skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Royalty free is the huge boon here.
>I made it out and got a nice job in tech, but like many of my peers it is I who support my parents. I pay their health insurance, I lend them money for groceries, and I'm financing my dad's chemotherapy. Do you know how hard it is to save up for a house (on the west coast !!) knowing you'll never get a windfall from Mom and Dad? When in fact they are a liability budget wise?

I can only imagine how difficult that is. This is an interesting distinction between western and eastern culture too. I wonder if the obligation to take care of your parents is less pronounced in eastern households that are wealthier.
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I read that as an AND as opposed to a singular entity.

Below average AND woman.
I don't think your example depends on the person's circunstances, there is a very clear cut rational decision there. Even not taking the utility of money into account, nor the fact that you need to discount that million as it only arrives in 10 years, you are still only making 10k on average on that gamble. Taking the 300k is the rational decision.
So my current car tops out at 163MPH (not a Tesla). Being in the Bay Area (a large parking lot is how I would describe the freeways) the chance of every going that fast is zero. It is possible (no admission of guilt) that I may have hit 120MPH once or twice very late at night on the I280. That being said, this limit bugs my libertarian views. The issue is of course all the people in a car that can hit a stupid level of speed (100MPH+), that lack the correct breaks, tires, handling for that stupid level of speed. Drive down the 17. It is a wreakfest of people that drive too fast on winding road without understanding that just because your engine can push does not mean the rest of the important car parts function at that level. The engine tech level in the standard consumer car has hit a possible speed level without effort that is not matched by the other parts of the vehicle. Pair that with someone that thinks, well it can go that fast so it must be okay...
> Women in Korea are not treated poorly.

Do you know this for sure? Developed East Asian countries are some of the worst in terms of work equality for women, particularly if they want to have children. Not a good example to use.
"non major liberal cities"

I think the "me too" thing proved the coastal elite were part of the problem.
Seriously impressive! I particularly noted the speed of command to actuation.
The page claims to be "the original IBM PC simulation that runs in your web browser", but I think jslinux* predates this project. How do they compare?

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2555349
> "Under the old system, state goverments, by enacting an income tax of their own, could essentially steal part of the federal government's tax revenue."

this is such an odd statement. federal and state governments have no entitlement to any type or class of tax, so stealing is an inappropriate description. the federal government can collect taxes in any way congress decides (with implicit citizen support).

with that said, the federal government should really be focused primarily on international relations/defense and mediating inter-state disputes (and certainly not on punitive politics like this). federal taxation should be commensurately limited, with states being the primary taxing authority and facilitator of governmental programs of the citizens' choosing (through state legislators).
Parking tickets will only follow you so far.
TB3 is already the "all of the above" cable, so hopefully USB4 will be as well.
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Anti discrimination laws apply to all protected classes.

It is illegal to discriminate against pregnant women, or mothers, for example.

To give another example, religion is another category where companies are required to give reasonable accommodations.
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we use yellow for power/charging
Yes, this is msan. All the clang sanitizers have handy names, like tsan, msan, asan, ubsan, ksan. And they even made it to gcc.
> but one should still write code defensively.

I'm not sure what this means. You should not write your code any differently regardless of whether you used a sanitizer to help gain confidence in your implementation.

You should not use sanitizers in production (at least not the current generation).

> Can you test Kernel code with a sanitizer

In fact you can! Both UBSan [1] and ASan [2] are in use to root out bugs in linux.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.14/dev-tools/ubsan.html

[2] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.14/dev-tools/kasan.html
That sounds like a huge hassle, which would probably make it a no-go.
They're commending you because your English is terrific =) Learning a language is tough work, but if you didn't say anything I would have had no idea.
What happens when accelerating above that is the only way to avoid a situation nearby? If braking will cause you to be in that bad situation, why not have another option available?
Doesn't this stopping distance depend on the car? Said German cars have bigger breaks and bigger tyre surface and have been proven to stop quicker. Top Gear showed this often (Australian trip with the m6, Bentley and gtr) all stopping in less than half the Highway Code distance...)
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The consistency is in being not consistent (unfortunately)
Yes, that is what the parent comment is saying; look closely to see the sarcasm.
Can't find it all now, but here are a few:

https://mobile.twitter.com/tomscott/status/10761608828733808...

https://www.cnet.com/news/brave-browser-fix-for-online-adver... (not evil necessarily, but certainly not as good as Firefox + addons that block all ads and trackers)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19129309
For those into cryptocurrency, the Trezor and Ledger hardware wallets can also be used for fido u2f.
I agree, without knowing, we can only assume they will be worthless. I am in the US, Do you think discussion of this among employees is protected under the National Labor Relations Act, say in our company's private Discord channel?
I think most companies want economics of scale, but even if they don’t:

Finding 10 good engineers that care about your customers is difficult but doable.
Finding 2000 is much much more difficult.

