skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you speaking purely with regard to the swatting, and not to the scores of bomb threats?
Regardless of the issues around policing, surely we can agree that this individual has caused tremendous societal cost, not just due to the disruption of valuable services or the resources wasted investigating his claims but also due to the fear he's created and the doubt he's cast over such claims in the future, which could lead to slower and less effective responses to true threats.
He's also been to jail for this before, and appears to have gone right back to work when he got out. He's a serial offender, without much apparent motive besides pure misanthropy.
Again, regardless of what you think about policing in America, can we please agree that this is the kind of person who belongs in prison? Perhaps you do, in which case apologies for the long response -- just thought it was worth clarifying given the thread's focus on the police reaction.
I have a Dell XPS 13 and a Dell Precision 5520 [1], both 2017 models. It feels like the XPS gets around 8 hours of battery life and the Precision gets around 4.5 (even with the discrete GPU turned off). I got the high-res screen option on both, I hear that going with the low-res option boosts battery life.

I bought the Precision with very good specs, which may help explain why it gets worse performance than seems to be advertised. Its screen is also brighter than the XPS 13's.

The reason I got the Precision is that the XPS 13 was too small and slow and I didn't feel productive on it. I find that small screens really hamper my productivity, and having a smaller palm rest beneath the keyboard also makes typing more difficult.

System 76 laptops have very poor ergonomics and battery life, but great internals at a decent price. I bought a Gazelle Pro from them 6 years ago and it was basically unusable as a mobile computer; it got 1 hour of battery life out of the box and that declined to about 5 minutes after a year or so of wear (I'm not joking, it was bad). The keyboard was also terrible. I ended up using it as a portable desktop. That said, it was as powerful, if not more, than the XPS 13 that I bought 6 years later, and it cost slightly less too.

ThinkPads are also really nice. They have great keyboards and good battery life (generally coming with swappable batteries). I bought one about 8 years ago and it was probably the best personal laptop I've owned. The reason I went Dell this time around is because Dell ships machines with Linux pre-installed.

Macs are also nice. Macs have great build quality, great battery life, great keyboards (modulo touch bar), great screens, and decent internals. If Apple offered a high-end Macbook Pro without a touch bar, I would have bought that instead of the Precision.

If I have a chance, I might try running a battery life test on my XPS 13 and Precision 5520 and post the results here.

[1] The Precision 5520 is essentially just a rebranded XPS 15.
This is an interesting observation, but what would the ideal gender ratio even look like?

In the software industry right now, it is still common to have teams with little to no representation of women on technical teams. The decentralized nature of crypto and lack of regulation around crypto projects means that people are free to work with whoever they like, and more often than not, men are working with other men. In terms of investing, women and men have equal opportunity (internet connection, and the urge to resist the voice in their head saying its a bubble).
There definitely are social issues caused by tech, but the fact that tech is raising prices isn't necessarily the responsibility of one single person or business.

But even with having tech as the scapegoat doesn't mean that tech will have the answers (it probably guarantees that the answer isn't in tech at all).

But there are many social issues, in and out of the Valley, where issues are amplified by tech, but not necessarily the ideal way of solving them (for instance, the fact that so many people online engage in trollish behavior, it's a symptom of people and not necessarily one that tech can cure, but tech does definitely amplify it).

Housing had so many different factors that influence it, you can look at everything from governmental policy, cultural changes, land mass and infrastructure to support commuting, and overall consumer preference.

SF's housing issues, while not 100% preceding the rise of tech, definitely were a problem already that tech has amplified.

If a city isn't prepared for economic success, it's going to have a really tough time adjusting to economic pressures (even the success of it's neighbors).
However with San Francisco, it's hard to pass it off as being unprepared, but, TBH, while a generally forward thinking community, there is a lot of NIMBY-itis and a pro-conservationist movement that doesn't always desire to compromise.
Not having lived there for any great length of time, I'm conjecturing based on what I read, so take my opinion with a large grain of salt :)
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Okay, taxpayers provide part of their funding, the remainder of which is through donations and student fees.
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> "There are studies out there that suggest men are predisposed towards bubbles in a way that women are not."

