skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a native North Carolinian who grew up in a rural part of the state, I can confirm that there is a substantial difference between the rural parts of the state, and places like the Triangle region, in this regard. There definitely are still racists, bigots, homophobes, etc. and they are more common when you get out into the country areas.

That said, it's not the case that every 3rd person you meet is a KKK member, raging homophobe, or conservative snake-handling fundamentalist who refuses to send their kids to the doctor, or any of those other stereotypes. Those people exist, but even in the rural areas they aren't necessarily ubiquitous - although this will obviously vary from region to region, town to town, and I haven't lived in every part of NC, so there are probably some spots that are especially bad that I don't know about.

But anyway, the conversation about was about living in the Triangle area around Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill, and this region seems to be in pretty good shape as far as tolerance, diversity, etc.
or just go with "declarative" programming, since that's kind of a term of art? or "intent-driven"?
I've done it a few times. This works better since you get a lot of the relationships, culture and company knowledge established before you spend less time in the office and if you do it slowly you all learn and fix what needs to be put in place to make it work well.

It doesn't work in all companies, but you can often work this out in advance. A good sign is obviously if some people already work remotely, but I have found where this works best is if the company already has teams spanning multiple locations and time zones and have the management structure and communication tools developed to do that properly.
Ah. SF = Special Forces.
Unpopular opinion: this is why the "dudebros" and their like keep getting hired. They are more than happy to do their work, accept their salary, and move on, and not have to turn everything into "changing the world"
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...I can’t answer that because I’m not one those people saying that.

Also answering a question with a question is an evasion technique. Just say what you believe, and don’t drill me on stuff other people said.
It does now. But will that be the case in the future? History seems to indicate that the interfaces and paradigms will continue to change. There will be an awkward period (now?) where you need to know both types of interfaces, but there may be a period where touch, voice, or other interfaces replace the now-archaic file cabinet metaphor that the desktop uses today. Look at Windows and all the metaphors that a child today has no context with which to relate: a manila folder, a file cabinet, a floppy disk, an address book, a wall calendar. It seems likely that this will change, and with it the need to understand today's (and that of the last 20-30 years) desktop computer.
Serious question, can someone explain to me why these things are latex documents with a little bit of code?
How is the tech scene around Penn?
The company does things for money, irrespective of the “moral hazard” of sending people to jail for looking up events that actually happened, or for providing government access to all phone calls and messages.

Inidividuals however can enact change as long as enough refuse to work on such tech.
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> cataloging the world's information and making it available for free

What does the mission of archive.org have to do with Google?
The common notion is that there wasn't much technological development going on. Stone tools, hunting gathering for a long time, then civilization over the last 10.00 years. Your point still applies to a degree, but it's amazing what they can already tell from the remains that didn't fall to the forces of nature.
Exactly. There have been a lot of subcompact tin cans sold in the past 7yr
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I wonder why aren't "they" making extendable bumpers for cars? Like extend bumpers 2 feet forward and backward when collision is imminent and then use the extra space as extra crumple zone.
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32,658 people were killed by terrorists in 2014. Does that mean we're more likely to be killed by terrorists than by police?

Of course not, because that was terrorists killed around the world. There's more people living around the world than in the US. In the US, only 3,046 people were killed by terrorists between 2001 and 2014.

More white people get killed in America because there are more white people here than black people. But adjusting for population, more black people get killed in America by cops than white people. Three times more. I provided tons of links (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18168217), you can see for yourself.
The only thing that was ever designed to bring substantial mass back from orbit was the Space Shuttle Orbiter, which is decommissioned. Even then, I'm sure Hubble was not designed to fold back up and fit into that cargo bay.

I think it's instructive that they never tried that with any of the earlier Hubble repair missions.
I'd rather if they didn't spy on me in the first place...
Depends on the issue and the group. If you're making the argument that those who have no issue with the phrase 'celebrating European culture' tend to be more conservative then I'd agree
To me it always seemed obvious that adding more people decreases efficiency; it's just a matter of communcation:

With more people, it takes more effort for knowledge to spread, so you either spend that effort (which reduces efficiency), or you have people doing their jobs without information that could make them more efficient (which reduces efficiency).

