skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Evidently it's not important, almost no one pays for it. There are (and were) devices that are very repairable, that aren't so locked down and closed, but few actually care about this when they spend money and it soon goes away when companies realize how little consumers care about it. Saying you wish for X, Y, and Z is worth as much as it costs to say that, which is absolutely nothing. Actually paying money for stuff cuts through the bullshit consumers tell their friends or the internet about what they want or where their priorities are.

My points apply to Apple as well, consumers wanted this and continued buying devices like this. I don't doubt that some people complain about various flaws in the products they buy but it's largely meaningless because they clearly don't care enough about these flaws to put their money where their mouth is. No one forced them to buy hard-to-repair, locked down Apple products when there were more open alternatives, they simply decided that repairability is so unimportant they'd still buy Apple products over a product that is more repairable.

It's one thing if Apple were dishonest or consumers were somehow forced to buy Apple, but they're not. There's nothing actually stopping consumers from buying the phone they want. Consumers aren't being harmed, they're getting what they really want.

This is the choice I lose with this: the ability to buy a product that is locked down and tightly integrated/controlled by Apple. It's a choice millions of consumers have already willingly made. I'm personally living happily without buying Apple's locked down products for myself, I and every other non-Apple consumer didn't need the government to make this choice for me. I don't want the government to remove a choice that millions of consumers have made on their own.
Its tough. The easy solution I plan on implementing soon is just letting the user adjust where newlines are inserted, every 5 sentences or 6 sentences.

Other plan further out would be to see where the silences in the video are and insert newlines there.
I'm defending her ownership of capital, not her spending. I may disagree with my government spending money bombing Muslims that disagree with it, but I recognize it's right to collect trillions of dollars in taxes.
Isn’t that what a phone screen is like too? I’ve gotten some unexpected leetcode hards which without having have seen something similar before are difficult to solve “fresh”.
One aspect that isn't mentioned that I think probably has a huge impact: money.

Not talking about whether the older siblings' career makes money that's used for the younger, although that might be the case as well. Instead, by the time the younger starts the parents probably have more of it. Given that for academic success money is a huge factor, I'd wager it's in sports as well.
As I read the post, especially the references to Metafilter in combination with a lesson about homelessness, I thought to myself, “This sounds like DoreenMichele.”

I press the back button and, see it is submitted by them. I press the forward button and scroll to the top and it was written by them.

It’s a small world.
In any other time, I'd say travel and volunteer - habitat for humanity or something like it - spend some time just unwinding and doing something completely different from what you've been doing.

This time will let your mind wander and come up with ideas for adventures, hobbies, other lines of education or business or art you'd like to try your hand at.

In covid times this isn't really possible, at least for 3-6 months. Maybe learn to play the piano or something? Any interest you haven't had time to pursue is game.

Invest some of the money - ETFs in popular vanguard indexes in something like M1 Finance is what I might do. Don't look at it every day or even every month.

Financial Independence is a great gift - the gift of time - and having it so young is great. Enjoy!
These kind of encounters are going to be more common. AI people want to make AI. But it can be dangerous. And, by definition, we can't control AI.
Honestly, if a black woman was saying that DEI isn't working at a company, I believe her more than I believe management. Even with a reputation for blowing up at people.
What a great read. This resonates with me. At one point in my life I was desperately close to homelessness. At the time I was lucky to still be enrolled at a university and could therefore easily take out as many loans as I needed. It was a horribly risky gamble I wouldn’t wish on anyone, but without going into more details of my life story I barely managed to graduate and find a successful career. I was able to pay off all that debt (nearly 150k) in 4 years. I recognize soberly that my story is the exception and far from the rule. I had a lot of luck. But from that experience I can say nobody should have to experience this. Especially not in the most wealthy nation in the history of the world.

- edit: I just want to add the experience nearly broke me, to the point friends and family barely recognized me and the looks I remember in their faces still haunt me. That transition after graduating and starting to make money to being a person who could interact with others who never got so close to total disaster was just as hard.

Please be kind. You just don’t know what someone has been through.
Nitpick/unclear area: why doesn't this highlight the legacy of the 386 and the i386 architecture?

> Linux was first written as a desktop system for IBM PC compatibles, ...

> The earliest i386, ... processors all got phased out over time, ...

> The table shows the 32-bit desktop platforms that proved popular enough to make it into mainline Linux and stay there, supported mainly by loyal hobbyists:

> ...

> Platform: IBM compatible PC

> Architectures: ia32

> Earliest supported machine: PS/2 model 70 486

Wha...? Where is i386 in the table?

