skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you're describing here is a disparity of outcomes reflecting a disparity of opportunity, isn't it?

What I'm talking about is a kind of "grassroots" disparity of opportunity. It's not necessarily the same as a "systemic" disparity of opportunity. The former can often be available to people who are literally poorer than the poor. (As has been the case for Chinese immigrants at times.) Irish Traditional music contains another example of the former.

Often, disparities can be a mix of these two things.

I agree with everything you said here, but you're presenting it as a disagreement, so I'm a little bit confused

I'm glad you're feeling a little bit confused. Often, this can be a good sign!

The problem with how such disparities are talked about and acted upon, is that the complexity of the situation is often downplayed or drastically underestimated, then combined with a punitive attitude of blame and compensation. This isn't how these things are known to work. The best way to transmit cultural knowledge is through some form of competition. (Friendly and peaceful are best, of course.)
It's fun to map each idea into a separate product. Reminds me of Craigslist's re-bundling [0].

From the post:

> Personal Podcast:
> [...] When on an article, you can generate an audio version that will be added to the feed
> [...] just send/text the link to add it to your preferred podcast app

That's exactly what we've built at https://www.narro.co - with Firefox support via good ol' vanilla bookmarklet.

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[0]: http://acrowdedspace.com/post/166470695392/the-rebundling-of...
Agreed, “hours worked” is starting to look like a dog whistle in these threads
Ask HN: What do you think of Lavabit accepting retail investment?
Why Is Customer Service So Bad? Because It’s Profitable
Don't worry about it, dude. The GP made a childish and pathetic attempt at bullying, because you dared to question his straw man.

Just ignore the trolls.
Taking the first hit on google, men work 42 min more per day when taking into consideration aspects like vacation and sick days. Every second week that almost translate to an whole additional day in difference.

"among full-time workers (those usually working 35 hours or more per week), men worked more per day than women—8.4 hours, compared with 7.9 hours. (See table 4.)"

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/atus.pdf

The questions we should ask our self is what are the incentives. How does wages, promotions, social status, health, happiness, children and social support look for men who is in the 50% that work longest vs those men who are in the 50% fewest hours at work. Then we do the same question for women.
Unfortunately not. Graal/Truffle solves the problem of making it easier to implement a language on the JVM. However, there is still some friction if your language has different GC semantics than the JVM. For example, you can make python on the JVM, but it is really hard to make the C interface for python work on the JVM. This is mainly due to the python memory model which, for worse, assumes that data in memory isn't moved by the GC. It allows for you to directly manipulate python objects in C code without fear of that data moving to a new location.

Javascript is much easier to do in the JVM because the language makes no assumptions on how memory is stored (AFAIK).
I feel you may misunderstand me. I do have a nice comfy job at a big company, in the Bay Area, as a software engineer. My career is still young, so I don't have a ton of savings. I couldn't afford college; I went to a cheaper one, took about a year's worth of classes before my debt became too much higher than my income and gave up. That's a big part of the equation, along with a car loan I still owe a fair bit on. Luckily I found most employers did not care about the lack of a degree and so began my career without much trouble.

I realize someone's probably going to comment that I'm an idiot for living in the Bay Area, but consider this: after living expenses, I still make a fair bit more than I did in Detroit, and I much prefer living here. So it is what it is.

I think in a few years I should be more than capable of buying an IDA Pro license, but as it stands I am not taking on that debt for a hobby. As for whether or not I will get a job doing reverse engineering, I think it's unlikely any time soon, though certainly possible in the future.

That's a lot more context than I feel is necessary to explain why I can't casually drop $3k-5k on a hobby, but hopefully it makes more sense.
In addition to Gpetrium's comment, there is this report by Oxford Economics that has been linked to elsewhere in the comments: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en...
Pyforwarder, a Python message forwarding library
I dunno have you seen human beings lately? Most people seem to be surgically attached to their nerd dild^H^H^H phones. Assuming the bailee is a rational and well intentioned actor (the article does seem to imply many people miss court because they forget), this is probably a reasonable thing to do.
In a good profession relationship 95% of the time proposals/issues are discussed until some agreement is reached or a decision to punt is made. The basis of that is a mature understanding that resources are limited.
When on an article, you can generate an audio version that will be added to the feed

I believe this is possible natively in macOS. Select some text. Control-click on it and select Services > Add to iTunes as Spoken Track.
Same version we use every year. Same procedure we go through every year. If I did it wrong I'm not alone.

Roughly:

Enter all W2 info that they should already have.

Enter all interest income.

Enter dividends (which are small)

then we move on to deductions

Enter Dependants

Enter Mortgage Interest (at this point the software tells us that we've maxed out deductions for the year)

Now a note about the interface on this software. In the corner they included a current tally of your tax owed/refund which updates every time you enter a new value.

