skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alas, the pictures I took were on film, and it's been lost in various relocations. Very likely it was Amtrak, with the "sightseeing car" and all.
You appear to imagine that I don't understand how vaccines work. I do understand them! Also, my kids (who go to preschool and daycare right now) won't contract measles or other diseases-that-could-be-vaccinated-against from their unvaccinated peers, because... They're vaccinated.

Lots of people do lots of harm to their children. The amount of harm that anti-vaxxers do to their children is small. The amount of harm that anti-vaxxers do to anyone else's children is like 100x smaller.

Lightning strikes kill more people in the United States every year than measles does. Probably -- though I don't know how to get the statistics for this -- than every disease that might be vaccinated against that people decline.

This is not the threat that we need to compromise our principles over.
I wo der why didn't they invent another robot for that job and sell as an addon...
I've got to somewhat agree with that. Meltdown and spectre were very serious, but were also branded and marketed specifically to be "viral". Also, web browsers, possibly the single biggest risk, were patched separately iirc.
It's ethical as long as they don't target journalists.
Grew too big for the ocean? What?
Try this with (a - b).
> I don't disagree that people are complacent,

Good, because you're an example of someone who is complacent. This is what complacency looks like:

> but on a factual level, most kids who don't get vaccinations do not get measles. Most who do get measles have a few weeks of discomfort and get over it. Most who do get measles do not give it to anyone else except maybe other unvaccinated kids.

"Most." "Most." "Most."

Let's say only one child in the entire U.S. will die of measles over the next 10 years. Now, let's say you know it will be your child, or your neice, or your friend's child. Still seem acceptable?

The point is, there is no acceptable level of measles incidence in the U.S.

Zero. Period.

> de-escalating the rhetoric around this will do much more to let anti-vaxxers relax and start listening to your data.

This is not true. The rhetoric around vaccines started out de-escalated, because everyone thought the benefits were so obvious they did not need defending. That's what allowed anti-vaccine scammers to gain mindshare in the first place. Only by aggressive counteracting the anti-vaccine message will that be reversed.
I don't understand why you're getting down voted for this comment. Isn't the goal equal opportunity? Providing artificial silo'd environments seems at odds to the goal of an unbiased, fair workplace.

But I guess I'll just get down voted too.
> Does this mean the first two pages are filled with even better people?

In many public sector jobs, it would mean the top ranks of hiring lists are filled with preference-category candidates, the most common of which (and the one with strongest preference boost in most systems) is veterans preference.
Isn't programming a skill that can be learned alone in a fairly straightforward manner? I mean, most programming languages have extensive documentation, tutorials and so on (at least FOSS dynamical languages like Python, Rust, Perl...). From my personal experience and what I can guess about hackers I've talked to for instance on IRC, that's how most guys learned it : the web is full of resources for whoever wants to learn.

Now, if for some reason women don't take this road and "need" someone to hold their hand in order to learn programming, I would argue that maybe those women don't have the intrinsic motivation to do so and trying to force it upon them may be a gross waste of time and resources.

Not to mention that programming can be a tedious and lame job (sitting in front of a computer all day is often mentioned as a genuine nightmare), so if you have to do it, you'd better love it in the first place.
"Money making corporation"

They're really an outlier there, huh?
> Is JPM really going to let everyone see every customer transaction on the open ledger?

No

> Are they really allowing third parties to mine blocks outside of their own servers?

No

> If not, this is just a database transaction with bells and whistles

Bitcoin is just a database txn with bells and whistles.

JPM are making use of the time ordering immutability aspects of "traditional" blockchain tech. They're using normal distributed consensus on that because they don't need to solve the Byzantine Generals problem. They also have split public and private portions of the txns. They don't distribute the latter. I doubt even the public parts are distributed to non-participating parties (except maybe regulators) but I haven't looked that hard at it.

All seems reasonable to me. And sure one could build time ordered immutability with Paxos consensus on top of an Oracle DB but why would you? It's not a particularly relational problem and a chunk of it already exists in open source. Which is presumably why they built on top of go-ethereum.
My very first project at my new job. First "real" programming job. Due to bad assumptions of dates in the db, I got a user stuck in a loop. We emailed them some 400k times: "Your credits are low, upgrade your account!" I felt terrible. Our only way to reach out? Email :(
> discouraged from learning, or opportunities denied because of gender.

Is there any evidence that this is happening, though? I've never seen anybody, even anecdotally claim "I'm a woman (who is qualified) and I've been unable to find employment". Mostly what I see is people trying to work backwards and say, "if group X makes up Y% of the population and only Z% of programmers, that in itself must be evidence of discrimination".
Haven’t seen much demand for Unity contractors, but haven’t been looking either. It might be worth reaching out to a game studio recruiter or two to get a sense of how receptive Unity shops are to hiring contractors.
Inheritance is also private money, yet this case in Canada shows race/sexuality/gender-conditions in a will getting overturned: https://globalnews.ca/news/2533006/ontario-court-rejects-sch...
> Don't track hours.

