skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> EDIT: What about this comment is causing this to be downvoted?

Perhaps because its not at all like summers's case. Strumia didn't suggest women are not suited for physics or anything like that.
I routinely disable my adblock for certain news websites because they tell me to, otherwise I can't see their content. Websites asking for 'opt-in' does work. It works on me all the time.
Petition to White House to let H-1B spouses keep working gains Signatures
Yeah this could definitely be one..it's a lot like the bicycle episode though so not sure they would do it so direct. Maybe they would make one about the stories of individuals who start the crowdfunding campaigns and how they're interconnected, like shut up and dance.
I was an engineering manager until recently, didn't get much enjoyment out of my role since I had to focus more on whats and whys instead of hows which is what excites my engineering mind. Now I have changed job to an engineering role and having lots of fun building stuff and learning new things.
However at times I wonder whether I made the right call, whether my career will stagnate if I am not interested in moving up the org ladder.
Make no mistake, I absolutely loved the responsibility and freedom that came with a managerial role, it was just my engineering appetite that was left unsatiated. Is there anyway to keep oneself occupied with technical stuff in a managerial role? Doing your teams work is not the right thing neither for the team nor for the company.
Through another friend in tech - it's good to have someone to show you the ropes because there is a lot of tribal knowledge. YouTube and forums are somewhat of a help but most of what I've learned is from listening at the spear shop or going on public charter trips and listening to the elders.

This guy has my favorite spearfishing YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0tqvgU_8Qg
There is actually a real game show on TruTV like this except for student debt

https://www.trutv.com/shows/paid-off-with-michael-torpey/ind...
Japanese woman confirmed as world's oldest person aged 116
> I have worked in health insurance company

Well I'm convinced.
> I think this is a reflection of what people want to donate/contribute to as much as anything.

Just spitballing, but I'd think it's more of a reflection of how broken the US health care system is.

A more interesting datapoint would be the health vs non-health money raised broken down by country.
Human drivers are just mechanical turks to build market share while self-driving cars become commercially viable.
It happens occasionally when there's very little tidal motion (slack tide), not a lot of small particulates from run off or recent rain, and most importantly not a lot of nutrients in the water - most murky water I run into in SoCal is from various species of plankton blooming, and the various zooplankton and copepods that follow in their wake.

It's really interesting when the visibility is radically different at different depths because of temperature and salinity gradients. Last time I dove it was crystal clear for 15 feet, then a floor of murky green with 2 foot viz, then the clarity opened up about 30 feet down.
It means Lyft and Uber are terminal and their insolvency is not about if but when. There are only so many $2 bills to sell for $1.
Self driving cars would change the economics and create profitability in the markets it’s a viable solution within.

All ride sharing companies have the same problem.
There's one for student debt: https://www.trutv.com/shows/paid-off-with-michael-torpey/ind...
ACLU of Tennessee Sues Mt. Juliet over Police Seizure of Veteran's BMW
These distinctions are only as arbitrary as the law, which can be very arbitrary but ultimately we have agreed to accept the Rule of Law, both my country and most likely yours.

Nations have agreed to fairly consistent diplomatic protocols and channels with which to treat each other. Hawaii can’t issue visas, but Japan can require Americans to apply for a visa. That isn’t just a stretch of the Commerce Clause, it is part of how and why the US Constitution was written the way it was: so individual States weren’t forming international interests contrary to the national interest.
> Gather information from your subordinates and then report it to your superiors without giving your subordinates any credit.

This reads bitter. In truth, higher ups generally do not care about who needs to be credited.

If anyone in their org accomplished something, the higher up has accomplished it personally, by representation.

Trying to take credit up the chain is like your hand taking credit for putting the spoon of food to your mouth.
The list of current rules is both impressive, and very intimidating https://agoranomic.org/ruleset/flr.txt
Startup Funding in February: Here's Where the Cash Went
How did the Baby Bells fail? AT&T and Verizon are Baby Bells that merged with other Baby Bells.

They did drive out the competition. The Baby Bells inherited the existing infrastructure. Most competing carriers relied on regulations that allowed them to lease access at wholesale rates. The Baby Bells got those regulations overturned. Investors weren't lining up to fund duplicate infrastructure anyway but especially not when the Baby Bells could tie up any project in court for months or years.

Dividing a national monopoly into regional monopolies did almost nothing to improve competition. Vertical disintegration did while it lasted.

The only companies that really managed to compete with the Baby Bells were cable companies, which had built out infrastructure before they started competing.
I think the exact opposite. Without that venue to ask for money the answer is: "get your affairs in order".

What is your answer to heavy health expenditures/
> if most of your news diet comes from the anti-Damore side of the debate

On this particular subject, most of my "news diet" has been the discussion in this very forum — which, net-net, I have an incredibly difficult time filing under "anti-Damore" — and the articles that inspired it. Please try not to make unsubstantiated assertions about the ideological breadth of my input.