At this point we start putting in the deductions anyway, because some things aren't counted until later steps, although it had been counted in the past. We note that the value in the corner is not changing despite putting in a significant amount of deductions.

Once we finish with the deductions the software tells us that the cap on deductions ($10k) is less than our standard deduction and suggests we take the standard deduction instead, which we do.

I don't know how we could have gotten it wrong.
This method of design is called a Continuation Passing Style Interpreter. [1]

Here's a production version from OpenJ9's JVM ByteCode Interpreter. [2]

[1] https://kseo.github.io/posts/2017-01-09-continuation-passing...

[2] https://github.com/eclipse/openj9/blob/01be53f659a8190959c16...
They probably leveraged this behavior from iOS, so they had a headstart
Fascinating. I wonder why we these studies and their findings never gain much attention?
Being charitable here, it may be that this exploit showed a breakage in their internal API security process, or an edge case previously unhandled. Perhaps FB had to run an internal audit to find any other endpoints effected by this bug. Buggy endpoints then need to get fixed, tickets get sent out, but with a low priority because this is a low priority bug, and voilà, 6-9 months.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19303039
I see a lot of commentary on break quality and stopping distance.

Those things matter, but not as much as reflex response time, which is mostly a fixed constant for most people.

Going faster means you travel further before even getting to the brakes.
https://hnify.com/leaderboard.html using the dataset tool too, amazing to have so much data freely available to play with.
> are we looking for something else here?

No. But some people, myself included, are interested in this sort of thing.

It's also interesting to see the timescales of the fix. Posts like this demonstrate that the system worked, albeit perhaps a bit slower than we'd like to imagine.

Whilst the reports of bug hunting apparently within the scope of the bug bounty resulting in a legal team responding with a false dichotomy between an NDA or prosecution are particularly juicy, it's also nice to hear about the cases where that isn't the outcome.
Show HN: The Marker Game, a turn-based combat game on a hexagonal grid
The argument against the waste pipe bond (what Reason describes as a "facelift" for "Becker Business Park", which appears to be an empty field) seems straightforward and I'm not really litigating it. Sure: the state maybe shouldn't pay for that.

The argument against the property tax break is less clear to me. Like, all things being equal, I'd rather Google pay more tax than less tax. But it's not at all clear to me what Minnesota's BATNA is here. They can demand the property taxes, and Google can site elsewhere. Google will be fine, and Minnesota will be out a data center. I don't think a data center is an economic miracle or anything, but it's hard to believe it could possibly be a net negative for rural Minnesota.

I don't have a strong opinion about this story, I just want to understand the outrage a little better.
Creator here -- this is the third game I've made for One Game a Week 2019. This is the battle system from a game my brother and I originally devised almost twenty years ago, except in those days we played it on a piece of paper with colored markers.

Read more about The Marker Game here: https://www.trykonstudios.com/post/the-marker-game-recap
I wish it was a "If you use it this month, we'll charge you $15". I personally hate having to balance the tools I subscribe to. I mean even if I use something like EAGLE for once in a month, that one time is worth the $15 or whatever it is now. If I don't use it in February though, I don't wanna get charged for it.

For as much as reporting home for license checks these programs do, you think they would be a little understanding.
I use Tinkercad[0] every single day, for rough mock-ups through to complete exported STLs that I then 3D print. I have Fusion 360 but find it faster/easier to whip something together in Tinkercard unless it has any complexity to it, and generally there has been nothing 3D printable that I can't do in Tinkercad, leaving Fusion 360 more for larger project design (stuff I'm going to make in mixed materials, like a complete robot).

I also love that if I get an idea in bed or when away from my PC I can use my laptop to log in and mock it up, or work on ongoing projects there.

As a maker/tinkerer/hacker I actually think Tinkercad (and all the related web based design tools) are one of the most exciting advancements in this hobby, along with 3D printers and DIY CNCs.

[0] http://tinkercad.com/
Lego Fold
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IIRC they were in GCC first and later ported to clang because it was too annoying for Google to continue to maintain them in GCC.
This comment from the NYT comments section captures my reaction well. Note that the subject of the criticism is the article, not millenials:

> I find the tone of this article just stunning. Since when is there a sacrosanct right to live in the most expensive housing markets in the country? NYC is not newly expensive - it has always been expensive. When I graduated from college many years ago, I got a job in Manhattan, but certainly couldn't afford to live there. So I did what most people in my situation did: I lived where I could afford and commuted to work over an hour each way on public transportation. This is hardly a radical proposition except to those who somehow think they are entitled to have what they want when they want it. Sometimes you have to learn to defer gratification. The easiest time to do this is when you are young. After 8 years of saving, I was able to make a down payment on a house. 4 years after that I finished paying off my student loans. There is great value in learning to live within one's means and I am grateful that my parents found it more important to foster self-reliance than to insulate me from disappointment.
A Formula for Scalable Success
> 2 years of labor [4160 hours] for 2300 people @ 35/hr

It says 2,300 jobs created over 18-24 months but not the duration of those jobs so we have to be careful assuming that’s 4160 hours per job.
it's 15MM over 20 years, right? $750k/year? Against the economic activity from building a huge data center, that seems like a drop in the bucket?
I haven’t heard: if you replace your phone number will they maintain the association with your historical one? It’d be trivial to get a Google Voice number or burner to replace yours.
I don't want Volvo, or a computer, or a mechanical system to kill my family because it didn't account for an edge case.

