skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few years ago the video game convention PAX instituted a policy, under pressure from attendees, that amounted to "no booth babes." This applied to hired models whose only job was to dress provocatively standing in a booth, but also to cosplayers who demonstrated a level of creativity in costume-making and performance matching Naomi Wu.

In that case, a class of creative professional who are passionate makers and enthusiastic fans of a medium were denied a chance to ply their trade because the organizers felt it was a salacious distraction from the core proposition from the show.

Here is some coverage: (https://kotaku.com/5900134/skimpy-outfit-gets-lollipop-chain...).

The sense I get is that Dale is being criticized because he's seen to be questioning an individual's technical skills based almost exclusively on her physical appearance. I get that, and that criticism is fair.

However, my read of his comment is that he shares the view of the proponents of PAX's policy. In that case, Jessica Nigri was a creative enthusiast, but her presence made the show less comfortable for other attendees for a variety of reasons, e.g. promoting unrealistic body images, adding a sexual dynamic to what is supposed to be an all-ages show, etc.

I'm curious if the uproar would be at all diminished (or exacerbated) if Dale had framed the original decision to not have her present along one of these lines of argument:

1) If he was dismissive of her work, but not her as a person.

"Naomi Wu is an impressive young maker with a large following, but we feel like her popularity is driven more by her appearance rather than the quality or originality of her work."

2) Or if it was presented as an editorial decision:

"We've not invited Naomi Wu to present because her work, while interesting, is sexually charged and outside the scope of projects we want to highlight at MakerFaire."

3) Or a commercial decision:

"Naomi Wu has not been invited to present at MakerFaire because while we believe makers should feel free to pursue a wide range of interests and modes of self-expression, her presence may prove distracting to the busloads of first-graders who make up a large portion of the audience, and uncomfortable to our sponsors."

4) Or even if it was a moralistic judgement:

"Naomi Wu has not been invited to present at MakerFaire because we believe women in tech face huge amounts of latent sexism and our judgment is that featuring work in this style would worsen, not improve the problem."

Would these have been better or worse?

FWIW, I had the good fortune to spend a few hours with Dale and some of the O'Reilly crew circa 2008. It's hard for me to imagine a more "woke" group of people at the head of a large tech company. They were focused on diversity and inclusion well before the topics took on the wide-spread buy-in that they have today.
There are already blockchains that do not require proof of work (Lisk, Nav, Dash, NEO, etc) and already storage based blockchains (Filecoin, Storj, Sia, Maidsafe, etc).

It is unclear to me what Chia brings to the table that is really new.
Oh my god, I can't believe I just saw an unironic use of the "TVs and refrigerators" argument. Of course it was on HN.
gcc, clang, and Intel all both support this feature, calling it "Link-Time Optimization".[1,2,3] This allows them to inline virtual functions they can resolve, non-inline functions which are not visible to external units, as well as perform combinatorial optimizations by being able to "see" more of the code together at once.

In addition to binary size (which I've never worried about too much, as I mostly write code for scientific computing), it has often improved runtime significantly. The only other specific optimization besides -flto that I have had very real speedups from (not counting -O[23] or -Ofast) has been -funroll-loops. I use it on nearly every project. (And, to be honest, I haven't seen a big slowdown in compile time over just -O3, though I think a lot of my costs there are from templates.)

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/LinkTimeOptimization
[2] https://llvm.org/docs/LinkTimeOptimization.html
[3] https://software.intel.com/en-us/node/522667
> This would be a problem even with direct distribution. Just replace distributor with retailer.

This is false. Breweries that make great beer have no problem selling out of their beer when they only sell packaged beer at the brewery. Examples include Tree House, Trillium, Hill Farmstead, Other Half, LIC Beer Project, Interboro, Night Shift (who actually own a distribution company now, but they sell out of new releases at the brewery within a day or 2), Monkish, Cellarmaker, the Veil, and many more in pretty much any major city that you can think of. Hell, Boston and New York have a half dozen each and new breweries are still popping up that are selling out of beer without distributing.

I agree that the 3 tier system is stupid, but breweries have proven over the past decade that they can scale up to 10k+ barrels per year without distributing a single thing.
> Federal absurd regulations are commie-scandalous while lobby absurd regulation are just fine ?

Laissez fair would generally say all regulations are bad. Regulations that help monopolies are one of the main reasons free market advocates are againt regulations. All regulations start with "good intentions".

Comcast and phone companies are great examples of monopolies that are protected by the State, not failures of free market advocates.
No need to guess, the reward schedule is written into Bitcoin:

https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/162
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>thought to be sustainable debt loads a few years ago.

No, the debt was never sustainable. Essentially the banks allowed loans which were gigantic ponzi schemes.

Retail: "Our growth will continue forever!"

