skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TWO file photos of shady hooded figures with obscured faces and glitch art effects or other digital overlays put over the pic! Truly, this is a very comprehensive report about hacking indeed.

On a serious note, I'm not at all surprised that my government's screwed up some sort of online database of private information. We had the famous census night access issues due to a DDoS and I am just waiting for that data to leak. It doesn't surprise me whatsoever when our government mismanages IT projects in particular and I suspect more of this sort of data leak is going to inevitably happen as a result.

ITifying all of the things isn't necessarily a good idea. Some things are honestly worth the extra hassle of being left to pen and paper.
As an ignorant English speaker who has learned enough German to get by, I wonder:

- what utility do you think a language gains from gendered nouns?

- (more immediate to my experience) how do you know what gender a noun is? I assume there are "themes" that might inform you. But if you're unclear, how do you do find out? Is there a social cost to getting it wrong?

- how are new genders decided? I'm struggling to think of an example as "laptop" presumably has the same gender as "computer", but it must come up sometimes.
>they'll drop a low level employee quick just to avoid the slight possibility of looking like they aren't taking sexual harassment seriously.

I've seen a manager vanish in response to an accusation. Under normal circumstances, it would take the company weeks to update the employee listing, but an allegation of sexual harassment? poof
My fiancée is 28 and loves watching YT. From Cinema Sins and horror movie reviews, over makeup / hair styling tips, to talk shows and music videos. She's an astrophysicist and works as a data scientist.

I, 31 and a computer scientist working as a software dev, on the other hand, hate almost everything that's not in text form.
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I got it from this video, which attributes it to Quintilian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_enn7NIo-S0

And I seem to have swapped 'c' and 'k'; Quintilian wished to eliminate 'k' in favor of 'c', which is probably why you think there is no Latin letter 'k'.
I suggest:

killall -HUP SomeDaemon
> (defined as assault with/on a sexual organ).

That's not the definition of "sexual assault". It varies by jurisdiction, and has been discussed extensively elsethread. "Unwanted touching" and "sexual assault" overlap. More important than anatomy is consent.
I rarely have to use it thank god, I have switched pretty much everything over to appear.in for our company, it is seamless :)
> Why did you call it "YCom" ? It's Y Combinator.

I was wondering, too. Maybe this is a common abbreviation?

> I also didn't see a threat in this long story.

This article is about harassment. The central points are:
(Quoted from the article, numbering added)

1. First, Altman posts an easily disprovable lie about our relationship with an advertiser
2. When we rebut that lie, with concrete proof, he changes his claim
3. When we rebut that lie, he goes silent for a few hours before…
4. He doubles down by darkly hinting that he has compromising/damaging info about Sarah/Pando’s ethics
5. He posts a statement insisting he’s the victim and repeating the claim that he knows something
dark and secret about Pando. A claim that will continue to float around the Internet despite being
entirely baseless

The term "threat" seems to refer either to the harassment in general, or specifically to the spreading of FUD as described in points 4 and 5.

Assuming the article is correct, each in itself is bad enough.
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So what do you propose? From the Launch Vic website, I see that companies can apply for funding, surely that's something. Not to mention that they're doing essentially what any incubator/accelerator does.
Did you have issues, run into roadblocks when dealing with the Victorian government's startup ecosystem?
BTW, I'm merely asking. I have no connection other than being a Melburnian and in the process of spinning up something myself...
It's still relative, though. You can't know your absolute speed, unless you are a photon and speed has no meaning to you at all.
The CDC STAR-100 included an instruction[0] for parsing Fortran.

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You don't learn anything by studying other architectures?
The business case only makes sense when backed up by a profiler and an actual real business case regarding unhappy customers.

When that isn't the case, it is just wasting money.
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As per other users, you can use pkill but it's not entirely portable in meaning between OSs. This software had to run on just about every possible Unix out there. Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, many others ...

My main point is that using perl and grep, (multiple thereof!) is nuts when you can do it all in perl.

Also crazy was using -ef (all processes) when the process of interest was using a known user. So ps -u <user> would be more appropriate.

Doing as much in Perl as possible, for portability, you'd do something like

ps -u <user>| perl -ane 'm/[S]omeDaemon/ && kill "SIGTERM", $F[1]'

-a means autosplit into fields, $F[0], F[1], etc so the pid is $F[1].