Everyone here is talking about normal highway use, but, as everyone knows, not all situations are normal. Bad things happen.

My imagination is limited, but for example: Fires can spread quickly and surround you (e.g. a valley with one road out), a tsunami can happen with only a couple of minutes warning, some hospital trips can't wait for an ambulance, sometimes people try to kill you (jealous ex? opposing political group or religion in some countries, who knows what the future holds).

So, die in a fire I guess, it's for your own safety.
I highly recommend folks to view this talk by the venerable Cliff Click called "Bits of Advice For the VM Writer" [1]

Of particular interest are Continuation Style Passing Interpreters [2] and how much of a speedup you can get by going to raw assembly.

The talk has lessons Cliff learned from his years on the JVM but those can be adapted easily to other runtimes.

[1] https://youtu.be/Hqw57GJSrac?t=341

[2] https://kseo.github.io/posts/2017-01-09-continuation-passing...
I love Snooze Tabs!
100% agree. If I create 4 documents now I'm stuck paying $108/year forever to keep them on their server. No thanks.
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Just a reminded that the other side of the coin is not 2nd generation immigrants only but also 1st generation who might be even more burdened.
How did this fall off the front page with almost 500 points and less than 6 hours? There are submissions with fewer points and older that are still pretty high on the front page. Can anyone explain? Is it possible this is getting flagged too many times?
This is how cargo cult programming begins.
It's not about "investment".

The opportunity cost of doing things when you're at a low wealth level is enormous.

The obvious example would be to consider the gap between being homeless with $0 and being homeless with $5K.

Your earnings potential just essentially went up by an infinite amount because now you can rent an apartment, get a job, perhaps buy some study equipment like a computer or whatever, and suddenly that $5K can be well north of $50K.

This isn't stock index tracker stuff, this is home economics.
Centurylink is already passing through there. They already have 1gb internet for 65.00/month there. That's cheaper than what I pay here in Austin.
I read that too and don't understand it at all. Do you? By "shortfall", do they simply mean "if we charged full property taxes to Google, the revenue we'd get would be much more than the taxes we'd get from the 50 FTEs at the data center"? "Shortfall" suggests money the city and county would essentially be "spending" to have the data center, but that's not what's happening, right?
How long are the continuous fibers? CNTs can do some truly insane things if you make them long enough.
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Probably the majority of generated C code is where the input language lives in an entirely different domain (e.g. parsers), so sourcemaps wouldn't help.
Crosstalk with other pairs.
I suppose, although these "random basic kinematics" are actually "highly relevant first principles of safety" in automobiles (stopping distance).

If you prefer starting from accident statistics, here are a variety of studies across a variety of locations that generally show a ~2% increase in accidents per 1 km/h of speed. [1]

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/transport/road_safety/specialist/knowle...
It only happens after negotiation, so the higher potential wattage plays no role here. You'd need both a bad cable and an out-of-spec wall wart.
How much did Google offer for a security bug (if they would have accepted it)?
"the state loses out" assumes that the public makes money off the deal. If not, just spend the $15m on programs that actually benefit them.
When I got my first computer in 1984, I hooked it up to the TV, turned it on, and was dumped immediately into BASIC. The computer also came with a thick manual that not only described how to set up the computer, but how to program in BASIC, with lots of examples.

Today? You may get a manual describing the computer, but that's it---how to set it up and turn it on (if that). The software comes preinstalled and if you want manuals, it's off to the Internet (either Google or Amazon).

I've been using Firefox since the days of Mozilla, and I didn't even know about F12 (then again, I haven't done any serious web development since 1999 so perhaps it's not surprising).
That's a problem of Target's to deal with.

They're saving money by treating humans as perfectly interchangeable cogs.

This is why you have backup staff and don't drive people to the point of maximal efficiency. Because it's inhuman.
One could also question whether they used the lure of a bounty to keep someone quiet while they let customers (aka advertisers) continue to benefit for an extra 9 months at the expense of the users.

I guess you'd have to consider Facebook's track record in terms of how charitable vs. cynical you want to be in interpreting their actions.
As far as I can tell, the Standard Model does an unreasonably good job about explaining particles and their interactions up to 10 TeV. Given the many, many open questions in other areas below 10 TeV - perhaps we could shift attention elsewhere?

