skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a revisionist and false narrative, and I believe it may be inspired by the "just world fallacy": you may be inclined to believe the world couldn't actually be unfair to women, so you search for another reason why their contributions would actually have been less important.

Your narrative is historically incorrect. Women invented many of the things that made software engineering _less_ tedious, such as debuggers (Betty Holberton, 1945), subroutines (Kay McNulty, circa 1947), assemblers (Kathleen Booth, 1947), linkers (Grace Hopper, 1952), and compilers (Grace Hopper, 1954). Programmers have always strived to make their job easier. If you don't see these inventions as creative effort, I don't know how to help you.

Even the parts of programming that were tedious were still important. If you saw someone tediously programming in assembly code today, you might celebrate the effort.

The flowcharts that these women were handed by their managers were not "program logic". There were many difficult details to work out about how to implement a program given the limited computing power of the time. You would not describe a manager today who draws a flowchart as having "written a program".
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Here (Australia) the phrase 'backflip' is sometimes used to deride a politician's change of mind. I guess if there's enough twisting and turning involved, we don't think too hard about the end result when creating these metaphors.
This is beautiful, and surprisingly approachable. Also, feels relevant to this recent conversation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18987211
Love the note at the end, rings true with me.
I would still recommend that people start with black and white pictures, or at least spend some serious time on it sometime early in studying to make photographs. Darkroom skills per se have little to do with it. I would also recommend that aspiring painters spend some time making black and white photos, charcoal drawings, or the like.

Learning to see and think about the lightness relationships in a picture is a very valuable skill for color photography which is easier to learn when trying to make black and white pictures because there are fewer distractions and fewer choices to make.

> I haven't seen any material since the digital age took over recommend that photographers start with B&W.

I am not super familiar with recent introductory photo courses/books/etc. Have you examined many of those?
It is not just `display: grid` that is replacing the layout. Now we also have interactive elements in the HTML spec[1] like `<dialog>` and `<details>`. We also have custom elements making an all in solution like bootstrap less desirable for everything except quick prototyping.

[1]: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/interactive-elements....
For one, fetch() doesn’t support progress reporting.
Custom Bootstrap builds then?
Did you try contacting them at support@nominum.com (as opposed to Akamai's support)? While Nominum was absorbed by Akamai they still run largely as a separate entity.

Cannot guarantee it will work but it wouldn't hurt to at least try. We used to have Nominum as a vendor, and would still use @Nominum.com for support even after the acquisition.
"there's probably some multiplying effect in making the central valley more connected"

There is no law of the universe that says a multiplier must be greater than 1.0. It is entirely possible, and indeed, easy to build a piece of infrastructure that will never pay back.
Meanwhile in Canada regulations are still appalling and some of the worst in the world: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/garneau-pilot-safety-airlin...
ECT is very commonly used still. Its considered the best treatment for drug-resistant depression.
(Non) Newsflash: Burning Man Is Not a Backdrop for Your Product
fetch is very bleh, so that's not a high bar. What I'd love to see is more Observable-based offerings in that space... RxJS has some rudimentary client, but seeing that pushed further would be great.
> "Overhauling transportation systems" to reduce emissions — including expanding electric car manufacturing, building "charging stations everywhere," and expanding high-speed rail to "a scale where air travel stops becoming necessary";

This is from an article outlining the GND - https://www.npr.org/2019/02/07/691997301/rep-alexandria-ocas... - with the very first thing listed being expanding electric car manufacturing.
I see your point, but still EVs are not that great for environments compare to trains, forget the energy for moving. Energy to build, the tire residues that goes to our public water and ...

It is way better than what we have now, but still we could do better.
It takes effort to have values and stick to them.
> Ironically, just last week the Green New Dealers said the entirety of the US should move to high speed rail.

It also said we should get rid of cars, planes, "farting cows", and provide for people "unwilling to work"... while also being anti-nuclear, and pro-government involvement in Tesla. [0]

I'm surprised the DNC allowed that to stay up as long as they did!

[0] https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=5729035-Gree...

edit: Um... you can think it was bad PR because it was, but those are true things that were in there. I didn't write it :)
That's like Warren Buffet saying "wow, look how so many of the stocks Berkshire Hathaway invested in shot up in value right after investing."

