skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Readable C code generation is the future. Read my previous comments and you'll find I've been advocating this for many years. I mainly advocated Python/C two-language programming, but using F* instead of Python (or Scheme) is a secondary issue (though an important one in terms of static vs dynamic typing).
Ensuring we pay fairly and equitably
Please, don't leave IoT out of the loop
Ask HN: Would you sell or diversify your startup equity if you could?
VCs and accelerators take a portfolio approach and focus on high-risk high-return unicorns, while founders and employees are encouraged to give 100% to one company at a time.

This leads to founders and employees having all their eggs in one very high risk basket, typically until exit.

So, if you could, would you trade or swap your shares on a secondary market in order to get liquidity / diversify your “portfolio”?

Has anyone done this successfully or got any alternative strategies to mitigating / diversifying the risk?
How many schools have 50% make teachers? Is it because education has a rampant sexism problem? Or is it because men and women have different preferences?
In the UK the total number of shares, and maybe the cap table (I don’t remember) is available from Companies House for a nominal fee, as part of the company’s annual accounts. No idea what the situation is elsewhere, sorry.
Or... may I dare to suggest they simply don't like it?

I used to work at school. Not for a long time, but enough to make some observations. One of them: school kids are passionate. If they're interested in something, no amount of persuasion, toxicity or whatever else will distract them.
But that's my point, isn't it? If you want to do 10x the customers with 2x the employees, you will be cutting into your support resources, and your customers will suffer.

This is exactly why we (as customers) all have to suffer bad or no support. And sadly, we put up with it, mostly.
Nothing on fasting or low carb diet...I've read multiple studies that inducing autophagy through either is linked to reducing Alzheimer's risk...
I'd love to have Sticky Reader Mode for a site, except that Reader Mode also eliminates site navigation sometimes. So, on some sites that display stories chapter-by-chapter, you lose the "next" button, and have to turn off reader mode, hit "next", and turn reader mode back on.
> Would a reasonable person rather take a guaranteed $1000 or a 10% chance of a $1 million?

When they have monthly expenses, or understand the power of compounding interest? A reasonable person would take the guaranteed.

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Even if you make your example less hyperbolic (for an employee):

$100k vs $90k + a 5% chance of making $50k in 5 years.

Where, the higher and guaranteed salary also has 3% annual COLA (or further freedom to job switch) raises, has a 4% 401k match; The wise person would take the guaranteed income.
The mental overhead of having to keep track of what to whitelist means it's not something 99% of people are going to do. So while it might work for you, it's not a solution. I'm certainly not going to do it.
Yeah, but that amount is still ridiculous I assume.

The rumor is that Bill Gates will leave his kids a small amount of his fortune - $10M each.
Very true, HF radios are nothing magical. Very common parts can make you as good HF radio as physically possible.

$10k iComs are mostly unicorn poo, with exception of somewhat useful DSP filtering, for which the real cutting edge research in radio tech is said to be used.
Try Safari then. The feature is nicely integrated and works well
> Most economists love the idea of a 0% corporate income tax, which would likely be paired with LTCG going to the earned income rate. Unfortunately it sounds too much like a "handout" to be politically viable.

Source?

I thought the issue with no corporate income tax was that people could just set up shell corporations and indefinitely delay their income taxes.
Yes, all regulation makes companies less competitive than unregulated companies. That's why you regulate everyone.

Whats the harm of the GDPR?
I'm not so keen on the description here, but at the same time it's impossible to deny that there are people who take advantage of the good of society while simultaneously decrying it.

If we want to talk about moochers and deadbeats we need to stop looking at people in poverty who behave in ways we don't like. It's easy to call them names, but they're doing the best they can with the very little they have.

Shift the perspective to huge corps like Walmart, who rake in billions and themselves depend on state welfare to do so.

In the UK we call these people 'benefit scroungers', yet their impact on the British way of life is practically zero compared to what those with money can do, to the point where it's a false problem.
Yes, or with a hub.
I thinks what I see in South Asia, many engineering disciplines have a much more women than men, like CS and Electrical Engineering. It is in disciplines like Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering that there are less women than men. I think in the third world in general more women get engineering degrees than men.q
Instead of a JIT being the next step, did you consider vectorizing the execution?

Amortizing the cost of dispatch over multiple packets means that under heavy load, the performance of the system should be fairly close to what you could JIT, but the system would be much more simple.

Of course, this only helps with the worst case where a backlog is starting to build, but it at least reduces the worst case.
The fact that this is skewed a bit to favor those who paid in based on their state of origin I am certainly ok with. The state had a strong hand in creating the business environment for people to thrive in such a way that they could become wealthy to begin with.

