skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in one of the wealthiest zipcodes in Georgia that tends to vote strongly Democrat.

The usual voting location was moved to the edge of the district to a building with limited parking despite a large Church being located next to the usual voting location.
Due to undersupplying voting machines the waits were 2hours +

Average wait in traditional Republican areas was under 15 minutes.

The GOP controls the Voting committee.

I have every reason to believe that was intentional.
Doctors are also a tiny slice of medicine. Nurses make a fraction of what doctors make, and other roles like Clinical Laboratory Technologist and Radiology Technician that make healthcare possible make even less.

Law exhibits a bimodal distribution in compensation as well. Paralegals make even less than poorly compensated lawyers.
Try https://pinballmap.com/detroit

I’m not sure why so few locations were found in your initial search. I see 13 places of I search here https://pinballmap.com/map?utf8=&address=Detroit

There’s also a “redo search results when map moves” button. It defaults if disabled, so you gotta check it on. We’re going to make it enabled by default, since I think that’s what users expect.

Also, the mobile app provides a better search/browse experience.
Caltrain tops out at under 80 mph, that's not really high speed by contemporary standards.
relying heavily on unsafe becomes a red flag. It implies that the author of the code has a tendency to play fast and loose

It does not imply that. It might mean that the author knows what he's doing. Or not. We don't know without auditing the code.

defeat the ostensible purpose of choosing a language like Rust in the first place

The OP didn't try to choose a language - they tried to choose a piece of software that solves their problem. Seemed like the software was rejected on wrong grounds.
> If folks were to start opting out of academia in larger numbers for jobs in private industry, schools would be forced to improve working conditions.

This is exactly what is happening! (Well, the leaving, not the improving).

The argument is that men are more willing to put up with the particular nature of the poor working conditions in academia, hence women disproportionately leave.
FYI -

Austin is as blue as they come (and way less of the neoliberalism you see in SV). Houston from what I can tell has become much more liberal too (partly because a large influx of Katrina refugees).

Hot take - with all of the migration to Texas, this state will be blue in the next 10 years.

The only "conservative" things you find in those areas is (1) big trucks (2) guns (3) tobacco (4) sports. Not much different than what you might see in rural CA.
There is a very good book, recently shared here on HN: Brain Rules for Baby, https://www.amazon.com/Brain-Rules-Baby-Raise-Smart/dp/09797... I recommend it. In short, the best things to develop toddler's intelligence are talking to them a lot, simple toys (boxes, plain blocks), and common tools for creativity like markers and paper.

I am also thinking about ways to develop abstract thinking in my baby. I plan to work on cards / minibooks to teach him some abstract concepts in a basic way: like transformations, combinations, logic, sets, etc.

I think it's very important not to force it on children, do not burden them with your expectations - they will rebel or build low self-esteem. It should be a delicate support, encouragement for them to follow their natural curiosity deeper, like Paul Graham described in his recent essay http://www.paulgraham.com/genius.html
CA's income tax is very high. The effective tax rate is 7%+ for most tech workers. That's a huge amount of income to give up, especially if you're comparing to a state with no or low income tax.
Having kids changes a lot of priorities about passion and socialization, although this generally affects all genders.
How's the water? One of the main things that scared me out of Texas living is it's too hot and the water is algae tasting.
Yeah. I bought them day one with the old firmware and was a bit disappointed that the anc was weaker with high noises as I was used by my sonys. Didn't pay attention to any change when the firmware hit. And if hadn't read about it today, I couldn't have told you that they changed it. But maybe indeed they improved on the first impression I had.
well, yes. that's why I had the qualifier "practical". smaller classes are more expensive, and at least where I live, the trend has been the opposite where class sizes are increasing.
Last time I touched Lightsail it looked like a t2 instance rebrand without the option to pay for extra CPU credits.

It grinds to a half if you use up your compute stipend and you cannot do anything about it. That's a big risk for a VPS-like use-case.
I grew up in Santa Barbara, CA, and it was the same deal.
They mentioned Houston.

I'm currently living in Houston, working as a SWE, and can attest to the pros of living here. Regarding your concerns, the city is quite demographically diverse from people of all walks of life. Summers do get hot and humid, but nothing unbearable. The winters are more than tolerable (its currently 68 degrees outside) as well.
The Kincade Fire was started by PG&E, but somehow whenever wildfires get mentioned, people immediately point to the homeless...

I only made this comment because it seems to be feeding into exterminationist sentiments among the wealthy and homeowners. As I pointed out, this led to an attack on an encampment in my old neighborhood.
Some 4 years ago I did a bunch of work in this field and just wanted to chime in about a tool that I haven't seen anywhere else that was great - HEAD acoustics' Artemis Suite analysis software.

