. Seriously this one is beyond my comprehension - they need treatment, not jails filled with hardened criminals, rapists and probably more (and nastier) drugs than on the street.
This is good news overall. Glad to see some sanity coming out of the White House.

I'm a little suspicious though. Why is Microsoft pushing so hard for this? What's in it for them?
Many people believe this is an overstep on the government's part. These people believe it's not the government's job to be paternalistic and nudge people into the "right direction".

This is based on the complete abhorrence of "scope creep" mixed with near total surveillance and control over the use of force. Those with that much power should not be able to enforce social mores, even if they reflect the will of the people at the time.
What is the advantage (if any) of this over proof of stake?
Threshold of originality is not the issue here. That's more applicable to things like security camera footage. 17 USC §102(a) confines copyright to "works of authorship." Without an author, there is no copyright. To date, only natural persons and corporations have been held to be authors.
> While it is true that misery loves company, no one loves working for a leader who doesn't portray confidence in the team's trajectory and success. People want to be inspired, and as their leader, it is your job to give them the motivation and vision to perform.

> This means that even when things are bad, or you feel frustrated, you don't let it show. You need to be the person who is positive and who helps motivate people to do their best. If you don't, then who will?

I'm not sure how much I agree with that part.

One of the "child" companies of the company I'm working for has run in to some trouble. There's definitely a culture of "putting on a happy face", as described above, but it gets tough to believe when you know something is wrong. None of the C-levels would give details.

Recently the board president showed up at an IT meeting and said "They're in deep shit guys," and spelled the whole dire situation out for us.

That was inspiring. Everyone in the room was motivated to "fix" it.

Conversely, I've also been part of a company where leadership did nothing but talk about how much we're going to grow, all the way up until half the staff got laid off in one fell swoop. It wasn't motivating or inspiring at all. It was actually deeply concerning.

I don't think this is as easy to sum up by simply saying "when things are bad, or you feel frustrated, you don't let it show."
Shouldn't people also have the freedom to not have bullets put in their bodies? How do you grant them the freedom to live in peace?
War on drugs & big government.
Proof of Stake is worth being highly skeptical of. The fact that most people blindly support the idea when it seems to leave fundamental questions swept under the rug is worrying.

I wish I could give a further critique, but I'm not familiar enough with the subject. There have been several persuasive comments posted to HN on the brittle nature of Proof of Stake, and the lack of hard answers to basic problems. Tacking it on as "this would use even less power" is a sign that perhaps these alternate schemes (including the one in the article) should be taken with a dash of salt and pepper.
The metric isn't "number of completed tasks". That would be a terrible metric. The metric is "amount of valuable work completed", which is a combination of number of tasks and how much work (and value) each task is. The manager who assigns tasks should have an understanding of the expected amount of work for each task and the expected difficulty.
Well, this was an unpopular comment. How do we properly incentivize progress and innovation? This is the safest, most prosperous time to be alive in the history of humanity, despite what you have been told.
> the question is what new bubble we funneled capital into

Overvalued tech unicorns.
Not really. That stops an ISP, but local malware, antivirus, etc can be browser extensions.
I wouldn't draw anyone in a swimsuit.
I mean serving a web page, from nginx, which is what the person was talking about. Not a database-driven web application.
> let's look at popular opinion of the DMV

Let's look at popular opinion of Comcast!

In all seriousness, we are exiting (I hope) a time of anti-government fervor where no matter what the government did (unless it's the police and military) it was by default assumed to be done poorly. I no longer think this is the case, and there is a ton of stuff that our government does extremely well.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15489344

Zinus' claim to fame: replace your mattress at least once more for the same total price. Based on the anecdata I was terrified it would attack me! (Verdict: a bit more firm that I prefer, but still an improvement on ancient of days.)

https://amzn.com/dp/B00Q7EPSHI - $261.28 for me
This reminds me that the lead singer of GWAR died in Richmond from a heroin overdose in 2014:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Brockie
By my (admittedly limited) understanding of MVCC, one long running transaction that includes an insert will not block other inserts to the same table. The worst you'd see in that situation is if you were using a sequence for IDs, an ID might be grabbed from the sequence at the beginning of transaction A, then another ID grabbed and inserted into the table by transaction B, and then when transaction A finally commits, the order of the IDs won't match the chronological order of the commits.
Envious, mostly. I can't exactly blame the dice if I got a lower Charisma roll than theirs. It's a mistake to believe that society should be fair when it is so heavily influenced by random factors.

I don't interact with that type very much in person, as they tend to ignore or rebuff me when I approach them, and they only engage or approach me when they think they can make money by doing so. So they're sort of like animatronic people, I guess? You have to buy a ticket, but then they just read to you from a script.

