skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NSHipster and Ray Wenderlich (sp?) put out absolutely amazing content for the ecosystem. Are there any similar blogs, platforms for other ecosystems?

Also, just had to comment on the Jacob Wohl reference at the start. I’m not sure if it’s good that it’s become a meme or bad.
Agreed. I'm in a similar situation (working in tech in the bay area and supporting my mom by covering her financial needs). I have two colleagues also in similar situations. It makes me wonder how many others in my peer group are faced with these same challenges..
> But why should Googlers care? After all, those free meals, pools, video game rooms, and gyms aren't going to pay for themselves

This story is literally about employees uncovering evidence of ongoing work and pressuring execs to stop it by going public with the information.
I love finding those high impact, straightforward changes! I support dozens of spreadsheets at work and am the person people call when one breaks.

* Conditional formatting cut a 2 hour weekly job down to under 5 minutes.

* The intern, who was hacking away and learning VBA, spent around 20 hours and was able to automate 4 hours per day of manually retyping info between Oracle and a couple spreadsheets. Would have been about 2 hours if he knew VBA going in, but he learned a ton.

* 2 hours standardizing a spreadsheet format and making a custom macro to shift values by x rows and y columns turned a monthly 2 hour, tedious update task into 2 minutes.
Bold claim. How recent are HPV tests?

Edit: While my comment came from caution due to historical human hubris, it appears I am wrong:

“According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a person with an undetectable viral load has “effectively no risk” of sexually transmitting HIV. In 2016, the Prevention Access Campaign launched the U=U, or Undetectable = Untransmittable, campaign.”
Taking a moral stand requires resources, and is therefore more of a privilege than a right. Implicit in this argument is that one must choose their battlefront carefully, because it is usually impossible for one person to fight on all fronts at once. One individual might be an exceptional engineer, and to take a moral stand this individual will refuse to work at certain companies. Another individual might be a wealthy investor, and for the same reason refuse to invest in certain companies. Finally, some people may try to avoid buying products from a particular country of origin.

Pressure on countless different fronts from countless different people for the same moral cause can, and often does, lead to change. Hence, it is not hypocritical at all - to the contrary, it is pragmatic and effective. It's simply individuals doing what they can for something they believe in, and most of them know that they cannot win the battle alone. If it's a worthy cause, such people should be encouraged.

To call the individual who takes a stand on one but not all fronts a hypocrite is, ironically enough, a way of discouraging people from taking a stand at all.
For Young and Old
15-Year-Old Susan Sontag on the Explosive Elasticity of the Self
Amazing story, very inspirational to those of us just working on CRUD apps.

Who is your father and what is his career background? I see he was instrumental in putting you on this path. This was the quote that stuck out to me:

> “After deciding on the product, my Dad and I put together a small team of chemical engineers to help with the patents and applications for grants from the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation.”

How much capital did you two have to risk at this stage to pay your team before receiving the grants?
I don't know why investors would want to put money into such a company, if they knew a priori what would happen.

But I'm not saying "common holders make no money" in literal terms. A $1B acquisition might look like $100-500M stock consideration, certainly not nothing.

It happens because, these days, founders often retain control of shares and board even all the way up to billion-dollar acquisitions, and their incentive to share all (or even most) of that acquisition money with their investors is, frankly, not that high -- the investors would rather a deal go through than the company fail, and they don't have enough control to dictate terms.

The acquiring company cares most about the product (often) and about retaining key talent, not how much the investors get.

So, in a founder-controlled startup, no one who has power over an acquisition has a strong incentive to reward shareholders. Perhaps this is an inevitable result of founder control, and will cause the pendulum to swing back the other way?

Anyway, it's worth noting that this doesn't apply to IPOs.
Comparative study of open source deep learning frameworks
This is blind optimism in the face of hard facts.

If Google wants to play in China, they will have to bend to the whims of the CCP. No amount of employee foot-dragging will change that fact.

> For the same reason, I don't think creating a censored search engine for the Chinese market is bad in itself.

This is one the arguments that got trotted out by Google employees last time Dragonfly made headlines. The CCP is putting people in concentration camps[1]. Dragonfly would help them do that better.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/muslims-...
Besides the implicit endorsement, does it really change anything on the ground? Existing search engines are already censored in China, and those that wish to bypass via VPN, can still do so after Google releases their censored version.
It’s weird to have spent almost a decade with people on and offline scoffing at everyone who never signed up for FaceBook. Now it’s a case for time travel. I’d argue that with only a modicum or foresight it was possible to see that FB was to be avoided, but the hard part is withstanding the peer pressure.

