skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assuming the astronauts are civilian employees[0], I'm not sure that releasing protected health information could be a condition of employment.

There are fairly strict rules around human subjects research and a major theme of the rules is that you can't be coerced into participating. This is particularly true when employees are used as experimental subjects; DHHS says that "Employee participation raises questions about the ability of employees to exercise free choice, for example, because of the possibility that a decision to participate could affect performance evaluations or job advancement, even if it is only the employee’s perception that this is the case." Saying "let us release your health records or you're fired" thus appears to be wildly illegal.

[0] I think the rules for military employees are slightly different, but I would imagine they're not too far off.
> There are great commercial ISPs too.

Sure, if you're lucky enough to live in an area with "actual" competition, which is the crux of the entire issue.

The vast, vast majority of us are stuck with 1 or 2 (if we're lucky) options, both relatively shitty, with one being markedly inferior, and both absurdly overpriced for the connection you get.
Sorry I wasn’t clear, only talking about retail distribution, not direct package sales.

No question plenty of breweries have found a way to be successful outside of normal retail. But they should be able to distribute, without large multinationals strong arming retailers in to not carrying competitors products.

Absolutely agree that many breweries have been successful not distributing
Sure... but if I've got the money and really like building robots (pretend I'm on the Megabots team or something) why not enable me to buy 1-2 of them? Money is money right?
Your Casper matrress that they paid a Chinese outsourcing company to make and paid less then $100 for one mattress. While you paid $500 or more for it. Yet you could have gone to AliExpress and bought the same none branded mattress for $100.

Also and hmmm does a hacker newser really love their Casper or do they work for them? Casper obviously trolls the Internet for the better of themselves!
This is true for extremely generous definitions of "perform".

Microservices can lead to better performance by making for smaller, more clearly defined codebases, fewer unnecessary imports, and so on. They can also be easy to scale, because you can scale specifically that one component (e.g. identity management) by moving it to a separate database server.

We use microservices, and we have probably close to 2TB of MySQL database, but because we have our services and their database schemas cleanly separated, we can break that up into a set of databases which all fit into memory and one database which, being basically append-only, doesn't need to access historical data and so doesn't need to fit entirely in RAM.

It also lets us easily look at our cluster stats and see where bottlenecks are, by easily seeing which servers or services are under load.

We do pay a penalty for this; layers of indirection, network latency, protocol overhead, serialization/deserialization, and so on, but designing our systems like that from the start lets us tackle those problems at the start and account for them in our design.
Malls are a great place to walk (especially for toddlers and the elderly) in the winter time!
The thinking is probably that if usage spikes and some people can't get access to the game and they know that this is because of spiking usage, then this just builds buzz and demand -- like hip restaurants with visible queues.

So in this case the business demand on the engineers was presumably to make sure that 10% of users get good service during the spike while the others are gracefully shown a "Sorry we are too busy right now " message.

Whether or not this is evil depends on the pricing model and other factors that determine whether those bounced user had a reasonable expectation of service.
My intention for the user-facing endpoints is that the host app will never need to see or accidentally log a user's password. It's a pattern inspired by credit card vaults.

Could you still achieve your deployment goals with a Gateway/WAF setup that proxies the user-facing endpoints? The only issue I'm presently aware of with this setup is https://github.com/keratin/authn-server/issues/8.
How does this compare to other competitors in the RUM space, including open source tools?
That is not the assertion I am making. You've also shifted the goalposts: you're talking about sexism in the workplace, which I agree is rampant in our industry, and I'm talking about performance review systems that are structurally or endemically biased against women, which obviously also exist, but pretty clearly don't exist everywhere.
> Currently shopping by catalog and spec and datasheet is for the cognitive elite like engineers, but soon enough its going to be a required new higher minimum of economic participation.

Sounds like you you're mistaking "wealthy people" for "the cognitive elite"! The shopping behaviors you're describing are just those of people who have either the time or capital to spend trying to get marginally better stuff.

> [...] soon enough its going to be a required new higher minimum of economic participation. You'll pick out your next bicycle by reading technical manuals and holding a ruler up to your leg, or you'll fail miserably at buying a bicycle.

I don't know what kind of bicycle shopping you're envisioning, but it sounds pretty damn weird to me. It's kind of hard to buy a bike that just doesn't work at all for most people. Even if your bike is several sizes off, it's just going to be more obnoxious to pedal. I'm in Boston, and I see tons of people commute around on bikes which really don't fit them at all and they do just fine. Even the crappiest bike is leagues better than walking

Also, I don't know how many people currently buy their bikes online who aren't already really into cycling vs people who buy them used or at a brick and mortar store, but I doubt it's high compared to, say, clothes.

