skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know what country you're in but in cricket there's a concept of innings and scoring runs. There's this dude who averaged nearly a 100 in every innings, most others average 50.

Now think of the situation as him scoring a few knots. Is he old and retiring? Or is this just a slump in form? Nobody knows!

I worked for a design team and we were proud of our material engineers.
I’m not sure what the Harvard dept. of Economics would think about your “wealthy mother” solution

Where did I cite that as a "solution?" You are revealing your biases and projections quite clearly. Rather, it's actually support for your position, with regards to the possible range of natural behaviors observed in our society. You asserted that women would choose to work more, then spend more on child care, but they are somehow less free to make that choice. How is that so?
> Is it because the US isn't willing to go total war and massacre civilians until they give up Mongolian style or what?

Home field advantage and the ability to use guerrilla tactics have always been a tremendous advantage, and often it's enough to make it prohibitively expensive to conquer or subjugate a given population rather than just leaving them alone. This, combined with terrain, is what makes Afghanistan in particular so defensible in parts.

For the US in particular, there are also levels of brutality that we're not willing to resort to, which only helps to tip the scale towards "too expensive to be worth it". Russia had much better luck with their counterinsurgency efforts in Chechnya, but then again, Russia is willing to resort to measures that the US is not. Though even then, the desire to maintain Russian territorial integrity probably justified higher costs than the desire, in the 70's and 80's, to maintain communist domination of Afghanistan.
So you are banking on there being enough women who leave discriminating employer in your field to fill all available positions. In that case there is just a lot of labour - I don’t see why employer 1 isn’t lowering their wages of new recruits anyways.

Also, the discriminating employer is presumably not discriminating openly, or they will be sued. So there is limited information on your part to find the right pricing for just women.

Wages are also sticky, it is hard in many industries to blanket cut them across the board without a real cost to morale and the quality of the labour you attract.

In practice I cant imagine a real firm that could execute on this strategy.
I specifically said Android app because I don't have an iPhone and don't feel qualified to comment on iOS. I think you read more into my comment than I wrote.
>and start investing government resources into a separate 2-factor system

Gov't issued Yubikeys or a new gov't issued "smart ID" with a 2-factor system as part of it?
If it's a relatively simple thing I think it's a good opportunity to try out something new and see how it goes. If it doesn't work out there is not much lost and if it works out you are prepared for bigger things. I think it can be a mistake to do new things only when you really need them.
Absolutely - it’s probably a common feature of stay-at-home dads in the 21st century that it’s a good deal. There’s going to be a much larger percentage of stay-at-home mums who have awful ‘deals’.
Interesting. Which framework(s) were these teams using? How large were they?

xdebug is not always the most straightforward thing to set up. I don't tend to bother with it unless I am doing a lot of PHP development (which fortunately has not been the case recently). I've also had less cause to use it since the introduction of the Psy shell. It's still something that I would consider an essential tool, and I do wonder at the circumstances which allowed these teams to be able to get by without it, but the experience could maybe be a bit smoother. I did not think that the ST2/ST3 or Atom integration was that great; the best experience I had was with NetBeans, but NetBeans is otherwise pretty clunky. Presumably your mileage varies somewhat.
Anything that would preclude one from making a similarly-robust HTML5 (Canvas2D) ASCII editor?

Font rendering wouldn't even be required. Static bitmap sprite data in a predefined grid cell layout would suffice. With fore and background color altered via fast pixel manipulation using pre-allocated array buffers. Memory usage, on large canvas areas, might be the only prohibitive issue ;)

I use the wonderful Piskel 2D sprite drawing tool. And it can handle sizable frame counts at 1024x1024 resolution.

https://www.piskelapp.com/
To rephrase: lack of private contractors would not affect military might.

As far as profits, there will always be contractors and vendors to buy stuff from. The military is not going to be making everything from scratch.
Blockchain technology needs API to be useful, said Jitterbit's Chief Architect
How was this never challenged constitutionally with violation of due process, at a bare minimum?
Yeah I don't disagree with you, I was just pointing out something in the article that I believe the parent comment missed, since it referenced Wikipedia while the article mentioned 2000 directly.
Exactly. Trying out new things in small projects prepares you for bigger things and it goes wrong nothing is list. A lot of failed projects come from jumping into something new with one big step.
It is unclear if NetSpectre works in a real environment, but either way it's fundamentally similar to an IPC call and can be treated as such. As in, that's where you'd insert hardening boundaries.

Chip vendors have & will fix process boundaries. But nobody is talking about any sort of protection of any kind that would let in-process sandboxing work again. It's just not even on the table at this point.
I'd be grateful for corrections to any distortions or omissions in that description. I'd forgotten (or might not have heard at the time) that his conviction was subsequently vacated on appeal, but that was after he already spent over a year in prison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev#Conviction_overturned
But that's not what the US delegation is doing: they're promoting coal power solutions
> Prion disease is exceedingly rare.