Trusting 10 engineers to communicate with customers without promising things they shouldn’t, mentioning upcoming features that hurt current sales, have generally good communication skills, is again difficult but doable.
Asking that of 2000 people....
That would be the National Labor Relations Act of 1935.

It codified laws that gave workers the legal right to discuss working conditions, among many other rights that it covered.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Labor_Relations_Act_o...
Is there any reason parents can't just buy this service for themselves?
It would be great to signify a browser window as my main window where new tabs are opened rather than using the last focused. Alternatively, I would take a way of blacklisting a window from letting new tabs be opened. As more and more apps become web-apps, I like having the apps open in multiple windows on one monitor and use another monitor for web _browsing_. Having new tabs open, hiding my email, jira, docs, etc... is a small annoyance but one that would be great to have remedied.
Cool :) but for me is more fun to write than to use.
Oh, this makes more sense. I do agree that 60 is too low, there are definitely scenarios where you'd want to accelerate above 60 for passing situations.
Obviously.

Your comment seemed to imply a recession incoming sooner than later and was wondering if you had a source.
I was using t-mobiles free tier scam call blocker, which worked pretty well except it also blocked calls from Twilio, including our downtime alerts. So I unfortunately had to disable it.
tl;dr: Intel made Thunderbolt 3 royalty free in 2018, so now it's essentially being adopted as USB4.

I had to look up what the point of 40Gbps was, and the industry evangelization site https://thunderbolttechnology.net/ explains that it will allow driving one 5k display or two 4k displays, which is not possible with the 20Gbps offered by USB 3.2 or Thunderbolt 2.

This also helps external GPUs, where TB2/USB3.2 is the equivalent of 2.5 PCI-e 3.0 lanes, while TB3/USB3 is 5.

With that, it seems the goal is to be a viable alternative to PCI-e and HDMI, rather than just improve on today's USB3 speeds for existing device classes.
No, they combine multiple lanes at a lower clock rate.

Additionally, the cables are twisted pair, which among other things minimizes emission. And high-speed cables are also supposed to be shielded.
It's just a sign of the times.
That doesn't work at scale. Imagine your marketing team fielding password reset failures all day.

For a small company though, sounds like a fine way of doing things as long as people don't get bitter about the ones who actively avoid doing the support.
> At the physical layer, is it the materials in the cables are getting better?

Yes, and more expensive on that. Laptop makers totally hate usb 3.0+ for that.

The industry standard for internal digital connectivity was the FPC - flexible printed circuit board, a very economical and ergonomic solution, but then came USB 3.0.

Regular polyimide FPC can't reliably handle the high frequency signalling. Still, many laptop makers still use it, to regrettable results.

The few solutions left are the micro coax cable, running twisted pair inside the case, or passing it over a hard pcb bridge. All are very expensive, and hard on assembly lines.

This is why in most budget laptops manufacturers do a following trick – they put all usb 3.0 ports on one side, and 2.0 on the opposite. This way they only have to run the low frequency, low lane count usb 2.0 to other side of the laptop.

Only very recently, there came an FPC maker that makes custom cabling with some proprietary dielectric that can handle 3.0. And they charge more for it than for hard pcb bridge.

Even if the cable material issue is solved, you still have to find way to connect it to PCB. High frequency connectors are not cheap either.
A dataset like this is going to have a bunch of personal information in it. When it’s distributed like this, how does that jive with regulations like GDPR? If a HN user would like to delete all their comments, how would that request be forwarded to every user of this dataset?
Makes me wonder how many men left the IT department in order to prevent career-suicide.
Are women never sexist?
Well, this is about "equality in outcome", which is deeply flawed if you aim for a meritocratic approach.
In the situation you describe, there can only be equality in outcome if you heavily discriminate against men.
It was a vapid response but a sincere criticism: your proposed system is too complex for a layperson.
4k TV is 26.52 Gbps at 16:9 aspect ratio, 100fps.
Ugh, I'm sorry.
I was wondering if the issue in the example with the class had anything to do with "this" not being bound in window.setTimeout call?
Whatever way you phrased this I feel Sherlock Homes mode is happening here. And the following is tangential to the OPs headline so it may or may not be interesting to HN folk. Last week in my local paper the daily quiz asked what is the common name for "Galanthus nivalis". To my younger self it would have seemed impossible, but now that I am older and more informed (though NOT smarter) I spotted the 'gala' at the start. Hmmm. The word 'galaxy' starts with 'gala'. I remember that galaxy and milky way are somehow related. Milk is white. What flower (given it is Spring here in Northern Europe) could be white (-ish?). Aha, snowdrop! And to me (seriously) I felt utter astonishment that I was right. I am not smart. But this machine that I seem to have could do that. Well, wow to the maker that did that.
Yes, it sounds like how PGP failed.
The funny thing is that "USB4" doesn't have a space in the name while "USB 3.2", which they just rebranded everything else as last week, has a space. It has to be some kind of magnificent troll.
Because there are still good developer jobs out there that give developers offices if they want? That seems to be to be a great reason to do your research.