See `perldoc -f kill` for the Perl function kill.

You can also do the `ps` from within Perl but I don't think you'd be gaining much in readability or portability.
Anybody who wants to can see all the original posts by setting 'showdead' to 'yes' in their profile.

Outright deletion of comments (or comment text) is comparatively rare and always done by authors themselves.
In your profile settings you can set showdead to true.
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It does apparently for robots. Or, should I say, people who seem to be utterly robotic in their interactions with people.
While I'm sorry for your loss, the idea of a cloud-based email account that doesn't delete your emails is actually pretty damn new.

When Gmail launched one of its main features was the amount of storage space - people were used to having maybe 10MB of mailbox space. Companies competed over that number. It reflects that email was never seen as being permanent, you were expected to clear old emails out, and many services automatically deleted old emails.
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Spanish would be a much better global language than English or French due to simple phonetics and overall consistency.

Gendered nouns are really simple. I'd say the hardest part is the subjunctive case but it's not critical for communicating.
I think they are talking about you, or are at least playing extremely fast and loose with phrasing.

Are you part of "Silicon Valley," which "has a culture problem?" Are you one of "the men" in "the workforce"?

I don't feel ashamed. But this is, to some degree, slander.
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I often roll with 'pgrep' part of pkill package to fetch the pids of either the ucomm or longname (-l) of the process.

pgrep -l 'reg.*ex" | xargs -L1 do-stuff

or just pkill if the idea is just to send a signal.

To gather particular process metrics, ps can be invoked with process ids (-p), with full control of its output (-o), grep is rarely needed.
It's not 'asking in good faith' if you ignore what was described and substitute in some completely different sequence of events that was not.
Maybe the flagging/downvoting system should be revisited, then. It seems like dissenting opinions are simply downvoted rather than challenged out in the open, as they should be. This means that discussions turn into a single-sided affair, as the other side simply flag kills their dissenters until only one opinion is visible.

I don't mind downvotes much, but it's hard to feel like I'm contributing to a worthwhile discussion if my responses are hidden and my ability to reply is removed.
Source on the Patreon claim? I watch a lot of frequent YouTube channels and my anecdote is that < 10% have Patreon.
pgrep is also useful if you're not trying to kill. They're both from Solaris, and if you have one, you have the other. pgrep | xargs can also be very useful on occasion, depending on what you're doing (mainly debugging).
I do the same, haven't had any issues so far.
From my experience with epoxy, thicker viscosity and slower-curing is well known to result in a stronger end material. I'm not saying this is also true with concrete, but there is a parallel precedent.
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> It feels so disheartening to see that these kind of responses not only exist in the industry but we are actually having arguments about it.

It's disheartening. But is it surprising? Look at the things the dude sitting in 1600 pensylvania ave. is saying and has said about women, maybe sadly it is the unfortunate and sorry state of things today that some men are like this. There has been a lot of clamor for change, probably most of it genuine about making things better for the women in the industry. Do you think things will be considerably better for women in ... say, 10 years? I don't think so. Actually, based on the things I hear in video game voice chat by folks sounding like they're 10-15, the future is scary. And don't be fooled into thinking that this problem is unique to the tech industry (I work in a very huge hospital, the last CEO was forced to resign because there was some situation about him giving his mistress a high paying job, similar things happened to other higher-up staff)

I don't have any good answers as to what would make things better, so I'd be very curious to hear from users here what are possible solutions.
Jordan Peterson is making nearly half a million dollars from Patreon alone. And that too making videos on supposedly "boring" topics like mythology and psychology.
The main reason I use awk 90% of the time is that its field parsing algorithm does "the right thing" in most cases (i.e. divide fields by 1 or more whitespace characters) without a lot of boilerplate, so it's really easy to throw into a pipeline.
If you look at the qualifier Quintilian adds (the video translates it as "the letter C keeps its strength before all the vowels"), you can see why K was in use at the time -- the sound change familiar from modern Romance languages, where C "softens" to [s] or [tʃ] before front vowels, made indicating [k] before front vowels difficult.

