skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, parent comment and this one summing up what often turn into X000 comment flame wars that dang has to bag up and send out to the flag truck, now that is a feat of summarization.

> Overwhelmingly the feminist position that's pushed to the fore is "any lack of equal representation of females in a roles that're desirable is down to patriarchal actions and unrelated to any natural differences between the sexes; which differences are an illusion".

How do we as a society address this point? Whether one argues that the above statement has merit (me) or not, many people on both sides (and probably me in many cases) have such emotional investment in their points that attempting to soberly look at where society is and where society should be on the spectrum between 'the above statement is categorically true globally in 100% of cases' and 'the above statement is categorically false globally in 100% of cases' can feel to me like trying to do laproscopic open-heart brain surgery.
Isn't WebKit still native to IOS with regard to requiring a system update vs being able to update WebKit OOB like a normal App Store app as well?
Real estate and weight are the two most expensive things on planes, and two things gyms use extensively.
> It feels as if the point that I'm trying to make is that mindful archiving is a better solution than to just 'keep all the things'

On the topic of plain text things (such as text messages) - how much data are you actually hoarding?

Let's say you type 100 words per minute for the next 40 years (and each word is 10 bytes). No sleep, no breaks, just 40 years of typing. Congratulations, you just produced 21GB of data. This fits on an SD card (<$30) or in the cheapest tier of cloud backup like Dropbox or Google Drive.
You can search your 40 years of typing in well under a minute. If you remember the year you typed in, you can grep the data from that year in under a second.

I don't like the term "hoarding" for this. Hoarding has a negative connotation. Storage of plaintext is so incredibly cheap (and search so fast) that I feel that option value of retaining the text is almost always greater than the miniscule cost of storage and slower retrieval.

I don't think are any valid analogies between storing physical items and digital items, as digital storage and search is orders of magnitude cheaper. Consider the same experiment where one writes with pen and paper for 40 years, and then wishes to search for the name "George".

Making a decision of what to keep must be more expensive and time-consuming than just keeping everything.
> it takes a long time to recover that reputation. Detroit brands are still recovering from the clunkers they made in the 70's and 80's.

I would say that they are still recovering from the clunkers they made in the 2000s.

Detroit never really got into the quality mindset that the Japanese car makers became famous for. And they didn't get into the driving dynamics mindset of their European counterparts, except maybe a couple of Cadillac models starting with the CTS-V.
More interesting is that "impeach" came runner up...
HN: Most frustrating process at your company?
At my company, you need to fill 3 excel sheets, with exactly the same information, just to get on-board to HRMS.

- It takes 45 days for any reimbursement approval and 15 more to get the money in your account
i dont get it

there is seemingly a big coordinated push around this idea but i dont really understand it

is this about "soft skill" tech jobs in particular or programming jobs too?

if it's for programmers then i'm completely confused as to why?...

programming is a skilled field. my skills/skill level is unique to me as yours are to you. i dont want my earning potential to be bogged down by some collective bargaining agreement
Issue may be that the algorithms are trained on specific camera unit and gathering a large database of data from all possible cameras may be difficult even for big guy like google. Google puts a ton of work into their camera app and you can get clones that work on other devices with varying degree off success. For example I have mi5s that uses the same sensor as first pixel and get quite decent results with arnova's gcam clone.
Not sure. If you think the only outcome afterward is you dying, then you fight. It like if someone orders you to get into a car at gunpoint, you run.
Using company-linked profiles to express your personal opinion. Keep your company name out of your personal Twitter profile, for example.
This, together with Barrel, looks like a cleaner alternative to Diesel for me.
I disagree. Make is more than a build system, it's also an automation tool. It gives you a fairly flexible format for managing different tasks with shared variables and autocompletion and more.

You can do it with a bunch of shell scripts too but I prefer having everything in a single file.
I’m one of the founders of this service. We created Your Digital Rights because we believe that privacy matters, and that exercising your right to privacy should be easy. Over the past year thousands of people have used the service to send GDPR erasure requests. We’ve just launched support for the CCPA. I’d love to get your feedback and am happy to answer any questions.
The problem is the tactic he used.

"A man who enlisted his cousin to break into a Cedar Rapids man’s home and order him at gunpoint to transfer an Internet domain"

If this was just phising attack from phone and keyboard it would be slap on wrist
And yet it still grates on my ears every time someone uses it in the singular. But the same things happens when someone ends a sentence with a preposition or splits an infinitive, and neither are those consider grammatical faux pas anymore.
A Tesla on Autopilot rear-ended a parked police car, renewing safety concerns
Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc77--BjFYQ
I don't know if this was recently appended but at the end of the article there is this:

> The article was originally published by Vas3k in https://vas3k.com/ on 30.06.2019
Let's Enhance team is very thankful for given materials.

