skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> so the baker should be compelled to bake it, right? There isn't even a basis for refusal based on religious grounds.

No. Because "supports the confederacy" isn't a protected class.

As far as US law goes, you can generally refuse a service to anyone for any reason, unless that reason is related to a protected class to which the person belongs, unless you have some other exception (almost always religious) for not doing the thing.
Because they basically don't exist. How many Lightning transactions are there per day?
People use dosbox for that?
Ah, then my earlier point is not correct. Thanks
> A big problem with gestures is that there is no clear affordance as to what kinds of gestures you can do, or any clear feedback
> ...learnability

Do you have any examples of well structured learnable systems? I have struggled to find much of anything in this space, yet every technology release I see wants for it.

Here are my two examples, I have no others off the top of my mind. I am more impressed with the vim example.

1.
`vim-pandoc-syntax` has a set of documents exampling the feature-set of markdown. These documents are the system they document. Here is one file in a directory of 10 such documents.

https://github.com/vim-pandoc/vim-pandoc-syntax/blob/master/...

2.
The KDE shortcuts manager, which lets you see what's bound and bind new things:

https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/applications/fundamentals/sho...

I have yet to hear a good response to this question.

I have a Pixel 3 and I want a manual for the device, it appears one does not exist. Nor does documentation. My headphones which came in the box don't resume the most recent media player when I tap the middle button, I called support and over the course of an hour they found they have the same issue. Before my call the people I spoke to said I was wrong and didn't know this issue existed, aftewards they had no advice for me other than to give up. My issue persists.
When they killed Flash everyone freaked out just like this, and now years later the internet is a better place.

Oh no, I can't play Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 anymore. Someone call an ambulance, my MBP is "broken".
Admittedly I did not think about the proof of delivery aspect. Definitely would cause issues. Although I imagine it could be mitigated by forcing the person to click "I accept delivery" on their Amazon account when you meet up, that way the retailer knows it is actually the person in question.
Well, we definitely know that they were there, released in the hey-day of Acclimatisation Societies, but the last proof of them was in the 1950s.

The fact that no-one saw them while helicopters were beating the bush during the goldrush red deer helicopter hunting years counts against them, but my pet theory is that moose love water, and there's plenty of swamps in Fiordland (if there's a flat bit, it's probably a swamp) to hide from helicopters in.
For orders over 10 USD, Amazon requires a verifiable tracking number from one of the major carrier services. (It's possible to "ship" an order without a tracking number, but the seller takes a hit to their account metrics, and Amazon will eventually freeze their account for review).

This is so they can verify you actually shipped the package, and verify it was delivered within the fulfillment promise date range, ie. if you paid for 2 day shipping or whatever.

There are some sellers that have been approved for self-delivery of packages, which are not trackable. In these cases, they usually forfeit all rights to dispute non-delivery claims and more. So, it's pretty risky for the seller.
Ask your recruiter, you'll be surprised.
> Why do you think LGBT rights (first item on your list) is something that should be discussed at work?

If you're gay and you mention the gender of your spouse, you are going to get a reaction. People consider the existence of LGBT individuals to be political. It's hard to have anything other than surface level conversations without family and relationships coming up.
It does not have to be an innate human right to be something we find valuable & worth protecting. The argument is that astronomy benefits society & that's worth fighting for - no need to make it more complicated than that. And your second paragraph is simple whataboutism - the fact that pollution occurs despite us wishing it doesn't has no bearing on the question of radio astronomy vs. internet satellites.
FAANG? It's actually pretty common to get compensation packages in that range
Who _isn’t_ at this point?

(Well not me, but..)
That’s true. He was given ample opportunity last night to nuance or walk back his strong response but instead doubled down and insisted he’d basically “make” people turn them in. Pretty much alluding to being ok with having standoffs and shootouts Elliot Ness style, which will not convince any moderates.
Me too. Just donated. Awesome software.
Well, you are saying that you have a fixed bitrate per beam to divide among all the users in the area. The bigger the area the more users. And once you reach saturation, that's it. Also, if there is a very populate city inside the beam footprint, you are only going to be able to serve to a very limited amount of people in there.
https://cloud.gov/docs/compliance/domain-standards/#dnssec

Note that cloud.gov is FedRAMP-authorized and does not itself support DNSSEC, which I point out in addition to the rationale cloud.gov provides on that link (which answers your direct question).
How Well Do Yelp Ads Work for Non-Restaurant Businesses?
"Don't discuss politics at work" seems an eminently reasonable position to me. You're on the clock at work.

The second portion about KNOWINGLY doing business with entities that don't share the company's values is extremely difficult to defend.
I think that highly depends on if the half a mil figure is the average of all top 1% or the income at 99th percentile. With extreme income inequality the income for 99th percentile could get lower
Here's a study looking at that: https://bicycle-research.ucdavis.edu/bicyclists-as-consumers...