So I'm okay if some federal dollars have to be shaved off so states can take care of themselves. I do not believe there is an endless incentive for states to raise taxes at the expense of the federal government.
there are plenty of situations where that better dev gets paid less. salary transparency will address that
I wasn't making any claims about which is better, or even which I prefer, just an observation that I've never seen East Coast established companies do any whiteboarding.
> Isnt competition in free markets healthy? Doesn’t it tend to benefit everybody over time as products and services improve?

No? Hence the need for regulations. The free market and competition are not inherently good things. They can be very, very bad for your average citizen.
Many years ago, I switched from working on a C++ project to one using Java. I was amazed how fast the Java compiled!

The downside: I used to use the "waiting for the compiler" time to think about what I'd written, consider alternatives, think about refactoring, etc.

Suddenly I had to block out time for that :-)
Didn't that genre start with a video of some dude ironing shirts?

So long ago though....
It just means on the spec sheet its enough bandwidth for 2 4k streams. (HDMI 1.4 4k@60FPS == ~18Gbps)
Or maybe we shouldn't need /s's to make an obvious joke
Is it an unpopular opinion that USB is already fast enough and has enough features and USB implementers should instead work on cost reduction and compatibility so that we can all move away from USB 2 and pre-type-C connectors?
The explanation is simple.

When you provide women the opportunity to become anything they want. They choose the careers that they choose. Which tend to me more social related careers. Teaching or nursing for example does not scale well; therefore salaries are limited.

Whereas men pick more "stuff" categories. It's men who work in STEM creating things. A car or an iphone is going to be generally speaking men who design it. These scale very well and salaries can be larger.

By these modern approaches that allow women to go into whatever they want to do. This is what creates the gender wage gap.
Yes, which is why the per capita number is not the proper way to measure this.

For example, imagine a company with 7 male employees and 3 female employees. That company has 9 engineers and one administrative assistant. All the engineers are underpaid. The male engineers are underpaid by $1000 and the female engineers are underpaid by $1200. The administrative assistant is a woman who is fairly compensated. That means the men are underpaid by $7000 total and the women are underpaid by $2400 total. Men make up 70% of the employee workforce and are roughly 75% of the underpaid total. More men are underpaid than women. The per capita underpayment of men is $200 more than the underpayment of the average woman. There are plenty of ways to frame this data that make it look like men are the biggest victims and yet woman engineers are all payed $200 less than their male counterparts.
It's astonishing to me that the narrative of "job creation" persists so strongly when it's obvious that my employers benefit orders of magnitude more than I do from my work--after all, they pay me a pittance to build machines that will outlive me. The sentence "my boss gave me work" is grossly misleading, when in fact "I give my boss work," and am the poorer for it. If only we could get ahead of this prisoner's dilemma, and all as workers demand a better deal.

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edit: because the kapos in charge have quashed the discourse, here is my response to a sibling comment:

> there is a chance that one may approach such status through merit

I am not sure how this is meaningful, since merit is almost arbitrarily defined by the last generation of victors. Knowing and pleasing the right professors, bosses, managers, and venture capitalists is crucial to success in our "meritocracy".
Not if they took a 13k/year pay cut to get it. Options are usually "instead of" not "in addition to" salary.
If I am 15 mins "late"
to work nothing happens. I will not even get less work done that day. People might not even notice.

I worked at Target in the fast food restaurant some years ago. If I was late to that, there was simply no one to take orders. It directly impacts the income of the business.

Late once -> fired definitely needs to be fixed, though.
That's a good point. Many things can be overengineered/overdone, including UX design.
The "Personal Historical Archive" notion suggests one specific improvement I'd love to have: full-text search of my history.
Underlining was a substitute for italics before everyone had fancy word processors.
You don't have to be rich to drive on a track. Champ Car (formerly Chump) is racing with very inexpensive vehicles. I did a track day with a sub US$5000 car that was still faster than many others. People take rental cars to track days for a total weekend cost of under $500. Drag racing costs next to nothing for a normal car.
I was a Formula 1 test driver virtually, building the simulators and test drives. Limiting it to 112 would limit it to gear 1 of 6.

That's laughable. You could eliminate the gearbox at all then on better, extremely expensive cars.
>The Soviet Union eliminated these classes of parasites

Nonsense. The Soviet Union simply redistributed such wealth to other "inner party" members.

At least in a true capitalist economy there is a chance that one may approach such status through merit, as opposed to simply knowing and pleasing the right party members in the Soviet Union.

"...some animals are more equal than others."
It's not very hard to find the evidence before you move to static typing.

Just think about this not uncommon scenario: "The program crashed two hours into testing because apparently, we somewhere set this element in this deep structure to an integer instead of a list, and are now trying to iterate over that integer. But we cannot easily fix it, because we don't know yet where and why we set it to an integer."

The compiler would have immediately given you an error instead.

