skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> All of which is to say thst you could actually trust the people telling you their stories in the article, or discuss the underlying issues

As in the last time you hijacked a thread as an excuse to complain about other people expressing an opinion you personally disagree with, you haven't discussed, or shown any interest in discussing, a single issue in the article.

You flag people left right and center, simply because they don't happen share your personal views.

When that doesn't remove their posts, you throw around insults like "stupidity", "childishly", "asinine points", "crazy" and accusations of intellectual dishonesty.

Again, all because other people don't happen to share your personal views, which you seem to think are the last and only word on any issue.

You complain that the article is flagged, despite also complaining that articles like this produce "utterly predictable" comments.

Despite the "grotesque" and "depressing" nature of the thread, you can't help but wade into it yourself, where in multiple posts the only one where you don't post insults or complain about people with different opinions is this, straight out of Python[1]:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16497538

> Edit: I mean, look at this thread and compare it here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16497551

Remarkable that in both threads two other usernames specifically namecheck you, "IntronExon", the 40 day old account (with ~3000 karma, that posts like a veteran).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16497946

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16496993

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lvcnx6-0GhA
No good reason except it's for the health of the Internet.

And it doesn't cost any significant amount of money except initial configuration and automation. The "CPU power" to add an ACL on interfaces is negligible.
Correct me if I'm not understanding your argument. What I'm reading is that your argument is there is a "diversity" problem in the NBA and that comes from discrimination against non-blacks. And that this is the same discrimination mentioned in the article?
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Have you ever calmed yourself down when you've been upset? Or recognize that you're getting emotional and take extra care when you choose your next words? That's the type of thing I believe your parent is getting at. This is some of the motivation behind techniques like CBT. It's not implying that people choose to feel depressed, but that one can have some control over how one is feeling when in the throes of otherwise overpowering emotion.
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Part of the problem is that HR is a total afterthought at most tech companies. Just a few token people and the C-level who only cares about making the "100 best places to work" lists.
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> we can rely on an event horizon forming at the schwartzchild radius whatever the ultimate fate of the in-falling matter may be (in an infinite future)

This is not necessarily true if the quantum "firewall" speculations end up panning out (I think they're unlikely, as I posted elsewhere in this thread, but it's an open area of debate).
An app that only sent the word "yo" was once valued at $10 million and hyped as a revolutionary new paradigm in communication.

I can't even be surprised anymore at the things people will throw money at.
Sure, me too. But this doesn't mean the management doesn't change, their requirements don't change, and idiots in consulting will bend over backwards to make them happy.
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Satellite earth station engineer view:

I'm interested in what the total system gain, EIRP and power looks like in an Astranis spot beam from geostationary, as compared to a current-generation 4000 to 6500 kilogram geostationary satellite with Ku and Ka band spot beams.

I am optimistic but also skeptical. The size and power of the satellite will influence what the size of VSAT terminals needs to be, and also the earth stations/major teleports. The example size of the satellite shown in the URL is so much smaller than current geostationary satellites that I don't see how the Tx power from each transponder will be anywhere near the power on a much bigger, costlier satellite.

Let's say for example I have put together from industry standard components, a 3.0 meter compact cassegrain Ku-band antenna in a remote part of Nepal, with a 40W BUC and a relatively recent Comtech EF Data modem. Are you planning on selling 1:1 dedicated capacity SCPC (and MCPC) type transponder kHz on a monthly basis? Or are you planning on standardizing on your own type of VSAT hardware terminal in bulk and selling contended access only?

Where do you see your value proposition for high capacity IP trunk links as compared to an ISP buying a 2 x 1.8m dish o3b terminal, and dedicated capacity through o3b? What will your $/Mbps rate look like compared to o3b with a monthly spend of 2500 or 3500 dollars?
I agree with the profit/control motivations the other posters mention, but there are other less anti-users reason as well.

Agreeing on a common API mostly locks you into the common denominator of features. It becomes much harder to ship new capabilities to your customers if you also have to add those features to this standardized interface and get all the stakeholders to move forward with it. All these platforms have some features that their competitors lack and it'd be quite the challenge to expose each platform's unique features in a standardized API.

Email (IMAP/SMTP) is a success story of a widely adopted standard, but it's also something that has barely changed in the last 15-20 years partially as a result of its standardization. You can tell IMAP
is cumbersome to the modern developer. For example, you'll have an easier time working with a gmail account by using the gmail REST API instead of trying to use IMAP. (IMAP has more limited search support, lower-level thread support, and less specific support for syncing clients)
A man I thought was a trusted colleague thought my first conference was the right place to make an agressive pass.

Who tf are these people?
Most of the corruption in government IT contracting is more subtle; its things like government managers developing relationships with contractors and favoring them subtly without kickbacks, simply because they are comfortable and feel better working with them. The people doing it probably mostly feel like they are actually doing a public good and working around red tape, because they genuinely believe that intangibles that wouldn't be weighed properly in the formal process do weigh in favor of the contractor being a better value.