PS: if you're in Indy I am hiring, you will get an office.
> One slightly leftfield possibility is that keeping magnetic fields in symmetry about the axis of your body could affect certain bodily processes. There are tantalising bits of evidence to back this up – in humans, the time it takes to drift into REM sleep and the electrical activity in the brain differs depending on whether we’re facing a north-south direction or an east-west one.

I hadn't heard about this before but this sounds interesting. I wonder much of an effect it has on sleep.
Looks pretty good. Amazed.
Has anyone worked on creating a 'village' in the bay? Is there any thing like a network where people can watch each other's kids, or take them to activities, to take any pressure off? Like to be a member, you would of course need to have a kid, but instead of payment it's basically a time bartering system. I imagine the kids would benefit from interacting with other kids. I'm sure liability would be a nightmare, but perhaps it could be informal. I myself suffer from this as I have 6 kids, and am thinking about a move to the bay area.
That sort of explains why USB cables have been getting more expensive. More copper.
I guess they might have to construct the building? I dunno, doesn't seem exactly compelling. Also energy usage, but that probably doesn't create any jobs.

I'm also skeptical that the other tech companies would invest just because there's a google data center there.

I'm not against tax breaks (in fact, I think there should be lower taxes for just about everything), but google's argument doesn't seem particularly compelling.
Just like the old adage "An alcoholic is someone who has one more drink than I do", being rich is always "someone who makes more than I do."
These days women are grossly overpaid comparing to their actual contribution to the economy. The wage gap should be 50% if not more. Women don't create new businesses, they hardly work in anything that actually create economic value. Many of them work for the government and in all kind of care taking jobs, from social workers to teachers, nurses and a myriad of jobs in corporates with fancy titles which are actually just being a secretary.

The average housewife is contributing more to the economy than the average working woman. She cleans, cook, give mental support to the kids, help their homework and in general give them all daycare functionalities, take care of the elders and wash the laundry. Think about the cost of all those jobs which men usually pay for with their taxes or it comes directly off the woman fake job. Instead of husbands giving some of their earnings directly to their housewives they give it to the government and other outsourcing entities which use it much less efficiently, just a drag on the economy. And I don't even want to start with the implications like raising house prices, extra cars necessary etc.

Someone should research the whole thing but I am sure nobody will do it because they are all afraid from the results and it goes against the common ideologies in the academia. And no, I am not saying women should go back to the kitchen, each one can do whatever they like and want, but we need to be realistic about it and we need to stop valuing women working outside so much.
I'll mention an earlier comment of mine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18045890 (a Scheme interpreter running in C++ land, to communicate with via s-expressions (really Scheme code) from 'real' Scheme or Lisp systems. Extending its parser to support Clojure and CL is on my mind, extending the interpreter to run programs written in those languages (e.g. '(defun square (x) (* x x)) instead of '(define (square x) (* x x))) is of course also a possibility if deemed useful enough.)

My work was interrupted because my employer decided to scrap the project this was planned for. I've got permission to release it as open source, which I'll do ASAP (I'm in the middle of cleaning it up a bit). Incidentally my position was made redundant at the same time, so I'm currently looking for new work, most likely I won't have too much time to work on that in the near future, but I'll try to continue working it on the side and will be happy to help where I can. Send me mail to ch@christianjaeger.ch if you'd like to be notified once it's up.
It actually sounds like just the sort of bullshit line that local city councils eat like candy. These people just have blinders when it comes to anything that they think will sound good in a tweet to their constituents.
While this is true, is 2FA not generally a good thing?

SMS verification increases linkability maybe, but a yubikey or something similar?
Well, I think hardware and software prefetch, speculation is a special form of prefetch, might be revisited. Software prefetch was at best a hopeful technology even in 2007 and is widely avoided today.

https://yarchive.net/comp/linux/software_prefetching.html

Something I don't think either Drepper or Hennessy + Patterson's books get across is memory banks from a programmer's perspective. How cache organization affects a program is explained well but how banks affect said same isn't. Construction yes. Visibility, no.
I’m not sure I’d agree either but I think they’re saying a YTer would not care much about spit and polish, whereas IG users care about presentation and may project something they are not (i.e. not aspirational but rather they are what they present). More image conscious, to be blunt.
If you assume:

a) Google is about 70% men; and
b) The "error" in pay (eg how under- or over-paid you are) is randomly distributed

Then it will be trivially true that more men than women are underpaid

If you, in addition to this, assume some level of sex discrimination, such that in addition to (b) there is additional 'error' in womens' pay, depending on the relative strengths of each of these errors, the following two things can both be true at the same time:

1) A higher percentage of women are underpaid than are men.
2) Most of the people who are underpaid are men.

