skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Her positioning of her public persona here is not doing her any favors. On the one hand, if she can get taken seriously while showing herself off as a sexy cyborg with her bod strongly highlighted, this may help break some stereotypes. On the other hand, women already get pigeonholed as being only good for one thing. Playing up the sexy angle is going to make it generally harder for other people to perceive her as anything else.

I have never heard of her before. I have no idea what she is doing that she chooses to pursue this positioning as someone sexy as her primary identifier. But it strikes me as inherently problematic to take that positioning in a male dominated field.

It is something I have wrestled with. I don't think there are any easy answers here. Women are damned if they do, damned if they don't. If heterosexual men find a woman attractive simply for being, for example, an intelligent woman, it winds up being a huge challenge to combat that. It can happen no matter how conservatively she dresses or what she looks like. If being "old and ugly" cured the issue, I wouldn't spend so much time contemplating such questions. I have joked that I am still waiting to become old and ugly enough for this to stop being an issue.

But, you know, I can't control what the world does. I can only kind of sort of take a smidgeon of control over my limited choices in life. And I found it helpful to take a different approach than this.
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but the waivers in question are aimed at students who receive tuition discounts due to working in a full-time capacity. Like a professor gets a tuition discount for their daughter who attends the school, or the admissions accountant gets a discount to attend the MBA program. [1] This means most students unaffiliated with the school would be protected from any tax on graduate school tuition aid.

Regardless, this is an interesting scenario (I say this as a tax accountant), since the university is a non-profit entity, and therefore doesn't receive any tax benefit for incurring this cost (whereas a for-profit company would deduct this as some sort of employee expense).

But instead of passing a tax onto the employee, it seems like the IRS waived the tax entirely since it could be interpreted as a contribution made by the university, to the university: the Uni pays the employee tuition, and the employee pays tuition back to the university. Since the tuition benefits can't be applied to other schools, it seems like a reasonable waiver.

On the other hand, we have a hefty amount of debt on our hands, and in order to dig ourselves out of it, the funds will have to come from _somewhere_. In an effort to "see randomness", this is what I'm hoping is the reason for the change.[2]

[1] the "145,000" student hyperlink in the article: acenet.edu/Pages/Higher-Education-and-Tax-Reform.aspx#tabContent-6
[2] http://www.paulgraham.com/randomness.html
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If you rate employees using objective metrics, then you can avoid sexism. The problem with stack ranking is, as the article said, it forces managers to use subjective measurements to rank employees because they're forced to put the employees in a particular order (instead of saying two employees performed the same). Once you start using subjective measurements, it's almost impossible to avoid having biases creep in.
> Indeed, especially considering how bad the exponential fit is for working set, it is pretty evident that it is not just growing exponentially, but faster than that.

Yeah I suck at maths, according to this comment https://lobste.rs/s/j4545s/dos_attack_against_c_compiler#c_n..., it's actually 'double exponential'

> When it really is not obvious at all what is going on.

Yeah, I guess I actually meant to say 'it's very obvious that it's increasing quickly', but as you say, it doesn't read like that!!
That all sounds like a direction I'd happily consider:

* Google Cloud Storage implementations for data interfaces

* Metrics interface with a Prometheus implementation (STATSD to follow)

* Redis-backed HLL metrics are optional

Feel free to open issues in the tracker if you reach that point!
Where's the "buy" link?

Maybe I'm just missing it for this one in particular, but I really dislike it when companies hide the price, and don't offer an immediate way to purchase. I see one of them has a price listed, and the other ones don't.
And yet even the poorest in the US still have TVs and refrigerators.

Homelessness has skyrocketed in the US. The poorest here have neither TVs nor refrigerators (except the few their salvaging for the scrap metal value). The homeless generally don't have paid employment (meaning ordinary waged employment) since their appearance keeps them from being hired by most businesses but being homeless is a hellish amount of work.

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I'm a fan of Naomi and watch her product reviews, mostly in part that I support the women's maker movement and Naomi regularly pops up even though I am male but also because I am interested in buying cheap but high-quality electronics from Shenzen.

I'm not really sexually attracted to her but I have noted a lot of people commenting how she is doing plastic surgery to enhance her breasts for the views or something. She is not, she got those breasts before the views and they were primarily because she wanted to enhance her body and become a cyborg, hence her own nickname: "Sexy Cyborg".

Moreover, negative comments build on this enhance-breasts-for-views argument to imply that she is a front built for commercial purposes.

EDIT: Heres where I paraphrased her body modification quotes, this pastebin link is also on her patreon and youtube.

https://pastebin.com/V3474kYs
So, is that confirmation on 'unwilling'?
Because that's the globalist answer to everything. Find some organization that you feel is responsible for fixing some moral failing you perceive in the world. Lobby them, claiming that they are responsible for the moral failing and immoral if they don't fix it. Get some lame piece of regulation out of it that causes more harm than good. That harm becomes your next moral failing and the process repeats. But everyone involved gets to project the outward impression that they are making the world a better place.
Data:
https://www.recode.net/2017/11/8/16617798/uber-delete-uber-l...

