skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can I suggest another possible interpretation?

People tend to remember the times they're mentioned in that manner, but forget/overlook the times it happens to other people.

I can't tell you if those situations were sexist or not, but I can tell you that I'm a man, and I've had a large number of experiences that absolutely match your descriptions.

I've been told the tone of my voice was commandeering in a fairly civil meeting, I've had it remarked on about how many questions I ask, I've gotten plenty of pushback when I ask folks to do things they don't want to do.

Those things are basically a normal part of office politics. Again, I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just saying that your interaction there sounds fairly unremarkable to me, and likely stuck with you because it was about you.

Just like the offhand remark about being commandeering didn't matter to anyone else, but I sure as hell remembered it.
>I had assumed Windows would be better than macOS as a TV computer,

You assumed correctly circa ten years ago. Unfortunately the best solution bar none was killed by Microsoft: Windows Media Center Edition. It had a killer ten foot interface and actually supported CableCard digital TV tuners. I can only assume it wasn't a big revenue maker and that the support calls were pretty high. Not to mention it never had more than lukewarm reception from cable companies which didn't appreciate the competition for set top tuner boxes.

These days if you really want to roll your own you can buy an HD Home Run [1] and let it stream to you. It doesn't install any malware but I haven't seen the UI so no clue if it's beautiful or absolute crap. Since it can stream via DLNA that probably depends on the device you stream to as much as anything. I punted and used Youtube TV which I'm about to cancel since hurricane season is over. Like the old song says "500 channels and nothing's on."

[1] https://www.silicondust.com/
It's become less popular with the introduction first of ``shrinkwrap`` and then ``package-lock.js``. At one point in time, it was recommended behavior in the official NPM documentation for site deployments, because there wasn't a way to checksum dependencies.

They've since switched to recommending private repositories like Artifactory instead, which to be fair is usually better for very large organizations nowadays. But that wasn't always the case, and even as recent as 2013, it was the flat-out prevailing advice from package managers like Bower, and there are organizations who are still using and maintaining codebases that were set up in 2013.

You won't see a lot of projects on Github that rely on it, because:

A) Usually Open Source projects are designed to be built on multiple environments/OSes.

B) The majority of Open Source Javascript projects are designed to be installed via NPM anyway, and of course you wouldn't include dependencies for something like that.

However, you want to be careful not to make the mistake of assuming that every project has the same concerns as a standard Open Source project. Especially if an Org is going all in on standardizing dev environments through Vagrant or Docker, the question becomes, "why would you want an extra checkout/build step on top of that?"
GraphQL isn't a system per-say, it's a spec and many tools around it. Putting the spec in a foundation (with a few of those tools) gives the entire community certainty about the direction of the project. Hopefully that spurs more people outside of FB to commit to GraphQL.

The existence of the foundation is orthogonal to FB's internal investment and usage of GraphQL, which was and will continue to be significant.
It looks like a case of the flu when it first presents. Unless you have a specific reason to suspect Ebola, you wouldn’t suspect it.
The former is not about a feature that requires Rust 2018. So the latter does not apply to it at all.
That's kinda small compared to Banqiao Dam: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banqiao_Dam

According to the Hydrology Department of Henan Province, approximately 26,000 people died in the province from flooding and another 145,000 died during subsequent epidemics and famine. In addition, about 5,960,000 buildings collapsed, and 11 million residents were affected. Unofficial estimates of the number of people killed by the disaster have run as high as 230,000 people. The death toll of this disaster was declassified in 2005.
It might be a good idea, regardless of the confusion that this can cause in the short term. Do you have any suggestion of a better "fix", apart from choosing a more appropriate name at the time of its inception?
In "The Soul of a New Machine," there is an engineer who spends months debugging nanosecond-level glitches in their new CPU, snaps, and runs away after leaving a note: "I am going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season."
My First SaaS started with a car crash
It can get very complicated. There are a few different reactions which occur in a Blast Furnace some are exothermic some are endothermic.

BF is very simplistically a giant counter current reactor. Ore and Coke (the reactants) are added at the top at room temperature and hot gas (the "blast") is injected at the bottom and they flow past each other.

CO is not the only reductant that plays a role Hydrogen primarily from the humidity contained within injected gas also plays a role in the heat balance of the furnace.

Hydrogen is actually very efficient at reducing iron and avoids the CO2 byproduct. I know in the past some alternative ironmaking methods have looked into using things like hydrogen gas and natural gas (CH4) to directly reduce iron ore using a process abbreviated as DRI (Direct Reduced Iron) and for a while in the '90's this was marketed as a Blast Furnace alternative I haven't really kept up with technology.