Please also consider whether using the term "SJW" is going to serve the point you're trying to make, or if you're (perhaps unintentionally) alienating people by using language that, from their perspective, is tantamount to name-calling.

Even if in this specific instance you weren't doing that, it's going to go over about as well as an "SJW" describing a behavior on the part of the person with whom they're speaking as "racist" or "sexist". From the speaker's perspective, the term may merely seem descriptive, but from the listener's, the speaker has probably just killed the dialogue. No further understanding is likely come from it, because now the listener is primed defensively towards whatever else the speaker has to say.

EDIT: Seriously, HN. How is an autist the one pointing out such basic interpersonal dynamics?
I had seen The Running Man (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Running_Man_(1987_film)) but didn't realize it was set in 2019! That silly trivia aside, it sounds like your would be a great short story in the rich tradition of dystopian art and literature.
"The gateway drug" IMO is the Phoenix framework. It models cleanly to much of what you already know as a Ruby dev. The creator, Chris McCord wrote a book [0] for it that is one of the most well written programming books that I've come across. Chris does a fantastic job of making the information accessible and understandable. You learn by building an app of substance and apply all the concepts that make phoenix a wonderful web framework to use. Towards the end, Chris starts easing you into some of the more "hardcore" concepts and gives you the opportunity to use them on the project you are building throughout the book. That level of quality just seems to permeate the ecosystem as a whole. Others on here have made the point that the waters might start getting muddied as it gets more popular but I've had nothing but great experiences so far and would love to see it really take off.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Phoenix-1-4-Productive-Re...
Anyone else see these and think about how maybe there should be some other type of worker other than employee or contractor? Those are hard definitions, and creating laws to reflect this type of worker is incredibly difficult considering people and companies figure out loopholes, but really feels like there should be another category to go with this type of work that's going to become more and more common.
Steve Jobs and Apple? At least how the media tells it, his abusive behavior got the best out of people.
Old news. Settled with usa for 1.1M
I'm kind of torn on this.
My father has been truck driver his entire life and for the last 20 years worked as a contractor, while driving his own truck and trailer, since it gives him more $$$ than average driver who works as employee. However, he has non-existent social net. No health insurance, no pension benefits. If he out of work or has serious health issues that ground him for months, he has to dig into savings and I also have to help him.

So, if Lyft driver who was "gigging" for them for years gets sick and he is out of work, what kind of help would he get ? None, at least in US.
> try to teach them something new or interesting that has been learned that they can add to their box of tricks/intel that they can pull out later in other conversations.

I'm trying to think of what such a thing might be and coming up short. Could you expand on that with a simple example?
>Or the Tennessee couple who want to get pregnant, but whose insurance doesn’t cover the $20,000 worth of “medications, surgeries, scans, lab monitoring, and appointments [that] will need to be paid for upfront and out-of-pocket” for in vitro fertilization.

Would an ideal healthcare system cover in vitro for anyone, full stop? Took a buzz through the NHS requirements[0] and there are definitely restrictions. And in vitro is certainly not an uncontroversial procedure.

I just thought that was a strange example to use. There are always going to be gaps in what a health system will cover, right?

There's always gonna be a market for crowdfunding health stuff, and that's not inherently a bad thing. (Which is my only point, not trying to comment on the broader issue.)

[0]: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/ivf/availability/
Brood War didn't come with a CD-key, only the original StarCraft disc did =)
A good boss would realize this and tailor their communication style appropriately.
You are completely right. I work mostly in TypeScript and JavaScript for day to day and I miss pattern matching so much. Object de-structuring is nice and all but once you've seen the possibilities in a language where its a first class citizen... everything else just seems inadequate.
Universal healthcare. It works well in the majority of civilized world.
Are they paid the same? Are they the same level of famous? I don't really watch basketball, but I don't think they are, and a "they are not as good as men" bias could very well be at play here.
I never understood why anyone thought otherwise, unless you believed self-driving cars would be ready by now.

I'm not going to pretend to understand the intricacies of Lyft and Uber and their experiments with food delivery, carpooling, and other endeavors. But scaling up does not solve the problem of paying your contractors more than they're making you - in fact it only scales up the problem.

Granted, I've thoroughly enjoyed my cheap rides subsidized by VCs for years. But it's just not a viable business, and I have never heard a convincing argument to the contrary. I feel as though few VCs are looking to create value so much as they're looking to get in early and cash out before the house of cards falls over.
> I think other countries' health systems are more careful about how they allocate their health resources [0].

Yeah, when you can go for free to a doctor your entire life and your prescriptions are free or subsidized because the government can negotiate prices in bulk, the end result is that you get better results spending less.

