skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Napatech also has some state of the art programable NIC product offerings as well.

https://www.napatech.com/products/napatech-smartnics/

I know a number of cloud providers are customers of theirs. Nice to see practical use cases for FPGAs.
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>Three companies were cited for discrimination by both age and gender: Nebraska Furniture Mart, Renewal by Andersen LLC

First two are presumably looking for manual laborers who can lift heavy furniture and install heavy windows.

I previously worked for a moving company and tried to help fill my vacancy when I left the company. We would have been happy to hire a woman who could move sofas and dressers all day in a safe and controlled manner. (The company had previously had one female employee). There just aren't that many of them out there. The resumes I got from women had no indication of manual labor in their work history (they were just shotgunning applications out to every recent job listing). They would have been rejected based on work history (just the same as men) if we weren't desperate. However the company was very short on labor and I called every applicant. None of the female applicants showed up for a working interview

>and Sandhills Publishing Company.

The third is a software company that forces its employees to wear a suit to work. So maybe they're stuck in an antiquated sexist mindset. Maybe they just realized 82% of CS majors are young men.

I do think it's good to remove discriminatory job ad placement, for the sake of that 18% of the population. But don't think for a minute that this will change the gender imbalance in certain industries. It's a pipeline problem.
It's not foolish to be an early investor in a promisingly marketed multilevel marketing scam. The greater fool is the very late investor, who is as far from quality information that would allow them to make a good decision about the buy as they could possibly be. So calling them fools is unfair; they're the target of a bunch of misinformation and hype which was the actual product that the initial investors were betting on.
At which point it can be buried in a landfill. That is, essentially, how all the coal be are burning formed in the first place.

At any rate, it still increases the buffer of sequestered carbon and still means these forests can be logged, as logging with replacement for construction would sequester multiple times the forest's mass in carbon even if the extra sequestration period was limited.
So some background information is necessary to get everyone on the same page. The optics of the eye are such that the lens and cornea focus light onto the back of the eye, the retina. That focusing power can be inadequate or overpowered depending on the axial length of the eye. You can imagine that you would need a diverging lens to help focus light better in a longer (myopic, or near-sighted) eye, and a converging light to help focus light better in a shorter (hyperopic, or far-sighted) eye.

We know from several large scale studies that eye reaches its maximum axial length by around age 13, and while the eye gets ever so slightly shorter (hyperopic, rather than myopic) as you age, it's far outweighed by the effects of presbyopia, whereby the lens of your eye becomes less elastic with age, and thus is unable to focus up close. In effect, it makes you more farsighted, and why people with myopia feel that their vision somewhat improves with age.

Sources (with references to the large scale studies, which unfortunately I cannot currently access): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4347057/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3843406/
One thing they DID have is a great selection for larger women. While most stores cater to the skinny+young (see brandy melville's "one-size-fits-all" policy), many forever 21 locations had a large plus size section that I know was appreciated by many women.
Need to fly the in-laws who are old up to the Bay Area for Xmas. Just checked the schedule for this. No flights flying on the 23rd. Alaska air it is.
Probably nice for people that save the HTML document locally via curl or similar.
What's with the obsession with keeping the moon and other planets barren?

There is an incomprehensible number of barren planets: 21.16 quadrillion in the Virgo Supercluster alone. We should be spreading life, not obsessing with keeping things 'clean'.
I don't think I've ever had a job where I got to start a sizeable program with a free choice of language to make all my coworkers learn.
I don't think this is possible.
Never had an issue with it on HN. 99% of quotes occur at the start of the post and the rest of the post is a reply.

Posts that interleave their content with quoted bits are rarely as constructive as they think (almost always just point-by-point bickering) that I find impossible to follow no matter what formatting they could've used for the quotes.

Also a single ">" prefix on a long wrapped line is a bit of internet convention with younger crowds probably thanks to 4chan. I doubt most people using it these days even remember seeing it in emails.

If anything, HN should post-process lines that start with ">" to indent them.
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I don't think anyone is arguing that stealth isn't useful. I think the argument here is that equating stealth with radar evasion is no longer accurate.
Yes, 1) be irresistibly fun to use, 2) prevent users from doing the wrong thing, 3) be an aspirational purchase.

