skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't make much sense to try and have a general discussion about a topic that is very context dependent.
That's not leadership, that's damage control
You managed to read all 5 of the citations in less than 20 minutes?
Those are simply superb
How is it a myth?

I heard this type of statement often, but the fact is no convincing evidence is ever provided.

The fact is there are in fact options available for phones with swappable batteries, it's just that people don't buy them because they come with tradeoffs they don't want.

Of course people say they are unhappy with the status quo, but the fact is, bullshit talks and money walks. If they truly valued swappable batteries that much, they'd make the tradeoffs necessary to have that swappable battery. The fact that they don't make those tradeoffs means that no matter what comes out their mouth, they don't want to pay the price of that feature.
> My hope is that in the light of Russian actions in Ukraine, the western world will review its attitude towards Russian/Soviet role in the context of WW2. So far the blame on starting WW2 was put almost solely on Nazi Germany, and painting Soviets almost as victims only.

Don't worry, this has been already happening for years. Nazis are being normalized constantly.

btw you'll be surprised but England made a deal with Nazis a few years prior to Soviets. Another thing that may surprise you is that Poland occupied small part of Czechoslovakia when Germans conquer it (after they made deal with England).

Believe me, there are plenty of surprises for you once you decide to study history instead of being feed by mass media. You'll enjoy it.
"Great Men are the cause of everything!"

"No, you're wrong, it's Systems!"

"No, it's Great Men!"

"No, it's Systems!"

The author found out there's another way to think about events other than "someone did it". Now he thinks he can apply that thought to everything. Sometimes it's the system, sometimes the person. You can't generalize easily.
This forum is majority male tech workers and has been weird (aka reactionary to the dismantling of the patriarchy) since I've been reading it in 2016. I don't know what the cause of the weirdness is though.
Yes. Which is better or worse depends on the use case. The bias in available samples causes bias in things like medical treatments.
(I am not the downvoter; misreading things happens to me a lot as well...) I think u/haunter meant that it's, thus, not an EU-wide thing, not that Hungary is not EU
Definitely 100%.
There needs to be a law which requires full disclosure of salaries/wages/earnings of all employees for US companies. It's hard to address this issue when the data itself is self reported. For example, most sales positions are paid out based on sales performance rather than salary. So if a man reports "I earned $200K in 2021" and a woman at the same place reports "I earned $150K in 2021", it would look like a "gender pay gap".

Yes, I agree there are certain areas where gender pay gap exists and there are definitely some reports of it in news reports. But I want to know if it's a cultural issue at these companies or if it's a widespread problem nation wide.
Especially China.
Life advice from NYC chess hustlers
That's because we are.

This helps no one.
How does this compare to https://blot.im/ ?
VVC is great, but AV1 is fast enough for realtime use, while VVC is not. Cisco has had it working for some time. Basically, AV1 to me seems like it's basically a zero tradeoff solution vs older codecs, so is a good "new standard" to base around then think about what is next from here.

https://blog.webex.com/video-conferencing/cisco-leap-frogs-h...
Quite frankly, I'm not sure why the other poster left off an important part of the store's name. Its not "Science Surplus", as you state its "American Science and Surplus"

The full name leads to a wonderful acronym
Here's a screenshot of the data linked in the article, sorted by women's worker population.

https://ibb.co/WWMQgQn
Cached link:
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:A0ZzHl...
Part of me suspects because there's no obvious answer, there are no good answers and until technology improves, everything is effectively a compromise.

In some sense, you're trying to build a more meaningful Google, albeit at a much smaller scale.

I will say it wasn't intentional, but Kindle highlights have been unexpectedly useful for giving me a "feel" for what a book is about and reminding me about important insights I may have forgotten.

I use Roam Research daily as a journal, but I don't find it useful for retrieving information, maybe because I can't explicitly predict the structures I'll need ahead of time.
Today I learned about excess-3 encoding, from footnote 10 in the linked article. Its interesting to see how clearly the early computers were intended to work with decimal while retaining the simplicity brought by using the two signal levels of binary. Footnote reproduced here:

The computer uses excess-three encoding for digits, adding 3 to the value before converting to binary. For example, 6 is represented as binary 1001. The advantage of this encoding is that flipping the bits yields the 9's-complement decimal value, simplifying subtraction. For example, flipping the bits of 6 yields binary 0110, which is 3 in excess-3 notation. Excess-3 representation also handles carries correctly; if you add two numbers that sum to 10, the excess-3 values will sum to 16, causing a binary carry. To convert the sum to excess-3, The value 3 must be added (if a carry) or subtracted (if no carry).

