skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I'm interpreting it correctly, it appears that the author is actually offended at the suggestion of listening to viewpoints that conflict with their own in order to possibly learn things from it.
> Writing low level networking code does not require C per se,

Of course it doesn’t. I mentioned using Python to write low-level networking code above (it was painful for someone used to C). I’ve also used Lua for it (better than Python).

And as I recall, you’re a fan of Ada and Rust, both of which I have used to write low-level networking code (packet parsers, network protocols, and whatnot).

That said, those languages are not typically a well-traveled entry-point into low-level network coding. C is. I’d be as happy as the next guy on HN if we all just moved to Rust, but that’s not in the cards at the moment.
the last note says "send to mit", not "send to lloyd" so I'm not sure
>Men's fashion is truly horrible compared to women's fashion

I don't believe men's fashion is horrible, but I think the sheer variety and design quality of clothing available to women is pretty impressive.

But then, to be honest, that's consumer driven. Some will harangue me for pointing out that a great majority of women love looking good and put vast amounts of time and money into it, between clothing, accessories and makeup. As such they've a much wider market of choice as producers try to attract that demand.

Men have nice options. As I brought up a stereotype above, I'll bring one up now which holds as true - a vast majority of men put little or no effort into their own appearance and with obesity rates heightening it's only getting worse.

I've only briefly touched it but check out the Thread app if you want an idea of good looking outfits available to guys at various price ranges. I'm not sure of alternatives, as I generally just shop / dress myself with some effort, but it certainly looks like it both offers great variety while also taking out a lot of the guess work, an example being you can state if you've wide thighs and they won't show you pants that won't accommodate that.

Not in any way associated with Thread fwiw.
It is off-topic, but that's not uncommon on HN — and it's certainly one of the most important points that can be made from the Epstein case.
Assisted suicide?
It's not English, unfortunately, but Berlin's subway operator (BVG) has been doing an excellent job at PR for the past 5 years or so.

They use mostly (self-deprecating) humour, both on billboards as well as individually as Twitter messages.

This strategy seems somewhat risky. There were some where I thought "funny, but I wouldn't want to be the one posting this".

Hard to describe, because it's mostly a function of each tweet being really good. They must have some larger advertising company behind this, with tons of talent.

They have seen a spectacular improvement in public approval, and even on such measures as violence against employees, fare-evasion, and vandalism.
As a Colombian (I haven't lived there in a while, but I visit my family and friends often) I disagree. Taxis in Colombia are shit and definitely not fair or safe.
They drive horribly, behave violently and getting them on the street is not safe at all (some criminals use taxis to rob people).

Also, I don't know how things have changed but I remember using taxi-hailing apps or calling to the taxi call-center in rush-hour and it was always a fruitless effort. It's impossible to get a taxi in rush hour.

They also do whatever they want to do. When you hail them on the street, they ask you "where are you going?" and if that destination is not convenient to them they deny the service to you.
I'm well aware of that, but now women can choose, and don't choose that.

What is your point?
> It makes it sound like Sergey had designated a room exclusively for sex with employees and called it the "masseuse room."

Yes, it does sound like that. I'd advise all people in leadership to avoid conduct that could be interpreted this way.

Edit: Thank you jacquesm for fixing my freudian slip :)
Yes, it's probably not illegal, but it should still cause the exec to be fired.
Sad thing is, some people even get billed twice for the same service too and might not even be paying attention fully to notice either. Someone I know almost mistakenly paid twice because of a double billing error. Then I seen on a TV commercial, some college has an entire degree on medical coding and billing... Not sure why tech isn't being used to help, seems insane you have to go to college just to learn how to bill people properly and then probably still end up making mistakes.
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A container won't protect you from spectre and meltdown.
function ifThenElse(cond, trueFn, falseFn) {
cond && trueFn();
cond || falseFn();
}
There's no criminal law against it, but it opens you up to civil suits from aggrieved parties (who can be either participants in the affair or bystanders who feel they were given a raw deal because of the relationship). Hiring, firing, and performance management is supposed to be based on your performance at doing your job, not because your boss dumped you and now dislikes you. Sexual harassment and discrimination suits are both relatively easy to document and tend to be viewed sympathetically by juries.
> It is easy to blame the executives, they are high profile, they are rich, they are the kind of people we like to hate. But are they really at fault

Yes. One of the things about being at such a high level is having responsibility. Responsibility means you are ultimately at fault for things that go wrong.
I agree hes probably a terrible person, but I just dont see where he is abusing his power at Google. He didn't pressure her into a relationship, he didnt force himself upon her, didnt threaten her job if she didnt cooperate, he didnt pressure her into leaving, she even says so in the article. These both sound like people of poor judgement, I just dont see the abuse people are trying to levy.