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> Just like its sad that illiterate or innumerate people get screwed in todays economy, people who can't shop like an engineer are going to get screwed in coming decades.

The type of shopping behavior you're describing is a luxury of the rich, not a necessity for most people. If you were to say, "not-wealthy people will be screwed over in the decades to come" I'd agree and point out that that's already the case.
Because it helps ensure you're not attempting to export products, services, and ideas with the goal of undermining other countries?? It's not a perfect idea. But the export of harmful things just so one nation can offload the cost to other nations is a pretty cuntish practice and should be stopped.
They've also been fighting the gov on subpoenas for data stored outside the US:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/14/microsoft...

Presumably the business mandate is that they want to sell their cloud solutions (particularly for stuff like Outlook) to customers who don't look favorably upon the US getting access to all their data with a mere subpoena & not even being informed about it.
I must say, I almost always try to swap in Mako for Jinja -- instead of learning yet another DSL for templating, I can just use a very good language I already know in my templates: Python.
Printing websites with grey text on a laser printer usually gives you dithered and unpleasant to read text.
At > 200k a year you'll be able to send two kids to college.

Esp if you are spending at a little over 100k
How else can you read "consistent differences in merit between subpopulations" when the context is gender discrimination in employee performance reviews?
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Looks like it defaults to providing a python2 2.7.12 environment.

I don't see anyway of selecting python3, any one found the option? Or are they only supporting Python2?
We really need to get rid of cops. That experiment is over.
Some weather can be worked around though. Some of Denver's more popular shopping areas are outdoor type malls. You just have to design them with the weather in mind with things like fire pits and heaters to use in the winter.

Denver gets very little precipitation so rain is something that generally is not an issue though.
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Yep. My uncle died from an OD earlier this year. Drugs cut with fentanyl. It's truly a terrible epidemic.
Beyond the tech, it brings a somewhat famous person, which is not to be underestimated. Hype is important, it makes this coin pop out a little bit more than some of the others competing for the same mind share.
A lot of my non-techie peers in Seattle are choosing Lyft over Uber due to ethical concerns. Even when they're not making that much money, it's important to them.
What makes you say that? It's trivial to get opioids on the streets and it's common to be introduced to them as a recreational drug, as I know first hand.

In fact, I don't know anyone who got addicted to opioids due to overprescription, but I know several people who didn't get prescribed opioids they needed because of the fears of overprescription, and thus were left in terrible pain. I don't know how you draw the line, but I think it's evil to leave people in pain because you're afraid they'll use the drugs for fun. Most people who take opioids do not get addicted.
I think the argument is more that sex is often used to sell things so people are wary when it is used in what they see in an unrelated manner.

If I'm out shopping for an online course and I see one presented by a woman in a bikini vs one that is fully dressed I would be way more wary of the bikini one. I would think its content was not good enough to stand on its own and therefore they resorted to trying to sell it with sex.

Of course that does not give me the right to attack or make groundless accusations against the bikini course.
I just thought: could it be Radim Rehurek. It is.
Markets are filled with and driven by tons of imbeciles :-)
There are youtube videos and guides online, if children can get things going anyone can. Most people are not incapable, they just don't want to bother.
Side note: Tencent means "soaring information" [1] and not "10 cents"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent
I haven't made a browser extension yet, but that's definitely on my list of things to add.

I guess you're right, I'll make a quick bookmarklet in the meantime!
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Young women (20-35) are more likely to get pregnant and take significant time off from work than their male counterparts. What ranking system could negate the difference that results from men working x hours more per year? Is that desirable or fair?
The systemic bias you describe is gender discrimination.
Looks like it is in the works

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46941308/python-3-suppor...
Alright, but you've missed the point. These companies have had the opportunity to make a superior product with the same allowances that you suggest that municipal would get. But they didn't.

Alternatively, I would argue that a municipal system is, in fact, fair competition. If a municipality decides that they, collectively, want to create and pay for a service due to lack of quality competition, then it is their right to do so. This has so far proven extremely effective, as even private services have improved in quality and price when it happens.

This is a win/win for the consumer. For me, they are the more important part of the equation.
Could you reach out to support with your account details? There's a cost to the data volume, but generally queries should respond very quickly.
Put them in treatment centers?
Ahhhh. I somehow missed that while reading the article. Thanks that makes more sense.

When I saw Bittorrent and storage I think my brain immediately jumped to the storage based tokens.