So, collect all the errors that are, e.g.:

- Addressing the wrong element in a tuple,

- any problems arising from changing the type of something; not just the fundamental highest level type ("list" or "integer"), but small changes in its deeper structure as well, e.g. changing an integer deep in a complex structure to be another tuple instead,

- "missed spots" when changing what parameters a function accepts; this overlaps with the former point if it still accepts the same arguments on the surface, but their types change (in obvious, or subtle "deep" ways),

- any problems arising from nesting of promises and non-promise values,

and many, many other problems where you can trivially conclude that the compiler would have spit out an error immediately, and explain to management how various multi-hour debugging session could have been resolved before even running your thing.
> Google is promising to bring 50 full-time positions to the area. The company also projects that it will create 2,300 jobs during the 18–24 month construction window.

Is this a joke?

> State Sen. Andrew Mathews (R–Milaca) and state Rep. Shane Mekeland (R–Clear Lake) recently introduced a bill to provide an additional $20.1 million in state bonds to give the Becker Business Park—where the data center would be built—a facelift.

So, invest 1 million in politicians get tens of millions from the public treasury.

> Such incentives are typically justified by politicians as a crucial way to stimulate the economy.

Probably their own personal economies.

There are reasons to give corporations tax breaks. Like for example to expand green energy or to give jobs to people in risk of exclusion, or another hundred reasons. But, it looks like now it is used for everything without any real justification beyond "the company will bring business to the town". That can be covered by any kind of business willing to pay for lobbying and that does not present any social benefit. And it is a zero-sum game where another town loses the possibility for you to gain it. It is hardly a justifiable situation.
One of the Test Pilot attempts in this area was Snooze Tabs: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/snoozetabs/

The engagement on that experiment wasn't very high, but I later went and read some of the user research and felt like there was some unmet potential: the concept was understandable, the functionality matched at least some real use cases, but it still didn't work, people didn't use it.

Obviously Pocket is intended for this purpose as well. It's personally what I use for this purpose, though there's always a kind of in-between state where you aren't quite sure what you want to do with a tab. If you make it easier to save the tab, there will always still be a point when you aren't sure if you want to save it or not...

As far as I'm aware Mozilla hasn't done deep-dive research into tabs. Not all of our research is public, but we do post a public index of the research: https://firefoxur.github.io/
After watching the video, I came to ask how is it related to HN? But, look at the comments! I guess there are some interests!
"Active Thunderbolt 3 cables support Thunderbolt at 40Gbps data transfer at lengths of up to 2m. Optical cables are targeted later, with lengths of up to 60m."

https://blog.startech.com/post/thunderbolt-3-the-basics/
This becomes very difficult to get right.

I can see a case for paying very little to people who aren't willing to work. I can see a case for paying considerably more to those who can't work (for a wide variety of reasons). That seems reasonable to me. But then you have to draw some lines of what constitutes a valid reason why you can't.

And then you have someone who doesn't want to work, who will work very hard to make it appear that they are willing to work but can't. (We already see this, with people being classified as "disabled" for causes that seem less than disabling.)

In fact, you always have the trade-off between false positives and false negatives. Here, the more people who shouldn't be receiving welfare that you keep from receiving welfare, the more people who should be receiving it that you block. And the more people who should be receiving it that are, the more people that shouldn't receive it that also are.
And don't forget that the One Cable costs $40.
A quick search confirms your suspicion. The 57% female figure applies overall, but within STEM, the fraction of female graduates is low, except for life sciences:

https://www.catalyst.org/research/women-in-science-technolog...

The section entitled "Few Women Are Earning Degrees in STEM, Except in the Life Sciences" states that 35% of STEM undergrads are female. For engineering and computer-related bachelor's programs, this drops to ~18%(!).
I once applied for a scholarship that did not advertise itself as a Male or Female only scholarship. In the fine print it quoted: "women will receive first priority for this scholarship."
Mozilla updates Common Voice dataset with 1,400 hours of speech for 18 languages
That breaks down in a lot of ways like most markets because of the huge power imbalance both in information and raw economic power. Just look at what Foxconn did in Wisconsin, (and pretty much everywhere else it's ever made a deal) the companies can promise the moon knowing they'll never deliver on half of it but the huge promise puts a huge electoral pressure on the local politicians to make the deal and the company signs a deal with little to no teeth (again they can largely dictate the terms of the deal because there's no reason they have to go with any particular location). Then the problems caused by the huge loans or bonds issued to finance a deal exist on a longer time frame than the company usually cares about and if they get too bad they can just toss in a little more compensation or start the cycle all over again in a new city.

