skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lol he greatly expanded it, what are you talking about.
testosterone certainly has a big impact, but the prison population also tends to have a much lower IQ average than the general population, and also tends have much higher rates of psychiatric disorders (schizophrenia, etc.).
So long our dear friend Larry. You have been such an inspiration. Amongst other achievements, the Newton is still such an incredible machine (and love Dylan)
Lol. “Withholding a pardon” likes it’s an entitlement and not granting it indicates corruption...
It isn't "holding out". Having used this place a decade longer than you, I'd say that it's notably better than it used to be. As you say, blatant, factually wrong misogyny does sometimes get downvoted now. Especially in a case like this, which has been prominently covered, discussed for years, and stars a well-known bad actor like Uber. But "less bad than it used to be" doesn't mean that it's good.
Cool. I'm curious about how they counted it. Do they have opted-out setting?
> At my employer we have zones and your salary is adjusted based on COL compared to say SF.

Would be an example of someone not dictating their setup
No, I drew Inconsolata myself, as well as inventing spiral-based tools for designing fonts, as an alternative to Béziers. I started work on it far in advance of working on the "Google Font API" as it was called at launch, so it was very natural to include it, along with other great fonts by other talented designers.

I'm glad you like the font!
With renewable energy and local batteries, it would make sense to have DC wiring. It used to only be that off-grid systems had batteries (usually lead-acid), and they always just use an inverter. But now with battery packs such as the Tesla Powerwall, even grid-connected houses have DC storage.

Unfortunately, Powerwalls and other similar products are made with built-in inverters and connect only to AC, there is no DC tap. And there aren't any standards around DC wiring and small appliances, so it isn't likely to get traction.

I'm mentioned before (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21109247) that I've seen a DC installation at a friend's house, he used 12V cable lights and DC bulbs, so it seems to work.
No. A font file served from your own server is just like any other static asset. (I increasingly tend to do this for my sites, as I've found that using FontSquirrel to create WOFF/WOFF2 files that contain subsets of fonts and/or "collapse" font features -- e.g., stylistic alternates -- can make for very small, efficient files if the subsetting meets your needs.)
That would seem pretty self-evident, no?
Ask HN: If I build this tool to centralize communication, would you use it?
Hi HN,

I handle all sales for a B2B startup. We have customer conversations across a bunch of channels, including email, Intercom, LinkedIn, Twitter, sometimes Facebook, Slack, and Whatsapp. I'm finding it extremely difficult to handle follow ups.

I was thinking about building a web app and Chrome extension to centralize all customer communication across email, Slack, Intercom, SMS, and more in one place. This would tell me who I haven't followed up with in more than X days across channels, give me context about previous customer interactions across channels, etc.

Before I build this, wanted to see if anyone else would be interested as well?
The People + AI handbook is fantastic - full of well thought out, actionable advice on designing UIs on top of machine learning.
If you think people are assholes because they don't share your opinion on something, then you are definitely an asshole.
Yes, a bad deal. But if it's the only offer on the table...
Stop! You Don’t Need Microservices.
That case was in sweden, and dropped by the swedish prosecutor.
A specific vegetable may not cure cancer but staying away from Class 1 carcinogens certainly will prevent it: things like Asbestos, Plutonium and Processed Meat.
Another: http://sqlite.1065341.n5.nabble.com/SQLite-Pronunciation-td8...

>[...] I think it should be pronounced "S-Q-L-ite". Like
a mineral. But I'm cool with y'all pronouncing it any way you want.
:-)
It does one thing and does it well.
Semios raises $75M to expand largest agricultural IoT network
You are right but the reality is even worse. Fuel consumption is proportional to power (velocity * drag) rather than drag itself. When you go twice as fast, the travel time is halved, so the total fuel consumption quadruples.

And as you said, supersonic drag coefficients are typically larger than subsonic ones, which makes things even worse.
You probably already heard of storing amount in cents as an integer, but it's a pattern worth mentioning if it fits your use case.
Mouse latency on Google Stadia up to 4X slower than standard mouse-to-PC latency
Ask HN: How to buy a camera with the help of people on the internet
Suppose I wanted to buy a camera (or other device) but I don't have the money for it, how could I buy it with the help of people sitting on the Internet?
> ... We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin. Scientists from multiple countries have published and analysed genomes of the causative agent, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2),1 and they overwhelmingly conclude that this coronavirus originated in wildlife,2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 as have so many other emerging pathogens. ...

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

"does not have a natural origin" is an odd way of formulating the legitimate concerns I've seen.

