skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a single counter-example that I think demolishes this entire line of thinking, and it is the rise of "Asian privilege". If Western power structures are inherently racist, they sure dropped the ball on immigrants from the Asian continent (who, by the way, were in recent history pressed into indentured servitude to build railways).

There are no longer any laws on the books that discriminate against people based on their race, gender, or sexual orientation. So certainly there are no legal barriers.

So if your narrative is that there is still systematic racism it's really incumbent on you to provide a factual basis for that claim - and, quite frankly, the evidence is sorely lacking. If you were to remove race from the equation and simply group people by socioeconomic factors like wealth, family composition and attitudes about education, you're likely to find that a middle-class white, black, or Hispanic child has similar chances of success at birth (assuming they belong to a complete family unit with positive views on the value of education). Remove a father from the equation and, regardless of race, their prospects dim considerably.

Race is highly visible, but for the same reason that academic research on the link between IQ and race is shunned I think it's a terrible proxy for comparison of groups.
* “Did not want to endanger my company’s funding prospects”

* “I was afraid of the consequences for my ability to get future funding.”

* “VCs would penalize women for coming forward by icing them out of social and professional situations and denying them funding opportunities, meaning the bad behavior rarely got outed.”

You're saying that Callisto does not address any of those issues, that it's merely posturing?
Anything is possible. I can even see some potential ways to do it. You still shouldn't post things such as your home address or phone number on the internet though.

It's one thing to be aware of the potential risks, but it is another for a 13 year old on Instagram not even realizing there are consequences.
Great post. My wife and I have conversations about this all of the time, especially the FB vs. good 'ole web forums discussion.

I think the issue with centralized communication tools is that we haven't figured out the "shame" thing yet. Or, perhaps, it isn't even possible to scale up shaming. There's a lot of evidence that scaling up shaming simply results in its weaponization (the internet doesn't do nuance...). Watching Roseanne on Joe Rogan this week was simply heart-breaking. The speed with which her entire career and body of work was tossed in the garbage really makes me think that it isn't possible.
1. What about fake accusations? Will the perpetrator name still be in the database as a perpetrator if the accusations are false? I would be curios about false accusation statistics or even exaggerated or misinterpreted actions that are interpreted as sexual misconduct.

2. If you are a VC I assume that you have money, lots of money. Why not hire an escort? Why not be a sugar daddy to someone? Why have a or try to have a sexual relationship with someone you work with or someone you have a business relationship with, especially in this day and age?
This has to be some data entry type position - old Dell monitors and every seat taken.
Andrew Torba former YC'er got kicked out for triggering other YC alum for saying "Build the Wall" -

or we can go w/ Brendan Eich getting booted from Mozilla.

The list can go on and on and on.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/04/04/mozill...

https://www.facebook.com/garry/posts/10102671732962523?pnref...
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There were large anti-war protests in 2003-2004, supported and propped up by most media organizations. It was hardly "morally unfashionable to criticize the war effort".
No, you're not supposed to subject them to hardship. But if you wanted to be an all-in entrepreneur you had a higher chance of success before the kids, I think (or after the kids go to high school or college).
Video game discovery software used by publishers, press, YouTubers and streamers
Okay, so again how is the site to blame if your family or friends leak your info. I agree that these sites should be defaulting most options to non public until people explicitly choose for something to be public - but beyond that, the only thing I can see working is heavily discouraging the bad behavior, and we likely need the legal system for that. All a social media company can do is ban someone for bad behavior, not fine them or throw them in jail.
Dean Mary Spellman at Claremont McKenna was forced out by an angry mob for writing an email to a Latina student in which she thanked the student for writing about her experience and expressed how she wants to further engage her. However, she apparently included a "microagression" when saying that the student didn't "fit the mold" of their traditional student.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-claremont-marche...

Here's the offending email:

https://claremontindependent.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/...

Just recently, while he wasn't fired, Scott Kelly apologized to an angry mob for daring to quote Winston Churchill.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45789819
The problem with this reasoning is that some heretical ideas are perhaps correct, some are just nuts, and some are both nuts and very damaging. While it is true that moral fashions and taboos of discourse can exclude good ideas, the inverse does not follow. It does not follow that an excluded idea is therefore good.

I think this even works in previous ages. While medieval heretics did not deserve the punishments they received, the majority of them were probably nuts and believed things that were at least as irrational as the dominant paradigms of the time.

They called Einstein crazy. They also called Otis Eugene Ray crazy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Cube

Would you have considered letting Otis Eugene Ray go from an engineering position if he started arguing for his bizarre stuff?

They also called Willis Carto crazy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willis_Carto

How about those heresies? Would you want him on your staff if he were outspoken about how the Holocaust didn't happen and Jews are responsible for all the evils of the world?

