skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry to hear about your experience.

Anecdata, but I interviewed for a marketing role at a 10-person startup in 2013. I asked questions #1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20 - and the company was more than happy to 1) answer immediately, or 2) say "I don't know, but let me find out." I should have asked the other questions (especially the relo package!), but I was young, naive, and not tactful enough to ask tougher questions in a "cooperative" manner.

IMO it's insane to work for a company if they're evasive about the value of your equity (#4-8). That's tantamount to lying about comp. You can usually find out how much they've raised on Crunchbase, and you can napkin-math their burn by eyeballing the team (#9-13; payroll is the dominant expense for most startups). #14 seems like a weird question to ask, but YMMV.

I would take their answer to the product-market fit question with a heaping pinch of salt (what are they going to say, "no"? and PMF means something different to everyone), and listen closely to the "feedback from customers" answer.
It seems that the HN community responds interestingly to topics of discrimination in tech (or, "lack of diversity"). It seems that there is a bit of denial in this community that there is indeed a discrimination issue. This is merely my observation, it could be skewed or entirely incorrect. Just keep in mind, that discrimination occurs whether you notice it or not. Further, you might be less likely to notice it if you are part of a group that suffers less from discriminatory practices.

Nonetheless, data and personal testimonies suggest that women and minorities have a harder time being interviewed and hired for positions at tech companies. Women and minority founders typically have a more difficult time securing funding and/or resources that will help them build a successful company. This isn't an issue that is unique to tech at all, rather this problem exists in organizations of all types.
Personally I like the size of the iPhone SE, which has a 4" screen. I've talked to people and seen a lot of discussion on it so I know I'm not the only one.

The screen could be a bit larger if there was less bezel though: An iPhone SE size phone in the iPhone X style could have a 5" screen without getting any larger. That would be perfect.
One more reason not to carry cash unless concealed in a bag or hidden pocket. I'll pay for things with card or phone just to avoid high-pressure pan handling situations like this.
> Unfortunately, it is important for medical personnel to know whether you are biologically male or female

It's important for them to know if I'm, say, sensitive to iodine (in fact, the latter is probably far more likely to be fatal quickly if they don't know in an emergency).

What that has to do with legal gender, I don't know, and in any case the aspect of biological sex medical personnel are least likely to need to know is the one this proposal makes deciding as to the immutable categorization of gender—the shape of my genitals at birth.

So, no, “its for your own (medical) good” is not a tenable defense of the proposal.
>How in the heck did rockabilly/greasers end up as "Teds"?

They were always called "teddy boys" in the UK (and many other places in Europe).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_Boy
...and the other point? That yes, there are natural monopolies: Warlords. Curious about your thoughts on that?
> Why would a memory enhancing drug only increase rememberance of negative memories and not the positive and loving ones?

There's a psychological phenomenon:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negativity_bias
I hope we all understand here how big corp is keeping us safe.

There's no way little farmers could afford to do all the tests and standardise this stuff.

I always laugh when people think mega farms and mega food outlets are not orders of magnitude safer than many smaller operations.
F# touches on most of these points doesn't it?
This needs "(2014)" added to the title.

This appears to be a repost of the famous Facebook study that manipulated people's news feeds: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/every...
I'm always interested in the selection bias here; Amazon et al do this to plenty of companies that are not using their platform as well. It would be more accurate to say that being an AWS vendor doesn't provide you with added protection from them competing with you.
Over thanksgiving I had a bite of a sausage stick, or so I thought, turns out it was a vegan sausage stick made with figs and other spices. I was so expecting to bite a nice meaty sausage that the fig bite was extremely offputting. After I realized what was going on I found I quite liked the taste.
Go optimizes for fast compilation, as such the language has fewer internal checks for only the absolutely necessary. In my opinion, to be able to continue execution when an error happened earlier could be a blessing or a curse, and it depends on the programmer. I've been writing Go for 2 years now and I don't have a single case where I accidentally ignored an error. I have ignored errors, but usually for operations whose end result I don't care about or doesn't affect what happens next in the program.

There's also a recommended way of dealing with errors. I may not state it correctly but basically you build a pipeline of operations for a data type that represents the arguments (or data) of the operations. For example, to compress an image given a URL:

type Image struct {
src string
bytes []byte
width uint
height uint
err error
}

func NewImage(src string) Image {
return Image{src: src}
}

func (img Image) Get() {
if err != nil {
return
}
...
// Set error value if this operation fails
}

func (img Image) Compress {
if err != nil {
return
}
...
// Set error value if this operation fails
}

