skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But there being less full professors than assistant professors isn't evidence of them not being promoted on the basis of their sex? Are they dropping out at different rates or different ages? Are they putting in the same hours? Are they accomplishing the same things? Are they in the same fields? The analysis of the gender earnings gap showed that these assumptions that all of these things were a given to have been equal between the sex populations were actually far from it. There are so many variables at play. The argument would be much more compelling if it didn't just offer the single variable of their sex, with the assumption being that all else considered, the candidates are identical.
It’s a fair question. Ever since the days of Nicholas Negroponte the Media Lab has been a triumph of style over substance. Nevertheless, it’s still an integral part of MIT.
Because moral relativism is bullshit and some legal systems are willing to extinguish the rights of their citizens?
Set my default browser to Firefox for the first time in ~10 years.
The third paragraph:

> To clarify, several cancers can be caused by infectious entities; cervical cancer, for example, is the work of HPV, a sexually transmitted virus. But in those cases, the cancer itself is not infectious and cannot spread. CTVT is different: Each cancer cell is a free-living parasite that can set up another tumor on another dog.

Put another way, HPV is a virus whose effects can cause cancer. That is, it causes mutations in _your own_ cells that cause them to become cancerous.

CTVT is essentially a parasitic cell line — not your cells hopping a ride on you.
Does anyone know if the developer edition is getting a refresh too?

(Also, does anyone else find Dell's website incredibly confusing? Really hard to find a specific model on it---bizarre for a company that got its start with mail order.)
Don't you get HPV vax way late in life. Like waay after autism diagnosis.

I don't know much about anti vaxers. I just remember something about how it causes autism (they think). And often diagnosis is around the time early childhood vaxination is done.

Sonmy question is what does a late child vax for HPV do (in their words).
We (PIA) are not backed by China. But you’re absolutely right - how do you vet trust in a VPN?

The true answer isn’t one the industry or you want to hear - you don’t. Audits don’t do much as they only prove something is true at a certain moment in time. There is still trust involved. Instead, it’s a responsibility of the VPN industry to migrate towards architectures that require lesser or zero trust.

We are working on it, and as always, I encourage anyone else in the industry (or outside of it) to reach out as this is something we should all work toward, because that’s what cypherpunks do!
HPV seems to be a similar disease.
Works for me in Firefox on Windows
I'm very happy to see the WebIDL proposal replaced with something generalized.

The article brings up an interesting point:

Webassembly really could enable seamless cross-language integration in the future.

Writing a project in Rust, but really want to use that popular face detector written in Python?

And maybe the niche language tokenizer written in PHP?

And sprinkle ffmpeg on top, without the hassle of target-compatible compilation and worrying about use after free vulnerabilities?

No problem use one of the many WASM runtimes popping up (like [1], [2]) and combine all those libraries by using their pre-compiled WASM packages distributed on a package repo like WAPM [2], with auto-generated bindings that provide a decent API from your host language.

Sounds too good to be true?
Probably, and there are plenty of issues to solve.

But it sounds like a future where we could prevent a lot of the re-writes and duplication across the open source world by just tapping into the ecosystems of other languages.

[1] https://wapm.io/
[2] https://github.com/CraneStation/wasmtime
[2] https://wapm.io/
For some reason I can't reach the site, but I can answer the question. No. If I really wanted tomato sauce that bad, I would grow and jar my own tomatoes. That was a valuable lesson I learned from family members that lived through the great depression. They could easily live off their garden if need be.
And the reason for that column was that Bagehot wrote for The Economist and was the son-in-law of its founder, James Wilson.
100% complete and total disagreement from me.

1. Write your own C compiler.
2. Implement your binary encoding/decoding.

I understand that you're relying on gcc or clang, and I would argue that you will bear the weight of that all of that code the instant it has any problem.
I agree this is scary. I should also say this is about more than just spying on people, and some of the uses, probably the less impactful ones, are not evil. There is a lot you could do with a real time model of the world. Like I said, I haven't thought of the best uses for it.
Nothing really puts you in control of twitter, when half the Twittersphere is calling you a moron because you said one thing which is counter to half the population. It doesn't matter how much you ignore them once they put you on the news. You don't even have to be as stupid as the people below to have a negative outcome from Twitter. Just consistently use it to cite your honest moral opinion and I guarantee someone will hunt you down as if you were the worst serial killer.

https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/7-people-whose-lives-were-ruin...
https://www.theclever.com/15-tweets-that-have-ruined-peoples...
From Robert Caro's The Power Broker:

Robert Moses had shifted the parkway south of Otto Kahn's estate, south of Winthrop's and Mills's estates, south of Stimson's and De Forest's. For men of wealth and influence, he had moved it more than three miles south of its original location. But James Roth possessed neither money nor influence. And for James Roth, Robert Moses would not move the parkway south even one tenth of a mile farther. For James Roth, Robert Moses would not move the parkway one foot.
Also, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20717961
A seemingly minor issue got me really worried about the future of the Chrome monopoly.