Seems to me that a great many of those being excluded from present discourse are being excluded for arguing for very strong forms of biological determinism coupled with a naturalistic fallacy (if it's natural, it's therefore good) argument for the legitimacy of racism and sexism. Those are dubious ideas with a demonstrated recent track record of motivating acts that cause tremendous harm to a lot of people. They're not heresies of the beneficial sort.
Humid is usually related to weather or air. Damp is usually a negative term to use for something that feels wet but it could relate to air inside, as in my basement feels damp or my raincoat is still damp from yesterday.

Humid is usually related to I weather and a lot of the time hot weather but not always. It’s so humid today it feels like a jungle outside.
It’s already peaked and has started to decline. There’s a definite sense that questioning the radical left is less transgressive than it used to be. We’re currently coming out of a period which will be looked back upon as being very left, and how the culture shifted so far in such short a time will be a topic of much debate.

However, when the pendulum swings it rarely stops in the center. I fear an over-reaction to the right. Really what we need is for people to stop being crazy ideological zealots, regardless of inclination.
My company takes precisely this approach, though our business model (we sell data products) and size (we're quite small) definitely makes it easier. There are usually 1-2 employees (engineer and analyst) responsible for a given product so calculating their respective contribution and profit-sharing on a per-product basis is quite straightforward.
Mexico’s corner store leads e-commerce growth
Most people leave managers, not companies.

I've gone to work for good managers, then had them leave or get replaced by complete micromanaging incompetent jerks who kiss up and kick down.

There are a lot of things that influence me taking a job, but leaving comes down to 3 things: management, environment, and respect. Bad management, crowded, noisy environment and lack of respect for me and my peers will get my resume on circuit pretty quickly. I've been burned too often.
It wasn't that setup related. pc-kombo does not need that many routes that I did spread it over multiple files. I generally do avoid that. I wanted to give the specific example at first, but did not find the related commits anymore when writing the article, and in the end if it was really related to some behavior change linked to a version change (or x86 vs ARM) it would not be too useful now. It's meant as an example for the rough edges one can encounter.

But the essence is that I had some routes defined using regexpressions, probably like the URL definition for a page in the blog (not saying it was exactly this one):

get %r{/([0-9]+)/([\w]+)} do |id, title|

And I ran into a situation where on my local dev platform this did not trigger when calling a similar looking route, but on the production server it did. I just remember being surprised that the specificity of the regex-evaluation seemed to change.
It's basically illegal to take a picture of a person without their permission.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2017/01/22/how-tos/re...
Many of them are wearing red-ribboned lanyards, have water bottles (and no other drinks), and all visible monitors are running the same IRC-looking app, so it's probably some sort of training/class at a conference or a college programming contest. The photo is a stock photo.
My original goal was "if I pick up the phone to add a new expense, I don't want to fill in a huge form". So I came up that ideia. It's kinda silly, I know.
I would argue that priority has to be 'de-urbanization' itself. Pollution is just one problem that will be solved by de-urbanization.
I find the opposite - I've been on HN around a decade, a few months ago, during a discussion on living in SV I mentioned that the valley is a cultural wasteland. dang said this was a 'slur' and not acceptable on HN.

The idea that it's unacceptable to criticise the culture of an area, and that people need to be protected from this idea, would be unthinkable on Startup News.
minuscule amount of power x huge amount of users x lots of time played rotating small blocks in a screen.

Maybe the cumulative effect on energy spent for playing tetris, or minesweep (not to mention much modern videogames) is not so small after all.
> 2. If you are a VC I assume that you have money, lots of money. Why not hire an escort? Why not be a sugar daddy to someone? Why have a or try to have a sexual relationship with someone you work with or someone you have a business relationship with, especially in this day and age?

Because society tells you it's allowed. Because it's easier to trick yourself into thinking it's consensual. Because so many other powerful men do it.

Because you can.
Indie Boost is video game discovery software used by publishers, press, YouTubers, and streamers. We've helped more than 400 games reach over 200 million views on YouTube, Twitch, and Mixer, and now we’ve automated the process for everyone.

Indie Boost makes it easy for game publishers to get their games discovered by the right audience. We are working on smart solutions that facilitate this process as opposed to relying on storefront traffic. There is a player for every game out there, the only thing preventing discovery are overcrowded stores.
Your point is still valid: it’s difficult to carry enough gold on your back to survive the rest of your life in the comfort that you’re used to.
Thanks Justin! Likewise.
Right. They definitely didn't understand that these passed out people were drunk. They probably just got lucky including "Legless" in the title. From Collins dictionary "If you say that someone is legless, you mean that they are extremely drunk." And only in a couple places do they even mention how much these businessmen drink and how drunk they must be.
Is this project affiliated with Signal outside of using their protocol? I have been a faithful TextSecure user for years, but the service has been falling down of late, particularly Signal calls and group texts with non-Signal users, so I am leery of getting involved with another Signal team project...
FUCK OFF you ignorant arsehole

Is what I would have said.
Yeah, I discovered a pump display that actually had a labelled "Mute" button, and I figured out that some other ones can be muted by poking at the buttons.