I've heard arguments that adding administrative staff is worse than adding other sorts of staff, but that is not as immediately obvious to me.
That question is answered. Pretty much all non African humans have Neanderthal DNA. Around 2% on average.
what made you think that says "have zero children"?

its always fascinating to me when people read the most extreme possible interpretation into a single word like that.

did you interpret that list to mean you can't use electricity or heat your home anymore either?
That's a great question. I've been considering Hasura for an upcoming app and have been prototyping things with great success. I hadn't really considered how it implements the subscriptions, and had assumed it worked only by observing mutations that came in through GraphQL. However that doesn't really explain how it works with subscriptions against a view.

I dug into the code a bit and think it all happens here:
https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/blob/master/server/... Which if my fledgling Haskell is correct digs into the subscription to find the sources and then adds a trigger on them.

On a related note, I've been very impressed with the Hasura GraphQL server. In particular how the authentication works with a JWT token and it's access restrictions seem pretty well thought out and flexible.

I have not yet used it in production but :fingers-crossed: it performs as well there as it has in testing and development
The decisions we make in life, and our difficulty making them, defines us. I can’t help you define your morality here.
> Why are they so invested in putting up blinders to ignore that "meritocracy" in the context of open source development doesn't carry that demeaning connotation

They aren't. They are arguing that it should be because, as arguably is part of the subtext of the original usage, what “meritocracy” used non-ironically denotes is very much something which humans fundamentally do not do, or even approximate, without deliberate and active correction for social and cultural biases of the exact type that the description of “meritocracy” is generally, and specifically in the case of those who apply the term non-ironically to the open source community, used to deny the need for.
All such satellites (incl. ISS) have 4 gyros while you only need 3, geometrically. That‘s your redundancy. You don‘t add stuff just for the fun of it but you do cost-benefit trade-offs that include e.g. weight (goes directly into launch costs) and design lifetime. And gyros need to be heavy because physics (i.e. you need counter overall mass of spacecraft).
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>OP however came off as condescending (at least to me) when he said stuff like "breathe fresh air", "stuck in subway for 2 hours", etc in responses, making everything a zero sum game.

I don't think he was being condescending. I'm at a point where I would absolutely value fresh air, not having to commute more than 15-30 minutes a day, being able to live in a rural area where I can have privacy and space, and other benefits like that far more than the financial benefits. When I started my career I wanted to move up the ladder as quickly as possible so I can earn as much as possible, but I've realized that I really don't care about the money nearly as much as I thought. I don't make a ton, but I already earn more than I spend and am able to splurge on things frequently. If I had to opportunity to move somewhere like that with my girlfriend I absolutely would
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I grew up in Raleigh (born, elementary school through NC State) there and recently moved north to start my first job...IMO, the jobs with competitive compensations just don't exist in Raleigh at the new grad level. Almost all of the top students that I know of move to Seattle, NYC, SF etc after graduating.

Housing is also surprisingly expensive in the nicer parts of town given the necessity for a car. With that said, it's a great option if you're comfortable with the opportunities here and want to settle.
My experience has been that it's valuable to have an easy way to spin up a local server/runtime stack, for a wide variety of reasons.
Why?

Obviously we need some students to become programmers, and we should start them early, but do we need all students? The student who wants to be a doctor should learn to type and then move on to more science/biology classes. The student who isn't sure what they want to do with their life (this is most, even though they all have done a "what I want to be when I grow up paper") needs to good general background. going deep into math, science, and reading/writing (ie the 3 Rs) will get them much father than specialized education in computers - they can figure out what they need to know a lot better than someone with a deep knowledge of CS can figure out something else.

Computers are tools. They are useful when you know some other domain well and then use the computer to take care of some work for you.
> The point is not whether you are in fact legally obliged

Then don't use the word "duty", which indicates a legal obligation.
Javascript doesn't support operator overloading, I think the code in the examples is just pseudocode.
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That's not the main benefit. The reason Google et al split services up into independent servers is for physical reasons. They have large datasets that don't fit on a single machine, so they have to shard the servers that handle it, and they have want to maximise their use of memory and CPU, so running unrelated tasks on the cores is a bad idea - at which point why link in the code? Before you know it you've got "microservices" except they aren't micro, they're machine sized.

