skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Was it Bollen's book? In general, I think the value of SEM is, given some assumptions, in identifying which out of a set of causal theories are the best explanations of some data. In practice this usually turns out to be a set of causal theories that are indistinguishable, given the data, and some that are clearly worse.

With latent variables, they're used all over in psychology to represent constructs (e.g. happiness, extroversion, IQ).
What would be the incentive to migrate from AE Flexible to Standard if these apis are not there? The only thing I can think of is scale to 0.
Some companies in SF go way overboard. Way too much "celebrating" LGBT. Even the LGBT people I know, many say people care too much who their partner is.

Women have been descriminated against, in far larger numbers, and don't have anywhere near the level of "celebration".

Asians, blacks, hispanics, etc.

Why does having a sex partner in the 10% minority or having gender dysphoria make people feel they need to "celebrate" them?
TNG had no stakes. You knew after every episode, things were going to return to the status quo.
College enrollment at all schools across the US (both 2 year and 4 year) is ~56% women, if I did the math right. Source: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d16/tables/dt16_303.70.a...
RE: the last point, that doesn't seem so. Desktop apps have always been opaque, same as server backends. If anything, the rise of SPAs, WebAssembly, Service Workers and JS in general means you can see a lot more of the action in your browser rather than it being hidden away somewhere.

WebAssembly expressly has a textual representation so that it can be inspected, it's part of the spec. And for everything else that's compiled, there are always decompilers to give you the source, often times at great quality.

HTTP/2 is binary (and by default encrypted) but nobody notices because browsers and tools transparently convert it to text for you, even though there were plenty of complaints that it would be hard to inspect.
Google Chrome Now Uses Native Windows 10 Notifications
> If one person gets their life savings cleared out for a $100 speeding fine, how do you equate that financial pain to Bill Gates? Why should Bill Gates be punished more in the same situation for having put the work in to build a successful company?

In Finland, speeding fines are income based to make sure they sting enough to get the drivers to change their habits. It's a bit moot with Gates (he takes a car to a racetrack if he feels like speeding) but it sure would be a useful thing for areas with too many Beemer drivers.
added it to my slowly growing list of HN ( and related ) resources https://github.com/keithn/HackerNewsCommunity
In the Apple ecosystem, cloud storage for everything you mention is opt in. And yes, stuff does work if you just use it locally, at least as well as can be expected. If you want to sync stuff and prefer not to use the cloud, you can do it by plugging in your cable to your computer. And the computer can even be a Windows PC.
In Mobile Safari, it's even worse as the bottom navigation bar is present when the page loads and then stays present.

Since AMP uses an overflow technique to handle content/scrolling, the page never triggers a scroll event on the body. So not only do you see a toolbar at the top (which admittedly, slides out when you scroll down), you see the browser toolbar at the bottom (which persists!)
They can also run Commodore 64 BASIC. Sadly, the ARM part only has 8K RAM.

https://www.pagetable.com/?p=956
> They repeatedly sabotage

As this is now (and has been for some time) a pattern of this kind of behavior, what's causing it? While other explanations exist, I believe it might be worthwhile to at lest consider the idea that sabotage is goal. Placing people into positions of power for so they can dismantle/sabotage has recently been a popular tactic (e.g. some of the current presidential cabinet appointments). Would anybody even recognize that this kind of tactic was happening before the damage to Firefox becomes fatal?

(to be very clear: I'm speaking hypothetically and not making any explicit or implied accusations about anybody at Mozilla)
It would be a bad acquisition IMO. BackBlaze is a low cost service for cheap customers. AWS and GCP are high quality, high costs enterprise services, they have no usage for that. It would only be a stain in their portfolio.

If you think harder, the closest service is google drive that already provides tens of GB for free to million of consumers. It's very different to backblaze, yet close enough in some regards. By some metrics, BackBlaze is a joke while google is backing up billions of android phones already and other stuff.
Can’t seem to submit/search when using mobile safari on my iPhone X.
SIM card activation lock is required by phone carriers as a precondition to sell you the phone.

You can create a bogus iTunes account by using gift cards and creating an anonymous account with that. At that point, yes the device is linked back to an account, but it's just as opaque as say, Reddit is.

Beyond that, Apple doesn't even require you to sign into use the device. You can take photos and use Maps, and even surf the web all without any kind of account.
Perfect is the enemy of the good. Why not help some people on the way to helping a wider group? I do agree that we need wider-ranging policies for people displaced by technological change. It would help people find work and society make use of their talents.
The Sex Life of Samuel Pepys (2016)
An Interview with Stuart Card – Designer of the mouse
Facebook is fwiw a pretty LGBT-friendly company from what I've observed (the other day a trans woman in my group was finally able to go full-time and there was nothing but excitement), and transgender healthcare is 100% covered (even for non-medical procedures).
Another possibility is that, by pricing many potential employees out of the market, local zoning laws force businesses to move to where there employees are (either through opening up new facilities/branch offices, or allowing remote work).

