skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's dangerous to assume that the mere presence of a power differential implies abuse of power. Women are naturally attracted to men in power in part because of their power - moreso than men are attracted to women in power because of their power - and consensual relationships often arise in the context of this differential. I'm sure I'll get downvoted for pointing out this basic aspect of mammalian female reproductive strategy, but the truth is what it is.

Of course companies don't like doing things on an ad hoc basis so I completely understand why they want to institute blanket rules that prohibit all supervisor - employee relationships, however people often forget that just because a rule exists does not mean that all instances of that rule being broken imply genuine wrongdoing.
OP said

> They tend to be more nerdy, introverted, and less masculine(lower testosterone, less aggressive).

and

> Testosterone is linked with higher levels of aggression. Anyone who is employed to write code and work with computers works a sedentary job.

> I don't think it is a ridiculous notion that your average Googler will be nerdier or smarter than the average man. And I hope that just because "low-testosterone" is used as an insult by alt-right losers, you don't associate me with that group or characterize my comment as troll-y.

At no point did OP say:

> Don't assume high testosterone = must be a blue collar worker or sumpin.

Your statement isn't even the inverse of OP's statement. The only one that said that is you.
What's wrong with someone indulging in a consensual relationship that happens because someone is attracted to their power?
She arguably had a small chance of success; it was probably the posing as a picture-perfect CEO and bringing her clueless friends to highest levels of the company while scaling down employee-friendly policies that made her more enemies that she deserved.
This sounds ambitious, but I imagine emacs can do it. Is that a feasible approach for you?
The idea that 1000 people can be largely self sufficient on Mars is laughable, unless we make unrealistic predictions about where tech will be.

For one example, a village of 1000 people would clearly have newborns. If newborns are avoided then the colony isn't real self sufficient. Launch windows to Earth are wide enough, and travel time is long enough, that sending pregnant women back to Earth is probably not a good idea. It's inadvisable for pregnant women to ride roller coasters, much less enter Earth's atmosphere. The birth will have to be on planet. The colony would need to have OB-GYNs, atleast one pediatrician, nurses, infant care specialist, teachers, janitorial staff for these facilities, administrator staff for these facilities. Mars level gravity births are uncharted territory, and we have no clear idea what complications can arise from it. Easily 2-4% of the population would have to be dedicated to the inevitability bringing in children and taking care of them. Do the children count towards the 1000?

There are enough big problems with being humans that require specialist that 1000 is just not enough, unless you assume unrealistic labor cuts in some areas such as farming, construction, mining, manufacturing, etc.
I'm sure they do, they just assume that the benefits of ensuring low performers don't accumulate outweigh the costs of letting go some good talent.

That said, I think quota policies are bullshit.
That looks very high for senior devs and very low for directors/VPs.
I absolutely fell in love with React when I switched over from Angular many years ago. Loved the simplicity of the API and how you had to be explicit about everything. Over the years, I've seen React start adding a lot of "optional" APIs which increase the surface area anyway. This made me explore other options and now that I've started doing some Elm, I feel it's so much easier to reason with.

I guess this is the natural progression of frameworks. What was once simple will get complex until the next thing comes around.
The Enlightenment, among many other things, was characterized by a movement toward simpler styles of attire, especially among men of higher means - i.e. no more high heels worn by men. That sort of dress became seen as superfluous.

It was also the beginning of the modern sciences using rational methods, including the modern study of ancient art and archaeology.

It wouldn't surprise me, therefore, if Enlightenment scholars and those who followed interpreted ancient aesthetics through their more recently acquired sense of style, or really projected their style on the ancients, since it would have flattered them to think that they shared a style sensibility with the ancients.

As a contrast, in India, where the Enlightenment arrived relatively late, the color intensity of ancient aesthetics has been preserved to a far greater degree.
Yup, the current web sucks. I'm not sure what the future of it will be, I'm not optimistic.
While I hate current implemetnation of regular voice call, I don't know if this is the solution.