To see how addition works with excess-3, 2 + 4 in excess-3 is binary 0101 + 0111 = 1100. Subtracting 3 yields 1001, which is 6 in excess-3. But 2 + 9 is binary 0101 + 1100 = 10001, generating a carry out of the 4 bit value. Adding 3 yields 0100, which is 1 in excess-3. Considering the carry-out, this is the desired result of 11.
Well that was the idea behind this, right? To make todays "fast fashion" tomorrows "slow fashion".
I usually agree, but the way HR responded here actually implicated the company more in the sexual harassment, not less. A self-interested company would have proceeded according to established procedure, not participated in it itself.

Not that that would be worth making a federal court case out of things anyway. I just wanted to be able to sit down and do good work for a generally tolerable company without distraction.
The level of discourse is squarely at “Russia is Nazi Germany with nukes” - written without correct capitalization.

In general I’ve seen a handful of insightful comments on the Russia-Ukraine war, most comments are various levels of moral outrage or repeat the mainstream story without much critical thought.
This assumes that those TVs aren’t connecting to a random open network around it. Or even some kind of Xfinity public network type integration.
The way to attribute accountability is protocols. Create and maintain protocols that are known ways to do something safely. If you broke something by disregarding the protocol, then you've fucked up. If you broke something by complying with the protocol, then you discovered the protocol needs to be updated.
1% median difference on earnings is a pretty large number

1% of $60k is $600, which after tax is probably $400. Not exactly life changing money.
We’ll discuss the glass ceiling when people admit than men also need help. Not an open ear with active listening to /dev/null and no actions behind, no; Actual help with real funding behind it.

As it stands, this focus on women exclusively is only reproducing the divide from generation to generation, male managers being reluctant to hire women after the 2016 #metoo movement.
The zero-API model doesn’t prevent specialization at all. You can add as many distinct domain layers as you want with different teams responsible for different layers.
44, and just got my first job as a software engineer! (I've been programming since circa 2004, tho.)
no they aren't

Tailscale’s coordination server, our “control plane”, has become known as CONTROL. It’s currently a single Go process on a single VM.

source: https://tailscale.com/blog/an-unlikely-database-migration/
I think there was a miscommunication

> My understanding is most of the mid career pay gap is due to women prioritizing child rearing over career.

>The gap I'm talking about can't fully be explained by this

Articles like this are where I get my understanding.
https://www.vox.com/2017/9/8/16268362/gender-wage-gap-explai...
Something I want HN's thoughts on: Does a 7% pay gap matter more or less between low incomes and high incomes?

I'm looking at the bar chart with median annual earnings and a earnings gap percentage. The first gap is 7% (misleadingly labeled as 93%...), which does seem somewhat high.

But then it's for $33,598 vs $31,288. A difference of $2310, an amount that your average Bay Area FAANG SWE earns in two workdays or less (when counting amortized RSU vesting and bonuses).

You could argue that every single dollar matters for someone in that bracket. But what about when the 7% difference hits someone who is making over $500k a year in the Bay Area? Then it's a $40,000 swing. Most of that will get eaten up by taxes anyways.

Which one is worse? I would say the $2310 difference, since the $40,000 is really closer to $20,000 after taxes, and having $220,000 a year after taxes vs. $200,000 doesn't make a huge difference when you're competing for homes that cost $2 million dollars or more.

It would sound way worse with the title "x outearn y by $40,000 a year in the Bay Area", but only to people who don't realize how bonkers the financial scales are here in comparison to developing parts of the country.
> But neither of these things have a smoking gun to them

I don't have much proof, but it is almost certainly caused by the lost experience/networking/politicking of maternity leave. There are some very rough studies and pieces like this [1]. To me, it is obvious that if an athlete took a season off in their 20's that they would experience a gap and ceiling in their lifetime earnings compared to those that didn't. Having a baby in your 30's can be this transformational as many future CEOs would be starting their upper management careers around this time. If this is indeed the case, there is no clear solution as forcing paternity leave just doubly hurts the family but would equalize the aggregate statistic.

[1] - https://www.forbes.com/sites/elanagross/2019/05/14/how-paid-...
Perhaps it’s an account aging / warning strategy- show some history for years before sending spam out later. Social media sites usually limits new accounts - so a lot of messages or links off the bat might get them banned.
Author here if anyone has questions about the board or the Univac 1004.
Not sure if my barber needs to sit through a year or two of school to be effective, for one random example in many places.

Sure, modern education can be seen somewhat as a proxy for modern jobs. But it also is used as gatekeeping for jobs that have no business requiring prior education and which did not just a few decades prior.

Even when jobs don't "technically" require a degree these days - those holding them raises the bar on everyone else. If you can hire all college educated baristas for your coffee shop, you likely don't get down to the 18 year old kid who just wants to work hard on something meaningful and directly in front of him - even if they would make better employees in the end. No reason to take any chances if you can get pre-vetted mediocracy.

I'd argue the gates are being raised now in tech as well - many entry level positions in IT that you once could talk your way into and learn on the job are now credentialed.