The fact that y combinator invests in a company automatically gives them a leg up in raising tons of money at higher than normal valuations.
Ultimately, I'm not sure any large infrastructure projects are possible in the current US political climate. The US interstate system is a marvel that I suspect would be entirely blocked by NIMBYism if implemented today. Airport expansions, wind farms, new housing, etc. are all opposed by scaremongering social media campaigns.
I don't understand how Newsom's decision argues against nationwide high speed rail or is in any way ironic - the decision is not that it was tried and found wanting, but that it "would cost too much and take too long." The Green New Deal is specifically about applying massive funding and political will towards projects that are generally considered politically unrealistic today but are quite technically feasible, not about trying ideas that are inherently novel.
(IANAL. I'm not even from the US. Some of this information may not be very accurate)

I'm not sure I can do it full justice either but here it goes - US bankruptcy laws are the oldest in the world. During a time when it's not uncommon for people to go to jail and be indentured to their debtors for their inability to repay the debts, US made a bold law that allowed for debt forgiveness and gradual repayment. US bankruptcy laws also made it possible to separate the property and responsibility of the company and that of the individual managing the company. This allowed for greater experimentation - because it's OK to fail without fear of persecution or losing all of the entrepreneur's property when a company fails. One more important factor is the ability of a company to declare bankruptcy and continue to operate - instead of getting divvied up to pay for the creditors. This resulted in companies that would otherwise be shutdown a second chance with restructuring and delayed debt payment. This is a long term view and is good for both the company and the creditors. It prevents short-term creditors from carving up the assets and closing down the company.
The issue is that they appear to be establishing groves of genetically identical trees, so sexual reproduction is irrelevant. Unless you're planting next to an established forest.
> "Eh, this feels like a 75" from an untrained driver with three big accidents on their record shouldn't be of equal value.

Any such driver should have already suffered enough consequences from three big accidents to have changed their behavior. And if they haven't changed their behavior, how is a speeding ticket (which costs a lot less than three big accidents) supposed to?

> Real engineers have liability and licensing implications for fucking up.

For things like bridges and buildings, yes. And for consequences that are easily seen, yes. But what consequences do road engineers suffer if they set the speed limit on a road too low, forcing people to take more time and burn more gas?

> There are several tight turns near my house. One's a 25 mph one, another is a 15 mph one.

Yes, turn warning signs with a safe speed recommendation included. No problem there. But can you get a ticket if you go around the turn at a higher speed than posted, but don't cause any harm? (As I understand it, you can't; the speeds on those yellow warning signs, unlike the ones on the white speed limit signs, are advisory only and you can't be ticketed just for exceeding them. Which is exactly the kind of thing I'm advocating, just for all limits.)
At one point we got ourselves a QuickBooks Online account and found a bookkeeper to help us enter and reconcile all data into QB monthly. Works great and having such a bookkeeper is pretty cheap. For taxes we use an accounting firm but having the up-to-date QB account helps alot. -A
Why does the PSI v5 API label google.com as slow?
Exactly. The costs are well-known, but the benefits are harder to quantify-- people being able to move around without cars, less air/airport traffic, etc.
It's simply crazy there is no decent rail link between SF and LA. It is really the perfect distance for HSR, and I imagine once it was up and running there would be a lot of very valuable customers willing to pay top dollar for a sub 3 hour ride.

I really can't see what the solution is without HSR, the journey by car is long and very congested. SFO has very little land to expand on with its location.

Does this also kill Caltrain electrification? Also, the transbay transit center is also pretty useless without this as I believe CaHSR was going to pay for the expansion of the tunnels to the TTC.
If anyone is interested in learning what the greek philosophy of life was all about, I don’t think gets more entertaining then listening to Rufus Fears lecture on it. The message is definitely buried but oh what gems when he goes off on a tangent.

https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/famous-greeks.html
You wish, woman.
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Dont tell the bikers, the anti-car crowd who want to rip up all the roads and parking lots. One day soon cars will not be the great pollution evil they once were. If you believe the ai hype, soon bicycles will be killing far more people than cars. Then we shall confine them too to closed tracks. The last person to ride a bike on a public sidewalk is probably alive today.

I am snowed in today. I want an EV but havent seen one that can handle a mountain highway in winter, something with the range and predictability to survive a canadian winter. Has anyone ever put chains on a tesla?
It is amazing that Japan was able to complete a project like this in the 60s, yet the US is so shortsighted we cannot dream of having even just one high speed rail system in the entire country. Absolutely embarrassing.
This is really interesting to me. Do you know why you think (feel?) this way?
Pure speculation: Given their doubling down in the Asian market by partnering with NetEase, I imagine that a lot of jobs (or that money) is going off shore to fund development, marketing, and sales there.
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According to whom? I've never heard of this though before. Are you saying the Persians didn't add value and therefor don't deserve credit?
I think the idea is reading more into it that they complete this bit first and the expand to SF and LA when they can figure out funding for it.