First, with Facetime, that's only if you can assume everyone is on iOS/macOS.
Same goes for any apps, however.

It's just tough to agree on one app; if you have group of 20, chances are one or two refuse to install or can't install that app.

At least with regular cell phone call, that's less of the problem.
Simple λΠ-interpreter for matrix computation [pdf]
> I do not think of Perl 6 as Perl, despite the naming and people involved. I believe that it is as easy to migrate from Perl 5 to another scripting language as it is to migrate to Perl 6.

These beliefs are shared by most users of both languages, which makes bringing up Perl 6's capabilities in a Perl vs Python discussion confusing.
> Carolina Milanesi tweeted: "In a normal world this would mean Rubin is done, but tech has not just been forgiving, some tech sees little wrong with this"

Actually in a normal world, there's forgiveness and moving on from minor misconduct events.

There's no reason to blacklist someone from ever working again because they had consensual sex with someone they shouldn't have had sex with.

As far as we know, there wasn't an official complaint against Rubin, and everything was consensual. That's not a "you're done" crime by any means. That's just normal life, sex, relationships, etc.

These twitter nobodies who tweet their final judgements about men who do things they don't approve of, it's like they never watched that old TV show Sex in the City.

Life is not perfect. We fumble around with relationships, sex, affairs, and after hours personal and private behavior. If nobody gets hurt, don't bother tweeting your community service mens-morality announcements, it only makes you look out of touch with actual real life.
Sure, but those costs are borne disproportionately by employees, and of those by people in lower skill positions.
25 amazing places to find free music for your videos?
Would it have been possible to tell Theo "hey, a serious issue is going to be released at <deadline>. I know you have a big release coming up. I strongly advise you to delay the release by a week so you can properly react to the disclosure. I'd tell you now, but I don't trust you not to break the embargo".

I don't know if it would actually work, but that would at least put responsibility for handling this on Theo.
Performance isn't that different from using EC2 (or the non-AWS equivalents), other than cold start times, and choice of language platform can help mitigate that.

So performance any different except for it’s a huge difference depending on the language, whether it is in VPC forcing the need to create ENIs, etc.

I’m a multi certified AWS true believer and I love lambda for everything else besides APIs, but let’s not ignore the large performance penalty of cold starts and lack of connection pooling.

You really don’t save money over just using a bunch of micro instances behind a Load Balancer and autoscaling. Elastic Beanstalk makes managing it dead simple.
“Hey bud, sent you that pr fluff piece we talked about earlier. Squash sunday? Righto”
Why not, even if Marissa Mayer managed to moderately slow the decline of a major company, the fact that it still collapsed certainly isn't the sort of deliverable that justifies 260M$.

I believe Yahoo was in real trouble when Marissa Mayer was hired and there are some decisions she made that were clearly wrong in hindsight. I don't feel qualified to judge her performance in detail but 260M$ is a glowing endorsement which seems entirely disconnected from the reality of what happened during her tenure.
Seeing that you grew up in Massachusetts, went to CMU, and now live San Francisco, I can see why you hold that opinion.

Come visit me in Louisiana and I will show its a socio-economic issue, not a race issue.
> Testosterone is linked with higher levels of aggression. Anyone who is employed to write code and work with computers works a sedentary job

How is it unreasonable to infer from this that "Obviously, high testosterone guys must work physical jobs" (often called blue collar jobs)? What jobs should I infer are the opposite of sedentary?
> Even if you ignore that, desk jockeys aren't all sedentary losers

You're right. You used the word "loserS"
Yes this also came up with my coworkers when we were discussing this. It's better to treat every software license as strict and malicious as possible because everyone can be eventually bought by Oracle and Oracle can sue you for misusing "their" license.
Just because Bill Gates did it, doesn't make it right. The problem is the power imbalance. Yeah sometimes that situation turns into a long-lasting relationship, but sometimes it doesn't and sometimes the subordinate feels coerced into it in the first place.