Banks: Hmm, we got bit pretty hard on these home loans and need somewhere else to make money, "Forever growth is like infinite money, I like money!", "Here is 10 billion dollars, just remember to pay us back in 2017".
Most whales don't want to sell off their stock. Simplified spoken, they want to sell one coin for 7100, then buy one coin back for 7000 and cash out those 100 bugs (or cash out 50 and reinvest the other 50). They use their huge volume to try to influence the market their way.

But I guess most whales are in competition against each other, rather than cooperating. And that would be a good thing.
What's more important is competition

Right, and that's a key ingredient that is missing in Fort Collins. Two main providers, who have been operating in typical duopoly fashion. I.e. you get one or the other, not both, and even if you can get both, the other is no better.
Alright then. Where do your get your information? I'm apparently living in a bubble. (honest question, would love to get out of it if that's the case)
Probably about the SEO, when you google most beers the RateBeer page will rank pretty highly.
No, not obviously. Why isn't it banned in every country that's not a US ally? Just China...
None of them wears speedo. They have long pants and long sleeves. Also those pics are old school as hell, like 80 idea or something, one has only dudes (ugly) face. Frankly they seem to me like dudes idea of what women should like, but if that happened to work on cover and those books were super succesfull then whatever. I checked modern romance covers and they seem to be sexier to me. So I am not all that much odd one out.

I am not saying that sexy dude wears full body outfit that covers him entirely. I am saying speedo is really not it and it is used here to play to fear of Americans of ... something speedo related. It is not example of "sexy", but of something I am supposed to find disgusting. (I dont. In here, speedo is perfectly normal for swimming.)
Paper on proofs of space: https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/893.pdf
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Anything FOSS in this sphere? I'm slowly going towards building my solution to automatically archive my Firefox bookmarks locally, but a bit too slowly.
There are other ISPs in Fort Collins (CenturyLink/FRII) but it is something like 90%~ of the town is serviced by Comcast. This gives them massive amounts of control when it comes to pricing in the town.
I guess what's weird is the idea that you could split two coins and the two coins price is greater than the original. That doesn't make any sense even though it happened with Bitcoin cash.
Sadly, not completely. A surprising nonzero number of users have isps that insist on using their own root cert to inject this nonsense.
Perhaps you have never been ugly enough, or fat enough, or black enough, or xeno enough to catch flak from the beautiful people. But I have had enough of it that I simply avoid being out in public.

I know what I'm worth to me, but I also know that "society" doesn't want me hanging around where I can be seen. That's fine with me, because apparently society is full of nasty people and those who tacitly support their nastiness--people who are ugly on the inside, and people who find it easier to live with ugly on the inside than ugly on the outside.

I certainly could be friends with people much more attractive than myself, but it is rather unlikely that we would ever meet in the first place. And it certainly would be awkward if we went to a party together, and they eventually realized I wasn't allowed through the front door. Or if I did make it in, and then everyone else left, because the party was no longer cool. Or if someone made an insulting joke at my expense, loudly enough for everyone to hear, and they had to either let it go or get involved in a public fracas. These things have actually happened; I am not just imagining things that might happen.

You can be as sorry as you like, but that won't make the human track marks out there any more accepting, or me any more trusting. The only people I feel safe around by default are those who so obviously have something wrong with them that I know that we must share the experience of being crapped on. Everyone else has to prove they are not secretly a jerk trying to pull one over on the nerds.

There's nothing you can do about it, really. Some people are cruel, and it's enough for you to not be one of them.
At Quora there is a very strong presence of commentators who only focus on answering geopolitical questions about China. It is an area of inordinate size (quantity of questions + answers) compared to other topics of interest.
Hmm, I would've thought that this would be easier for the Java compiler to handle, because it uses type erasure for generics. So in metadata, everything is just 'Object' rather than exact types, but I'm no Java expert, so I could be wrong?
Yeah we use sentry, and quite often generate an insane amount of errors on occaison (sorry). And also management not prioritising fixing low priority errors, means we have quite a high error count even then. That 20b does sound quite low based on just our usage of it.
She doesn't seem to have a problem conforming to dress codes where they exist. She has posts demonstrating that she wears more clothes when at faires, and even did one blog post with no pictures of herself to show that Make would still ignore her. But in the "community" there is no dress code. Make's problem with her is not how she dresses.
1. True

2. Wealth isn't a fixed pie, but power is (also, real estate).

3. In fact, happiness correlates more strongly with relative income than absolute income.

As an aside, I think that multigenerational wealth is particularly corrosive to society - I would be happy to accept extremely high inequality as long as it couldn't be inherited.
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https://twitter.com/MgtowExpat/status/927593680277348352
Good stuff.