Barring that, I usually end up walking a little away from the car in order to try not to be advertised at.
That depends on the effectiveness of the platform in integrating mods. DOTA was far more popular than normal Warcraft RTS games at its peak.
Show HN: An analysis of the words used by the Twitter account realDonaldTrump
Nicely formatted site. Anyone know if/what static site generator/theme is being used? Couldn't find anything on the footer, site tags, or his GitHub that would reveal that...
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It was also morally unfashionable to criticize liberating the slaves in the Northern states. So, thankfully, "moral fashion" presided in that case.

In the Me Too social justice movement, for instance, Things You Can't Say come in two varieties: Just as men feel their nuanced opinions are misinterpreted and shamed, women too feel their experiences are doubted or ignored.

I think it's also important to note that exactly one of the two "sides" of this movement has historically been a marginalized group. That in of itself is not sufficient to make an opinion, so do your own research of course.
$133,000 is baller money anyplace but SV and the other high-cost cities. Also, the article is discussing salaries - I can't say for sure, but I'd bet PMs frequently have significant bonus eligibility, so that $133k could easily be $150k+ in actual annual income.

And the numbers in the article appear to be national, not limited to SV (despite the headline)...

"...31,146 interview requests from 1,848 companies made through Hired’s platform..."

"...Analyses of H1B work visas and Glassdoor data from Google, Facebook..."
Seems it's back now
I agree there are things worse than death, such as Alzheimers.

But still, and this is just my own belief, I think anyone who has given the matter some thought and introspection, is afraid of the end of their own existence. There may come a time indeed when death is better than remaining alive, but that doesn't imply one has stopped fearing death.
Sounds like Little Big Planet as well. The majority of content was user-created but they still sold content DLC which then allowed you to use those new items in your own levels.
How does a CPU work
Link probably should be https://www.reuters.com/article/us-aerospace-businessjets-su... (it currently is self-referential)
Unfortunately, in many cases, those VCs are already on the cap tables of founders that could report. So it's a problem.

Two reports triggering an exclusion from YC demos and rounds would be a strong incentive. But one report leading to an inquiry from YC might prevent incidents in the future, too, for fear of losing a key deal flow.
A good technical manager needs to be able to switch modes - from maker to manager - and back. A person can be a good technical manager even if they don't know the exact technology if they know how to ask good questions of multiple sources and listen (and synthesize) the answers. Nobody teaches this.
From the article:

"The salary advantage for product managers has only grown, says Hired’s data scientist Jessica Kirkpatrick. 'We see that software engineers have always been paid less than product managers, but that the pay gap has widened over the past year,' she wrote by email. The trend holds after accounting for experience. Software engineers, on average, are paid about 10% less than product managers in their first year as well as after six or more years of experience."

So it's not just a matter of PMs being more experienced.
As for number 2, sexual harassment is in large part about the feeling of power over someone else, not just about sex. The fact that the victim is a subordinate or applicant is the point of the whole thing for the harasser.
Dunno. This is just my recollection. It's likely flawed to some degree and biased by my locale. Like I said, I didn't recall it being nearly as severe as the current moral regime.
Thanks. It sucked for quite a while, but I’ve forgiven her at this point and I am trying to channel the energy to understand how these things come about so that I can help us all become part of the solution.
This trips up a lot of newbies who have no concept of connection management or scope. I routinely get questions about it in regards to the orm library I wrote, which includes a connection pool of course.

Another thing to be aware of with postgres is that connections in an error state (for example, due to trying to insert a row that violates a constraint) must be rolled back before they can be recycled.
This isn’t just public phone numbers. This is also private numbers that should have only been used for 2FA. (If that wasn’t bad enough already...)
Well, the network is made of volunteering techies and imho it's still a work in progress.
I realize the mods don't control the flags. They do however know that flagging is an issue when it comes to these topics. They could do more to facilitate the discussion of these issues. They already do dictate behavior in a number of other ways (e.g. personal insults are one thing that results in heavy moderation).

