skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Wasn't there a case of a (South African?) athlete who was asked for a sample of their DNA to check weather they were a man or a woman? (it was not that long time ago I think)

That's Caster Semenya.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caster_Semenya

Pertinent bit:

In April 2018, the IAAF announced new "differences of sex development" rules that required athletes with specific disorders of sex development, testosterone levels of 5 nmol/L and above, and certain androgen sensitivity to take medication to lower their testosterone levels, effective beginning 8 May 2019. Due to the narrow scope of the changes, which also apply to only those athletes competing in the 400m, 800m, and 1500m, many people thought the rule change was designed specifically to target Semenya.

On 19 June 2018, Semenya announced that she would legally challenge the IAAF rules. On 1 May 2019, the Court of Arbitration for Sport rejected her challenge, paving the way for the new rules to come into effect on 8 May 2019. During the legal challenge by Semenya, the IAAF amended the regulations to exclude hyperandrogenism associated with the 46,XX karyotype and clarified that the disorders of sex development affected by the regulations are specific to the 46,XY karyotype. The legal case divided commentators such as Doriane Coleman, who testified for the IAAF, arguing that women's sport requires certain biological traits, from commentators such as Eric Vilain, who testified for Semenya, arguing that "sex is not defined by one particular parameter ... for many human reasons, it's so difficult to exclude women who've always lived their entire lives as women — to suddenly tell them 'you just don't belong here.'"

Semenya has appealed the decision to the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland. On 3 June 2019, the Swiss Federal Supreme Court advised that they had "super-provisionally instructed the IAAF to suspend the application of the 'Eligibility Regulations for the Female Classification for athletes with differences of sex development' with respect to the claimant [Semenya]" until the court decides whether to issue an interlocutory injunction. On 30 July 2019, the Swiss Federal Supreme Court reversed its earlier ruling that had suspended the Court of Arbitration for Sport decision and the IAAF rules. For that reason, Semenya missed the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha in October 2019, while continuing her appeal.

In July 2019, Semenya said that the ongoing issue has "destroyed" her "mentally and physically".
Not exactly. He had volunteers who placed the packages in front of their houses, and one of the volunteers had a friend or neighbor come by and take the package, faking the footage. It doesn't sound like Marc had anything to do with the incident and he has mentions the issue in the description of the video, though it's also a bit unclear why the volunteer would want to do this.
Switch availability is a big part of it. For my purposes at home, I've got two adjacent computers wired directly together with 10g, then wired over 1g to a wifi access point and router.
Is imperialism unique to capitalism? What about capitalism necessitates imperialism? Was Soviet Russia not imperialist when it conquered much of eastern Europe? Is China's expansion and One-China policy not imperialist?

Is quality healthcare tied to the economic engine of its country? How is universal health care in North Korea? Pretty good?

You're conflating separate issues and presenting them as indictments of capitalism. That is either deliberately disingenuous or horribly ignorant. Either way, I suggest you pick up a book other than A People's History of the United States.

UPDATE: Small addendum since you are confused as to what capitalism is. Your 14 year old nephew does own capital: their labor. Their ability, depending on labor laws in their state, allow them to offer that labor in whichever market or not. An option that would be deprived of them in a system that follows the prescriptions of "from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs."
This comment is a great summary. For expanded information Ars technica did a great write up of the marketing spiel a few years back [1]. Remains an interesting read and few of the issues raised have been fixed, especially if using common 2.4/5ghz wifi.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/802-e...
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Let them do it then, so the blood can be on their hands. Otherwise the story is "tech co-founder walked away because he couldn't keep up".
Yah, I definitely realise that the negative experiences have a larger impact on my perception of SPAs than the positive ones.

Traditional multipage apps don't get that same "bad rap" in my mind because, while the upper-bound on performance is likely lower than SPAs, the lower-bound is likely higher than SPAs.
> But preliminary numbers suggest that the United States is on track to see more than 3.2 million deaths this year, or at least 400,000 more than in 2019.

CDC data: 2,777,572 deaths from begining of the year til December 16.

Even if we assume that not all deaths has been counted (and year is not over yet), this number probably wont cross 2,9 mio let alone 3 mio:
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm
>What if a computer can match mine and another one's happiness with a % of success that it's impossible for me to match, what happens then?

It might make you happy to be in control and to be able to choose yourself. AIs and their benefits are largely result oriented, but there's also process orientation, where the way or trajectory to a result is equally if not more important than the result. That's the kryptonite for computer systems.
My attempt at rebuilding postmates in Golang (open source)
> You say this as if these people are being inconsistant.

They absolutely are. If you disapprove of a company’s practices, the first move is to not financially support that company (no matter how small your individual contribution). The second move is advocacy.