I have one other bit of feedback on the architecture, and I realise that this one might be too different from where AuthN is currently. I see that there are a small number of API endpoints that you've marked "public" that users are meant to be able to reach. In practice, the user's POSTs would always be terminated upstream from the AuthN server itself, either at a gateway or by just relaying the requests through from the front-end servers themselves. A service that's part public/part private is much more perilous than a service that is one or the other. All things considered, these public endpoints seem like a very minor convenience to the integrator. I would just make the AuthN API private, and ask users to implement the public endpoints themselves by making requests to the AuthN API.

If you DID make all endpoints private, you're no longer tied to HTTP, and you have a nice opportunity to use GRPC instead. I've recently started rolling it out in my own services, and it's unexpectedly great considering the track-record of similar ideas. It's very performant, pleasant to work with, has a mature ecosystem of surrounding tools, and you get client API implementations in a wide range of languages for "free" (or at least at a cut price).
Bitcoin adjusts difficulty based on how many people mine it. So cheap power doesn't reduce the cost, since it will just mean even more mining.
I've always seen the CRUD aspect of an application more of a reference to the aspects of the public facing API, rather than the architecture or implementation of the service in an application.
Imagine an xmlrpc client module that could use any xmlrpc API and you wouldn't need one module for every task in the API. Which is the case now in the ansible modules.

But the module can't send an actual integer to the API if the API expects an int. It always came out as a string.

This is due to the issue with native types.

You could add logic to recognize integers and let users specify if they want integer conversion of values or not but that's a lot of extra crud for something that could be very simple.
I dont think the state would be better running broadband, but i dont quite see the point of making a law that bans the state from doing it.

There is a matter of unfair competition, as the state can run any service at a loss forever.
"Capitalizing, Capitalizing, Capitalizing." Paraphrasing Fake Yoda (Mel Brooks) from Space Balls
>>It's not unheard of for top quant programmers to pull down 8-figures annually.

This is complete nonsense. What is your source? In the current environment, max low 7 figures will be heads of quant research or senior directors.
I had the pleasure of hanging out with the Sentry folks in SF for a couple days last week. Honestly a top-notch group.

It was eye-opening to see what is possible when you have an organization like theirs where you have a lot of talent and pride in your product across the board.
I would recommend not evaluating employees if you can't be bothered to develop and validate a meaningful metric, since doing so with a bad metric is actively harmful (even aside from potential liability issues if it adversely impacts a protected class without demonstrable validity.)

This isn't, by the way, an original concept; the dangers of the inappropriate use of micro-level metrics that aren't tied to business outcomes in decision-making (and the individual employee level is about as micro as you can get) was one of the key problems W. Edwards Deming identified.
Yes, it absolutely is.

Informed consent is one of the bedrock principles of (ethical) human subjects research. Part of the process is that subjects have to be able to withdraw from the study at any time.

In the US, this is literally the law (45 CFR 46.116), which says that "the subject may discontinue participation at any time without penalty or loss of benefits to which the subject is otherwise entitled." This would likely include the release of protected health information after it is collected, especially when it comes from a small probably-easy-to-deanonymize group.
This isn't a consumer device.
Because it took a while to find - here is the actual talk they are referring to : https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-8069-tapping_into_the_core
Ah, that makes sense, thanks for correcting me!
Same. As a whole, the American craft beer drinkers are obsessed with really hoppy beers, which I hate. So the ratings are completely useless, because a beer I hate will be like a 4.5 while a beer I love will be a 3.3.

There's definitely an opportunity here for a better beer rating system. Get some equipment to analyze the chemical compounds of beers, automatically classify them and use it to recommend beers based on your personal flavor preferences.
> People want to buy from their local stores.

Why? I love my local baker, but for brand name items, I'm going to order online.

> BOPIS (buy online pick up in store)

Why is this attractive to anyone? If I am making the effort to fight traffic and parking to visit a physical location, I want to handle the item. "BOPIS" seems like the worst of all worlds to me.

> knowledge of what is in stock nearby

This is crucial. This is the main reason I no longer visit physical stores. They likely don't have the item I want in stock. It's just an exercise in pure frustration. I don't want to be cross-sold or up-sold, and I certainly don't need someone to order an item that will require a return visit in 2-4 weeks.

> local delivery

Maybe if it is same day, otherwise why do people care?
That's possible, yes. However if his father is not a football player but instead is a bookkeeper, the education and accent may end pulling him out of the racial association he is in just as easily.
2018: Innovation Is a Corporate Game, Not Startup
I'm not going to go to great lengths to explain to you how you are missing the message. It's not about "factoring in" anything, or what the specific "subpopulation" at play is.

GP used a lot of big fancy words to literally(!!) say "Whenever cases like this arise, people are so quick to jump to 'sexism' as the answer without even allowing for the possibility that women just actually are worse employees than men."
Since that article is from 2010, it's worth noting that Schlitz was relaunched, probably shortly after that article came out. Mainly in tall boys, boasting the original 1960s recipe. It is what it is.
Ask HN: What Are Good Resources for Improving Dev Agility?
I'm really interested in improving dev agility by making better choices up and down the stack. I want to get better/faster at shipping MVPs and early stage products.

