skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> there is no nature, there is only nurture; and don't dare to ask questions

The entire post-modern left worldview is deeply rooted in the blank-state hypothesis. Very few people - across all political and academic spectra - have the scientific discipline to react rationally to criticism of the scaffolding supporting the lens through which they view the world.
GM Donates First Cruise Automation Car to Henry Ford Museum
Windows still has 75% market share for desktops (the thing they were a monopoly in)...
You mean the use case where you have a single very "hot" key? Yes, that's a limitation, but in that case replicas can scale read load very well. But indeed this is a special case where threads are a better model: yet this is a very niche use case that anyway ends being inherently unscalable because the object to manipulate is a single one, so accesses end being serialized in one way or the other.

I understand the point about Redis on Flash. Redis Labs is also doing a lot of things with this model. I believe it is super useful for some folks. Yet I believe what makes Redis "Redis" is that there are no tricks: it runs the same always whatever the access pattern is. I want to stress this part over the ability to work with bigger data sets. Moreover I believe that persistent RAM with huge amounts is in the horizont now.
One possibility is how it relates to the debate around the gender earnings/wage gap.

There's an argument that the gap is not significant because it (mostly) disappears when accounting for gender-specific choices, i.e. taking maternity leave and not returning, or not bidding for an ambitious raise.

The common counter-argument is to say well, even if it down to choices it's an undesirable situation for society, that women are paid significantly less than men as a whole. Perhaps we can structure things so that men and women make more similar choices?

The counter to the counter-argument is that such a thing is not possible (or should not even be attempted) because of gender differences that are innate and cannot be "fixed" by socialisation. This is where the murky science regarding gender-based differences in early life gets dragged into the argument.
I think part of the controversy is also that there have recently been high-profile cases of scientists with an agenda and a hypothesis that they fundamentally believe, and then produce research for the purpose of trying to prove their hypothesis rather than keeping it neutral or attempting to disprove their hypothesis.

But the problem goes both ways. There are also social justice warriors who choose to believe their intuition and feelings over cold logic.

Basically, it's an emotionally charged topic that makes objective analysis difficult due to the complexity of humans and their motivations.
Quite a few of my submissions related to sexuality got flagged (e.g. the Dating for Nerds, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15372552). While I didn't like it, I understand the motivation - it attracts the wrong kind of discussion (flame wars, us vs them holy crusade, etc; certainly to kind or illuminating).
You’ve quoted a single sentence out of two paragraphs, and then extrapolated from that fragment something I didn’t actually say. Even putting it in as neutral and fair terms as I could, I should have guessed that anything on this topic would strongly resemble a Rorschach test to some. Please understand that since the thrust of my point was the futility of discussing this online, I’m leaving my response at this.
Quantum computing will change the way the world uses energy
I get that other people have risk factors that I don’t. Are these risks not mitigated by the privacy settings on LinkedIn? Full disclosure: I checked my privacy settings on LinkedIn and disabled some features I no longer value. Thanks for reminding me.
SubtleCrypto is a new browser-adopted spec for performing crypto operations natively. For example, instead of using Math.random() for random number generation, you can use https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Crypto/getR... in combination with the SubtleCrypto functions to work with keys securely

Your points around a compromised JS bundle are still possible but that has more to do with a company’s deployment/change management setup than JS itself imo
Looking forward to that. In the meanwhile I'll wait and test the S3 option when it's live.
Banned in the entire EU now: https://www.easa.europa.eu/newsroom-and-events/news/easa-sus...
Are you suggesting law enforcement for anything less than the most serious crimes should cease for as long as the more serious crimes continue?
It's possible to access the list via their API so theoretically you could build your own solution. I agree the Alexa app is not good for accessing the lists.
Just have everyone make a new account everyday. Help boost up the subscription count to help existing shareholders. Two birds with one stone.
But private actors can't easily map IMEI to user. Law enforcement typically can but the article doesn't suggest he's trying to defend against them, just private actors.

Sure, individuals in law enforcement or the phone companies can be suborned (i.e. bribed) but all the procedures procedures described in the article are part of "defense in depth". And in fact some of the others make it harder to even know which IMEI to track. I don't know the IMEIs of the handsets of any of my friends -- or even my own, though I could look it up.
Opening the path to scaling silicon quantum computers
For all of the despair that people are expressing I think quite a few people are going back to Gopher, XMPP and other open and efficient (e.g. not "blockchain") protocols.
The closest thing to a German 737 MAX are 15 owned by TUI, which seem to all be based in the UK.