Granted I still agree it's a blatant copy/paste and I also vote that dang replaces the link with the original.
Which exchanges are completely unregulated? Last time I checked Coinbase, Bitpanda, etc had a KYC acquisition process identical to the one of a retail bank.
Please clarify, otherwise your statement is misinformation.
Sourcery: PyCharm AI refactoring plugin entered beta
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Airways_Flight_1549 ?
either the parent edited his comment or you haven't read it, you're quoting the only sentence that hasn't got a reason in it.
I feel that electoral law needs major reform in the direction of transparency and openness. It is not equipped to deal with the digital age, and asking platforms to turn down cash and refuse to publish political advertisements is the wrong way to go about addressing this issue.
Isn't "minimizing energy" a definition for entropy?

My idea is that, when shaking, all pieces try to move. Big pieces can only go upwards, while small pieces can go sideways (and take the space that was previously taken by a big piece). This ends up with the effect of big pieces floating to the top
No. But it was something that editors and others would "fix" until recently because it wasn't considered correct formal English.

In part because it has historical roots though (and a 2nd person pronoun antecedent as well), singular they really is the best approach IMO. Everything else calls attention to itself or is otherwise non-ideal for some reason or another.
If people on the team exhibit a pattern of asking stupid questions, it may reflect poorly on the team, rather than the person asking stupid questions. It could mean there’s a lack of proper training and proper communication, or at the very least a lack of good hiring practices.

It is, however, important as a newbie to attempt to answer one’s own questions briefly before asking them, that’s one important way to learn and grow. My mentor at one of the best jobs I ever had instructed me on the day I was hired: “you must spend at least 5 minutes trying to answer your own questions, and also you must stop and ask someone as soon as you spend ten minutes trying to answer your own question.”
Yeah at the highest management levels, managers (VPs?) are responsible to CEO direction.

But at middle manager levels (hundreds of people, not a handful, in very large companies) they're not directly responsible to the CEO. Nor are they directly responsible to the customer/market. They're in 'middle management limbo' where all they have to work with, is local incentives. Usually financial - optimize the budget for results.

Sadly, this usually ends with middle managers trying to maximize their budget and minimize their required output, to increase their chances of success. Which means, the most expensive product possible.

That's what I mean by 'locally optimize'.
Gitlab is hiring Ruby on Rails developers who are interested in security
I think it likely implies ASCII Cinema. For best results, start by assuming more positive intentions.
Gave it a quick read, and there seemes to be no mention of garbage trucks that aren't "modern": where there are other men running around carrying heavy trash bags and single-handedly throwing them into the back of the truck
> But before it lands on Avast servers, the data is stripped of anything that might expose an individual’s identity, such as a name in the URL, as when a Facebook user is logged in.

How would this technically work? I can see this only if you manually created rules for a website like Facebook. How could it know, besides some crude heuristics, that the url:

example.com/user-profiles/bick-nowstrom?u_idx=556677

contained my name and user id?
> Render targets are usually more fundamental with libraries built on top for more specific use cases. It would be better if the web browser world had pixel level render targets with HTML built on top as a library. This is how most graphical APIs work. Rather then what is now, HTML as the render target, and canvas as a child object of HTML.

But the web is not a graphical API and that is precisely the point. The web is a semantic API and its components represent meaning. Devolving to pixels makes drawing graphics easier but it destroys meaning.

When you want to simply draw meaningless graphics, you get an element which represents an element into which you can draw pixels which aren't expected to be meaningfully structured: canvas. What's the problem with rendering into a canvas, again?

And no, HTML not being similar to graphics APIs doesn't count as a downside of canvas being a child object.

> while this is true I wouldn't center the design of a platform on whether or not ad blockers work for it. It is not central to the problem which is the creation of a universal platform that is versatile. Rather it is the implementer of the adblocker who must conform to the platform.

It should most certainly be the center point of this design if you truly want this platform to be universal and versatile, or even usable. It's not like we need to guess how an ad-infested web would look like -- we've experimented with the web of ads, we've seen how horrible it is and the only reason we are still using the web is because we can block those ads.

I'm genuinely surprised how easily some people are to dismiss the openness of the web, surrendering users' freedom in the process, simply for... I'm not sure why actually. I don't understand the argument.
The clothing itself isn't really what I necessarily expected, if you look at the pictures themselves (https://osf.io/v2j43/). The "rich" clothing is just more like "formal" or "conservative" clothing, and the "poor" is more "casual". They seem to have tried to control for the formality aspect but I'm not sure they did so completely (for example, there's still blazers in the set with "formal" attire removed). I also suspect there's an age dimension involved as well, in that some of the clothing is much more likely to be worn by younger individuals than older individuals, or vice versa.

