skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a neat idea, and fun to play around with. But there are a few obvious pitfalls to be aware of:

1. Many philosophers are inconsistent with themselves. They change their mind. Wittgenstein wrote two books: the second comprehensively refuted the first. In other cases, thinkers write twelve or so books that are not internally consistent. It doesn't make sense, when you get down to things, to treat thinkers as the 'unit' of thought.

2. Most of the things important to most philosophers are not other philosophers (although that is usually very important too), e.g. the greatest influence on Hobbes was the English Civil War, on Nietzsche it was Wagner, on Rawls it was Protestant theology, on Dewey it was Darwin (and so on).

3. You miss a lot if you translate all of these thinkers into a single commensurable language. The different conceptual structures they use, and the linguistic context in which those conceptual structures find their force, are essential to understanding these thinkers. If you translate those particular languages into a single, universal one, you miss a lot.

4. There's also an issue about what is and is not philosophy. Whoever did this is prioritising formal analytic philosophy (especially epistemology). This is conspicuous in, for example, the case of Sartre. A lot of what Sartre wrote about was political/Marxist, but none of that is included. The list of twentieth century philosophers is extraordinarily unrepresentative, for this reason.

How can you include William Frankena, Peter Winch, and John Mackie, who no one outside of analytic philosophy will have heard of, or have been influenced by, and not epochal figures like Freud, Schmitt, Arendt, Hayek, Adorno or Fanon?
> people who think lack of guns will make a country MUCH safer. There are plenty of empirical evidence to refuse those kinds of beliefs but people hold on to them pretty strongly.

Well, I look at it this way. Both the left and the right (including our current administration in the US) as well as those who financially and politically support the current administration (such as the NRA) agree emphatically that gun control works, and lack of guns in the hands of laws abiding citizenry is safer. So when both the left and the right agree through words and policies, and it's demonstrated through safety and security, it's hard to argue otherwise. The question really then becomes one of scope.
Why would a male be advantaged in those fields?
Another thing is that the mainframe vendors use their locking to get a lot of money. So some companies want to leave that, except they can't because the business logic written in COBOL works well. Therefore, the company let most of its COBOL workforce go, keep some old guys to maintain programs and divert investment to other platforms. When the old maintenance crew will be dying, businesses will have had time to move out of the mainframe. That's what I see at a few government agencies in my country : COBOL is still alive, but it's just slowly dying and nobody invest in it anymore. And the jobs associated to it are labelled as "maintenance", good luck getting a pay rise.

Tips : Oracle feels the same, we're moving to Posgtresql wherever possible. So my career path is basically set : Java will stay on top because there's no language that is better in my segment (batch processing, long lived code, just a hell of a business logic, thousands of rules) and Oracle will be pushed out by in place replacement like postgres. I'm gonna die in an open source world :-)
A camel is a horse designed by committee.
Yes, I think $1MM is enough to pay 7 people, although it depends a lot on the specifics.

My business makes $2.2MM ARR and has 17 employees (counting the founders). We're profitable, although we try to put about as much money as we can afford back into growth, so we're right around break even. There are a number of factors to consider when thinking about whether this is "enough" money.

Location - We're based in St. Louis which has significantly lower cost of living than, say, the Bay Area (we moved from SF for this reason). St. Louis is much more expensive than some other parts of the world. So the amount of revenue a company "needs" is highly dependent on where it's located.

Types of employees - More than half of our employees are on the support team, and almost every came in as an entry level employee right out of college. We pay our support people very well (almost as much as the engineers) but it's definitely cheaper to employ a handful of entry-level support people vs. senior engineers. I think it's a common mistake to think that every startup is made up entirely of engineers.

Revenue per employee - Right now we're at about $130k ARR per employee, and like I mentioned, that's close to break even. If we keep growing somewhat quickly, we'll bring in enough new entry-level employees at lower salaries to bring the average down. But as our growth slows (which is happening, and happens to everyone eventually), our team becomes more and more senior and so we pay them accordingly. For this reason, I think we'll need to shoot for a higher $/employee. But not much higher I don't think. I bet $200k/employee would cover us long-term.

"Maximizing shareholder value" - One of the things that drives most tech companies to make so much money is that their primary goal (regardless of what their mission statement says) is to maximize shareholder value. When you're bootstrapped, you can choose not to do that. I work full-time as a founder/CEO and get paid well (probably about what I'd be making working for someone else, maybe a bit less). If I wanted to become a billionaire, then yeah, this business model wouldn't work. But that doesn't have to be the goal.
This wasn't quite as bad as I thought it was going to be when I read 'digital search'.