Audio has a huge array of analyses that can be performed, and the output can be interpreted in a huge number of ways, but Artemis had a fascinating data-flow architecture that made generating and interpreting audio, graphical and numerical data relatively easy (once you climbed the steep learning curve). It decoupled project management, input data, analyses, and output destinations in a way that made engineering easy.

I haven't worked with any software like it before or since, but would do another project in a heartbeat! Tragically, it's locked behind a proprietary $$,$$$ license, front-end, and calibrated recording hardware. But here's a screenshot to give you an idea: https://i.imgur.com/XXzlP2b.png. If you get serious about buying a head and fronted, call them up and get a demo.
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Having lived in NYC, SV, London and Chicago, living in Austin has been dream.

That being said, it's pretty clear it's heading towards Seattle levels, which is quickly headed towards SF levels of societal issues.
Exactly. There's nothing new about portability shims. Really nothing, been using them since the '80s.
You can easily use protoboard instead. 0805 goes between two pads no problem.
I can honestly say that one of the reasons people hop onto DO is due to those amazing tutorials and documentations. I know I was.

It's surprising really that in all the praise I threw to DigitalOcean the awesome documentation and tutorials flew under my radar. That's not to say that I don't value them. Rather the complete opposite. They had become such an integral part of my life when getting my hands wet with a new technology or a tool or setting up any new software or system that I completely forgot that they were something that someone invested a lot of time writing.

I was still in college/starting out then and had never learned that most developers don't document things (let alone write tutorials). I believed there must be internal websites similar to DO's documentation and tutorials in each company and took DO for granted.

It'd be really great if you could share my thoughts about how great and instrumental the documentation and tutorials have been to Etel and the team specially.

Also, have a great weekend.
Chrome says 68.4MB(10.5MB compressed)for the Todo app and 61 for the calculator app.

If you look in the *.clr files you see things like "This program cannot be run in DOS mode." which i found amusing.
Does GPT-2 really "understand" anything? I feel like this is pretty quickly going to devolve into a semantic argument, but having interacted with some trained GPT-2 models, it seems to produce only what Orwell would have called duckspeak[0]. There's very clearly no mind behind the words, so it's hard for me to credit it with understanding.

[0] http://www.orwelltoday.com/duckspeak.shtml
This is not a sufficient explanation. There’s more women in law and medicine, which are equally, if not more demanding. There must be something else - the nature of work (more people, less machines), the atmosphere (less bro, more professional), the pay (STEM careers plateau quickly)...
no, more like someone's instance gets pwn-ed and is now part of a botnet and DO is getting calls and or isp-blocked and has to devote staff time to the incident.
> why doesnt he just drop them?

Well, that's actually what the article is about. You'll note for example the following paragraphs:

> Barnett was addressing members of the House Subcommittee on [Antitrust law] and, over the course of the hearing, laid out how the Jeff Bezos-helmed corporate behemoth had pressured his smartphone accessory company

> [They detailed] how the major tech players have used their market dominance to squeeze smaller competitors in allegedly anticompetitive ways.
And I guarantee that that strap had a >4.5 star rating. The whole site is nothing but >4.5 star ratings now, hmmmm.
It's really hard, though, because you'll always get people who will feel entitled. In the distant past I've released things and explicitly put in the readme something like "This is provided in the hope that it will be useful; I do not have time to support it and will not accept requests for help, but will consider merging patches that fix bugs or add useful functionality".

And yet I still got people who would ask for help with it, or file bugs without patches and then get angry when I wouldn't help them.
This is an opportunity for an aftermarket.
Economists often assume unlimited human wants and limited resources, giving rise to scarcity. Under the assumption of unlimited wants it is perfectly reasonable to predict that 40 years from now paid employment will remain as common as it was 40 years ago even if we don't know what the jobs will actually be.

I have a somewhat different perspective. I believe that human wants expressed in market economy terms -- e.g. "market demand" -- are satiable and becoming increasingly satiated among households with buying power (top two income quintiles in the US, for example [1]). There's limited demand for more consumption of services that already existed in the 20th century. You can only go to the doctor, the dentist, or the barber so often before more-frequent visits become a chore instead of a luxury.

New inventions may spur different demands but scope for aggregate growth is limited by hours in a day. Scrolling through Instagram replaces going to the movies and maybe some day exploring virtual reality replaces scrolling through Instagram. That reallocates entertainment demands but it doesn't necessarily mean more aggregate consumption or entertainment-employment.

There is big growth coming in home health aides, elder care, and similar jobs. But that's due to an aging population rather than the development of new service jobs for the 21st century.

