skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A danger of this view is that it can turn a descriptive view of the world into a normative view of the world.

Suppose an AI does detect that men are more technical, on average, than women. It would be a colossal mistake to then assume that our society should be a society where men are on average more technical than women based merely on the fact that historically that has been the case.

Would this sort of AI have entrenched past social evils, such as slavery, if in the 1860s it classified people according to the data available at the time? The fact that an AI classifies things accurately given the statistical data at the time should not be confused with giving a normative claim that that is the desired state of affairs of the world.
As other users have pointed out, that editorialized title broke the site guidelines.

Single-purpose accounts are not allowed on HN, so we've banned this one. Creating accounts to break HN's guidelines will eventually get your main account banned as well, so please don't do that. Instead, find a way to discuss the topics you're interested in—even the divisive ones—thoughtfully and substantively. Then we won't have to ban anything.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Then go and buy one of those laptops. Use what works for you.

Just because you’re not a fan of it doesn’t mean it isn’t a solid solution for the rest of us. And the rest of us mostly like having change forced on us — it means we’re progressing forward instead of shouting at clouds for being in the way of the sun.
I totally understand, and maybe I shouldn't have included that, but I do see phrases like "It's unpopular to talk about" get used as dog whistles all the time in other forums (and in real life). There's a whole subculture dedicated to dressing up racism in pseudo-scientific language (race realism etc.)

At the end of the day, there's enough real, vile bigotry out there in our society, I think it's important to be extra clear when discussing topics like this.
It’s also present in the Revelation Space series, Neuromancer, Red Dwarf, and Star Trek.
It varies a lot by company and other factors but both numbers I've seen and anecdotally the numbers are up in the software industry. More and more people I know who switch companies end up just remotely if they weren't already--including at companies that weren't historically remote-friendly.

Of course, lots of employers aren't really remote friendly and others are probably better described as being OK with some WFH but not as much 100% remote. (I'm pretty much all-remote at this point but I'm technically attached to an office even if I don't have a desk there any longer.)
I was able to do that (so, thank you) but don't understand what great grandparent means by unusable. I prefer it to the version with CSS (which I gave up on after about 2 seconds before getting intrigued by great grandparent). The list of partners is not rendered; is that what qualifies it as unusable, great grandparent?

(I am participating here solely out of curiosity about the web; am not trying to make any point or argue any position.)
Or get just AMD.
Funds have a long lifetimes, especially if you count follow-on investments from the same LPs.

Timing is very important, and it's likely that another VC firm has more opportune timing than the one you are currently at.
> I am. I find some excellent Youtube channels, and i m sure google is not compensating them enough.

Depending upon youtube ads for your revenue is not a good model anyway. Many channel owners have their own monetization through sponsors ("this video was sponsored by..."), patreon, affiliate links, merchandise, etc.

For others, they may either produce the content for pleasure (i.e. without intent to monetize) or as a way of driving attention toward their real business (e.g. if they are a consultant or book author).

> I find interesting comments here or on reddit which are never compensated. For small audiences, there is just no way to be compensated. IF people take the time to provide value to me, simple logic says there should be a way to compensate them (but there isn't).

There are incentives that motivate people aside from money, such as reputation. That aside, I think the reason many participate in sites like this is that ultimately they intend to gain knowledge as well. There's not an explicit exchange, but by all of us willing to share our knowledge and experience, we all end up more educated than we started out.