I'm old enough now to know that nothing stays the same forever. Slashdot got sold to Dice. The H in HN got diluted. So what? I can't control it, so I just enjoy it for what it is while it lasts, and will drift away whenever it no longer feels right.
The storage based blockchains don't use storage space as a means of verification- they're storage product focused (you buy/rent/use/sell storage space on the platform as a commodity). That's not what Chia does; it seems like its primary use will be store of value/transactions like Bitcoin. It's the "green" alternative to BTC- I wouldn't call Filecoin, Storj, Sia, Maidsafe, etc. competitors to Bitcoin (and I don't think they're trying to be that).

While Lisk, Nav, Dash, etc do use alternatives to proof of work, what Chia is doing, from my understanding of what they're saying, is using the lowest cost alternative to proof of work, which is proof of storage (disclaimer, I don't know the math behind proof of storage, just that it's their alternative to PoW). However, proof of storage alone has some inherent vulnerabilities so they compensate with another mechanism, proof of time (again, not sure of the math).

Edit: punctuation
If you're discussing the reality of the problem instead of the perception of it, the median household income would need to be adjusted for cost of living. I'd need nearly double a nice salary just to afford the same lifestyle in SV, one of many reasons I'm not going to move there.
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Likely because the government is a large enterprise customer who needs to not have a judicial precedent set.

I.E. This seems a lawfare move to step back general gag use, so that they can step forward again in specific gag use, rather than risk losing and finding future gags severely restricted. Microsoft is being polite because sometimes it might be reasonable for government to gag a subpoena, without it being a national security issue.
> At the time, I had the impression he was out of touch; the people he recognized weren't the ones who had contributed the most code, and the features he called out were important but not the ones that had been the major engineering challenges.

(The author then goes on to suggest that this is normal, and expected, and correct, and that the leader wasn't actually out of touch.)

This bit bothered me, and she didn't really justify it all that much. Obviously "the most code" and "the major engineering challenges" won't necessarily translate directly to the features that the customers want most, or that drive the most revenue or sales growth.

But if several people have done some of the most technically challenging work that was necessary for the product's success, don't they deserve some recognition? And is it not the fault of their direct managers & middle management for not floating those accomplishments up the chain? Obviously not everyone can receive a shout-out, but at the end of the day none of this would be possible without the people at the bottom actually doing the work of building.

I feel like this kind of out-of-touch-ness is exactly what causes individual contributors to feel unappreciated even when they do things that -- at their level -- are truly difficult and extraordinary.
The ranks of the tech industry are dominated by men so if a man tried to use his sexuality to capture more eyeballs he'd likely be ignored or widely mocked. Also, since men do not endure the sexual harassment or objectification like women do in the tech field, I'm not sure if the situations are easily reversed.

How about this thought experiment: what if I made a poster of Wu and put it on my office wall next to the posters of Steve Jobs and Limor Fried? Would I be creating a hostile environment for my female coworkers?

Wu can dress how she wants in her private life and it's none of my (or our) business; commenting negatively on her private attire would indeed be slut shaming. However she is projecting a highly sexualized image into a field that has problems with sexualizing women; that is what opens her to criticism.
Thanks - didn't know about that! Doesn't cover my area, though :)
Wow, it's almost as if men and women are different and therefore different standards of behavior apply to each gender.

Who could have possibly foreseen that?
Oh man, the legal system is gonna surprise anyone who thinks they are operating outside of it. And not in a good way.
China also influences Hollywood movies. Their censors will ban films with plots that are the least bit critical of the PRC. China is a large percentage of global cinema revenues so filmmakers either forgo a large percentage of their potential revenue or avoid criticizing China. Guess which choice they generally pick.
Realistically it starts with the race to the bottom WRT being "tough on crime".
This Man Pranked Eric Trump and Harvey Weinstein – Now He Just Wants a Job
On Being Sane in Insane Places
The damage the 1MB limit has done and is doing to Bitcoin is far more than possibly a couple of lost nodes would mean after an upgrade to 2MB.

This has been a problem for years. For example Gavin thought 16MB would be perfectly safe. There's research being done now examining 1GB blocks and how that would affect propagation time. A lousy 2MB is honestly laughable.

Doing nothing isn't the pragmatic or sane approach, it's the insane one.
Look up pinkapp.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=the_stc

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15389364

https://medium.com/@PinkApp/pink-app-trading-latency-for-ano...
No, it's an independent, top-level cabinet position. The departments of Homeland Security and Justice are "peers", if you will.

I'm not sure it's entirely newspeak. If you look at the list of departments that were gathered together to form DHS [0], it does make some sense to have them all in the same organization.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Ho...
I don't know about your local utilities, but mine are only government regulated, not subsidized.
InfluxDB creator here. I'd say it's on par and in some cases a bit better. They can do some optimizations that we're unable to do. We have to worry about writing historical data rather than just append only workloads. We also have to support more data types than float64.

The design of the new Prometheus engine and InfluxDB's Time Structured Merge Tree engine are very similar. They're both heavily inspired by LSM Trees.

Our goal is to add more support for Prometheus standards like the metrics format and even PromQL over time. We recently added remote read/write support, which will be in the 1.4 release next week.
https://www.influxdata.com/blog/influxdb-now-supports-promet...