But there are no differences between men and women (?)
The article warns of the divide being dangerous and harmful but never actually says what kind of problems it causes.
>go back home for a job

Haha. Not really. American salaries, standards of living are among the highest/best in the planet. Plus an abundance of economic opportunities and relatively low discrimination compared to what one may face in other developed countries.

These are the only factors which decide whether a family sends their kid to the US for higher ed or not. The degrees themselves aren't worth much at all.

Unless on course you are talking about the very elite, who have well established businesses and properties in their home countries, who then want Ivy League degrees for their kids. They won't give a fk about the average mid western universities that the article is actually talking about.
No, not following the globally agreed upon standard for the sole purpose of making arithmetic slower in the general case would be bad design.
$$$ is why
It's rather difficult to determine the intent of legislators, especially after some time has passed. Courts sometimes look at Congressional debate transcripts when deciding complex issues of federal law. But different congresspeople often have different conflicting intents even when they vote the same way.
Chrome will shortly be flagging all sites without HTTPS as insecure, so at the very least the benefit is cosmetic. From an overall health of the internet perspective, modern SSL ensures no tampering or other misbehaviour on the line. Google covered some other benefits of SSL in a post from September - https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/security/encr...
From my experience, you're dead on for the majority of "staff augmentation" full time contracts that come from tech-related consulting+contracting firms. Most organizations I've been around (East Coast, DC region) charge around $250/hr to big government, and the people they assign make anywhere from $40-$125/hr depending on the specifics of their role.
The Thinkpad X1 Carbon or the T470p (which has a Quad i7 and supports upto 32GB of RAM).
Hopefully, but probably not. For some reason, the subset of the population that will have the negative effects, more often gets forgotten.
A sibling got a fellowship to the other NSA, the NNSA (National Nuclear Security Admin). Arguably, a much smaller though important Admin too. Their time in the fellowship resulted in mostly the same: Google pays more. So ALL of the last 8 years of fellows have gone off to private from gov.

The fellowship is really good money for grad school, about 36k, and you get good interning in the various national labs and good-ish mentoring (if you want it). My sibling was telling me about the dinners though, a real hoot. The old grey-beards from the pre-Apollo days really are clueless as to why all the fellows are leaving for the tech companies. They really just cannot understand why 'millenials' don't want to do the work. My sibling had to inform them that many (likely all) of the candidates are lying on their applications when they say that nuclear security is important to them. In addition to that, the ability to make more money, not have a black hole on the ol resume, and be able to talk about their job to a Tonder date are important. From what I was told, Tinder really blew their minds (pun not intended). I guess they don't get out from behind the fence much?
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One thing that strikes me is how opt-in the Bitcoin space is. I started participating in forums and on r/bitcoin back in late 2012, and real names were seldom used.

It's tiring to see Bitcoin berated for being non-inclusive when there haven't been any barriers stopping women from participating — either by buying coins, starting/joining companies or participating in discussions.

And if it is true, as this article suggests, that women are less interested in Bitcoin due to the extreme risk, why are we so collectively outraged about the gender divide amongst startup employees?

edit: rather than downvote, would anyone care to discuss this?
Jared Kaplan, one of the researchers mentioned in the article, has a good set of notes here: http://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/jared-kaplan/files/2016/05/AdSC...

David Tong does a good job explaining background physics and his notes can be found here: http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/teaching.html

The fourth chapter of his string theory notes are about as approachable an introduction to conformal field theory that there is. His QFT notes are good too.
The problem might be either:
1. Bitcoin is not a bubble, and this wealth transfer ends up benefiting some males substantially.
2. Bitcoin is a bubble, and the people arriving late to this party might end up being bag holders (women and men)
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Nice, I hadn't seen that before. It looks pretty good on first glance.
Any non-trivial merge conflict requires producing a hybrid of the two versions. From the screenshot it looks like all you can do is select one of the two versions. Isn't that extremely limiting?

Also it looks like this doesn't show the ancestor version, which is a shame as that's extremely useful.
Steep incentives for corporate takeovers is a bad idea IMO - that lack of option in a liquidity event would make less companies receive funding. It would be even more risky to our venture capital behind a new idea.
"Drone" comes from worker bees, so "swarm" is at least consistent. But I found drone misleading here - I thought they'd be airborne. What's the scope of "drone"?
This is really interesting. Interactive learning is the future.
Maybe that's because one of the biggest hiring firms for mathematicians is the NSA.
About $60k-$80k for this position depending on experience.
Yeah, with how much people talk about diversity being important in investment I'm surprised selling stock is ever news. Also with all the regulation and scrutiny around them selling stocks it makes it even less likely that it actually means anything at all.
It doesn't attempt to say that the gender divide is the cause of anything. The theory is that women are less risk-taking than men, that we should see a lack of women wanting to participate as evidence of increased risk: Evidence of rather than causation of risk.
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If the degrees didn't matter, then they would not send their kids here in the first place.

