skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could interoperability be argued to be returning them to their original specifications in some cases?

E.g. the product could interact with most computers when it came out, but since then a competitor has come onto the scene and the manufacturer hasn't implemented features to make it work with them. Therefore, jailbreaking and making it work with them would sort of be returning to what the situation was when you first purchased.
So what? People who work together have sexual relationships, and people who have relationships will have conflict.

"People who disagree with me are ignorant." Come on, man. Seriously? You sounds like a college kid on facebook.

If a company is not going to prohibit employees from having sexual relationships with each other, horizontally or vertically, that company also need to expect those employees to work their conflict out outside of work. If google does want to prohibit this, they should have disciplined both of them the moment they heard about it and fired them if it continued.

What's with people expecting companies to be mommy and daddy when we have conflicts in our relationships? That's crazy.
Python – A Better Scripting Language
Interesting that this person does not mention diversity of political opinion, which seems to be lacking.
Thank you for your valuable contribution.
We used something like this on the teams I lead at Dropbox to (what I felt) was great effect. We had a script that would regularly run and sync with Phabricator, our bug tracking tool of choice.

One thing that we did differently, however, was to "assign" TODOs based on project or team rather than individual people. This way we could triage issues more flexibly to people according to their workloads and also build in more immunity to organizational change (when I was around we still had TODOs for the founders -- ten years in!).
I remember in Germany there were lots of studies that showed mercury leaking out. Dentists fought for quite a while but I don't think they are in use anymore. I got my amalgam fillings taken out in the 90s and replaced with plastic and ceramic.
Is it just a syntactical difference or is there something more fundamental that I'm missing here?
> He just wanted what Larry wouldn't give him.

This... reads differently now.
AI Art at Christie’s Sells for $432,500
I'm terrified. I saw John Deere code, and its tortuous. Nobody should try to fool with it without serious study.
It's physically possible, but it almost certainly wouldn't be practical. The mass needed for a reaction wheel of the right size would probably make it too expensive, never mind the control and mechanical issues of dealing with an accelerating spinning rocket.
Overhype and research laundering are a self-inflicted wound for social science
> possible overstatement of inflation

This has been the drum beat for well over two decades. Conservatives revised CPI and CPI markers to their liking in the mid 1990s with the Boskin commission.
Yet if you look at inflation over the past two decades and see idle class heirs enriched and the workers creating the wealth stagnant, it's back to the old inflation-is-overstated argument. I mean, Trump is saying it this week in criticizing the Fed chair.

An odd counterpart to German conservative bankers, who seem more obsessed with low inflation and currency stability.
Would this apply to say, a third-party bought Cisco device? For those who don't know, Cisco devices have software that is non-transferable, despite being required to use the hardware, which can be freely sold. So technically if you sell a Cisco device to someone else, it can no longer be legally used because the software on it is pirated.

Wouldn't this exemption arguably guarantee your ability to use the hardware you own in accordance with its original specifications, provided you can acquire the software somewhere?
You gotta do that if you want cheap noodles.
> Here he presents a few studies that go against general economic consensus popularized mainly by Piketty in "Capital in the 21st century" and through papers/writing by Krugman, Saez, Zucman, Stiglitz, etc. that most of the economic gains in the past 100 years have gone to a concentrated few owners of capital.

> Basically - absolute mobility (how much people gain over time) is still decently healthy today in percentage terms in the US, but relative mobility (how easy it is to move between classes) is widening and the wealthy in 1980 still have a much higher income on average than the poor in 1980.

These are not at all in conflict. As you say, the studies he discusses are not related to, much less undermine, any of the arguments that Krugman/Saez/Zucman/Piketty are making. I don't see any reason why individual characteristics like absolute mobility should be used to measure the health or inequality of an overall economy. Income mobility is a different thing from concentration of wealth or inequality.
This is great, it means many sites won't have much work to support the CSS media query.

I still would prefer to change a setting once, rather than establish a profile on every website to enable a dark theme.
That's me, except with unicycling.
So the trend disappears when the groups are disaggregated - I'm surprised that the author does not mention Simpson's Paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox
Dan Abramov's talk starts 39 minutes into the livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz3nVya45uQ&t=39m

If you like live coding demos, he also gave a talk at JSConf Iceland where he showed off some future React features, such as asynchronous rendering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLF0n9SACd4
The VAST majority of companies- including those in tech- dont raise money. They earn it through sales and use that to hire people.
Ask HN: Is it unethical to make a business derived from inside joke with friend
I’m starting a business which the idea was derived from an inside joke between my friend and I. The joke mentioned an imaginary product, but we never considered to take it seriously. Half a year later, I haven’t spoken to him in months, and at a hackathon I decided why not work on the idea. Is it unethical to not include him in the business?

