skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an investor, of course I clam up. I spend my days looking at the world in terms of risk-adjusted returns and cost benefit analyses, so why would I take a human capital risk? My entire business is based on my reputation and I've seen what happens to the men who get comments like "not the best with women at conferences" or "don't get him too close to your wife." It's limiting beyond your career.

I can count on two hands the number of women I would feel comfortable giving the exact same feedback to as I would a man. Women I can be candid with are women that I have 5+ year relationships with, have backed in some way, and who know I am truly looking out for them.

And the solution is blatantly obvious, but completely unpalatable. Let men grow the same way we believe women and minorities should be allowed to. A male engineering manager being too harsh with a female junior dev is a learning moment for the director of engineering to help the manager, not fire them.

And crucially the line is shifting more and more about what's "obviously fireable." Turns out harsh criticism of the quality of someone's work and the lack of improvement are rational, not an ad hominem. Those things are fixable. But criticism from powerful parties is now scrutinized as dangerous based on identity rather than for the content of the criticism.
But if we aren't running the utopia (as in Banks' Culture), then a lot of the problems can be side stepped.
Lest we forget, there are a lot of people out there who don't belong to the so-called chattering classes. And that's ok.
I wouldn't say lying for profit but that profit somehow defines truth.
> Why I hate submodules.

> Spoiler alert. I do not hate submodules.

Clickbait much? Make up your mind?
It believe it is a question of maturity. If the subcomponent is mature enough, then turning it into a package is fine. The cost is that patching the subcomponent and testing the main component takes more effort (though you can script it). With submodules at least the build and test cycle is as quick as if it is in the same repo.

So there is a scale from quicker iteration to less coupled: same repo, submodule, different package. The question is in which cases the middle step "submodule" is worth it or if you should rather switch to one of the others always.
Outrage absolutely played a key role in the Civil Rights movement. There's a reason Emmett Till stands out in American history; the outrage it stoked among white Americans helped bring treatment of black people to the fore.

Your take on MLK comes from the safe, sanitized version extrapolated from two sentences in a speech he gave that one time. The reality is that he was angry, radical, and extremely controversial. Universal adoration came only after his death, when he could no longer say anything that might make people upset.
Not by a long shot! How is this going to teach you new patterns and practices, better ways of coding and structuring your code? At best this will find you easy to detect bugs.
They (SJWs) do seem to have the bit in their teeth as of late, and the stories do make for good rage-bait.

Of course, there's not a thing you can do about it besides improve your own lot in life and build productive local relationships. I've gone down the same path, but now it seems to me like there are two possibilities..(1)the insane people lose inertia and it all dies off or (2)the Red Guard really takes off and those newfound local relationships will save your bacon.

tl;dr. I hear ya old son.
FicusJS
Hi All,
I use Angular 6 – 10 at work every day @day$job and have used Vue.js for some side projects / school related. Long story short have been looking into standard web components for my next side project and FicusJS seems to check all the boxes. Problem is there is almost no information about FicusJS other than what I can find linked off https://webcomponents.dev/new/
The other ones in the running are GitHub/Catalyst, AppRun, CanJS or compiler Riot, Stencil, ect…
I think I want to stay away from build tools until I can’t
Does anyone have any experience with FicusJS? Seems FicusJS uses lit-html in all the examples so maybe start there? Good or bad would love to hear your story.
Cheers!
If only we had some kind of organization that would let news outfits pool their resources. Some kind of "associated press" or something.
> Nice humblebrag

Yeah, a great brand-building exercise for
throwaway861229.
Couldn't agree more. Advanced piano pieces often come with nontrivial cords and multiple voices. Those without proper ear training can hardly recognize even a single cord, let alone replicate a whole piece just by ear. Genius born with perfect pitch may do the magic without training, but they are extreme outliers and their experience can't be generalized to the wider population. For most people, inability to read music will severely limit their reach in future.
Let's not forget how this recall movement started. It wasn't truly grassroots, but something fueled by Murdoch's media empire and the Trump cult.

The backlash against "this kind of corporate political manipulation" is corporate political manipulation from the opposite pole.
You were literally just saying that people who learn to play an instrument and express themselves through music, if they learned how to read, were no more musicians than some who can’t actually program is a programmer.

I suppose you can argue it’s just an opinion, so therefore while it might sound condescending, arrogant and profoundly self-centred, it isn’t wrong as such. The problem with that is it wasn’t just an opinion, it was an argument. I would say that learning to become a concert pianist it a completely different thing to typing in programs from magazines, and so you are very much wrong to say that it is.
That is not my impression at all.