Most of the folks I ran into liked America but loved their countries of origin and looked forward to getting a job and doing well. I was not talking elite students (which is different from students at elite unis who can be a mixed bag)
> why would I pay tuition as a legal immigrant on say a F-1 visa

No such thing as a “legal immigrant on an F-1 visa”, as an F-1 is a non-immigrant visa and F-1s are non-resident aliens legally prohibited from establishing a US domicile.

> if I came in illegally, I would have a chance at getting a subsidy

The only people who came in illegally who can be considered residents for UC tuition purposes—as stated on the page you link—are those who are qualified for and have been granted status under DACA (a policy established in 2012), which means you had to be brought over as a child under 16, and must have lived in the US since 2007, or those that have attended 3 years of California high school.

> Could they just pretent to be illegal for the subsidy and then when done just go home on your F-1. It's not like the school would check or even less ask the feds about status

Yes, if you claim to be in DACA status, the state will check your DACA status. If you claim to be an undocumented student that attended three years of California high school, they will check your high school records. If you are a foreign student on an F-1, neither one of those is going to work.
Had an interview with these guys one morning and they said they "couldn't wait to hop on a call with me" later in the day and I never heard from them again. Not sure if applying here is worth the time.
It does when there's no effective technical measure to stop you from getting one from the other. It shouldn't be possible to break laws by accident.
Two things to note about the XPS 13:

1) The developer edition, as far as I can tell, has not been updated to 8th gen intel CPUs which offer a quad core U-series. It might be a better bet to just get the most updated XPS and install Linux on it.

2) There have been some images shared by dell that suggest a redesign of the XPS line is imminent, possibly at CES in a week or so. It might be wise to wait a little to see if there are some nice updates on the horizon or good deals coming on existing models.
I guess Coinbase should add more pink to their UI.
The problem is that we can (and should!) raise government pay scales, but we must also make it easier to fire people (or manage them downwards) for incompetence. Government work is for two types of people (and there's some overlap on the Euler diagram): patriots, and folks who can't hack it in civilian life.

It's not just a 'perception of gov't incompetence': it's a widespread phenomenon. Government employees tend to excel at working organisational politics (i.e., in serving their organisational customers) rather than in serving their taxpaying customers. Government work is a kind of kabuki theatre, in which everyone agrees to praise the emperor's new clothes and ignore the boy who points out that he's naked.

The unfortunate thing is that government work is really important: it requires the best and the brightest, not the lazy and the uninspired. Patriotism should of course be a sine qua non for the civil service, but so should excellence. We should pay market rates, but we should pay them for market quality.

Raising rates without working to improve quality would mean getting mutton when we pay for lamb.
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I'm not sure homelessness is safer for men. Men are a lot more likely to be victims of every kind of assault than rape, and I have no reason to believe that the ratio of male:female victimization is affected by poverty. Further, men probably don't lag women a whole lot in rape victimization, or at least it's certainly more prevalent than the cultural meme suggests, largely due to underreporting and the fact that many jurisdictions (including the FBI) have defined rape in such a way that it excludes men from the victimization statistics (e.g. "rape is vaginal penetration"). Besides, there are far fewer social services (e.g., shelters) available to homeless men as compared to homeless women.
So do you think they have strategies or technologies already in place to categorize traffic based on specific content types, eg DPI of some sort with machine learning? Or do you believe it will just be a sort of gateway tariff, eg hitting Google or Amazon? Do you think their next move will be to try and fight encryption?

Also, and perhaps most importantly, if the controllers of the last mile are to get their hands in this till, do you think they have the engineering prowess to do all of this and put together a robust infrastructure? Or will we end up with Clown Car Internet in most areas of the US?
Oh no,.. HN to the rescue, someone fix this awful sexism.
Bret Weinstein's take on it (on Joe Rogan's podcast): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzAgSp_O03I#t=1h05m40s (I recommend starting 5-10 minutes earlier, but the linked starting time is where he really gets to the heart of the matter.)