Interesting times.
"I have heard people say "Men push women out of engineering" but in my experience it's been the opposite--it's been men trying to get women interested in engineering."

Of course it's not true. If you majored in CS at a decent university probably 1 or 2 out of 100 students were girls, and in the "labs" the TAs spend the ENTIRE TIME talking to the girls/helping the girls. "Men push women out of engineering" is just a performative statement that means nothing. You will find this in any field where men generally are better at something, like chess. There are plenty of people who whine that "women are pushed out" of chess and so on, and if you ask people to explain that, they can't. It's just pathetic and of course predictable that the same people who can't understand the logical reasons why the demographics of certain groups are the what they are, happen to be bad at activities that require the ability to perform logical operations in their head, like chess, or engineering, etc. All they can do is whine about it emotionally which is the same reason why they can't do engineering or play chess.
Or, at least, perceived discrimination via an ever present victim mentality.
To be fair, at least in EU, there are many cases from my experience when buying the same item from Amazon was actually cheaper than on Aliexpress. Plus 1-2 days shipping. It's always worth to check the item in several places.
> But still most of the kids in college are making a good financial decision even if all of the aren't.

Not likely. The data continues to show that incomes are stagnant. If there was a financial benefit, not just filtering, incomes should be rising alongside the rise of college attainment.

The filtering effect is real. Colleges put a lot of effort into rejecting people who aren't "born successful" to maintain an aura of prestige. Colleges pumping out graduates with severe mental disabilities that hinder learning, for example, would not serve the brand well. The model only works if you limit the possibility of graduation to those considered the "best of the best". The same people who are more likely to do well in their careers. There being an income spectrum, with some making a lot of money, and some making very little, predates the existence of college.

The decline in college attainment among males no doubt comes on the back of colleges recognizing that males are now less valuable in society (i.e. they are less likely to be among the best of the best) and apply the appropriate filters in response, not the other way around.
My bet is on LoRa being shipped with flagship phones.
I tried the old appeture science websites on mobile.

I need a mobile web browser that lets me bring up a keyboard on command…
It does feel like society is swinging towards the latter. I think there’s a non-negligible slice of the population that look down on women’s desire/choice to stay In the home and make child rearing their job.
Note that the article is not about denigrating the algorithms, and is instead entirely about the license restrictions.
In the remote past, yes. It is more interesting that this happened recently.
The electricity required is precisely the problem why we don’t do it.

And it’s not so much the power that it requires but that the extremely low energy density of lithium batteries means we have to minimize power usage as much as possible.
I have much less of an issue when a company runs analytics on the information gained from each time I order from them. It's when they continue to follow you across the internet to keep tabs on you when you are not using their site. It's not much different than having someone like a private investigator shadow you every where you go in real life taking detailed notes. You don't know who's paying the PI, you don't know to what purpose they are investigating, but there's just nothing you can do about. Only the internet tracking continues to follow in places where the PI can't go. It's just flat out creepy
It's more about age of first child. The metro areas where the pay gap starts below 30 is where women have children relatively early, while in places that women tend to defer childbearing until their 30s show little or no pay gap among people below 30.
Whether or not it's Turing-complete is not all that important. The important part is whether or not Turing-completeness is required for what is being created. In the case of HTML and CSS, Turing-completeness is almost always not a requirement.
Hey, humans are wired for nice things, not just bad stuff.

Quoting @insickness above:

> Our minds are wired to get pleasure from working with others and being validated and appreciated for our work. That is part of status

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30883314

And for helping and being kind to others.
I have seen more and more that it is Apple that usually starts these practices, and since their users generally give them unlimited leeway towards these things (happening right now in this very thread!) it becomes the new standard. Then Microsoft, Google and others follow suit. The "try Safari" notifications when opening Chrome or Firefox have been a thing in macOS forever. Same with advertising and upsells built into the OS.
LOL. I used to work for PG. I created a schema for storing music metadata for him, so it's somewhat ironic.
Why seperate them?
Ask HN: How to live in San Francisco or the Bay Area on a budget?
I am curious: what are options to save money living in San Francisco or the Bay area as a couple?
What do you mean by creative coding and generative design? As far as I understood, latter is something like demoscene where programmers try to draw some impressive graphics within hard limits like 1KiB of code; but former is not understandable for me.
DataCamp has a contributor program: https://datacamp-1.gitbook.io/community-submissions/
Why is the first search result Brave Browser?
Yes, that is presumably what "after being explicitly told not to do that against the prod database" refers to.
> VVC is great, but AV1 is fast enough for realtime use, while VVC is not.

Today, in software. But yes, definitely worth considering!
You thought that someone was going to play actual 3D portal on 40 year old computer that runs at 1/1,000,000th the speed of modern computers?
HN strips emojis. I can't even paste my web site domain on here.
> Fortunately, there are several open-source libraries, that offer storing keys and values which allow storing keys and values as primitive values, without boxing:

fastutil,
agrona,
koloboke.