There hasn't been much fleet renewal in the German market in recent years, just lots of consolidation (it's actually a bit of a lottery to buy a ticket in advance due to all the bankruptcies)
12 and 6 minutes after take-off.
A K8s-Native Pipeline Resource
> I remember the days before we had reportbug. Over and over and over again, I would get bug reports from users that wouldn’t have the basic information needed to investigate. reportbug gathers information from the system: package versions, configurations, versions of dependencies, etc. A simple web form can’t do this because it doesn’t have a local agent.

You control the operating system. Couldn't you build a web form that integrates with a local agent?
Elastic's business model is entirely predicated on a symbiotic relationship with the open source project. Amazon doesn't have any business incentive to be the primary sponsor of the open source project; certainly not in the long term. Seems pretty obvious to me.
Did you mean to reply to yourself?
You seem to have read something in my post that wasn’t there, namely that I was suggesting some kind of restriction on research, rather than what I did say, which was the need for more research. I can only guess how you interpreted my post in such a way.
Norway also closed the airspace 40min ago
A buyer 'monopoly' is called a monopsony, not a monopoly.
Two crashes in 6 months and there's only 350 planes in existence is a pretty bad safety record that is probably on par with Tupolev.

The US can tacitly blame "third world" pilots all they want, but with 300 people dead already, I think it's important for the FAA and Boeing to say exactly what is going on, especially since the planes are in use in the USA.

There is a debate over if the plane's hardware, software, or pilots are at fault-- either the planes should be grounded or the exact protocol should be published all over for the world to know, since it is the passengers' lives at stake.
Love the demonstration on the Github page!
FWIW, It took me about 5 minutes to get it going after I updated nodejs to version 10. It took me another 5 minutes to realize it setup a local filesystem storage in $TEMP automatically. I was impressed with how easy it was to get going, and that it picked sensible (though not well documented) defaults :)
What if you have assorted fastening implements that require different affixing tools, but they're all necessary because businesses seeking short-term profit have supplanted families who want the land to be healthy for their children?
You want to look at the comparative money made selling the service vs. selling the data or other secondary data streams. Cell phone companies sell the data because they are able to make quantities of money somewhat comparable to their profit from the service. Places like Google sell the data (or advertising-based access to the data, which isn't exactly the same, but from this perspective is close enough) because that's their primary revenue stream.

But a place that is making a healthy profit on customers, and have no way to monetize a secondary stream at anywhere near the same amount of profit, have several incentives to not to deal with it. One is something that a lot of people have trouble wrapping their mind around, but as a business grows, it gets to a point where it isn't necessarily worth grabbing every penny, because while the business is exerting the effort to grab that penny it's missing a dollar. (This is one of the reasons why there's no chance that Google will simply one day be the entire software industry, or why Amazon still has parters in AWS providing services that you'd think Amazon could just provide.) Another is the risk of exposure or pissing off your profitable customers when they find out about your secondary monetization; if 98% of your possible profit is the business profit and 2% the secondary monetization, then it doesn't take much perceived risk before that's a bad plan.

(One of the reasons not to get too upset when some companies make a decent profit; it helps keep them from scrabbling about for ways to extract every last penny from you, which is when they start getting really destructive. You're often better off when companies are not motivated to do that, rather than trying to starve them too hard. I really wish Google and Facebook had found more productive ways to make a profit; we'd all be better off for it.)
"News" today is a "for profit" enterprise and they will take advantage crises and public outrage to bolster their bottom lines when the opportunity arises... it's nothing personal, it's just the nature of the beast.
Is this different than rabbu.com? They just raised a round near me and I have some experience in real estate, and have some concerns about the model scaling. Happy to discuss more if it’d be helpful.
ok so it seems you've read about lisps :)

maybe I don't expect as much as you do then.. I always felt a lot happier in a repl than in an IDE but I have to admit too that I didn't use IDEs a lot recently. (my last bits were scala and java graph moocs under eclipse and I was as angry as I used to be previously).
> but characterizing family dairy farmers as "warped"

He characterized their perspective as warped:

but I’m also sure their perspective is warped

This is an entirely different thing.
> There's dozens of us that simply don't run JS

Was this intentional? It gave me a bit of a chuckle.
>Arguments also tend to start (unstatedly) from the baseline that "male is the default and most valuable"

Given that these assertions are unstated, they sound more like a manifestation of insecurity on the part of the listener.

