skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a big part of that is the limited upside of unambitious projects.

I doubt too many people became engineers or entrepreneurs because they were pessimistic luddites.

I don't see a lot of people here poo-pooing public space programs or other truly horizon expanding projects.
> It doesn't take much of a leap for people to hear the non-sexist "woman don't do this" as the sexist "women can't do this"

Have you considered that this assumed malice is creating a false sense of sexism in the industry and in turn driving women away from the industry?
That doesn’t make it untrue or any less valuable.
It wouldn't work out because it wouldn't match what our telescopes are observing. This image has a good example of what's happening

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Space_Ex...

You can see that from any given point:

1. Every other point is moving away from you

2. Points further away are moving away at a faster rate

This could only work out if space were expanding. If it were an explosion instead, everything would be moving away from a fixed central point.
It is in fact an authoritative list. It's extraordinarily difficult to hide $3-$5 billion in personal wealth (enough to land firmly on the Forbes 400) in the US.

The companies - both public and private - that can contain or produce that level of wealth are very well known and almost impossible to hide. It's rare for Forbes or Bloomberg to find new stray billionaires that had been hiding for a long time. It does happen [1], it's just quite rare, especially versus the size of the known list. You don't magically quietly generate or inherit billions in wealth, you move things when you do that and it makes headlines (either over time or when a liquidity event occurs), it garners a lot of attention.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/maddieberg/2019/02/19/the-great...
>If I'm apolitical about issue X, it doesn't mean I'm a happy supporter of current state of X. It means I don't care whether it stays the way it is, or changes to any of the possible alternative states that are within the Overton window around X.

You don't have to be a happy supporter. You can be an extremely unhappy supporter if you still think the status quo is better than other options.

Saying "I don't care", is just an opinion and doesn't affect anyone. Saying "I don't care, so nobody else is allowed to talk about the subject" is implying that your world view and opinions supercede others. If you were in a group that agreed on a mechanism for deciding what could be talked about, then it would make sense for everyone in that group to follow the decision. That's not whats happening though. The people who are okay with the status quo are telling the unhappy people to be quiet, because it makes the currently okay people feel uncomfortable.

Why would anyone who disagrees with the status quo stop talking about it solely because other people didn't like it?
Perhaps if it's presented this way:

Group X that we don't like gets its phone service from AT&T. We know they're conducting their hateful business, fundraising, and coordination over AT&T's service. We need to put pressure on AT&T to cut off their service, or we'll assume that AT&T endorses their message.
This Atlantic article sums up the research nicely:

https://amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/267016/
None, but I infinitely would prefer their satellite internet service over the benefits of terrestrial astronomy. Hubble and Kepler and James Webb are plenty fine for me.
The relevant bit from Excession is the discovery of a mysterious entity that is 50x older than the universe.
I'd think that would put you solidly upper class in Texas.
I don't think your thought experiment is pertinent to the discussion in this case.

People who promote diversity and inclusion in the workplace are not trying to change the lifestyles of all employees, as your hypothetical preacher is doing. In the context of discussing "politics" at work, the point is to create a more inclusive workplace. Yes, that means people may have to attend uncomfortable trainings or learn to behave differently on the clock. But nobody is being asked to change their behavior outside of work.

It may be true that some people in some companies are overzealous in their enforcement of inclusivity policies. It may be that the way they are trying to implement those policies has an adverse effect on some other groups in the company. But that is an issue of execution that can be taken up with the people responsible for the initiative. At larger companies, these sorts of programs will be run by professionals who have studied these topics extensively, and who have goals and metrics just like any other employee. If their programs fail to produce the results leadership is looking for, presumably the approach will change.
I've thought of a good way to put this perspective.

The block reward is 12.5 BTC (and fees are neglible), which is $100000. There's a new block every ~15 minutes, which means 35000 blocks per year. ($100000 * 35000 / 73 TWH) = $0.048/KWH. So miners spend at most $0.05 per KWH on electricity. Assuming they spend 60% on electricity, they spend ~$0.03 per KWH, so not an outrageous price.

The problem is BTC grew too big too fast. The block reward is very large, but once it drops to the magnitude of fees ($2000 / block), we'll probably see a decrease in the energy usage to the (perceived?) value of decentralized payment system.

Also, this shows the need for governments to drastically increase taxes on carbon producing forms of electricity.
The physical book is a lot easier to carry to different kinds of body positions on varying furniture, walk around with, etc.

I suppose a tap on the iPad screen is probably technically the least effort, but I don’t find flipping book pages to be a hardship, and being able to write in the book margins, organize books on the shelf, etc. is nice. YMMV.

