skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you know that men sometimes like babies and animals too? Crazy I know.

What is taught in 4th-5th grade math? Fractions? Decimals? Multiplication and division of larger numbers (maybe the accursed "Long Division")?

These are not exactly the most exciting or interesting things to learn... If I was a parent of this child, I'd take it as a notice that they are falling behind, probably from lousy teaching and parenting. It's not going to get any better by ignoring the problem. They've got another 8+ years of school to go, they aren't even halfway done. You need to show them why they can find it interesting, the same way you would show a student who really loves math why reading/writing is important. Or why history matters... If you just assume a 10 year old can fully decide what their adult self likes/doesn't like and what they need to know, then you are failing as a parent.
It's too bad she has to ask what is ok to like.
(Author here.) The RSS feeds of major news sites gives a list of articles and titles, but a large portion don't give anything more, and the remainder give excerpts. So the RSS feeds are more like a headline ticker. It's a good way to get an up-to-date list of news posts, but not news content.
I’ll repeat points that aren’t my original ideas, but are painfully obvious here.

It’s very simple what it’s become: sexist against men.

This is what happens when you aim for equality of outcome instead of equality of opportunity.

I believe we’re in a Kantian second stage. We were sexist against women. Now, we’re sexist against men. The hopeful third step
These are music portraits that unfold as you tap on the grid elements. This show contains 9 digital art pieces - with a general theme of recursion. Previously, I released a show focusing on the "uncanny valley" [0]. You can find a discussion of that show on Hacker News here [1].

[0] https://rosshaker.com/shows.html
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17941815
I will bite your response with the hopes you try to keep an open mind to the response you get instead of a preconceived notion of how things work.

1. Data centers are a symbol to a much larger economic schema that impacts quality of service to the area, economic prosperity, among other areas. Minnesota can literally come to prospect business and say "Look, Google, X, Y and Z companies gave us a seal of approval that our state is tech driven, come join them in the future of technology in America" You would be surprised how 1 transaction with a big brand can help future business opportunities.

2. One data center alone does not increase land value, the combination of all the variables I list ++++ do.

3. Every employee that is paid is taxed, every equipment they purchase is taxed, every goods or services they need is taxed, land is taxed. Taxation is not just what income tax and corporate tax.

4. You shouldn't be comparing a data center to a headquarter, they are two distinct parts of a business and the economy. You will have 20 people + the contractors needed from time to time + folks that need to fly to the data center 70% of their time + other marketing, sales jobs to sell the data center services to the state economy. Is it on the same degree as a headquarter? Never, nor should it be seeing as such

5. You could divide the number of jobs by 30 and you could still break-even as a city/state without accounting for the other benefits I list (and the ones I didn't). You are also forgetting that there are other costs associated with the job that are not construction work and even within construction work, there are specialists that make more money. Always remember, just because your paycheck says you make $15 an hour, it doesn't mean that your cost is a lot higher.

6. Refer to the other points and try to think of the ones I didn't list (improved disaster readiness in the region, energy consumption cost and taxes/jobs associated with it, promises to set-up green initiatives, etc)

I hope this has helped you see a different side of the equation.
I wonder if we will ever get to a point where security will be so high that hackers won't exist anymore.
>I see a lot of people recommending that people value their options at $0. Imo, this is an irrational approach for most tech employees who have a non-zero tolerance to risk. Yes, options are like a lottery ticket

A lot of people play the lottery, the prize is millions and the price is a buck or two. If your income is ~100k and you're valuing your options at a buck or two then it sounds like you're pretty much joining the view that options are worthless.
The Internet Won't Kill Gun Control by Itself
Thanks! I feel like I'm still not understanding. The tax breaks Google is asking for are city and county property taxes. If Google doesn't move in, the county isn't getting that money anyways. What's the "shortfall" here?
Sweet! Good to have an IDA alternative!

I hope the pricing remains sane once you guys make it big :)
If I'm a bail bondsman, I'm probably already sending text messages to my clients to make sure they show up in court, because if they don't, I'm the one out the money unless I go pick them up and take them to the county jail myself. I'm not sure about ankle bracelets, but there's no reason they couldn't be part of the current bail system, either--if I'm a bail bondsman, I'd give a discount to any client that wears an ankle bracelet that I can track.

