skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What makes you think that's relevant to the discussion here? The person I replied to was under the incorrect assumption that someone in possession of a phone could extract stored fingerprint images, which is not true of any well-designed biometric system.

If you do a little bit of reading about the topic, too, note how well-designed biometric systems require more than a simple fingerprint or photograph — e.g. Apple's FaceID has liveness checks for eye motion and uses a 3D scan. None of these are impossible for a well-resourced attacker but that's true of the alternatives as well. This is why you need to think in terms of threat models — e.g. the attacker who can get a high-resolution 3d scan of your face can also watch you type your passcode in so the latter isn't more secure in practice.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nextchord-chord-suggestions/id...
Because many traits people care about (like intelligence), have been shown to be at least partially genetic?
I'm not arguing they are under any legal obligation, but holding people responsible for something doesn't have to be a legal thing.

I feel that any open source software that I have released I have a moral obligation to fix any security issues, or if I am unable to for some reason, clearly stating that they exist. It is irresponsible to leave your software available with a known security issue.
I urge you (or anyone else who feels similarly) to seek a full refund for what you paid for the maintenance of that piece of software.
The claim could perhaps be rephrased as stating there is no (substantial) competition. For instance, Sailfish OS is technically a competitor to iOS/Android, but it is by no means one with any considerable market share.
Making kids is not even remotely the core reasons that many people have chosen for their existence. And this is not some egoistical selfish decision: there are many more ways in which you can take care of the next generation and make their lives better, without having to give birth. These are noble pursuits independent of gender.
This is an unfortunate conclusion that I also arrived at after much consideration. I have a proposed dream project in front of me that would take at least 2000 hours to reach MVP. Do I just give it away for free on GitHub under MIT? I spent over a decade honing the skills that allow me to even engage with such a difficult objective. Why should I just give it all away unfettered? What alternative approaches exist in which I share these wonderful new ideas openly and also somehow reap the benefits?

I feel that for certain projects like vendor API integration libraries, opening up the source for all to use freely is the best path. But for others, where years of intellectual property and personal development exist predominantly within the code itself... I think I want to keep this kind of code to myself for now.
As you can see in the top banner, it's using the "interpreted" mode, which is the slowest runtime mode for running .NET on mono-wasm. But it's also the "compatible" mode.

It would be possible to produce an AOT build which would be 50x faster, but it's a little more work and it wasn't the goal of this demo.
I'm using https://www.worldtimebuddy.com for this. I like how it's ui is much more condensed versus yours. Also it supports saving time ones through urls like so:

https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/?pl=1&lid=2756253,1277333,294...

Only thing is it has a limited set of free features.
My note to the author, enjoy your career. If and when you feel ready to start a family, you will. And if it doesn't happen, you'll be okay too.

Maternal Age seems like a boogie man story to scare women.

Perhaps STEM women who are early career (24-28) would benefit from meeting mothers (both who are in STEM and not in STEM careers) who had children at age 35+.

> ...Women who stay in academia expect to marry later, and delay or completely forego having children, and if they do have children, plan to have fewer than their non-STEM counterparts (Sassler et al 2016, Owens 2012). Men in STEM have no such difference compared to their non-STEM counterparts

I would love to see the figures regarding the partners of STEM Women vs STEM Men. Is it due to the old sexist notion that women must "marry up" so a woman with a successful career have partnered with someone who also has a successful career?

Having family shifts perspective. Perhaps some of these women no longer felt a strong desire to further their career, and family matters became more interesting?

As a father, I love my job, but I gladly set aside my career to raise my kids.
> STEM fields rarely pay even close to what consulting, law and medicine pay. Peers of equivalent talent in those 3 professions are generally making double to triple (if not more) by the time STEM graduates reach the same moment in their personal lives.

These statements couldn't be further from the truth. You don't need to hang out on HN for long to figure out that FAANG SWEs comfortably make upwards of 400k in their late 20s[1]. Barring FB and perhaps Netflix, most tech companies tend to have fantastic work-life-balance if you prefer to take it easy. L5s at Google make what Partners at McKinsey make. If you normalize by the number of hours worked, SWEs make a hell of a lot more than their peers in consulting (management or the Big4) and about the same as the median cardiologist with maybe 20% of the effort.

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/19ne7ccUdOWewD4rFDQjjnQEJDgs...
To me, this displays a deep misunderstanding of FOSS on the part of this projects maintainer. He wants to create a project, promote that project to the top of it's field, and completely ignore the perception of his userbase. Then he fell back on "it's my code I'll do what I want with it." That would be fine, but he "sold" people on this code with the understanding that we were all going to take it to it's maximum potential. This was marketed as something which would solve specific needs better than similar products. Most people can handle regression and bugs and regular ongoing refactors as everyone struggles to bring this same piece of code to the next level. What people, especially the dev community, cannot overcome is when they are told that a project has a direction that it clearly doesn't have. If this maintainer had no intention of accepting feedback from his users there should have been a clear indication of that somewhere in the docs.