The most stressful aspect of using a typical workstation computer to read a long document is probably sitting in a typical office chair. You could compensate for that with a standing desk, but the book is still nicer IMO.

> It is so good, I don't know how to explain.

This is mostly because a 2D mouse + keyboard is quite a poor tool for navigating in 3 dimensions. A multitouch screen could conceivably be decent with a well-designed interface, but the common ones aren’t great.
Considering In-Q-Tels involvement, sometimes I think they major social media companies were setup as trojan horses to enable censorship and governmental control in the first place. (besides the more obvious surveillance aspect)
Wow, this sounds insane. Do you mind sharing the backstory?
That’s a common SMB and family farm model.

Husband runs the business, wife works for the county/town/school for the healthcare and pension.
I've heard this hypothesis a lot, but there's something that bothers me about it.

If you've ever been passionate about something, something that's hard and takes a lot of effort and practice to become good at, would you really let microaggressions stop you from doing that thing? I mean, being a programmer is not exactly a high status thing for white males either. If I tell people I'm a programmer, I generally am competing with the perception that I am socially awkward. People assume I'm like some Big Bang Theory character until I prove otherwise. I don't like that stereotype, but it never stopped me from learning to code, or even was a thought that crossed my mind.

Also, how many other industries are or have been actively hostile towards women and still have plenty of females in it? Show business is an obvious example.

I'm not saying that things can't or shouldn't be improved, but I feel like the argument that goes "well the nerds are making women uncomfortable" is just a cartoon with very little evidence other than anecdotes.
Sort by date works fine. Your last search has a typo `agolia`.
The headline makes it sound like they'd released a new SAAS app, but it looks like they're just talking about internal infrastructure.
That's correct, a value of 48k in 2019 dollars is even lower than a value of 50k 2019 dollars.

This one single piece of data confirms the "stagnating feeling" of many people who are not rapidly expanding their net worth-- even just maintaining it is good work these days in the face of rising costs of living.
I made a thing[0] just like that to do pipelined async db queries:

CompletableFuture<Member> asyncProjectMembers =
Async.pipeline(Accounts.where("id >= ?", 1000);,
(accounts) -> accounts.loadProjects("updated_at >= ?", Instant.now().minusDays(30)),
(projects) -> projects.loadMembers());

If you assign the intermediates to variables, each instance will have associated with it the related collection that's queried while avoiding N+1's.

[0] https://github.com/karmakaze/safeql
That's a shame, seems like a great product...

What about the license makes this not open-source?
Once he was a refugee. Now he’s a CEO making video games for peace
Incase someone doesn't know already: they have a HN search too! https://hn.algolia.com/
Trailer: “Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary” [video]
This is one of those paradigms that I don't understand in Java. It's the most trivial of trivial encapsulations.
No I haven't confused anything at all. Perhaps you misunderstood my comment.
LA rail is actually much more cost effective than other US cities. There was going to be a federal study why, but it was cancelled.
I take it you are assuming wealth appreciation in a way that doesn't create income, or at least isn't predominantly treated as income?
It’s worth paying attention to the deaf community’s thoughts on any tech that comes along, gloves etc., for translating sign language. Short version, ASL is more than hand gestures and past efforts at solving this tend to focus more on assisting the hearing than the deaf.

This is a really good write up on the issue of signing gloves and tech: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/11/why-s...
I actually submitted a YC application for the upcoming batch to work, more-or-less, on exactly this idea - a double entry accounting service for developers.
Good on you, every idiot can count to one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Widlar#Fairchild_Semicondu...
I find this to be true for a lot of applications. Some times it seems like fpgas are hammers looking for a nail.

Where they can shine is if you need some odd combination of peripherals attached to a microcontroller: think of something like a uc with 4 uarts or multiple separate i2c buses.

Anywhere you need a lot of parallel processing that you can guarantee won't be interrupted, like a video processing pipeline is also a good fit.
Well, it's certainly a rant.

Honestly, I can see why you might want two kinds of objects to pass via selection: strings, and blobs. But two is an odd number; it ought to be zero, one, or infinite. Zero doesn't help, and one would be hijacked by incompatible systems that would have to guess "are they going to want a JSON representation of this, or a MIME type followed by base64 encoded data?", so I guess that an updatable registry of types would be ok, just really unwieldy, and ... nightmares to follow.
Just as interesting is the role of culture on pain experience. I believe I recall a study some years ago that showed differences in pain experience across different countries/cultures. Immigrants to a new culture continued to show response patterns consistent with culture of origin. Their offspring responded more like the new culture and more so over several generations. I wish I could recall the research but it's been a while. Pain, especially chronic pain (which is very different from acute pain) often presents very similarly to an anxiety disorder.
Yes, out of Orem, UT.
> The "Differentiate without color" option on macOS and iOS comes to mind.