In Canada there are important federal tax credits (e.g., SR&ED) that work best if staff and contractors track hours in at least 4-hour chunks.

But if a client hopes to get tax credits back for your hours, that's another good reason to raise your rates!
EDIT: To clarify that the money is going directly to private individuals, as per Austen.

Incredible, thanks for putting your money where your values are @jl.

As for the numerous comments in this post around reverse sexism / reverse discrimination:

1. This is a private individual giving personal capital to other private individuals, supporting a personal cause. It is hard to both claim principles of free market and rally against this.

2. Private companies making hiring decisions are correcting for an indefinite history of bias. That doesn't mean they're hiring unqualified individuals, simply that they're making sure they put in measure to correct for biases and can identify individuals with the great qualifications that in the past would have been past up due to arbitrary euphemisms for gender / racial bias like 'bad culture fit'.

3. None of this is to say that you personally are not experiencing a challenging time or are not subject to bias in any way. None of this should diminish your personal challenges in the work environment. That should be addressed. This particular individual (@jl) and this particular company (Lambda School) are just not addressing that particular cause at this moment. And that should be ok.
Could you explain more about these invariants?
> On the one hand, women have obviously been disadvantaged in many ways, for many years, which is wrong.

> If this was targeted specifically to disadvantaged people

You already accepted women have been disadvantaged though.
> I’m not sure why it uses puts here? I might be missing something; perhaps printf calls puts.

It’s because you passed a constant string to printf, so the compiler decided it was not worth making the call and used puts instead.
In this thread: people who have never heard of industrial labs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARC_(company)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_and_development#Busin...
In general though, dealing with binary data in python isn't particularly intuitive.Also many python tutorials and books fails to mentioned how to manipulate binary data. I feel that is one of the places where the standard library is not that rich.
Revolut is testing the limits of finance
Great suggestion. I will pass along the feedback to the developer :)
You do not have co-pay in Germany? Here in France we have to pay 1€ per doctor visit and 0.50€ per drug (up to 20€ per year IIRC).
I find this outrageous /s
Neat!

You can see some similar code I wrote in Rust here: https://github.com/monocasa/exeutils
Or the payout might be less significant than the amount you paid for your options

Consider that (i) based on what you've told us the original VCs have declined to put any further money in to keep the company alive and have therefore probably written off the entire investment and (ii) any buyer probably needs to hire the founders for a couple of years to actually be able to use the IP, and therefore wants to apportion a sizeable proportion of any money they're willing to pay for the IP to their earnout package rather than compensating shareholders and creditors of the dead company.

And the product apparently doesn't generate non-trivial revenue and was built in 18 months for ~$3m by a team who are all available for hire, so it's not like there's an obvious reason for another party interested in the space to pay massive amounts for the IP - remarkable or otherwise - even if there wasn't pressure to conclude a deal asap...
> On the other hand, a for-profit company deciding to offer free services to individual women, who may or may not be disadvantaged, simply because they're women, doesn't sit well with me either.

Because it’s a for profit organization it makes total sense for them. It has marginal cost but acts as huge marketing factor.
Very misleading title. The author is being called out in the comments.
The science is not settled. There is more and more new data coming out everyday linking vaccines and autism.

Here is a discussion about the data set from a pediatric hospital in America. The concerned Doctor Paul Thomas is not even against vaccines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bjvjf4MnFqc

In reply to tombert

If you want to go over more than 1000 studies about vaccines published in established scientific journal get a copy of Neil Z Miller's book https://www.amazon.com/Vaccine-Safety-Concerned-Families-Pra...

For those who want a summary go through this video with references to studies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoT10nxZrVo
No, since wikipedia is generally considered a "live" source with constant revision.
Who is the customer here? This means that now, businesses are customers as well.
It doesn't have to be overt, or even knowingly done. Children are frequently subtly pushed towards different careers because of their gender, many times by their devoted parents. It's a societal problem.

EDIT: Here's one paper that talks about how "widely shared cultural beliefs about gender" affect early decisions people make wrt to their careers https://sociology.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj9501/f/pu...

"The results of this study show that males assess their own mathematical
competence higher than their otherwise equal female counterparts"

"self-assessments of task competence were found to influence career-relevant decisions, even when controlling for commonly accepted measures of ability. For males and females, the higher they rate
their mathematical competence, the greater the odds that they will continue on the path leading to careers in the quantitative professions. However, since males tend to overestimate their mathematical competence
relative to females, males are also more likely to pursue activities leading
down a path toward a career in science, math, and engineering."
This isn't as rare as it sounds, when I was young and a lot more arrogant+principled, I refused to go to my (not actually paying/good) college's Oxbridge interview prep, also ruled out medicine as a career choice partly because in the UK at the time to get in you had to do charity work/specific extra-curriculars.

