skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any random snippet of that report is probably better than a shallow article/title about political correctness. However, a better article summarizing the report might have been ok too.
The size matters in the US, too, but that doesn't stop a dozen people from trying to get away with carrying on an oversized bag. You'll usually find anywhere from a few to a dozen bags confiscated on the boarding bridge.
> Your article is confused between code walking (recognition of forms) and evaluation order.

Yes, to some extend.

> Can you assume that * X is a pointer dereference?

[Aside: The C declaration syntax is particularly terrible.
In a declaration 'star' means "address of", elsewhere it means "dereference". https://books.google.de/books?id=bXGhBAAAQBAJ&printsec=front...]

> I can't think of any language in which I can extract any substring of a sentence that could be a syntactic unit on its own, and correctly understand its meaning without knowing the rest of the sentence.

Well, most languages have expressions/statements that roughly correspond to source lines. When I read a line of python like this:

self.raw_requestline = self.rfile.readline(65537)

https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/core/ser...

I can be 100% sure that:

- `self` is an object with an attribute rfile

- `=` is the assignment operator

- there is a method `readline` that get's called with an integer argument 65537.

All this without checking any enclosing socpes.

A random line of lisp:

(setcdr current (list :args (cdr current)))

https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/lisp/wid-e...

could mean anything depending on the enclosing scopes.
Pretty sure setcdr,list,cdr are function calls but who knows. You don't have enough information to decide this from the snippet provided.
The understatement of the century
"In the woods"? Please. There are plenty of places that are rich in tech talent without being as grossly overpriced as Silicon Valley or NYC. Facebook, Google, Amazon, etc. have substantial offices in many of them, often all right next to each other, and they tend to attract startups as well. There are more reasonably priced options even in Silicon Valley, if some CEO-baby is willing to work somewhere other than their absolute first choice in SF or Manhattan - and if they're not then I seriously question their business acumen. Wherever your office is, your employees need places to live, and you'll have to pay commensurate salaries so they can do so. As a result, the ratio of personnel cost to office-space cost doesn't even change that much, and overpaying for both is financially irresponsible.
I don't think meritocracy implies cosmic fairness.

The way it's used by most hackers is to say that someone's work is judged only on its own merits, rather than the author's social status or how good they are at playing political games or anything else orthogonal to the work actually being valuable.

At least, that's the ideal.
> your face and/or your fingerprints are not passwords

How absolute do you think this is?

In the U.K. this would be an illustration that your face and/or fingerprints are passwords as the police can compel you to give any of them (or go to jail), including passwords that you don’t know.
I did a double take at this. The "next generation of fighter aircraft" is, in all likelihood, fleet of cheap autonomous drones that can withstand high gee maneuvers that will make a fighter pilot black out.

It's probably not very polite to say that sort of thing in military-industrial complex circles though (too much money riding on the F-35).
So put a hat and some googly-eye stickers on them?
> But AI on cloud is all Alibaba.

Huh? I mean, Alibaba is doing alright, but not particularly better than the other cloud providers.

> Same for charging stations. They don't need a charging station in whole foods because most people don't even drive as much. They order groceries on apps. Even if they do, charging stations are present in gas stations there. Their low cost cheap cars have features that rival Tesla (albeit at a lower quality and lower price)

Teslas are actually fairly common in Beijing now because of the plate lottery.

The Chinese have plenty of parking lots and plenty of driving. The biggest challenge to personal electric cars in China, something I don't think anyone has figured out yet, is that many people don't actually have formal overnight parking spaces for their cars. Sure, it works for taxis, you'll see taxis use those charging stations, but no one else.

Look, I've totally been there. We used to have bottled water delivered to our apartment (heck, even before the apps came out, we'd just call the store downstairs). I don't do that anymore now that I'm back in the USA, I just drink from the tap. And no, I never had a car in China either, but plenty of other people did and the grocery stores weren't empty (especially when compared to a western one)!

> We here in the US just don't get this shown to us in media.
So I took the time to read through the entire complaint and I hope she settled. I wouldn't characterize this lawsuit as frivolous, but a lot of what is put forward is extremely flimsy.

For example, it is perfectly fine to criticize someone who works at the same company in a slack channel if they're doing poor work. There are a lot of claims, but not many specifics to back up those claims. She paints Abovitz as a poor leader, being constantly mired in agendaless meetings and struck with a strong case of analysis paralysis. While bad leaders often do illegal things, it is not illegal to be a bad leader. Not every requested product change is ignored without cause. It's not shocking to have to ask for a promotion. Organizing speaking engagements with high profile female executives that command well over six figures per speaking engagement is unrealistic. Magic Leap is certainly not the first company to over hype the capabilities of its product.