The thing is, there's only one county court. If the county court has a program of ankle bracelets and text messages and supervised release and that program doesn't work, there's no incentive for it to change. And there's no alternative for the suspect, either--the judge has final say. With cash bail, there might be a dozen bail bondsmen in the county all in competition, each with the incentive to provide competitive terms to the suspect while guaranteeing their presence at court.
VeraCrypt 1.24 Features Improvements
It uses HTTP content negotiation, based on the Accept-Language header.
This is quite meaningful for external graphics solutions, PCI peripheral devices, and other modular pc components.
Almost there; now we just need some cross-platform implementations with synced credentials, and support from a couple major sites. Ideally some password managers will step in and implement support, and Google will add support to their own login flow as a primary authentication factor.
To be clear, this is saying that seed-phase companies have a 74% chance of eventually failing, and a company that makes it to series C is nearly as likely to eventually fail, at 71%? My impression was that joining a later-stage company is generally seen as much lower-risk, which is also why companies tend to give out fewer options as the company grows. Is that the wrong way of thinking about it?
Maybe a sign for a strong PR campaign?
I've designed a few patches over the years (military). The image submitted to the printer often varies wildly from the look of the finished patch. The forgotten part of this article is the artistic input from those actually building the patches. They take the vision and make it work in thread.

(FYI, the patches that really matter don't come in bright colors. Patches worn by actual operators, the people who put their lives on the line, use only muted colors, certainly not white or silver anything.)

What makes me laugh is seeing how these cops throw around military or legal symbols without any idea of what they mean. The lightning bolts mean something in the military. So too the skulls. And I don't think cops should be using the scales of justice. That is something reserved for judges. By adopting it they are basically declaring themselves judge and jury.
> But it involves money changing hands, which gets certain people all up in a lather about abolishing it.

If you're found innocent is the bail fee rescinded?
Maybe at some point in the past a decriminalization approach would have put a stop to the violence that is tied to illegal drugs. Maybe.

But that's not the case anymore. Cartels don't really deal in drugs, they deal in violence that rivalizes that of a state in terms of reach and often legitimacy. That's the source of their power, not the production/trade of drugs. If "soft" illegal drugs are legalized (and I think they should be) actors in the current trade will simply move their efforts to other sectors in which a violent actor can profit from combating state efforts: sex trafficking, racketeering, counterfeit products... politics...

I'm sure there will be a change but I agree with the previous poster -it will take generations.
My working hypothesis is that I'm a "meat machine". When I die, it's extremely likely that I (that is, my conscious awareness) will no longer exist. That might also happen, of course, even if much of the meat lives.

Given that, I do have some existential dread about death. And that's distinct from the process of dying, the hassle and pain involved, and so on.

So I do fear murderers, because they'll kill me. But I fear torturers more, because they cause pain. And more. They do irrevocable stuff, injuries that can never heal. So it's like they can kill you, over and over, little bits at a time. And in a way, those realizations of irrevocable loss are worse than the actual pain.
I do understand that in all cases when the tail part of the function is executed such that it's well-defined (the only cases we care about), the return value is zero, which means it's effectively a constant. Since we have to prepare that return value in %eax (dictated by the ABI), then at some point we clear %eax; that's not semantically the same as initializing ret. If we do this later in the function, like just before returning, we can use %eax for other purposes in the meanwhile.
It's unsurprising this is the case: to be published as a Recommendation you have to demonstrate interoperable implementation experience.

The implementation report is at https://www.w3.org/2019/01/webauthn-report.html and shows Safari passing most of it, AFAICT. (Though it's based on Safari Technology Preview and is yet to ship.)
(No sarcasm) I feel you're being sarcastic but I'm not sure what direction you're going with your comment. At the risk of dissecting a frog, could you rephrase that?
If I had to guess, I would say the claim is about running IBM DOS in a browser, as opposed to Linux.
You might need to escape a tsunami, pyroclastic flow, forest fire, or hurricane. The road might not go in the ideal direction, so being just a bit faster might not be enough.
Most of the cables aren't going to have anything more than a few-cent chip that lists the capabilities.
Is something wrong with ballet since it's mostly women?
"being rich is always "someone who makes more than I do."

In recent American discourse, the metric is usually the top 1% or a fraction of the top 1% (in terms of wealth and /or income). These aren't our well off neighbors, these are families that are astronomically wealthy. The top 1% of wealthiest households in the US possess more wealth than the bottom 90%.

There are plenty of people with more money then me who are nowhere near that top 1%, but few people are clamoring for them to pay more in taxes.
Amazon has exactly such a policy.
In reality, the person fresh out of school is likely being underpaid and would benefit greatly from salary transparency. I.e your example is working against the point you are trying to make.
Ask HN: Been self-employed for 18 years, am I hirable?
Throwaway account here, but been on HN for a long time. I'm going through a big life change, and this post is going to ramble a bit. But I need your help, HN.

I've also been running my own business for a long time, mostly B2B consulting/development/training in the Microsoft/Office world. But I don't want to be pigeon-holed.