Found bikers basically spend as much as drivers... they spend less per trip but make more trips.
Even if you got a maintainer to commit and release code to disable PoW, you'd still have to get enough node operators to update, which... I doubt would happen.
Hi, this is Dylan, a co-founder. It's a great question. Having built many applications on Lambda this is something I think about a lot :) .

We've found that for integrations or common automations, building on a cloud platform is too low-level. Frequently you're working with more than just a Lambda. You've got to manage a number of services that aren't core to your use case (e.g. API Gateway, IAM, Cloudwatch Logs, etc.). There's a lot of boilerplate config, and many of these services are tangential to the core logic of your app.

We operate at a higher level and just give you an execution environment to run Node.js code or stitch together pre-built actions, similar to integration platforms like Zapier. We manage the HTTP endpoint, function config, and give you built-in observability. We also provide higher-level services, like built-in app integrations and OAuth / API key-based authorization. Building this yourself on AWS can take time.

This kind of abstraction isn't great for every application, but we think it shines when you're building integrations between services.

Let me know if that answers your questions, or if you have any more!
Most senior+ level engineers at top tech companies (ie FAANG but not exclusive to those companies at least in total comp).
This is correct. Additionally, the median net worth is actually dropping slightly. If the USA has 300m people, the person ranked 150,000,000 had roughly 50k in 2015. Now that ranked person has 48k in 2019.
That would be a pretty idiosyncratic use.
This is very common in SV. Many junior/mid-level engineers at FAANG companies beat this figure (when accounting base + stock + bonus).
In a proselytizing religion, every faithful member is a preacher. It's not a title, it's an act of loyalty to God. The preacher works at your work, but since their faith is the most important topic on their mind, they will not miss a chance to directly or indirectly mention it at any available occasion.

(If you live in a western country, surely you know of at least one such faith, perhaps more. And to be clear, I'm not picking on those religions here, but pointing out an experience most westerners can probably relate to, that has strong similarities to the way certain political topics are handled.)
Block reward halves in about seven months, if the price doesn't go up, miners will start turning their rigs off.
Yes, it's called Alcubierre Drive, where spacetime is compressed in front and expanded behind a ship to drive it through the spacetime like a gravitational wave.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive
The first one means the space time metric changes
Don’t worry it won’t be suddenly outlawed but all the governments will gradually outlaw it as it directly threatens their power. I hope somebody manages to release a conscious AI before they manage to completely outlaw it, otherwise it will be very hard to fight against tyrannical governments.
This is why gitlab isn’t a company to work for. Nice folks but culture of explicit silence is corruptive.
Because even a fraction of it is out of reach for the vast majority of people, even folks that do “everything right”.
$320K at Amazon this year. I’m 32 and have been here 7 years.
Yes; Paul Vixie is to DoH what I am to DNSSEC, and his consistent case is "DoH is bad because it's hard for network operators to turn it off for users". To me, that's a ringing endorsement.
I don't think most Bitcoin mining is powered by a grid at all. I think the reward would be less than the cost using grid power.
There's something fundamentally different about women that enables them to give birth to children. Humanity has been discussing the differences in behaviour between these two groups for literally millennia. Are we really going to just decide by fiat that there is zero possibility of a difference in inclination or ability that lends itself to women simply not wanting to be in this field as much as men?

You essentially have to practice some kind of biological denialism in order to believe this "problem" is entirely managerial in nature. Discussing biological differences between sexes should not be considered sexism.
The purpose of going to work is to get a paycheck and to either make your company money or save your company money. Doing what’s best for your customer is a long term investment in your company.
PoS opens up new threat models concerning the tyranny of the majority.

PoW utilizes the honest indicator of un-forgeable expense to mitigate this class of risks.
I would want any analysis theorizing a difference rooted in biological dimorphism to work with sex as a multidimensional distribution, as that's what it is.

If you want to do one on gender, you would go in for self-reported gender, and have 3+ selection options (m/f/o).

If you're going to talk about natural selection resulting in career preference, you should talk sex, not gender.
You are probably being downvoted because the big bang, our ability to estimate the age of the universe, etc is believed to be a fact by many including astronomers and astrophysicists. And yet there are so many unanswered questions that it is reasonable to question those things. In this case, it calls into question our age estimation for both planets and the universe.
Congrats to them but I find the product to perform quite poorly on HN. Seems to do some kind of fuzzy matching / weird relevance ranking and not full indexing when all I really want is a full index text search.
Thank you for writing what I was thinking so eloquently.

Everyone's life is effected by politics and GitLab is making a political decision as to which politics are acceptable to discuss at work. Politics will still be discussed, but only the politics that those deciding deem acceptable and this inherently political.
Counting total compensation (salary + stock + bonus), that would be a substantial number of developers at big tech companies as well as developers at other companies that compete for talent with the big tech companies.