For some reason, some developer/product manager at Chrome decided to ignore `"autocomplete"="off". This reeks havoc with the 100s of JS autocomplete addons out there when chrome autocomplete pops up over the custom built on.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12374442/chrome-ignores-...

Seems like there's no resolution yet, aside from a stream of ridiculous hacks that all tend to break at one point or another.

If Google wants to own the browser, they are going to need a more transparent process on these things. It affects everyone now and they have to start governing their changes more appropriately.
Why should Mozilla & Google support the legal system of a country?

This is like saying an arms dealer should sell to any government

The government was undermining the security features of the browser. The browser is functioning to mitigate that interception. HTTPS is about having a secure link between client & server, not client & server & government
In addition to the many problems pointed out by others:

1. When I click on a country name, I see country information and have to click on a tab to see visa information. Poor user experience.

2. The "visa required" list for a country is not sorted alphabetically. It's just an unusable mess, really.
Contributing to Open Source with the Kafka Connect MongoDB Sink [audio]
Slowing Share Buybacks Remove a Pillar of Stock Market
Also for Portugal...
Creating a Name in the Hackathlon World
Missed that, thank you.
“Warspeak” Puts All of Us in the Trenches
A colleague of mine just wrote a beautiful article about our hackathon experience from the last 5 months. In the next one we want to tackle how we balance school, hackathons, jobs and our social life or to write about how you can make the most out of a hackathlon and how to win it. Which one would be of more interest?
There are a lot of questions around Gardasil vaccine.
I have a friend that had the vaccine and she has her body paralized 3 years for 3 years now. She's 17 years old, living in a bed and suffering depression. I know there could be another cause for her paralisys but the vaccine is still the most probable cause, so having the vaccine was her worst decision of her life.
My perspective on browser history is a little different. I've been following and using Firefox since before it was Firefox. At one point in time, I was working in a computer store. IE6 - 8 was letting ActiveX controls and other scripts run rampant, infecting people like crazy. 99% of our business was malware cleanup and removal due to IE. Once you explained to people what happened, they were appaled and were happy to switch to Firefox, despite many sites only working on IE at the time. THIS is what really triggered the migration away from IE. Firefox was taking off (look at the chart in the linked article), and was starting to dominate, well before Chrome ever became a thing. Those of us on Linux also had Konqueror, and it had a decent userbase as well.

I think that's when Google noticed that the IE monopoly was breaking, and they jumped onboard and took Konqueror's code and then launched their own browser. The same code that Apple used for Safari. So they basically came in on the hard work of Firefox and the KHTML team and took over the market by putting Chrome right on Google's homepage.

It's my opinion that Chrome didn't become popular because it was better, or because it was cool (no average user cares about that). It became popular by being right there on everybody's home page, right at the perfect time that people were catching on to the fact that IE had zero security.

Firefox broke the monopoly and freed us, and then Google and Apple came in and shat all over them.
Is controlling for hours worked and seniority just controlling for the specific methods sexism works through? Seems like you could implement a sexist pay gap by rewarding bums in seats even when it's not economically productive, or by only promoting men, and that these measures would then be controlled for.
Would like to see an example of the API Builder generated Foxx service. I currently use Gridsome and Fasty looks like the perfect replacement the Netlify CMS that I currently use.
AI's key innovation has been the proper marketing of outsourced low-wage labor to investors. Still waiting on those self-driving cars, though... weren't they supposed to be taking me to the airport last year?
Maybe that article can help about real world use case : https://tech.ebayinc.com/engineering/webassembly-at-ebay-a-r...
Show HN: Buy Partial Real Estate with Credit Card
Founder of AlphaCap [1] here, we built a simple tool that allows anyone to buy real estate and immediately start receiving monthly rental income. We encountered a problem in the form of an endless wall of paperwork when trying to buy real estate for investment purposes. Real estate industry is still pretty outdated, there are still real estate agents who charge 3% to represent the seller and another 3% to represent the buyer, there are technology platforms like Redfin that are trying to tackle that particular challenge by charging 1% and hiring a salaried employee to represent the buyer/seller. However, buying a percentage ownership in a property still remains a difficult problem. We strive to build a platform to connect interested buyers/investors with each other to raise enough capital to purchase a property together. This way if a property is a great investment, but you don't have enough money to cover the full purchase price you can use our platform to buy a percentage of that property and allow others to invest in the remaining equity. You will then receive your share of the rental income + appreciation on your equity ownership over time.
I want to thank everyone in advance for providing feedback and looking forward to hearing your thoughts and any concerns.