As far as I can tell, that historically has affected precisely one thing on macOS, and that's the "Available/Busy/Away" indicator in Messages (which is now gone, so I guess it does nothing now…)
> Can only imagine what a hit from something further than the Oort Cloud is.

Such a hit is extremely unlikely, extremely being a severe understatement. Imagine a solar system as a target, the size of a Mars orbit. If a fast-flying object from outer space manages to hit that target, its probability to hit earth is... 0,000000078%

If such objects will enter our Solar system every year, I'd say we're likely safe for the next few billion years. Sun turning into reg giant is a much more urgent issue.
Are there any good open source alternatives?
Evidence of market manipulation on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange?
This ignores payroll taxes, I assume.
It's amazing how governments exempt themselves from laws. GDPR for the rest of Europe, but for the governments, privacy does not matter. I'm not saying it makes sense to apply the same rules letter-for-letter (gov't has to have _something_), but even the same spirit would do.
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I don't think that's actually what's happening with that. ref=nosim is an old thing (no longer necessary) for going to the product page directly. I can't see any tracking that they can do with a URL component that they wouldn't have anyway (e.g., knowing the referrer, IP etc.)
Doesn't happen to me, but I assume that must be because I'm running uBlock Origin.
It may have no bearing, but it is a useful analogy to understand the problem. You either make life hard for one group of people or another. One thing I don't personally like to hear is when someone calls something a right but society's workarounds are already plenty fine. We have workarounds for polluted water (the citizen must pay), and we have workarounds for terrestrial astronomy (various space telescopes).
It's worth mentioning explicitly that while `c - 'a'` is the more obvious application of character addition in your example, `c >= 'a'` is another one that's even more common. Pretty much everyone immediately understands that we want to be able to sort characters.
The "illegal" criteria seems rational for countries that have rational laws but in many countries there are laws against political speech or criticism of people in power. By removing that 'illegal' speech in those countries the platform is in effect working as a government actor to police customers in those nations.
Qualified dividends are taxed as capital gains.

Capital gains are income and reported on Form 1040. What they are not is "ordinary income" subject to the income tax table. A person with $700k on capital gains is well inside the top 1% of income.
That’s fascinating to think about.
Yahoo Groups was great (when it worked) because it wasn't just an email list. It also had file storage and a group calendar with notifications. Having all those services on a single site made usage and administration easy, even for non-technical people.
I tried this long time back. It requires a mongodb instance. I was not happy about it.
This is a pretty nice tutorial! My courses in FPGA design in school taught me a ton about 1) concurrency and 2) good state machine design. In modern backend web development these topics receive so little attention (from interviewing all the way to writing technical specs, I've rarely encountered these topics brought up explicitly) but are important. I was a bit hesitant for this guide to suggest using C++ since I tend to dislike mixing traditional languages with hardware languages but I realized it was just for testbenches, which is very reasonable (and even VHDL exposes things like `for` loops that are really only useful for testing and meaningless otherwise - sans some special cases[1]).

[1] You can abuse some imperative paradigms to implement things like Conway's Game of Life as a systolic array - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systolic_array
I understand your point but we should not assume criminal intent without some solid evidence.

Back in days I paid for CDs with only open source software because internet was too slow. CDs were definitely priced for decent profit. The beauty of opensource is that we can do this legally.
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The point of saying that wealth is not zero sum is that it can be created, by using the available materials and laborers in different ways. This phenomenon also causes economic growth.
1. It seems to me that all the photos are of roughly "maximum congestion" of each vehicle type. So the cars are pictured as if they're stopped at a light or in heavy traffic, while if they we traveling at 50mph I'd hope for much, much more following distance. So yes, the bikes would have somewhat more distance between them if they were moving, but that seems fair to me, as the cars would too.

2. I don't want cars to pass me within a few feet. That doesn't mean I feel unsafe when riding within that same distance of other cyclists. The relative speed is much lower, the mass is much lower, etc. Similarly, I will happily ride much closer to an immobile object (e.g. a curb) than I would like someone to pass me at 40mph. So I think the space taken up by a moving bicycle is larger than the bike itself, sure, but absolutely no way is it anywhere close to the size of a car plus following distance plus safety buffer.
> the median (50%tile) wealth is nearly zero

That sounds way more alarming than whatever the median income is.

> the top income earners clearly have better lives than the low income earners, since the top income earners can consume more.