Insane reasoning looking back, but hey 17 year olds are often principled nutcases. I can definitely imagine doing what you describe re compsci if I was a 17 year old girl in 2019. Hope any principled girls (in my biased opinion the brightest/best people in the end) we lose from information tech go into something else useful, kind of a sad thought.
CRFS: Container Registry Filesystem
> I have no idea what I am doing, but I like it.

Talk about relatable. 10 years in and I still feel this way.
Only an order of magnitude or two.
You posted this same comment in another thread and were quickly fact-checked.

Neither of those doctors have published anything peer-reviewed on the subject or in an adjacent field.

Just because it's on YouTube doesn't mean it's accurate.
Is it? I only played Destiny 2 and from the parts I really got into (pre-expansions), I didn't get a very medieval fantasy vibe at any points. Most of the architecture was fairly modern or alien. Was nice though.

Anthem has some buildings that have an older feel out in the freeplay areas, but even that would be a stretch.
I mean I can't, but JPM might be able to. JPM's an organization with enough significance to the financial system that they (IMHO) could conceivably make people accept one truth that 1 JPM coin == 1 USD.

And it is. Until it isn't.
Ethical consumption is a lie, and individual environmentalism is a ploy to redirect the conversation away from the incredible waste/pollution of industry and commerce.

Consider Nestle taking tens of millions of gallons of water from drought-struck California for $524 a year, even as residents are urged to cut back their water consumption.
Shrink what down?
You can be concerned if you like but you can't change it. Some people are 9-5 engineers but the best aren't. It's just a competitive advantage to care about something a lot.

Your framing sort of reveals it. It isn't "to show off" because no one is going to know that you went to your local LUG. They're only going to know that you told them about this thing called cgroups and how this other thing called Docker allows you to develop faster and it worked.

It's utterly exhausting to do these things if you aren't into them. I, for instance, couldn't go to my local Ruby group after the first couple because it was positively unexciting to me. But the other guys there were pursuing their avocation, not their vocation, and their knowledge and skills in that dimension are probably far beyond mine as a result of the Cross-pollination of ideas that inevitably happens when vokers converse.
Dog Longevity
In my career, almost none of my projects have been greenfield, so the debugger is the tool I use to explore the code in action in order to create the mental model I can rely on when I dont have the debugger.
I'd say for two reasons. Firstly, the article suggests that immigrants were controlled (whites and blacks compared) for so it appears this poster is commenting on something without even reading it, and secondly, the style of the comment makes it clear the commenter is a smug prick with a belief in their own smartness beyond their actual ability - nobody likes a smug prick who doesn't even read the article.
There is real data that supports questioning vaccine safety. But even saying "vaccines _may_ not be safe" is considered "anti-vaxxer". What is the real FUD here?
You could say water from the depth of most petroleum reservoirs underground is naturally polluted. It can be more than just saline polluted. Pretty much anything that can be in the earth and can mix with water.

There are cases of shallower reservoirs where the petroleum is mixed with otherwise potable water. If it is within an agricultural area, like Bakersfield, it may be treated and used for irrigation. The treatment is mostly just multiple steps of skimming off petroleum.
"In racial or ethnic terms, America’s “Baby Bust” is kinda, sorta, a little bit racist: it’s hammered Native Americans and Hispanics particularly hard, and hit even African Americans harder than whites generally, and certainly harder than non-Hispanic whites." [1]

Are Republicans going to have more kids than Democrats? I have no idea, Paul Ryan has had three and says he's "doing his part" [2]. The trend downward in fertility rate across the board is still obvious.

[1] https://ifstudies.org/blog/number-2-in-2018-baby-bust-fertil... (Number 2 in 2018: Baby Bust—Fertility is Declining the Most Among Minority Women)

[2] https://www.newsweek.com/paul-ryan-wants-you-have-more-kids-... (Paul Ryan Wants You To Have More Kids)
The Hug of Death seems to have killed the page so I can't really tell what it's about, but here's an example of inserting new trainable layers in BERT: https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.00751
>>What's up with Snowden? I find it very hard to believe that Russia doesn't know where he is.

Frankly I don't believe it at all. I think, Russia knows very well where he is. ;)

But as big as he is, a trade over sanctions will not happen, he's still too small of a fish. Maybe they'll trade him with a few Russian spies over time, but then Russia would lose some sort of street cred in those circles.
> every link they every clicked on, on every web site. [...] No content from google was transmitted back to Bing. Just the next site the users went to.

Your theory cannot explain how Bing associated that "next site" with the specific search term the user had entered in Google.