Of course this will be correlated with wealth, because dressier clothes are more expensive, and older individuals probably will have more wealth than when they were younger. However, the clothing isn't the spectrum I was expecting necessarily, and I'm not sure "rich" versus "poor" are the right labels.

Also, I can understand how most of the clothing came to be categorized the way it was, some of it is confusing to me. There's definitely items that I think would be classified in the other category. It would be nice to tailor this more to specific individuals more.

To be honest I'm a bit surprised this is getting this much attention because the social psychology literature is full of findings like this already.
Wait, are you the "Leninist" AI? I bet you are, because you're not passing the Trotskyite Test.
Avast sells 400M Users data
yes, i find it surprising that people are surprised at this as "they" is actually currently in use in singular form too
They cited significant YOY% increase in search interest so I guess it makes sense as a pick. I kind of like that they picked such a 'normal' word, IIRC they usually pick some new slang that entered the vernacular.
I always wonder what Meriam-Webster was like before Twitter. Did their social media manager shape the culture or did they highlight a culture that already existed? I would have imagined a dictionary publisher as a pretty stuffy place but they seem fairly progressive and were one of the first “personality” brands I remember seeing on Twitter.
IEA Offshore Wind Outlook 2019
The Realtime API Family
just because it grated on your ears does not make it bad grammar
Don't buy Alexa? I agree with you with regards to facial recognition, but expanding your views to optional smart home tech seems fairly vindictive.
Rural South Dakota; not one of the small farming towns but not a huge city, either (one of the larger ones in the state, but that doesn't mean much). That's about as detailed as I'd like to go at the moment.
https://fullstackopen.com/en/
https://www.mooc.fi/en/#courses
Hacker Laws Update – The Broken Windows Theory
I agree with your take.

Surgeons only get paid if they do surgery, it feels like this is the first option I'm offered when there is a problem.

So far "waiting" saved us 2000 dollars.
> earning potential to be bogged down by some collective bargaining agreement

A union doesn't have to touch wages in tech, they aren't a problem. But it would be there if wages started to get bad. It could instead focus on things like work/life balance, privacy issues, etc.
> My co-founder recently decided to shut the company down, focusing on ~SIC~ create a Shopify site that he/she can manage him/herself.

What value does your software provide over Shopify? Whatever the answer is, thats is how much your software is worth. Your partner has decided that the value add of the software isn't enough to justify the cost of you, sorry.

It sounds like it's a simple CRUD app that can be mostly replaced by shoppify focus on what sets it apart, who would want that feature and what value they would assign to that feature.

You could try whitelabeling the product and sell it as a platform and try to compete directly with shoppify, but it seems like the business people just don't see the value in your software.
Ironic given how baby boomers used the slogan "don't trust anyone over 30" in the 60s.
From the article:

>The TV spot, which depicts a woman showing a video diary to her male partner of a year spent on the Peloton he gave her, struck some viewers as sexist.

How? I don't understand.

If my partner purchased a bow-flex for me and I got ripped in a year and documented my transformation and showed my partner the dairy. Would that also be sexist?

Isn't the point of exercise equipment to improve your health and physical appearance?

I swear outrage culture is growing at an ever-increasing exponential rate to the point that no matter what you say someone is going to 'get offended'.
PHONY targets are GNU extensions to make. They are not part of the make specification itself. POSIX make is really quite simple and it allows phony targets by depending on a target that has no dependencies or commands in it.
And does he realize that killing such programs makes US-citizen techies lots more valuable? Corporations already hate paying programmers, sysadmins etc as much as they do, 20-40% more will cause them to lose their minds.
Your talking about the epigenome has consequences on the epigenome.
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Thanks for the clarification, it makes sense now. While I wouldn’t personally use this (not a fan of voice messages to begin with, as I’m always in an office environment where people can hear everything) I wish you the best of luck with your project!
I've written an incomplete ad-hoc renderer in Go: https://github.com/akavel/asciinema2gif — it worked in one case where I needed it personally, but it's missing support for a lot of escape sequences, so it most probably Won't Work For You As Is. But you're free (as in AGPL) and welcome to play with it if you like!
Some more details here https://breakintochat.com/blog/2019/11/26/fidonet-archive-up...
Cheerios Effect
Glad to see that most people agree with you. I've had a recent experience where I assumed this would be the case but it turns out I was underestimating how much attention my manager was paying to my speed, even just a couple months after being on the team.

In either case, make sure you understand what is expected of you so you can be on the same page as those whose expectations matter (often a manager and your teammates).
I agree that the Tories tend to spend more, although the unions are a fairly big funding source for the Labour party. And the Lib Dems and UKIP/Brexit Party show that small parties can pull in large donations.