[1] https://alphacap.ai
In my experience, jack only manages to avoid xruns on reasonably small yet still too large (5ms) buffers when running as SCHED_FIFO or SCHED_RR, and only on linux-rt.

Patch sets like -ck simply don't help with this.

Try running cyclictest from rt-tests for a while to see the true horror of Linux behavior.
Yep, September, with more variants in October - https://news.softpedia.com/news/dell-unveils-new-xps-13-deve...
I often wonder how much more efficient computers would be if we were capable of writing optimal machine code for whatever task we wanted to accomplish. No layers, just efficient code written at the lowest level for everything.

It obviously wouldn't be worth the effort, but how many times faster would our computers be?
That seems completely counterintuitive, billionaires already run the world and are directly accountable to impacts to the world economy. I don’t think they are trying to obtain more increments of power or wealth that no one would notice.
Vague, conspiratorial claims of "vaccines are just dangerous" and religious conservatives claiming making sex safer encourages promiscuity.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2016/jan/11/why-is-...
Manchester United Issues Statement on Pogba
It's strange when one feel-good state intervention makes a problem worse, and to combat that, we recommend another feel-good state intervention that will likely make things worse still.
Looks like the last release was in May 2017.
I actually don't think so. HPV is a viral infection that causes cancer. CTVT is a cancerous tumor that is itself the vector of infection.
Yes it does: lsusb -v upon linux shows exactly that information. Not sure upon windows flavours of doing that beyond gui digging some properties, but the values are in there.
Fortunately there is an official register or everyone who flew on the Lolita Express.
... and yet it will be valued as one. At this point it doesn't matter if anything really is tech or not. Rich people just want to park their money away from banks.

(As an aside, i think WeWork’s S1 has turned to a remarkable feat of marketing, making buzz around the company in cycles who are likely to be their customers)
What to Work On
If there are violent hailstorms, judging from the photos on Wikipedia it isn't a good place to catch them: zero cover and a high likelyhood to fall and/or run downhill onto the edge of the lake causing a concentration of dead bodies.
Oh, I don't think anything is missing. Just seems like the perfect case of a product/tool you would be able to "dogfood".

Good work!
An example of what user data Signal revealed under a subpoena
It's not difficult to understand it, just watch browser scores on can I use
https://caniuse.com/

Yes Safari is far better than IE but we're in 2019, it's the new browser limiting the web, thus it's the new IE.
So the trick would be to get a vat of salt water with these sheets in them, then set up an electric pump to circulate the salt water across the sheets. Power the electric pump using the generated electricity and... tada! Free energy! :D
Is anyone else terrified by this?
Is there actual research on this, or is this anecdata? Because correlation is not causation.
Correct. I thought it was in the real estate business.
Condensate is not typically burned for electrical generation. It's value is as a very low viscosity liquid so it can be blended with heavy oil to make it's transport more efficient. This also necessitates taking it to where the heavier oil is being produced.

It's also typically not composed of methane but propane+, and while there may be a correlation with renewable energy in the same areas, those regions tend to be quite a distance from the ultimate consumers. high capacity electric transportation is not environmentally neutral and underground networks in these areas would be as costly as pipelines, which is why they are almost always above ground.
No, it isn't, because controlling for those things means comparing the same job to the same job. The gap complaint is women being paid less for the exact same job and hours. It's different from the sexist glass ceiling.
A six thousand year old cancer? Why?
> Suppose a Wall Street Journal reporter were also dining at the restaurant, saw the conversation going on, and then published a story about it.

This is explicitly considered by the SEC. Indeed, from their guidance on the matter-- read the last clause ;)

Of course, note this states "include" for recognized channels of distribution; there are other means by which information can become public. But "can be found out by the public" and "are broadly disseminated to the securities marketplace" are different standards.

> All information about the Company is considered nonpublic information until it is disseminated in a manner calculated to reach the securities marketplace through recognized channels of distribution and public investors have had a reasonable period of time to react to the information. Generally, information which has not been available to the investing public for at least two (2) full business days is considered to be nonpublic. Recognized channels of distribution include annual reports, prospectuses, press releases, marketing materials, and publication of information in prominent financial publications, such as The Wall Street Journal.

Also note-- e.g. your buddy Tom who has signed a nondisclosure agreement tells you that they loaded 50 trucks full of product today-- if you trade upon this you are probably committing insider trading because the information was misappropriated.

But your friend Bill who was sitting outside the factory on public land watching the loading can trade upon it freely.

You can't trade upon it until Bill's news story has been out for 2 full business days, because you already know the material nonpublic information by virtue of it having been misappropriated.
Audiobooks I've listened to since 2017
"Energy is the total amount of work done, and power is how fast you can do it. In other words, power is energy per unit of time. Power is watts. Energy is watt-hours."
Wow, that article was insufferable at times. For example:

> If we all have fatal flaws, this is Joe’s: his insistence on seeing value in people even when he shouldn’t, even when they’ve forfeited any right to it... He just won’t write people off, and then he compounds the sin by throwing them a lifeline at the moment when they least deserve it.