I want to work on it alone because I don’t need help to execute with this idea.
Ask HN: Which is the best open source library for facial recognition?
Choosing the right price-elasticity model (regression analysis)
I had no idea that's why it was renamed to Robo3T so confusing. Man what a way to bruise people trying to help.
I like this text and I agree that a large part of the future is in code yes, but there are still fancy optical techniques not tapped yet. Like wavefront shaping (for the flash) or using other parts of the spectrum or deformable lenses or ultra-thin lenses from meta-materials (with a negative refractive index?) And then there is the lyttro camera (which can be combined with the techniques mentioned before). I've never heard of smartphone camera's with a Fresnel lens, is this because we can't manufacture them with molecular precision yet? Perhaps there will be camera's with ultrasound sensors, non-optical (active?) sensors that still yield optical information. Perhaps we find smarter ways to use polarization information... etc. I'm not an expert but I have spend some time in the optics field and saw some quantum optics talks that may at some point lead to significant improvements of the physical aspects of cameras again, imho. Of course, combining all the input together into something humans would like will require... computation :)
even worse; absolute household income gains over time, not accounting for the increase in person-hours worked outside of the home, nor the corresponding increases in yard work, housekeeping, child care, meal preparation costs....
No, I'm saying that the "fundamentally illegal" act is irrelevant. The reason people even care about AWS helping ICE is entirely about their abusive behavior, not the proper discharge of their legitimate legal duties. Just like #BlackLivesMatter isn't about police being professional as they apprehend actual criminals and do other things to keep us all safe. Abuse is abuse, no matter what surrounds it, and there should be zero tolerance for it.
All excellent points. It's definitely not press-release material, but (IMHO) highlights how things should be. Companies would naturally reach the desired levels of "diversity" if they simply practiced it at a micro level. Certainly some teams would look "unbalanced" by some of the traditional metrics, but I think everything would even out on the larger scale.

An interesting anecdote was that I led Engineering for a startup that was acquired by a large ($50-100 Billion) company. After we were acquired, several people commented on my collective team as being the "most diverse" in the company. That was nice to hear, but (for me) the most gratifying part was the team members taking stock and collectively thinking "oh yeah, I guess we are diverse!" It happened on purpose, but with the intention of using diversity as a source of strength not as a means of checking off a box.
It wasn't poor health killing people at 30. The leading cause of death at that age was hunting accidents. Besides that and the high infant mortality, people otherwise lived to ~70.
Ignoring the 'she worked for him' part, where her pay and career were subject to his whim? That's the issue. Its classic blackmail. Google doesn't have to be 'mommy' to oppose blackmail when it finds it occurring within their walls.
I just finished "The personality brokers", fantastic book, which explores how E<>I entered popular culture via the Myers-Briggs test.

When the E<>I spectrum was subjected to more rigorous analysis it turned out it may just be a metric of "talkativeness" and not really related to the Jungian concept.
> though it'd be better if it was embedded into law and couldn't go away down the line

I'd go further and say that there's nothing of any significance in this decision since it will likely go away down the line since it was not codified in law.
Actually, if you did that you could create your own "open source todos" site that had links to todos in source code for popular projects
Yeah that's the opposite of what would he regarded as good interview clothes. And to be so ignorant as to what BM is, says enough about the naivete of the person
That would be a pretty good name. Has the added benefit of sounding like multicore. Other alternatives I can think of are cpucorn or even silicorn.
On that note, I wonder if the law will ever view misprepresenting the ownership of a device as fraudulent business practice.

Suppose some hardware is sold to you, in the ancient ownership sense[1]. Then some time later, the maker decides that you must use only authorized parts, or they will not continue to provide a cloud service for it, or that it's just plain EOL. Then, you never really owned it - you were renting it. So was that original purchase actually a lease, but misrepresented?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_Hammurabi
> People who work together have sexual relationships

The parent commenter said:

> She worked for him
The problem with most economic analysis is that adjustments are generally based on arbitrary metrics like PPP or inflation.

If a child (or couple) in Britain earns three times as much, in "real" terms, that their parent (or parents) did at that stage of life, they will probably have to live in a smaller house, further from the center of town, with a worse commute.

Pretty much the biggest QoL improvements knocked out. The fact they can buy a few more toys or nicer food is not really that consequential.
Can't zkSnarks help with this?
https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/12/05/zksnarks-in-a-nutshell/
On the vagaries of init systems
And Uber and Zenefits and zynga and and and...
"definitely have to be a conspiracy theorist" might be going to far. History gets a major rewrite every so often somehow at each turn there's no room for heterodoxy . . .
Very cool! Assigning to teams definitely makes sense. I built this to help organization at a 4 person company so hopefully we'll grow enough to one day exercise that strategy :)
I think it is reasonably easy to prevent people from dating subordinates in the workplace. Up front, you explain that the policy is one word: don't. If it ever happens, you fire the higher-level person promptly. No excuses, no second chances.