I started my career as a Metallurgist (Materials Engineer) working at a Blast Furnace they are hugely complicated beasts.
I wouldn't prefer working at a company that "requires" language certificates. That being said, I also prepared for the exam and learn a ton when I was a junior. So, I would say check the content of the prep books or try to solve sample exams. If you already know most of the stuff, don't waste your time on the details. Otherwise use it as an opportunity learn something.
The Physics of Pizza
I was basically paraphrasing this:

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/27/sunday-review/the-biggest...

"For many people reading this, air travel is their most serious environmental sin. One round-trip flight from New York to Europe or to San Francisco creates a warming effect equivalent to 2 or 3 tons of carbon dioxide per person. The average American generates about 19 tons of carbon dioxide a year; the average European, 10."

Seems like there's some tricky math going on, notice: "equivalent" in the above quote:

http://www.carbonindependent.org/sources_aviation.html

This calculates 180 kg CO2/hour per passenger. So 8 hours or so between NYC and Paris? 1,440 kg. 1.6 tons. Not quite a few orders of magnitude.

Once through all the calculations, the above then states,
"The CO2 emissions are therefore rounded up and the Carbon Independent calculator takes a values of 250 kg i.e. ¼ tonne CO2 equivalent per hour flying."

So that's more like 4 tons to Paris. (on Basis 1)
Yes, I just wanted a way to separate the model logic from the experiment design. So you design a parameter space in a configuration file, and either use the optimizer to find the best parameters within that space, or run every possible combination of parameters (grid seach)

There are plenty of ways to optimize models from evolutionary algorithms to bandit models, in my simple case I'm working with limited resources, so I included a wrapper to a global bayesian optimizer for sequential search. Grid search is out of the question, but the tool is still handy if I want to freeze all the parameters and vary a couple of them to study some aspect.

bonus: the parameter space file is a nice way to document my experiments --I can track exactly how each experiment was configured.
Theoretically we don't even need programming languages or compilers at all. REAL programmers used a magnetized needle and a steady hand. [1]

Following your logic, nobody should show appreciation for anything.

[1] https://xkcd.com/378/
I've been in hundreds of P6 conversations and it is always such a bummer to see that this is always the number 1 thing discussed. Not the merits of the language, not the grammars, or concurrency, MOP, functional and OO syntax, junctions, running multiple languages, gradual typing, restricting inputs with types, Unicode....none of that.

The fact that it is always brought up to me makes me think they should've just called it something entirely different. Hindsight is 20:20 though.
Even 'niche' markets of enthusiasts like reverb.com uses this dark pattern where you can't leave a non-positive review unless you first try to work out the issue with the other party directly.
Mundane: Rust cryptography library backed by BoringSSL
But just like you can add a "Rust 2015" feature after 2015, you can add a "Rust 2018" feature after 2018, right?

If yes, then how do you best distinguish "Rust 2018 with additions" from "Rust 2018, the original 2018 version"?

If no, then there are some extremely misleading descriptions of what an 'edition' is, because they don't mention that 2015 is special.
Diceware phrases work well here, too!
That's not great! I wonder if Ebola is especially quick to mutate. This article: https://jvi.asm.org/content/early/2015/12/08/JVI.02701-15 suggests that it is. A mitigating factor is that it doesn't seem to tolerate mutations very well (i.e. lots of mutations lead to non-viable strains), but I guess with a large enough patient pool it could have out-run the vaccine.
> ...and a graphic instructing liberals how to kill themselves. “Rock on insignificant Liberals … you will not be missed,” wrote the person who shared it, whose profile says she is a registered nurse.

It boggles my mind that someone would post this on LinkedIn. Why would you share this on a site where the target audience is potential employers and professional connections? I get that people have strong political opinions, but this just shows terrible judgement.
What kind of mathematics are you interested in? I do math in academia in the NYC area, feel free to email (profile).
> For example, if there is some sort of asynchronous queue for message send/receive, the stacks might just show threads waiting.

Yeah, that's the point, it will show the threads waiting, but it will normally also exactly show where, with what call stack, the threads are waiting. The full call stack of several stuck processes usually gives you a pretty good idea what is being waited on, and why.

I say "usually" because things get murkier with e.g. interpreted languages, where what the program is actually doing is on a different abstraction layer than the presented stack traces, but even then you have a good chance of at least figuring out what the stalling resource is, and what processes are involved.

> Since the root problem seems to have been inside gRPC, the stacks may or may not point to an actual cause

I'd go so far to say that they are unlikely to point at the actual cause (as said, you still need to continue debugging, and good logs always help), but at least you now know what code to look at without having to guess reproduction steps.