"Nuke 386-SX/DX support" was submitted to 3.8 in Dec 2012 (http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1212.1/01152.html), but explicit support existed up to that point since Linux's inception in 1991. I mean, Linux was written for the 386! That was the chip you had to be using since Linux's memory manager was built on top of its MMU.

I accept I may be completely misreading/misunderstanding something here.
Samsung had their own mobile proccesser division as well.
I am surprised it's your (PM's) job to decide who should be building something ("why should I build it, and not her").
A bit harder than fizzbuzz but along the same lines. No textbook algo bs or anything like that...
My view is that "creating" a billion dollar company is a misleading description. I view it more as "capturing" a billion. You mention FB. With network effects, it is inevitable that there will be a few large dominate social media companies. If it wasn't Zuckerberg it would have been someone else. I view these people not as pioneers pushing us forward but as lottery winners. Why should the lucky one on top capture most of the value? The people like Newton and Einstein who actually had revolutionary ideas were not even close to billionaires.

I am not sure why you feel that "taxing rich people" makes everyone worse off. 60 years ago a man with a high school diploma could support a middle class life for a family of 4. Taxes on the highest earners were much higher than they were today. 60 years before that there was no federal income tax and people worked 14 hour days in dangerous conditions while Carnegie and Rockefeller amassed wealth on scales not seen until today.

But yes I agree with you that a tax on each market trade is lol stupid. But I think it is a straw-man argument along with setting the tax rate at 100%.
software bugs are neither intentional not random
Hey, just so you know, regardless of whether things work this way under /today's environment/ and/or whoever has said it as some "management wisdom", the words you have typed here represent some blatant power-tripping BS to anyone with half a brain.

I hope you've said it with the intention to make a point about how dysfunctional certain managers can become, rather than illustrating a belief. If you can't lead other human beings without having control over them, then please hang up your leadership hat and go do something else for a living.

-Another manager.
This. Hardly an improvement overall.
"and then censor them for doing their job"

This is false.

The requirement for a fairly light review process, and asking for more, truthful, factual and contextualizing information to be disclosed is not censorship.

Nobody is suppressing research, or even asking that specific opinions or results be changed.

The commenter above used the term 'draconian' to refer to this process, which is just superlatively false.

"I don't know why so many people love to defend power, especially when that power is not benevolent."

How is this power not benevolent exactly?

What's 'hard to understand' is the petulance and irreverence people have for the offices and responsibilities they hold, and the lack of professionalism in their conduct.

This should have been an easy issue to address by any mature researcher who cared about working with others to achieve positive outcomes - instead of trying to force their opinion on an organization, or engender public support for their career.

There are plenty of reasonable voices at the table for 'Ethics in AI' nobody has a magic wand in this equation.
Wait, Sun? :o
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Pennsylvania legalizes autonomous delivery robots, classifies them as pedestrian
Indentation is OK, sure. I was talking about aligning stuff on the middle of a line.

I find tabs better for indentation but in practice end up using spaces.
If they don’t quit, the next time they try it, it won't be believed.
Yeah voat started out with good intentions but quickly degraded into a right-wing magnet.
While not as cool as getting this done in 1969 with people I think it's nice to see that this sort of thing is happening at all these days. As contentious as things have been lately at ground level I'm encouraged any time I read about people getting things done in space for some reason, even if it isn't some novel event.
> Child labor is probably not caused by the demand for clothes, though. On the contrary, without those jobs, the situation of those families would be even more perilous.

Well maybe if the parents would be paid a bit more these kids would be given a chance to fair better in life by going to school. What is that comment? demand for lower priced clothes, "infinite growth" and investors always demanding higher returns absolutely causes all that child exploitation.

Your comment is either ignorant or downright dismissive of a problem directly caused by us, western consumers.

It's akin to saying "at least the slave is fed", exact same puritan mindset.
A news aggregator aggregator.
Many of us still us just use the latest version of uMatrix on addons.firefox.com. Nothing else comes close to giving you the same kind of control.
Ask HN: How should I evaluate an equity offer vs. hourly rate?
I've been made a purely equity offer at a unfunded early stage startup and am able to complete the work in my spare time outside my day job. I have a rough estimation of the amount of hours required and I obviously know how much I earn at my current job. I do believe in the product, but I am realistic about the chances of success.

The offer is based solely on milestone deliverables, and will vest when those are complete. I'm trying to assess what percentage of equity is a reasonable offer. There is no dilution protection and I'm not guaranteed any more work or stock after the deliverables are finished.

