skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I cant help but feel like if gender norms weren't so rigid and people were allowed to express themselves however they feel comfortable without being stigmatized and judged then you wouldn't have people say (imo) crazy things like "my biology is the biology of a woman regardless of whether or not doctors agree."

Funny thing, but back in the 80's, there was a kerfuffle in the LGBT community on campus where I was going to school. (I lived in a house with some prominent people in the group, including the campus president. We also deliberately chose a gay man as our house adviser.) Many militant LGBT people were basically bashing the bisexuals, calling them "fence sitters." Even going to the level of yelling at them and coming up with an ideology of denying the existence of bisexuals.

There were also a number of couples who got effectively harassed because the man was declared by the crowd to be a "self denying" gay man and the woman was similarly declared to be a "baby dyke." There was this ideology that this form of attraction wasn't "real." Isn't society butting its nose into people's love lives the problem in the first place? I say we just leave people alone and let them work it out. Everyone should be "live and let live" as much as possible. From what I've seen, this is by far the best policy.

Looking back on it all, those events were just another instance of angry teens and 20-somethings running around acting as if they knew everything there is to know about a big, complex subject. It's a big, complex subject we're all too close to and therefore biased about.

(The problem in 2019, is that the hot blazing centers of our culture create incentives for the exact opposite of the "live and let live" mentality.)
==half the country views wealth as a sin.==

But I thought they were all atheists, which is it?

==absurd new tax schemes.==

As opposed to the old scheme of cutting taxes for the richest among us and telling the rest it will trickle down to them? How many times of that not working before we are allowed to try something new?
This is a genre of post that I've never really understood. Klabnik is great and all, but, ok? Sure? Were people really record-scratching over his totally reasonable decision to take a good-paying job at a big company?

It's obviously not just Klabnik. In fact, when we did Starfighter a few years back, I think Patrick did one of these posts as well. But: like every other post about Starfighter on HN while we were working on it, the whole thing was pretty uncomfortable. It's an experience I'd prefer not to repeat.

There are lots of excellent people taking all sorts of jobs at all sorts of places, and, unless those jobs involve, I don't know, mechanizing payday loans to squeeze poor people or hacking the phones of people the government of Bahrain doesn't like, nobody needs to justify them. Some of these posts seem like they might be good examples of content actually better delivered in a tweet.

It's possible that I just don't think Cloud Flare has earned the spotlight Klabnik is giving here. Who knows. But I felt the same way when Yegge announced his job at Grab --- just, "why am I reading this?" I'm sometimes reminded of the way Anthony Bourdain described the trailing years of Mario Batali's tenure at Food TV (Batali was a "lion" but not in a good way). Like: did you want to write this, or did Cloud Flare reallllllly want you to write this?
Operating systems and programming languages do come in the cool catagory
I really like Cloudflare's strategy with edge compute. It's kind of what you have to do if you want to leapfrog over what AWS has achieved. "Oh, you have all these data centers in convenient locations for datacenters? Great. We have them near the user." That's important because a lot of future things depend on low latency, like gaming in the "cloud" instead of on a $500 console you have to buy every few years.
Just to get my 5 cents in (as an ex-barista), you can get the best (single origin) coffee's in the world for between 8-12 euro's for 250 grams.(there are more expensive Geisha coffee's, but that's really hi-end) Lets assume you use 18 grams of coffee for a cup. That yields you at least 13 cups of coffee (from the 250 grams. Raw resources would cost you between 0.62 to 0.92 euro a cup.

Manual ceramic grinder between 30 - 45 euro's
Aeropress about 35 euro.

Both of them last at least 5 years.

That is quite a bit less than the 5 dollars. Yes it takes you about 5 min to brew a cup. But from having worked in a espresso bar for many years, during morning rush hour, you would be happy to get your coffee in less than that.

I think the article is interesting, because it deals with culture. First is the, go buy a cup of coffee at starbucks culture, and pay premium for the coffee. What I've noticed from working it's that people have their rituals when it comes to coffee. It's about getting fuel to get to work. It's about taking a break from the environment they were in 5 min before. It's about comfort.

That is what you get for the 5 dollars in the article. It's not only about the coffee, it's about taking a break, rewarding yourself.

If you can find a way to get the above pleasures from home-brewed coffee, or stop drinking take-out coffee. Great! But I agree that only seeing it "5 dollars not used for your retirement" is really short-sighted. There is a deeper problem if that is the difference between you able to retire when you're 65.
I agree substantially with the first 3 paragraphs of your post and have way less agreement with the last paragraph. [0]

Just to be perfectly clear though: I'm glad I did it, have zero regrets, do find nobility in working a crunch period to ship [a demo] on-time as you promised you would [I was tech lead; that we weren't in a position to ship on-time without a crunch time was at least 50% on my shoulders], and would hope that I'd chase that same job/dream/experience if I had a chance to live my life all over again. (There are other things that I might wish to change, but that's not one of them.)