Curious to read about and see how that works
Microsoft has been battling the government over this and more for a long time. They have another major ongoing case over US government rights to demand customer data stored overseas.

> What's in it for them

The very lucrative European business market. If they can't be assured that their data is safe with Microsoft (and out of US govt hands), they will naturally move to using non-US based competitors.
They could have sent Dr Tanenbaum MINIX chip #50,000,000 and politely requested he did not make the info public? A small gesture of appreciation I guess?
Adding cops is pretty low on the list of reasonable jobs programs
> Honestly I just think it means that this stuff really isn't all that difficult.

I mean, I agree. I don't personally think this stuff is difficult; "smart" in this case can be in opposition to either "too irrational to spend the time on high ROI computer literacy" or "unintelligent enough that the ROI _isn't_ worth it". I really don't think that the latter is true of most people, but that's the excuse people often give for making intentionally uninformed personal computing decisions.

> I think many of us overestimate our own intelligence just because we have worked with computers our whole lives.

Yea, this is definitely not what I'm saying. Frankly, I don't think you have to be all that smart to be an engineer, let alone computer literate.
Y'all should hate the game not the players, c'mon. -50 Cent

(ie. Pass bad laws/tolerate bad governments, get bad results.)
well you need to pay at least 20€ per Server per Month (15 € Flexi-Pack 5€ second Nic) for a private LAN. (excluding the needed switch/switches for HA, I guess they are somwhere around 20-40€ per switch depending on if HA or not)
Where exactly is the "strong free-market" here?
An asymptote of this phenomenon is Curtis Yarvin ("Moldbug", basically a fascist, and also a programmer) being denied a slot at the Strange Loop conference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin#Controversy

How does that compare with this situation? Is it similar? Different? If so, why?
No it's a Federal executive agency with a cabinet level Secretary reporting to the president.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_agencies_in_th...

DHS was made after 9-11 in 2001 by rolling a lot of other agencies together with a new overarching executive agency.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Ho...
Queue moralizing arguments that the overdoses would go away if we stopped reviving hundreds. The characterizations people make of the victims of opioid addictions are saddening and astoundingly cruel.
Why is blocking Facebook bad? I do not think the existence of Facebook has been a net-positive for society.
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The limit is the class (or method) name that is bigger than 65535 in this case, it has nothing to do specifically with generics because of type erasure.
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There are two issues here. One is the "beautiful people" issue, where the people are playing a social game, and if they come to hang out with normal people, they are doing it for some way that it's going to advance them in their manipulative social game. Why should any of the non-"beautiful people" want anything to do with that? The only way we should is if we're dumb enough to want to play their game, because we haven't figured out that it's a game that we're going to lose at. Your instincts to run away are spot on.

But the other issue is, we've got our own communities. Maybe we're part of a community where we care about software, for example. Well, in that community, sure, be careful of people who are trying to use you. But if someone with good physical looks comes around, judge them by their software knowledge (or actual desire to learn); don't judge them (positively or negatively) by their looks.
That's exactly what an Apple employee would say!
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Exactly, the amount of money spent on energy to mine is equal to the amount of mining revenue. Energy consumption is more closely related to price.
Being tough on real crimes with victims is just fine.

Being tough on victimless crimes is absurd.

It's truly very black and white.
Yup, pretty sure LTO and LTCG are pretty close these days, if not the same thing.
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Spent 5 minutes reading that. Still doesn't tell me WTF is a snap. The first headline of any technical thing should be "tell me WTF is this". Moving on now with the remains of my beer can.
Maybe all these drugs being dumped in USA is really part of an evil plan from an enemy nation to destroy this country by destroying its people. Check out this book "Red Cocaine" to see how cocaine traffic started in America.
As long as I know, is not in 'all' their modern CPUs. Just all the CPUs with vPro feature, that aren't the ones used in domestical environments but large businesses.
Municipal services usually don’t have to turn a profit, since they can make up the shortfall with tax revenue. You’re missing that crucial point. You can’t effectively compete against someone who can operate at a loss in perpetuity.

I don’t know what the specifics are in this case, but if they allow the municipal service to be funded by tax revenue, then it’s incredibly unfair.
I definitely dont want to belittle the importance of this kind of activity. But I very much want to shift the dialog about such machinations on the part of foreign powers towards a conversation where we acknowledge or own systemic failures in democracy at home and our rampant interventionism abroad.