I’m glad that I did.
HIV transmissibility relates to whether someone has been on HAART therapy and in compliance with that therapy long enough so that their measured viral load as been assessed and has dropped below a particular threshold.

Transmissibility also relates to transmission vectors: eg vaginal or anal intercourse, sharing needles with intravenous drugs, and infected-mother-to-child routes (eg placental and/or breastfeeding).

In particular the "Undetectable = Untransmissible" claim is (as I understand it) a claim specifically about transmission through vaginal and anal intercourse.
Lol. Discipline that would expose a likely financially-struggling teacher or school to an overtly litigious public? I forgot it was the schools' responsibility to raise our kids.
It is fine that people are experimenting with putting graphics on the screen and playing with new languages.

But I just wanted to comment that you don't need an "Entity Component System" in a game, and especially not for a very simple not-yet-a-game like shown here. (You also don't need inheritance or composition).

It bothers me that so many people are buying into this hive-mind marketing on ECS, when in reality it is just overengineering + procrastination in almost all cases.

(None of my games have ever had anything as complicated as a component system).

If you want to make a simple game like this, just sit down and program it in the obvious way. It will work. You don't need to be fancy.
Many reference design have a USB power surge protection circuit.
I’m not sure it’s stupid. It puts owner occupied housing on (nearly) equal footing with landlord-owned property with respect to deductibility of mortgage interest.

Disclaimer: yea, I use it, so of course I’m somewhat biased to think it’s not stupid.
More or less.

Either scenario, considered alone, is enough to ruin a downstream device. I don't think it's reasonable to worry about the combination of the two as different from either alone.
I can't see how. ReasonML syntax has a clear and uniform scope delimiter, curly braces. You are always sure which scope you're in, there's no room for ambiguity. You'll have to provide some more specific ways in which there could be confusion ;-)
I use tree style tabs with auto tab discard and use suspended tabs as ephemeral bookmarks. Since Firefox opens all of my previously open tabs whenever I restart the browser they can survive reboots. If a tab sticks around long enough and I don't end up reading it I'll throw it away. I've always felt like browsers were missing something in between a tab and bookmark; kind of like a scratch pad for internet rabbit holes.
Is there a non-Facebook link?
> this is income inequality, generational wealth, and the racial wealth gap all rolled into one.

To put that disparity into specific financial terms.

According to the Federal Reserve, the average white US household crossed the $1 million net worth line sometime in the past two years with the climb by the stock market and property values. Emphasis that that is the average, the median is closer to $190k-$210k, which is comparable to some of the wealthiest median household wealth nations such as Belgium, Australia and Switzerland.

The median white household wealth figure is only surpassed by the median asian household figure (asian households still trail white households on the average figure; due to a difference in duration of time to accumulate larger generational wealth).

The average black US household has an average net worth of about $150k for 2018, and a median of about ~$20,000. The Fed's figure is generally that black US households have less than 15% the wealth of white and asian households.

The average hispanic US household has an average net worth of about $200k for 2018, and a median of about ~$22,000.

Of note, as you'd expect there's an enormous difference in all households when it comes to education and wealth attainment. The average white household net wealth figure hits about $2 million where the lead earner has a bachelor's degree or higher; without that education level, the average wealth figure for white households is about 20% that (roughly $400k). In black households, a stark example of the importance of education attainment is that the median wealth figure increases by seven fold in households where the prime earner/s have a bachelor's degree or higher. In hispanic households with a bachelor's degree or higher, the average household wealth figure is around $650k (a great figure for most any wealthy nation). That hispanic demographic saw about a 60% (!) increase in their net worth between 2013 and 2019. Every way you look at the education vs wealth figures it puts an emphasis on the huge gap in wealth between households with more education vs less.

Besides the giant budget deficit problem, I don't see any scenario where taxes (on capital gains, income and estates) on the top ~10% don't go up a lot over the next 10-15 years or so. The largest lever the government is perceived to have to go after wealth disparity is aggressive wealth redistribution through taxes.

You of course also see this gap in other nations like France and the UK (which have some of the highest median household wealth levels), where they have very poor minorities with high unemployment rates and little personal or household wealth.

Social cohesiveness obviously falters in situations where you have such wealth disparities over time. That's particularly true if you have the triple hit of little economic growth, aging demographics and ever rising social demands (an increasingly common scenario in developed nations today).
Obsolete skill?
That claim isn't a bold assessment of the medical literature at all, it's actually widely held to by the medical organizations responsible for HIV treatment and prevention.

