skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it’s quite common in all kinds of media outlets. Serious news, sports news, opinion pieces, left wing, right wing, entertainment, startups, investing... you’d be hard pressed to find a news outlet that doesn’t use the word “hemorrhaging” in reference to non-blood things. Most words have more than one meaning, this one included.

Here’s one from Entrepreneur: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/284063

New York Times article saying companies are hemorrhaging money: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/25/health/antibiotics-new-re...

CBS Sports talking about how a football team is hemorrhaging players: https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cowboys-vs-eagles-injurie...

Wall Street Journal: https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-investors-dont-care-that-sn...

LA Times: https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-bus-ridership-f...

Fox News: https://www.foxnews.com/world/pope-laments-hemorrhaging-of-p...

The Motley Fool: https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/07/24/without-nest-alpha...
> 2. Open source participants are volunteers and owe you nothing.

If this were true in the strictest sense, then they would be free to put malicious code and trick you into using their stack just to then steal credit card numbers from your database. Of course this is not true, and they would appear to at the every least owe us "good faith" or perhaps some basic guarantee that they are not purposefully trying to criminally attack you. This may seem like a useless edge case to bring up, except for the fact that the law does have some amount of consideration for negligence.

Arbitrary people you don't know owe you nothing too, and yet if you walk onto their premises and get hurt, the law has found in certain circumstances that they are indeed at fault. Expectations and responsibilities evolve with time, and as new scenarios come up. It is not clear to me that putting up a project that invites people to use it in production could not be argued to some extent to be negligent if it willfully blocks and delays fixes that could affect real world customers.

At the end of the day, if people were using my code in production, and a discovered exploit was used to steal people's data and I could have prevented this by merging in code that wasn't 100% to my aesthetic liking, then I think I would feel bad. Fault isn't binary, maybe its the fault of a random company using my framework for not being up to the minute on all vulnerabilities and manually patching the code themselves, maybe its their fault for using my framework in the first place given the youth of the project too. But I don't think I would go to sleep that night feeling great is all I'm saying.

I'm not super familiar with this particular case, but the OP blog post was phrased as kind of wanting to open up a dialog or discussion on the nature of these issues. I am bringing up some thoughts about this stuff I've had for a while and I think at least help to understand some of the moving parts involved. For the record, I don't really know where I stand "absolutely", or if its possible to have a clear principle that doesn't take into account some number of additional variables (how the project was portrayed, how many users it has, etc.).
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Even on SecurityNow, majority of ads are irrelevant to me. But thanks to SN add I found out about CrashPlan, Lastpass, and some other useful services. I cannot remember the razor as that Leo used to have every-week-for-months (the one that was acquired by Gillette some months ago)(Harry's or something) it was boring and irrelevant for a cybersecurity audience, I guess they were aiming for the "males with money" attributes of the audience.
I would take 4xA72 over 2xA72+4xA53 any time. Heterogeneous systems are annoying. Linux probably has some fancy scheduler settings to prefer fast cores (??) but FreeBSD will happily schedule compile jobs onto the slow-ass A53 cores when the A72s are idle, which is annoying.

UPD: NetBSD prefers fast cores now: https://twitter.com/mrgtwentythree/status/121661988693740339...

4xA72@2GHz is not bad for web development (I have that on my MACCHIATObin), the thing with the RPi4 is that it has worse RAM and I/O. SD cards are garbage and you really only have USB3 to share between everything else. Having native SATA makes everything better :)
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How many people do you think are involved in raising the average child? Two? I had a veritable village of people raising me. I can assure you that only one of them nursed me. For some reason, though, most of them were women.

It was even more obvious before the establishment of the nuclear family that a whole bunch of people should work together to raise children because not only does it improve the outcome, it's more efficient.

I'd like to get your perspective in 18 years.
Feels almost like the minor league / major league situation in professional sports. Minor league baseball players are generally not paid a living wage, and major league players start around half a million dollars a year. Obviously many players are doing everything they can to reach that dream job (even if most fail).

That idea of being a comfortable tenured professor at a great school is a dream for many. And obviously, many don't make it, lot of folks are going to just drift around as adjunct professors, scraping by, taking second jobs. But as long as SOMEONE is getting to be a full professor at Stanford, lots of people are going to think, "that could be me", and get exploited along the way.
Well they didn't find any specific issues. Just the overall code looked not up to their standards as well as how the maintainer dealt with feedback. What do you suggest one does in such a case? Every time I stumble upon shitty open source code, am I supposed to fix it and if the maintainer refuses the patches, patrol the internet and try to prevent anyone from using it?
Yep this is why, more and more, developers are simply doing private repositories. They might exist on GitHub. Or a torrent or something. Rachel goes into more detail about them here.

