skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually it doesn't ban them, it just says that you don't need any special approval if you have less than two 100Wh batteries. Which is odd, because most people have more than two batteries if your counting batteries contained in devices like laptops/cellphones/etc. This regulation seems to apply only to standalone batteries.

For context 100Wh is only about 2x most normal laptops. A few systems with secondary batteries (Thinkpads for example) come within 10-15Wh of the limit when configured into their max battery configurations (although in my case that is two batteries).

I'm betting that is something you could actually walk through security with. I can't imagine the guys running the scanner are making estimates of battery capacity. For sure I've carried more than 200Wh worth of batteries before, considering for a while I was regularly traveling with two fairly high capacity laptops, a tablet, charging battery and cellphone. I'm also not the only odd ball with more than one laptop. Now that i've slimmed it back down to one, I regularly notice other people dragging out more than one.
That would be like actual, y'know, work. Who wants to do that, when they can post nastygrams?
> Illinois has high taxes and terrible weather

Illinois has a flat income tax; at $135k income you would only be beat by the states that have no income tax (like Florida). Most of the states on that list also have weather that is either terrible in the summer or terrible in the winter, so I doubt that weather is really a factor in people moving.
> This is a false dilemma - making a project open source can have plenty of motivations besides "I want to be a project manager for free!". Some other motivations:

But isn't it also a false dilemma to suggest that the only lens by which you accept PRs is in the role of "project manager?"

> Other reasons offered

Sure but those are hypothetical. That's not what was going on here. The author of this diatribe was actively soliciting patches and maintaining the project publicly.

We certainly aren't coercing him to take a role he didn't want (at least initially).
Open source frees us from the tyranny of the maintainer, but only if people stop raging at maintainers and start forking shit, and other people stop raging at maintainers and start voting with their feet to other forks.

Who the fuck cares if the package maintainer does or doesn't do x,y, or z.

Either make the patch, submit it, and launch your fork when it gets rejected, or look for such forks. Anything else is just masterbation.

On another note: it seems like this entire mess was based around a bunch of peoples inability to see that "can" != "does". The fact that it can be vulnerable because it doesn't do something that makes being vulnerable impossible does not in any way mean that it is in fact vulnerable.

This is like the time somebody came to our repo with a bunch of pep8 linter warnings and treated them like high severity issues.

"good practice" != "must do".
My point was it seems insane to me that the lifetime value of a customer who has billed something to a credit card would be over $120, especially in the space of Email as a Service. I would guess (without any knowledge) that it'd actually be closer to $12 because of all the people who try it out and then never continue.

They take in less than the referral payout in revenue for a customer who sends tens of thousands of emails a year for five years based on their pricing page.
Tax haven! https://www.npr.org/2016/04/08/473477551/why-wyomings-laws-m...
It’s been known that the Cisco CCIE certification is useful, because companies get purchasing discounts from Cisco if they have someone on staff with that certificate.

So for the company, it’s cheaper for them to buy Cisco equipment by just hiring a CCIE guy, and just letting him sit in the corner and play video games all day at work.

If that’s what you want your career to be about, then I guess getting a CCIE certification is worth it.

Edit: Fixed it.
Iceland was struck hard by three avalanches paralyzing entire communities
Thank you for this! As an individual who relies heavily on DO for getting small projects off the ground, this is reassuring to hear.
I haven't decided whether DO did the right thing or not, but to be fair, your analogy should be more in the line of "they evicted me and burned everything of mine in the apartment".
Can confirm that I know multiple women who work less then they imagined for themselves or want to, cause their husbands basically finds it more fun to be in work and cant be arsed to go home.

Their resentment is quite real. Their actions looks like choice, until they trust you well enough to vent to you.
Similar experience. Some OSS users have some very entitled mentality.
I wonder if you could put them in one of these microphones with anatomical ears: https://3diosound.com
Your comment is about the ads market. The GGP is about the search market.

Search is something that didn't even exist back then (yellow pages were the nearest thing, but still way different), so there is no way to claim that the structure was kept the same. Nobody could take your store out of its physical location and make it unreachable back then.
Yes, seems like it. An engineer acquaintance who builds subway tunnels says that they put in emergency exits every X feet, so that emergency-exiting people never have to walk more than a certain distance before they have a chance to make it to ground level. And in the case of an emergency, massive ventilation fans kick in (that are otherwise dormant). So, from what he's told me, the costs are less in suppression than in providing safe exit opportunities.
I can attest that the "infinite slog" thing is at least partially true :P

This is why, incidentally, that in productivity you need to raise surprising amounts of money. (Or grow revenue super fast, if you can. But then you'll raise a surprising amount of money anyway.)
I'd assume that grass was brown and dead. (But no state taxes would be nice.)
If there's upsetness about this, why are we not upset that the Libertarian party didn't get 3 people in the house of representatives, given that it won 0.7[1]% of the popular vote for house representatives; or that the Democrats should have 1.4 additional representatives if you ignore 3rd party candidates and look at just vote count between Democrats and Republicans.