If this is surprising to anybody, they should be taking a remedial statistics class immediately.

To illustrate, assume that Google is 100 people: 30 women, 70 men. assume that 25% of men are underpaid, and 50% of women are underpaid.

That means that 0.2570 =~ 18 men and 0.530 = 15 women are underpaid.

That means that more men are underpaid than women.

That means that 18/(18+15)*100 =~ 55% of the people who are underpaid are men.

So in my hypothetical, is Google biased against men? Or is Google biased against women? Or is Google not biased at all?.
I'm not pulling it from my ass. There are a lot of people who take their cars out on the track, I know quite a few that have. Just because it happens outside your bubble doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

You're being unnecessarily rude and confrontational, which isn't justified despite you thinking you have the moral high ground.
Regarding the media issues, it seems that Facebook is also being used as a convenient scapegoat: https://jakeseliger.com/2018/11/14/is-there-an-actual-facebo..., often by reporters who don't even understand the issues they're nominally covering, or who seem to have made up their minds about the system before starting to write.
Hey so I know this is n of 1 and off-topic, but as a liberal arts student, I went from music to signal processing to music theory to music analytics to generative music to software engineer. There can be a lot of STEM in non-STEM degrees. I did take a number of CS, acoustics, and electrical courses as a music major, but my degree still says music.

I know once-English majors with a similar story of a passion for what computing can reveal/create around a discipline that resulted in rich software careers. I am over a decade out of college, and in my personal experience passion for computing is more relevant than having a STEM background in software development. All this to say, I’m not sure % STEM focused is necessarily a reliable indicator of “future software engineer.”
Yes! The image zoom levels always bothered me, particularly the fact that it snaps to the size of the view vertically but not horizontally, making it hard to comfortably read vertically heavy images or use portrait-orientation displays.
Why would a financial firm care about 15ms latency to a google service? It's not like they would be using the cloud in the first place.
I don't think you know what a terrorist is.
I am starting to see computers with USB C on the host side. The future of one single connector to rule them all will be here soon. Wait a minute, we already had that, it was usb 2.0?!?!
I just want to have my tabs stop talking to other tabs and their resources / cookies / caches / spyware / tentacles. Every tab should be a VM. I am willing to pay a significant performance penalty to achieve that. I have a password manager, and I'm 100% OK with having to sign-in for every tab as well.

I'm surprised no browser vendor actually ever tried that.
Is this made by Heroku? Is it a community app? What is this?
Financial firms do locate to optimize for latency, but not to Google.
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Shopify is a commerce platform, receiving millions of unique visitors each month and serving billions of requests per day.

I lead the Service Communication (RPC) team here, where we're responsible for all 1st party service-to-service communication. In the past year, we've built out the Cusco Platform, our blessed client/server library which product teams are using to ensure their network calls are reliable, resilient and observable.

Right now, we're deep into our integration of our service mesh, which we're using Istio & Envoy to build out. Shopify has an extremely large, multi-cluster Kubernetes deployment on GKE which we're building on. We're running into scaling issues with Istio that we're not sure anyone has seen before.

The team is currently in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and the USA. I'd prefer someone willing to work from one of those locations, but I'm definitely not ruling out remote for the right hire.

Large-scale Kubernetes experience is desired, and experience deploying a service mesh would be a bonus.

Apply here: https://www.shopify.com/careers/senior-software-infrastructu...
> that women simply are choosing careers in a different distribution to what men do

Why is that, though?

Are women not encouraged to pursue technology careers? Or are they being encouraged to chose other careers instead?

Are they driven away from it by a toxic work place culture?

Or just the perception of tech as having toxic workplace cultures?

Are women moving into roles with more flexibility because they are expected to take on more domestic duties?

Or my hunch... Do women just feel less comfortable entering an industry with such an unbalanced gender ratio to begin with, and it becomes a self perpetuating cycle?

You say Biology be damned, but I don't think it's settled that biology is the main factor here.

And I'm not saying it is or it isn't. I'm saying we don't know.
please read the manual first (before you try)

https://reactos.org/wiki/VMware

https://reactos.org/wiki/Installing_ReactOS