Maybe Bill wouldn't be charitable at all if he hadn't met Melinda but I'd like to think he would've been into philanthropy either way.
Isn't that mostly in stock, which may or may not become worthless given the current state of Yahoo?

I completely agree with what you're saying, but also in her case those shares might be worthless given the circumstances.
How can Theo control what people post on HN?
If eavesdropping is something you're concerned with, why not try Signal[0] for audio calls? Surely their privacy guarantees are better.

[0] https://www.signal.org/
Hi everyone!

What a happy surprise to see my project on HN :)

My name is Jordan, I've been developing Gophish [0] for a few years now. The goal of the project is to let companies of all sizes perform high-quality phishing simulation regardless of their security budget.

Happy to answer any and all questions!

[0] https://getgophish.com/
I think you are vastly overestimating how much in the way of taxpayer dollars were spent on these sorts of programs, particularly in the case of private universities, such as Harvard.

This reminds me of foreign aid, which the public perceives as being a large part of the U.S. federal budget, when it's less than 1%.
Obviously I'm not trying to imply that having affairs is good or desirable... but there's a clear distinction between an affair, which is consensual, and sexual harassment, which is non consensual.

The personal drama resulting from an affair is exactly that: personal, and it shouldn't be grounds for termination. On the other hand, sexual harassment is a threat to workspace safety and should obviously be dealt with swiftly.
Do you know what product and what dosage of elderberry syrup is recomeened? I just looked it up. Sounds promising.
Noobs don't reinstall windows. They bring it to BestBuy to have the nerd do it for them for $100.
My bad. I guess I did.
What's the point of even buying a Chromebook if you're just going to run Linux anyway?

What is the advantage of buying a chromebook?
Are Virtual Reality Headsets Safe for Children? (2016)
While out of scope to the post somewhat, with validating utf-8 it'd be great to know of a standard way to toss out special characters like the vertical ones that can be used to interrupt page content. Seems most places just never filter it. Even back in Neverwinter nights I believe you could do some fun names.
Maybe Mel Brooks and/or the estate of Richard Pryor would like to capture some of that "Mongo" money.
I see this comment on every discussion regarding OpenBSD and security vulnerability embargoes. Have they stated they won't stick to embargoes or agreed to one and then broke it in the past?
As far as the company goes, they are legally responsible for sexual misconduct on their watch.

With regard to affairs, it’s more of a moral issue than a legal one.
Or you can just run from a residential connection for effectively free if your service is _that_ small.

This is very true. I’m an AWS true believer and I use most of the most popular features all of the time for work but for a low volume side project, I would host it on my own computer. I have 900Mbps upload bandwidth. If I were going to use AWS, I would use a cheap LoghtSail instance.
Yeah, they answer this in the FAQ too.

> In modern browsers, the raw performance of closures compared to classes doesn’t differ significantly except in extreme scenarios.

https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-faq.html#are-hooks-slow-becau...
It's probably 2-4 of their higher-capacity models put together.
I'm more curious as to why you chose to omit the critically important data behind the study. What exactly is your motivation there?

First, let's look at how they define the income brackets:

-Poor and near-poor $0 $29,999

-Lower middle class $30,000 $49,999

-Middle class $50,000 $99,999

-Upper middle class $100,000 $349,999

-Rich $350,000 None

A quote from the publication: "The study did not adjust for regional differences in the cost of living, the underreporting and
exclusion of certain sources of material support, or taxes."