> so I quit Google, signing whatever documents they required because likewise, I wanted to protect him
Why does it matter if they have an editor?
Men are too dependent on women and work for validation for «society» to allow a broader expression of the male gender role. Those who can’t get fullfilment through their job won’t get it any easier, and I don’t see women’s tastes in men changing much.
That's a lot more than I expected.
> Maybe we need an acceptable way for people who can't mentally handle work to be able to exist in society.

That is in part exactly the purpose of a UBI (or Andrew Yang's Freedom Dividend(tm)). To provide people with basic necessities so they can minimally survive without work.
That's a low bar. Consensual does not mean ethical or palatable to shareholders and the public.
In the UK the make (i.e BMW) and the colour is public information.

https://vehicleenquiry.service.gov.uk/?locale=en
Ask HN: When to pivot your startup?
Hi all,

I'm the founder of an early stage company (if you can call it that). We are currently debating whether or not to pivot. We have ~20 companies using our B2B SaaS product, but are not feeling enough excitement / pull from the market. How do you think about when to pivot and when to persevere?
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...and on high-end smartphones too, arguably. Consider how difficult it would be to remove from any smartphone any piece of software that you as a consumer don't want (e.g., baseband firmware, call-home components, data-collection services, etc.).
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> they'll most likely suffer from down syndrome or other conditions

An order of magnitude higher chance of genetic defects isn’t very significant when the initial risk is less than .1%
PR is industry who aim is crafting lies and misdirection. It is broken and unethical by design. This is an article that basically is just “how can Fb do bad things better.” A waste of time.
Rural fire chiefs might be saying such things to secure funding from indoctrinated green technocrats.
> Well she's stuck raising the son of an emotionally abusive sociopath.

She decided to have a child and she decided to raise them. These are choices she made. He decided he doesn't want to take part in raising his son.

It sounds like you want her to get all the pros and him all the cons in this situation. But their decisions have both pros and cons for both of them. Her decision means she gets to have a family/child (at the cost of the work/money needed to raise a child). His decision means he's a bad father who will his son will likely always hate but it has its financial advantages.

> Besides that he pressured her into quitting with promises of financial support, then left her with the baby and refused to pay.
>
> I can't even comprehend the type of person who doesn't see the cruelty of this man. She trusted the wrong person, that doesn't justify his behavior.

Yes, he's a cruel liar. Probably most people would be if given the opportunity (yes I'm a cynic and I don't believe in natural/native human kindness) but I'm not trying to make excuses for him. From the article he seems like a terrible person. But so what, that's not illegal. In the end what are we trying to achieve by pointing this out?
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> But AFAICT the abi is not stable and you may need to recompile all dependencies when updating the compiler.

That is for the Rust ABI, which much like with for C++ doesn't exist.
Non-paywall article: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/10/gm-buys-super-bowl-air-time-...
Damore, is that you?
Yeah, in the US, if you have a basement, it's most often finished or at least partially finished, with walls and insulation and so on. Teenagers often like to hang out there because it offers semi-private living.

See TV shows like "That 70s Show" for a prime example.
Interrupted? I think you meant 'interpreted'.
"America" is different than "everywhere in the world"
Am similar to you in a lot of ways, you gotta be the cool kid and in the know. I know too many friends who've gone the other way, always dissing Millenials and have grown prematurely old.
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You are a creative fellow
I guess umbrellas also keep the sun out.

What you need are those clear plastic umbrellas, no rain, but all the sun.

Transparency.
Whistle-blowing is misunderstood.

You can't just start leaking internal documents and making accusations without evidence. ...that will get you fired, and possibly in jail.

You need to talk to a lawyer, follow the legal process, and make allegations that you can PROVE.

So many whistle-blowers come out with wild stories (often true), but since they bring zero evidence to the table they are ignored. ...and if they have evidence, they just blindly leak it to the press without going through the process, which can endanger people/privacy and destroy IP.

Don't get me wrong - whistleblowers are important, but if you really want to make positive change and not just stick it to your employer - do it responsibly.
The seeds for unemployment are germinating as we speak. Expect the apparent fact that e-cars have a huge advantage in manufacturing simplicity wihc grants huge automation based speed of production. Some will specialize in making 'skates' - this is a 4 wheeled battery with motor, wheel, brakes and computer/dashboard package that is called a skate. On which a unibody is bolted.m This unibody is similarly highly favorable to automation. Some say only 20% of the work force will be needed - as we see with Tesla's admittedly low volume the number per car is a lot lower and as automation improves, will decline,..
Will these workers go quietly? Now, never in a minute, esp the French, they will want fat wages for life, etc etc and agitate for that, even as they are laid off. The death of Italian and german auto sectors staffing looms over the next 20 years.
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A contract is only worth as much as you are willing to pay to enforce it. It makes sense to pay an army of lawyers for years to pursue a $100m breakup fee. For $100k, not so much.

Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi
Sorry, I meant anthropogenic climate change. I didn't know that's the confusion.
Conservatives aren't the ones who insult me when I try to talk about men's issues.
Plus the OpenJDK Community TCK Licensing Agreement.

No-one's seriously concerned that adopting OpenJDK could land them in legal trouble, as far as I know. I don't think a separate legal entity is always necessary.
This is a giant mistake on GM's part because the brand is fatally damaged.

Or to put it another way GM would stand a better chance if they announced an electric Corvair.
I don't have an issue with Uber/Lyft/any gig companies being required to pay workers effectively whatever the minimum wage is wherever they are (which is obviously much lower in other states). And maybe a regulator can sample drivers, look at their annual expenses, and work out what their 'effective' wage is, I'm fine with that.

I just think it's overly dramatic when people present lower wage jobs as literally serfdom or whatever- especially when the HN crowd has undoubtedly eaten out, had drinks, hired a contractor, got coffee, or employed a cleaner that was probably making the same as an Uber driver. There will always be low wage jobs. No one's picketing coffeeshops for making their employees 'serfs', why single out Uber?
The sentence reads:

> In September, in response to revelations about engagements between MIT and Jeffrey Epstein, President Reif and the Executive Committee of the MIT Corporation asked MIT's general counsel to retain a law firm to design and conduct a review of the facts surrounding those engagements.

It is the case that Goodwin Procter's fact-finding investigation began in September. And the report details interactions in 2012 and 2013, including who was aware of what at the time. You can read the report here: http://factfindingjan2020.mit.edu/files/MIT-report.pdf
Yes. It isn't about the actual information. It is about ensuring that the page is not modified in transit aka nobody (including your ISP) injected code into it.

Wouldn't matter if the page simply contained 'hello world', https should be used.
One of the reason a foundation is being considered is so that they can sign contracts in its name. A DAO as proposed would offer no value here.
Harder to track the impact of 'analog' misinformation like leaflets/handouts too.
Make that 23€ instead :
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21997599

EDIT : Oops, that's for 6"... For 13" it seems to start at $450 ? :/
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=13.3%22+e-ink...

Would it be practical to jury-rig four 6" together ??
In places where it gets cold, single houses have basements (that go below usual freezing line I think). Often those are developed with bedrooms, toilets and stuff. They have small or tiny windows. Sometimes they have their own exit too (if house is built on a slope).
The (somewhat) new stretch denim (with 1-3% elastane) makes for amazingly comfortable jeans. If you haven't tried a pair, give them a shot.
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We will see. To me what Uber is currently doing smells a bit like a PR stunt. Especially with all the appeal to emotion in their communication to the users and trying to get them riled up on social media.

e.g. https://twitter.com/Uber_Col/status/1215681583253991424

All while, their appeal to the order from December is still pending a decision from a higher court.
I think Steve Jobs was more responsible for Flash's death than Google. YouTube only stopped serving Flash as the default less than 5 years ago while hubs like Newgrounds were seeing significant declines well before then.

Maybe I'm misremembering, but the golden age of Flash content was certainly over before HTML5 hit in a big way.
And this doesn’t help when one’s body switches into “starvation mode” lowering one’s BMR making it even _harder_ to lose weight. One’s microbiome can also substantially affect one’s BMR.

Neither your comment nor your parent comment add anything except noise to this discussion.

Weight, health, and fitness are all _correlated_, but sometimes in ways that aren’t intuitive and that western society’s fat-shaming (of which the “just eat less” mantra is a prime example) completely misses the point.
That's only true when it's first released
Okay - "evil" may have been a touch too strong.

I'll go with "scummy and reprehensible".

And: "deeply at odds with the ethical standards that Google once claimed to stand for (not that we ever took them seriously when they said those things)."
> You seem to not be very well informed and unwilling to learn.

Cute.

I live in Germany. Nothing you write will change the fact that I pay 30 Euro-cents per kWh. Nor will it change the fact that people in France pay much less and people in Poland pay even less than the French. Nothing that happens in the UK has any impact on that, and neither do you models of trade-off. Your models also don't change the amount of CO2 emitted per capita, which is twice higher in Germany compared to France.
There's a conference going on right now at Columbia University in New York called Real World Cryptography if you're interested in seeing what the state-of-the-art looks like for real-world deployment.

https://twitter.com/realworldcrypto

https://rwc.iacr.org
Honestly not picking, but this seems insightful, so I'd like to hear more.

"living in their parents basement until they're 30 to 40" and then "breakdown of families in the US"

I know you're not necessarily equating those two, but do you think they're related? Thanks!
Spending $5 on a losing lottery ticket isn't missing out on $100 million.
Or you know, help them get established on their own as I've seen some parents do.
I have visited Colombia numerous times and have a lot of friends there. Colombia taxi is very dangerous. Crime is common place. Almost all the taxi drivers refuse to use gps and get really angry if you are using gps and showing that they are taking a much longer route.

