skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I blame "Clean Code"; it's recommended reading, but at its core it dumbs down refactoring to mechanically factoring out common code without actually crafting abstractions. I'm still in the process of unlearning this. The prime directive should be "craft sensible abstractions", not "avoid duplication at any cost"; even more so when we're talking about actually modular software, where duplication is much easier to tolerate than blurring responsibility lines. (I'm generally not a big fan of Uncle Bob.)
The Man Behind AMD's Zen Microarchitecture: Jim Keller
I imagine there are people working in every city (and every country) focused on that local market.
While not conclusive, I think the easiest way to reason this is that evolution needs a much longer timespan than a few thousand years, assuming ancestors means sometime after "civilizations" started
"Considered harmful"?!? Why, this must be both IMPORTANT and LEGITIMATE, and the author has AUTHORITY. When a negative opinion carries such an academic, aloof, and professional sounding headline then I am inclined to give it great credence. This guy didn't just say "here's something I think is bad", he said it in fancy and upmarket words. Let's closely follow what they say.....

Seriously, HN should have code that auto flags anything including a subject line of "considered harmful".
Arguably, a major point of Brutalism is letting the essence of the materials come through rather than covering them up. In that sense, I think "Brutalist" web design would connote embracing things like hypertext, links, and hierarchical structure rather than building up the illusion that your website is some ethereal dance of pure unsullied UX. The infamous "Motherfucking Website" [1] might be the best-known example of deliberately showcasing this approach.

[1] http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
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I'm not sure people understand the content of them.
You remind me here of a revivalist inveighing against a heretic, and I'm not sure that is the most useful perspective from which to study the case.

I mean, I don't know! Maybe you're right, maybe you're not. But you seem extremely certain that you are, and I'm not seeing where that certainty originates. Perhaps you know much more about the man than I do.
Why does it come in a metal box?
Yeah, I think vim is more like Brutalism than 90% of the examples in the gallery.
Mechanical Televisions: Incredibly simple yet completely amazing
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Also, the minimal design, and the lack of an algorithm targeting my personal preferences with the express intention of tricking me into reading more stories makes a huge difference.

I really enjoyed commuting by bike, to the point I would go to certain places solely for the bike ride, and leave within a few minutes. I was also addicted to smoking. HN is like my bike addiction, while FB and Twitter feel more like my smoking addiction.
I like having both discussions and the article in one tabbed app without having to switch.
Seriously great work. That site is beautiful, fast, responsive, and the HTML is extremely readable.
Some people are. Others are offended that he was silenced for that content.
It's not authoritative. But in order to get a truly complete picture of CPU performance you've got to do all sorts of different workloads and between the benchmarks and real world performance you get kind of a muddle of:

"In highly threaded apps, AMD's high core CPU's stomp everything, especially for the price. Single core performance still belongs to Intel."

And then from there individual users need to figure out which CPU's are best for their use case. And a lot of users kind of want it summed up instead of sorting that out.

That aside AMD has a really good product this generation, compared to Bulldozer and it does hark back the previous decade where AMD's CPUs were truly viable competition to Intel's.

I'm not sure how Passmark derives their scores exactly. But based on what I'm seeing for all sorts of reviews is that Threadripper is a formidable chip and between an extremely high number of cores and low price I can't help but believe that spot is earned. Even if it is ultimately meaningless. It won't last forever either, but it will force Intel to respond. And that's what we've all wanted for the last 10 years.
Yeah I was thinking of sports betting, however I guess even in casinos you can do card counting or apply the laws of physics to roulette wheels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Doyne_Farmer#Beating_roulet... (although the roulette example could be classed as cheating ;)
That's not the common insult.

However on twitter; "Mansplaining" is a quick way to shut down conversation leading to sometimes funny[0] dialog between my girlfriend and folks on twitter.

[0]: https://twitter.com/libsecure/status/833457782275833857
NEO is a new coin to keep your eye on.
Even the microbes don't want it.
I agree, but when I read this point of view (I've seen it elsewhere), I can't tell if the problem is with the employee, the employer, both, or what.

It's not a law of nature, so it's not the same as "you ran with scissors, dude".

I'm concerned that the takeaway will be, "If you anger the employment gods, you get smote. That's the way the world works."
> The relative lack of women in the applicant pool is obviously one of the problems that Google and other companies are trying to fix with their various outreach initiatives.

Certainly. We're just debating whether the proposed solutions are doing more good than harm.

> Again, the mere existence of differences between men and women absolutely does not mean that you should expect there to be a difference in the size of the respective applicant pools.

