skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think anyone alive would have the time to read all the arguments that are predicated on or further the idea that men and woman, broadly speaking, have different natures. That kind of a fundamental distinction that all of Western civilization is built on. It's legitimate to try to explore and understand to what extent those differing natures may play a role in the various levels of representation we see for men and women in various industries.
https://www.facebook.com/CGTNFrancais

You can compare that with the top newspapers of the country:

https://www.facebook.com/lemonde.fr
https://www.facebook.com/lefigaro
It seems like you are assuming that the few millions used in the purchase are 1. liquid, and 2. all from the owner. Many owners take out a loan to purchase property, so they are paying monthly mortgage. Also, the millions are locked up in the property and is inaccessible, so they have to live off of the rental income from the property. A $3M property with a 5% CAP, which is not bad for the US, nets the owner $150k a year, hardly Rich Uncle Pennybags' level of income. Subtract mortgage and any taxes/insurance/repairs not covered by the tenant, and also self purchased health insurance, and you are basically living a middle class lifestyle. If things go awry, such as a few bad tenants or unfavorable changes in local rental market, and you're in a situation similar to being "house poor", where you have a high value asset, but not a lot of cash for day-to-day expenses.
Which policies of Facebooks are 'evil', exactly?
The stated motivation is to reduce misinformation from China in lead up to election.
Pretty wild that Facebook which was 100% proven to have been used for Russian misinformation in the last, and this election, somehow dodged a bullet on this...

My (totally personal opinion guess) is that this is just another way to poke the bear as part of the tit-for-tat with China and maybe a minor contributing factor that someone has got in his ear and blamed TikTok for his low campaign event turnout after there was a TikTok meme to RSVP to his events to make them sound like they were going to be huge, then embarrass him with low numbers.

Cynical perspective is that one of his friends with a stake in Facebook got in his ear about China using TikTok to make fun of him or something, and now Instagram Reels is right there to pick up the slack. Nothing would surprise me with this govt anymore. I mean the news is all talking about TikTok now instead of COVID-19... troop bounties... so on...
Not really: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/01/25/upshot/shrink.... The percentage of households making below $35,000 (inflation adjusted) has shrunk since 1967, though it's up modestly since 2000.
> the Chinese firewall is about preventing Chinese people from accessing the wider internet

It's not, really. Most of the "wider Internet" is accessible, only specific (mostly US or politically-oriented) properties are inaccessible. Very much like what is being planned in the US.
It's one of those American policies that has a triple motivation: it provides an opportunity for the GOP to look "tough" on foreigners, it provides the opportunity to protect the US tech sector's market position by outlawing a potential competitor, and it satisfies nationalist ("national security") factions in Washington that want to roll-back Chinese economic development.

Foreign policy initiatives that satisfy the needs of three or more power blocs in Washington DC tend to have extremely bad outcomes; the last major policy that had a triple motivation was the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

(final paragraph edited for clarity)
I did degrees in both math and engineering, please give me the benefit of the doubt that I'm not making a 1st year university level mistake.

In the specific examples you give, 2-forms could be introduced instead to yield the final formula for the Jacobian. I don't think this is an overkill, because it's possible to use 2-forms without precisely proving the theorems etc about them. This is more convenient for math/physics people, and engineers care more about the final formula than about how exactly it was derived.

As another comment here pointed to, the idea that linear algebra is better off without determinants was popularized by Axler - I'm not making this opinion up out of nowhere.
Not less than their meager earnings. They were saying that they weren't making enough already and this was less, not that it being less than what some people make is bad. If you make the absolute minimum for survival, it shouldn't be less than that.
No one likes being poor, and most people learn to live as well as they can with the income they have. Our society encourages this because it makes workers happy with less pay.

Banks and businesses prefer consumers this way, and any attempt to get people to live "within their means" will fail because of the push back from that side as well as the general discomfort and distaste for living less well (and less healthily, at least in the US - quality food is expensive).

A far better solution is to address income inequality and to bring equity to the results of everyone's work. Wage growth has been too low for decades which has been great for corporate owners and investors, but bad for society.
The government frequently bans foreign products that have national security implications.
Not to pick a side, but did you read the Damore memo?
> There has been a continual anti-natalist push in the West for many years, from the propaganda side convincing people it's too much work to have kids, or that it will be way more fun to drink and party through your 30s than it will be to watch your family grow up and eventually have grandchildren. Combined with the easy access to abortion and birth control, and the removal of all fertility-retaining social and religious structures around reproduction, the result has been a precipitous drop in the birth rate.