Isn't that begging the question? I mean, the author's concern seems to be that the prevailing belief hasn't been well-tested compared to the potential impact of it being wrong.

It's already happened before: There was a period of time when most medical practitioners were adamant that their actions could possibly be transferring disease, and it was an uphill fight to get regular disinfectants and hand-washing.
I'm trying to get a foothold in this space (this space being whatever the area of camlistore/perkeep - ipfs - dat - etc.

I've also been excited that Dat seems to be investing a Rust implementation that would presumably make Dat accessible from any language that can interoperate with C/Rust.
This implies it is a choice on the part of the woman

Which is literally what my friend told me on the matter. She deliberately chose to work less convenient hours with longer shifts for a higher pay rate.

Hopefully you don’t congratulate successful minority friends for “bucking the typical trend.”

I would so congratulate Jeremy Lin for doing so. It seems as though you have a particular problematic preconceived notion of what a minority trend is. Just who are you imagining when you write, “bucking the typical trend?”
This is pretty much how broadcast television works.
CFCs destroying the ozone layer was a global problem solved by politicians
> Marriott just had an unlucky purchase

M&A is a culprit in no small number of these cases, so let's be crystal clear: M&A does not absolve anyone of responsibility. Let me know when the underwriting bankers have their bonuses garnished for lack of due diligence, and then you can tell me about how "it wasn't actually Marriott that had the data breach". Let's say it loudly and clearly: no, it was Marriott that had the data breach.
It's not an assumption, it's a hypothetical. If a couple did this, I'd consider it unfair. I imagine that sort of arrangement was a lot more common in the 50's than today.
Why ARM though? The article touts how this is a homegrown chip, and Amazon obviously has the resources to build a truly homegrown, optimized CPU. Why use ARM instead and import all of its idiosyncrasies?

I guess I could ask the question more broadly. Why does every company that "designs its own chip" use ARM instead of designing its own ISA? How much work does it save? How much optimization does it forsake? I'm reminded of John Regehr's post on discovering the optimal instruction set: https://blog.regehr.org/archives/669
Labor unions have historically been against automation _that gets rid of it's members_ which it should be if they are protecting them. Likewise, corporations have been all for automation that let's them lay off wide swaths of workers.

If union members benefited from automation, they'd be all for it. Why should someone be for a change that makes them jobless? Corporations certainly don't lobby for changes that decrease their profits.

This is like when the Luddites were labeled anti progress, when in reality they we're anti being replaced and left to starve in the streets, with the industrial automation being the linchpin in a set of events that caused said starvation.

Share the wealth or don't be surprised when people will fight you over it.
That's strange to me as well. The new driver continues to sound awesome for me, so hmmm...
You seem pretty worked up. I am also left of center politically and a fan of education and marriage and the whole bourgeois shebang. That doesn’t really have anything to do with my comment, which describes the state of the debate.
Anyone associated with government and their families should be banned from buying seized property and any proceeds should be going into a general fund.
If you hire mostly men directly out of top US colleges you'll get a lot of this just by default, because that's the culture on those campuses. I get the sense that in the past, relatively fewer people came to tech through that particular pipeline.
Oh, interesting! I was a Sr. Software consultant for Starwood back in the day. They had an interesting, grandfathered, tax scheme that allowed for insane growth. Anyway, I wrote the Sales Management and Revenue Tracking System (their name, I pushed for Revenue Tracking For Management) that helped them to prioritize and track rates across all their properties in the mid-90s.

Got close to pushing them to a centralized database (instead of the per-property Access database), but left before we could finalize that project. Ugh, and the reports I had to design... they wanted smaller than 7 point font on legal paper that would then be faxed. Every property would fax quarterly reports generated by my software for board review.

Interesting times.
At least one professional who put clients' funds in Madoff's scam committed suicide when he learned of what had happened.
It's not a startup after 18 years. Most companies, and especially tech, have to constantly adapt but that doesn't make them a startup. Was Apple a startup when they got into MP3 players from computers? No.
Looks like a contender for an alternative to PabloDraw [0], my go-to for drawing ASCII art.

Does REXPaint support real-time shared sessions? That's PD's killer feature, watching a skilled artist work from halfway around the world is an amazing experience!

[0] http://picoe.ca/products/pablodraw/
I wonder if the correlation between prion diseases and brains indicates either:

1. Symptoms show up soonest in brains and so can be distinguished from other causes of impairment or death.

2. Humans already some immune mechanism that helps protect against prions, but brain tissue is particularly susceptible because of it's less-usual immune-system setup.
If you’re using in interpreted language then as long is the interpreter is updated you don’t need to care.