Basically people fix things and don't commit them back upstream because doing so is too much of a political headache.

> While it's probably true that the dictator does suck at design, the talented user wants no part of the drama which would follow such a report. There is absolutely no benefit to lighting that particular fuse. And so, the problem is never reported, and the patch is never conveyed upstream. It effectively becomes a private fork limited to the talented user's systems.

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/10/09/moat/
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TL;DR - It's babies.
>> "If that's the case, then why open source it at all"

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

I am aware, and as I already explained, this is a rhetorical device which you mistook for my own personal belief. Obviously I don't believe OSS is bad. It's friggen great.

And that's a fair question. I am absolutely not saying that open source means you must maintain it. I am simply saying if you call yourself a maintainer then you are responsible for maintaining. If you don't want to maintain OSS, then don't. Just don't pretend you're a maintainer and that you have no responsibility to maintain. At best, pass it on to someone willing to maintain it. At worst, pretend you're working on it. As I said in my original comment, others should fork as needed.

And to add, I don't believe the original subject of the article, the now former maintainer of actix-web, did the wrong thing. I am in agreement with their decision to drop out. No one should be held to an unrealistic standard by entitled users and expected to put up with that BS. The part of my original comment that everyone has a problem with is seriously the least consequential phrase. Blows my mind that everyone is hyper focused on taking it out of context as well.
> My biggest takeaway from the article is that you'd have to be an absolute sucker to work in academia

The first thing I thought as well. When you read all these horror stories about burned out phd students, why is anyone doing this?

If a woman in STEM wants to combine family and work (or a man or anyone else really) there are many jobs in the industry that are actually relatively 9-5, and pay really well.

I don't understand academia at all. It sounds like a combination of paperwork, flying to conferences, endless networking, publishing papers for publishing's sake. It's like a Kafka novel.
Because it is very very hard to ignore.

I very occasionally get death threats to my work email due to people being unhappy with some public facing stuff I do. It's unsettling but I can mostly ignore it. But if it happened all the time and I wasn't able to open my email or interact with a community without getting hate mail I'd go into a cocoon. People aren't machines. When hatred is relentless it is unbelievably difficult to put it aside.
Implementations of Cat(1) from Various Sources
From the bottom of the postmortem repo:

> At the moment I am planing to make repos private and then delete them (will remove benchmarks as well), unless others suggest better ideas.
I think there's an interesting disconnect right now between research and practice. Cutting-edge research does feel like it's reaching a plateau - across most AI fields even "major" breakthroughs are only gaining a couple percentage points and we're probably starting to hit the limits of what current approaches can achieve. When the state-of-the-art is 97% on a task, there's only so much room for improvement. Yoav Goldberg posted a tweet about Facebook's RoBERTa model that summed it up pretty well: "oh wow seems like this boring public hyperparameter search is going to take a while" [1]. There's a vague feeling of "What's next?" now that all the benchmarks are fairly well-solved but AI in general clearly doesn't feel solved.

However, state-of-the-art models aren't really used in production yet. I think the trend of "use AI/ML to solve X" has only started to pick up in the past 2 years, and it'll continue well into the 2020s. The process of taking research models and putting them into production is not standardized yet, and many models don't even really work in production - if your model takes a second to do an inference step that's fine for research but maybe not for a real product.

I think in the next decade, on the research side, benchmarks will be beaten less often, and instead there will be more focus on trying out radically new things, understanding weaknesses in current techniques, and finding new measurements that assess those weaknesses. On the industry side, there will still be lots of cool and exciting new achievements as already-known techniques are applied to old problems that haven't been addressed by AI yet.

As an aside, this was the first time in my life that I read the phrase "10s" referring to the 2010-2019. Kind of an odd-feeling moment!

[1] https://twitter.com/yoavgo/status/1151977499259219968
> Pew Research Center defines middle-class or middle-income households as those with incomes that are two-thirds to double the 2016 U.S. median household income of $57,617. According to this formula, Pew determined that middle-class Americans have incomes ranging from approximately $45,200 to $135,600.