If you never reconcile your reasoning and expectations with your community then they will deduce reasoning and expectations that you never implied. This maintainer wanted to produce a popular piece of software not to contribute to the Rust community, or because he wanted to make lives easier. This isn't the attitude of someone who is trying to improve his skills or challenge his knowledge of Rust. He obviously didn't do it to get rich. I believe he made actix-web to get famous. He wanted blind recognition for being selfless. He wanted a community of docile dependents who sit up late on GH hitting the refresh button waiting for his next push. He seems to have only wanted to make a product that people revered. When that didn't happen because he never reconciled his goals with the communities expectations he took his ball and went home. "What??? No fame? No glory? Criticism!?!? Fine, no soup for you."
The Racket one is my favorite so far:

((λ (x) `(,x ',x)) '(λ (x) `(,x ',x)))
If EIG buy them I’m out.
Even back then, the Soviet space program had the electronics to make this much less complicated. Remember, in 1986 they had the Buran shuttle which flew to the orbit and landed fully autonomously, under computer control.

The clock was probably developed much earlier, and then perhaps slightly modernized with LEDs and such. Developing a new clock for spacecraft would probably take a year or two, for all the testing and certifications, so nobody bothered.
Would be great if their charts were showing % rather than absolute numbers (or at least would show % in addition to absolute numbers).

It shouldn't be too surprising: California and New York are in top 5 by population size.

ps - their use of "hemorrhaging" to describe movement of people feels inappropriate.
You probably know, but it also would help readability and portability if you created separate constants SPACE and SCREENSIZE (or similar)

Also, if you want to go for idiomatic 6502 code, rather than readability:

- you want to optimize for size and speed by looping down from C to zero (rather than looping up from zero to C) where possible (because you don’t need to do a CMP to compare with zero)

- LCD__print wastes memory and CPU cycles. It can fall-through to LCD__print_with_offset, and that could fall-through to LCD_render,
Yep, I am one of those shade tree mechanics, the only way I can afford my financially irresponsible 300zx. Beware amazon parts however, my head gasket issue in the civic issue was caused by an "OEM" (pretty sure it was counterfeit in some way) water pump from amazon that failed in under a year.
I also got to play around on a NeXT cube as a kid. I had no idea they were so expensive! Wikipedia says a NeXT cube cost around US$10,000 (equivalent to about $19,600 in 2019.)

For that price I am amazed we had one in our house at all. I think my dad was trailing it or something, we did not have it very long.
This is a common snarky retort when any discussion happens with open source software, but it doesn't add anything to the discussion.

There is a cost to using software that goes beyond money exchanging hands. The maintainer has no legal obligation to do anything, but acting as if someone having an issue with software having security vulnerabilities is someone being entitled is a childish reduction of the interactions in play here, especially when people are taking the time to write code that resolves the issue.
It doesn't fit the HN definition of startup, but here's a small, growing company doing just that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bright_Horizons
> It used to be in Japan that you would not leave the office before your manager left whatever time that was.

"used to be"? has this changed? I thought this was still the case in the older salary-men type companies.
Wow, don't know how I missed that book. Looks great!
Then let’s make an effort to expose and reform these sexist structures! That is the goal of people trying to reform the mindset of STEM institutions. These structures are not fixed, and so can be changed.
How could one start building their own laptop as a fun side project?
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You could, but there would be a significant risk of serious reputational harm.
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I've had coworkers bring their children into work - they're highly distracting and not good for work place productivity. It's not like bringing a pet into work that just sits on the floor or on their lap - and may as well be close to an inanimate object.
Or perhaps, allowing parents to work from home.

I'd imagine many families are like mine, where our house is strategically designed for optimal childcare.
Except he's right. Wages have increased with respect to CPI, but not to COL. The housing market has consistently and significantly outpaced salaries.
You mean this? https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/styles/width_12/...

Yeah, that's pretty Matrix-like.
Direct link to followup: https://nitter.net/dannysullivan/status/1217580438442647552

"Appearance" on search in this case seems to be referring literally to looks, not search placement. Most likely not as big an issue as it was originally made out to be.
DigitalOcean has always been great place to host single-server Rails/Django/PHP app.

But support for more complex backend infrastructures targeted by the cloud providers, with network segmentation and load balancers and autoscaling clusters, has only started to grow in recently. There is nothing approaching any cloud provider's IAM.
> Based on having run a similar (now mostly defunct) company in the past, I would guess that 80% of their customers are on the $5/mo plan.