Essentially my inputs are: hours of work required, my current salary at day job, finger in the air valuation decided by lawyers/founders at time of formation.

My inclination would be to do something like this:
https://guides.co/g/how-to-split-startup-equity/3522

i.e. (current hourly rate * risk modifier) as a percentage of valuation.

I'm struggling to come to what that risk modifier should be though, that article suggests 2x. Any thoughts?
Sure enough, the little information popup (activated via the "i" in the top-right) has this information:

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> Prevents Reddit from tracking your IP or JavaScript fingerprint
I’m describing a situation where a certain set of opinions is insatiable because sating any subset thirsts another.
How will you establish product quality baselines? Are you willing to repeatedly reject contributions from developers who violate those quality definitions?

If a product manager has any muscle they not only have to project product goals but they must also defend the product from internal incompetence, which is far more challenging than it should be.
> exhorting them to stop working

Perhaps it's just me as a URM, but her email resonated with me, especially this part. I see this position of calling what she did "exhorting them to stop working" often, but this isn't really what she did.

I too care about DEI, but after putting lots of time and effort into it I saw how futile the effort was in my organization because there was real buy-in from higher ups. I was putting a lot of unrewarded volunteer work helping with "inclusivity" and talking about the problems/solutions, but that was all it was in the end for the people we needed action from; "talk". I did decide eventually to dial it back and stick to my actual paid job of programming, and although I didn't send an email to other people telling them their effort was being wasted, if someone came and asked me, I'd tell them to not bother. There's other places, usually further removed from the the company and easily PR-able channels, where the effort is better spent.

In any case, I hope you realize your comment is full of hyperbole and the people who think she isn't in the wrong, myself included, aren't being unreasonable. We're smart people too.

> There's no way that Google (or any company) would continue to employ her after that

I agree. None of this comes as a surprise and I'm sure she expected it too; that doesn't mean Google is in the moral high ground.
OMG this article is a complete load of S.H.I.T.
I imagine it’s easier to go from middle/upper class to homeless and then bounce back, than it is to bounce back to a place you’ve never been.

For my own homeless experiences (~5 years), I was able to jump back because of work history and experience that would not have existed if my life had started out otherwise.

More cross-the-tracks experiences would undoubtedly make the world a more tolerant, understanding, and uplifting place to live. Though I can’t say I’d wish my personal trauma on any specific person. I’m thankful for the perspective gained, but it would be easier to prescribe if there were less long-term-costly means of gaining it.
Middle of nowhere is a good place for a charger. mmost people will charge at home 95 % of the time. It is only the 5% trips where you don't get back home that you need a charger. Middle of nowhere is where that is likely to be. Look at truck stops, they are all stores and restaurants, everything someone going a long distance needs. They are never inside a city because land is too expensive and anyone in the city for the night has a parking space.
I see a lot of negative reactions in the comments, but at least this part seems fair to me:

> That advance will be much clearer once their peer-reviewed paper is published (we should not judge science by press releases), and once the tool is openly available to the academic community

DeepMind has a tendency for hyper inflated PR (not the only ones mind you), wanting for the scientific process to run its course before claiming victory sounds good to me.
As another option, HAML lets you extract the attributes into a ruby helper method:

https://haml.info/docs/yardoc/file.REFERENCE.html#attribute-...
... What? I've never downloaded it myself (for the same reasons as you), but that doesn't sound true. Play Store says it's 39MB. But maybe OP has that much in media in the app's cache or something.
> The assumptions this piece makes about what makes hardware trustworthy are simply not valid

What makes them invalid?
It's not a paperweight, right? The problem is you lose your purchases.
Sorry if I sound rude, but if one needs 15-digit precision for trigonometric functions, is javascript really a suitable choice for such a task (whatever it is)?
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Concerns about mutagenicity and acute toxicity. This is a derivative of Emory's N-hydroxycytidine, a nucleotide analog. Stuff's no good if it causes cancer 10 years down the line or bone marrow suppression right now.
Anything conservative.

The Donald was a hotbed of whackjobs, but it was also the biggest Trump forum online. They should be allowed to talk freely so the rest of us can laugh, rather than persuing the censorship route so advertisers don't leave.
> Do you have plans to address the criticisms you've had on Youtube and Reddit comments?

Isn't this just an advertising platform? Why would we address criticisms here?
The logic around these election fraud posts usually goes something like this:

1. something "suspicious" is presented

2. only conclusion must be election fraud, no explanations to the contrary is explored or accepted

3. go to step 1, preferably before the "MSM" debunks the first instance.