As with all statistics it is incredibly easy to look at one and yell out 'The economy is doing FINE!' while ignoring the economic realities for many people. Income levels may rise, but the average costs for middle-class workers has skyrocketed as well. Someone living in SF earning over 100k would count as upper-middle despite likely barely being able to survive.
That in itself makes it worth it to eat organic food, in my opinion.
Randomized study of the efficacy and safety of oral elderberry extract in the treatment of influenza A and B virus infections.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15080016

Edit: Symptoms were relieved on average 4 days earlier and use of rescue medication was significantly less in those receiving elderberry extract compared with placebo.
There is 100kW Chademo available. The protocol is the strong aspect of it; everyone should just use Tesla's much better plug.
Pretty sure it targets an enzyme only found in influenza.
Went back and re-read the second line of the article; thank you for clarifying.
Still, I'll be looking into the hooks pattern and determining how it will work for my projects and especially how easy it will be to port my large number of reusable HOCs from recompose to React hooks.
I don't know if that's so much a "view" that people carry and are like - who can I have sex with today?

I think it's more like, damn life is lonely and I have a hard time finding a partner. I'm not in school anymore and I don't meet anyone else.
Hooks only work in function components, so there's no "this" (at least, not one that React owns...).
>the number of 2 or more income households has actually fallen

Where in your citation is this claim supported? The /percentage/ has fallen which could either mean that the number has fallen or that the total population increase at a faster pace than the number.
>I think some creative products lose a bit of their essence when not created by humans

That debate goes way, way back. In 1966, a researcher at Bell Labs used a computer to generate an image in the style of Mondrian. The images were presented to 100 people; not only were test subjects unable to identify the computer-generated image, but the majority liked the computer-generated image better. The computer-generated art is now in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's collection.

http://thekidsroad.com/assets/images/blog/blog-content/mushu...
How do you suggest prototyping without Jupyter? (in case prototyping means researching an approach)
Yeah that’s where the friction is for sure, and the reason why I’ve never made anything useful in QML and just stick with QWidgets
I don't know much about TypeScript, but is any React HOC function composition compatible with it? It seems like it would be difficult for TypeScript to typecheck a compose function where you can do compose(hoc1, hoc2, hoc3), where each HOC renders a child component with some props added.
Linked study synopsis says they used 15ml
It sounds orwellian to me that a company should supervise the personal relationships of its employees and judge of their "morality".
Just tried this with godbolt.org and yes, the memcpy() thing is consistently good while the shift-and-or version often gets an unoptimized implementation (depending on compiler and version).
Quoting the price of a VPS totally misses the point - the cost is in finding one, setting it up with an environment somehow, monitoring it, making sure it stays patched and current over years and years...

If you are spending that much time managing infrastructure on AWS, you’re doing it wrong. ElasticBeanstalk makes it dead simple.

While you're busy figuring out what monitoring solution to use on your VPS to monitor the running all for the sake of a little Python script, I've already set up a lambda function and maybe set a cloudwatch alarm to look after it and can move on to the next thing and leave it running indefinitely. Depending on the usecase I might not even pay a penny during that time, either.

And you can do the same with AWS and a bunch of micro instances. But if it’s that low volume, I would just host it myself.

I swear 90% of the hate for serverless purely stems from irritation at the name.

I love serverless for everything but APIs. But 90% of my hate for serverless is with APIs and the cold starts.
Your statement is similarly nuanced and accurate to those made by James Damore, although obviously not as thoroughly documented. Not meant as a slight or a compliment, just making an observation.
> So every employee gets to be badmouthed in front of as many as hundreds of former co-workers, as Netflix's special parting gift?

This isn't what happens, as far as I've seen. These e-mails/meetings don't badmouth people or imply that they weren't competent. They give context around specific ways in which the person wasn't meeting expectations (as well as outlining out the ways in which the person was positively contributing). IME it's valuable context and isn't an assault on anyone's dignity (or "trash talking") like you're suggesting.
Can a country set up an embassy to conduct trade in violation of the host's laws?
I agree with you, but I've also tried other frameworks and there isn't a single one that is all-around better than React.

Unless you're willing to migrate to other compile-to-js languages.
All right, so it was tested in a randomized clinical trial. However it was 30 treated patients, so pretty small. And a trial not actually signed off on by the FDA.