Somehow this got mangled into "microservices are good because they help teams work together" which isn't what it's about at all. At least at Google the smallest hello world server was something like 50mb when I worked there, just because of the huge dependency graph. It was common for servers to pull in hundreds of modules maintained by nearly as many different teams, all in a single binary. Each server was essentially a "monolith" except for the stuff that had to run in separate backends because of resource constraints.
What do you do about the generations of discrimination (of "fences being knocked down") without repercussions? You can outlaw and punish the behavior now, but look around and notice how many fences are still standing. How do you fix that? That's the path-dependence problem Rayiner is talking about.
Agreed, I lived in both SF and Chicago and much prefer Chicago. As a city, it's much better, more livable.

Plus it's cheap. There's so much housing stock available, you can find a place at practically any price point you want, from super affordable to very expensive. I tell my SFBA friends how much I paid for a condo in the city and their eyes pop out. :)

Also the hiring situation is desirable. Northwestern and UChicago are top notch schools, and many of their graduates would prefer to stay in the area for work.
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Sgt Corey Nooner had many other choices concerning his safety. Why is it so important to stand ground? How about warning shots? What sane person would attack a police officer pointing a handgun with just a knife?
On closer inspection I have to agree.
Probably Sikhs.

http://www.ssbcrack.com/2017/02/armed-forces-dont-allow-bear...
Same for me, widescreen FF62 on Windows 10 FWIW
> would it be easier to bring it back to earth, refurbish it and relaunch?

At that point you’d just launch a new one. Earth’s gravity well assesses a steep tax.
Eh well let's not throw corporations under the bus entirely. Corporate organization allows people to work together to take risks and tackle problems that are too big for individuals. This has given us the modern technology upon which most of us here earn our livings and given us huge advances in health and standard of living.

Have corporations done bad things? Of course, and so they are regulated, and there are processes for dealing with bad corporate behavior.
I think it may have just been you taking it as condescending. Personally I'm jealous. That sounds great, San Diego isn't known for clean air or short commutes.
You can use verilator to simulate a design.
Anything related to RTCRtpSendParameters (previously RTCRtpEncodingParameters) really.

For example, RTCRtpSender.getParameters is missing and the setParameters seems to be missing (unless that's the send function). And as far as I can tell, you are not supposed to call setParameters without getParameters first, so that's not spec compliant ;)

And of course, the sendEncodings property of the init parameters in addTransceiver is missing. It is required to setup simulcast (and later SVC when we standardize it).
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I'd argue in the tech industry at least you get to keep your job because you have very specific domain knowledge and are not easily replaceable without a lot risk and lost time, even if there are people who are theoretically better in some general way.

I think your definition of meritocracy is needlessly binary. People don't get assigned a merit number where they get to instantly supersede anyone with a lower one like sorting a list. What most people consider the word to mean is if you do good work you will be rewarded as such (more important role, more money etc.), not some king-of-the hill winner take all competition.

There's no question that this very often does not work out in practice, because life is messy. There is no such thing as pure anything when it comes to human relationships, but it's still a good idea to strive for.

It's certainly better than the alternative anyway....which is....actually what is the alternative? I've not heard anything besides "meritocracy is bad because not everyone benefits and some get screwed". What should we do, hand out positions and salaries based on random number generators? I think no matter what kind of hand wringing and word twisting people do you're always gonna end up back at a system of quasi-meritocracy combined with nepotism, cronyism and other human bullshit.
Unfortunately your notion of the SEC as neutral referee for a fair market is not reality. The SEC lacks the resources to enforce the law consistently even within a narrow mandate. Its approach is to target specific violators as a deterrant and/or to make known what it considers to be the proper interpretation of securities laws. Some people consider this to be a major defect in US securities enforcement regime and suggest that the SEC should be resourced appropriately to the immense task. Personally I have no idea what they would need to more systematically pursue violators, but wild guess would be a couple orders of magnitude more funding and personnel.

In the realm of securities fraud, I would say that the private securities bar does about 90% of the impact (in terms of judgments and settlements). And successful criminal referrals a la Enron are quite rare, proportional to the actual amount of fraud going on.

By the way, Enron was a fraud against its own investors. Enron was not about fraud against short-sellers, it was fraud against purchasers of Enron stock. Not that short-sellers don't deserve honesty, just saying that they do not typically receive much love from regulators. From what I can tell, it seems this is not solely due to the disposition of said regulators, but also because of legal uncertainty around short-sellers' rights under securities laws.
One thing to consider about Pittsburgh, especially compared to the bay area, is the weather. The winters are going to be a bit harsher in / around Pittsburgh than they would be in the SF bay.
Nah! The problem in the first place is to wonder where to find any data at all and in the last twenty years new data has become available. It's a back and forth, really.
Sure there are. But if you compare available jobs the situation might be different.