OTOH, yes, the kind with actual kickbacks absolutely exists, too.
Was the project the person was working on having any success? If so, you might be unfairly ignoring their positive contributions and focusing only on this one negative sign that you observed.
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> thought that less women graduate with CS degrees than men though

This is absolutely true but it is also true that there are many successful people working in the tech industry at all levels with very little formal comp sci education.

If men can get software engineering jobs with no formal comp sci education, which they certainly can, then the fact that there is an imbalance in degrees does not mean that we have to have an imbalance in employment.

The low representation of women in CS at university level needs to be addressed as well but the best way to do that is by making software development a job that women want and believe that they can succeed in.

People go to college to get training for a career and so if women feel like software development is a profession that excludes women they aren't going to waste their time and money training for it.

"the percentage of CS-degree holders who were women peaked in the 1980s at 34% and has been on a downward trend ever since, even though women currently earn 57% of all undergraduate degrees."

http://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/cracking-the-code:-why-aren...

The fact that there has been a sharp decline in female participation in CS in just the past few decades demonstrates that this is a temporary anomaly and not some "fundamental difference between genders" and further demonstrates that large changes are possible with the correct policies.
They're not. They lost American, and they're losing market share quickly.
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Their whole announcement is available on https://bitwhite.org (scroll down) or in screenshots here: https://imgur.com/a/WyLPp

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The article doesn't say permanently. There is no evidence that after depression is treated the inflammation remains.
> - just giving away the design so at least your product sees the light of day, even if there's no financial gain for you?

Do you work for free?
Your first paragraph: So basically rather than a "typical" configuration which might be 24 x Ku-band transponders, 36 MHz capacity each, supported by the solar arrays and power systemon a giant 4000 kg geostationary bus.

You're putting the Tx power into the equivalent of just one or two 36 MHz Ku transponders per satellite? Fewer transponders per satellite in a tradeoff for greater Tx power in a smaller bus?
Do you have an internship program?
This is not at all what I’ve encountered at several jobs, and the auditors have confirmed.

The VAT structure in the EU is the responsibility of the EU. An EU customer buying something or some service in USD from a US company with no presence in the EU is responsible for handling their own tax liability with the EU.

Conversely, I have bought many items and services online from EU companies who don’t have presence in the USA. Not one has charged me VAT nor the local “use tax” the People’s Republic of Chicago charges for internet-based services.

In short, my experience is you’re just plain wrong. A bunch of expensive and competent accountants hired by my various employers agree that you’re wrong.
The headline is misleading. According to the content of the article, the project has been going for 10 years and has spend $460 million. The government has pledged another $431 million in the future to deal with problems going forward.

$460 million over 10 years is $46 million a year, which is still a lot of money, but if you break it down it's not nearly so mystifying. If all the money is being spent by contractors, we could assume that the loaded labour rate of the contractors is about $200K per year. It's been more than a decade since I was in Canada, but I'm guessing this is not an outrageous rate. That breaks down to 230 people working on the project. In truth, the payroll system seems to have been operational for the last 2 years and the system employs 500 employees (it was supposed to replace 1200 employees, thus saving money, but there is no indication if those 1200 were, indeed, replaced). I'm guessing that the $460 million includes those 500 employees for at least 2 years and may also include capital costs to house them (the reporter may not be interested in depreciating capital assets in their report).

So it's hard to say exactly how many contractors worked on this, but it's probably safe to say that there were more than 100. A government project with more than 100 contractors == not possible to succeed in my experience. Just the communication issues alone would be insurmountable. As time wore on and pressure to put something into use grew, the mistakes would have piled up causing absolute mayhem.

Unfortunately this is an all too common occurrence. If you go to any meetup in Ottawa and talk to government contractors I'm sure there will be a couple wiping their brow and saying, "This is a stroke of luck because it will take some of the heat off our our project that is burning even more money".
It the same thing as with YouTube. You need more human interaction and less bots to take care of issue. You also need to listen to your users. They've been tell you about these issue and given you ways to fix your issues.
Oops, I was thinking of Uranus! What hope!
Previous thread from a similar article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16497551
Only if you believe that uni credentials are synonymous with capability.
The root cause of all this is that we're all competing with an infinite supply of poor Asian people on the other side of the world that will work for pennies on the dollar.
If only people knew how often employees of companies like this scrambled to build something in a mad panic because some exec made a promise to a client about software that wasn’t even designed yet.
I am curious too. Some commentators are saying well if you just make discrimination not happen anymore then there will be no discrimination. Problem solved!
SSH is not a typical use case. He said 90-95% of traffic isn't latency sensitive, and yours isn't in the majority.
Going on a rant implying that there is somehow a grand conspiracy at foot while also attacking the user personally is not doing you any particular favors, considering you're doing exactly the same thing you're purporting he's doing.
Take it with a grain of salt. There are two sides to every story and in the current climate if you speak out as a man you get fired or have your image ruined. See Google, see Aziz.
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> or does scraping SQL queries to effectively get an ER diagram sound a bit strange

It's very common in data governance tools to do this e.g. Informatica MDM, Cloudera Navigator.