[0] - Technically, I surely could have sustained that lifestyle, but chose not to. Your overall point there remains valid, of course.
The ability to print money was outsourced to the Federal Reserve, while regulated by the govt it is not the govt.

When we "borrow" money from the Fed it is at interest. We have created a debt based system where everything is a borrow.

Fiat currencies are based on the value of the peoples ability to create value. When the people owe the banks more value than they can generate they are bankrupt. When the people and the govt ( the people ) owe money to the banks to the point they cannot generate enough value to cover the debts what will happen ?

I think we will see soon :)
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So why can't we allow people to believe that, and like the market, let less people trust and support them, rather than actually make laws that might put them in jail?
No I’m mentioning our six figure customers because too often small companies are seen as being low margin B2C customers where you control for cost and you don’t have to be reliable, compliant, redundant or scalable from day one. One “customer” can equate to thousands of users.

We are a B2B company with a sales team that ensures we charge more than enough to cover our infrastructure.

Yes infrastructure cost scale with volume, but with a much lower slope.

But it’s kind of the point, we save money by not having a dedicated infrastructure team, and save time and move faster because it’s not a month long process to provision resources and we don’t request more than we need like in large corporations because the turn around time is long.

At most I send a message to my manager if it is going to cost more than I feel comfortable with and create resources using either a Python script or CloudFormation.

How long do you think it would take for me to spin up a different combination of processing servers and database resources to see which one best meets our cost/performance tradeoff on prem?
You see, this is the difference between us: I do accept you in my society despite my believing that anyone who believes they have the right to determine whether someone should belong or not in their society based solely on their own beliefs is not worthy of the air they breathe.

I do consider myself morally and intellectually superior but I do fight for you to have the same rights as me and everyone else despite that and I welcome your dissent.
A more accurate term for what is 'required' is a Guild. Medicine and Law are the last two examples in the US. It is a crime to practice law or medicine without a license. And, for the most part, the amount of licenses dispensed each year is left up to the practitioners' professional association.

In short, you'd want to make it illegal to program for pay (or to distribute free software) without being a member of the guild.

That will never happen -- thank goodness. But, it is the model that allowed the economy to chug along through the Middle Ages.
Automatic SSRF fuzzer and exploitation tool
Google's ethics board shut down
Fake News is a problem.

without removing the basic freedom of speech, here is a law that'll curb it.

When posting on Social Media, you must use
a) Verified Name with a Verified Pic
or
b) Reusable anonymous ID like anonymous-323876 (Generic face profile for all anonymous users).
or
c) Fully Anonymous like anonymous with a common,generic face profile

Sites can only use PII for verification, but must discard everything related to user and cannot tie PII UserID to any logs
Auto Unions were blamed by corporate execs in the 1970s-2000s but the fact is the yen was undervalued at 250/dollar to 300/dollar in the 1980s up until 1999. Execs needed someone to blame or the board would fire their asses for not having the political connections to keep the car imports out..
I don't know how you can decide this is incorrect. Earlier humans likely failed to develop civilisation because they were living under harsher conditions during an ice age. It probably isn't a coincidence that humans became sedentary only after the earth warmed, allowing agrarian communities to be successful.
One would expect greedy people to be acquisitive in regards to moral high grounds as well. They have to have it all.
Every one of those things falls into the cool category for some subset of the programming population.
Japan and Korea being highly developed nations with with capital punishment, unlike the developed nations of Europe, seems to support his point. Those were your counter-examples, probably because next to Singapore they look moderate, but they're not even good counter-examples.

In 2014, 80% of adults in Japan supported capital punishment, making it far more popular in Japan than it is even in America: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/28/national/crime-...
I'd argue that sending data (privacy controls) to MS is one of the worst things in Win10. The fact you cant fully disable sending MS data is one of many reasons I will not use Win10. Forced at work, at home no way!
I could see there being use for something similar to this targeted towards children for expanding their vocabulary.

Similarly, how neat would it be to have a program that does this for object in video, and testing the viewer on the name of the object? Perhaps to avoid error as a result of imperfections in the neural net, it would require 2 parties, the learners and the teachers. The teachers would go through a video ahead of time with the video, making sure there are no errors, then that session would be saved and the teacher could play it back for the learners.
I'm curious, what about Spotify does not work with your Sonos speakers?

I have a pair of Sonos Play 1 speakers in the house and have not had any issues with Spotify for the past few months.
... Why on earth are the article's images hosted on a .xxx website? Is this specifically designed to trigger blockers and corporate proxies?
Are all writes blocked during database migrations?

