skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe a naive question but did you consider writing it in language that is typically faster (C++/Go/Rust)? I understand the many benefits of it being written in JS but there is an inherent maximum level of performance that JS can achieve in certain workloads.
> Can somebody explain, in detail, the conspiracy theory here?

For tether to maintain a 1:1 ratio of 1 USDT to 1 USD, they have to have a backing of $450M from some company or bank that has USD to give them. As of now, they have no US based banks even doing transfers with them, let alone working with them on being solvent.

Tether promised to be open to auditing, and none of the latest issuings have been audited as having actual backing currency.
Did you really read the article? It spoke to everyone who felt that they didn't fit into the tech industry's toxic mild. Nowhere did they make it out to be a question about women.
This shows how unsuitable most American cities are for opening a large high-tech office. Ideally, Amazon should be searching for a city according to their existing tax laws. Exceptions should not be needed. In fact, if a city gives breaks to Amazon, they should amend their laws so that the same deal is available to every citizen.
Where did you get this idea that all professions need to be 50%/50%? Just for example 90% of nurses are female but we are as a society are OK with that right?
Apple Blocked an App That Detected Net Neutrality Violations, Then Backed Off
China is literally following step by step where Japan was, fighting debt with more debt, until they could no longer defend it.

It's also interesting that prior to 1989, there was real fear of Japan overtaking US and it was reflected by the media and films.

If you studied Economics in university, you will realize US hegemony is far more penetrating and hard to replicate due to network effect...its self evident when the Chinese political elite send their kids away from China, along with wealth...

In my humble opinion, the American empire is probably the most efficient and anti-fragile system set in human history because it feeds off on our weakness for rare material goods. I will have to agree with Warren Buffett that the next 100+ years for America will be very good indeed for business. Majority of the network is on an English speaking framework, it's unlikely to switch to hieroglyphics and archaic Confucian values that oppressed individual freedom.

tl;dr: China won't usurp the US hegemony without surpassing its military and its transnational and intranational reach through corporatism. Soft power plays a huge role and its not something communist architectures are known for. Otherwise, American elites would be fighting to send their kids to the dreamy foggy lands of Beijing University. The US model is to provide a platform where American corporations can thrive, with money or bullets. It's a system where the value of every nation's money is backed by it's own fiat currency, guaranteeing the #1 position as long as there isn't a civil war or something like that divides the country.

The only people that believe PRC will overtake the US are Chinese folks and through Chinese diaspora that bought the line.
It is a professional journalist's job to do just that. Most people can't do heart transplants either, but that's not an argument to be made for protecting a negligent heart surgeon.
Do you have any plans to work with or refer to a preferred set of qualified device security professionals?

AFAIU, medical devices tend to require a lot of fuzzing and secured upgrades.

The Update Framework requires multiply-signed releases.
White male, 44 years old. I'm a principal engineer at a big tech company and could get a job at a moments notice paying really well any time I choose. I'm not sure ageism really exists, outside of some toxic startups with a "bro" culture, and in my experience, those are the types of places that nobody wants to work anyway.
>So does this make XRP also a Sh*t coin?

Yes.
You consider sharing internal ticket information “promotional disclosure?”

You might just want to delete the original comment; it was an incredibly poor decision and demonstrates a frightening lack of professionalism.
Sell things for more than you buy them. Do it until it's big enough to get you into trouble for not having the appropriate licenses, brand registrations, business entities, (those are distractions and don't make money).
D'Oh! Thanks for the correction -- somewhat changes my response a bit!
But no-one can actually buy tethers, it's disabled and no-one will say why. This is Bitfinex itself printing and using Tethers to buy BTC.

I've been following https://twitter.com/bitfinexed
I did this with a Parrot AR Drone 2.0 and a Leap Motion. I let one of the project managers at work fly it in the cafeteria and she put it into the ceiling. I'd like to have tried it with FPV, as you had to look at the drone while keeping your hands in a reasonably tightly defined area above the Leap Motion.
There's a difference between acting professional and ignoring abuse because "I shouldn't be emotional at my job".
> Early on, Valerie realized that she unconsciously thought of literally every single job other than software engineer as “for people who weren’t good enough to be a software engineer” – and that she thought this because other software engineers had been telling her that for her entire career.

Just want to add that the "lets teach everyone to be programmers" idea that constantly gets paraded around is just another form of this. Not everyone waants to do it, not everyone is capable of doing it, and not everyone needs to do it. It comes from a place of wanting to help people, but it's still "in tech vs not in tech".
How would it take down the entire ecosystem? Bitcoin alone has a $194B market cap. $450M is a drop in the bucket.
It's worth paying attention to this line of research. It kind of went nowhere for a long time, but with increased spatial and temporal resolution of brain imaging and the new optical recording & re-triggering tricks described in the article, it might all come within reach soon.