The consequence of which is that there becomes a plurality of growing urban centers rather than one megapolis, and the citizens get to live in houses larger than sardine cans.
That's kind of the issue. The suit is alleging that the system is prone to error. To say that there is no problem, and no need for a suit, because - um - we simply made a fairly common error and now we fixed it ???

I mean, that's what these people are alleging. That the system is prone to errors.

So whether you believe the original numbers are correct, or you believe the new numbers are correct, or you believe there are likely a different set of numbers altogether that better reflect the reality, the premise underlying your belief has to be that numbers have been reported in error. Logical consistency for adherence to any of the possible positions demands a concession that either the first set of reported numbers were erroneous, or the second set of reported numbers were erroneous. Or, indeed, both sets of reported numbers were erroneous.
Actually 0.7 made a big step in resolving these issues:

https://julialang.org/blog/2018/06/missing
So why didn't OP word the question something along the lines of....What company will hire me and treat me like i'm special because who i'm sexually attracted to then?

Because at my current work and every other job i've ever had there was no reason for anyone to care because no work i've ever done has involved sex....

Whatever happened to just going to work and worrying about what job you're supposed to be doing?
I work as a programmer in the games industry, as well as make games by myself on my spare time.

Like how the author describes, I really had to divorce myself from the thought of being a software designer or computer scientist to even start to make the sort of games I wanted to make. Even then I'm hardly a competent game developer, but I'm at least somewhat proud of my work so far.
Google Talk was also federated for some time. Good old times when we could dream of continents, but it has all drifted away and become islands.
Architects and mechanical engineers not only know about blueprints and design procedure, they also have a solid understanding of the physics that make their designs work. Programmers, by and large, just know how to code.

There exists a formidable body of study describing the practices and theory required to write knowably-correct software, but the software engineering industry treats these ideas with utter derision. Even lighter-weight methods for knowably preventing broad classes of errors(e.g. Haskell-like type systems) are considered niche and pretentious. These opinions are mirrored by many CS programs, so most engineers wouldn’t have the slightest clue how to apply these methods, or even know that they exist, should they decide they were necessary.

With that kind of culture, what can we expect?
Thank you very much for your detailed reply. I will look into these things further.
> Surely a trivial cost.

So we both agree it is more than zero cost? Backblaze saves that cost passes on the savings to customers. I'm not sure what the exact costs would be because Backblaze did not implement it that way.

> a few cores

By "a few" do you mean 10, 100, 1000 or...? For how much bandwidth will your solution support? For example, can your few cores support 10 Gbits/sec? 100 GBits/sec? 1 TBit/sec?

Backblaze is COMPLETELY FREE of worrying about these questions, because our solution does not require this additional step and this additional hardware, and therefore does not have this choke point.
Start by hiring them! Then, when they bring up things that need to be fixed, Listen To Them
> does not collect or possess that customer data in the first place.

Really? They don't collect any info in their app store / itunes? That seems hard to believe..
Ask HN: Software Engineers (SWE) turned Technical Writers – How did you do it?
Hello,

I'm a Sr. Software Engineer with about a decade in the industry. Haven't worked for FAANG. Mostly worked at startups and now, more recently, at IT Departments of Large Banks and Financial Institutions. I'm a full-stack engineer with experience in Python, C#, Java and a whole bunch of front end and back end technologies.

I'm considering switching to a technical writer, as I have a very popular tech blog and have been told that I have the gift of the (written) gab. Other reason is that I no longer feel comfortable competing with 20 something millenials who are lot faster than me, and work longer hours (some on stimulants like Adderall etc).

I've also contributed to a lot of open source API docs on github and feel that a Tech Writer career might be more fulfilling. I don't need the 140K and can make do with atleast a 100K in Tech Writing.

I would like to know those of you who have successfully transitioned from SWE to Tech.Writer

1) How did you go about it?

2) How do you deal with the drop in Salary? I currently make 140K in San Francisco. What can I expect as a Tech Writer at Uber, or FAANG company? Or would it be a stretch to aim for FAANG with no Tech Writer career experience?

3) Is there anything you regret about the switch?

4) Is it possible to make SWE level salaries after few years? If yes, at what kind of companies / Tech Writer jobs?

4) Any other useful info would be much appreciated.

Thanks!

-Sharon Su
Could not agree with this more. I live in SF and the difficulty in building new housing is so outrageous. To make the housing prices in SF lower, supply must increase. While it makes sense for voters in a locality to have control/say in the environment around them, the ability of homeowners to control land they do not own and prevent new construction and shift the burden to other districts and public transportation is extremely flawed.
This is not particularly accurate, and doesn't seem maintained. Just looking at the start of the first column, Common Lisp, for a bit:

- "command line program" is empty, but should contain

sbcl --eval '(+ 1 1)'

- "identifier" says "case insensitive, cannot start with digit", but identifiers can start with digits just fine. 1+ is a built-in function that proves it. It just can't look like a number.