You can see numbers and distributions at paysa.com or levels.fyi. It's hard to tell how accurate these sources really are, but they're reasonably consistent with my first- and second-hand knowledge, so I believe they're in the right ballpark.
> Once launch costs are down to $50/kg or so, whatever loss we have in earthbound astronomy can be more than compensated by large telescopes in orbit and on the far side of the moon.

I don't think launch costs are the dominant expense in space telescopes. I think most of the expense is technology development for one-off (or small run) instruments as well as paying the people who design and build it, write the software, and operate the telescope. So even if the launch were free, there's still a huge expense in building space-based telescopes. I believe the rule of thumb is space-based costs ~10x that of a ground based telescope.

The largest astronomical mirror in space is 3.5m (Herschel). 30m optical telescopes are being built on the ground now and 10m telescopes have existed since the early 1990s. It would be incredibly expensive to put a 30m telescope in space, even if the launch were free.
A bitcoin miner is in essence a kind of inside-out electrical meter: It measures, with remarkable precision, how many electrons (bundled as SHA256 operations) you burn to support the network finding a block, rather than how many you bought, assuming you even bought them at all.

The question is not how many you burned, which is what the mining algo answers with such precision, but how much you paid for them in the first place, which it can offer no insight into.

Some possible shortcuts to paying retail prices for electron mining fuel:

1. You're a large business power customer and pay vastly discounted rates on a contract basis.

2. You're stealing some or all of your power, either by pirate wiring or by paying some official to look the other way, or a little of both.

3. Your mining operation is a pork barrel project with funding secured from your local government's (either clueless or remarkably pragmatic) business development office. Sometimes there may be a legitimate exit plan for this, like repurposing the new datacenter facility you built, after wringing every mining penny from it possible, to host cloud services or as the core of some government-sponsored technology park.

4. You may have been mining quite along time and now have enough early coin held back from the $100 days to slowly sell off into the retail market at 80x profit, or borrow against. It may even be that this reserve of held back coin is partly responsible for the thin liquidity in the market, and consequent bubbled-up price.

5. You publicly, or covertly own or have an interest in one or more of the mining pools and public exchanges, and retain a share some of the Tx and conversion fees which helps subsidize the mining costs.

6. Same as above but for mining rig manufacturers and fabs. Mine on newly manufactured chips for a few days or a week before shipping (for 'testing' purposes ofc) and you get to stay ahead of the difficulty curve as well as get free subsidy from your own customers.
So I should ask for a raise AND find someone to marry me who makes $250K a year.
These numbers are self reported so I wouldn’t index on them that much - most numbers I see there for Amazon are on the higher end and give the appearance the higher end of the scale is the median... which is inaccurate given that some of the pay bands are pretty wide.
That would be difficult to pull off. bitcoin code merges are highly scrutinized, and disagreements in blockchain projects just result in forks and new networks.

A better way would be a global ban coordinated among every nation, and even then that would be difficult to pull off.
This is a pretty pathetic result and is damning for the progress of AI. Instead of focusing on efficiency, AI researchers simply throw more resources at the problem with the hope that it's enough. The end result after 13000 years of training is a robot hand that can do nothing but solve rubik's cubes and fails 40% of the time.
Try a Google search with date range, plenty of original results here:

https://www.google.com/search?q=microsoft+netscape+browser+w...
Isn't this subjective. For someone who has a pathway to earning 500K (they and there spouse both work at FAANG) its not that absurd, but for 99% of people it is because almost everyone has no path to earning that much.
Out of curiosity does that take inflation into account? i.e. is it even lower than 48k in 2015 dollars?
A lot, especially on the West Coast.
$250k total comp is pretty common for software engineers with a bit of experience. I’ve found Blind is the best place to get actual TC numbers. But even outside of the Bay area and outside of faang $250k should be your target at this point if you’re software engineer with ~5 years of experience.
It seems like companies don't have to evaluate it your way? They could informally try it out on a few searches and say, "seems to work better than the other one." This is how Google became popular.

Or maybe do an A/B test. It's a little more formal but doesn't require any search-specific knowledge either.
No, previously some of the top percentile was below $500k. Now they’re all over. And beyond that statistic, the middle class is shrinking because more of them are getting wealthier. This makes incomes more unequal, yes, and it is a good thing.
This is correct. Lets say you have an ecom site with product search. How do you know if the search is good? You search for stuff and compare to what you expect.

Even if it sucks, as long as their is revenue lift, you will keep it until the next solution comes along.
It might just be that with a social net that one can fall back onto, people pick the careers that they want instead of the careers that pay more?
They appeared by themselves but I could manipulate them. Most visualizations are usually part of some train of thought though, they don't appear out of completely nowhere.
I love when bitcoin promoters claim that bitcoins massive waste of energy is okay cause “it’s totally renewable”.