That is an innovation to deal with language change. It is not a part of classical or old Latin. Quintilian isn't proposing dropping K because C makes it unnecessary; he's proposing retroactively not adopting K in the first place because the change that prompted people to use it is wrong.
Yay! I think this is the one that means unusually much to me, as the nouveau NVIDIA GTX 970 fix is part of it. Pretty much all popular Linux distros "fails" (black screen on boot unless the nomodeset boot option is used) on this fairly common graphics card, until proprietary drivers are installed.

Apparently 4.12 fixes a VRAM detection issue. I guess regarding the shenanigans by NVIDIA where they put 3.5 GB on this gfx card, and then 0.5 GB more in a slower variant (that I supposed is presented differently to the kernel). They went into a lot of trouble and bad PR for that so I think it's safe to say they won't do it again anytime soon.

Here's the bug thread: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89664
I'm surprised to see a Django vs Flask blog on the frontpage of HN in 2017. So many of us ditched Python for greener pastures as the dev team lost focus on the Zen of Python in recent iterations. I definitely wouldn't start a new webdev project in Python today, even though I used to love it. There are just faster, more convenient alternatives. I've moved all my projects to TypeScript and a lot of people moved to Go.
I guess it depends more on the niche than I assumed. I follow a lot of electronics channels, and YouTubers like techmoan and bigclive make $2,000+/mo on Patreon.
If you're relying on your videos getting views for your monthly pay you shouldn't be relying solely on some constantly changing algorithm.

> especially if you're funnelling in viewers from outside the YouTube algorithm
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Yes, he hates that with a vengeance, here's the classic thread. https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75
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So Pando responds to baseless claims with more baseless claims :) If I was founder of YC and a website attacks me using words like "threat", I'd also find it suspicious.
From my understanding (just a Quantum Physics I class, I could be wrong here) the Planck units quantize space or time to the extent that they define the smallest thing we can practically measure due to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, but they do not preclude that things can actually be smaller than that. That is, something like length or time can be continuous, but our measurements can only ever be discrete multiples of the corresponding Planck constants.

For example, a really small object can have a length smaller than the Planck length, but we wouldn't truly know how long it was because the Planck length acts as a fundamental limit on the precision/granularity of our measuring instruments.
> xargs can also be very useful on occasion

yes, and xargs has a particularly useful argument -P that allows to do stuff in parallel and probably deserves more love :P
I follow Pando and this feels like an awfully written piece looking to just pin a blame.

I hope by just throwing sexual harassment claims Without serious facts they don't ruin trust and credibility.
I'm not sure what to tell you because we have such wildly differing perceptions. The threads I'm seeing have a lot of different points of view in them—fundamentally disparate points of view with tons of disagreement.
Microsoft had really screwed up Skype. Every update is making Skype worst and there are frequent outage in different part of the world.
That's a good analysis but somehow you (seem to?) end up at the wrong conclusion that the community has a single norm about this. What I see is a deeply divided community. The hopeful aspect (maybe) is that it's (perhaps) inching its way into more substantive discussion across those divides. That's a capacity the community has to build extremely slowly. The flagging phenomena that people are observing in recent threads are both a sign of this and integral to it.

There are exceptions, but most of the comments being flagged contain some element that is destructive of thoughtful conversation. Having those be marked as beyond the community's tolerance—and I mean 'tolerance' literally, as in, 'more than this will cause the nervous system to go into overwhelm'—is critical to de-escalating the remainder of the discussion enough that people can disagree without ceasing to hear each other.

The important thing to realize is that most flagged comments are not being flagged purely because of the point of view they express. In most cases they add a little extra something—or maybe a lot of extra something—and there are other, unflagged comments that express similar points of view, just more thoughtfully. In most cases, if the flagged commenter got calm enough to explain their point of view more neutrally, the odds of getting flagged would be less. (Inveterate trolling is also a thing, of course, but rarer.) They're welcome to do that and rejoin the land of the living at any time.

It does tend to require some work of self-reflection, though, to avoid getting flagged straightaway again. Most elements that result in flags are things the commenter was unaware of, but which land rather abrasively with the reader. The work is to develop some awareness of what those things are and then avoid them. For bonus points one can consciously replace them with something indicating respect for the opposing point of view or person. That can often be something quite small.