All the chefs I know go out to eat way more than anyone else I know (don't know any bakers, though). Graphic designers I know, buy art and graphic designs (don't know any jewelers, either). Musician friends buy tons of records and tickets to live shows, friends who brew, buy more beer than friends who don't brew.
Frankly, if this did come from a lab in China, I doubt there would be any repercussions. What would happen, additional tariffs on Chinese products, or sanctions against certain CCP officials? I believe the latter is more likely than the former.
3 points:

1. An observation that you are arguing from a position of assuming malice from the other side. "They" are trying to twist everything, therefore evidence is not required since "they" won't listen anyway

2. You can point at any public twitter mob where the real conversation was made public afterwards or where you know the inside scoop and with the caveat of anecdata it could strengthen your point

3. You seem to be dangerously close to resting on a "what even is 'fact based'?" argument repeating that "they" are determined to misunderstand statements in malicious ways
Remember that US State Department members were warning of risky coronavirus research at the lab in Wuhan years before this pandemic happened.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/03/08/josh-rogin...

That isn't proof of anything but all of this makes for interesting reading.
Still, not too many people are drinking 6x Red Bulls at once, the scenario you brought up as an example. Meanwhile swathes of the world are pulling into Starbucks daily, many for their first time.

It's also not two 12oz coffees, it's one at 8am and another at 5pm. It just kinda seems like everything you write here is trying to cause a reaction and it feels manipulative.

You write all this just to reveal your actual point:

> If you give two tall Starbucks coffees to a caffeine naive person, it will definitely cause some notable effects.

Well, sure. We can all agree on that. And one of the notable effects is increased fat oxidation. Notice how uninteresting this observation is by itself. No need to dress it up as something more.
For me, I find a shockingly large number of local news stories can be reduced down to the formula "this person in the community is mad about something and they talked to the newspaper about it to try and get attention on the issue."
I'm just asking you not to omit gratuitous flamebait like "men will take any woman they see, kidnap her, and lock her in a dungeon" and "women do not want the vote" from your HN comments. It's obviously against the site guidelines, and pouring kerosene on flames is arson even if the building was already on fire.

People who feel strongly on topics routinely use language like "putrid horror show" to justify their own breaking of the site guidelines and making a discussion even worse than it already is. This sort of "why bother" / "fuck it" attitude is a big part of why things are so bad to begin with; it leads people to create the situation they deplore. No one wants to look at the "putridity" of their own contributions—the problem is always caused by other, never by self.

The only solution I can see to this is to prioritize taking care of the commons, regardless of how bad things are or you feel they are.
yeah, this was my reading of the article as well.
Sadly this pushes the people with the most insight and capability off the platforms where the outrage takes place. I've seen many capable people de-zucking and refusing to consume newspaper/radio/TV news. Notably a lot of HN readers too. These platforms although (insert outrage) heavily criticised, for me have fuelled the tech explosion which has brought so much collaboration and benefit - now all the techies are leaving because they're sick of it, is that good or bad?
https://unsplash.com

https://burst.shopify.com

https://www.pexels.com

https://stocksnap.io

https://www.reshot.com
Years ago I used DeviantArt quite a bit for that (https://www.deviantart.com/). I don't really know how good a resource it is these days but it's still a thing.
People got killed as a consequence of outrage from false information.

One antidote is open-mindedness. Yes, open to new information, new ideas, new concepts and new experiences.

But the key point is, open even though that new information may contradict what you already believe is true.

People need to be able to look at a statement and realize there are potential inflammatory elements, and then measure the extent of their investigation by the level of flames that could ensue. The more severe the implications, the more due diligence we need to do before accepting that information as true, and reacting to it.

It's an important discipline and it seemed to be very lacking over the last couple of years. One graphic example was when the US pulled out of Syria and the Kurds there were put in jeopardy. ABC News reported that after the troops left, Kurds were being slaughtered by the Turks and Syrians. The report was accompanied by disturbing video of high-powered, high caliber automatic weapons destroying apartment buildings.

Come to find out a few days later, there was no slaughter and that video was from a military weapon trade show that took place in Kentucky.

ABC News is considered by many boomers to be a credible and professional news company. Many Boomers haven't recognized that over the last 15 years, all the major incumbents have degenerated to National Enquirer methods, perhaps ultimately for survival, but nonetheless, this type of reporting is beyond irresponsible. It feeds the outrage that ultimately led to a nation that collectively seemed to just look the other way as our cities were looted and burned. Meanwhile, the spotlight of shame shone on law enforcement, not for failing to contain it, but for causing it in the first place. If you were convinced of law enforcements' culpability either way, what did you do to confirm your belief was based on facts? It turns out that trusting the same primary news sources that have been the mainstay of information in the US for decades is no longer of any value.

We need to do what we can to ensure we have done our own due diligence and confirmed to the base factual evidence that what we believe is actually true.
You are arguing a different point, C.S. is not concerned with measuring performance in seconds. Do you agree or disagree?