From the original Nature article of 2017:

> But worries surround the Chinese lab, too. The SARS virus has escaped from high-level containment facilities in Beijing multiple times, notes Richard Ebright, a molecular biologist at Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey. Tim Trevan, founder of CHROME Biosafety and Biosecurity Consulting in Damascus, Maryland, says that an open culture is important to keeping BSL-4 labs safe, and he questions how easy this will be in China, where society emphasizes hierarchy. “Diversity of viewpoint, flat structures where everyone feels free to speak up and openness of information are important,” he says.

https://www.nature.com/news/inside-the-chinese-lab-poised-to...

Those who have read the nature article and who have seen the Chinese government in action before around disease outbreaks have every right to raise questions around the curious opening of the Wuhan BL-4 facility so soon before the Coronavirus outbreak.
Patreon signed its own death warrant when it started censoring certain artists and creatives it deemed to be "unacceptable". Throughout history the most creative and interesting ideas have frequently been on the edge of what's considered morally or socially acceptable at a given point in time (think Oscar Wilde). Yes, you will end up with some very despicable people on your site if you don't practice censorship, but you'll also end up with some very exciting ones, and even some that are both despicable and existing. Creativity and censorship cannot live side by side.
And yet none of the 'cards' are links you cam middle click, ctrl click, right click on, but if you click on them they open in new tab.
In fighting at Cosmos leads to project split
Do you admit it has advantages over the alternatives? It sure doesn't sound like that in the article, where all you do is bash the company, without mentioning how it is an improvement.
I feel like I'm missing the sarcasm here.
Well, no official government-supported agency have even stepped in to establish a list of norms involving software security, to force large corporations to abide by them.

While the private sector is the sole responsible for their own cyber security, and while the NSA wants to keep the upper hand in cybersecurity by holding a cyber-weaponry supremacy, events like these will keep happening.

Cyber chaos will continue because the NSA is obviously holding massive advancements in cyber weapons. The day the NSA will have an adversary that can be at least 50% as good as the NSA, you can be sure you will see cyber security standards being passed into law.

If you think about it, having cyber supremacy is a good way to have total power over the world. When you have all the information, you have everything you need to do whatever you want. That sort of describes the US right now.
Bernie Sanders, one of the frontrunners, calls himself a socialist because he is one. At least he admits it.
haha, nice one! This exactly the kind of story i was thinking about.
Is it the case that some of those charges passed the statute of limitations while Assange was hiding in the Ecuadorian embassy? I think "charges were dropped" is putting it a bit strongly.
Or oil on your palm.
Yep, this. You don't hire interns, grads, and juniors for remote work. So automatically the average salary is higher for remote work when you limit it to mid level and above.
> didn't follow the site rules [...] rejected them

That's not what's happening here. Neither I nor crooked-v have broken any rules or gotten rejected.

> If what you suggest I'm saying is "obviously wrong", then come on, you can do better than that, "respond to the strongest plausible interpretation".

Sorry, I can't think of any other way to interpret what you said. You gave a definition of sour grapes that is different from the normal definition, but fatally flawed. Normally the "strongest plausible interpretation" would be to assume you mean the normal definition of sour grapes, but that would contradict your entire argument as I understand it, so I can't do that.

While for my argument, I was saying "you have to do X to do Y, which is dumb" and you responded to "you have to do X" in a vacuum. Obvious weakening.

> you don't need to post niche questions or hunt popular questions, you can deal with normal questions.

If it's not niche, I can nearly guarantee it's already been answered, or that I'd be responding to a duplicate where the rules-following behavior would be trying to get it closed.

> you don't need to hack or farm, you can genuinely participate

Not when I rarely find questions appropriate to respond to, and the correct way to respond is always a comment. I would have to seek out questions just for points, which is farming.
This is often exacerbated horribly by the fact that the 50 or 60 FPS output doesn't divide well by the 24 FPS source material. It was smoother in the cinema, when it was projected at 24 FPS...
Donald Trump spent on his campaign almost half the money of Clinton's campaign, and he won the presidency despite having raised less than any major party presidential nominee since 2008 [0]. So, if your concern is a candidate "buying" an election, Trump would be the worst recent example one could use.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/graphics/2016-presidentia...
I think because in the hardware world the cost for being wrong is so much higher since you can’t push out an over the air update or update your saas or whatever. So if you don’t know you stay quiet instead of being wrong.
U.S. Music Industry Revenues by Format, 1973-2018
To be valid for tax and legal purposes, valuations must adhere to generally accepted valuation methodologies. In some cases, like IP, there are enumerated methods of valuation.

Cost of creation is not a valid measure of the value of IP or intangible products generally, though it can provide a lower bound for physical products.

e San Francisco office pays the contractor, then does nothing more than immediately sell the rights to the code to the Ireland office for approximately the same amount.

The market price is what an independent third party would pay for the IP, not what your other office would pay. And what a third party would pay is based on how much they would be able to monetize the IP for in their own uses or the value they would derive from it (for example, like a process-based IP that increases efficiency).