Bosses should know not to have sexual or romantic relationships with people who work for them. We all know how one has to be careful what one says to one's boss. And we all no how hard it can be to say no to a boss or boss's boss about anything. It puts the junior person in an impossible situation.

But it's just as bad from the employer's perspective. Suddenly two people who are supposed to be putting the company's interests first have a strong conflict of interest. And when the relationship ends (as most do) you have a whole different set of unnecessary potential conflicts in the workplace.
Define "craft"
> Surprise! Over 30 years poor people gained an average of almost $30k in income! I sure fucking hope someone who started at minimum wage in 1980 is making $30k more today.

Well this is an important part of his argument. The people's wages are not stagnant, but rather they went up an 30K (including inflation). That fact this their wages went up is not trivial.
I've been noticing this a lot more lately. Lots of websites have broken elements from my adblocker. I have to turn it off and reload the page to get those elements to load. A lot of the time they aren't even close to ads, it's like a drop down menu or button that doesn't render.
Discontinuing Support for Android Nearby Notifications
Nearly half of all smart speaker owners report owning more than one speaker
So this is just a list of the courses on edX and coursera, via description pages on course-central.com, listed line by line on qz.com. Presumably people get paid for every click, rather than just look at the original sites.

The modern web sucks.
Yeah, I thought that was a bit humorous. It seems like the original experiments didn't want to do a field test.
> Think of Zenefits, for example, an HR tools tech company which had to literally create an official policy stopping people from having sex in stairwells at the office.

dev1: busy?

dev2: coding wizard for "no workplace dating" policies

dev1: wanna bang?

dev2: sure
Touching display of political diversity from within Google https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/09/13/breitbart...
If the company putting the DRM on the media also sells devices that play the media, that is anti-competitive, because they are preventing competition in media players using their media content business.
In reference to the point she makes about people not assuming women are developers, I now make it a point to assume two things about most everyone (male and female identifying) that I meet in tech:

1) That they are competent and smart until they definitely prove otherwise to me.

2) That they are technical and interested in technology.

It's worked really well for me so far. In practice it means when I meet someone I say "You're a dev right?". Most people appreciate being assumed to be technical, and if they aren't we still get a great convo out of it. I admit it's kind of a silly thing, but so far in years of doing it I don't know of a time it's made anyone feel bad.

Edit - Also, if their answer to the dev question is that they are instead a product manager, UX, Designer, etc, I try and follow up with a funny compliment about their field. "Ah, so you make apps useable", etc. Again, just a simple conversational technique to make people feel valued.
Soon you may be able to live in a house made out of pee
Iterating with Simplicity: Evolving a Django App with Intercooler.js
Making exercise a priority rather than an option. Before this, exercise was pretty much the last priority because it's the thing I wanted to do least. If there was any reason not to exercise, I used it as an excuse. Now, rather than saying I'll workout after hanging with friends, I say I'll hang with friends after my workout. I'll still usually miss a day (sometimes two) per week, but before I made it a priority I was lucky to exercise once or twice a week.
No they tinkle down to the poor millionaires via rent.
Off topic, I'm looking for a solution to embed SVG diagrams directly in my code as comments, with the ability to edit them as in inkscape.
Lol are there any google execs that haven’t been mired in this? Apparently “nojerks” only applies to low level employees
Microdosing is a joke and true drug abuse. Taking a psychedelic drug so you can be a better worker. That's the spiritual equivalent of prostitution.
Staggering numbers of dead, a major policy failure.
And what if she's using the relationship to get ahead? What, are we going to pretend that women are powerless, agentless puppets that smart, capable men can use?

If the company you're in doesn't prohibit relationships, if you get into one you need to resolve conflict in those relationships outside of work.
> I don't understand the media motivations in choosing to omit these crucial, and greatly encouraging, data when writing on this topic.

Surely you do understand them, though, right?
The Future of the Crash-Test Dummy
I said:

> horizontal or vertical
Hmm.. Talkativeness seems way too narrow to me. The theory of deriving energy externally vs. internally makes the most sense to me personally. Though it would certainly correlate with talkativeness. But I'm not an expert on the matter :)
the beginning of the piece implies that inflation measures will be covered, but they're not.

I thought TL;DR was supposed to be FOR people who didn't read it, not FROM people who didn't read it.
Here's some background on alternative approaches:

https://cen.acs.org/environment/water/stripping-air-moisture...
Alfa: An Alternative to Redux or Mobx
Thinking about this further, something else comes to mind.