This ain't it, chief. How many people in their 30s are still living with roommates because cities don't build enough housing close to jobs? What about lack of affordable childcare? Or the poor social safety net in general? I guarantee this kind of thing has a lot more bearing on people's decisions to have children or not than "anti-natalist propaganda".
Has Bytedance been implicated in IP theft?
> As for source code generators as a way to solve the reflection dilemma: they are not going to make a dent as they tied to the specific language (C#), and not to .NET platform as a whole.

Slight correction: source generators are a _compiler_ feature not a _language_ feature. This may seem like a meaningless distinction, but you can use source generators in _any_ C# project provided your compiler is new enough. You can easily use generators in a .NET 3.5/C# 5 project if you want.
Is it possible to make an argument to those ends without being accused of being a racist/sexist/etc in your mind? Is there any way that someone could convince you that they were sincere?

> oh it will not align with the character of our neighborhood

Is there no situation where this is obviously, trivially true? If someone wants to replace a traditional cottage in the middle of an Irish village with a glass and steel modernist masterpiece, would you accept the argument then?
> They even made it easy to dual-boot with Windows, without making you go through a whole bunch of partitioning stuff. I thought it was amazing.

I forgot that was even a thing. I don't think any other Linux vendor did anything who made it that easy to just use their OS.
> legally enshrine political ideology as a protected class

“Political ideology” is infinitely extensible. To enshrine it as a protected class removed all meaning from the latter.

> as has been the common custom in the US until very recently

The Revolutionary War was a political question. How were Loyalists treated? Following that, how did Federalists and Jeffersonians interact in the social sphere? More recently, how did the labour union debate get peacefully resolved? Or American participation in WWI get non-violently debated?
Like the GP says, I can't imagine that would take more than a few days, even for a very large project with many dependencies.
Alembic is pretty great for this as well
The ongoing anti China circus through executive orders is arbitrary and draconian to say the least... and while I've been mostly ignoring it so far, a lot of Americans live in China and have money on Wechat. Are they now violating this week's "law"?

The actual executive order: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-or...

It's quite short and just adds a lot of FUD
Is this satire? You’re describing literally every left wing activist that accuses their employer of systemic bias, racism, pay disparity, interference in elections, etc.

Transparently it seems the right type of activists are celebrated and the wrong vilified. That’s fine, but let’s not act like this is principled.
This is the likely result of what Trump is doing. Every major country/bloc will now look to create their own commercial internet/social network, etc. And the US will have no basis to complain because it paved the way (the Chinese did it first, but China doesn’t have the clout to lead other countries. The US does)

Setting aside how much of a step back this is from the global utopian internet I suspect the vast majority of posters on HN believed in even a few years ago, the economic impact is gonna be the greatest on the US, which is the biggest beneficiary of a global internet.

If every bloc builds its own siloed internet, its their companies that will benefit at the expense of American companies which currently dominate the entire planet.
Yes, more than once, hence the comment about how it's weakly worded. Did you?
The GFW of China is to prevent its people to see outside. The GFW of America, at least for now, is to prevent China from peeking in. One is implemented as an allow list, the other one is a deny list.
I help mod a medium-sized subreddit (non-political). We get more mobile-app-based traffic than web traffic by a considerable margin, and I believe this is pretty typical.
Yeah pricing really isn't the issue here. We're talking enterprise. The market rate for a data logging device that does something close to this Galaxy mobile is $750-$1000.
“Facebook employees want CEO Mark Zuckerberg to explain what the company would do if the leader of the free world uses the social network to undermine the results of the 2020 US presidential election”

this is so silly, and later when the article claims “misinformation”, it’s a tricky situation to claim you know the 100% truth about everything and anything that goes against what you believe is considered misinformation that will undermine an election... totally ignoring the possibility that you might actually not be correct and that things aren’t as black and white as you think they are
> ... U.S. wealth inequality is more pronounced than income inequality.

This should be obvious? Wealth can grow exponentially and more or less indefinitely, but income does not. Since 1990, median hourly wages are beating inflation by a slim margin. An investment in the S&P 500 in 1990, adjusted for inflation, would be worth 7x. With 4 companies now in the Trillion Dollar Club, that inequality seems to be accelerating.

Does that imply that Americans are not wealthy because they don't plan their finances for the purpose of growing wealth? Andrew Yang wants to help with UBI, but I wonder if people would simply spend up to their new income and be in the same 3 month boat. They'd have more stuff and more fun and eat better and live in a better location. But many would still 3 months from insolvency.