- "identifier" also says some characters are "reserved for user macros", but that's not actually a thing. ?![]{} is a valid identifier, you just shouldn't use it.

There's probably much more. There are also plenty of things that are inaccurate, but would need more explanation than there is room for.
"they absorb a primary cost of production (wages) themselves"

I think that you are correct in this point. Your point doesn't undercut my point however-- in fact, if you look at the history of labor, the reason production gets draconian is because as the margins for commodities get smaller the owning classes have to force the laboring classes to absorb more of the cost of reproduction.

Hence people driving for Uber. Or the undervaluing of domestic, unpaid labor in the cost of production.

We hide a lot of those costs of production in the US.

And the answer to how long and how that gig economy will last has to do exactly that issue. The issue isn't how to fairly compensate people (what "level of wage is right") and I don't really agree that scarcity is what drives price... I still think that assuming that multiple people can get into a market price will always move towards the cost of production.

But that's just my own idea... not everyone believes that the price for a commodity will sink to that level. At some point, labor can no longer afford to reproduce itself no matter how many parts of it are externalized, and folks can't afford to go to a field and pick strawberries. Or play jazz.

It's really bad if we wanted to keep things like having live music all over the place... all the professionals have to get day jobs, and so the really good, smart musicians are all doing other things because they can't make ends meet. Those folks are often still playing, but you're not gonna get great unless you're playing all the time, really. But that has little to do with recorded music as a commodity, and a lot to do with all kinds of things from drunk driving laws to netflix.

You're also more or less correct in your assessment of "stars", insofar as they disrupt a commodity by creating a false sense of scarcity. As you note, "almost any musician could be replaced", and that's true about "stars" at a certain point. So those are temporary disruptions, not a workable situation for an industry.

Still, though, there are points in production that cost a lot to make: live shows, quality merch, music lessons, etc... those things have a real cost in time regardless of how much supply there is. That doesn't boost the value of recorded music, but people still want those things, even if they are scarce/ have a higher cost of production.
With the glaring exception of their short lived CEO...
I'm not questioning that some people and places are not at the point where things like that matter. I'm just saying "friendly" isn't really the right term to capture that. We don't say that companies are "minority friendly," do we?
>or slow-play the pickup, so that you cancel, to protect their driver rating

Yep, or they even just call you and ask you to cancel.
Do you think you'd ever go back and try to make a game once again? [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14877776
I just wanna bang the founder
ROCA vs. ROBOT: An Eternal Golden Braid
If it was up to developers, it would be. It is not up to devs.
> what good is a paper trail that does not include (feature)

A hand-recount then becomes possible.
For sure. It's possible I'm just too sensitive to this stuff, but if you work at company of any size..say over 100, and you manage a lot of people...having your HR dept not understand how region, market, company size, etc effect how you should pay, is a huge pain point. These kind of "studies" just make that a lot harder.

Even the custom reports we get are "wrong" if you don't slice the statistics correctly. And a lot of people have no idea what's going on with compensation (salary, bonus and equity) right now, in competitive markets and competitive fields.

Our company is only 700 people and it's been a huge challenge.
What is Dev.to?
The police consider the scooters to be abandoned property in jurisdictions where the scooter company did not get a permit, and are totally fine with people doing whatever they want to them.

(Technically in CA and most other states you need to turn the property over to the police before it can be considered lost or abandoned by its owner.)
Same, I play a lot of original folk music and most songwriters are giving away their CDs in about a 1/3 of the transactions I've seen. The other 1/3 of sales are more like tipping for service workers, and the other 1/3 is genuine "folks want the music and they want to pay for it.
Unless you only make 1-way trips, you still need to get from B back to A, so it's much more efficient to have a car that does these smaller individual legs of a trip for multiple people without needing parking space at every destination. Even better if that car can carry multiple people at the same time.
Show HN: Comp.fyi – Open compensation data by company and level
Not really. I mean, there's a whole lot of libraries that exist for Python and R that you just won't find outside Python and R. Certainly you can do many data processing tasks in Racket, but you just won't find Hasselblat-Hertzgeminer method (I made that up) available off the shelf for Racket like you might for Python or R.

But, I do find Racket to be a nicer language than R or Python. I like to imagine that Racket's best-of-breed support for building DSLs could yield a more expressive data / stats environment.

People always talk about the unassailability of Python and R in data science. But I think that's sort of defeatist. Not very many years ago people would have laughed at you if you suggested doing statistics with Python rather than R. Even though Python is still a long ways behind R in statistical libraries, people have built enough that Python too is viable for many things.