It's still a huge disaster of a law, though. It's an unnecessary invasion of normal citizen's privacy, while not stopping actual criminals.
If you have a historical system of imbalance (e.g.: caste system), and today we decide we're going to get rid of it, do you think it's just going to fix itself and everybody is suddenly equal? Even though all the people in power are from the upper caste, and the lower castes are uneducated, and poor?

It's not "blantantly idiotic"! I often think the way affirmative action is implemented is flawed, but at least it takes into account the momentum of the problem and tries to do something about it. It takes a long-term view of how equality might be achieved by propelling those up who wouldn't make it otherwise, to disrupt the infinite loop. In the short term those who are used to privilege find it a little harder (boo-hoo, you've tasted a little a tiny slice of what the other side has had... for centuries). It's for the long-term achievement of what you ostensibly support.
Heathrow taxi
That's a Pareto distribution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_distribution
He regularly vetoes bills that I wouldn’t expect him to. It’s just odd to me is all. A few weeks after it becomes law makes sense for DoJ. A telecom might file for an emergency injunction but the DoJ?
I wipe some of my phones on regular basis and sometimes restore their data from backups (or not).
The big problem there is we seem to be using gender ratio as the main metric for determining if women are empowered and being treated fairly.
... That makes it sound like the implementations are not meant for direct long-term use, as folks assume them uncompetitive with tuned GPU versions that show up in hornet et al, and in practice they will be used when no GPU equiv is available / out of convenience? Likewise, even when used directly, it will be by framework / lib devs, so some sort of hornet-blas?

To be clear, the work has been interesting to me for years, so this is purely a practitioner's question as we are not in a position to ship-all-the-things.
I wish I could find it, but there's a superb piece out there about the inherent dysfunction of lottery-style careers. The basic idea was that there are a handful of careers where success is highly rewarded, but job count and quality don't really respond to the market.

In academia, there are however many tenured professorships with whatever salary, set by largely non-market forces. In Hollywood, there are only so many recognizable stars at a time who can guarantee sales, so their salaries don't really decline no matter how many people vie for their spots. And the same in pro spots, music, politics, Harvard admissions, etc.

And the result is that without adding new jobs or dropping salaries, the people hiring balance the market somehow. Unpaid internships, selling expensive credentials, would-be singers selling hits to existing stars, massive university donations by parents, vicious hazing on football teams, horrifying abuse by casting agents; people who control these 1,000:1 (or higher) seeker-to-slot fields manage to exploit that eagerness to all kinds of horrible ends. [1]

Academia is probably less bad than many of those fields, perhaps because the rewards at the top are less spectacular. But it's not a coincidence that Brian Wansink's big scandal was about pressuring a grad student to find results in null data, or that grad students and postdocs end up working miserable hours to be third author on their own research.

I don't have an answer here, really. But I certainly agree that as long as there are endless ranks of people struggling to make their names, people are going to keep finding ways to get dramatic-looking results, data be damned.

[1] I suspect this stuff really kicks in at several hundred to one or higher. Harvard doesn't reject this percentage, but note that it applies a time-and-money filter before the applications even arrive.
I'm not sure I agree that they increase accuracy to the point that it would be worth the downsides. A room full of people who all don't trust one another I feel can do a fairly good job of reducing the errors down to a minimum. Again, I could be wrong, and I'd love to see a study or some research in this area that proves me wrong! (after all, history shows us that a crowd of like-minded people are capable of some very shitty things without some kind of checks and balances)

And while I'm sure they save some money, is it worth it? I'd like to get an idea of the scale involved. Because saving a few hundred thousand dollars a year for a state would make it absolutely not worth it in my opinion, but a few hundred million might be.

And finding exact numbers is extremely hard (at least for me), combined with the fact that these companies basically never release that kind of information, and I know it's not the best idea to read into these things, but I can't help but think that they would release these numbers if they were significant and showed the company saving tons of money for the state.

But i completely agree that there are much better things we can do to improve voting overall (personally my vote is for changing to a "ranked voting" system), but these machines still feel like a giant red flag to me. There's not a lot that can be done to swing an election by just a few people, but put some kind of electronic or computerized system in the mix, and now there's one dock worker that has access to a large number of the machines as they get shipped, and now you have a single point of failure.
I'm also seeing a similar large drop in reddit traffic https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/reddit.com
Also Notch spammed 4chan with the game anonymously for awhile to drum up some interest.

Also he made a highly viral video of him building a minecart rollercoaster during his paid (but cheaper, I believe it was $13, and he was telling people that was half the price that it would be on official release) beta which he got Kotaku and Penny Arcade to share with their massive audience and suddenly he was a millionaire pretty much overnight.

I personally saw the minecart rollercoaster video while browsing Kotaku and that's how I discovered the game.

Notch absolutely marketed and knew how to market his game. He may have not had an advertising budget, but he made the right type of content and the right type of advertising, then shared it with the right types of promotional avenues to reach his target audience to get enough of a start that word-of-mouth advertising could pretty much take over. And that's all marketing really is.