Currently use things like: React, React Native, Flow, Node/Express, Docker, Postgres, Redis, Sequelize (ORM), CircleCI, AWS (the entire list is a lot longer of course). I've also built out fairly extensive kickstarter templates for API/frontends using those technologies.

I'm curious about things like MongoDB, Rails, Heroku, etc and whether they can dramatically improve dev time vs what I'm already using. Any thoughts/references would be greatly appreciated!
Some context - I live in Buffalo, one of the areas in the 10-25% range.

You can't give away commercial space here in Buffalo. Prices are <$1/sq in a lot of places. A few years ago, ~60% of the commercial space in North Buffalo was vacant.

Our malls are...problematic. Two have already converted into office space, with a third being slowly transitioned as it empties (I believe it is empty now). One of our malls is dying a slow and painful death, even as it is surrounded by a booming retail space. Our other mall has been designed very well to be a destination vs an in/out type of location.

But there are still many commercial vacancies. I don't know a lot about zoning, but many of these locations should really be repurposed to residential. There's also a large sprawl problem.

Finally, it looks like Niagara Falls was included in that statistic and Niagara Falls is an absolute shithole.
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> When was the last time your water/electric/gas company "used force" against public interest?

Everyday.

Think of it this way, people that don't want to use the service can't opt out for the tax loss incurred by the state running it.
And in schools in my area J2ME-capable phone were actually so ubiquitous I already was a heavy user of things like Opera Mini, BombusMod (Jabber client), and MidpSSH—all that a decade ago, when prices were given for each megabyte of data transfer. But that was me, others were just sharing music and pictures through Bluetooth amongst themselves most of the time.
I wasn't really trying to make a specific criticism where one country would come out as the "lighter" or the "darker", more so that the fabricated outrage and incredulity on the part of the US regarding foreign intervention in our "democracy" is an absurd kafkaesque delusion regarding our history.
To be fair, paper money requires banks & bank employees, bullet-proof transportation trucks, government regulation, anti-counterfeit research & technology, and perhaps more.
I stand corrected, didn't consider the case of both chains crashing due to the fork.
I agree. I’d rather put it like this: Pure black/white most easily shows if your display brightness is currently set obnoxiously high.

Pure B&W on high brightness is awesome out in broad daylight but of course terrible indoors with lights off and the same display settings.

But is that the fault of the colors?
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Though it may be heretical to say so in the valley, you know it is possible to grow a business without funding, right?
Well no, it shows that your reality is rather small. Maybe you should meet people outside of the normal circles you hang in. There are plenty of people who are responsible with their monety and yet have been crushed by circumstance.
People also love their Leesa mattresses and their Tuft & Needle mattresses and their Purple mattresses and their Ghostbed mattresses, and so on.

Online memory foam mattresses have become a bit of a commodity and the biggest distinguishing factor between them appears to be the marketing (and legal) budget.
So in a company that uses stack-ranking: Damned if you do; damned if you don't.
Cryptojacking craze that drains your CPU now done by 2,500 sites
It's not coincidental; I believe the 'sole application' the author talks about was in fact an online game.
Most people who aren't murderers, and a few who are. Are you saying that murder is not wrong?

BTW, please don't troll. If you're just asking, "Who says murder is wrong?" to be rhetorical or make a point, don't. Instead, make your point explicitly in the first place, so that we can move forward in the discussion. I'm not interested in playing games, but I am interested in seriously discussing the topic.

So, either you think murder is wrong, or you don't--or you think that sometimes it is and sometimes it isn't, which boils down to isn't. So which is it?
Wow, every news outlet should become a "publicly funded non-profit membership media organization."
DDD, CQRS, Event Sourcing has created some of the most overengineered applications I have ever seen. Some that have been horrible to maintain some years later.

I'm sure those patterns are used in great applications but personally I would really think hard if I need the functionality before I went there.
Sometimes maintainers haven't taken my bug reports seriously because I still use the default avatar. Apparently that's important.

When I made bug reports explaining the exact issue, the maintainers would ask me for a PR. I felt this was strange because instead of them changing one line of code the next time they were working on the project they were asking me to clone the project, go hunting for the appropriate code to change and worry about any adverse effects from that change. All those things would be a non-issue for someone familiar with the code of the project. I'm talking about very straightforward issues here. Sometimes they would even ask me for a PR to fix a typo in documentation, which is just ridiculous for going through all the above steps when they could just type one letter the next time they were developing on the project. I have since learned that there is a culture of people wanting to build up their contribution rep, or something, so the maintainers were actually just offering the PR as an opportunity.

There have been other things that I can't think of right now.