The top wealth owners clearly have better lives than low wealth owners because the former don't have to work, yet make more money and pay less in taxes than everyone else.

You haven't made a convincing case for why wealth shouldn't get more attention than income (or at least why it shouldn't get more attention, since the dialogue among politicians and in the media seems to exclusively focus on income despite income taxes being significantly higher than capital gains taxes).
I suspect if you offered me enough money, I’d be able to rationalize anything. Even Jira...
The CPU itself? For example, implementing a toy CPU is much much closer to how an actual, non-FPGA CPU works than, say, an emulator. But really anything done on an FPGA should teach you some portion of gate-level logic (yeah yeah, there's LUTs and other specialized cells instead of gates, close enough).

And staying above physics, that's how computers work.
I think OP is looking at this the other way around -- meaning that it is perfectly possible to create a soft-core CPU on an FPGA, which is a great way to understand what any processor actually does.

I know this, because I started learning and tinkering with this sort of thing a year or so ago, with no prior experience with electronics or hardware design, or a formal comp-sci education.

I had decades of programming experience already, but I think I have learned more about the fundamentals of computer science while playing with cheap FPGAs, than I have by just writing code.
There's an intentionally old-timey place in Michigan called Macinac Island (pronounced mackinaw), which has been automobile-less since I can remember. Fun place to go for a bit, get some fudge, go for some nature walks, get a horse drawn carriage ride, etc. Haven't been since I was a kid, so it's hard to say how the experience holds up.

Likely a much, much lower population density than any of these current urban experiments, but I still think of it every time I see the "no cars" thing being done.

http://www.mackinac.com/about/history/no-cars
Sounds like a good case for Algolia Professional Services! (If this exists?)

I remember pushing Google's search appliance for a large media company some 10 years ago or so (no benefit to myself though, which was pretty noob). It made sense at the time, and solved something for them better than they probably would have implemented it themselves in a good enough way. The most complicated part was setting up rules about what was public / private / internal etc.
And you could probably do with only one lane.
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And passed that wealth along to their descendants?
Are we not talking about income inequality? Fact is hard currency is finite, perceived wealth or value is something else entirely.

Income is typically tied to hard currency.

When you make money in the stock market, you invested in a business, one that would supply a goods or services (or a derivative), of which requires taking someone else's money in exchange for that good or service.
> Like USB-C, there is no wrong way to plug it in, but the connection always feels solid.

You can always get the polarity wrong if the designer is stupid and switches them from the standard
That sounds like more vehicle miles in downtown areas which are already severely congested. A large part of the problem is that cars are the least spatially-efficient form of transportation: having them drive more miles at peak times isn’t going to work unless we see huge improvements elsewhere, which seems unlikely.
Hah. I went down the same path! I started with some "light" signal processing for an FPGA based project, and now, 2 years or so later, I'm deep into Laplace and z-transforms (and the foundations required for that).

You might enjoy those books, available fully online: https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/
Google listed its own services high in search results in order to promote and show favor to those services. Why shouldn't people use this same logic to criticize Google for effectively promoting hate groups?
I'm arguing the opposite -- if energy cost more, less energy would be consumed by Bitcoin.
Japan Spent Mightily to Soften Nature’s Wrath, but Can It Ever Be Enough?
I think it's entirely impractical fears about the end of the world. I find preppers who go on YouTube and talk about prepping most interesting. It's like a beacon telling everyone in the event of an actual emergency where all the resources are.
What do you do when you don’t have the budget for a team of in-house experts and you need something that is good enough and you need it now.
Personally, I loved them because the Lunchables, true to American stereotypes, came with a packaged sugary drink (e.g. Capri Sun) and a chocolate of some sort (e.g. Reese’s, Butterfinger).

Now they make “healthier” adult ones courtesy of Boar’s Head, but Lunchables are definitely not good for you, whereas at least a bento tries to be.
Niantic's apps collect a surprising amount of data about where users go
All the digital logic building blocks of a processor, from comparators to ALUs up to branch predictors and pipelines, can be defined and wired together in an HDL. If you have a sufficiently large FPGA, then you can "run" that HDL specification on the FPGA to get a working processor.

It's pretty common for computer engineering students to implement a simple RISC processor (often a simplified MIPS) on an FPGA as a class project. In my experience it was a fantastic way to learn the basics of computer architecture.
I don't really understand how this is significantly different than having a static class with the function
(u)int8_t have the same problems, including aliasing because they are just alias of (unsigned) char. Sometimes it's nice to have modular arithmetic mod 256, or compact memory layout for eg. count sketches.
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Google’s auto-delete tools are practically worthless for privacy
And boy does that make it difficult to decide where to eat.