It is a real trend, but doesn't represent 'most' users.
So I take it you don't agree with Mitt Romney's "Corporations are people, my friend".

However, the fact is that without a rather sweeping change in how we recognize and reward incorporation in the US, they are currently "more equal" people.
Historically, most places with government owned telco's starting ISPs still had arms length regulation. If that was really the concern, looking at the dozens of countries with experience in regulating this would be rather simple.

That said, I agree that you'd get far just by providing the last mile. In the EU, deregulation basically required the owners of monopoly last mile infrastructure to separate them out into separate business units that are heavily regulated to provide equal service. Nothing prevents providers from choosing to build their own, but this ensures "anyone" can start an ISP.

E.g. in the UK, BT separated out OpenReach - not only are they restricted to offering same service and prices to everyone, their wholesale prices are published on their web pages for everyone to see.

There are still problems - e.g. BT is often accused of milking OpenReach rather than investing in the network. But those problems could have been solved by regulating profit-taking so that profits can only be taken as a proportion of investment.

OpenReach offer both local-loop-unbundling (IPSs put equipment in BT exchanges and handle backhaul themselves, and get a raw copper or fibre connection to the subscriber) and backhaul where ISPs connect to BT one or more places and get a raw IP connection to the subscriber.

It works ok, with the caveat above, and it also doesn't stop alternatives, like FTTP from other providers, in areas where it is economically viable to lay new networks.
This is talking about employees, not drivers, and you cannot "normalize" stack ranking. The whole point of stack ranking is you're putting the employees in order from best to worst. They're not given numeric ratings.
Melbourne video software startup EyeCura receives $25,000  Activator funding
She can't pay back the credit cards. It is a grave mistake for her to even attempt it.

Unfortunately, and I think particularly with norms and expectations from pre-gen-X (and pre-universal-financialization) culture, it's a mistake a lot of people make. It's tragic: these are people who need every dollar they make, shoveling enormous amounts of their capital into a black hole. In reality, attempting to service these debts prolongs their exposure.

It's these sorts of bad decisions that I think Rayiner is referring to upthread. For someone in the financial situation the subject of this article is in, credit card debt should be off the table, full stop.
The problem is you can't rate employees by objective metrics (like, line of code count) without them getting gamed, unless you can tie them directly to company success.
Exactly. Great post.

Can someone @mention (and thus notify) everyone on the forum in one post? Of course not, just take the first 6 unique mentions.

But what if they edit their post and @mention 6 different people? Easy, edits don't trigger notifications. Well, what if someone forgot to mention someone or typo'd someone's name and they just want to make that edit. Seems pretty lame that they can't fix their mentions.

So if you want to allow the latter but not the former, you need to start tracking historical mentions per post in the database. Which you needed anyway so that someone can't @mention, delete the @mention, and then @mention again to trigger dupe notifications.

And what does the notification actually look like if someone edits a one-week-old post to add a @mention? It's kinda confusing for a user to see "Foo mentioned you in post #123", click the link, and see that the post is a week old. They report it as a forum bug. So maybe you now have some logic that sends a notification with "Foo edited post #123 to mention you." Yet another if-statement.

We both could go on and on.

And this is how every feature goes. They are hard problems without a best solution, only trade-offs.

At least if you're building a generalized forum like phpbb, you're solving a problem that will compound across thousands of users deploying your forum software. Meanwhile my forum was completely bespoke for my community and I couldn't shake the feeling that I was wasting my time.

So then it was tempting to wonder if I should work on generalizing my forum so others could use it. Well, now you're even in the bigger hell of generalizing software in a pond with dozens of formidable competitors in a world where you're pretty certain that traditional forums are slowly dying. Good luck with that.
generally have the lowest premium on time because their time is worthless.

That is completely backwards. The marginal utility for a poor person working an extra 10 hours a week is massive since it might very well the difference between being able to pay rent or not. The marginal utility for me working an extra 10 hours a week is probably negative since I'm already 'rich enough' to buy everything I need so the extra money doesn't mean that much to me and those extra 10 hours will keep me away from things I care lot more about (like being able to spend an hour cooking for and eating with my family)
"offer them up as sacrificial lambs to HFT" what do you mean?!
I think those fears are extremely far-fetched because:

1). Don't most places that do this set up a company? As in, it's a company that happens to have one of it's owners as the city.