It is true that the ideological distribution of the flagged comments is skewed, but that's a separate question. And there are flagged and moderated comments on every side of the issue.
Back in the MS-DOS days, when I had lots of fun using TASM, the common way to write high performance C and other higher level languages on 8 and 16 bit computers was using inline Assembly everywhere.

The typical for 80% of the application

void func(args)
{
asm {
}
}

Literally poor man's macro assembler.

Now 40 years of optimizing compiler improvements, we have younger generations thinking that C is like writing Assembly and C compilers were always blazing fast.

So when I see statements about other compilers generating slower code than C ones, I remember those days and smile.
Maybe someone in this thread will know but I've always feared Roman concrete suffers from survivor bias.

Do we know Roman concrete was always great or are we just looking at structures that happen to last?
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> I can't think of any example from my previous relationships that did not start with either myself or the other making a move which could later have been construed as assault.

That's funny, I can't think of any examples from my past which could be construed as assault. And I rather doubt you can either; implicit consent is still consent.

> Asking for a written legal waiver before planting a kiss on someone you're passionate about seems essentially where all this is leading

I think that's quite an absurd conclusion. How do we jump from "don't kiss people who don't want to be kissed" to "obtain a written legal waiver"? That's like going "you shouldn't break into someone's house...so you need a written waiver before entering, even if they're literally walking next to you and offering you a drink", because maybe you've misread the situation, and when they said "come on in, but mind the dog" they meant "go away"?

In the real world body language and conversational hints make is very clear what's going on in most cases, and in a small minority of cases when those prompts are misread, there will be a clear "no", and then you apologise and move on.

"Then I went into my own bedroom but Dave followed me there, and that’s when he first propositioned to sleep with me. I said no. I reminded Dave that he knew my then-boyfriend and that we’d just talked about him earlier that night. At this point, I led him to the door and told him he needs to leave. On the way out, he pushed himself onto me to the point where I was backed into a corner, made contact to kiss me..."

Can you honestly read that and, taking the account at face value, go "wow, Dave was just making an honest mistake; he should have been more careful and asked for a written waiver before he forcibly tried to kiss a resisting woman who had repeatedly told him no and was in the process of evicting him due to his inappropriate advances"? Really? Truly? That's your takeaway here?

The problem here, as described, isn't that he didn't get her consent in writing, its that there was no consent at all. These are not comparable things!
Was the leak intentional?
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Yeah, we use Hangouts for daily standups with all of our teams, so we do multi-way calls for several hours every day (mostly macOS actually, but some Windows), and it's consistently reliable for us. We migrated from Skype, which would always become flaky if there were more than four people on a call.

It really is good, at least on Chrome, but I worry that Google will let it stagnate.
Is there at least ONE country where IT projects are successful and with a normal price tag?
Did I overlook something? As far as I can see, the article backs up their relevant claims with links to public sources.

Which claims do you mean?

(To be more precise: There is a lot of ranting in this article, and digressions about Altman's motivation are of course purely speculative. But all relevant claims seem to be backed up with sources.)
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Sama could have ended the drama nice and quiet but he decides to play along.

Pando editors are definitely unprofessional here. If they care about their integrity, I think they should apologize for raging a bit too much.
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You're right, thanks, the message was too long and I cut that important part by mistake!
Jupyterlab is really nice, too! A significant difference is that it is deeply integrated with jupyter notebooks. So it really targets data scientists working with jupyter. Theia is more general, by being a platform for all kinds of IDEs and tools.
They could have built Jupyterlab on top of Theia but not the other way around.
Thanks Cheryl for sharing your story and thanks for contributing a lot to Malaysian startup scenes.
Reality is that almost all applications do not use sandbox, unless they are forced too. At least in my experience. I have 16 installed apps and only 2 from AppStore. Check out Android. It has very fine-grained permissions model. But most developers don't care and ask a lot of permissions even for simplest apps. It turns out that users don't care too. I'm not sure how it works for iPhone, where App requests access to some specific very privacy-related functionality, like location or address book, but I think that even on iPhone most users will press "Yes" without second thinking or even careful reading.
I thought the same. What it sama was an African female. Would you use the same words?

That's fucked up.