There is also fascinating work on probing the mechanisms of cognition. Precise timing analysis combined with fMRI is surprisingly powerful. Example: http://www.cell.com/neuron/pdf/S0896-6273(16)30057-5.pdf
It is pretty normal in some parts. Not everywhere. But in the Midwest it’s very common for people to live out in the suburbs and have a long freeway drive in to work. I went 45 minutes each way for years.
You wrote this comment a few minutes ago before it was flagged off the site. You then deleted it and reposted it. Please don't do that.
I suspect a lot of HN folks don't know who Dean Allen is (was), which is a little unfortunate. He was an early and strong advocate of, well, making the web readable and beautiful -- and of keeping in mind that those two things aren't mutually exclusive, something we've occasionally lost sight of in the years since.

He created Textile, a Markdown-like "lightweight markup" language that actually predates Markdown (and is, by some measures, more powerful). He went on to create Textpattern, a blogging system that, like WordPress, bloomed into a lightweight CMS -- but unlike WordPress, TXP (as its fans call it) has a much better template and extension system. And, Allen created TextDrive, an early shared hosting service that, at least until its unfortunate-in-retrospect merger with Joyent, was a power user dream. (No offense to the folks at Joyent -- well, not much -- but TextDrive became their transparently unloved "low end" brand surprisingly quickly.)
I'll build on this and predict that:

a) People will not want to acknowledge just how oppressive, racist, and sexist, our society has been in the past and the demonstrable ways in which we are still dealing with the aftereffects of that.

b) People will not want to acknowledge that there is systemic sexism and racism, with extremely negative and unjust consequences for those discriminated against, within our society, and that consequentially ....

c) People will not want to acknowledge that there is systemic sexism & racism within business, including tech, with negative and unjust consequences for those discriminated against, particularly, and relevant to this article, women.

Think that it wasn't until 1919 that women got the right to vote; it wasn't that long ago. It's logical to extrapolate from the sexism of the past that there is sexism (not as pernicious but still here in a big way) in the present.
Country-owned means of production have usually not fared well vs competitive forces in the past. And it could be considered as unfair competition: a state-owned manufacturer could basically have a blank check from the government for any kind of investment and would not have to worry at all about profitability. It sounds very nice as a thought exercise, but economical incentives are very tightly linked with productivity.
I agree. A good question to ask is: would you buy this coin if you could never ever sell it ?
I work for a hospital and I agree with you that the billing practices are shitty, but I couldn't tell you what a procedure will cost you even if ordered to. At best I could give you an average for a procedure but if you're in for a few days you may see dozens of doctors and have hundreds of procedures including an operating room procedure or two and a whole lot of blood tests, imaging, poking and prodding (e.g. assessing your risk of pressure ulcers). Each of these has a base cost and then each insurance company has a different amount they're willing to cover of that base cost and an discount rate that varies by company. Many of these factors will also depend on your personal history of diagnosis and treatment.

It's a big mess and I don't see billing practices improving significantly until the reimbursement system changes. Single payer could really simplify things for the end user.
It's a company of 72,000 people where employees are encouraged to speak their minds.

Get any group of 72,000 people together and have them say what they actually believe and you'll find a lot of wingnuttery. Just look at the comment section of any blog, news story, YouTube video, or Internet forum.

The alternative viewpoint is that humanity actually holds far more diversity of thought and ideology than you had ever conceptualized before, and that this is a peek into the minds of many, many of your fellow human beings. It's glorious (and somewhat miraculous that we haven't killed each other yet, knock on wood...)
You'd be hard-pressed to make a system that keeps hospitals from being abusive. Your BATNA to accepting their terms is literally dying, and especially the older folks who need more care have giant piles of cash. The cynical profit-maximizer in that position will raise uninsured prices high until the losses due to "eff this, I'm declaring bankruptcy and my various creditors can squabble over my assets" outweighs the increased collection from payment plans.

62% of bankruptcies in the US are caused by medical debt.

The only saving grace in this all is that you can save enough for retirement in creditor-protected retirement accounts, and can otherwise secure yourself financially while telling your creditors to pound sand if they're being ridiculous.
Those are all features a platform should provide. Nothing about those features require that the game itself becomes unavailable should your Steam account be disabled or if Steam disappears, or that the game cannot be moved to another PC based platform. Creating a platform that allowed for/encouraged that would be a serious competitor to Steam in my opinion.
Susan Fowler didn't leave tech, but she left Uber: https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-on...
There's something kinda like a first mover problem here, but that's not quite the right word. I honestly don't know what the next steps should be (individually for me, or for the industry as a whole). It's easy to say "get better" for the latter, but hard to turn that into discrete actions.