I really only see the outcome of this outrage over foreign interference in our democracy resulting in a spectrum of terrible to shameful. In the terrible case, we are hyping up defensive nationalism and disregarding our own actions and history, which may very well lead to all kinds of barbaric, jingoistic policies moving forward. In the shameful case, we are taking advantage of these stories on foreign manipulation as a means to ignore what is wrong with our society, passing the blame solely onto a non american third party.

In neither case are we reviewing our history as a nation. I fear we will ignore all the possible lessons we might learn from honestly reviewing the times where we have disenfranchised our own people, overthrew foreign governments for adhering to a different socio-economic ideology, or were so blinded by our own propaganda and fear that we were convinced of conveniently simple narratives about who was bad and who was good and who we had to kill and who had to do the killing.

I feel like there is a common aphorism about how you need to fail 10 times to have a decent chance to succeed once. It seems like we have an opportunity to review our history at this moment. We didn't do any such examination after the fall of the USSR in the 90s. Nope, we were vindicated and there was no longer a reason to pen-test neoliberal-capitalism as either an economic system or a larger ideology.

It took 2 inane wars, a massive recession, and the election of idiot-nationalist reality tv show star / shitty condo developer to provide us with an opportunity to introspect, and I'll be damned if I dont make the strongest appeal my young perspective can muster for us to do that introspection.
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On the other hand, for many this is the only time they are clean.
Some of them are probably there for crimes like theft prostitution and selling to sustain their habits. Another significant part would be those who violate parole or drug treatment programs.
The word "homeland" is propaganda-ish. Other department names are simply descriptive, such as Treasury, State, Interior, Veterans Affairs, etc. If named normally, it would have been something like 'Domestic Security'..
Yes, but more specifically if our federal government wants to enact "jim-crow" type laws, our state and local governments should have the power to say "go fly a kite".
I have a car as low as an Aventador, without a front-axle lift, and a similarly bad approach angle.

You don't take steep inclines head on. Period. You take them at an oblique angle, and get the closest wheel up first. It takes a few more seconds, but you don't scrape.

I've gone up into entrances without issue where I've seen stock Toyota Camrys (which have nearly 2 inches more ground clearance and a much better approach angle) scrape. Take your time and it's a non-issue. My car has a sacrificial portion of the front splitter that's cheap to replace if I were to scrape it, but it's so easy to not scrape it it'll be a long time (decade plus?) before I need to.
Yes and many people here, especially outside of the downtown / in the GTA, act like being outside for an hour is unbearable and that suburbs and cars are the only fix. They aren't.
I can confirm a similar error. Java 8u152.

Four 'Inner's work. Five gives error:

The type generates a string that requires more than 65535 bytes to encode in Utf8 format in the constant pool

This is using Eclipse. So it is the Eclipse compiler which is integrated with the editor. I haven't tried Oracle's Java compiler.

Because the problem is to do with the size of a class constant pool, the limit of four Inner's should be universal across Java compilers, IDEs, and Operating Systems. (Assuming the class name mangling algorithm is part of the class specification.)
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Is it possible to buy EPYC workstations already? Components are quite scarce in the UK both for EPYC and Xeon Skylake.
I am really not interested in a new first-principles explication of the inferiority of women as a workforce demographic in the tech industry. Sorry.
It's a comment, not a thesis statement.

Replace "US" with "US-based companies" if it makes you feel better.
My Zinus mattress actually did attack me, but it is the best thing I've ever slept on.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15490495
I'm not sure what rum is (other than an alcoholic beverage) but as far as I know Sentry is the only actively maintained Open Source tool in its space (which is crash reporting). Might be wrong on that though.
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> Municipal services usually don’t have to turn a profit, since they can make up the shortfall with tax revenue. You’re missing that crucial point. You can’t effectively compete against someone who can operate at a loss in perpetuity.

This is more of a problem of how things look like they are funded.

Customers still pay the same price, but instead of $60 for Internet service, it may be $50 for Internet and $10 somewhere else. Or of course the city can tax the heck out of one subgroup of people and redistribute the funds.

I'd actually be OK-ish with a law saying that municipal broadband has to be self funded after initial rollout, I imagine that would maintain sufficient competition.
In the long run it will make them both cheaper.
Sorry for the late reply. You are right that they are closely related, as revenue is a pretty important part of running a business.

But I find it useful to distinguish between them, as do most business schools. Mergers are part of corporate strategy that only somewhat involve marketing considerations. Advertising is marketing strategy that doesn't have much to do with corporate strategy. A decision to enter new markets would be in the overlap area.

Anyway I thought the original article was just vague consultant speak.
Self promotion?? The guy is a legend!