func (img Image) Err() error { return img.err }

img := NewImage("https://image.src/random-image.png")
img.Get()
img.Compress()
if img.Err() != nil {
// handle error just once
}
NBCUniversal Taps Machine Learning to Tie Ads to Relevant Moments on TV
I don't understand why this comment is the top one right now. Has this been people's experience? I have asked all these questions (pretty much) and have gotten almost everything answered. Answers regarding revenues where a little obfuscate or a range was given.
Russia opens civil case against Google over search results
this is about the age ranges in the police dossier
No shit. That's what I said. Boilerplate in any language is "doing it wrong".
I think something needs to be tuned up a little, the six months estimate does not mean six months from now but six months after the patient zero and transmission to the surrounding epideme.
between natural process, manmade pathogens, weaponized pathogens, and relic pathogens emerging from permafrost older than mankind, we collectively as a species need some consensus.
typically overpopulations are inescapably corrected by starvation, or disease.
That’s a fair point, but I would look to specific markets instead of tech to see where AWS and Amazon might run into issues.

Specifically within healthcare. You think large Pharma companies will use AWS after the pill pocket acquisition? Do you think once Amazon.com starts listing prosthetics large life sciences companies will run on AWS? What about providers? Do you think health systems will choose AWS as their cloud once Amazon launches their version of KP?

I don’t see Azure or GCP getting into these specific markets.
The problem is not the github repo, it’s the npm directory - specifically all those libraries that depend on libX resolve the library by that name. If you ever want to migrate ownership/maintainer of a library host through npm you have to take over the name.

The alternative is changing the name (should libfoo.js become libfoo2.js? Libfoo-maintainer_name.js) etc.

Then all the libraries that depend on it have to change their deps and their actual code (require(x) or import x are both based on library name).

If they don’t then any libraries that transitively include the old version of the library could be compromised by any bugs that happen to be included in the old version, so you also can’t say “everyone who cares about the library should update” because library A may depend on library-B which isn’t updated.

If anything the problem here is that npm doesn’t have any real “the maintainer has changed” notification, and that’s couple with the average developer not having any way to know if that change is legitimately ok without auditing the published code.
I would even argue that for OO, OCaml is a better object-oriented language than most dedicated OO languages. It nicely decouples classes from types, for example, so that the subclass diagram needs not correspond to the subtyping diagram (i.e. you can reuse code via inheritance without following LSP subtyping rules, but the type system will still prevent any unsafe use of such hierarchies).
I agree with your comment. The AWS course recommends that you should skip the class if you either minored or majored in math.
> What's interesting, and I don't quite understand, is that even for problems with a decent amount of branching, they can still be surprisingly fast.

If your threads are uniformly spread between 1 and 16 branches, then you're probably always paying for 16 branches, and you could make it a lot faster by grouping similar workloads or getting rid of branches.

But yes, branchy code can be fast as long as almost all threads do the same thing. Branches don't automatically cost extra. What matters is how many threads in your wavefront / warp / work group are executing the same branch. If they all take the first branch in an if-else, and no threads in the warp take the else clause, then you don't pay for execution of both branches. But if one thread in the warp does take the else path, then all the threads in the warp pay the cost of executing both paths.

The story is starting to change for the newest AMD & NVIDIA GPUs, they are now supporting per-thread instruction pointers, and parallel divergent execution. But there are big restrictions and caveats, and the high level bit hasn't changed: it is still best if all threads in a warp all do the same thing.
Joining a startup is not how you get a higher salary. For many, it’s a pay cut.
the mindset where handing over a package with 2 million weekly downloads to a complete stranger is a totally OK thing to do IS npm specific.
As a physics PhD student this answer of yours mystifies me. Even in the last ten years there has been exciting progress (even when restricting oneself to a subset of the field like cosmology or high energy or astronomy or the intersection of these three). Better knowledge of CMB, exciting new neutrino measurements, gravitational waves to name the stuff off the top of my head.

But you were specifically complaining about studying Mars: if the goal is to give up and just live the most boring, safe and stagnated existence there is, then yes, we should stop exploring the solar system. Economic and cultural progress will slow down to a craw, but some people are content with that.
Where's the compiler or even the collection of compilers in this? See this is why I'm sick of web dev, another project by "developers" who don't even know what a compiler is and on top of this name it ncc just to make it sound more important, lol.
In some cases it is called leverage and in cases where you don't have leverage then extraordinary rendition.
Ah sometimes you get people asking to use a name such as my "log" pkg in npm, but bumping from 2.0 to 3.0 so that dependencies aren't messed up. Assuming the person has no bad intentions I think it's a perfectly reasonable request.

I ignored this particular request via email a few times, because I just really don't want to spend time dealing with Node stuff. You then get a request from NPM support asking the same thing, so I agreed to it, that's all it takes to get access to a package really.