> don’t you already have a formal model of the relations encoded somewhere

Good companies will have this. But not all. And they definitely don't have it spanning across all of their data stores.
That's great to hear!

Can I bill you for the difference between what I pay for preventative care after insurance, vs what this implies the cost should be?
DC has Galley, which cooks and delivers meals that you finish/reheat in your own oven. The food is good and the prices are fair and the delivery is fast (though now you need to pick a "Delivery Window" and sometimes they sell out). I think it's founded by former LivingSocial folks.
Ahaha, I agree so much the the Kahneman jibe. How could someone so smart pick names so f*cking dumb?!
That one could have been flagged off the front page, these kind of discussions are tricky to keep civil. This one will probably be flagged out in a similar manner.
You didn’t even read his post before replying. He specifically mentions Brand Registry.

Sad to see this poor level of attention to a well written customer complaint from Amazon.
It is misleading to say that elementary toposes/zfc don't have something like identity types. Every elementary topos is locally cartesian closed, and locally cartesian closed categories are (equivalent to) models of extensional Martin-Löf type theory, which is an extension of intensional type theory. Identity types in extensional type theory are responsible for the existence of equalizers in its model categories. Universes in type theory correspond to inaccessible cardinals/Grothendieck universes in ZFC or object classifiers in elementary toposes, at least informally (I doubt there is published work here).

Thus, the term asserting the univalence axiom corresponds to a certain morphism in an elementary topos with object classifiers. The point is, I guess, that such a morphism exists only in the degenerate topos, i.e. the one equivalent to the single object-single morphism category. Only in higher toposes/categories can non-degenerate examples of the univalence axiom be found.

It should also be noted that you can already identify isomorphic objects ("types") of 1-categories without much harm. Formally, if you have a contractible groupoid G contained in a category C, then the quotient map C -> C/G that collapses all objects of G onto a single object and all morphisms in G onto the identity at that object is an equivalence of categories. This works in particular if G is given by an isomorphism of distinct objects.

It still boggles my mind why type theorists think that "function extensionality" and quotients, two entirely 1-categorical concepts, are best treated using homotopy coherent diagrams. And it is unclear since when proving theorems in less generality (because additional axioms are assumed) is considered progress.
On the positive side with PyTorch you don’t need nearly as much documentation as you would with TF. TF in general feels like it’s fighting you every step of the way. There’s a lot of cognitive overhead. Not so with PyTorch. Everything is straightforward, and can be run/examined in ipython.
Nice! Thanks so much for the feedback @kinduff. Those are really good points.
You're right. It's higher. Close to 100% of the valuable traffic is not latency sensitive.
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I don’t know. As an Asian male, do I want to work with just other Asian males or white males?
Use the right tool for the right job. Haskell is extremely well-suited for building language parsers.
"no other company tries to use geostationary" - uhm, probably 85% of the satellite industry by gross revenue is based on geostationary platforms. Look at Intelsat, SES, Eutelsat, Asiasat, the various north american Ku, BSS and Ka band TV satellites, etc.
You’re correct that the difference is in the margins. But, at the end of the day, is any exclusion based on race acceptable? From my perspective, it’s hypocritical to champion equal opportunity while systematically having a different hiring process for different races, not to mention illegal.
Is your capacity steerable?
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Why would you ask us?
Just a heads up, something seriously NSFW in the comments of the linked article. Funny, but NSFW...
Question, given the sun's wobble would result from rotating around the solar system's center of gravity, how feasible is it to actually know with certainty what the solar system is made up of?
Definitely Spanish, both first name and surname.
I am well aware of that, and it was not a decision I made lightly. FWIW, it was several days between removing the battery and the flight, and I monitored it closely to make sure it wasn't continuing to expand or throwing off any heat. But the alternative would have been to throw it in the trash, and that had risks of its own.
It's a false logical conclusion really (just as most things related to postmodernism and enforced equality of outcome through diversity are).

You could just as easily reason that companies who aren't implementing these policies and actually hiring based on individual qualifications and not group identity will out compete their competitors in the free market. They'll surely get bad press for a while but eventually their haters will get tired and move on to the next news cycle. In the mean time the company has hired all of the "undesirable" straight white and Asian males (not intentionally but only because their value in the market has been artificially depressed) and they are easily outpacing the productivity of their rival firms.

As the postmodernists reject possible logical conclusions from their actions and claim organization power they will eventually come face to face with the free capitalist market and the firms they overtake will fail. That is of course if they can't act quickly enough in manifesting their utopian vision of the destruction of capitalism itself.
Guess you haven't watched Fox since you turned the TV back on... Really think you're overstating the positions liberals are putting forward. Also, your comment has no critical disagreement s with the positions themselves so I have to wonder if you're just trolling.