For my own company, however, I've done a lot. I've written many, many chatbots with various functionalities for many platforms (some incorporating NLP—spacy.io is a particular favorite of mine); developed many non-throwaway, high quality apps/services with NodeJS, Python (Django), and Ruby (Rails); done video post-production and ingestion automation (latter via AWS, including Lambda); created many custom Wordpress plugins and themes; created more back-end mashups (NodeJS/Python/Ruby native, or via NodeRED/Huginn/Zapier) and built more web sites (I favor SSR—I guess because I'm an old?—but have a functional working knowledge of React and Vue) than I can count; I've "done data science" well enough to talk the talk (for text-processing and basic statistical domains); I've worked on "citizen journalism" projects that were well-received in, ahem, certain social media circles (my politics trend toward the more liberal end of the spectrum); I am an EXCELLENT public speaker (I've spoken at many conferences in my industry, and consistently get the highest rankings); and a lot more.

(…see my reply for more…)

I'd love to be doing something where I am making a difference, either with code, or maybe as a public-facing (speaking/writing/coding) developer evangelist.

I am the geek renaissance man of the 21st century, with the arthritis of a retiree, the dark humor of a comedian with their own Netflix show, and the ADHD-superpowers of a whole fleet of college grads.

Am I hirable as a contractor (or more)? How do I craft a resume that both honestly reflects this kind of history and does justice to the breadth of knowledge I have?
We can take a look at The Dalles or Boardman, OR to see what effect data centers have had on the local economy. There are a few very large data centers there built by GCP and AWS respectively.

My guess on the economic effects? Not much.
I've been in the same industry (focused on a particular product line) for nearly two decades on my own, but the work is drying up. I want to move on, ideally doing remote contracting for a company that appreciates both the wisdom and circumspection that comes with age, and the always-hungry/always-learning attitude that comes with being a SMB owner for nearly 20 years. I consider myself a hacker in the truest sense: I like to get my hands dirty, and find the solutions that everyday consultants would miss, because I get my hands dirty with everything, every day.

My resume looks like this post: all over the place. It almost seems like it's all amateur work, because so much of the "cool stuff" was done for internal consumption in my own business or for clients, and I've (effectively) had one employer for 18+ years. The stuff that is publicly available is quite political in nature. But none of it is amateur work; I'm a damn professional, and I know what I'm doing…but I'm not so stuck in my ways that I'm afraid to ask for help when I need it.
> There is generally no respect for maintenance and things that last. Same in the corporate world.

Of all places, HN should know this is true. So many devs hate maintenance to the point of snubbing their noses at anyone who does maintenance. "Oh, he's just a maintenance developer, he can't do what I do." I've actually heard devs say that about another dev. You would think that intelligence would prevent some of that behavior (because they should know better), but I guess not.
Unfortunately I can no longer tell is this statement is meant in jest or not.
The point being that few people in the US are calling for increased taxes on any of those types of families. The politics these days is very squarely focused on the super-wealthy.
IIRC, Firewire had/has the same issue; DMA from whereever you please...this was known years ago, but I guess this is a hard problem to solve for high-bandwidth low-latency IO devices....
Funny you mention this, I was just reading [1]this article related to the quote on "putting your eggs in one basket". Conventional wisdom says "diversify". However, I'm of the belief that you'll need high risk for a high return (can't have your cake and eat it too).

[1] https://www.themoneyhans.com/how-to-get-really-rich-put-all-...
So what you're saying is we need to rewrite it in Rust, then compile it to WASM, then compile an ASM.js backup as well? /s
Fair enough. But their USB-C cables and chargers do not:

https://www.apple.com/uk/shop/product/MLL82ZM/A/usb-c-charge...
I find it more likely that "the Internet" will move in the direction of supporting gun control, given that generation-by-generation internet usage has gone up and so has support of lefty policies.
It wouldn't be the first time a news article had a poor understanding of statistics. But more importantly, you may find men occupy high salary roles in engineering whilst women work in HR - resulting in the salary changes going disproportionately to men, because a % increase in their salary is far higher than the women on lower salaries.
Those $100M yachts and Montana ranches aren't going to buy themselves.
For what? For pay transparency look at Congress staffers, lot of state employees, a lot of CEOs, the military or some tech companies. For the second point I think it's pretty well known that markets can only properly function if all participants have the relevant information.
Kantian second stage

For those who slept through the philosophy class, what these stages are?
Cathy O'Neill wrote a terrific book a couple of years back called 'Weapons of Math Destruction'. It's a must read for those of us in this field - and generally a great eye opener.

It would behoove us all to think about the consequences of the algorithms we're working on - much like this article.
Sounds like some next century level “how to track anyone”. Just send an SMS from a random (non-spoofed) phone number, ask to do a “find my iPhone.”
Glad to see there's a report that says Pakistan is a threat to humanity.
Begin the countdown to businesses installing treadmills at every desk.
As long as the only difference between cable capabilities is speed, I'm happy. We're not quite there but we're close.