Why is that? Are we sure the distributions of things men and women like are exactly the same? Men and women are different both physically and psychologically, so what is the force that counterbalances the differences and makes the distributions of things each gender likes identical?
I think part of the issue is that the pendulum may be swinging too far. Sexist sentiment against men and racist sentiment against whites is growing massively at a time when whites are soon to be a minority in the country.

You say "we are... a generation from a time when not hiring black people or women for jobs... was [standard]..." If this is the case and we truly aren't in a time when this isn't standard anymore, then why should we maintain practices that are discriminatory against whites and men?
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In case anyone from WSJ or other paywalled content producers reads this: I notice myself sharing far less when I hit a paywall even if I used one of my "free credits" because hitting a paywall is shitty to the people clicking the shared link. If it's important information, I will actually find a different source and share that.

So you shouldn't worry about lost subscription revenue, you should worry about lost relevancy. Lost relevancy will result in your CPMs on ads being a Mashable rate, not a WSJ rate.

Publishers that do this will literally nickel and dime themselves out of relevancy. But whatever, I don't read WSJ or the economist anymore because paywalls and they're not the only (or even best) analysis online. Sad to see the mighty fall though.

Same deal with "We noticed you running Adblock :-(..." Most tech savvy people have Adblock. Many of them have many more followers who do not have Adblock, and those people get their links from social streams. So again, you're not turning away adblockers, you're turning away their friends and leaving the public consciousness.
We discussed that, but it wasn't clear that doing so was portable. It works for OpenSSH. It doesn't for PuTTY. We don't know what other implementations people might have as `ssh` on their systems.
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YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT SHADY TACTICS SV ENTREPRENEURS ARE USING TO GET AHEAD. NUMBER 8 WILL MAKE YOUR JAW DROP!
This is disgusting, I am sure you are no different from your peers in skills (and probably even better than the average developers around you) and it's just not fair that you have to go through this.

People should be totally confident that they got the job because they did a good job and the employer liked them for who they are but this whole diversity system makes people doubt themselves, consciously or subconsciously.

I hope you're now working at a place where there's no such bullshit, and wish you all the best.
C'mon man, I hadn't had my coffee yet that morning.
I've submitted this thread after stumbling on this HN thread on High End CPUs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14986105

Among the comments, a user pointed out Jim Keller's contributions to the CPU industry. Trully fascinating read.
Instant as "as soon as miners picked it up and added a few chain segments". And so far no digital system offers all requirements for proper anonymous secure online voting: 1. you can only vote once; 2. you can verify your vote was properly counted; 3. others cannot find out how you voted, even with your cooperation.

We'll see whether someone will ever come up with some system satisfying them all...
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Ask HN: How do you think about the growing Silicon Valley tourism?
I recently feel that almost every medium sized and larger European or Asian company established some type of program where they send senior executives to Silicon Valley in order to learn more about innovation.

I would like to know how if my assumption on Silicon Valley tourism is totally wrong and how locals think it might affect the housing market?
Reminds me of the time Facebook's valuation was growing by +$5 billion every 2 weeks, and Techcrunch was writing an article about it every time, further passing the hot patato along to late investors, while making the initial investors richer and richer.
If you are tasked with making a better society and you use the opportunity to promote and entrench greater stupidity, is that fraud?
> The thing is being a victim if a self-fulfilling prophecy.

I don't agree. I think it can be a self-fulfilling prophecy.

But the only way it could always be one would be if everyone single person's life contained an equal amount of good and bad. But life's not like that and some people get unlucky hands at the start of their lives and during their lives. Some much worse than others [1].

Also, note that in the notion of 'victim' I'm using here, being a victim of something has nothing to do with how you respond to that. It doesn't mean you have to act all victimised all the time and let it consume you.

[1] regarding "The truth is that everyone has their own problems and hardship. Yes, even white men", I think that statement is too vague. It comes across like it's saying since everyone faces problems/hardship then no-one has it worse than anyone else. Regarding the second sentence of that, I definitely agree that white men, and even straight white men, can face terrible problems and hardship. I really wish we, as a society, could recognise statistical points about certain groups statistically facing greater levels of certain hardships without also treating this as meaning therefore all members of the other groups always have it better.
> Findings from scientific studies are not immutable truth. Nor does citing them automatically make your interpretation of the cited study to be truth.

But nobody said that scientific studies were immutable truths, did they? No, that's not the issue here. The person that you're responding to said that the issue is with the wording used by the reporter, not the findings of the studies.

If the reporter wanted to bring into question the findings of the linked studies then they should have addressed the studies directly like you are attempting to do here. Instead, they used weasel wording to make it seem like the studies might not even exist.
Exactly. It's an option injection attack. There's no shell involved.
This is pointing out something profound. Investing is powerful when you can have liquidity right away.