The gist of it is that he believes markets are good at solving a particular problem, given material constraints and demand, but that markets are awful at determining what problems to solve. There are relatively weak and few incentives and punishments for corporations (other than for things that are outright illegal), so the market is approximately solving whatever problems have the lowest barriers to entry. And a website you can start in your dorm room that ends up scaling and monetizing eyeballs and addicting people is a perfect example. "How do I make a lot of money with one computer and a day or a week or a month's worth of code?" Most of the answers to that question are unhelpful to society, but as long as they're profitable and legal, people will pursue them.

He offers some speculative thoughts on solutions but to me they seem relatively unlikely to solve most of our problems, even if they can solve some of them. For instance, I think (or rather, hope) the combination of fitness+nutrition+healthcare+medical tracking can be fixed if dealt with as a single system. And by fixed, I mean encouraging fitness and providing only nutritious food in the community and thereby lowering everyone's overall food+fitness+healthcare costs, even if food and fitness costs go up. But I don't see how it works as a free market opt-in cluster of services. If you set up something like that, and it is overall cheaper than the status quo, how do you keep poor people and homeless people from signing up immediately and bankrupting your new system? They have a lot more incentive to switch to that new system than rich people (who would probably be subsidizing it to some extent which is a tough sell even if they end up happier and healthier).
Unless u get a job. It is pretty hard by itself, even harder under Trump. As an investment, its return is diminishing.
I do not acknowledge that Musk et al have a rationale behind their worries. It is uninformed speculation. Right now we have no plausible path toward building an AGI. There's no cause for worry until someone builds a computer at least as smart as a mouse.
Its crazy the amount of money spent on MH370... does anyone know how much it compares to the payout of the victim's families?
In that case, perhaps our views here aren't so different. I'd agree that React was a relatively rare qualitative step forward in the tools available in web development, precisely because it did bring some ideas and programming styles into the front-end JS community for probably the first time. I just disagree with the idea that this was unlike anything that had gone before, because essentially the same fundamental ideas and programming styles have been used elsewhere in the programming community for a very long time.
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Not just the cost of competence, but the cost of SUCCESS too.

Lots of highly competent people out there in the market making big market wages ... and they fail all the time. Even just paying isn't enough.
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There is nothing bad about opensource stack backed by big money, in my eyes.

Second, i am surprised to read, that people would still put dependencies/libs into their projects, even in their source code form? I thought, that was one of the reasons, why dependency management was introduced, to get rid of that. One ships a descriptor, what libs were required/used, when the lib has been packaged. And in one's IDE one can view all the dependencies as one wishes, in binary or source code form. I am very confused about your statement.
(though in the final App, one ships all the libs in the packaged form of the app, unless provided by the runtime environment. But only then. Though its optional, one could also download the deps when starting the App)

And third: The longer an App runs, the more memory it eats?
Its like with any other App: if it needs that much memory and it does not release it afterwards, well, then it is a feature or a bug. If it releases the memory, then it is only released within the JVMs memory space. The common default for thag is 4gb per JVM.

Its like the page cache in linux. Once a file has been read into memory, it will usually sit there for a while, unless someone else needs that memory. Thats why on a system with 128gb and a lot of file access, you see free memory going down and down. But its most of the time the page cache eating up that memory and is mostly not a problem. But can be confusing, when one is not familiar with it.

Ah, so many things one can tell.
The early adopters of emerging technology are generally men.
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>would anyone care to discuss this?

The prescriptive nature of their "argument" that a gender split must be 50-50 or else it's sexism cannot be justified.

Enforcing outcomes is not an idea that emerges from any chain of reasoning; it is simply tyranny disguised as activism.
Welcome to employment outside of STEM.

The worst part is that a good writing professor is arguably more valuable to the career prospects of an engineer than all the engineering courses.
You underestimate the value of an “overseas” degree in “developing” countries like China. A student who comes back to China with a US/UK degree will get preferential access to first-tier city resident permits, direct financial “housing” benefits from the city, a good job and faster career advancement and more besides.
Some of those benefits are starting to get scaled back but it’s still a big advantage.