Disclaimer: I have a PhD in physics.
USB 4? You sure they don't mean USB 3.4 Revision 4 UltraSpeed HyperBus XP for Workgroups 3.11 Xtreme Edition?
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This is pretty challenging for a multinational corporation operating in a globalized world.

The issue here is that Google is trying to produce a product that conforms to Chinese laws for doing business in China. These laws are deeply offensive and immoral to many people in Google's largely-American workforce.

Trying to create a moral compass that multinational corporations can live by requires creating laws that apply to everyone on earth. Personally, I think that's a great idea. Then the hard work is in finding a set of global laws that everyone can agree on, and that's the sticking point, because peoples' moral sensibilities on earth are largely contradictory.

Americans would be quick to say "Well, we should all operate under democracy - let the people decide what these laws should be", not realizing that if we actually did world democracy 1-person-1-vote style, the legal framework they would live under would likely be some weird amalgamation of the Chinese & Indian political systems, because close to 50% of the population lives in those countries. America would get about 5% of the vote, so it's a good bet that our wishes would be ignored. Personally, though I love the idea of world government in theory, I didn't sign up for those conditions. Given the general resistance to globalization by populist bodies in basically every nation on earth, most other people didn't either.
There are two methods, IIRC. `get` and `create`. Everything is done with Challenge/Response with the browser handling the Private Stuff. It's hard to mess up, at a glance.

You ask the browser to create an asymetric key pair. It returns the public key, which the server saves. On login, you provide a challenge to the browser to sign using the private key from earlier. It returns the signed message and the server verifies the signature.
> Does anyone know why visualization folks don’t care about dimensional accuracy?

Maybe because the intended output is more about proportion than absolute dimensions?

Besides, you can specify dimensions in the programs you mention, Blender, Modo etc. See here for Vectary:
https://www.vectary.com/3d-modeling-learn/dimensions-how-to-...
You can compare ZFS to BTRFS, Ext4FS belongs to the late 90s. Comparing ZFS to Ext4 is like comparing a Pentium 100 Mhz to a Quad Core, asking why would someone want to use the quad core.
That may be true of Alaska, but the trend appears to hold on average: https://wallethub.com/edu/states-most-least-dependent-on-the... .
Your problem is that you're measuring outcomes only in terms of money. Maybe women value time & family more than money & success?!

Women do yoga. Men do martial arts. Which is "better"? Which is the "lesser outcome"? None. It's just a difference (in preferences and therefore outcome).
There is no opting out of ethically wrong choices under global capitalism. That doesn't mean it's not worthwhile to change things.
Thanks. It seems technically possible to stop a great deal of these robocalls with that info.
> when they had the question in mind before they even read the thing.

I don't think you can assume that. I think a fair number of people could read the article and then afterward realize they don't know how it was confirmed.
are you supposed to wear these? or put them on a shelf? or seal them in a plastic bag like magic cards?
The information provided in the article directly contradicts your hypothetical.

It says that the raises resulting from the study disproportionately went to men. Not just in absolute terms, but proportional terms:

> The study, which disproportionately led to pay raises for thousands of men, is done every year [...]

> In response to the study, Google gave $9.7 million in additional compensation to 10,677 employees for this year. Men account for about 69 percent of the company’s work force, but they received a higher percentage of the money.
Corning has several lengths of optical thunderbolt 2 cable, do you need it to be thunderbolt 3 specifically?
Facebook Doubles Down on Misusing Your Phone Number
Google execs know that as long as they have the best benefits in the industry and keep their workers cushy they'll also have complete control over them. This is because when you're at the top of the food chain, very few people are actually willing to put their money where their mouth is and take meaningful action. It's deliciously hypocritical to see Google workers here (and HN posters in general) lament Facebook workers for being morally corrupt when they continue to enable and find excuses for Google and are guilty of the same thing.

Google will move forward with expansion into China. Anyone who doesn't believe that is frankly naive. The further censorship of the Chinese populace will be 100% in the name of greed and profit. But why should Googlers care? After all, those free meals, pools, video game rooms, and gyms aren't going to pay for themselves.
Wow that's pretty lame then. We have something similar but it's not really something you're held to, mostly just for them to have an idea what your deductions should be (or something like that, not a tax expert). Wondering, could they classify themselves as theater or similar? That's what's commonly used at least in the circles Im part of.
Yup, instead of fighting inequality let's just have the rich get richer. It's for the best you see.
"Studying what Electron does for people ... What gives the app value over the web page?"

I always assumed that the immediate benefit here wasn't to the user at all, it was to the developer who could be 100% sure what engine they were running in, and so didn't have to bother testing in multiple browsers and versions, or risk browser updates breaking their site.