It's not perfect, but it leads to a better outcome than when people only see a doctor when it's an emergency because they are too afraid to go bankrupt or because they are poor enough that they can't even pay for a simple visit to do an yearly check up.
That's easy champ, let me help.

First, litter your conversation with baseball metaphor. You want to be fielding questions, starting sales plays, being the biggest swinger, and touching base. All this right off the bat of course (to get the ball rolling).

Second, make prestige noun/verb mistakes. After goaling your IT spend, you'll want to incent team members. Share your learnings from a go to market perspective. This is the best way to add logos.

I'd share more but I'm currently out of pocket. Going forward, feel free to reach out to learn more about talking like a leader.
A reasonable guess would be fine. It's what appliances are required to do, for example.
This is just bad advice. Don't listen to this guy.
Pretty cool extension! I think we all could use a while lot more life and a little bit more color among the drab pages of today’s monolithic web.
In universal care you dont get access to 'clinical trials and research and things like that, where people need access to leading-edge potential treatments'

You are also not eliminated the need to get funds, you are changing who you are asking them from. And let me tell you that government officials are seldom generous.
The project is now in it's third decade.
I heard about first around ten years ago or so.

Here is an interview with Ari Versluis from 2012:
https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/gqnevx/fashion-uk-intervi...
America slips to 17th in freedom ranking
There's a slight difference between extracting a few tags from an xml file and building an manipulable ast of it.
Isn't this just typical legalese that IPO docs are required to say on caveat emptor? It's typically worst case.
> A more interesting datapoint would be the health vs non-health money raised broken down by country.

This!!
It definitely applies to large projects as well. It's not just a matter of what developers think about writing more code. It's a bit more complicated economic decision involving how a significant amount of resources is going to be spent on writing code, testing it, whether the team is actually capable of writing the needed libraries, security risks introduced by bugs etc etc, just to begin with.
Just installed it and it looks quite polished in terms of UI - the wiki is great too and I was able to setup two way ssh between my phone (Nexus 6P) and pc (Ubuntu 18.10) with access to all my files/photos etc. I was able to scp from my PC to phone which is awesome for one-off needs (I use syncthing for more general syncing).
Anything that follows "I feel like" is going to be some passive aggressive garbage. This is why I always say "I think", "I strongly suggest", "I agree", "I disagree" instead. You have to recognize that some things are subjective but telling someone that they should do something because you "feel" it needs to be done comes across as incredibly flaky and self-involved.
China's GDP Growth Pace Was Inflated for Nine Years, Study Finds
How ironic. The whole "Einstein's Wife was the real genius" is an unsubstantiated claim.

Everyone knows that the Ancient Aliens show is essentially begging the question. Much like like the OPs comment.
List of Online Music Databases
Yes.

I did two implementations, one with plain text files and one with a kv store. For plain text files, I had to maintain file offsets of the records so I could traverse backward and truncate records that had to be replaced, and then break the files into segments so I could retire segments that are no longer needed. It had all kinds of little bugs.

Then I reimplemented using a kv store, and it took a tiny fraction of the time. And surprisingly had better performance.

Just create a good interface at the start, use the kv store underneath, and then later if you don't want the dependency swap it out for the more complicated code.
I'm on insurance, and to be very real I have gotten bills in the past from providers that I never ended up paying. The reality is that this is more common than not...providers only collect some small % of the part of the bill the patient (and not insurance company) is responsible for. They usually end up selling this debt for pennies on the dollar to collections agencies.

Do I feel guilty? Not really. But the lesson is that the number you see on some bill from a hospital or provider is not non-negotiable, and in general unlike the IRS they don't exactly have any power to garner your wages to collect.

If you find yourself in a position where you're getting some ridiculous bill, you should definitely hire a trusted lawyer to negotiate down a bill on your behalf.
Note: I think I was probably unfair to artists in this characterization. It's a hard path to follow; there must have been some deeper and more socially generative yearning than to make a fortune by pissing off art critics and confusing or offending normal folk. Art has historically been the enduring edifice of civilizations, and I appreciate anybody that builds and creates and invents.
TensorFlow Lite Is Going to Space
Yeah, that Wolfram clip sounds like an exasperated boss dealing with some people who aren't 100% aware of his expectations.

Wolfram doesn't at any point (at least while recording) make it about the team members themselves, just the work they've done.

I've had a bunch of conversations like these with a boss of some kind, so I know how awkward and unpleasant it is, but it's also an opportunity to learn a bunch of stuff.
> Or, they just won’t want to install the latest OS because it doesn’t have anything they want or need (that’s me, I run 10.13).

(Context is Apple asking bug originators to verify whether or not the bug still occurs in the latest OS.)