The founders of NordVPN have recently invested in Hostinger[1], which has successfully adopted their extremely profitable pricing model: charging for 2-4 years in advance, by default. This way, even those who would have paid $5 / month and cancelled and a few months later, end up spending $100+ for 24-48 months at once, often without having a clear need for it, thus leaving a lot of resources underutilized – and available for overselling. The company has more than doubled in size in the last 3 years, more than a decade after its inception.

[1] https://www.hostinger.com/
I once worked so hard I had to saw off me own leg and now I walk around on a peg! Arrrr!
There are few infants to adopt due to the success of americas adoption programs and the willingness of americans to adopt. The ones that are 'easy' to adopt almost universally have special needs that most people (especially working parents) simply cannot meet.
I think you're imputing more meaning to their article than it possesses.

Just let the nice word-noise wash over you, and acknowledge that Bloomberg publishes lightly-edited press releases.
I use regular ddg in w3m on occasion, didn't realize until just now they were actually redirecting to ddg lite. I wish other sites with massive sidebars/headers would do the same
By not taking fruit/produce, pets, or other sources of disease with them as regular visitors would.
Lost in the modern rush for status and money, "obscenely convenient high quality daycare" used to be called "Motherhood" and was supplied by Mothers themselves. Some would argue, the most valuable contribution to society, even if not directly monetized.

To sustain a healthy population, we used to need 10 children per fertile woman, which made "stay at home Mother" an obvious necessity for the vast majority of women. In modern times, we get by with 2 children per fertile woman, and that frees up a lot of female energy to be channeled elsewhere. It is high time to recognize that 2 children is still a lot of effort and make room for Mothers to take care of their own children.

Instead, we are soft forcing Mothers to drop their kids in the care of poorly paid strangers at the earliest convenience, to spend their full time energy enriching faceless shareholders. And have the gall to call this arrangement "female empowerment".
Oh and let's not forget the Oakland Wye, BART's testament to noise, poor service, and political dysfunction.

Is that worse than the SFO Wye? Samtrans had to create a bus shuttle from Millbrae to SFO because the BART service is so useless for traveling between Caltrain and SFO most times of day.
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Indeed. Many times, making a real effort and doing something has a real cost and risk associated with it. This is unlike demanding that someone else offer services which solve one's problem(s) while not offering any payment for it. The latter approach has minimal cost: it only harms one's dignity.
It's the standard snake oil that Police like to conduct ilegal interrogation disguised as science. I only hope the author gets one day in jail for every false conviction this device cause.

Is this published somewhere? (Preferably in a serious journal.)
I don't know that I agree with the parent post equivalence of "bug reports == force" but I think there is a point to be made that this wasn't just people speaking poorly or offering criticism. There is a real difference between posting your criticism on a platform you control and filling up the issue tracker used by the project. There is an aspect of coercion in that the maintainer has to choose between expending effort to combat the flood of unwanted issues or abandon the use of the issue tracker. They can't just decide to ignore the criticism.

Re. "The author of the package didn't force their code onto the users," it's not really a straw man. People are arguing that the author has moral responsibility for their use of his code. That ignores the fact that they actively chose to use his code. The only way the author would be morally responsible for their use of his code is if he had forced them to use it somehow. So yes, people are basically arguing this.
If I think about it I probably can pinpoint the reason for the soldered cable looms: not only in SSSR but across the whole eastern block in general there simply weren't any reasonably cheap and reliable board to board or board to cable connectors for general use with reasonable density.

Edit to add: there were various ribbon cables used in eastern block electronics, but mostly with hand soldered connectors, not IDC. Two exceptions I can think of are Shugart-compatible floppy drives (although some Czech computers actually use ribbon cables with hand soldered board-to-card connectors) and some Metra-branded measurement equipment which uses MicroD-like IDCs internally.
I don't think Tesla is fundamentally cell constrained on that timescale. They can expand cell production a lot faster than that. They have plenty of site space at Gigafactory 1, so can probably go from decision to expanded cell production inside of 18 or 24 months (maybe less if they find an empty factory with suitable utilities). Even faster, they can buy cells from, as you say, LGChem or others.

Tesla has long bought cells from others for its stationary storage products. They could pursue a similar strategy for Semi if they wanted (in the near term). The lower range Semi does not push battery chemistry particularly hard, so a third party cell is easily feasible there.

So I don't buy that they're cell constrained on such a long timescale. They're constrained by other things.
The Google recruiter told me that I passed that and the follow-on hiring committee. I have no reason to believe that wasn't true, especially since the people in the all-day seemed genuinely enthusiastic about me.