I do find it curious that while Ms Campbell was hired to solve this "pink/blue" problem, none of her proposed solutions involved talking to potential female consumers about the product. If your solution to "How are we going to market this product to women when we release in Q1 next year?" is to raise a new generation of female engineers, your company will die. Also, I would like to point out that recognition of a problem does not guarantee that there is a solution to it. I'm certain that the makers of needlepoint kits would love to sell more embroidery materials to men. I'm less certain that there is a way of doing so.

I did like this excerpt from 25:

"A chaotic discussion with people talking over each other
followed. The group made no decisions and none of the proposed changes were made to the design."

That accurately describes any large group product meeting I've ever attended.
Studying to Assist in the Restoration of an Apollo Guidance Computer
I take it there's a bit of tongue in cheek there. Heh.

People should, ideally, have a level of passion for what they do. Employers looking for employees with passion can swing too far the other way. We shouldn't kid ourselves that money is almost always almost everything, and many of us would have entirely different occupations without financial dependence.
> Can people maybe, just maybe not assume that scientists are idiots or, as once dead commenter puts it, charlatans?

Have you met scientists? Or more accurately, PIs? Unfortunately, our system of being awarded grants and academic advancement does not necessarily reward the intelligent, those with the best scientific judgement, and rapidly burns out those who would in the ideal make the best scientists.
I think this article sets up the paper against two incorrect worldviews:

1. America is a genetic meritocracy -- you achievement is based on your potential. My interpretation of "traditional" American values is more focused around hard work, toughness, and foresight ... this sort of thing: https://www.trumanlibrary.org/lifetimes/farm.htm . I'm pretty sure the idea that your academic performance determines your place in society is the tradition of somewhere but I don't think it is America: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_examination .

2. That going to college is not a direct product of wealth. Spending 4 years of adulthood doing something other than work could itself be used as a measurement of wealth. It feels to me like they are comparing two slightly different measurements of wealth and acting like it is something else.

Almost everyone in the study population would have gone to college before 1990, so their choices aren't based on the current situation, they are based on the situation 30 years ago as well.

The one thing I am positive about is that is provides evidence that wealth is actually a positive influence on education ... maybe it will help people who value education above all support pro-wealth policies like lower tax.
So then do we jail our Congess for (un)making laws?
There is a cultural aspect to it as well: when I lived in Switzerland, I noticed, it is very common to use the name of the person in almost every sentence when referring to another person. Be it greeting, asking something or leaving the place. I would often times try to mimic it, yet would not be able to come up with the name of the person fast enough, even though I knew the name. I guess it's a matter of practice.
I’m fairly knowledgeable in the GDPR and I’m legitimately curious what you think the fine basis would be related to this breach.
Controlled crack propagation for atomic precision with wafer-scale 2D materials
Nouriel Roubini’s 1991 Testimony to Congress About the Mobile Phone Bubble
If it's of any help, everything you just said exactly applies to me as well, in exactly the same way you said it.

Spared me from writing this comment I guess, lol
Well I was kind of interested how can somebody use epidemic as a noun for a surgical procedure. There are many factors to this but c-section is often safer for the child than normal birth. I am not sure if there is any problem with c-sections, in my country it is widely used even as an elective option without issues. It is hard to see the downside.
The person whose job it is to inform you is... you
Both b and d are most definitely not illegal -- deceptive yes, but not illegal.

If I sell you a crappy asset (imagine a company almost going bankrupt) for $10m and you don't do proper due diligence on said asset, then you have no right of complaining afterwards. No one is going to do your homework.
Not automated. I just use HN Search the same way anyone else would (or we wish they would).

This post wasn't prevented by the dupe filter because dupeness on HN expires after a year or so. That's in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
We've identified over a thousand genetic loci that predict educational attainment [1], though each one has only a very small effect. That's far from being all of them, of course.

[1] https://www.gwern.net/docs/iq/2018-lee.pdf
Yes. The title is against site guidelines ("Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.") and it's incorrect; there's nothing silent about it.
For all of those you would need definitive proof that those decisions were made with criminal intent to commit fraud. That is a very high evidentiary standard to clear, which is why these cases are so hard to prosecute.

Even the Enron case, which was a pretty clear case of fraud, took the government 5 years to build a case and win in court.

So, while all of those things you mention do indeed sound bad, they are incredibly difficult to prove in a criminal trial.
So Google can make money by targeting you with more relevant ads in gmail and elsewhere on the web.
> Stop using sha256(MAC address) for telemetry machine ID #8688

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/8688
It's too easy to get rich by fraud and use it to pay for you bail out.