That might sound like I’m making fun of productivity software, but I’m not—-now that instant communication is a commodity, organizational/productivity software has value mostly because it’s a self-limiting tool that shapes how we think and interact so we can do what we were already capable of doing.
I don't want them to stay barren, to want to know if life exists before spreading our germs, and sneezing cotton everywhere.
I would do software development from a podunk town if I could make the same amount as I do in the bay area.
>car infotainment system

That's a great area for improvement. Controlling a car absolutely needs a good physical controller that is very close (conceptually) to our human muscle structure. But what do car companies use for their new systems? Touch screens, the absolute worst choice for keeping your eyes on the road.
Not open, not appreciably different from completely open solutions like owncloud - no thanks
I was under the impression that any kind of "disparate impact" crossed the line of legality regardless of intent
I really need to work up the courage and try a CW QSO soon. I might have to do it at 5 wpm but I've got all the letters and numbers down.

I encourage everyone to give SSTV a shot. My antenna is just a "hamstick dipole" and it's maybe 13 feet in the air, but like I said I've had successful 20m contacts as far away as Quebec.
Found a list of comparisons to other solutions including Syncthing: https://blog.duple.io/what-is-the-point-of-duple/

From their blogpost:

"-Syncthing is P2P, so you get the disadvantages along with it e.g. all your devices need to be turned on at the same time. If not, you get a desynchronisation between your devices and create conflict.
-Syncthing is not an app for backup (see this link, section 2.2.17). Duple is; in fact backup is one of our main features.
-Then, similar to the likes of Nextcloud, Syncthing also includes a complicated installation/setup that isn't aimed at everyone and requires some IT expertise. One of the main points of Duple is to provide an out of the box tool that anyone can use, with super easy set up.
-It is also worth noting that Syncthing is not planning on supporting iOS platforms."
eBay has something to say about this: new Peloton bikes run $2245 on their site, they're clearing for about $1700-$1800 on eBay right now.

This is a significant value drop, but not huge given the logistical difficulties of this specific resale market (shipping these things is hard.)
Please don't perpetuate tedious tit-for-tat spats on HN.

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> Along with war, taxes and inequality, it’s rare that we question advertisings morality.

I personally came to the conclusion that since all advertising (maybe beyond simple notices of prices) is lies, it's all immoral, and to be avoided.
Not an optimization, like I said, but to avoid having innerHTML in your code. innerHTML isn't that much better communicating intent, either. That's what comments are for.
From the article, "But, the plants will not be able to survive the lunar night, when temperatures dip down to -170 degrees Celsius."
Excerpt: "Enabling this significant performance gain will require a rework of the entire network stack – from the application layer through the system software layer, down to the hardware."

Let's start with TCP.

TCP is an abstraction layer over IP, creating the abstraction of reliable, ordered, guaranteed data delivery -- over an unreliable network, which does not guarantee that any given packet will arrive, much less which order it will arrive in, if it even does arrive.

That abstraction is called a "Connection".

But connections come with a high maintenance overhead.

The network stack must check periodically if a connection is still active, must periodically send out keep-alive packets on connections that are, must allocate and deallocate memory for each connection's buffer, must order packets when they come in in each connection's buffer, and must do I/O to whatever subsystem(s) communicate with the network stack, etc.

Speeding up that infrastructure would mean rethinking all of that... Here are some of the most fundamental questions to that thought process:

1) What new set of criteria will constitute a Connection -- on IP's packet-based, connectionless nature?

2) Who will be permitted to connect?

3) How will you authenticate #2?

4) Where (outside NIC, inside NIC, computer network stack, ?) will you perform the algorithmic tasks necessary for #2, #3?

5) What are you willing to compromise for faster speed? E.g, you could use raw datagrams, but not only are they not guaranteed to arrive, but their source can be spoofed... how do you know that a datagram is from the IP address it claims to be without further verification, without the Connection (and further verification of the Connection level, like SSL/Certificates,etc.)?

In other words, rethinking TCP/IP brings with it no shortage of potential problems and security concerns...

It might be faster to simply make the NIC cards faster, as the article talks about...

Or have the Clients or Server software be more selective about what data they send or receive... or what they accept as Connections, from whom, and why...

That is, maybe it's not a speed problem... maybe it's a selectivity problem...

Still, I'm all for faster hardware if DARPA can realize it. :-)
I am unapologetic about my embracing of digital reading. I read a lot of history books and find that access to wikipedia and google earth enhance the experience. Not only can I enjoy the book, but I can enrich the experience by taking up extra context from easily available online sources.

If you haven't tried it, pick up the ebook of "Voyage of the Beagle" and trace Darwin's travels with google earth and wiki. I assure you that the time you spend "distracted" looking at pictures of Patagonia will be a great time.
You seem very confused as to what the argument is.