Despite what the ballot may say, voters in the various states are voting for electors, not for president, and the votes can't be added together into a meaningful number.

You could certainly take the numbers, along with registered party affiliation and other demographic data, and historic data from more contested elections in the various precincts, and guess what the vote counts might be at various levels of turnout (including scenarios where more eligible but currently unregistered persons turn out to vote), and those guesses would likely make for a much more interesting discussion than just pointing out a number that seems like a statistical oddity.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_United_States_House_of_Re...
> So I guess there are some mechanisms like "the difficulty can only be adjusted every N blocks" and "the difficulty can only rise/sink by X%"?

Yes. So you can manufacture your own blockchain, but you can't simply mint 1 block, declare difficulty just dropped 99.999%, and mint a bazillion more blocks after that. I never worked it out but you'd need to invest like months of current blockchain hashpower to make a pseudo-chain which would do nothing but unlock some timelocks (you can't even try to double-spend anyone, because their clients will follow the heavier chain, which will be the public one).

> If that's it and the deadline for when the key should be released is far enough in the future (e.g. 50 years?), it might still be feasible for an attacker to implement such an attack?...Depending on how long the key should be secret, this assumption might not hold true and I wouldn't depend on it.

Yes. This is an inherent feature of all work-based timelocks: the further out you go, the more uncertain things are. Rivest's timelock contest is a good demonstration of the empirical difficulties - the squaring timelock looked like it wasn't going to be unlocked on schedule until, out of nowhere, two different groups unlocked it with different approaches.

So, you decide what your tradeoff is. Do you want to make as sure as possible that it doesn't unlock early, because too early is catastrophic? Then you require a lot of hashpower and you set a very high minimum hash per block, at the risk of hashpower slowing down and your timelock taking much longer than you expected. Are you worried about it not being unlocked on time? Then you require relatively less hashpower and have looser constraints.

It's like PoW: how many transactions do you wait before deciding a transaction is 'real'? If you're in a hurry, maybe you use 0-conf; if you're an exchange transacting $1b in a single block, perhaps you'd better wait a few hundred blocks just to be absolutely certain.
Yes. Digital Ocean got me in the door for $5, but thus far has they have done everything I needed it to do, with clear documentation for how everything works, and no nasty surprises.

As someone doing proofs-of-concept and experimental work, the resource I'm trying to conserve is my own time, and Digital Ocean's value proposition on that is great. Everything works really straightforwardly and I can concentrate on my own code.

I wouldn't suggest Digital Ocean change their high-volume pricing, but the experience they provide to the small-scale user is worth a premium.
I'd love to spend more time with my kids and my wife would prefer to spend more time at work. I make 3 times her salary, though, so it's not really economically feasible for us to switch roles. She could afford to not work or work part time for 2 years. We couldn't afford it if I did it.
> Every car manufacturer uses parts sourced from other companies

> and engineered a real solution

So, which is it? Did he outsource the parts like every other company or did he engineer a solution?
So it seems that in addition to fighting sexism, we need to combat ageism, the viability of non-standard career paths with breaks, and the friendlines of the workplace in general to families.
I'd like to cordially invite more folks to leave New York to make room (and depressed housing prices) for the rest of us. Thanks in advance!
SWE at FAANG is only a minor, frankly irrelevant, portion of STEM. Most people in STEM cannot transition to being a FAANG SWE. In fact, the OP article of this thread is about progression in an academic career, which doesn't pay well unless you become a full professor at a research uni. First time you break low 6 figures in this career is when you become assistant prof in early/mid 30s.
You could build an "ear" of sorts - i.e. a box creating a seal around the buds with a microphone in it and measure how much ambient noise it picks up.
It's in the name of expanding civilization beyond this planet, but sure, space-based astronomy is one part of that.

However, I'm not claiming SpaceX will be selling space telescopes. They'll just provide really cheap launch services to anyone who wants to launch one.
The problem would be that they would no longer be academics.

For a lot of people who head down that path, they consider it more of a vocation than a job. It may well be a good thing for all the next folks who consider the path, but it choosing that would come at a large personal cost for them.

Most folks are not that altruistic.
Maybe it helps if I knock the particulars out of your case:

Why should <organization> structure itself <in response to reasoned feedback from the humans who constitute it>?

Do you have some clear argument for why members of an organization aren't entitled to participate in shaping it?
> Anyway… let’s take a look at this beast.