> In production, we use fastutil, because, based on our internal benchmarks, it shows better performance for read and write operations.

I wonder how they arrived at this shortlist to test. I'd only heard of fastutil along with many not on this list (Trove, HPPC, CERN Colt, FastUtil, Joda Primitives, Eclipse Collections). Maybe agrona and koloboke are newer. The next time I need something similar I'll check them out.
I would guess that their automated spam capacity is way higher than the human capacity to respond to their newly-acquired leads.

"Leads" are free in this case, so they're spamming the initial message as much as possible because it doesn't cost them anything (and better have too many than not enough), but then their capacity to follow-up on those is much more limited so they're selective in the ones they follow-up with.

Chances are that they're unsure of how well a particular spam message will perform, so they spam it as much as possible and then realize they got more than they bargained for so they don't have enough resources to attend to all the responses.

Tech-wise, keeping track of leads is much more difficult. It requires essentially building an entire CRM, while an outbound-only spambot is a self-contained script with no persistent storage that just scrapes some popular post/hashtag for its targets and then sends a spam message to each one.
97-98 cents per dollar, excluding control on overdue hours. Twice more men than women do unpaid hours every week (34% vs 17%) leading, each year, to 3-5% more experience per year. Therefore, 97c for 5% less experience per year worked, and the wage gap already goes the other way.

And we can’t measure the quality of the focus per day, obviously. (But we can measure the toilet time. It’s mean but results always go the same way).
If a packet is 24 bytes then 40 million packets a day is slightly less than a gigabyte of data a day. Seems like really low throughput for a global network that extends to every town with a Starbucks.

Do you have a source for the 40m packets number? Does that include the packets that the miners send to each other for proof of coverage?

I'm having trouble imagining the uses for an expensive, slow, unreliable, bespoke network that's limited to the areas with helium miners nearby. If you have an example of someone using this I'd love to read more.
How do we fix this when the underlying cause is workers who prioritize their job more and have more years of experience get paid more?
I built mataroa. Not sure if your comment is referring to mataroa, but in case it is:

I care a lot about typography and making a platform in which non-latin scripts can be read well. Mataroa does not provide any font. Rather, it uses the end user's system fonts. System fonts are most probably better than webfonts. They can define a large set of characters, including as many languages as they can, without caring about how big they get. This is in contrast to webfonts, of which all character glyphs need to be sent to the client—so size matters.

I've also written this text on the topic: https://nutcroft.com/blog/in-defense-of-user-defined-web-fon...
Just add DNS records pointing to both those CDNs. Your DNS hosting provider can serve them in rotating order to different users, there by spreading the load across your CDN providers. In case one CDN goes down, the browsers will try the next addresses in the DNS response.

You could get redundancy for the authoritative DNS hosting provider as well.
Add both provider NS server records at your domain registrar.
Then, your only single point of compromise would be your domain registrar.

You could get two different domains (on different tld) via different registrars and have both domains point to the same site. Of course, unless people know the alternate domain, this isn't of much help. But for a mobile app's api endpoint, I would recommend a setup like this to make it truly bullet proof.
> "We've hit an error an error that the manual says nothing about, but our DB expert saw this once, 7 years ago, and remembers how to recover"

Yup, this rings true. Once worked on a large Cassandra deployment – holding people's bank accounts, so, ya know, somewhat critical – and we eventually had to get one of the authors of Cassandra onto our on-call team. Even he was stumped by some of the bugs and failure modes. (And, incidentally, the word 'anticompaction' is still enough to trigger my PTSD.)

The notion that the documentation is an accurate and exhaustive explanation of every single thing about a product is a junior engineer mistake that no one with rough ops experience would say. Nor, for that matter, anyone who's written a database that's in use (as I unfortunately have), or really any other piece of software.

And the same goes for the notion that "everyone should go with MySQL or Postgres for everything because they are Proper Databases that are scalable and won't go down". If I were being charitable, I'd say it's a 'no one got fired for buying IBM' argument; if I were being honest, I'd say it puts me in mind of 'MongoDB is webscale' (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs). I don't know why bad engineers are so terrified of thinking for themselves specifically – well, generally, but especially – when it comes to databases. They aren't magical contraptions. They are just portable filesystem wrappers.
Nope. This book is pretty disappointing.
The author seems not a experienced programmer.
"/Τĥιs ñåmè įß ą váĺîδ POSIX paτĥ" is my display name on some services at my job. It helps to remind people to consider things like spaces, homoglyph attacks, and non-ASCII characters.
Telling that you’d give that top priority as opposed to say quality medical care for everyone, schools, taking care of the homeless, etc.
Exactly, LoRA provide surprising range ( in miles ) but very narrow bandwidth