Call it whatever you want, but there's a huge difference between $135k/yr household income split among 3 kids in an expensive metro area where a house in the suburbs costs $600k+, and $300k/yr with 1 kid in a low cost of living area.
They had a Quine programme featured in one of the Advent of Code problems (that ran on the VM you built over the course of a few), I really enjoy the links and extra stuff they include in AoC!
Charm Industrial is doing something like this (producing hydrogen from biomass and sequestering excess carbon from the process)

https://www.charmindustrial.com/about
Sure. SFO is a clusterfuck of BART's own doing, BART's refusal to coordinate with other transit agencies is infuriating (especially at their much ballyhooed multimodal station). Oakland, OTOH, is an example of how little priority the Bay Area places on usable transit. That Wye wouldn't be here but for the one store owner.
That is my point though: The "load of applications for facial recognition" doesn't need to include public space use. But nonetheless those companies that yield the ai models out of their public place usage over five years will be almost unbeatable.
Especially weird seeing as Github has made forking a very smooth way to work with a project. You fork it, make the changes you want, and then make the changes available upstream.

If upstream vanishes, your fork is still around.

If upstream doesn't want to merge, people can use your fork instead. And, if your changes are that much better, eventually make it the de-facto standard version of the project.
How long to hold it for though? If say 90% of customers that haven’t paid for 5 weeks end up never paying that is resources they will never recover the cost for.

What they could do is work out some high restore cost which makes the numbers work on holding all that data for longer.
It is true that developed countries have often get to this point where it may be reasonable for society so support child-rearing for stability reasons. But they often still have much more people than say hundred years ago.

But note that this situation is relatively new, while natality was praised even during times where population was expanding. My point in this thread is that natality is not intristically good (or bad) value and it is for country to decide on which level want to motivate individuals to change their behavior, but having a child is still fundamentally individual decision.
I've definitely noticed a difference, in that I can hear the hum of my desktop computer, where it was almost completely inaudible previously. Perhaps Apple could introduce tuning/options so folks can set their desired level of noise-cancellation?
After pregancy and the very first months of life, I fail to see any "obvious biological reasons".
This was never the case. They are self hosted and for a while they hosted a fair bit of data on Azure & AWS. Not sure if they still use Azure and AWS, but iCloud has never been on Google's infra. (Other Apple content has been served by Google at various times, maps being the big/ obvious one)
> I understand how he may he feeling, but this is probably the most used web framework for Rust.

Not a problem. Just fork it and put in the work to maintain it. The license grants anyonr that right. What stops anyone from doing it?

If that's too much to ask then perhaps it should put into perspective how project maintainers are abused.
AWS has few services that I imagine yield massive margins with not that much cost to them, which can mainly be justified by the services being pay-per-use and having a small overhead for the customers. And then, I believe most of the AWS's profits come from its enterprise customers which they have plenty of (who aren't in turn that price-sensitive as long as they see profits from their end).

DO on the other hand from my experience has been catered towards small businesses or hobbyists who simply just don't bring that much money vs even a one giant company will bring. And since DO doesn't have all the goodies of AWS, it can't really directly compete with it for those big customers.
That's true, Intel is the only one that is closest, though a little too far behind.
In case someone else, like me, is wondering about what is going on with StackExchange, I think notjustanymike means this: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/342039/firing-commu...
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Re 2. Saying Yes to NoCode ... We are working on an MVP in this space called Webase. It is still very early but we are starting with basic CRUD operations and then will be layering on more sophistication going forward.

Check it out here: https://www.webase.com
You've broken the site guidelines egregiously in this thread. Since you also have a long history of breaking the HN guidelines, we'd normally ban an account for this, but it has been posting pretty well in recent history, so I won't ban it this time.

Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html though, and stick to the rules from now on.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This frames the decision to dedicate more time towards childcare than work as a something thrust onto women by societal expectation when women would rather work. Studies indicate that only 20% of women would prefer to work full time after having a child, with the rest preferring part time work or staying at home with the children. Furthermore, 70% of women with children that are currently working full time responded that they would rather be working part time or not at all [1]. By comparison the majority of men indicate that they would rather work full time.

Women and men both have to choose between their careers and spending more time with children, and their choices reflect their preferences. One can make the argument that this is indirect sexism - that women's preferences stem from sexist social influence. But the fact remains: most women don't want to work full time, and the lower rates of women working full time after having children is reflective of women's preferences.

1. https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2010/...
I think I’d take that trade off. Bose headphones give me nausea as you describe and I always end up taking them off.
Research progress might slow down for a bit in some areas of machine learning but the commercialization of existing technology will keep us busy for the next 10 years.