I think from now on I'm just going to tell people to come up with a different name, this wouldn't be a problem if the names were scoped by default.
I have worked with at least one transgender individual who I must assume wished to be accepted as a woman, given how that person dressed, spoke, and the name that that person used. I was happy to use the pronouns she/her as a courtesy, and agree that it did me no harm. But I can also understand that some people feel that it would be harmful if the state or another authority forced them to say something they deemed to be untrue.
It pretty much is.

"Study of 80s metalheads finds that they turn out to be better adjusted than those who listened to other music"

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jul/08/metal-fans-tur...

Outside of some darker corners of the genre, most Heavy Metal listeners just like fun, some sex, some drinks, and some noise. They aren't even that big on drugs. And they're quite communal as a scene.

Whereas other genres attract more self-destruction, isolation, and negativity.
Uber drivers' sleep in spotlight after landmark court ruling examines safety
Another guy blaming a programming language because a third party independent company dont check out every single piece of line for malicious code. Kids these days think injecting 400 dependency libraries is a better idea than writing their own code. P.S Always remember, it's your responsibility to check out what code library you adding to your project.
Do you have any theories as to why it petered out? Like you I feel it's more relevant today than ever before but also can't find a growing or healthy community with that mindset anymore.
That might be relevant, but it's a completely different argument than you initially provided.
I have never seen a physicist put that particular number on a wall (these days, the cosmological constant would be a better bet). I am vaguely aware of numerological attempts (some collected in [1]) to "explain" why 137 is "special", none of which has ever led anywhere.

As far as I can tell, the fascination with it got started by the number being close to an integer, and maybe the remark in [1] that "In ancient Hebraic language letters where used for numbers, and Cabbala is the word corresponding to 137" played a role. But we know that it isn't an integer, and that it runs [2] like any coupling constant in QFT, so at best you could marvel about it taking on some particular value at some particular interaction energy, which would mean... what? I dunno. As Feynman also said [3],

You know, the most amazing thing happened to me tonight... I saw a car with the license plate ARW 357. Can you imagine? Of all the millions of license plates in the state, what was the chance that I would see that particular one tonight? Amazing!

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.1711

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupling_constant#Running_coup...

[3] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/649893-you-know-the-most-am...
Well, let me put it to you this way. If a malware author installs a piece of software on your machine and it steals bitcoins from your machine, do you think they'd be able to argue to a judge that it was all OK 'cause of the software license...

Put it this way, I would not suggest relying on that defence in court.
I assume it is specified by zoning/laws--although it probably varies. In general (unless you already have a well), I would also assume you're better off just getting town water if it's available. Wells are expensive and not necessarily reliable whereas water from the local utility is usually a pretty low cost, at least in my case.

Same applies to septic.

It's probably also going to be dependent on the town (presumably) whether you have to pay for a hookup if it becomes available.
Development of the Wendelstein Line Towards a Helias Reactor [pdf]
Language Debt
npm's package lock will lockfile the whole dependency tree, but there are easily overlooked differences between `npm install` and `npm ci` on respecting locked dependencies for things like semver-patch level changes.

`npm ci` is so new a lot of projects aren't using it and are still using `npm install` everywhere. (To be fair, evaluating if most of my projects should switch to `npm ci` in more places is still on my own personal devops backlog. This thread has reminded me to bump priority on that.)
> American values are all wrong.

how can you tell when values are wrong?
Ask HN: Are there any studies on if and how are dark or light themes better?
Dropout to build a startup? Things to consider
I had the unique and very dystopian experience of StockX irrevocably banning me (as a purchaser) from their platform because I hit some fraud flags. No requests for verification or alternate payment method, just an outright "no, we won't sell to you, period". I emailed their CEO, no reply.

No troubles with goat.com, so they get my business instead.
The reddit discussion is

https://old.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/a0nnp7/r_m...

Some skepticism in the comments, since the algorithm assumes you can "return to a previous state" (e.g. with a simulator). So could be interesting for robotics, games..
Apple heads to the Supreme court over antitrust concerns about its App Store- Tm
Isn't the issue here waste entering the water supply from upstream animal farms? Unless everything went 100% vegan (please don't take that bait), you can have the best processes you want on a given farm and still be at risk.
Hey mmd12, the tech stack is Node, React, Redux, serverless, Dynamodb on AWS
> That’s why we created Apple Entrepreneur Camp, for organizations founded and led by women.*

I had no idea what that asterisk could imply, since the statement seemed legally innocuous.

> * Apple believes that gender expression is a fundamental right. We welcome all women to apply to this program.

There is a veiled threat implied in the structure and semantics of the second sentence.
People spend millions on stupid stuff like this. The money saved on audit response would justify the service alone.

Frankly, Amazon let a lot of revenue go here — I could think of a few orgs that wouldn’t skip a beat about spending 100x.
I think not revealing individual employees stocks is probably fine with most employees if the company doesn't have public salaries. You would put that in a summary 'employee stock' category in the cap table.