Plenty of compiled language users wouldn't need to care either.
Slightly related, I was reading this[0] over the weekend and it left me incensed.

Behind a paywall, so relevant bits

> Uri Rafaeli is an 83-year-old engineer and great-grandfather. He never expected the government to treat him like a drug dealer or gang banger. But last year the Michigan Court of Appeals held that a county government could use civil asset forfeiture—the same legal process used by police to confiscate drug lords’ mansions—to seize a modest rental property Mr. Rafaeli owned because he accidentally underpaid his property taxes by $8.41.

> Mr. Rafaeli bought the house through his business for $60,000 in 2011. Later that year he inadvertently underpaid his property’s taxes by $496. When he learned of his mistake in 2013, Mr. Rafaeli attempted to pay the debt in full but failed to account for the interest that had accumulated since he received the bill. He came up $8.41 short.

> Unaware of his error, Mr. Rafaeli went on to pay his taxes in a timely manner in subsequent years. Nevertheless, in February 2014 Oakland County foreclosed on the property to collect the tiny debt, along with $277 in penalties, additional interest and fees. Six months later the county sold the property at auction for $24,500 and refused to refund Mr. Rafaeli any of the profits.

> ....

> The elderly, sick or economically distressed are most at risk of losing property over tax debts. Henderson Hodgens lost his childhood home and farm in Geneva Township, Mich., in 2014 when a hospitalization left him unexpectedly unable to pay his $5,900 debt. Benjamin Coleman—who suffers from dementia—lost his Washington, D.C., home when he forgot to pay a $134 tax bill. Public outrage over his story prompted District of Columbia officials to change a confiscatory law to protect property rights.

> The Michigan Supreme Court agreed last month to hear Mr. Rafaeli’s case and will decide whether the Court of Appeals erred in its ruling that Oakland County had violated neither the Takings Clause nor the Michigan Constitution’s “just compensation” requirement. Mr. Rafaeli is prepared to take his case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, if need be, to stop bureaucrats from turning property tax collection into an instrument of government theft.

Absolutely fucking appalling stuff.

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/for-8-41-in-unpaid-taxes-the-go...
The Cube Rule of Food Identification
Sends a message to the US that their companies can be blocked/disrupted just like the US is doing to Huawei.

Actually a bonus to not have to be directly linked to a Chinese company that the US can complain about.
I have yet to meet a teacher who is in favour of performance-driven pay, and I have a feeling that even in America (where "left-wing" is actually center-right by most metrics) many liberal teachers aren't in favour of such proposals.

In Australia, high schools are ranked based on final exam scores and that's something teachers already hate. But to tie it to pay would lead to an even larger conflict of interest and attempts to cheat the performance indicators. When I was graduating high school, I noticed that all of our raw marks were reduced right before our final exams (they were reduced because the metric takes into account whether the school was "harder" on students than the national exam or "easier" on them, and rewarded "harder" schools).

If this was just done to change a ranking, imagine what would happen if teacher's pay was linked to performance. Hell, what about rural or "bad neighbourhood" areas? Should we always and forever doom them to have bad teachers because all the good ones go somewhere with better pay? This is already happening (because working for a higher-ranked school is better for your career) and is pretty bad -- having performance-based pay would be a disaster.
> super biased towards taking down anything that looks like copyrighted content

YouTube's uploads filters don't work very well with Peppa Pig episodes that have been chopped up into 45 second pieces and reordered randomly.
Would like to see a similar analysis that instead looks at the number of syllables, specifically vocabulary that has greater than 2 syllables.

In addition to being of personal interest (I think it's much more difficult and impressive to create rhymes with 3+ syllables due to the natural constraint of a smaller basket of words), it would also, presumably, avoid the issue that the author highlights:

> I used a research methodology called token analysis to determine each artist’s vocabulary. Each word is counted once, so pimps, pimp, pimping, and pimpin are four unique words. To avoid issues with apostrophes (e.g., pimpin’ vs. pimpin), they’re removed from the dataset. It still isn’t perfect. Hip hop is full of slang that is hard to transcribe (e.g., shorty vs. shawty), compound words (e.g., king shit)
I now understand the contribution of the Bohm-Jacopini paper [1] towards structured programming. It should be as well-known as Dijkstra's "Goto considered harmful".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structured_program_theorem
His predecessor is in jail on corruption charges. He was loved by the police for his civil forfeiture pursuance. Makes sense.
> There's a reason the majority of farms in the US and Canada are already no-till.

I have heard this several times lately. But I grew up around tilled (sometimes double tilled) farmland, and I still see a lot of tilled earth when I'm out of town and think to look.