Here [1] is for instance an article referencing this claim, describing it as "based on strong scientific evidence" that was peer reviewed published by the journal of the American Medical Association. (EDIT: it's important to add the caveat, which is that this claim is about sexual transmission only, and does not cover pregnant-mother-to-child transmission or intravenous needle sharing).

Also your comment now refers to "HPV" which is the name of a different disease.

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/27209...
Which is completely irrelevant to this because insulin isn’t a cure and has been around for nearly a century.
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It’s the CDCs claim.

https://www.healthline.com/health/hiv-aids/undetectable-vira...
"should"

The USB logo on usb1.0 cable should be printed on the "upper" side. How many times did you inserted it the wrong way?
The short answer is yes, all of the statistics which show a deviation from a priori gender balance suggest that there is "something" going on.

That "something" is almost certainly cultural, since there is little evidence that any group based genetic hypothesis has explanatory power, whereas cultural forces have clearly been shown to impact gender balance. e.g. the right to vote.
I was getting 10+ spam calls a day a couple of months back. They all originated from overseas numbers and I was pissed off that there isn’t a way with iOS at least to block certain countries. Like no one from Malta is ever going to call me so why can’t I just block Malta.

I resorted to using Do not Disturb mode allowing my contact list to ring. It’s worked out great, I have missed a couple of blocked caller numbers that I would have liked to have taken but they always leave messages. And the spam calls have more or less dried up now.
>Two, I'd be interested to know if AMD bans board manufacturers from including TB or if they just don't do it because their heuristics say users don't care or want it

No, AMD boards already include the required TB hardware. They just can't enable it (yet) for whatever technical or legal reasons. Someone hacked them to enable it (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOlQbP63lDQ)
Be Careful of Unsafe-Indexing and Modifying C++ Containers Simultaneously
If you are in this business you are already connected with grey/black elements. Probably less risky than initially seems.
That gets complicated too. The way multinationals are usually setup - particularly with incompatible jurisdictions like US + China - is for a new company to be formed in the country they want to do business in, but with shares wholly owned by the parent. (In the case of China, they often need to partner with a domestic Chinese company that owns some of the shares - this is a sticking point in US/China trade relations, because it's commonly a front for industrial espionage.) Google China is not an American company; it is a Chinese company, headquartered in Beijing, that is partially owned by Google, which itself is owned by Alphabet.

If you want to block cross-border capital flows, you're looking at a lot of collateral damage. Apple, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Nike, McDonald's, KFC, Altria (Phillip Morris), and many others would lose > 50% of their revenue if they could not do business through international subsidiaries that operate according to the laws of the country that they do business in. That's a lot of American jobs lost and a lot of underfunded pension plans.

The problem with a lot of "too bad - just close the borders and have American companies build things in America for Americans" is that it ignores that the 1950s utopia they want to go back to was itself built on globalization. America was the engine of the Marshall Plan, and basically rebuilt the world after WW2. That allowed Americans of the 50s-80s to enjoy standards of living well above what the domestic economy would support. If we actually wanted to shut ourselves off from the world, the resulting economy would likely look a lot more like the America of the 1850s (before steamships made crossing the ocean a routine occurrence) or the North Korea/Cuba/Iran of today (as examples of other countries that have isolated themselves from the world economy).
My primary motivation is fighting these types of capitulations becoming precedents. If an American tech company will willfully aid the CCP in preventing information on human rights from spreading and build tools for a nationwide dragnet, what would they ever stand up for?
One thing I've found hard to find in Go is a library equivalent to GEOS/JTS; looks like there are some nice geometric operations bundled under https://github.com/tidwall/geojson
I think so. I'm cynical, and might wonder whether it's truly possible to eradicate such a reservoir. Seeing a couple examples that prove my intuition wrong is very powerful.
And yet Google fired the guy who expressed this sentiment in the internal memo.
Facebook did the same thing Fox News and CNN did: Accept advertisements that affect who votes and for whom.

It's not something Facebook created. Nor is it something that happened for the first time in 2016.

It's a significant historical misunderstanding to believe propaganda was invented by Facebook in the 21st century.
I use standardnotes.org self hosted
Hi HN!

This is a new app I wrote, (what I believe to be) the world's first electric vehicle marketplace. The transition to electric cars is going to make a whole bunch of used vehicles come pouring onto the second hand market, and I'd love to help buyers find sellers on this app. There's also a newsfeed, which aggregates from various sources (and I'm pretty addicted to), and also a daily video review roundup tab.

Let me know your thoughts and what the competition is out there. Is the HN community even interested in EVs?