FWIW, spending isn't always massively different. In 2015 it was £15.6m for the Tories vs £12.1m for Labour (https://www.prweek.com/article/1380236/uk-general-election-s...) - not a huge difference.
What if neuroscience is an unknown problem space where boids are exploring? Technology, experiments, observations are increasing the problem space faster than it's being mapped.

What if theories of neuroscience are like product development? New bugs are being identified faster than they're being closed. So it'll be a while longer before the bug curve settles down.

What if science and engineering are like software design and architecture? It takes a while, plus lots of trial and error, to identify patterns, to generalize, to simplify. It's normal for code bases to "pulse", growing for a while as solutions are explored, then contracting for a while as dead ends are culled. aka technical debt.
Yeah some middle manager at the next layer up, had a local optimization to spend only the budget they'd allotted. So, the 'screw you' to the manager below.

This is a typical example of local optimization?
Dropwizard v2
Medicine is the weakest science.

Each physician is a biased opinion provider.

It's up to YOU to figure out who is correct.

Horrifying this is needed and they make 300k/yr.
That probably works great for your children, and I'm very happy for you, but not shouting works a treat for me. If a child slept through shouting that was loud enough in my house to be heard (we have 3 foot thick stone walls) I would be worried about their hearing.

Also, I mean this in the most polite way possible, but unsolicited parenting advice is often not received as well as one might hope.
The problem is that IMO things are slowly getting to the point where it's a medical problem, especially for older people. And the median age of people in the US is slowly ticking upwards. Consider things like Deep-Vein Thrombosis for longer flights: https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/dvt/travel.html.

"Some airlines suggest pulling each knee up toward the chest and holding it there with your hands on your lower leg for 15 seconds, and repeat up to 10 times."

Most modern economy class seats have absolutely no room to do even these limited sorts of movements. And don't even get me started on how bad they are with someone with a disability. Plus, as someone else mentioned, some employers, etc. make you take the lowest cost flight as a matter of policy.

I think in a way this is like healthcare (the analogy is loose, I admit). Sure, some people, maybe even a majority of people can do fine with the unregulated version. But if it is actively dangerous to a smaller segment of the population, regulation will help bring it more in line with normalcy for that smaller segment.
People are more likely to be murdered by their own race than any other race
As is 'thou'
I’ve always liked pronouns like “they” because it never made sense to me (when growing up and learning “proper grammar”) why our only singular pronouns must be gendered. It seems better for everyone to focus on the substance of the sentence without anyone having to think about gender at all, unless it’s explicitly relevant to the sentence (and it’s usually not).

That said, I wish we actually had an explicitly singular version everyone agreed upon. Since “they” is usually thought of as plural by default (at least without context), it can be confusingly ambiguous to use when referencing sets of people in both singular and plural.

Perhaps we should recycle old words like “thee” ;) (mostly joking, but it would be kind of cool).
A profoundly comprehensive Monty Hall explanation
Primarily, it’s because I don’t know many. Most attempts at networking come from body shop style companies in very spammy ways.

Second to that is the time zone issue. I’m on the US West coast, I’m an early riser, but it’s still rough.
The Caparo T1 car uses about the same arrangement to fit two seats in a 1.5-seater space: https://i.imgur.com/NGKYiXO.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/l81kWBV.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/N5usbBu.jpg
Alot of Euronet ATMs in Ireland now say English with the tricolour beside it one of the unintended side affects of Brexit.
I use this to sort out favorite flavors and types of snack mixes all the time. Irritates my wife a little when I've eaten all of one type and left the rest.
The student arrived late, fumbled with his phone the first 20 minutes, then started talking with his neighbor about something apparently very funny and now - when assignments are handed out - starts asking to explain everything again.
Most of the top words were normal non slang words although some were cant like qui pro quo, impeach. Yet there were normal words like crawdads, clemency, egregious. The only kinda slang one was snitty.
> The victim shot Hopkins multiple times in the chest.

I'm also impressed by the fact that the victim shot the attacker several times in the chest yet the attacker survived.
Offsetting does not make it moral, unless you can justify that you really, really had to fly : you could offset and not fly, the two are not linked.

If I pour coffee on purpose on your living room mat, does cleaning your windows make it ok ?
The current Conservative leader has called Muslim women "letterboxes" and black children "piccaninnies" [1] with "watermelon smiles".

Maybe someone has made a systematic review of the reporting of Conservative and Labour racism, and the reporting of it, but just throwing up a statement like yours, without also including the racism of Conservative party members/leaders, is just fuelling the fire of hostile debate.

There will be racist people in both parties. Step back, and compare the depth of the racism and the number and influence of the people involved.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickaninny
After looking into the case a little more, it appears that Hopkins actually survived [1]. He was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison.

[1]https://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/public-safety/cedar-...