If you had clicked a link on HackerNews, it wouldn't have shown up in Bing under some random search phrase. It's obvious that Microsoft parsed the search query out of the google.com URL, and the only reason why you'd do that is to mine what results were being presented for each search query.
Or that fake snow stuff with mini jewel like square creatures in them.. or the pirates in the sand crap. I am amazed with how viral and successful they've become.
How to Obtain a Security Clearance
I agree that a breakup of Google might be wise for a host of reasons, but how would a breakup help in this particular case? Some or all of the daughter companies could continue these kinds of relationships post-breakup.

I would think a government response to control this kind of activity would involve some form of deglobalization -- such as export controls or other regulations.
Kickstarter Senior Staffers Are Pushing Back Against Colleagues' Union Efforts
if you could briefly outline the space/position of this framework, relative to others (eg https://github.com/cea-sec/miasm ). Would very much appreciate.

Also, besides security aspect (eg intrusion/virus detection), I was looking at these frameworks as a 'higher-level than assembler, and less hardware architecture dependent than LLVM IR) -- is there an angle where reverse engineering tools, have a separate live an better-than-assembler toolchain for low level programming?
To Make It as an Artist, I Recommend Having Unlimited Time and Money
Wow, the comments on that website are pretty horrible :/
Just because women as a group have been disadvantaged, doesn't mean the women receiving this particular advantage deserve it more than other women, or other men.

There's nothing in this release saying they want to offer this to disadvantaged women, they simply want to offer it to women.
> Lambda School's traffic is down 20% today as compared to yesterday

This seems weird; did you account for the time (since it's only around noon?)
I was thinking about the same question and came at it from the other side, which is "How big a plant and how far away do you have to situate it to destroy a city?" Which is to say, what would someone need to do to weaponize geothermal fracking? Urban warfare is siege warfare and being able to knock down the castle without having to expose yourself to enemy fire would seem to be an advantage. The fault lines would need to co-operate too of course.
Sounds like Microsoft’s naming scheme. I also found seniors there to be highly competent - but it does vary by org.
Thanks! I’d actually figured that out a little while after publishing.
As great as Gibson is, I think the revolver part just comes from him not really understanding combat/warfare to any reasonable degree. Not nearly as much as Stephenson does.
It's not just ԛ.

They also use: а, с, е, о, р, ѕ, and у
If not using PHP means that people are "using a FOTM language" then I don't think we can have a productive discussion since you're expressing disrespect right from the get go.

The world isn't black and white and will never be. Don't oversimplify.
This is exactly my feeling about Typescript. As a Go! developer, I'm fully for strong types, even to the point of restriction, but only if they are enforced.

I'm currently maintaining a massive spaghetti code TypeScript nightmare that escape-hatches with @ts-ignore and `any` about every other line. I'm not sure why they even chose to give up all of the imperative, dynamic power of JS and then not even adhere to the pre-processor's own rules.

I think there's an argument for imperative and functional approaches, but I also think trying to change an imperative language into a functional one is a bad idea, and trying to shoe-horn in type safety into a language that doesn't have it is just foolish.

I feel like languages come with trade-offs inherent in their design (Go! trades DRY for type safety, JS trades data validation/type safety for convenience), and if you don't like the trade-offs of the language for your project, then you are probably using the wrong tool for the job. However, when it comes to JS, you usually don't have a choice (unless you go with Dart or WebASM, which I admittedly know very little about).

I suppose TS could have a place (I particularly understand libraries that attempt to improve their data contract using it), but then I wish it didn't provide such wide variety of ways to escape or ignore it's restrictions. I feel like they are fake guard rails and provide a false sense of security.
No, it does not have any registration or user accounts.
1. Free market doesn't mean that your choices are exempt from criticism. I was going to say silly but honestly this is a very stupid point. "To people who are criticising me for funding ISIS - FREE MARKET".
FYI the SSL cert has expired on whoever is hosting your download link (plasso.com)
This guy is right. I have been inadvertently perpetuating a misconception for the last 5 years.
Why not just watch the video and consider what he says?

Here's a peer reviewed article on science that is "peer-reviewed". His conclusion? It's based on "belief".

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1420798/
That's optimistic. It could just as well be seen as another excuse to throw even more money at the defense industry. "Google works with China now, so we need to triple the size of our surface fleet."

Now ask yourself, which one seems more attractive to a cynical US politician who wants to bring in more jobs for his state? Does a senator from Texas or New York advocate for splitting up Google because it will open the market for other tech businesses that could choose to headquarter in Texas or New York, but will probably also choose California? Or will they decide to increase the size of the surface fleet, knowing they can get parts of those ships manufactured in their states? I fear the later is more appealing to this sort of person.
I don't think it's Hug of Death even since it's not actually that much traffic and it's not down for me. Cloudflare + Github Pages just seems to be a much less reliable combination than I believed before I moved to it a year ago (it sometimes goes down even with almost no traffic, and then is up a second later).

This paper is definitely relevant though!