> Most people do that with the expectation that once they hit a popularity threshold, they 'll be able to monetize it. At least that's what Google promises them (thats how blogs and youtube took off), and after they bait they switch and start starving creators of income. We can do better than that, imho

Again, depending upon a platform provider (and one that is often secretive and unaccountable with it's decisions) for your main source of income is a bad bet. For content creators, the hard truth is that you have to put a lot of work into connecting directly with your customers and finding ways to disintermediate the publishing platforms and diversify your revenue streams.
> conditioned by society

The only conditioning I've ever seen any real evidence of is _against_ what would be called "social norms": teachers, parents and media work overtime to try to get girls interested in math, science, and programming and if anything actively _discourage_ boys from it.
Wrong, the culture shock in this thread was mentioned in relation to Tesla making Grohmann to ditch their other clients, which has nothing to do with labor law. This has to do with mentality, so there is not point for you playing the thread police here.
I was skeptical too, but some apps have found really great ways to use it:

- Mute/unmute on skype

- Preview and switcher for a number of slides at a time in powerpoint

- Mirror displays / extend desktop when connected to an external display
Unfortunately the cameras in Macbooks are not of the "good quality 720p" kind. They make blurry images with lots of noise, have poor low light performance, and the colors don't look right.

Facetime on iPhones is a lot better than Facetime on Macbooks
What tools would you use to detect overfitting in this case and in general?
I’m not sure you understand. Shouldn’t the people who want to plug their new iPhone into their new laptop be less inconvenienced when those products are all from Apple, not more inconvenienced? People with modern Thinkpads could use their iPhone out of the box while those with MBPs could not.

If Apple can’t be bothered, what a strange thing to blame me for.
is it? I have ctrl mapped to caps-lock. so for me it's essentially home-row. left pinkie+right pinkie going almost nowhere. reaching for esc is decidedly not home-row.
A key component to the "feel" of Lynch is the music by Angelo Badalamenti. He really ties up the work.
All our CRUD apps run in k8s, so putting the database in the same cluster makes the cluster self-contained and can be easily controlled by a single GitOps pipeline. Since our k8s clusters already have traffic control (service mesh), monitoring, and log aggregation, cockroachdb instances get these for free.

I do admit that, although it has improved a lot over the years, running stateful applications in k8s is still problematic and I had to do some weird dances for networking and data volumes. I won't say this is complex because end of day they are just a bunch of yaml files in git (infrastructure-as-code is sweet).
Hypothetical question. Suppose no-one ever noticed the lead in the Flint water supply. People put test scores into an AI and the AI emotionlessly concludes that people from Flint perform worse than average. Should you hack the AI to force it to stop saying something like that, because that's obviously racist? Or should you begin to wonder why people from Flint perform worse, and what is causing that (the undiagnosed lead in the water), and ultimately how to correct the problem (fix the water)?
Docker hub probably makes no money. We pay monthly for it, but could easily switch to AWS ECR at this point with a cheaper monthly price. The Hub is nice in that it essentially has unlimited storage, but I suspect this might be an internal struggle for the company. We have no reason to go in and clean up 2 year old images that are 1GB each. We generate images on each commit - trying to do as much as DIFF reductions as possible, but if we change package.json - boom, puppeteer + all over again. And that's quite often.
My bad - I saw 'organic reach' and thought you meant advertisers organically reaching customers.

But you meant users reaching content.
So is yours.
After reading about the true meaning behind Boris Busses the other day:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21506443

I'm afraid I have to ask: what's he trying to bury? Hopefully nothing more shameful than he's secretly been a Ruby-on-Rails developer for the last 10 years.
> Unfortunately there's no practical way for retail investors to take a short position on those stocks for 30 years in the future; regular options only go out about 3 years.

You don't, not if you're a small investor. You go index and hedge your bets that they're not all going to rot at the same time.
Hi, do you manage your transformations both in redshift and EMR using dbt? Do you have a single dbt project/repo covering both or separate? How do you coordinate your dbt run against spark with dbt run against the data warehouse?
Insurance companies in particular would be interesting to watch, since they're focused on risk management and have a lot of skin in the game.

How are they reacting?
"Python 2.7 only??!"
Why Kubernetes Works for Infrastructure Abstraction
Why would either end users want to put $ into BAT, or content creators accept BAT in lieu of dollar given the massive volatility of BAT relative to $?