A lot of stuff is already built on this route, many viaducts and bridges etc.
Genuinely curious: From a purely economical / engineering PoV (i.e. conveniently ignoring politics for now), I wonder how much would it cost had it been built by Chinese instead? While China has a tried-and-true HSR formula, would the labor market difference be large enough to throw the plan off balance?
Isn't a full circle 360 degrees though? Coming back to where you started makes sense in a 180 degree turn, you're now looking back on your previous path and looking at the origin.
Yes, the original document that was posted was too politically incorrect for the right-wing faction of the DNC to be comfortable with it. Providing for people even if they're unwilling to work is a defensible strategy, and is rather popular on HN under the name of "universal basic income" and among rich people under the name of "inheritance".
And we have Jerry Brown to thank for Prop 13.
I've come to love books intensely. Not only because I enjoy learning--before I read books, I found blogs to be great educators. I love books because they create time and space to be alone with a thought. It gives me time to consider things that I normally have no space for.

I remember Seth Godin saying once that every business book can be summarized in just a few pages but the book itself is a story. I think it goes beyond just that idea and is The Exercise in reinforcing ideas. Yes, you don't need to spend 10 hours to memorize an idea: _move fast and break things._ Yea, I get it.

But what does that actually mean? How do you actually implement that philosophy? How do you internalize it? How do you navigate situations where you will revert back to your old habit or philosophy? I think you have to spend 10 hours thinking about it and then taking actionable steps to implement it in order to make it useful. Teaching and writing are similar exercises that I have found helpful as a learning tool.

I only just stumbled upon why I like to read. It is likely very personal. But I have found that removing the distractions and habit of "horizontal reading" makes me happier. I'm looking forward to reading the referenced book by Birkerts.

(Aside: At times, I have found reading to be an excuse for not getting things done on my projects. _I just need to know more about x, y, and z before I start_. Ironically, the quest for knowledge can be distracting itself.)
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Most people I know watch videos and read books on their tablets, which works equally well on an iPad as on a Fire HD.
Would love to talk with you more. Do you blog somewhere? I have an email in my profile.
The concept of owning demand is explored really well in this blog post[1]. A good excerpt:

> In short, if somebody successfully inserts themselves between you and your customer, they can exercise tremendous control over you, including taking a big chunk of your profits or outright killing you.

[1] https://florentcrivello.com/index.php/2018/10/22/own-the-dem...
As a web programmer, I tend to agree with this. While I'm at it, I'd also like to extend a polite "fuck you" to the web industry. It's a horrible place. I like bootstrap and I'm going to use it so fuck. you.
You seem to be misinformed. IE11 hasn't been dropped, is supported, and is still the only browser shipping with some versions of Windows as of right now.

Older versions of IE have been dropped. And Edge is still their recommending browsing experience and the only one likely to receive enhancements (both will continue to receive security fixes).

Key Dates:

- Internet Explorer 9: EOL January 12, 2016

- Internet Explorer 10: EOL January 31, 2020

- Internet Explorer 11: EOL Unknown/Unannounced

IE11's EOL date is currently unknown. It would be at minimum 2025 based on Windows 10's current extended support date (but each Windows 10 feature release with IE11 pushes that date back).
> There is no law of the universe that says a multiplier must be greater than 1.0. It is entirely possible, and indeed, easy to build a piece of infrastructure that will never pay back.

Just because there’s no law of the universe that prevents you from throwing money down the drain, doesn’t mean you ought to do so.
If it's not revealing too much, can you tell us a bit more about how you got the necessary training data? And any tips on optimizing models for on-device ML?
Small Satellites Yield Big Discoveries
The short answer is BTRFS, ZFS, and XFS pretty much have feature parity these days. However, I am partial to ZFS as it is by far the most mature and widely installed. I have never lost a bit of data due to data rot in any of my ZFS deployments.

Word of advice, stay away from parity bits. Mirrors are supreme. Stripe the mirrors (RAID10) for the level of performance needed.
That is the part that is already under construction. The money cannot be lit on fire because it has already been spent.
I got a WordPress site that has a theme on Bootstrap 3:

https://themeforest.net/item/kleo-pro-community-focused-mult...