Conversely, one could speculate that responses to questions of equality are frequently taken personally and met defensively, with resulting rationalizations, like the one you listed, of improper emotional reasoning.

This is only a controversial subject because people feel that there are potential negative implications to them as individuals, even though the rammifications are purely for distributions, which laymen tend not to understand, hence the personal responses.
Paying the store an unknown extra amount, calling it a donation, getting your name on a building (i.e. advertising your brand) and getting a tax deduction for it isn't the same as paying the store extra in the amount of a publicly listed price available to all for a higher grade fruit.
Legality aside, "corruption" implies fraud. Fraud implies personal gain by dishonest means. The allocation of spots at a private university to the children of wealthy donors would only be corruption if it were dishonest, but it's not.
Quantum Cryptography Demystified: How It Works in Plain Language
EASA has just banned 737 MAX jets throughout Europe.

https://www.easa.europa.eu/newsroom-and-events/press-release...
Biological cognitive differences (real or not) have traditionally been applied to exclude people from work, opportunities, and liberty that, in a free society, everyone should have the chance to access.

I get the sense there is a fear that concrete evidence of biological cognitive differences will give cover to discrimination, and likely broader discrimination than the evidence really "supports."
Nice work, I definitely appreciate the focus on simplicity/speed. I just signed up to check it out.

I noticed on the invoice page, on mobile, the number inputs (qty, price, etc) showed the full alpha keyboard on input. I think you can add a few attributes to optimize, without using JS also.

Great work, thanks for sharing.

This link has been helpful for me:

https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/design-and-ux...
Lucence Dx, Stanford University Applying AI to Liver Cancer Diagnosis, Treatment
Yeah, the didn't bribe well enough...
A lot of people are mentioning discoverability as an issue. That is a core issue. Same with understanding (the idea of once you discover something exists, how easy is it to understand how to fully use it?). Beyond that, we have issues with memorability. It's hard to memorize how to properly even use these voice apps once you learn for the first time.

Here is a full rubric for whether or not a product is well designed: https://uxdesign.cc/the-design-critique-rubric-how-to-determ...

The hardest part might be that most apps for Alexa aren't privledged. You can't just ask Alexa to do the new skill. You have to first open the skill and then ask that skill to do something. "Alexa open the Food Planner app." This hitch in the process makes memorability very poor.

I am an advanced Alexa user, and I almost never use any skills. They just aren't integrated very well. The one I do use is Sonos (and Spotify to power it), which is given priveldged access and allows me to attach an Echo Dot and Sonos speakers to the same room in my house, so that when I say, "Alexa, play The Beatles," Alexa plays the Beatles in the room it hears me in on my Sonos speakers with music from Spotify.

When you use a combo like this, it feels pretty magical, but most of Alexa can't operate like this, so it feels really stitled, and the user experience is quite poor.
weird flex, but okay
Employee resource groups aren't the answer, but they're a first step
Seeking broker/advice regarding selling software within the Cryptocurrency space
Hi All,

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This is an entire exchange written by myself only. Intellectual property rights will be transferred to prospective buyer along with a contract regarding conditions of transfer. The script can be opened on a local server and requests for demonstrations are welcome. A basic front end has been produced to allow the new owner freedom to produce a front end to their own taste and to reflect their own brand. Information on infrastructure and security will be given. There are running costs (infrastructure and security) as well as advertising costs if you choose that route, i've learnt through the hard way over the years that i am by no means an entrepreneur so i do what i am good at and thats freelancing hence why i regularly sell different kinds of software.

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Healthier is subjective. Diabetics are taught to eat multiple small meals a day to manage blood sugar levels better.
Why Fighting Brain Drain Is the Wrong Battle
> If Mozilla comes with Send, Notes, Password Manager all integrated in Firefox i see a good way to bring back some of the previous users that switched to Chrome

As a Chrome user I can confirm. But for me the main raison I use Chrome is for the dev tools a found them better than FF
Do you mean the Bay Area only or the whole state?
Re: Area of economics talking about aggregators/corner market . I'm interested in researching more this topic. Do you have any links to point me to ?
Oh, I didn't know, thanks for that
Do you have to do the whole infrastructure setup yourself or do you get help from your engineering team?
> People who attempt to back up their intuitive knowledge with science seem to be the opposite of trolls.

Consider the difference between seeing if your intuitions reflect science, and trying to justify your intuitions with science.