If I had stocked up my wallet with $ over the summer, those $'s I exchanged could be up to about 35% less now. We're discussing saving pennies on transaction costs while we lost massive amounts on exchange rate slippage and volatility. This is ridiculously silly, why would creators or users go for this? If you want to say creators will immediately exchange for $, then we must consider trading fees & effort/friction to doing so.

But for users, storing any significant value in a wallet for a more than a day or so is a non starter.
Funding a company is hard. I'm bootstrapping and funding will become a key issue in the next couple of months. My preferred solution is a classical bank loan, maybe backed up by some of the available government-sponsored programs. Why? Because while I maybe could frame my business in some VC-friendly way and go out pitching it I don't want to give up more control than absolutely necessary. Also, I am perfectly fine to have a well running mid-sized business one day (if luck will have it). VCs are not, and being forced to go for 20x+ exit can only mean one huge acquisition or an IPO. Not my cup of tea.

Also, every minute I pitch a VC is minute I cannot pitch actually paying customers. I get that some businesses need a lot of money to come up with a product and thus need VCs. I'm lucky to not need that amount of money and to finance the whole product development myself for the next couple of months.

But I can't stop wondering if it would be possible for VCs to buolzd a portfolio of profitable, cash positive mid-sized businesses to find the more adventurous investments.
Something I found hilarious:

I just clicked through to the purchasing page, and at the top there is this:

"Get a refund of up to $2530 when you trade in an eligible computer, or recycle it for free.*"

If you click it, it asks you to choose if your trade in was made by Apple, or "Other" - if you select "Other", it says:

"Based on what you’ve told us, your computer is ready to recycle"

Beneath, not so hilariously, there was:

"It’s a big win for the planet.
Recycling your device helps replenish resources and drive innovation."

Come on, this is marketing spin at it's worst, and not the kind of thing I'd expect a "hipster" company like Apple to say!
To meet lovely people doing horrific things, live in one of the (not poor) DC Metro Area neighborhoods.
Does anyone have a background story of Mirantis?
Where's the money coming from?
"It's 10 PM. Do you know where your Congressman is?"
The bank might suspend your card until you clear it up (and my bank is much lighter touch, granted after having blocked my card a dozen times), it doesn't close your account and lock you out of all your financial services.
Now, let's compare the final destination of the average bean burrito vs the final destination of the average bullet.

Most bullets are destined to be fired directly into objects, most guns fired will never be used to take or defend a life.
so with blood diamonds, this is effectively... Proof of Violence?

it really is marketing, since the value signalling could just occur by wiring your wife $20k or whatever, no need to violate overseas human rights
They've moved to wireless where it makes sense, like with Audio and WiFi (for most).

But in many other cases, due to latency issues and such (like displays), USB serves really well.
“Don’t worry, just about anyone can steal your soul and there’s nothing you can practically do to stop it”

That doesn’t seem like a message of solace to me.
Where Have All the Fragments Gone?
If you touch type then learn the OS X shortcuts of CTRL-B, CTRL-F, CTRL-P, CTRL-N, far more efficient than moving your hand over to the arrow keys and works in (virtually) all places you are editing text.
I didn't say I distrusted the hardware, I said the very opposite. I said I didn't see how, before this attestation feature, you could guarantee your computer software even asked the hardware to generate the key.
Focusing on "we all have something to hide" misses the point - that it's very important for the functioning of society that certain people are able to hide things. Political or union organization, private and government whistleblowers, investigative journalists, activists for any number of causes...

See https://www.smh.com.au/national/undercover-spies-hired-to-in... for an example.
I'm glad somebody invested in Docker again, but I'd like to understand why. What's their business model, once you remove the parts that have been making money in the past?
> Not relying on one opinion, I view the XKCD of the sibbling : no sources.