Also it would need to be marked on the cable somewhere.
You are free to support. There is a box on tax return allowing you to pay more taxes that you are required by law. People may not be happy when you coerce them to do the same or more. Supporting and compelling are different.
"Also, salary transparency wouldn't actually address anything. It would be a tool to address the salary issue with management and management (plus, HR) would address it, yeah?"

The first step to address issues is to gather relevant data so an informed decision can be made. right now we have only very incomplete data.
How easy will it be to implement? We should keep in mind the most dangerous guys out there store passwords in clear text in databases and other amateurish rookie mistakes. Having easy to use / impossible to f__k up libraries for every major platform is going to be critical.
An algorithm can be racially biased, or have biases that significantly correlate with race, without actually having a "race" variable.
At least in the case of New York they still tax non-residents on income earned from New York. (I realize it may be less for non-residents than residents). It seems strange that I am legally obligated to pay taxes to a State but have no vote in the choosing representatives who levy those taxes.
It's at least partly because of rampant sexism and social suspicion of men who want to spend time around children.
> Pausing based on time away from target tab rather than number of other-tabs open seems ideal to me.

The two exceptions are audio (including backgrounded video) and messaging/notifications.
Adjustable how?
I find it ridiculous people still cling to XP and IE, just wanted to poke fun. :)
Did the same, 100% worth it. For about one month we had the new home while on the last month of our lease. The money we saved in movers probably more than paid for the last month of rent. We moved everything one car load at a time each evening over the course of a week except for all the large pieces of furniture. We hired movers for what ended up being a pretty small job of about 6 large pieces of furniture and a few odds and ends left over.
Might not be pleasant but guessing hitting something would be less pleasant...
I think zeroTier is meant to be easy whereas openVPN is versatile and can be configured in many ways.

One use case of a VPN is to connect two local networks together. Another is to have your traffic appear to be coming from a different geographical area.

In some cases you wouldn't want the local networks to be able to speak, like commercial VPN services, for security reasons.
To be honest I wouldn't mind having just half of that power.

Every quarter I do a 1500km trip, which is split into two legs - the longer being around 1140km.

Assuming I started with enough charge to drive 300km, charging wouldn't affect my time, because I am human and need to go to the bathroom, eat etc.
You can't outlaw them without modifying the US Constitution due to the 10th Amendment as it concerns states rights. Individual states could outlaw it, but they would just be putting themselves at a disadvantage relative to other states that did not.
Good questions. I think that compensation should mirror the value an employee provides to the company. However, in many cases, that is very hard or even impossible to measure.

In large companies with many career levels, the role level indicates the perceived value for the company. Then, the distribution within the level doesn't matter that much, as long as the difference between minimum and maximum pay is relatively small, and there is not much overlap to the neighborhood levels.
Of course, there is no objective criterion what "relatively small" means in this context.

And, as the article already points out, this only covers fairness within the same level. Maybe even more important is if everybody is evaluated in the same way when it comes to career progress.
This looks pretty cool. Tinkercad is another tool like this that works in a browser. I find Tinkercad is a little more intuitive but from what I can see this seems to be a little more powerful.
Let's say you manage to carve out 2-4 hours a day to work on your side project while remaining a decent person to your wife and kids. Leaving your job means you could spend 11-13 hours a day on it instead. That's an enormous difference and could easily mean the difference between failure and success.

Not only that, but you are putting yourself in precarious legal territory by bootstrapping a side project. Your employer could easily claim ownership of all your IP.

OP was a senior software engineer at AWS, how difficult do you think it would be for him to re-enter the workforce with a competing cloud provider nor even coming back to Amazon?
It could be something like impressions of the overall quality of infrastructure. Is Google going to put a data center where Internet speeds look like 90's dialup?
Discussion of same article on a different site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19302264
How many companies have this data available to someone who might sue them?
Good reply to the regulatory overreach. Only one change to consider, TDWR is on all the time insofar as I can tell from checking out the weatherunderground feed of Tampa's TDWR. Even if it did somehow manage to cause interference as you've pointed out it would have to be on top of the site if it were to cause an issue and even then it would be easy to track down.

EDIT: The TDWR referenced above is at https://www.wunderground.com/weather-radar/united-states/fl/...
Romances between colleagues is a fairly common and natural thing. It seems quite excessive for all propositions to result in termination.
This is a mistake of the parent. You can't "make" them become something. That's why they hate it, not because of the school. You are forcing them to do it.

I've seen this with people who are coders trying to force their kids to make websites (like they did when they were a kid). But guess what: maybe you did it because it was fun, but for her it's a chore because she didn't come up with the idea!

If she likes animals, show her science about animals. The math will come into play naturally. You could ask her about how many babies certain animals have each year. Let her find the problems that interest her, and show her that math is a tool that can solve those problems.
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