Yeah, it's a beast alright. How are we supposed to know without a visual? An image would be helpful.
Great point. I signed up for some online cooking schools and the syllabus was one of the more interesting aspects. It helped me to organize my thinking about cooking and helps me to parse recipes and cookbooks more quickly.
Yesterday I was walking in downtown Los Angeles while donning AirPods Pro and talking on the phone and I remarked to the person I was talking to that it felt like I was walking by myself in a quiet room because of how strangely quiet it was.

I'm surprised that upon checking, I seem to have the accused firmware.
It's not that bad.
My dad would have loved to have you instead of me. He walked in on me with the family PC taken completely apart and flipped out, lol. I agree with you though.
> And one of the consequences of this is that I'm not confident that if I show up to interview at a startup that I'm going to exhibit the degree of 'passion' they're looking for.

This is good, though. If you faked the passion, you might wind up surrounded by lunatics who actually believe their iOS app is going to save the world.

Also, this "passion", most of the time, is just a word that has been co-opted by the owner class to mean "working nights and weekends".
A personal office hours might come off as arrogant, but pooling with others who support the same topic area / technology can work wonders.
Why the hell would companies sell their stock to raise money to buy their own stock again? That doesn't make sense. If they want to do stock buybacks they just borrow money to do it, but only if interest rates are low enough. In most cases when companies raise money by selling stock you can bet its to expand, by making capital investment, raising headcount, acquisitions, etc. Either at that moment or the near future.
Anecdote:

Before the firmware update, they were a bit pressure-heavy and would create the "stuffed ears" feeling that I'm familiar with from Bose nausea-inducing headphones.

A little while ago, they stopped doing that, which was really nice, but I didn't quite notice and they continue to cancel noise to the degree they always did.

EDIT2: I noticed a couple weeks ago that noise was leaking into my AirPods, so I re-did the ear fit test and this time it said they weren’t a good fit. I went one size up and now it said they were, and honestly now it’s better than it was on old firmware when I first got them. I bet that’s about when the firmware update happened! Maybe the noise canceling changed slightly because the tip fit algorithm changed slightly.

EDIT: "Stuffed ears" notes for a bunch, since I guess I'm "lucky" to be sensitive to this:

AirPods Pro: minimal but present until it was gone w/ update

Beats Studio Pro 3: not present since purchase ~2-3 years ago

Bose QC15: not present since purchase 10-15 years ago

Bose modern (past five years): significant presence, did not have a chance to test differing levels of cancellation
I think "linked" is probably the right term. It's certainly a spectrum of people with issues (substance abuse, mental health, opportunity, bad luck).

A drop in housing prices doesn't immediately fix any of those things, but it unlocks some options. Looking at Zillow, rent of a 1 bedroom unit is around $2000/mo (put another way, that's 100% of the income of a person working at minimum wage), that's just an impossible situation.

If housing prices come down, rents come down, the most functional 1/3 of the homeless population gets off the street, resources can be applied to the more difficult cases, etc.
> Ignoring security conventions, and then adopting a "take my ball and go home attitude"

That statement is quite wrong. It's not a "take my ball and go home" attitude. You are not the boss of a FLOSS maintainer not are entitled to order anyone around to do your bidding. At best you're addressing a person and asking them to do you a favour. If the maintainer doesn't feel he should be bossed around by you then he has been generous enough to let you pick up where he left off and actually put in the legwork you are expecting others to do.

And in return these haters prefer to just bitch around and criticise others for not following their orders.
I think it's a learned behavior.

The more time you spend in the corporate world, the more comfortable you are with corporate speak.

I haven't spent any time in the corporate world and I personally value honesty very highly, so I always try to be as forthright as possible, while still respecting the privacy and feelings of other individuals.
> Heck, let’s spend 99% — $1.485 billion (in the states alone) on better support. That should put a dent in the support bill, and I’d sure pick up $15 million if I saw it lying around. Wouldn’t you?

According to PEW (https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2018/01/09/diversity-in-the-...) there were 17M STEM employees in 2016, so this leaves less than $1000 per employee for childcare. According to Fortune (https://fortune.com/2018/10/22/childcare-costs-per-year-us/) the average cost per child is $9K/year (probably more if you adjust for the distribution of STEM careers?). I'm guessing STEM employees have at least one child on average (some have none, others have multiple, etc), so that only covers about 1/9th of the bill. That's a dent in the bill, but I'm not sure it's enough to make even a proportional dent in the pipeline.

Note that this assumes the money finances a benefit that must be offered to all employees; if you can target the women in question, the calculus clearly changes; however, I suspect that would be difficult under current US discrimination law (IANAL).

That said, I'd rather that money go to employees where it would certainly be useful as opposed to the current programs which, as far as I can tell, is squandered (to put it nicely).
> I have simply no idea where you got the idea that I would disagree with that.

"If that's the case, then why open source it at all?"

This is the part which made me feel you disagreed with it.