I'm having a hard time parsing that... Are you suggesting the XKCD graph lacks sources?
We’re Rewarding the Question Askers
You can buy BAT with a credit card and participate in Brave's system without ever seeing an ad.
Fair enough, but my point was that for a given set of capabilities (landing speed/distance, range), if you want to add more payload, you need more wing. The additional payload costs you drag from induced drag, but it also costs you parasite drag from the bigger wing you need to generate that lift at landing speed.

You even see this with some stretched versions of airliners, they enlarge the wings or make changes to the high lift devices.
Handel and the Bank of England
Having spent three months living in Montevideo I relate to a feeling of ennui and despair. Buenos Aires would have done it too.
Quite.

I'm generally of the view that knowingly adding unenforceable provisions to a contract should be a crime and/or professional malpractice worthy of being disbarred. It's obtaining advantage through unconscionable deception. Or, less fancily: fraud.

Entirely too much of this kind of thing is allowed to slide by legislatures.
That is patently false.. By definition criminals do not follow the letter of the law, a good example being that murder is already illegal. Strangely enough though, it still happens. Weird right? So would it also make sense that even if guns are illegal that maybe some bad actors would still have and use them in an illegal manner? Disarming law abiding citizens is all you're doing. Full stop.
Monitoring Istio with the New Relic's Istio Adapter
My uncle told me a story about when he was deployed to Afghanistan there was a designated area by the mess hall you were supposed to use to ensure your sidearm chamber was clear. Every once in a while, there was an accidental discharge and an officer would be seen over there sheepishly holstering their sidearm. My uncle pointed out that it wasn't required that you had to pull the trigger, just that you had to ensure the chamber was empty. My uncle said he never had a single accidental discharge in the 2 years he was there because he simply never pulled the trigger. If you don't pull the trigger, no bullets come out.
I have an imaginary city that I started sketching out as a kid. In my imagination it is situated in a real-world place, so a few years ago I transferred my sketch into Google My Maps and I tweak it from time to time, like a garden. Thankfully the location is still uninhabited :)

Are there any tools people like to use for this kind of urban dreamscaping? Google My Maps is pretty rudimentary but it's all I know. Games like Sim City don't fit the bill for me because there's too much other stuff going on -- I just want to sketch roads, buildings, transit lines, etc., on top of a map.
Consider if someone grew up in an area of high lead exposure but was, one way or another, protected from it as a child [1]. Should they be treated as having the same recidivism risk factor as someone who suffered the full effects of lead exposure? If not, how do you separate the effects of lead exposure from other factors to recidivism rates?

[1] See the 1999 documentary Blast from the Past.
McDonal's for someone visiting Europe makes no sense at all.

McDonalds is better and cheaper than a lot of the overpriced, crappy food in Europe.

It's a fake image of a medieval utopia that never existed even in fairy tales.

That's quite a high horse you rode in on.
Loie Fuller and the Serpentine
If you're using Intel's Quartus tool (Altera), pretty much every option is exposed through a Tcl API. You can accomplish everything without ever opening the GUI. The biggest problem is that those Tcl APIs are usually not documented very well...even for us internal developers (I used to develop Quartus)
You can see the difference in reactions to know that it wasn't wanted or desired by the target market. Its not anecdotes anymore, its data which we've had 3 years to accumulate.
Ask HN: How do you navigate prioritization in mature software teams?
As a new senior software engineer to a team, I find it very frustrating to push for newer projects to be prioritised in the team's backlog. I often find that resistance comes in two forms: 1) This has been tried before, and need not be attempted (à la "historian's fallacy")
2) This is too strategic, and changes systems which are working fine today. We should look for low-hanging fruits.

How do you deal with this?
Yeah I could have done without that comment. My point was fine before I added it.

Still getting quite a few me too responses.
You can't upgrade a MacBook Pro after it has been purchased so not sure what monopoly you think Apple has.