The Ireland office could have just as well paid the contractor directly.

Maybe they could have. If the idea actually would have originated in Ireland, then they should have contracted the programmer directly, and then they would own the IP instead of the US office. But they didn't. It was the US office's idea to engage the contractor, to tell him what to program, and to evaluate the fruits of his labor. You would need to establish that the idea would just as easily have originated in the Irish office, and generally that's a very difficult to prove.

What value is the San Francisco office supposed to be adding that justifies being awarded a significant fraction of the total revenue?

Because territory matters when you're talking about sourcing income for tax purposes, especially where you're dealing with two related but legally distinct entities in different countries. There are literally millions of pages written about this (see "transfer pricing") because it has been the primary means of tax avoidance and tax evasion by multinationals for the past 3 decades. It is the primary focus of the OECD and (pre-trump) of the IRS and the EU.

Note: if both entities were in the same country, these concerns usually go away because related companies usually file consolidated tax returns (i.e., as if they were a single company), so all of this valuation crap would be rendered meaningless for tax and reporting purposes.
Building more houses increases property tax revenues, but it doesn't increase them per capita because now you have more people. The government's costs are per capita, so that doesn't help them.

By contrast, increasing property values generates more revenue per capita, so property tax gives the government a perverse incentive to increase housing costs.
I'm not sure that debate was really important since it's clear that his real answer was 'none of the above'.
Looks like the brilliant minds at Google have never heard of <a> tags.
No. During the current transition period there's a treaty which (to paraphrase the situation greatly) causes the UK to be treated as if it was in the EU. What happens when that ends (on 31st Dec 2020) is not yet clear, despite the large amounts of noise being made by the UK government. It will depend on what deal if any is struck before then.
Point of consideration: supremely fit men in history (in a Darwinian sense) could have hundreds or thousands of children. Big wins can have big genetic payoffs. Supposedly Genghis Khan has millions of living descendants today, with perhaps as many as 1 in 200 men being direct descendants [1]. Supremely fit women can only have a limited number of children. This difference likely has some kind of effect on reproductive strategies, and what kinds of variation are selected for.

[1] https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/1-in-200-men-d...
He is not a socialist. Nothing he is proposing is socialism.
As someone who was part of the small team that used to do our company’s builds before I automated them, I deliberately would not bother reading stack traces and try to fix it but would send it back immediately to the dev.

1. It took too much of my time. Since I was doing this in addition to my dev duties, it was not something I could afford to spend time on.
2. When I first started, I would resolve the issues myself. But I soon realized the builds were usually broken by the same suspects. Sending it back to the devs (and also requiring them to buy a box of donuts on breaking the build) put a quick stop to this.
3. Builds were usually broken by people checking in their code in a hurry right before they were done for the day. Calling them and having them fix it after work (as opposed to me having to sit additional hours after work fixing something they broke) very quickly put an end to the practice of checking in your code in a hurry and leaving for the day because you had a dinner to make it to. I don’t want you to miss your dinner, but if it’s important enough that you can’t be bothered to make sure your code is working then you can also wait till the next morning to checkin your code.
I would be interested to see how they qualify respondents with respect to "remote." If it was in the report, I missed it. Presumably there has to be some floor higher than "I travel a quarter of the time" or I work from home Fridays.

I do see something of an increase in the number of tech people who can reasonably be described as working remotely but that does seem a big change in a couple of years. (Though it's not just software engineers but senior people in tech generally.)
But isn't that what they're saying? Different kinds of jobs are commonly remote work. I don't think they were implying that the same jobs suddenly got better-paying.
I'm not sure that is correct -

https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/60718/why-is-the...
AFAICT Sweden refused to interview and indict Assange as long as he remained in the embassy. If that’s true then IMO “charges were dropped” isn’t putting it a bit strongly.

Also AFAIK Swedish prosecutors wanted to drop these charges in 2013, but the UK prosecutors dissuaded them from doing do.

Besides, not all of the Swedish charges hit statute of limitations.
Nope, air transportation is not a major contributor to CO2.

There are over 100,000 flights daily. They account for about 2.5% of CO2 emissions yearly.

You know what is? Coal power plants that generate electricity.

Maybe we should focus on electricity generation from coal. I’m a little surprised that more hasn’t been done.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-worlds-coal-power-plants

13 years ago Google attempted their RE<C project.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/williampentland/2014/11/30/why-...
Do most companies even do real coaching? If a company believes their senior people no longer need it. They do not understand coaching.
One problem with Python's syntax, though, is that you can't have anonymous lambdas which span more than one line (unless perhaps you start using escapes, but that would miss the point).
The reason to sell war bonds in a fiat money world, at a base level, is that you want to devote some resources to the war effort, and therefore those resources are not available to produce consumer goods.