However, may I ask if it is your belief something released under an open source license comes with an intent to maintain it (for others)? Or that releasing something under an open source license is a declaration of being a maintainer of said software?

(not trying to be snarky and am just trying to see why we appear to be in disagreement)
Great article, and the same dynamic applies to all genders. I was listening to a podcast the other day where a founder said that the most successful people he knew (eg. entrepreneurs) all had the worst family lives - multiple marriages, bad or non-existent relationships with family, etc.

Work and family is a trade-off, their is no way around it. One can live a balanced life and be moderately successful. But to be among the best, the most elite, something generally has to give.

That's not to say that we can't reform the systems to not make it as "winner-take-all", sort of like how the author suggested.
Nearly half of young women in Japan are "uninterested in sex" or "averse to sex"

- https://www.rt.com/news/377342-sexless-japanese-marriages-st...
- https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/jun/23...

I remember seeing a similar headline for German women but cannot find a source now. (I think people expect weird think from Japan so it's good practice to compare to other countries)

Maybe social media and instant communication has replaced (or dulled) some of, what used to be, our sexual appetites.

Half the world is sub-replacement-rate: "As of 2010, about 48% (3.3 billion people) of the world population lives in nations with sub-replacement fertility"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-replacement_fertility

What statistics should I look for the document disinterest in sex?
> By 27 they've probably just wrapped up their PhD and were making a paltry stipend to work in a professor's research lab

followed by 2-4 years at a postdoc, asked for in every job application for a 'biologist II' which has an average salary of ~77k (per indeed). This is for industry, not academia.

So how am I am misrepresenting the fact that being a biologist takes over 7+ years of being grossly underpaid relative to a SWE at FAANG to wind up being a little less grossly underpaid than a SWE at FAANG?
> don't exploit the car maintenance and depreciation of their workers.

They still "exploit" it but not as much. Every restaurant worker (and workers in other industries) still needs to get to and from work. They are either paying for public transportation or their own vehicle, expect when they are lucky enough to live close enough to walk. They are also not being paid for their time going to and from work.
I wonder a bit though as advocating for diesels service seems a bit like they're shooting themselves in the foot, at least in terms of air quality.
Pretty easy to figure out in California. High cost of living, crime is out of control, homeless taking over parts of the city. Our state government is either unwilling or unable to address these issues. So sale your overpriced property and move to a state with more sensible policies and taxes. Seems pretty reasonable.
I'm guessing there is a lot of cheap land near beautiful nature, skiing, hiking, etc that people tend to do in retirement.
> Like it or not, there are implicit social contracts if you maintain OSS software.

I think I agree, and its tricky because its really hard to pinpoint what the contract is (without sounding "entitled"), like there is with any social contract I guess. Maybe it even depends on the various cultures of the people working on the project.
Considering that Florida is slowly but surely going underwater it is weird to see it as the most popular destination to move to.
The first step in working to fix stuff is being aware of the issues - there's nothing "insulting" about that. Unsafe blocks without any clearly-stated rationale and safety analysis is quite subpar quality. Just because it's common and a "most used crate" does not make it OK, leftpad was widely used too.
Obviously people with no real income will not be rushing out to buy houses... however, lowering home prices would help prevent people from becoming homeless in the first place. If you only have to manage to pay for a $100,000 home, it's going to be much easier to keep those payments up.

For those already homeless, special assistance will be required to get them back into "moneyed" society. However, a lower entry point to homeownership would make this assistance less costly.
What do you mean wiped? It was moved to personal account https://github.com/fafhrd91/actix-web.
I think the total economic impact of AI will be greatest for tasks that output high-dimensional data, such as GANs. For the simple reason that it can replace a lot more human labor. A great many jobs could be augmented with such tech.

Furthermore, I think the results from GPT-2 and similar language models show that researchers have found a scalable technique for sequence understanding. They are likely to just work better and better as you throw more data and training time at them. Imagine what GPT-2 could do if trained on 1000x more data and had 1000x more parameters. It would probably show deep understanding in a great variety of ideas and if prompted properly would probably pass a lot of Turing tests. There is evidence that this type of model learns somewhat generally, that is, structures it learns in one domain do help it learn faster in other domains. I am not sure exactly what would be possible with such a model, but I suspect it would be extremely impressive and meaningful economically.

I think we are likely to see that type of progress in the next year or two, and for there to be no AI winter.
What is the point of studying the cosmos if we never leave our planet? Space is coming. Admittedly much slower than we expected. However SpaceX's satellites are just the beginning. Astronomy will continue, just much more so. Imagine a telescope array the size of the earth scanning the stars from orbit. Why look at an asteroid when you can GO there and do something with it?
This seems really cool in theory - my main question, though, is why does a Tourniquet need to be 3d-printed? Cant one make one from a cloth and a piece of wood?