This seems contradictory to the entire article. The point of logging a bug at all is to get it fixed. The fix would be coming in a future release. If you don’t want to take the latest updates that’s fine, but how are you going to get bug fixes?
Jokes aside, some of this is just normal communication used in business and that's not a bad thing. The consistency is actually useful when communicating between businesses. Makes it easier to integrate and speak the same language so everyone stays on the same page.
Nearly half of the space in the aircraft is unused for 99% of the flight: the space between the top of the seat and the luggage bins.

I’ve seen some designs over the years that would take advantage of this space, but think it’s unlikely.

The cost of developing an alternate design would be incredibly high (especially when you consider the safety and regulatory requirements), and the the net result is more comfortable seating that would cause a portion of highly- profitable business class travelers to move to these cheaper seats.

Maybe such an opportunity will be exploited by an upstart looking to grab market share.
In 1990, A. Clark Wiseman from Gonzaga calculated that if we dug a landfill 100 yards deep and put in all trash generated in the US for the next millennium, it would fit in a square area of land 35 miles on each side (assuming of course levels of consumption and disposal from the time). By point of comparison, replacing all existing energy sources with solar and wind power would require orders of magnitude more acreage. I'm not sure if most New Yorkers have ever seen a place like e.g. Nevada, but I'm not exactly worried about the amount of land needed for landfills.

New technologies allow landfill operators to extract some of the waste and use it for industrial purposes (particularly methane, with potent greenhouse emissions, albeit relatively short-lived). It also remains true that some forms of recycling - paper, cardboard and metals like aluminum or steel - are still cost effective, provided that the public stops trying to recycle their pizza boxes. I've often wondered if environmental policy would be better served by focusing on sorting high-quality, cost-effective recyclables into recycling plants and putting everything else into the landfill.

IMO, recycling has ceased being about - or perhaps never was about - economic efficiency or ecological health, and is mostly a cheap way for people to feel like they're doing the right thing. I have become somewhat skeptical about recycling, and even I feel the shame of being a heretic against pathos-laden gospel first preached in grade school for failing to throw a plastic bottle into the recycling bin.
This is really one of the bad problems with the gig economy in the USA. Even Switzerland, which requires private insurance, disallows group plans to detach insurance from employment, making labor markets more liquid and flexible (as well as preventing huge distortions in the individual healthcare market).

Your dad does have one social net: even 1099's must opt into SS and Medicare (paying both employer and employee shares, unfortunately), at least.
It is basically the Moviepass situation writ large, except fueled by a massive hype bubble around self driving cars that even VCs were eager to buy into.
Your manager is being vague. Either purposefully or not.

If purposeful I would be concerned and ask why.

If not, he is not very good at communicating. So. The next time he says that ask him:

“what do you mean by talk like a leader not an engineer, because every engineer and leader I know talks with their own distinct style”
Woman Dragged Out of Capitol for Reading State Reps Political Donations
> you can advertise (but not promise!)

Did you miss the title of the article? They are trying to stop Tesla from advertising the fact.
Does restic support sparse files yet?
From my perspective, it shouldn't. Yes, its cold and heartless to say so, but wanting children isn't a health issue.
I think you forgot to write what should have been paragraph three of your comment, but from context I'm guessing that your proposed effective, ethical response to repeated nonsense is just to change the subject and see who goes with you on the new track?
But also don't overdo it. People can tell when you're just parroting the countless business/persuasion books.
So you believe the US healthcare system is better than, say, the United Kingdom?
Even if self-driving cars were ready right now, why would Lyft or Uber have an advantage? In theory, their current competitive edge over taxi services comes from pushing externalities to drivers.

If they had to worry about owning and maintaining all their cars, suddenly they're in a new and very capital-intensive line of business. I'd expect at least one of the established rental car chains- which have physical infrastructure like motor pools, mechanics and relationships with local auto shops, and logistics experience with all of the above- to eat Uber's lunch!

Every way I look at it, work on self-driving technology by rideshare companies is 100% smoke and mirrors to drive investment, and not a serious business plan.
Didn't face the issue, but focus on solutions, not on giving him the details on your issues and asking for help. I.e. tell him confidently what you are going to do and how it'll help the company. And give him some positive news also, not just worries...
Another alternative would be to decouple health insurance and retirement plans from employment.
> I am not sure how Tesla’s system is much different than Waymo’s.

Waymo's ultimate self-driving vehicle will not have a steering wheel (as seen in their early prototypes) as the vehicle will take human out of the driving equation. Tesla will probably always have one in the foreseeable future (as they are tackling autonomous driving an drive-assist system). That's the big difference to me.
> Go does not scale well

What do you mean? I've seen huge services built in Go handling an enormous amount of traffic.

(Disclosure: I work at Google, primarily in C++ and JS)