Now that we are on the same page, of course the asymptotic complexity of a method matters, but some of the lowest complexity methods actually have huge constants and cannot be used until you get to scales that dwarf most usages. This means that the connection is tangential. The current method of matrix multiply used in all your software is NOT the lowest asymptotic complexity method. Look it up.
The Bible says you can judge a tree by its fruits.
No, it's actually a fact that Veritas is deceptive. They have been caught in the act of attempting to deceive multiple times. At some point you lose the benefit of the doubt with regards to your credibility.
If you can wrap your build in Nix, I highly recommend it. The upcoming "flakes" feature handles pinning Git-hosted dependencies and locking revisions, even if they aren't Nix flakes themselves.
Sorry, but a link to a video of two dudes on a podcast saying "for sure hundreds of thousands" is not evidence. Not even a picture of these hundreds of thousands? Absurd.
Which students, and where? I don't see that happening locally, but perhaps it's different where you are?
True. Newspapers, radio and TV used to be on the receiving end of most of the ad money. That has gone away almost completely over the last 25 years. And now they have to fight for clicks.
I think that statement is a little underfactualized. In the U.S., private clubs and religious groups can both legally discriminate by gender. The Civil Rights Act protections apply to public-facing businesses. And generally speaking, legal protections in the U.S. are by class, not with specifically enumerated members of a class, so the "particularly white men" notion is not really accurate when it comes to employment protections, although I imagine you were thinking about affirmative action or similar policies at universities.
Not really. At least, if you hadn't been told in advance that the loquat was also called the "Japanese medlar", you probably wouldn't think they had anything more in common than a pear and a plum, or an apple and an apricot.

Loquats have a mild citrus-apricot flavor and a texture close to a somewhat meaty plum or cherry. When immature, they are very tart; when overripe, they are insipid; when just right, they can be great.

Medlar are only eaten when "bletted", which means that they've become browned and spoonably soft. They taste of overripe spiced stewed apple/pear/quince, although no spice has been added. When just right, they are "interesting".
I've been the git fixer for a few different teams. I want to like submodules, but there's something that doesn't fit my brain the way the rest of git does. It feels half-baked. I think we're still missing the best way to model the problem as a tree of related states.
Noting that somebody has Asperger's syndrome is not an invitation to dismiss their words. Instead it provides context and insight into why they speak as they do, which furthers correct understanding of what they have said, and their motives for speaking.
American media culture is probably more relevant than general American culture.

A lot of politicians or executives will only say carefully scripted sound bites to the press because they can't count on a reasonable portrayal. They give them a sentence or two that's difficult to twist into something offensive.

Here it's similar. They're afraid reasonable behavior will be portrayed as outrageous in some blog post.
What is that "group of people" you're talking about, can you be more specific ?

Are you attributing certain characteristics to people only because they are part of that group ?

Should people that are born into that group without a choice be punished for what other members did or are accused of having done in the past ?
> We aren't incentivized to maintain research prototypes

There are still examples where research prototypes have evolved into successful products, either as open source projects or commercial companies. The researcher needs to be passionate enough about getting adoption and real-world impact in order for this to work.

> On the flip side, industry seems to have very little interest in adopting our findings into products.

IMO, developer tools need to be wayyyy better to overcome inertia. This statement might not hold in other fields, e.g., ML/AI.
And anyone without a shockingly low caffeine tolerance also knows that one of the main ingredients in energy drinks is marketing.

Red Bull does nothing to most people that a cup of black coffee wouldn’t do. But the placebo effect is a helluva drug.
The human experiences and human interpersonal conflicts that exist within the universe of the Culture (and do not involve being a member of Contact or Special Circumstances) are already well-covered by many, many stories that do not need the Culture, or sci-if in general, as a backdrop to be told.

Money (and therefore jobs) and death are two of the biggest differences between that universe and ours. I cannot off the top of my head think of non-SF fiction or memoirs/biographies where these two things don’t have some bearing on the story, but there are plenty where they are not central to it. Many fascinating stories could be wrapped in the Culture mythos without compromise.

In exchange, IMO, you’d have a lot more personal experiences of people pursuing and achieving the things they are interested in doing with a lot fewer roadblocks along the way. The juicy parts are still juicy; they just achieve much higher levels than they could when “I had to work a shit job and compromise myself for 10 years to save up enough to do X.” That person may not bother writing about it; they’d just tell their friends over drinks (or on a forum when it came up!) because finding personal fulfillment would be more normalized than it is here and now. I think that’s a good thing.
Oddly, the unemployment rate is better than it was in the early 1980s.
I'm convinced this happens all over the (Western?) world, not only in the US.
> If you have a bug or are missing a feature they will tell you

Reporting a bug takes work. Doing it clearly takes more work. Some percentage of people will do work for free. Relying on it is a choice with tradeoffs.
Thank you for sharing this. This issue is constant but I’ve never had it explained so well.
I'm pretty sure that a big part of the reason 'Special Circumstances' exists is to productively employ those who struggle to be satisfied with low-conflict existences.
You can probably be addicted to the adrenalin produced during stressful situations even if you don't like being in those at all. Your body is addicted to the adrenalin it produces as it expects a (usually verbal) fight. If you cannot understand this, just think of the pulse you have looking down somewhere very high without any kind of railing. Some people might like that feeling more than they fear the quite certain death by the unlikely but very much possible fall.