And the reason why they solder it is because it reduces the thickness of the laptops. Those clips/connectors don't come for free.
If you're getting your full rate, let your friend enjoy marking up your services. Make sure he's paying you promptly though, not paying you after he waits for the final client to pay his invoice, so specify he's your client in the contract and that he's comfortable paying your invoices in a time frame you expect not dependent on the final client paying his invoice.

Maybe he will bring you other engagements, you could even outline this in your contract with him that he will actively market you to his network.

Finding projects isn't trivial, it's mainly relationships and who you know. If he can keep bringing you projects I'd enjoy the ride.

Maybe let him know that for future engagements like this you're increasing your rate if you think you need to increase it.
What a cool project. I wonder if there's been an essay or treatise on these kind of agglomerative, ever-expanding labors of love. There are points of similarity to the installation art of Jason Rhoades (https://www.davidzwirner.com/artists/jason-rhoades), or the Rodia's Watts Towers (http://www.wattstowers.us) among others. It's trying to capture an entire world.
The problem as I see it is that Bingo just isn't a dynamic game, you have a static card with single numbers called out. My bingo card app is unique in that fact that your card changes in direct relation to the number of possible win paths you have at any given moment.
reaction to Apple VISA? maybe android pay will be more valuable with direct checking tie-in.
Github has blocked access to my account with 10s of popular projects because one day they randomly sent me an email to click on a link to enable 2fa auth. I was coerced to enable it. A while later I lost access to the phone where the 2fa auth app was installed not having back up codes since I was pushed to enable 2fa in a rush now I'm completely locked out. I contacted support no fewer than 15 times with them saying I need to create a new account since I did not link my cell phone nor have back up codes. I had that account for over a decade and now I cannot even control the projects I was working on nor access any of my private repos. I have been communicating with them using the email I have on my account, but this is not sufficient for them to restore access to my account.
My wife just got an iPhone Pro Max. The cable was a lightning to USB C cable and the charger has a USB C port only.

I’d bet money Apple will move to USB C iPhones at some point. HN would go crazy considering all the negativity around any Apple announcement.
> On February 2, 2020, GitHub will capture a snapshot of every active public repository, to be preserved in the GitHub Arctic Code Vault. This data will be stored on 3,500-foot film reels, provided and encoded by Piql, a Norwegian company that specializes in very-long-term data storage. The film technology relies on silver halides on polyester. This medium has a lifespan of 500 years as measured by the ISO; simulated aging tests indicate Piql’s film will last twice as long.

That just sounds like a fun project.
What’s the most equitable TLD for now, and for the future?
Logic Programming in C++ (2018)
70, yes. Haven’t tried 71.
It works with Safari on Desktop also, and yes, it's glorious and easy.

Other tips to get me to avoid Amazon: tell me your site supports Apple Pay and help me move my full cart (e.g., a cart link with a temporary token) from Chrome to Safari so I can use Apple Pay.
Wow, are we preparing for a global catastrophe?
>Saying "Women do on average have more of trait X" is sexism, not discrimination.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sexism

>Definition of sexism

>1. prejudice or discrimination based on sex

Enough. Just believe what you want, I give up. There's no sexism on the tech industry or schools. James Damore is right and is an oppressed victim of his own bravery. Whatever.
It seems like the transaction is more akin to 'rewarded' than 'paid', but I'm not sure that detracts from your point.
Going Google-Free on Your Phone
The current generation "Pro" line iPhones ship with lightning to USB C cables that connect to the current generation "Pro" line MacBooks.
Sadly, it seems to be the norm in business and society these days. It all started when people started espousing "it is better to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission" nonsense, which I guess is one of the pillars that made Silicon Valley what it is today. And now it's a race to the bottom as everybody now needs to follow the same philosophy to compete.
I have resubmitted this under a different title here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21528699

(I was told by dang it would be okay to do this.)
> I imagine these pages are intended for someone who's interested in Go but wants to know more

But the title literally says "a new hub for Go developers".
Steve jobs alive again show hn

Good: 0.83