The wheels of justice turns slow if you have money.
http://momtestbook.com/

Also see the first couple of chapters of The Four Steps To The Epiphany by @sgblank.
> the gravitational wave induced by the mass energy conversion of 1kg of plutonium from the other side of the earth.

Did you take into account that in a process like this, virtually none of the energy released can be put into gravitational waves? The efficiency of such transmission is extremely low for processes involving ordinary matter--many orders of magnitude less efficient than for electromagnetic waves. You need huge quantities of matter to overcome this problem--or, alternatively, you need very dense matter, like neutronium, or strong spacetime curvature like that of a black hole (but not too large a hole, since curvature at the horizon goes like the inverse square of the hole's mass).
If I had to guess, the Turks and/or US have signals intelligence of the murder in audio/video/sensor form that incriminates the Saudis.

Sometimes hard to tell with diplomatic incidents like this whether its publicly disclosed or not.

It was disclosed publicly and very very quickly in Dubai 2010.

In that case I think the speed, comprehensiveness, and thoroughness of the surveillance disclosure was a shock to casual security observers.
That’s the only nit I have with Face ID, which otherwise works very well. I wear blue blocking glasses at night and I haven’t been able to get Face ID to work when I’m wearing them.
Richard Branson suspends Saudi Arabia’s investment over missing journalist
Virtually nobody went to jail because the govt was complicit in the whole scheme to a) boost the economy through debt creation and b) push loans for sub-prime borrowers (specifically targeting minorities) to get buy-in for the "American Dream" of home ownership for "disadvantaged" groups.

Moreover (and probably more important) is that the parties involved except the govt all had plausible deniability in that they could point to the other parties to deflect blame. I say "except the govt" because they were the ones who were pushing the banks to lower loan standards for minorities, backing the GSE's with explicit loan guarantees and encouraging home ownership as the essence of the American dream to minorities. The mechanics or mistakes of how it was done, with CDO's or inflated credit ratings or even fraud, were a consequence of the govt pressure applied. Also, this was not an explicit policy written into regs & etc. but an implicit policy imposed by threats or hints by agencies that had a lot of power over the banking, mortgage and credit markets they regulate.
How is calculation of health insurance premiums not #1 on this list ?

Recently I purchased a DIY mole removal product from Amazon. An expansive actuary table would show a "concern about moles" has a slight positive correlation with "skin cancer". Arguably my premium should go up because of this.

It also blows my mind that Amazon won't allow you to delete a purchase from your Amazon order history. It is there forever and there is no reason that data can't be sold even if the account is closed. To be fair I am making assumptions without having read the privacy policy in Amazon's EULA.
I thought the same. I mean it's terrible what happened, and it's obvious SA isn't exactly a moral beacon, far from it - but China, Russia and many other countries do this type of thing all the time without the world blinking an eye.

I wonder what this is leading up to?
I'm curious about this as well. I've certainly googled and found cases where additional charges were later added, but I'd love to read a discussion the legality of using the grand jury process to discover evidence for charging people not named in the first indictment.

(https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/superseding-indictment-boyd-m...)
While I don't disagree with your points, it boils down to a defense by the persons accused of "We, titans of industry of finance, were so clueless, inept and incompetent that this unexpected thing happened. We definitely weren't intentionally trying to defraud anyone!". Doesn't exactly sound like a ringing endorsement for people whose yearly salaries are >$500,000.
The point is not that people don't want to encourage behavior that pays off in the end, it's that it takes alllinks in the chain to be vigilant about it to happen. Anywhere in the line between the the client company's CEO to the consultant company's developer if someone decides to cut corners because of time, cost or some other unknown reason, that will flow down through each subsequent level to the actual developers. There's probably five people in that chain minimum (including the developer, the client CEO, the consultancy CEO, and any managing coordinators), and any one of them can easily change this because of their own pressures. It's an inherently fragile system.
I don't know, not a lawyer. It maybe normal procedure but seems a bit unfair.
Others are attributing it to taxes, applying modern libertarian ideals to people who had nothing to do with them. My impression is that their main concern was survival. Can this ruler protect me from armies and criminals? Will the ruler kill me and my family?
> So, I reach a point each year where I'm turning away companies trying to recruit me).

I know this feeling very well and, it sounds like, for the same reasons. I don't know about you, but my family/friends look at me like I have two heads when I tell them this -- as do the recruiters at Twooglezon. (It also must make me sound like an arrogant ass ...)

I've decided that, based on recent experiences, interviewing with these companies is just not worth the logistical/emotional/psychological toll the exercise demands. I'm also pretty sure I wouldn't be happy if I got any of these jobs, anyways. (Something one of them recently told me in their rejection letter.) I've been running my own consultancy and have built up a modest network of clients, so if I'm really lucky, I'll get to continue to work this way for the foreseeable future.
Eric Holder, the attorney general at the time, did not prosecute bankers for the 2008 recession. The attorney general did prosecute people responsible for the issues in the dot com crash.