What do we mean by most and what definition of no-till are we using?
Maybe this is going to become a thing for future buy outs. Not only do the accounts have to dig into the financing and books, but the IT forensics teams will need to look for any unknown hack liabilities. If a hack is found, then the sale doesn't have to go through. Of course, the hack should have to be disclosed.
I'm not sure how they could shut down GloFo, considering they don't own it.

Besides, GloFo is still doing decently even if they've dropped 7nm... high-end isn't the whole chip market. And AMD is still using GloFo for non-7nm designs.
Drunk Driver and How Prison Changed Him
I'm confused, you're saying TopHat, the one "changing for change's sake," is doing a bad job, but you're also saying GP is wrong for calling them out?
Ads have nothing to do with this. It's not aimed at business models that show ads, it's aimed at business models that host user content.

The whole point is to put content exclusivity back in the hands of traditional publishers.
I remember seeing this a number of years ago and the sentiment then was that it's an effect of them all coming together, and because they got to bounce rhymes off of each other they started to learn each other's words and incorporate them into their own material.
> You can't murder your way to peace. Killing for peace just leads to everyone being dead.

(Assuming “everyone” includes the attacker here.)

The Mongolians did. You just had to be willing to thoroughly finish the job. Fear of guaranteed annihilation kept the rest in check.
Translate Geometries Between WKT and WKB inside .NET Apps
Back in about 1996, most of the profs were going on about how x86 would crumble under the weight of the ISA, and RISC was the future. One of my profs knew people at Intel, and talked of a roadmap they had for kicking butt for the next dozen years. Turns out, the road map was more or less right.

Is there more roadmap?
Link not working for me. Try:

https://democrats-oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversi...

Key recommendations from the minority report:

"Based on the investigation conducted by the Committees, four key legislative reforms proposed by Democrats would help prevent future cyberattacks:

[A] hold federal financial regulatory agencies accountable for their consumer protection oversight responsibilities;

[B] require federal contractors to comply with established cybersecurity standards and guidance from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST);

[C] establish high standards for how data breach victims should be notified;

[D] and strengthen the ability of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to levy civil penalties for private sector violations of consumer data security requirements."

On [B], they note that "Equifax was a federal contractor at the time of its data breach".

On [D], they note that "In the three years before the Equifax data breach, the company spent only about 3% of its operating revenue on cybersecurity—less than the company spent on stock dividends...Civil penalties would incentivize private sector companies to prioritize and invest in continually upgrading and deploying modernized IT solutions and applying cybersecurity best
practices."
Right now, this is just the convenient bogeyman of the day.
The problem is the data to do such a thing simply doesn't exist. Once you get past the policy positions, it's sparse.

I posted some studies from SSRN, etc in my other comment here, but: Most studies that try to objectively evaluate the data (and there are plenty that don't on both sides!) don't come up with obvious "the arbitrators are unfair" or "court is right more of the time" answers. This is why you see the policy folks go after the win rates.

It is definitely true that large scale studies agree that the win rate is less in arbitration (There are some smaller scale studies cherry picking data that find otherwise).

The large scale studies though don't have enough data to say whether that win rate makes sense or not.

I posted the most recent one (not yet published) which tries to understand the variables affecting win rate.

Trying to objectively take 1000 cases in court/arbitration and say "what should have happened" has not occurred.
Without something like that, it is hard for folks to make a meaningful case that there is a real problem.

Despite what the prevailing viewpoint here seems to be, the truth is if someone did that study, in as unbiased a way as possible, it would likely be significantly more convincing to the judiciary than what they see now (trying to convince the populace/politicians is much harder :P)

For example, right now if you ask federal judges (no matter what their politics) whether they think all the winning employment legal cases before them deserve to be winning, their answer is a resounding no.

If it was a resounding yes, or the data showed the opposite effect in arbitration (IE people were losing cases they shouldn't), you'd have an easier time getting courts to buy that arbitration was actually harming people.

But we can't seem to get past the policy positions and "people should always be in court" mentality.

It's really quite sad.
Thankfully you can fly to Zurich without stepping foot in the EU. And soon - London.
Actually I'm pretty sure it was 320 x 240 (mode X, which had the advantage of providing square pixels), so slightly more impressive.
Agreed ... I purposely called it "mental statistics" to indicate that there was no math involved, too small a sample size and no controls against bias.
Insurance pays some, and the rest is paid back by bond. I.e. the state government just give PGE an installment plan and they have 30 years to pay it back. In theory, the government has time to wait.
CA only started controlled burns again this year.

Why California's Best Strategy Against Wildfire Is Hardly Ever Used: https://www.kqed.org/science/1927354/controlled-burns-can-he...

Lack Of Controlled Burns Contributing To California Wildfires: https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/08/03/lack-of-control...

A Century of Fire Suppression Is Why California Is in Flames: https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/12/a-century-of...