One of the other things worth considering is that failing to comply with checklist-driven diversity can land you in court for supposed discrimination, where the traditional metrics matter quite a bit and other approaches matter not at all. Between liability and ease of implementation and measurement, it's definitely going to be privileged over other approaches.
Thank you for writing this comment so that I don't feel like a crazy person after reading this article. It came across to me as so obviously flawed that it's hard to even apply Hanlon's Razor to it.

Not once does he mention of any correction for the obvious bias that people make different amounts at different points in their careers.

Using his exact same process, you could also show that the average height of Americans has increased significantly in the past thirty years, possibly up to a foot! Because, duh, people are shorter when they're kids.

If you're trying to measure how the economy is doing over time, you don't want panels, you want to compare equivalent people at different points in time. Comparing a 20 year old in 1980 to a 50 year old in 2010 confounds the differences between 1980 and 2010 with the differences between being 20 and being 50.

There are reasonable criticisms that identifying representative "equal" people over time is hard, but the author's solution seems dramatically worse than all of them.
All the engineers I know still want a paycheck every two weeks. Engineers aren’t (and shouldn’t be!) all Above All This - sure, it’s great to make something and give it away just to help the community, but you still gotta eat.

That said, I think MongoDB REALLY screwed up the execution here, even though I can definitely sympathize with what they were aiming to accomplish.
30 seconds Gif demo:

https://github.com/lsm/alfa/blob/master/docs/alfa.gif
Disclosure: I work for MongoDB.

Forcing droves of community users to buy commercial licenses is not the intention of the SSPL -- indeed, it cannot serve that function, as it does not obligate them to do anything at all unless they are making the licensed software itself available to the public as a service.
Xorg Arbitrary File Overwrite Vulnerability Leads to Privilege Escalation
I am in total disagreement with you.

Google should have punished Rubin for sexual misconduct, and sue him instead of praise and pay him.
Save Your Marriage
Qt Design Studio 1.0
The second sentence dealt with your objection. Additionally, not "every" news outlet is reporting in the fashion you describe, also pointed out in the article. I would argue that the refutation of your sentence to be the very reason the NYT published the article in the first place.
>It seems silicone masks are very good. I wonder if surveillance cameras are able to tell if a person is wearing one.

One would think IR imaging would bust masks pretty quick due to differences in thermal characteristics from normal skin.
> "get your hands dirty with tlp"

I always go with the defaults, so my hands get dirty by:

`apt-get install tlp tlp-rdw`

That's it - by default it starts, and is enabled to come up on boot. Works for me, and I far prefer Linux, even on my Macbook Air
I do think that pointing at someone's physical body and saying, "They bring diversity because they're X!" is wrong.

However, I do think that gender and race have an influence on your thought processes because of who you tend to associate with.

In addition, she spent 15 years in China, which is definitely not very common here in the US. That alone means she's going to think somewhat differently than the average engineer.

And finally, a lack of diversity in a group (all white hetero males, for example) indicates an attempt to exclude diversity, though perhaps subconsciously.
Does MongoDB also release their stack or are they exempt from the disclosure requirement?

Apologies if this has been asked a million times -- didn't see it in a skim of your linked discussions nor the FAQ.
One huge blind spot in using panel data over a 34 year period is that a lot of the people you are initially looking at are retired, and so do not typically pay as much tax or otherwise need to make the same amount of income to have the same standard of living.

The article is very poorly framed and argued.
It's rare that a customer in your space will give you an actionable product plan. This is a goldmine. (I have had similar needs in the past.)
This sounds like a koan:

"If there is a frozen towel in the mountains, is there water in the air if there is no one there to measure the humidity it produces?"

Assuming there were millions of frozen wet towels in such conditions, any sublimated towel ice would rapidly drop back out of the air as frost.
He didn’t break the law, unless you are claiming there was coercion involved that could have been criminally prosecuted?
I believe that policy will work for mid-level and lower-level employee where the reporting structure is their power.

However, for people like Rubin, the reporting structure isn't their power but their overall sway with the organization. In those cases it's not as easy to make a clear delineation along organizational boundaries.
Currently, our reports focus on timings. Like how long stages (dns resolution, handshake, download etc.) of request takes.

Download size is an interesting idea, note taken. Would you mind if I reached you for details on this?

Also, here is an example of what I mean by request stages timing: https://imgur.com/a/fKsVIc3
My question of how it could go down was firmly tongue-in-cheek. My own serverless web app has gone down a few times during AWS outages, for example.
These things need to be made clear in the license and not in a discussion thread. Otherwise there is too much uncertainity
1. Applicability of this licence - "value derives primarly from MongoDB..."is too vague to be just accepted as is.
2. The extent to which the code is to made open source. There needs to be clear definition of what needs to be included and what doesnt. Who is going to decide what is enough? Otherwise you can leave the thread of lawsuit hanging and it is not good for the ecosystem