If you go looking for information that matches parts of your internal biases, can you reasonably say you would change your mind if you found information that conflicted your view? What if ten articles out of twenty reflected your view? What if one article out of twenty reflected your view? I think you should reread the portion of their comment about using science as a cudgel to see why it can be bad to consider intuition the guiding principle of research.
I like how this tool lets you toggle foreground and background with real text (headlines, sidebars, etc) rather than just a single like.

Anyone know of a tool that can also allow you to toggle/change around typefaces this easily in live context?
I was on AIM the day it went offline. Ran into a person who was very important to me and my development. Reminisced for a couple hours.

They added me on Facebook. I was hopeful to keep in touch, but they've since disappeared off Facebook like a lot of my friends in the recent trend.
Anecdata: In my extended family, we have some members with a fair bit of 'bread'. These family members met at a somewhat known (yet small-ish) college and really loved the place and all the memories they had there. They donated a lot of money over the years and, yes, had a building named after them. When it came time for their daughter to apply to college, the choice was obvious.

However, the daughter was rejected outright due to a multitude of factors. She wasn't violent, or addicted, or lazy. Nothing like that. She just wasn't ahead of the other applicants.

Well, you can imagine that the parents were none too enthused. All the love they had for that college, those dreams for their daughter, gone. There were phone calls and in person visits. Still, the daughter was not what they were looking for.

In the end, things have gone alright for everyone. The building still has their names on it, though the donations have ceased. The daughter is doing just fine at the school she is now at. The college is dealing with it's own issues just as it ever was.

Though there may be corruption at many universities and colleges, there are still a fair number of places where merit and fair decisions still reign. I'd look to those schools for the graduates to hire. Integrity is still in high demand, just as it will ever be.
UC Berkeley CS students push back against 80-hour workweeks
Microsoft is planning to push notifications to Windows 7 users warning them about the upcoming end of support. The software giant will stop supporting Windows 7 on January 14th, 2020, and it will start warning consumers about this cutoff date next month. Microsoft’s end of support date means that Windows 7 and Office 2010 will no longer receive security updates, and the company wants consumers to upgrade to Windows 10 PCs and Office 365.
"We prefer to exercise an abundance of caution when hundreds or thousands of lives are at stake" is a short, easy, and accurate explanation.
That seems a bit extreme. IMO that's a bit like saying "use zero Elixir/Erlang on the backend". I think a few people would take more contention with that line—and they're both languages running on VM's with a specific performance target.
This is precisely not the reason there's a distinction. The problem is that the $15,000 bribe went to the pockets of someone who was subverting the process (mainly the coaches), robbing the university.
Which is fine, as my life is perfectly great without. I like your assumption that all innovation is supposedly good...

And it's 100 million amazon devices because Amazon pushes them relentlessly and has been for some time. Their utility is questionable, even the article mentions that.

Did you know over 3 billion devices run Java?
I agree with all of the above. Setting a timer was never as easy as it is now with Google (I don't have Alexa).
I tell my 5 year old to set a timer for me and all he has to do is say "OK Google set a timer for 15 minutes"

This was "the future" few years ago and we are living in it now :)
So, I want to see some data on these kids. This could be some great research, what are these kids doing now? How do they stack up against their graduating class, with career etc. Could you find some correlations, hard to see if everything was a product of their parents cash, but I would be interested in seeing some of this Data
Its most definitely NOT about modernization and optimization. Its literally exactly as I describe it.

Here is how it works:

If you have a small number of cows, you receive a small subsidy. If you have more cows you have greater subsidy. Therefore you increase number of cows to give yourself larger subsidy to support yourself through declining profit margins.

You can only increase animal density so far. After that you need more land, i.e. you need to expand. If you expand (i.e. buy up all the smaller farms - please go back and reread the article), then you have more cows, and therefore get greater subsidies.

You invest that "profit" into buying more farms (that are desperate to sell as their profits are too small for them to survive, but capped as they cant increase their density/estate), get greater subsidies, etc.

That is not "out-competing" smaller farms. UNPROFITABLE large farms are literally being paid by the government to put the smaller farms out of business.

This is exactly what the article is about, although the author does a poor job of explaining this - in fact, he doesn't even mention the subsidies, but I assure you that this is the case.

Like I said - it's disgusting.
> It stands for “emotional quotient” and they ask you a bunch of questions about diversity, feminism...

Are you saying github is asking questions about diversity and feminism in their hiring process or that an eq test has these questions ?

Because political opinions have nothing to do with eq testing (see http://myframeworks.org/testmyeq/).
From what I gathered so far, it looks like airplane design was made with many compromises that made it complicated to pilot planes properly.