Big growth in demand for "gig economy" services? Maybe. We'll see after the VCs stop tolerating losses.

[1] The unmet wants of the lower income quintiles are less significant in a market economy because they don't have growing buying power. Two former bank tellers aren't going to find employment walking each others' dogs.
> they didn't find any specific issues

The linked article specifically mentions that a specific soundness issue had been found and a fix had been submitted as well. If they had done nothing, it would have attracted no comment. If they had allowed another maintainer to review and merge, it would have attracted no comment. But they went out of their way to denigrate the people who called attention to this issue, called the issue "boring", rejected the patch, then deleted the issue and all comments.

> Every time I stumble upon shitty open source code, am I supposed to fix it?

Your tone suggests that you don't want any part of this, so you continue along that path. I'm not going to convince you to start caring about your fellow men and women.
Yeah the way I see digital ocean (from when I first saw it years ago) is you can get professional cloud computing with quick spin ups etc. at a reasonable price. The basic stuff you need - a VM which you can run whatever you want on. I am hosting a side project on a $5 droplet it and sometimes I forget I use Digital Ocean (which is a good thing :-). Just bash command to install NodeJS etc. and a single VM but the uptime has been incredible.
I think people shouldn't ill-informedly attempt to waive their legal rights, especially not in ways that are legally murky, and I think people shouldn't ill-informedly encourage others to waive legal rights in murky ways they may not be aware of. You didn't even mention "public domain" once and implied "CC0" was a form of license, despite attempting a public domain dedication being a very different thing from licensing copyrighted works.
They've done everything possible to engineer impulse buying into e-commerce. At a high level, conflating excess with "convenience" is not a good thing for the environment, or for anyone but them.

I don't have Prime or use one-click and for me making an online order still involves the mindset of asking myself, do I really need this?

Avoiding Amazon also saved me money on my last purchase because I picked something up for $4.80 from Michaels on the way home from work when Amazon's price was $8.50.
The heat and humidity are there but Houston and Dallas aren't as conservative as you might imagine. I used to live in Dallas and have a ton of friends in Houston who are liberals or at least centrists. I would say give people a chance to show you their best side. I was in Texas only a couple of years but people there aren't any less kind than people in California. I'm not advocating leaving California but rather if Houston looks good to you, don't let some preconceived notion of what it is stop you from exploring the option farther. Go check it out. It has an AWESOME art district and actually quite a few good restaurants.
> Happened to me once with a watch strap, but the price wasn't high enough for me to go through the hassle of returning it

In my experience, Amazon will just refund cheap items without even asking for you to return anything. I have no idea how many things I've returned to Amazon over the years, but it's a lot - easily many dozens of products. I'd guess about 20% of the time, because the item is cheap, they just let me keep it and give me back my money.
That's not true. NY more than NYC. NYC has been building housing and the rest of the state has plenty.
Would you please stop using HN for ideological flamewar? It's not what we want on this site, regardless of which ideology you're for or against.

That and flamebait like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22069349 are not ok here. Your substantive comments are fine.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
sparse-checkout, partial-clone, and shallow seem like decent building blocks to make working with very large repos tractable in git. At the same time, the features and their interaction are pretty complicated, so I believe we'll need good "porcelain" abstractions over these building blocks to make the workflow reasonable for average users.
Not only is that not true, that's not the point of this article at all. It is only talking about speculation for when a L4 cache will be added to modern architectures.

> It takes a very small time window, and very limited historical awareness, to see Ln, for any n, as indicating anything special.

This article actually goes through the history of cache additions and talks about how it isn't special and more a matter of evolution. You seem to be arguing against points no one is making.

> it indicates what we have lately called "RAM" will now be called "L4"

This is a bizarre semantic game to play, since cache is fundamentally about a heirarchy of locality and main memory is a way for the entire computer to communicate through storage that may or may not use the CPU.
These kinds of professions are often referred to as "tournaments", a term I think captures their essence nicely.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tournament_theory)
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Judging by the feel of the thread, 'professionalism', defined here to be money exchanged. No need to audit the code, just sort by price and take the highest bid!
Thank you for this! As someone who spends okay amount of money on DO ($40, $15, $5, $5), the title of the post gave me a bit of a scare but your comment helped me calm back down. Thank you!

I used to be with AWS before (still use their S3) but now I have switched from EC2 to DO droplets. Only thing I am missing with DO is the ability to set up ACL on the firewall itself so it can only be reached via cloudflare and the firewall IP isn't exposed to outsiders.
Legal statements aren't special. They are also plain old social statements, which I think was his point. It's not solely a "don't sue me".
"progress"

Is that why net immigration to Texas is positive?