Also, I’m surprised symptoms were alleviated 4 days (96 hours) sooner when the Tamiflu trial said total duration of symptoms were 78 hours for the placebo.
Isn't this untrue? https://www.krackattacks.com/#openbsd
...because the rest was told to be good, nice, to play by the rules, defer pleasure and will never reap benefits, will get more work as a reward for good work, might not keep being alive until retirement etc. while those who bypassed those rules have access to whatever/whomever they want (almost) due to natural attraction to power innate to many (often attractive) people. A hyperbolic alternative would be end of civilization, i.e. direct, literally cut-throat conflicts between all groups for anything interesting. Wise rulers in the past mastered the art of discretion so that the regular folks weren't aware and could keep dreaming; now that's almost impossible so seeking a moral guidance from more-less openly immoral leaders is futile and pointless.
That's pretty much what useState does. (or maybe you were already saying you liked that -- sorry, if that's what you meant) The only difference being that the "getter" has already been "executed" in a way: useState returns a value and a setter. Changing the value won't get tracked, and a call to the setter will overwrite the old value and re-render.
This title is so misleading - Google sacked 40 employees over a period of two years.
Convincing a lot of people to fund your project in a crowdsourcing campaign could be more difficult than convincing a few investors. This and crowdfunding for equity is much different that crowdfunding in the kickstarter sense because you would need to add a lot of paperwork and legal advice.
Yep, this is why people who are really good at this advise a breadth-first search that very quickly narrows in on the people who show real enthusiasm. Though it can be hard to accept when you're in the thick of fundraising, anything less than obvious enthusiasm is a no 99.9% of the time.

Think about it from the other side: if you were seriously considering making a company one of the few per year that you give millions of dollars, would you ignore their emails or cancel meetings at the last minute or sound bored on the phone? Investors get just as excited about a company they like as founders do about an interested investor or potential big customer.
It's merely a bonus.
The author is not wrong, there is a lot of old hardware out there that is still more than serviceable for many things. But the loaded cost (power, maintenance, space, etc) of running servers at "home" can be way more than the $10 a month for a droplet on Digital Ocean.

What I'm saying is that the math isn't as straight forward as it might appear.

That said, it is now pretty straight forward to build a 'nano-datacenter' consisting of an enclosure, thermo-electric cooling, rack, switch, UPS, a server providing NAS storage and a couple or 6 servers providing compute. Plug its PDU into the socket where your dryer used to plug in out in the garage.
The search engines have sidestepped grief because of their third-party pays model - advertisers fund their content curation and discovery expenses and the system retains open access at no (direct, monetary) cost to the consumers.

The peer review process might be more expensive/intensive than PageRank for all I know, so perhaps journal publishers are doing much more work than search engines.

Perhaps if journal publishers used an ad-supported model they wouldn't be demonized so readily since they'd be incentivized for open access since they're selling eyeballs

I'm not advocating, just working with the parent's comparison.
Yep. I don't understand why Mongo doesn't just come clean and say "We're discontinuing support for the free version." Maybe they're afraid it'll get forked?
This is a fun dimensional analysis problem.

I'm going to start with food energy. Leaving aside actual nutrition.

1000 people * 2000 kcal per day = 100000 watts carbohydrates (basic energy intake)

100000 watts / 60% = 160kw(raw vegetation) (40% food waste)

160kw / 5% = 3200kw(light) (conversion efficiency from light to food ~5%)

3200kw / 40% = 8000kw(e) (electrical energy to light for LEDs)

8000kw / 40% = 20MW(th) (thermal energy to electricity, carnot limit)

So you need to have a 100% duty cycle 20MW(th) reactor just to supply the lighting for producing food energy, if you're trying to be self sufficient.

You can do other, even more exciting problems for the other key resources. I'd guess that the water cycle and the entangled oxygen cycle would be interesting, as well. Also you can work out the positive energy coefficient of using the hydrogen split out of the water to power a sabatier reactor and produce methane. I can tell you already that the energy budget for this colony would be challenging in itself.

Edit: added more specific units - part deux, corrected off-by-ten error (off-by-one-zero ?)