EDIT: A prime example is that this post is currently 5th on the HN front page and has roughly triple the points of the 3rd and 4th items on the front page in roughly half the time. That means this post is almost certainly being suppressed with flagging. Will the mods do anything to protect this post?
Agreed. I'm perfectly fine just sitting for a few moments. Barring that, there are also usually magazines, which are hard to read when the TV is blaring at you. And if I have to wait more than a few minutes, I have a phone I can look at. Under no circumstances does a TV make things better.
In an app, I can import a picture either through attaching an image or pasting a URL in a field on the UI. That URL field does not exist in the DB, but in order to benefit from ActionView's helpers, I had to declare the field on my model, even though the value in that field never goes to the model. The controller takes the field's value and does the right thing with it.

This is a very simple example of a common task that the separation between UI and backend fails.
Don’t Code Your Microservice Like a Monolith, Keep It Maintainable
Please don't use the name RawGit.

This is likely to confuse people, and it's also likely to cause people to reach out to me when they need help with rawgit2.com.
In many cases males do not consider sexual harassment some basic interactions like asking someone for a coffee; some coffee will remain just a coffee, some will not, the line is drawn where an offer is no longer just an offer, but when it is repeated or involves coercion. On the other side, I saw women misunderstanding neutral situations way more often. This will make the percentage of women complaining of harassment always much bigger than men.
About 6 years ago, we bought a 2007 Kia Sorento EX with about 90k miles on it. It's held up well (now up to 160k miles) and only needed basic maintenance. Based on my previous experience,I would have no problems buying another Kia Sorento.
I'll happily burn all my karma standing up for the idea that the victims of sexual harassment don't bear the responsibility for fixing it. Imagine that 20% of founders were getting straight up scammed by fake angels and VCs--would you suggest the founders need some way to report that anonymously? Or would you perhaps say that YC should do a better job of screening out fake investors? This is not the victims fault, it is not their problem, and it should not be on them to fix it. YC has both power and responsibility here and they are choosing not to exercise either.
Legit catch. I did struggle a bit with the wording of the post. I think it's still fair (based on my read and yours) to say that the survey results represent a lower bound, which is the broader conclusion I drew. I don't think anyone is suggesting that 100% of instances of bad behavior were surfaced by this survey, so the actual number will be higher.
Can't both be true? Are these actually opposites?
Thank you for this detailed description. I will definitely take a look and read a few chapters about the light transport.

Just a remark. When I first read the title, I was interested in the approximations you use because you emphasize physics so much in your book and your title. I read the preface and found a suspicious sentence.

When configured to do so, pbrt can compute images that are physically correct; they accurately reflect the lighting as it would be in a real-world version of the scene.

That is not correct. You use a phenomenological model for the light-matter interaction and approximate the effects of light with raytracing. That still produces (almost) photo realistic images for our eyes, but is not "physically correct". A paragraph on the limitations of technology could be worthwhile.
> However, I had/have a service that was already popular and my circle of friends were obsessed with MVP and Lean Startup. They pressured me and when I began mainstream marketing the response was that my service was low quality.

Some friends exist just to give us bad advice. There are problems with Lean Startup, but this feels more like "people that don't understand a thing, giving advice about that thing."
From about 1900 to 1970, aviation was like that. Aircraft got bigger and went faster and flew higher. Everyone would have a flying car.

In the late 1960s, the Boeing 747 and the Boeing 737 flew. The Concorde was flying. The X-15 had flown. There were many experimental transonic aircraft. Men had landed on the moon, even.

Even the flying car looked close. There were lots of VTOL aircraft in the 1950s and 1960s. Small helicopters like the UH-1 were working well for the military.

Then, suddenly, it was over. The last 50 years of aviation have produced fewer innovations than any single decade in the previous 50 years. Versions of the B-737 and B-747 are still in production. The Concorde was retired and not replaced. As Scott Crossman, the test pilot, once said, everything that ever flew substantially faster than Mach 3 is now in a museum. No one has been beyond low earth orbit since the early 1970s. If you want to see the VTOLs of the 1950s and 1960s, they're in the Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos. Aviation hit the limits of what you can do by burning fuel. In the early 1970s, the aerospace industry had huge layoffs as the space program wound down and not much was happening in aviation.

Computing may be there. Clock rates for mainstream CPUs have been in the 3-4 GHZ range for a decade now. That never happened before. We've hit fundamental limits. Atoms are too big.
Line widths are measured in atom counts now. Electrons are too big. The number of electrons in a flash memory cell is in two digits. Photons are too big. Optical lithography has had to go to soft X-rays ("extreme ultraviolet") to get better resolution, using an insanely complicated technology that just barely works. Fabs cost way too much and there are fewer leading-edge ones. Moore's Law is over.

As with aircraft, computing may shift to doing slightly better within the limitations of the physics we've got. The happy time of better hardware every year is over.