Here (EU) it is much easier to find a non-sucking job as a developer as opposed to being a waiter. The people who are trying to find developers have finally figured out that it pays to be nice, if for no other reason, because people talk. If you screw your workers over, you have trouble getting new hires. And it really doesn't cost you much, if anything, to make good working conditions.

EDIT: sorry, software sales is different... probably the same here. :(
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Every time I see one of those forms I feel like the hungry, desperate sex workers who "consent" to being degraded and humiliated so that they can feed their families for another day...

We say "yes," but the head shakes "no".
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Realistically, you'd be in more danger just driving a car. In Switzerland. Let's not get too melodramatic.
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Huge, dim "Edison" bulbs also appear to be trendy. The cycle seems to be accelerating.
Sounds like a good business to be in!

The permission model actually only landed a few weeks ago, so we haven't been able to fully appreciate what we did ourselves. You're right though, it's probably a pretty huge deal :)
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I know some people who would use this research to try and argue that humans of different races are in fact more separate genetically than is popularly believed. Does this research suggest anything of the sort?
The Model Y will be a crossover, or minature Model X. It is already set to be anounced in 2019.
Yeah the conference rooms sound terrible from an audio stand point but we have these rooms with these huge cisco telepresence things. the audio is incredible. the video is good and helps because I can see body language.
Both sadness and patheticism (real word?) can exist only in the eye of the beholder. If you're not the one sad about it, then who is? It sounds like you're saying "it" is just objectively and platonically sad. In my opinion, that is not a thing.
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If subsistence farming is preferable to being a cog in a market economy, why aren’t people switching in the opposite direction?
so how do you negotiate SLAs?

How do you know what level of security is required?

How do you prioritise requests?

How do you know which team to ask favours from?

How do you get more money for your department?

How do you avoid the poop-gravity interaction cycle?

All of this is intrinsically linked to the business logic/goals of the company.

For example: Our team worked with $cashCow team to reduce time to live by x percent. We have saved the company y percent a year. Now give our team more cash we can do it for other teams.

That requires a basic understanding of the business, and its priorities, so you can support the most important internal users and make them more efficient.
With all due respect, no. I live in the Washington DC suburbs and used to be married to a woman from Chicago.
I would recommend DC over Chicago any day of the week.

It may be slightly cheaper. But as they say "there are two seasons in Chicago: Winter and Construction." Either way, traffic is gonna suck.

And of course there's the weather, the Political Machine that runs the city (and to a lesser extent the State), and of course the traffic.

While I agree Chicago offers incremental upgrades to many of the "worse" major cities in the US, the difference does not justify the cost of uprooting and moving there.
I've spent a lot of time working in Chicago over the years, and consider it to be one of my favorite cities in the whole country... from about the end of April until the middle of October.

That said, the food scene is great, the night life is great, and the city just has a nice, chill vibe in general. For somebody who likes, or can tolerate, cold winters, it's probably a great place to live. For the rest of us, it's a great place to visit.
Indeed - to be honest, given Asimov's well known socialist sympathies I read it as a tiresome screed that deliberately misinterpreted Orwell's writing - part of the socialist sectarianism that Asimov himself alludes to but which he is clearly guilty of himself.

For example, it is well known that the concept of Newspeak actually originated as a dystopian version of Esperanto, not at all as just "abbreviations".

Furthermore "1984" never suggests that people are under constant surveillance, just that they never know when they are being watched.

And as for the idea of using computers for the surveillance, we are talking about a man who in his own SF stories, (written after 1948 which was when Orwell wrote "1984"), still had his scientists pulling out slide rules to do calculations.

Sorry, but this just reads as a deliberate hatchet job.

I concur - far from one of Asimov's best works.
"They never found malicious chips planted on any server" this literally means they have never found chips planted on any server. They did not say we have conducted review of 100% of servers or anything else related to the scope or types of checking they have done. Again everything is worded very carefully. Same for every other statement you posted. If you pay attention to DHS statement they again worded it very carefully they have never stated that DHS never found any evidence they only said that Apple never did.
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Or a CFG to generate at a high level and a Markov chain to fill in the details