I think this linked post is pretty good, specifically with this bit showing a nuance that is lacking in more mainstream-media regurgitations of "tech is bad, news at 11":
"We say “toxic tech culture” because we want to distinguish between leaving tech entirely, and leaving areas of tech which are abusive and harmful."

I do understand the sort of "righteousness fatigue" that makes people tired of hearing about how they, their coworkers, their employer, their friends, are so terrible. Lose too much nuance and the reaction gets defensive, which from a purely practical point of view is a problem (this might get labeled as a "privileged" thing to be concerned with, but it's tough to reconcile wanting change but not being concerned with accomplishing it). I think a lot of the mainstream coverage of this is starting to poison the well, and then you end up with "sure, it's not your responsibility as non-white-male to fix the behavior of assholes, but it's not my responsibility to fix that asshole either."

Which leaves me back where I started. If my company seems pretty good in this respect - the ratio isn't great, a factor of our incoming applications/recruiting, but retention is high among the relevant employees, and no complaints have been raised (at least at my level of visibility). We try to broaden our candidate pool, and have widened it a LOT in the last five years, and are definitely hiring more candidates who do great despite not being run through the 5-algorithms-on-a-whiteboard gauntlet, but that doesn't translate directly into women and minorities...

So other than continuing to work at attracting a broaer pool of candidates... What else should we do? Even if only from the "name and shame" perspective of "god, it's annoying seeing the gender ratio published"?

Asking seems like a good first step, since another pervasive issue in tech is too many people who try to solve problems without ever thinking of talking to someone about it. :)
A more equal gender distribution doesn't mean that women are treated better. Take Hollywood, for example.
I'm far from knowledgeable on this, but, as I understand it, for tether to maintain that ratio, the issuer of tether must both be willing to buy and sell one tether for one dollar, to and from anyone, at any time. The moment that stops, you're operating on faith, and you're no longer pegged to anything.
I don't think that tactic works poorly in that format at all, it's just that this person is incredibly good at defending against it. Very few people could withstand such an interview.
> But pre-committing to a goal that no non-zero subset of reasonable people ever wanted to leave tech does not seem like a smart thing to do, because it's impossible.

It doesn't matter if that is impossible because it's also not what was proposed. The proposal was to stop reasonable people leaving because the are OFFENDED by a particular BEHAVIOR.

This isn't to say that some solutions offered to reach that goal won't offend even more reasonable people for different reasons. But even that doesn't mean that this isn't the goal we should be aiming towards.
Key words, last four days. What do you think has been happening the last few months with Tether creation?
How people treat others in the organization can negatively impact the output of others' work. If firing an asshole (who otherwise has high quality output) increases the quality of the output of others past a certain point, then that's an easy argument from a simple financial/productivity perspective that treating others with respect is a positive for the company.
He argues that biology is, in part, a cause for different preferences and choices between men and women. At no point did he claim any superiority of ability.

"X is worse at Y" is not at all the same thing as "X, on average, will choose to do Y at a smaller rate."

Also, I find the notion that people who choose to not work in tech or work smaller hours are somehow inferior quite demeaning. My brother wasn't very interested in tech, so he went into a different field. Am I (who did go into tech) a superior person to my brother due to our choice of work? Similarly, would I be a lesser person if I worked 30-35 hours instead of my usual 40-45?
> I do not understand what the form of that matrix has to do with java or native heap. This seems to me as a completely orthogonal issue. As for the triangular form, this is supported in Neanderthal, as well as the rest of special structural sparse shapes.

You support triangular matrices. However, you can solve a linear system of the form I gave in linear time, while it takes quadratic space and time to form the corresponding triangular matrix and do a triangular solve.

Not all special matrices are supported by BLAS/LAPACK. Other common examples might be block Toeplitz/Hankel matrices for which fast multiplication and fast solvers are available. In order to support special (not in BLAS/LAPACK) matrix operations naturally, you'd want natural, no-extra-copying access to the vectors within Java or Clojure so that you can write the good algorithm manually, as you'd do in C or Fortran.
We expect professionals to manage their emotions; huge difference. As the other poster says, it's a literal impossibility for a human being to not experience emotions.

And police offers have to deal with stuff like PTSD and emotional trauma from their job, because of how intense it is. To a lesser degree than that, our (less intense) jobs have an unavoidable emotional impact on us.
There was a world-wide change in 1914 that blew apart the previous rigid system of currency exchange. The U.S. followed suit, but under any scheme at all the exchange rates of its currency would have been more unstable because the previous stability between all currencies was gone, whatever the U.S. chose.

Nixon renounced conversion to go to a fiat system. That's what renouncing conversion means, to abandon conversion, leaving only the fiat. You are agreeing strenuously.

And again, all this a whole other topic than whether downturns were more or less frequent: which was where I started.
> especially the ones that you have been planning to read but never got around to

So um, all of them.