You can try this yourself: try to find any election fraud claim from 2+ weeks ago that turned out to be "legit".
I am a former foster youth that managed. Those reasons are often secondary to good habits, such as reading. Good habits compound. And so do bad ones.
> I was really surprised at how well Timescales compression worked. It was pretty much comparable to best in class columnstores. Only the row-by-row query execution engine was holding it back. Perhaps something that future versions of postgres can help with.

I think zedstore[0] might be something that could help here. I've mentioned it in the past but one of the best things about postgres is it's extensibility, and if timescale rides that wave (and maybe contacts zedstore to get this integration started early) it could be awesome.

[0]: https://blogs.vmware.com/opensource/2020/07/14/zedstore-comp...

> Didn't look into Druid in detail, but did try out Hive. Both of them look more suitable for cases where there is significant engineering effort in developing the data ingest and structuring pipeline. I wouldn't recommend either to a small team. With a measly triple digit TB database size both seemed overkill.

Thanks for this -- I haven't tried it yet at all but will try to remember this. ClickHouse was already first on my list for hobbyist->enterprise scalability but this cements it.
One of my friends got jabbed by a used needle in a pair of pants he bought from Dollar a Pound. It was not a fun experience for him...

I liked the clothes I got from there though! I found a cool jacket once.
> It's probably true though? Refusing to use child labor is not going to help those kids.

the "at least the slaves aren't starving" argument. Maybe if westerners paid them a bit more, which they can afford, their parents would send these kids to school instead.
What stands in your way other than being faced with possible objections to, and responses in kind to whatever your critiques may be? Objections and responses that-I would boldly say-are not stopping you from making said critiques, or rather, they hold no enforceable power that precludes you or anyone from making rebuttals of your own.

They are just that, objections and responses. Which you are free to entertain or not, attempt to unpack and understand or not, respond to with better critiques, objections, observations and rebuttals of your own...or not. But you're not being prevented from making them by anyone or anything short of I suppose committing some sort of crime in order to make that point (that's just an extreme example to stretch the metaphor).

This is the form and function of debate, it is a crucible that boils away impurities of all manner and dialect (for anyone who may be thinking they've heard this one before, yes, I absolutely stole this from an episode of Star Trek).

If you feel you are being stopped from doing any of this, might I ask why and how you have been completely prevented and kept from expressing yourself?
At least you got in early on those PLTR stock options
Technically, it can be integrated with Postgres with https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer-postgres. That said, it makes little sense to integrate this at the database level since it'll bloat up the column size, unless just the encrypted integer is stored (without converting to a base58 string).

As for collisions, a hash function maps an input of any length to an output of fixed length, so collisions will happen eventually. What I'm using is encryption, which cannot collide, otherwise decryption would be impossible https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/60473/can-collisi...
Sleazy anti competition legislation that book reseller lobbyists managed to get out of corrupt politicians.

Here is a link to the official regulations.

https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/sor-99-324/F...

>>>
(iii) subject to any law of any province with respect to prices concerning the distribution of books, provide the book at a price no greater than

(A) if the book is imported from the United States, the list price in the United States, plus the current exchange rate, plus 10% of the price after conversion, minus any applicable discounts, or

(B) if the book is imported from a country in Europe or any other country, the list price in the country from which the book is imported, plus the current exchange rate, plus 15% of the price after conversion, minus any applicable discounts
For what it's worth, it's not that they don't suppress pain when I take them. They do, quite effectively; it's just that I don't find anything else about the experience to be at all pleasant.

To your point about genetic variation, I'm told I have an unusually high pain tolerance; at that same ER visit, when the doctor came in to discuss the CT results showing the size of the stone, she expressed some surprise that I hadn't done any screaming. My mother tells me that she's the same way. So maybe it's something to do with that? I really don't know. In any case, it's clear from the responses I've gotten that to generalize from my own experience here is unwise, and I won't repeat the error.
Product owner. Not that I could tell you what that means though
I’m curious how F# encourages the “design your model first, and well” more than typescript does.

Is it the functional paradigm, your framework, some of both?
I think that demanding retraction to a paper with no reason, and then only providing a verbal reason (aka the researcher cannot have the notes with them when making revisions), refusing to explain the process in which feedback was solicited, and then demanding retraction (NOT a revise and resubmit)...

yeah that's super draconian.

ESPECIALLY if other people in your department are claiming no one else has to go through this, just one of the few black women! Damn!