I've argued against alt right nutjobs, and have mixed feelings about the very last part, but it's insane to act like seeing value in people who've made mistakes is a "sin". The idea that people have forfeited all value as humans is disgusting to some of us, and part of the reason for Rogan's popularity. It's a little vacation from all the righteous indignation of late.
I actually did this for several years, with the added benefit that any number of my (trusted) friends could piggyback on it, given we weren't all using at once. There are dozens of great guides on this, DigitalOcean even hosts some of their own that you can practically copy paste blindly and be done.

I'll be honest though, haha, 10% of my VPN usage is legitimate stuff and 90% is just so I can feel safe streaming things illegally that are otherwise hard to purchase. So I switched over to a third party for the simplicity. If I wanted to do more than avoid an email from my ISP I would definitely go back to rolling my own. (I'm also grandfathered into PIA's older cheaper price tier which makes it easier).
It is intended by it's creators as a research language. That doesn't mean it isn't suitable for practical use, it just means that you should expect it to continue to gain features and grow in complexity.
“Released” not “relaxed”. You won’t be relaxed after getting the bill.
I remember flying over the South Island of Japan. There are all these beautiful sandy beaches you can see from the air and nobody on them. I asked my host about that and he said, no one goes swimming because it's polluted.
Moral relativism isn't bullshit, parent's a strawman when it comes to moral relativism

Moral relativism functions when one doesn't take on it saying you must serve the morals of others
GitHub Contributions Generator Script
NASA astronauts will probably launch before The Winds of Winter is published
I believe the submarine use-case is supposed to be the other way around:

> and even (running the process in reverse) a silent propulsion system for boats or submarines.

So the submarine would have on-board power generation that powers this, not that this would provide the power to the submarine.
It depends. For me "support" is just that, to get support. On the other hand, "contact" is more generic, just about anything else.
The alternative to pipelines is not trucks, it's rail, and the impact x frequency of rail-based spills is larger than pipelines.
> about as important as a debate over Helvetica Vs Times New Roman for research papers

That’s a reasonable discussion to have. In particular, Helvetica should not be used for setting long blocks of text.

The design choices in Helvetica make it an appropriate choice for posters, corporate logos, headings, ..., but not appropriate for research papers. Many other possible choices are more legible.
I find this interesting because this is, obviously, very barebones. But, surely, with enough legal pressure something else will be given? I also wonder if this subpoena might have intentionally been worded to get this smidgeon of info, painting Signal in a better light. Meanwhile, real info could have been transferred freely without official proceedings.
At this point, though, you would have conceded the point that women are not simply paid less than men on the basis of their sex, the earnings are actually a function of hours worked and seniority. The earnings gap would simply be a downstream effect of the new proposition you are putting forward, which is that the hours worked and seniority are denied to women on the basis of their sex.

This is not something that has been demonstrated to have been true, of course, but that would be the correct way of framing the argument.
Google DeepMind Co-Founder Placed on Leave from AI Lab
Writing a compiler is another one of those things that is a lot easier than people assume it is. Far easier.
A step closer to solving the methane mystery on Mars
The extent of the Rock Band / Guitar Hero connection is that they were made by a company (Harmonix Music Systems) founded by two people who had been grad students at the Media Lab. They did indeed work on music tech while at the Media Lab, and the first Harmonix product, The Axe, was an outgrowth of that tech, although it only sold a few hundred copies. Guitar Hero came eight years later.

(I worked on all three projects.)
It is a fun thought. Probably far less efficient and slower than current propulsion, but no moving parts is a big plus.

Small drones that patrol the ocean for long times would be a cool application. Move a bit until the batteries are nearly depleted, float around to recharge, and then resume moving.
Yes, we need lots of correctly tagged data.

Waymo released a tagged data set for self-driving:

https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/21/waymo-releases-a-self-driv...

The FT article is a little better:

https://www.ft.com/content/2eed925a-c3cf-11e9-a8e9-296ca6651...

"Its data, collected using cameras and sensors on Waymo vehicles in a variety of environments and road conditions, include 1,000 high-resolution driving scenes that have been “painstakingly labelled” to indicate the presence of 12m objects such as pedestrians, cyclists and signage."
I tend to agree. I have found the number of stories to have som utility as a metric, though.
Not as terrified as I was when one of our dogs got hemangiosarcoma, a canine-only cancer of the cells that line the inside of blood vessels. It took three weeks from the first symptoms to when he died. That's actually a long time - in many cases, the first symptom of the cancer is that the dog is dead.