ALTER TABLE is quite limited in SQLite (for example there is no DROP COLUMN). Have you missed this?
I figured it out just in time. I wanted to be a game developer just to realize that compared to normal software dev, you are underpaid and with worse work conditions (and very little to say on game design). And coding practices tend to be worse. My spinoff was to be jusy a software developer and it turned out so much better (at that point I also figured out that my passion was software development, not game development)
Great news, now I know what my next laptop will be after 17 years of macbooks :P
> I subscribe to 1Password's monthly model with the cloud services, but I just don't use any of them, and they have settings on every client which let you choose the default vault for saving, and I just use the local one.

For those who wonder why one might subscribe to the cloud service when one is only going to use local vaults, rather than buying a license for the non-cloud version, the non-cloud version requires separate licenses for your Macs and for your Windows PCs, and major upgrades cost a substantial fraction of the initial price.

With the cloud service one purchase covers all your devices and all major upgrades for as long as your subscription is active.

I think it worked out when I did the math almost a year ago that if you have both Macs and PCs, then the cloud came out cheaper if you assumed a major upgrade every couple of years.
It is also worth noting that many of the skills in the games industry are highly specialized to the games industry.

Games is kind of like a 'galapagos island' to its own. Most games developers won't know any language other than C++, won't know anything about the web, won't know anything about databases, etc....
Indeed. My point of view is fixated on a working-class perspective from the USA. I wouldn't say things here feel like hell, it's just more effort and people aren't used to studying or instilling discipline in their children so they can get up to par. There's no more jobs where you have no advanced education or specific skillset, where you walk in and walk out buying a house, motorcycle and 2 cars. People aren't used to not having that available. I've spent most of my career trying to be skills-based to not fall out of the middle class here. It's no longer easy, and it was felt after 9/11 and definitely after 2008.

I certainly dislike the shift of money out of the US (and western Europe, which is really in the same boat as we are), but tough to wish poverty, dismay or anything of the sort on the rest of the world.

In my career so far, I've worked with many people from Bulgaria, along with India. Really enjoyed the experience to be honest. I'm a best-person-for-the-job sort of guy (a concept that is actually falling by the wayside in the increasingly job-strapped USA in favor of nepotism and cronyism), and don't fret over macro-economic issues that I don't control. Just do my best to survive in the environment I was born in like everyone else.

I wouldn't say everyone is getting a great deal out of the US's economic system eating its own people, plenty of the world is being ignored outright. Eastern Europe and Asia are definitely some hotspots gaining though. I think global scale might be a stretch. But I could be wrong, just thinking about the parts of the world where capitalists aren't investing as much.

I love talking to folks from Bulgaria and such about their lives from the Soviet era till today. One told me that "we didn't have much, but you didn't care or notice because everyone else was". Lack of envy etc, that individual was actually admiring his previous life in ways, which I understand given how miserable so many people appear today..

Very interesting perspectives on life and the world, to me at least. I also enjoy teams with folks from India, usually upbeat and smiling and that's (almost) all I ask for. I also suspect working with developers in Latin America would be a similar experience. The culture differences get a little abrasive though once you move out of India into the rest of Asia.
Could this be something that everyone who is dissapointed with recent hardware offerings be switching to?

Upgradability and fixability is there, though the price is a bit steep.
LastPass recently made a change to how they save generated passwords, it'll prompt you right after filling it instead of waiting for the login to succeed.
If he liked keeping quiet he wouldn't need asylum in the first place.
I disagree: Beheading the brain worked pretty damn well for Revolutionary France, and revolting against the brain worked damn well for Revolutionary America.
I read this very differently -- if $5/day makes up a significant portion of your safety net spending, then you have much larger problems than the $5 delta your latte is causing. It's not that $5/day doesn't matter to anyone, it's that the people for whom it matters are facing much larger systemic issues that we're ignoring while shaming people for the smallest of luxuries.

edit: missing word
If you think agreeing to appear in a video with a white supremacist and joking about his "kek" statue doesn't paint at least part of a picture, and that suggesting otherwise is "guilt by association", that's on you. To me, it's more telling that your best, leading example of a place where the media got its facts wrong is Shiva Ayyadurai is also telling, and also paints part of a picture (not one I've described on the thread so far, just to be clear).
How can you tell you haven't been fooled by all the union propaganda about evil corporations are? Maybe the truth is in the middle? Unions died in the US by a mix of suicide and overreach. Unions are still glorified to kids as saving us from child labor (which they did!). The bulk of the negativity around unions comes from people old enough to observer the decline of the manufacturing industry. The unions weren't the cause but helped accelerate the decline.
It's not a cost of maintaining the platform.