2). Does anyone honestly think that if such a thing were to happen, that private ISPs like Comcast would somehow, magically be exempt? That the government official would be like a Scooby Doo villan, saying, "Curses! I'd have gotten away with the censorship and spying if it wasn't for you meddling private ISPs!"
If that's the case why NH littered with these kinds of issues?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15584315
Incidentally, it was actually broader than "shoes with storage", she specifically did the project as a pentesting exercise. "If I was trying to hack a big company, how would I do it?" She made the connection between these styles of shoes and a specific outfit, and that the whole "sexy" thing would be a distraction, enabling her to sneak USB drives out of the shoes. They contained wifi-enabled equipment inside the shoes, with power, to automatically probe wireless networks around her. Etc.

So it's actually even more deeply technical than that summary lets on. You can find the exact description on her website if you're interested.
We had this in Burlington, VT and now we're selling it off because the city could not run it effectively (massive debt). Be careful — government is usually not a great runner of a customer-service focused business. Further, do you really want government (municipal) or otherwise being your ISP? Having access to all of your traffic lines?
Why would a full node be more secure than an SPV node?

I had understood that SPV nodes store only the merkle root of all the transactions in each block, so as I understand it should be able to verify whether a given transaction is valid or not?
Relevant talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYG0NxoG7yw
Yeah, that sums up the problem!
>If a ripped 6'4" male model called himself @sexyengineer and posted pictures of him building things shirtless, I would roll my eyes and call his legitimacy into question.

I was considering posting a comment along the lines of this. I decided not to, because I am somewhat terrified of discussing these topics in public, even behind the anonymity of an HN handle. There needs to be a way to talk about these things without people demonizing you for having a discussion. No, sexuality may not have anything to do with 'legitimacy', but I would think the same thing that the quoted parents said (re: the sexy male engineer). Why is that? I'm not sure. Certainly, you have the right to portray yourself in any light you see fit. But since engineering skill and sexuality have nothing to do with eachother, as we all agree afaict, then I don't see how its wrong to be skeptical when the two are presented together.

edit: to clarify, as Bunnie mentioned in his post, its often both more comfortable and completely appropriate to sit half-naked at your desk coding. But the next time Bunnie turns to social media to talk about something he's done, I don't expect to see a picture of him in his underwear next to the product.
While this doesn't provide real world examples (yet), we are trying to make a free list of short, concise, to-the-point tutorials for anyone to get familiar with the basics of Deep Learning. Best part is that each item is a wiki, so you can make it better and you'll automatically be credited in the sidebars. Leave any suggestions on the structure in the comments. Here it is: https://www.commonlounge.com/discussion/81f5bbcfea4e44b9b2bd...
Sort of? https://imgur.com/a/SlGHw

Not really.
The homeless generally don't have paid employment

I would be interested in seeing your stats. I worked while homeless. I did freelance writing and, later, resume writing. I have known homeless individuals with regular jobs.

I don't know what the statistics are. But I would be very interested in seeing stats on how many/what percent of homeless have some kind of earned income, if you know of any reliable data on the topic.

(Edit: Or maybe clarify your intent. I had earned income, though no job. We could quibble at length about what constitutes earned income. For example, does recycling for money constitute earned income?)

Thanks.
Yeah but the extremely hypocritical view on alcohol and gambling in the US (IIRC it's legal in some states to drive a full blown semi truck at 20 while beer drinking age is 21 - and gambling... well Vegas and the Native reservations, but that's it, contrasted to the crackdowns on fully foreign online gambling venues and even their banks, even if they don't do US business!) warrant a separate mention IMO.
True. My take-away: don't overshare motivations for decisions in response to MVP feedback. Instead: respond to criticism with a minimal deflection stating "it's on the roadmap".
>I don’t understand why the media obsess that much about who spreads which propaganda where.

Maybe because they're part of the problem?
> Google is probably OK

Practically all relevant news headlines for the past 2 years suggests otherwise.
I don't know where you are getting the idea that people are congregating around interstate exits now other than your personal experience. Car ownership has been trending down in the US for a few years and the urban population as a percentage of total population has also been growing for a long time.
Introducing `shortcut`, a command line utility published on NPM.

Shortcut makes it easy to remember commonly-used commands. You can add a shortcut with `shortcut add $name $command`. For example `shortcut add hello echo Hello!` `shortcut hello`.

Learn more at https://github.com/rchrd2/shortcut, or install it with `npm install -g shortcut-cli`.
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GitHub already deals with a window of half screenwidth poorly, as in requiring horizontal scrolling to see things. That's what I meant.
Diversity of opinion is one thing. Dissent from official US positions, OK. But very effective manipulation from very skillful people is something a bit beyond "diversity of opinion". You can present a diverse opinion without trying to manipulate, and without being dishonest about who you are.