Looking around the theme marketplace, it looks like most WordPress themes are still on Bootstrap 3 too. They haven't even upgraded to 3.4 which contains security fixes.
Build the central piece. If that succeeds, later expand to SF-LA?
Cars, regardless of their energy source, are still a problem. Even if we solve the climate impact of cars, we still need to solve the traffic problem. If our large urban centers want to continue their growth then desirable alternative transportation options need to be implemented, otherwise 2 hour commutes through traffic will just become the norm.
Not for long (fingers crossed)

https://www.statnews.com/2019/02/12/depression-drug-related-...
Yea, once you get one segment build and demand starts coming in, it will be easier to push for completing it.
That's a non-sequitor to my post.
> Newsom said the state will complete a 110-mile (177 km) high-speed rail link between Merced and Bakersfield.
> ...
> “Abandoning high-speed rail entirely means we will have wasted billions of dollars with nothing but broken promises and lawsuits to show for it,” he said. “And by the way, I am not interested in sending $3.5 billion in federal funding that was allocated to this project back to Donald Trump.”

It's hard to overstate how bad this argument is.

First, it's the very embodiment of the sunk cost fallacy. We don't want to feel bad that we wasted a lot of money, so we're going to waste even more on a scaled-down project that will almost certainly never be financially viable.

Second, what does this have to do with Donald Trump? The fact that we would need to refund FTA their contributions has nothing to do with Trump. He won't be able to appropriate the money. It will just go to the Treasury.
> With AWS, I can do...

Can you remotely delete all the data and backups? (It's an honest question; I'm not intimately familiar with AWS but from glancing at the documentation it seems that even glacier archives can be deleted without delay)

Because if you can, then so can an attacker who has sufficiently compromised your business.

edit: I see some stuff about "vault locking" which might do the trick. Are you using that to protect your data?
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> I understand what you're saying, but for the vast majority of people, just knowing whether it has IPv6 available or not is enough information.

Well, that's somewhat of a chicken and egg problem, though. It's not like those broken networks are actually necessarily good enough for the purpose that people use them for, it's just that noone is even aware that the network setup is broken and that that is the problem they should be fixing.

> Right now we do support unknown attributes, they show up unless explicitly filtered out. For example, a server might have an unknown CPU speed, in which case it will show up in the results unless a CPU speed filter is applied.

That's exactly what I think is broken, in that unknown values are not handled explicitly in the UI, but forced to an explicit value. When I specify "I need at least 2 GHz", say, that says nothing about whether I want to see servers for which you don't know the CPU speed, as such a server very well might have a 5 GHz CPU. All it says is that I don't want to see servers for which you know that the speed is less than 2 GHz. So, you shouldn't make assumptions about whether I want to see those servers, but rather let me choose what to do with them.

Now, I don't know whether this is important for clock speed, but often there are cases where there is a particular attribute that is known for many products to have a value that doesn't fit my needs, so it would be great if you could say "not any products where this attribute has value X" ... except that suddenly half of the remaining candidates vanish, too, because that attribute happens to be unknown for those, which then means you have to do all the filtering by hand after all, instead of using the search/comparison site to weed out 90% of the candidates and then investigating the remaining 10% by hand.

> Just to make sure we're on the same page, you'd like to see the size of the IPv6 range assigned to the server, correct? Is there any more information you'd like about the IPv6 support?

Well, yes, prefix length (or number of addresses for offers that don't even have a prefix, I guess), and I guess whether that prefix can be routed completely to the server, as that is, as ryanlol noted, something many hosters fail to do correctly as well. If you can figure it out (or for providers that are willing to feed you machine-readable data), it would also be useful to know whether the reverse zone of the IPv6 prefix can be delegated.
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Too bad html without styling still looks terrible and differently terrible in every browser. My company uses bootstrap heavily and we’ve never used the grid. Bootstrap gives you a great basis on which to build an interface that has all the little details taken care of, and it’s very easy to skin. I’ve worked on projects where people made their own ui component kits to be cool, and they ended up having a lot of holes and incomplete parts. So much work could have been saved by skinning bootstrap.

Note: you can substitute any well done component framework for bootstrap in the above statement.
Voters voted for it. Governors cannot sign it or stop it.
>But my whole life I had this idea of California as a Utopian society

Wow. You and I are very different people :)

Now imagine the people in neighboring states watching Californians leave, bringing the same ideas that have clearly not worked with them to their new home states. Some people find that very frustrating.