Personal financial management should be taught as a life skill in high school.

technically, it does, but in practical terms, there is essentially no wage growth above inflation, 7% since 1990: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2019/09/10/are-wages...
Sometimes the point isn't technical, but social. So MD5 isn't used for security purposes right now. At some point someone will want some hashing function, and they'll probably look at what the code already uses. The last thing you want is someone a bit clueless goi g "it was good enough there, it's good enough here" and using MD5 where they shouldn't. Removing it from a codebase helps with that problem.

The problem here is that people assume they know every possible reason why the auditor might ask for something, when they don't. If the auditor is asking for it, and it costs almost nothing to do, maybe just do it instead of wasting everyone's time by acting like you know the totality on the subject, and everyone will probably go home happier at the end of the day.
I did, which was why I was surprised by the statement
"Damore claimed that women were biologically incapable of leadership and programmer roles"
They might be forced to sell too.
China says if you want to set up a factory in China you need to transfer IP. They aren't forcing western companies to invest. Most companies invested voluntarily. And this was seen as mostly OK when the rivalry wasn't as heated.
Vehicle crash analysis for one.

There's an existing product called the SlamStick that's used to record high-shock/high-vibration environments. They released a paper on using one to find the source of a troubling vibration in a Navy helicopter. I came across them when doing research for a customer in the Vehicle Dynamics space.

It's one of those little niches that no one knows about and seems to support quite a few small companies.
I’m mixed about this. On one hand the US as the most powerful country should lead and be an example of the free world. On the other hand China is playing an asymmetric game with foreign companies and has banned many US companies from entering their market.

Now they’re still a developing country, so this would be fine by me, except that the Chinese government is committing crimes against humanity and getting more and more powerful at the same time. This is really dangerous, and the only thing I can think of is germany pre-WWII where Hitler had huge approval ratings. Chinese people are extremely pro-CCP even in the US, this is frightening imo. And most countries are doing nothing about the xinjiang and hongkong situations. So maybe this is a good move...
Because many US companies have been at the receiving end of unfair trade practices, copyright theft and blatant IP violations from the mainland. It's good that we are finally doing something about that.
Be that as it may, I was addressing the curious "if it was my fault, then it wasn't a scam" logic.

If scamming isn't scamming when you to it to clueless investors, does that mean Elizabeth Holmes should be a free woman? The people she scammed didn't do any due diligence, but that doesn't make her scam any less a scam.
I just went to my Wechat to try to transfer my money left in there to a friend. Transfer isn't going through.
Thought same: with covid depressed co’s the leveraged buyouts / peg activities driven by politically connected free cash is coming big time .. talent will get suckered into debt so these players take it
Nothing, and that's a good thing, because now that wearing masks is a partisan political issue, grocery stores should feel entirely within their rights to ban people who refuse to wear masks even if they claim political grounds, and they should not be forced by the government to let people in.

In America, the default is that private businesses, even those who provide a service to the public, get to choose who they engage in business with and how, with no interference from the government. There are very narrow exceptions (Civil Rights Act, ADA, antitrust, etc.) when absolutely necessary.
Useful NPM packages you should be aware of (2020 edition)
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> I'll probably be downvoted for this but I actually read most of the 900+ combined pages of the Obama-era net neutrality order plus the Communications Act of 1960

Do you mean the Telecommunication Act of 1996 or the Communications Act of 1934? Or the Communications Amendments Act of 1960?

Because the first and second are relevant here, but while the last did make changes to the 1934 Act, those aren't really germane to the 2018 Open Internet order.

> Among other problems, in order to lay new fiber ISPs must seek approval from the DOD and Secretary of State.

No, it did not require that.

> Arguably, it lead directly to the situation much of the US faces with vast swathes of area being controlled by only one or two entrants.

No, unless you suggest retrocausality, that's not at all arguable; that situation was in place well before the 2015 order at issue, which was in effect for less than 3 years and not enforced for much of that time because the Pai opposed it even though it was on the books and nominally in force.

> Since the ruling was repealed several years ago

It was only two years ago (the repeal became effective in June 2018.)
The difference between west and CCP is that you follow rule of law, everyone is free until you're proven guilty. If you just replicate what CCP is doing you're admitting that their ideology is superior.
Curious of the tech specifics eg. using Iridium sat or something for communication, I think article just said "trackers". Though I see she's wearing a backpack so maybe it was just a brief test/not far/long duration.
There are more options than you've presented. There is also that the employee has perfectly valid and logical reasons for believing the policy isn't evil. In other words, the issue is you see the policies as evil with no possibility to see otherwise.