It's how we debug hangs in modern complex operating systems, where there often is a lot of IPC involved. The very first thing to ask for and look at is stack shots comprising all processes and threads in the system (either in kernel land or user land or both, depending on the problem), preferably many of those taken in close-ish succession.
Are you volunteering to go work in some strip mine in South America looking for the necessary heavy metals? Or stick around in that poor village drinking the water?
These things could bring Amazon Down in Ecommerce
Downvoter, please get a life. It's hard not to feel soured by such miserable gestures as yours. Mine was the first comment on here, I thought maybe there wouldn't be any comments - it was a great collection and I wanted people to check it out, and express my gratefulness; not sure what else I should've done. I guess I should just accept that such spiteful downvotes happen, but it's shame. Maybe you wouldn't even have seen the page had I not upvoted and commented...
And then you meet network engineers and discover what true despair looks like.
Still, this is a valuable thread for HN in some sense. I'm sure there are at least a handful of other people who would have made a similar mistake, and will be a little more cognizant of these issues after reading this. Hell, I might even be one of them, as I've been chewing on re-incorporating our business as a Delaware C-Corp. I think I would have read all the "fine print" so to speak anyway, but now you can bet I'll be even a touch more cautious and careful than before.

It may not be a thread that's useful to everyone, but it's not outright off-topic or useless when you consider how many startup founders or prospective founders visit HN.
https://www.recode.net/2018/2/5/16974032/this-is-where-chart...
Let's say you do this exercise and arrive at a discounted cash flow model that accurately predicts a 5-10% YoY appreciation in value for the S&P index.

How do you explain why this appreciation in value isn't arbitraged away, as suggested by GP? In his words, "if 9.7% long-term returns were guaranteed, wouldn't everyone just borrow 30-year loans on margin at 5% interest rate and invest it in S&P?" This would effectively drive up the current day price and eliminate any projected future growth in index price -- invalidating the hypothesis that the S&P price will continue growing in the future.
I think that might be true on the surface but, when you actually think about how most people use an iPad, it kinda falls apart. Most applications on the iPad function through the use of some kind of Library system where the app handles its own files and shares them in common pools of apps that use the same filetypes. Throwing external storage into that mix natively would allow for the possibility of situations where multiple libraries exist, one external and one internal, for example, and where libraries could become inaccessible. I think that would complicate things enough for the majority of people who use iPads that it would disrupt the experience. People who really need external storage aren't going to be relying on an iPad until the devices really catch up more with full personal computers.
SD cards only work to download. I doubt you can manage folders and whatnot on them.
12 Young People on Why They Probably Won’t Vote
Having a large ecosystem of services should be a reason AWS is cheaper since on average you'll spend money on those integrations -- not a reason to pay a premium.
'Almost all' Pakistani banks hacked in security breach, says FIA cybercrime head
How many island and coastal dwellers are going to be denied their property because of our stubborn refusal to build nuclear plants?
Maybe this is the wrong place to ask, but are there any voting systems that allow arbitrary representation? A special case of this is the pure democracy, but most people would likely let someone else vote on most issues for them. Then, on certain issues, you could choose to vote yourself or even change representatives. Also since your representative could be changed at any time, the waste that goes into campaign seasons and partisanship would be replaced with a more realtime focus on issues. Perhaps this is too big a change for the U.S., but it seems like we could try this out, i.e. on StackOverflow, Reddit, or Wikipedia before implementing new governments on Mars and beyond.
And it's been this way for a long time. In the mid-1990's I lived in Vienna, VA and my office was in Tyson's Corner just 1.5 miles away. Yet there was no way I could eat lunch at home and drive back to the office within an hour, and it was actually faster to walk to work than drive. The only bright side to that situation was that I lived a few blocks from the Orange Line (at Dunn Loring).

In 2020, would I want to be living in Vienna or Chantilly and commuting to Crystal City? No way.
Ted Cruz is still using a blacklisted Cambridge Analytica app developer
useful = users don't overcomplicate things with personal views and bias. People use it end of story.
AMD's resources is limited and they selected a proper priority

1. CPU first, GPU next. as a break through in CPU side is easier than GPU side - just go with more cores with chiplet, since intel basically stopped innovation, while GPU side will be much tougher.

2. data center first, consumer/gamer second. Vega is not meant to compete with best Nvidia card, but it was designed to handle both data center/ML needs and gaming need, maybe the gaming version is just a space holder. The data center version will bring more profit and buy time for AMD to develop the software ecosystem -- CUDA is the moat of Nvidia, and AMD need time to overcome that.

So 7nm is used on data center version instead of a gaming card, which make perfectly sense for AMD.
I have a tip from the trenches. Just about every site he looks on will have ads for writers. On one hand, freelance writing is a good way to make money and the jobs are generally great intros to working remote. Hell, freelance writing has been 'remote first' since before people even knew what remote was.

However, these same sites tend to attract bottom feeding pieces of shit who will offer insane rates like $0.05 per word for articles that require a fair amount of research. $50/1000 words isn't much and generally equates to significantly less than minimum wage.