Sigh...just think about it a little more carefully before responding. Did I ever make the argument that sugar is never produced endogenously? And does that invalidate my point that some consumption of sugar is one way to keep the body functioning healthily?

I don't have a doctorate but I'm very comfortable with reading academic articles - your condescension is not welcome here.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8075769
Discusses the various impurities illicit cocaine contains. What is the purpose of citing this exactly? This is so far related from the original argument.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/42756923.pdf
Breaks down the various alkaloids in cocaine leaves and is unrelated to what your point is.
We ban users who attack others like this, regardless of what the other commenter did. We've hard to warn you about this before. Please don't do this again.

Please do review the site guidelines and use HN in the intended spirit: kind, thoughtful, curious conversation.

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Quite a few of these can be set in the HTTP headers as well, but people editing templates don't always have access or know how to do it.

BTW; not all UTF-8 text has a byte-order mark, I would say most of them don't.
A have a few thousand HP of Eurorack and definitely agree that modular synths are easier, more fun, and more interactive to control than most other interfaces. But even then, they're clunky for some things, and I feel that there are further designs that can achieve control even more efficiently.
Along the same line, Pohl's Heechee Rendevous the main character's sentinence is transferred to a sophisticated database system of sorts allowing him to live on virtually with access to pretty much all info.
It should be illegal for the government to detain people in areas with inadequate access to medical care. If they want to put immigration detention centers (or any prison) in the middle of nowhere, they should be required to pay for a doctor to be there too.

And it isn't a case of 'well migrants cross the border in the middle of nowhere so it's their fault' - almost all immigrants held in this place are transferred from another ICE detention center (https://trac.syr.edu/immigration/detention/201509/WTXDFTX/tr...)
Have you ever used any of those features of tensorflow though? They're all, er, idiosyncratic. If you're a decent software engineer and are following the mafs well from a book, I couldn't reccomend Jax highly enough. (I work on big tf RL projects every day).
Not sure why the previous incident page got flagged. This is the new one.

It's affecting us for real. Making almost our whole service - serpapi.com - down. As we are storing database files on block storage volumes.
I believe the American Medical Association (AMA) lobbying congress to shut down medical schools and artificially limit residencies and thus the supply of doctors is a much bigger factor.

A lot of people who are capable and motivated to be doctors for good reasons are shut out because doctors don't want there to be more doctors who will serve to limit their wage growth.
This would be my first instinct as well. If you don't like something, tax it and get yourself a new high-speed rail transit system for free.
And lower liability limits so that if you, say, pollute a river, all owners are personally liable.
Yeah, it's not a 3d game, but you still have to fill those 4k pixels...
> maximum-scale is an automatic usability and accessibility fail

I wish more people realized this. As somebody that's visually impaired, it makes mobile browsing quite painful for me.
The pricing for this actually looks much more reasonable than I'd have expected. Last (and only time) I chartered a helicopter it was back to Hong Kong from Macau, and it ran me ~$850.00 USD. Palo Alto to Napa is "only" like $275 with these people.
>No it's not. You and your opponent can simply move your queens back and forth forever.

We might disagree on this point, but to me, that's the same game regardless of how many times you move the pieces around, because that game ended in a draw. Moving queens around indefinitely to no purpose is no longer chess, there are no more possibilities to be found at that point, it's pure entropy.

>It's a pragmatic question, and includes an implication of "for all practical purposes". Taking it literally is just being argumentative.

I honestly don't think it's true for all practical purposes, either. I'm not trying to be argumentative, I legitimately disagree with the premise. When you're talking about capitalism, you need a market which will return a profit on something people are willing to pay for, and there are only so many things people will be willing to pay for, and only so much they will pay, because people's time and budgets are limited.
Is the World Ready for Floating Nuclear Power Stations? IEEE Spectrum
One would expect a cattle lobbying group to support hopeful studies which support their worldview. I think it is premature to write this off merely for that fact, just like it would be to write off a study which came to the opposite conclusion if it was funded by a soy growers association.
I recall long ago OKCupid used to do a lot of in-depth data analysis like this, why did that stop?
This makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Just because polygamy is permissible doesn't mean it's practiced in a widespread manner, not to mention you don't even know what percentage of marriages are polygamous.
As a Mac user why should I care about this developer who's never released Mac software and probably wouldn't have anyway?