Unlike the past two winters, deep learning is actually enabling a ton of applications that wouldn't have been possible otherwise and we now live in a world with a lot more data and computers to apply it to.
The thing that changed is we began building off of more and more open source, and so it became more and more important. Nobody is expecting a project's original creator to slave over it eternally. They are instead expecting them to clearly signal their intentions. A "Not Maintained" flag, or "Read my design philosophy before using", after understanding community expectations, is no effort and a reasonable expectation. Counter arguments like to think we are islands and that because we never signed an official contract, we have no responsibilities to anyone but ourselves. But that is not how society ever has or ever will work, and there never has nor ever will be any such thing as "leaving" society (other than death). There's a social contract that you are (unwillingly) a part of, and that's reality. Entitlement here is merely people implicitly recognizing that fact.

EDIT: This rant is a general reply to your general sentiment, not a specific reply to this particular case. I have no idea whether the author did in fact signal appropriately their design, risk, etc.
I've been thinking for a long time that one of the problems with these online shitstorms is that the adults in the room are silent. It would have been so much better if the senior people in the Rust community stepped in to actually say "Hey, we're all using it, yes it's got issues, but thanks for your contribution and don't worry about the idiots". Instead we've got senior people in the Rust community waiting until the damage is done and then hand-wringing about it afterwards.
> which is very slowly rotating in a counter-clockwise direction

What does this even mean? Would they rotate clockwise when looking from Australia?
Strangely, I would rather deal with developers who find bug reports annoying than folks who simply ignore them. The former have a touch of pride and you have a chance to get them to see your point of view. Better that than speaking to a black-hole.
Was this published in 2019 or 2020? There’s a line pretty far down the page in the Enterprise Dabblers section that says “As of today (January 2019), we see a half dozen pitches a week for automation software”

Maybe that was a typo? Or maybe this is a slightly updated article from a year ago?
Every person I know who's left California did it because of housing costs (except for one, who did it to get away from "the damn liberal government that wants to take my guns").

We have a major housing cost crisis in this state, as well as a big NIMBY problem. There have been good solutions run up through the state house, that either fail to pass or get so watered down they are no longer effective, in large part because the most liberal parts of the state happen the also be the wealthiest, so they vote against it.

It's one of the few areas in California where the GOP and the Dems agree.

They only want to help poor people if it doesn't affect their property value.
I appreciate the author's piece but motherhood is not an alternative argument for why women leave STEM, it is THE argument. It is, in all likelihood, the strongest factor to influence women's decisions to leave the field. The evidence is getting overwhelming, just check the most recent publications by Harvard Professor Claudia Goldin (most recent: https://test.openicpsr.org/openicpsr/project/113672/version/...)

Sexism is real but its importance is far from being large. It is really tiresome to see the news regurgitating the talking point on wage gap without properly giving context.

What is clear to me is that the wage gap as measured by the average earnings by gender (even drilled down by field) is very hard to be fixed given the obvious biological differences between males and females (in which motherhood reigns supreme).

Women also need to be honest about their prospects, it is very hard to juggle a career and motherhood. You can't have your cake and eat it too. So there needs to be an honest confrontation on the trade offs of motherhood and having a career and the cope that comes with it.
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I think people have been hinting towards the point that it's generally maternity and not sexism that mostly creates the differences in career progression. Of course there was a time in history where sexism played a major role, but I think that in modern times this is mostly gone (although I know of recent cases).

We can take several actions to balance the books, but the important point I would like to ask is: Do we really want to stop/de-incentivize intelligent women from having children and having an active role on raising them?

Of course there are lots of compromises that can be made to balance the work-home life, but ultimately a decision does need to be made. Spending time with your children in those crucial fundamental years before pre-school is incredibly important and rewarding.
... Gentoo predates 4chan's existence by 3 years, is one of the older and more respected distros still around, and is the basis of Chrome OS and Container Linux. Don't assume that 4chan somehow defines the things they happen to be interested in.
I do find it interesting that there is so much focus on academia - it's probably natural when the the people that are talking and writing about this are so often academics.

In business, one thing that I have seen a lot of people crash aground on a reef on is that working in professions that require STEM credentials is a night-and-day difference from the process that one goes through to acquire those credentials. I've known a lot of people that loved their computer science programs in university, and then found actually working as a programmer such a shock that they noped right out into something else.
So... it's not sexism, it's the structurally sexist way that child-rearing is handled?

I mean, it's a more actionable level of detail, but it's still sexism, no? Just maybe more structural rather than at the level of individual hiring or advancing decisions?
Wow. I've only really looked at this in C and OO languages. That Racket example distills the quine to its essence in a way I've never seen before. I have to agree with you.
I’ve increasingly been using https://thewirecutter.com for this.
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