It's a cost for the distribution channel i.e. a cost for Spotify to easily access the hundreds of millions of iPhone users with just a few clicks on an app submission form.
Hi Patrick,

Before we had M2/U2 NVMe drives, there were quite a few manufacturers making drives that plug straight into the PCIe bus where they could easily access the full 16 lanes, and they still can...

Intel seems to be the only ones making PCIe drives (Octane's are funny; they don't look fast only 2000 MB/s, although they do win on latency and random access). Anyway, there doesn't seem to be much demand for that speed, I guess it's a case that x4 U2/M2 are good enough.

Speaking of which.. I'm am surprised there isn't a similar network interface utilising PCIe with a low overhead protocol the same as NVMe does. Getting towards the point where a small number of machines could share memory and CPU's between machines. I know we have Infiniband but that has always come at quite a cost, mainly in supercomputers.
You're right in general - there are many issues on which people today need to learn to peacefully disagree - but LGBT rights and climate change are not those. One is a human rights issue, and the other is scientific fact. There's little nuance to be had.
Not even contractors sometimes.

I've seen full-time employees laid off at one point, given severance, told not to look "too hard" for a new job, companies reported numbers, and hired back the same people in the same roles a few months later.
Spotify (now?) supports this: https://support.spotify.com/us/using_spotify/system_settings...
that's a non sequitur. a free tool doesn't have a profit motive and a company using the tool for profit doesn't attach a profit motive to the tool itself.
Given a sales tax there is no "you" to the government. It doesn't matter who buys the house - sales tax is charged. Regarding leasing, I'm sure that provisions could be made for that sort of thing. Presumably the goal would be to be revenue neutral with the current system.
Ummmmm Hitler ordered the manufacturing of the Bug in April of 1934. This was before WWII.

Civilian production was stopped at the start of the war, but it was definitely being built before the war, as evidenced by many historical sources.
You do realize that black people don't have to be democrats yet?
What quality freelance developer or manager in the US takes 4 hour jobs for even close to $25 per hour, in a customer choosen location?
This is a pretty genius move on CloudFlare's part. By getting Steve and investing in Rust before it and WA really takes off they get a seat at the table, and will probably have considerable influence and domain knowledge in both technologies compared to other companies when it becomes mainstream.

Rust is also hedging its bets on WA, and it's looking like Rust might be the language of the future web on the server and client (thanks for all the fish Javascript). CF investing in Rust is mutually beneficial. Rust is still new, agile, and will let people write safe code, which is going to be critical when running modules in the end user's browser.

Hope they let Steve spend a lot of his time continuing to make Rust great, and hopefully Steve will encourage the other Rustacians at CF to make Rust better for the rest of us.
> my biology is the biology of a woman regardless of whether or not doctors agree

> The idea that her biology is that of a person born with two X chromosomes and a vagina is a little ridiculous to me

Well, there's a logical resolution here. The biology of women contains cis female biology as well as trans female biology. No contradiction between these two points.

The point of making distinctions is because those distinctions are useful to us. Which distinctions we make are up to our discretion. Not only does our understanding inform the distinctions we make, the distinctions we make inform our understanding.

Here's an example. Our culture is obsessed with elaborate social structures based on genitals, isn't that weird? If those cultural practices are rooted in biology, and we want cultural recognition of trans women, then we are saying that trans women have the biology of women. No logical problem here.

Medically, it is arguable that trans women have female biology. That's not saying trans women have the same biology as cis women. Indeed, some trans women need to see a gynecologist, even. Both cis and trans women can take drugs to correct hormonal imbalances. I know a cis women who needs to take spironolactone for high testosterone just like many trans women need to; a family friend was on HRT for menopausal symptoms, estradiol, which many trans women take too. I would not be _at all_ surprised if there were a trans woman and a cis woman on the same exact hormone therapy. So not only can we make the category of "female biology" wider in a medical setting without making a logical mistake (subcategories: trans female biology, cis female biology), there really is overlap between the medical needs of trans women and cis women.

This is not frivolous. Trans women get a serious amount of discrimination and contempt from many medical providers because of this cultural and medical intransigence against them. This change of distinctions has an important consequence to the quality of life of many women, and, in the long term, all of us.
Since when is life about needs and nothing else? "small luxuries" like a nice coffee should not be exclusively available to the super rich.
Part of the deal with contractors is they're not supposed to be working there for years at a time, otherwise they're employees. Those layoffs might be justification for cycling people out to avoid having to convert them.
> hint: disabling copy/paste in password entry fields

If you're using Safari on the Mac, a program called Stop The Madness junks crap like that for you.
It makes a big difference in group messages. Group messages just outright suck on android. And if you're in a group chat with both iphone and android people it doesn't always send messages to the android people