AN ASIDE: The valuation in the ICOs too high. But the following profound point still holds true...

Imaging if an angel investor can invest in a company early, like Dropbox. Then when it grows some, he could sell 10% of his shares on a highly public and liquid market (like Ethereum coin exchange). He then invests that in AirBnB when it was tiny. He may invest in a startup that goes down after the Series A. Oh well, he may sell for 30% the valuation he invested in. The power is there by those who make big gains in the big winners, and that they can then move money out very soon and into new places.
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Why not do a Coinbase tier2 not-stock-but-we'll-pretend-it's-stock ICO?

Could raise even more money with zero actual equity dilution.
> I don’t like feeling like a piece of furniture to add to the company’s diversity.

This is a great point. Companies are still sexist when there's a 2:1 chance a female will be hired over males with equivalent skills.

I'm happy there's some discourse around these topics right now.
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Unfortunately, that would make it hard to provide various features server-side, such as code highlighting, and would require JS on the client (and also break raw file downloads, etc). It would also make the editor plugins much more complicated (right now they just POST to an endpoint).

We think that not listing pastes, having them expire soon by default, etc is a good compromise, as we don't claim perfect privacy, just that pastes are always sort of "unlisted".
So you disagree with his analysis. That's OK. I think you're wrong, but reasonably people can disagree.

What's not OK is simply dismissing and ignoring his analysis, treating it as if it didn't exist, and then misinterpreting the rest based on that.

I'll try to illustrate it for you:

I say "I love books so much that I have my entire apartment covered in bookshelves, with books three levels deep and it's still not enough, books are littering the floor so I can't walk and can't clean up any longer. I think I need to get rid of some books".

So say you disagree with the first part. Say even that you are correct, that I had made some fundamental mistake and there were actually bookshelves I hadn't considered and if I only cleaned up and used them I wouldn't need to get rid of any books. Is it then OK to just remove that first part, only cite "I think I need to get rid of some books" and then conclude that I must hate books because I want to get rid of them? I think not.

(And no, he didn't argue that he wanted to get rid of anyone, just to clip that potential willful misinterpretation)
>I'm not sure, but it surely looks exciting (even though most projects behind ICOs are complete crap).

Bubbles and fraud are not really exciting per se...
Is it possible to replace an OS with hardware programs?
Call it an idea or an improbabilistic thought, but, can we do away with a huge OS & instead get hardware with embedded software, which works as an OS when all the hardware is assembled together? Of course, if we need to install any application into that OS later, the application would install requisite files & frameworks without hampering the working of the assembled system (assembled OS in this situation.)

Hoping for your critical & constructive feedback! Thanks!
How does this compare to Vertica?
It's an issue with your previous post. If everyone here was simply commenting "you're wrong," "no, you're wrong" with no explanations, then the conversation wouldn't go anywhere and the conversation would be pointless. If you comment saying someone is wrong, please explain so others may learn from your viewpoint.
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One downside of libraries like libssh is that they don't behave the same way as your regular ssh command. So thing you've configured like host aliases, proxy commands, etc, don't just work out of the box (and in some cases may not even be supported at all).
this is now our official answer. 谢谢, 朋友
Ordinarily I'd agree, but a starting hyphen isn't valid in a domain name anyway, so it's harmless. RFC 1035: "The labels [a grammar production rule for domain names] must follow the rules for ARPANET host names. They must start with a letter, end with a letter or digit, and have as interior characters only letters, digits, and hyphen. There are also some restrictions on the length. Labels must be 63 characters or less."

(And by the way, neither is a leading dot, which I use to my advantage to define hostname aliases in ~/.ssh/config which I can be sure will never clash with anything.)
Sure. He could be a raving lunatic right wing whacko for all we know. But that's not in his document, and not in his interviews.
I don't understand why everyone doesn't love fruit cake. Maybe most people have only ever had crappy cheap grocery store fruit cakes?

Fruit cake is literally one of my favorite foods, and I don't really feel like I have esoteric taste in the general case.
But employees deserve more than "gray" when it comes to codes of conduct and firings.
This article was some of the most egregious nonsense I've read in a while.
The thing that strikes me about victimhood is that when it's used in a pejorative sense, it's always non-interested and often uninformed persons assigning judgment to another's highly-interested behavior.

Once you look more deeply into the situation, the story changes. A good example of this is the McDonalds hot coffee lawsuit. You should go do some reading about it if you haven't.

Generating moral outrage, as a tool for solving individual problems, isn't ever going to go away. You had it in honor cultures, dignity cultures. "Blaming the victim" is one of the costs of the strategy and if you aren't prepared for this going in, you're going to get burned pretty badly.