And since then (especially since Microsoft bought Minecraft) you better believe that game has had lots of money dumped into its marketing.

It's just that most things aren't as sexy as a build-your-own-minecart-rollercoaster-brick-by-brick-and-ride-it-in-first-person and therefore require a lot of money to get it in front of enough people.
Factory reset and wipe your device before travel, and restore when you get to your hotel. I’m a privacy nut and while this is a disturbing trend there exist straightforward work arounds.

EDIT: I do this all the time and it’s not even remotely difficult or a big deal.
Have a citation? Because if that's the case, everyone is suggesting evading US customs, out in the open: https://www.google.com/search?q=wiping+phone+prior+to+custom...

It's even in Basecamp's international travel manual: https://github.com/basecamp/handbook/blob/master/internation...
I say that's a good thing. It's a good thing that beliefs have inertia, and it makes sense. Think of the years of patterns of thinking and neural connections that have formed in your brain. Are you expected to read something and change that in an instant? Imagine when Darwin's Theory of Evolution came out, assuming it had perfect evidence for it, do we expect everybody to instantly change their beliefs? And sometimes what we say facts are poor research, see ongoing replication crisis in psychology, social science, nutrition etc. The time it takes to change a mind is a long complicated process which is justified. A world where people's minds are easily changed by facts would be a world of fads.
Exactly, I want to be surprised
I should clarify he doesn't present data for his pivotal claim (a gaussian IQ distribution and Damore's preference argument). He does present a bunch of data that to me reads like a bunch of good examples of gender discrimination in his field.

And maybe he's a super genius at math and I'm not, but I don't see a lot of the statistical machinery I would expect to see to carry the weight of the σ=1/1.15 claim that we're currently seeing as a proposed caused for the data.
A rock that ruins lives? Haha, the title got it the wrong way around: Personalities liable to ruin their lives are attracted by it.
That is a long hike ! I always wanted to do this kind of solo hike but afraid of the unknown danger i.e animals, people etc.
Way too early in the process to be faulting that measure, because the ratio is so far out of whack. When its not way out on the bell curve somewhere, then its reasonable to fault the metric.
Dear HN community. Just wanna thank everyone for such a warm feedback and interesting questions. I'll do my best to reply everyone. Although sometimes it's not easy to notice a new comment :)
Secure Messenger app, Telegram, leaking users IP addresses
>An electronic scanning system could easily be vulnerable to many of the same issues that are presented here.

While in school in the 80's I learned that the standardized tests the school were administering didn't mean anything. They had no barring on my ability to graduate or go to college so I stopped caring about them. This opened up the freedom to do things like fill out multiple bubbles per line and otherwise get creative. About a month after filling out a test like this I got called into the office along with my parents. I was a pretty well known hacker at the time, running a couple local BBS's and whatnot. The state superintendent of schools was in the meeting and demanded to know what I did to their test scanning system. It turns out that I most likely caused a buffer overflow as line after line of multiple answers on the bubble sheet caused the system to crash. It took them weeks to figure out it was my test and in the mean time deadlines were being missed, etc.
> I wipe some of my phones on regular basis and sometimes restore their data from backups

I do too. But if you systematically do that before going through customs, with the intention of denying a customs agent the data, that's a different intent. Intent matters when it comes to the law.
By this definition we should all be running Oracle.
Yes. That's the usual story indeed. I'm not sure where the concept that banking was 'dirty' came from - I suspect that's mixing up banking with lending. Lending at interest was subject to religious prohibition for all but Jews who interpreted the Torah in a way that forbade lending only to other Jews. Thus Jewish people were not "forced" into banking because they were banned from agriculture (lol, how would that even work?) but rather, became bankers by default because it was highly profitable and others wouldn't do it for religious reasons.

This is the main reason for the ancient historical stereotypes linking Judaism and money/wealth/power/etc. And why names like Goldstein (gold stone) are considered Jewish names.
Thank you so much for doing this! RSS FTW
Ask HN: Let go from startup I was cofounder at. What to do next?
I've been working at this startup for the last two years as a cofounder/CTO, and I was informed just this morning by my CEO that they want me to transition out of the company over 1 month.

For the majority of the two years, I was the sole developer and had a massive workload, and we made our second hire on the dev team only a few months back, and the switch to a management role is something I was struggling with, along with being very burnt out.

The reason for asking me to leave is that our product has stagnated over the last two years, and only seen maintenance-level work being done on it. We tried various things to make the product move faster but all failed. This has been blamed on my inexperience. They also believe my vision does not align with the companys vision. They're going to outsource development now.

They've told me that they're not going to give me my equity that had vested as they do not want someone not working in the company to have equity. Instead they're offering to continue paying my salary for the next year.