Setting aside the non-trivial ecological damage caused by dams.... all that renewable energy could have been used to power something that actually adds value to society. Instead it is getting flushed down the toilet solving useless math problems so that a relative handful of people can milk a larger set of rubes for all their money. Oh, and enable criminals to continue their criminal behavior....
>To make it clear, we should definitely support everyone who is in tech, and make it an inclusive environment, but the continued push for 50/50 isn't going to happen so perhaps its not worth the huge money sink it is.

Not worth the huge money sink to whom? The companies involved? Because the ideologues of identity politics capitalizing on this "shame"-induced economy are making a fortune from it and while they continue to do so, you can expect more of the same.

It will stop of course when the bubble pops, lucrative front-end JS jobs requiring a 3 month "bootcamp" to get into disappear and every remaining IC is stack ranked based on that which is quantitative.
FCC approves $26.5B T-Mobile and Sprint merger
THat's one theory. Another is Eternal Inflation.
I can agree and sympathize with that, I think what happened was during the early days of LSD, there a strong counterculture that stemmed out of some very dark individuals like Aleister Crowley. Guys like Timothy Leary used Crowley almost like a symbol or standard, and it spawned a massive backlash against LSD and psilocybin. A lot of what was said about LSD and Psilocybin was true about Crowley and Leary, but they were just two very flawed people who took a lot of good medical research down with them.

These drugs are mysterious and powerful and some of the most irresponsible and foolish and loudest people on the planet got their hands on them. But there is a lot of promising research that suggests the baby shouldn't have be thrown out like it was in the 70's.
>There are laws against discrimination and companies have to comply, but I don't see a good reason why this kind of topic should be addressed at the workplace.

because it is entirely unfeasible that any social problem that arises is immediately delegated to a court. workspace problems that are not necessarily criminal are most effectively solved directly where they occur. This requires that discourse at work is allowed so that information can be exchanged freely.

Carrying every conflict into a legal battle because employers don't like the fact that human interaction on occasion results in tension and is messy is quite ridiculous. You might as well start pouring Xanax into the water dispenser to calm the employees.
Probably, but what if we both got something that improved our quality of life? I don't want to hear preaching any more than you do. Wouldn't we all get along with our coworkers better if there was less of this in general?
I think this is a bad decision, but I don't want to live in a world in which people risk their privacy by making poor decisions.

We just need processes to learn and avoid doing mistakes twice, and shaming is a poor way to do it.

If I risked being ashamed when making decisions, I would probably avoid decisions altogether. This would be awful. The discussed decision is not even out of law.

What we can do though, is to tell people we know and love about F-Droid and suggest them to only fall back to the Play Store if they don't find what they want, and that they should be aware that by doing so, they enter the jungle and that this jungle follows Google's arbitrary rules, some of which are not in their own interests.
Omg I just realized it’s only 5pm in the Bay Area, isn’t it? Never ending day lol
> You completely missed my point. The part that is similar between a space space mouse and a trackpoint or joystick is that all of these essentially measure force on them, with that input converted by software to velocity (or angular velocity). If you let go they move back to a neutral position instead of staying where you put them. They do not measure the direct displacement or rotation of some physical component or body part. This is different than the input of a mouse or a touchscreen or a knob or a slider or a trackball or a scroll wheel or a dial or a stylus, but similar to the input of an analog trigger or pedal or steering wheel.

Yep, I did. I am sorry. I personally cannot stand using a trackpoint for precisely the same reasons as you're describing. Conversely, I tremendously enjoy using a space mouse and you would have to snatch it from my dead cold hands! It is so good, I don't know how to explain.

> This is a non sequitur. But to answer you, I am perfectly happy to flip physical pages on a book for 5 hours straight, without my fingers ever getting tired.

As compared to PageUp/PageDown? Which one do you think would make you less tired?
Bitcoin is absolutely wasteful to the vast majority of the population on earth. It provides no benefit to them, and makes their energy bill (and video card bill) go up.
As usual, nationwide statistics always seem kind of dumb. OK, I'm only in the 5th percentile, but I live in a very rural area, in a state with very low taxes where real estate is still reasonable. So yeah, I'm not in the 1%, but I bet my buying power is at least on par with a 1% living in NYC, SF, etc.
The Big Bang happened everywhere in the Universe, at once. Our CMBR is coming in from all directions, at all times, as more distant locations(eg further away from us at the start) finally reach us.
But why not. They were let in there to begin with? With a visa or some other border crossing procedure. I don’t see why they couldn’t take them in. Did they break Canadian law by crossing into US by accident, I don’t think they did.