"difficulty recruiting as candidates get soured by the prospect that investor's real equity is better than their sweat equity."

So basically looking for useful idiots as they really realize that the startup is definitely not a good deal? They are investors after all, but investors without full disclosures.
sorry if it came across as blaming, I was trying to establish the structural issues with the ecosystem and reflect on ways we can improve on it. The classic "reflect, iterate & improve" cycle. Thanks for the feedback that that message was lost, I'll try better next time.
- you can have a crop of fancy lettuce in 3 weeks with medium light intensity, simple flourescent tubes will do the trick for about one KWh per square yard per day- about 15$ to produce roughly 20 heads of ~gourmet lettuce retails about 3$ a head, or better if you have a restaurant and serve salads.

that being said, a big part of the problem is irrigation with liquified fecal waste that has not fallowed properly as a bare minimum

this just in ...
a high school student can do this and it is regularly set up and maintained by said highschool students, all you need to remember as a core concept is P.L.AN.T. photosynthesis light atmosphere nutrition temperature.
cannabis cultivators are not the brightest or most adept bunch but they seem to struggle through and make millions as the tax revenue would suggest
Sure. I mean maybe a few people actually care.. your parents, siblings and family, maybe your colleagues if you are lucky. All real estate is local as is anything that happens to you. Look at how we as a society treat the least able, the poor and the homeless. It's no wonder that the lonely don't expect any help because we as a society expect someone to reach out by definition. We are too busy doing nothing to help anyone else outside of our small circle.
Google Cloud Scheduler: a modern, managed cron service
Why Don’t We Have Vaccines Against Everything?
Generally the self checkout has a minimum of one staff per check out to show customers how the thing works.
Summary:
Intermittent fasting helps lose weight and promotes health. However, it is not superior to conventional calorie restriction diets, scientists have found out in the largest investigation on intermittent fasting to date. The scientists conclude that there are many paths leading to a healthier weight. Everybody must find a diet plan that fits them best and then just do it!

In other news: water is wet.
I don't think most people in HN are seeing the real story here. This is not another harmless stunt like left-pad to make us all wag our fingers at the Node community. This is a coordinated, targeted attack on a popular Bitcoin wallet software to steal private keys using a popular open source library and NPM as an attack vector.

This is potentially the biggest Bitcoin heist since MTGox and the biggest news in Bitcoin all year. The last time BitPay got scammed they lost 5,000 BTC and that was back in 2015. I wouldn't be surprised if this is causing the current mass sell-off. Does anyone know how to find real-time transaction volume stats broken down by client, country, etc.?
This is ridiculous. The vast majority, of not all, of these questions are easily and readily answered by interviewers day in and day out. Not asking any of them is the read flag that makes people wonder if your even serious about taking the job or just there for interview practice.
I suspect the HN community isn't as blinkered as you may think, and perhaps being of an analytical mindset aren't as easily fooled by the 'diversity theatre' that corporations are performing at present. Perhaps they are more likely to look at systemic causes and solutions than ill considered treatments of the symptoms.

But what the hell do I know :)
Probably, I know of at least one project https://liu.se/en/news-item/har-testas-autonom-sjoraddning-i...
> My reading of the OP was there is no evidence of government supported monopolies being hostile to consumers

Which OP are you referring to?

> As you say if we open up water to competition, as many as possible can immeenient domain a pipe into my house. I could have 1,000 water pipes from 1,000 companies sticking out of my wall and I have no say.. that seems hostile.

I don't think that would actually happen of course. Nor do I think eminent domain is a valid power of the State. My point was that this already happens. I think a much better system could spontaneously exist when the market is involved. An example is given by WalterBright: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18536896

> I don’t think you can just imagine some magical road that allows for unlimited pipes and electric to run through it that just accommodates more competition without real hostility to consumers.

Obviously, scarcity is a thing. Unlimited competition isn't possible. I'd say 2-6 competitors is about right, depending on your situation.

> The military doesn’t “use” stadiums they form partnerships with the NFL and pay to advertise...the military isn’t helping protect the NFL monopoly the way OP says.

My point was that the military is a large source of NFL funding, but I shouldn't have even brought that up. It's entirely unnecessary, because the NFL isn't a monopoly. Sports entertainment is a super competitive arena, with multiple sports and multiple levels per sport, including college football.

> And not all stadiums are build by the cities or tax payer funds.

Sure, but regardless my point that they get huge subsidies from governments stands.

> missed the part about OP claiming these State backed monopolies aren’t hostile to consumers

I'm not sure who you're referring to by OP, but my position is that state-backed monopolies are the only ones which can be hostile to consumers. Otherwise, the hostility is just opportunity for competitors.