Complicating matters, many pubs (including famous ones) are absolutely shitty clients. Net 30 is a pipe dream. Most of the time, you should be happy with most of net after eighteen emails to your editor. Those $0.05 per word sweat shops will generally want at least three treatments before picking one they like enough to do six rounds of edits on. And, about half the time, your article will never go anywhere and you just won't get paid.
I feel like there is more to the story than I am seeing here.
I recommend this talk to see what both technologies can still "learn" from each other - https://youtu.be/LUF7plExdv8. I don't think SPARQL or GraphQL completely replace one another.
great way to get a zero day dropped on your business in a tweet
It's the way USA rations healthcare. I've had serious knee injuries from biking this summer that I had to decide to just 'walk off' because I don't have the finances to go to a doctor, get an MRI/Xray, potentially more tests. My knees are probably screwed for life now. I feel like a good portion of the USA is going to be deformed because they can't get quality health care or avoid it at all. It's really weird having to decide that your finances and rent are more fragile than your health.

My insurance for an ER visit would be roughly $4500 right when I walked in, or they wouldn't cover anything. Every time after that though would be $300 until next year when I'd have to pay $4500 again.
Racoons are actually very easy to domesticate.
GraphQL isn't a query language, it's an API protocol language. Big difference.
It's funny we're using this exact voting method to rank the comments in this conversation. Imagine promoting IRV for this: "Everyone just sort all of the comments into your preferred order, and then we'll do these rounds of selection based on that data to pick the top comment. Simple." Sorry, I'm being very unfair -- politics has different tradeoffs -- but the idea amuses me.
"Raku" sounds fine with me - just rename it. Deprecation time where the name is known as, "Kaku (formerly: Perl 6) for the next year until Raku.e (or whatever they call it) comes out.
Which would make sense if one person fell off a roof for each exploded plant, but the ratio is a tiny bit bigger than that.
Subtle cultural differences, but that would still sound rude to me.
> But the limited resolution does help with simplicity.

I disagree. Generally, unforced rankings (allowing full expression of preferences with optional ties) are simpler than forced rankings (with no ties) which in turn are simpler than limited bucket arrangements that force ties; “Between X and Y, do you prefer X, Y, or neither?” is the simplest question about voting preferences, and unforced preferences can be answered by answering that question alone; forced rankings may, as the name suggests, force the invention of an artificial preference in some cases, but limited buckets methods force deciding which preferences are most important and which to suppress. And limited buckets methods which apply something more than ordinal meanings to buckets,as STAR does, are most complicated.

> From a UI perspective, presenting a ranked ballot that allows ties is unfortunately complicated

Tallying unforced preference ballots is complicated, “number your preferences starting with ‘1’ for most preferred, ’2’ for next most, and so on, with equal preferences getting the same number” with a ballot with appropriate entry blanks isn't hard UI either in paper or machines.

Even if you want paper optical scan ballots, the main problem is the size of the ballot (which is a logistical problem when you've got multiple simultaneous races) more than the UI.

> And the tallying method is fine, not wacky.

Viewed as a preference ballot, giving non-ordinal meaning to rankings is wacky, since it is inventing information. The wacky description was in that specific “viewed as” context.

> In a sense, it's like Borda Count

I don't disagree with this characterization, though I view it as more of a condemnation than a defense.

> That avoids all the worst aspects of IRV (which are all symptoms of the way its multi-round elimination ignores the preferences of many voters while counting the preferences of others).

If you want to eliminate all the worst aspects of IRV, which you view as all due to ignoring preferences via loser elimination, the simple solution is just to drop loser elimination (giving Bucklin or a form of Majority Judgement, depending on where you use forced preferences or allow ties; classic Majority Judgement even uses limited buckets, though you can use a full unforced preference ballot, so if you really think the preference compression is justified by UI benefits, you can use exactly the same ballot as STAR, with a much more straightforward resolution procedure.)

This is certainly far simpler than STAR, whether or not you use the same ballot.
Too true. Clémenceau might say that the environment is too important to be left to the environmentalists.
> We had a referendum on PR a few years ago (which was rejected) and its proponents kept banging on about it

You had a vote on IRV, not for proportional representation. The Australian lower house is based on the same Westminster system but we use IRV.
But OLTP is online transactional processing. Even with LWT, you arguably just can't do OLTP with Cassandra/Scylla, not without transactions.
Wow yeah, don't know how I missed that one.
This is a pretty ignorant take on the whole thing. Most people pay the premium for this specifically because only "blessed" apps and accessories work and they don't have to mess with things. They're paying extra for the interconnectivity and the guarantee that the apps and accessories will work.

You, and others like you, need to realize that you're not the market for this product. If you don't like it, don't buy it. For the majority of people, though, they look at these devices as something simple that they don't have to fuss with to get working. Do you honestly believe that the majority of iPad owners care about sideloading apps or what browser engine is running while they look at Facebook? These are not fundamental computer freedoms (how overly dramatic). These are trade-offs that are important to some and not important to others.