Citing mass market purchase numbers when buying from a company someone morally disagrees with is merely a justification to assuage their own guilt at making the purchase. And it’s a pretty a poor one at that.

> People buy individual games, not reputation.

CDPR’s release of CyberPunk 2077, and the hype leading up to that puts lie to that assertion. It was bought more off the reputation of CDPR based of the Witcher series than any merits it had on its own. This was evident in almost every discussion leading up to it. In fact, aside from marketing, CP2077 had no real reputation of its own when it busted preorder records.
Should I Start a Tech Business Without Any Technical Skills?
I think the real problem that needs solving is eye-contact. That's the camera most people are going to buy, because the lack of eye contact is such an acute problem in video chats.
After his latest video I was wondering if his recording of the thieves in their homes runs afoul of wiretapping laws. I can appreciate that someone who just stole a package probably isn't likely to try to press charges, but made me wonder if he is just assuming that risk.

Maybe the box has a 'shrinkwrap' license agreeing to be recorded?
The Little Britain intro from the first series, I'd forgotten it, although I remember finding it amusing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r35GVB_2xmk
Caleb Porzio (creator of Livewire) made videos about "Server-Side Applications": https://laracasts.com/series/javascript-techniques-for-serve...

His work inspired me to build my app (TravelMap) with SSR views: https://clem.travelmap.net
Counterpoint: is there any error handling in the majority of SPAs today? From my experience, SPAs can crap out in all kinds of interesting ways when the underlying network connection is flaky and I often end up stuck on some kind of spinner that will never complete (nor give me a way to abort & retry the operation when I already know it won't complete and don't want to wait for the ~30-second timeout, if there is a timeout even).

Not saying this is better from an error handling perspective, but at least the whole idea of Hotwire and its peers (Turbolinks, etc) is that there is no state and it should thus be safer and quicker to reload the page should things go wrong.
Ask HN: How can I find meaningful problems to work with long-term people?
Hello HN,

I am a 30-year-old Engineering Manager that is confused about what is up next and would love to hear from HN some options.

Love tech but kind of tired of the startup world, Venture Capital craziness, short-term thinking, solutions-oriented thinking (vs problem-oriented), ...

How can I find meaningful problems to work with non-bullshit long-term people? I know there are plenty out there, but I feel I have no access to it. There is so much bullshit out there, I just want to solve problems.

Things I enjoy: solving tough problems, learning, working at the edge of my knowledge, inspiring, capitalism, autonomy.

Thank you all
Ok, but he already has nothing to lose, right? I had the choice between accepting a pittance, or forcing the other person to take actions that would make them possibly legally liable, then I'd choose to force the other guy to take on the legal liability.

Because if they were to fire him, then they'd basically have to fire them like a week or 2 before his vesting cliff, with an establish history of an attempted negotiation.

Firing someone a week before they vest, in order to claw back the shares, because the other person refused your offer, is likely illegal, and not "good faith".

If he is already in a situation where he has nothing to lose, you may as well force the other person to engage in the possibly illegal action against you.

Or, at the very least, get them to make the illegal threat in a way that you can document it.

Even the bluff, or threat of legal action, against a questionable practice, is a huge problem for a company, that most founders do not want to have to deal with. And he doesn't have anything to lose anyway...

That doesn't mean you have to sue them right now. Even the threat of mentioning that this might be illegal, and that you are at least considering legal action, could force the other person to give in, and not do the possibly illegal thing.

Or even beyond that, if there is a documented evidence of these illegal actions, what you can do is simply not sue now, and only sue later on, if the company is actually worth something in the future, and it makes sense to do so. All upside, and no downside. Don't pay the court costs, unless there is something to gain.
You can reuse this argument for almost any large scale behaviour change, can't you, no matter which culture?
Are investment banks truly working that hard to prevent fraud for the inflated fees (~5%) they're charging? The SEC still has a government funded securities regulator role to play.

If net benefit increases, we should celebrate when middlemen are disintermediated. If there's evidence this causes harm to non-accredited investors (any investors of significant amount really), we can strengthen regulator resources (and for likely a lower cost than continuing to shovel money to IBs for these deals).
> We were 51/49% to them and took a small round of pre-seed funding (~$100k) so our cap table is approx 40% for me and co-founder, 10% option pool and 10% investor. We have very standard shareholder agreements for 4yr reverse vesting with 1yr cliff.

Could anyone tell me what this means in plain English (preferably, ELI5)? I have no idea what term sheets look like in detail but I would really like to learn.
https://twitter.com/vinodsparrow/status/1338431183588188160
You don't need 10s of thousands of dollars worth of tools to build something.
> there are products that do 2.5 Gbps, and other products that do 10 Gbps

And 5, 25, 40, 50, 100, 200, 400 Gbps.