How is that comparable? Holder even stated, "I am concerned that the size of some of these institutions becomes so large that it does become difficult to prosecute them" because it might damage the economy. That is not an aspect the AG should be considering. They should be upholding the rule of law which did not occur after the 2008 crisis
Rare WW2 color photos truly show the war as people would have seen it
That made me laugh, so thanks for that.

To me it seems that both the media and Trump distort, spin and misrepresent things with nearly every sentence they utter. Different sides of the same coin.
Of everyone involved, I would love to see the rating agencies and their corporate officers get charged with fraud for rating the bundles of crappy mortgages AAA.
I wrote 16 when I meant 8bits. For this arch you cannot have 8 but types. Casting a int16_t* to char* won't let you access upper and lower bytes as most people would except (c standard does not define this behavior).
There’s been some nice recent work on time and space efficient integer and polynomial multiplication. Of particular note in this case, you can do karatsuba with only O(log(n)) workspace, at the cost of some additional bookkeeping. See, e.g., https://www.usna.edu/Users/cs/roche/research/papers/lsmul.pd...
> For Rust to support a platform at all, its standard C dialect must:

If Rust is going to have its own defined ABI, why should it require a C implementation at all?
> with few exceptions the severity of the repercussions is inversely proportional to how much private capital you have

Is that true? People with more money have much more to lose, are more likely to be audited, and the audits and lawsuits are far more time-consuming and expensive. Also, I expect that the legal penalties are proportional to the amount of taxes illegally withheld.
This article gives me hope. I like the idea that we're more alike than it may seem at times.
Yes, but certainly not every repair requires replacement of a bga part. The most common are screen, buttons, usb connector, aside from the port, all other are purely mechanical.
I’d agree about WSJ trying to be neutral.

Even my left leaning parents, both of whom are life long New York liberals, have ditched NYT almost entirely and now read WSJ daily.
More granularly than decisions made by Holder, one could also look at the number of prosecutions (vs lack of prosecutions) from the US Southern District of New York which has jurisdiction in the area.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preet_Bharara
Long overdue and very much welcomed. Thanks Mozilla.
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Probably because coming up with 150K/spare year to invest, right out of the gate, is unrealistic. 50K, maybe, if you live in low-COL area on a good salary...
Read the article before spouting nonsense.

You're free to attach your name to the bell if you want for whatever reason. Only landlords are now not allowed to attach your name to the doorbell by default in Austria, and apparently they weren't allowed to do so since 1980 but it's only being enforced now.
This is false. Bats are not blind.

No bat species are blind. Microbats have poor visual acuity but their vision is on par with a human's.

Reference: Tuttle's work
I have a similar mindset and experience as you. American society is ridiculous in how rigid it is on this aspect. I essentially need to quit to get the balance I truly desire. I have no issues working for 6 months all day everyday totally dedicated and focused but then I need about 3 months to recharge. Trying to become sort of a “supertemp” but it’s not that easy. I am about to quit again, have been working for 8 months, 60 hr weeks, saved $25k and am going to do whatever I want for awhile. I am a top performer but I work in 6 month spurts of focus. I need that proverbial light at the end of the tunnel, focusing me and my efforts to the freedom that awaits.
Introducing Job Beacon – Would love to have your feedback or any advice
Many times those colleges are great because of those donations... So maybe it is fair... Perspective
The burden of proof is on the accuser, and in legitimate government, on the state. I could say you are a thief or an axe murderer - are you required to disprove it if I don't back up my claim? In fact, it would be slander on my part. See my GP comment regarding other elements due process. Until they prove otherwise, she is innocent.
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I believe Israel was embarrassed.

But Israel also has had a longstanding Donald Trump-esque view of not caring what other countries think.

For example, Israel has done some really dodgy things with NZ passports, got caught with its hand in the proverbial cookie jar and was embarrassed politically.

A few years later it did something similar again.

So I think embarrassment is a question of personal/national perspective.

From an operational standpoint, Israel may have permanently burned up to 2 dozen shooters and operational support personnel/facilitators from ever conducting external operations again.

Those people take many years to vet, train, and trust.

That's a lot of expensive chess pieces to remove one bishop or rook.
I'm pretty sure it's not possible to find congress guilty of breaking the law by using the power vested in them by the Constitution. I think the closest you could come would be laws being ratified that the Supreme court then determined (from a case being brought) that infringed on constitutional rights, in which case that portion of the law is struck, but IANAL.

Although, maybe you were joking?