So too could Racket (or Julia!) become more useful than they already are.
https://github.com/clarkgrubb/hyperpolyglot/issues
*diaries
It might be possible to have a system that allows you to prove that your vote was counted, but if you want to prove it was counted correctly, then you open the door to vote buying and coercion.

Edit: It seems that technologies now exist to fix this problem. Link below courtesy of tzs.
MIRI is short for "MIR Interpreter"; it can run basically any Rust code. But, in the compiler itself, its interface is restricted a bit; we haven't fully defined what "const fn" will be.

https://github.com/solson/miri is probably the best place to start poking around :)
SO didn't change their reward system, they just changed something no one will read. The site rewards people with smartest guy in the room complexes, who elevate themselves by putting down curious people.
If the number of applicants exceeds the number of spots and some are assigned a higher value due to their race then applicants of other races are disadvantaged.
That's a nice story but even if each yellow cab was operating 24/7 that's 3x, not 6x. // edit: right, 7 days so ~4x.
Newer microcontrollers like the Microchip(nee Atmel) SAM-L11 are implementing ARM TrustZone with hardware security features.
Might be worth changing the title to note the subject limitations. "Shannon Labs – $100,000 Fellowship to support independent intelligence researchers" works.
If the symptom is "I don't want task X, I'd rather sit here earning nothing waiting for task Y", the root cause is compensation being too low for X and too high for Y.
Cryptography.pizza
We found that we could achieve 10G line rate with just the queues available to the VF, the NIC didn't seem to be a bottleneck providing DPDK was processing packets faster than line rate. It's worth noting that other traffic on the PF was/is minimal in our setup.

We tested this using DPDK pktgen on a identically-configured node (GLB Director and pktgen both using DPDK on a VF with flow bifurcation, on 2 separate machines on the same rack/switch), with GLB Director essentially acting as a reflector back to the pktgen node. pktgen was able to generate enough 40 byte TCP packets to saturate 10G with 2 TX cores/queues, and GLB Director was able to process those packets and encapsulate them with a sizeable set of binds/tables with 3 cores doing work (encapsulation) and 1 core doing RX/distribution/TX.
1) It takes your content off of your own domain.

2) Links no longer point to your own website.

3) Analytics don't work correctly, because the wrong URLs are logged.

4) It centralizes the WWW on Google's domain, keeping users on google.com rather sending them deeper into your site.

5) It restricts the way that you can monetize your site.

6) It causes webpages to load slower when 3rd party scripts are disabled.

7) It restricts how you can build your site.

8) It isn't faster than hand-optimized HTML.

9) Etc.

Even if nothing else, people should oppose it because centralization is exactly what the WWW isn't supposed to be.
it can be read protected. https://www.makomk.com/2016/01/23/openpgp-crypto-token-using...
I think it could include something like Ultimate Software's health coverage (from a post elsewhere in the thread) for IVF (3 rounds) ... [and] parental leave for adoption. Although I guess those are not LGBTQ-exclusive.
I'm never going outside near nature again. Cities are good for some things :)
I think the problem with using money lending as a tool for social justice and equality was laid bare during the crisis.

There's a big difference between a community bank using community ties as a source of superior intelligence, and a big company acting as a mortgage mill trying to maximize throughput "countrywide" until the bubble bursts. Before the community banks existed, Asian community groups would arrange private lending within the community.

I think that something like the Australian approach - with enforced retirement savings set at 9% of income (where you earn $50K, and your employer pays $4.5K into super) - is a saner approach to wealth creation for the poorer groups than lumbering them with mortgages.

It sounds good on the surface. I'd let people opt-in on that, though.
The scooters are already individually identifiable by serial numbers on the handle bar area...

The problem is that the scooter companies didn't bother to work with cities to set up infrastructure for the scooters and are simply relying on public sidewalks for storage. In many cases, this is after the local jurisdiction has asked them to remove their scooters pending the formulation of rules--and in Santa Monica's case despite the promulgation of rules limiting the number of scooters.
I have the previous xps 13 running linux now. I'd like to support them, but unfortunately, CostCo sold me the Windows version with mostly equivalent specs for like $400 cheaper than Dell had the Developer Edition at the time. I replaced the Broadcom WiFi chip for $30 and was good to go. I think I saw where the current model no longer has replaceable WiFi modules though.
Ok, but that does not sound like a real world example.
Utah expands public transportation with rapid bus transit, free until 2021
Jazz isn't necessarily snobbery.

I know why folks don't like Coletrain, and I don't expect them to... but as a musician, I find it way more interesting to think about Giant Steps than to try and analyze, say, Townes Van Zandt singing White Freightliner... both are pretty cool things, but one has a lot more in it to play with.
Current KS Republican primary spread for governor is 197 out of > 300k votes. This system needs to be accurate and verifiable.
Can you use your own NAS as backup target?