> seems like you'd have to pick one or the other and hope the rest of the world standardizes on the same speed as you

Huh? A connection between A & B will just be as fast as the slowest link between them, be it 400 Gbps or 6 Mbps, regardless of the various other speeds. And a 10GBASE-T NIC will happily autonegotiate with a 10BASE-T NIC and everything in-between.
Depends on the terms of the agreement. In my case the unvested shares had to be returned if I terminated the employment or the company fired me for cause, but not if the company terminated the employment without cause.
I am studying aspects of compression (i.e., gradient compression) in federated learning. I also study problems and applications of federated learning to public-private partnerships (i.e., the cross-silo setting as opposed to the cross-domain setting).
> As can be seen, it’s true that Pelosi did utter these words: “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it”. However, the article left out important context, including the next few words of Pelosi’s statement: “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.”

This looks like a case of Snopes trying to make Nancy Pelosi look good without justification. Their "important context" doesn't actually improve anything.
I really enjoyed the James Gleick book, "The Information", that covered a lot of this material. It spent time on both Shannon and Weiner, as well as what was happening at the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Information:_A_History,_a_...
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What a legend! Janitors are outsourced now, and I wonder if the outsource everything makes the work your way to the top journey a lot harder.
I feel like one of the problems here is that we don't have some concept of "license exhaustion."

There needs to be a point where we can say "you got paid once for this, and you can't keep inventing new fragmentary rights and segmentations to get another bite at the same apple." It feels like that point should be when Stern paid to include the songs in the machine.. That minimizes the burden on everyone else, trying to guess what is permissible and having to cut things up to satisfy the licensing bureaucracy.

It reminds me of the situation where we have crappy TV box sets where the music gets replaced because the concept of a home-video release wasn't even on the radar to consider when the original series was prepared and paid for. Again, the license should have been paid for and exhausted at that point.

I really believe the ultimate answer is a mandatory (presumably state-run) IP clearinghouse-- whether you want to pay 10 cents to buy cover for the neighbour's TV audio bleeding into your livestream, or a bajillion dollars for "every movie ever made" to populate your streaming service, there should be a way to cut out the complexity of "who do I speak with" and "what do I do if they're dead/unreachable/intentionally uncooperative". Twitch writes a cheque for a few hundred grand a month to for blanket coverage, and the IP cartels fight behind the scenes to slice it up.
Haiku is open source, but it's made out of drop-in replacements for all the original software, so none of it uses BeOS code.
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I agree on single use plastic, but I think paper/cellulose could be used to a much larger extent. People will never adapt to bringing their own containers for everything, but replacing single use plastic with single use (lightly treated) paper would go a long way and seems reasonable.
Growth from 2k to 60k is an important tipping point.

There should be a buyout at this point. Valuation based on income result in 5k * 12 * 15 * 40% = 360k, which should be a fair price. valuation based on funding would be around 400k, which would be similar.

You can have that written down as a contract, not necessarily direct cash payment, but cash payable, and have your co-founder to sign as guarantor, which would not be a bad price for him, and not a bad price for you too. Deduct the 3% if you want.
This is entirely branch and service dependent. You'll find plenty of 0-1s essentially filing paperwork in HHC, who have no subordinates reporting to them, across the Army. The overwhelming majority of 0-1s who are "line managers" will be in the Combat Arms branches (Infantry, Armor, Field Artillery, etc), and you'll still find 0-1s making slide decks for the Battalion Commander while they wait until it's their time for a Platoon.
Visit a lawyer, this is the point in legal agreements. There is a thing called court that, no one wants to go to courts its time consuming and expensive.

Also talk to the investor, I'm sure they would rather not see their 100k be worth nothing because of a founder breakup.

Don't take any bad offers, you don't have to sell.

On the other hand if you are the one that is worth firing and you know this, do the honourable thing.
I'm pretty convinced that ML produces better curated lists of things from corpuses that are enormous (billions of photos / posts / songs / dating partners / places to eat from) than a human curator does.

I met my wife from an algorithmic match in an app.
My resume was surfaced to my employer from a similar tool.
My company makes money from the surveillance data economy which makes the originators of those funds (companies who want their ads to be seen by high probability product purchasers) happy.

So yeah, throw me in the Matrix / Borg Cube.
They say that contempt is the beginning of the end of the Rule of Law, which is why you should be careful not to pass frivolous laws.

Tests I've found are much the same way. You don't write one flaky test and stop. If you write one and everybody is okay with it, you and your coworkers write more, and more, until there are 50, 100. Once the suite flakes out on an interval, nobody takes a failed test seriously, and then broken code doesn't get checked for hours. One broken test? I bet it's the usual. I'll just rerun it a couple of times.