I use facebook to connect with my family and friends. I've unfollowed all overly political friends. I get no real or fake news in my facebook feed. If I worked at facebook I'd be proud of helping people to stay connected.
Terrible reasoning. Parental or marital status are also choices but are protected classes.
Emphasis Added:

>I’m simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why
we don’t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership.

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-I...

If you're a Damore apologist, usually now is the time that you say, "That's not what he really meant."

Edit: To catch my drift, see the patronizing responses devoid of evidence from the apologists.
The curious genome of the tuatara, an ancient reptile in peril
Not hard to win if everyone is being reasonable. Given an auditor that thinks all uses of MD5 are proscribed, what would you put the odds of them being reasonable at?

ETA: per 'kbenson it's not hard to conceive of a situation where proscribing MD5 is reasonable. Taking 'skissane's account at face value is probably reasonable, but my implicit assumption that the auditor would not explain if pressed isn't being charitable.
And yet I've been on the same razor for well over a year. Can't help but think I'm doing something terrible wrong. :(
I think it's unlikely this would have been caught by fuzzing. I think you'd have to write assertions that it only read as many bytes as necessary, which is basically saying just don't write the bug in the first place.
Then instead of a camera, display it in VR goggles.
Allows you to walk around and see a landmark without all those pesky people ruining your view.

You can use the PhotoSynth tech described above.
Makes me happy to see sweatystartup linked on HN :-)
A good clue is how vague your question is. Should bytedance and tencent be banned because of "ip theft" by "some companies?"

no
The first migration from ms sql to mysql was licensing costs, and the desire to host on Linux. The more recent plan to move to postgres is motivated in part by features and in part by standardizing on postgres.
Eye-opening how many HN comments are framing this guy as a demented political extremist. He’s a whistleblower exposing one of the most frightening threats to modern democracy that exists.

We are beyond the speculation point here. Facebook has demonstrated that it has the capability to spread misinformation and sway political opinion very effectively and never for the right reasons. The pandemic is the most recent example of Facebook’s fuckery: post something that tells people that Covid is caused by 5G and that Bill Gates wants to implants microchips in you? You might get a small disclaimer on your FB post saying that “parts of it” “may be” inaccurate. You are constantly fed anything to keep you engaged with the platform and increasing Facebook’s bottom line.

Zuckerburg has just spun to Congress that Facebook is going to extreme lengths to moderate their platform - this employee’s testimony is proof that Facebook doesn’t care in the least or worse, they may be actively trying to help along candidates who will be politically lenient towards their behavior. We just discovered a “bug” caused Republican ads to show at a more frequent rate than Democratic ads - I don’t know what’s more worrying: that a bug on Facebook could swing the election or that it wasn’t a bug at all.

People need to stop with the “I know good people at Facebook” B.S. It’s beside the point. Facebook is a rogue actor that has enormous social and political power to completely mislead the general public into practically any belief. They have continued to demonstrate that they cannot be trusted with this power. This man should be praised as a whistleblower for exposing the charade that is an unregulated Facebook. We need more like him in tech to show people how serious the problem is. Give me a break with the analyses on whether he should have been fired or not and recognize the scope of the problem he is trying to warn is about. The quality of our democracy is absolutely at stake.
> How many people in their 30s are still living with roommates because cities don't build enough housing close to jobs?

I live in an extremely high cost-of-living city. Still, the people who I know who have been diligent, chose workable careers early and stuck with them, worked hard, saved, and put off creature comforts and luxury in exchange for long term essentials, have done just fine and are even thriving. The people in turn who I know who have no hope of ever buying real estate or building a family are those who never buckled down, never found their calling or settled for something un-glamorous that worked.

I strongly believe that individual choices lead to individual responsibility for these situations. Abdicating your own personal responsibility to make good choices in order to propagate your own genes successfully will only result in you excluding yourself from the gene pool, which is certainly a shame for the many people of good character whom I know who fall into this category.

> What about lack of affordable childcare? Or the poor social safety net in general?

What about those things a hundred or 200 year ago? Were they that much better, or were people simply more willing to sacrifice, save, and accept a lower quality of life than the absolute maximum?

> I guarantee this kind of thing has a lot more bearing on people's decisions to have children or not than "anti-natalist propaganda".

No. Your argument is actually just a restating of the propaganda.

"It's too hard because we can't get jobs that allow us to earn enough to pay other people to raise our kids, fail and bounce back with no consequences, and still lease a new car every few years while living in a top-class world city".

That's your argument in a nutshell. Yes, maybe that pipe dream is not affordable, but a reasonable life in a cheaper city where you work a job that is less lofty but more secure is still achievable.