Niko
I think this is a relatively recent development. 8-10 years ago, working at a startup or working at FANG paid about the same, but the startup came with this lottery ticket, you learned more at a startup and it wasn't a big co with big co politics and process. Back then it definitely made a lot more sense to maybe give up %10-%20 less income in exchange.

Startups & VCs started getting a lot of money in the global search for yield as interest rates dropped to 0 and QE started printing money and giving it to banks who would invest it. The google/apple/etc wage collusion lawsuit increased the amount of competition for engineers. FANG was losing engineers who would rather do their own thing for a little bit less. The H1B lottery system limited the supply. Housing started getting even more expensive in the SFBA. And as you said, FANG prints money so they can afford to keep on going up in the bidding wars.

Compensation started going up in this competitive system as a result until we are at the point we are today, where startups are definitely not competitive comp wise to being at FANG.
Computer hardware is practically disposable today (Raspberry Pis, Chromebooks, smartphones, etc). Businesses have moved a lot of their workflow to cloud-based services (Square, Office 365, Dropbox, etc). So not much of a market for PC troubleshooters these days.

Outside of rural areas, most of the PC techs I know of have transitioned to iPhone screen repair.

edit: Example:

old days: cash register breaks after hours, make emergency call for PC tech, PC tech spends an hour or setting up a replacement, and another hour or so repairing the old one, and another hour or so in transit--all billable.

2019: iPad with Square credit card reader dies. Teenage employee plugs the card reader into her iPhone, logs in under the store account, and the pumpkin spice continues to flow.
The Internet is written in ink. You should assume that any and all public posts you make have already been replicated and archived by countless parties in countless ways by the time you hit delete. HN public postings are no different.

The HN API [1] has been around in various forms for years and includes the same public data that's used to generate the public pages on the HN site, but rather than returning HTML pages designed for human consumption, the API returns the data in a JSON serialized form [2] designed for machine consumption [3].

When the HN API went live, it reduced the overhead and redundant work from all the programmers having to independently crawl and parse site. The HN BigQuery dataset is the same data returned by the HN API, Google just took the next step and did the work of loading it into BigQuery.

[1] https://github.com/HackerNews/API

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Data_serialization_fo...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_to_machine
It looks like https://github.com/github/SoftU2F would work for that.

I believe Chrome’s dev channel also has experimental soft webauthn support.
$108/year is not low price
How to earn up to $25,000 per week designing and selling t-shirts online
I agree with you. My comment is about those who put these issues at the center of high-profile debates and seem to demonize individuals and organizations without looking at how their actions contribute to the issue.

By no means, I'm trying to say that you can't regret an issue without indirectly being part of a system that aggravates the same issue. I think nobody can escape this.

But it's different when you want to raise someone or something to a certain moral standard without understanding how fungible is that particular moral standard.

Sometimes people are just wasting their energy on things that are only an issue by their standards and not by the standards of the people who are ultimately affected by the issue itself (in this case the Chinese people).

I would like to see Google employees object with the same energy, things like Google unhinged data collection practices.
I have no idea. Those messages I've quoted is from the Twitter page.
Google's motto "Don't be evil" is not rigorous. Huawei claims something similar recently. The problem is who defines what's good or evil? Every group of people think they are noble, and the enemies are evil.
Comedian’s DMCA fight shows how Twitter’s copyright system can hurt creators
only time tree style tabs were buggy for me in last 6 months was when i implemented css changes (to remove tabs from above the address bar)
"But our job isn’t to write code. Our job is to find and solve problems that move the business forward. Writing great code is a necessary but insufficient skill for doing that job."

If only more / most people understood this. Coding has a finite use. Problem solving (and critical thinking) are universal and possible uses approach infinity. They are the equivalent of the proverbial "learning to fish."
In 2009 they had private photos exploits, login exploits and all other kinds open access issues. Fun times.
I despise Fox News and CNN, but unless they took foreign money for those ads and didn’t go through the proper declarations making that clear, you’re presenting a false comparison. Fox and CNN, for all of their hideousness, also didn’t host bots and people having conversations with themselves to manipulate public discussion. They didn’t give the IRA a platform, and didn’t allow the likes of Cambridge Analytica to target high value voters in close states.
I don't think there is anyway to know if that's because you're female or not. It could be personality, politics, among many different factors. I think it's unfair to assume that people don't remember your name because you're a female.

I've worked with people for almost a year without remembering their name, because I'm awful with names. They were also very quiet and introverted, rarely said much and I suspect that had something to do it.