Google doesn't particularly care about how bad the local community gets there's enough single/childless couples in the work force to provide the minimal local employees a data center will need and when a particular employee's lifestyle changes they can just be move internally and replaced. And if it gets bad enough it's simple enough to build another datacenter.
The economy-wrecking regressive mortgage tax deduction was preserved though, which shows that the tax reform was mainly a cheap abuse of the government to attack blue states for voting Democrat.
>Biology is not "preventing" women, it's directing their inclination.

Right, absolutely, biology is what inclines women to not be programmers.

And it's not at all things like lack of parental leave policies in most software firms that would allow their partners to stay at home should a child be born in their household, or a million other workplace and policy matters.

It's biology, the conversation is over.
I am very much looking forward to the HN ideologues attempting to prove (a). This is a community full to the brim with innovative, empowered enlightenment thinkers, many of whom would be thrilled to receive VC and manifest their backburner projects.

Edit: I am very disappointed to see that the invisible overlords of this forum have quashed the discourse. I shouldn't be surprised, but it has been jarring.
An old way to underline.

To cite the jargon file:

Also, it is common to use bracketing with unusual
characters to signify emphasis. The asterisk is most
common, as in “What the *hell*?” even though this
interferes with the common use of the asterisk suffix
as a footnote mark. The underscore is also common,
suggesting underlining

http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/writing-style.html
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con... Doesn't this already do it?
Nobody in these discussions seems to attack the elephant in the room: performance review systems.

These are openly meant to overpay some employees and underpay others. Though they can be coated in HR-speak to appear neutral and objective, the decisions that come out of them are typically arbitrary; they enforce biases of all kinds. So we should not be surprised at the results.
They're always free to skip ahead to the next major version on a whim. But for consitency's sake it should be something like USB 4.0 Gen 4x4.
The problem comes in practice: First, OEMs don’t bundle Thunderbolt cables with a device unless the device actually has a Thunderbolt controller onboard. Meanwhile, USB-C cables retail for $8 while Thunderbolt cables retail for $40.

So the end result is that no one actually has “all of the above” cables, but rather a collection of cables with different, often invisible constraints. Maybe the move to free licensing will bring TB cables down to USB cable prices, but it remains to be seen.
There’s a reason the “dirtbag leftists” at Chapo Trap House use the cocaine patch as their logo.
This isn't quite right. People are paid such that the amount is enough to attract needed workers and less than the value those workers provide. Education isn't a critical factor except that it enables people to be more productive and therefore more desirable to employers.

As an example: a middle school dropout who self learned machine learning, became a master, published papers, worked at a successful startup etc, will likely be better paid than your average History PhD.
Thunderbolt is PCIe.
Just a few that are located in countries with good opportunities, not the ones outside USA or West Europe. A few like me still believe something can be done to fix it (the CIO retired), so we did not leave yet. The ones close to retirement don't care anymore.
the issue is when do you stop that affirmative action. and if you pay lower level women engineers more to offset male managers pay and reduce your gender pay gap than I think you're doing it wrong. and this pushes people to the far right. I've seen it countless of times
The "My Homepage" experiment sounds like a decentralized social platform right?
Building this tool we purposefully steered away from education. We found that the users we talked to, people considering startup jobs who didn't know how to value options, were frequently overwhelmed and discouraged by tools with more educational content.

This tool might spark someone's curiosity, but we purposefully built it for a group that didn't want to have to learn about venture finance and still wanted to work at a startup.
In terms of readability, how much is it due to Rust having ADTs and pattern matching over them?
Stopping distance does depend on the car, but physics has a bigger influence. The kinetic energy in a car is 1/2mv^2. No matter what car you're in, going twice as fast requires dissipating four times the energy in order to stop.

So, take a sporty car with twice the braking performance of a basic car, and you can go 1.44x as fast as the basic car while still having the same stopping distance.

I have a very light car that I use on the track, with an amazing amount of braking for its weight. Full deceleration happens at 2.5g, that's not pleasant. There are also comfort limits here.
How do you gain a register by emitting xorl %eax, %eax versus simply not emitting that and simply letting the code access the garbage value that's already in %eax?
It's more like… multiple serial connections over the same cable – kind of like PCI-E, SATA etc.
A way to rotate images without having to resort to the inspector and transform:rotate(...) would be nice as well there.
The USB consortium is mostly EEs, and probably a majority analog EEs. I wouldn't worry about this.
==And it is a zero-sum game where another town loses the possibility for you to gain it. It is hardly a justifiable situation.==

This is the most critical piece. What would legislation to address this at the national level even look like?
Government-run schools that exist to indoctrinate children into nationalist beliefs and refuse to discipline children who make school unpleasant and poor learning environments should be shut down.
This is on me :S I created a lot of those widgets on iOS. I'd really like to learn more from your experience however. What would you say are the main things that made it feel off?

Here's otherwise a list of things we're working on right now https://github.com/flutter/flutter/projects/9.