This is something above mere diversity of opinion, or even dissent. This is dishonest, covert propaganda.
I have more of a general aversion to the actions of the (Core) people who support SegWit, including false promises, censorship, and other shenanigans like the 2x trojan horse which we've just seen play out:
https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/duplicates/6iecx7/if_segwit_act...
In my opinion this only serves to proletarianization of programmers.
But you can rate them by metrics such as are they completing all their assigned work in a reasonable amount of time, and are they producing code that's up to the quality standards of the team (which could be measured by tracking whether they're introducing new bugs).
>"To the privileged, equality feels like oppression."

There's a fun study that actually measures this effect: "Lay misperceptions of the relationship between men’s benevolent and hostile sexism", by Amy Yeung. The data goes the "other way" though: when men treat men and women equally, they are perceived to be sexist.
We need a progressive tax on corporations: if your company has more than X in profit, it is taxed in a higher bracket.

Ideally, should be multiple brackets, with a tax increase on the biggest companies offsetting a tax break on the smaller ones.

Would incentivize companies to break into smaller functional sub-organizations which can compete against each other for the benefit of consumers.
If Comcast can hijack our democracy and wield the state's power against public interest, then what's to stop it from hijacking our democracy to increase the state's power in the first place? How does creating a city-owned utility in any way change Comcast's lobbying position? Monopolies can and do form and persist without government intervention. The textbook example of this is utilities.

Finally, if creating a city-owned utility is beneficial to Comcast, why are they vehemently against it?
No, DirecTV and Turner don't compete with each other. BUT Turner owns some of the most sought-after cable networks. It's not just CNN; we're talking TNT, TBS, and Cartoon Network/Adult Swim as well. Without these networks, it's very hard to put together a compelling cable bundle (as YouTube is no doubt finding out now).

I don't know what the DOJ is actually playing at, but I suspect it's to prevent a combined AT&T from locking Turner networks to DirecTV (either by fiat or by prohibitively expensive contracts).
see the interesting part here is that if you can come up with a less wasteful way to mine BTC anyone is welcome to do that. You would become rich beyond your dreams for this.
Ah, well, the default that comes on the distro was the culprit there. Fixed now. Thanks!
I was giving my perhaps cynical take on the question, but it was not trolling or attempting to be provocative.

I work in a biG tech company and have seen first hand people be bullied, shunned, and placed on informal 'do-not-work-with' lists by managers not just for holding disgusting views, but also for holding not-quite-Liberal-enough views. Also, holding views which are okay to express generally, but wrong to express more specifically about a single class(say, women).

This controversy would not be happening if a random fat dude was accused of faking building things. It's only because this story includes a female, and therefore ties into some subset of society's obsession with gender and race issues that we are discussing this.
> subsidies, […] regulatory exceptions

Amazon just had a big contest on subsidies and the only exceptional thing about it was how brazen they were about it.
Regulatory exceptions often are part of such deals.

> taxes (paid whether you use the service or not)

Monopolists call that "bundling". For example co-financing internet service by requiring you also pay for phone service.

The main difference is that a public service doesn't need to have profit maximizing as its primary goal.
DOCSIS 3.1 is impressive, but it's really the HFC infrastructure that even remotely threatens a FTTx build.

The comments far and wide (except as Ajit sees fit to hide) show a new carrier could not even be competitive at DOCSIS 3.1 levels, and still win.

Comcast has found such impressive execration that the "speed wars" only matter a little bit. It's just that Comcast has neglected their networks for so long that even at the most basic level, i.e. speeds, they regularly fail the previous administration's metric for "high speed internet" at peak times -- you know, the times when people actually use their internet.
> "It's bad enough when the broheimer partyboys crash our con, but if the pro cosplayers and booth babes also turn out to be more than just eye candy, that means the nerdity wasn't about being smart, but was actually just being ugly, awkward losers with no social value. That hurts, psychologically."

Do you not see that the issue isn't really "them", but that it's rather about perceived self-worth? If others put you down and made you feel like you lacked social value, I'm sorry, I wouldn't wish that on anybody, but your perceived value is something you have some degree of control of, as it's up to you how you wish to view yourself.

I fundamentally disagree with putting numbers on attractiveness, or even putting it on a scale, but let's say for the sake of argument that I'm not expecting a modelling contract any time soon. That doesn't mean I can't be friends with people who are "better" looking than me, or that I can't see them as my peers. If you've got something interesting to say, it's all good.
What do you mean, "if" she can declare bankruptcy? She makes $10/hour part time and all her assets are in a trailer. She is obviously Chapter 7 eligible.

You can rent a studio apartment in Chicago, in an apartment building (not a "crack motel"), for $350/mo. That's an apartment in the middle of a relatively expensive urban area. Clearly, there are non-crack-motel apartments that are significantly nicer than the Chicago apartment further afield.
Discovering snaps with .NET and Microsoft
Thanks for the link. I thought I'd read all the Eric Lippert articles related to my post, but I missed this one
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The church owned slaves