I do try to do stuff unrelated to work. I actually love this stuff though, so other stuff can feel like a chore. Especialyl stuff that takes a lot of investment (e.g. getting good enough at an instrument for it to be fun).
I like mender. It gives me a cheap 80% solution that covers updating and management. That said I would really like something as easy as docker for building devices. Yocto has a learning curve like a cliff.

I really like resin.io's container system, but I want to self-host.
Sadly I am the only STEM Lab Coach in the nation for 3 to 5-year-olds, that I know of. So I kind of had to invent my own position which thankfully has been supported by local Fortune 500 Companies in the community.

I read a lot from our curriculum "Creative Curriculum", accreditation standards and philosophy and my old Developmental Psychology classes. Lots of Academic research and many online resources like the Fred Rodgers Institute (http://www.fredrogerscenter.org/).

The only book I found to be helpful has been "Instructional Technology in Early Childhood: Teaching in the Digital Age." Most books are either surface level practical (I really enjoy the philosophy piece which is usually missing) or outdated and not very valuable.
Oh man... That means the tether isn't even pegged any more! If I can't buy them from the issuer for one dollar each and I really need a billion of them for some reason, then they're worth more, no? Conversely, if I can't sell them, they're worthless.
"A lot of people can't bear it"

You wouldn't know if by the tens of millions of people who live in those densest cities. It seems like an astronomical numbers of people can "bear it" just fine.
I'm getting a new laptop soon to start tinkering a bit more with my keyboard and a synth, and I'm considering a Macbook for the first time in my life based on a recent HN article regarding latency.

Have you found that a linux machine has noticable latency when playing/recording music and applying filters?
> The problem with our healthcare system is that too much money goes to drug companies,

Erm no, actually you pay a lot more for pure hospital services all things considered than whatever is paid for the price of drugs. I totally agree that drugs should be cheaper for patients, but pretending drug manufacturers are the only/main problem is just far from the reality of the market. Every intermediate is inflating their prices as well.
Ah, very astute, and it hits the nail right on the head. Thanks for that, that's what I'll use when people ask me what to buy.
Do you think there really is $194B hard cash in the entire ecosystem? Or are you deriving that number from simply # of coins issued multiplied by last trade price?
No I didn't, I rewrote it to make it sound less inflammatory because I though that was the reason it got flagged. I still believe its a valid point, you may think otherwise of course.
If you can increase an employee's output by $X by spending $Y to improve their working conditions (where $X > $Y), shouldn't you do it? Isn't it then worthwhile to examine not just an employee's output, but their working conditions as well?
Apple now faces 45 lawsuits surrounding “Batterygate”
Tether the company (Tether Limited) claims that non-US exchanges buy tethers directly from them. At least it seems plausible.
I don’t know that the bubble will ever stop. The ponzi is as old as time and there’s always room for more get rich quick schemes. As long as there’s a few charasmatic folks trying to get others to essentially give them their money the bubble will just hop from one coin to another.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/7rad7q/a_reminder...

> What if the crypto community is simply too stupid to ever let the bubble burst?

> Like. Literally nobody has ever been able to trade their tethers back into dollars, and they've been around for over a year at this point. How the fuck do people have imaginary money and simply not want to get real money from it, not even once, in over a year?

> Maybe the buttcoiners were right, and we are witnessing the birth of something completely new here: The market that was too dumb to even realise that it should crash.
Just my observations and opinion..

but, worked with, not at, but generally about equal in raw numbers - it really depends where the docility comes out - in fortune 500's being weird in general is strongly discouraged, but the penalties for stepping out of line are small usually, the big benefit is, cultural norms are clearly established, and generally followed - in a SV company, being weird is strongly encouraged, cultural values are somewhat more nebulous, and the penalties for stepping out of line are often much more harsh.
Honestly if they added a third lane to I-5, that would be good enough. At least from Grapevine to 152.
How would they identify that quality enough to dislike it? I'll tell you how: the smugness.
Bombardier is selling 152 hectare Aircraft manufacturing facility [1] in Toronto with a brand new transit station adjacent to the property.

Amazon could build quite the campus on that much land.

[1] http://business.financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/bombardie...
yeah, I think he's playing a little fast and loose with the word underclass here. Perhaps it's simply for dramatic effect. However the main point to me doesn't hang on exact parsing of this word - one could imagine related terms (working class, the have-nots, the little people, the proleteriat) with similar effect. It does matter exactly who he's talking about, but parsing this differently is not exactly at the level of Refutation of the main point. the whole theme is rather high level and abstract to begin with, anyway, which is not quite at the level of precision of concrete examples.
This article entirely concerns the United States and changing policy to encourage more density in its cities, so I'm not seeing the relevance of third-world birth rates. Prosperity does tend to significantly reduce birth rates.