The thread you're pulling on here starts to unravel the whole Continuous Integration sweater.
I think the average QR code has what, 15-30% redundancy?

a 100 pixel high 1d barcode is 10,000% redundant in one axis :)
> Related, for somebody who wants reliability, is Ethernet/wired still a sane choice, or does that just make them an old geezer?

Absolutely not. Wired gigabit ethernet is far better than wifi; on a small wired network the packet loss is negligible and contention is non-existent, so the network is smooth and fast. You get better than 80% of theoretical wire speed in file transfers. Remote desktops have minimum latency. Every couple months another wifi router zero-day pops up and some huge fraction of all such routers become vulnerable to remote attacks. It's nice not being involved in that mess.

My fellow remote colleagues with wifi sound terrible on their contended networks; dropping packets and getting cut off calls. The people with wired connections like myself are always glitch free.

Wifi is for toys and casual use. Ethernet is for work.
Basically, the way I understand it, is the probability of a Big Bang spontaneously occurring (due to the quantum fluctuations) is some godawful infinitesimally low number 0.00000...1 that for all intents and purposes is 0, but is NOT zero.

So given ungodly eons of time (googleplex ^ googleplex * graham's number, etc. of years) something with a very, very, very low probability becomes inevitable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bare-metal_server
JS is the new PHP. Part of the problem with massive popularity is it attracts also the lower ability devs and the ecosystem slowly degrades due to this. This cascades.
I'm excited to see you mention this. I've never played Hyrule Warriors but both my Daughter (9) and I are fans of Zelda: BoTW. I was picking up a few extra presents for Christmas and I saw that on the shelf. Decided to take the chance and buy it - looking forward to playing it soon.
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In one sentence, I will give my justification for calling it a turd:

8MB save file size limitation.

Every other bug aside, that you can crash your game by collecting too many items in the game, and your recourse is to “collect less items” is utterly inexcusable.

That doesn’t even mention getting kicked off an entire platform after being launched. A feat only achieved by one other game in history.
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also paywalled. Tried outline.com, also paywalled :/
Directly on the hardware. It's the only definition of the term that I'm familiar with. Like the difference between writing your application and managing lifecycle and peripheral access all yourself directly to your MCU vs. using an RTOS to provide you facilities for task scheduling and I/O primitives, etc.

I've never before encountered, "Includes a full feature-rich OS" as "bare-metal" before. Reading the title I assumed someone managed to get some flavor of Kubernetes running right on the hardware as the lowest-level software layer of the system. That would have meant bare-metal to me. What's described here is running Kubernetes on a physical host rather than a virtual host from what I can tell, but it's not running Kubernetes "bare-metal" because between Kubernetes and the "metal" is Linux.

Or at least that's what it would mean in my world, but the interpretation appears to be different for others. Outside of confusion, I was also just disappointed. This article is just basically setting up Kubernetes. That it's on a physical host is a lot less interesting and novel to me than if they'd managed to implement some shape of Kubernetes as the OS itself, which is what I'd originally interpreted the title to mean.
any particular reason you went with the 830? I'm looking to upgrade my 520.
For those interested in the source code, here they are the repost of the mentioned tech:

- Turbo (HotWire) https://github.com/hotwired/turbo
- Stimulus https://github.com/hotwired/stimulus
No; this is Numberwang

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0obMRztklqU
The Next Wave
There's no mention about whether or not the flavor Montañez came up with was the one used in the hot Cheetoes, or if the CEO even tried one.

Not that it matters, but I think it's interesting that the actual product here we can safely hand-wave away, "The chefs in the test kitchen will make that part work."
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"Investor groups, however, warned it could diminish their protections as the banks perform due diligence on the companies."

That's positively hilarious in light of some of the dogs that investment banks have knowingly foisted on the public.
For those interested or confused around federated learning, I suggest skimming the 2019 paper "Advances and Open Problems in Federated Learning" [0]. The introduction is quite good and the table of contents gives a good overview of the current challenges in the field.

From the paper, "Federated learning is a machine learning setting where multiple entities (clients) collaborate in solving a machine learning problem, under the coordination of a central server or service provider. Each client’s raw data is stored locally and not exchanged or transferred; instead, focused updates intended for immediate aggregation are used to achieve the learning objective."

0: https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.04977
I have a similar all Unifi setup, I could get 350Mbps stable connection for any devices as I used 3 Unifi APs. Recently played with the new Eero Wi-Fi 6 AP, I could get 500Mbps as it seems to be duplex two channels. That's probably the best you could get, compared with a cheap gigabit switch can give you 970Mbps easily.
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