On what quality of life metrics does Texas rank poorly?
Stop buying from Amazon, simple solution.
State plus federal income tax alone was a deal breaker for me when I was there.

Especially now that state income tax is no longer Federally deductible. I've found it very surprising that people on both the pro-tax and anti-tax sides don't make a bigger stink about that.
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Something is wrong here. The noise isolation changed pretty dramatically even with ANC off, unless off wasn't previously off.

Maybe a seating problem?
This is one of my absolute favorite ideas/theories.
There were specific issues found in this library. Soundness holes as a result of unsafe. And people submitted fixes. This person could literally have done nothing and it would have been ok. But they went out of their way to be terrible to everyone.
Popsockets is one of the biggest bullies in the marketplace. They've sued many, many sellers that were selling legitimate products trying to bully them off the market with various loopholes in the first sale doctrine.

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/14939738/popsockets-llc...
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/16007022/popsockets-llc...
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/15050057/popsockets-llc...
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/15683859/popsockets-llc...
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/15639919/popsockets-llc...
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/16620695/popsockets-llc...
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/16620699/popsockets-llc...

The basic strategy is to include a bunch of FUD about how there's counterfeiters in general on Amazon, then try to lump legitimate sellers in with that. See the 79 page complaint from my last link, filed just last month. They have a template lawsuit that's dozens of pages long, and they just fill in the specific seller details. They have a bunch of screenshots of negative customer reviews, but those are from Amazon broadly and are not connected to the seller they're suing - they use the same negative reviews for all their lawsuits. (It looks like they have two negative feedback for popsocket sales traced to that account out of the many pages of negative reviews that isn't connected to an account.)

To be clear, they are not alleging counterfeits in the lawsuits. The claim is that the product doesn't carry the manufacturer warranty, and that sellers don't follow the right quality controls, both of which are very shaky claims legally (warranty restrictions are problematic under federal law, and there's no serious quality control concern on sealed electronics accessory products - it's the same product in the same warehouses, it doesn't magically become lower quality just because a different seller is selling it. There's a potential quality control concern with groceries or products requiring temperature controls, but it stretches credibility to argue that applies to sealed popsockets.) But a small seller can't afford the hundreds of thousands of dollars it takes to get a court decision affirming that. I know multiple sellers that have settled rather than fighting it. It's the path of least resistance.

Popsockets is not the only brand that's been using these abusive tactics. There's a string of lawsuits by Otterbox, Skullcandy, GNC, Murad, Standard Process, Noco, and others. Most of them are being pushed by a lawfirm called Vorys, which is associated with a large Amazon seller by the name of iServe/Pattern (one of the top 10 third party Amazon sellers, see https://www.sellerratings.com/amazon/usa, note Zappos and 6PM are Amazon-owned and Asurion, LLC is selling services, not products), that gets exclusive contracts with brands and then sues many of their competition that's undercutting them.

It's a scheme just begging for an anti-trust investigation.
> I would presume that if we made academia a more feasible place for a woman with a family to work, we could keep almost all of those 20% of leavers who leave to just stay at home...

That one word 'just' speaks volumes. People grow up. People change. Perhaps they want a different challenge than what academic achievement can provide. Raising children is challenging, daunting, and rewarding.
Ask HN: What consumer products make you happier?
Hey there HN,

For the past few years, I've been thinking about products that improve our mental well being, and our overall happiness.

It seems like many of the popular products we use every day actively make us unhappy - e.g. Facebook, Instagram. Others products like Amazon and Uber make our lives more convenient, but not necessarily much happier.

What products out there make you happy and fulfilled?
It's a reflection of color coding (with painted rings or dots) being vastly cheaper than printing text proper. Many lower cost European transistors (almost exclusively the TO-92 variety) were marked with colored dots or half-rings. Similarly some film and tantalum capacitors were marked with colored dots as well.

Precision or otherwise higher grade (e.g. ceramic wirewounds) components were always usually marked with text.
Isn't it harder to compete on established and profitable SaaS business? What can a small dev shop, or an indie developer do to compete in a space like this?
Interesting. I've been wanting something like that for submodules. Can the two features be combined?

For instance, if you need a single file/directory from another project in your repository.
If a full time caregiver is needed at home, dads can step up as well. After being laid off shortly after we had our first kid, I decided to give my wife a chance to get back into her career while I stayed at home until the kid was ready for daycare. There is no reason to put all this burden on moms, dads have an equal part in this either way.
Yeah it's unfortunate that the author of this article uses the term STEM over and over again and is really only talking about the S. I wounder if the issues mentioned here are as common in private industry for women in the TEM fields? It seems like at least some companies are far more generous with things like maternity leave than what you might find in academia.
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