When someone like the Omni Group or Panic writes a similar screed than it will be newsworthy. This? Hardly...
Please stop breaking the HN like this, regardless of how right you are or how wrong other comments are.

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It's called the Department of Defense, not Offense :)
as a note TCP doesn't periodically check if a connection is still alive, or send out keep-alives

(unless you explictly turn it on)
I was saying you miscalculated the PCIe bandwidth.
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I was thinking a dormant commerce clause[1] argument. And after a bit of duck ducking (duck duck going?) it seems they've won at least one case in the past using the theory.[2] I only skimmed the opinion but that case overturned a Nevada statute that set out due process requirements for those accused of NCAA violations. From the decision:

> Essentially, the Statute requires any national collegiate athletic association to provide a Nevada institution, employee, student-athlete, or booster who is accused of a rules infraction with certain procedural due process protections during an enforcement proceeding in which sanctions may be imposed. Many of the procedures required by the Statute are not included in the NCAA enforcement program. For example, the NCAA does not provide the accused with the right to confront all witnesses, the right to have all written statements signed under oath and notarized, the right to have an official record kept of all proceedings, or the right to judicial review of a Committee decision.

I'm not sure I really agree with the court's reasoning that it's a per se violation of the commerce clause but the rational is in Section B @ 638 if you're interesting.

Here's hoping this precedent gets overturned but I'm not terribly optimistic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dormant_Commerce_Clause

[2] https://casetext.com/case/national-collegiate-athletic-assn-...
No magic necessary here. Companies know very well that releasing sulphur and heavy metals into the environment, regardless if air or water, is harmful. It was scientifically proven that heavy metals tend to concentrate in the food chain. They could switch to refined (low sulfur) oil tomorrow, that is not a technical problem.

But, as others explain, the ownership of shipping companies is structured to avoid any direct responsibility, so voluntary decision that goes against the inertia is hard, and regulation is difficult in international waters.
Well, RFO-BASIC! is an interesting modernized BASIC with relatively full integration with phone features that is available on the store (you have to get the non-Store version for SMS features, thought).

It's the thing I've seen that off the top of my head seems most related to your comment.
AirBnB is convenient. WeWork isn't really more convenient than existing competitors. It just has the wow factor.
"Researcher funded by [fill in the specialist interest group] says you should [do thing that benefits special interest group]"

Perhaps I am too cynical, but much research and many studies are generated from that model.
That person isn't an author of the study, presumably just someone the NYT asked to comment. The article says about this study: "The investigators reported no conflicts of interest and did the studies without outside funding."

I think it's fair to say that "This is just meat industry damage control" breaks the HN guideline: "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

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I don't know. I don't think he's really making such an absolutist statement, these are heuristics, I think they're meant to be guardrails.

ALAN is probably a very good heuristic for precisely the type of person who reads HN. I would be most of us err too far in the direction of learning new stuff, while letting the projects we've started stagnate.
It's no wonder interest (usury) is banned in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. It's absolutely at the root of the financial problems we're seeing today.
What would you like people to pitch as an alternative effective action?

It's something that most people can look at immediately. You eat every day so what you eat does have a relatively large impact on your personal carbon footprint. It's also something people can do that doesn't have to cost them a cent.
It's kinda like how sometimes you use "Javascript" but in some contexts you're talking about a specific version (e.g. new features) and will instead mention it by a version name.
Is there a way to change this in JS? I'd love to, say, make sure that the zoom doesn't automatically change because I have an input element that's slightly thinner than the viewport and Apple thinks this is what people want, but still let people pinch to zoom.
Right. And next you’re going to tell me that the majority of their users don’t just download the software and deploy it without paying.

Gitlab as a company is about a precarious as Docker as a company. Most of its users are using it for free, and the few that are paying would happily pay anyone else who provided support for the same software. It’s a commodity.
How many SO moderators do you actually know @Avamander?

Are they all the same?

You repeatedly make really broad generalizations about SO mods that do nothing to help make your point.
I’ve long had the fantasy that machines that communicate a lot amongst themselves could develop an optimized “argot” just as humans do. For example we’re on the local lan and could dispense with the fragmentation infrastructure. Or there are only six of us so could we just use three-bit “nicknames” instead of 48 bits of MAC. Etc.

Perhaps some nice adaptive machine learning could drive this.
Its religious also. Both traditional religion (vegetarianism = good, cow = holy) and modern religion (Holier than thou because more ascetic, and grilled beef steak is delicious, therefore he who posts the most about lettuce on social media is better than everyone else)