I'd like to see Influx become something that is complementary to Prometheus or at least solidly in the Prometheus ecosystem, like players like Weaveworks, etc.
I don't know if everything you say is accurate, but grant for a moment that it is. I still don't understand what you think is disingenuous.

There is no law that requires US corporations to repatriate their profits; not choosing to do so means they're deferring a tax liability. What's disingenuous about that?
I think the author's point wasn't to suggest leaders should paper over problems, but that leaders shouldn't stoop to complaining or letting their frustration show in front of their reports. They can be frank and truthful with employees, while still remaining confident that the challenges can be overcome.
Translation: “I don’t see sexism so it isn’t a problem.”

On a serious note, tech companies, large and small, have varying amounts of lawsuits and news coverage. I agree that stack ranking and other rating methods make illegal discrimination more likely. I do not agree with your assertion that unreported discrimination based off sex doesn’t occur.
Most of this stems from the overprescription of opioids. I remember when I had surgery for a broken leg the amount of drugs I received after the surgery was astounding. It was almost as if the hospital wanted me to become hooked. I didn't need or ask for the opioids, they were just prescribed for pain killing. A regular Tylenol or Advil would have done the job. Not saying hospitals want people on drugs, but at some point we have hold the people initially prescribing the drugs accountable.
It's a long story. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinstitutionalisation#Consequ...
Consolidation in the beer market bothers me less than it does my beer nerd friends. Many of the best-known, most-loved independent breweries run into major quality problems trying to scale up their output. ABI probably has advantages in regulating quality. Breweries that don't want to scale are unlikely to sell in the first place.

The whiskey market is almost entirely consolidated; you have to go out of your way to find quality products that aren't traceable to large concerns, despite a proliferation of brands. But we're in a 2-decade renaissance in whiskey quality (despite the No Age Statement movement!) and availability. The median big-brand whiskey is overwhelmingly more likely to be good than the median independent whiskey.

The barriers to entry for beer are far, far lower than for whiskey. We're not going to run out of microbreweries, or of interesting new beers. Why are beer nerds so freaked out about this?

(I have nothing useful to say about beer rating sites, which I think are pretty sketchy to begin with.)
(I haven't watched the doc or followed Chomsky much)

I think a lot of the contention is putting faith in the "the market" (but I would hope even staunchest libertarians realize at times that can be disproportionately large companies) or governments. I feel like the extremes on both sides put too much faith in one or the other. To keep each other in check one can't be too much larger, or wield too much power over the other.

When companies become multinational, things can get weird because they can evade single governments. I'm not saying it's always bad, but it is hard to keep them in check.
Just the other morning I got off of bart in downtown Oakland, 12th street and there was a guy just laid out, unresponsive right on the steps outside the station. He had smoked something out of a can. I stuck with the guy while the paramedics came, but the most tragic part was that he had a plastic "No Allergies" bracelet on. When the paramedics took off his shirt he still had adhesive on his skin from the EKG straps or what not. So he had gotten out of the hospital and then immediately ODed (presumably again).

I'm not sure what we need to do, but if you haven't encountered the epidemic first hand, it's only a matter of time until you do.
Lyft aren't even available in most places that Uber are, so I can't see it being much of a wider trend.
Honestly I just think it means that this stuff really isn't all that difficult. I mean, sure, the first person that figured it out and posted a "how to" blog article is usually pretty smart (or at least a domain expert) but it really doesn't take much intelligence to follow the steps in an article posted online.

I think many of us overestimate our own intelligence just because we have worked with computers our whole lives. The rest of the world caught up with us circa 2010 and technical proficiency (and even basic development skills) are table stakes. Hell, they teach machine learning in high school these days.

Everyone is tech savvy these days. It's no longer a differentiator unless you gain some specialized knowledge and keep it current.
The previous HDL-64E model was about $75k when it was first released; I don't know if there have been significant price drops since then.

I'm guessing the steep price was mostly caused by the need to recoup R&D from a small volume of sales, rather than the cost of actually manufacturing the sensors.
Did GP imply that tech is more misogynistic than other industries? Or "extremely" so?

I do not think they did.

Even if tech is on par with, or less than, other industries with regards to misogyny, what then? We (HN) largely work in tech. It (the industry) has a problem. Let's talk about what to do about it, not pretend it doesn't exist because "it could be worse".
Yup, I'm definitely a fan of their work. The new engine is a great design and all the work on the metrics standard is great. Having that as a standard format for service implementors to expose performance metrics is invaluable and we're going to support that as much as we can.
Like my uncle says, a cop, "what would we do then". Drug & alcohol related arrests are 99% of their work.
>How do you make the government accountable, transparent and openly documented ? Mystery to me

Sure but less of a mystery than how we can make corporations transparent, accountable and openly documented.
> without even allowing for the possibility that women just actually are worse employees than men.

Again, you're reading what you want to read.