Airports, hotels ... get kickback from taxis but not from Uber. My experience is limited mainly to Bogota, Medellin and Cartegena. Maybe the taxis in much smaller city are fair and safe. But that is definitely not the case in bigger cities.
True. There's also Picapp, with which you can hail a car or a moto, which is actually crazy and fun, and sometimes faster.
It is quite possible he was taken off suicide watch so he could... commit suicide. It wouldn't have to be a murder in the technical sense
If my penis ever makes an appearance in the workplace, something has gone terrifically wrong.
I stand corrected, I didn't realize how many famous harvard law professors he was associated with.
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Two things:

1) Good luck getting $BIGCORP to sign that.

2) If you get #1 done, good luck enforcing it.
Looking at 10-year-old numbers, there are more female than male school principals in the US: https://www.statista.com/statistics/238631/us-school-princip...

I'm pretty sure that the numbers are even more skewed now. They are even more skewed at the elementary level, of course, just like the teacher numbers.
Taking one for the team: How bacteria self-destruct to fight viral infections
Continued Exploitation of Pulse Secure VPN Vulnerability
There is nothing toxic about Google’s culture. These are normal events in any organization of this size. They are just as focussed as ever on organizing the world’s information and making it universally accessible.
Clarification: I meant the idea of fake shift points in a CVT was dumb, didn't mean to suggest your comment was dumb.
Of course it goes to the top. Just look at Epstein's cohorts.
Theoretically, the best PR would rarely be identified as such.
Yes on online learning, as I gather from the comparison at https://milvus.io/docs/v0.6.0/about_milvus/vector_db.md
Check the video here: https://mobile.twitter.com/passantino/status/121336729416160...

I'd say that's definitely globally relevant. On the day that was posted you could look on Himawari and clearly see huge smoke clouds from space. It's terrifying.

The last time I saw, they were estimated to have released 75% of Australia's annual emissions budget from burning coal. The scale of them is mind-boggling. The total estimated to have burned is 5M hectares, which is twice as much as the recent fires in the Arctic, and over 5x the recent Amazon fires. And there's no sign they're coming under control yet.
Thermodynamic doesn't lie... but it isn't even close to being the most important factor at work.

A Pound is 3,600 calories. I can easily eat 1,800 calories over my maintenance requirement.

Do you think in one year I am going to gain 180 pounds or .5 pounds per day?
Yeah as someone familiar with openssl it looks like a version of openssl that was built incorrectly.
Uber might lead the charge for drivers to start unionizing. Could you imagine trying to pull off what they pulled off with a powerful ride-share driver union?
The abuse of power is that he maneuvered her into a position of dependency, then bailed out and used the fact that she was now dependent on him against her.
I think, generally, the concern with quantum resistant cryptography is that, like homomorphic encryption schemes, it’s unworkably slow right now.
Reminds me of that attitude where goto is always evil.
I find it interesting that every Apple CPU transition has started at the top, but everyone and their dog seems to know that ARM will happen and this time
start at the bottom.

Apple rumors are half prediction and half wish. I don’t disagree with your wish (10 year old performance is fine for me) but it’s really not Apple’s MO. They aren’t going to release a new pro workstation and then turn around and make cheap low-end hardware aimed at developers.
There’s also sometimes a lack of a particular chemical pathway that signals satiation (e.g., “I’m full, stop eating“). If this is what happens in one’s particular situation, one has to develop _other_ mechanisms to replace the signal.
Umm, wtf is this garbage?
I am using it for k8s deployment and overall am quite happy that I can safely configure deployments without boilerplate. The k8s integration makes it easy to get started with, including using existing yaml configuration. Certainly though you have to invest some time to learn it and I have discovered a few rough edges.

I haven't seen another appealing solution in the space. I recommend using Kustomize if you can, but it is very limited in what you can do with it. When I looked at dhall-kubernetes it was lacking some crucial defaulting features that are getting integrated into the language now.
It's out of control in general. Email itself is a little bit like phone calls these days - almost entirely useless to me as a medium due to the amount of spam generated.

Email is, of course, worse. For every 15-20 emails I get maybe one of them I was expecting or is personal. It's just a glorified spam box.
Can you swim instead?
I still don't understand. They knew in 2013. What exactly does "in response to revelations" mean then? What was the revelation? They've known. That sentences is bullshit and misleading at best.
> A taxi tried to rob me in Santa Marta, but luckily the girl I was with knew that if the driver asks me to lock my door and leaves the front right door open, it's a sign that he wants to rob us.

I'm curious, what happened next?