This stress is comparable to outrage in that it can be mostly synthetic and self-imposed. E.g. you don't have to search for a fight with friends, colleagues or family and some people constantly do. You also don't have to be outraged on the internet and some people constantly search out content that helps them get outraged.
Pears are similar.

Straight off the tree they are hard and barely edible.

Pick them from the tree and wait a week and they become soft and juicy.
Unsplash is also a great resource for slide deck backgrounds and hero images.
I don't think you understand the seriousness of what's unfolding here, and the level of virulent dehumanisation expressed. There is no right way to discuss "The Woman Question" any more than there is a right way to discuss "The Jewish Question." The tone of discussion is insignificant in comparison to conducting it in the first place.
I've only ever seen the term written in an essay by a black author denouncing identity politics. What groups are you referring to?
> Programmers do not like to pay for their tooling.

Maybe not for their personal/hobby projects, but they wouldn't be the ones paying for tools at work.

So it's the companies not willing to pay for dev tools or understand the value they can provide
>The long standing trope is that Utopia is impossible not because of technical limitations, but because of deep truths about human nature. This goes back to the Old Testament -- e.g. the tower of Babel - the first attempt to build a utopia -- dissolved into conflict.

It wasn't internal conflict. It (supposedly) caused by 'God'. From Wikipedia:

"God, observing their city and tower, confounds their speech so that they can no longer understand each other, and scatters them around the world."
May be I'm missing something, but CI looks like the thing that's trivially implemented by a few bash scripts. It won't be as pretty and as reliable compared to battle-tested service, but generally it'll work. I did that in the past and it worked pretty well for our uses.
I’m assuming the parent is talking about Lake Berryessa: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/lake-berr...
That both fruits are in the Malinae subtribe and both typically need bletted before they're edible lends credence to this hypothesis.
The 'S' in IoT stands for Security
Someone else was going to use a unit of energy to mine Bitcoin, but you supplied it instead when you mined it. You don’t get “new” energy, you get “that energy”, the energy that the person somewhere else would have used to mine the Bitcoins that you mined. That’s the energy you stored.
I guess my concern about subtrees is that they seem like they can result in unnecessary duplication / use of disk space. But the ability to work offline with a complete copy of the code seems worth the tradeoff in most cases, and git-lfs should help deal with large file sizes.

Have you run into any "slow push speeds" with subtrees, as the person complains about in the first article I linked?
Hogwash! Cultural enrichment has no downsides, ever! We just aren't diversifying hard enough, comrade.
Holy moly. I hope this is some dry jesting. Comparing living freely in a home of some kind. Even a car. Comparing it to solitary confinement is so wrong.

I thought at first you were mocking everyone acting like stay in orders were any thing like solitary confinement. But your last paragraph throws that notion off.
Oops, I meant https://gitlab.com/kragen/bubbleos/-/tree/master/yeso.
It's clearly a sign of sexism in our culture. Sexism against men that is.

And yes I feel like using throwaway too, happy times.
Here's an example that was topping Google News the other day.

https://www.businessinsider.com/former-cdc-director-redfield...
Humanity has evolved so much by the 24th century that they have to make up contrived problems for the Enterprise to solve, otherwise the Enterprise crew might spend all their time on Risa (well, okay, maybe just Riker). It's not even like Q forced them to aim the wave at an inhabited planet, they just did that by themselves.

Also, couldn't that have used this tech to send superweapons towards Borg space in the Delta Quadrant? Picard has no problem straight up murdering assimilatees in First Contact who are much less far gone than Locutus was in Best of Both Worlds, so I don't think there's much of an ethical issue at stake. Or they could have just used Data's adversarial image virus to wipe out the collective through Hugh.
+1 for subrepo.
Bancor is an AMM (automated market maker) exchange. It is a decentralized exchange for trading tokens. Bancor as a protocol earns fees on every trade (just like Coinbase or Binance). It's one of the most popular AMMs and pulls in about $130K per day in fees: https://cryptofees.info/
If it is more news, it will be like "A former US president said covid wasn't real".

The news reports accurately what happens. But we would still hate it.

But tbh I actually prefer reporting the news, not opinion.

If Donald Trump (a former president) causes lives with his lies, we should handle him through a legal mean, not through blackmailing a news channel to ban what he says.