Or sometimes you get thrust into it. The only reason we know anything about that particular lawsuit is because McDonalds' PR team turned it into a media circus. The initial lawsuit asked only for medical costs, no punitive damages.
It may be beneficial to volunteer with one of these outreach programs to get a first hand look at the people that are being targeted / latching onto them.
this is the plot of a sci-fi novel waiting to happen.
Nobody will even bother to listen to me talk about social media anymore, because I am always telling people it is unhealthy and they should get off it (and yet I'm here). It is the worst fast food imaginable for our human need to socialize, transient and shallow.
> What do we imagine will happen when everybody thinks of themselves as being victimised?

On an individual level, self-pity, even when justified, is not very helpful, and though the two are not exactly the same, one leads to the other pretty easily.
I'm going by published research: http://www.thelancet.com/cms/attachment/2001010052/200378674...

I don't know what you're going by.
I think you could use such accounts as the backing store for offered storage in the Filecoin "system"
Dr. Jordan B Peterson a misogynist? Give me a break.
No, you don't need to:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12613402/android-statist...
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41768642/detect-current-...

They just want to know how much do you use each app on your phone and not anything related to the TCP exchange. Therefore no MITM has to take place.

The rest, I fully agree with you: one deception paves way to another. I think just making users aware that it's Facebook tracking their app usage and not some "Onavo" would be enough for people to think better about their privacy.
> That depends. If I told you the only way you're going to be competitive and not drag down the standard of my organization is by pairing up with another person, should you take that as a compliment?

This is factualy not what was said in the memo.

https://diversitymemo.com/#reduce-gender-gap

> Women on average show a higher interest in people and men in things

> We can make software engineering more people-oriented with pair programming and more collaboration.

That was literally the only mention of pair programming the the entire memo and it was as a suggestion to make positions more appealing to women who were more interested in people and more social. Not once does he equate pair programming as some remedial for your perceived statement of lower quality ability. The guy was trying to suggest ways to attract more women and you flip it around to demonize him. Do you not see that you are large part of the problem? Instead of trying to engage and explain to him why his points are perhaps wrong or misguided, you instead twist his words to simply eviscerate him instead.
yes, people have a right to discuss politics. discussing politics is the foundation of civil society. the inability of people to do it without freaking out is why we have uncivil society.
Or, perhaps with a better name, a Keynesian beauty contest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_beauty_contest#Overv...
"Evidence based medicine" is your best example of science? No, that does not meet the definition I gave. RCT's are not the gold standard of research (how did solar system astronomy get so good with only a couple dozen objects?).
Difference in preferences usually results in difference in abilities due to a difference in life choices, that is how I interpreted it. So if biology has any effect on preferences then biology indirectly influences ability but it is still nothing that can't be overcome by someone who likes the subject.
from that .png

> This event does not exist so you can get your rocks off punching antifa.

("antifa" == "Antifascist Action")

They are concerned some of their attendees want to get into fights with anti-fascists. For fun.
Natively Windows doesn't come with ssh no, but last I used it Git For Windows bundles a bunch of MinGW components, including ssh, which it calls out to.
I'm not sure he understood it either. He admits such by saying he could be biased to only see the evidence that supports his points.
If you don't think prototype programming is OO, your definition of OO is remarkably restrictive (and in my opinion wrong.)

I'd suggest reading up on Self -- or Smalltalk-72 for that matter.

My first OO programming language was the 'MOO' language used in the online LambdaMOO text-'VR' worlds.
>3 continents.

Just today I had a 10-minute chat with one of my colleagues from marketing about AliExpress. I live and work in Eastern Europe, and almost all the people who do online sales rely on a Chinese company like AliExpress. Some of those people were using the UK as their source of buying merchandise until a couple of years ago, not anymore, it's all China now. The US (and the UK&Ireland) are losing big on this because Amazon's stock-price is blinding them. IMHO Amazon is going to hit a wall in terms of online sales sooner rather than later and the only thing that will be left to save them will be AWS.
Or if you drop your kids off at school and never come back for them. Nobody is paying you to look after them, right?
exactly. the focus on identity as a wedge issue is a cynical diversion from focusing on wealth as a wedge issue.
> No he didn't. He talked about reducing false negatives, not increasing false positives.

It seems we have a different interpretation of "lowering the bar"
Don't worry, I didn't mean to lecture, just to create some awareness.
That's a good analogy. Yes, HN is from an era before the social engineering began.
There's 168 million reasons to do the coin offering now. If someone was begging you to take that kind of money for a half-baked side project, would you say no? (to be fair, this is quite a bit further along than half-baked, but still)