Now there are two options. Either the consumers have just as much money chasing a smaller amount of goods, leading to inflation, or you need to reduce the amount of money consumers have. Selling bonds is a mechanism for doing the latter. The end result is the same: the war effort means lower living standards, whether through inflation or through people voluntarily forgoing consumption by purchasing war bonds; the latter happens to make people less upset and likely has different distributional characteristics, so is probably a better idea.

Note that there are various details like whether your economy is at capacity (and if it's not, maybe you can do the war effort production _and_ still produce the goods consumers want by expanding overall production). And there can be various different mechanisms which lead to inflation in practice, ranging from "printing money" to pay for the cost of the war effort production, thus bidding up prices in general, to establishing rationing and a corresponding black market with high prices.

In a non-fiat-money world, there can be other reasons to do war bonds, of course, including "getting some of whatever counts as money", since the government does not control the supply of that.
Hetzner bandwidth was 2 euro per TB last I checked :)

Edit. It's now apparently 1 euro /tb without vat
Writes a 2000+ word article, cuts 14 "for brevity".

Overall, I think this was an insightful article, but cutting that out seems misleading, even underhanded.
What part of the paper are you refering to?

The paper assumes a prior of males having greater variance in a diverse set of traits, and frames itself as exploring the cause of such variance.

It proceeds to empirically study brain structure, and found that "results confirmed the hypothesis of greater male variability in brain structure.".

Parent's question, while relevent, is much broader than what the paper attampted to answer. I see no discussion in the paper that would render the question moot.
> Regarding policy, with so many Supreme Court Justices up in age, the next President will likely get the chance to set the tone.

Terrible strategy. Bernie replacing Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Stephen Breyer isn't going to advance the agenda. Clarence Thomas is only 71 and won't step down if a Democrat is president.

The only way Bernie passes his agenda is by getting significant portions of the country to strike until Congress complies.
Show HN: Visualize your machine learning model performance with one line of code
I would love if sites like levels.fyi had a checkbox for remote work. Since there's few stats out there: $150k base, $50k stock ($200k / 4 years), no bonus. Focus on front end, 5 YOE.
I know people do it and I was junior at a much different time in terms of communications, etc. But I can't really imagine having spent the first 10 years or so of my career working primarily remotely although I've been basically doing that for a long time now.
I don't think any of them could withstand a 50k contract to breach TBH. The only ones that really could generally tend to be DoD/E related.

That's not necessarily the point though, in an era of APT. I like to say breaches are inevitable, the real question is how fast do you know about it so you can mitigate/respond? HIDS/NIDS, auditing, monitoring and logging are the core of this imho.
Trust me -- it's NOT inexpensive. Maybe your definition of inexpensive is different from mine, but adding $20-$30 onto the cost of every install is a massive expense, especially when you still have to send a trained installer out to do it. You can't rely on an end user to do it since there are all kinds of issues with placement/blockage/etc. If you choose to ignore that, you spend more money on customer support to help them install it. Notice Elon doesn't say that end users will do it. He just said no training required, just like you don't need training to install tiles in your house either.
> Julian Assange did not say that the hacks were not Russian.

Julian Assange has also never stated that a "hack" took place to obtain this data.
I work at an ISP. We use Citrix for our VPN...
In addition to prosecutorial laziness, there is also the problem of false attribution. On the internet, nobody knows that it wasn't the real stevenalowe that posted that call for violence. People open accounts with other peoples' names. People discover other peoples' passwords and take over their accounts. All kinds of spoofing things happen. So "jail the perps" has it's charm, but be careful to make sure it's the actual perps...
At the time I was there, we aggressively set the cache control headers to minimize the number of requests. Among other things, the font binaries were all versioned and served so each URL was immutable forever. (There's some subtlety around this, it's a 2 stage process with CSS first then the font binaries, and the CSS was generally served with 24 hour expiration).

One motivation was sharing the cache among all sites that linked the fonts, which at the time I think was a big win, but as has been mentioned elsewhere, this is going away.
It helps that Bloomberg left an unending string of sexual harassment complaints and cringeworthy public statements in his wake throughout his entire career as a business & political figure.
Right, and in my experience at least a lot of remote workers are not people who are hired for a remote job but a senior(ish) person who negotiated with their employer to transition to being full-time remote, even if the company doesn't explicitly allow or support remote work.
It occurs to me that, in at least some cases, employers don't want to have remote workers (fear of loss of control), but will accept it if they cannot fill the position otherwise (e.g. there are no available programmers in our town).

So, it will be interesting to see what happens when the next labor market downturn comes.
And places that use RDP like setups for development because they don't want their employees to walk out with the crown jewels on their laptops.