I'm 21 y.o., a high school dropout, and I joined this startup when I was 18. So basically this has been the focus of my entire adult life up till this point. It's like my life has fallen apart in front of me, and I have no idea what I should do next. I don't think I'll be able to go work as an employee somewhere after this.

My skills are full stack web development (Node, Django, React), but I'm self taught and while I can figure things out, I have holes in my knowledge.

I know this post is a mess, but so am I at this point. What do I do now?
Historically, I'm unaware of any country where you're entitled to require a court order before they can inspect your belongings when passing through a customs inspection at the border (and almost everywhere they don't need any suspicion of wrongdoing—they could, if they wanted, go through every paper everyone carried in, with the more or less sole limit of diplomatic bags).
From the "Next Steps" section in the report:

>Congress Must Fund Election Security:​ National defense is not the role of state and local
government. Further, no state or local government will ever be able to raise enough capital to
defend itself from a determined nation state. Thus, having codified the basic security standards
developed by local election officials above, Congress must finance the implementation of these
security standards.

Well. We tried: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/republicans-block-bid-...
Lenovo has a new laptop called the Yoga Book. The keyboard is an e-ink display that can be used as an e-reader. Windows, so not a full OS, but definitely a step in that direction.

Here is a non-affiliate link:
https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/tablets/windows-tablets/yoga-bo...
Poor truecrypt.
I think you're interpreting that sentence too harshly.

CERN has to concern itself with politics, it is a organization funded by them. Controversial discussion endangers that funding. It is perfectly reasonable to ask that this controversial discussion not on their topic of study go elsewhere.

That doesn't mean to the faculty of woman and gender studies, or social sciences as a whole. I in particular am delighted that a physicist feels safe enough to discuss it even though I disagree with him. It just means that I'd rather this was broadcast as a paper, blogpost, non-CERN conference, etc.
>> However, the moment you dip into libraries you are dependent on someone else's work.

>Like every other programming language?

The lack of a standard library means you'll be dipping in a lot sooner.
> "A lot of the organised crime groups are becoming a lot more sophisticated in the ways they're trying to get things across the border.

Is this the new "think of the children"? The reasoning seems to be, criminals would rather carry their "digital crime-thingys" across the border saved on their phones, than upload it (encrypted) somewhere on the internet... Or is NZ planning to build a Firewall as well (better than China's)?
Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann [0]

[0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1449373321/
> I hope this sort of malarkey doesn't become the norm.

Ha-ha-ha, sweet, sweet summer boy...
There go my plans to visit New Zealand.
The rebuttal is “these facts were cherry-picked to support the author’s interpretation of observable events.”

From the article:

“He also said that he himself was overlooked for a job that he was more qualified for, which was given to a woman.” If we start with a hypothesis of equal capability, his graph shows that women are being passed over for career opportunities in favor of less qualified men more often than the reverse is true. Facts don’t lie, but with subjective context they can be used to tell stories.
Actually I don't get the idea - are you saying the whole thing is birds of a feather or that the Nature article is the real deal?
> All third parties (meaning people other than the traveler) who have their privacy violated in the process must be informed immediately of the full details of the privacy violation

This isn't a requirement when e.g. police search an office and so wouldn't seem appropriate in this case. NDAs, explicitly or implicitly (through statute), tend to exempt courts, regulators and law enforcement.
But what if women consistently choose fields other then STEM for legitimate non-sexism reasons? Won't that metric do a lot of harm?
Weird setup, our company VPN is only for incoming connections.
waiting for kimdotcom to weigh in ...
Anyone who cares will just use a burner phone when they travel.
This is great to say, but just wanting something doesn't get it done. How could we be proactive and accomplish this? I don't have any of the necessary skills, or the audience. This is really important to put attention toward because that is the only way to get those in power to care. How can we find the right people to make digestible press packages about this, and how do we get it published by people?
That’s just not correct.
Yes. For most gamers these days, time is the bottleneck, not money. In a world where Infinitroid and Hollow Knight exist, one hundred out of one hundred people are going to spend the time on Hollow Knight.
The publication of the hash proves who came first (to the timestamping service). Content comparison can be done by other means than the hash.
I'm not sure this is important at all for hackernews (benefit of people visiting it directly).

But there definitely has been a significant drop in keywords where HN is displayed on Google (probably because of the major algorithm “Medic” update on August 1st): https://i.imgur.com/qCTC0xd.png
I'm not sure if you are being tongue-in-cheek or not, but it's at least a workable idea. Outsourcing in my experience is an almost unredeemable shitshow, with far, far more misses than hits, but going the cheapest possible route is much more expensive in the long run. The timeshift between US and British working hours is a lot more convenient, if nothing more.