I didn't say they didn't hire me for age. Rather, I was offering that as a proof of sorts that my skills are current and yet I had a hard time getting hired.

(I did hear via back channels that I was nixed there for being [euphemism for too old]. Hard to know whether that's true, but all things considered, it's hard to think of a non-demographic explanation, aside from bad luck. In any case, I'm over it.)
yeah, whoever does those still has hacker aesthetics from the 90's.
I don't know if this is still true today, but software development certificates certainly helped me find the first jobs to bootstrap my career. Granted, this was because I could get them relatively easily back when I was 15 - so before even getting to college. And later I dropped out of college, so I needed something in lieu of a degree to get past that initial HR screen and into the interview, where actual knowledge and skills mattered.

I don't think there was any practical value in a sense of skills learned while preparing for the certification exams. But it was very low cost - I didn't take any courses, only the exams themselves, and self-studied for them; so mostly it was a time investment, and spare time is plentiful at that age. So I'd say they paid off handily.
Agreed. I am completely failing to understand why anyone would willingly go into academia provided other options are available.
Oh, everyone likes cryptography and is reluctantly thankful that "blockchain" companies fund FOSS projects. But most people don't like "blockchain" because there's a lot of good reasons to dislike it.

My reasons can be summed up as: "public blockchain" aka cryptocurrency is toxic — it's horrendously inefficient in the name of achieving censorship resistance, so people are literally burning fucktons of energy to make perfect "crime currency" work. It has fueled the rise of ransomware (and extortion in general) and all kinds of scams. Meanwhile "private blockchain" is just like good old merkle tree/hash chain stuff, infused with hilarious/awful marketing fueled by cryptocurrency hype.

Good talk about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCHab0dNnj4
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> Russian resistors are green cylinders with their values printed on them. The Russian diodes have orange rectangular packages (below), unlike the usual cylindrical American diodes

They have color coded Russian resistors, probably just for smaller sizes. Diodes have a variety of shapes, but I don't remember seeing rectangular packages like that one either. Some of those component might have also been specially sourced high tolerance components that might be different than what you'd find in consumer electronics?

> The logos on the integrated circuits reveal that they were manufactured by a variety of companies.

Oh very interesting. I have been wondering about what those logos meant when I used to play with electronics back in the day. They even have a link to the full list http://madelectronics.ru/book/prominfo/2009-04-16-08-29-39-3....
> Academics should [...] vot[e] with their feet.

You do see the problem here, don't you?
> Its the damn internet connection for people to access it that is the cost killer.

Nope. Any hosting provider will be located at a carrier neutral datacenter or the like. At any of these you will have access to low cost IP transit providers and Internet exchanges. You can buy 100G IP transit for $5k per month, so Internet cost isn't really an issue.
I wonder if you could map the writes to the drive to some sort of permanent storage programatically.
Linode used to have fantastic deals w/their $20 plan, 8 vCPUs!
> Literally every Google product has a competitor and the cost of switching is very low unless you're talking about their hardware, which is hardly successful much less dominant.

Windows and Internet Explorer always had competition. The cost of switching to Netscape and later Firefox was extremely low. That did not stop people from referring to Windows and IE as monopolies in the past. With Windows, some still call it a monopoly today.
Oh, I've used them! I just really don't think they're a startup by any definition. Founded in 1986, 30,000 employees, 1,000 locations.

And they aren't offering a benefit platform, they're running actual daycare locations. Their connection to employers is also most commonly providing "backup care", not solid day-to-day daycare. Nothing to sniff at of course, but that alone will not solve the problem for working parents.
You said that they were equally negatively impacted though and I brought up an example of where that is clearly not the case. Which is parental leave, done in a way as to discourage men from taking time off to take care of a newborn while also pressuring women to be the primary caregivers.

That's my entire point. They're not equally impacted because there are larger societal pressures designed to punish women who want to continue their career and men who want to spend time with their children.
While i agree it may be a concern of a society to be stable, it does not automatically translate to necessary concern for society as a whole. Many things necessary for a society work even if society does not intervene in them. People would have children for emotional reasons even if society does not intervene.

Also, if a societal stability is a goal, then having more than replacement number of children is as problematic as having less.
Lark looks very similar to what we are trying to accomplish with AirSend (https://www.airsend.io). I guess interesting days ahead.
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I'm totally on board with making changes that address concerns for women specifically.

That being said, as someone not in academia, it seems like a crazy path for anyone, male or female. As the article said, you're usually 34 before you have a lab established and the research program really gets going. Is there any way the system could be changed/simplified so that talented researchers could start earlier?
a) You make money on people building large architecture on it, and running out of credits and relying on laziness to move it somewhere else.

b) Because as long as some signups happen, noone is testing it.